However, when Li Sanduo was about to ask some gossip, ** changed the topic:

"I think it's already a very important overseas base here, otherwise Brother Gui would simply stay here, and Brother Xiao has agreed to stay, he said that he is willing to work here for a long time, anyway, the working and living conditions here are gradually available, and there is no shortage of girls......"

Before the words fell, Xiao Pingguo immediately picked up and said:

"Is Old Sun going back? You're old, so what about the Duchess? Do you want to follow you back to the Red Mansion? I guess it's impossible, right? The Duchess has a huge estate to take care of here, right? ”

Hearing this, Sun Lao responded that the duchess stayed here for the time being, but she would not stay here forever without moving her nest, anyway, in the future, the Nicole will regularly go back and forth between the two sides, just right, I will go back in advance to prepare, tidy up the house, and it will be convenient for the duchess and me to run together in the future.

Sun Lao went on to say, the reason why Lao Ba urged me to go back, or this one wants to do his own big business, now there are all kinds of new projects at home, Lao Ba is also a little anxious, as far as I know, he discussed with Yu He a while ago, saying that he was going to set up a commercial bank, and the planning plan has been handed over to Xia Xiaoou.

It is said that the name of this bank is "Australian Development Bank", and it is a commercial bank with the right to issue notes, and now it seems that this project will soon be discussed at the plenary meeting, for which Lao Ba and Xiaoyu are nervously preparing.

Lao Ba also told me that this was a major step for him to realize his life ideals in the new world, so he was really unable to manage the current day-to-day affairs.

Lao Ba also said that the family thinks that Mr. Sun, your old man has been on his honeymoon for two months, and it is time to go home to preside over the work.

Sun Lao smiled and added, in fact, Lao Ba is not powerless, but unintentional, and now he only wants to become a financial predator in the new world......

Everyone nodded in agreement with Sun Lao's opinion, everyone knows what Lao Ba's life experience and life ideals are, and they have not changed.

Obviously, everyone can't say anything in person about whether Sun Lao will return to the Red Mansion now, after all, the wife is here, and Sun Lao is also an old person, and now let the family leave this gentle township and go back to the Red Mansion to cook for everyone, well, it's really a bit unspeakable......

However, Sun Lao didn't seem to pay attention to everyone's careful thinking, and when he saw that his brothers had finished eating, he hurriedly beckoned everyone to sit down, saying that now let's hurry up and have a laugh, so that those of us who have been overseas for a few months can learn about the basic situation in Macao by the way.

In addition, Xiaohou, you also give you a brief introduction to the development situation here, usually everyone exchanges telegrams, and many things are not explained in detail, not to mention that I also need to fully understand the situation after returning to the Red Mansion in order to smoothly enter the role.

So everyone hurriedly cleaned up the table, and then sat down in a group to listen to Li and Zhu's introduction.

First of all, it is about the children in the orphanage, after all, it is related to everyone's future career prospects, and it is also the thing that Sun Lao is most concerned about at present.

Zhu Beiguo has been in charge of this matter, and he said to everyone:

"Under normal circumstances, the orphanages in Macao will receive about 10 to 20 orphans a month, which is about the total number that the entire church system can adopt and send to Macao in the Lingnan area.

Most of them are infants and toddlers who should be of infant age, and it is estimated that most of them are girls who have not yet been weaned or have just been weaned, and in this world, unless there is famine or war, male babies are rarely adopted by the church. ”

Because we have already shipped children over the age of five these times, the children in the Church of Mercy are all under the age of five.

Therefore, the current Macau Holy House of Mercy Orphanage is actually a kindergarten that we fund, and although there is also a sign of a nautical school there, it is obviously difficult for Macau to recruit students who voluntarily sign up, unless we send someone there to do these work, and we also need to establish our own recruitment channels. ”

Zhu Beiguo looked at Dai Xiaoshan when he said this, so the latter continued to speak:

"We have only one requirement for these children who remain in the orphanage in Macau: to take care of their health, and secondly, to carry out some cultural learning at the kindergarten level, and we have also left some preschool teaching programs for the orphanage, including literacy, learning simple arithmetic, etc., which the priests of the convent of Mama Ingres and St. Paul's Cathedral are competent for.

When these children reach the age of five, we will take them in and send them to the Bamboo Garden and Sunflower School.

I also think it is very necessary for Beiguo to establish our own channels, especially since we have hooked up with four Chinese businessmen, who have business routes and official connections in the mainland, I think we should be able to use it, as for how to operate, I think Brother Beiguo is a professional, is it please contribute a preliminary plan? ”

"It's okay to come up with a plan, in fact, I want to be involved myself......"

Seeing Zhu Beiguo's response was very positive, everyone also nodded, and then Sun Lao asked about Macau's business, Li Sanduo replied, at present, Macao's business has been on the right track, our goods are very sought-after, in Macau bars, we heard from overseas sailors that our glass mirrors and glasses have appeared in India's Calicut and Masuli Patem Harbor, the price is very high, on average twice our price in Macau!

In addition, before we leave the port of Macau, we leave each trading partner with a list of purchases to be purchased on the next return voyage, and many Portuguese merchants in Macau, including the four major Chinese maritime merchants, have a regular trade with us.

At present, Macao and Holo are the two trading ports on our route, and the trade volume of each round trip is about 300,000 to 400,000 taels of silver, and according to Xia Xiaoou's cost accounting, most of them are profits.

The total amount of our purchases in these two trading ports is about 100,000 to 150,000 taels of silver each time, and in short, it is in a state of excess.

Of course, the main amount of excess comes from Macau, because the consumer market there has a huge background, and in Sulu, our trade is basically balanced, with occasional surpluses, often small deficits, but it is not a big problem, because Sulu can provide us with a lot of raw materials and semi-finished products that are urgently needed in industry, and by the way, if Sulu can expand its trade with us, there is no problem in achieving a trade balance......

The brief meeting ended at two o'clock in the afternoon, when Hu Xiaolin entered the dining room to report that the loading and unloading operations on the wharf had been completed, and that all the sulfur and nitrate brought by the Pride to Xin'an City had been sent to the greenhouse near the Blue Wharf Square, and that 20 tons of coal had been sent to the Pride.

So everyone asked to get off the ship to visit the Governor's Palace, and a few of them briefly divided the work, Sun Lao stayed on the Pride in the afternoon to "chat" with the group of teenagers from Macau, and Xiao Pingguo Gui Xianning went back to work in the factory, and returned to the Pride for everyone to be on duty at night, Hou Xianglin** The two took all the crew to get off the ship to visit, and the dinner was under the auspices of Sun Lao, with a group of local chefs responsible for preparing and preparing, and holding a "luxury buffet party", and then, everyone had to live in the "luxury private room" of the Governor's Palace at night, This arrangement was very popular with the crew, after many days of rocking and drifting at sea, and now they can finally sleep peacefully on land......