In late summer and early autumn, Daxing Port is already starting to show coolness, and the temperature only climbs slightly above 20 degrees Celsius at noon every day, and the rest of the time is cool. The herders in the field even put on long-sleeved autumn clothes in the morning and evening, and the children who had been playing in the river in the summer were nowhere to be seen, and they were now carried out to the fields by adults, tending to the newly grown crops, while planting some miscellaneous grains such as taro, black beans and broad beans on the ridges.

The fields are densely packed with cacti, which are so densely distributed that they form a thorny barrier – in fact, a barrier that prevents wild animals from breaking into the farmland and destroying the farmland. The pioneers of the East Coast had to fight not only with the Charuya for living space, but also with ostriches, cougars and other animals, which was extremely hard.

Of course, it was neither the Charuas nor the cougars that were the biggest problem for the pioneer farmers on the east coast, but the thistles that gradually spread from far away to the left. The crops of the Old World, which followed the Spaniards to the Americas, grew unscrupulously in the wilderness, constantly competing with the pastures for nutrients, and providing an excellent hiding place for natives or criminals.

However, no matter how stubborn the "enemy" is, it cannot be compared with the tenacious pioneer farmers of the East Coast! With the arrival of batches of new immigrants, the control area of Daxing Port continues to expand outward, the villages are becoming more and more dense, the roads are getting longer and longer, and the farmland is becoming more and more extensive.

Under an old cypress tree at the head of the village, Sun Chengren looked at the steam plow that was busy in the field in front of him. The carburized iron ploughshare, pulled by a straight-rope rope, dug forward tenaciously and then plowed a deep trench in the soft earth. These are all land for new immigrants, which just a few months ago was barren. Only a few people came to pick up stones and clean up the roots of shrubs in the early stage, but now with the large investment of the State Development Administration, the wasteland has been developed on a large scale. As long as the newly arrived more than 1,000 immigrants put a little effort into it, it is still entirely possible to rush to replant some pasture.

"Shopkeeper Sun. The mayor of the town has approved the plot of land you chose, and in addition, the industrial and commercial office has also issued a business license, and you can go and pick it up tomorrow. Sun Chunyang's South Store, at least legally, is no obstacle to the opening of Zài. A seventeen or eighteen-year-old cadre of the Corps Fort walked up to Sun Chengren lightly and said with a smile.

"Oh, thank you so much." Sun Chengren turned around and said in surprise, immediately. He touched it in his pocket, took out a golden coin with a face value of fifty yuan, quietly stuffed it into Xuebing's hand, and said, "It's a small meaning, it's not a respect." Cadre Huo has been busy with work in the past two days, and it has been really hard, so he will use this money to buy some tea and drink. ”

"Cadre Huo" obviously hesitated and struggled for a while, and then "resolutely" stuffed the gold coin back into Sun Chengren's hand and said, "Shopkeeper Sun, we have our rules." I don't dare to accept your money, for fear that something will happen. Besides, all the things I have been busy with in the past two days have been told to me by my superiors. It's not hard, I also accepted a jar of camellia from you, I'm embarrassed to receive more gifts, I hope you understand. ”

Sun Chengren had a moment when he looked at the cadet cadre in front of him with the eyes of a fool, and after a long time, he sighed deeply, patted the shoulder of the cadet cadre, and said nothing. He felt in his heart that these baby cadres had studied in school for ten years, and they were afraid that they were all stupid, and they didn't accept the money sent to the door, is this still a fucking official?

Could it be that all the officials and masters on the east coast are clean and incorruptible? Thinking of this, Sun Chengren shook his head. Because whether it is in Ningbo, Dengzhou or the so-called Southern Railway annex, some local officials collect money. This doll cadre in front of him does not collect money. It can only be attributed to the fact that his brain is broken, or it is not a good thing - maybe after another seven or eight years of working as an official, he will get used to receiving money, right?

Sun Chengren arrived at Daxing Port at the beginning of this month (March), which was in a state of rejuvenation. This time, he transited thousands of miles from the Ming Kingdom through the port of Araukan to the east coast, and he actually had an important mission. That is, how to introduce the Sunchunyang South Goods Store, which has a relatively good development momentum in the Heishui area, into the east coast and begin to seize the market in various counties and towns.

As a fast-rising commercial chain institution in the Heishui area, Sun Chunyang South Store has opened four stores (Penglai, Yantai, Jeju and Dinghai), and the business conditions are quite good, three of which are in good profitability, and one has just turned a profit, earning a lot of profits for investors.

However, the ambitions and insights of the investors (the Heishui Pioneer Team is the largest shareholder, and the Far Eastern military and political giants such as Shao Shude, Mao Desheng, and Wei Boqiu also have faint shares) are far from being comparable to the Sun family, who actually run the store. No, Sun Chengren traveled all the way from the sea to the east coast in order to open a shop in the mainland, and he also carried Shao Shude's handwritten letter with him - and this is obviously the reason why he is highly valued in Daxing Port. Otherwise, the local people are busy with wasteland, who has time to deal with a merchant who crosses the sea from the Ming Kingdom?

As for why not open the store in Dongfang County, Ping'an County, Zhenhai County and other places where the population is densely populated, the people's purchasing power is strong, and the willingness to buy is also very strong (this is particularly critical), but in Daxinggang, which has a population of only 2,500 and the land has just been reclaimed for a few years, the main reason is to avoid fierce competition. Because the more affluent the place, the more fierce the competition between state-run department stores, private commissaries, and vendors from all directions, Sun Chunyang's southern store broke into with a competitive posture, which may not be a good choice. Therefore, the store was opened in the newly opened Wujiang River Basin, and then deeply rooted in the operation for a few years, and after the whole basin gradually developed, Sun Chunyang South Store, which had long been rooted here, naturally took advantage of the situation. What's more, Daxing Port is relatively close to Tieling County, the second industrial town on the east coast, and itself is the terminal and outlet of the Northwest Railway, with great development potential.

In order to support the local layout of Sun Chunyang South Goods Store on the east coast, Far Eastern Mingguo has also invested a lot of resources, such as they have introduced new investors, and Sun Chunyang South Goods Store has also experienced a new round of capital increase and share expansion. At present, the Blackwater Development Team has increased its stake to 45% after the capital injection, and is the largest shareholder; The Suzhou headquarters of the Sun family also quietly sent a number of core children to Heishui with a large amount of money to buy shares, so the shares were maintained unchanged, still 40%; The shares of individual investors, who originally occupied 20% of the shares, have been diluted, accounting for only 15% at present, but the proportion of personal shares in the hands of Shao Shude, Wei Boqiu and other leaders of the Far East has risen steadily and has not suffered the slightest loss.

This time, Sun Chengren came to South America with a huge sum of 200,000 yuan (remittance to the mainland on the east coast through the Heishui Branch of the Northwest Reclamation Bank), and he already plans to open at least three new branches, namely three shops in Araukan Port, Jingjiang Port and Daxing Port. In the future, the three shops will take Far Eastern specialty products as the main selling point, that is, focus on Far Eastern medicinal materials, tea, raw silk, porcelain, high-quality leather (bear skin, mink, green fox skin, etc. that are not available in South America) and other goods, and then transport some East Coast specialties back to Heishui for sale to obtain huge profits.

In order to achieve this plan, Sun Chunyang South Freight Store first had to buy one or two large ships on the east coast that could sail to the sea, and recruit enough sailors to be able to transport goods back and forth. Otherwise, everything is just empty talk, and Sun Chunyang's South Goods Store can only end up being like those stores in the eastern coastal areas, operating some local daily necessities on the east coast, making some meager profits, and living a salty and uneventful life.

Of course, the Sun family refuses to get by like this! No, after completing the formalities for opening the Daxing Port branch, Sun Chengren will go south to Yancheng Port on a ship of the "Courier Liner Company" to participate in a new auction of naval privateer's stolen goods to be held at the end of April, including several captured foreign merchant ships.

Sun Chengren, who has a huge sum of 200,000 yuan in his hand, will not surprisingly become the most powerful figure in the auction when the time comes-- investors from all walks of life who intend to buy captured merchant ships will be directly frightened by the local tyrants of the black water who spend a lot of money -- and it is not a problem to include three or five ships. It's just that ships are easy to buy, and this sailor is not easy to recruit! Yes, I can't say that I will have to spend a lot of money to dig up the foot of the wall, anyway, he has the signboards of Shao Shude, Wei Boqiu, Mao Desheng, Huang Yi and others on his head, but he is not afraid of being yin on the east coast. Dig up a few seafaring masters, and then recruit some stupid Italian peasants, learn as they get on the ship, and sail directly down the ocean to Daming -- Sun Chengren envisioned it so beautifully that he didn't even think about such ships and such staffing, and how many ships would be able to reach the Far East Ming Kingdom safely.

However, no matter what, the spirit of the Sun family is still worthy of praise. After the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Dutch spent a lot of effort to transport silver to the Ming Kingdom, they brought a large amount of gold and silver from the Ming Kingdom to the east coast, inadvertently making the money complete an unprecedented "journey" in the three oceans of the world. This kind of money travel is bound to bring huge commercial, cultural and personnel exchanges to the people of the two places (Heishui and the East Coast mainland), promote the development of the two places, and when it becomes larger and larger, it is believed that it will have an immeasurable impact on the current shipping and economic order on the East Coast. (To be continued)