The personnel of the advance team and the intelligence department boarded two converted river engine sailboats, and then followed the river fleet transporting displaced people to the mouth of the Yellow River at Yuntiguan.

The river sailing ships in the Far East have been camouflaged, the hull is covered with asphalt, the appearance looks mottled and dilapidated, the deck is also messy, and the hard sails look even more like falling apart, anyway, it looks even more dilapidated than the Ming ships sailing on the Yellow River.

From time to time, the fleet can encounter a few tattered Daming Naval Division's warships, and the Far Eastern Company has bought off the nearby Daming Naval Division through bribery, trading, and other means, so that the Far Eastern inland river fleet transporting displaced people can go to sea unimpeded.

Two river sailing boats finally sailed into the mouth of the Yellow River, the river on both sides is very wide, the river surface has become a yellow-brown belt, directly in front of the sea, the yellow river water along the winding river rush into the embrace of the sea.

At the confluence of the river and the sea, like two beautiful ribbons entwined together, the yellow river water drifts with the waves on the blue sea surface, forming a dividing line where yellow and blue intersect, and the yellow river water forms a sharp contrast with the blue water.

The engines of the sailing ships began to start one after another, roaring against the current, heading inland for the Ming Dynasty. In this era, the Yellow River has an extremely abundant amount of water, and the more you go east, the more boats on the river, the boats come and go, and there is an endless stream, a prosperous scene of prosperity and liveliness.

The fleet went all the way to the west, passing through Andong, Qinghe, Suqian, Xuzhou and other places, and entered the territory of Henan. As soon as the fleet entered Henan, there were ships docked on the shore one after another, and a large number of displaced people gathered here to wait for the arrival of the fleet.

After several days of day and night sailing, the two river sailing boats finally arrived in Luoyang. The Ministry of Intelligence has already made contact with the Central Plains Intelligence Station through the radio, and Zhou Weifan, the head of the Central Plains Intelligence Station, has already brought more than a dozen people with him. Wait early at the pier.

As soon as the boat approached the dock, they met it. Everyone had a brief greeting on the dock, and Zhou Weifan led everyone to a courtyard in Luoyang. This is the location of the Central Plains Intelligence Station, and it is also the intelligence center of the Ministry of Intelligence in Daming.

Nowadays, the Central Plains Intelligence Station is doing a good job in Henan, relying on the obscenity of the Fuwang Mansion, and the Central Plains Intelligence Department is developing very well in Henan and surrounding provinces. A sound intelligence network has been established in Henan, northern Huguang, and southern Shanxi.

The Central Plains Intelligence Station currently has hundreds of intelligence agents, as well as a large number of peripheral intelligence agents, who transmit a large amount of valuable information to the company every year. He also made friends with and controlled many officials, gentry and low-level officials of the Ming Dynasty through various means.

The Far East Commercial Bank controlled by the Central Plains Intelligence Station has branches in all parts of Daming, and its commercial goods sell well in Daming. The high profits made every year just by doing business are already astronomical.

But the large amount of gold and silver earned every year is invested in the huge mouth of the gold-swallowing beast of the homeless. Moreover, the company has to subsidize a large amount of silver and grain every year to maintain the normal operation of this work.

After Zhou Weifan set up the advance team, he put on a banquet. Pick up the wind for Li Ming and his party. During the banquet, Zhou Weifan also reported to Li Ming on the work of the Central Plains Intelligence Station. Of course, the main thing is the collection and transportation of immigrants, and Zhou Weifan and they are also busy getting up early and working late every day on the homeless people along the Yellow River.

Li Ming listened to Zhou Weifan's report and said with a smile: "Everyone has worked hard in the past few years, on behalf of the board of directors of the company, I would like to express my condolences to all the employees of the Central Plains Intelligence Station, you have made great contributions to the company, and the standing committee members and members of the board of directors of the company have seen it in their eyes, and the company will not treat everyone badly."

According to our estimates. In the next few years, the drought will continue to flow north, and a large number of displaced people from all over the country will flee to the south. Your work will be even more difficult. I hope that the Central Plains Intelligence Station will continue to work hard and do its best to collect more displaced people and transport them back to Liaodong. Zhou Weifan, how many displaced people do you plan to transport this year? ”

Zhou Weifan thought for a while and said: "It was originally set to be 300,000, but judging from the current situation, it is estimated to be almost 400,000." As for how much it will exceed in the end, it is difficult to say, because every day, more and more displaced people from all over the world come to our resettlement centers on both sides of the Yellow River. It is impossible to estimate the final number, but it must be much more than originally planned. ”

Li Ming and Zhou Billy glanced at each other, and they both secretly smiled bitterly. It seems that there are quite a few displaced people this year, and a telegram has been sent from the Shandong intelligence officers, and Cai Huaze has mobilized all his forces to collect the displaced people in Shandong and Hebei, and it is expected that more than 100,000 displaced people will be collected this year. In addition, Wu Xiang of the Guanning Army collected the displaced people from Hebei and other places this year, as well as the displaced people who were transported to Liaodong by Song Shiping, Zheng Zhilong and Liu Xiang.

It is expected that the number of company immigrants this year will be at least more than 500,000, or even far more than that. It seems that the company's immigration task this year is very difficult. Starting from next year, affected by the drought in Chongzhen, all parts of Daming will usher in a blowout wave of displaced people.

The next day, Li Ming found Zhou Weifan again and asked him to lead Liang Yujie to the Far East Commercial Bank. Liang Yujie also has a task this time, that is, on behalf of the company, to investigate the accounts of the Central Plains base area. It will also integrate the Far Eastern Group Commercial Bank and the merchant group to which Song Shiping belongs.

Far East will set up the only Far East Commercial Bank, and the company will carry out unified management of businesses and stores in Daming. The future business plan of the Hetao base area will also be included in the planning of the Far East Commercial Bank.

In the future, Far Eastern Commercial Bank will make overall plans for all the company's business activities in Daming, and uniformly allocate commercial goods and funds.

After the integration, the efficiency of the Far East Commercial Bank will be greatly increased, and the waste of resources and duplicate construction will be avoided, the management cost will be reduced, and the circulation speed of goods and funds will be increased.

After the company launched the second phase of the northward plan, it will control the northern desert grassland of the Ming Dynasty, and will also thoroughly control all the resources of the north, and plan the northern trade route of the Ming Dynasty in a unified manner to maximize the benefits.

Once this plan is implemented, the commercial development plan of the Hetao base area will also be greatly accelerated. Through the company's Far East Commercial Bank in Daming, it provides material support to the Hetao base area and reduces the dependence of the Hetao base area on materials in Liaodong.

After Liang Yujie took over the Far Eastern Group Commercial Bank, he immediately carried out drastic reforms, and the original backward operation and management mode of the Far Eastern Group Commercial Bank gradually changed to a modern corporate model.

Li Ming and Zhou Billy were led by the staff of the Central Plains Intelligence Station to investigate and investigate various places in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty. Then he will organize forces to go north to Shanxi, Shaanxi and Jingshi, build a northern intelligence station, and expand the company's intelligence network in Daming. (To be continued......)

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