Liu Shang tossed and turned this night, barely fell asleep, and when he woke up the next day, he couldn't help but have two big dark circles under his eyes. Yu Xiaobao was startled when he saw it, and hurriedly asked him if there was anything uncomfortable, and asked the old doctor in charge of medical and health affairs in the inspection team to diagnose his pulse. Liu Shang couldn't cry or laugh, and it was impossible to tell the truth, so he could only deduce that he had been running all the way in the past few days, probably because his body was a little unbearable.

Yu Xiaobao was silent for a moment before saying: "Otherwise, Mr. Liu will stay in the local area to recuperate for a few days, and the rest of the itinerary will not be reluctantly followed." After you are well recuperated, you can take a boat back to Sanya by yourself. ”

Liu Shang didn't expect that he would make up an excuse casually but it would be self-defeating, so he hurriedly waved his hand and excused himself: "I can't do it, it's important to get down to business, although the villain's body is thin, but it's not so easy to fall." Director Yu don't worry, the villain can hold on!"

Yu Xiaobao said: "There is a preaching arrangement today, don't you be reluctant, can you really hold on?"

Liu Shang hurriedly patted his chest and promised that he would not drop the chain during the propaganda activities. Yu Xiaobao was still not at ease, so he asked the doctor to prescribe a prescription for him to recuperate, and instructed the people in the guest house to go to the pharmacy to give him the prescription. Liu Shang couldn't refuse, so he had to thank him first.

Not long after, the owner of the pharmacy also rushed over with the doctor and his buddy, and heard that it was said that the senior official who came to Danzhou from Sanya to inspect government affairs was unwell, and the boss dared to be lazy, so he hurriedly grabbed the medicine according to the prescription, and took some other tonics, and hurried over. This boss is also careful, and he is afraid that there is no decoction of medicine in the guest house, so he even asked the guy to bring the medicine jar.

"It's really good to be an official......" Liu Shang could only sigh heartily when he saw such a scene. Although he also knew that he was not a high-ranking Haihan official, he was just a small person who was temporarily recruited into this inspection team, and this kind of treatment was not aimed at him, but for the inspection group he was in, but it was enough to move him.

Of course, Yu Xiaobao also knew that these people had misunderstood, but he was in a high position and didn't bother to explain to the little people in the market, so he immediately asked the people from the guest house to take the pharmacy and his party to the kitchen and arrange a stove for them to decoct the medicine. As for the related expenses, naturally some people will come forward to settle the accounts with the pharmacy, but they will not take advantage of these ordinary people with official positions. For him, these small things are far less important than Liu Shang's health, after all, the trade policy propaganda that Liu Shang is responsible for is one of the important tasks of the inspection team, and the absence of this link will inevitably affect the completion of the task.

Liu Shang didn't have a good rest at night because of excessive anxiety, but in fact, he didn't have any patients, let alone need to take medicine for treatment. But at present, this situation is beyond his control, so he can only obey Xiaobao's arrangement.

Not long after, Zhang Xin also came here to coordinate with Yu Xiaobao the arrangements for today's propaganda meeting, and when he heard that someone in the inspection team was sick, he also came over to comfort Liu Shang. Liu Shang could only reluctantly say once again that his health was fine and would not affect today's work arrangement.

After Zhang Xin left, Liu Shang felt a little depressed when he thought about the appearance of nodding his head just now, whether his role as a Haihan official was too deep in the play, and how could he really unconsciously begin to grovel to the high-ranking Haihan officials. This sign is really terrifying, and it must be stopped as soon as possible, otherwise after a while, I am afraid that it will really be assimilated by this evil Haihan system.

After a lot of tossing, Liu Shang still didn't have time to take the medicine before departure, but the owner of the pharmacy made a package ticket, and as soon as the medicine was decoctioned, someone would send it to the venue immediately, and it would not delay the condition. And Liu Shang knows his physical condition well, so he naturally doesn't care too much about this kind of thing.

The propaganda activities at this station in Danzhou were the most popular in this errand, and there were not only many representatives of local business, cultural, and political circles, but also foreign envoys and businessmen who had recently participated in the arms fair in Danzhou, with more than 300 people. Combined with the staff of the venue and the security personnel who maintain order on the periphery, the total number of listeners is at least 500 or more.

The whole set of amplification equipment composed of electric speakers, microphones and batteries specially brought out by the inspection team from Sanya finally came in handy, and the technicians had already set up and debugged it at the venue last night, and today they only need to go to the stage and use it directly. However, Liu Shang had never used this kind of amplification equipment before, and after arriving at the venue, he only understood how to use it because of Xiaobao's personal explanation, but the principle was completely unknown.

After Liu Shang arrived in Haihan, he saw too many strange things, but he had already adapted to this novel feeling, he knew that this thing was probably some kind of black technology mastered by Haihan people, even if Yu Xiaobao was willing to reveal its principle, he would definitely not understand it, so he simply didn't open his mouth to inquire about the mystery.

"As you can see, there are many foreign businessmen present at today's preaching event, including Da Ming, so the content of trade should be as detailed as possible. You should slow down your speech and speak more clearly, lest some foreign businessmen not understand it. Yu Xiaobao did not forget to tell Liu Shang again before the opening.

Liu Shang didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly responded one by one. At this time, the owner of the pharmacy and his men hurriedly delivered the decocted medicine to the venue, and Liu Shang could only pinch his nose and drink it. In fact, what the doctor prescribed to him was nothing more than a common prescription for colds, and drinking it would not cause any harm to the body.

According to the practice of the previous lectures, Zhang Xin, the local chief executive, appeared first to explain the significance and purpose of the propaganda activities and introduce the identities of the inspection team. When Liu Shang was introduced here, he didn't mention that he was temporarily arrested by Yu Xiaobao as a substitute, but gave him the position of "Propaganda Department Officer".

Of course, Zhang Xin did not forget to do some publicity for the local area: "...... After buying guns and armor locally, don't forget to take a break in your busy life, and go around the city of Danzhou, and the local food and scenery are also quite good. If you plan to buy a house or land in Danzhou, invest in a farm, or set up a college, I would like to welcome you on behalf of the Danzhou Management Committee. Of course, you will report me Zhang Xin's name when the time comes...... That's not a discount either. ”

There was a burst of good-natured laughter from the audience, and those who have the ability to buy property and land locally certainly understood that Zhang Xin was just joking, in fact, the Danzhou area still has quite a lot of preferential treatment for attracting investment, especially for long-term projects such as investment in plantations and farms, Haihan will give great preferential treatment in terms of taxes, and will promise to buy the output of these private farms and plantations at a reasonable price in the agreement. In the years since Danzhou changed hands, the area of cultivated land has doubled or tripled compared to the reign of the Ming Dynasty, and most of this increase has been due to plantations and private farms developed by the Ministry of Agriculture and foreign investors.

More and more foreign businessmen realized in the process of dealing with Haihan that in addition to agent sales, there are two kinds of business that are also very profitable, one is the sea transportation, which Haihan's foreign trade is very dependent on, and the other is to invest in the development of plantations in Haihan's territory.

When Haihan first engaged in the plantation project, except for a few die-hard followers such as Fu Ruifeng, the vast majority of foreign businessmen still had a wait-and-see mentality and did not invest in such projects on a large scale. On the one hand, they are worried about whether the agricultural technology of the Haihan people is as advanced as they boast, and on the other hand, they are also a little worried about the nationalized land policy of the Haihan, after all, almost all the places occupied by the Haihan belong to the territory of the Ming Dynasty in the past.

Later, with the gradual emergence of the national strength of Haihan, the experience of the plantation was gradually recognized by the outside world. With the support of the Ministry of Agriculture, almost all of the first plantations operated by private investors have achieved quite good returns, and this kind of income is not a year, but can last for several years, and the long-term return on investment is considerable.

In addition, the most promising aspect of these projects is that they are less risky, and Hainan Island, under the rule of the Haihan people, has basically been recognized as the safest and most stable place in the entire South China Sea, and even the mainland including the Ming Dynasty and the Indochina Peninsula. Investing in Haihan basically does not have the risk of war or chaos, which can be said to be difficult to have in other places in the Far East at the same time.

Especially for businessmen from Daming, investing in and operating a farm outside Daming is almost equivalent to leaving a way out for themselves and their families overseas. In case the war in the Ming Dynasty intensifies, and the imperial court cannot come up with effective control methods for internal and external troubles, then at least you can go to Haihan to escape the war, even if you can't take away any family property at that time, you still have your own property to support your family when you go to Haihan. From this point of view, the investment in Haihan is actually buying an insurance for the future of his family, and it is the most powerful armed force in the entire South China Sea that protects this investment. What's more, in the business of cooperating with Haihan, I haven't heard of anyone who is losing money.

It is precisely on this basis that many people, after observing the situation for a period of time, decisively began to invest in various agricultural and forestry projects on Hainan Island, on the one hand, as a long-term business project, and on the other hand, they also took advantage of this to establish a good relationship with Haihan, so that they can obtain the protection of Haihan when necessary in the future.

Although Danzhou is not as good as Sanya, the current capital of Haihan, in terms of business environment, it also has its own advantages. After the assassination of Danzhou in 1631, Haihan cleaned up a large number of untrustworthy landlords in Danzhou on the pretext of purging the rebellious party, and at the same time nationalized a large number of ownerless land. Therefore, when Danzhou implements the plantation development plan, there will be very few disputes over the ownership of the land, as long as the funds are in place, investors can get thousands of acres of contiguous land for development at one time, and this can also greatly reduce the initial development and construction costs.

Danzhou has been able to successfully become one of the three city-level administrative units of Haihan, which is also directly related to the regional prosperity brought by foreign investment, although there are not as many foreign investors here as Sanya, but the number is already very considerable.

After Zhang Xin stepped down after speaking, Yu Xiaobao signaled Liu Shang to come to the stage. Liu Shang had already preached elsewhere before, and knew that this errand was just memorizing scripts, and he was good at storytelling, so there was nothing to be nervous about for him. stood up at the moment, bowed slightly to Zhang Xin, who stepped off the stage, and then appeared on stage.

Liu Shang walked to the podium, his eyes couldn't help but look at the microphone erected on the table again, Yu Xiaobao had already told him before, as long as he spoke to this thing, he could make the audience hear it clearly with a normal volume, and Zhang Xin's speech on the stage just now had also confirmed this.

Liu Shang calmed his breath, and then opened his mouth to introduce himself: "Liu Shang, who is currently temporarily working in the Haihan Propaganda Department, will talk to all of you today about China's recent trade policy ......."

Although Liu Shang didn't take the time to memorize the manuscript again in the past few days, he has a good memory, and after reading the manuscript twice last night and this morning, he was able to make a speech off the script throughout the whole process. And when he was a storyteller, he was used to being watched by everyone, and he was not nervous when he talked on stage, and he would observe the audience's emotional reactions while talking, and make adjustments to his speech. Even by professional standards, Liu Shang can be regarded as a good quality speaker.

Zhang Xin listened for a while, then turned his head to the side below and asked Xiaobao in a low voice: "This is the newcomer recruited by the Propaganda Department this year?"

Yu Xiaobao nodded and said, "It's very new, and it was taken out and requisitioned by me during the induction training." ”

Zhang Xindao: "That is, it hasn't been assigned yet? I'll tell Mr. Ning when I go back and ask him to assign this Liu Shang to Danzhou." ”

Yu Xiaobao shook his head and said: "I'm afraid it won't work, this Liu Shang is still quite capable, and after I go back this time, I will also report his performance truthfully." At that time, most of the people above will directly name the dignitaries and let him enter the ministry to do things. ”

Zhang Xin sighed and said: "Shengli Fort has eaten up all the talents, which makes it difficult for us to carry out work in the locality! You go back and reflect it to the superiors, and also assign some professional talents to the locality!"

Yu Xiaobao said with a smile: "I will convey your opinions on my behalf, but I don't dare to complain so much to the leaders." This Liu Shang's distribution problem, probably I can't play a role, if you really want people with peace of mind, then it's best to send a telegram to the executive committee in person. ”

Liu Shang, who was talking eloquently on stage, couldn't imagine that he had unknowingly become a fragrant bun, and there were already high-ranking officials of Haihan who wanted to include him in his subordinates.