Chapter 41 Cooperation

However, this incident can serve as a warning to other executive committee members, especially Wu De, the president of the Planning Institute. Once the "Yifan-Chen Ce" system is adopted, he certainly foresees the impact that the Planning Institute, as the direct successor of the Planning Committee, will suffer.

owned.

Ma Qianzhu rang the doorbell at the end of the road, and a window immediately appeared on the iron-clad door, revealing a pair of alert eyes.

"Pass."

He handed over the pass.

A few minutes later, the door opened, and the guard stood at attention and saluted: "Hello, chief."

"Okay, okay." He mumbled a few times, took back his pass, and asked casually: "Is Xiao Zishan here?"

"exist."

Ma Qianzhu looked at the small blue brick building in the yard. Xiao Zishan's office is at the top of the second floor. If he looks down from the window, he can see himself - as he always does, he will definitely socialize with himself.

Socializing. Thinking of this, he took a few steps and quickly got out of this sight area.

The office lounge is in the backyard of the office. Xiao Zishan asked Li Xiaolu to do a landscape design, built an open-style fake ancient building, and planted many flowers and trees on all sides - the jasmine is in full bloom right now, and the snow-white flowers are everywhere.

The branches are fragrant.

This is a place similar to a teahouse. The room is very bright and bright, and there are rattan seats inside. It is very similar to the teahouses in Suzhou and Hangzhou that Ma Qianzhu has visited. The breeze is blowing, and it is a good place to rest and talk. However, there are no waiters here, so tea is free.

After waiting for a few minutes, Skade hurried over.

"Hello, Secretary of State." He greeted. In fact, he and Ma Qianzhu were not very familiar with each other and had only met a few times at enlarged meetings of the Executive Committee.

"Call me Ma Qianzhu, Comrade Skade."

"Okay." Skade nodded. This man is about thirty, 175cm tall, with a pretty standard build, and a popular face. According to the political appraisal of the General Administration of Political Security, this man is a chauvinist, hating Britain and America, and his ideal is to establish a colony.

The empire has entered the third industrial revolution in its lifetime. Regarding this last point, Ma Qianzhu believes that he and himself still have a common language.

Ma Qianzhu introduced to him the plan for setting up a Foreign Intelligence Service base.

"...Jiangshan's idea is that the current layout on the mainland should basically establish a system where intelligence and commerce are shouldered together. This can maximize the efficiency of the use of people, finances, and materials and avoid duplication of construction."

"You mean, similar to the model of Guangzhou Station."

"That's roughly true. However, this type of station may not reach the scale of Guangzhou Station."

"The Ministry of Colonial Trade is responsible for investment and management, and is also responsible for the support of intelligence personnel. Is this what you mean?"

"Of course." Ma Qianzhu nodded, "But I have to correct one thing. Strictly speaking, the investments are provided by the Planning Institute and the Finance Director's Department." He smelled a hint of bargaining and quickly dismissed it.

possibility.

"Yes," Skade nodded, "What I mean is that if our department is responsible for business activities, then there will be commercial considerations in the selection of these sites. Rather than simply obtaining intelligence considerations

.Some locations the Intelligence Bureau considers are of great significance and it is necessary to set up permanent stations, but from commercial considerations these locations may not be able to earn enough profits, and may not even be able to earn profits to maintain the operation of the site itself."

"If there is such a location, the Intelligence Bureau will be solely responsible for it." Ma Qianzhu said simply.

"In this case, I agree to cooperate. However, I hope that the Intelligence Bureau will provide a list of locations they wish to deploy so that the ministry can conduct a comprehensive assessment."

"No problem." Ma Qianxu said, "I will tell Jiangshan to come find you - you must keep this list of locations secret."

"Of course," Skade said, "I am drafting a report on increasing foreign stations. Since the Intelligence Bureau also has this consideration, we can jointly draft this report with the Intelligence Bureau."

"You can discuss this matter slowly with Jiang Shan." Ma Qianzhu said casually, "How are you going to arrange your deployment?"

Skade grinned: "The Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Light Industry are also worried about large-scale deployment. They all want to expand the mainland market."

Ma Qianzhu knows that this is because the silver reserves have been declining recently, and the Leizhou sugar harvesting season, the largest source of wealth for the Chuanchuan Group, has not yet begun. However, the consumption of industrialization does not stop for a minute. As the main source of income, "

"Foreign Exchange" departments: the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Light Industry. Their anxiety can be imagined.

"After our discussion, we first decided to set up sites in the south of the Yangtze River - Nanjing, Yangzhou, Suzhou and Hangzhou. These four places have the most commercial value, and our high-quality industrial products will have a huge market. It would be best to open one or two sites in Fujian.

."

Fujian is an important source of porcelain for export. Clark porcelain is mostly produced in this area. There are also rich local tea resources, both of which are important sources of export goods. As far as the needs of Chuan Chuan Group are concerned, kaolin and tea are in great demand.

resource.

Followed by Beijing and Zhangjiakou.

"Zhangjiakou? It's not easy to get money from Shanxi Laocai."

"Zhangjiakou is a major trading center for Mongolian goods, including furs and horses. Don't the executive committee want them?"

Of course I want it. Fur goods can be re-exported - Europeans are very enthusiastic about fur goods. As for horses, this is what the Crossing Group lacks the most. Don't look at the fact that the people in the Committee of Agriculture look down on Mongolian horses and think they are too tall.

, too small in size, but this kind of horse can withstand rough feeding, and it is quite good to be used as draft power for hundreds of horses. At least it is more useful than slow oxen. Besides, the army also has a strong demand for horses - Zhang Bolin has already

I have complained countless times: using animals as substitutes for soldiers to fire cannons is a barbaric and backward military system.

"How to transport Mongolian goods? The distance from Zhangjiakou to any sea port in the customs is not close."

"This requires the intelligence department to find a way. The first thing is to get the generals of the town army and let them come forward to handle the procedures. Otherwise, the horses will not be able to go on the road at all. The second thing is to build an outlet in the northern coastal area so that the goods traded from the north can be transported nearby.

Load it on board.”

"Is this all the layout you have considered?"

"Yes, the commercial points in the Jiangnan area can be more densely distributed. For example, Zhenjiang and Shanghai can also be set up, but these will be the first ones for the time being. If there are too many points, the investment will not be enough."

"Very good." Ma Qianzhu wrote down the key points in his notebook.

Skade didn't know whether the "very good" was a sign of approval for a job well done, or a sign of "that's it." He coughed:

"In addition to mainland China, I propose to set up a point in Macau."

"There is a person in Macau called..."

"Huang Shunlong." Si Kaide reminded him, "This person is our agent in Macau. But this person is not very active in business. His business is nothing more than sitting around collecting stolen goods and reselling contraband. Now it is of great value to us

It's getting smaller and smaller - he can't satisfy Lingao's appetite. We need a sales window that can directly face the Portuguese."

"It's not like we have Li Huamei acting as our agent."

"This person," said Skade, "is very suspicious. You should know that she may not be reliable."

"If that's the case, consider setting up one."

"The last one is to set up a point in Vietnam." He said, "It was first set up in Beiqi, which is the source of our rice and coal. It is very necessary to set up a trading post." With a trading post, it is natural.

Intelligence work.

"Setting up a base in Beiqi is a big deal. I'm afraid it requires coordination from all ministries. The Northern Dynasty may not allow it. We must be prepared for a military struggle."

"How about testing it out first?" Si Kaide has been planning this matter for a long time. Last time, Chang Shide from Leizhou made a special trip back to Lingao to discuss this issue with him: Leizhou Station and Guangzhou Station were preparing to establish a trade company with Vietnam.

, in addition to mining coal in Hongji, it also engages in trading activities.

It is not difficult to set up a trading station and goods store in Beiqi. As long as there is money to be made, the small court in North Vietnam still welcomes everyone to do business - many Ming merchants already have warehouses and stores in the local area. It is rare to find coal mining in Hongji.

.This matter is more difficult. It is hard to imagine that the small court of North Vietnam would turn a blind eye to the coal mining activities of a group of strange overseas people.

Si Kaide's plan was that if Ma Qianzhu didn't object, he would start with Hongji on a small scale. Anyway, he had manpower and material resources at hand that he could use.

"This matter still needs to be submitted to the executive committee for discussion. It involves issues of foreign relations." Ma Qianxu said, "Beiqi is not a Southeast Asian native chief. There are hundreds of thousands of troops. Now that relations are at a standstill, I'm afraid we won't be able to

Easy to deal with.”

A few days later, the proposal for the joint deployment of the Intelligence Bureau and the Ministry of Colonial Trade on the mainland was approved by the Executive Committee, and then passed on the third reading by the Standing Committee of the Senate. As for the deployment of Beiqi, the Executive Committee and the Senate "adopted in principle

", agreeing that a small-scale team can be dispatched to conduct a tentative layout - provided that "military conflicts are avoided as much as possible."

Skade felt very aggrieved - colonization should be bloody. How can music without cannons and guns be called "colonial development".

"We are all afraid of the Vietnamese." He complained in his office, and then picked up the phone, "Answer the Organization Department... Right, the Organization Department? I am in the office of the Ministry of Colonization and Trade. I need to transfer a few people.

file... No, the transfer procedures are not going through for the time being... Yes, the first one is called Bei Kai..."

Li Yan stared at the hyphae under the microscope - this is the biological laboratory of the Committee of Agriculture. There are seven or eight people crowded inside, a group of PhDs and masters in molecular biology, stem cells and other cutting-edge sciences in the 21st century, all under the leadership of Huang Dashan

Study various practical bacterial strains. This is one of the two options for those who study biology. The other option is to go to the biological laboratory of the Ministry of Health, which specializes in working with virus vaccines.

He wrote down his observation results on a clipboard - this kind of work is boring and boring, but fortunately he is used to it. Making plans step by step has become a part of his life.

Li Yan handed over the microscope to others and walked out of the already crowded laboratory. When he walked out from the turbid and hot laboratory, he felt that the air was extremely fresh. He took a deep breath - compared to other places

, the air here in the farm is still good.

He has received a transfer order and will go to work in the Foreign Intelligence Service tomorrow. It is too unchallenging to always do search and treatment translation in the library. He is used to boring work, but that does not mean he is used to it.

Simple work. Intelligence work suits his taste.

Li Yan doesn't want to be 007, nor does he want to be an M. He wants to be a planner in the office. It's best to be a trainer. He specializes in teaching various conspiracies and traps, as well as his beloved Ied-although this thing

There is some doubt as to whether it is possible to use it.

A few days later, the first training class for dispatched personnel started. The reason why it is called the first class is because the students in this class are unique-all are veterans who are interested in dedicating themselves to intelligence or trade work. They are all

People who take the initiative to submit applications and request to work on the front lines in mainland China.

There are more than a dozen people in this group, all different in height, short, fat and thin, except for one thing - they are all men. It is not that there are no women who have submitted applications, there are quite a few women who are willing to join this high-risk job. However, after analysis by the intelligence department, they believe that women

There is not much scope for activities in the Ming-controlled area, unless she is willing to mingle with the lower class, or like Miss Pipe, she goes out of her way to become a social butterfly.
To be continued...