In Pingyang County, Yunzhou, formerly Resistencia, Corrientes Province, Argentina, the Paraná River rushes down thousands of miles from its source. When it reaches Pingyang County, the flow gradually becomes gentle.
The tributaries on both sides of the river bank are crisscrossed, and tall and dense primitive trees extend their branches slantingly above the water, expanding their living space little by little.
Yunzhou is located in the northern part of the La Plata Plain, with a hot climate and dense forests. During the white rule of Argentina, due to limitations of the natural environment and insufficient manpower, the number of local permanent residents never exceeded 100,000, and it was completely annexed by the National Defense Forces.
After Argentina, coordinated by the government, organized a large number of immigrants to the border areas and newly occupied areas, the number of permanent residents in Yunzhou reached the average level of the Han states.
After getting off the small ship, dozens of people stepped on the simple wooden trestle, making a creaking sound.
Sun Bin, Zheng Huaide and others sneaked in light clothes and arrived in Pingyang County without alerting the local officials.
"Two adults, after riding the boat for a few days, we are all a little tired. Why don't we find an inn to rest first and continue our journey tomorrow. What do you think?"
"Okay, we are seven or eight miles away from the county seat. Let's take a rest. It won't be too late to go to the county seat tomorrow."
Sun Bin, Zheng Huaide, and He Yanliang were dressed as businessmen, and more than a dozen security officers disguised as clerks deliberately walked a few steps behind.
"Guests, are you dining or staying in the hotel? There is a new chef in the hotel. The food will be kept to your satisfaction."
Walking into an inn, the waiter greeted me warmly.
"It doesn't matter if the meal is late."
Sun Bin waved his hand and said, "A group of us went to Yunzhou to sell goods. There are a total of 20 people including the owners and the clerks. Are the guest rooms in your store enough?"
"Guest, please relax. Don't look at the fact that our inn only has one row of shops facing the street. Walk more than thirty steps to the back street. The three courtyards inside are all owned by Mr. Lin's family. Just stay here with peace of mind. Both ordinary guest rooms and private rooms are available.
If you have time, you won’t be disappointed.”
"Oh, we just came from the port. Along the way, we saw several stores with Lin's signboards. Could it be that these businesses belong to the same person?"
Sun Bin asked his men with a curious expression on his face as he motioned for two silver coins.
"It is the first time for several guest officials to come to our Pingyang County, and they have never heard of the name of Dong Lin's family."
The clerk took the silver dollar and did not notice anything unusual. He introduced enthusiastically, "Speaking of the name of Dong Lin's family, I am afraid that everyone in Pingyang County does not know it. Dong Lin's family was a famous big shot as early as in Nanyang Xingzhou.
Have you ever heard of the name of Yee Hing Company? We, Mr. Lin, are the second bosses of Yee Hing Company, and since the big boss Chen Xunian and Chen Dongjia left Sin Chew and went to Borneo, the business of Yee Hing Company in Southeast Asia and the Americas has been done by
The Lin Dong family has the final say, so you should understand when I tell you this, right?"
Yixing Company was founded by Nanyang Chinese businessman Chen Xunian. In the early days of its establishment, the company was mainly engaged in plantation reclamation and port construction. When the Han Dynasty annexed northern Argentina in 1872, Yixing Company controlled by Chen Xunian was already the largest Chinese plantation owner and port in the Malay Peninsula.
contractor.
The establishment of the Han State also triggered an investment boom in the Nanyang region. Using his familiarity with Zhang Fanglin, Hu Yaji and other Han officials, Chen Xunian got on the fast track of the rapid development of the Han State, and Yixing Company's business also rapidly expanded to South America.
, Annan and other places, the shadow of Yixing Company can be seen in shipping, immigration contracting and transportation, plantation reclamation and other industries.
In order to quickly reclaim land and increase the development of local agriculture and industry, the Han government issued a targeted decree in some primitive areas, allowing Han nationals to apply for northern Argentina from the government in the name of private business groups.
Forest, land reclamation rights in the southern Patagonian wilderness. As long as the business group itself has the ability to open up wasteland, after the application is approved, the government will sell 3,000 acres to 10,000 acres to the business group at a very low price.
Wasteland is used for specialized commercial agricultural production.
Commercial wasteland reclamation is different from agricultural land. Pure agricultural land is based on household registration. Each household can only own a maximum of 300 acres of land. If the land exceeds the upper limit of 300 acres, additional land value-added tax will be levied on the land. Yixing Company's name is
Not only do plantations and other industries that are developed in the name of reclaiming wasteland not have to pay agricultural taxes, but the company also has priority to contract and purchase resources such as ports and timber within the scope of the reclaimed wasteland.
The implementation of the wasteland and port contracting laws attracted many Chinese businessmen to invest in it. The South American Han country spans thousands of kilometers from north to south, especially the dense plains in the north. Six to seven hundred plantations of various sizes emerge from the dense forests.
After being reclaimed, the original forests were mixed with flat plantations. It was in this way that Han agriculture developed barbarically.
"Yixing Company Lin Yaxiang."
Sun Bin and He Yanliang may not be familiar with Lin Yaxiang, but Zheng Huaide's ancestral home is in Nanyang and he knows a lot about the details of Yixing Company and Lin Yaxiang.
"Yi Hing Company is a branch organization of Tiandi Hui. Seven years ago, Chen Xunian joined the Taiping Hui on behalf of the company. Since then, Yixing Company has been divided into two. Chen Xunian, the backbone of the gang, led a group of core members to Borneo.
A separate helm was established, and the remaining part of the company, led by Lin Yaxiang, was transformed into a purely private company, mainly engaged in immigration transportation to and from Nanyang and South America."
After learning some basic information from the innkeeper, twenty people were seated in several rooms. Zheng Huaide said, "When I was in Nanyang, Lin Yaxiang's most profitable business, apart from opium, was gambling. Now the consumption of opium is strictly prohibited in the country."
, Lin Yaxiang shouldn’t have the courage to act against the trend, but he may have done a lot by opening a gambling house and making loan sharks.”
"I'm afraid it won't just be as simple as opening a gambling house and making loan sharks."
Sun Bin took out a stack of documents and placed them on the table.
"This is the information given to us by the Ministry of Safety. There have been a total of 17 accidents in the shipping companies and plantations under the name of Yixing Company in the past two years, with more than 180 workers injured and killed. Report that Yixing Company and Lin Yaxiang were involved.
There were seven or eight cases, but fortunately, every time Yunzhou changed its government and dispatched commissioners to investigate, Lin Yaxiang was able to clear away the suspicion."
"Master Sun, don't be surprised. Yixing Company has a complete industrial channel chain. Take an ordinary worker under their company's name, starting from signing up for voluntary immigration to South America at the immigration base established in the mainland, to embarking on a journey to South America.
From the time the transport ship arrived in South America to the process of applying for a two-year employment certificate, residence certificate, and becoming a formal citizen of the Han Kingdom, Yixing Company was involved. Ordinary people who had just immigrated to South America owed money to Yixing Company.
Personal freedom is illegally restricted by the company. Unless the casualty accident happens to them, it will be difficult for workers who have just fled to South America from the Manchu rule to report Yixing Company at the risk of offending their employers."
"The performance of the workers at Yixing Company is excusable. The government's financial funds are tight, and the immigration transportation business is gradually outsourced to private companies. As long as no accidents occur, they can be a little more patient, survive the two-year transition period, and transfer their status to
When they become official local citizens, the hard life is over at that time. Compared with two years of hard life, the risk and cost for them to come forward to report the company is too great."
Sun Bin understands the difficulties of Yixing Company workers who dare not speak out to report, but from the perspective of long-term peace and stability of the country, the various chaos in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China must be promptly managed and corrected. Otherwise, the more problems accumulate, the higher the price of reform will be.
The bigger it gets.
"Shipping and plantation are the main industries of Yixing Company. Allocate all the manpower brought this time to secretly investigate the relevant situation of Yixing Company. The three of us will temporarily stay in Pingyang County until the problems of Yixing Company are solved.
After we figure it out, we will inspect other places.”…………