Chapter 452 Gathering sand into a tower (second update, please subscribe)
Although more than 15,000 immigrants poured in at once.
But Dongning has long been prepared. After all, Nanyang has long been familiar with the arrival of large-scale immigrants. Those workers who signed employment contracts were taken directly to labor camps outside the city to receive training.
As for the remaining 7,000 people who are willing to rent, real estate agents will be responsible for receiving them. For those who want to stay in a hotel, staff will tell them where to stay in a hotel.
Although the customs building seems very crowded inside and outside, there are not many people at the currency exchange point. For these Shanghai residents who have long been accustomed to exchanging currency on the black market, they will not exchange money here. What's the official price?
Because there were so many people coming over, there was no choice, so the house Liu Zhongzhou and his family rented was only an apartment with three bedrooms and one living room.
Despite this, they are already very satisfied as they are new to a foreign land.
While the three children were looking for their own rooms, the agent took a thick stack of paper from the bag.
“This is the household registration form. Since Professor Liu and his family are going to stay in Dongning for a long time, according to the rules here, they must register for a temporary household registration. This is an official regulation. Without temporary household registration, there is no ration book. , you can’t buy rice, flour, oil, and salt without a ration book.”
Liu Zhongzhou was surprised by the intermediary’s words.
"Isn't Nanyang very rich? How can we implement rationing?"
"Professor Liu, Nanyang is rich, but millions of people come here every month. If food rationing is not implemented, there will inevitably be The profiteers are driving up prices and implementing food rationing to protect everyone's interests."
As he explained, the agent added,
"The police officers from the police station will come here tomorrow to review your registration, please. You must wait at home and don’t go out, so as not to miss the official business and cause inconvenience.”
After handing the registration form to Professor Liu, the agent specially gave them ten ration coupons. Today and tomorrow, these ten ration coupons will be the food for their family.
After the agent left and closed the door, Professor Liu and his family entered the bedroom, closed the curtains, opened their clothes, and took off the cloth belts tied around their waists. Without exception, they all contained gold bars.
After putting away the gold bars, Liu Zhongzhou said to his family.
"Okay, this will be our home from now on. We must be more careful when registering tomorrow, you know?"
The next day, we waited until evening before the police officer came. Come to verify the materials. The household registration papers have all been filled out, and the police will check and register them one by one as usual - because they don't have a fixed residence now, they have a temporary household registration with a rental apartment as their address.
Although the household registration form was very detailed, the two police officers still took the trouble to ask many questions, including where they came from, who was missing from the family, and what they did in Tangshan. Are there any relatives in the family who are in politics or the military? In short, no matter how big or small, I asked them all one by one.
Even though so many questions were objectionable, there was an undeniable look on the police officer's face, because the agency had told them before: they must not refuse to answer when reviewing their household registration, otherwise they would not be able to apply for review and would not be able to get a temporary ID card. , cannot survive in Nanyang.
So, when answering, their family was naturally careful to answer truthfully.
After questioning each other for almost half an hour, and after they confirmed each other's signatures, the interrogating police officer gave them temporary ID cards.
"This is a temporary identity paper, valid for only 15 days. You have to go to the police station to apply for a formal ID card within 15 days. Before you go, you have to go to a photo studio to take pictures. Do you know?"
" Thank you, police officer. Thank you, two police officers.”
I registered my household registration and received my ID card. The officers took their leave. Professor Liu sent them out respectfully and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they came back.
“Fortunately, it went smoothly. I will register my household registration in the next two days and then find a job.”
Some people need to find a job; People do not have this need. Instead of jobs, they are looking for investment opportunities.
In the past few years, wars have been raging in Tangshan. Faced with the fierce fighting, many wealthy and powerful people in many places have fled to the city. As the war progresses, even ordinary small and medium-sized people have fled to the city. Landowners also cannot gain a foothold in the countryside.
So they also fled to the city. As a result, many families sold their property and moved to Wuchang, Jinling, Shanghai and other places to escape the war. But soon, facing the changes in the current situation, they got on the boat again. Nanyang, thousands of miles away from the mainland, became the last place for the rich to escape the flames of war.
Rumors about Nanyang's prosperity, peace, and people living and working in peace and contentment have been circulated in mainland China through newspapers, magazines, and movies for several years. In the past, only young and poor people came. Who of the rich people would leave their homes and careers to come to Nanyang?
For Nanyang, they only know a little about Nanyang from movies, magazines and newspapers, or they have used some Nanyang products, so they know a little more about Nanyang. Therefore, when they are facing earth-shaking changes, there are many rich people who spend high prices to buy ferry tickets and run to Nanyang. Even now, there are more than ten flights from Suicheng to Chang'an every day. The people on the plane were all wealthy businessmen and wealthy people from Guangdong Province and even Hunan Province.
Now Zhongxing, Yongding and Dongning, although they are relatively remote from the main island of Nanyang, they also gather many people from Shanghai, southern Jiangsu and other places. Rich businessman, wealthy man.
They are willing to immigrate to Nanyang, and the civil affairs department does not object. After all, Nanyang has always welcomed immigrants. What's more, these wealthy businessmen and landowners hold a large amount of capital in their hands. Now that they have settled in Nanyang, they can not only stimulate consumption, but also drive the economic development of the three eastern districts.
After all, the development of the three eastern districts requires a large amount of capital injection. The arrival of these people did bring a large amount of money.
Because there are many wealthy people with large sums of money in Dongning, the Dongning "Industrial Federation" came into being. The goal of opening this chamber of commerce is to guide these wealthy businessmen to invest in industry. , in fact, is where investment information is provided to people.
At first, these wealthy businessmen only invested in public bonds as they did in Shanghai, but soon some began to invest in industry. After all, many of them started factories, companies, or had Management experience in this area. Coupled with Nanyang's encouragement of industry, investment in industry not only provides low-rent factories, but also loan concessions, and even the purchase of machinery can be paid in installments. Under this circumstance, investment in industry has quickly become a local hot spot.
Like many wealthy people who have just arrived, Zhou Changren also came to the Industrial Federation. The Industrial Federation is located on the second floor of the Dongning Provincial Department of Industry and Commerce. Although it is only ten o'clock in the morning, there are already people gathered here. A group of people, speaking with the accents of Shanghai, Ningbo and southern Jiangsu, were either looking at the "Investment Manual" or talking loudly: "Spinning Factory", "Clothing Factory", "Toy Factory", "Electronics Factory" "Sounds like this came one after another.
“…This year the United States has a bumper cotton harvest. In order to stimulate cotton exports, the U.S. government has provided Nanyang with a low-interest loan of US$500 million to purchase American cotton and machinery and equipment. Now is a great time to invest in textile factories …”
People were talking loudly there, the sound was deafening, and there were even voices of agreement or opposition in the middle.
As soon as Zhou Changren entered the hall, someone immediately stepped forward to say something.
“Oh, when did Boss Zhou come?”
“Oh, it’s really Boss Zhou!”
After a while, a group of people gathered around him Zhou Changren, who was surrounded by people, said while greeting them.
"Just arrived, just arrived. I just arrived in Dongning on the "Changda" a few days ago."
"Did the boss plan to stay in Dongning for a long time that week? Or..."
Facing the inquiry from his old friend, Zhou Changren said helplessly.
"Boss Xu, you are not kidding me. Nowadays, the liner between Dongning and Chang'an has not yet been opened. There are only cargo ships and military aircraft. How can Zhou, who has just arrived, get to Chang'an?"
When he said this, everyone around him agreed. Some people couldn't help complaining that the Nanyang government office was very clever in calculating and throwing them into a place like Dongning, and then , whether we like it or not, we have to spend money to help them with construction.
Of course, there were some who objected on the sidelines, saying that they simply looked down upon him for his little money.
However, there are also people who say that some people can just take a look at it.
Seeing that everyone was about to start a quarrel, Zhou Changren said quickly.
"I'll settle down when I'm here. I don't know what you guys think, but I've already made up my mind to live here. Besides, Dongning is not that bad, although it's not as good as Chang'an." , but haven’t you seen that Dongning Steel Company has invested a total of 150 million yuan, with a planned output of 5 million tons, plus dozens of other large projects, Dongning’s future development prospects are unlimited, and it is closer to the United States. "Exporting to the United States in the future will be very cost-effective in terms of freight."
Although he has only been here for less than a month, Zhou Changren has his own views on Dongning's future. As soon as he said it, the people around him thought about it carefully, and it seemed that there was some truth in it. Everyone said it one after another.
"Boss Zhou is indeed Boss Zhou. He can wake up the dreamer with one word. I wonder, what business does Boss Zhou plan to invest in?"
Faced with everyone's inquiries, Zhou Changren said with a smile.
"We are still waiting to see this for the time being, but Dongning is undergoing major construction. No matter what kind of business we invest in, it will definitely have a bright future!"
That's what he said! As Zhou Changren looked at the hundreds of famous or wealthy friends and fellow countrymen in the hall, he couldn't help but have the thought in his heart - could Nanyang really be Let's use their money to build a tower and build Dongning!
(End of this chapter)