The success of the shipbuilding and shipping integration model of Feng's shipping company in the market has also been greatly welcomed by the capital market, and in recent years, it has continuously raised a large amount of funds through the stock market financing.

These funds are used to acquire shipyards to expand shipbuilding, acquire other shipping companies, expand the fleet and operate routes, and at the same time, through acquisitions, long-term lease of more dedicated terminals, and began to get involved in the port service industry, thus forming a huge shipbuilding, shipping, port as one of the super shipping enterprises, speaking of volume, will not be much worse than the Yangtze River shipping company!

The Yangtze River Shipping Company, with its large and small inland river vessels, has more than 500 vessels, while the Feng Shipping Company has nearly 500 vessels, a gap of only a few dozen.

In terms of coastal sea vessels, the Feng Shipping Company is a little worse, the Yangtze River Shipping Company has more than 80 ships, and the Feng Shipping Company has more than 40 ships.

However, in the lucrative inland river freight segment, Feng's Shipping Company has surpassed the Yangtze River Shipping Company and become the first in China.

The Yangtze River Shipping Company still relies on the heritage, a large number of coastal vessels, to maintain the share and profits of coastal transportation, coupled with the professional inland passenger transport market, in order to maintain the situation of the first shipping company.

And Fung Lines also has a shipbuilding business, as well as a port business, through which they can pass on the cost of shipping to be more competitive.

In the end, the transportation cost of Feng's shipping company in bulk cargo is lower than that of other companies, but its company's profits have always been higher than other companies.

However, if it continues like this, it is estimated that Feng's shipping company will surpass the Yangtze River shipping company, and for this reason, the management of the Yangtze River shipping company in the past two years has been panicked.

In fact, they also want to engage in diversified development, but it is limited by the problem of risk control, and it has not been approved by the management department of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises.

In terms of flexibility and risk tolerance, these enterprises in the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises are still inferior to ordinary private capital enterprises.

There's no way around it!

The management departments of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises will not allow excessive risky investment to lead to the flow of state-owned assets, and they prefer to adopt a conservative strategy.

After all, the enterprises under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, in fact, the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises does not expect them to make money or anything like that, and the main purpose of the Tang Empire's establishment of many enterprises affiliated to the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises is to control some important industries and lead the development of industry and commerce, not to say how much money the enterprises of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises make, and compete with private capital enterprises.

On the contrary, sometimes, for the sake of the overall economic development of the country and in order to stimulate private capital to enter certain industries, the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises will even sacrifice the interests of some SOE enterprises.

The enterprises under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises are just a tool of the imperial government, and they are not a money-making tool, so it is destined that many enterprises affiliated to the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises are still relatively restricted in terms of operators.

If you want to follow some other more passionate market-oriented strategies, it is not even allowed to use some market competition methods that kill 1,000 enemies and self-damage 800, because this is not what the boss wants to see.

Therefore, in the past two years, the Yangtze River Shipping Company can almost only watch many shipping companies with private capital catch up and threaten their leading position.

Feng's shipping company is just one of them, in fact, the top ten domestic inland coastal shipping companies are all competitors of Datang Yangtze River shipping company.

But now, the appearance of steamships has made the management of the Yangtze River Shipping Company see an opportunity to once again leave its competitors behind, and it is also an opportunity without too much political risk.

Without the slightest hesitation, after seeing the success of the maiden voyage, the Yangtze River Shipping Company had already officially determined the steam strategy even before the commercial carrier-based steam engine appeared!

They are expected to take out all the profits they have made over the years, and they are also ready to pledge many assets in exchange for funds to refit and purchase steamships!

They want to be the first to achieve steaming in front of all shipping companies, regain lost market share with the help of steaming, and further reduce the price of inland coastal transportation market to squeeze the profit margins of other competitors.

After seeing the success of the Lady's voyage, the Yangtze River Shipping Company made a strategic adjustment to steam, which was also in line with the official requirements of the empire for them.

Because the imperial government originally hoped that the Yangtze River Shipping Company could play a leading role in leading domestic shipping companies to carry out steaming, realize the steaming of domestic shipping, and set off a shipping revolution.

The successful trial voyage of the Lady was stimulated not only by the Yangtze River Shipping Company, but also by many military and political dignitaries who accompanied Li Xuan to watch the trial.

Needless to say, the generals of the navy have already started the steam warship plan, and the design plan of the new steam patrol ship in Xuanping's eighteenth year has been finalized, and it is now in the process of intense hull construction.

The generals of the army also feel that the implementation of steaming of inland river transportation will bring great convenience to the future inland river supply and transportation, and thus greatly facilitate the army's operations in the inland river basin.

For example, in the military operations in the Heilongjiang River Valley, although it is said that the ships belong to the navy, the navy's ships are still for the supply of the army in the final analysis.

Officials in charge of the railway project, as well as several officials at the Datang Railway Corporation, are worried, worried that the vaporization of inland waterway transportation will have an impact on the upcoming railway construction plan.

At that time, I am afraid that there will be fierce competition between river transportation and railway transportation, which is not a good thing for the development of railways.

At this time, these officials in charge of railway construction were already planning whether to modify some of the routes of the planned railways, and some sections of the routes they had designed were parallel to rivers and canals.

Now it seems that it is better to keep a certain distance from the main rivers and avoid direct competition between river and rail transport!

These railway-related officials muttered in a low voice on the side: "In this way, several railway lines in the north are going to be adjusted, and the previous plans are inappropriate, so it's better to change to a backup plan!" ”

"Yes, it's good to change it, avoid direct competition, build the railway first, and then talk about it, if you want to use the northern road network, you can use the eighth plan!"

In fact, there are many plans for the construction of the railway network in the north, and the first plan is Jinling City to Fengyang, then to Xuzhou, Jinan, and then to Tianjin.

Among them, Tianjin is a strategic transit station in the north, pulling out the northeast branch line, going to Tangshan, passing through Shanhaiguan into western and eastern Liaoning.

To the north, it will arrive at Youzhou, then continue north to Xuanfu, and then go west to Fengzhou.

The focus of this plan is to connect Hebei and Jinling City!

However, today's sea transportation is still relatively developed, and sea transportation plus inland waterway transportation is enough to meet the demand for the time being.

However, in the eighth plan, the focus is not to connect Hebei, but to connect Henan, the strategic hinterland of the Central Plains, and use Henan, the hinterland of the Central Plains, as a transportation hub, to connect Shanxi, Hebei to the north, and Shaanxi to the west.

As for the eighth plan, in fact, it is more of a comprehensive plan, the core is to use Henan as a cross transfer station, and then radiate to the surrounding areas.

Of course, the construction of the railway network of the entire empire is still based on Jinling!

According to the current planning, several main lines, such as the Jiangnan Railway, the Northern Railway, and the Southern Railway, these three major railway trunk lines are all based on Jinling City.

The problem is that the specific direction of these three railway lines is only!

Around Jinling City, the Tang Empire will build a number of main routes, as well as many branch lines!

For example, the railway line plan from Jinling City to Hangzhou has actually been planned, although there are already railway lines from Jinling City to Shanghai and Shanghai to Hangzhou, but the Department of Transportation still plans the railway line from Jinling City to Guangde and Huzhou and then to Hangzhou. This is to connect with the Jiangnan Railway to form a whole line around Taihu Lake.

Of course, these are still just plans, and only the Jingzhen Railway is currently under construction, not even the Jiangnan Railway!

When the Lady was on trial, although it lasted several hours, Li Xuan did not leave first, but stayed in the building of the Guards Fleet Base, listening to the report of the trial, and occasionally talking to the courtiers about government affairs, but most of them were related to the steam engine.

In particular, it focuses on the application of steam engines, which is promoted and popularized in industry and transportation.

There is also the issue of steel production and the supply of coal.

The Ministry of Commerce proposed that a large number of coal resources have been detected in Shanxi, but it has been difficult to develop on a large scale due to the problem of transportation channels, and if it joins the construction of the railway, it is hoped that the railway will be built in the coal producing area of Shaanxi to solve the problem of Shanxi's coal export.

At the same time, they also proposed that they also found more coal in Tangshan, Hebei Province, and Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province, and also hoped to build railways to these mining areas.

It sounds like an exaggeration to build a special railway for a little coal, but it is actually not an exaggeration, because with the increasing use of steam engines, the importance of coal is increasing.

As for the northeast, in fact, the relevant exploration departments have also found a lot of minerals, but there are no people in that place now, all kinds of infrastructure is poor, coupled with the cold weather, it is still relatively difficult to develop on a large scale.

On the other hand, the Quang Ninh coal mine in Annam, which was relatively easy to develop and had huge reserves, had become the empire's most important supplier of high-quality coal.

In view of the increasing strategic position of coal resources, especially high-quality anthracite coal, Li Xuan also considered that it was time to put Quang Ninh in Annam under imperial rule!

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