The development of Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company is also the general success of some large companies that have risen in recent years, and they attach great importance to technology research and development in terms of administrative production management.

Many enterprises in the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises have been very developed with this technology at the beginning, so they can be extremely rapid in the early stage of development, and the enterprises invested by private capital are just thinking about making quick money at the beginning, so we can see a lot of private capital pouring into the light industry represented by the textile industry, pursuing small investment and fast returns.

Therefore, fifteen years before Xuanping, although it is said that domestic private capital generally participated in all walks of life in the empire, it also made a lot of contributions to the industrial and commercial development of the empire.

However, the influence of enterprises invested by private capital has never been large, and there are many companies that make money, but there are always few that have been on the table and have been paid attention to by the government.

But this situation gradually changed after the 15th year of Xuanping.

The first to change is the shipping-related industries, including shipbuilding and shipping, because domestic shipping has always maintained rapid development, and the demand for ships is huge, but at the same time, in order to improve their competitiveness, the major shipping companies have higher and higher requirements for ships, and have promoted major shipyards to pay more attention to technology and develop more advanced ships.

At the same time, several large shipyards controlled by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises and the Hong Kong Dingsheng Shipyard of the Royal Assets Division are also far from being able to meet the huge domestic demand for ships, in fact, the shipyards controlled by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises and the Hong Kong Dingsheng Shipyard, because the production capacity is also limited, and the technical level is generally relatively high, so they mainly build all kinds of warships and ocean-going merchant ships, in addition to undertaking some official official ships, law enforcement ships, special ships and so on.

In the huge general shipping market, as long as it is inland waterway transport ships and coastal transport vessels, in fact, the shipyards affiliated to the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises and the Dingsheng Shipyard are not involved.

This huge field has always been the cake of private shipyards!

It is precisely because of such a huge cake that domestic private capital has been stimulated to invest in the shipbuilding industry, but the more capital has been invested, and there are more all kinds of messy shipyards.

According to incomplete statistics, there are thousands of shipyards registered in the Tang Empire, although most of them are all kinds of small and even workshop-type micro shipyards, manufacturing some small sampans, but there are more than hundreds of medium-sized shipyards that can build ships of more than 100 tons.

There are dozens of large shipyards that can build new 500-ton merchant ships.

There are now five shipyards that can build thousand-ton ships, among which the Hong Kong Dingsheng Shipyard has always been at the forefront of technology and has long been able to mass-produce thousand-ton ships.

The current scale of the dry dock and the related construction equipment are already capable of producing ships of less than 2,000 tons.

Well, it is worth noting that the Jiangnan-class battleship built by Dingsheng Shipyard for naval construction is no longer a simple wooden sail battleship, but a new type of battleship with sail power, wooden iron hull, and some core components are still made of steel.

In addition, Hong Kong's Dingsheng Shipyard is also building a new dock, which adds up to a total of eight docks, but the one starts at 5,000 tons, and the largest dock even reaches 10,000 tons.

In other words, when other large shipyards have just crossed the threshold of 1,000-ton ships, Hong Kong's Dingsheng Shipyard is already capable of producing 2,000-ton ships and entering the 5,000-ton era, and at the same time has begun to make technical reserves for 10,000-ton ships.

Although Dingsheng Shipyard is awesome, its production capacity is limited, and it does not affect the survival and development of a large number of private shipyards in China.

The biggest enemy of private shipyards is still many private shipyards themselves, so in order to compete, they also try to improve their technical capabilities as much as possible.

In order to improve market competitiveness, the technical requirements of major shipping companies for ships are getting higher and higher, otherwise, it is impossible to survive and develop in the fierce competition.

Among shipping companies, the biggest competition is the Yangtze River Shipping Company and Feng's Shipping Company, both of which are very large in size, and their main business is inland waterway, coastal freight and passenger transportation.

As for ocean shipping, this has nothing to do with the major shipping companies, because today's ocean transportation is usually organized by the major trading companies to transport materials on their own.

For example, Datang Nanyang Trading Company and Datang Dongyang Trading Company, which are controlled by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises or the Imperial Assets Division, are two typical trading companies, which have their own ocean-going fleets and do not need to hire ships from those shipping companies.

Because the ocean trade in this year is very complicated, the sea trade is not simply the transportation of goods, but also has to deal with pirates, indigenous regimes, tribes, if you go to the South Seas to trade without bringing dozens of artillery and hundreds of muskets, let alone making money, it is unknown whether you can come back safely.

In this case, it is impossible for a pure shipping company to take a huge risk and only earn a small amount of freight.

As for selling goods directly from the fleet, and then making huge profits, then this is not a pure shipping company, but a trading company model.

Although it is impossible for many ocean-going trading companies to be the same as the Tang Western Trading Company, which has a large scale and a company fleet of dozens of warships of all types, each trading company's merchant ships are all armed merchant ships, the kind with guns and cannons, and they all have the strength to kill some local daimyo with ordinary strength when they go to Fuso.

It is not easy to register a trading company, and to register an ocean-going trading company that can equip armed merchant ships and carry armed personnel, and now there are more than 100 ocean-going trading companies of all sizes, most of which were registered in the early stage, and only a few were registered later.

Nowadays, if you want to register an ocean-going trading company, you need to start with a registered capital of 500,000 yuan, and at the same time, you need to obtain a gun and equipment license from the 'Joint Logistics Committee' jointly established by the Army, Navy and Guards, and then you need to obtain the official approval of the Ministry of Commerce, and at the same time, you must also obtain an import and export license from the Cabinet of Ministers and the Import and Export Committee jointly established by the Navy, the Army, and the Guards, and then you must pay pension insurance premiums to the Insurance Department under the Central Bank according to the size of the fleet.

Not to mention the first few articles, the last one deposit is actually to protect the interests of the seafarers, because the risks of ocean trade in these years are too great.

Over the past years, many trading companies have encountered various accidents after going to sea, regardless of whether they were destroyed by pirates or storms, but they are all shipwrecked and killed.

The company is bankrupt, and there is a great possibility that the crew members who have been involved in accidents at sea will not receive their pensions at all.

After all, not every trading company is a large trading company, and most of them are often only two or three, or even only a single merchant ship.

But don't think that a merchant ship is less, this merchant ship, if it is fully loaded to sea, the value of the goods loaded is less than 100,000 yuan, and more than hundreds of thousands.

Because of the shipwreck, the seemingly rich and beautiful ocean trading company went bankrupt and liquidated, and it happens several times a year.

Later, in order to protect the interests of the employees of the trading company.

The government has begun to enforce the insurance system compulsorily, requiring ocean trading companies to purchase insurance for every employee who goes to sea, and they are not allowed to engage in ocean trade business without the relevant purchase.

It's okay that there is no accident, but if something happens, the insurance department of the central bank is responsible for compensating the employees' pensions!

This kind of pension insurance system is also a new attempt made by Li Xuan after the development of the financial market of the Tang Empire for many years, to see if he can engage in the insurance industry in this era, after all, the insurance industry still plays a relatively large role in the economic stability of industry and commerce.

However, Li Xuan is still more cautious, and only engages in pension insurance for ocean trading companies, while other industries have not carried out it.

Now Li Xuan is doing things more rationally, he doesn't do whatever he wants like in previous years, and now Li Xuan will think more about doing things, and he will not blindly promote the development of the social system.

Because the system is to be matched with the productive forces, the productive forces cannot reach a certain level, and some outdated systems will not bring benefits, but disadvantages.

The development of ocean trade and the development of the domestic shipping industry have stimulated the shipbuilding industry and improved the shipbuilding technology as well.

Similarly, a similar situation also occurred in Tianjin Youbang Machinery Company, which has not been developing for long, but it has quickly seized many market shares and has become a machinery manufacturing enterprise that dares to fight with Zhaoqing Machinery Company.

The textile machinery it produces, especially woolen manufacturing equipment and raw silk manufacturing equipment, have been the Zhaoqing Machinery Company to dry down, the last two years is to enter the field of steam engine manufacturing, and in the field of high-pressure steam engine development is good, now in the field of civil steam engine, and Zhaoqing Machinery Company is basically half a catty and eight taels of the level.

The civil high-pressure steam engine is not only the shipboard steam engine and the train steam engine, but also the steam engine used in many factories.

In the industrial high-pressure steam engine market, the competition between the two companies is very fierce, improving product performance, price reduction, marketing and even pulling relations, taking official channels and other means, but all the means that can be used are basically used.