Chapter 458 - The North and South Merchants Gang (II)

Since the central government has the intention to bring together the northern and southern merchants. Then, naturally, everyone can no longer fight in the nest, so they can clench into a fist and fight with foreign businessmen.

Chinese businessmen and merchant gangs, there are still some financial resources, in the past because no one presided over it, so it was a plate of loose sand, but now, if this industrial development plan can be implemented smoothly, then, this loose sand may not be able to become a rock.

Although the Ministry of Finance is located outside the Presidential Palace, this is not a place where you can enter, and the sentry at the "gate" said that she would not let everyone in, and later added a post, saying that it was the order of the Minister of Finance Xiong Xiling, so that everyone should be less safe and not impatient, and the Ministry of Finance is sorting out the documents, and it will not be long before the official plan of the "Four-Year Industrial Development Plan" can be released, and the industrialists do not need to enter the Ministry of Finance to know the details.

Everyone had no choice but to find some teahouses nearby to sit around. Liu Renxiang and Wei Zifeng sat at a table, and the two found a common topic and began to pay attention to this "four-year industrial development plan".

In fact, this "four-year plan" has long been widely known, but it was a unilateral plan of the United Front before, and Zhao Bei had not yet entered the center, so the industrial development plan was not confident enough, and the businessmen were more or less a little bit of a wait-and-see meaning, but now, since Zhao Bei has entered the center and become the president of the Republic of China, and the United Front has also controlled the Senate and House of Representatives of the Congress, then this industrial development plan is worth the attention of businessmen.

A few years ago, when the Qing court ran the "New Deal", it also advocated industrial investment, and some preferential policies were given, but in comparison, this "four-year plan" made people feel more novel, because it is said that this industrial development plan is a complete set of plans, from the manufacture of screws to the manufacture of ships, every link and every step of modern industry, this industrial development plan has been taken into account, and even the talents needed by industry have also formulated plans, on the one hand, it is to cultivate talents by itself, and on the other hand, it is to introduce foreign talents.

But there is a congenital shortcoming of this industrial development plan, and that is the lack of funding. This central government is too poor, the country is too poor, and the foreigners have also said that such a large-scale industrial development plan cannot be done without strong financial and technical support, and this is probably the main reason why the Ministry of Finance will set its sights on the people, and the "four-year plan" formulated by the Ministry of Finance is actually to raise private capital, and then under the unified command of the center, these funds will be invested in industrial construction.

In other words, many of the factories in this "four-year industrial development plan" will be joint venture factories, and both the government and the private sector have shares, but which party has more shares is the most concerned issue for everyone, and no one wants their factories to let others dictate them. At the beginning, China Merchants Steamship was indeed the majority of private stocks, but now, if you look at it again, the Steamship China Merchants Bureau has almost become Sheng Xuanhuai's 'private' enterprise.

Private businessmen are most afraid of officials and businessmen bullying others and taking advantage of them.

This time, is the "four-year industrial development plan" still selling dog 'meat' on the head of a sheep? Many businessmen do not have confidence in this.

But Liu Renxiang is very confident, although he has not been dealing with Zhao Bei for a long time, he has basically 'figured' President Zhao Da's personality now, this person is indeed worthy of the title of "** pioneer", otherwise, he will not really 'hand' over the 200,000 oceans sent by Boss Liu to the Congress.

Of course, if Zhao Bei wants to be the emperor, he really can't look down on the 200,000 oceans, but Liu Renxiang understands such a truth, at least judging from the performance of the previous days, Zhao Bei really supports the development of industry, and he has always had a lot of opinions on "official supervision and business management", which can be seen from his auction of those enterprises organized by the former Qing Dynasty Westerners.

Therefore, when Wei Zifeng expressed a cautious wait-and-see stance on this "four-year industrial development plan", Liu Renxiang began to cheer him up, and now Liu Renxiang's funds are very pressed on real estate, if there are really any industrial projects worth investing in. He is afraid that he will not be able to come up with enough working capital for a while, so it is necessary to bring in a partner now, and this Wei Zifeng is not only a rich man himself, but also he has a close relationship with the Guangdong business group, and pulling him is equivalent to pulling the strength of the entire Guangdong business community, plus the capital of those Cantonese overseas Chinese living abroad, the funds needed for industrial investment are not a problem at all.

Not long after Liu Renxiang and Wei Zifeng talked, the Ministry of Finance had already sent people to a nearby teahouse and began to distribute the "four-year industrial development plan" that had just been mimeographed.

After a hurried browsing, Liu Renxiang high-fived and sighed.

"Generous, bold. Sure enough, this industrial development plan is really to support private enterprises, not to be run by officials and businesses. So, I'm relieved. ”

Wei Zifeng was not as 'excited' as Liu Renxiang, and after reading it carefully a few times, he still had some questions.

"Brother Liu, what kind of 'door' is this 'National Economic Coordination Committee'? How do I think that this ya' can point fingers at private enterprises and factories? ”

Wei Zifeng asked Liu Renxiang, but Liu Renxiang shook his head.

"I haven't heard of this ya' either. However, it looks somewhat similar to the 'logistics headquarters' in Wuhan's military and political fǔ, some time ago, during the Great War of the North and South, Wuhan's factories were all produced under the guidance of the 'logistics headquarters', how many finished products are needed every month, how many raw materials and how much labor are needed to manufacture these finished products, this has been carefully calculated, so that the factory does not have to worry about the products not being sold, nor does it have to worry about the raw materials getting into the warehouse and rotting in the warehouse. This is 'production according to the plan', which is the most efficient, and the price is uniform, so that it can compete with foreign merchants. ”

"In this way, I'm afraid the profit is also set, and I can't sell it at a high price."

Wei Zifeng is also a leader in the business world, and as soon as Liu Renxiang said, he immediately grasped the key here.

"Earning a penny is a penny, whether you make money or not, as soon as this factory starts, there will be costs, there will be taxes, besides, the restricted profits are limited to orders for the military and government, you sell to the people, who cares about your price?"

"If it is really as Brother Liu said, then this 'four-year industrial development plan' is promising."

"Not only is there a lot to be done, in my opinion, if the vision is accurate, there may not be trusts and syndicates in these factories in the future."

Seeing that Liu Renxiang was very optimistic, Wei Zifeng shook his head with a wry smile.

"Brother Liu, this is not easy to say. Nowadays, foreign businessmen are everywhere, we can't fight foreign businessmen no matter what, people not only have big capital, but also have political support behind them, we Chinese businessmen can't compare. ”

"What are you talking about? In the past, we Chinese businessmen were scattered sand, but now that the 'four-year industrial development plan' of the central government has been brought out, this is to twist us into a rope, so that we may not be able to compete with foreign businessmen. Besides, now that the republic is republic, it is not the Manchu court of the past, and this central government is also to support our merchants. You see, no, the assassination of the Japanese elder Ito Hirobumi will officially begin trial soon, and now. The Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs unanimously refused to allow Japanese judges to participate in the trial, and they did not see what happened to the Japanese government, so it can be seen that this central government is not afraid of foreigners, at least not of Oriental people. ”

Liu Renxiang picked up a newspaper on the table, pointed to the headline on the front page, and continued to cheer for Wei Zifeng, but he himself was also a little strange in his heart, I don't know why the Japanese suddenly stopped, and now the assassination case of Ito Hirobumi is about to enter the trial procedure, not only is the court not located in the embassy area of Dong'jiaomin Lane, but even the judge who presided over the trial, the prosecutor who prosecuted the defendant, the lawyer who defended the defendant and other key figures, they were all 'color' Chinese.

"This thing is indeed surprising, the Japanese government is pretending to be deaf and dumb, and there must be something strange in it." Wei Zifeng was also thoughtful.

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While Liu Renxiang and Wei Zifeng pondered the strangeness of the trial procedure for the assassination of Hirobumi Ito, a foreigner was also thinking about the case.

This foreigner was Zhu Erdian, the British minister to China.

Zhu Erdian was also very surprised when he learned that the Chinese Ministry of Justice had officially decided that a Chinese judge should have full jurisdiction to try the assassination case of Ito Hirobumi, because according to the previous oral agreement with the Beiyang Central Authority, this court should be presided over by a Chinese judge and a Japanese judge, and the prosecutor responsible for filing the complaint should also be jointly assigned by the Chinese and Japanese Ministries of Justice, and even the court should be set up in the embassy area of Dong'jiaominxiang to show "fairness and objectivity."

But now, the Chinese central government has suddenly changed his mind and kicked the Japanese aside, intending to try the international assassination case alone, and the court is no longer located in the embassy district of Dong'jiaomin Lane.

In the eyes of legal professionals, this incident has two meanings: first, the decision of the Chinese Central Government to exercise judicial sovereignty over this international assassination case shows that post-republic China is trying to learn from the "civilized world" and use the rules of the "civilized world" to protect its own interests; Second, considering that Ito Hirobumi was assassinated at the Daqian Gate train station in Beijing, this case should be tried by a Chinese court from any point of view, and any foreign interference cannot be legally justified.

More importantly, from this decision of China's central government, international legal experts also see the self-confidence of this government, and they unanimously believe that China's legal profession and government are trying to show foreign governments that the country is already moving towards the "rule of law" through a fair trial of this international assassination case, so the future "extraterritoriality" is debatable.

Therefore, this is not only a legal issue, but also a foreign 'foreign' issue.