readx; In 1925 in China, Wuhu has become a veritable industrial base city, relying on Wuhu Iron and Steel Company, Ma'anshan Iron Ore two main bodies, China has established a super-large industrial city in Wuhu, in addition to the steel industry related enterprises, there are many other large enterprises, including Wuhu Heavy Machinery Company, Wuhu Arsenal, Wuhu Tank Factory and a series of enterprises that are vital to China's industrial system, in addition to being China's largest industrial city, it is also China's largest national defense enterprise gathering area, In addition to several arsenals such as Wuhu Arsenal and Wuhu Tank Factory, other important enterprises are almost contributing their own strength to the national defense industry. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

To put it bluntly, Wuhu, which has taken more than ten years to build, has become a more important city than Shanghai. Although Shanghai is China's first economic powerhouse, it has gathered a large number of financial, light industry, especially textile and other industries, if something happens in Shanghai, it can cause an irreparable earthquake for China's economy. However, from the perspective of national defense, if Shanghai is captured by the enemy, at most it will cause the navy to lose a Jiangnan shipyard and the Shanghai Arsenal, and for China's main defense body, the army, the damage is not great.

But if Wuhu is lost, what does it mean? It means that China has lost at least 50% of its industrial capacity and will lose the ability to manufacture aero engines, steam turbines, and high-power gasoline engines, because although these engines are all products of Shanghai Power Company, the core components of these products are provided by several machinery companies in Wuhu, and Shanghai Power Company itself does not have the ability to manufacture these parts.

Not to mention the loss of China's only tank manufacturing base, at least more than half of the army's artillery shell-related production capacity.

The most important thing is that after the loss of Wuhu, not only will Wuhu Iron and Steel Company lose its steel production, but also Southeast Iron and Steel's steel plants in Shanghai and Wuhu will also lose the main supply of iron ore. The Ma'anshan iron ore mine in Wuhu represents the loss of nearly half of China's steel production.

The new general manager of Wuhu Iron and Steel Company accompanied Chen Jingyun and explained softly to Chen Jingyun: "Now our company has supplied about 20% of the ordinary steel in China, and our company currently occupies a leading position in China in terms of special steel!" ”

Chen Jingyun nodded while listening: "Yes, steel and even the cornerstone of a country's industry, you can do a good job in other industries of the whole country!" ”

Chen Jingyun put the first stop of the national inspection in Wuhu, and after arriving in Wuhu, the first place of the inspection was in the Wuhu Iron and Steel Company, which shows that Chen Jingyun attaches great importance to them.

The current Wuhu Iron and Steel Company is very important to China, although the controlling stake of the American Bethlehem Company occupies the majority of the shares, but this does not affect the huge contribution of Wuhu Iron and Steel Company to China's industry.

Over the years, China's steel consumption has been growing at an astonishing rate every year, mainly in two points, one is that railway construction requires a large number of rails, and the other is that a large number of infrastructure construction in major cities also consumes a lot of steel and cement. Comparatively speaking, the defense industry has not been able to use much, that is, the navy side of the warships need more.

Counting ordinary steel and special steel, China's total steel output is almost a step a year (ps The steel output below is all steel production, non-steel production), in 1922 it has reached 1.3 million tons, and this amount has exceeded the number of 'capital' in 1923, and in 1923, due to the stimulation of the Sino-Chinese war, the national defense industry needs a large amount of steel, so the steel output in 1923 has increased to almost half, reaching 1.7 million tons. Last year, in 1924, although the war had ended, the domestic infrastructure construction continued, so the domestic steel production further reached 1.9 million tons.

This year, according to the forecast data given by the Department of Economic Development, this year's steel output will not only break through the 2 million tons mark, but may even show an explosive growth, and it is not impossible to reach 2.5 million tons by then. After all, the key to limiting China's steel production today is no longer the management of steelmaking by the steel companies, but the domestic consumption capacity.

In the years before World War I, as long as the domestic steel demand was concentrated in the national defense industry, so it was not much, and the subsequent years added the demand for railways, which greatly stimulated the development of the domestic steel industry, and so on after 1920, the domestic civil steel consumption also showed an explosive growth, and for the first time replaced the national defense industry steel, becoming the first consumer of Chinese steel.

At a time when domestic steel consumption is growing rapidly, the domestic steel industry has not had the problem of insufficient output, and can even increase production through various measures, which can be seen from the explosive production of almost the whole year of steel production in 1922 during the war period in 1923.

Now China's steel industry capacity still has a lot of space, and the restriction of this space development is the development of domestic steel consumption level, it can not be said that the steel mill produces so much steel, and then piles up in the warehouse waiting for rust.

In the entire steel industry, Wuhu Iron and Steel Company's share is actually not large, only more than 20 percent, and more than half of the domestic market of Southeast Iron and Steel is incomparable. However, although the share in the ordinary steel market is small, but the special steel of Wuhu Iron and Steel Company occupies the main market, and its production of BTC armor steel has become the main steel of the main ship of the Navy, in the special steel such as gun steel and tank armor steel, Wuhu Iron and Steel Company also relies on the latest technical patents provided by Bethlehem Company, and its production of various specifications of special steel can occupy half of the domestic special steel.

This situation is even the largest steel company in China, Southeast Iron and Steel Company is unshakable, it is funny to say, these two steel companies are now the biggest competitors between each other, but when the Wuhu Iron and Steel Company was only Wuhu Iron and Steel Plant, it was a subordinate branch of Southeast Iron and Steel Company. In order to compete for the special steel market from the mouth of Wuhu Iron and Steel Company, Southeast Iron and Steel Company has also invested a lot of scientific research funds, on the one hand, it is its own research and development, and on the other hand, it is also ready to introduce new steel technology from abroad, but whether it is their own research and development or the introduction of time is time, Wuhu Iron and Steel Company has spent a full decade in order to cultivate the domestic special steel market, and Bethlehem Company has smashed a lot of new technology patents in. In order to allow Bethlehem to get involved in China's steel market, Bethlehem is now preparing to build a second steel company in Tangshan, China, in a joint venture with Huaxia Bank, and shouting the slogan is Asia's first super steel plant with a steel production capacity of more than 2 million tons, once completed, it will be able to have 2.5 million tons of steel output together with Wuhu Iron and Steel Company.

For the competition between these enterprises, Chen Jingyun has always been relatively small, for him Wuhu Iron and Steel Company, Southeast Iron and Steel Company, as long as they have enough products for other industries in China, and maintain a good surname competition, that is a good thing. As for the foreign investment factor in the Wuhu Iron and Steel Company and the Tangshan Iron and Steel Company in preparation, Chen Jingyun is not worried about this, because these are all joint ventures, whether they are Wuhu Iron and Steel Company, Tangshan Iron and Steel Company, or Ma'anshan Mining Company, but they are all joint ventures between Huaxia Bank and Bethlehem. Among them, Ma'anshan Mining Bethlehem Company only occupies 30 percent of the shares, and Huaxia Bank occupies 70 percent of the shares. In addition, the Wuhu Iron and Steel Company has a 51 percent stake in Bethlehem, and Huaxia Bank has a 49 percent stake, and the Tangshan Iron and Steel Company will continue to cooperate according to this joint venture model.

Southeast Iron and Steel Company is a wholly-owned enterprise of Huaxia Bank, and it is said that they are all subsidiaries of Huaxia Bank. It is precisely because of the presence of Huaxia Bank, the big boss, that there has been no incident of evil surname competition in these major iron and steel enterprises.

After looking at the tall steelmaking equipment, Chen Jingyun shook hands with the workers' representatives with a smile and took photos, and also made a small speech on the spot, mentioning that the current treatment of workers is still too low, and hopes that the company can pay attention to the production environment and salary of workers.

Who would have thought that Chen Jingyun, who said these words, did not relent in the slightest last year, and the repression order he personally signed almost led to the death of tens of thousands of people.

However, people do not know about these things and do not pay attention to them, they can only see Chen Jingyun shaking hands with a smile in the newspaper, and the newspaper says how much the chairman cares about the treatment of the workers and how much he cares about the lives of the people at the bottom. Although this kind of propaganda is very false, what kind of person Chen Jingyun is, his status has already determined that it is impossible for him to just say anything casually.

Before last year's strike, Huaxia Bank's important enterprises had already carried out a certain wage increase, so that the workers of Huaxia Bank's enterprises did not participate much in last year's general strike, but just when people thought that the political axe and entrepreneurs would compromise after the strike, they did not expect that it would be followed by a crackdown. Under such circumstances, it is natural that improving the treatment of workers will not be enough.

But in fact, the relevant negotiations between the political axe and the entrepreneurs have not stopped, and when the strike first occurred, Chen Jingyun said that the entrepreneurs should follow the footsteps of the political axe in this strike. To put it simply, Chen Jingyun was ready to deal with the strike with strong measures, and he did not allow the entrepreneurs to compromise with the workers without permission. All he wanted was to talk about it slowly after the strike had been suppressed.

And now, it's been more than half a year since the strike, and it's almost time coming!

With the announcement of Chen Jingyun's speech, Zheng Zuyin in Nanjing also cooperated with Chen Jingyun to issue a series of decrees, including the establishment of minimum wage standards and maximum working hours!

The nationwide strike launched by the Chinese workers, the general strike at the shooting range, which killed and injured tens of thousands of people, finally had the effect it should have, but the workers who launched the strike were either laid or dismissed, and they were destined to see the results of their struggle.

This kind of thing is the standard predecessor planting trees, and later generations enjoying the shade!