Chapter 546 Government Work Report in the Teahouse (End)

"With such a war in Europe, many factories there can't be opened. Those foreign devils need a lot of things, and it's a good time for us to catch up again. I remember the last European war, there was this kind of thing, as long as you produce it, they have to leave, or cash to give it. At that time, not only the British and French, but also the Russian Maozi also took money to ask for orders. It's a pity that at that time, our industry in China could not do it, so we could only sell raw materials. But now, no matter how many orders there are, we are not afraid. The middle-aged man said with his eyebrows flying.

"Boss Li, your cotton yarn business has made a lot of money. I heard Minister Zhou say that the cotton yarn produced more than 800,000 tons a year, and I remember that when the times were good a few years ago, Huaxia only produced 440,000 tons in the most years. It's almost doubled, but it can't stop the orders of foreign devils. Others said enviously.

"In the past two years, dozens of new cotton mills have been opened in the joint theater, all of which are using new machines. If it weren't for the lack of supply of cotton raw materials, it was estimated that more than one million tons would be possible. Boss Li said with confidence.

In this regard, Meng Xiang is more confident than him.

The ability of cotton textile enterprises to absorb gold is deeply experienced by later generations of Huaxia. It has always been the fist industry of Huaxia to earn foreign exchange, and it is also a good way to arrange employment. At first, the British, Americans, and people all profited from this, but as the value of labor increased, they became less competitive. The development of light industry in the golden decade of China is also because of the advantages of China's cheap labor to play a strong role in attracting gold.

At the beginning, Meng Xiang planned to grasp both heavy industry and light industry, and both hands should be hard. A large number of light industrial machines were purchased from Germany and the United States very early on. After the start of the European War, the second-hand machines disposed of became the favorite of those sī businesses. In addition, the Pioneer Army Machine Plant has already begun to manufacture the corresponding complete set of inexpensive equipment. As a result, since the beginning of this year, under the spur of cheap machines and the European consumer market, there has been another boom in the production of the textile industry. In this case, it is not difficult to exceed one million tons.

"Isn't there a large supply of cotton in the northwest now?" Someone asked.

Meng Xiang remembered that among the three major cotton-producing areas in later China, in addition to the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River basin, the cotton in the northwest inland was also well-known, and the cotton output often affected the pattern of the cotton market. However, at this time, there is not much cotton planting in the northwest region, and from this year, under the overall agricultural plan of the northwest, large-scale planting has begun.

Not only in terms of planting scale, but also in terms of improved varieties, in addition to the professors of Jinling University and Southeast University a few years ago to adapt to the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River to adapt to the Yellow River area of the "Sizimian No. 4" and to adapt to the Yangtze River basin "Dezimian No. 531" continued to promote, but also introduced new varieties from the United States, after more than two years of cultivation, the new cotton varieties were launched in advance this year, which is better than the mainstream planting variety "Daizimian No. 15" in the 50s of China.

"At this time, the transportation in the northwest is still a little inconvenient, a large pile of cotton can not be transported, and the freight is not as cost-effective as imported water transportation. The situation will be better when the direct railway to Dihua is opened next year. Boss Li sighed. One of the newly built railways of the Pioneer Army was from Chang'an to Dihua, and after more than a year of emergency repairs, many sections of the railway have already begun trial operation. However, it will take some time for the entire line to be opened to traffic.

"I heard that the railway in the northwest is almost completed, and it will be open to traffic in a few months?" Someone asked.

"Pretty much. To build this railway, millions of people built it along all sections. And so much money was invested. I guess it's pretty much the same. Some people are a little uncertain, after all, there are thousands of clues about such things, and there may be something wrong that will cause delay.

"I guess it's going to be soon. The other day, I saw the locomotive, much more than the average train. I heard that it is still produced by us in Huaxia. Boss Li said in an affirmative tone.

"That's our own production, I heard that there is a factory near Xuzhou that specializes in the production of locomotives. It does not burn coal, but only oil. I heard that there are also those that don't even need to burn oil, just like the tram, they use electricity directly and run on the Jiaoji line. Someone else chimed in.

"The kind of tram you are talking about can't run in the northwest! Out of the Yumen Pass in the northwest, the strong wind can blow over the train. There are a lot of places where trees can't grow, let alone you have a telephone pole erected. I have to blow it off. Someone next to him joked, "The oil burner is quite reliable, so you don't need to add water from time to time, and it is much more convenient in the northwest where there is a shortage of water." ”

"According to what you say, it is not suitable to burn oil, you must know that we are short of oil in China. I always burn oil like this, not to mention importing foreign oil every day, and I can't afford to burn it after a long time. The man next to him retorted unceremoniously.

"In China, is there no oil? I heard that there are several geology that everyone has proved that there is oil in China, but we haven't found it yet. When the man in the suit heard this, he said indignantly.

"It's not that oil has been found there in Yumen, I heard that the output there has reached 300,000 tons this year. When I heard that there are also oil fields in the Central Plains, Minister Zhou said that there will be more than 500,000 tons of oil production in the joint theater this year, which proves that we still have oil in China. The old man with crystal glasses also nodded in praise.

"People just don't give up trying to find oil from China. At this time, there was a shortage of oil, and even the price of coal was high because of the vanguard army in the northeast. I heard that because a large number of European orders flowed to China, the factory went bankrupt a lot. The man in the middle suit said.

"Lack of energy has always been a human heart disease. The Americans have recently been very strict with regulations, and I am afraid that the crisis of energy shortage will be more tense in the future. The bow-tie man nodded.

"Their energy is restricted, and their manpower is not much preferential compared to ours, plus people have been suffering from natural disasters since the year before last, and there is a red revolution in China. It was successively defeated by the vanguard army, and its finances were close to collapse. Under such circumstances, it is becoming more and more difficult for Europe's large orders to be snatched up by our Huaxia and Americans. The bow tie man continued.

"How can people not grab orders?" The goatee next to him asked, in his heart, the human industry is very powerful, why can't he rob Huaxia?

The bow-tie man looked at him and explained, "The Germans are friendly with the Vanguard, and there are some barter agreements, so it will be more convenient for them to pay directly with machines and technology." Some civilian machines, people don't need them, and military machines and materials, the Germans won't do it at all, and people can't get it. Those deals in the German-occupied territories were also tilted in favor of the vanguard and took precedence over the Chinese trades. Even those neutral countries are popular because of the cheap and good quality of things in China. The British, on the other hand, refused to trade easily because of the threat they posed to the South Seas, and their main dealers were the Americans and some individual trading companies. ”

"A separate trading company?" Goatee was amazed that there was a trading company comparable to that of the country.

"Things like umbrella companies." The bow tie man said lightly, but his heart was for this kind of giant company that can do business with the state, and he originally wanted to join the umbrella company, but unfortunately he couldn't recommend it.

Everyone also knows that companies such as copycat companies and umbrella companies, such as Shell, Mobil, Citigroup, etc., are all things that everyone needs to look up to.

"These companies have taken orders, and they are also looking for China and the United States, and there are not many people looking for them." The bow tie man hesitated for a moment, but finally said his conjecture, "They are financially unsupportable, and the most important thing is the shortage of fuel, I'm afraid they will have to take action in the near future." ”

"What if there is action? In the middle of the year, when there was a big nickel mine in the northwest, the little devils could only look at these things that they had thousands of miles to look at. The Japanese were beaten by the vanguard once they came, not to mention that they wanted the oil of Yumen, even if they didn't have the oil in the Central Plains, they could only stare dryly. The man in the suit gloated, "It's good that their government has collapsed!" ”

"It's not just the Japanese who spy on Huaxia, the place in the northwest has always been coveted!" The old man with crystal glasses reminded.

"What about snooping? I heard that when it was autumn, Zike instigated those alien troublemakers, and was killed by General Zhang Zizhong, who stayed in the northwest, and bled thousands of miles. For a while, none of them were emerging. The man in the suit said in a surging mood. At that time, this news made him eager to immediately abandon his pen and follow Rong and rush to the northwest to quell the chaos.

"At that time, the killing hurt the heavens and the peace, and some of it was too much." The man in the tunic still has some patience for the killing.

"General Zhang has the demeanor of the left marshal back then. Some newspapers also criticized General Zhang as a butcher who suppressed the national uprising, which was really ignorant. and those who are not of my people will have different hearts. Did those people be soft when they killed Han people? This burst of killing can stabilize the northwest frontier for at least more than ten years. The crystal-eyed old man agreed.

"Survival of the fittest, so many alien races have disappeared in history, and there is no ability to disappear naturally, this is natural selection. The countless killings in history have made China the territory it is today, and only then can we have a place for the Chinese people to live. If you don't strive for progress and don't become stronger, you will be bullied, which is not surprising. The bow tie man also disagreed, "Say a thousand things and ten thousand, and if you fall behind, you will be beaten, this is true!" ”ro@。