Yang Rui stayed overnight in Dalinggou, and the next day after crossing Dalinggou, he got on the train sent by Tonghua, which is more than 100 kilometers away from Tonghua County, more than 130 kilometers to Tonghua New Town, and nearly 200 kilometers to Yang Rui's destination, Hongtu Cliff, with the speed of more than 20 kilometers by train, I am afraid that it will take a day.

Because of Chen Dafa's matter, Du Yaquan only talked with Yang Rui for an hour in the past two days, and now that the journey is so long, he just has time to give a comprehensive introduction to the affairs of Tonghua, but he noticed that Yang Rui was missing a person in his group, so he said: "That Cheng ...... What about the girl? He didn't know what to call Cheng Ying, so in the end he could only be called a girl.

"She..."Du Yaquan is not a committee member, but he has the merits of the Revival Association in everyone's eyes, and he doesn't know how, he and Yang Rui can talk very well, although they are a few years older than Yang Rui, but the relationship between the two is extremely close, so he dares to ask about some private matters. Yang Rui saw him ask Cheng Ying, and said helplessly: "She went back, she was angry with me and left." I think it's better to be a sister-in-law, knowledgeable, and don't worry about anything at home. ”

Du Yaquan also heard about Yang Rui and Cheng Ying, and wanted to say a few more words, but when he saw Yang Rui turn the topic to himself, he shut up with interest, some men don't like to publicize family affairs, maybe Yang Rui is like this, so he turned the topic to work: "The arsenal is running well, and the output of shells mentioned before has also increased a lot, and now it has a monthly output of 4,000 shells, and the output of everything has increased except for the monthly output of 1 million, and the output of everything has increased; There is already a lot of coal in the Wudaogou Coal Mine. I waited for the coal to be released as soon as the railway was opened, and the 100 million ton contract was not signed with the Japanese earlier, but I think there are many places where coal is used now. Two million tons of coal are sold every year, and there is also a profit of three or four million taels a year, that is, the coal mine over there in Fushun cannot be moved, otherwise the open-pit coal mine will produce more ......."

Speaking of the income from the northeast, Du Yaquan's interest suddenly increased a lot, but Yang Rui said: "Don't move Fushun first, let that side dig slowly." Also, is the stake of the Russians settled? ”

"That's it." Du Yaquan nodded and said, "I redeemed it all, and it cost more than 400,000 taels." The Russians initially wanted to sell the coal mine for two million rubles to an American businessman, but I went to the American consul to stop this, and the shares of the Yalu River Timber Company were redeemed. Now the wooden handles of the Yalu River are on our side. When he said this, he thought that Yang Rui didn't like to cut down indiscriminately. He added: "Except for the ones that were cut earlier, the new wooden handles will not be issued with a cutting permit, in fact, the wooden handles that are being cut now do not like new people to come."

As soon as the railway is opened in the mining industry, everything is easy to do, coal can be transported, pig iron in the steel mill can also be transported, I think there is coal and iron in Tonghua. It's time to expand the ironworks, right? The mill now has only a small blast furnace with a daily output of 20 tons of pig iron, and a 3-ton furnace per day. There are two steel-making furnaces with a daily output of two tons, and the two small furnaces are used for research, only the three-ton furnace is producing rails, and the rails to be laid from Meihekou to Changchun are all produced by it. Originally, I was afraid that the railway would not pass, but now that the railway is open, it will just expand the iron plant, and the coal mine and the railway are very close to each other, and the quality of iron and coking coal is good, and the cost of pig iron produced must be lower than that of Ma'anshan. ”

Du Yaquan attaches great importance to the steel mill, in addition to verbally expanding the steel mill, he also brought a written plan, the above plan is to add two blast furnaces with a daily output of 100 tons of pig iron, and the steel mill will also add two alkaline Martin steelmaking furnaces with a daily output of 30 tons of steel, a 100-ton large blending furnace, and the rolling mill, rail mill, and steel plate mill will be expanded. According to this plan, Tonghua Steel Plant will produce more than 70,000 tons of iron and 20,000 tons of steel per year.

Yang Rui finished reading the whole plan and said with a smile: "You are not afraid of a conflict with Ma'anshan, and Hanyang now has money in his hands and has also bought two 30-ton alkaline Martin furnaces, can China digest so much steel?" ”

"30,000 tons of steel in Hanyang, 50,000 tons of steel in Maanshan, and 20,000 tons in Tonghua, a total of 100,000 tons, which is not too much." The market for pig iron is very large, and the United States and Japan are importing a large number of them, but steel is not easy to sell. The colony existed because it was a discriminatory market, and the products of the suzerainty were unimpeded, while the non-suzerains could only be treated coldly. However, Du Yaquan obviously studied this, he said: "The big ones who use steel, in addition to the rails are ships, and now the whole country is building railways, which add up to nearly 5,000 kilometers, and if you calculate 40 tons of steel per kilometer, you will need 2 million tons of steel, and even if you want to build these railways in ten years, it will take 200,000 tons of steel every year......

"You are too optimistic," Yang Rui interrupted him, "Now in addition to the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway under construction, there are also our railways in Anhui, as well as the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway, although there are plans to build railways in other places, but they are all just talking about it, taking the Sichuan-Han Railway in Sichuan Province as an example, many shares of this railway are forcibly raised, but all the money raised is put in the Kwantung Bank to earn interest, and a kilometer of railway is not wanted to be built, and those gentry sit and wait for the interest; The same is true for the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway, except for the capital of overseas Chinese in Nanyang who wants to build the road in Guangdong, the Hunan side does not want to build it at all. Now the Hanyang Iron Works has gotten money because of the listing, and wants to repair the section from Zhuzhou to Hankou, so that the coking coal in Pingxiang can directly train Hanyang, but the local gentry are afraid that once the railway is repaired, they will not be able to sit and wait for the share capital to earn interest; In addition, when the railway company was first established, in order to share more interest, they recognized more shares than one, and the cowhides were blown one by one bigger than the sky, but he really couldn't take out the money. I can see that the Manchu Qing Dynasty is vicious, but as long as it does not involve the throne, many things are still merciful, but the gentry below are dog-like on the surface, moral and righteous, and they do everything for money in their bones. These people should be killed! ”

Yang Rui's murderous intent was revealed, which only made Du Yaquan's whole body chill, he didn't understand why Yang Rui's anger was so heavy now, he wouldn't say anything about killing clean before, he calmed his mind. didn't pick up Yang Rui's topic, and said with some trembling: "If the railway can't be repaired so much, then shipbuilding can be regarded as a big steel user." At present, the domestic shipping price is extremely high, and a 10,000-ton ship needs 4,000 tons of steel, and a 1,000-ton ship also needs 3 or 400 tons of steel. ”

"Hmm." What Du Yaquan said still makes sense. Yang Rui had no choice but to say: "You better give the detailed report to Shanghai, now there are three iron factories in China, and Hanyang has merged with Ma'anshan." Tonghua is going to build a large iron plant, and in the end it will have to be merged, and the three iron plants will eventually have a unified layout, not only to drive out imported steel. All imported iron will also be occupied by us. In addition to the shipyard in Shanghai. Now there is also a heavy machinery factory, which makes some farm cars and engineering vehicles, just like tractors and bulldozers used on railways, but not steam engines, but hot ball engines and diesel engines, this kind of thing weighs more than ten tons for a large one, and more than four or five tons for small ones, and it takes 10,000 tons of steel to build a hundred units. ”

"You mean the caterpillar?" The steam bulldozer on the railway, Dua Spring, was very impressed. He just didn't know that he could make this thing himself, that thing was so easy to use. If it weren't for him, the railroad wouldn't have been built so quickly.

"yes, that's it. We are holding the company in the United States, and the patents have been transferred to Shanghai. Tractors, bulldozers, rollers, harvesters, cranes, these things can be sold all over the world, and there will not be much discrimination in tariffs. "This period of construction machinery is in the embryonic stage, in the United States or the world of steam machinery, that is, the crawler is not yet popular, with the later generations to see and know, the integration of all contemporary technology, to create a world-renowned construction machinery company is not difficult.

"But how much can these things sell? The ones we bought were very expensive. Thinking of the prices of those big guys, Du Yaquan was a little smacked, if it weren't for the rush of the construction period, he wouldn't want to buy so many caterpillars.

"It's absolutely possible, there are now eight factories in the United States that produce tractors, with an annual output of 600 steam tractors, but these tractors are very expensive, at least 3,000 dollars, and the most expensive are tens of thousands, and if they are made with hot ball engines or diesel engines, then the cost of each unit is only 1,000 dollars. According to the analysis of the marketing department, even steam tractors are now in short supply, and many of them are backward and do not even have tracks. As long as we can build a tractor that is convenient and efficient for less than 1,000 dollars, it will sell a lot. The Overseas Marketing Department estimates that the annual sales of tractors in the U.S. market will exceed 10,000 units in five years and more than 100,000 units in ten years. [Note: The number jù comes from the history of tractors.] With the expansion and deepening of the Fuxing Association's business intelligence collection, the intelligence of various industries will be gathered in Shanghai, and Yang Rui will carefully study this information to find some opportunities, and heavy machinery such as tractors is one of them.

"Is that to make this thing in Shanghai? Also, isn't selling to the United States to grab business with the Americans? Won't they kick us out? "Du Yaquan and Chen Dafa are good friends with overseas Chinese, and they know that the United States is not so easy to stay.

"Whether the tractor is a hot ball engine or a diesel engine, it burns oil, there is a person in the United States who will be very happy that we make this kind of thing, we will build tractors first, and when the Americans also start to build crawler tractors, we will upgrade, and when there is no market for tractors, we will build construction machinery, and when there is no market for construction machinery, we will build something else," Yang Rui wanted to say tanks, but he thought about it, "The other thing is that the tractor factory cannot be placed in Shanghai, where it is too unsafe, It's better to put it in Tonghua New Town. The climate here is cold, which is good for building machines. And it's in the mountains, and the best way to produce this is oil...... There's no rush for this, let's take it first. The feasibility report of the tractor factory will come from Shanghai soon, and now they are counting the number of other countries. ”

The steel plant brought it up, and there was one more tractor factory after talking, and Du Yaquan said after listening to it: "Shanghai is not safe, but Tonghua is safe?" ”

"Well, it's safer here than in Shanghai!" Yang Rui replied: "Although it is close to the border, the North Korean side is also full of mountains, and the large army cannot supply materials when crossing the border, and the maximum size of tens of thousands of people to cross the border is still nothing to worry about as these people." Fighting jungle warfare, none of us is afraid. ”

Tonghua is good for everything, but it is too close to North Korea, and since Yang Rui is confident in the safety of this place, Du Yaquan is relieved. He carefully wrote down the tractor in his work notebook, so that he could go back and think about how big it would be if he wanted to open such a factory. There is also how to allocate electricity, water, and people.

After talking about military industry, heavy industry, and then light industry, agriculture and education, Du Yaquan turned the page of the book and began to talk about light industry. "We were mainly engaged in oil mills and refineries, and we were not involved in silk reeling, flour, or textiles, but we trained a group of local gentry, and then the Kanto Bank gave them loans. Let them set up factories. Last year, we extracted 7,600 tons of oil from our mills in various places, exported more than 2,800 tons to the United States, and shipped the rest to Shanghai. Fifteen hundred tons are hardened and used to make soap, candles and lubricating oil, and the rest is edible. Last year, the soybean output of the entire Northeast last year was estimated to be about 65 tons, and the agricultural trading company made 150,000 tons of domestic trade and exported more than 40,000 tons. It accounts for half of the total export volume of the Northeast. It is mainly exported to Japan, Nanyang and the Philippines. However, since last year, the Japanese Mitsui has pulled a group of people to harvest beans in various places. I'm afraid that in two years, they will rely on the South Manchurian Railway to suppress us. "Soybeans are the highlight of the Northeast economy and trade, Du Yaquan has always been watching, he is so anxious that in addition to transporting coal by railway, that is, transporting beans. Among them, the most important thing is to transport beans.

"The soybean thing is complicated." Yang Rui said and took out a prepared copy of the document to Du Yaquan, "This is the soybean industry development report formulated in Shanghai, you go back and find someone to study it." As long as we can do this well, then the soybeans will always be in our hands. ”

Du Yaquan took it when he heard this. The plan was thick, and he only flipped through the catalog. I saw that there were several big headings on the catalog, the first of which was to open soybean futures on the Shanghai Exchange. ”

"Hmm. That's for it. Yang Rui nodded and said, "The stock market in the United States is about to collapse." Tao Fu can't leave, so this matter can only be sent to Xingjian. Shanghai is China's financial center, soybean futures listed there is conducive to export transactions, what price of soybeans will be sold in the future, or it depends on the market over there, as well as raw silk, tung oil, coal, these will be listed and traded in the future, we are dealers, many things are easy to control. However, in order to be listed and traded, the Northeast must trade soybeans in graded ways. Yang Rui added.

Du Yaquan said: "We are already doing this now. Soybeans have been graded, as are soybean cake and soybean oil. Compare our own oil mill quite a bit ......"

"No, that's not enough." Yang Rui has read the entire report and knows that many of the above things are different from Du Yaquan, "The output of soybeans is still increasing, and the existing oil mills are completely insufficient." Now the Kanto Bank is about to implement an oil mill loan program, that is, low-interest loans to all those who are interested in opening oil mills, and these oil mills will join the Northeast Soybean Trade Chamber of Commerce led by us, and all oil mills will be extracted according to our standards, and the soybean oil and soybean cakes will be a standard; On the soybean side, storage warehouses will be set up in various places, and the soybeans of merchants will be graded when they are stored, which is no longer a simple classification, but is subdivided into five levels. In order to be afraid that some people will be troublesome, the storage fee will be appropriately reduced, and the railway freight will also be preferential for the soybean after grading, so that it can not only grade but also pull the supply of goods to the railway company, killing two birds with one stone. Finally, there is the local cooperative system, which is what the farming company has to do, soybeans are a commodity after all, and the oil crops in world trade have risen and fallen, and the climate will change every year, so it is still necessary to allocate from planting. ”

Yang Rui said everything that should be said in one breath, but before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Du Yaquan, and he said: "This is not just a simple business, this ...... It's like, as if we've become a government, manipulating the entire soybean production, processing and trade, and do we have so much money to lend them to build an oil mill? And cooperatives, this is to unite all the people, can this be done? ”

"What can't be done, the Kanto Bank is now quite influential in Shanghai, and many people in Shanghai have made a fortune doing soybeans, even if it is not the oil mill we built with a loan, as long as we use our machine qì and have received our training, then we will join the soybean trade chamber of commerce, in fact, what we do is to integrate these oil mills, the integration of weapons is a railway, the other is an oil press, now the oil presses everywhere are very backward, the kind of press we used before is technically more advanced than other people's equipment, Don't those who run oil mills know to buy this kind of equipment? "The soybean industry plan is the top priority in Northeast China, and the whole plan has cost Yang Rui a lot of effort." If nothing else is mentioned in the countryside, the key is that we can grasp the price of soybeans. ”

Seeing Yang Rui talking about the price of soybeans, Du Yaquan said: "In the past few years, we have the final say on the price of soybeans in Northeast China. This is all because they take advantage of Shanghai, but as long as the Japanese export volume exceeds ours, then the price of soybeans in Northeast China will be set by them. This... That's what worries me the most! ”

Pricing power is the most critical power in agricultural trade, whoever controls the source of goods controls half of the pricing power, and the other half, in the trader. There are many grain stations and car shops in Tianzihao, which can be regarded as mastering the source of goods, and the volume of domestic trade and exports is huge. It can be regarded as controlling trade, so that the price of soybeans can be completely manipulated. However, as the foreign trade of soybeans climbs, it will reach 400,000 tons in three years, according to the report - Du Yaquan does not know whether this is true, in fact, according to history, this is not true. And this volume is only half of the actual figure - with such export volumes. The bargaining power of the Japanese will naturally increase, even if soybeans are more resistant to storage than silkworm cocoons, but one is not good, and Hu Xueyan is second.

Du Yaquan's worries Yang Rui didn't take it seriously, he smiled and said, "Brother Qiufan, don't worry, everything is within the control range." After speaking, Yang Rui changed the topic. He also asked, "How is the school doing here?" Does the matter in Hangzhou have any impact? ”

"The impact is, but it's not big." Although Du Yaquan couldn't think of where Yang Rui's confidence was. Since he didn't mention it, it was hard to ask, so he had to say: "Including for the industry here." At the end of last year, a group of people came from Beijing, saying that it was to investigate the wood industry in Liaodong, but in fact, it was investigating the scale of Tianzi in Tonghua, and several people who came were senior officials of Svenwen, and I also had dinner with them, and they were shocked when they saw that the scale here was so large, and asked me whether this was run by Chinese or foreigners, and I said at the time that most of them were run by Chinese, but there were also many shares of Yang Rui. After they left, there was no movement, but they rewarded me with a second-grade top, which can be regarded as a bought.

After all, the food here is cheaper than that in the Guannai, and if you eat all the sorghum, a student only needs five taels of silver a year, but now it is mixed to eat, and each person is less than six taels of silver. There are more than 63,000 primary school students, more than 9,700 middle school students, and two schools, one is the Tonghua Law and Politics School, with more than 700 students, and the other is the Tonghua Technical School. Harbin University is still being built, but it is estimated that it will be completed this fall, and the scale is comparable to that of Tongji University Hall in Shanghai, that is, there are not as many professors in Russia as in Shanghai. ”

"Why, your side seems to be a lot bigger than the one in North China? Does the Education Association allocate too much money? Yang Rui remembered that there were only more than 10,000 primary school students in North China, and there were only 20,000 middle school students in Canada, but now there are more than 80,000 students in the Northeast, and more than 400,000 taels per person per year.

"Shanghai allocated 300,000 taels, the Northeast itself subsidized a part, and the gentry who set up factories with us donated some, and now there are our schools in all counties in the Northeast, especially in Liaodong, there are schools in all towns and villages, and there are many primary schools on the immigration side." Du Yaquan found that he had missed something, and he was talking nonsense incoherently, he understood that he was violating the internal management regulations, after all, education is all under the name of the Education Association, and at the same time, any funds are controlled on the financial side, since there is extra money in the Northeast to run the school, it must be a loophole in the financial supervision system.

400,000 taels, the difference is nearly 100,000 taels, it is impossible for the gentry to donate so much, Yang Rui stared at him and asked, "Where did all this money come from?" ”

Seeing Yang Rui staring at himself, Du Yaquan's back was full of cold sweat, he was very proud of the education in the Northeast, but he didn't want Yang Rui to see the problem in a few counts, he smiled bitterly: "It's a private order." Mainly on the side of the Tonghua Steamship Company, the approved loading capacity is 500 tons, but in fact it can be loaded more than 100 tons each time, and a ship can be loaded with more than 4,000 tons a year, and now the steamship company has more than 10 ships and can load more than 60,000 tons a year. These 60,000 tons of coal are also 180,000 taels a year. Except for a small part of the money that went to the boatmen, the rest went to the school. ”

After Du Yaquan finished speaking, Yang Rui was silent, he knew that the steamship company reported the overload, but the Hunjiang River was too curved, and the Yalu River was also a seasonal river, and the water level was uncertain......

"You hand over what you're doing first. After the investigation by the Financial Inspector is completed, you will come back to work. Yang Rui's words were cold, only cold to Du Yaquan's heart.

When Du Yaquan heard Yang Rui say the handover, his face suddenly turned gray, and he had already found out a lot of private fraud, but the amount was very small, mostly a few hundred taels, including a relative of Yu Huizu before, and the embezzlement of more than 2,000 taels of goods was found out, although the payment was refunded, but it was still dealt with strictly. Du Yaquan thought about Yang Rui's strong aversion to embezzlement and embezzlement, he really didn't know what would happen on his side, he was stunned for a while, and finally nodded at Yang Rui, and said calmly: "Okay." I'll hand it over right away. (To be continued......)