Chapter 430: The Delegation Arrives
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There is no doubt that the great effect of antibiotics can not only reduce the huge number of deaths of the soldiers of the Nationalist Army, but also bring a large amount of capital income to Huaxia Bank, and there will be more important foreign exchange income in the future. In addition to antibiotics, there is another thing in the product arsenal of the National Army that has the same drug effect as antibiotics and has the same ability to attract gold.
That's morphine!
First of all, it should be explained that Chen Jingyun plans to promote medicinal morphine on a large scale, and it is ready to be applied to the army on a large scale, with the most fundamental purpose of providing pain-relieving and sedative effects for injured soldiers, so that injured soldiers can have a greater chance of survival.
In fact, Chen Jingyun did not have the idea of mass production of morphine as an export product at the beginning, and the morphine production of the National Army was only produced as the National Army's own medicine at first, but later found that the price of morphine was high, and the income from the production of morphine on the market was very high, and Chen Jingyun was also because the European war was about to break out, and at that time, countries around the world would also have this great demand for analgesics such as morphine, and another key point is that As the world's largest producer and consumer of opium, China's opium production is extremely large, and Chen Jingyun has also taken measures such as opium official management through the Anti-Smoking Department to use the opium industry to obtain a large amount of additional income.
However, from the perspective of the future, it is very necessary to ban smoking, and at present, the Nanjing Republican Axe has had preliminary talks with other countries on the issue of banning smoking, because China's opium imports have been very small, and the British opium dealers have long been extinct, and the anti-smoking that could cause war has not attracted the attention of any major powers, and many people in Britain have even taken the initiative to support China to adopt anti-smoking measures. So to a certain extent, as long as Chen Jingyun is willing, he can enact a comprehensive smoking ban at any time. However, China's opium industry chain has been in shape for many years, and the number of opium smokers is innumerable. Moreover, now that the Nationalist Army and the Beiyang Army are at war, the military expenditure of the Nationalist Army is like a bottomless pit absorbing any financial revenue of the Nationalist Army.
So far, Chen Jingyun can only make some general and superficial anti-smoking measures, and first of all, the first and most important one is to completely ban the smoking of opium in the national army, and no recruits who are addicted to smoking when they are recruited, and soldiers who are addicted to opium after serving will be directly dismissed. In fact, this is not only done by the Nationalist Army, but also by the Beiyang Army, the Dian Army, and the Gui Army, although the top of the army may smoke opium, but ordinary soldiers smoke opium is very rarely opium, and these warlord leaders are very aware that opium will damage the combat effectiveness of their army, of course, some small warlord troops with thousands of hundreds of people like bandits are not included.
In addition to banning smoking in the national army, Chen Jingyun also strongly demanded that all political and civil servants not smoke opium, and those who are addicted to smoking must quit within the specified time, otherwise they will be directly dismissed from public office. Although there are many loopholes in the smoking ban on the political axe, some of the following officials will quit smoking in order to cope with the appearance of the surface, but in fact they will secretly smoke, but it is undeniable that this kind of thing is the same as eliminating corruption and bribery, it is impossible to completely eradicate it, but through the superficial ban, it is possible to suppress this trend, so that officials know that once the people in the Ministry of Supervision know, then they may lose their official positions. In this case, smoking can be effectively banned in the civil service.
However, for ordinary people, Chen Jingyun has no plans to ban smoking for the time being, on the one hand, because the ruling foundation of the National Socialist Party is still relatively weak, and its influence is far from reaching the whole country, but is only limited to the southeastern coastal provinces such as Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Guangdong. Until the whole country is truly unified and the Kuomintang has gained a solid foundation of rule, Chen Jingyun will not do some periods of social unrest, such as the ban on smoking in the whole country, such as the national land reform!
In addition to internal concerns, it is also a more important financial concern, Chen Jingyun through the opium government, greatly suppressed illicit cigarettes, but also brought a huge income to the anti-smoking department, the opium industry through taxes and direct business profits combined annual income has reached tens of millions, these money is not Chen Jingyun said that he can give up, at least before the complete defeat of the Beiyang Army, Chen Jingyun can not give up.
For the time being, opium could not be completely abandoned within the year. However, it does not mean that Chen Jingyun does not want to give up, and refining opium into morphine is one of the workarounds.
Originally, morphine was only made for the Nationalist Army's own use, but due to many considerations and the huge demand for military medical supplies in various countries when World War I was approaching, Chen Jingyun began to prepare for large-scale mass production of morphine for export. Anyway, China's opium production is very large now, and it is not difficult to produce morphine after having sufficient raw materials.
The combination of so many factors led Chen Jingyun to decide to use the export of morphine as one of the ways to collect large amounts of foreign exchange during the First World War in the future.
Antibiotics, morphine, these two are the main military medical supplies that Chen Jingyun intends to use to export to earn foreign exchange, and Chen Jingyun has also prepared several others, such as extremely simple but very large amounts of bandages, the bandage supply of the national army mainly comes from the Fuding Textile Factory, and recently Chen Jingyun also asked the Fuding Textile Factory to upgrade the equipment of the subordinate bandage department to improve the quality and output of the bandages manufactured.
In addition to these military medical supplies, Chen Jingyun also asked several textile enterprises controlled by Huaxia Bank to increase equipment and increase the manufacturing output of ready-to-wear garments, although it was used to use the reason that the national army would expand on a large scale in the short term, and even the army across the country would be under the control of the national army, resulting in a great demand for military uniforms, but in fact it was still for the European war.
Once the European war broke out, the scale of various industrial products and industrial raw materials needed was extremely large, and the buyers of the various belligerent countries would wave checks to make large-scale purchases around the world, although the bulk would be taken by the United States, which is actually the largest industrial manufacturing country today, but the remaining small part would also fall on some small countries, such as Ben, such as China.
And what Chen Jingyun has to do is to grab these small orders as much as possible, and how to grab them, in addition to the low price, there is nothing more attractive to the belligerents than a large supply in a short period of time.
Once the war breaks out, countries will carry out large-scale mobilization, they need to obtain millions of pieces of various military uniforms, military quilts, military shoes, etc. in just two or three months, that is to say, in this short period of time the largest supply of goods to the belligerents, then the benefits can be greater, if you see the outbreak of the European war, see the cheques waved in people's hands and then expand the scale and increase production, then it will be a waste of several months, not to mention the competition for orders, even the cucumber vegetables are cold.
Of course, this kind of expansion and increase of equipment without obtaining a large number of orders can only be done by the enterprises under the direct control of Chen Jingyun, first of all, these enterprises Chen Jingyun has the final say, unlike other private enterprises in China, Chen Jingyun can only suggest, but can not directly let them do anything. Chen Jingyun knew that there would be a European war, so he had the confidence to expand the scale. And even if he takes 10,000 steps back, even if the European war does not break out smoothly, Chen Jingyun will not have to worry about the products of his own industry after the expansion of the scale of the industry have no place to sell. There is no order from the belligerent countries and there is still the national army, although it is impossible to make a big profit, but it is not a problem to maintain it.
In short, Chen Jingyun has the courage to expand the scale of various enterprises under his name, among which the two key industries of textiles and medicine are the mainstay, while other light industries are also continuing to expand production on a large scale.
At a time when Chen Jingyun asked his companies to expand their scale in order to gain a place in the big cake brought about by the European war, the long-awaited US business delegation of Chen Jingyun and Ma Yinchu finally arrived in Shanghai on January 18.
"The delegation is led by U.S. Senator Colin, including some officials from the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and of course, the most important thing is that there will be representatives of more than 20 companies!"
Yu Shifeng held the document in his hand and reported to Chen Jingyun on the reception of the US business delegation.
"The reception delegation composed of Wu Tingfang, Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ma Yinchu, Director General of the Department of Economic Development, and many other colleagues has arrived in Shanghai ahead of schedule to greet them, and the US business delegation is currently staying at the Huizhong Hotel in Shanghai. Here are the minutes of the talks! Yu Shifeng handed a document to Chen Jingyun.
After Chen Jingyun took it and looked at it, he hurriedly glanced at it, the content of the talks was relatively simple, and what he said was superficial, the US business delegation hoped to see the business potential repeatedly mentioned by the US Minister to China Jia Leheng, and the Chinese side hoped to see the opportunity to get large-scale investment in the US business delegation.
To put it simply, this is a meeting with high expectations on both sides!
After the US business delegation stayed at the Huizhong Hotel, the Shanghai Municipal Axe held a grand welcome ball for the delegation, which was attended not only by Wu Tingfang, Minister General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ma Yinchu of the Department of Economic Development, and officials of Shanghai Municipal Government, but also by representatives of extremely special businessmen in the National Army system, including Chen Jinghai, president of Huaxia Bank, and Chen Jingsheng, chief financial officer of Huaxia Bank and chief financial officer of Fuzhou Arsenal. These two Chen Jingyun's cousins are Chen Jingyun's direct representatives in the industrial and commercial circles, and their coming is almost equivalent to Chen Jingyun coming in person, so to a certain extent, their attendance is heavier than that of Wu Tingfang and Ma Yinchu, and in addition to the Chen brothers, Shi Xing, general manager of Southeast Iron and Steel Company, and Xi Zhixing, general manager of Jiangnan Shipyard, and a number of responsible persons of important enterprises under the national army system, except for Tang Huikang, general manager of Fuzhou Arsenal, who can't get away from Fuzhou, the others are basically present one by one. Several of them even came to Shanghai for a purpose.
It can be seen from this that the Nanjing Republican Axe attaches great importance to the US business delegation's visit to China, if not for anything else, but for the sake of the green dollars in people's pockets, and many bureaucrats in the Nanjing Republican Axe are also eager to jingle the Americans' sycophants and then count on taking out a large amount of dollars from the Americans' pockets.
Interestingly, most of these enterprises that are ready to participate in the large-scale industrial and commercial cooperation between China and the United States are the holding companies of Huaxia Bank, in other words, they are all enterprises directly controlled by Chen Jingyun, but there are not many other enterprises, only a few enterprises such as Fuhang Textile Company and Southeast Bank have come, and most of them are textile industry-related enterprises. In other industries, there is none.
The reason for this situation, this has a lot to do with the small scale of China's private enterprises today, although China's industry and commerce have been greatly developed in recent years, but only from the perspective of private capital, there are not many large-scale enterprises, more enterprises are only tens of thousands of yuan of capital, more than hundreds of thousands of yuan, involving some light industry, China's large-scale private enterprises are not much, and most of them are concentrated in the textile industry, such as Fuhang Textile Company. After two years of integration, Fuhang Textile Company has almost controlled seventy percent of Zhejiang's raw silk production, and its net assets have reached tens of millions of yuan, but in terms of asset scale, even Southeast Iron and Steel, Fule Electric, the core enterprises of Huaxia Bank, have to bow down. If it weren't for the large amount of capital injection into the textile factories in Zhejiang and Jiangsu, and even the establishment of a southeast bank for the Fuhang Textile Company to provide financial support, Huaxia Bank would not have caused the proportion of shares in the Fuhang Textile Company to fall again and again because of the lack of funds, and finally not only lost its controlling stake, but even the top three shares were not even ranked in the top three. Although the scale of several textile companies established after Fuhang Textile Company is smaller than that of Fuhang Textile Company, most of the assets are tens of millions, and they are supported by various banks or financial institutions such as money banks. And the heads of these companies also appeared at today's welcome ball.
However, in addition to the textile industry, there are no private enterprises in China's other light industries, and there are even few with assets of more than one million. As for the heavy industry of pure private capital, only Nanjing Machinery Factory is on a large scale, with millions of assets.
Therefore, in this year, China's pure private capital strength is not strong, and even very weak, they are limited by their own strength, most of them have no opportunity to participate in the economic development of the Department of industrial development of the initial outline of those large-scale projects, these economic development Department to develop dozens of large-scale projects, more than 50 million investment there are several, and the vast majority of the others are more than 5 million investment, and these projects except a small part of the textile industry, the rest are all heavy industry, In particular, it is dominated by steel, minerals, chemicals, power and military industries.
In this way, it is doomed that those private enterprises with small capital cannot participate in it, and only a few heavy industry enterprises in China really have the strength and conditions to cooperate, or the heavy industry enterprises under the control of Huaxia Bank.
In today's China, the enterprises under the control of Huaxia Bank are not only rich in capital or not, but the heavy industry enterprises under its control account for more than 95 percent of China's heavy industry.
It is worth mentioning that although on the surface, the holding companies of Han Yeping and Huaxia Bank belong to the ranks of commercial offices, and it is not wrong to say that they are private enterprises, but in fact, both Huaxia Bank and Han Yeping have a strong official color.
Especially Huaxia Bank, although the shares of this bank are an absolute part controlled by Chen Jingyun, the remaining part is also occupied by major wealthy businessmen, and there is no connection with the state-owned government in terms of shares, but considering the special relationship between Huaxia Bank and Chen Jingyun and between the Nanjing Republican Political Axe, it is difficult for outsiders to use a political axe as a central bank, which can issue legal tender currency, and even provide tax deposit business for the political axe, and establish salary accounts for hundreds of thousands of national army soldiers and many national civil servants. Huaxia Bank, which issues state bonds, is regarded as a purely private bank, and it is difficult for the Fuzhou Arsenal, which produces ordnance and artillery, to be regarded as a private enterprise, and it is also difficult to regard the Jiangnan Shipyard and Mawei Shipyard, which produce warships, as a private enterprise.
Huaxia Bank's subordinate holding companies have a strong official color, which is what outsiders think, and even the heads of many enterprises under Huaxia Bank themselves think so.
This situation is a special situation created by a special period, and these heavy industry enterprises under the control of Huaxia Bank are also responsible for the establishment of China's heavy industry system given by Chen Jingyun. They are also responsible for most of the heavy industry part of Sino-US business cooperation.
For example, the iron and steel industry, the development of Ma'anshan iron ore, is expected to build a million-ton steel plant, the total investment amount of these projects exceeds Wu 10,000 yuan, although most of the funds and equipment involved will cooperate with the United States, but Southeast Iron and Steel itself also needs to provide sufficient technical personnel and funds, and this kind of super-large project except for Southeast Iron and Steel Company, no Chinese company can bear this burden, even if it is only cooperation with the United States does not have this qualification.
In order to show the importance of the Nanjing Republican Political Axe, in addition to the grand welcome ball held by the Shanghai Municipal Axe, the Nanjing Republican Political Axe Business Reception Group, headed by Wu Tingfang and Ma Yinchu, invited the American business delegation to visit the Shanghai Economic Development Zone. Subsequently, the delegation also visited the station of the 11 th Division of the Nationalist Army and watched a large-scale live-fire exercise organized by the 11 th Division. The 11th Division had been preparing for half a month in advance and spent more than 100,000 yuan just to organize this large-scale live-fire exercise, in order to let the Americans know that the Nationalist Army has the ability and confidence to defeat other warlords and unify China! So don't hesitate to get the money out!