Isn't the integration of the steel industry ostensibly in the national interest, but in fact the desire to nationalize individual assets? In ancient times, it was just a competition with the people. Wang Maoru sneered twice, asked Feng Yinbin to prepare some materials to bring with him, and then rushed to the presidential palace by car.

President Sun Liwen consulted with him precisely because the three largest steel plants in China, Liaoning Anshan Iron and Steel Plant, Liaoning Benxi Iron and Steel Plant, and Yichun Iron and Steel Plant, are all Wang Maoru's private factories. These three iron and steel plants are adjacent to the mining area, among which Anshan Iron and Steel Plant was put into production in the seventh year of the Republic of China, and has produced 340,000 tons of pig iron and 23,000 tons of steel up to now, Benxi Iron and Steel Plant was put into production in the eighth year of the Republic of China, and has produced 250,000 tons of pig iron and 18,000 tons of steel up to now, while Yichun Iron and Steel Plant began production in the ninth year of the Republic of China, and currently produces 20,000 tons of pig iron and 3,000 tons of steel. These three steel plants also doubled the overall steel industry in China, and at that time, Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant and Qingxi Iron Works were the first two steel plants in China, followed by Longyan Iron Works and Weiyuan Iron Works for a total of nine steel plants. However, the total steel output of these nine steel mills in the nine years of the Republic of China was only 30,000 tons, and in 1911, the last year of the previous dynasty of the Republic of China, that is, the last year of the Qing Dynasty, the total steel output of China was 90,000 tons, which means that after ten years of war, China's steel industry has declined in an all-round way. The steel output of the three steel mills in Northeast China in the ninth year of the Republic of China was 30,000 tons, of which the Benxi Iron and Steel Plant produced the most steel, which has exceeded the output of the Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant.

In the ninth year of the Republic of China, China imported a total of 640,000 tons of steel from abroad, while China's total steel output in the Northeast and Guannai was only 60,000 tons.

President Sun Liwen saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart. Therefore, the first thing he did when he took office was to hope to integrate China's steel industry, and he gave up the 100,000-kilometer railway plan when he was the Minister of Railways of the Republic of China. The steel industry is the top priority.

Today, the president's name is Wang Maorulai, and he is to discuss with him, and the state will come forward to transfer the iron and steel enterprises under the National Defense Forces to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce for unified management.

Wang Maoruqi said: "What does this unified management mean? ”

"Allocation of personnel, resources, funds." President Sun Liwen immediately said, "Of course, we will also compensate the shareholders of the steel plant." ”

Wang Maoru sneered. I don't know who did it to nationalize the private group, and these three steel plants are not only the property of the Wehrmacht. The largest shareholder is himself, which owns 51% of the shares of the three major steel plants in Northeast China, while the National Defense Forces only account for 25% and other shareholders hold 24% of the shares. Now Sun Liwen can be nationalized with a simple sentence of nationalization? It's the biggest joke in the world.

Wang Maoru sneered and asked, "How much is the president going to spend to buy these three steel plants?" ”

Sun Liwen said: "I have asked people to calculate. Three steel mills according to the current earnings. Worth 70,000,000 silver dollars. ”

Wang Maoru laughed and said, "Seventy million silver dollars? Who did you ask for accounting? He stood up and smiled and turned into a cold face, and said: "Let's just talk about Anshan Iron and Steel Plant, it took me five years to build it, how much did I invest in five years?" Seventy million? Before I took over Anshan Iron and Steel Plant, his value reached 70 million! After I took over, I invested 13 million silver dollars a year, three years later. Anshan Iron and Steel Plant was put into operation two years later. That is, now, its pig iron and pure steel manufacturing has been formed, and this one steel plant alone is worth 170 million silver dollars, and three steel plants are 70 million? He flicked his sleeves and said, "There should be a limit to joking." ”

Sun Liwen and the others were dumbfounded, they didn't expect Wang Maoru to estimate it like this, and Li Shizeng, a consultant on the side, immediately said: "Mr. Xiusheng, your algorithm not only calculates the current value of Anshan Iron and Steel Plant, but also calculates its investment and time benefits, isn't it against the laws of the market?" ”

Wang Maoru glanced at the staff members around Sun Liwen, and sneered disdainfully: "Isn't the nationalization of private enterprises even more contrary to the laws of the market?" ”

Li Shizeng said: "The iron ore collected by the Anshan Iron and Steel Plant is obtained from the state for free, and the coal mines are also supplied by the state for free, but the income is completely owned by the individual. ”

Wang Maoru glared at Li Shizeng, and the man quickly lowered his head and said, "Who are we competing against in Anshan, does Consultant Li know?" Li Shizeng shook his head, and Wang Maoru said: "We are competing with the Japanese, what are we competing?" The competition is for the veins under Anshan. He said loudly: "Anshan is within the scope of the South Manchurian Railway, and the South Manchurian iron ore mine set up by the Japanese here, they dig out the iron ore every day, transport it away one by one, transport it to Lushun, and then load it onto sea ships and transport it to Japan for steelmaking. We dig for our sake, but because if we don't dig here, sooner or later the Japanese will run out of iron ore. Now, when someone sees that these three steel mills have improved, they want to hit his idea? Tut-tut......" He arched his hand and said, "I don't want to accompany you!" ”

Sun Liwen hurriedly said: "Xiusheng don't be impulsive, don't be in a hurry, I'm looking for you to discuss the development of China's steel industry, not to talk about buying steel plants." ”

Wang Maoru said: "President, I admire you for the country and the people, but as soon as the founding of the country was founded, there were traitors and villains who slandered in your ears and nationalized?" It's ridiculous, why should private goods be nationalized? The President has always advocated that the country should have a constitution and advocated a provisional constitution, and I remember that Article 5 of the provisional constitution stipulates that personal property is sacrosanct. The biggest reason why Wang Maoru is angry is that someone at this time, actually started the idea of the most profitable three steel mills in Northeast China, which is simply not as good as a beast, and the national steel industry has just started again, and some people can't wait to profit from it.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, even if the bureaucrats were the best, the Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant could produce 78,000 tons of steel a year, but in the tenth year of the Republic of China, the Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant only produced 20,000 tons of steel. The officials of the Republic of China were more unscrupulously greedy for ink than the officials of the former Qing Dynasty, because the political situation in China was unstable, and every official who came came to make a handful of money and left, and those who did not make it were fools. Of course, the Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant has struggled to survive until now because there are many workers, engineers and supervisors who have the ambition to serve the country and are not moved by money, which is an exemplary model.

When Wang Maoru's national defense force was unified, these factories, which originally belonged to the national government, were naturally returned to the government's hands here, rather than being incorporated into the national defense force. After all, the Wehrmacht is the military, not the local warlords who grabbed money, grain, and land in the past, and robbing the government's industry will only corrupt military discipline and dig their own graves.

Sun Liwen saw that Wang Maoru was still angry, so he retreated from the others and said with a wry smile: "Brother Xiushengxian, why are you so angry?" ”

Wang Maoru immediately apologized: "Xiusheng is reckless, but nationalization is a blatant violation of the provisional law. ”

Sun Liwen also smiled bitterly, his think tank did have this mind, and actively persuaded the three steel mills in Northeast China to be nationalized, which would be as easy to govern as the Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant, so that the national steel industry would be concentrated in the hands of the state, and the maximum potential would be brought into play and resources should be used rationally.

Of course, Sun Liwen's inner expectations are also good, and he also hopes that China's steel industry can develop. However, the rapid development model must be the kind of centralized power system, but the centralized power system violates the temporary covenant law, which makes him very difficult. However, someone said: "The purpose of formulating China's covenant law is for the rise of China, and if one of the provisions of the covenant law is actually hindered by China's rise, we must consider revising the covenant law." Moreover, the Provisional Constitution is not a Chinese constitution after all, and we should now really formulate a constitution of the Republic of China. ”

The replacement of the Provisional Statute with a constitution and the repeal of the regulations in the Provisional Statute that hindered China's development became the theoretical basis for the nationalization of today's steel mills. However, being refuted by Wang Maoru also awakened Sun Liwen's attitude towards insisting on the temporary covenant at the beginning. Yes, what are the five Dharma Protector Wars for? Isn't it just to protect the temporary covenant? And when he became president, he kicked out the provisional law? This completely negates his past, and the purpose of his immediate withdrawal from others is to reconsider, because when there are many people, it does not necessarily work, and sometimes more people are bad.

President Sun Liwen took out the China Iron and Steel Report and watched it carefully with Wang Maoru. After reading it, Wang Maoru shook his head and said: "This report is full of loopholes, it is not written by professionals, but by some literati. The steel industry drives not only steel production, but also peripheral industries. And the report does not make an assessment of the future of China's steel industry, which is a dereliction of duty. ”

Sun Liwen asked, "Future assessment?" ”

Wang Maoru said: "Yes, in the ninth year of the Republic of China, the three steel mills in Northeast China produced 30,000 tons of steel and 400,000 tons of pig iron. In contrast, the number of steel and pig iron can be seen that China's steel industry is backward and Yan zhòng is backward. We are lagging behind the world powers in terms of science and technology, from jīngyàn, and from management. However, these three steel plants have reached the sum of last year in the first half of this year, and it can be said that in the ten years of the Republic of China, the three steel plants in Northeast China can increase the steel output to the level of 60,000 tons. I estimate that at the current rate, in four years, the three steel mills in Northeast China could produce 300,000 tons of steel. ”

Sun Liwen pretended to be excited and said: "Great, wonderful, Xiusheng, you have done a great thing." Wang Maoru smiled on the surface, but in his heart he became more and more dissatisfied with his hand-outing industry.