Shanghai is a place that Yang Rui is familiar with in this life and future generations, this is his second hometown, where the past, youth, regrets, sufferings and troubles will remain here forever. + After getting the news that the train was coming in half an hour, he couldn't help but stand up and open a gap in the thin white screen to look out of the car.

Outside the window, it was already dusk, and there was a steady stream of boats on a small river not far in front of the roadbed, because the winding water was obscured by the riverbank, and from a distance these boats seemed to be moving on six grounds. The sand dunes are lined with feathery bamboos, and large black buffaloes lie lazily in the mud beside the riverbank, their thick black tails driving away mosquitoes. The sky is lit up red by the soft sunset, and the reflection is even more brilliant in the water. Except for the sound of the train, this qiē is so quiet and beautiful.

"Prime Minister, the train is already decreasing, and it can't be too close to the window." Secretary Li Zilong whispered.

"Hmm!" Yang Rui groaned, but he was indifferent, he only felt that the scenery outside the window was too beautiful, and he wanted to freeze it forever. However, when Li Zilong wanted to speak for the second time, he had to put down the screen window, he wanted to say something but didn't know what to say, he knew that Li Zilong was a dutiful secretary, and he also knew that the window could not be approached, but ...... He felt as if something was missing in his life.

Although he did not like to be extravagant, Fei Yugui, mayor of Shanghai, still prepared a military band at the station in accordance with the practice of this era, and with him were reporters from major newspapers in Shanghai, Yu Qiaqing, a representative of the Chamber of Commerce, and Li Deli, a representative of the public concession. Since the greeting was in accordance with the practice of this era, Yang Rui also made a routine at the station in accordance with the practice of this era, and then under the escort of the Shanghai garrison. Go to the county seat of Shanghai.

The county seat of Shanghai originally had a city wall, but because the whole of Shanghai was piled up with sand. The unstable foundation caused the walls to sink continuously for hundreds of years, and it was impossible to repair them. With the approval of the Department of Cultural Relics of the Ministry of Rites, sometime the year before, the city walls of the county town were all demolished and turned into streets. The city wall was demolished, and Shanghai began to renovate the truth, clean up the stains, and rectify the sanitation like the capital, and in a few years, Shanghai also changed the old appearance of being crowded and dirty, and became refreshing and pleasant. Yang Rui stayed in the Longmen Inn Hushang County Store, and a separate small building was wrapped. At a regular dinner. When he was about to go to bed, Li Zilong said that Qiu Jin asked to see him.

"Didn't you have a huge amount of money in hand to save those miserable women, why did you come here to me?" Yang Rui laughed as soon as they met, he saw Qiu Jin drilling around like a headless fly, and he had no clue.

"Although 200,000 yuan is a lot, there are 200,000 sisters in the world!" Qiu Jin and Yang Rui are familiar with each other, and they speak very casually.

"200,000 is not too little?" Yang Rui pretended to be surprised, "At the beginning, you only needed 80,000 or 100,000." ”

"I originally wanted 100,000 yuan, but you didn't approve it. We had to raise it ourselves. Now there are 200,000 yuan, but I always feel that this money is so rare to raise, so I just buy some machines for local branches, which feels very inappropriate. Yu Qiaqing's words made sense the more Qiu Jin wanted to make an appointment. She is here to ask Yang Rui how to turn the 200,000 into 2 million or 20 million.

"Then let's go to the factory." Yang Rui laughed and replied casually. "Tianzihao also started with 20,000 taels that year. You have 200,000 here, which is much better than we were back then. ”

"It did. Then what are you talking about 200,000 to make money? Qiu Jin didn't care about Yang Rui's smile, but asked bluntly. She knew that Tianzihao was actually made by Yang Rui, and this person's ability to make money was the best in the world.

"What do you do to make money?" Yang Rui's smile was even greater. He said in an official tone: "Lord Qiu came to visit late at night, just to ask me how to make money?" Isn't that too insulting? ”

"You!" Qiu Jin was speechless when she heard this, and she felt that it was indeed inappropriate for her to visit the prime minister of a country so late at night just to make money. When she was embarrassed, Yang Rui no longer joked, but said with a straight face: "You go back first!" Making money is not based on how much money you have, but on how many people you have and who you have. You must know that it is not money that makes money, but people who make money. Tomorrow afternoon, there will be a product exhibition in the light industrial park, you ask Fei Yugui to give you a few visitor permits, and then we will go to see it together, maybe there is a way to make money. ”

Yang Rui beat Qiu Jin in a few words, and he didn't remember one thing until she left, "That guy Qiu Jin is making up this kind of thing, is it considered absenteeism?" ”

"Prime Minister, Lord Qiu is on annual leave now!" Unexpectedly, Yang Rui actually wanted to check Qiu Jin's post, and Li Zilong only reflected it after half a sound.

"Oh. Take annual leave, ......" Yang Rui sighed. Government officials who have worked for one year but less than 10 years are entitled to three days of paid annual leave, six days of annual leave for those who have worked for 10 years but less than 20 years, and 10 days of annual leave for those who have worked for more than 20 years. This is a rule set by his old man himself, but he has never taken annual leave.

According to the sunrise arranged by Li Zilong, Yang Rui will stay in Shanghai for two days before going to Yanzhou. In the past two days, the first morning was to Tongji University Hall, the afternoon was to Shanghai Light Industrial Park, and the evening was invited by the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce to have a banquet; In the morning of the second day, he had a discussion with the Chinese and foreign business circles in Shanghai, and in the afternoon, he visited the newly established Shanghai Clearing House, and in the evening he attended a welcome reception organized by the Shanghai consular delegation to welcome him. His wife, Cheng Ying, will arrive in Shanghai by ship in the morning and attend a reception in the evening.

The next morning's trip to the school was nothing unexpected, and the Germans worked hard to run the school very well. What Yang Rui really looks forward to is the trip to Shanghai Light Industrial Park, Shanxi National Industrial Park, Hanyang Military Industrial Park, and Nanjing Shipbuilding Industrial Park, which is the center of gravity of private enterprises. This is a naturally growing Chinese industry, and although it is immature, it will eventually thrive.

The industrial park was set up near Liuxing Town, 12 kilometers from the sea, 18 kilometers from Wusongkou, and 7 kilometers from Tongji University Hall; if there were no torpedo bombers and mines, the Japanese warships would have to be about 4 kilometers away from the coast so that they would not run aground, and at a distance of 16 kilometers, it would be difficult for the battleship's main guns to hit the target. However, this is only an assumption that submarine and torpedo bombers will drive the Japanese Navy away. After the sinking of the capital ship of the Third Fleet, Japan did not immediately send large warships to the coast of China, and they are still in a panic about submarines. According to the intelligence of the Military Intelligence Agency. The Japanese are now discussing how to deal with submarines all over the country, but there is no good solution.

When Yang Rui was thinking about the location of the industrial park. The carriage had arrived in the industrial park, and a large group of gentry in new clothes were welcoming them at the entrance of the industrial park. Zhu Baosan and Yu Qiaqing walked in the front, and they were surrounded by Zhang Jian, a chamberlain of the Ministry of Commerce in an official robe, waiting for Yang Rui's arrival.

"Zhang Jian, Master Zhang is also setting up a factory in the industrial park." Li Zilong saw Yang Rui's doubts, so he explained.

"Hmm." Yang Rui nodded slightly, at this time, the welcome firecrackers were ignited, and the invited gongs and drums and suona also began to sound earth-shatteringly, if Yang Rui didn't know that this was to welcome him, he thought that there was a wedding nearby.

There are more than 70 large and small factories in Shanghai Light Industrial Park, and there are three links and one flat in the park. The land price is 100 taels per mu, and the factory can be mortgaged after the house is built, and the low mortgage interest is equivalent to the land being given away for free. However, because electricity is used in the park, many silk reeling mills, spinning mills, and weaving mills that are still powered by steam cannot be moved. On the contrary, those machine factories with only rudimentary machine tools have been relocated on a large scale, and they can build factories here through various support policies.

"Of the 78 factories, there are five for agricultural machinery, eleven for silk reeling machines, 21 for ginning machines, four for textile machines, and three for hosiery looms. There are eight printing presses and two lathes......"

Yu Qiaqing and Yang Rui are familiar with each other, so he introduced the situation of the industrial park. There is a lathe factory in Shanxi, and I don't want to have it here in Shanghai, Yang Rui was curious: "There are also people here who make lathes?" ”

Yang Rui presided over the meeting, which was attached only to factories registered with the Manchu Ministry of Agriculture and Industry. Some other unregistered factories couldn't figure out what the imperial court was going to do, so they didn't go. It was only when those who went to the capital for a meeting came back with a large number of loans that these people woke up from a dream and urgently went to Beijing to explain the situation to the Ministry of Industry. The Ministry of Industry sent them to meet them only after a few days of 'distrust of the imperial court', and compiled them into the third batch of support lists according to their size and situation. This is also the case with this lathe. But he was only set up last year.

"Yes." Yu Qiaqing nodded. "One is called Rong Cheng Tai Ji Qì Factory, and the owner of the factory is called Sun Rongquan. We are from Ningbo, and in the early years, we were in the Guangtai machine factory run by Xuanhuai Shengda. When Yu Qiaqing introduced, he did not forget to flaunt some Ningbo people, and he was very proud, "At the beginning, there were only two British four-and-a-half-inch lathes, which were only repaired, and then the imperial court supported them, and they began to make lathes." Taking the old British lathe as a sample, the wood sample was manufactured by the Maochang Wood Mold Factory, the embryos were cast by the Yongchang Sand Turning Factory, the plane of the lathe was planed by hand planer by the Yu Baochang Machinery Factory, and then the gears were milled by the Gongxing Iron Factory, and the turning was done by itself. Now it can produce ten machine tools per month, and each one sells for 120 yuan, which is about 20% of the profit. The other is the Yuanmao Machinery Qì Factory, the owner of which is Feng Caiyun, who was the lathe foreman of the Hanyang Arsenal in his early years, and he also made lathes......"

The lathe that Yu Qiaqing said is just an old-style lathe, and this is just a lathe frame, and the turning tool still has to import foreign high steel, but it is rare to produce an old-fashioned lathe under such a simple situation. Yang Rui had walked to the exhibition site surrounded by everyone when he praised it in his heart, and a row of machines was placed there, and the factory name and machine name on it were all clear at a glance, which suddenly reminded him of the medical equipment exhibition he often participated in when he worked in Shanghai in later generations. The latest eye-catcher is the equipment of the new shipyard, Zhu Zhiyao Shipyard is not here, and I don't know how to grab this position.

"This is ......" Yang Rui looked at the first strange machine, "It's a rice mill, right?" ”

"My lord Gao Jian......" Zhu Zhiyao, who was behind him, immediately squeezed up, he wanted to explain by himself: "This is the rice milling machine of the first three years of Shenwu in this factory, sold more than 70 units, and it was equipped with a steam engine at first, and Shenwu felt that the steam engine was inconvenient a year ago, and began to be equipped with an eight-horsepower semi-oil engine made by the factory. Thirty catties of fire oil are consumed every day and night, and one hundred and thirty stones of rice can be milled...... Even the engine cost 1,500 yuan, and more than 70 seats were sold. ”

Zhu Zhiyao moved out the machine before the founding of the country, in order to show the technical level of the new machine factory, Yang Rui saw him like this, and deliberately said: "General Manager Zhu took out the previous machine, didn't he want to say that the things of the former Qing Dynasty were better than my Greater China?" ”

"Ahh Zhu Zhiyao's face turned blue suddenly, he didn't expect this matter to be able to think like this, he was speechless for a moment, and Yu Qiaqing next to him only smiled secretly, only thinking that this surnamed Zhu loved to drill camps too much.

Yang Rui originally wanted to scare this person. He broke the convention and shot his own manuscript for 10,000 taels, which is too good at sycophancy. "Mr. Zhu, I'm joking. You don't have to go to your heart. Even if some people say that Greater China is not as good as the former Qing Dynasty, they are not guilty. ”

Yang Rui said. Zhu Zhiyao's face suddenly turned from blue to red, but it was still not good to speak. "Your Excellency... My lord... It's really the prime minister's belly that can... Holding the boat is too contemptible ......"

"That's it! This is just a joke, if there are officials who do this to you and you in the future, you can sue me or the Inspectorate. Technology is technology, industry is industry, there is nothing past and present. Yang Rui said loudly. Everyone next to him immediately applauded. He waited for the applause to stop. asked Zhu Zhiyao with a smile: "General Manager Zhu, the diesel engine of Tonghua Diesel Engine Factory also has ten horsepower, why do you want to make your own oil engine?" ”

At this time, Zhu Zhiyao knew that the Prime Minister was joking just now, but although he was shocked, his face was still white, and when he saw Yang Rui ask again, he replied very carefully: "Lord Hui, I originally wanted to use a diesel engine, after all, diesel only costs eighteen taels and one ton, and kerosene costs forty-five or six taels, and there are not many places to buy diesel." In some remote places, there is only fire oil and no diesel, so many businesses want fire oil instead of diesel. Furthermore...... In addition, although the diesel engine produced by the diesel engine is better than that of foreign goods, the price is also comparable to that of foreign goods. Each horsepower costs 100 taels to 120 taels, and the self-made oil engine only costs 60 or 70 taels, so ......"

"I see." Yang Rui immediately understood the reason. Under Mobil's decades of operation, kerosene has penetrated into every village in China. Diesel has always been used for industrial and engine use, and the sales scope is naturally narrow when the demand is small. Then there is the fact that the price of diesel is only one-third of that of kerosene. If the cost of use is cheap, then the cost of purchase will naturally be high.

"Mr. Zhu, do you want a new factory to make engines?" Yang Rui's previous impression of seeking innovation was that he had built a few good ships, but he didn't know that this factory could still build engines.

"Back to my lord, in addition to diesel engines, our factory makes all engines, marine single fire chamber steam boiler, double fire chamber steam boiler, horizontal steam boiler, vertical steam boiler, fire oil engine, these are all made. The maximum horsepower is a 500-horsepower double-bore steam boiler, which is configured on the wheels of Daxin, Chaoyang and Xintai. Zhu Zhiyao said, he didn't feel his legs shaking at this time.

"And how much does a steam engine cost per horsepower?" Yang Rui asked. He wanted Li Zilong to go back and make a table for himself, comparing the purchase cost and use cost of each engine. For a long time, he didn't know about these market numbers.

"Back to my lord, the horsepower of the steam engine is about fifteen to thirty taels." Zhu Zhiyao replied. He was curious why Yang Rui asked this.

"Oh. Fifteen to thirty taels...... Diesel engines are one hundred to one hundred and twenty taels per horse......" Yang Rui looked back at Li Zilong and said, "You can write it down, go back and compare these engines with different costs." ”

After Yang Rui finished explaining, there were some new oil presses in front of him, but these were all equipment around 19o5, and then the oil press equipment in the entire East Asia was monopolized by Tonghua. When he was about to stay away from the new booth, a specially enlarged photo made Yang Rui stop, and he asked: "It turns out that the passenger and freight cars of Anhui Railway Company are new?" ”

"Lord Hui, it is made by our factory." Zhu Zhiyao replied. Other agricultural machinery earns a little money, and the passenger and freight boxes used on the railway are the big heads, such as the first-class passenger car compartment, which costs four or five thousand taels for one, and the cheapest third-class car also costs two thousand taels. It costs tens of thousands of taels to build a train.

"Hmm. It's good to be new! Yang Rui finally nodded approvingly, at the level of the late Qing Dynasty, it is already remarkable to have this private factory that can build its own engines and train carriages. Later, if you have time, you can go and see what is new. ”

"Ahh The villain, no, the contemptible man will arrange it immediately. ”

The word 'villain' is forbidden in government documents, Zhu Zhiyao was excited, and habitually called himself a villain, but Zhang Jian pulled him on the side, making him wake up immediately, and then bowed and immediately ran away.

As soon as the booth of the new factory passed, it was greeted by the ginning machine, which is the most imitated foreign machine qì in China except for the silk reeling machine, but this thing is not difficult to make, all are small households. These dozen or so manufacturing factories are Dongxin Machinery Qì Factory, and the owner of the factory is called Fu Caiqin. Looking at Yu Qiaqing's appearance of trying his best to introduce, this person is also from Ningbo as expected.

"This ginning machine was built by Dongxin seven years before Shenwu, but the earliest time to build this machine was in the first day of the first day. At that time, it cost 200 foreign dollars. Buy a new Japanese eight-foot lathe and hire a turner. Hire two more workers who shake the lathe, and you're ready to go. At that time, a ginning car cost more than 30 foreign yuan. You can make three or four percent of your own profits, and now the more people you make, the less profits you make. "Fu Caiqin is estimated to have seen some of the world, and although her speech is not elegant, she is concise." Now a ginning machine is only sold for 14 yuan, and the profit is less than 20%. When the sales are good, it is only in the three months when the flowers are harvested, and the other times we make some other machines to supplement the expenses. ”

"And where are all these ginning machines sold?" Yang Rui asked.

"It's the area where flowers are planted in the south of the Yangtze River." Fu Caiqin replied.

"Shaanxi has started to grow American cotton on a large scale, do you know?" Yang Rui said suddenly.

"Shaanxi... Grow American cotton? The crowd around them was surprised. Now the whole country says that it is necessary to improve the cotton, but at the end of the Qing Dynasty, only Zhang Jian's Tongzhou cotton was planted well, and Zhang Zhidong spent several years of hard work in Hubei to try to plant cotton. But it didn't work out.

"Yes! If you really have confidence in your ginning machine, you can go to Shaanxi to have a look. I remember that there seemed to be no man-made thing in Shanxi Industrial Park for a while. Or you go to the Ministry of Electricity and Agriculture to consult and see what's going on over there. Yang Rui said.

"Thank you, for a point." The owners of more than a dozen ginning machines hurriedly thanked them. In fact, they didn't dare to go to Shaanxi, after all, there were merchants from all over the country, but it would be great if they could sell ginning machines to that side through the Ministry of Agriculture.

"Prime Minister, is this Shaanxi really growing American cotton?" When Zhang Jian heard this, he immediately asked, he runs a yarn factory, and he is for cotton. In particular, the United States cotton is particularly concerned.

"Of course, northwest China has always been suitable for growing cotton, whether it is native cotton or American cotton. The Ministry of Agriculture is implementing it in Shaanxi this year, and it is estimated that it will be pushed further west in the next few years. All the way to the Western Regions. At the end of this year, the Longmen Yellow River Bridge will be opened to traffic, and the train will be able to go directly to Xi'an. Mr. Four will be able to send someone to Shaanxi next year to collect flowers. Yang Rui said with a smile.

"It's not going to be spent this year?" This year, the output of U.S. cotton has decreased, and Zhang Jian's Dasheng Yarn Factory has not collected many flowers.

"This year's production is too small. And this year's volume is not enough for Shanxi yarn mills. Yang Rui said. Shaanxi has always been poor, and the Jin merchants who knew that the price was not high had already set up a yarn factory in Taiyuan. If Mr. Four wants to buy flowers, he will have to go early next year. ”

Yang Rui's words made Zhang Jian's heart itch. Jiangnan is not as good as Shaanxi, even if Dasheng tries his best to control Tongzhou, the purchase price is low, and those flower farmers will sell their flowers to outsiders. For spinning mills, the purchase price is too high, and the price of cotton yarn is naturally very high. In the final analysis, cotton spinning is still competing with the advantages of agricultural products, and only by spinning and dyeing it into cloth and then making it into clothes, can the added value go up. According to business intelligence, the reason why Japanese cotton spinning is so powerful is because of centralized procurement, and then blending Chinese cotton with Indian cotton and American cotton, plus government subsidies, which drove away American and British goods at low cost. According to the strategy set by the cabinet meeting, in order to drive away foreign yarn and foreign cloth, the most important thing is to reduce the cost of cotton, which in addition to choosing the northwest with low labor costs as a cotton planting base, but also to provide chemical fertilizers and pesticides at low prices. Unlike worrying about pesticide residues on food, Yang Rui is not worried about residues such as 666 and DDT on cotton.

Yang Rui said Zhang Jian in a trance in a few words, Yang Rui didn't care about him, only visited the loom behind. Yan Yutang, the general manager of the Dalong Machinery Factory, who had been prepared for a long time, said loudly: "Prime Minister, this is an iron-wood loom made by our factory, the wooden frame is separately matched, and the pig iron parts and wrought iron parts are made by the factory. Each one uses one hundred and twenty pounds of pig iron, seventy pounds of wrought iron, and each cloth machine sells for thirty yuan, which is two percent cheaper than the Japanese cloth machine. There are also about 20%. ”

There are generally three kinds of looms, the iron machine is British and American goods, the big textile mills use more, each unit costs 300 yuan, the iron and wood loom is mostly Japanese goods, the price is 30 or 40 foreign yuan, as for the original old wood machine in China, although the price is only 10 yuan, but there are very few people who buy it. Yan Yutang's Dalong Machinery Factory was originally a ship repairer, and originally wanted to apply for a shipbuilding project, but was kicked out by the audit team, there are many machine factories in Shanghai that build small steamers, and Dalong does not have an advantage, and then he thought about it, and felt that it was better to make looms, so he applied for the loom project again, and this audit was Xuntong guò, but the number of loans was still not large, because the audit team thought that this person was more like a businessman than an industrialist. This rating is completely correct, and later Dalong migrated to Taiwan before liberation, and became Taiwan's Yulon Motors. (To be continued!)

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