Generally speaking, everyone thinks that although Wu Chenxuan's three turns and one ring are light industry, he really relied on heavy industry to make his fortune, and machinery and chemical industry are his specialties. Wu Chenxuan attaches great importance to heavy industry, and now the heavy industry enterprises under his name alone include a standard machine tool factory, two standard machinery factories, a state-owned gun repair factory under actual control, a standard chemical industry with three branches, and the Gushan Triangle Cement Factory. He also controlled Zhongxing Mine and Laiwu Iron Mine, several executive directors of the United Chamber of Commerce invested in the Shandong Chamber of Commerce Iron and Steel Plant in Laiwu, with the blast furnace of the later Laiwu Iron and Steel in the fifties as the mother, combined with the current iron ore and Zhongxing Mine coal quality to optimize the design, although the degree of mechanization is not high, but the annual output exceeds Han Yeping is only a matter of time. After the completion of the Jiaoji Railway, Wu Chenxuan, who became the political envoy of Shangbu, and the Germans reached a consensus after many rounds of consultations, and gathered Shandong private capital to build the Jiyan branch line from the western suburbs of Jinan through Tai'an Fu and Zhongxing Mine to Yanzhou Mansion, through Pingyin, Liangshan, Juye to Caozhou Prefecture Jicao Branch, through Laiwu, Mengyin, Yishui to Tancheng Jiyi Branch Line and the Germans to build the Jiaoji Line to connect, forming Jinan as the center and radiating southeast of the four traffic arteries.

The Yellow River Iron Bridge in the northern suburbs of Jinan is also in the design, needless to say that the plan must be Du Niang's masterpiece, and so on next year the iron bridge is completed, the railway from Jinan to the north can also be prepared, and even the main artery of Jinpu Road may appear more than ten years in advance. The water traffic of northern Lubei is connected by the Xiaoqing River and the Grand Canal, and the four prefectures of Tai, Cao, Yan and Yi in southern Lunan are connected by the railway line, and the Jiaoji line leading to the Jiaoao wharf has also become the main channel for each province to go to sea. The whole GDP in the second half of 1801 is almost comparable to the deep development of 96 years, all the way up, although the countryside encountered summer floods and autumn droughts, but in addition to the Jiaodong's Jiaodong, Deng, Lai Sanfu Shandong Chamber of Commerce is weaker, did not get much practical help, the other Shandong seven provinces have been the standard machinery factory two loans to the provinces of pumping machines and animal power dump bucket waterwheels, as well as standard daily chemical products of DDT, so that the locust plague is almost a foregone conclusion without even seeing the shadow. A bumper harvest in the countryside is in sight, but there is a manpower famine in the city, and the mud legs that originally fled are almost inexhaustible, but this year, after the imperial grain tax and the rent of the main family, there is enough for the family to fill their stomachs, so naturally there are not a few people who have fled from their hometowns. This year, the investment society of the Shandong Chamber of Commerce has given financial support, and there is no need to be exploited by the old westerners, and the government is also very strict with the Chamber of Commerce. Don't worry about the position is not guaranteed, who dares to arch your position, just find the Chamber of Commerce to settle it, anyway, the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce is Wu Dafantai, the governor of Shandong is vacant, and now Lord Wu is the day of Shandong, plus the Chamber of Commerce Insurance Group (newly established reserve) who wants money and life, which dares to be dissatisfied with the boundary of Shandong, will soon be run into nowhere to go. There are ruthless masters, who are either accused of the remnants of the White Lotus and the boxers who raided the government and destroyed the door, or were slaughtered by the underground party of the White Lotus and the Righteous as lackeys of the court.

At present, basically the merchants who have a little brain and courage have expanded their business or simply started a new business, and for a time Shandong's industry and commerce were noisy and prosperous. Compared with the heavy industry system with mining, metallurgy and machinery industry as the main body in the seven prefectures in northern and southern Luzhou, light industries such as silk reeling, lace, straw hat braids, and hair nets in Jiaodong have developed rapidly. The silk reeling industry uses Yantai as the production and trade center of the region, but the production follows the old method and is mainly based on household side labor. In the early years of Guangxu, there were handmade silk reeling factories in the local area, which were not a few years later than several silk reeling factories in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce. By the end of the 27th year of Guangxu, Yantai had 16 handmade silk reeling factories and 4 machine silk reeling factories, with 5,500 workers and an annual production of about 16,250 quintals of raw silk. At the same time, the silk reeling industry in Qingzhou has also developed rapidly, forming two production centers in Linqu and Qingzhou. Linqu has successively had 4 handmade silk reeling factories in Detai, Tianzengyi, Hengyu and Yongyuan. Among them, Detai has a capital of 50,000 yuan, 40 reeling cars, and an annual output of 2,000 kilograms of silk. Tianzengyi has a capital of 100,000 yuan, 60 reeling cars, and an annual output of 3,000 kilograms of silk. Hengyu has a capital of 80,000 yuan, 60 reeling cars, and an annual output of 2,500 kilograms of silk. Jonway has a capital of 30,000 yuan, 50 reeling cars, and an annual output of 2,400 kilograms of silk. The earliest silk reeling factory in Qingzhou is Yuxiangfu established in the 26th year of Guangxu, with a capital of 200,000 yuan, and this year it established three factories of Yitaichang, Li Hengtai and Jufengtai. The strength of the Shandong Chamber of Commerce has made these enlightened gentry who are struggling to support in bureaucratic corruption and inferior gentry exploitation can be regarded as finding an organization, these silk reeling factories have joined the Shandong Chamber of Commerce without exception, and after getting a large loan from the investment cooperative, the original second-hand goods have been replaced by new machines of standard machinery, and the output has further soared, and the unified trading platform of the Shandong Chamber of Commerce and the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce has allowed these raw silk to not only be sold in China, but also exported to Europe and the United States, without worrying about sales.

In addition to the silk reeling industry, the most famous modern enterprise in Denglai area is the Changyu Brewing Company, which was founded by Zhang Bishi, an overseas Chinese businessman in Guangdong, in the 22nd year of Guangxu. Changyu hired Austrian technicians to live in the factory to supervise the production, and most of the machines used in the production were purchased from abroad, except for a small number of domestic imitations. By the 27th year of Guangxu, Changyu Company has been able to produce more than 20 kinds of red and white wines, with a total of 200,000 liters of red wine and 150,000 liters of white wine. In fact, Wu Chenxuan also knew that Changyu brandy would win the first international gold medal of Chinese products at next year's Panama World Expo, and since then Changyu gold medal brandy has been famous at home and abroad, but at next year's World Expo, with a few standard innovative products, I am afraid that there will be a trend of Chinese products sweeping the gold medal list, and it is difficult to say whether Changyu brandy can still be ranked. Zhang Bishi is also a pioneer of national capitalists, but unfortunately he can't look down on the organizational form of our Chamber of Commerce, the last time Meng Boss wrote to him and invited the old gentleman to come to Shandong for a gathering, the old gentleman simply replied to a note that a gentleman is not a party, just like a shame to avoid it. Forget it, everyone has their own ambitions, why force it, Boss Meng didn't talk to Wu Chenxuan about this matter, and no one thought that this old man would bring them a big surprise later.

Straw hat braids, lace, hair nets and other new industries have developed rapidly in the Jiaodong area, which are all small handicrafts for the international market. Straw hat braids are the raw materials used to make straw hats, which are made from wheat straw. Shandong's straw hat braiding industry arose in the Xianfeng period, initially confined to Yantai and gradually spread to many coastal and inland areas. With the pace of Shandong's commercial development, many European and American merchants have also brought orders to Shandong to seek opportunities. Straw hat braid, this kind of labor-intensive products with almost zero requirements for technology and equipment are naturally very suitable for this kind of open agricultural society in Shandong, Shandong Chamber of Commerce has opened a straw weaving branch for this purpose, centralized collection and distribution of orders, to Guangxu 29 years or so, women and farmers at home weaving straw hat braids have become one of the important sources of income for farmers in most areas of central and northern Shandong. From the 27th year of Guangxu, the export value was about 1.5 million taels, about 3.5 million taels in the 28th year of Guangxu, and about 7.3 million taels in the 29th year of Guangxu, most of which were sold to Britain, France, the United States, Japan and other countries. The production of straw hat braids is generally in the form of family labor, from the cultivation of raw materials to the hand-weaving of the raw materials, which is done by the farmers at home. Under the encouragement of Wu Chenxuan's decree and the Shandong Chamber of Commerce in various places, local officials also set up craft bureaus to promote the production technology of straw hat braids. By the end of Guangxu 30, there were 31 government-run straw hat braiding bureaus and craft bureaus concurrently operating straw hat braids.

China's lace industry originated in Yantai. In the twenty-first year of Guangxu, a female missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the United States taught Chinese women to weave lace in Yantai. The following year, the British Inland missionary Ma Maolan and his wife launched the "Qishan Society" in Yantai and established the "Qishan School" to teach lace making. Shandong lace industry is mainly concentrated in Yantai, Qixia, Ninghai, Qingzhou, Haiyang, Zhaoyuan and other places. In the statistics of the Chamber of Commerce, there are more than 200 female workers in the lace industry in Qixia in the 27th year of Guangxu. By about 1810, thousands of women were engaged in lace production in the vicinity of Yantai. With the expansion of production scale, in the 29th year of Guangxu, Yantai's lace handicraft workshops developed to dozens. During this period, the lace factories adopted the method of distributing raw materials to the women of each village, allowing them to work at home, and then collecting the finished goods on time, which had the nature of a certain contractor, and had many similarities with the trade of straw hat braids, but the distribution range was much narrower, and it was only limited to the Denglai area.

Similar to the lace industry, the Shandong hair network industry also emerged near Yantai in the 20th year of Guangxu, and developed to Muping, Wendeng, Weihai, Fushan and other places. At that time, it was customary for European women to use hair nets to cover their hair, and China's hair nets were rich in raw materials and low labor, so there were favorable conditions for the development of the hair net industry. After the Germans occupied Jiaoao, German merchants taught weaving methods in the villages and towns along the Jiaoji Railway, and used rural women and children to make them on the spot and shipped them to Germany. When the Shandong Chamber of Commerce arrived, it simply summoned dozens of economists who served German businessmen to set up a branch of the distribution network, and then began to directly purchase the distribution network from Yantai, Qingzhou, Yizhou and other places. By the autumn of the thirtieth year of Guangxu, the export volume of Shandong hair network has reached 800,000 taels, almost including more than ninety percent of the power network supply in Europe. In addition, the oil extraction industry and brewing industry in Shandong have also developed to varying degrees. In terms of oil extraction industry, with the leadership of Miaojia grain and oil, in the 27th year of Guangxu, various places in the suburbs of Jinan began to use machines to extract oil. Huantai, Yucheng and the suburbs of Jinan have opened 40 machine oil mills, and 212 trays of electric or steam engine oil are often used. According to the later "China Industrial Chronicle", from the 20th year of Guangxu to the 30th year of Guangxu, there were 311 oil mills in the province. In terms of liquor industry, there were 60 wineries in Shandong during the Guangxu period, and 121 new ones were established in the Xuantong period. There are liquor shops in almost all counties and counties in Shandong, with an annual output of more than 3 million kilograms of liquor, which has also become one of the important materials for trading with various Mongolian ministries and Lao Maozi.

Wu Chenxuan, who looked at the table, looked very proud, the fart of the chicken in Shandong Province in the twenty-eighth year of Guangxu doubled compared with the previous year, and the industrial added value reached an astonishing level of 175%, if it was in the future generations, his future of entering the bureau would be a certainty, but now if the old lady of Cixi wants to eat braised beef noodles and summon him into the capital as a Beijing official such as the head of the six departments or Guanglu Siqing, it will be his own life. Wu Chenxuan thought about whether the self-made cloud soil he sent to King Qing a few days ago and the 300,000 yuan of Yingyang sent to his godbrother Li Daguan could be used, and asked them to help say that he would be able to delay his position as the acting political envoy in Shandong for another year and a half, and when his 100,000 tiger ben was completed, he would no longer need to bird the imperial court.

Not to mention the evil nature of Shandong people, Wu Chenxuan was pondering, Du Niang sent a Beijing emergency telegram into the signing room, opened it and took a look, okay? I am worried about the throne of the secretary of the provincial party committee, and my own political envoy is considered to have ended the acting rectification, but the imperial court has not forgotten the treasure land of Shandong.

If you want to know who made Wu Chenxuan, the king of Shandong, so stunned, let's listen to the next breakdown.