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In fact, as a British minister to China, he did have the confidence to say such things. After all, in the Far East, the British have an absolute advantage, and the Americans are too far behind.

But......

"Huh."

The only reply to Zhu Erdian was John's cold smile.

After Jurdian left the villa angrily, John calmed down a little, and immediately recruited several important subordinates of his in the Far East, and then issued a series of orders: in the next three years, to fully support the development of China's industry and education, he will order the US headquarters to inject at least 50 million US dollars into the Far East branch of the Huntelaar Bank, and build a large number of factories in China, including textiles, steel, chemicals, machinery manufacturing, and even munitions! Some of these industries should be focused on development, such as brushing factories using Chinese pig bristles, and synthetic ammonia factories; As for Huntelaar & Co., it must fully cooperate with the bank's plan to assist in the import of a large number of high-quality and low-cost machinery and equipment from the United States!

For them, John will give them his full support.

50 million US dollars is definitely an astronomical amount in this era, and if John is willing to use it to support a certain force, it can even change the balance of power in the whole of China. Therefore, it is conceivable that if the 50 million US dollars are invested in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, how many factories will be born and how many new schools will be built!

Even if you are as powerful as John, it is not easy to come up with these 50 million.

The year 1912 had come, and John's industry in North America was expanding rapidly. It can be said that under the condition of controlling the pulse of history, John strongly ordered his industries to spare no effort to expand, especially several major shipyards, shipping companies, mining companies, trading companies, chemical companies and weapons manufacturing companies, etc., all industries related to the war are now taking large-scale loans, desperately buying assets and expanding production capacity.

The speed of expansion has made the US economic community a little frightened.

The Huntelaar consortium in 1912 was definitely a real behemoth, with an annual turnover of more than one billion dollars, and its employees were as high as hundreds of thousands, and it was growing rapidly. But if it develops at the current rate, it will not take three years for the size of the Huntelaar consortium to at least double!

Such a situation is actually very dangerous.

The capacity of the U.S. market is indeed expanding rapidly, but not large enough to accommodate such a behemoth. As for Europe and other overseas markets, the Americans do not have so much influence except for the Americas, and who is the product produced by the Huntelaar consortium sold to? For example, several major shipyards are desperately trying to increase production capacity, and the huge cargo ships produced will soon fill the sea surface of the Atlantic, and then those minerals, chemical products, trucks and freighters, etc., are really incomprehensible......

Anyone with a modicum of common sense knows what the consequences of overproduction are!

The Americans, who had only recovered from the crisis for less than two years, feared that the Huntelaar consortium would plunge them into another crisis. Although it is not yet possible, everyone knows that if the Huntelaar consortium continues to expand without restrictions, it will be affected sooner or later.

Merely......

Even if the president of the United States personally intervened, it could not dispel John's resolute attitude. And for now, thanks to the rapid development of other brother companies, Huntelaar banks and insurance companies have benefited greatly, and their scale has become larger, and their influence has even begun to catch up with the financial system of the Morgan consortium......

…… Well, back to the point.

It is precisely because companies in North America are expanding at a rapid pace that it is not too easy for John to come up with 50 million dollars. Fortunately, in recent years, pharmaceutical companies have continued to develop, and new industries such as automobiles, agricultural machinery and aircraft companies have developed well, and large dividends have been recorded every year. In addition, the Huntelaar Bank has strong capital, and the transfer of 50 million US dollars will not hurt the bones.

But even so, John didn't plan to use brand new equipment for the equipment imported by Huntelaar & Co., but had already put his mind on the old equipment of his own company in North America - he planned to upgrade his factory equipment in advance!

The rapid development of many laboratories in the Huntelaar consortium has turned this matter into a win-win situation.

Among the many companies in the Huntelaar consortium, the laboratories with the highest R&D investment are undoubtedly the highest. For example, in terms of machinery and equipment, John invests a large amount of money every year to develop the latest power industry equipment. It's just that the speed of equipment update is obviously impossible to keep up with the speed of research and development, after all, the cost is too high. And investment in China is an opportunity - the recent technology is applied to North America to improve their competitiveness and overall strength, and the obsolete equipment can be shipped to China, on the one hand, it can recover some of the funds, reduce the cost of upgrading, and on the other hand, it can also reduce the cost of China's industrial development while meeting demand......

Kill two birds with one stone, get the best of both worlds.

Of course, this plan was warmly supported by his subordinates, and the head of the Far East of Huntelaar Bank nodded again and again: "Yes, sir, your suggestion is really correct!" Chinese's industry has just started, although there are many elites who have returned from studying in the United States, but the quality of workers is not as good as that over there, and the gap between management methods and technology accumulation is large, and the new equipment is really not suitable for them, and it is a little complicated to use second-hand ones......"

"Uh......"

After hearing this, John's face suddenly darkened.

But although it was uncomfortable to hear, John didn't say anything, because perhaps John knew the roots of China better than these people.

But......

"Hmph, we'll see in a few years!"

Glancing at his subordinates a little unhappily, John secretly left a sentence!

He swore with the Chinese soul in his bones that he would let this guy see with his own eyes what it would be like ten years later! Just like the ten years after China's reform and opening up in the future, how many years did it take to become the world's factory and create industrial miracles?

The earlier you start, the faster you can catch up!

If the technology of sixty or seventy years later is equivalent to the level of a doctor, then the technology of 1912 is at most the level of a primary school student. Although China's starting point is very low, so low that it is far from the day before the opening up in the future, it is at least much easier to go from illiterate to primary school students than from junior high school students to doctoral students, right?

And at the end of the day, China has huge potential for development.

Even if what John can do is still too little for the whole country, don't forget, he sponsors thousands of international students every year, tens of thousands in ten years, and more importantly, these are science and engineering; The universities, middle schools and primary schools invested in China will continue to cultivate science and engineering talents in the future!

In this day and age, it will be a huge force.

You must know that China's modern education is already backward, and among those who go abroad at their own expense or public expense, the majority of them study law, politics and other liberal arts, and the domestic situation is even more serious, and the liberal arts students who study grammar and art occupy the top spot, reaching more than 90% of the total number of students! On the other hand, there are very few students studying engineering and agriculture at universities, not even in business, and very few professors who teach these courses. Only medicine is slightly stronger, but it is also too good to be very good.

On the one hand, it is due to traditional concepts, and on the other hand, it is because of the extreme backwardness of industry.

Therefore, while promoting education, John is frantically building various factories, in order to find a way out for those international students and college students, otherwise even if they return to China or graduate, they can only helplessly sigh that life is difficult and ambitions are difficult to pay......

Far from it.

However, China is a big country after all, and it is far from being comparable to a small country.

The Japanese worked hard for so many years, even if they defeated China in the First Sino-Japanese War, in terms of national strength, in 1912 it was still not worth mentioning, that is, one-thirtieth of the Americans. And only the two provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, plus one Anhui, the territory is almost the same as Japan, as long as there is enough time and a stable environment, they can develop first, it will play an extremely huge role!

Merely......

"Alas!"

After sending off his subordinates, John's face quickly turned gloomy, and he returned to the couch and sighed heavily.

If there is enough time, and a stable political environment, John is certainly confident that the fate of the country will be completely changed. But he also knew that the next few decades would be the most chaotic times in China, and that the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, although not as good as the Central Plains, had been devastated by wars many times, so it would be a very difficult process to ensure that John's intended goals were achieved...... (To be continued.) )