The commercial civil war between the railway company and the arsenal attracted the attention of public opinion, and Zhu Jinglun, who was concerned about public opinion, knew the situation, and he did not want to interfere, but he suddenly found that both companies had great influence in the government, and they were in a stalemate for a while. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhu Jinglun has a clear consciousness of this, and he does not intend to crack down, because the examples of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong show that this kind of chaebol business may be the most suitable business form for the Eastern society, and it can be said that Japan and South Korea have completed industrialization under the condition of chaebolization, and as long as they can complete industrialization, Zhu Jinglun does not care whether he is a chaebol or a consortium, or personal capital, what he wants is the result.

But from his emotional point of view, he really disliked privileged monopolies, such as the state-owned enterprises in later generations, which were too corrupt, and infiltrated corruption into the government, which was simply a breeding ground for corruption.

So he began to favor the railway company, he consulted with Hurd, and at the same time summoned the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household to immediately settle the conflict between the two industrial giants, and asked the Ministry of Industry to come forward to sell all the official shares of Schneider to the railway company.

It should be said that he was completely partial to the railway company.

So that the railway company has the industrial strength to compete with the arsenal, and is no longer subject to the technological monopoly of the arsenal.

But it is completely disadvantageous to the arsenal, after they lose the advantage of balancing the railway company, the largest order of the railway may also be lost.

Zhu Jinglun's support for the railway company, of course, is not to crack down on the arsenal, if these two industries can not coexist, to be honest, he will definitely choose the arsenal, this is the industry related to the lifeblood of the country, without the railway, it can also be transported by ship, even if people pull horses and carry the day, but without the arsenal, the weapons and equipment of the Ming army can only be imported from abroad, and national security is completely dependent on foreign countries.

Therefore, Zhu Jinglun asked the Ministry of Industry to come forward and give the arsenal the power to build railways in the future, and charter the arsenal to enter the railway industry.

I believe that if these two giants compete, the construction speed and transportation price of the Daming Railway will be greatly reduced.

But Zhu Jinglun does not want to blatantly seek privileges for the arsenal, which in the long run will cost the government a high loss of credibility. Therefore, Zhu Jinglun also suggested that private investment in railways should be allowed and a railway construction law should be promulgated to regulate it.

In the form of a law, the government must provide a certain degree of support for the backbone railways, and the issue of land acquisition must be made. However, short- and medium-distance railways are no longer among them, and the railways that cannot connect the two counties are also running, and the government has also run to help with land acquisition. Land expropriation itself is an act of the government using public power to infringe on private rights, even if such infringement is necessary, it must be used carefully, and public power unscrupulously infringes on private rights, which will inevitably bring about a decline in the credibility of the government.

The credibility of the government is a precious asset, and the more the people trust the government, the more stable the government will be, and the more it can get the support of the people. Even directly expressed in wealth, the government with high credibility has lower financing costs and can raise more funds.

France is an example, the French can subscribe to nine times the Franco-Prussian War reparations, in addition to a high degree of patriotism, the common people believe that the government will definitely pay them back, this is the fundamental reason, otherwise you let the French donate for free, I am afraid not as much as the Chinese squires donated. In later generations, Japan's debt could reach hundreds of times the government's finances, which is also a manifestation of this credibility, because the people trust the government.

It is also not cost-effective to use public power unrestricted for small railway companies. Therefore, Zhu Jinglun suggested that the government should forcibly expropriate land on the basis of the land acquisition law for railway lines that are less than 500 kilometers long and do not cross provinces. If a railway line with a length of less than 500 kilometers does play an important role in the national economy and people's livelihood, it should be applied for by the railway company, and the government will make a decision after conducting argumentation.

Therefore, the right to build roads obtained by the arsenal is actually a power that will be open to the people by law in the future.

The special treatment that the arsenal received was that the government told them in advance and allowed them to lay out in advance.

Sure enough, after being informed by the Ministry of Industry, Hao Kejiu immediately decided to build the railway on his own when he saw that there was no chance of reconciliation with the railway company.

Over the years, the arsenal and the railway company have actually reached the point where they hate each other. Originally, the railway company was under the management of the arsenal, Hao Kejiu regarded the income of the railway as the income of the arsenal, but after Tang Tingshu took charge of the railway company, he did not have this innate understanding, so he felt that the arsenal was a vampire lying on the railway company, and neither of the two companies could do without each other, so there was no break, but once there was a fuse, the end of their cooperation would inevitably occur.

The Ministry of Industry demanded that the Arsenal immediately stop the conflict with the railway company and resume the construction of the railway, and at the same time demanded that the railway company continue to fulfill the contract with the Arsenal and that similar incidents should not occur between the two sides for three years.

Hao Kejiu got the information from the Ministry of Industry and decided to invest in the construction of the railway, so as to gain the leading power and restore the absolute control of the railway in the past, so he was willing to reconcile and concentrate on building his own railway. The railway company was willing to seize the time to restore and expand the production of the Schneider factory even if it got the official shares, so it did not want to get entangled with the arsenal, so the two sides sat down and signed a settlement agreement.

In fact, there are only three years, these three years are the preparation period of both sides, three years to come, the two companies are bound to completely break down, the arsenal to use these three years, to build their own railway system, the railway company needs these three years, to establish their own production system.

Their conflict attracted the attention of public opinion, and their rapprochement dissipated it, but the war was far from over, and their agreement was not a declaration of armistice, but a declaration of war against the outbreak of a fierce, large-scale all-out war.

After the settlement agreement was signed, the two parties seemed to resume cooperation and decided to fulfill the previous contract, but the struggle behind it immediately began.

The arsenal immediately applied to the government to build its own railway to Guangxi, and the previous railway to Guangxi was monopolized by the railway company, and they lobbied the government on the grounds that this railway would affect the route of the railway company, and said that the construction should not be repeated, so as not to cause the same result as the American railway, and the American railroad company built a large number of parallel railways, viciously competing with each other, and some of the railway construction, not even for construction and operation, was just a means of blackmail, because once the parallel railway began to be built, The original railway giants were worried about the impact on their business, so they often had to buy the parallel line that had not yet been built at a high price, and after they bought it, they did not build it, but demolished it.

The behavior of the Americans has had a bad impact on the whole world, and British capital, which has profited from investing in American railroads, has been criticized and has the right to speak in public opinion, and the whole world thinks that this kind of competition on parallel railways is not good.

Therefore, Tang Tingshu's opinion is still supported by many people. Hao Kejiu didn't expect that he encountered obstacles in the first battle, he was not a person who was easy to compromise, so he decided that his railway would diverge from the railway company's railway, and the railway company had two lines in Guangxi, one leading to Guilin and one leading to Nanning, and the arsenal decided to build a railway to Liuzhou, Liuzhou happened to be between Guilin and Nanning, and he also applied to extend his railway up and down to Guilin and Nanning, and after the completion of the railway in the future, it could also restrict the line of the railway company.

Because it did not constitute competition, the Ministry of Industry approved the application of the arsenal. But the goal of the arsenal is not only this, after finding that Tang Tingshu can still use public opinion to limit himself, he is worried that with the increase of the railway company's lines in the future, he will not be able to build the railway, because it will affect the railway company's lines and cause duplicate construction.

Therefore, Hao Kejiu decided to build three roads in a row, from Guangzhou to Liuzhou Liangguang line, one from Ningbo, through the rich Ming province of Zhejiang, in order not to repeat with the Hangzhou-Ningbo line, he was from Ningbo directly to Jinhua, then to Quzhou, into Jiangxi Shangrao, to Nanchang to the west to Changsha.

Most of the lines of the railway company are longitudinal from north to south, and the arsenal railway has vigorously developed horizontally. However, Hao Kejiu could not give up the golden line from Guangzhou to Shanghai, but the railway company occupied the geographical advantage in advance and organized it on the grounds of duplicate construction. Hao Kejiu found another way, and most of the lines of the railway company were by the sea, which exhausted the dividends of transit between ports. Hao Kejiu can only take a step back, go deep into the inland to build a railway, start from Guangzhou to Huizhou, Heyuan, Jiaying Prefecture (Meizhou), enter Fujian Longyan, Sanming, Nanping, Zhejiang's Lishui, Jinhua, in order not to let the railway company find an excuse, the arsenal railway in Hangzhou, Jiaxing does not have a station, directly from Jinhua to Shanghai.

These three railway plans, ambitious, with a mileage of more than 2,000 kilometers. Immediately let the railway company feel the pressure, especially the arsenal of the Guangzhou-Shanghai Railway, although not close to the port, lost the largest source of goods, but deep into the land has the advantage of going deep into the land, where they passed, whether it is the upper reaches of the Hanjiang River where Jiaying Prefecture is located, or Longyan and Nanping are located at the foot of Wuyi Mountain, but they are all tea producing areas, which will greatly affect the monopoly of tea by the railway company.

So the railway company also decided to build a new line, the arsenal is not to control the tea production area, the industrial production area can be more than one, the largest Ming Dynasty three major tea production area, Wuyi Mountain is one, Jiangxi is also one. In order not to cut off their own tea supply, and at the same time not to let the arsenal control the longitudinal railway network, the railway company decided to build a railway from Fuzhou through Wuyi Mountain into Jiangxi.

From Fuzhou, along the Min River to Nanping, Shaowu, then through the Wuyi Mountains, into Fuzhou in Jiangxi, and then to Nanchang. The arsenal has a plan from Nanchang to Changsha, and the Ministry of Industry will not approve the same line, so the railway company will build it from Nanchang to the northwest, repair it to Wuning, Xiushui, which is also the production area of the famous black tea "Ninghong", and then go north from Xiushui, pass through Xianning, and lead to Hankou, which can also put an end to the possibility of the arsenal expanding to Hankou in this direction, and further strengthen the control of the railway company over Hankou.

The competition between the two giants, the arsenal and the railway company, caused a giant war, which once again attracted the attention of public opinion, and the major newspapers rushed to report it, but this time they were more tolerant of the competition, because they believed that this kind of competition was benign and could promote the development of the Daming Railway.

But the war between the giants is not limited to these two.

Zhejiang, as a province that was incorporated into the country relatively late in the Ming Dynasty, the development of local capital was relatively late, so Guangdong capital has been controlling here in the past, but local capital has also developed, and Zhejiang is a rich Jiangnan region.

Hu Xueyan, who escaped in the raw silk hegemony, took the silk factory as the foundation and began the second sprint to the peak, and what was blocked in front of him was the Guangdong capital giant, the Xu Rongcun family consortium.

Hu Xueyan's silk factory was successfully opened after the economic crisis, and soon developed into the integrated operation of silk reeling and reeling, and he could monopolize one-third of the cocoon raw materials with the help of the silk network in the countryside south of the Yangtze River, and soon developed into one of the top silk reeling giants, and then began to expand from ordinary white silk to the top raw silk raw materials, Jili Lake silk.

The Xu Rongcun family has always been the monopoly of Jili Lake silk, they were the first to open a steam silk reeling factory specializing in reeling Jili Lake silk, as early as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom era, they monopolized the supply of Jili Lake silk, and Rong Ji Silk Shop has a good reputation in London, and has always grabbed the most lucrative profits in the Jiangnan raw silk industry.

But now Hu Xueyan wants to start with Jili Lake Silk Resources, and Xu Run wants to enter the White Silk business, the business of the two giants has clashed, and a commercial civil war is inevitable.

Hu Xueyan is a local giant, after escaping the catastrophe, he recovered his vitality, and united with the rich merchants in the silk industry in Huzhou, and was able to use tens of millions of funds, and the Xu Rongcun family monopolized the best quality Jili Lake silk in the south of the Yangtze River under the management of the second generation Xu Run, and the accumulated capital was also at the level of tens of millions.

The scale of this commercial civil war will not be smaller than the railway war.

Both companies are racing to raise the purchase price of silkworm cocoons, monopolize raw materials, and at the same time reduce the price of raw silk and increase their market share.

The small and medium-sized silk reeling factories squeezed by the giants' war are in trouble, and the Jiangnan raw silk industry is wailing.

The business war lasted from the spring silkworm to the autumn silkworm market, the small and medium-sized silk reeling factories could not receive enough cocoons on the one hand, and the products could not be sold on the other hand, a large number of bankruptcies and bankruptcies, and the Jiangnan raw silk industry was developing towards monopoly.

However, monopoly does not bring control of the market, but more fierce competition, because on the eve of the formation of monopoly, it is the era of the most tragic competition.

Hu Xueyan and the Xu family have invested tens of millions of taels of capital in this business war, but after the autumn silkworm, both sides felt unsustainable, and they suddenly found that the bankruptcy of a large number of small factories did not seem to be caused only by their impact, they found that a cold snap that swept the entire industry quietly came.

The fourteenth economic crisis in human history from 1890 to 1893 came.