On February 19, Zheng Guanying was recruited to the newly added 'East China Offshore Transportation Company' as general manager, responsible for the transportation industry of domestic ports and the Yangtze River waterway.

Xia Jun exchanged 20 1,000-ton small ships, 10 2,000-ton ships, and 5 3,000-ton ships from the system, spending 1.65 million points.

These ships can cope for the time being, but they will definitely not be enough in the future, so it is necessary to order ships from the Mawei shipyard.

The Mawei shipyard has been able to build cargo, fishing and passenger ships on its own, and has received orders from the Navy to build one 8,000-ton cruiser and ten 800-ton destroyers.

Nearly 200 foreign technicians were also recruited in the shipyard, and these technicians were all recruited by Wang Chengyi from shipyards in Britain, France, Germany and other countries with high salaries.

Zheng Guanying, as a person who has twice presided over the steamship China Merchants Bureau, has a very good understanding of domestic shipping, and is also very familiar with the foreigners who occupy the Yangtze River shipping such as Tonggu Foreign Company and Jardine Matheson Foreign Company.

Age is not a problem, 70 years old can still struggle, if according to the original history, this old man can live for ten years, and it is always possible to work for the East China Offshore Transportation Company for seven or eight years!

After presiding over the ribbon-cutting of the offshore transportation company, Xia Jun went to the ocean shipping company again, and the exports and imports of the three provinces of East China Autonomous Province have been very frequent recently, and the export commodities of the three provinces of East China Autonomous Province have increased by a quarter compared with last year, and the growth rate is very rapid.

The 50 merchant ships of the ocean shipping company are obviously not enough, and the ocean shipping company usually helps Li Shijing take care of it, but Li Shijing was just diagnosed as pregnant yesterday, and Xia Jun can only take care of it by herself.

When she heard the news of Li Shijing's pregnancy, Xia Jun was a little confused, she couldn't say how she felt, it seemed that she was going to be a father. In addition, the doctor said that Li Shijing was three months pregnant, so Xia Jun took care of Li Shijing's affairs, and handed over some of them to Li Shengguo to take care of.

In order to keep up with the demand for import and export transportation, Xia Jun once again exchanged 20 10,000-ton merchant ships and spent 6 million points, plus these 20 ships, East China Ocean Company already has 70 10,000-ton ocean-going merchant ships, which is close to catching up with the 10,000-ton merchant ships of the Germans.

However, the Germans' transport strength was much higher than that of the East China Ocean Shipping Company, because they not only had 10,000-ton merchant ships, but also 20,000-ton merchant ships, and more tonnage less than 10,000 tons.

Then Xia Jun ran to the East China Bank, and Li Shengguo recently dug up a young man named Chen Guangfu according to Xia Jun's instructions, Chen Guangfu is a famous banker in modern times, and the Shanghai Savings Bank he opened later became the largest bank in modern China, and Xia Jun's East China Bank copied the operation mode of the future Shanghai Savings Bank.

At this time, Chen Guangfu had just returned to China and had no capital to open a bank of his own.

When Chen Guangfu saw the East China Bank that had been opened everywhere, he felt a cold spot in his heart, and the bank operation method that had been brewing in his mind for a long time was used by this East China Bank, and he didn't know where his bank was, because there was no money.

Xia Jun went to Huadong Bank and met Chen Guangfu, who was invited.

didn't say much polite words, Xia Jun said straight to the point that he wanted to open another 'Industrial and Commercial Bank of China' and wanted to ask Chen Guangfu to be the general manager, which surprised Chen Guangfu.

He is not very well-known in China, so why did he ask him to be the general manager of the soon-to-be-opened 'Industrial and Commercial Bank of China'?

Chen Guangfu, who was lacking opportunities, immediately agreed, and what Chen Guangfu needed most at this time was an opportunity, and the strength of Huadong Bank was obvious to all.

In fact, this 'Industrial and Commercial Bank of China' is a subsidiary bank of 'Bank of East China', and Xia Jun naturally knows that he can't put his eggs in one basket.

For example, when people are running, the target is generally to go to one bank, and if there are two banks, the funds will be turned over each other, and the resistance will be greatly enhanced.

However, rigorous operation is still an important factor for banks to prevent the emergence of non-performing assets, as long as there are few non-performing assets, then the bank can operate healthily, which will not lead to bankruptcy.

The establishment of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China was quickly decided, and Xia Jun would allocate 10 million yuan of capital to the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and the main business of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China was to lend money to industrial and commercial enterprises.

The Bank of East China also lent to industry and commerce, but in many cases it provided funds in the form of direct shares, and in addition, the main focus of the bank was on the most urgently needed transportation investment.

…… On 21 February, the German military exchange delegation arrived in Shanghai and immediately went to Hangzhou for military exchanges, which will last for half a month.

The two sides mainly exchanged ideas on the army's operational concepts, but the most important thing was to discuss the exchange of military technology.

The Germans were interested in the many weapons they possessed, especially airplanes and submarines, as well as individual weapons.

In this regard, Xia Jun asked Liu Wenhong to come forward to negotiate, Chen Xuanyu went to Germany for a visit, and he would not come back until a month later, so Xia Jun also made him the deputy chief of staff.

In terms of the technology of weapons that can be exchanged, Xia Jun instructed Liu Wenhong to provide the Germans with drawings of submachine guns, light machine guns, mortars, and submarines.

The conditions were that the Germans exchange the technology of producing large artillery, as well as the production of shells and torpedoes, in addition to the purchase of large docks, and preferably in obtaining loans.

After visiting the naval submarines, the German military exchange group became extremely interested in this advanced submarine, did not have much objection to the exchange of technology, and agreed to the conditions proposed by the East China Autonomous Political Axe to exchange submarine technology for the technology of manufacturing large artillery, shells, and torpedoes.

Then the Germans exchanged a production line of heavy machine guns for the grenadier canisters of the East China Autonomous Political Axe, the BZ-26 light machine gun, and the drawings of the MP-18 submachine gun.

If it had been before, the Germans would certainly not have come up with these technologies, you must know that German weapons are very marketable in the Far East, and the problem is that the military power of the East China Autonomous Political Axe has been separated from the procurement ranks, and the East China Autonomous Political Axe has the technology to exchange.

As for the aircraft that the Germans were interested in, Xia Jun did not give them the technology, and the aircraft at this time could not be sold at a good price, and they could not be sold at a better price until after the outbreak of World War I.

Soon the two sides talked about the question of loans and the purchase of dockyards, and in this respect it was clear that the German [***] exchange group could not make the decision, and had to ask the German emperor for instructions.

On the issue of loans, Liu Wenhong pointed out that the East China Autonomous Political Axe needs a large low-interest loan, and if Germany can give them a loan of 400 million marks, the East China Autonomous Political Axe can send sniper officers to help Germany train snipers, and in the future, the East China Provisional Political Axe can increase Germany's interests in the Far East.

In this somewhat traitorous condition, Xia Jun naturally had his considerations, and when Germany was defeated in World War I, this condition would be null and void.

However, for the sake of maintaining the country's credit, this loan still has to be repaid, and if the country's credit is ruined, then there will be no money to borrow in the future.

…… In Germany, Chen Xuanyu took the military exchange group to the Munich Military Academy in Germany for exchanges, he had studied in this military academy before and was familiar with this place.

In this military exchange, Chen Xuanyu proposed the concept of snipers, as well as the concepts of submarine warfare and air combat, which quickly led to the conclusion of negotiations such as loans.

Although the German emperor was very belligerent and also attached great importance to technological development, he quickly approved the loan request of the East China Autonomous Axe.

However, the premise is that half of the loan will be used for the purchase of dockyards, equipment, etc. in Germany.

When the German [***] affairs exchange group put forward this condition, Xia Jun quickly agreed, and soon the loan was signed.

400 million marks is roughly equivalent to 100 million US dollars, 200 million FU, which is definitely a huge amount of money, and the interest is only 3%.

As for how to use this loan, Xia Jun chose to buy a dock and some munitions production lines, and since the Germans opened up these fields to them, they naturally had to purchase them on a large scale.

The dock is currently the most needed, Mawei Shipyard only has a 10,000-ton dock, and there are few smaller docks, Wang Chengyi was notified, and hurriedly rushed to Germany to buy docks, as well as other shipbuilding equipment, this time Xia Jun allocated him 150 million marks, and another 50 million marks asked Chen Xuanyu to buy a shell production line in Germany.

The DM 200 million can be used directly, while the other DM 200 million will not arrive for some time.

…… Since Yuan Shikai became the president in Yanjing, he soon encountered financial problems.

At this time, the provinces of the country were controlled by those Turkish army leaders, and the taxes could not be collected at all, and the Manchu Qing did not leave him any money, and the Beiyang Army had to be reorganized, so there was not so much money at all.

So Yuan Shikai first asked for an emergency loan of 3 million yuan in Fuxing coins to the East China Autonomous Axe, which would be used to pay for the relocation of the parliament to Yanjing.

It costs three million yuan to move a congress, which is really expensive, Xia Jun moved the administrative center to Hangzhou, and only two million were used up by so many departments.

Xia Jun wondered, and sent a telegram back to Yuan Shikai to ask: "Why is the cost of moving the parliament so huge?" ”

As a result, Yuan Shikai's telegram said that the congressman needed to pay his salary and urgently needed a loan.

It's really a [***] bureaucrat, but in order to get the future arms procurement, Xia Jun still asked the East China Bank to lend Yuan Shikai this money.

Needless to say, Li Yuanhong and Tan Yanmin in Hubei and Hunan are old bureaucrats, and Yan Xishan in Shanxi is also an old bureaucrat, especially Li Yuanhong, who is now engaged in a brutal struggle for power and profit with the revolutionary party, killing more than 30 revolutionaries in a month, and the number is still rising.

Jiangsu, Anhui, and Guangdong were under the control of the revolutionaries, while Cai Yi, the governor of Yunnan, was a constitutionalist. Anyway, in the big and small provinces, there are few that Yuan Shikai can collect taxes.

Yuan Shikai was reorganizing the army at this time, and he needed arms.

Xia Jun's arms company has been open for a long time and has not attracted any business, of course, it has something to do with the incomplete variety of guns, but after signing a series of technology exchanges and purchases with the Germans, this situation will be greatly improved.

(To be continued)