Chapter 62: The opening of the waterway
Jianzhou Bank is a retail bank, which can handle more business, but it is limited to Fujian, but the interest rate is relatively high, so there are many people who save money, and many people are deposited for a fixed time.
"You immediately send the 1 million silver dollars to the United States, and the trading company will need it." Xia Jun said that Chen Jiayi's funds were still enough to acquire the transportation company, but after the acquisition, there was no money to import raw materials.
"Understood." Li Shengguo hurriedly responded.
"Alright, so be it! Don't me over there, you kid. Xia Jun explained to Li Shengguo, and then hung up the phone.
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Because Xia Jun allowed Chen Jiayi to make his own decisions, Chen Jiayi bought the trading company two days later, which not only had a license but also nautical charts, as well as some crew members and managers who were proficient in cross-border transportation.
Xia Jun asked Chen Jiayi to bring all of them to Fujian, and all those managers were paid high salaries, and asked the seven cargo ships to come to Fujian immediately.
Xia Jun wants to engage in import and export trade at this time, and his own transportation company has to do it as soon as possible, if the transportation piece can't keep up, it will be bad.
Tana's chick sent a telegram over, and the patents were all applied for by Xia Jun, and several of them have been approved, and some are still under review.
In the past few days, Tana has sent a telegram to ask Xia Jun how long it will take to ship the goods to the United States, and she, the distributor, has already set up the company.
Tana pointed out that she wanted to distribute sanitary napkins, lighters, and cigarettes, and at the same time the cotton cloth and paper produced here in Jian'an also needed, obviously this rich woman saw a business opportunity, and she was very eager to send a telegram to Xia Jun every day.
For this reason, Xia Jun had to send her a telegram back every day, saying that the factory had just been built, and it would take a while.
Xia Jun's factories have already been built, but it will take a little time for the workers to become proficient in production, and they should be fully operational by the end of the month.
Now Xia Jun is recruiting workers everywhere, and those captured green battalion soldiers don't want to go back, many of them want to continue to stay in Jian'an, after all, there is food and drink here, and after a while, they will be released, and they will get paid for working in factories and construction sites! What's more, this is a place managed by the security corps, and there is no messy tax, which is much better.
There is no problem with the operation of the textile mill, but the steel mill must be up and running as soon as possible.
The waterway was also opened, and the 30-ton locomotive ships began to walk in Jianxi, and so many locomotive ships came to Fuzhou, which surprised the people at the Fuzhou wharf.
500 locomotives and ships began to transport cotton and iron ore on the Minjiang River and Jianxi overnight, transported to the Jian'an wharf, and then unloaded and shipped to the factory.
The speed of these locomotive ships is very fast, because of the use of diesel engines, the boatman only needs to take the rudder, and the transportation is much easier, and the transportation efficiency is dozens of times higher than that of the original sparrow ship.
Such efficient transportation greatly saves costs, and its cost is much lower than that of tractor transportation.
The iron ore in the steel mill was quickly operational, and the iron ore was imported, so it was a rich ore of high purity.
The steel mill originally existed, and Xia Jun now has no shortage of manpower in the steel mill.
As soon as the steel mill was put into operation, Xia Jun exchanged some rolling mills and other machinery for the production of steel pipes, steel plates, steel bars, steel bars and other commodities.
In the future, I will build railways, and I will have to build steel rails.
Xia Jun thought of this, and exchanged the equipment for the production of rails, the equipment is not too high-end, and the output is not too large, just to meet domestic demand, and the railway will not need to rely on imported rails in the future.
In addition, Xia Jun's small hardware manufacturing factory has equipment for manufacturing kitchen knives, scissors, hacksaws, tape measures, screws, iron nails and other small hardware. Part of the steel mill directly exports steel, and part of it is sent to a small hardware factory to produce small hardware appliances.
At this time, China needs to import 220,000 tons of steel every year, and the small hardware is more famous except for Hankou, but the small hardware in Hankou, like the small hardware in other regions, can not resist the invasion of foreign goods.
At the same time, Xia Jun exchanged some equipment for making iron tools, such as iron pots, hammers, hoes, and shovels, which could not be let go.
Now that there is steel, it is necessary to squeeze out all the foreign goods related to iron in the local market.
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At this time, half of Fujian has been included in Xia Jun's administrative scope, as soon as the autumn harvest arrives, violent tax resistance is everywhere, some county acquaintances, after receiving the notice of the security regiment, do not send people to go, but some counties still have a fluke mentality, send people to the countryside to collect taxes, but were beaten back by the security regiment.
Armed clashes even broke out in some areas, but those unknown magistrates died miserably, and soon two magistrates were killed in the courtyard behind the yamen in a 'plane'.
Xia Jun's murderous reputation spread all over the province, and this autumn harvest officially established Xia Jun's status as a rampant force in Fujian, and no official dared to fight against Xia Jun since then.
And Xia Jun was busy buying grain in northwest Fujian, because the people trusted the security group, so they all sold grain to Xia Jun, and they were willing to take white strips.
The reputation of the security corps is not blown up, it is made.
The common people know best who is good to them in their hearts, and the grain merchants come to collect grain for only one silver dollar and one stone, but the security regiment collects it with a piece of five, although it is a white strip, but the people can trust it, and they are naturally rejoicing.
But within a few days, something happened.
A report call came from the police station saying that a farmer had asked the grain merchant to return the grain, but the grain merchant refused to return the grain and injured the person.
bargaining in the territory of the head of the regiment, and daring to beat people, it's really tired of living.
"Arrest me first." Xia Jun shouted to the other end of the phone.
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