Xia Jun's intervention in the management of East China Group this time is mainly to make a clearer demarcation of the main business scope and cut off some side details.

If you want to say what is the most monopolistic enterprise in China at present, it is naturally East China Group.

However, the East China Group did not stir up any social contradictions at this time, and handled the relationship with the people very well, and one of the group's philosophies is to respect consumers and serve the society.

Among the domestic capitalist class, most of those big capital businessmen were supported by Xia Jun, and even more so by the East China Group, because the East China Group provided them with a good business environment, and the East China Group and those private enterprises helped each other, so there was no contradiction between the mainstream capitalists.

Even if those capital businessmen are involved in the main areas of the East China Group, the East China Group will not use shady competition methods, but there is competition, and whether it can withstand it depends on its own ability.

At this time, the domestic capitalists also awakened their national consciousness, so they were highly united with each other, with Xia Jun as the leader, and actively expanded into the international market.

With the victory of the Sino-Chinese War, the pace of overseas business expansion began to accelerate, and gradually formed a boom, because of the rise of China's international status, the security of Chinese investment overseas has been greatly improved.

At present, China is already a pivotal force in the world, and China's military power is already a powerful force that other countries cannot ignore.

If in the past, some people thought that the Chinese army relied on advanced equipment to make Yueben suffer defeat, then after the Sino-Chinese war, this view has become more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but China has its powerful and advanced weapons and equipment, coupled with the experience accumulated in the war, the Chinese army has become one of the world's top soldiers.

At the same time, China's air force is even more world-class, China was the first country to put aircraft into military warfare on a large scale, inventing a series of combat aircraft such as bombers, fighter planes, and attack planes.

China was the first country to incorporate submarines into its naval system on a large scale, and its submarine combat capability is not inferior to that of Germany.

The destruction of the Combined Fleet in Asia has made the East China Navy the strongest navy in Asia.

The East China political axe can destroy the combined fleet, and if the navies of other countries invade China, they will also be destroyed by China.

China's military rise has greatly enhanced its international status, and the status of overseas Chinese has also been greatly improved.

The strength of the country has provided a better business environment for Chinese businessmen.

The level of Chinese businessmen is high and low, and the techniques of high and low level businessmen are different, in general, they are somewhat pervasive, as far as future generations are concerned, China's science and technology are not as good as those of Western countries, but in those backward small countries, you can see many Chinese businessmen.

China has a cultural heritage, and culture also has a high degree of tolerance, which is the thickness left by Chinese culture, so in many ways, Chinese people are very flexible.

Once a month, the Industrialists Club holds an internal meeting to discuss a wide range of industries, and the topic of discussion is external competition.

At the meeting held at the end of April, Liu Jinshan reported to Xia Jun about the problems of industry and mining.

"At present, the audit of industrial and mining mining is strict, although it is necessary to protect the environment and resources, but sometimes the audit efficiency is too slow, and it even takes nearly two months." Liu Jinshan said.

Xia Jun thought for a while and said, "Hmm! I will ask the Ministry of Industry and Mining to improve work efficiency. ”

"It's better to count the resources that can be mined first, and then open the bidding." Li Shilin suggested on the side, and reminded his son-in-law: "At present, the domestic industry and mining are developing rapidly, which is an important area for increasing employment, and it is beneficial to find out the resources that can and cannot be dug as soon as possible." ”

"Recently, the provinces under the rule of Beiyang have frequently found out the local black and small industrial mines, which must also be severely cracked down, those black industrial mines do not have advanced mining equipment, and the resource utilization rate is very low, and they are indiscriminately mined and digged, and there is no safety surname." Li Shilin continued.

"Frequent black mines?" Xia Jun asked, "Have you conducted an investigation?" ”

Liu Jinshan said: "I have investigated, mainly because the current industrial development is too fast, the demand for raw materials is strong, especially in the industrial and mining aspects, and the wages of workers in those provinces are not high, and the labor cost is very low, so the black industry and mining have their living environment." ”

The main reason for the survival of black mines is the low cost of labor.

The labor cost is low, so the use of backward productivity has returns, which is the main market driving force for the existence of black industrial and mining, and the supervision is an administrative problem of political axe.

This problem made Xia Jun feel more serious.

At present, in the provinces under the rule of East China, black mines basically do not exist, because black mines will face severe sanctions, coupled with strict supervision, so there is very little phenomenon of mine theft.

Subsequently, there were some discussions on industrial and mining issues, mainly for the industrial and mining problems along the railway, and the railway should be repaired to ensure profitability, so it is best to let the transportation not stop throughout the year.

In this era, industrial and mining was extremely dependent on railways, so industrial and mining along the railways was an important part of railway profits.

Like those large industrial mines, there are special railway lines.

In addition to the industrial and mining issues, this internal meeting of the Industrialists' Club summarized the expansion of agriculture, and at this time the spring sowing in the northern hemisphere has ended, which is the time for the summary.

The results taken together are gratifying: In terms of agricultural investment, the area of overseas cultivated land occupied by the Chinese who have established ties with the Ministry of Agriculture has reached nearly 100 million mu.

Moreover, with the development of China's agriculture, the amount of cultivated land under the overseas circle of the Chinese is still rising, because the agriculture of many countries has suffered a fiasco in the international market, and the domestic agriculture has been affected, and the price of cultivated land has fallen.

Many countries have carried out tariff barrier policies for China's agricultural products, but the Chinese began to break into their interior, due to the use of advanced and excellent varieties, as well as some more advanced machine farming equipment, but machine farming equipment also belongs to the ranks of technical blockade, many machine farming equipment is not exported, but some machine farming equipment and excellent crop varieties are enough for these Chinese to achieve obvious advantages in the agricultural competition within other countries, so as to generate profits.

When the size of the Chinese farmers reaches a certain level, they will suppress the agriculture in those countries, so that the price of land will continue to fall.

It is also an indisputable fact that at this time, there are not many overseas capital of the Chinese, and the accumulation of capital also takes time.

Capital accumulation in agriculture is not fast, but it is the safest, with little risk, and it is an investment project that allows capital to grow steadily.

However, whether agriculture can be profitable or not depends on market research, and the expansion of overseas agriculture is mainly the difference between cash crops and ordinary crops.

There are two differences between whether there are tariff barriers or not, and some cash crops cannot be grown in China, so they are planted abroad.

The annual distribution of planting shares is a project that the Ministry of Agriculture needs to complete, and if the planting share is wrong, there are many things, then it will cause losses, or the agricultural products in China and overseas Chinese will collide and cause losses.

…… The end of the month came soon, and Xia Jun continued to increase the exchange of science and technology in mining, metallurgy, electric power, and building materials manufacturing according to the original plan.

1.2 billion points, thrown into it by Xia Jun nearly a billion points, raised the technical level of these basic industries to the level of the end of the thirties, and some technologies far exceeded the end of the thirties.

The remaining 200 million points were invested by Xia Jun in plastic manufacturing technology, and nearly 20 plastic manufacturing technologies such as vinyl chloride, polystyrene, polypropylene, ABS, polysulfone, and polycarbon were exchanged by him.

Plastics belong to the category of chemical synthetic materials, and his manufacturing in later generations is more than cement and wood, and it is the application of low-cost chemical synthetic materials that has reduced the cost of many industrial products, and at the same time produced a variety of new commodities, which is a very promising field.

Germany is also vigorously developing chemical synthesis technology at this time, because Germany is in a state of blockade, but Germany's chemical synthesis technology is obviously not as strong as China's, because they can't redeem it.

This month's points, Xia Jun is mainly used to buy science and technology.

These technologies were quickly handed over to the East China Group's Technology Research Department, which could quickly be transformed into commercial production technologies under the operation of the Technology Research Department.

It's a very comprehensive, not too obvious technical improvement, but if you make a little progress every month, it's scary to accumulate.

The points in May allowed Xia Jun to once again consolidate the technological advantages of basic industries.

The determination of technological superiority can enable China to occupy a more stable position in the world basic industrial market and have strong competitiveness.

The First World War, which Xia Jun was concerned about, had entered a very bloody struggle at this time, the fortress of Verdun was like a millstone, and the commander of the German Western Front, Falkingham, intended to turn Versailles into a place to drain the blood of the French, but at the same time as the blood of the French was drained, the blood of Germany was also constantly flowing.

Both sides have their own damage!

The investment of new weapons made the Battle of Verdun even more brutal, but the Germans still had the advantage in air combat and the advantage in tanks, so the casualties were much smaller than those of the French, even though they were the attackers.

This year, the East China Political Axe has received arms orders of 1.1 billion pounds, and the orders for shipbuilding have also reached 600 million pounds.

Germany's submarine warfare was extremely rampant, and the speed at which Britain built cargo ships could not match the speed at which they were sunk, so in order to maintain the continuation of the war, Britain could only continue to order cargo ships.

In other orders, the East China political axe also received nearly 300 million pounds, the total reached 1.9 billion pounds, at this time the pound has depreciated, but the depreciation is not too big, but the East China political axe has always been settled in gold. If converted into dollars, it is nearly $8 billion, 16 billion renaissances.

Britain paid a huge price for the war, which was a very expensive war for the Entente, and British military support continued to rise.

The fact that these orders were received was the result of doing the business of the Entente and the business of the Allies, but it was only 1.9 billion pounds, compared with the United States, which only did the business of the Entente countries, but received orders of nearly 2 billion pounds this year.

The Entente countries still give priority to the United States, and even if the United States does not have high-end arms products comparable to China, it still receives more orders than China.

This shows that the Entente are wary of China, and the sudden rise of China has broken the status of Westerners on the planet, so it has been subconsciously ostracized.

However, the Entente had to place orders with the East China Political Axe in many cases, because many orders could not be produced by the United States at all, and the East China Political Axe was also engaged in arms business with the Allies, which was not even an open secret, and had even evolved to the point of openness.

Compared with the beginning of the First World War, the Entente countries had already increased a large number of orders to China, because they were afraid that China would sell to Germany at a less profitable price.

According to spy reports, China sold some of its overproduced arms to its allies at a low price last year.

At this time, the whole of China was busy working overtime to produce these orders, and the world's wealth was constantly flowing to China.

People are not rich without windfalls, and countries are not rich without windfalls.

War money is windfall, and the United States is the most powerful in later generations, precisely because they made a windfall, and because they made war money, they have the most powerful military industrial system.

However, in terms of social management and operation, the United States is far inferior to Germany and Japan, and these two countries basically did not have any crises in later generations. The management model of this book is also the result of imitating Germany, which is different from the system of Britain and the United States.

In terms of arms production capacity, China has also formed a huge arms production system at this time, although it is inferior to the United States in the production of many arms, but China has its own high-end arms, and at the same time there are cheap, low-end arms manufactured by stamping.

Customers have almost all kinds of arms of any kind.

In order to attract more orders, Xia Jun continued to increase arms sales to Germany to stimulate the number of orders from the Entente countries.

Every day, the scale of China's arms production is expanding, although there are a lot of orders received, but if you can pull more, you can pull more, anyway, when the production can't be produced, Xia Jun directly cheats and exchanges the production line to expand the scale of arms production.

This is of great significance, first of all, to make money, although it may be said that it is not too cost-effective to use up points to earn this money, but it can suppress the United States' arms sales, and snatching this piece of fat from the mouths of the Americans is a way to effectively curb the development of the United States.

The United States already has the largest industry in the world at this time, and it will take a long time for China to catch up with the United States.

The Battle of Verdun, after almost two months of conduct, was stopped.

Although the battle was half as short as the four months in history, the battle cost nearly a million casualties on both sides, of which the Allies accounted for 650,000, far higher than Germany.

However, the Entente countries have stronger human and material resources, higher comprehensive national strength, and with the United States as the backing, there is no suspense that the Entente will win.

Falkingham, the commander of the German Western Front, was also removed from his post because of this battle, and the main direction of the German army's attack was shifted from the Eastern Front to the Western Front, and Ludendorff and Hindenburg, who won the war on the Eastern Front, became heroes in the eyes of the German people.

At this time, Germany needed heroes, so the two German generals were transferred to the Western Front to take command of the Western Front, while Falkingham went home and slept soundly.

The end of the Battle of Verdun meant that a new campaign was about to begin, a campaign triggered by a counterattack launched by the Entente.

According to the original history, it was the Battle of the Somme.

As the Germans launched the Battle of Verdun, the Allies decided to launch a major counterattack in order to counterattack, and the Battle of the Somme was immediately put on the table.

After discussion, the Entente quickly agreed to this plan, and soon entered into intense pre-war preparations, and the Entente quickly ordered a batch of chariots from China for the Battle of the Somme.

In the Battle of Verdun, the chariot did show great infantry cover, which reduced casualties and was able to break through the nasty trenches, making it a new weapon to break the stalemate.

Due to the continuous incoming orders, the tax department counted the money until its hands cramped, and the East China Group also generated huge profits because of the manufacture of arms.

Basically, in terms of arms orders and shipbuilding orders, they are all undertaken by the East China Group, and after export, the customs will extract nearly half of the profits.

It is equivalent to saying that the political axe and the East China Group have divided these wealth equally, but in fact, these wealth are controlled by Xia Jun, but the rules still have to be followed.

It's no problem to increase the tax even more, anyway, Xia Jun now seems to be that it doesn't matter where the money is, just make a show, otherwise why would the taxes of the East China Group be low and others high? Others will definitely have opinions.

At this time, Xia Jun has changed the original trend of history, and has begun to change the trend of history to a greater extent, Xia Jun's prediction of the future, can still be accurately judged, but the specific advantages have been weakened a lot.

In such a situation, Xia Jun chose to bury his head in development.

If we go up to economic construction, raise our overall national strength, and raise our military strength, we will not be afraid of any challenge.

What will the world look like after World War I? In addition to Xia Jun's ability to guess the fall of Tsarist Russia and the establishment of the Soviet Union, as well as the inevitable economic crisis in the world in the future, other trends have become very vague, just like the real World War I, many aspects have been made unrecognizable by him.

(To be continued)