Chapter 337: Crazy Railroad Construction

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And Chinese movies have also begun to bombard indiscriminately in Jiaozhi, which is greatly restricted, that is, the people of Jiaozhi cannot understand Chinese.

Therefore, the opening of general Chinese classes has become a top priority.

At the same time, by increasing the policy of 'crossing to the south in clothes', the Ministry of Sinicization of Jiaozhi began to recruit and transfer immigrants from the country to Jiaozhi.

The clothes of the Jiaozhi people have been deeply influenced by the Han people, but they are still far behind in language. Whereas, in terms of Chinese characters, the characters of Jiaozhi mainly use Chinese characters.

The main problem is language.

...... "The Rebirth of a Nation" was a hit in China until June, and the film received nearly 200 million yuan at the box office in China.

In overseas areas, it also received nearly five million yuan at the box office.

This film really changed the impression of China in the hearts of people around the world, and at the same time, it also means that China's film industry has entered a prosperous period.

The East China Film Company made a profit of 60 million yuan after tax, and this money can be used to make many, many movies, and it can be said that "The Rebirth of a Nation" is the most successful film in the world.

China's film industry is very clean at this time, and the underworld forces are the key targets in China, so the film industry is controlled by the political axe, not the underworld.

At the same time, Huadong Group has the largest film company, and Huadong Group is equivalent to a state-owned enterprise.

If any underworld forces get involved in China's art industry and entertainment industry, they will inevitably be detected as soon as possible, so as to wipe out the underworld power by thunderous means.

In China at this time, organizing a triad was a capital offense.

In this country that has just stepped out of the old feudal society, the Chinese Imperial Political Axe has repeatedly cracked down on the underworld and evil forces in the country since the establishment of the East China Political Axe.

The intensity of the crackdown has increased every time, and the number of triad elements who have been executed has reached 80,000, and all of them have criminal records. The number of suspects in custody has reached 230,000, and these are the lack of criminal evidence, but the evidence of their participation in the triad is conclusive.

As the so-called chaotic times use heavy codes, although many of those who have been shot may still have some crimes that do not lead to death, participating in the underworld is the biggest original sin.

As long as the opening of the underworld is blocked, no one will participate in the underworld again.

At the same time, the severe crackdown on criminal syndicates is an explanation to the people with high morals.

If a large group of underworld gangs in society do not fight with the political axe and shout all day long to improve the quality of the people, it will make those citizens with good moral standards feel cold.

As the saying goes, the Taoist saying that the mouth cannot be opened, and as soon as the mouth is opened, everything comes out. If the political axe wants to be gagged, it will have to be punished heavily.

As a result, at this time, China's underworld forces were either eliminated or hidden, the whole society was cleared, and China's art scene became the cleanest among all countries.

Xia Jun has given great support to the development of the film industry.

At the same time, Xia Jun feels that China should not only develop the film industry, but also develop the comic and animation industries.

China wants to form a base for films, animations, and animations that bombard the world indiscriminately, and at the same time, Xia Jun is already planning to put out the TV.

Therefore, Xia Jun met with the four Wan brothers, the four Wan brothers are the earliest pioneers of Chinese cartoons, and they have been studying in the folk before.

When Xia Jun met with the four Wan brothers, he had an in-depth discussion with them about the development trend of animation and gave high expectations for the future of the animation industry.

Xia Jun wanted to recruit the four Wan brothers to the East China Film Company and set up a 'East China Dream Factory' in the East China Film Company.

However, the four Wan brothers wanted to open a company by themselves, so Xia Jun did not force it, but took out one million yuan to invest in the company of the four Wan brothers.

At the same time, Xia Jun also promised to give them support on the equipment.

The name of this company is 'Wan Brothers Animation Company', and at the same time, East China Film Company has also set up a 'East China Dream Factory'.

They use the best equipment in the world, and at the same time, they are given enough money.

There are many good cartoon ideas Xia Jun.

The world's first really big hit seems to be "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", and the Wan brothers made a follow-up work in the same period - "Iron Fan Princess", but this "Iron Fan Princess" is obviously a hit on the street.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, this theme is good, but it doesn't have much Chinese flavor.

But it doesn't matter, as a commercial animation, you can make money in the world.

Therefore, Xia Jun plans to plagiarize "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".

In terms of animation with a more Chinese flavor, China also has a lot of themes.

For example, Journey to the West, Hulu Baby, etc., you can also plagiarize Transformers, Beastman, Astro Boy, Cat and Mouse, Jingle Cat, Chess Soul and other cartoons, anyway, there are many classics that can be plagiarized.

In terms of China's film market at this time, it can be said that it is very prosperous, and there is the possibility of further prosperity.

The prosperity of the market will inevitably give birth to a large number of excellent directors and actors.

How to get capable newcomers to the position has become a problem.

Those who have the ability go up, and those who don't have the ability go down.

Let the Chinese film industry always maintain a healthy state, and use film and animation to carry out cultural bombardment to countries around the world.

The invasion of culture is more effective than the invasion of force.

In this era, there is no longer a need to rely on occupation to exploit other countries and nations, just knock the other side down, or make the other party submit.

The development of capital has reached a height that does not require occupation to achieve the purpose of exploitation.

But the invasion of capital must be assisted by culture.

Therefore, Xia Jun attaches great importance to the film industry and animation industry, although China is a country with many resources, China will also be a country with a large population.

The film industry and the animation industry can provide more jobs in China.

Wan Brothers and East China DreamWorks, the first work is "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", because the domestic animation industry is still relatively immature, so the first step of animation is to gather all professionals from the whole country to co-produce.

Xia Jun provided the script, as well as the character patterns.

…… In 1919, this was a period of rapid development in China, and a large number of projects began to be launched due to China's money.

In terms of engineering construction, the training speed of technicians is relatively fast, and there is basically no shortage of steel bar workers, cement workers and carpentry workers.

The only ones were engineers, and with the defeat of Germany, more and more German technicians were recruited to work in China.

In order to attract more German skilled workers, China also made a film about the life of German workers in China, and then sent it to Germany to be screened.

The effect is not bad, and many German skilled workers have come to China.

The arrival of these skilled workers solves the talent constraints of China's limited engineering construction scale and heavy industry capacity expansion.

With the Asian Federal Reserve's interest rate cut, more money has been put into the industry.

Among them, taking railway construction as an example, the people's investment in railways has reached a greater level, and the sales of railway construction bonds are very hot.

The return on these bonds is stable, and the Asian dollar is pegged to the gold exchange rate at this time, which means that the value of the Asian dollar will be stable in the future.

Therefore, railway construction bonds are generally favored by the industry.

The construction of railways has embarked on a rapid process, and large-scale railway construction has provided jobs for more people.

At this time, China had already built 35,000 kilometers of railways, which was much slower than planned, because of the call of the state, which made the engineers and workers of the railway construction work hard.

Most of China's railways to the Kokang Kingdom have been completed, and they will be completed by the end of the year.

China has built three medium-sized hydropower stations in Yichang and eight medium-sized hydropower stations in southwest China, as well as hundreds of smaller and larger hydropower stations.

The completion of these hydropower stations has given a boost to the economy of the southwest region.

At the same time, the imminent completion of the China-Myanmar railway will also form a huge advantage for the southwest's foreign exports, and at the same time, the traffic situation in the southwest region has been greatly improved, and the provincial railway trunk line has been fully repaired.

Xia Jun spent 100 million points in the exchange system to buy new train technology, which increased the speed of trains to 100 kilometers per hour, and this technology is being popularized in the national railway system.

Trains increase their speed, which increases the competitiveness of the railways.

At this time, highways and shipping have brought greater competitive pressure to the railways, especially the railways are greatly affected by the competition of highways.

Due to the low price of oil, the cost of transportation by road is not much more than that of rail in many cases.

Although low oil prices have deprived the political axe of a good tool to make profits, it is very beneficial to society as a whole.

Because the likelihood of energy impact in various industries has decreased, the production costs and transportation costs of various industries have decreased, and the result is that the people are richer.

Some production projects will not lose money because of oil prices.

In later generations, the United States basically lent money to those Middle Eastern countries, so that they could not afford to pay back, and then let them sell oil to the United States at a low price, and the United States did not need to directly control the oil fields, but bought them from the Middle East at a low price, and then charged high refining taxes to push up oil prices, thereby exploiting the whole society.

At this time, although the political axe of the Chinese Empire did not increase the oil refining tax, the low oil price and the application of many fuel machinery and equipment also made the economy develop rapidly, the total economic volume increased, and the tax revenue of the political axe also increased.

The development of people's livelihood is the main goal.

At present, China is a country that has just broken away from the old feudal society for less than ten years, and the people's livelihood is not very good, especially the people in those inland provinces.

When people's livelihood develops, consumption is born.

If consumption goes up, it will lead to more internal employment.

Thus embarking on a cycle of good surnames.

The reason why people's livelihood can develop is because there is a relatively fair way of wealth distribution, and at this time, the Chinese imperial government increased taxes on high-income groups, incubated eggs on a large scale, and incubated the low-class into the middle class, so that domestic demand began to increase steadily.

The Chinese Empire was vast, with the largest land area in the world and the largest population.

So the railways are a very large system, and 35,000 kilometers of railways are far from enough. At the very least, 300,000 kilometers of railways are needed to be said to have a complete railway system.

300,000 kilometers of railways are necessary for China.

In later China, there were 100,000 highways and railways, but the railways were obviously particularly crowded.

In the future, China's population is planned to exceed one billion, so there is a greater demand for railways. Especially when China is not as good as developed countries, freight traffic will rise sharply, in this case, 300,000 kilometers in the future is only a preliminary improvement, not a complete perfection.

If the railway network is to be thoroughly improved, it will need at least 500,000 kilometers.

Later, the United States retained 410,000 kilometers of railroads, and at the same time, it was the result of more than 100,000 kilometers of railroads.

With such a large railroad network in the United States, because the land is privatized, the railroads can be built freely, so there is duplication of construction.

Although the duplication of construction has led to a certain degree of waste of resources, it is extremely efficient in terms of cargo transportation efficiency.

Countries around the world have their own means of railway management, but it is difficult to say that there is one law, and the United States has a variety of management experiences to learn from.

Of course, this is for the people of later generations.

At one point, the U.S. political axe took over the railroad system entirely, and the result was a low point in railroad transportation.

A competitive transport system is the only one that is viable, and the takeover of the railroads by the US political axe is tantamount to the monopoly of the big capitalists on the railways.

The advantage of having a monopoly on rail transport is that potential threats to their monopoly will never be able to enter a certain field.

For example, the steel industry is a monopoly in the United States, and other companies want to get involved in this field, first of all, the railroad will not let you ship, or raise your freight rate, so that you can not survive in the market competition.

The transportation industry is like a country's blood vessels, transporting nutrients to various parts, and having a developed transportation industry will make the country's economy extremely active, and when the freight is reduced to a certain extent, the turnover of goods is very convenient.

In many backward countries, for example, agricultural products are often not sold, and a big reason for this is the price constraints of transportation.

For the construction of railways, China allows private construction of railways.

Because China is also a land privatization country at this time, not a land ownership country.

It is certain that it poses a threat to the East China Railway Company, but the competition depends on its own technology and service quality.

Competition can improve the quality of service.

And even if they are rebuilt, these railways are a valuable resource, and once they reach certain emergency stages, goods can be transported.

Like Russia in the First World War, it was the transportation base that was too weak to make the huge army logistics cross, of course, Russia's logistics management chaos is also a very important reason, this problem has erupted during the Russian War, but the polar bear obviously did not learn the lesson.

At this time, New Russia, having learned the lessons of the past, began to borrow heavily from China to build transportation facilities.

The rise of water, road and air transport is a greater threat to railway transport, and competition has also emerged.

However, in contrast, first of all, the air transport technology is not mature, and the water transport that China can develop is only those regions with conditions.

Roads have an absolute competitive advantage in the transportation distance of about 300 kilometers, while those that reach about 1,200 kilometers cannot compete with railways.

As the Chinese Empire eased restrictions on investment in railways, the number of railway companies in China soon increased to nearly thirty.

These nearly 30 railway companies are located in various provinces, each with plans to build a new railway.

Some railway companies even want to build inter-provincial trunk lines, and they are the trunk lines that have already been built by the East China Railway Company, but these trunk lines are very busy, and the monorail of the East China Railway Company cannot be transported.

Some are cooperating with the East China Railway Company to build a double-track, and some want to build a double-track by themselves to form a three-track railway.

The East China Railway Company has no objection to this, but instead provides the railroads with the latest transportation data to help them analyze which route is the most rewarding and worthwhile.

At this time, China's railway rate of return is very high, because now whether it is road transportation or rail transportation, there is a problem, that is, the capacity is very tight.

Problems caused by the development of too fast and the infrastructure not keeping up.

In the case of tight capacity, transportation is mainly vented on roads, but the transportation cost of roads is higher than that of railways in long-distance transportation, making the construction of railways have great return value.

Even the railways built in the west and Outer Mongolia are all rewarding, because there are minerals in the west and north.

As metallurgy began to develop to the north and west, the economy of these two regions also developed quickly.

Basically, railway companies have been set up in each province, and some of these provincial railway companies have raised funds to build railways in their own provinces, while others have raised funds from other provinces.

For these railway companies in this province, the people of many provinces are very supportive, after all, road construction is the first priority, can build the road, the economy can develop, and then the child will be better. Therefore, the people of the provinces are very supportive of the railway companies in their provinces, even if they are poor, they will vigorously support them, so it is relatively easy to raise funds.

Railway companies were set up in all provinces, and some railway companies built trunk lines across provinces, and at this time, a large number of German engineers came to China, and China did not lack labor, so that China's railway construction entered a new high-speed period.

East China Group has increased the scale of production of steel rails, and at the same time adopted new technology in locomotives, which can increase the speed of railways to 100 kilometers per hour, while in Fujian, for example, trains can only go 60~70 kilometers an hour, and there is no way to go faster, after all, it is not a plain area.

And in the plains, it is not particularly difficult for the railway to reach a speed of 200 km/h.

In later generations, the speed of high-speed rail has far exceeded 200 kilometers per hour.

The train travel speed of 100 kilometers per hour is currently the fastest in the world, which undoubtedly strengthens the competitive advantage of the railway.

It also increases the rate of return, which attracts more capital to invest in the construction of the railway.

At this time, there was already a boom in railway investment in China, and a large amount of capital was poured into railway investment, while banks issued large sums of low-interest loans to solve the problem in terms of funds.

This crazy investment in railways can be said to be a double-edged sword.

The good thing is that this kind of crazy construction can make China's future transportation industry develop and make the economy more prosperous.

The downside is that there will be labor pains.

Crazy investment will eventually come to an end, and when it does, it will be a time of pain.

However, at this time, China did not form a railway investment bubble, because the capacity was too tight, and the rate of return on railway construction was indeed very high.

It has not yet reached a bubble, but it is clear that if it continues for a few years, a certain bubble will appear.

Whether to let the bubble blow bigger and bigger, and then burst, or to control the bubble within a certain range, depends on the degree of construction.

The 410,000 kilometers of railroads in the United States were caused by the economic bubble, which was crazy at the time, but also laid the foundation for economic prosperity later.

Labor pains are sometimes unavoidable.

At present, China's railway construction is not perfect, so most railway companies choose to build railways in areas where there are no railways.

And the political axe is also guiding these railway companies to build lines, and it is not wise to repeat the construction when the current railway network is not perfect.

Unless it is a really busy line, such a line is required to be rebuilt.

In the context of the establishment of so many railway companies, there are also restrictions on these railway companies, these railway companies must build railways of good quality, and at the same time, these railways must be able to be connected into a network, and the lines must be connected, etc.

The journey is planned by the Ministry of Railways, but the railway companies have a great deal of freedom in terms of pick-up, as well as the comfort of the carriages, as well as the service to passengers, as well as the loading and unloading of goods.

In later generations, China was the boss of the railway, and the trouble for goods on the train was not only smeared, but also bribes, which exposed the problem of poor service quality and the problem of system corruption.

If a railway company wants not to lose money, it must have enough goods to transport, and it depends on the quality of its own services.

The customer may be blind to the railway freight transportation process, and the railway company should come up with a 'fool transportation process' to help the customer solve this headache, and the customer will naturally be happy to transport the goods by train.

In the case of competition, in order to survive, the railway companies will do their best to continuously improve their service quality.

Competition represents the survival of the fittest, and most of the companies that can survive are those who can provide better services, which is the fundamental purpose of competition.

East China Railway Company has its own unique features in operation, because East China Group is involved in the logistics industry, and after the combination of logistics industry and East China Railway Company, the transportation capacity of the railway can be used to the maximum extent.

At the same time, when there is no transportation on some railways, East China Group will find the reason on this line, if it is not the reason for the quality of service, but there is really no market, then East China Group will develop enough market in this area.

For example, what are the development advantages of the areas covered by this line, then East China Group will focus on the development of these advantageous resources in this area, and if it is not involved, it will invite those holding companies to come and develop, so that this line has something to transport.

This mode of operation has maximized the capacity of China's current railways.

East China Logistics Company has played a very huge role in this, and this operation has also implemented the spirit of fine management.

At this time, a large number of projects in China have been launched frantically, which has also doubled the demand for engineering vehicles.

The output could not meet the demand, Xia Jun directly opened the exchange platform to cheat, only in the first two quarters of 1919, Xia Jun purchased nearly 200,000 engineering vehicles from the exchange platform.

The advent of these engineering vehicles has greatly reduced the manpower required for construction projects.

Although many projects are launched, the number of workers required will not affect the production of other industries, all because of the existence of engineering vehicles.

Therefore, although China's projects are blooming everywhere, they have not caused the production of other industries to be wasted.

The large number of projects opened and constructed has also made China's labor force begin to show a situation of insufficient use.

The number of workers involved in the construction of railways, highways, reservoirs, power stations, construction and other projects has reached 20 million at this time. Although China is a country of 450 million people, its productivity is very strong.

It can be said that these projects in China have become the pillars of the primary industry, and most of China's employment is driven by these projects.

Together with agriculture, industry, and services, it constitutes a path that allows most of China's labor force to be employed.

As the labor force is insufficient, wages have increased again, causing more people in backward provinces to leave the countryside and go to work on construction sites.

Railways are a relatively long investment project, but with the emergence of so many railway companies, the number of railways invested soon exceeded 80,000 kilometers.

These railways are expected to be completed within five years, which means that at least 16,000 kilometers of railways will be laid each year.

The United States has set such a record, the highest record is 20,000 kilometers of railroad laid in a year, and China can now clearly surpass this record.

If it was before, it would have been an unrealistic Great Leap Forward.

However, after the war, it was different, Germany, France, Britain, and the United States all had engineers who came to China to build railways, and China was not short of money, people, tracks, locomotives, and advanced engineering vehicles, so how could it not break this record?

The United States can lay 20,000 kilometers of railways a year, and China can do it even faster than the United States.

And the planned construction of the railway is still increasing, not only these 80,000 kilometers, Xia Jun plans to brake first when it increases to 100,000 kilometers, and running so fast makes him a little frightened.

It's easy to crash if it's too fast, because other links may not be able to keep up.

Especially in the area of money, although the establishment of the Asian Federal Reserve has allowed China to print a lot of bills, it is impossible to print them indefinitely.

Especially in times of competition with the dollar.

Once the capital chain collapses, the results are serious.

Once the project is stopped, it will cost more money to resume work, and it will also cause delays in the construction period, and the losses will be very heavy.

And it will also affect other related manufacturing industries.

The investment of 100,000 kilometers is the current limit. 100,000 roads and railways will be built in five years, 200,000 kilometers in 10 years, and 400,000 kilometers in 20 years.

It is equivalent to saying that China intends to build a relatively complete railway system in 20 years, which is also the largest railway system in the world.

Before World War II, China should have been able to have 300,000 kilometers of railways, and the total length of such railways was enough to cope with World War II.

(To be continued)