On January 27, the two stock exchanges in Shanghai and Guangzhou were put on sale by the Beijing government, with a bond issuance cycle of 10 years, guaranteed by the government, with an annual interest rate of 3%, and the equity fund was invested in the canal and enjoyed long-term investment income after the completion of the canal.

Although the prospectus made it clear that the time limit for the construction of the canal is 20 years, but the 100-year income cycle still makes domestic capital flock to it, not to mention, these shares can be listed and traded after three years, for a time, the canal thousands of miles away, almost became a household name in China, and on the first day of the IPO, more than 18 million yuan of bonds were sold, and the amount of shares raised reached 21 million yuan.

Just one day earlier, dozens of domestic newspapers, including China Times, Beijing Times, Tianjin Daily, Declaration, and Fujian New Daily, had published a call from the government cabinet to recruit technicians from the six major systems of rivers, bridges, shipping, construction, engineering, and mining to participate in the construction of the Panama Canal, which is thousands of miles away.

In the media, this huge project that cannot be completed by Europeans has been called the project of the century, and it is an important measure to demonstrate China's engineering and technological capabilities and overseas influence, and at the same time, the government has also come up with a staggering amount of money to invest a huge incentive system for the construction of the canal, and it is said that the entire canal will invest tens of millions of yuan in capital, and the Beijing government is very clear that the entire canal will be transformed into a huge market investment and corporate operation.

A large number of enthusiastic young people flocked to the recruitment points set up in the ports in various provinces, and asked to go overseas to realize their personal dreams and values. All of them have in their hands the equity incentive mechanism of China's Panama Canal Company, which has been excerpted from the press. It is 30% owned by the state. The remaining 70 percent was run by the market, and for the first time in the country, the canal engineers were owned by the whole people, which undoubtedly sparked a wave of immigration from Panama.

While a large number of young people were waiting for interviews at the recruitment point at the dock, a hurried queue sparked a series of exclamations and attention......

"How come the Wehrmacht is boarding here too? Are they going to Panama too? A young man in a gray-yellow mechanic's uniform asked his companion in surprise.

"Xiaohou, what kind of eyes do you have! They were wearing military uniforms, but they didn't bring weapons, and they also dragged a mainframe qì, which looked like a construction corps! But. It's not a small possibility to go to Panama! The elder next to him had already speculated with a smile.

"Wow...... The military construction corps has been dispatched, and it seems that this Panama Canal is really a big project! If you can really get a stake in it, you will definitely make a fortune! All kinds of inexplicable rumors are rapidly circulating in recruitment points around the country, bringing more young people who are looking forward to the future.

When the entire domestic media was paying attention to the country's overseas rights and interests, two days later, in the official residence of the Tianjin Provincial Government, Zhou Fu, the Beiyang tycoon who was about to step down from his post and grow up in Zhili, was chatting with He Xing, the minister of commerce who came to visit, and the third person who was present to accompany him was Zhou Fu's eldest son Zhou Xuexi, now the eldest son of the Zhou family. The experience is far beyond what was previously in history.

For the past 10 years, he has been assigned to Nanhua to handle the local industry of the Nanyang system. fully demonstrated his talent in the business field, and then was appointed as the chief officer of the Department of Integrity in Zhejiang, which is also very popular!

Qin Kai didn't care about Zhou Xuexi's Beiyang lineage at all, as the head of the Ba'ath Party, he knew very well that the Ba'ath Party could become a long-term ruling party in the true sense, the gun was a key, and the other key was naturally the integrity of talent and party affairs.

Zhou Fu is obviously also very satisfied with his eldest son's career, which obviously has the meaning of Qin armor's reuse, and more importantly, Zhou Xuexi's ability has been positively evaluated, and Zhou Xuexi was quickly authorized to build a set of organizations that can manage the huge canal, which makes Zhou Fu obviously see something unusual.

"Chief Ho, the excavation of the Panama Canal is unusual, I saw some time ago that the French seem to have been working there for seven or eight years, and the progress is very slow...... Does Premier Qin have any requirements for this? Zhou Fu was obviously still worried, so he had to ask a few more questions.

He Xing came here, naturally with Qin Kai's meaning, he smiled slightly, "Brother Wushan, in terms of funds, Premier Qin has already spoken, and he will make every effort to guarantee that in terms of shipping, I can also give you a package ticket here, but how to strategize, Xuexi has to think carefully, the prime minister said, this canal is related to the lifeblood of the country in the next hundred years, and within twelve years, it must be able to ensure navigation!" ”

Twelve years...... This proposition directly surprised Zhou Xuexi on the side, this is really a vast project, he had been mentally prepared before, but he never thought that it could be so arduous and long!

The conversation between the two sides lasted for most of the day, and after sending He Xing away, Zhou Fu asked Zhou Xuexi to sit down with a stern expression, and the father and son began to discuss the new appointment very seriously......

"Xuexi, this appointment, I think it is not trivial, the dock sends at least 4 ships to Shanghai every day, all of them are assembled and escorted to Panama by the navy, according to this trend, the prime minister is not just ready to dig a canal for that Colombia! What do you think? "Old man Zhou is a Beiyang think tank, and he is naturally very vicious in this matter.

Just now, He Xing also carefully introduced the entire Panama project according to Qin Kai's meaning, for Zhou Xuexi, appointing him as the commander-in-chief naturally valued his organizational ability in the past, he obviously also realized the unusual task, and after a little pondering, he immediately replied: "Father, I think the prime minister is still focused on the maintenance of sea power, and if we want to ensure the rights and interests of Greater China in the Pacific, in addition to strengthening armaments, I am afraid we must also contain the United States on the other side!" ”

Hearing Zhou Xuexi's analysis, Zhou Fu was also quite satisfied, he naturally hoped that his son would follow his father's business, but in his position, he definitely needed to have the ability to have vision, he patted Zhou Xuexi's shoulder with satisfaction, "Sailor, I still have some connections, you also take this opportunity to go out and have a look, the prime minister gave 12 years, I think I'm afraid I'm very nervous......"

In 12 years, as Zhou Fu expected, it was indeed Qin Kai who proposed after careful consideration, and he naturally had no way of knowing what kind of changes would occur in the pattern of this era in the rising Far Eastern China, but the two major wars that swept the world would probably still appear, and what he wanted to do was to make China's development as little as possible affected, and even benefit from it.

This is also an important reason why he went all out to seize the right to dig the Panama Canal and contain the United States...... This is a necessary move for China's development, the United States has a white skin, which is very unfavorable to the rising China, and the 100-year history of the United States since its independence has allowed the country's system to embark on a new stage of steady development.

In general, Qin Kai also understands that the American political system does have its advantages, which is different from the huge advantages of European countries that have been in a state of mutual containment for a long time, so if China wants to develop, it must fully develop its own advantages and make full use of the current situation.

"Prime Minister, the country has completed the Panama Canal Company's equity fund of 95 million yuan, bond issuance of 64 million yuan, in Shanghai to complete the assembly of the fleet, has issued 4 51 ships, contractors, technicians, workers a total of 10,735 people, according to this month's cabinet order, has been issued to all new immigrants for the road, settlement allowance of more than 650,000 yuan, the total number of new immigrants recruited by the provinces, preliminary statistics, will exceed 150,000 people." He Xing sat in Qin Kai's study, holding the report he had just received and said happily.

On the side, Tang Shaoyi, Minister of Finance, looked even more relaxed, "Prime Minister, if the Panama Canal investment can be fully financed from the securities market, we can increase the investment of 10,000 kilometers of railways and highways within two years, connect the two-way double-track railway network you requested to the inland provinces of Shaanxi and Gansu, and increase the investment of millions of education funds to the six southwestern provinces, which can solve a big problem!" ”

Before Qin Kai was ready to speak, He Xing next to him had already jumped up, "Shaochuan, this fund can't be diverted for other purposes, the canal may have more funds in the short term, but the whole project is too huge, and there must be sufficient supplementary funds...... Once the canal is under construction, it may not be optimistic if it is refinanced at that time! ”

Although the financing of such a huge project has solved a large amount of canal funds, the Ministry of Commerce estimates that the funds of the entire canal may exceed 200 million yuan, although the current financing situation is very considerable, but such a huge project, to obtain financing and return to shareholders, this is originally an amazing transaction, even He Xing, who knows the net worth of the entire Nanyang system, has never manipulated such a huge single investment.

In fact, the results of domestic financing are also greatly beyond Qin Kai's expectations, the steady development of the whole decade, the original intention of hiding wealth from the people seems to have indeed played an effect, originally he was also ready to allocate a part of the prime minister's special funds for the Panama Canal project, now look at the shape, the next ten years of domestic capital will be more abundant, it is estimated that it can be saved.

He immediately played a round for the two, these two, when it comes to money, it is a more iron rooster than the other, "Chief He, the original investment funds, I see that Shaochuan is reserved first, the canal company side, the Ministry of Commerce has to take the lead, I'm afraid you have to worry about these things, I authorize the establishment of a special office, responsible for coordinating the affairs of the canal, and at the same time work with the Department of Integrity to supervise, and also ask the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Military Affairs to send people to settle in to facilitate coordination!" ”

Qin Kai's money, both sides can obviously propose to use this money when necessary, and the two iron roosters are naturally at peace, and when they are about to discuss further, Zhou Ruidong suddenly came out of the door like a ghost, in the winter, this guy actually took off his military hat, and his head was still steaming, and he laughed as soon as he entered the door; "Instructor, instructor, Yankees are really doing it!" (To be continued......)