The invasion of the great powers of the late Qing Dynasty brought about the humiliation of modern China, and also brought a lot of changes, such as the previous Cao Yun, from the canal to the sea, the development of shipping, so that the whole Tianjin port changes are very lively, Tianjin and Shanghai, is another scene, still busy, into the city of Tianjin, but there is a feeling of old Beijing, Tianjin is too close to Beijing, and in the late Qing Dynasty, Beijing flavor is still relatively strong.

Slowly walked down the spiral staircase, on this cruise ship, the people on board, most of them are long-distance, there are not many people who get off the ship, there are a lot of people on the ship, it is estimated that after arriving in Japan, this ship will be quite fully loaded, and then cross the Pacific Ocean, go to the United States, Yang Yue of the year, is to take this route, however, the ocean passenger ship is only more than 8000 tons, almost twice as small as this.

In three days, the wind and waves at sea were much larger than those in the big rivers, but because of the large tonnage of the ships, the ability to resist the wind and waves was much stronger than that of small boats.

Tianjin, one of the few industrial cities in China, Qixin Yang Ash Field, Huachang Match Factory, Zhili Machinery General Bureau, and Beiyang built a large-scale industry here, it can be said that Tianjin's industrial population is more than Shanghai and Hankou, and the emerging Tianjin City, one-third of the population, is related to industry.

Walking on the streets of Tianjin, the shop comes from the strong industrial atmosphere, and when you really arrive in Tianjin, you will feel the strength of Tianjin, and you can see a lot of machine products sold on the street, and even some machine products, no wonder that in history, Tianjin's output value has always been the first in China.

Yang Yuanzhao was slightly moved after getting some descriptions of Tianjin from the Yang family, and some ignored the role of Tianjin, after all, in later generations, Tianjin is a municipality directly under the central government, but the total economic volume is not particularly prominent in the country, who would have thought that in this era, Tianjin, is still so strong.

Compared with Shanghai in the south, Tianjin's Yang family is more powerful, the relationship between Zhengtai Road, a lot of things in Taiyuan, it is very convenient to transport to Tianjin, Tianjin has access to the four seas, and it is an important town close to the capital, the Yang family is currently in this place, with at least 50 shops, the most important city in the north of the Yang family, is also here, so in charge of here, is Yang Yue's fourth uncle, but also Yang Shitang's brother Yang Shiyuan.

As early as the departure from Shanghai, Yang Yue informed Yang Shiyuan, to be honest, for Yang Yuanzhao's interest, Yang Yue can be said to have never understood why Yang Yuanzhao would be so interested in factories and enterprises, is his expectation wrong, Yang Yuanzhao did not just want to access the textile industry, but want to access more systems.

Iron mills, textile mills, yarn mills, ash yards, match factories, and so on, all seemed to be full of interest, and each one wanted to see it.

Yang Yuanzhao's most important thing to see is Qixin, speaking of Qixinyang gray field, I have to say that Zhou Xuexi, in the history of Beiyang, in addition to the official figures, there are also a number of talents in business, and there are many business talents in Beiyang, such as Sheng Huaixuan, Zhou Xuexi, etc., these people in the disaster-ridden late Qing Dynasty, supported the huge consumption of Beiyang, and even said that after 1900, most of Beiyang's military spending also relied on a series of Beiyang enterprises such as steamship China Merchants Bureau to support.

It's just a small factory, and it's not a secret place, the only thing that can be said is that it's dirty and messy, the Yang family's power in Tianjin is huge, and they quickly found competent personnel, and took Yang Yuanzhao and them into the Qixinyang gray field.

Entering Qixin, speaking of which, it is still very dilapidated, with a daily output of 700 barrels of cement, with an annual output, but about 250,000 barrels, only tens of thousands of tons, such an output, in this era, is already the first in China, but compared with the cement plant of the later generations that Yang Yuanzhao saw, it is not the same, the cement plant of hundreds of thousands of tons and millions of tons in later generations, and the production is high-grade cement, and now this ash field, the production efficiency is not high.

Yang Yuanzhao is still interested in watching this ash field, what he needs to solve now is the problem of having and not having, he has more technical equipment than this world, but can not show it, but according to the existing equipment, can produce a lot of ideas, just like here, Qixin ash field, already has a full set of equipment for the production of cement, although the daily output is not high, this is mostly because the scale of the equipment is not large enough, energy is not abundant, after understanding several elements of cement production, He also knows a lot about building a cement plant.

For most of the day, after turning Qixin, I went to the next factory, where the industry is developed, but a certain kind of Cheng dù above, overlapping with many things in Shanghai, the real increase is not too much, some military machine bureaus, because of various relationships, can not enter, which more or less makes Yang Yuanzhao a little disappointed, what makes Yang Yuanzhao even more disappointed is that he did not see Zhou Xuexi, the legend of Tianjin industry, he is the same as Zhang Jian, he is a strong man of the times, many industries in Tianjin, almost direct, or indirect, all have something to do with Zhou Xuexi.

Fortunately, Tianjin is closer to Baotou, and in the future, when he solves the traffic problem, when the railway connects them, he will have the opportunity to meet them.

Tianjin docked for a short time, that is, most of the day, after a hurried visit to a few factories, Yang Yuanzhao and Yang Yue set off, at this time, Yang Yuanzhao's hands, and thousands of different drawings, all over Hankou, Shanghai and Tianjin, the three most important cities in China, did not be able to enter Qingdao, to personally copy the German machinery, has made Yang Yuanzhao for China's basic industry has a thoroughfare, next, he will be based on the experience of the market, with the help of the all-in-one machine, Gradually increase their production capacity, reduce production costs, increase operability, when these modifications, all completed, these things will be copied, and many problems in the entire Northwest will be solved.

Back to the heart like an arrow, they did not even sit directly on the Zhengtai Road, but from Beijing, directly to Beijing-Zhangjiakou has not yet been repaired, the Beijing-Zhangjiakou railway, just this year and next year, can directly arrive at Zhangjiakou, from Zhangjiakou to Baotou, than from Taiyuan to Baotou, a little closer, saving a lot of time and distance back and forth.

The train passes through the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, because of the repair of the railway, here has also begun to gradually lively, itself from the capital to Zhangjiakou, the east exit of this customs, a certain distance dù above, with the mouth of the transaction is unusually active, there was no railway before, only by virtue of the caravan, now the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, even if it has not yet reached Baotou, but the line has occupied four-fifths, saving hundreds of miles of distance and time, unusually busy.

Tianjin here, is still the purchase of a ticket, all the way to the easy arrival, after getting off, naturally there is the Yang family's carriage, with them to Baotou, more than a month of time, footprints all over the north and south of the river, it can be said that a certain Cheng dù down, the whole of China's essence of the place to see a circle, Hankou, Shanghai and Tianjin, I am afraid that among China's important towns, only Guangzhou has not been to, but Guangzhou, except for a few British-funded companies, the remaining Chinese-funded companies, their strength, may not be comparable to Shanghai and Tianjin, There is more foreign economic and trade affairs, that is to say, those who do business are much higher than those who do business.

After more than a day, I finally arrived in Baotou, Baotou in early spring, everywhere is green, a pastoral scenery, but in this desolate mouth, in the future, there will be a behemoth, rising here, but now, it is still covered in a wasteland, this era, with the arrival of Yang Yuanzhao, is destined to be different.