Countries around the world soon discovered that the Japanese thundered heavily and rained, and they were still waiting for the Japanese to bite off a piece of meat from China and then come to share the food, but the Japanese quickly shrunk, leaving the countries a little confused. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Germans are not in a hurry, they have made a lot of benefits in Shandong, after Yang Chao became the governor, he engaged in industrial construction in Shandong, and the most benefited is the German industry, because a large number of machinery and equipment are needed here, and the Germans are very relieved to eat most of them, because most of the investment is German enterprises.

The 30 large enterprises introduced by Yang Chao have an investment of tens of millions of pounds alone, and the machinery and equipment in them can only cost 35 million, which is the meat in the mouths of the Germans, and looking at Yang Chao's appearance, it seems that he is not satisfied at all, and there are still many benefits in the future.

Just like Yang Chao said, the industrialization of such a large country with a population of 40,000 can be compared with the industrialization development of the United States in human history, but it is only barely compared, because the Americans are only 60 million, while China is 40,000 people, which is not an order of magnitude.

Although there are still concerns about China's industrialization, and I do not think that China will be able to develop like the United States, as long as China can develop to the level of Japan, it will also be an unprecedented market.

The second half of 1907 passed slowly, and the whole world was struggling with the torment of the crisis.

One by one enterprises in Shandong have begun to put into production.

Yang Chao fulfilled his promise, and all the companies and products he attracted found a market.

As early as last year, Siemens received a large order to build a large power plant in Yantai, Dongying and Laiwu, with a capacity of 150,000 kilowatts, with the most advanced steam turbine power of 5,000 kilowatts, requiring 30 Siemens large-scale equipment.

The civil works of the power plant have been completed, and it is just waiting for Siemens equipment.

The Americans were already in a hurry, and they saw that Yang Chao had given all the orders for these power plants to Siemens, and for this purpose they used various connections from the government to the private sector to convince Yang Chao, and General Electric, which was controlled by the Morgan consortium, wanted the same treatment.

Yang Chao said that a power plant can easily invest millions of dollars, and he can't get it out, in fact, the whole of Shandong needs electrification, and the market has to be expanded by a hundred times, and power plants, electric locomotives, etc. need funds to do it.

Some people say that this crisis was initiated by the Morgan consortium and was a financial war to suppress the trust industry, so Morgan financial management did not get involved in the financial speculation of the trust industry, but they punctured the bubble.

This is true, but the economic crisis has affected Morgan's investment opportunities and the interests of his industrial enterprises, and he can't wait to expand abroad.

Yang Chao was not very willing to borrow from the United States, but he was much more interested in German loans, and the German banking group saw Morgan's action and immediately began to act, expressing support for Yang Chao's plan and willing to participate in it to provide financing services.

The two sides hit it off, and a £10 million electrification bond was agreed to support the development of regional electric railways in Shandong, as well as the construction of power plants with a capacity of 50,000 to 150,000 in various cities in Shandong.

The loan was secured by the Shandong tariff and was repaid over fifteen years, but only interest was to be paid for the first ten years.

Yang Chao calculated very clearly that the total interest in the first ten years was less than eighty percent of the total loan, and ten years later it was 1917, when the Germans were about to be defeated, and the loan was estimated to be almost yellow. This kind of borrowing is naturally very cost-effective, and it would be a fool not to borrow.

Morgan was very unhappy with this, especially expressing anger at the weakness of their government on the China issue.

Because it is the inaction of their government that has greatly damaged the interests of American businessmen, and their expansion in China has not been smooth.

Morgan wanted to unite with the British, but the British had already eaten a 10 million pound railway bond, and had no intention of embarrassing China for the time being, especially Yang Chao, who was in charge of the railway.

The year 1908 finally arrived, and the economic situation in various countries eased slightly.

A group of national capital invested in Shandong, because in the end, with the support of Yang Chao's total emergency loan of 50 million, finally survived the disaster and did not go bankrupt. At this time, they also discovered the advantages of Shandong investment, especially the government's restrictions on them were very limited, Li Fu'an's industrial and commercial bureau took over all the power of enterprise management, for which there was also a political struggle, the traditional bureaucrats formed an alliance to impeach Yang Chao, and Yang Chao was over, but the dissatisfaction with Yang Chao in the court became more and more intense, to put it bluntly, Yang Chao violated the power of too many people.

In particular, the Western-style faction, after two generations of Yuan Shikai and Zhou Fu's management, the strength of the Western-style faction in Shandong is still very strong, and it is integrated with the Western-style faction in the DPRK and the central government, and has criticized Yang Chao for all kinds of administration, what betrayed the country, what colluded with foreigners to gain self-respect, what supported the army lawlessly, and so on.

Yang Chao fought back strongly, saying that the newly established State Administration for Industry and Commerce was approved by the imperial court, which was a new policy, and over time, it would inevitably be effective, and he did not hesitate to bet with the Western-style party that it would be effective within three years, otherwise he was willing to stop.

"This official is blocking his political future. You have to fight for breath. ”

Yang Chao told Wang Qiu and others about his behavior.

Wang Qiu also returned at the end of last year, and from 1901, after nearly six years of study, he also completed his studies.

In fact, the first batch of international students are slowly returning to China, and they are full of passion and ambition to join the tide of the New Deal, and Shandong is the cusp of this tide, although the crisis is turbulent, but also vibrant.

"Rest assured, my lord, we will do our best to not let those old stubborns have any excuses."

Wang Qiu was full of confidence, after he returned to China, he immediately set up a chemical enterprise, using petroleum as raw materials, to produce some chemical products, such as phenol, Wang Qiu decided that the cost of petrochemical industry is lower than that of coal chemical industry, refining phenol from petroleum is a new technology, than refining from coal tar, the procedure is simpler and more efficient.

He believes that the production of phenol in Shandong and export to Japan is promising.

But he didn't think about it, why Japan didn't produce phenol itself, but imported it from the United States and Germany to produce dyes, there was no oil!

There is no oil in Shandong, but there are coal resources in Shandong, Yang Chao is not optimistic, but he still gave Wang Qiu 100,000 taels of silver, let him design his own equipment, process it locally in Shandong, and then produce it on a small scale.

At the end of last year alone, more than 1,000 people came to Shandong, accounting for 30 percent of the number of students who graduated that year.

Yang Chao stuffed these people into the railway company, Laiwu Arsenal and other enterprises that he could influence, which was really useless, just like those foreign company introductions, for example, he originally wanted to introduce Wang Qiu to Bayer, but Wang Qiu was not happy to go and wanted to invest in entrepreneurship.

Yang Chao's plan is that these people work slowly in foreigners, especially German companies, and after they thoroughly understand and integrate into these enterprises, they can just implement their own plans to receive German-funded enterprises, if someone in the middle wants to come out to start a business, of course, it is not unwelcome, but Yang Chao told them that they have to wait until they learn to say, they must learn the operation and management of enterprises, and after three years, they perform well in their respective enterprises, at least have become technical backbones or middle-level management personnel, Yang Chao will consider letting them invest.

Wang Qiu is the only case, and the explanation for this is that let Wang Qiu pilot first, and if Wang Qiu succeeds, then all international students can be considered to start their own businesses.

"The imperial court has lifted the ban on the party. So we can now form a party. I propose that the official name of our Strong Country and Rich People Society be changed to the China Prosperity and Strong Party! The voting began. ”

At the beginning of the year, at the first party meeting, representatives of international students from all over Shandong, and even from Shanghai and other places, gathered together to discuss the issue of forming a party.

At the beginning of this year, under the impetus of Kang Youwei, the imperial court finally lifted the ban on parties and announced that the establishment of political parties was allowed, saying that this was a preparatory work for constitutionalism, and constitutionalists, of course, must have political parties to participate.

"My lord, after we form a party, is it time to participate in the parliamentary election?"

Wang Qiu raised his hand high, almost everyone agreed to the reorganization, and there was no suspense in forming the party, Wang Qiu immediately said.

Yang Chao said: "Do the work at hand first. You say that you have not yet succeeded in society, why do you dare to ask the court directly for power. Do you think this is still a show of talent and taking the imperial examination, and the court is Tian Shelang and ascends to Tianzi Hall? If you want to gain power, you must first prove that you are a successful person. For example, if your business is done first, then you can talk about it. ”

Although many people are pushing it, the provincial governors are very opposed, and the current parliament is much more powerful than two years ago, and the Kangliang group has given the parliament various powers to decide on taxes, which has led to the further decentralization of the imperial court power to the provinces.

In the past, when Cixi was there, the distribution plan of customs tax was that the imperial court collected 40 percent, and the provinces were divided into 60 percent.

For example, Gansu Province's exports last year were only about 100,000 taels of silver, and the tariffs that could be distributed were less than 30,000 taels, while the exports of the two rivers exceeded 80 million, and the tariffs could be divided into more than 6 million taels.

Dashifang, as the headquarters of the Fuqiang Party, was lively for three days, and discussed and formulated various rules and regulations of the party.

The core content is not much different from the past.

The two purposes of strengthening the country and enriching the people have not changed.

The three means are to establish education, encourage industry, and develop the military.