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Although the great powers did not invest much in industry in China, it was because they could not see the market.

Where there is a market, they are also willing to try, such as silk reeling factories and spinning factories in Guangzhou and Shanghai.

However, there is not much interest in investing in manufacturing and setting up machine factories, except for the repair shops of foreigners in the German port cities of Guangzhou, Shanghai, Tianjin, and so on, there are very few factories with complete sets of equipment, and not all foreigners have a sense of crisis and limit the outflow of industrial capital at all costs.

To put it bluntly, in this era, there are deliberate restrictions, and the organizational ability has not yet reached that level, and it is not yet possible to put an end to the outflow of industrial capitalists. Other countries dare not say it, at least the Americans do not have this consideration, as long as they can make money, the government cannot control that group of capitalists.

But there is a problem with these capitalists, that is, there is no absolute guarantee, and they dare not invest.

Even the Americans, who had tasted the first sweetness in the war, made a lot of money, and had completely recovered their investment, did not want to rush to China to set up manufacturing enterprises.

The Americans wanted Yang Chao to give them a guarantee that the products they produced would find a market, just like the Laiwu Arsenal, and if they couldn't be sold, the Chinese government would underwrite them.

Well, Yang Chao has thought of this a long time ago, so he talked to the Americans about the most promising project, the shipyard project.

Yang Chao wanted to build a shipyard in Yantai, a shipyard capable of building warships, which would guarantee that the government could place orders.

Warships are a lucrative business, and the Americans immediately came to the spirit to discuss the details, including the size of the shipyard, the location of the shipyard, and how to fulfill the contract, etc., hoping to be the first to get the order.

The Qing government has long wanted to reorganize the navy, but it has always been talking to the British, after all, the British are experts in playing the navy, and the Americans are just amateurs, but the British warship is called an expensive one, and the current main dreadnought is three million pounds sterling.

Yang Chao did not hesitate to go to Beijing in person, and after persuading Kang Youwei and others, he met Zaifeng and persuaded him for an hour, and finally won the order of four dreadnoughts after guaranteeing that he could use Shandong taxes as collateral.

If Yang Chao wants to do it, he must be in place at one time, directly start building dreadnoughts, and introduce the most advanced shipbuilding technology at one time, because the cost is too great, and if the steps are too small, I am sorry for the society.

Four dreadnoughts, more than 10 million pounds, more than 50 million dollars, and the Americans went crazy all at once, which means that as soon as they start construction, they are absolutely guaranteed to be able to recoup their investment.

The Americans were the first to agree, willing to accept the pilot project in Shandong, and accept the Qing government's right to stop the pilot, but the demand could not be stopped for at least ten years, and under Yang Chao's struggle, the Americans promised to reduce the demand to five years, and at the same time privately signed an agreement with Yang Chao that if the Qing government forcibly took back the shipyard, then Yang Chao would compensate them for their losses.

For these key enterprises, Yang Chao is still willing to take risks and spend blood.

The Germans have long been eyeing the news of the negotiations between the Americans and Yang Chao, but Shandong is their sphere of influence, and the United States is constantly grabbing interests.

After Yang Chao received the American consul's assurances written in black and white, the Germans came to the door and said that they also wanted to talk to Yang Chao.

Attracting the Germans to take the bait, this is Yang Chao's purpose, directly looking for the Germans, the German government, which attaches great importance to its own domestic industry, may not agree, but with the United States, a hungry wolf, joining, the Germans will not be indifferent.

The American spirit of doing anything for profit is sometimes very cute.

I don't know how the Germans figured out the content of Yang Chao's agreement with the Americans, and even knew about the agreement to compensate for losses, and they also wanted to sign the same agreement with Yang Chao, and the Germans said that the Volkeng shipyard, which they had built warships for the Beiyang Fleet, was also interested in investing in China, and asked Yang Chao to agree to purchase their warships and so on.

Yang Chao pretended to be annoyed and said that the negotiations with the Americans were completely commercial, and he had no power to influence the construction of the navy, and the four Dreadnought-class battleships were already the limit of the Qing government's finances, and it was absolutely impossible to increase them.

Germany asked Yang Chao to divide the two ships from the Americans to his shipyard, Yang Chao said that it was impossible, and he would abide by the agreement signed in black and white, and told the Germans that he was a gentleman with the spirit of contract, and so far, he had not done anything that violated the contract. The Germans agree with this, because the cooperation with the Germans is still very pleasant.

However, Yang Chao attracted the Germans to take the bait, and finally reluctantly expressed his willingness to offer his German friends a contract for cruisers and destroyers, the contract amount was no less than that of the Americans, which was also 50 million US dollars.

The Germans were satisfied, but they asked the factory to be built in Qingdao, and they were afraid that Yang Chao would not agree, so they cited a lot of examples, such as the best ports in Shandong are only Yantai and Qingdao, and if the shipyard is placed in one place in Yantai, it is not conducive to a series of problems such as factory site selection.

Yang Chao hesitated for a long time, and then pretended to be persuaded by the Germans, and reluctantly agreed to their request to build a shipyard in Qingdao.

After the United States and Germany, other countries also rushed to convince the wolves that it would be much more troublesome.

Because the meat in Yang Chao's hand has been thrown out, without bait, it is difficult for these people to agree easily.

In the end, they signed a cooperation intention with the British and the Japanese for two textile machines, but told them that they did not plan to underwrite, but asked Dasheng Yarn Factory to come forward and sign a contract with these two companies to purchase 200,000 spindles.

In fact, the British still valued the order of warships the most, but they really did not plan to build a shipyard in China, the British Empire had the largest fleet in the world, they were the sea coachmen of this era, and their shipyards did not need to invest abroad to get contracts.

As for the textile machinery factory given by Yang Chao, it is just better than nothing, after all, they also want to see how the Qing government is doing this pilot, if there are indeed huge benefits, the British do not mind uniting with France and forcing the Qing government to carry out a pilot in Guangdong. In Shandong, the feelings of the Germans must always be taken into account, and the appetite of the British cannot be too large.

As for the Japanese, they were completely British followers at this time, and the gains of the Russo-Japanese War were much less than in the original history, but the cost was almost doubled, and they were burdened with a loan of 3 billion yen.

The French also came, the Russians also came, the alliance of the two countries expressed their desire to invest in a wire and cable factory in Shandong, France's power industry technology is actually not weak, France's Alstom is no worse than Siemens, the French intend to use French technology, and Russian copper mines, to produce cables in China.

Italy and Austria-Hungary joined forces to form a bicycle factory.

The Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, a small country, even want a piece of the pie, which is a very troublesome thing, if they don't promise them, they won't give Yang Chao a guarantee, and without their guarantee, the Qing government won't allow Yang Chao to carry out a pilot project.

Yang Chao finally agreed to these countries to set up a machine tool factory, and it is an open machine tool factory, any country that does not participate can come to invest, such as Switzerland, Sweden and other small countries that do not seek to expand in China.

The selection of these projects is, firstly, the will of these countries, and secondly, Yang Chao's agreement is because it is controllable. Because of all the projects, Yang Chao has set deadlines, needless to say for shipyards in the United States and Germany, which are guaranteed by orders. The British's spinning machine and textile machine project, which Yang Chao intends to expand the textile industry to solve the problem of labor transfer, is absolutely supported, so it is also guaranteed. The cable projects of the French and Russians are also guaranteed, because those other enterprises are inseparable from cables. Bicycles Yang Chao plans to purchase for the army, and it is a big deal to form a bicycle machinery unit. Placed in the machine tool factory, it is also to deal with these small countries, at the same time Yang Chao also understands that the future enterprises can not do without machine tools, Belgium, Switzerland machine tool quality is still good.

Of course, all the agreements, Yang Chao has signed additional terms, that is, the quality must be guaranteed, Yang Chao will let the professionals accept, once unqualified, it will never be accepted, Yang Chao has suffered a loss, not to mention the Germans played greasy in the arsenal at the beginning, that is, China's own people, have pit Yang Chao.

At the beginning, Yang Chao promised Dalong Iron Factory and Fachang Machinery Factory that as long as they could imitate spinning and textile machines, Yang Chao would underwrite all of them and let Zhang Jian buy them.

As a result, Dalong Iron Factory made the first batch of equipment in three months, and then continued to expand the scale, but the quality of their products is too poor, Zhang Jian lost his temper with Yang Chao several times, and Yang Chao was promised to support the national industry, but this greatly affected the normal production of Dasheng Yarn Factory, as soon as the three-year protection period passed, Zhang Jian did not want the equipment of Dalong Iron Factory, no matter what Yan Yutang said to guarantee, life or death is not wanted, Yan Yutang did not care, rolled up a quick money, and sold the equipment and machines to Fachang Machinery Factory, Then I went back to Shanghai to develop.

After this lesson, Yang Chao added a clause that the quality must meet the quality of similar imported products, otherwise Yang Chao has the right to refuse to accept it.

After reaching an agreement, both sides were overjoyed, and the big and small powers immediately signed a guarantee to Yang Chao in black and white, and handed over these things to the imperial court, Kang Youwei, Zaifeng and others were relieved, and the appointment came down immediately, as expected, the governor of Shandong, who had been vacant during this time, was handed over to Yang Chao.