Countries all over the world have little interest in setting up industries, especially heavy industries, in other countries. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

All of them have done everything possible to keep their industries in the country, firstly to increase the employment of workers, and secondly, to increase domestic tax revenues.

Doesn't the so-called national strength mean that the country has money and the productive forces are developed?

Therefore, the Germans did not care about operating in Qingdao, but they never thought that the purpose of setting up industries and building railways in Qingdao was only to plunder the minerals of Shandong.

The British in India have long used legal restrictions and political means to suppress Indian industry, and it is hard to imagine that those female workers who rely on manual weaving have to endure higher taxes than British factories.

Therefore, in order to develop the domestic industry, it is necessary to crack down on the colonial industry, and at the same time, it is necessary to use the colonial market to satisfy the appetite of the domestic industry, which is the meaning of the existence of the colony.

Therefore, the Germans were absolutely not interested, and they wanted to do everything possible to suppress the industrial development of Shandong.

The United States is perhaps the only exception.

This is a typical country controlled by capitalists, who have no intention of developing any undertakings that have nothing to do with making money, but those who have money to make money are very enthusiastic, and they don't care whether the money is earned from foreign investment or robbed.

Therefore, in the absence of a profit from trade, the Americans are most willing to invest in industry, as long as it is profitable.

So when they saw that they couldn't profit from China's overhaul of the railroads, they preferred to support China's industrial power, as long as it allowed them to profit.

I have to say that after the death of Cixi and Guangxu, Zaifeng came to power, leaving a wonderful fantasy for Westerners, that is, China may open its doors and may release unprecedented benefits. After Zhang Zhidong came to power, he quickly started the construction of several railways, and the total number of railway projects currently under construction and planned to be built turned out to be more than 3,000 kilometers long, which is a huge cake, and the Americans absolutely do not want to just watch it but not eat it.

But they tried all kinds of efforts, in the south through loans, tried to participate in the Canton-Hankou Railway, but were squeezed out by the British and French coalition, and in the north they unexpectedly got the benefits of the Yanji Railway, and they were forced to vomit by the Germans. They don't want to do anything else, and they don't want to take a dime of China's interests.

So they hope that through Yang Chao, they can meet their purpose of tearing off a piece of interests, that is, they must cut into the Chinese market, but they have no confidence, they need someone to give them a guarantee, Britain and France and other powers will definitely not give up the fat on their lips, they can only obtain benefits through the Chinese. They found Yang Chao and hoped that Yang Chao would give them a guarantee.

For the development of industry, of course, Yang Chao is very enthusiastic, as for whether it is domestic or foreign, in fact, there is no choice at this time, because Yang Chao can not even find a talent who understands steelmaking, China has been closed for too long, and the talent for building various modern industries is almost a blank.

Hanyang Iron Works is a benchmark, but the chief engineer is a Luxembourger, and the full set of equipment is also Luxembourg equipment, Yang Chao does not think that he is stronger than a figure like Zhang Zhidong, such an officialdom old oil field, with greater resources, can not do things, Yang Chao can not do better, but the development is not waiting for me, in addition to the introduction of foreign capital and what other options.

If, as later generations did, through the introduction of foreign capital and eventually the introduction of technology, Western technology spread on Chinese soil, Yang Chao fully believes in the Chinese's ability to imitate, once the foreign industry is introduced, when the capitalists see the benefits, they will definitely immediately act and set up factories.

Therefore, Yang Chao not only hopes to introduce an American steel plant, but also hopes that this steel plant can make money and play an exemplary role.

However, Yang Chao did not expect the Germans to move so quickly, he had just come into contact with the Americans, and before he even entered into substantive negotiations, the Germans' protest arrived.

"Never underestimate a hungry wolf's determination to protect its food!"

Yang Chao couldn't help but sigh.

"Do you want to talk to the Americans?"

Pan Xun asked.

Pan Xun had just returned from Shanghai, he went to Shanghai for more than a month and recruited 300 students, which completely exceeded Yang Chao's expectations, which made Yang Chao a little surprised. Not only did he find students, Pan Xun even recruited more than a dozen teachers, because the resistance he encountered was that many of these students had not yet graduated, some of them were elementary school and some were at the middle school level, but fortunately their teachers were invited back, and these students practiced on the construction site during the day, followed Zhan Tianyou and those engineers to learn, and continued to complete their schoolwork at night.

Pan Xun's ability impressed Yang Chao, compared to Wang Qiu, who had a more fierce personality, reluctantly found dozens of students, and it was not surprising that Li Sidi, who had a larger network of support, recruited three hundred local students.

Of course, Pan Xun spent more money and promised more things, and he even took it upon himself to promise a group of teachers to set up a special school for them in Yantai.

But Yang Chao was very satisfied with his self-assertion, because he was able to make such a bold action without having time to inform Yang Chao, which showed that he knew Yang Chao best, and it also showed that he was decisive in doing things.

Therefore, as soon as he came back, Yang Chao planned to focus on cultivating this guy, taking him to participate in the negotiations with foreigners throughout the process, and explaining to him every step of the way, so that he could understand his intentions.

"You should know what I mean when I talk to the Americans."

"The adults said they wanted the Americans to drive the Chinese to run steel."

Yang Chao nodded: "You remember it very well." But you don't know, I'm afraid that only Americans come to China to set up steel plants for money. In the past 100 years, the technological progress of Europeans has been too fast, not to mention Britain and Germany, even small countries such as Belgium and Luxembourg have millions of tons of steel production, and there is too much steel in the world, so it is impossible for Westerners to set up factories abroad. At the same time, the steel plant is a one-time investment, the construction period is long, and the risk is also large, so no one dares to set up a factory in a foreign country before the guarantee. ”

Pan Xun said: "Have you decided to agree to the United States? ”

Yang Chao sighed: "It's just that the Germans' hands are stretched too long, but I can't do anything about it." ”

Yang Chao is really helpless.

He hoped that the Americans would set up factories, and even the localities would be selected for the Americans, and they would be selected in Laiwu. Laiwu had a large iron and steel enterprise with an annual output of 10 million tons in later generations, and Yang Chao happened to have done steel trade and had contact with some iron ores.

Therefore, he knew that the reason why Laiwu Iron and Steel appeared in Laiwu, the hinterland of Shandong, and not in the coastal position, was because Laiwu had the largest iron ore reserves in the whole of East China. Not to mention that Yang Chao knew, in fact, it was not a secret, the Qing Dynasty government knew, the governor of Shandong also knew, and even the Germans knew.

As early as the Song Dynasty, Laiwu set up a Laiwu supervisor, which was an institution to supervise iron smelting, so thousands of years ago, Laiwu began to produce iron on a large scale, and it was never interrupted until the Ming and Qing dynasties. It is naturally not a secret that there is an iron ore mine in Laiwu. Second, there is coal in Laiwu, there is a horizontal coal belt from Weixian to Jinan in Shandong, China, although Laiwu is only located on the edge of this coal belt, but there are still hundreds of millions of tons of reserves.

Isn't there only two main raw materials for steelmaking, coal and iron ore, Laiwu has them, so this is the most suitable place for steel production.

But just because this is in Shandong, it has become the most inappropriate place, and as long as the Germans do not agree, Yang Chao will not be able to let the Americans set up factories here.

As for Yantai, which the Americans proposed, the geographical location is not very suitable, although there are coal mines, but iron ore will have to rely on imports, and it may not be able to make money at that time.

"My lord, Laiwu can't do it, you can find other places to do it, Shandong can't do it, you can still go to Shanxi to do it!"

Pan Xun said, but he was not very confident, and looked at Yang Chao with inquiring eyes.

Yang Chao's eyes suddenly lit up, and he pointed at Pan Xun and said, "You said it well." I didn't think of that. ”

Soon I met with the Americans again, and the person who came was an engineer named Thomas of the Carnegie Steel Company, of course, he is now a subordinate of the Morgan consortium, because the entire steel company of the Steel King was bought by Morgan and formed a monopoly monster like "American Steel Corporation".

When you think of U.S. Steel, you have to mention two figures, Carnegie and Morgan.

Before Carnegie, American steel had been protected by high tariff barriers, fearing that British steel would crush the country's steel industry, Carnegie almost single-handedly built a super steel conglomerate, he reduced the cost of steel in the United States by five times, and his steel production alone far exceeded that of Britain.

And Morgan is even more crazy figure, a veritable Wall Street emperor, not to say how powerful the Morgan consortium is, in terms of personal assets, Morgan is not even as good as Rockefeller and Carnegie, but his appeal is too good, he can unite a large group of Wall Street financiers and fight a financial war.

The $500 million takeover of Carnegie's steel company was a crazy move because the U.S. steel industry was completely disorderly, vicious competition, and the steel industry's profits were already low. The Morgan takeover was considered a money-losing deal, but Morgan quickly showed that he was not the one to make a money-losing deal.

After Morgan spent $500 million on the acquisition, he bought many other steel companies and mines, including several mines owned by the rival Rockefeller, which accounted for 60% of the steel production in the United States, and then used the monopoly advantage to reduce the price and increase profits, raising the stock price of the steel company to one billion dollars, becoming the world's first billion-dollar super company.

This time, it was the American steel company that came to negotiate with Yang Chao, an industry under the Morgan consortium.