Zhang Jian's predicament has to be blamed on Yang Chao. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the beginning of the world economic crisis in 1907, business began to be difficult, and all countries were dumping into the Chinese market, but because the customs were controlled by the British, and there was a tariff treaty, the Chinese government did not have the power to raise the tax rate to protect its own market.

Therefore, since two years ago, Zhang Jian's business has been struggling, and they have been relying on Yang Chao's interest-free loans to support them, and finally the economic crisis has slowly passed, the domestic markets of various countries have slowly recovered, and their dumping situation has gradually decreased, but a new round of economic crisis has broken out.

It was the gold speculation in Shanghai that caused the British economic crisis.

It is impossible for the financial crisis caused by gold speculation in Shanghai not to affect China, after all, it happened in China, and now the whole world is a big market, and foreign crises will also fluctuate to China.

For example, gold speculation caused the British economic crisis, but the first wave of impact is Zhang Jian and others, the British economic crisis, the biggest loss is the huge textile industry, and the Japanese are also affected, the British, the Japanese in China crazy dumping textiles, even if there is Yang Chao's railway freight rate concessions, Zhang Jian they are also very difficult to resist, last year, there is almost no expansion, to Zhang Jian, Rong's, Zhou's, Yang's four almost at the same time choose to operate conservatively.

Among the four, Zhang Jian was invited by Yang Chao, Rong wanted to get involved in the textile industry and found Yang Chao's loan conditions in the newspaper by himself, Zhou is the Zhou Fu family, founded by his son Zhou Xuexi, and Yang is a Wuxi capitalist, they have a yarn factory in Wuxi, and they also learned that Yang Chao protected industrial capital and opened a branch factory in Dongying.

The four companies now have a total of 1 million spindles, which already accounts for the beginning of China's spinning industry, but only one-third of the number of spindles in Japan.

"Can you set up a weaving factory, the Fachang Machinery Factory can already imitate the British loom, and each of you has only a few looms now. I know that there are more than 100 units in the Dasheng factory, and I am afraid that the other three companies do not have 100 units. ”

Yang Chao invited the four major textile families to dinner, constantly encouraged them, and there was no problem in lending them money. But the problem is that these people are too timid to do it, Zhang Jian dares, but his interest is not high, because not making money has a great impact on his concept of saving the country. Industry saves the country, industry is losing money, how can it be saved.

"It's a bad environment. And you also have to work management, and the factory of the champion will not be managed by the Rong family. Everyone worked hard to expand the loom to more than 1,000 units in recent years. Can it also be made into ready-to-wear, design and manufacture exquisite, standardized Confucian clothing. From spinning to clothing, the industrial chain has been lengthened, and now the four of you add up to only 200,000 workers. This is far from enough, without two million workers, where can it be called industrialization. There are more than 3 million textile workers in Japan, and 7 million people in the British depend on the textile industry for their food. China is a big country, if the textile industry can't absorb so many people, when will it be industrialized. ”

Under the encouragement of Yang Chao, several companies began to agree to build a textile factory with 1,000 looms, and one loom could supply 1,000 people to dress, which was only the productivity of a million people, not hundreds of thousands of looms. It is not possible to meet the clothing needs of the whole of China, provided that rural women do not weave their own cloth.

To crack down on the individual textile industry in rural areas, Yang Chao will not be able to do it for a while and a half, unless he uses coercive means. But if these women can be attracted to the factories with high wages, and at the same time the industrial chain can be lengthened, spinning, weaving, and garment making together, and within a few years the textile industry in Shandong can still accommodate a million workers.

The purpose of boosting the textile industry is, firstly, to solve employment, and secondly, to provide a market for heavy industry. Zhang Jian: If they don't purchase machines, Fachang Machinery Factory will have no orders, they won't purchase new machine tools, and the machine tool factory will have no business.

Production is a chain, interlocking, not a single link, Yang Chao for industrial development, is very hard.

In addition to encouraging Zhang Jian to run a textile industry, Yang Chao also used the network of the railway company, wherever the railway went, immediately encouraged local businessmen to open mines, there were still many coal mines in Henan, and more coal mines in Shanxi, which provided a large number of markets for Shandong's machinery manufacturing industry, so that Yang Chao breathed a sigh of relief.

However, Zhang Jian's luck is also good, since they gritted their teeth again and expanded against the trend, after the Chinese New Year, although the UK has not survived the economic crisis, but the Chinese market has recovered.

And because the British textile industry was hit hard, although it hit the Chinese market in a short period of time, but with the increase in bankruptcies and the exhaustion of dumped goods, the British withdrew from a part of the market, and this part of the market was prepared, and Zhang Jian, who had just expanded, ate them.

After the British textile industry was devastated, the price of Indian cotton and cotton yarn became cheap, and Zhang Jian began to import Indian cotton aggressively. In March, Zhang Jian's yarn factory began to make a profit, and in May, the profit exceeded 100,000 taels, and Zhang Jian's confidence finally came.

The increasing number of textile mills of cloth, good quality and low price, along the railway to conquer the city, several expansion of the will is very strong, the Fachang Machinery Factory spinning machines, looms orders continue, their workers have increased to 8,000 people, with 3,000 machine tools of various types, is already the largest Chinese machinery factory in Shandong.

Not to mention the foreigner enterprises in Shandong, there is a second round of investment initiated by Yang Chao, and their heavy industry is more lucrative than light industry.

The output of 400,000 tons of steel at the Yantai Iron and Steel Plant is completely unable to meet the orders for railway construction and factory construction, and while the Americans continue to expand the scale, the new factory joint venture between Laiwu and Yang Chao has also started, and the Americans have worked overtime to build, and the factory has already taken shape in a few months, and they plan to put it into operation at the end of this year, with an output of 400,000 within two years and 600,000 within three years.

Zhan Tianyou finally built the railway to Xi'an, the train can be directly opened from Xi'an to Yantai, a large number of goods in the northwest are exported, Zhan Tianyou plans to build the Guangdong-Hanzhou railway by the end of this year, and start the construction of the Sichuan-Han railway. The French have preliminarily completed the survey of the Chengdu-Kunming railway, and also intend to complete the railway line planning by the end of next year. After the British survived the crisis, they began to prepare for the construction of the Yunnan-Burma Railway. The construction of electrification branch lines in various parts of Shandong has also begun under the design of Siemens.

Affected by the strong market of the great development of the railway, the American locomotive factory and the Sifang locomotive factory have also continued to order, and the Sifang locomotive factory has begun to produce diesel locomotives, and jointly produces electric locomotives with Siemens.

The development of these production enterprises has led to the development of new machine tool factories in the United States and Germany.

According to statistics, at the end of this year, the output value of Shandong's heavy industry can be compared with Japan's heavy industry. In two years, it will more than twice as much as Japan, and after three years in which all invested companies are put into operation, heavy industry will exceed three times that of Japan.

This naturally made Yang Chao very happy, but he was even more worried, because Yang Chao knew that Japan's heavy industry was not good, not that the Japanese did not work hard to build, but that the Japanese market was like that, Japan was dominated by light industry, and it was the law of compound economic development, and their economy was healthier.

However, the healthier Japanese economy was also hit by the British economic crisis last year, and fell into another round of economic crisis, despite the government's vigorous bailout, but a large number of textile factories went bankrupt and workers lost their jobs.

The year before last, because of the economic crisis of 1907, the Japanese even did not hesitate to threaten the Qing government in order to open up the Chinese market.

That's because the Japanese cement industry has doubled its growth rate in a year stimulated by Shandong, and Japan has regarded cement, an industry that they can use their own resources, as a pillar industry, and Mitsui, Mitsubishi and other conglomerates, without exception, are all involved in this lucrative industry.

It is precisely because Shandong has imported a large amount of cement that the Japanese did not tear their faces with Yang Chao on the issue of textiles.

However, textiles could not compete in the Shandong and northern markets, and the Japanese successfully opened up another market.

The Northeast market was almost monopolized by the Japanese, and they relied on the management of Dalian, although it was called a free port, but the Japanese wantonly squeezed out other countries, and the Northeast market was almost monopolized, and the United States and Britain could not get in, and the Russians did not have enough economic strength to threaten Japan.

The Northeast market should not be underestimated, and in the Russo-Japanese War, the reason why the Americans helped Japan was to get a piece of the Northeast pie, because the Northeast was a relatively wealthy region in China at this time, second only to Jiangnan. Because the land is sparsely populated and the land is fertile, basically all the people are farmers who own real estate, because every family has enough wasteland to cultivate, so they can afford to sell their agricultural products, and at the same time they also need clothes and money, so it is the best textile market.

Relying on the monopoly of the large market of 20 million people in Tohoku, the Japanese have slowly come out of the economic crisis.

I don't know if it's because the interests they have seized in the northeast are too great, the Japanese suddenly started the idea of the northeast, they quietly stationed troops in Dalian, and transferred a group of cruisers, they actually wanted Dalian as their military port!

Neither Zhang Zhidong nor Yang Chao could accept the Japanese approach, and immediately made a tough statement, demanding that the Japanese withdraw their troops from Dalian, especially Yang Chao, and even boldly said in the newspaper that Japan was provoking a war!

Sino-Japanese relations immediately took a sharp turn for the worse, and anti-Japanese activities appeared in various parts of China, and the boycott of Japanese goods began again.

And the Russians were not willing to be lonely, they also jumped out at this time, expressed a strong attitude towards the Japanese garrison in Dalian, and also issued a threat of war to Japan.

In just two months, from March to May, the Northeast suddenly became tense, as if a joint war between China and Russia against Japan would break out at any time. (To be continued.) )