Section 381 The railroad is the first wave
A month of inspection flickered, and then there was no time to watch, we must set a tone as soon as possible, otherwise the confidence in the market just because of Yang Chao will be gone, after all, the people can not see the obvious improvement of the market, and confidence alone will not work. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
But Yang Chao doesn't want to make a big splash, after all, administrative intervention is a trump card, although there are economists studying in this era, but the most popular is the free economy, so Yang Chao doesn't want others to learn, especially the United States, if they didn't always adhere to the free economy during the Great Depression, the Great Depression would not have spread for so long.
If the Americans intervene in the market as soon as possible, the economic crisis will definitely occur, but it will never be so serious, this is the difference between a hard landing and a soft landing, the United States does not intervene, but tightens fiscal spending, which is pushing the economy to slam on the concrete floor, collapsing instantly, causing a 40 percent decline in productivity.
So Yang Chao still really wants to see the Americans playing a hard landing, so he has to act secretly this time, and even found the best disguise.
During Yang Chao's inspection, Li Fu'an's side once again set up the Industrial Bureau, and the scope was larger and covered a wider range than in the past.
In the past, during the war, the Industrial Bureau had only 3,000 people at its peak, and basically sent liaison officers to various enterprises, and even one person was responsible for the supervision of several enterprises.
This time, Li Fuan recruited more than 30,000 people, he has the ability and capital to form such a huge team, the first is because of his own experience accumulation, the team's experience accumulation, and China has cultivated enough talents after several years of development, and talents with certain management ability are not difficult to find now.
Of course, it is also related to Li Fu'an's positivity, the reason why he is positive is a little similar to Mi Qing's mentality, that is, he sees Yang Chao's support and importance to him, which makes Li Fu'an full of positive energy.
In the past two years of competition with Mi Qing, although the two sides are healthy competition, Li Fu'an's heart has always been uneasy, he always feels that there is a Yang Chao behind Mi Qing, which makes him feel that he is becoming less and less advantageous, in fact, it is still caused by lack of confidence, and now as soon as Yang Chao comes back, he asked Mi Qing to appoint him to be responsible for the establishment of an industrial bureau covering the whole country, which is obviously ordered by Yang Chao, and Mi Qing's careful eyes will not give him such a good opportunity to make political achievements.
So when he thought that Yang Chao supported him, Li Fuan's anxious heart was much easier, and he was more careful to make enough achievements.
Although he was giving Yang Chao a hand and giving Yang Chao a hand as vice president, Li Fuan did not feel that he had lost his identity, nor did he feel that it would have any impact on his political achievements.
Because he also has confidence in Yang Chao, if he is allowed to work alone, he doesn't know how to stimulate it at all, after all, this time is different from before, the establishment of the industrial bureau in the past is to serve the war, the war is a big market, but now it is a period of economic crisis, there is no ready-made market, the formation of the industrial bureau to increase production, this is against the sky, Li Fuan still can't think of what means Yang Chao will use.
So he was happy to follow Yang Chao and drink the soup steadily.
Another reason is that Yang Chao's prestige is high enough, no matter what he does, it is impossible to increase his prestige, but Li Fuan can use this to elevate himself, the only thing that makes him dissatisfied is that Mi Qing seems to have won a political achievement through this, and the balance of competition is not tilted towards him, so he has to be more active and work harder.
Therefore, after Li Fuan set up the Industrial Bureau, he immediately rushed to Shanghai non-stop, and Yang Chao wanted to hold a meeting with many people here and hold a secret meeting.
Even Li Fuan didn't know how many people attended, and when he arrived at the headquarters of Shanghai Yangzi Bank, he saw acquaintances one by one.
He was not surprised to see Zhan Tianyou, the Minister of Communications, and he easily guessed that Yang Chao wanted to expand the steel market by overhauling the railway.
Seeing the Minister of the Navy Cheng Biguang, he could also think that Yang Chao was planning to increase naval procurement to boost the economy like he did last time.
He still understands this, Yang Chao personally participated in the last time he regulated the market through war, and he was deeply shocked, and even made him develop the idea that war can stimulate the economy.
Zhang Jiaao, president of the Bank of China, is here, he can also understand that he must be issuing paper money, and collecting the extra paper money through treasury bonds, in fact, it is borrowing money from the people through the central bank, and it is impossible not to issue bonds to build railways, especially to add warships, and he is still very clear about the state finance, although the income has increased to one billion taels in recent years, it is still not enough to spend, and the money borrowed every year is similar to taxes.
But why is Shanghai Mayor Xie Guanhui here? Just because he's the mayor of Shanghai?
There are also a large group of people he doesn't know at all, obviously not government officials, at least not on the stage, why are they here.
"Let me introduce to you, these are the branch managers of Yangzi Bank in Nanjing, Wuhan, Changsha, Wuxi, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Chengdu, Chongqing and Shandong!"
Yang Chao's introduction made Li Fuan understand what the origin of these people was, and he was even more strange, was it because he wanted to borrow money?
He was suddenly a little displeased, he was a very self-disciplined person, he never sought personal interests for himself, he felt that Yang Chao wanted to make a fortune by underwriting treasury bonds, he respected Yang Chao very much, but only in the matter of accumulating money, he was always difficult to agree.
Li Fuan felt that the matter was already very clear, Yang Chao would definitely encourage the state to issue treasury bonds, and it was an excess of treasury bonds, and then his Yangzi Bank underwrote and extracted commissions, and then purchased warships and various equipment.
"I won't introduce the others, Li Sidi, you all know each other, and now we are the general manager of Yangzi Bank."
After Yang Chao's introduction, he invited everyone to sit down one by one.
"You are not allowed to keep a record of today's events, and you are not allowed to take notes or keep a diary, just keep them all in your head. So let's get started. ”
"Brother Zhan, you can talk about the current railway situation first."
Yang Chao first named Zhan Tianyou.
Zhan Tianyou's data is all in his mind, and he came casually: "China's current railway mileage is 20,000 kilometers. From Xinjiang in the west, to the sea in the east, to Chita in the north, and to Kunming in the south, all provinces except Tibet are connected by train. At present, the Tianjin-Pudong Railway, the Beijing-Hanzhou Railway, the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway, and the Shanghai-Guangzhou Railway have all completed the laying of double lines. However, the Nankun and Changkun railways have just been opened, and they are currently only running on a single line. Northern railways such as Yanji Railway and Jiaoji Railway, except for the section from Lanzhou to Xinjiang, all run on two lines; The double line of the Sichuan-Hankou Railway is under construction and is expected to be completed in ten years; Mongolia's Beijing-Kukou Railway and Beijing-Baobao Railway are still single-line, because of the lack of freight volume, there is no plan to build a double line. ”
Mongolia's railway line is still very long, the Beijing-Kuzhou railway and the railway line from Manchuria to Xinjiang through Kulun add up to more than 3,000 kilometers, but unfortunately the freight volume has always been insufficient, and there is no need to build a double line, and the main role of the railway line built here in those years was to carry out arms trade with Russia.
Yang Chao nodded: "Where do you think our main railway line can be excavated?" ”
Yang Chao asked everyone, but most of them couldn't say it, because the current railway line should basically be repaired, and what should not be repaired has been repaired, and the repair line is in progress, and I really don't know where it is necessary to repair.
Li Fuan understood that Yang Chao wanted to use the railway to find a market for the steel industry, but he could not build a railway in a no-man's land, and he would never make such a proposal that harmed the country anyway, even if it would benefit a large number of steel capitalists in the Fuqiang Party who supported him.
Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Yang Chao said directly, he actually had a plan in his heart for a long time.
"The Beijing-Kukou Railway can build a double line. Western Siberia will import more and more minerals and oil, and it is estimated that the capacity will be insufficient next year. It is a railway line of more than 1,000 kilometers. ”
"Should the three railways of Changkun, Nankun and Chengkun be built as a double line?"
The manager of the Chengdu branch suggested.
Yang Chao directly vetoed: "The purpose of these three lines is just to find a way for Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi and other places, which have military value and poverty alleviation value, and have no economic value. ”
Yang Chao wants to expand the economy, but he doesn't want to waste money.
This made Li Fuan feel that Yang Chao was still worthy of his respect, although he was very powerful in accumulating money, he did not mean to make a fortune in the end.
"There are some regional railways that are worth investing in, can our railway company develop a branch line? For example, the railway between Suzhou and Hangzhou. ”
Suzhou to Hangzhou is currently connected by a broken line through the Beijing-Shanghai Railway and the Shanghai-Guangzhou Railway, and there is no direct connection between the two places. Suzhou and Hangzhou, on the other hand, straddle two provinces, and the local government does not have the ability to coordinate the capacity of the two provinces, so some people think that they either do not have the financial resources or cannot get through the relationship.
Yang Chao shook his head: "These two places are rich places, but you can build a direct railway." But it is not the main line, and it is still handed over to the local government, and the local government has to join the benefit sharing of the railway. For example, Shanxi is doing very well, Yan Xishan has built more than 2,000 kilometers of railway lines in a small Shanxi, and the profits are not bad. This is worth learning from all localities. The railway from Suzhou to Hangzhou, does the railway company support businessmen? ”
Yang Chao has always been worried about the inefficiency of the railway company under the monopoly of such a behemoth, so he tried to encourage a private railway network, just like the United States, when the private railway company grows, constantly acquires and builds various branch lines, and finally can also train the network to compete with the backbone network, so that there is no fear of corruption in large companies.
Yang Chao also plans to use this wave of economic boom to stimulate the enthusiasm of the people to handle the railway, and the Suzhou-Hangzhou Railway should be the most delicious dessert left for them.
"In that case, Brother Zhan went back to make a plan. In the next few years, we will pay close attention to the construction of the Sichuan-Han double line and the Beijing-Kukou double line, and the railway company will issue articles of association to support local railways. ”
In this way, the first wave of the stimulus plan for the construction of railways was introduced.
But it is far from over, Yang Chao then asked Zhan Tianyou: "In addition, Brother Zhan thinks that Shandong's electric railway is possible to be promoted in other places?" (To be continued.) )