In just three months, Yang Chao earned $20 million selling penicillin, and by this time Wu Liande had increased the production of penicillin to 100,000 bottles per month. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, the price was also reduced to 100 US dollars, which was the agency price for the Morgan consortium, and the Americans doubled the price and sold it to Britain, France and other countries, making more ruthless money than Yang Chao, but the series of work of transportation and sales were also done by the Americans, and what Yang Chao had to do was to produce boxes of penicillin and then load them onto American cargo ships.

Giving up so many profits, Yang Chao thinks it is worth it, not only Morgan handed over the arms orders of Britain and France to himself, to be honest, Britain and France have basically not purchased arms at present, the main thing is that Yang Chao needs to clear up his relationship with the war, you must know that now the Germans have begun to be unhappy, as soon as the Germans are unhappy, Qingdao will not be happy, Qingdao is not happy, and more than half of the share of Shandong's heavy industry production will be affected.

Although Yang Chao's army took control of Qingdao and sent a large number of officials to the colonial government of Qingdao, it could not take over Qingdao for a while, and it still needed the cooperation of the German colonial authorities.

But at this time, the Germans boycotted, the German officials boycotted useless, and the German business owners boycotted was terrible.

Qingdao has more than 5,000 German-funded enterprises, of which more than 5,000 are newly built large-scale heavy industry enterprises, mainly in the manufacturing industry, all of which are serving military production.

Even the enterprises that had already been put into production also appeared a large number of boycotts, and the reason for their boycott was very simple: Yang Chao was using the industrial production of Qingdao to arm the enemies of Germany.

Yang Chao's sale of weapons to the Russians could not be concealed from the Germans.

"There is an old saying in my country, stabbing people and killing them, saying: If it is not me, the soldier is also. You killed someone with a knife, can you say that it was the knife that killed the person, not you? ”

In the face of the German resistance and the mass shutdown of the factory, Yang Chao immediately summoned the German governor, now an adviser to the Qingdao municipal government, Wadeck, to persuade him.

Although nominally no longer the governor of Tsingtao, the Germans in Tsingtao still listened to Wadeck, so convincing Wadeck was crucial.

"China's culture is really broad and profound."

Wadeck casually agreed.

Yang Chao sighed: "So, the gun is not guilty, and the one who is guilty is the one who pulled the trigger." What is the sin of our production of arms, the guilty are the ones who started the war. ”

Wadeck shrugged: "We Germans are also among the ones who started the war, so we are also guilty." ”

Then his voice became serious: "But even a guilty man knows that he should not hand a knife to the enemies of his people, and let his enemies use knives to kill their own people!" ”

Wadeck's solemn and righteous anger made Yang Chao feel uncomfortable, and some shame actually rose in his heart, thinking of the large number of people who defended Japanese goods in China in later generations, putting on a neutral posture, Japanese goods are innocent, but the people behind Japanese goods are enemies, and the profits they earn are the knives handed to Japan by the Chinese.

"Okay. I promise not to sell weapons to the Russians again. But the German-owned factories had to resume production immediately, and you know, we could go to war with Japan at any time. If we lose, Qingdao will be Japanese. ”

Wadeck nodded: "Of course, Japan is our common enemy. The German compatriots in Qingdao will be happy to help you in the production of weapons and will be happy to see our weapons in the hands of your army and fight against our common enemy. ”

Japan has declared war on Germany, the two countries are currently in a state of war, but China has not yet declared war on Japan, Yuan Shikai now completely threw Yang Chao aside, coldly watching Yang Chao and the Japanese to the death, the Japanese did not declare war on China, but lobbied Yuan Shikai to clean up Yang Chao together, and instigated the Beiyang Army to attack Shandong.

"I would, however, ask the German advisory group to have the power to check every movement of arms at all times. We will organize a special team to be stationed in each factory, and we will have the authority to follow the delivery of this arms and monitor the use of weapons at any time. ”

Wadeck then made a request.

The German colonial authorities in Qingdao are now only nominally dissolved, but most of the colonial officials continue to remain in the colonial government as advisers, and Yang Chao is just stuffing people in little by little, and these people are still being overtaken by the Germans, and it is not so easy to control Qingdao at once.

"Of course, it's the way it should be."

In the face of Wadeck's request, although Yang Chao was extremely angry in his heart, his face was very calm.

However, he also made a request: "Only weapons!" ”

Wadeck shook his head and said, "All war-related production must be under the supervision of the German advisory group. We must ensure that every force of Qingdao's industry cannot stand on the opposite side of the country and the nation. ”

Yang Chao snorted: "Mr. Wadeck, this is already my bottom line. You should know that wars are not just about weapons. And money. If all German-owned factories are out of business, then where will I collect taxes and where will I make money. And how do I fight. Normal trade exchanges, even with Russia, have nothing to do with the war. My last concession, you can consider, but can't change! ”

Both of them understand that Yang Chao is talking about those companies related to war, but not weapons production, such as Zeppelin's airship, which is not a weapon, at most it can be regarded as military equipment, as well as some cotton and wool textile factories in the Dehua system, which can produce military uniforms and military boots, and Zeppelin rubber factories, in addition to producing airbags, can also produce gas masks.

"But Led Zeppelin is not one of them!"

Wadeck thought for a moment.

He could not agree that it would be a shame for Zeppelin's airship to be used in the war against Germany, because Zeppelin was one of the symbols of German industry.

Yang Chao knew that the Zeppelin was too sensitive, and it was absolutely impossible for the Germans to agree, so he also made concessions.

"Okay. I agree with that. ”

Seeing off Wadeck, Yang Chao immediately called Li Fuan over.

"You know the Germans, you know, very troublesome. It's more troublesome than you think. So from now on, I need you to make a secret plan. Now you can start secretly screening Chinese employees in German-owned factories who can replace German technicians and managers, and if not, secretly insert suitable people into them. After applying for a job, it is also possible to dispatch supervisors. Anyway, we must set up a team that can accept German-funded enterprises as soon as possible, and be prepared to support the basic operation of Qingdao's industry once all the Germans are BA workers. ”

Li Fuan's face became heavy, he was very clear about the affairs of the wartime industrial bureau managed by Li Sidi, and the wartime industrial bureau only connected more than 5,000 factories in series, and the management personnel also used the management strength of the factories, but in that case, Li Sidi also withdrew a large number of backbone forces from his industrial bureau.

Now it is necessary to directly receive more than 5,000 factories, and this is not just a matter of quantity, it is an industrial system, which involves technical power, management power, beyond imagination.

"I know it's difficult. You can cooperate with Li Sidi, there is already some overlap in the work between the two of them, and this time simply form a joint team to expand the power of the wartime Industrial Bureau. You have better management skills than Li Sidi, but he is more experienced. However, it is difficult for Li Sidi to be qualified for such a large industrial management program, so I think you are more suitable. Once the team is formed, it's up to you. ”

Yang Chao expressed his trust in Li Fuan.

This is what a person like Li Fuan needs, and he immediately said that he will do his best.

The two backbones of his subordinates are all used in this plan, and Yang Chao does not feel that it is a big fuss at all, on the contrary, he cannot pay too much attention to the importance of receiving this industrial system.

This is an industrial system with an investment of 50 billion marks and more than 10 billion US dollars, and the industrial output value of the Americans is only more than 26 billion US dollars. Of course, the hot industrial output value of the United States is before the war, and if they start their horsepower during the war, it will not be a problem to exceed 50 billion.

However, Qingdao's industrial strength is definitely more than one percent of the United States, and the industrial strength of Shandong as a whole is more than one-fifth of that of the United States, and the United States accounts for 30 percent of the world's industry, and Shandong can occupy 6 percent, which is on par with France and tied for fifth in the world.

Moreover, the enterprises introduced by Qingdao Yangchao are basically heavy industry and manufacturing industry, and in terms of manufacturing industry alone, Shandong far surpasses France and the United Kingdom, second only to the United States and Germany, ranking third.

It seems to be an exaggeration, but this is the reality, since 1906, Yang Chao began to introduce heavy industry on a large scale, because of the relationship between thousands of tons of gold, in terms of magnitude, in fact, it is not worse than the Soviet Union's five-year plan in the future, the Soviet Union's two five-year plans are basically more than Britain and France, second only to the United States.

Of course, this is unhealthy, the proportion of heavy industry is too heavy, even in the war, the Japanese accounted for more than 7% of the output value of light industry, so if there was no war, the industrial system built by Yang Chao would not be a crisis, not bankruptcy, and would collapse directly.

Li Fu'an went to form a team full of fighting spirit, Yang Chao was very confident in him, but looking at Li Fu'an's form that was far older than his actual age, Yang Chao suddenly felt that he was squeezing this person too hard.

In April 1915, the flames of war were still raging in Europe, and there was an undercurrent in China.

Yuan Shikai, under the instigation of advisers from the United States, Britain, Japan and other countries, actually began to operate as emperor.

For Yuan Shikai to be the emperor, there are scolding and fans in later generations, and some say that Yuan Shikai became the emperor because he saw the chaos of the country and felt that he had to have an absolute power to curb it.

It can only be said that Yuan Shikai has a disease called death if he is not an emperor. (To be continued.) )