To be honest, Yang Chao is not very welcome to the investment of the Americans, because it is difficult to get rid of these investments when they are attracted. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Germans were a defeated country, and their investments after the war had to be confiscated, but what about the Americans' investments?

They were victors in World War I and World War II, and finally won the world hegemony, and it is not so easy to expel the enterprises of the world hegemony.

But the Americans are really positive.

They have completed industrialization, and there is a large amount of surplus capital in the country, and these capital have a strong desire to invest, but the investment opportunities in the United States are saturated, and these capital remaining in the United States will only continue to push up the prices of American assets and create financial bubbles again and again.

Of course, the economics at this time did not see this, but the Americans' desire to invest was still very strong, as soon as they heard about Yang Chao's national railway plan, they couldn't wait to expand the steel plant in Shandong, because they got Yang Chao's guarantee, gave them domestic capital treatment, all procurement priority, and the Americans couldn't wait to eat the big order of 100,000 kilometers of railway construction.

Not only did it expand the steel plant, but it also began to invest in the construction of a railway locomotive factory in Yantai to produce steam locomotives. As soon as Yang Chao heard that Yang Chao issued a branch line plan for the Shandong Railway in Germany, which would connect the entire Shandong county with a branch line and give priority to the development of electric locomotives, General Electric of the United States immediately built a power equipment manufacturing plant in Yantai.

For a time, Germany was reluctant to attract 30 private enterprises to invest in Shandong, but the Americans themselves actively came to 20, and for a time there was a pattern in which Germany occupied Qingdao and the United States operated Yantai.

That's right, the Germans still like Qingdao, although Yang Chao said that he would give them free land in Dongying saline-alkali land, but they finally preferred to give up this preferential treatment and choose to buy land and build a factory in Qingdao, which is the result of the German government, so that Yang Chao feels that he has been put by the German government again, and it is obvious that these companies are out of Yang Chao's control in Qingdao.

Yang Chao can only endure this, allowing these factories to operate in Qingdao, but enjoying his own preferential treatment in other places in Shandong.

At the beginning of 1907, there was a vigorous upsurge of large-scale enterprises in various places, and for a time 50 enterprises started construction on a large scale, and for a time the prices of building materials in Shandong were brought up, the price of cement increased by 30 percent, the price of timber rose by 4 percent, and the bricks and stones were all rising.

This led to another round of investment, which made Tang Tingshu set up the Tangshan Fine Cotton Soil Factory, as a poorly managed foreign enterprise, for a time it was very profitable, and soon the technicians of the three Tangshan factories established three private enterprises with Yang Chao's loan. Shanghai and other places were stimulated by this, and some people also set up ash factories.

For a while, Yang Chao sighed that it was still investment that drove the economy.

Of course, the biggest benefit, or the Japanese, Japan's cement industry is of course more developed than China, they seized this opportunity, Japanese cement products invaded Shandong, Yang Chao has no way, which is why he helped Tangshan factory technicians to establish enterprises.

In addition, there are also people from the Northeast, and a large amount of timber in the old forests in the deep mountains of the Northeast began to flow down from the Yalu River into wooden drains, and then re-exported to Yantai.

Shandong has also opened a variety of small brick kilns, Yang Chao went to several brick kiln factories, are traditional brick kiln factories, actively encouraged, there are two Linqing kiln owners gritted their teeth and agreed to introduce equipment from Germany, open a modern large-scale brick factory.

Don't underestimate the brick factory, although China has a long history of brick-making, the inheritance of the long-standing Linqing bricks is also famous, all dynasties have been used to build the city wall and the palace, but in modern times, it is inevitable to lag behind, the Western industrial brick factory does not mention the industry, the quality of the Chinese soil bricks is also compared with the Westerners, Westerners use scientific measurement methods, the production of various grades of bricks, this is the dead end of China's extensive production, there is no way to ensure the quality, can produce the best, there are also a large number of inferior products.

Industrialization will certainly bring a lot of opportunities, leaving opportunities for the Chinese, especially Yang Chao only introduced Chinese can not produce, and reserved a lot of fields for China to engage in, such as the textile industry.

But the textile industry is what Yang Chao is most worried about.

He stayed in Dongying Dasheng Yarn Factory for half a month and conducted a detailed inspection.

The development of Dasheng Yarn Factory can be called a leap forward, which has made Zhang Jian's life extremely comfortable in recent years, and everyone seems to be much younger.

As soon as he started his factory in Shandong, he encountered a good opportunity of the Russo-Japanese War, and as a result, the loud cotton yarn was exported to the Northeast on a large scale, replacing the original Japanese cotton yarn, and it was extremely profitable for a while. The number of spindles has expanded from 20,000 spindles to 50,000 spindles after the first year, and now there are 100,000 spindles.

Under the encouragement of Yang Chao, he opened the Dasheng Textile Factory, weaving cloth with Dasheng's cotton yarn, and the cotton cloth spun by British machines was of good quality, and occupied a lot of share from Yantai to Tianjin, but the profit was not very high under the impact of British cloth.

But Zhang Jian is happy in it, he is a scholar, the purpose of doing industry is not to make money, but to realize the idea, to save the country, he thinks that when the industry is strong, the country will naturally be strong.

Therefore, Zhang Jian not only did not close the move of not making high profits and concentrating all his funds on the spinning industry, but continued to add machines and expand production.

"Champion Gong, there haven't been any problems with the machine recently, right?"

Yang Chao asked as soon as he met Zhang Jian.

The machine problems of the Dasheng Yarn Factory have troubled Yang Chao for a long time.

Dalong Iron Works produced a large number of problematic spinning machines, all of which were stuffed into Zhang Jian, if it wasn't for the good market during that time, I'm afraid that Dasheng might have closed down.

"You, don't worry, the old man won't trouble you."

Zhang Jian said with a smile, he thought Yang Chao was making fun of him.

In fact, Yang Chao really didn't know: "Oh? Why is that? ”

Zhang Jian said with a smile: "Fachang Machinery Factory has replaced all the parts for me, and now the machine is very good." ”

Yang Chao also smiled: "So Fachang Machinery Factory has solved all the problems." ”

Then Zhang Jian praised Fachang Machinery Factory well, and when he heard this, Yang Chao was also relieved.

The seniority of Fachang Machinery Factory is even older, and the two bosses, Fang Juzan and Sun Yingde, are both blacksmiths and are honest.

But this is also what Yang Chao is most worried about.

When Dalong Iron Works has begun to produce spinning machines on a large scale, Fachang Machinery Factory has never been able to build it, Yang Chao also went to them for this purpose, Yang Chao has high hopes for China's machinery industry.

As soon as he visited, Yang Chao knew the reason, and suddenly admired these two old blacksmith-turned-entrepreneurs.

They didn't build the first spinning machine for three years, it's not that their technical strength is not good, they have two or three thousand technicians who have mastered the machine tool, and there is no reason why they can't imitate the machine.

However, a set of modern machines is not as simple as imagined, a set of spinning machine thousands of parts, although the mechanical structure has not changed, but the materials and processing methods of each part are different.

The Fachang Machinery Factory also quickly copied the machine, even earlier than the Dalong Iron Factory, but they did not sell it to Zhang Jian immediately, but hired people to test it themselves, and they soon found that their machine was too far behind in life compared with the foreigner's machine, and in the face of this problem, the old blacksmith and the apprentices they brought out were at a loss.

The parts could only be improved one by one, and the parts that were losing the most were thickened, but this affected the other parts and had to be changed, and the end result was that the first reliable equipment they built was larger than the foreign machine in size, because many of their load-bearing parts were thickened.

After learning about their problems, Yang Chao immediately found Johnson, a mechanical expert in Laiwu Arsenal, and gave him a consulting fee to help solve these problems, Johnson immediately saw the crux of the problem, the reason comes from the heat treatment process, different parts need different heat treatment processes, although the materials of the machine are steel, but the same composition of steel, after different heat treatment, some wear resistance, some compression resistance, this is not the same.

Under Johnson's guidance, the old blacksmiths suddenly felt that their knowledge was too poor and could not help but be frustrated.

However, Yang Chao encouraged them, and contacted an engineer from a British machine factory for them with a high salary to help them innovate the production process, and at the same time encouraged the old blacksmith to encourage foreign students who had studied metal materials and machinery to train key technicians.

Now it seems that Yang Chao's help has paid off.

Zhang Jian told Yang Chao that it took Zhengzheng two years for the old blacksmiths to purchase a complete set of heat treatment equipment and introduce the modern heat treatment process from the West into the factory, and the parts they produced were not lost to the British.

Zhang Jian also helped them, and handed over the replacement business of those unqualified parts produced by Dalong Iron Works in the past, so that they could manufacture and replace them, and the parts of Fachang Machinery Factory did not make Zhang Jian's kindness in vain, and the quality of the machine was greatly improved.

"That's good. This incident is still very touching. I have never understood that the craftsmanship of the Chinese is exquisite, but why some products are not as good as foreigners. ”

Yang Chao is not only now, not the kind of enterprises like Dalong Iron Works, and even Chinese enterprises a hundred years later.

The same machinery and equipment, the same technical drawings, and the same production materials, every time Chinese workers produce them, they are inferior to foreign workers.

In the past, Yang Chao thought that the knowledge level of Chinese workers was poor, and that foreigners were all college students working as skilled workers, and many Chinese workers were college students and technical school students.

But what is the technical level of opening a machine tool, and what is the difference between a college graduate and a technical school graduate?

Now Yang Chao understands that the main thing is not from technology, but from the heart.

If everyone has the spirit of excellence of the old blacksmith of Fachang Machinery Factory, how can there be problems with the products that appear.

Dalong Iron Works takes Yang Chao's guarantee, the fastest production, the fastest delivery, and the fastest money, but what are the benefits for technology?

What are they missing?

What they lack, just the old blacksmith's most precious heart?

What kind of heart?

Ingenuity!