As soon as the Renaya meeting ended, the Australian government passed a quota of 50,000 Chinese immigrants to the Pilbara region, which was the price paid by the British. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At the same time, Yang Chao and Walter completed a series of asset exchanges, Yang Chao exchanged 29% of the shares of the Pilbara iron ore project for 41% of the shares of HSBC, plus the 10% shares of HSBC held in the past, to complete the control of HSBC.

From the South Seas issue, the oil issue, the sterling standard issue, to the current iron ore problem and the banking problem, the Chinese economy and the British economy have been further tied, and the relationship between the two countries has become closer and has begun to enter a super honeymoon period.

Less than a month after the conclusion of the May Dorenaya Conference, a series of economic agreements between China and the UK began to take effect, first affecting the South Seas region.

To be precise, the rubber economy of the South Seas.

The rubber plantation industry in Nanyang is mainly operated by the Dutch, British and Chinese, and although other countries are occasionally involved, the scale is almost negligible.

The first to carry out rubber business in Nanyang was the British, rubber tree seedlings were stolen by the British from Brazil under Portuguese rule, and the Chinese did not try to plant rubber trees for the first time in Singapore until 1896, more than ten years later than the British later.

With the development of the U.S. automobile industry, the world's demand for rubber has increased rapidly, and European and American companies have intervened in this field.

At this time, the leader is the British, because the rubber industry is a long-term investment, it takes 6 years from seed planting to rubber tapping, and it is difficult to operate without strong capital.

The British, on the other hand, are adept at using financial markets to raise funds, and can directly open up large plantations for long-term operation. The Chinese, on the other hand, are mainly small and medium-sized rubber plantations, and their output is not the same.

The British also hired professional managers to manage the rubber plantations, and subcontracted to the Indians to do the work, and the managers supervised the Indian contractors, who supervised the workers. Therefore, the British believe that rubber plantations are often neatly trimmed and scientifically managed. The plantations recognized in Britain as larger, more modern in management, more standardized in cultivation, and had price and profit advantages.

In addition, the British also controlled the trade in the South Seas, whether it was the British rubber plantation or the Chinese rubber plantation, the rubber produced was sold to the British foreign company, which made the large-scale British plantations have an obvious advantage, because they have stronger bargaining power and can get a higher purchase price than the Chinese.

Under various unfavorable conditions, in 1910, foreigners accounted for 70% of the 540,000 acres of rubber plantations in Malaya, and only 30% were Chinese.

But the endurance of the Chinese is far beyond that of foreigners, and things are afraid of one seriousness and one patience.

The business model of the Chinese is also more flexible, although the management of foreigners is scientific, wages are paid to workers, and professional managers are managed, but they are not flexible enough, and although the rubber plantations of the Chinese are small, they use a large number of commission systems, which is actually the traditional Chinese landlord and tenant farmer system, and the two sides are in a cooperative relationship.

Wealthy landlords contribute capital to contract land to family operators, the former being the owner of the plantation and the latter being the contractor, and the owner of the plantation lets the contractor handle the operation of the rubber plantation with full authority, and shares the profits according to the agreed proportion after the harvest. Therefore, to a certain extent, the interests of the plantation owner and the laborer are the same, and they both look forward to the harvest with all their might.

They tried their best to improve the income of the land, and the rubber harvest took 6 years, so they interplanted other crops in the rubber plantation, such as pineapple, and during the waiting period for rubber production, the production of pineapple and other crops maintained the operation of the rubber plantation, and even gave birth to a new industry, that is, the canned pineapple industry in Nanyang.

That's why Tan Kah Kee's big plantation owners all run canneries.

Although the Chinese rubber plantation is small, the operating cost is low, the management is not scientific but the management cost is basically zero, many people are hiring their own relatives, so that the relatives work in the plantation, such homework is more humane and more stable.

By 1916, the planting area of Malayan rubber plantations had expanded to 1.23 million acres, and the share of the Chinese had reached 53%, and the small plantations had become medium plantations, and the middle plantations had expanded into large plantations.

The small manors of the Chinese were intensively managed, and the scientific management of the large manors of the foreigners was defeated, and the matter was so evil.

Moreover, the Chinese have slowly regained their trade disadvantage, and they have also defeated dogma with flexibility.

Singapore is managed by the British, more standardized, with the development of rubber, began to standardize the operation, all the rubber plantations produced by the raw rubber is a specification, from Singapore, Malacca and Penang three ports of export.

However, the management of the Dutch colony was still very non-standardized, there were 41 ports for exporting rubber, and rubber cultivation was very scattered, so Chinese businessmen began to collect these bulk rubber in Indonesia, and concentrated them in Singapore for processing, sorting and reselling.

In this way, Chinese businessmen not only developed large, medium and small plantations, but also cut into the downstream industries such as rubber acquisition, processing and sales, and it took ten years to open up the entire industrial chain of the rubber industry.

By this year, the Chinese have accounted for seventy percent of Nanyang's rubber production, completely reversing the market share of foreigners, and constantly impacting the high-end industrial chain.

Upstream are plantations, where rubber is grown and intercropping fruits, and downstream are rubber processing and canning factories.

After the signing of the treaty between China and Britain, especially after Yang Chao acquired HSBC, through HSBC's channels, the Shanghai banking group Kashgar lent a large amount of money to Chinese businessmen, at this time Chinese businessmen found that there was a London behind the British, and it turned out that there was a Shanghai behind them.

With the support of loans and China's economic prosperity, the desire of overseas Chinese in Nanyang to set up factories was very strong, and a large number of canning factories and rubber processing factories were opened for a time.

Tan Kah Kee, the leader of the Chinese community in Singapore and who had just been appointed by the British as a Chinese member of the Singapore Parliament, had the ambition to bring a delegation to China, and now he has carried out some activities in Shanghai, reached loan agreements with a number of banks, and then came to Shandong.

"Tire factory?"

Yang Chao, a patriotic overseas Chinese with a strong national complex, still respects Chen Jiageng, even if he used to be very close to Brother Pao, and he was willing to spend a huge amount of money to support the construction of schools in the motherland, and Yang Chao had to meet him.

Tan Kah Kee hopes to get technical support, and they plan to open a tire factory directly in Singapore, and make the rubber produced in Singapore into tires for export, which will be much more profitable than directly exporting raw rubber.

Obviously, this overseas Chinese leader is proud of the improvement of the status of the Chinese in Nanyang and has the strength to make a difference.

"Yes, if we build a tire factory, we don't have to sell rubber to the Americans at a low price for nothing, we sell them tires directly!"

As soon as Chen Jiageng finished speaking impassionedly, he suddenly thought that Shandong had also established a complete automobile industry, otherwise he would not have used Shandong to find technical help.

So he hurriedly said: "Of course, we will still provide enough rubber to China, and the motherland's automobile industry will definitely not be embarrassed by the lack of rubber." ”

Yang Chao waved his hand and smiled: "There is no need for this. Your idea is very good, but don't rely on the strength of the Chinese alone, you can unite with the British and control the rubber resources of Nanyang. It is most advantageous to export tires and rubber to the United States at high prices. ”

Yang Chao told them the concept of cartels, forming a rubber organization similar to OPEC, why not, anyway, it is the blood of the Americans, and the thought that the Americans have to pay more money to the Chinese for driving, Yang Chao is still very happy, let you be arrogant, let you be called the kingdom of automobiles.

Yang Chao continued: "As for the problem of the tire factory, I fully support you. If you want to engage in sole proprietorship, I can transfer technology to you, and if you are willing to make a joint venture, I can send technical personnel to directly set up a tire factory in Nanyang with you. ”

Chen Jiageng hurriedly said: "Lord Yang wants to buy shares, of course we welcome it, and the Chinese in Nanyang will welcome it." ”

Yang Chao said: "That's good." By the way, I don't know if you are interested in going to Brazil to develop plantations, we have a large area of land in the Amazon rainforest, and you know that rubber is native to Brazil, so the climate there is needless to say that it is very suitable for rubber cultivation. But we don't have people who are tech-savvy. If you are willing, you can provide some skilled workers and we will work together. I believe that you control the rubber industry in the South Seas, the Americans will not compromise so much, they will definitely find their own rubber sources, and Brazil is their best choice. Then we have even the Brazilian rubber industry under control, leaving them with no choice. ”

Chen Jiageng nodded: "Of course we are willing to cooperate with Lord Yang." Wherever the adults point to, the Nanyang Chinese will hit. ”

The country has become stronger, the cohesion of these Chinese is now unprecedentedly enhanced, and the sense of national pride of overseas Chinese is even greater than that at home.

The two hit it off, and the alliance between the Yang Zi consortium and the Nanyang Chinese made this group have no shortage of funds and technology.

It is foreseeable that the time has come for the great development of Nanyang.

With the development of industry, especially the development of industry, the demand for labor is unprecedented, and it is conceivable that those overseas Chinese in Nanyang will definitely mobilize a large number of domestic Chinese to immigrate to Nanyang through various relationships, relatives, friends, neighbors, and suzerains, and there will be a craze for going to Nanyang.

And this time the boom is destined to be different from the past, it is no longer the coolies who can't survive to make a living in Nanyang, but capital is seeking new development, just like the Morgan family immigrated from Britain to the United States, not for life, but for career.

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