Section 393 Infiltration of Brazil
After the New Year, six years of the Republic, while disarmament was carried out, the country's economy was booming. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Shanghai's financial system, like other industries, has fully recovered, and they have ushered in a lending-hungry market, and another round of financial expansion has begun.
The pressure of the central bank led by Zhang Jiaao is still very high, the pressure of inflation, building materials, steel are rising, but fortunately, the price of consumer goods has remained stable, and even because of fierce competition and large-scale production, the price is slowly falling.
Billions of dollars of money flowed into the economic system, and there was no inflation, which did give Zhang Jiaao's thinking some stimulus, and he somewhat agreed with Yang Chao's statement that as long as there is a corresponding product, the currency will not depreciate, and this conservative financier is gradually becoming a supporter of the theory of deficit-driven economy.
Yang Chao's emergency committee is still functioning, because their function is far from over, and their accusation is not just to promote the economy, but to help promote the assembly line and the Taylor system, and they go into business owners to discuss how to promote these two industrial management techniques in their factories.
The promotion of the new management system, greatly improved efficiency, without adding equipment, without increasing the number of workers, so that the output is greatly improved, so the majority of business owners are still very cooperative with the experts of the emergency committee, and actively practice their suggestions, and complete the transformation of the assembly line of each factory, and the application of the Taylor system.
And because of this technological effect, the price of commodities has decreased, the cost has decreased, the price is cheap, the wages are still rising, and the economy is not good.
At the same time, China's economy has deepened its integration into the world economy, which is a worldwide prosperity, only by tightly integrating into the world, can we enjoy this market as much as possible, just do it behind closed doors, maybe it will not take a few years to be surplus again, so Yang Chao is actively negotiating with the European State Construction, that is, to have a larger market to buffer the expansion of China's production capacity.
Another purpose is to initially build an international economic system dominated by China. At present, there are four countries in this economic system, Tsarist Russia (Western Siberia), Korea, Japan, and the Ryukyus, and Brazil, as well as the British and Dutch colonial economies in the South Seas.
To build an economic system, there are a large number of countries mixed with you, but if they are all mixed miserably, it is not good to say, so Yang Chao is really supportive of the economy of these regions, which focuses on supporting Brazil, Brazil's iron ore and aluminum ore, and has become China's largest supplier, exporting 30 million tons of iron ore and 1 million tons of aluminum ore every year.
Brazil's mineral resources, are operated by the Yangzi Bank's Standard Chartered Mining, in which Brazil's federal, state and local governments each occupy a percent of the shares, stimulated by China's economic improvement, the price of iron ore and bauxite began to increase, and the profits increased significantly, so the profit dividends are very rich, so that the Brazilian governments at all levels have made a sum of money at the same time, Yang Chao ordered Standard Chartered Mining to continue to expand production, half of the profits are used for local construction, and the rest are all invested in expanding production.
An iron ore alone, Yang Chao is expected to expand to at least 80 million tons in ten years, because Yang Chao's steel production is intended to be super beautiful, the United States steel production before the war exceeded 30 million tons, soared to 50 million tons during the war, and declined after the war, but there is no problem in expanding to more than 60 million tons before World War II.
Therefore, China's current steel production must more than triple in order to be able to surpass the United States, which became the most industrially powerful country in World War II, and it is pure delusion to have no steel. Of the 60 million tons of steel raw materials, Yang Chao plans to put a considerable part of them in Brazil, so that there is no problem for Brazil to export 50 million tons of iron ore.
Rockefeller's iron ore supplies 25 cents a ton of iron ore to the United States, at this price, that is also more than 10 million US dollars, at least half of the profits, a huge trade surplus for Brazil, even much larger than their coffee trade profits, and there is no problem in becoming Brazil's number one export industry.
Coupled with the export of aluminum, Brazil will earn $20 million a year, which will greatly stimulate the Brazilian economy.
The purpose is, of course, to tie Brazil to China's economic system and at the same time infiltrate Brazil.
Around the Itabira open-pit iron mine, there are currently 50,000 Chinese miners rooted here, the town of Itabira, has now developed into a medium-sized city with a population of more than 100,000 people, and more than 7 percent of the population are serving the iron mine, the iron mine has built railways, hospitals and schools for the town, built power plants, water plants, and now the residents of this town are 100% in favor of the iron mine, if the Brazilian government really dares to fight the idea of iron ore, the people will rebel.
The state of Minas Gerais, where the iron ore mines are located, together with the iron ore dividends and annual taxes, now accounts for 60% of their fiscal revenues from the mines, far more than the 30% provided by the largest coffee industry in the past, so it is unlikely that the state government will see the iron ore mines close. Mr. Yang also used his stake in the mine to bribe one-third of the state legislators, who receive $10 a year in dividends from the mine, so it is impossible to watch the state government threaten the mine.
Therefore, the only threat can only be the national elements in Brazil, but it is a pity that there are no so-called nationalists in Brazil so far in this national melting pot, and in the post-war years, their population influx has not decreased, but because of the economic problems of Italy and Germany, these two countries have migrated to Brazil in large numbers, and for a time the number of immigrants from China is much larger.
Racism did emerge, especially with Americans in the background, and a handful of racist newspapers began to resist the invasion of the yellow race in the East, demanding that the government restrict Asian immigration, especially from China and Japan. It's a pity that their numbers are still too small and too small to become a climate for the time being.
In addition, Yang Chao also began to use Itabira as a model and began to develop new iron ore mines in other places, such as the Carajas region, Brazil's largest iron mining region.
Carajas is not only rich in iron ore, but also aluminum ore and coal mine, and is considered to be one of the metallogenic belts with the richest types of mineral deposits and the highest concentration of resources in the world. It is known for its large, shallow-enriched iron-manganese ore and the world's largest iron oxide copper-gold deposits. Small veined copper-gold (tungsten-tin) deposits, gold-palladium-platinum deposits, sedimentary manganese deposits, and chromium-nickel deposits are worth mining.
In later generations, it accounted for one-third of Vale's iron ore production, with an annual output of 237.9 million tons of iron ore, 5.4 million tons of coal, 12.5 million tons of bauxite and 5.9 million tons of alumina.
The only bad thing, and the best thing, is that this is the remote state of Pará in Brazil, located in the Amazon rainforest, with a poor living environment and an extremely sparse population, surrounded by rainforests except for the iron ore area, which is a bare red zone. It is about 400 kilometers away from Belém, the capital of Pará state. The sea vessels can travel up to Tukurui along the Tocantins River, which is still 200 kilometres away from the iron ore mines.
So the bad thing is that you have to build at least 200 kilometers of railways in the rainforest to connect with the sea, to be able to transport a lot of materials in, to transport minerals.
The good thing is that there is no one here to immigrate as much as you want, even if you want to immigrate a million people, Brazilians probably have no opinion, and even the supervision can't monitor it.
Of course, China can't immigrate so many people, but mining the mineral resources here alone is enough to support the construction of a city with a population of more than 200,000. The development of tropical plantations, such as rubber plantations, could support a large city of 400,000 people.
In addition to these, with the strong support of Yang Chao, on the basis of continuous losses of more than 2 million US dollars in recent years, the team of agricultural capitalists led by Zhang Jian has developed more than 40 super-large farms in the interior of Brazil, each covering an area of more than 1 million mu.
Zhang Jian has extremely strong strength in the agricultural circles, not to mention the large farms in the northeast, only on the saline-alkali land in the northern part of Jiangsu, under the leadership of the Tonghai Reclamation and Animal Husbandry Company, there are more than 40 salt reclamation companies in northern Jiangsu that stretch for thousands of miles with Nantong as the center. These companies enclosed the saline-alkali land along the northern coast of Jiangsu, made great efforts to improve the land, planted cotton, and reclaimed more than 5 million mu of cotton fields in the eight years after 1914.
Compared to the saline lands along the coast of China, it is not too easy to reclaim savanna in Brazil.
Every company goes in, not only the machinery and equipment go in, but the people also go in.
According to the model of northern Jiangsu in China, which they explored, they took large farms as units and enclosed large tracts of land, and then distributed them to peasant families, and by Brazilian standards, a family was allocated 3,000 to 10,000 acres of land, and 10,000 peasant families followed to Brazil.
Farmers build houses on their own land, and the company's headquarters becomes a small town, which is equivalent to the relocation of China's rural areas as a whole, and the culture is transplanted to the past.
This is just to grow food, if you want to grow cotton, you will employ more people, and it will more than ten times the current population, because there is no advanced cotton machinery at the moment, and cotton cultivation in the United States is sluggish, let alone Brazil. So at present, Brazil is only mainly growing grain, and the grain is mainly exported to China, while China's land is freed up to grow cotton with higher economic value.
Yang Chao's vision for the future of China's rural areas is to take high value-added cash crops, such as fruits, silkworms, cotton, and vegetables as the main production targets, and at the same time vigorously develop the breeding industry.
The food supply of the Chinese is mainly met by the vast northeast and Siberia, with foreign food crops. Brazil is the most important part of foreign food supply, looking at the world, there are only a few places that can feed the Chinese, and the one that is not occupied by powerful forces is a Brazil.
It's just that China's development in Brazil has increasingly aroused the uneasiness of the Americans, who regard the Americas as their own territory, and they have begun to cooperate in succession, while inciting the theory of the yellow race threat in Brazil, and on the other hand, they have joined forces with other countries to balance China, while Britain, another country that feels threatened by China, stands with the United States. (To be continued.) )