Zhan Tianyou was puzzled into the bus station, trying to find a way to travel from Zhangjiakou to Baotou, 700 miles away, Baotou in the northwest, Yang Yuanzhao was presiding over a meeting closely related to the future of Baotou, the main topic of the meeting was to build a railway.

That's right, the railway, Baotou is about to build a railway, from a few decades ago, China's first railway, forty or fifty years have passed, from 1865, the British businessman Durand, in order to show the superiority of the powers, self-funded, outside the Xuanwu Gate in Beijing, built a 0.5 km railway, this is the first time the railway entered China, and then because of the horror of the viewer for the reason of demolition, China's railway began its development history. By 1876, the construction of the first operating Wusong Railway could be regarded as the prelude to China's railways. For more than 30 years, countless funds and personnel have been poured into this place, but even in 1909, only a few thousand kilometers of railways were opened to traffic in China, including the railways built by major powers such as the Middle East Road Railway.

Most of these railways are light rail, and they are single-line, the annual throughput capacity is insufficient, and the speed is not fast, but it has changed a qiē, most of the railways operating in China are extremely profitable railways, as long as there is a road construction plan, the four countries bank group will also follow the loan, the Sichuan-Han railway is supported by the four country bank group, and it borrowed 6 million pounds at once, which is equivalent to the cost of two or three battleships.

Hearing Yang Yuanzhao's calm words, several major Jin businessmen, as well as many shareholders, are a little speechless, they all know that the railway is a good thing, once the railway is repaired, Baotou's things, can be transported to all parts of the country at a faster speed, traffic problems, can no longer affect Baotou, products will not be limited to the northwest provinces, this is the industrial scale and output value of Baotou has risen repeatedly, it is simply the best choice, but no matter how good the thing, can not be casually on it.

Many shareholders recognize that the railway is a good thing, and the reason why they are puzzled is that Baotou can support the operation of this railway? Since last year, the development speed of Baotou is eye-catching, under the leadership of Yang Yuanzhao, one enterprise after another has been built, although they have obtained great benefits, but they are also squeezing everyone's money bags, almost all the money earned or dividends, basically squeezed by the projects that continue to appear, if not every project, Yang Yuanzhao occupies the largest, but also the most invested shares, they even doubt that Yang Yuanzhao's purpose.

Yang Yuanzhao has almost endless capital, and he also has strong support behind him, and the almost unreserved support of the German and American foreign companies has made Yang Yuanzhao take out more funds than once again, and various projects are also ultra-high-speed development, so that they have obtained a large number of dividends, at least, on paper, occasionally leaked, or developed in other aspects, in general, there are a lot, it is these, supporting everyone, investing in one project after another, but now, the project of the steel plant, only a few months have passed, The machine factory has just been put into operation, and the railroad has sprung up again.

Who doesn't know, the railway is a very high profit, but behind the high profit, is high investment, not to mention, this year's Beijing-Zhangjiakou railway, the total investment has exceeded 7 million, this is 200 kilometers of railway, from Baotou out, whether it is Baotou to Zhangjiakou, or Baotou to Taiyuan, the mileage will exceed 350 kilometers, that is not another 10 million amount, or even higher investment.

"Let's do it!" Yang Yuanzhao's words were loud and said solemnly: "Everyone knows that half of the resources of the steel plant I built single-handedly are used to produce various steel rails. ”

Everyone sitting here thought that there is still this problem in the steel plant, could it be that from the beginning of the preparation of the steel plant, Yang Yuanzhao has taken this problem into account, and the steel rail is for the construction of the railway?

Yang Yuanzhao waved his hand behind him and said, "Zhang Zhaozhong, you can report on the current operation of the steel plant." ”

Zhang Zhaozhong walked to the front desk, the first time to participate in the joint shareholders' meeting, but there was no restraint, according to Yang Yuanzhao's richness, he had already prepared a series of things, including the operation of the steel plant in the past three or four months.

A series of numbers, gathered a high-quality company framework, it can be said that the results of the steel mill is very good, 150,000 tons of output, of which 75,000 tons, is occupied by the rails, the rest of the income is not small, in this era, raw materials only the cost of production, no commodity sense of the cost, it can be said unceremoniously, the cost of steel is not high, 75,000 tons of steel, can actually make up for half of the production of rail consumption, of which, the largest part is provided by stainless steel.

Ordinary steel, can achieve a gross profit of 50, which is fixed by Yang Yuanzhao, most of the purchase of steel is a local company in Baotou, but stainless steel, but it has become a sudden emergence, from ordinary stainless steel kitchenware, daily necessities, and some stainless steel products, which greatly enriches the market, Baotou is not other cities, this huge city with industry and workers as the core, from the beginning, under the high salary guaranteed by Yang Yuanzhao, the purchasing power is very strong, Baotou as long as the production of products, related to daily useBasically, it can generate a lot of sales in Baotou.

Traditional products, have been replaced by these beautiful and neat stainless steel products, especially knives, which cook without knives, without stainless steel woks, without stainless steel steamers, these combined, although each household uses less, but the production of products, almost all over the thousands of households, not out of Baotou are sold out, of course, the profit margin is also extremely high, even if it is 150, even 200 people want. In other words, stainless steel, which is less than 5,000 tons, accounts for 75,000 tons of steel, more than half of the profit margin, which shows the importance of high-grade steel.

If it is just like this, the profits of the steel mill are flat, do not make money and do not lose money, barely maintain labor wages, but the fixed assets are consumed, the steel plant is not only steel, but also more than double the steel output, 150,000 tons of iron, in addition to part of the raw materials into other factories and enterprises in Baotou, the rest are made into a variety of farm tools, sold all over China.

China's demand for iron, can definitely be called vigorous, iron pots, hoes, shovels, iron ploughs, these formed a system of agricultural products, all of a sudden, in a month or two of time spread to the periphery of Baotou, and spread to all over the place, to be honest, compared with steel, iron production is not difficult, small workshops can process and produce, with machine tools and special molds of Baotou, it does not cost much.

The shareholders below listened to these figures, for more than a year, they have long been accustomed to it, Yang Yuanzhao's habit of taking the number of jù to speak, accounts and words can deceive people, but the most real, the number jù summarized from all sides, can never deceive people, the front and the back are intertwined, and finally converge into one sentence, that is, Baotou Steel Mill, in just 3 months, income of 900,000 yuan. This is not a gross profit margin, nor is it an accounts receivable, this is a solid net profit, which is equal to an average of 300,000 yuan a month.

300,000 yuan a month, 3.6 million a year, although the investment in steel mills is huge, it can recover the cost in almost 20 years, so the jobs created and the projects that have been extended are even more eye-catching

"In other words, not to mention the rails, we can pay for the rest in 20 years?" The head of the Qu family said stunned.

"Yes!" Zhang Zhaozhong replied calmly.

There was an uproar below, the steel mill is making money, but there is an example of Hanyang Iron Works in front, 20 years, tens of millions of dollars, but there is not much profit, if it is not a rich place like Huguang, I am afraid it will not be able to support Zhang Zhidong's investment, Baotou's steel mill, the initial investment is not large, plus there are foreign experts in, I don't think it will lose money, as for making money, I'm afraid it will take a wait until 30 years later, the Jin merchants are interested in the opportunities derived from this, such as steel in infrastructure, in the field of ordinary steel casting, This may be an expansion of Baotou.

The benefits of heavy industry are actually more in a variety of additional products, for example, Hanyang Iron Works, the iron works themselves are not profitable, but many industries and enterprises related to the iron works are quite profitable, and there are a lot of them, if it is not the case, how can Zhang Zhidong support the Hanyang Iron Works for 20 years just for a false name.

Who knows, after the steel plant was put into operation, it was just put into production, and the profits were so high, and 16 blast furnaces were designed and put into operation, and only 5 were put into use, which is equal to one-third, that is not to say, if all are put into use, the profit will reach 900,000 per year, which is not five or six years to recover the cost.

The audience was shocked, they were worried that Yang Yuanzhao was greedy and greedy, and the reckless construction of the railway would cause the collapse of the entire Baotou, and now in the face of iron-clad facts, no one will say anything, the interests of the railway, is a person can see, the operation of bulk commodities, the railway has obvious advantages over the so-called highway, which is also the Qing government, the root of the non-stop redemption of the railway, a investment, but can be a long stream, the earliest Wusong railway established in 1876, was built privately by the British, Later, instead of spending more than 200,000 taels and direct redemption, 30 years have passed, and the railway is still in operation, and the benefits produced are already several times the original investment, which can definitely be called the best deal.

Almost instantly, everyone's minds changed, especially some younger, more radical family owners, their eyes were full of joy and excitement, to increase the profits of the steel mill itself, the railway is definitely the best choice. R1152