Passing through the street in front, there was a squeaky sound behind him, Yang Yuanzhao looked back, a young man, riding a bicycle, fast on the cement road, the current bicycle is still very primitive, is an iron wheel or a wooden wheel, it is easy to damage, but also bumpy terribly, Yang Yuanzhao did not think about the production of such a bicycle, but did not expect that there are businessmen brought from outside, and even after it became popular, there are businessmen who want to invest, purchase some processing equipment and machine tools from Baotou, ready to produce locally.

Now Baotou, basically commuting is by walking, shopping malls are the same, although there are elongated public carriages, but the coverage is not wide, in this case, the bicycle has a huge market, a wooden one will cost about 20-30 yuan, iron will not exceed 50 yuan, which is nothing for the rich workers.

The high wages in Baotou, even ordinary workers who don't know anything, also have a salary of 15-20 yuan, plus bonuses and year-end red envelopes, they can get more than 250 yuan per year, which is still the lowest level of workers, a slight rise to a level, the wage standard will be doubled, the highest wage of workers will reach about 350 yuan, this money, used to buy a means of transportation, is still good.

Bicycles, in this context, were introduced to Baotou, and became the focus of people's pursuit, Baotou and other Chinese cities, slightly different, flat cement pavement, will keep the wear and tear of the bicycle in a relatively small distance, and there is not too much bumpy feeling, the only regret is that you can't go to the countryside, to the countryside, complex roads, still need to use horses.

Seeing this bicycle, Yang Yuanzhao couldn't help but think of rubber, since the establishment of the Smith room, in Shanghai, in addition to the arrangement of synthetic ammonia projects, he paid little attention to that side, I don't know how the vulcanized rubber over there, how is it running, only the real industrial development of vulcanized rubber, rubber, will become an important industrial raw material, has a broader prospect, but now, rubber, is just an ordinary product.

It seems that there is one thing, I forgot about it, and with a slap on the head, Yang Yuanzhao said behind him: "Xiaoman! ”

Xiao Man followed behind Yang Yuanzhao, and when he heard the order, he immediately stepped forward and said, "Sir, what are the orders!" ”

Yang Yuanzhao hesitated for a moment, took out a book, which was a German version of the Three Musketeers, flipped through a few pages, looked for some words on it, and then wrote it out with numbers, forming three or three strange numbers, almost writing a page, and then handed him to Xiao Man, and said, "Send it out immediately!" ”

This is also the result of helplessness, Baotou's industrial development, bigger and bigger, more and more secrets, Germany and the United States too, under Yang Yuanzhao's layout, Germany and the United States have entered a lot of fields, whether it is from China to Germany and the United States, or from overseas imports of various machines and raw materials, the volume of transactions is also increasing, public telegraph lines, can no longer meet the needs, Yang Yuanzhao even has an impulse, let Truss put down the current research of electricity, and turn to the study of radio.

It is a pity to find radio, with the system zuò out of the wireless telegraph transmitter and receiver, these are two different concepts, for the time being, for Baotou, the speed of information is acceptable, at most, next, open a wired telegraph line from Taiyuan to Baotou, this should not be difficult to solve, in a sense, it solves the problem of information communication.

The public telegraph line is not highly confidential, and in the past, Yang Yuanzhao would not care too much, but now, every movement is in the millions, or even tens of millions, and he has to use confidentiality measures.

These three musketeers are the code book agreed by Yang Yuanzhao and Harpy, the number represents the first few words in the ranks, the trinity, you can find a suitable list, and translate the password on it, this is just one aspect to prevent leakage, and it is not military information, so you don't need to make a password machine.

The content is very simple, that is, let Harpy go to Southeast Asia and buy a number of rubber plantations.

Rubber is a natural industrial raw material, in many industrial fields, has a great role, especially vulcanized rubber, as long as it is completed, for the promotion of automobile and other industries, it is absolutely unimaginable, the demand for rubber will increase suddenly, supply and demand imbalance, coupled with the information of this era is not developed, brewed for several years of rubber foam, and finally, formed a rubber-based financial storm, and even affected China, in a sense, the Qing government collapsed, There is an inevitable reason for it, but it is also a little bit of a side with rubber.

If it weren't for the rubber storm, the embezzlement of road construction funds, the loss of money lost Sichuan businessmen, there would be no Sichuan road protection movement, and the center of the Qing Dynasty also because of the turmoil of rubber, and urgently mobilized a large amount of funds, so the attention to the railway, the two gathered, it was out of control.

Rolling general trend, Yang Yuanzhao will not, can not change, overthrow the Qing government, is the progress of history, he will not hinder him, for the braids of the Qing Dynasty, he has never had a good feeling, but to reduce the losses of the Chinese, by the way to bloodlet foreigners, or can, Southeast Asia, now is still a virgin land, the current rubber center is in Brazil, and the future, history has proved that Southeast Asia, is the most suitable place for rubber.

Let Harpy go to Southeast Asia, on the one hand, for this purpose, on the other hand, also in the layout, the future of China, the living space has been compressed to the extreme, the north is Russia, the south is Southeast Asia, in the future world war, is the reshuffle of forces and countries, and it is also the only way to obtain the land in the name of justice, Europe and the Americas, perhaps can be called Caucasian, but Asia, must be yellow, to be precise, China, will become the leading force in Asia.

On the street, smooth and clean, with the fees collected from the supermarket, Baotou has funds for municipal construction, and the first thing is to clean up, the establishment of a large number of public toilets, so that Baotou has become clean, there are special personnel to manage and clean, people have also formed the habit of paying attention to hygiene, at least, the phenomenon of defecating on the street, has long disappeared.

Ahead, just met the textile mill off work, with blue-based tooling, has become a beautiful landscape of the textile mill, in terms of Baotou's cotton textile industry, in just 3 months, completed the installation of 120,000 spindles of cotton yarn, the second phase of the project has begun, accompanied by the hot sale of cotton cloth, so that they achieved profitability in the month, and then, the profit margin will continue to rise.

Baotou's cotton textile factory, is simply a gold-swallowing beast, high yield, high efficiency, the demand for lint, is also endless, the limit of a day, reached about 200,000 pounds, so the demand, is about 500 bags of cotton yarn, the eight Jin merchants throughout the country's tentacles, the purchase of cotton deep into the northeast and Jiangnan, fortunately in China, plus some cotton imported from abroad, especially the United States, with the help of the relationship between Germany and the United States in the United States, directly imported cotton yarn and cotton cloth from the United States, a certain amount of dù aboveIn 1909, when the Spring Festival was approaching, changes took place, duck down quilts and duck down jackets, replaced cotton with cotton on the top of the market, and even in high-end stores, silk quilts were born.

Yang Yuanzhao found that the importance of expanding cotton planting, industrialization, the competition is raw materials, Britain, even in terms of industrial efficiency, not as good as the emerging Germany, but still has a strong profitability, is to rely on the raw materials to a colony, cheap raw materials, to support the entire British industrial production, conservative estimates of the current 120,000 spindles, the existing loom under the premise, the domestic cotton can also be supported, if the scale is further expanded, it will not work.

High sales results, let the Jin merchants see how big the cotton market is, not only the purchase of cotton in all directions, and even the target on foreign countries, India's cotton is the first choice, and the United States, by the way, the second phase of the project, also from 120,000 spindles, increased to 240,000 spindles, such a process, probably will continue until next year, in Yang Yuanzhao's plan, this cotton textile factory will continue to expand, the total number of cotton spindles, will be from the current 120,000 spindles, and eventually expand to 120, Even 1.8 million spindles make it the largest and most comprehensive cotton processing center in the world.

Scale produces benefits, this is not false at all, Yang Yuanzhao was about to bypass the cotton textile factory, because the workers got off work, and all the road surface had been occupied, at this time, Xiao Man ran over panting, he raised his eyebrows, and said unhappily: "Didn't you let you send a letter?" ”

"I happened to meet a messenger from Taiyuan, and the letter also asked him to bring it over, sir, Shanghai emergency call!"

Yang Yuanzhao's face was slightly better, he took the telegram casually, opened it, this is an unencrypted letter, there is only one message on it, Williams is responsible for improving and designing the steel plant plan, has been completed, the drawings and some equipment, has been crashed in the United States, it is expected to arrive in Baotou in a month.

Finally arrived, Yang Yuanzhao clenched his fists, from the very beginning, he was ready to turn Baotou into China's Ruhr, what is the Ruhr, the core of Germany's heavy industry, whether it is steel production, coal production, all have a pivotal position in Germany, any problem of the Ruhr, maybe a sneeze, can make Germany shock.

The textile industry, the daily chemical industry, and even the matches are just a money-making industry, and the backbone that can really support a country is always only the steel manufacturing industry, and the foundation of Baotou is too weak, even if he has engineers from abroad, and has recruited workers from all over China, but a global design, and still needs to wait for Williams, using a lot of technology, this steel plant is absolutely first-class, but unfortunately it has not been completed for a long time, and now it is finally over, it seems that the plan of the steel plant is also expected to start. RS