After visiting some factories in Nagasaki, Hu Chuyuan soon went to Kyoto with Pan Rong.

Their first stop was Osaka, known as the "City of Water" in the Kansai region, which was not only the most prosperous city in the Kansai region, but also the ancient capital of the city. Four years ago, a railway was opened to Kyoto and Tokyo, and a railway to Hiroshima is under construction.

In Hu Chuyuan's eyes, Osaka is still a poor place, not as good as Hangzhou, but on the coastal harbor, you can already see a large number of wharves and docks, black coal parked in the cabins and train cars, piece by piece, like countless black squares.

The industrial area southwest of the dock is lined with a large number of chimneys, burning billowing black smoke.

Hu Chuyuan had already changed into a dress and a loose hat, while Pan Rong was more like a wealthy businessman in a suit, and he had invited two local friends to fill up the numbers.

Hu Chuyuan knew very well who his opponent was, and his first stop was the Mitsubishi Chamber of Commerce, at this time, the founder of the Mitsubishi zaibatsu - Iwasaki Yataro was also just 43 years old, and he had become a red-top merchant in the Meiji era, and he exclusively operated the shipping industry in this book.

Three years ago, he had only three seagoing vessels, but now he has 37 large freighters and more than 300 small and medium-sized freighters.

In the 7th year of the Meiji era, he tried to occupy Taiwan, and it was his Mitsubishi Chamber of Commerce that was responsible for transporting military supplies, and in the Southwest War that broke out last year, he made a lot of money by selling arms to political axes.

Osaka.

It was this man who dug the first pot of gold.

The similar surnames of this person and Hu Xueyan are not one or two points, but almost the same, but Hu Xueyan collapsed, and the family business failed to become a chaebol that affected the fate of the country, and this person's family business was passed on and became the soul of the military industry.

Fortunately, Hu Chuyuan has the opportunity to change all this, and he firmly believes that he will do better than Yataro Iwasaki, or even much better.

Hiding his identity, Hu Chuyuan visited the Mitsubishi Chamber of Commerce's wharf in Horie, Nishi-ku, Osaka, although it was not so advanced, the overall level was almost the same as what he saw at the Shanghai wharf, but the key was that this chamber of commerce monopolized the entire shipping industry in Japan, and even Qichang and Jardine Matheson, which dominated Asia, could not get involved in the shipping industry.

Because of the excuse of spying on the other party for the purpose of negotiating business, Hu Chuyuan made a rough calculation through the information translated by Pan Rong, and the result shocked him -- the annual income of the Mitsubishi Chamber of Commerce in the shipping industry was almost the same as his income as the chief salt merchant of the five provinces in the south of the Yangtze River.

You know, the Mitsubishi Chamber of Commerce itself also has banking, real estate, raw silk exports, and various other industries, and it is the shipbuilding industry and the steel industry and the military industry that have been extended to it.

Is it scary?

Terrible.

Although it can still be regarded as the same level at the moment, Hu Chuyuan is really worried about whether he can catch up with Mitsubishi, in addition to Mitsubishi, he also has to deal with the more odious Mitsui and Sumitomo, which are not fuel-efficient lamps.

The Fuji chaebol may be easy to deal with, but it can only be regarded as a small bank at the moment, but what about ...... in the future?

In short, go for it!

Hu Chuyuan also knew very well that as long as he used some strange tricks, it would not be difficult to defeat Yueben militarily, but if he could not defeat these chaebols and completely collapse the economy of Yueben, then ...... Even if he defeated the political axe militarily, it could not be regarded as a real victory in itself, and it could not suppress the development of the company.

If we want to completely eradicate this cancer, the key is to deal with the economy, and in order to defeat the economy, we must first defeat its chaebol.

Hu Chuyuan hopes that he can do it.

After visiting Mitsubishi's shipping terminal, Hu Chuyuan found an excuse to continue to visit the Mitsubishi Osaka shipyard, relying on the profits obtained from the monopoly of shipping, the Mitsubishi Chamber of Commerce had already decided to build the largest shipyard in Osaka -- later, they acquired the state-owned Nagasaki Shipyard, plus the new Mitsubishi Shipyard in Yokosuka, but they did not make a profit, because the shipbuilding industry needed a huge capital investment from the beginning and could afford to lose money.

In short, relying on the huge profits of the big chaebol group in other aspects, Mitsubishi finally persevered and waited until spring.

But for a long time, the Mitsubishi chaebol was not the largest shipbuilding company in the capital, because the Mitsui consortium, which had more qualifications, firmly occupied this position.

"That's it, the opponent is here, the real victory...... That is, to step on the bones of your opponent and become a strong man! ”

After visiting Osaka for two days, Hu Chuyuan hurried to his next stop, Kyoto, with such a mood.

This time, he wanted to observe how the Bunsen silk industry developed from a close distance.

In fact, this is not a secret, and the newspaper of this book is always reporting on these things.

The silk industry was able to gradually develop and defeat the Chinese silk industry, and half of the credit for the First Sino-Japanese War was accounted for, and the other half belonged to Kyoto Prefecture.

Ten years ago, in the second year of the Meiji era (1868), the Nishijin Bussan Company was established in Kyoto Prefecture to provide relief to impoverished silk farmers and weavers. In the third year of the Meiji era, the Shemi Bureau and the Maternity Office were established, which were equivalent to the Chemical Research Institute and the Technology Promotion Institute.

In the fourth year of the Meiji era, a sericulture farm was established to promote new silkworm species and new technologies; In the fifth year of the Meiji era, he set up a livestock farm, promoted new cattle breeds and sheep, sent people to France to learn new silk weaving techniques and Western dyeing techniques, and purchased new machinery...... In seven years, a weaving workshop was set up to promote new hand-weaving machines and processes.

These "fields" all brought together the work of technology collection, research, improvement, and popularization, and quickly turned Kyoto's silk industry from decline to prosperity, and spread the successful experience to the entire world.

Kyoto Prefecture has also taken many detours, but compared with the "no action is no mistake" policy of the Qing court, it is really much more positive.

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Entering the Kyoto Plain and looking at the scenery along the way, Hu Chuyuan had already seen a large mulberry forest.

Even here, mountains are still everywhere, and in order to develop the silk industry, they cut down a large number of trees and planted mulberry forests.

Due to the confluence of the Pacific Ocean Stream and the West Asian Cold Current, the rain is abundant, which makes the mulberry leaf resources of Yuben extremely abundant.

This is the key to the rise of the Bunsen silk industry.

With the development of the silk industry in Kyoto, the more powerful chaebols quickly used this as a template and used the support of the political axe and their own financial resources to spread throughout the company.

In 1878, the export volume of raw silk was 726 tons, and the total output was 1,226 tons (2.05 million catties of Qing system), which was less than 1/3 of the annual output of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.

In 1883, the export volume of raw silk was 1,347 tons, and the total output was 1,682 tons.

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In 1903, in just 15 years, the total export volume of raw silk reached 6,750 tons, which officially surpassed China in terms of quantity and average quality.

In 1910, the export volume of raw silk was 10,462 tons, reaching 3/4 of the world's total raw silk exports, six times that of China, and this is the most critical export material for the economy, in exchange for a large amount of foreign exchange and gold.

In fact, the life and death of China and China are determined.

The decisive battle between China and China must first start with raw silk!