The largest areas are chemical plants and electronics factories that have not yet started.

Although it is called a factory now, it should actually be called a company more appropriately, and the electronics factory that is about to start will include an electronic tube factory, an electronic component factory, an air conditioning factory, a refrigerator factory, a radio factory, and an electronic instrument factory in the future. The chemical plant covers more and more, such as fertilizers, special materials, raw materials, nylon, coal liquefaction projects, pharmaceutical raw materials, chemical and other chemical raw materials, dyes and so on.

Because they have many projects, most of the land for this new factory site is reserved for them, and even the large piece of land reserved now will be insufficient, but now there is no way, he can't ask Yan Xishan for a large piece of land that has no project for the time being, so he has to wait until Song Zhewu obtains Shanxi. Most of the factory buildings have already been built and can be installed as soon as the equipment arrives.

In several factory workshops, Song Zhewu saw that the workers were working in an orderly manner in their respective positions, not only did they not move around at will, but they also did not have time to talk and laugh at leisure, and Song Zhewu only saw one or two people patrolling and inspecting each workshop. Judging from the demeanor of the workers, they are very conscious and active in their work.

Sun Jiahui told Song Zhewu that after several factories were relocated to Taiyuan, the scale was greatly expanded, and the number of personnel also increased a lot, but the additional personnel were recruited from the victims who came to Laiyuan, and so far not a single Shanxi person has been recruited, not even skilled workers. From Sun Jiahui's words, Song Zhewu heard that he was very dissatisfied.

Song Zhewu knew about this matter, and it was done by Xiao Guodong according to Tao Rong's suggestion, mainly considering that these factories would play a major role in the plan to seize Shanxi, and it was difficult to recruit Shanxi locals to ensure that no one would find any problems and affect the whole situation.

However, Song Zhewu will not tell Sun Jiahui about the inside story of this matter, but he has no attitude and is not good, Sun Jiahui's loyalty to the Song family and himself has been absolutely confirmed and tested over the years, and Song Zhewu must be appeased for his dissatisfaction.

Song Zhewu thought for a while, and then explained to Sun Jiahui: "In the long run, our Xinghua will develop in Shanxi, and it will not work if we do not recruit a large number of Shanxi locals, which will make the locals always regard our Xinghua as a foreign enterprise." You're right to be worried. Song Zhewu knew that the first thing he needed to do was to affirm Sun Jiahui's worries.

"But now we can't recruit locals, the reason is that there are too many victims pouring into the Taihang Agency, and there is a lot of pressure on the order of Laiyuan and food and other necessities, and disaster relief alone is a big expense, and we still have a lot of places to use money."

Song Zhewu sighed slightly and continued: "If there is someone in the family of these disaster victims who has a job income, the family's life will have hope and security, and we will have a good impression and dependence on our Fourth Route Army, which is exactly what we need very much now." Although the army has recruited a large number of people, there are still many families who do not have the appropriate age to enlist, or who are unable to join the army because there is only one man in the family and have to wait for disaster relief. Such a person needs several factories under Schmidt to help solve the ...... Therefore, we will not be able to recruit local people in Shanxi within half a year. ”

Sun Jiahui can only accept Song Zhewu's explanation, after all, so many victims can be ignored by others, Song Zhewu, the supreme commander of the Fourth Route Army, must be managed, if people starve to death, it will damage Song Zhewu's image. As Song Zhewu just said, the Fourth Route Army needs the favor of the victims, in fact, to Sun Jiahui's ears, Song Zhewu needs this kind of favor and dependence, to put it bluntly, loyalty and dependence. After Song Zhewu brought back a large number of victims from Wuhan last year, Sun Jiahui already thought that the second son of the former was a person who wanted to do great things, and that he had to work hard to maintain the "old minister" of the Song family, and that he was also proud of the status of this "old minister". Not only has Song Zhewu always respected him for his identity, but Li Rujuan, who was about to become Mrs. Song, also looked at him differently, so as long as Song Zhewu's decision was made, he had to abide by and maintain it.

During the inspection, Song Zhewu asked about the raw materials and sales of several factories with anxiety, especially whether the sales of products had squeezed the living space of local manufacturers in Shanxi. Sun Jiahui is worthy of being a shrewd industrialist, and as soon as Song Zhewu asked, he immediately gave Song Zhewu detailed answers one by one.

"There are no pharmaceutical factories and cement factories in Shanxi, let alone electronic and chemical enterprises, so not only pharmaceutical factories and cement factories, but also electronic and chemical enterprises will not compete with local enterprises when they are put into operation in the future. There are textile, printing and dyeing, flour, iron and steel, machinery manufacturing, leather products processing, electric power, military industry and other enterprises in Shanxi. ”

Sun Jiahui said in an appreciative tone: "The industrial category is also the most complete in the country, this Yan Xishan is really different from other warlords, he has really done a lot of good things in Shanxi over the years!" ”

Speaking of this, Sun Jiahui suddenly felt that Yan Xishan was really similar to Song Zhewu in some aspects.

Seeing that Song Zhewu was listening to him very carefully, Sun Jiahui continued: "There is even a canning factory in Shanxi, among these enterprises, steel, machinery manufacturing, leather products processing, electric power, military industry, etc. are all run by Shanxi Provincial Political Axe, and Xinghua has not invested in this area for the time being, so we do not have a conflict with Shanxi Provincial Political Axe. Although there is also a canning factory in Shanxi, our Xinghua canning factory is located in Datong because it takes into account that the source of beef and mutton is mainly Inner Mongolia, and the products are mainly transported to Tianjin by Pingsui Railway, and from Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang by sea, so there is no conflict with Shanxi. The only conflicts are flour, textiles, printing and dyeing, and leather processing. ”

"In terms of leather processing, Xinghua's factory mainly makes military products, and the products are mainly belts, bullet boxes, military shoes, saddles, harnesses, riding boots, gloves, etc., which are for the use of the Fourth Route Army, and are not exported at all. Although some high-end civilian furs such as leather coats, shawls, and fur hats were also produced, the production was small enough to affect anything. ”

"Shanxi and Hebei are the main wheat producing areas, and the severe drought in recent years has affected Shaanxi, Gansu and western Henan, which has little impact on Shanxi and Hebei. Although Yan Xishan has vigorously advocated the cultivation of cotton mulberry since last year, and even vigorously promoted it in the Yanbei region, which is not suitable for cotton planting, and the grain planting area has decreased, the stock in Shanxi is sufficient, and local manufacturers have no problem with raw materials. Moreover, our raw wheat was purchased in Hebei and Henan in the first half of the year, and the inventory is sufficient, which can be supported until October this year. Deputy Manager Li said that the fuse of the economic crisis in Europe and the United States last year was the bumper wheat harvest in North America, which led to the decline in wheat prices. Ms. Li has already purchased a large quantity of raw wheat through his father's trading house in Shanghai, which will arrive in Tianjin in batches next month, which will be enough for our flour mill to support the winter wheat harvest next year. So flour mills won't compete with local manufacturers for food, at least this year. ”

"In addition, our flour is of good quality, and now we don't need to sell it locally at all, just the big customers in other provinces can eat all our production, and we don't sell much locally, mainly because the rich people are more willing to buy our flour, so there is basically no conflict with local manufacturers. If all of our new equipment is put into production, it will inevitably be necessary to increase local sales at that time, and it will be difficult to say at that time. But don't worry, I've learned that several flour companies in Shanxi are very small, the largest is the private product of Xu Yiqing, general manager of the Shanxi Provincial Bank, "Xu's Flour", which is only one-fifth of ours, and we can crush it at any time as long as we need it. ”

"In terms of textiles, there is no wool spinning in Shanxi, and the raw materials and sales of our wool spinning branch are guaranteed, and there is no conflict with the local area; Cotton spinning raw materials are sufficient, the reason why Yan Xishan advocates a variety of cotton, is because of the lack of cotton, Shanxi textile enterprises are not only scarce, the scale is also very small, can not meet the demand, only Shanxi province has to buy more than 20 million oceans of grey cloth from outside the province every year. Now Shanxi's cotton is sufficient, and even because Shanxi can't digest it, the price of cotton has been greatly reduced, and cotton farmers can't make much money. However, the number and capacity of textile mills have not kept up in time, and in addition to supplying local factories, there is also a large surplus, and we have come just in time to meet Yan Xishan's wishes. ”

"It's just that our situation is different, the production capacity of one of our factories is larger than that of Shanxi Province, if our new machine is installed and debugged, the production capacity will be increased by another 20 percent, at that time I estimate that about 10 percent of the output will be digested in Shanxi, which is bound to have an impact on local manufacturers in Shanxi. And this is not the most important thing, the important thing is that our previous cotton was purchased in Hebei and Henan, and the insufficient part relied on imports, and the price of raw materials was higher. However, because our colored cloth sells well and has high profits, higher raw materials have little impact on us. But since there is a lot of cheaper cotton in Shanxi, there is certainly no need for us to spend high prices on imported cotton. The problem now is that although there is a large amount of cotton, the amount of cotton in Shanxi Province is still not enough to supply all the manufacturers in Xinghua and Shanxi, so it is inevitable to compete with each other for cotton sources, and the price of cotton will rise or even reach the price of imported cotton. We Xinghua are naturally not afraid, but those factories may not be able to support it. ”

"As for the color cloth and flower cloth in the short term, there is no printing machine in Shanxi, even our color cloth will not conflict with them, our color cloth and flour are now mainly sold outside the province, and there is no local sales. However, recently there is our colored cloth sold in the local market, and as far as I know, some local cloth merchants have intercepted a small amount of cloth at a high price at the station. It's just that the quantity is not large, and the second is that our colored cloth is of good quality, bright color, and the price is higher, and only rich people buy it locally, so the impact is not big for the time being. ”

Sun Jiahui looked at Song Zhewu and said with some regret: "In my opinion, these are temporary, although we have decided to give up part of the market share, but as soon as the new machines of our flour mills, textile mills and dyeing factories start, the output is bound to increase significantly, and the impact on local manufacturers is inevitable." ”

Sun Jiahui thought about it, hesitated for a moment, and said to Song Zhewu with some worry: "Xu Yiqing, general manager of Shanxi Provincial Bank, has come to the factory ......"

Shanxi's annual purchase of more than 20 million oceans of grey cloth from outside the province is real and well documented.

(To be continued)