July 26, 1898, Republic of Seris, Nantong Port, Jiangsu.

After receiving the notice from above, and hearing the news that Chen Zeyu, the head of state, was about to come to Tongtong, all the government ministers of the entire Jiangsu government immediately rushed over.

At 15:45 p.m. that day, after a group of officials of all sizes waited on the wharf for a full hour, the steamer of Chen Zeyu and his entourage finally arrived at the wharf as scheduled.

"The Führer has been tired all the way, so let's go to the hotel and rest first."

Perhaps seeing that Chen Zeyu was a little tired after getting off the boat, Xu Shichang, the governor of Jiangsu Province who came to receive him, said softly.

To be honest, Xu Shichang is in awe of the young leader in front of him from the bottom of his heart. What he has done over the years has long made the bureaucrats in various parts of the country forget the real age of the head of state in front of them, as the so-called residence and qi cultivation and body transfer, in the face of today's Chen Zeyu, it is good that local officials in China can be like Xu Shichang without changing their faces.

Chen Zeyu looked at the middle-aged man in front of him and said with a smile, "It's okay, don't be too extravagant, let's go to the guest house." ”

In order to meet the needs of domestic government civil servants on business trips, the Seris government has built corresponding government hotels and guest houses throughout the country, and under the initiative of streamlining and practicality, the conditions of these guest houses are naturally far less comfortable than those of private high-end hotels in various places.

"This ...... All right! ”

Xu Shichang can be regarded as knowing the style of this head of state, and he has no choice but to order the following to do so.

As far as Chen Zeyu is concerned, he is naturally no stranger to Xu Shichang, the president of the Republic of China in the original history.

Xu Shichang (1855-), the name Bu Wu, the name of the chrysanthemum, was born in Weihui City, Henan Province. The family has been an official of the former Qing Dynasty for generations since his great-grandfather, Xu Shichang himself is not bad, in the former Qing Dynasty Guangxu six years successively in the examination, Jinshi, and finally made the Qing Dynasty Hanlin bachelor, not only that, Xu Shichang soon went to France to obtain a doctorate in literature from the University of Paris, it can be said that this person's academic attainments are extremely good. In the original history, Xu Shichang has always been known as a sophisticated and pragmatic politician, while assisting Yuan Shikai to govern the country, he is not blindly obedient, he is far-sighted, and he is praised as the "president of civil governance" in history.

Chen Zeyu will naturally not let go of such a talent, as early as the day Seris entered Beijing City, Chen Zeyu asked someone to invite this Xu Shichang out of his home. In fact, it is not just such a Xu Shichang, including Yan Fu, Wei Yuan, Zhan Tianyou in the early days to Sheng Xuanhuai, Tang Shaoyi, Zhao Bingjun, Duan Qirui, Jiang Chaozong, Wang Shizhen, Jin Yunpeng, Zhang Shaozeng, Liu Yongfu, Tang Jingsong, Yuan Shikai, Sun Wen, etc., which of these historical trendsetters has not been fully involved in his Chen Zeyu.

For Chen Zeyu, "collecting" historical celebrities may have become an interesting thing that he can never get tired of.

Thinking of these things in the past, Chen Zeyu, who was sitting in the car, couldn't help but smile......

After a night in a government guest house, Chen Zeyu began his inspection tour of Nantong on the second day.

To Chen Zeyu's surprise, Zhang Jian, an industrial leader in Nantong, rushed to the government hotel to meet him in person after learning the news that he had come to the local area.

You must know that when Chen Zeyu's army had just captured Beijing, Zhang Jizhi, who had just won the champion and the first place in the former Qing Enke, hated him to the core, and always thought that it was the remnants of the Seris Nanyang under his leadership who committed the rebellion. Unexpectedly, after a few years, the former champion of the Qing Dynasty had changed his attitude.

In fact, it is not surprising that anyone who has spent a few years under Chen Zeyu and has witnessed the great changes between Seris and the former Qing Dynasty cannot remain indifferent. The champion who was born in Nantong is no exception, from the initial hostility, to the later confusion, swaying, observation, thinking and even the final support, the former champion has already tried to embark on the road of industrial rejuvenation and has made remarkable achievements in the country.

Zhang Jian embarked on the road of industry and business, which caused a sensation among a large number of old scholars in Seris at that time.

In today's Seris business community, the group of emerging entrepreneurs who are engaged in modern industries is mainly composed of three types of people. The first is Nanyang aristocratic businessmen like Chen Zeyu, Wu Zuonan, and Song Yaoru, the second is the local folk businessmen who started from the grassroots with a large number of people like Sheng Xuanhuai, Rong Zongjing, and Zheng Guanying, and the third is the former Qing gentry businessmen like Zhang Jian. Before the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Jian was a veritable figure of the Qing Dynasty, when the champion of the dynasty went to the sea to set up a factory, Zhang Jian's behavior could not help but subvert the ideas of the literati class in the past, and its shock effect in China at that time was indescribable. At the beginning of Zhang Jian's descent to the sea, Chen Zeyu, the head of state of the Republic who was already sitting in Beijing at that time, once praised him, "Zhang Jian is really the Shibu Zerong of the Republic!" ”

Zhang Jian's business did cause an uproar at that time, and his behavior was tantamount to opening up a generation of customs on the mainland, so that the gentry and Qingliu of the past suddenly realized that in fact, business is also very status, and people with high status can go to business.

Under his infection, Lu Runzhen, another champion in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, also announced that he would go to the sea to set up a yarn factory, and an old champion of the Xianfeng Dynasty earlier, Sun Jianai, who had long retired to raise his grandson at home, also took his two sons Sun Duosen and Sun Duoxin to establish the largest machine flour mill in China, Fufeng Flour Company, in Shanghai. The successive descent of these former Qing gentry to the sea can be said to be unprecedented, and people were deeply shocked and gave them a name, Shishang.

Between the two social classes, officials and businessmen, scholars and businessmen, with their dual identities of "serving as officials and businessmen", blurred the boundaries between officials and businessmen. They often go to the government and issue letters to industry and commerce, that is, the so-called "postal service to industry and commerce", which constitutes a buffer and medium between officials and businessmen, and undertakes the dual mission of implementing the government's intentions and speaking for the industrial and commercial circles. The sudden emergence of this scholarly class, due to its multiple combinations of ideological, capital, and political resources, would soon become a major contributor to the change of popular thinking in Seris at that time, and many of them would later become important players in promoting the development of industries on the mainland of the Republic.

Since then, the original heavy and backward atmosphere in the north of Seris has changed very much, and the people of the country, especially the northern people who have just been attached to the north for a long time, have greatly improved their ability to accept new things, and the earlier railways, factories, chimneys and other theories that affect feng shui have gradually become jokes. Westernized streets were gradually built in various places, and many gentry built two-story Western-style brick houses modeled after Europe and the United States, and more and more trams began to pass through the streets, and electric lights became more and more abundant when night fell.

The people are also caring all day long, and there are fewer people hoarding and annexing land, but the group of people of insight who pursue industry to rejuvenate the country has become more and more prosperous.

In fact, as early as 1884, after the Sino-French War, Zhang Jian himself had the idea of "revitalizing industry". When he was a staff member in the palace of Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, he drafted for him such a Qing court remedy as "Acting for the Governor of Hubei and Chen Liguo to Strengthen Himself", and clearly put forward the idea that "the foundation of enriching the people and strengthening the country is really in the work". But it wasn't until Seris was in charge of the state that Zhang Jian, the prince, really put his previous ideas into practice.

Compared with Chen's capital's wealth, Zhang Jian directly entered the heavy industry, Zhang Jian was very self-aware from the beginning to set his sights on the light industry with few investments and quick results.

After contacting six local cloth owners, timber merchants and pawnshop merchants as partners, Zhang Jian finally set up a 20,000-spindle yarn factory. He named his yarn factory Dasheng, which means "the great virtue of heaven and earth" in the Book of Changes, which shows the lofty ambition in his heart. At that time, businessmen from Britain and the United States and other countries had been allowed to set up yarn factories and silk factories in Shanghai, and Zhang Jian's move was quite a sign of competing with them, and Jiangsu was the hometown of silk, and there was an ancient tradition of spinning and weaving. It was such a small textile factory that was still inconspicuous in Seris at that time, but it poured all the efforts of Zhang Jian, the champion father, into the factory all day long, recruiting workers, purchasing machines, and doing it himself.

Even so, the business process of Dasheng Yarn Factory was not smooth, because Zhang Jian's factory was too small, and the cost of products could not be reduced, which made it fall behind in the competition with foreign textiles for a long time.

In March 1896, Zhang Jian's Dasheng Yarn Factory received a loan support from Chen's Serris Bank for the first time, and the loan funds totaling 10 million yuan were like a timely rain, which put Dasheng on the fast track of industrial development.

Soon after, Zhang Jian raised shares to the public, and in accordance with the "Tonghai Dasheng Yarn and Silk Factory Prospectus" drafted by him, he officially raised 20 million Chinese yuan in Seris, divided into 20,000 shares, that is, 1,000 Chinese yuan per share. Because of the avalanche of technical support, at this time Zhang Jian's Dasheng company has become a profitable domestic textile leading enterprises, according to its monthly sales statement, Dasheng's annualized profit reached 22%, and therefore since the date of Zhang Jian's IPO, Dasheng company's shares have become a popular commodity among the people, including Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and even the north and Nanyang businessmen have joined the ranks of the rush to buy, in addition to the avalanche finance alone in the bag of 10,000 shares, The remaining Dasheng shares were soon absorbed by the domestic business community.

With sufficient financial and technical support, Zhang Jian's Dasheng Company has entered a period of drastic industrial expansion, and since then, Zhang Jian's own series of business operations have been wonderful enough to enter the teaching materials of various business schools in China.

After several large-scale yarn factories were built and put into operation, in order to reduce the purchase cost of cotton, Zhang Jian first went to Yancheng and other places in northern Jiangsu to establish Tonghai Reclamation and Animal Husbandry Company, and began to organize farmers to plant cotton on a large scale. Subsequently, he successively opened a series of peripheral industries such as Guangsheng Oil Factory, Dasheng Flour Mill, Shisheng Iron Smelting Factory, Dasheng Sericulture Dyeing and Weaving Company, Dasheng Water Conservancy Company, Dasheng Inland River Steamship Company, and Dasheng Steamship Company. As the name suggests, the above enterprises are inseparable from the original Dasheng Yarn Factory - Zhang Jian set up an oil mill to make full use of the cotton from ginning, a soap factory to use the waste oil from the oil mill, a Dasheng paper mill to make use of the Dasheng Yarn Factory's flying flowers, and to provide wrapping paper and printing paper for the entire Dasheng Company, and a flour mill because the Dasheng Company has surplus mechanical power, and a large amount of flour is needed for sizing and weaving every day, and the steamship company is for the transportation needs of Dasheng. A real estate company is set up because the migrant population is growing and needs housing, and an iron factory is set up to make looms, ginning cars and other equipment.

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