After the First National Congress of the Kuomintang, there were some new ministries, and the Ministry of Armaments was one of them, and the minister was Luo Yaoguo's uncle Luo Yiqun. As the name suggests, the Ministry of Armaments is the department responsible for armaments production, and the Shaoguan Iron and Steel Plant, Shaoguan Iron Mine, Copper Mine, Sulfur Mine, a medium-sized hydropower station in the Beijiang Valley, and the Shijing Arsenal in Guangzhou, which is under expansion, are all under the responsibility of the Ministry of Armaments.

In addition to these heavy industry projects, there is also a Sino-German joint venture Hainan Iron and Steel Project, which includes a series of projects such as ports, railways, mines, coking, ironmaking, steelmaking, and steel rolling, but there is no special steel production capacity, and the products produced are completely used for civilian use. The required iron ore is taken from Hainan Shilu Iron Ore, in addition to iron ore, Shilu also has rich copper ore and manganese ore, so Hainan Iron and Steel Project also has copper smelting and manganese smelting capacity. According to the agreement with Krupp, the copper would be purchased by the Ministry of Armaments, and the manganese would be bought by Krupp and shipped back to Germany. The first phase of the steel plant has a design capacity of 200,000 tons of iron and 150,000 tons of steel, and the main products are rails, I-beams and other profiles, steel bars, steel wires and other wire rods. The total investment of the first phase of Hainan Iron and Steel Plant is 35 million silver dollars, of which the capital is 30 million silver dollars, Krupp takes out machinery and equipment worth 15 million yuan and technology, and the Ministry of Armaments uses Shilu iron ore to contribute, and the syndicated loan of 20 million silver dollars is provided by the British HSBC Bank and guaranteed by the German Krupp company, with an annual interest rate of 3.5%. The Hainan Iron and Steel Plant was scheduled to start production in mid-1927, half a year earlier than the Shaoguan Iron and Steel Plant.

Fortunately, Krupp and Rheinmetall provided a 25-ton second-hand electric furnace and a 3,000-ton second-hand extruder for free in order to obtain rare metals such as tungsten and manganese from China, as well as a sintering furnace with tungsten steel smelting, thus saving a lot of investment. However, the investment in the entire Shaoguan Iron and Steel Plant is still as high as 40 million silver dollars! The main reason for this investment is to provide sufficient power for the special steel plant, which is planned to include a 30,000-kilowatt medium-sized hydropower station and a 10,000-kilowatt coal-fired power unit. Of course, the electricity generated by these power generation facilities will also be supplied to cities in the Bac Giang area. At the same time, it will also facilitate further expansion of production capacity in the future.

The total production capacity of the Shaoguan Iron and Steel Plant is 150,000 tons of iron, 100,000 tons of steel, 50,000 tons of special steel, in addition to a considerable amount of copper and sulfur. The first phase of the Shaoguan project would take four years and be fully operational by the end of 1927. At that time, China will have the production capacity of military steel, especially artillery steel.

If the two factories can be put into operation smoothly, they will produce an annual output value of 70 million yuan, the tax revenue is estimated to be close to 10 million yuan, and the profits that can be shared by the national political axe will also be nearly 10 million yuan. The revenues of the two steel mills surprisingly exceeded that of a medium-sized province, and this was without the introduction of protective tariffs.

"Ziwen, your calculations can't be wrong, right?" It is said that the revolutionary, who no longer asks about the affairs of the world, is now sitting in a luxurious manor in Baiyun Mountain, listening to the report of Song Ziwen, the Minister of Finance of the Nationalist Axe.

Of course, Song Ziwen can't go wrong in settling accounts, but the price of this steel is also very volatile. "Prime Minister, there will be no mistake, if we can implement protective tariffs, we should be able to double them every year. The tariffs are too low now, which is very bad for our industry. ”

"Well, that makes sense." Mr. Nakayama smiled and said, "5% is too low, if we can have 25%, it will be much easier for our industrial construction." ”

“25%？ I'm afraid the great powers won't agree, right? Song Ziwen smiled and shook his head, he was Mr. Zhongshan's brother-in-law, so it was still relatively casual in front of Mr. Zhongshan, and now the two were sitting at a small coffee table, drinking afternoon tea and chatting about business.

Mr. Zhongshan sneered: "I will agree, I bet with you, they will come to us next year, when the time comes, we will first take back the autonomy of tariffs, increase the tax rate to 10%, and then wait for the completion of the two steel plants, hehe, after our third and fourth steel plants are completed, that is, the tariffs will be raised to 50%, and those powers will not have any opinions." ”

"Next year?" Song Ziwen is a little inexplicable, will something big happen next year?

"By the way, Ziwen, how is the current situation of private investment? How much does Rong Zongjing, who came to visit me two days ago, plan to invest? And how did Chen Jiageng inspect Hainan and Fujian? In the past, Mr. Zhongshan has always relied on the support of overseas Chinese in Nanyang, and now that he has a territory in five and a half provinces, he naturally has to take care of those behind-the-scenes financiers, so he has written letters to overseas Chinese leaders in Nanyang and the United States during this time, hoping that they will return to China to invest and start a business. Although Rong Zongjing of Shanghai did not invest much in Mr. Zhongshan's revolution, Premier Sun still hoped that he would come to Guangdong to open a textile factory. During this time, Rong Zongjing and Chen Jiageng both went to Guangdong, Fujian and other places for inspection.

"Mr. Tan Kah Kee is not going to open another rubber garden now, he wants to invest in the railway, if we can package the two sections of the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway from Zhuzhou to Shaoguan and the Guangdong-Hong Kong Railway, he promises to complete it within three years. Rong Jingzong plans to open a yarn mill and a flour mill, with an investment of around one million yuan. Song Ziwen was also surprised by Chen Jiageng's idea of investing in the railway, and it seemed true to hear that this person was worth millions (gold).

"Yes." Mr. Zhongshan nodded with a smile and said: "It seems that Chen Jiageng's rubber garden in Nanyang is going to be sold, but the Guangdong-Hong Kong Railway is guaranteed to make money, and the Zhushao section of the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway will also make a steady profit after we unify the south." ”

These two railways, the Guangdong-Hong Kong line is shouted by the British every day to be repaired, it seems that they can make a lot of money, and the Zhushao line has not started construction for 20 years, if Chen Kah Kee does not plan to invest, Mr. Zhongshan also plans to build.

"Since the Guangdong government has been training for more than half a year, business activities and investment have increased significantly, and the tax situation of the political axe is also better than expected."

Song Ziwen naturally wants to report good news and not bad news in front of Mr. Zhongshan, who let Mr. Zhongshan be a patient? In the past few months, commerce in Guangdong has indeed developed rapidly, and businessmen have indeed invested a lot in textile mills, flour mills, match factories, ash factories, brick and tile factories, fruit canning factories, biscuit factories, and so on. However, the revolutionary situation in Guangdong was very grim, and the trade unions and peasant unions were basically dead, the trade unions did not strike a single strike, and the peasant unions did not even organize a single rent resistance. Guangdong, the so-called center of the revolution, is now not at all revolutionary in sight.

Guangdong's current strange atmosphere is the most profound feeling of the Beiguan GCD Central Station, and Tan Pingshan, the leader of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, is pouring bitter water every day.

"Comrades, it is not that the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee has not worked hard, but that the rule of the Kuomintang in Guangdong has been consolidated. At present, strikes, school boycotts, and market boycotts must all be approved by the government, otherwise they will be illegal assemblies, sabotage of political discipline, and those who are arrested will be imprisoned without discussion. Our comrades of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee have indeed done their best. In the final analysis, the party does not have a reliable revolutionary armed force in Guangdong! ”

Now, Mao Zd went to northern Shaanxi, Peng Pai studied revolution at the Eastern University in Moscow, and Zhang Tailei went to work in the Comintern. Therefore, there was really no suitable candidate for the revolutionary work in Guangdong for a while, so Tan Pingshan could only continue to be in charge.

"Hire an old man, can't you go and talk to Mr. Zhongshan?" Chen Duxiu complained: "You are a veteran of the Kuomintang, they always have to sell some face, right?" ”

"How much is my face worth?" Tan Pingshan frowned and continued to the bitter water. "I asked to see Mr. Zhongshan several times, but he didn't see him, and let me tell me what I had to tell the Kuomintang presidium. And now only Wang Jingwei is willing to support us in the presidium, and even Chiang Kai-shek has torn off his disguise. ”

"What about Luo Yiqun? He is also a leftist. Chen Duxiu reminded.

"Luo Yichen is now the Minister of Armaments, and he is in charge of the construction of the arsenal and several large enterprises, will he want us to organize strikes in his factories and construction sites?" Tan Pingshan asked with a wry smile. It is true that the factories and mines outside the Ministry of Armaments are not under the control of Uncle Luo, and the factories of the Ministry of Armaments are ......

Chen Duxiu shook his head, feeling that these things should be put aside for the time being, and he would like to say some exciting good news. "Comrades, the Northwest New Army has been initially formed, and our party already has an armed force of 15,000 people in northern Shaanxi! Next month, 200 cadets of the military and political cadres in the northwest will also go to northern Shaanxi to participate in the revolutionary work of the new army in the northwest, and by October, we will have 30,000 troops! That is 30,000 real revolutionary troops, by no means those warlord tofu army, with these 30,000 revolutionary troops, we can sweep through the Central Plains Dingding Yanjing! The ** of the Chinese revolution is coming! ”

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