Chapter 548, Autonomy under the White Blade of the Golden Cup

Wang Shuhui's initial impression of the tractor was that when he was a child, he saw in a friend's house, a suburban vegetable planting base, the kind of square head and square head are not big, with a body in the back can be used as a freight truck, a plow can be added to the back, a seeder can be planted in the back, and a small tractor can be pumped in front of it.

In Wang Shuhui's hometown, this small tractor also has a local name, a small four-wheeled tractor.

However, after the Hanjiang oil field began to be officially put into operation and the Hanjiang oil refinery began to be officially produced, the Baath Party strictly implemented various production plans in accordance with the data and materials provided by Wang Shuhui's modern think tank, but the tractor produced was not the old-fashioned small four-wheeled tractor that Wang Shuhui was more familiar with, but a kind of crawler tractor that was so large that he often saw when he played in the arsenal when he was a child that it was a tractor rather than a large construction machine.

Wang Shuhui also knows this type of tractor. When he was in junior high school, he went to the farm in the Sanjiang area to play once, and it was the kind of Dongfanghong 54 crawler tractor that was placed at the gate of the farm as a symbol.

Wang Shuhui was a little disappointed when he saw this big guy driving out of the production line in the No. 1 Tractor Factory of the Fuxing Party in Wuchang, and then making this huge noise and being operated by the inspectors.

Although this crawler tractor, named Dongfanghong by the Baath Party, is an era more advanced than the Baaxing Party Forward Series steam tractor that uses steel wheels, the gap between it and the simple, flexible and multi-functional small four-wheeled one that Wang Shuhui agrees with is still very huge.

But whatever one may say, this is also a diesel engine. Compared to the steam engine, she is already quite an advanced product. It's just that because the naval plantation that the Ba'ath Party is currently opening up in Hainan that uses Wang Shuhui's "import" of high-quality rubber saplings through the gate of time and space has not yet matured and perfected, and the Baath Party's diesel engine manufacturing technology is not mature enough, it may take some time for the high-quality small four-wheelers using rubber tires to be mass-produced by the Ba'ath Party.

However, at this stage, due to transportation constraints and the production capacity of the Baath Party's Hanjiang oil field and refinery, even this bulky tracked Dongfanghong tractor cannot be used in all places. This is because the dredging project of the Grand Canal is very important as a national key project of the Baath Party, so the first batch of 120 tractors from the Baath Party's Wuchang No. 1 Tractor Factory will be put into the Grand Canal construction site.

Of course, as an advance project, the production of smaller and more powerful small diesel engines has been approved by the Baath Party Science Research Institute and the Technology Research Institute. Moreover, the corresponding tire production project has also begun to enter the production stage. Although the rubber trees in this time and space have not yet reached the time to provide raw materials for the Baath Party, Wang Shuhui has purchased a large number of raw materials from Hyundai and is fully prepared for the trial operation of the tire production plant.

The Yangzhou Military Management Committee of the Baath Party was set up outside Yangzhou.

This is not because the Baath Party is not at ease with Yangzhou City, which has already completed the suppression and crackdown, but simply because the agricultural cities cannot adapt to the layout of industrial construction, almost all the cities will be rebuilt and new urban areas will be built by the Baath Party.

The reason why the Military Control Commission and other government agencies were set up outside the city was because the area outside the city was the new city area that the Baath Party was planning to build.

The Baath Party's Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Plant Construction Headquarters is located on a vacant lot not far from the Yangzhou Military Management Commission, and although it is also a complex of simple wooden houses, the size of the Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Plant Construction Headquarters looks as if it is twice the size of the Yangzhou Military Management Commission. But this is only half the size of the command. The Iron and Steel Production and Construction Corps, which is carrying out the preliminary construction work, has been driven ahead of schedule to the Taiping Fu area, where the Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Plant is located.

However, the meeting being held in the conference room of the headquarters was not about the construction of the Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Plant, or the main content was not about the construction of the Ma'anshang Iron and Steel Plant, but about the Baath Party's handling of the Nanjing area.

The Baath Party has reached a unified opinion within the party that it will not accept the Nanjing area in the near future.

However, for the Nanjing area, the Baath Party has a special way of dealing with it differently from the conventional way. Although the Baath Party was not prepared to take over the Nanjing area, the city of Nanjing would not be returned to the hands of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and the Baath Party was prepared to make the city self-governing.

The so-called Nanjing Autonomy Plan was a helpless move by the Baath Party in the face of a shortage of manpower. Specifically, the management of the Nanjing area was temporarily handed over to the Nanjing merchant group, which had a close relationship with the Fuxing Trading Company.

The Ba'ath Party will help the Nanjing Merchant Group train an armed police force of about 2,000 people who will use cold weapons to compete with the Nanming government in Hangzhou. In addition, the Baath Party will also train a public security police force of about 1,000 people for the Nanjing Merchant Group, so that the Nanjing Merchant Group will have the ability to maintain basic law and order in Nanjing.

In addition to these measures to support the self-governance of the Nanjing Chamber of Commerce, the Baath Party will set up special banks, trading companies, factories, and worker training bases in the Nanjing area. On the one hand, it monopolizes the economy of Nanjing, and on the other hand, it makes full use of the abundant human resources in Nanjing to train all kinds of workers.

The Nanjing merchant group is different from the merchant group in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River in that it is a comprador merchant group composed of large and small compradors, and it basically does not have production capacity of its own. The main members of this organization were small and medium-sized businessmen in the former Nanjing area who had been supported by Fuxing Trading Company in their business activities.

Members of the aristocratic clique and the scholar clique abandoned by Emperor Chongzhen in the Nanjing area, who had backgrounds and connections, and who had dual identities as large landowners and big merchants, made a weak resistance after the Baath Party's Yangtze River Fleet Marines took control of the city of Nanjing, and then all of them were arrested. Now they are all being consumed in large quantities on the construction site of the Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Plant.

The land in the Nanking area has now been completely confiscated by the Baath Party. However, because the plan appropriated all of the Ba'ath Party's manpower, the Ba'ath Party did not carry out land reform in the area around Nanjing, but instead adopted the method of levying rent on the tenant farmers who planted the land according to the standard of a three-tier tax in kind.

control of the economy of the Nanjing area through finance and commerce; Transform the population of Nanjing through worker training to provide manpower for the construction of Ma'anshan mega steel plant; Stabilize agricultural production in Nanjing by reducing land rents, providing low-interest loans and high-quality seeds; Then, by supporting a comprador business group, the social order in the Nanjing area was stabilized. This is how the Baath Party is dealing with the Nanking area at the present stage.

For a period of time, until the Baath Party completes the comprehensive industrialization of the areas north of the Yangtze River, the Nanjing area will exist as a special existence of the Baath Party in the Jiangnan region. For a long time, the Nanjing area will take on the task of providing trained workers for the Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Plant.

For the Ba'ath Party, completing the construction of the Ma'anshan mega-steel plant was much more important than taking over the city of Nanjing, which had a population of 2 million farmers.

From the identity of needing to curry favor with the government and the yamen, and groveling in the face of a petty official of seven or eight grades, he suddenly became a big man who could call the wind and rain in Nanjing, and such an identity change could be described as a earth-shaking change for the more than 100 compradors in the Nanjing business group.

how ferocious and terrible the Baath people were; how the Baathists arrested thousands of dignitaries in Nanking without saying a word; How did the Baathists brutally kill all kinds of scoundrels in Nanjing, who were more than 2,000 or nearly 3,000, outside the city with terrifying bells. These terrible things were forgotten almost by the compradors of the Nanking Merchant Group as soon as they were appointed.

Nanjing Provisional Management Committee, what kind of yamen is this yamen? Member of the Nanjing Provisional Management Committee, what kind of official position is this? The compradors of the Nanjing business group did not have answers to these questions.

However, the Nanjing Garrison Bureau, which was responsible for the military defense of Nanjing, the Nanjing Public Security Bureau, which was responsible for maintaining social order in Nanjing, the Nanjing Taxation Bureau, which was responsible for collecting commercial and export taxes, the other urban construction bureaus that were in charge of engineering, the Fire Bureau, and the Health Bureau, which was responsible for sanitation management, and so on.

Although a few people think that this seems to be the institution of the eunuchs of the inner court of the Ming Dynasty, since there is no need to cut such a knife, no one cares that the names of these yamen are a little awkward.

The Ba'ath Party has a lot of power over the Nanjing Chamber of Commerce, and the Ba'ath Party has made it clear that as long as it can ensure that the various institutions of the Ba'ath Party in Nanjing are not violated, then the Ba'ath Party will not interfere in all the personnel arrangements of the Nanjing Provisional Management Committee. The Baath Party has only one demand for the Provisional Management Committee, and that is "democratic elections and self-financing".

Immediately after figuring out the documents issued by the Baath Party, some of the more learned compradors within the Nanjing business group proposed that the method of Nanjing's autonomy proposed by the Baath Party seemed to be very similar to the tax package system in the Song and Yuan dynasties. However, compared with the "buying" policy of the Song and Yuan dynasties, the Baath Party would not tax the Nanjing Merchant Group, but let the Nanjing Merchant Group bear the operating costs of maintaining the various institutions under the Nanjing Provisional Management Committee.

These compradors are quite shrewd people. They found that according to the Ba'ath Party's regulations, in the Nanjing area, except for agricultural production, which was directly controlled by the Ba'ath Party, and the Ba'ath's own commercial enterprises could not collect taxes, the huge city of Nanjing was really up to them, the compradors of the Nanjing business group.

Many compradors of the Nanjing Chamber of Commerce realized at the first time that from now on, not only would the members of the Nanjing Chamber of Commerce no longer need to pay commercial taxes, but that the large number of large and small businessmen in the city of Nanjing, who were not members of the Chamber of Commerce, would be able to control the Provisional Management Council of 3,000 armed forces, and they would be able to bankrupt all of them by force and non-force means, so as to realize the complete monopoly of the business group itself in Nanjing, except for the Baaxing Party.

Soon the fast-talking comprador voiced the idea at the meeting.

However, Xu Wenyuan, the head of the Jiangnan Business Group and the descendant of Xu Zhenqing, the famous Jiangnan Four Talents, immediately said:

"Let's not mention whether the Ba'ath Party wants to see other businesses in the city disappear and cause a depression in the market. After exterminating other merchants in Nanjing, how can we raise those yamen under the Provisional Management Council? Where did the servants and officials in the yamen come from? and the three thousand soldiers, when they come back, it will be six thousand taels of silver every month. We don't pay business taxes ourselves, and we have to make other businesses all good, so many people, do we want to raise them ourselves? ”

Xu Wenyuan's appointment as the head of the Nanjing Chamber of Commerce was not the result of democratic elections, but simply because Xu Wenyuan was the earliest and largest agent of the Fuxing Trading Company in Nanjing. Relying on the huge network of the Xu family in the Jiangnan area, Fuxing Trading Company has sold a lot of things through Xu Wenyuan's hands, from small needles and threads to large cannon ships, Fuxing Trading Company sold a lot of fun through Xu Wenyuan's hands, and Xu Wenyuan himself made a lot of money by being a middleman.

Even now, the only merchant in the Jiangnan area who can participate in the overseas trade of the Fuxing Trading Company is still the Xu Firm.

At present, it seems that Xu Wenyuan, who has a strong relationship with Fuxing Trading Company, is basically the first chairman of the Nanjing Provisional Management Committee, which is held every five years. However, there are still many people in the business group who are not convinced by Xu Wenyuan.

In their opinion, Xu Wenyuan was just lucky, and he had a good relationship with a manager of the Zhijiang Business Group, so he was the first to see the opportunity to voluntarily hand over the land and get strong support from the Baath Party. Otherwise, there are people in the Nanjing business group who have bigger business and stronger financial strength than him, and it will be his turn to get the support of the Baath Party first.

Of course, everyone also admires Xu Wenyuan's courage, when the Ming Dynasty had not yet fallen, Xu Wenyuan dared to make big deals with the Baath Party such as ships and cannons. You must know that at that time, only those Nanjing nobles who have become coolies now dare to take over such a business.

Looking at the appearance of these thieves and rats in the living room, Xu Wenyuan sighed in his heart. The Nanjing Trading Company, the only surviving trading company in Nanjing, was able to gain the support of the Baath Party, and he was very clear about the reason in his heart.

The Baath Party did not allow anyone to make profits from the land, and the Nanjing Merchant Group followed their own trend early and handed over their land to the Baath Party in exchange for loan support.

The ruthlessness of the Baath Party, Xu Wenyuan really understood it. He saw with his own eyes how ruthless the boatmen (marines) of the Sub-Renaissance Army were. Many nobles and gentry who had done a lot of business with Fuxing Trading Company in the past said that they would be arrested if they were caught, and they would be arrested if they said that their homes would be raided, and they were only given an outrageous charge of "illegally occupying land and exploiting the common people."

When his distant relative, who was a manager in the Zhijiang Business League, told him that the Baath Party hated the landlords the most, he didn't quite believe it. Now looking at the past princes and counts who relied on their status and status to be high, the whole family was dragged away like dead dogs, and the family's money, mansion and land were all copied, Xu Wenyuan really believed that the Baath Party and the people were all from the same mud legs as Emperor Taizu back then.

It is for this reason that when the colleagues of the trading company were envious that Xu Wenyuan would become the head of Nanjing City and thus have great power, Xu Wenyuan himself thought of the sentence of Ming Taizu back then, "The golden cup is drunk together, and the white blade is not forgiven." ”