Chapter 361 Cotton spinning for raw silk

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Nanjing in summer, hot and sultry, since the central government set up here the voice of complaints has never been heard, especially from the north officials do not like this kind of weather, Tang Shaoyi also lived in the north for a long time, although in Wuchang for more than half a year but mostly autumn and winter, now moved to Nanjing for the first time to experience the hot weather, even talking in the fan ().

Although as long as he waits for another year, the supporting power plant of the Dangtu Iron and Steel Plant will be able to provide electricity to Nanjing, and if there is electricity, there will be electric fans, but this summer still makes him feel hot and unbearable, and it is difficult to calm his heart in addition to his body, the main reason is that Henan has implemented the pilot work of land reform by implementing a ban on guns and cracking down on bandits.

Murong Han, Yang Du, Chen Guofu, and Dai Tianqiu are all Yang Qiu's henchmen, and the discerning person knows at a glance who is responsible for this big move, but the land is too involved, and even the conservatives within the National Society feel that it is a little too much, so when they heard that he returned to Nanjing, they rushed to it with Zhang Jizhi and wanted to ask Yang Qiu what his plans were.

"Chenhua, is there too much action in Henan? I know that you are anxious to build a good country, but the land reform involves too much, and it is better to delay than rush at this time, and you must first enact legislation and then implement it slowly. Tang Shaoyi has a good heart, after studying in the United States for many years, he knows that the biggest ill in the country is land, the excessive concentration of land has led to a large number of landlords and gentry do not need to take too much risk to obtain high returns, the direct consequence is the tension between the peasants and landlords, every disaster year displaced people are lost and miserable, thus causing strong turmoil.

In addition to appearances, people's yearning for land will also lead to a large amount of liquid capital deposited, even those industrial and commercial pioneers in China, the first thing they do after making a fortune will never think of expanding production and developing new products, but immediately buy land. The most obvious is Sheng Huaixuan, this person led the Westernization Movement, Han Yeping won the annual profit of tens of millions, but he did not want to expand production, update equipment but wantonly buy fields in Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and finally when the equipment needs to be updated, he has to borrow money to live, if it is not for Yang Qiu's appearance, he almost destroyed the largest steel complex in China.

When European and American countries were desperately developing industry and commerce, the industry of China began to gradually be slowly swallowed up by the land as soon as it showed its signs, which eventually led to the industrial construction still standing still in place decades after the Westernization Movement. On the other hand, although Japan's land problem is more serious than China's, the small size of the country has forced many people to completely get rid of their dependence on land and turn to industry and commerce.

The pursuit of land will lead to the shrinkage of industry and commerce, the accumulation of funds, and will also bring serious social problems, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the boxers of Gengzi year, and then a gunshot in Wuchang, the deep reasons are all related to the excessive concentration of land in China, and even the fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is closely related, but the land problem of the past dynasties is a double-edged sword, especially now that the number of citizens has exceeded 400 million, the land is less and more people have been highlighted, if it is not handled well, it will lead to a complete collapse of land reform, which will undoubtedly plunge the Republic of China into turmoil ().

Yang Qiu patiently recounted his thoughts, in his opinion, if the Republic of China and the National Society want to gain a firm foothold, they have to use their brains on the land issue, and only by benefiting hundreds of millions of farmers can they really gain a firm foothold. China is an agrarian country, and it is impossible to get rid of this title for decades to come, even if it develops a huge industry, the workers will need to eat and drink, and once the urbanization construction is cut off, it will need to maintain the tranquility of the land, so it must not stop there.

However, he also knew that this was a double-edged sword, so he only temporarily carried out pilot projects in Henan and Shaanxi: "Prime Minister and Minister Zhang can rest assured that I have already explained this matter, and the anti-bandit operation is limited to Henan and Shaanxi provinces, but the confiscation of guns and the national rent and interest reduction I think it is still necessary to implement it to the whole country as soon as possible, at least the central government has made a gesture and told the people that the government will find a way to help them." ”

After listening to Yang Qiu's detailed explanation, although Tang Shaoyi and Zhang Jizhi still thought it was too hasty, they couldn't come up with a good way at present, and from what he just said, he was obviously pressuring the parliament and the government to legislate on the land issue as soon as possible, because his meaning was obvious, that is, he wanted Henan and Shaanxi to set an example and become a big knife hanging over the heads of other provinces.

Seeing that he promised to only implement it in Shaanxi and Henan, and did not spread out to the whole country at once, causing an uncontrollable end, the two knew that this was to set an example for chickens and monkeys, so they had to nod: "Since Chen Hua said so, when Minister Zhang and I go back, we will try to promote legislation as soon as possible, so as not to cause national fluctuations." ”

The worries on the faces of the two made Yang Qiu also know the pressure, and said after pouring tea for them again: "The prime minister and the minister may wish to go further, land reform is just the appearance, how to increase farmers' income, to ensure that the people have no worries about food and clothing is the key, the two lakes and Sichuan are mainly rice, Yunnan and Guizhou are slowly developing to cash crops such as sugar and tobacco, Guangxi rice, raw silk, tea foundation is very good, and now the rubber industry has been added, so I think we should use the reform of Henan and Shaanxi to accelerate the development of agriculture ()." ”

Zhang Jizhi is the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, and is the director of the Dasheng Yarn Factory, although he has not gotten rid of the idea of small peasant land in his bones, but it is much better than the ordinary pedantic, and he knows that the Republican Party and the Kuomintang are not opponents of the National Society, even if the two parties join forces, they will not be able to shake the hegemony of the National Society, and rashly contradicting will only lead to a catastrophe, it is better to cooperate well to take the opportunity of this reform to do a good job in agriculture in Henan and Shaanxi, and it can also increase the popularity of the Republican Party, saying: "Henan has a flat terrain, and the number of fields ranks among the top in the country. However, the Yellow River has been flooding for many years, and most of the territory is barren and dry land, so it may be difficult to recover from the two years of severe disasters. ”

Yang Qiu also knows that the land of the Central Plains has been barren after thousands of years of cultivation, especially the serious damage to the mountains and forests, and the signs of desertification are obvious, and Henan can become a major food province in the country in later generations is a big factor because of the use of chemical fertilizers, but at present he does not have so many fertilizer resources, the cost of 100,000 tons of synthetic ammonia fertilizer plant is millions of dollars even if it is cheaper, the first Sichuan fertilizer plant was put into operation in August last year, and it is currently mainly supplied to the tobacco and sugarcane planting needs of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces. The next few ammonia and phosphate fertilizer plants placed orders, and waited for the equipment to arrive at least two years after the start of construction.

Fortunately, he had already thought of a general countermeasure and said: "To tell Minister Zhang, I have already called Mr. Hunger and asked him to contact the Cleveland Consortium in the United States to prepare to promote mechanized cotton planting in Henan. ”

The Cleveland Consortium? Although Zhang Jizhi is the director of Dasheng Yarn Mill and is also a leading figure in the domestic cotton textile field, he heard of the Cleveland consortium for the first time. But this is not to blame him, how many people in China can really understand Europe and the United States now? However, Tang Shaoyi had heard of this consortium and was surprised: "What Chen Hua is talking about is the company that occupies eighty percent of the cotton market in the United States?" ”

"Now there is no eight." "After the antitrust act, the Cleveland consortium was dismembered into several companies, and although there are still internal connections, it is difficult to restore the prosperity of the United States, so they have always wanted to expand into the overseas market," Yang said. My idea is for the government to take the lead and set up a joint venture with them to form a Henan Cotton Reclamation Company, and Murong Han has promised to take out a total of five pieces of wasteland totaling 7 million mu in Pingdingshan, Lechuan and other places to buy shares. I have sent people to inspect those dryland emperors, who can grow the latest drought-resistant cotton in the United States, and who can bring in the necessary water from canals, and where the terrain is flat and the wasteland is continuous, which can promote mechanical cultivation and improve planting efficiency, not to mention the development of tractors and machine factories in our country.

The Cleveland consortium has called back not long ago, initially meaning that they will provide drought-resistant cotton seeds and management, and we will provide the fields, workers and machinery, and the profits will be divided fifty-fifty (). However, I did not want them to take such a big advantage, and I had asked Hanger to convey to them that they would help build two cotton mills with 500,000 spindles and a printing and dyeing factory, and their reply was that they could help build factories, but raw silk must be included in the joint venture. ”

Tang Shaoyi and Zhang Ji were both excited and frowned after hearing this, excited that if this agreement was really reached, the domestic cotton and textile industry would inevitably reach a new level, and the three-factory project alone could add at least 30,000 jobs to Henan, and it could also drive a series of downstream industries including tractors, garment manufacturing, medical veils, etc., frowning that the Americans actually had the idea of raw silk. Raw silk is currently second only to tea in China, such as the source of bulk exports, raw silk exports can net millions of dollars every year, such a large profit to share half of others, it is false to say that you are not distressed.

Yang Qiu really wanted to reach this agreement, not to mention that the domestic raw silk is mainly raw material exports, and the additional profits are very small, but more importantly, if this agreement is reached, it can take advantage of the huge sales network of the Cleveland consortium to completely occupy the European and American raw silk market, thereby suppressing Japan's most important raw silk industry, further deepening Sino-US ties and weakening Japan's power in the Asia-Pacific region. But he can't act alone in this matter, and needs to consider the balance of interests in all aspects, so he simply left it to Tang Shaoyi and Zhang Jizhi to consider, but he believes that the two will definitely not be able to resist the temptation of the cotton spinning industry to a new level.

After chatting for a while about the agricultural reform between the two places, including the introduction of high-quality wheat seeds, soybeans, potatoes and sweet potatoes and other planting industries, Tang Shaoyi turned to the ongoing tariff negotiations, and the negotiating delegation headed by John Moen insisted that they must continue to abide by all the terms of the Xinchou Treaty, including the payment of indemnities, ensuring the interests of all countries in China, not allowing troops to be stationed in the middle of Shanhaiguan to Beijing, and not allowing troops to be stationed in Tianjin.

In this regard, Yang Qiu is the same as the two people who have no way to face the land problem, the country is weak and will be bullied, if he has a few battleships to stop in the Strait of Malacca, these powers will definitely relax, but now they have to endure it.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but pinch his eyebrows, although the country is nominally unified, but the things that are tied to his hands and feet have increased instead of decreasing, when can he really get out of the shackles and participate in the competition of the world family?

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