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"Minsheng Steamship Company was also established in the past one or two years, and now it seems that a small half of the passenger market in Wuhan is occupied by them, and it has to be said that it will be the main competitor of China Merchants Steamship on the Yangtze River route."

After all, with the support of the Meihua consortium, Minsheng Company has been dressed in semi-official colors since its birth, which has allowed Minsheng Steamship Company to gain a certain advantage in the competition with foreign companies such as Swire, Jardine Matheson, and Nissin.

Yu Qiaqing shook his head, he didn't say freight, because the freight market is dominated by the United States and China and the United States and China enterprises, coal, steel, machinery, oil and other bulk commodities in and out of the United States and China are operated by the United States and China themselves, such as Pingxiang Coal Mining Company, Meihua Iron and Steel Company, Meihua Petroleum Company, Meihua Chemical, etc., they have their own fleet, and this market cannot even be inserted into the Minsheng Steamship Company, let alone other people.

People and goods in and out of the orderly orderly, busy but not chaotic, Yu Qiaqing nodded while watching, thinking that the Hankou shipping market has provided an opportunity for Minsheng Steamship Company to exhibit, as for the upstream Chongqing, which is also important to Minsheng Steamship Company, it was automatically ignored by Yu Qiaqing.

China Merchants Steamship is still based in Shanghai, and it is necessary to strengthen cooperation with Minsheng Steamship Company. Yu Qiaqing secretly decided.

Du Yuesheng stood beside Yu Qiaqing, looking at the busy wharf, but he had another luxury in his mind, the opium in the southwest went down the river, and Hankou was the largest node in the middle of the opium trade......

Unfortunately, this is just a fantasy! Thinking of the plight of the Green Gang, Sanxin Company was repeatedly "scourged" by the tax police group, Du Yuesheng had a headache, so he had to put away his inappropriate thoughts. Consider how to open the joints above.

"It's coming!"

Yu Qiaqing smiled and walked towards Lu Zuofu, who was walking towards him. Gripping the hand. "I didn't expect you to pick me up in person, thank you so much."

"Although Minsheng Company and China Merchants Steamship are competitors, they are also partners! Welcome to Wuhan, God of Wealth! ”

Lu Zuofu said with a smile that when they were in Kadoorie Garden in Shanghai, they met and met. Then he greeted Du Yuesheng.

As soon as he walked out of the dock, a low whistle behind him shook Yu Qiaqing's heart. It was the sound of a train, and it was so loud that it was close at hand.

"How come there are trains at the docks?" Du Yuesheng said strangely.

"Recently, we have opened a joint operation with the railway company of Hai 6, and the Hankou Railway Station is out of the Hankou wharf, so the wharf is also connected to the Guangdong-Hankou Railway to realize the Hai 6 joint operation. If you get off the boat and get on the train, you can run to Guangdong in two or three days. ”

Lu Zuofu explained with a smile.

Du Yuesheng and Yu Qiaqing looked at it, just as Lu Zuofu said, not far in front of them was a wide square, and a five- or six-story building opposite the square had several big characters written on it Hankou Railway Station. The building looks new, concrete structure. There are many glass windows, and the style is simple, bright and functional.

Yu Qiaqing nodded, agreeing with Lu Zuofu's point of view, the sea joint operation is convenient and efficient, saving transportation costs, that is, Meihua Company has such the ability to preside over this plan.

Nowadays, public utilities such as railways and shipping in South China are controlled by the US-China Company, and the word US-China can win the respect of businessmen more than the government.

"The train station was completed a week ago, when Mr. Zhang came to tailor, and even Premier Song came!" Lu Zuofu briefly talked about the costumes on the day of the completion of the railway station, and Yu Qiaqing was very yearning for it, but unfortunately he was busy rectifying the China Merchants Bureau in Shanghai at that time.

"I really let Zhang Lao do this!" Yu Qiaqing said excitedly that if the Hailun joint venture is promoted to Shanghai, as an affiliated enterprise of the United States and China, China Merchants Steamship can receive a large number of transportation orders from the United States and China.

"Mr. Zhang is very busy now, not only to be busy with the affairs of the railway company, but also to often attend the government's financial meetings. No, I only met him yesterday, and I knew that you were coming, and I happened to be free, so I took the initiative to ask Ying to come and pick you up. ”

Lu Zuofu warmly entertained Yu Qiaqing, Du Yuesheng and his entourage, and prepared to settle them in the Oriental Mandarin Hotel in Hankou.

Not long after getting off the ship, Yu Qiaqing took Du Yuesheng to visit Zhang Jingjiang at the headquarters of the railway company.

"Hankou is as prosperous as Shanghai." Sitting in the car, I looked at the wide six-lane concrete main road, with high-rise buildings on both sides of the road, almost all about ten stories high, which is not far behind the Bund in Shanghai.

This made Du Yuesheng have to be surprised, it seems that he really underestimated the people of the world, and always felt that something in Shanghai was the best.

"Huh. Hankou here is concentrated in the headquarters or branches of the major pillar industries of the United States and China, such as Meihua Petroleum, Meihua Mining, Meihua Bank, Meihua Trading, Meihua Real Estate, Meihua Chemical, Wuhan Industrial Group, China Railway Corporation and other large industrial giants.

You see, the building in front is the Meihua Foundation, next to it is the Xianshi Department Store, and then there is the Financial Street, which is owned by banks and central banks in China and even in the world. ”

Lu Zuofu sat in the co-pilot's seat, and enthusiastically turned around to introduce the most prosperous and proud street in Hankou to Du Yuesheng and Yu Qiaqing, the two Shanghai guests.

Du Yuesheng looked out, and sure enough, he saw the Central Bank, Bank of China, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Bank of Communications, Agricultural Bank of China and other buildings, high or low, with different styles, the common point is that they are all reinforced concrete structures, large glass windows, reflecting the modern atmosphere everywhere, very magnificent.

In contrast, foreign banks such as HSBC, Jardine Matheson, Citigroup, Nissin, and Dehua are certainly distinctive, but they are inferior in momentum, and they are not as good as the United States and Chinese financial and industrial enterprises. In Asia, HSBC and Mitsubishi consortia can be compared with Meihua.

Du Yuesheng doesn't know how to describe the shock in his heart at this moment, when he was in Shanghai, he had heard the word Meihua, and Meihua enterprises also abound in Shanghai, but in Shanghai, which is disturbed, I don't feel shocked at this moment!

"This consortium is terrifying! It's everywhere! This is the base camp of Meihua Company, and those in Shanghai are actually nothing? ”

Du Yuesheng muttered quietly, thinking: No wonder the three sects and nine streams in Shanghai dare not go to the Meihua Company to collect protection money?

The voice was not loud, Yu Qiaqing and Lu Zuofu heard it, and neither of them objected, but thought that what they said was very right. After all, there is the Hanyang Iron Works here! Millions of tons of steel have created the iron backbone of this country!

"I've been to South China, and the influence of Meihua over there is even greater."

A sentence suddenly popped out of Yu Qiaqing's mouth, and she suddenly remembered a sentence circulated by the US-China Consortium, which few people knew, but it was very shocking--the East India Company ruled India, and the US-China Company ruled China and the South Seas. The East India Company is gone, but the Night King of the United States and China has been lurking in the deep seabed of the South China Sea, and his influence is everywhere! Almost everyone knows about Meihua, but they don't know enough, and the farther they go, the more they can appreciate its far-reaching impact!

If Hankou is a high-rise building, then Hanyang is a world of steel!

Standing in front of a building more than 20 stories high, looking at the nameplate of "Oriental Mandarin Hotel" on the building, Du Yuesheng couldn't help but turn around and ask Lu Zuofu: "There is also an Oriental Mandarin Hotel here?" ”

"Hmm." Lu Zuofu nodded, "I heard that there are also in New York, but I haven't been there." ”

Get out of the elevator and enter the presidential suite on the roof, Yu Qiaqing and Du Yuesheng like the rooftop sightseeing here, through the clear and atmospheric metal glass windows, the beautiful scenery of Wuhan is in full view, and the Hankou Wharf and Hankou Railway Station, which were excited just now, are now "stepped on" by them, and even the Yangtze River Bridge a few kilometers away can be seen clearly.

"It is said that foreign spies like to climb up to the roof of the Mandarin Hotel to observe the Hanyang Iron Works and Hanyang Arsenal!"

Lu Zuofu held a telescope in his hand, glanced at the Hanyang Iron Works, and saw Du Yuesheng's curious appearance, so he handed the telescope to Du Yuesheng.

Du Yuesheng didn't use a telescope to see the wide factory that Lu Zuofu said, but the telescope saw more clearly, although it was only a rough outline, but his heart was shocked, the blast furnace of Hanyang Iron Works was towering, the smoke was billowing, the factory was dense, stretching for more than ten kilometers, and the vehicles the same size as matchboxes were shuttling in the factory area, a gray steel world!

Du Yuesheng forgot for a while, looked at it for a long time, and after not showing up, Lu Zuofu glanced back at Yu Qiaqing, and the two smiled tacitly.

Doodoooo -

With a high-pitched roar, Du Yuesheng saw a steel monster driving into the Hankou Railway Station with thick smoke!

"Strange trains?"

"That's an armored train! It is loaded with cannons, machine guns, and can run everywhere along the railway! ”

Seeing that Du Yuesheng was a little stunned, Lu Zuofu was not surprised at all, and explained with a smile. Recently, the train has become a hot topic in Wuhan, occasionally appearing in Hankow, where it is said that armored troops are training.

The armored train came out of the Hanyang Arsenal with more than 20 cannons behind it, and hundreds of officers and soldiers on the train were loaded with live ammunition. Compared with the fruit knife played by the Shanghai hooligans and the cannon of Sen Leng, the gap is big enough!

"It's an armored train! When I was in Shanghai, I heard foreigners say it, but I didn't expect to see it here today! It's better to be famous than to meet! ”

Yu Qiaqing was interested, raised the binoculars, and looked at the Dao.

Du Yuesheng was silent for a while, thinking to himself: Such a monster can probably run to Shanghai after the Shanghai-Hanzhou Railway is repaired, right? Such a sharp weapon is probably the confidence of the Wuhan government not to be afraid of foreigners, right?

Well, investing in railways is worth considering, if the Green Gang doesn't want to suffer a catastrophe one day!

People have no long-term worries, Du Yuesheng knows that this trip to Wuhan is about to be a turning point in his fate! (To be continued......)