The five or six-year-old French plane trees on both sides of the road are fluttering in the autumn wind. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 There were a lot of dead leaves piled up at the base of the info tree, and one or two people walked over it, making a "rustling" sound, which suddenly increased a little loneliness. Under the yellow light emitted by the street lamps, it looks even more desolate. Perhaps to some extent, the government organization in Northeast China is closer to the setting of a country than to the establishment of local institutions, and some foreigners have even described that the institutions under the Northeast authorities only need to remove the word Northeast to become a national government, which refers to the various departments in the area of Guanting Street.

At nightfall, the "Guanting Street" has been so quiet that it is almost a dead street, and people can't believe that just an hour ago, the people who commuted here flooded like a flood that broke the embankment, the Western-style building of the Ministry of Education was as empty and quiet as the ruins of ancient Rome, and the area around the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the past had also been completely devoid of people, and the hustle and bustle of the day was gone, and some were just deserted and silent.

However, when I turned the corner and walked into the building of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, there were still people moving there, some returning to the office, some visiting business circles, and in front of the gate, there were several black Western-style carriages parked, and a bureau chief was getting on the bus, probably invited to attend the banquet of the big company. If you enter the secretarial class, look at the attendance lights on the wall, and you can see that except for the minister, there are only three that are not on, indicating that almost all the other senior officials are in the class.

Throughout Dalian, and so to speak, the entire officialdom of the three eastern provinces is well aware that the Economic Control Commission is not just a world without a half-day break on Saturdays, but also a "midnight body" -- only at midnight when most people leave work. It is in stark contrast to the "light idleness" of other institutions.

There has never been a time when the Economic Control Commission has been without problems. So overtime has become the norm. To a large extent. The rapid development of the industrial and commercial economy in Northeast China has a close relationship with the Economic Control Commission, and it is even the Economic Control Commission that leads the rapid economic growth of the Northeast region. The Economic Control Committee has a wide range of jurisdictions, ranging from industrial policy, trade policy, foreign exchange, industrial technology, and commercial circulation, to minerals, electricity, gas, and heat supply businesses, to industrial standards, metrology, industrial design, and information services.

If at the time of the DPRK, the Economic Control Committee was only a "department", then. Now it is an "omnipotent" institution, which controls everything in the Northeast.

Since the establishment of the three eastern provinces, the Economic Control Commission has continuously promoted the rapid development of basic industries such as iron and steel, shipbuilding, machinery, and mining through the formulation of industrial policies, the use of fiscal, tax, and financial means, and the cooperation with concessionaires, and the establishment of these basic industries has led to the economic development of Northeast China.

Because of this, as the decision-making organ of the Northeast economy, it is always facing too many problems, sometimes in the entire industry, and sometimes in a certain part of the problem. In order to solve these problems, not only the departments directly responsible. Even the rest of the authorities need to act together.

At this time, the economy of Northeast China, although it was only in its infancy, but the various industrial consumer goods manufactured in Northeast China and Incheon and other places had already benefited from the principle of "trade first" formulated by the committee, and were sold to overseas markets such as Kannai City and even Nanyang, which was entirely due to the "free trade" implemented under the leadership of the United Kingdom. However, in just a few decades, the free trade advocated by it led to the industrial goods of various countries from all over the world entering their colonies and crowding out the market for British goods, of which Northeast manufacturing only occupied a small part.

The principle of "trade first" also makes the Economic Control Commission face a large number of trade problems, although it has a small team of officers with managerial skills, and it can ensure that the team of officials has enough room to implement an innovative and effective political system, but many problems still cause headaches for these officials.

"Oh, we can't go on like this, if we continue like this, we will definitely lose money!"

At the same time as the sound of the abacus stopped, a complaint sounded in the office of the Textile Trade Section, and in order to improve the way the government intervenes in the economy in accordance with the laws of the market economy, the current control committee has set up new sections, and the Textile Trade Section is one of them.

"What's going on?"

Sun Yixuan, who was accounting for the export of cotton cloth, heard the words of his colleague and raised his head and asked.

"It's not a matter of importing Indian cotton, now the cost of importing Indian cotton has increased by almost 15%, and this year, it is estimated that the price will exceed more than 100% of the national cotton per 100 catties of freight......

Ding Zilin's brows were furrowed, as a staff member of the textile trade section, he was well aware of the importance of Indian cotton to the textile industry in Northeast China. In order to show its support for the textile industry, the Governor's Office even adopted a special support policy last year - although the Governor's Office failed to control the customs, it still forced the General Department of Taxation to agree to the implementation of a quota tax refund system for the import of raw cotton, so as to ensure that trading companies can import cheap raw cotton on very favorable terms. The transformation of the Northeast textile industry to new raw material cotton has been rapidly realized, the quality of Northeast cotton yarn has been improved, and the Northeast cotton yarn has been consolidated in a favorable position in the competition in the domestic and foreign markets.

A large number of imported cotton will inevitably affect the production of local cotton, but this has the helplessness of the Northeast itself - it does not produce cotton, and the domestic cotton fiber in the customs is short, the texture is rough, and can only be used to produce less than 16 medium and coarse cotton yarn, and the dominant position in the Northeast market is to use long-fiber cotton to produce more than 20 fine cotton yarns, which makes the textile mills in the Northeast can only use domestic cotton to produce medium and coarse cotton yarn and sell it to China, while the spinning yarn required by the Northeast and overseas markets depends on American cotton and Indian cotton.

"If it is flat, the cost of raw materials will increase, which is not conducive to the competition of our cotton cloth in Nanyang!"

Sun Yixuan took the table and looked at the calculation of next year's freight, raw material purchase price and other aspects on the table, and his brows were locked.

"Not really!"

Nodding. Ding Zilin pointed to the shipping column on the form and said.

"Look. Now shipping costs are key. If you want to import a larger amount of Indian cotton, the biggest problem is to solve the problem of cotton transportation, India is far away from the customs, and now India to the northeast shipping business is mainly monopolized by the British and Italian steamship companies, these large Western transport companies take advantage of our large import of Indian raw cotton, form an alliance, greatly increase the freight, resulting in the imitation yarn mills in the import of Indian cotton. There was a big obstacle,"

"In order to solve the freight problem, I think we can coordinate the textile industry federation and the Beiyang shipping company to reach an agreement to promote the shipping company to open up a new route from Mumbai to Dalian in India on the condition of carrying a certain amount of Indian cotton every year."

When making this suggestion, Sun Yixuan was very confident, because Fuzhong encouraged and supported the opening of new routes, and was willing to give assistance to new trade routes, and with the support of the trade association, the route company was naturally willing to open up routes to India. Compete with Western steamship companies.

"Well, I think I can try it too!"

Enlist the support of shipping companies. This is also an option, after all, the introduction of domestic shipping companies to open up new routes can put this route into competition, which is conducive to the reduction of freight rates.

"However, this method still treats the symptoms and not the root cause after all!"

took out two cigarettes from the tin cigarette box on the table, handed one to Sun Yixuan, and lit another cigarette himself, and then Ding Zilin said slowly.

"We are such a big country, relying on imported cotton is obviously not a way, the national cotton fiber is short, the texture is rough, can only be used to produce 16 or less coarse cotton yarn, although it is the raw material for the production of homespun cloth, more than 20 spinning yarns in the city are becoming more and more popular, and the homespun cloth is not yet twill, although the current Northeast purchased raw material cotton in India cotton is still inferior to the national cotton, but in the future it will definitely be the world of fine yarn, relying on imports, definitely not!"

When mentioning the lack of national cotton, Ding Zilin is worried, although the Chinese people prefer homespun cloth, so that 16 pieces of medium and coarse cotton yarn are more popular, and naturally more suitable for the needs of the Northeast than Indian cotton and American cotton, but the domestic cotton processing equipment is insufficient, the technology is backward, and most of the seed cotton is exported, rough not to mention, and contains a large number of impurities, so the use of national cotton for mechanized spinning production, is not an easy thing, fortunately its low enough price to make up for everything, plus cotton imports and trading companies monopoly, The national cotton purchased by the factory is often reprocessed by the trading company, so that the factory does not have to bear the problem of cotton reprocessing.

But now, trading companies have begun to reduce the purchase of national cotton, and began to introduce Indian cotton on a larger scale, after all, Indian cotton has its price advantage that cannot be compared, although this price advantage is being exhausted little by little.

"And you want to?"

Sun Yixuan asked tentatively.

"Introducing American cotton?"

At present, the cotton used in Northeast China is limited to three kinds, one is the staple national cotton purchased from Hebei and Shandong, and the other two are Indian cotton and American cotton, and the best quality and best price are long-fiber American cotton. In connection with the various improved varieties introduced by the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, he naturally thought of introducing cotton seeds.

"That's right!"

Nodding vigorously, Ding Zilin looked at Sun Yixuan and said.

"China is so big, relying on imported cotton is definitely not good, if you want to solve the problem, you have to improve the national cotton, only the introduction of American cotton this way, fundamentally solve the problem of raw materials, but also save a lot of precious metals, to avoid the outflow of gold and silver coins ......"

"However, don't forget, the Northeast is not suitable for growing cotton!"

This is the most critical problem, the climate in the Northeast is not suitable for planting cotton, only some areas in southern Liaoning can grow cotton, the vast majority of areas, is not suitable for planting cotton at all, which directly leads to the cotton textile industry in Northeast China can only rely on the purchase of cotton to ensure industrial production.

"You don't have to plant cotton in the northeast, since the agricultural experiment station can be opened to the Guannai, why can't we consider planting cotton in the Guannai?"

Looking at the colleagues around him, Ding Zilin said his thoughts.

"If we want to turn the Kannai into a raw material export area, we must not only find a way to make full use of the resources in the Kannai, but also give full play to the potential of the Kannai, compared to mining, the potential of agriculture is undoubtedly the best choice, and furthermore, there is another advantage to doing so......

After a slight pause, Ding Zilin looked at his colleague and said in a deep voice.

"It is to let the agricultural economy in the customs and the industry and commerce in the Northeast be bundled into one, and slowly let them be inseparable from the industrial economy of the Northeast! ”

"Oh!"

Looking at Ding Zilin in surprise, Sun Yixuan lit a cigarette and said.

"Tell me what you think,"

Because of his youth, compared with the Guannai officialdom, the Northeast officialdom is more sharp, not only that, the officials in the Northeast officialdom all have a desire - the desire to unify China, many of them even believe that "war is inevitable", either the Guannai will fight, or one day they will fight over, and on the other hand, he knows that his own strength is insufficient, so compared to expanding to the Guannai, it is more necessary to stabilize the Guannai, so as to win time for the Northeast.

"In fact, the solution is very simple, is to turn the customs into our raw material supply area, for example, we can promote cotton planting in North China and other regions, as long as cotton planting is profitable, the local people will inevitably plant a large number of them, so that we can ensure our production, if the trading company monopolizes the purchase of cotton in North China and other places, then what kind of results will it bring?"

After a pause, Ding Zilin sneered.

"At that time, the Beiyang Yamen must consider a problem, that is, if it conflicts with the Northeast, it is very likely to affect the cotton trade involving tens of millions of farmers, so that it will be used by us!"

"This is too much to take for granted, who will take care of the interests of the peasants?"

"But they can't ignore the interests of the gentry!"

Ding Zilin immediately defended.

"There are not only ordinary peasants who grow cotton, but more of them will be gentry, and when the time comes, driven by interests, how can they not stand on our side?"

"But don't forget, Guannai also has its own textiles, and the Beiyang Yamen also has their Beiyang Spinning Factory!"

This is the real problem, under the new policy of encouraging industry and commerce, factories have also sprung up in Kannai, and they also need a lot of cotton.

"Not as many as our factories!"

said affirmatively, and Ding Zilin turned the conversation again.

"In addition, the most important thing now is to strengthen the economic ties between the Tohoku and Kannai, so that the two can be closely linked, and I think cotton is the best opportunity right now! After all, importing cotton will lead to a large outflow of gold and silver coins, and growing cotton will also increase the income of the people in Kannai, which can increase their consumption potential! So, I think, we should come up with this plan, what do you think? ”

After a rhetorical question, Ding Zilin looked at Sun Yixuan with expectant eyes, and the proposal of the plan needed to be submitted by two staff members before it could be included in the agenda.

"Hmmm......"

After pondering for a moment, Sun Yixuan nodded and said.

"Well, since you think it's possible, let's try!" (To be continued.) )