Chapter 536 The Battle of the Two Powers of Beilun and Suzaku ("Aztec Eternals" is recommended, great!) )

The problem of Songjiang City is a problem in the process of development, and the serious pollution caused by the vigorous development of industry is a pain in the process of development and cannot be avoided.

In this era, there is no technology to prevent pollution and reduce emissions, and there is no awareness of protecting the environment.

Capital is still in the initial stage of accumulation, and no capitalist is willing to spend precious money to study things that have nothing to do with the profitability of the product.

The water spray and dust reduction process independently developed by the Hongshan Coking Coal Plant is the earliest environmentally friendly technology in our time, and it costs more than £20,000 a year for it, which is a significant expense.

The process of water spray and dust reduction is also very simple, which is to drive the operation of a high-power water pump through electricity, and take water spray atomization measures to reduce coal dust in the processes of coking, coking and coke quenching with serious dust pollution.

Although the process is simple, the effect is very good, which can reduce the dust by up to 85%, which is the great contribution of Baihu City to get rid of the black pressure and haze weather.

But the Hongshan coking coal plant's water and dust reduction process is expensive, and the high cost of more than 20,000 pounds a year to control pollution is not something that any company can afford.

As a matter of fact

More than 9 out of 9 enterprises could not come up with this huge amount of money, and only a few enterprises directly under the Red Fort and the enterprises under the Red River Valley Industrial Corporation with deep pockets had the ability to come up with this additional expense, and the total number of enterprises added up to no more than 15.

Judging from the current situation, Songjiang City will endure serious environmental pollution for a long time.

Statistics as of the end of October 1888;

Australia's overall city ranking has changed dramatically again, in addition to the top three Red River Valley City, Brisbane City and Songjiang City, Melbourne, Australia's largest southern city, can be said to be the most frustrated, in the wave of immigration for 4 consecutive years, its status in Australia has declined sharply, and has been surpassed by Suzaku City, Beilun City, and White Tiger City, and it has fallen to 7th place.

The poor must have something to hate, and for what reason

In the face of Queensland Governor Li Fushou's repeated strong appeals and sincere shouting, Victoria's outdated immigration policy still stubbornly adheres to the policy of excluding Chinese immigrants, resting on its laurels, introducing a bill of parliament requiring overseas Chinese immigrants to pay an additional one pound per month in residence tax, and imposing restrictions on marriage, property and business in many fields, and conniving at white extremists to commit violence against Chinese, so it is widely criticized.

The NSW Legislature has also passed a similar bill, which can be described as a mess, which is the main reason why the southern states have become a forgotten corner in the great wave of development in the eighties of the 19th century.

Seeing others making great strides forward, making a lot of money, the emotions of redness and envy are inevitable, self-pity and grumbling have become the mainstream of public opinion in the southern states, and dissatisfaction has become a turbulent undercurrent in the breeding.

Inside the Southern State

White immigrant groups from different countries have expressed their dissatisfaction with state policies out of their own interests, and the state regime controlled by white right-wing conservatives is in jeopardy, falling far behind the enlightened liberal parties in the polls.

Melbourne is a metropolis that thrived on the discovery of gold mines, experienced a glorious and splendid gold rush era, reached its peak and then was left behind in the development of the second industrial revolution.

Flip through the history of dusk

In 1836, Melbourne's population was only 177, and by 1851, the population had grown to 29,000, which was also the first year of the discovery of the Great Gold Mine, and from then on Melbourne entered the fast lane of rapid development, attracting eager gold prospectors from all over the world.

By 1854, the city's population had grown rapidly to 123,000, 276,000 in 1860, and further to 385,000 in 1875, making it the largest city in Australia at the time. After entering the 80s of the 19th century, its total population was as high as 434,000, which was the heyday of development.

Unfortunately, the good times were short-lived

After the introduction of the Parliament Bill restricting Chinese immigrants, Melbourne's social environment deteriorated rapidly, and a large number of Chinese immigrants were forced to move to Queensland or return to the mainland.

In 1885 its population fell to 413,500, and by 1888 only 387,600 remained.

Melbourne was surpassed by Songjiang City in 1884 and squeezed to the fourth place in the list of Australian large cities, Melbourne was surpassed by Suzaku City in 1886, Beilun City in 1887, and Baihu City in 1888.

Behind him, there are a large number of emerging cities eyeing the attack, and in a few years, it may be difficult to keep even the 7th place in the city.

It can be said that the era that belonged to Melbourne is over.

The days of lying on the rich gold resources and eating the old books, you can easily rank among the top Australian cities, and the era of golden light is gone.

While others are running in small steps and development is in full swing, Melbourne and Sydney, two traditionally important Australian cities, are sleeping on their laurels and confronting the North with such a negative attitude, which has caused a lot of abuse.

The stark counterpart is Zhuque City, Beilun City and Baihu City, thanks to the wave of immigration for four consecutive years, has become an important industrial city with a population of more than 400,000 people, and the pace of development has made great strides, leaving the traditional metropolis of Melbourne behind.

Suzaku City is an old textile industrial city, the famous textile college is located here, originally the southern town in the first place in the industrial economy of the city, after being surpassed by Matsue City in 1883, has been ranked second in the industrial city for five consecutive years (the Red River Valley and Brisbane are not industrial cities, but comprehensive metropolises, do not participate in the ranking of industrial cities).

In 1880, the population of Suzaku City reached 170,000, and with the further rapid growth of the population due to economic development, the No. 1 Wool Spinning Factory, the No. 2 Wool Spinning Factory and the No. 3 Wool Spinning Factory were the pillar enterprises of Suzaku City, and the scale was repeatedly expanded.

Among them, the first wool spinning factory has grown from 31,000 employees to 77,000 employees, ranking first in the wool spinning industry.

By October 1888, the urban population of Suzaku City had reached 572,000, proudly ranking as the fourth largest city in Australia, and it is expected to further consolidate its leading position in today's textile industry.

The development of Suzaku City stems from technological progress, the wool textile industry is the core industry of Australia, from animal husbandry to animal husbandry food processing industry and wool textile industry, with more than 3 million employees, it is the largest industry in Australia, and technology development has received unprecedented attention.

Australia's only textile institute is located in Suzaku City, since the beginning of 1880, the Red Fort has invested a lot of money, and the key research project "cashmere textile complete set of equipment" has also settled here, gathering hundreds of engineers and technicians to carry out equipment research and development day and night.

Once this major package is successfully developed, it will enable Queensland to win the crown of the textile industry and fully enter the high-end market, from which it will obtain incredibly high profits.

After six years and countless days and nights, during which 17 design changes and hundreds of technical adjustments, the world's first mature industrial large-scale cashmere textile equipment was finally successfully developed at the end of 1886.

The Earl of Queensland once went to Suzaku City to present huge awards and high honors to every expert who contributed to the Textile Academy, and 137 experts and their assistants shared a total of 200,000 pounds of grand prizes for their outstanding contributions.

The patent for "Cashmere Textile Equipment" belongs to the Earl of Queensland Family Fund, and in the future, for every pound of cashmere products produced, a patent fee of one penny will be paid to the fund, and the family fund collects more than one million pounds of royalties every year for Australia's huge cashmere production.

It is an out-and-out money-absorbing weapon, with stable and rich annual income.

"Cashmere Textile Equipment" is the world's first cashmere textile equipment, mainly for the production of high-end cashmere products, facing the high-end markets in Europe and the United States, and the product price is naturally expensive.

Stimulated by the progress of innovation and scientific and technological progress, Honghe Woolen General Factory invested heavily in the construction of a new factory specializing in the production of cashmere products in Zhuque City, all of which adopted innovative "complete sets of cashmere textile equipment", and was not ranked as the 16th wool spinning factory according to the serial number, but was given a new factory name; "Edelweiss Textile Mill".

The white and soft cashmere is as beautiful as the edelweiss, and this new factory name pins on the deep hope of the Red River Woolen General Factory, looking forward to conquering the European and American markets with high-end cashmere products, and completely consolidating the leading position of Australian wool products in the world.

Whether it is technology, cost or resources, Australian wool has an undoubted leading edge, which is the fundamental reason why the wool textile industry has developed into Australia's largest industry.

It is in this context that the Red River Valley Industrial Corporation spent a huge amount of money to build the second wool products production and export base, which was officially settled in Suzaku City.

Zhuque Industrial Zone is planned to accommodate hundreds of various wool products enterprises, and now there are many cashmere products enterprises, the production scale is twice as large as the Songjiang base, and the wool industry is originally a personnel-intensive industry, which makes the city blow up like a balloon like expansion and development, leaving off the strong competitor Beilun City, firmly occupying the fourth place in the city rankings.

Beilun City ranks fifth with a population of 512,000, and after years of rapid development, it has already left Sydney on the other side of the bay far behind, and can only follow behind.

However, compared with the sister towns, it does not look satisfactory.

In the early days, the arrogant Beilun City has always targeted the competition in Songjiang City, but Songjiang City under the strong investment of the Red Fort, with the speed of opening and hanging directly into the sky, Beilun City in 1883 reluctantly gave up the pursuit, and instead put the catch-up target on the second place Suzaku City.

Speaking from the heart

Over the years, the leadership team of Beilun City has been strong, the development is changing with each passing day, the achievements are dazzling, and the evaluation of various tasks is in the forefront, and the economic take-off of Beilun City has been achieved with concerted efforts.

The problem is that you are not idle in the development of people, Suzaku City in the world's first "cashmere textile complete set of equipment" after the large-scale production, the recruitment of immigrants appetite is amazing, often 56,000, plus the second wool products export base settled in Suzaku City, which is equivalent to the Suzaku City plugged in two wings, in the blink of an eye straight into the sky.

So, Beilun City held back its strength to catch up for 5 years, and suddenly found that Suzaku City had installed two rockets behind the buttocks, and they flew to the clouds with a "whew", and the stamina was quite strong.

Servant Street!

Beilun City really wants to cry without tears, and has worked hard to develop the port shipping industry, gas stove industry, wool textile industry, ship repair industry, cultural and educational industry and agricultural machinery products manufacturing industry, but it is not enough to reach a wool spinning (cashmere) deep processing industry.

This is no way, Suzaku City is a strong city in the old textile industry, after the addition of high-end cashmere products, the first time in the finished products industry to fully roll out, what cashmere sweaters, cashmere hats, cashmere quilts, cashmere blankets, cashmere scarves, cashmere shawls, etc., as long as the wool products have, all to the cashmere products to copy a copy, the cashmere industry chain increased the employment population of more than 150,000 people.

In hundreds of wool purchasing stations across Australia, cashmere sorting personnel have been added, cashmere quality inspection and business personnel have been added, and specialized cashmere warehouses and transportation chains have been added, which alone has increased more than 30,000 jobs.

After entering the Edelweiss Textile Factory, the soft cashmere quilt is spun into various high-end finished products, which drives the development of the downstream industrial chain and creates more than 100,000 jobs.

In addition, after entering the European and American markets, high-end cashmere products need to establish special sales channels, and can not be mixed in the wool products of large road goods, general distributors, regional dealers, distributors plus a large number of sales personnel, creating more employment opportunities.

With such a large demand for employment, how many industries need to be developed to make up for the gap?

The wool industry is an authentic road goods, in the world market to win with good quality and low price, basically to meet the low-end demand, the main feature is the output of large quantity, high quality, low price.

Cashmere products are completely different, the starting point is to position high-end, never win by quantity, but to occupy the market with an unstoppable noble silky feeling and high-end quality.

Nowadays, in the upper class of Europe and the United States, there is no soft and comfortable cashmere sweater or cashmere gloves on the body, which will be made fun of, For the rich, the price has never been a problem, the key is to lose face.

Is a cardigan enough?

For aristocratic women who like to compare in the upper class of Europe, there are no twenty or thirty cashmere sweaters, a dozen cashmere shawls, and a dozen cashmere hats in the wardrobe, and they don't have a face when they go out.

Think about it

If you always wear a dress to a noble banquet, you will definitely be ridiculed as a poor ghost, and maybe you will be suspected of bankruptcy, which is really more difficult to accept than killing yourself.

And the average wealthy family above the middle class has to grit their teeth and buy a few cashmere products to wear on important occasions, so as to have face.

After the cashmere products were officially put on the market in 1887, she chose the most dazzling appearance, at the 50th anniversary celebration of Her Majesty Queen Victoria's accession to the throne, she wore a milky white cashmere dress and cashmere hat to the throne, accepting congratulations from various European royal families, which instantly detonated the world's high social discussion.

This is the most image definition of cashmere products.