Chapter 52 Year-end Summary

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On January 5, 19o8 (the 34th year of Guangxu), Baima Industrial Zone.

Mr. Moon-hee is looking at last year's financial statements. According to Gu Xiaolu's proposal, all the company's statements this year have uniformly adopted the tables of later generations, and unified weights and measures and units, which seems to be much easier.

Xingke Group's income increased significantly last year, with ballpoint pens, as the number one foreign exchange earner, bringing a net profit of $37.65 million to Mr. Wen, and a lighter earning $2.13o. Because of the patent authorization of the filter and the opening of the domestic market, the profit of Pacific Tobacco Company increased the most, more than 6 times more than the previous year, reaching 2o.55 million US dollars, and it is estimated that it will pass the lighter this year and jump to the second largest profit.

"It seems that tobacco is still making money, no wonder those tobacco predators are all fat and oily, and the European and American markets have little hope, and they must speed up the opening of the domestic market. The profit of lighters this year is not expected to increase much, this thing is not a consumable after all, a lighter can be used for at least seven or eight years, it seems that it is still necessary to open the special fuel for lighters this year, or consumables are the most profitable......"

In addition to the household vacuum cleaner and tungsten incandescent lamp launched the year before last, the "Little Swan brand" washing machine and the "Desheng brand" radio were launched.

The washing machine was first known in 1858, but it was still manpower, and it was improved many times in the following decades, but it was still mediocre and did not sell well. It was after the First World War that washing machines were really accepted. It was not until 1922 that Snyder of the United States developed a stirring electric washing machine and mass-produced it in Iowa.

Yinhe Electric launched a kind of wave wheel washing machine, using the mature design of the 9O era of the 2o century, the performance completely exceeded the imagination of the people at that time, timing, binning, dehydration and other functions. In order to adapt to the market, the products are divided into three types, double cylinder, single cylinder and dehydrator. A two-cylinder washing machine is priced at $15o, a single-cylinder washer is $9o, and a dehydrator is $85. As soon as the "Little Swan brand" washing machine was launched, it was immediately well received, and the first batch of 30,000 units was sold out within a week after it was launched.

The question of who exactly knows the radio is has not been clarified until the 23rd century. But in 19o7, there was certainly no such thing in the world. But most of the parts it needs to use, such as coil antennas, tuners, receivers, spark devices, etc., have appeared, and Galaxy Electric has just assembled these things, of course, they must be mature designs of later generations.

If there were no radio programs, no one would have bought a radio. After all, the Zenith Star Consortium is a new consortium, and although it has advanced technology, it cannot be compared with those old consortiums in terms of connections, and the broadcaster cannot do it without connections. So Banazal cooperated with Morgan to establish the first broadcaster in the Americas according to the previous agreement.

Morgan was so clever that as soon as he heard Banazal's presentation to the broadcaster, he immediately realized that this was a huge business opportunity. So the two sides hit it off and established the "American Broadcasting Corporation" (aBc), with each party holding 4o% of the shares and other related parties accounting for 2o%. On March 1, 19o7, the program officially began broadcasting, and the radio was also sold simultaneously throughout the United States.

There were so few ways to entertain at the time, so as soon as the radio was introduced, it was very popular. Being able to sit at home and listen to the news and all kinds of entertainment programs makes the American turtles very happy. Besides, the shell of the radio is very beautiful, from mahogany Gothic style, teak Victorian style, brass Arabic style to cloisonné Chinese style, everything, it is completely the level of handicrafts, not to mention listening to the show, even if it is placed at home as a decoration, it is quite tall.

The most expensive is the cloisonné floor-standing radio, which is elegant and atmospheric, beautifully decorated, and equipped with stereo speakers, with a unit price of 2ooo US dollars per unit, which is actually the fastest selling, and the 2ooo unit was sold out within 2 days of listing. Of course, the radio can't just be high-end, the more listeners the better. So there is also the cheapest mass version, the size of a table clock, pine shell, simple appearance, without any flashy decorations, and no high-end configuration of large speakers, but the unit price is only $12, and the average salaryman can buy it. This price is almost completely unprofitable, and it is all about building a future broadcasting network. Last year, 160,000 units of various styles of radios were bought, and orders have already exceeded 3o thousand units.

Of course, Mr. Wen will not forget to promote the big killer of radio in China, and last year he established five radio stations in Sichuan, Hubei, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Hong Kong. However, China does not have as many local tyrants as the United States, and there are relatively few people who are willing to buy it, and there are relatively few places with electricity, so a total of more than 40,000 units were sold, including thousands of units distributed to various institutions and units.

"This appliance market is really profitable, especially when there are almost no competitors...... "Wen Desi picked up another statement with satisfaction.

As a result of last year's "Ding Wei Revolution", the Qing court and the revolutionary parties everywhere were in urgent need of a large number of weapons, and the arms of the Cobra Arms Company were sold well in the Chinese market due to their slightly better quality, lower prices, and smooth and flexible sales channels. Firearms with 7mm ammunition have become the choice of all forces in China, and their market share has been the same as that of the first squadron in the past.7 92mm German-made firearms go hand in hand.

In addition to the gold, silver, and oceans earned, there are also a large number of antique calligraphy and paintings, treasured ornaments and other things, most of which were copied by the revolutionary party from the homes of the nobles of the Eight Banners and the Qing court officials. It is said that "prosperous antiques", in this troubled era, of course, these things are not valuable, the valuation of these two foreign companies is very low, but these things of the revolutionary party are also for nothing, so they are not distressed, and the three melons and two dates are sold.

Banazal also did a bad thing to destroy history, buying PepsiCo for $6o last May. In July, Coca-Cola was bought for $1oo and merged into Red Bull Beverages, so Pepsi and Coca-Cola became Red Bull affiliates.

Last year, Red Bull Beverages made a total of $3.16 million in a variety of beverages that were sold in Europe, Asia, and the United States.

Then there is the "Dawning Commodity Company", which was put into operation in April last year, which is also owned by the Zenith Star Consortium. The main products are three new products: laundry detergent, soap powder, and washing water for washing machines, as well as soap and toothpaste with later formulas. Well, Procter & Gamble is destined to have cups, and there will be no business for them in the future. These humble little things are very profitable, although they have only been on the market for more than half a year, and they have already swept $2.45 million in the market.

Although the domestic Weigang has been put into production, it is basically handed over from the left hand to the right hand, and the vast majority of the products are digested internally, so the profit is relatively low, and it only earned 860,000 silver dollars (about 43. $80,000), mainly on the rails. The same is true for Xingke Aircraft Factory and Neijiang Shipyard, all products are digested internally, and there is no take-out, so there is no profit.

The hot ball machine and the supporting gas generators produced by Tuojiang Power Machinery QÌ Factory (affiliated to Xingke Machinery QÌ General Factory) were sold well across the country, and exported to Japan and Southeast Asia, and even sold back to Europe and the United States, earning 2.65 million US dollars in this item.

The round nails, screws, various steel tools and agricultural tools produced by Neijiang and several hardware factories of Kyodo have also sold well in China, and have fully occupied the southwest and central south markets, with a profit equivalent to 1.68 million US dollars.

Sichuan Sugar United Company, which was officially put into operation in February last year, is a production enterprise that includes deep processing projects such as sugar refining, papermaking, winemaking, monosodium glutamate, alcohol, feed, and cane wax. In the past year or so, Xingke Group has been committed to the integration of Neijiang and other places of the sugar industry, after some rectification, the Tuojiang River basin in Neijiang, Zizhong, Ziyang, Jianyang, Jintang, Fushun and other places of the original more than 6ooo sugar workshops, now only more than 6oo, the rest of all have been merged into the Sichuan Sugar United Company. The workers of these workshops have basically become the workers of Xingke Company.

In the process of merger, Xingke also adopted a lot of gray and shady methods, of course, these methods are aimed at those black-hearted businessmen, local tyrants and inferior gentry, underworld gangs and other reactionary evil forces, for legitimate businesses, Xingke's approach is still very gentle, and there is always a bottom line for this.

In addition, Sichuan Sugar directly signed a unified purchase contract with sugarcane farmers at a more conscientious price, and Huaxia Bank, a subsidiary of Xingke, provided low-interest loans (1% monthly interest), and provided improved sugarcane, fertilizers, pesticides, and technical guidance at low prices.

At this time, the sugarcane farmers were very hard, because of the lack of funds, they were usually exploited by those black-hearted businessmen with usury (more than 2o% per month), and then they were purchased at a low price, such a double exploitation made the sugarcane farmers miserable, and now with the low-interest loan of Xingke, it is undoubtedly to save them.

The most important thing is the perverted road construction of Xingke Company, these road construction maniac directly built the road to most of the townships and even villages where sugarcane is grown, and also used to drive cars to the production area for transportation, which makes the transportation of products much better than before.

These conditions of the Sichuan sugar industry are undoubtedly better than those profiteers, so much so that they don't know where to go, so fools don't do it. As a result, a large number of sugarcane farmers have invested in Sichuan Sugar and become the exclusive supplier. As for the cane farmers in the direct territory, not to mention, those benefits are enough to make their peers envious and jealous.

After the integration, the Sichuan Sugar United Company has become a huge trust enterprise, which produced 2o tons of granulated sugar, 30,000 tons of brown sugar and rock sugar last year, almost monopolized the sugar industry in Sichuan and even southwest China, and accounted for more than four-fifths of the national output last year. In addition, it also produced 3o tons of various finished paper and paper products, 80,000 tons of rum, 30,000 tons of alcohol, 36oo tons of monosodium glutamate, more than 6ooo tons of cane wax, and more than 70,000 tons of feed and fertilizer......

In addition to a large number of internal digestion of various products of Sichuan Sugar United Company last year, it actually earned a profit equivalent to more than 186 million US dollars in various markets.

Then there is the Weiyuan Glass Factory, which last year 70% of its products were digested internally, and because it spent a lot of energy to try to produce various high-grade glass, the output of takeaway is not much, and it only earned more than 730,000 US dollars in the domestic market.

The ammonia plant and the alkali plant put into operation last year belong to the Sichuan Chemical Industry Company, and most of the products of the ammonia plant are digested internally, and the explosives are mainly supplied to the infrastructure construction in various places. The fertilizer produced is also mainly supplied to the liberated areas controlled by Kyodo, Xingke's own farms, and cane farmers who have signed agreements, and these markets are sold at low prices and with very low profits, only more than 1oo US dollars.

At that time, the whole country and even the whole of Asia were short of soda ash, the quality and output of trona in the north were unstable and the transportation cost was high, and the products of European and American powers were sold at a high price. Sichuan Chemical's soda ash price is only 70% of that of foreign soda, so it sold well in the Asian market, earning a profit of $420,000 last year.

As for other factories, such as agricultural companies, cement companies, building materials companies, sand and gravel companies, bamboo and wood companies, ceramics companies, quilt companies, food companies, etc., these supporting enterprises that were not initially considered to make money, the products were basically digested internally, but the profits of these factories added up to about 560 million US dollars.

The above items, together with other sporadic income, reach the equivalent of 1. $500 million, these are industrial revenues.

In addition, the largest input was the confiscation of Kyodo Corporation. In Hubei, eastern Sichuan, and southern Shaanxi, local tyrants and shoddy gentry, corrupt officials, bandits and robbers, gangsters, and other reactionary forces were all purged. All the floating wealth of the family was confiscated, and most of the land was distributed to the poor peasants, and most of the floating wealth was used as funds by the Kyodo Society, except for part of the compensation for the victims. This part of the property includes various gold bars, silver ingots, and silver dollars, equivalent to US dollars4. More than 3.6 billion yuan. There are also some antique calligraphy and paintings whose value is not easy to estimate, and such things are temporarily stored in the treasury and properly sealed.

Among them, there is also a big entry, that is, from the treasury of Hubei, the revolutionary army found all kinds of gold, silver, and coins in the official treasury of Wuchang, which is equivalent to about 7ooo million silver dollars (equivalent to 350,000 US dollars), and Zhang Zhidong's nickname of "Cai Tu" is really not wrong. In the history of the original time and space, Zhang Zhidong handed over more than 7ooo yuan to Zhao Laoer before entering Beijing, and after the Xinhai Revolution, the revolutionaries found 4ooo yuan worth of gold and silver currency in the treasury, and now because Kyodo came too quickly, this money has not had time to spend much.

"Hey, we worked hard to set up a factory to make money, but it still didn't come as fast as the robbery. You see, it's only a province and a half, and Rosie and they grabbed 4. More than $700 million......" Wen Desi shrugged his shoulders and said to Gu Xiaolu with a depressed face.

Gu Xiaolu rolled his eyes and said as a matter of course: "Of course, but this is only a one-time income, you have to think about how long those local tyrants and magnates have been looting, I see the introduction sent by Rosie, some gold bricks and silver winter melons are even ...... in the early years of the Ming Dynasty."

After a pause, she picked up another report and said happily: "Mr. Wen, look at this, Tianjin's Delong Bank can loot the Eight Banners magnates, and last year they earned 14oo yuan by means of usury and other means......"

Wen Desi smiled and said: "Liu Yang, this guy likes to play with financial traps the most, I'm afraid no one in this world can play with him, it's strange that those Eight Banners turtles don't get trapped......"

Tianjin's Delong Bank is the bank that specializes in pit people, to be precise, the bank used to pit the elites of the Eight Banners.

Last year, Xingke's income was huge, but the expenses were also huge. For example, various infrastructure projects such as road projects and water conservancy projects in the liberated areas, the construction of public welfare undertakings such as education and public health in various localities, the upgrading and transformation of the Hanyang Iron Works and Arsenal, the upgrading and transformation of the Daye Iron Mine and the Pingxiang Coal Mine, and the expansion of the army...... These are expensive projects.

In addition, it is imported, factories around the country need a large number of mechanical products, and the Sichuan-Han Railway needs a large number of rails, which cannot be met by Xingke Machinery and Weigang alone, and they all need to be imported.

There is also a big project is agricultural products, the year before the Yangtze River basin floods, to last year only Hubei under the leadership of the Kyodo Society to recuperate, other provinces are still desolate, so Xingke from the United States, Australia, India and other regions imported a large amount of grain, edible oil, cotton and other agricultural products. Although various improved varieties and high-yield crops have been promoted in the territory controlled by Xingke Group, due to the short time and limited output (nationwide), it cannot meet the needs of disaster relief.

The great flood of 19o6 made the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River basin very miserable, and the number of people affected by the disaster reached tens of millions.

They basically adopt a laissez-faire attitude towards the disaster area, pretending to be deaf and dumb, and pretending not to know. The clan and gang forces that originally controlled the grassroots were also ruined by this disaster, and the grassroots in the entire region were basically in a state of anarchy, which was also an important reason why the "Ding Wei Revolution" caused a chain reaction in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Because the people were completely disillusioned with the Manchu government, the Manchu government had lost its last credibility.

By the time of last year's "Ding Wei Revolution," the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, with the exception of the Jiangbei region in Anhui, had basically become the territory of the revolutionary army. However, the organizational strength of these revolutionary armies is not much better than that of the Qing Dynasty, and it is even more tragic. They also have no way to do things like disaster relief and resumption of production.

Kyodo has the ability to organize and control the lowest level of society, but they only control Hubei, and they are also powerless for other regions. However, according to Wen Desi's idea, even if he cannot preside over the restoration of these places, at least he must save as many victims as possible.

This is not just for humanitarian reasons, because in his view, human resources are the most valuable thing, and preserving more people is not only to preserve the vitality of the country, but also to the country's human resources for his future global plans.

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