Chapter 2827

After the Qionglianfa trade center is put into use, Shandong locals will benefit from it far more than just the Ma family, which has a stake, but also many merchants who will settle in it.

There are hundreds of Shandong merchants who have signed settlement agreements with Qiong Lianfa before this. One of the preferential conditions they can enjoy is the various business resources provided by Qiong Lianfa.

Qiong Lianfa can provide merchants with information on supply and demand of goods at home and abroad, warehousing services at major ports, efficient and safe shipping routes, channels for connecting with upstream and downstream industries, and a huge sales volume that has taken more than 20 years to build.

network.

For small and medium-sized merchants who are willing to expand their business outside Shandong, the resources provided by Qiong Lianfa are simply pie in the sky, and the value they bring is difficult to measure in terms of money. Before this, these were their

Services that are hard to buy with money.

Even a powerful local business organization like the Denglai Chamber of Commerce found it difficult to resist such conditions because of its obvious shortcomings in overseas operations, and ultimately chose to cooperate with Qiong Lianfa.

The benefits that the trade center brings to Fushan County are not limited to this. Once Qiong Lianfa takes this initiative, other business giants from the south will soon follow. It is said that the Nanhai Business Alliance, Fujian Chamber of Commerce, and Yangzhou

Commercial organizations such as the Salt Merchants Group have also begun construction of large-scale commercial facilities in Shandong and Liaodong.

After listening to Ning Zijing's explanation, Bai Letong nodded and said, "So Qiong Lianfa's real competitors in the north are not local merchants, but their counterparts from the south?"

Ning Zijing said: "You are right to understand that. After all, competition will only arise if we have equal strength and overlapping business scopes."

Bai Letong frowned and said: "But in this way, the southern merchants who started early have a great first-mover advantage. Local merchants have to rely on the business resources they provide to engage in trade activities overseas. Wouldn't this mean that they will always be suppressed?

Too dead to turn over?"

Ning Zijing shook his head and said: "It's not as serious as you think. Whether it can turn over or not ultimately depends on each company's business strategy. It can only be said that in the foreseeable future, southern businesses will definitely have the advantage, but businesses like Deng

Commercial organizations like the Laos Chamber of Commerce have actually been deployed in the south for many years, and sooner or later they will become transnational organizations similar to their counterparts in the south, and the gap in strength will only become smaller and smaller."

Bai Letong said: "I am not optimistic about the trend you mentioned. There are so many coastal ports in the south and there are no ice period restrictions. The innate conditions for developing maritime trade are obviously much better than those in the north. If northern merchants cannot develop independent

Some advantageous industries may never catch up with their counterparts in the south."

Ning Zijing said: "Uncle Chen must have thought of what you said, so you see that the path that the Northern Region is taking now is not just traditional trade, but a considerable part of the resources are invested in the development of industry. If the Northern Region

If the district can realize the industrialization process that Uncle Chen expected, the situation will be different."

The industrialization of the Northern Region, to be precise, the industrialization of the industrial chain based on mining, has indeed brought significant changes here. The continued substantial financial gains, the widespread application of industrial technology, and the special nature of workers

The emergence of occupational groups will have a profound impact on the northern region.

Just like the southern region's advantages in shipping, the northern region also has unique mineral deposits, and the resulting development value is difficult to estimate in numbers. Bai Letong has just finished inspecting the copper mines in the Denglai area.

Coal mines, gold mines, and downstream processing industries also have a clearer perception of the impact of industrialization.

This is a development route that is completely different from traditional agriculture and commerce. It is still a new thing in this era, but Bai Letong's generation grew up in Sanya, and they know very well that the value that industrialization can create is far beyond that of traditional industries.

Chen Yixin's bet on the development of the northern region on the route of industrialization is not unfounded. Once it starts, the pace of catching up with the south will indeed be much faster.

However, for the time being, the area centered on Zhifu Port will still have commercial and trade functions as its main development direction in the future. However, the various resources entering the northern region through this window will definitely contribute to various industrial projects.

development. Perhaps within a few years, you will be able to see various industrialized products appearing on the shelves in the shops of Qionglianfa Trade Center.

After attending the opening ceremony of the trade center, Bai Letong began to perform his last task in Fushan County, holding a briefing meeting for local cultural and educational institutions.

The heads of cultural and educational institutions in the counties under Dengzhou have arrived in Fushan County to receive a three-day short-term training. During this period, Bai Letong will explain to them some of the changes made to the teaching materials by the Ministry of Culture and Education, as well as the latest teaching requirements

.

This job sounds easy, but in actual implementation it has to face many objective problems.

The first is the qualifications of the heads of these cultural and educational institutions. Not all of them come from the Haihan education system. In fact, most of them are heads of the original local academies, private schools and other institutions. The educational institutions where they work were changed to

Primary school, the person in charge who was willing to stay was appointed as the principal.

They used to teach students the Four Books, Five Classics, and a subset of Classics and History, but suddenly they changed to the teaching materials provided by Haihan. In addition to basic courses such as literacy, they were also required to teach students general education, mathematics, and even Haihan's own textbooks.

In modern history, it is true that the situation has been somewhat inadequate. It was not until recent years that teachers trained by Haihan’s domestic teacher training system began to teach in these schools, and the situation began to improve.

But despite this, due to the deep-rooted influence of traditional Confucianism, the promotion of Haihan's cultural and educational system among the people will still encounter a lot of objective resistance.

Not everyone is willing to cooperate with the arrangements of the Ministry of Culture and Education. There are still some educational institutions that regard the educational content formulated by the Ministry of Culture and Education as heresy and cut down the relevant educational content on their own initiative. It is not uncommon for them to violate the regulations.

Therefore, this meeting was held with the heads of Dengzhou cultural and educational institutions. In addition to teaching guidance, Bai Letong also brought a series of appointments from the Ministry of Culture and Education, appointing a group of reliable young teachers as the actual heads of various educational institutions.

Those old academics who refuse to adapt to the past and are unwilling to cooperate will be transferred to literary and historical research institutions such as county magistrate offices, poetry societies, calligraphy and painting clubs, etc. They will be completely buried in the pile of old papers and will not be allowed to continue to interfere in teaching work.
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