Dong Shuheng always gets surprises every time he goes to Sheenbai.
This made him feel that it was really a cost-effective thing to spend such a high price to keep Schönbai in China.
"No. 3" laboratory is also the laboratory that produces the most benefits among the current top-secret laboratories.
Dong Shuheng would go over and take a look at several laboratories every once in a while. Sometimes, he would use the little knowledge he had from later generations to give guidance, but it was only in the direction of research and development.
Dong Shuheng is not a science and engineering man. If you ask him to build a gun or a steam engine, he will not be able to build it.
But after being baptized by a strong compulsory education, he knows how diesel engines should work, which direction guns should develop in the future, and what warships should look like in the future. He also knows the principles of airships and knows that there should be airplanes in the sky in the future. How airplanes are
Flying into the sky.
Whether it is what we have now or what we will have in the future, Dong Shuheng has some concepts in his mind.
If he doesn't know how to do it, he will find specialized people to spend time researching it. With such a large population in China, the lack of talents can be poached from abroad.
The development of human science and technology is like this, allowing some people to get rid of low-level labor for survival and invest in specialized creative activities.
After the tribes in primitive society were formed, the elders and shamans in the tribe no longer needed to participate in gathering and hunting food activities.
They have time to observe everything around them, observe the changes of the sun, moon and stars, observe the evolution laws of nature, and complete the primitive accumulation of human knowledge.
Cangjie didn't need to work all the time so he could have time to create words. Shennong didn't need to work all the time so he could have time to taste herbs...
Dong Shuheng does not need to do it himself, he only needs to hand over the ideas in his mind to his specialized people. Then he uses the power of the country to provide resources to these people. He just needs to make the country run more healthily.
The next stop is Gaoyou, where the Renaissance Army was formed.
This is now a famous light industry base in China. A large number of goods are produced here every day and transported to various parts of the country along the canal and the Yangtze River for sale.
Many of them are also sent directly to the commodity trading market in Yangzhou.
In Yangzhou Market, dealers from all over the country gather here.
Now China is unified and has unprecedented stability, further promoting the prosperity of commerce.
Huaxia has canceled its internal tax. As long as the tax is paid once for the goods during the transaction, it will be fine.
You no longer have to be exploited on the road, and business activities have never been so free.
This was a huge benefit to the merchants, so the number of merchants increased greatly.
Moreover, the movement of the population is now freer. China has strengthened the management of household registration, but no longer restricts the free movement of the internal population.
Whether you are doing business in another place, studying or traveling, it is not a difficult task. As long as you can show your household registration when questioned by the local police station.
The originally isolated southwest region now has a large number of people coming out to do business.
The direct manifestation is that Yangzhou's big market is more prosperous than before.
However, the Yangzhou market also has many competitors.
With the permission of the Ministry of Commerce, many provincial capital cities have now established their own large markets to promote commodity trading activities in their provinces.
Even Qi Bin, who is far away in Mobei, is planning a large-scale commodity trading market in Mobei to promote the development of grassland commerce.
The construction of this large market in Mobei will be mainly funded by Dashengkui, who made a huge profit in this war.
Even so, Yangzhou Market is still the most famous and has the most complete range of goods. Well-known big businessmen are still willing to set up a branch here.
Against this background, the second phase of Yangzhou Big Market was delivered on time, and the prices of the shops were even higher than those of the first phase.
In Gaoyou, Dong Shuheng held a symposium with key representatives of the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce.
When Dong Shuheng started his business, the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce gave him a lot of support. Dong Shuheng was not the kind of person who would do nothing but kill the donkey.
The original Yangtze River Group was founded by Dong Shuheng and the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce, and it continued to grow. The Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce was the main investor, but Dong Shuheng was the controlling shareholder of the group.
Like the Huaihai Company, the Yangtze River Group has continued to provide blood to the Renaissance Army and made outstanding contributions to the unification of China.
Now Dong Shuheng's part of the shares has been transferred to Huaxia. This has made the connection between Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce and Huaxia closer.
Unlike Huaihai Group, which became a purely state-owned enterprise, Yangtze River Group is now a model of public-private partnership.
Dong Shuheng approached the Yangtze River Chamber of Commerce this time because he actually wanted to get them to do a big thing together. Once this thing is done, it will also be of great benefit to the development of the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce.
Of course, promoting this matter is also to cooperate with an important strategic intention of China.
Dong Shuheng has always wanted to develop his power in Australia, and the exploration of this avenue was relatively late among several continents.
In fact, people from China visited northern Australia in the 15th century.
Scholars from the Academy have found a lot of documents related to Australia. But maybe the Chinese people only went to the relatively desolate northern part of Australia, so no one settled there.
Of course, it cannot be said that there is no such thing. After all, Dong Shuheng has not yet sent anyone to Australia to explore.
Australia has always been the territory of the United Kingdom. After the American Revolutionary War, the United Kingdom paid more attention to Australia and began to increase immigration to Australia.
At the same time, Britain was also asserting its ownership of Australia.
But Australia is too big, and the population base of British people is only a small, so immigration activities are not smooth.
It is only 1855. Although Britain has opened its free citizens to immigrate to Australia. However, the number of immigrants in more than ten years was only a few hundred thousand. Before 1840, Australia was only a place where criminals were exiled.
Information coming from Europe is that in 1850, the total British population in Australia was only 500,000.
These people still live in New South Wales, an area centered on Sydney, where the land is the most fertile in Australia and suitable for farming.
There are almost no people in other areas, only indigenous residents, and the British have no way to manage them.
Two-thirds of Australia's land is in arid and semi-arid areas. The two main rivers, the Murray River and the Darling River, are both in the southeastern region.
This is now the New South Wales region where the British mainly live.
But Dong Shuheng, who came from a later generation, knew that although Western Australia is mainly desert, it is the essence of Australia.
Because this is simply the world's mineral depository warehouse. Compared to the southeastern region with abundant water and grass suitable for farming, Dong Shuheng wanted the Western Australia region.
In fact, Australia is much closer to China than the United Kingdom. After crossing China's Nanyang, it is not far from Australia.
Dong Shuheng also did his homework in advance. The fleet heading from the Southern Ocean to South America had previously sent exploration ships south along the eastern waters of Luzon.
The fleet discovered an archipelago area southeast of Luzon. This was later to be the Caroline Islands in the South Pacific. This archipelago was almost all small islands.
Not far to the south is the island of New Guinea. On this island, only the Dutch have established a small colonial stronghold in the southwest.
There are no traces of colonial activity elsewhere.
There is also a large archipelago area in the northeast of New Guinea, which later became the Bismarck Islands. Likewise, no one declared colonization here.
Of course, when China entered Australia, it was more convenient to walk to the west of Luzon and then pass through the Maluku Islands in later generations.
However, the influence of European colonists is widespread there, which is not conducive to China's secret layout.
What China needs most now is to establish a solid base near Australia as a base for future development in Australia.
The island of New Guinea is very suitable. European colonists thought it had little value and abandoned it like worn out shoes.
Only the Netherlands declared to colonize the western half in 1828, but it was only a declaration. In fact, they had no ability to develop it.
The eastern half is still unclaimed land. Of course, the local climate is harsh and the natives are ferocious.
Historically, it was not until the 1880s, thirty years later, that the Germans established a colony there.
So, why did Dong Shuheng find the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce about this matter?
Dong Shuheng approached the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce this time hoping to organize a private consortium to form a private joint-stock company through the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce.
Then, in the name of this company, we will explore the eastern part of Papua Island. Finally, we will use that place as a springboard to penetrate into the northern and western regions of Australia.
Dong Shuheng has even thought about how to develop Australia in the future.
At that time, in Australia's arid western region, settlements will be established in oasis areas, mainly composed of Han people.
Then some nomadic herders were moved to the grasslands of semi-arid areas to graze. The arid desert grassland here has a climate very similar to that of the Western Regions of China and the Mobei grassland.
When the time comes, these nomadic Chinese people will be armed, and they will be able to grow while nomadic, and at the same time continue to erode and expand to the eastern region.
Wouldn’t it be exciting to have a nomadic invasion in Australia?
As for the hundreds of thousands of British people in Australia, I believe they could easily be swamped.
Naturally, the British will not give up, but do they have the ability to travel that far and have a war on the vast land of Australia with the Chinese who have already taken root in Australia?
South Africa alone has wiped out most of the British Empire's long-term colonial foundation. What will happen to Australia, which has such great strategic depth?
Of course, the question now is how the Chinese can take root in Australia.
The eastern and northern islands of Papua are not on the main shipping routes, and Western countries have little interest. Historically, they will become colonies of the later rising Germany.
But now that Dong Shuheng had set his sights on it, he could only apologize to his Prussian friends in advance.
In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Dong Shuheng initially hoped to develop there in the name of a Chinese private company.
There is another reason. The Chinese government now has too many things to do and has no time to take care of them. At the same time, it does not have a budget for this amount of money.
The government has no money, but the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce does!
Following Dong Shuheng in the past few years, the assets of these people have more than doubled.
Sure enough, maritime trade was more profitable than selling salt.
Investing in overseas expansion companies is actually an investment with medium and long-term profit expectations.
Of course, it will definitely require a lot of investment in the short term, and there will be no output.
Dong Shuheng initially thought about the steps for establishing a company.
First of all, the company must have an immigration fleet, which must have the ability to sail long distances. The route is to sail southward from the Port of Keelung to northeastern Luzon, along the waters of eastern Luzon, and to the southeast.
Because it is close to the equator, the sea conditions are complicated, and there are many storms in eastern Luzon.
Therefore it is best to build strong iron-hulled ships to run this route.
Secondly, a large number of immigrants must be recruited for early development. Because of the climate and environmental problems there, early immigrants will inevitably suffer a lot of losses.
Dong Shuheng felt that he could recruit some Japanese and Korean laborers to do early development locally, and then immigrate from China after the plantations were established and mature.
The company must also have a guard force, and the local natives are not very friendly.
For security work, you can hire Yangtze Security. Currently, Yangtze Security’s business in China is not very good.
After the establishment of Huaxia, the domestic security situation improved greatly. Everyone benefited, and only the security company's business was affected.
Now Yangtze Security's business has been moving overseas. In addition to its layout in the Americas.
Yangtze River Security has also taken on a lot of merchant ship escort work.
Piracy is now rampant on the sea, and all kinds of uninhabited islands are paradises for pirates.
Because of the harsh climate there, Dong Shuheng will instruct the company to recruit a group of mercenaries, mainly Japanese samurai.
At that time, these mercenaries can be thrown to the island.
During the closed-door discussion after the meeting at the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce, Dong Shuheng proposed his idea.
It's the same as before. In business, everyone trusts Dong Shuheng very much and everyone believes in his vision.
Of course, these people also have selfish motives. The plantations established there can be passed down to family members.
If the family is in decline, it can survive relying on the company's income from the plantation.
Moreover, when the time comes, they themselves can also purchase properties overseas through the company's convenience. These properties can be passed on to their children and grandchildren.
Even the name of the company, Dong Shuheng had already thought of it, and it was called Western Pacific Reclamation Company. This name closely reflected the nature of the company and the scope of its development.
The company's main business is the exploration and development of islands in the Pacific.
Dong Shuheng knew that the northeastern part of Papua is actually a treasure land. Most of the islands in the north are volcanic islands with rich mineral resources. Most of the northern parts of Papua Island are coastal plains, suitable for development into plantations.
Legend has it that there are terrifying cannibal tribes on the island, but Dong Shuheng believes that Japanese mercenaries who are more ferocious than those cannibal tribes will help the company get rid of them.
In this way, in this small conference room, everyone finalized the plan to establish a new large company.
In this company, the Chinese government will only control 20%. The company will be completely controlled by the board of directors, and major shareholders will vote on major issues based on the shares they control.
Because this company will not have much profit in the short term, it will not go public for the time being.
Speaking of public offerings, Dong Shuheng is going to Shanghai soon, where he will attend the opening ceremony of the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Securities trading activities have actually occurred in Shanghai before. Some businessmen have already imitated foreign companies and publicly issued shares to raise funds.
There are also people who find people to trade their shares. However, these transactions are mostly private and irregular, so problems often arise.
After Dong Shuheng took control of Shanghai, he came up with the idea of opening a securities trading place to prosper Shanghai's capital market, absorb social funds, and promote economic development.
But Dong Shuheng didn't have that energy before. Moreover, a stock exchange needs to prepare a lot of supporting systems, otherwise it will cause certain chaos if it is not done well.
This system is like a Pandora's box. You must ensure your own strength before opening it, otherwise you will not have the ability to control it.
With the establishment of China, Dong Shuheng gradually felt that the time was ripe. So he asked Hu Guangyong to start preparing for this matter.