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Chapter 589 Xinhua Electric Company

Dong Shuheng was also guessing what Qi Bin was going to do.

The information in his hand came from Wen Yanyuan.

Wen Yanyuan's response was to transfer the Marine Corps from Yokosuka to the edge of Edo in the name of protecting overseas Chinese.

In fact, it was to ensure the safety of Edo.

It's just that Iesada is seriously ill now. Without the shogun, would Edo still be so important?

Wen Yanyuan asked China to send medical experts there, maybe because he felt that Jia Ding's life should be saved.

The situation in the shogunate is not that critical yet. Most of the people on Honshu Island still have close feudal lords and pro-daimyos, and these people are not interested in the rhetoric of overthrowing the shogunate.

After all, these people have been fed very well in the past few years. Although most of them are greedy, mediocre and incompetent people, fortunately, they should know whose side they are on.

Wen Yanyuan's report also seemed not to hold much hope for the expedition of the new shogunate army.

Wen Yanyuan's response was inappropriate, which would make the shogunate feel that the Renaissance Army would do its best to protect them. How could this motivate them?

It is originally the shogunate's own business. If they don't deal with it with all their strength, how can they expect others to do the same?

The shogunate has made so much money in the past few years, it's time to spit it out.

"Wen Yanyuan is so impatient!" Dong Shuheng was a little displeased with Gaoyou's temporary visit.

"Perhaps Minister Wen is worried that the situation is out of control. The performance of the shogunate is too poor, and it has lost more than a dozen vassal states at once." Wei Yuxiang said on the side.

"Yuxiang, there is no need to help him smooth things over. Wen Yanyuan may have been made unconscious by the gentleness of the shogunate. We don't have to defend the shogunate to the death. This will only make those in the shogunate feel that we have to save them. We

It is not necessary to use the shogunate to control the Japanese state. I think it is better for Qi Binshen to hold his temper."

There was no news from Qi Bin at this time, indicating that he was still dormant somewhere, waiting for the opportunity.

"Tomorrow, we will continue to go south, first to Jiangning, and then up the river." Dong Shuheng ordered.

This time when he visited Gaoyou, Dong Shuheng found that the scale of the factory area here had further expanded.

This kind of field investigation is more intuitive than those data.

The development of factories requires a large amount of labor. The aggregation of the labor force forms a new group of citizens. The expansion rate of the city exceeds any time in history in a short period of time.

Gaoyou has lost all trace of its original appearance. There are communities of double-storey townhouses everywhere.

Many of these communities are named after factories, such as the dormitories of a certain textile factory.

But in fact, the life of these workers is not much better than that of farmers in the countryside. At least they live in average, with each family basically having two row houses.

Those with children are even more crowded. Both rooms must be converted into bedrooms, and the couple must have a separate space. Otherwise, what if they want to continue making babies?

The kitchen must be shared and the toilets must be shared.

In good places, such as Shanghai, some good welfare housing will be built.

But in a labor-intensive industrial zone like Gaoyou, housing construction simply cannot keep up with housing allocation.

Now, with the development of rural areas, many people are no longer willing to work in cities.

The internal economic situation of the Renaissance Army is improving, and the cost of labor will definitely become higher and higher.

Because of the Fuxing Army's overseas immigration policy, the poor in China have a safe choice.

And as more and more people become rich due to immigration.

If wages in domestic factories are too low, then why don't these people choose to immigrate?

If you go to Southeast Asia, the Far East or America, you can get hundreds of acres of land.

With this land, as long as you work hard enough, you will have enough food and clothing.

Because there is such a vast land, even if the harvest is not good, you will not go hungry.

Moreover, many Chinese people are attached to land. It is the dream of many people to own a piece of land that can be passed down to their families.

Working in a factory is, to put it bluntly, helping others, just like the long-term workers in the past. To be honest, the status of workers is not high now.

In addition to getting a fixed salary every month and making it easier to save money, what can you gain in the end?

This time Dong Shuheng arrived in Gaoyou and once again met with a group of Yangzhou businessmen who originally supported him. These people included the major chaebols in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Dong Shuheng would hold such a symposium every time he went south.

These businessmen are all old acquaintances, and everyone can speak freely.

At this symposium, businessmen raised the impact of immigration policies on factory development.

Because immigration policies have increased factory labor costs.

Some businessmen asked whether they could recruit Korean and Japanese laborers.

Because those people have low labor costs.

Dong Shuheng can also understand these people, they are not just striving for more benefits.

Industrial production must rely on exports, and China's internal market is not very mature now.

To compete with those foreigners, we can only focus on labor costs.

After all, ordinary people are still working hard to provide for food and clothing, and do not have so much money to spend on industrial products.

Foreign markets are still very important.

Dong Shuheng understood that he must create a group of middle-income people in the country.

This group is the main driving force for social development and progress.

This group should originally have emerged from workers, peasants and government staff.

Therefore, after Dong Shuheng's finances improved, he gradually improved the salary of his officials.

Instead of a one-time salary increase, he formulated a salary increase plan to increase the salaries of his officials at a rate of 10% per year.

This is the experience Dong Shuheng learned from later generations. Even if you have the ability, do not increase the salary of your subordinates all at once.

The so-called promotion of rice and kindness versus hatred of rice.

If the price increases too much at one time, there will be no room for future increases, and this means of stimulating everyone's enthusiasm for work will be lost.

Representatives of the Chamber of Commerce raised the issue of liberalizing the use of Korean and Japanese labor.

Dong Shuheng felt that it was not impossible, but some restrictions were required.

For example, there should be some restrictions on the right of residence of these people. They can be allowed to come and work, but they cannot be given the right of residence.

After coming here, these people can only work in the factory, but they have to live in dormitories arranged by the factory and cannot settle in the mainland.

This must be strictly controlled. Dong Shuheng did not want to move the population from the mainland in the future, but a large number of Koreans, Japanese or Nanyang people would flow in.

The introduction of these workers will definitely continue to keep wages at a very low level.

Dong Shuheng also knew that this was unfair to those workers at the bottom.

But in the early days of industrialization, productivity was not as good as others, so we had to find ways to deal with labor costs.

Otherwise, it would be difficult to complete industrialization with the support of the Renaissance Army alone.

Only by being market-oriented can we develop a healthy industrial system.

And it is impossible to establish an industrial system solely by relying on state-owned enterprises and using government investment.

The economic system designed by Dong Shuheng for the Fuxing Army is for the state to control some strategic industries related to national security, such as railways, energy, medicine, communications, electricity...

Other industries are open to local consortiums and ordinary investors.

Even in the former, ordinary businessmen can get involved, but the state must control the majority.

Only in this way can those state-owned enterprises develop healthily.

At the beginning, after settling in the new capital, Dong Shuheng had already considered this issue when he transferred the shares in Huaihai Group and Yangtze River Group that were originally in his hands to the state.

At that time, veterans like Liu Mingyuan were opposed to this.

They believe that Huaihai Company controls some key areas and should be left under the control of their own family. Only in this way can Dong Shuheng's position be consolidated.

But Dong Shuheng didn't think so. Since he didn't claim to be emperor, he couldn't control the industry that was related to the lifeblood of the country.

For example, those arsenals controlled by Huaihai Company. These arsenals were completely the lifeblood of the Renaissance Army.

Sometimes holding a sharp weapon is not a good thing and can actually bring danger to yourself.

But Dong Shuheng is not the kind of mindless and selfless person.

He still achieved a lot of benefits for his family.

For example, Yunmei Group, founded by his two sisters, controls a large share of the jewelry and fur industries, accounting for almost half of the domestic sales and exports of luxury goods.

If it weren't for Dong Shuheng, the two sisters would not have been able to expand Yunmei so fast.

Now Yunmei Group is definitely the largest luxury goods company, with various silk products as its basic industry.

Many high-quality furs in the north and gemstone resources in Indochina are also under Yunmei's control.

In this way, Yunmei has a stable supply of goods to develop the luxury goods field.

In addition, Yunmei has a presence in many places around the world. It has absorbed many European fashion elements, combined with Chinese traditional culture, and developed many fashion-leading products.

For example, Yunmei took the lead in opening up the cosmetics industry. They combined some traditional cosmetic techniques from China with extraction techniques passed over from Europe. They also cooperated with traditional Chinese medicine to launch many skin care products and cosmetics.

This is equivalent to creating a new industry. This industry has high added value and continues to bring income to Yunmei from all over the world.

Another example is the Business Publishing Group founded in the name of Wei Yuzhen.

It is also one of the leaders in the newspaper and book publishing industry.

The news and publishing industry will be an important industry in the future.

In addition, Dong Shuheng also controlled the West Coast Company in the Americas through Liu Mingyuan.

Yes, the West Coast Company was not handed over to the government, but remained in the hands of Dong Shuheng's family.

The company's top management is equivalent to the Dong family's retainers.

Liu Mingyuan has retired, and he is now helping Dong Shuheng coordinate the transportation of various resources to the Americas.

California is basically under the control of Dong Shuheng. The northern Oregon region and even the Washington region are also penetrated by West Coast companies.

The West Coast Company and the Yangtze River Security Company are the two nails that enable Dong Shuheng to control the western United States.

In fact, the United States has also used this method to expand its territory in recent years.

If they can buy it with money, they will not use force.

Only then did they control the vast central and western regions.

This also creates a problem, that is, the United States' control over these places is not strong.

Dong Shuheng also used this point to treat others in his own way.

He first used the vast financial resources of the West Coast Company to buy almost the entire California. Then he used white people like Bai Qiwen to gradually control the state assembly and thereby control the California government.

Now Bai Qiwen has become the governor of California. California's government departments have also been controlled by yellow people.

Some white people who came to California from the east suddenly found that this place had become a Chinese world.

The federal government has also discovered this problem, but in the United States before the Civil War, local states had great autonomy.

The United States now wants to control the Chinese in California unless it starts a war.

But now that the civil war in Kansas has not been resolved, the federal government has no ability to launch a war in the far west.

Yangtze Security Company's combat effectiveness in the Kansas area is also obvious to all.

The liberal army no longer wants to fight with this army composed of Chinese.

This Chinese Southern Army was called the "Devil Army" by the Northern Army. They were more terrifying than the cruel Texas mercenaries.

The federal government also needs to weigh the cost of engaging with the Chinese in California.

West Coast Company is equivalent to the government of the western region, while Yangtze Security is equivalent to the military in the western region.

With California in hand, it will be easier to infiltrate the central Colorado, Nevada, Arizona and other areas that have not yet been under federal jurisdiction.

There are only some Indian tribes that have been maimed by white people.

To deal with these Indians, the Chinese have many more methods than the white people.

Killing is just the simplest and mindless way.

The western part of the United States is Dong Shuheng’s private land, so he must manage it well.

Dong Shuheng would personally receive every talent sent there, swear allegiance to Dong Shuheng and become Dong Shuheng's retainer.

In the second half of last year, because both sides of the Kansas Civil War had breech-loading guns, Dong Shuheng also sent the latest equipment to California.

At the same time, more officers were dispatched.

Yangtze Security's troops there have expanded to 50,000. Such a standing force is already a very strong force in the United States.

As retainers, each of them would receive a portion of the West Coast Company's stock.

For such a huge company, even a mere 0.000% of the shares is a considerable fortune.

Not to mention they can also get land and other wealth.

Ordinary Yangtze security soldiers can be allocated hundreds of acres of land, and these retainers are allocated even more land.

Dong Shuheng is ready to create a new class here.

The resources Dong Shuheng controls overseas are not limited to this. In Westpac, his family also controls a large number of shares.

Domestically, he also actively invests in emerging industries such as internal combustion engines and electrical appliances.

In addition to state-owned companies, Dong Shuheng asked his family to cooperate with Xu Shou to establish Xinhua Electric, a new technology enterprise that specializes in investing in and producing various electrical equipment.

Dong Shuheng's family provided the money, and Xu Shou, the technical house, provided the technology.

Scientific researchers can use their own research and development results to invest.

After Dong Shuheng established the scientific research institute, he did not confine these scientific researchers to death.

If we want everyone to be willing to devote themselves to the field of scientific research, we must enable scientific researchers to become rich.

Otherwise, in the future, all smart people will go into business, and who will be willing to engage in research.

Therefore, the Company Law of the Fuxing Army stipulates that scientific researchers can use their own scientific research results to invest in establishing companies with others.

It just has to comply with the country’s technical confidentiality regulations.

Dong Shuheng naturally chose to cooperate with Xu Shou. This will be the "Edison" of China in the future.

Now that coil technology has matured, Xu Shou is studying radio.

Dong Shuheng knew that this would be a promising industry.

In addition, refrigerators, air conditioners, electric fans and other electrical appliances developed through motor technology were also conquered by Xu Shou.

Dong Shuheng came up with ideas and Xu Shou came up with techniques. They were a perfect duo. For a while, Dong Shuheng was not doing his job and went to the Electrical Appliance Research Institute every day.

These things are all easy to sell.

Refrigerators can be used to preserve food and can greatly solve the problem of food supply during ocean voyages. Almost all ocean-going merchant ships must be equipped with one.

With the advent of refrigerators and ice machines, ocean fishing is no longer just whaling.

Offshore fishing vessels equipped with generators and ice machines can bring back more fish.

Even people in inland areas can eat frozen and fresh sea fish.

Prior to this, fishermen could only fish offshore, and if they wanted to sell the fish to other areas, they could only make dried fish or canned fish.

This is equivalent to opening up a new industrial chain.

In addition, air conditioners and electric fans also provided assistance to the Renaissance Army in exploring the Nanyang region.

Tropical areas have fertile land and abundant rainfall, but there have been no brilliant civilizations in history.

In fact, it is because the weather is too hot and the population cannot gather together on a large scale, otherwise epidemics will occur.

But now that we have fans, air conditioners, and electricity, places that were originally unsuitable for human survival will become livable.

Other things, such as heaters, electric stoves, etc., do not have high technical content.

As long as the renaissance military government insists on promoting the establishment of power plants and laying cables in various places, these things will be promoted.

Even if it cannot enter the homes of ordinary people for the time being, if only those rich people buy it, it will be a lot in total.

This is achieved by relying on these wealthy people within the company and taking the high-end route. Xinhua Electrical Appliances has brought in a lot of profits as soon as it was established.

This made everyone in Xu Shou's R&D team rich.

Fortunately, these men in science and engineering are not ready to settle down just because they have become rich, but instead devote themselves to their work with greater enthusiasm.

Dong Shuheng is not afraid that his people will be rich, he just wants to make wealth. The more people become rich, the more active China's economy will be.

Invest in emerging industries on the mainland and control basic resources overseas. This is the legacy Dong Shuheng left to his family.

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