This meeting on the bank of Slender West Lake was the one with the largest number of attendees and the most comprehensive coverage since the establishment of the Huaihai Navy System.
The topic of this meeting is to review the work of Huaihai Navy's various systems in the first three quarters and announce Huaihai Navy's institutional reform plan, including the government reform plan and the troop reorganization plan.
At the beginning of the meeting, Dong Shuheng listened to the work reports of each department one by one. Among them, the Supervisory Yuan, which Dong Shuheng paid the most attention to, had been undergoing a system-wide overhaul some time ago.
Among them, three members of the Pay Office took bribes, five company executives misappropriated public funds, a militia battalion commander raped women, and many others committed malfeasance...
Dong Shuheng never expected that there would be so many cannibals in the Huaihai Navy, which was just in its infancy. In order to serve as a warning and education, he asked Li Hu to organize these criminals and go to various places in the Huaihai Navy to give confession reports in turn.
Let everyone see what happens if they can't control themselves.
Secondly, it is Huaihai Company's financial report for the first three quarters and the company's development. The company's current total assets are estimated to reach 40 million silver dollars, of course, most of them are land assets, which has expanded 10 times compared to when Dong Shuheng first established Huaihai Company.
More than that. In the first three quarters, the sales volume was 15 million yuan and the net profit was 3 million yuan.
There are more than 30 factories under the company's name, covering military industry, silk reeling, spinning, weaving, food processing, metal smelting, machinery manufacturing and other fields.
In addition, there are two large households, Nongken and Fishery. There are more than 100 farms under the name of Nongken. Huaihai Haijun’s farms are found throughout Jiangbei, northern Anhui, and even southern Shandong. These farms were built in accordance with Dong Shuheng’s requirements for military-civilian unity.
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In addition, the Agricultural Reclamation Company also built a large-scale phosphate fertilizer plant in Haimen. Many small Chinese fleets that were on the verge of bankruptcy began to dig up guano on the southeast coast and islands in the South China Sea and deliver it to the phosphate fertilizer plant in Haimen.
This solved the livelihood problem of many people and at the same time reduced the number of trafficked Chinese workers in disguise. Dong Shuheng did not object to the export of Chinese workers, but the export of Chinese workers must ensure the local interests of the Chinese workers, so he could only do this himself.
As the business of China's small merchant ships offshore was crowded out by large merchant ships, fishing companies took the opportunity to merge a large number of small fleets and converted them into fishing fleets. At this time, China's offshore fishery resources were still relatively abundant.
The size of the fishing fleet has reached thousands. These ships are grouped in groups of three to five, with fishing teams as the basic unit, and are active in the offshore waters of the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea. Fishing companies have even established food processing plants in Zhoushan, Zhejiang, to catch marine fish.
It can be processed into canned fish nearby, stored in Huaihai Company's strategic reserve warehouse, or taken out for trading by trade caravans.
Following the model of the farm, Dong Shuheng also established militiamen on the fleets of fishing companies and ocean-going companies. However, they are militiamen of the navy. They can not only protect the sea while producing, but also continuously supply sailors for the future navy.
The ocean-going fleet has also developed rapidly. After several months of development, the ocean-going fleet has grown from 12 merchant ships to more than 30 merchant ships.
Except for Bai Qiwen's North American fleet, which was purchased in Shanghai, most of the other ships were intercepted. In the last operation in Xiamen, more than a dozen merchant ships were hijacked at one time. Later, the Operation Bureau arranged for personnel to sneak into the ranks of trafficked Chinese workers, and another successful operation
hijacked 6 merchant ships.
Many of these merchant ships are ordinary sailing ships. After being transformed into Yancheng Port, they are used by ocean-going companies to run routes to Korea and Japan. There are basically no foreign merchant ships on this line, which can reduce the risk of being exposed.
The Yangtze River Group's business income is less. After all, it started late and some factories have just been built. However, the results of the Yangtze River Bank are very impressive. After several months of layout, the Yangtze River Bank has established branches in major provincial capital cities across the country. Even
Branches have also been established in Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Manila, Pontianak and other cities. The bank has attracted 200 million silver dollars in deposits.
Yangtze River Bank has established cross-regional remittance services between various cities. This means that Chinese people in Southeast Asia no longer need to bring cash with them when they go to Jiangbei to do business. They only need to deposit money at the local Yangtze River Bank.
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In terms of the military, in accordance with Dong Shuheng's previous order, the Ministry of Armed Forces selected more than 20,000 soldiers from the militia and has basically completed the training tasks.
Cai Shusen reported on the establishment of the Shandong New Army. The Shandong New Army has recruited soldiers for training in Shandong with the Huai Navy officers as the skeleton. Currently, the entire army has more than 6,000 people. Lin Wei's cavalry regiment currently has more than 1,500 people.
With the support of Huaihai Navy's strong economic strength, these more than 1,500 people are all equipped with war horses and are currently being gradually replaced with carbines.
Another important point in the work of the army recently is the construction of fortresses. The fortress currently under construction is Pukou Fortress, which is the frontier of the confrontation with the Taiping Army.
Guazhou Fortress, this fortress is responsible for defending Yangzhou and blocking the entrance of the Yangtze River into the canal.
Jingjiang Fortress, which will echo the Jiangyin Fortress built later, will form the first line of defense to prevent enemies from entering the Yangtze River.
In addition, there are three coastal defense fortresses in the three ports of Haizhou, Yancheng and Haimen.
These fortresses will be built using reinforced concrete, and important parts will even be equipped with steel plates. The fortress guns use imitation Krupp 150mm breech cannons. In fact, this caliber is not enough to fight naval guns, but this is already what the Huaihai Arsenal can
The largest caliber artillery that can be built.
Because of the secrecy of its work, the Intelligence Department did not report its work publicly, but only handed the report to Dong Shuheng for review.
The Intelligence Department has always been a department that Dong Shuheng attaches great importance to. It was also established and directly managed by him.
The Intelligence Department has currently established more than 30 first-level stations. The westernmost station reaches Ili in Xinjiang, and the northernmost station reaches Kulun, Outer Mongolia. The southernmost station is in Singapore. The reason why it is so fast is basically due to the powerful caravan of Huaihai Company.
Wherever the caravan does business, the intelligence department's tentacles can be extended.
Due to the strong armed force of the caravan, the Huaihai Caravan is now a flag on various trade routes. Generally, thieves avoid it. If someone tries to attack the Huaihai Company's caravan without opening their eyes, even if they succeed, they will be severely punished.
The team's crazy revenge will not stop until death. Even if the cost is huge, they will not hesitate.
Dong Shuheng wants to use this method to create the untouchable legend of the Huaihai Caravan. If you encounter the Huaihai Caravan on the road, some small caravans will try their best to join in. Everyone knows that the Huaihai Caravan is a living pass.
Dong Shuheng knew very well that at this time, the biggest threat to China's internal commerce and trade was logistics. It can be said that "whoever wins logistics will win the world."
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After listening to the report, even Dong Shuheng was shocked by the current speed of development. It is no wonder that the current situation is indeed extremely beneficial to the development of the Huai Navy.
The energy of the conservative forces in the country was completely attracted by the chaos in various places. In normal times, even if Dong Shuheng built a factory, it would be discussed in court.
If he does what he does now, he must be labeled as a rebel. But the Qing court has not given him any trouble so far. On the one hand, the Qing court is out of trust in Qishan. The most important thing is that the Taiping Army has the foundation to rule the Qing court.
The threat diverted all the attention of the Qing court.
This is why Dong Shuheng is developing so fast. In fact, he doesn't know when the current good form will be broken. Maybe it's just because of a small thing. There are too many variables in it.
Internationally, before the Second Opium War, the Qing court was still a big power internationally, and the last fig leaf of this old power had not yet been thrown away.
Western powers could only influence a few port cities in the southeast, and could not penetrate into the inland areas. This also created good conditions for Dong Shuheng to develop national industry.
It is still difficult for foreign goods to enter the mainland, which makes it easy for Dong Shuheng's factories to occupy the mainland market.
The next step is to restructure the military and political system of Huaihai Navy.
Dong Shuheng still serves as the president of the Huaihai Navy and is in charge of all military and political work of the Huaihai Navy.
In terms of administration, the Huaihai Navy Government Affairs Shogunate was established (the Hunan Army in history also opened government offices and established such an organization), which was referred to as the Military Government. It replaced the original General Administrative Office. Zeng Xianfeng served as the Prime Minister of the Military Government and was in charge of administrative work.
Liu Mingyuan serves as Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Commerce. The Huaihai Navy Asset Management Committee is established under the Ministry of Commerce, and all enterprises under the former Huaihai Group are managed by this Asset Management Committee.
However, the agricultural reclamation and fishery companies are placed under the management of the Ministry of Agriculture, and Chen Dongsheng still serves as the minister of the Ministry of Agriculture.
In addition, the ocean-going fleet and inland water transportation companies were placed under the management of the Ministry of Transportation. The Ministry of Transportation also managed the planning, construction and maintenance of roads throughout the Huaihai Navy's sphere of influence. The first Minister of Transportation was Wang Qianli, a Nanyang Chinese.
I studied in the UK and participated in railway construction. Because Dong Shuheng wanted to build a large-scale railway later, this person was mentioned this time.
In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Liu Qingbei serves as Minister of Foreign Affairs and is in charge of Huaihai Navy’s external exchanges.
Song Pinhua, the former financial director of Huaihai Company, is the minister of the Ministry of Finance, and is in charge of the budget and revenue and expenditure work of the Huaihai Navy system. Another person that everyone did not expect is Hu Guangyong, who serves as the deputy minister of the Ministry of Finance and is also the president of Yangtze River Bank, responsible for the financial affairs of the branch.
The Intelligence Department, upgraded from the original Intelligence Department, still has Ji Mingshan as the minister, Zheng Jian as the deputy minister and director of the Operations Bureau, and Zhou Hongying as the deputy minister and director of the Field Service Bureau. The Operations Bureau is responsible for the execution of tasks, and the Field Service Bureau is responsible for the management of various locations.
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In addition, there are the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Police General Administration, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Water Resources, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education...
With the strengthening of the functions of the local coordination offices, it is no longer appropriate to continue to use this name. Therefore, Dong Shuheng changed the local coordination offices to local military governments at all levels. His goal was to bring all places under the influence of the Huaihai Navy into the military
Government jurisdiction, overriding the original prefecture and county structure of the Qing court.
The main task of the military government in the fourth quarter is to establish the military government in southern Jiangsu. Since southern Jiangsu was a tax-rich area in the past, the Qing court favored it, so it was not easy to achieve the same goal as northern Jiangsu.