During the few days Lin Boshen stayed in Huai'an, Yuan Su talked with him for several hours almost every day about the Qinxue Bride.
Seeing that the time to return to Luanzhou is getting closer and closer, Yuan Su and Lin Boxhen are talking more and more. The cooperation plan has evolved from outline to plan, from plan to details, and from details to various business plans.
It is said that it has broken through the limitations of empty talk and will soon start implementing it.
The end of July happened to be the last step for Yuan Su and Lin Boxen to discuss cooperation. During this period, both parties not only went all out in planning and preparation, but also constantly contacted their connections in Luanzhou and Shanghai, and worked hard to achieve cooperation.
.Many aspects of planning are basically in place, leaving only the final decision.
In Yuan Su's expected cooperation framework with Lin Boxen, he wanted to use Lin Boxen to establish his own distribution points in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to expand the sales channels of various commodities in Luanzhou. Lin Boxen also hoped to use Yuan Su's relationship to introduce southern commodities
Northern Market. Of course, this is just a basic cooperation project.
After a period of discussion, the two decided to first establish a comprehensive trading company in Shanghai. Based on this comprehensive trading company, they will reach the most sustainable cooperation project, making interoperability between North and South. The comprehensive trading company is tentatively named "
"Suren Weiye Trading Company" operates two major categories: logistics and transportation and cargo warehousing.
Yuan Su invested 50,000 yuan in the name of Suye Company, and Lin Boxen invested 80,000 yuan in his personal name.
The money was remitted to the account on July 30th. As for arranging the establishment and operation of the company in Shanghai, it was all left to Lin Boxen. Lin Boxen is expected to return to Shanghai on July 5th, and then work with
My father and other familiar businessmen are making final arrangements to open the company as soon as mid-August.
In addition to establishing north-south trade connections and convenient transportation channels, Yuan Su's other idea is to continue to expand regional cooperation in China's financial industry on the basis of north-south trade connections.
He also discussed with Lin Boshen about the idea of introducing "Northern Bank" into the southern financial market. The banking industry absorbs people's money, and most of the profits earned go into his own pocket. In such an uneven and troubled time,
It is definitely a safe strategy. Although the "Northern Bank" is a government-run bank, when it enters the southern financial market, it can be transformed into a purely commercial bank through a joint venture.
Lin Boxhen's uncle happened to be the boss of "Yellow River Bank". Nowadays, local banks in Shanghai are being run on by large domestic and foreign banks, and their situation is getting worse day by day. "Yellow River Bank" can be regarded as a time-honored brand, so it can barely survive to this day. As for
Most of the countless other small banks have closed down long ago.
This time "Northern Bank" enters Shanghai with the help of "Yellow River Bank", which can not only save a lot of preliminary preparations, but also help "Yellow River Bank" change its face and reverse the current predicament. It is really a win-win cooperation.
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However, this matter ultimately needs to be considered in the long term. On the one hand, Northern Bank has just been established and its strength is very limited. On the other hand, Shanghai, as the international financial center of the Far East, has complex powers. It takes some time to understand it carefully.
Know the ropes. Therefore, this plan is put on the discussion stage for the time being. After a while, Lin Boxhen will ask his uncle to send a commissioner to Luanzhou to negotiate with Yuan Su in detail.
In addition, Yuan Su also proposed the concept of modern industrial development to Lin Boxen. The reason why Western countries have strong ships and powerful artillery is that they rely on the rapid development of the industrial revolution. If China wants to enrich the country and strengthen its army, industry must be indispensable.
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It is a pity that China has been an agricultural country for thousands of years. Although it has undergone partial development through the modern Westernization Movement, it is still a drop in the bucket, and the Westernization Movement has always been carried out under restrictions.
However, developing industry is not an easy task. Whether it is raw materials, technology, equipment, operating experience, etc., on the one hand it requires long-term accumulation and precipitation, on the other hand it also requires large-scale investment and consumption. In a nutshell
, only a strong economy can support a strong industry.
Even though Yuan Su has some achievements and industries now, and Lin Boxhen has been doing business for generations, the strength of the two of them alone is still far from enough to promote the industrial development of a country.
At this point, both Yuan Su and Lin Boxhen were self-aware, so when they discussed this issue, they did not talk too much and be too ambitious, but discussed more realistically how to develop step by step from regional industries. The two went through
After some discussion, a decent industrial development plan was formulated.
With the current economic strength, the best way is to first cooperate with government-run industrial companies. Use "Suren Weiye Company" to introduce advanced foreign equipment, and then sell these equipment to capable large companies, such as Hanyang Steel Plant.
Tianjin Shipbuilding Factory obtains some of the most basic profits from it.
After accumulating its own strength, the second step is to start some light industry companies. For example, establish a modern mining field, inland river ferry manufacturing plant, ship maintenance and inspection plant, etc. in Huai'an. Then at the grassroots level of these light industries, or
Financing, or joint ventures, and then opening some operating companies around the railway, responsible for maintaining the rails and manufacturing trains. By this stage, it is basically slowly entering the field of modern manufacturing industry.
However, the above two steps alone are enough to consume a lot of manpower and material resources, and a conservative estimate will take anywhere from five to ten years. The variable in this depends on the foreign policy towards China and whether it can find real support for China's industrial modernization.
Western countries. Of course, there is no free lunch in the world. If Western countries want to support China, they will naturally seek other benefits from it.
In addition to his personal efforts, Yuan Su will also make use of his current status and his increasingly powerful real power status in the future. In his dealings with foreign forces and the Beiyang government, he will definitely do his best to contribute to the development of China's modern industrialization.
Advance. He believed that based on his uncle Yuan Shikai's insight, he could not fail to see the importance of industry in a country. As long as the central government received strong support, it would certainly be able to accelerate the pace of industrial development.
Yuan Su and Lin Boxen agreed that after the establishment of "Suren Weiye Company", the next step is to start the construction of light industry in Huai'an. Since Yuan Su is now the actual controller of Huai'an, all the salt produced in Huai'an belongs to him.
At that time, a batch of advanced salt mine excavation, analysis, and production-related machinery will be introduced, and a modern salt farm will be built first.
In order to prepare for business cooperation, Yuan Su even postponed his return to Luanzhou. It was not until after seeing off Lin Boxen on August 5 that he led the third group on the road according to the pre-planned itinerary.
It was four days after they arrived in Luanzhou. The Second Regiment and the First Regiment arrived in Luanzhou two days earlier than Yuan Su, and had already returned to their respective headquarters. As soon as they returned to the brigade headquarters compound, Yuan Su immediately held a meeting
After a simple military meeting, Zhao Shanhe of the first regiment was stationed in Huai'an as the security headquarters. Naturally, another candidate had to be appointed for the position of regiment leader.
After much discussion, it was finally decided to promote Sun Lianzhong, commander of the third battalion of the first regiment, to acting commander.
This decision is indeed somewhat difficult. After all, Sun Lianzhong's qualifications as battalion commander are too low, and he was reluctantly promoted to the position of battalion commander before. But Yuan Su's top priority is not personal qualifications, or even ability.
Problems are only put aside. Speaking of myself, as the governor of Shanhaiguan, he is already unconvincing.
Now that the territory has expanded, and there is a big gap in distance, it is because of this that it is more necessary to strengthen management and centralization. Therefore, when it comes to selecting his subordinates, Yuan Su prefers people he can trust. Furthermore, Sun Lianzhong has a long history.
If you have some reputation, as long as you cultivate and exercise it, you will definitely have more room for development.
In addition to appointing the head of the first regiment, the vacancies at the East Zhili Militia Headquarters were also adjusted. Ge Jinzhang was temporarily appointed as the acting commander-in-chief, and Gao Shun replaced Ge Jinzhang as the commander-in-chief of the Luanzhou Militia Headquarters.
As for the first and second regiments being separated to form the Huai'an and Huaibei armies, the missing part of the establishment must be replenished immediately. Fortunately, the first mixed brigade is not without any reserve troops, including the fact that each regiment already has sufficient or even
The excessive number of handymen also includes militia units trained by local militia headquarters.
Yuan Su requested that supplementary troops be selected from among the logistics personnel. These logistics personnel had undergone certain training when they entered the camp and were familiar with various situations in the camp. The most important thing was that there were originally a lot of logistics personnel, so they could just do the job.
Streamline the military as a whole.
As for the battalion commanders and company commanders of the first and second regiments who were vacant, they were all transferred from the battalion school as soon as possible.
At the same time, following the example of the Huaibei Garrison Command, a training team was established with the Central First Brigade Headquarters as the core. This is a solution to the serious shortage of non-commissioned officers and officers after the large-scale expansion of the First Brigade. The training team
The scale of the battalion is temporarily set to one battalion, with a full complement of 400 people. The battalion headquarters has established a training office as a specialized institution for training grassroots non-commissioned officers and officers. The three companies under its command are the special agent company, the machine gun company, and the guard company.
The teaching team also has the responsibilities of the guard battalion and is fully responsible for the security of the brigade headquarters compound. It is also Yuan Su's personal issue. Because of the special functions of the teaching team, Yuan Su requested to transfer the most elite soldiers from his three regiments.
A teaching team was formed, with Du Yu as its commander.
Once the training team is established, the First Battalion originally stationed in the brigade headquarters compound will be transferred to the camp in the north of the city.