Since the Wuchang Uprising, the world has been unstable and chaotic. The factories and mines owned by Lin Shuo in the south of the Yangtze River have also suffered considerable losses. When the Hanyang Iron Works fought against the Beiyang Army, both blast furnaces were destroyed by artillery fire. Count on the Brexit War.
It has been less than two years since the war began. We must speed up economic construction. Development is the last word. This is absolutely true. If we don't develop industry quickly, we will not catch up with the opportunity to make money.
As the Baojin Steel Plant in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province is about to start construction, there are four domestic steel companies that are recovering and have already put into production: Hanyang, Wuhu, Xuanhua and Taiyuan. The steel plants that have started to be built are Xinyu and Baotou. These steel plants are all related to
Lin Shuo has an inseparable relationship. The capital structures of these steel plants under the capital control of Lin Group are different: Hanyang Iron Plant has 30% state-owned capital and 20% Hubei gentry capital. Wuhu Iron Plant has about 30%
Jiangsu and Zhejiang gentry and merchant capital, 10% of local gentry and merchant capital, and 10% of bureaucratic capital (mainly the stocks Lin Shuo gave to Yuan Shikai, Duan Fang, Zhu Jiabao and other Beiyang bureaucrats). Xuanhua Iron and Steel Plant has 30% of gentry and merchant capital
, 30% of the bureaucratic capital (the shareholders are mostly compradors and big businessmen in Tianjin, and most officials of the Beiyang government hold its stocks). Most of the shareholders of Taiyuan Baojin Company are Shanxi merchants, holding nearly 60% of the company's shares
Lin Shuo relies on these huge capital groups to maintain good cooperative relations with various domestic forces.
The package of industrial revitalization plans proposed by Lin Shuo is somewhat similar to the First Five-Year National Economic Development Plan formulated in the early days of New China in another time and space, but its scale is much smaller, but it was enough to cause a great sensation in the early years of the Republic of China. According to the plan
, this package of industrial investment projects is mainly based on the six steel bases of Hanyang, Wuhu, Taiyuan, Xuanhua, Xinyu and Baotou and the two major machinery and shipbuilding industry bases of Shanghai and Fuzhou, and is based on 117 key industrial construction projects.
The center focuses on energy, raw materials, steel, electric power, machinery manufacturing and chemical industries, and has established a complete set of modern preliminary industrial systems in the country around these projects.
It is difficult to complete such a large-scale basic industrial construction in a short period of time just by attracting domestic investment. Fortunately, the Western powers are now plagued by the economic crisis and are eager to export capital and open up new markets.
If you control these industrial projects, you will control China's economic lifeline.
After negotiations, Lin Shuo first signed a total of 250 million marks (120 million marks) with Dehua Bank using the Fujian Railway, Xinyu Steel Plant, Sanming Steel Plant, Luoyuan Wharf and Shipyard and Haimen Shipyard as collateral as collateral.
3 million silver dollars) for the construction of steel plants, docks, shipyards and affiliated machinery plants and power plants.
Luoyuan Shipyard was founded in 1908. By the early years of the Republic of China, it had gradually formed a scale. When the shipyard and Luoyuan Wharf were built, they had borrowed money and cooperated with the Germans.
Due to the natural conditions of Mawei, the future development of the shipyard is greatly restricted. In the long run, Lin Shuo has targeted the construction of shipyards at the seaside. The coastline of Fujian is complex and winding, surrounded by excellent harbors. It can be said that the coast of Fujian
It is the coast with the most natural harbors in the world.
Luoyuan Bay, less than 50 kilometers north of the mouth of the Minjiang River, and Sanduao further north are both natural deep-water harbors.
The closed water area of Sanduao exceeds 700 square kilometers, but various countries are entangled there, and they all want to swallow this piece of fat. The Italians first proposed to the Qing government to rent Sanduao by force, and threatened to use force. Fortunately,
After comparing the naval strength of the two countries, Ye Zugui, the commander of the navy at the time, wrote to the imperial court that the Qing Dynasty Navy could fight with the Italian Navy, but the Italians failed. This was the only time the Qing Navy did anything to save face for the Qing Dynasty.
Later, after the Germans forcibly leased Jiaozhou Bay, they asked the Qing government to lease Sanduao to Germany. Since the Japanese regarded Fujian as their sphere of influence, the Americans also wanted to lease Sanduao as a naval base.
The Qing government had no choice but to declare Sanduao "open to the outside world" in 1898.
Lin Shuo turned his attention to Luoyuan Bay for the expansion of Mawei Shipyard.
At that time, Lin Shuo included the plan to open a new port and build a new shipyard in Luoyuan Bay in his report on the conversion of Mawei Shipyard to a commercial operation. After receiving the money from Lin Shuo, Prince Qing, who controlled the government, approved it.
Just four words: "According to the approval."
The "Luoyuan Port and Shipyard Construction Plan" is a huge industrial and commercial plan with a total investment of more than 40 million taels of silver. It is expected to be initially completed within five years, which was equivalent to a quarter of the Qing Dynasty's annual income at the time.
Countries took action after hearing the news, but Lin Shuo finally gave all the contracts to the Germans. Germany's largest supplier of machinery and weapons in China, Lihe & Co., joined forces with Deutsche Bank to provide Luoyuan Port and shipyard with 86 million marks equivalent to 20 million.
An unsecured commercial loan of two silver dollars, this contract has been re-guaranteed by the German government.
At first, Lin Shuo was afraid that the Qing government would intervene in his "traitorous" behavior, but in the end there was no turmoil at all. After thinking about it, he was relieved. In the original history, Sheng Xuanhuai sold the entire Daye Iron Mine to Japan with a mortgage.
Is there nothing wrong with people? In this era, the imperialist countries accumulated a large amount of surplus capital and were eager to export it overseas. Sometimes they even resorted to force to provide railway loans to the Qing government. This is not like the introduction of railways in later generations.
When foreign investment occurs, a portion of the rebate will be given to the middleman.
Like the "Luoyuan Terminal and Shipyard Loan Contract", the Germans gave preferential conditions of 5% annual interest, 95% discount, and repayment in twenty years, just to obtain steel plants, mines, machinery plants, ports and
The shipyard construction project and all machinery and equipment supply orders. The contract still stipulates that this loan will only be used to pay for the construction project, and the purchase of machinery and equipment from Germany will not be less than 45% of the total loan amount.
Originally, Lin Shuo preferred German machinery, not only because of the precision workmanship, but also because the Germans use the international standard measurement system. Compared with the British standard used in mechanical processing in countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States, he is more accustomed to international standards. Otherwise
I saw 1 and 4/5 feet on the drawing all day long, and I had to think about it again.
He would feel awkward about how many centimeters it is. Lin Shuo has been forcing the use of international standard measurement units in his factory. The Shanghai Measuring Tool Factory he owns is also famous for producing international standard measuring tools, meters, decimeters, centimeters, millimeters,
Silk meters, grams, kilograms, metric tons, these things are gradually accepted by people and become habits.
The most important thing is that the loan and repayment amounts in the contract were settled in Reichsmarks. I started repaying in 1913. The European War broke out in 1914, and the repayments were temporarily suspended. After the war, the German mark depreciated significantly, and I actually paid
The amount may be less than one third of the actual loan total.
At first, Lin Shuo was afraid that the Qing government would intervene in his "traitorous" behavior, but in the end there was no turmoil at all. After thinking about it, he was relieved. In the original history, Sheng Xuanhuai sold the entire Daye Iron Mine to Japan with a mortgage.
Is there nothing wrong with people? In this era, the imperialist countries accumulated a large amount of surplus capital and were eager to export it overseas. Sometimes they even resorted to force to provide railway loans to the Qing government. This is not like the introduction of railways in later generations.
When foreign investment occurs, a portion of the rebate will be given to the middleman.
After Yuan Shikai took office as the president, he established the "Ordnance Factory Command Office" in the Presidential Palace to unify domestic military production. Admiral Sa Zhenbing was appointed to supervise the command office, preparing to gradually take control of domestic military production.
Since the three major domestic arsenals in Jiangnan, Jinling, and Hanyang are all under the control of the southern civilian army, Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army only controls one Dexian arsenal. If the situation in the south changes, the Beiyang Army's arms supply will become a big problem.
So he decided to build a large arsenal in his hometown in Henan to ensure the supply of weapons to the Beiyang Army, and appointed Jiang Tingzi, director of the First Ordnance Manufacturing Institute of the Ordnance Department of the Ministry of War, as the director of the preparation department.
Different from another time and space, under Lin Shuo's suggestion, Sa Zhenbing and Jiang Tingzi decided to choose the site of the arsenal in Anyang, which is rich in coal and iron, and planned to open an iron smelting plant in Anyang with an annual output of 100,000 tons of steel.
In order to ensure the supply of raw materials for the military factory. Now the Beiyang government will definitely not be able to come up with the money. According to the plan, the total investment of Anyang military factory is 12 million silver dollars, and the investment in setting up a steel plant will also require about 12 million silver dollars.
In the end, Yuan Shikai agreed to use the mining rights in Anyang as collateral to borrow 40 million marks from the German Lihe Company. At the same time, all the machinery and equipment for the Anyang arsenal and steel plant were ordered from the German Lihe Company.
In the early years of the Republic of China, the cabinet kept changing like a revolving door. In less than a year, three prime ministers changed. It was not until Yuan Shikai's confidant Zhao Bingjun became prime minister that things finally stabilized.
On the one hand, Lin Shuo had to take care of the war in Mengdi and on the other hand, he was planning to resume industry and commerce, and had no time to deal with the political situation in Beijing. After entering winter, due to the heavy snowfall, the war in Mengdi gradually calmed down, and he had to prepare the next battle plan.