The purpose of the arsenal is to bid for Schneider Assets at a low price through auction. The steel mills and equipment factories of Schneider Company are actually very eye-catching for the arsenal. The most important thing is to get rid of one of its biggest competitors.
At this time, Tang Tingshu came in and told Schneider that the railway company was willing to buy shares in Schneider. He gave a rejection price of 10 million, which was the total investment of Schneider in recent years. If it had been before the war, Schneider would have paid this price as a joke, but now they are burdened with heavy debt, either raising money to lose money or being seized by the government for auction. They know that the arsenal is not an ordinary competitor but a company with deep domestic background.
Competing with this kind of company, Schneider Company has been tired to cope with these years, and now it is at a disadvantage. After discussion by the shareholders of China, they think that accepting the quotation from the big railway company is the most favorable ending. So Tang Tingshu got the most restrictive technical preparation for the railway company in one fell swoop. Schneider Company has trained more than 30,000 skilled workers in recent years, which is the most important thing for Tang Tingshu.
After the consent of the French, he signed a contract with the French quickly and made a lot of additional requirements, mainly requiring Schneider to cooperate with the railway company to stabilize the factory. He asked all French technicians in the railway company to work for less than three years, and the railway company decided to raise their salary level by 10%. If necessary, Schneider must know that the railway company can operate independently after three years of technical support.
By selling its shares, Schneider Company can not only recover its investment, but also avoid its debts. Of course, they are willing to agree to Tang Tingshu’s request.
Tang Tingshu did get the assets he dreamed of, but the problem is that he grabbed the’ fat’ and’ meat’ from the mouth of the arsenal, which is different from pulling out his teeth.
Arsenal is eyeing Schneider, and it’s easy to "force" it into a corner. When it’s about to eat it, Tang Tingshu jumps out. Hao Kejiu, of course, is angry and launches his contacts to put pressure on Tang Tingshu.
Not to be outdone, Tang Tingshu has taken various measures to fight against it.
Schneider company has more than Schneider family shares. When Schneider entered the big additional conditions, half of them were major government F incarnation shares. Arsenal immediately offered the same price to buy shares in the hands of Zheng F incarnation to gain control over Schneider company’s assets. However, Tang Tingshu lobbied Zheng F incarnation to warn that it was unfavorable for the whole national economy to allow this enterprise to become bigger.
Due to the emergence of a large number of monopolistic’ sex’ enterprises in the United States, especially during the sub-economic crisis, monopoly giants such as oil magnates and railway magnates appeared seriously. The anti-monopoly opinion of American citizens is strong. A large number of lawmakers are trying to restrict monopoly in the West through laws, and it is also very beneficial to call Tang Tingshu. These foreign situations have been supported by a large number of officials with international vision in the government. For example, Gou Fugui, the head of the official assets department, insisted that the government should not sell Schneider shares to the arsenal, but lobby that the railway company should compete with the arsenal.
The two consortia are deadlocked and both are eyeing Schneider’s assets, and soon they have a direct conflict.
The railway company’s railway construction industry and railway equipment orders threatened the arsenal, hoping that they would give up plotting Schneider Asset Bank.
Arsenal threatened to raise the price of goods and equipment for the railway company.
The conflict between the two companies soon broke out, and the railway company signed an order with Schneider at a higher price, preferring to import French products rather than arsenal equipment. The arsenal immediately stopped railway engineers from helping the railway company build railways.
The outbreak of the conflict between the two giants immediately attracted public attention. A large number of new newspapers compared with foreign consortia and shouted that the era of big consortia had arrived.
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The commercial war between the railway company and the arsenal caused public opinion, and Zhu Jinglun knew the situation. He didn’t want to interfere, but he suddenly found that both companies had great influence in the political f incarnation and were deadlocked for a while
Human feelings, society, politics and business, combined with business capital, are bound to form an enterprise chaebol. Zhu Jinglun has a clear consciousness. He does not intend to attack Japan, South Korea, Taiwan Province and Hong Kong. This kind of chaebol business may be the most suitable business form for the eastern society. It can be said that Japan and South Korea are industrialized under the condition of chaebol. If Zhu Jinglun can complete industrialization, he will be in charge of chaebol, consortium or personal capital. What if he results?
But from his feelings, he doesn’t like monopoly enterprises, such as state-owned enterprises in later generations, which are too corrupt and infiltrate corruption into politics, which is simply a breeding ground for corruption.
So he was inclined to the railway company. He discussed with Hurd and summoned the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Industry to calm down the conflict between the two industrial giants and let the Ministry come forward to sell Schneider’s official shares to the railway company
It should be said that he is completely partial to the railway company.
Let the railway company have the industrial strength that can compete with the arsenal, and it will no longer be subject to the technological monopoly of the arsenal.
But it will be bad for the arsenal. After they lose the advantage of balancing the railway company, the biggest order for the railway will probably be lost.
Zhu Jinglun’s support for the railway company is certainly not a blow to the arsenal. Frankly speaking, if these two industries can’t talk together, he will definitely choose the arsenal. This is the lifeline industry of the country. Without the railway, it can still be shipped, even if people take care of it, but without the arsenal, a large army can import weapons and equipment from foreign countries and rely on foreign countries.
So Zhu Jinglun also asked the Ministry of Industry to give the arsenal the power to build a railway, and then chartered the arsenal to enter the railway industry. Once the two giants competed, they believed that the construction speed of the big railway would not be so slow, and the benefits brought by monopoly were high profits, low competition, low speed and high price.
I believe that if these two giants compete, the speed of railway construction and transportation prices will be greatly reduced.
However, Zhu Jinglun doesn’t want to make a bold plan for the arsenal. In the long run, it will make the government F incarnation bear the loss of high credibility. Therefore, Zhu Jinglun also suggested that’ private’ people be allowed to invest in railways and introduce a railway construction law to regulate them.
Legal form: the backbone railway must be supported to a certain extent, and the problem of land requisition is necessary. However, the short and medium-distance railway is no longer available, and it is impossible to connect two county railways. The government also runs to help land requisition. Land requisition is a kind of behavior that the government uses public power to infringe on’ private’. Even if this kind of infringement is necessary, it must be cautious and reckless, and infringing on’ private’ interests will inevitably lead to a decline in the credibility of the government.
The credibility of the government is a precious wealth. The more people believe in the government, the more stable it will be, and the more direct it will be. Wealth shows high credibility, lower financing and more funds can be melted into it.
France is an example. The French can subscribe for nine times the reparations for the Franco-Prussian war. In addition to being highly patriotic, the people believe that the government F incarnation will definitely pay them back. This is the root cause. Otherwise, if you ask the French to compensate for the donation, I am afraid it will not be as much as the China squire’s donation. Later generations’ daily debts will reach 100 times the government F incarnation, which is also the embodiment of this credibility because the people believe in the government F incarnation.
It is not cost-effective for small railway companies to restrict the development of public power. Zhu Jinglun suggested that the railway line with a length of 500 kilometers should not cross provinces. According to the law of forced land acquisition, if the railway line with a length of 500 kilometers is really important to the national economy and people’s livelihood, the railway company should apply for the government to make a decision after F incarnation.
Therefore, the arsenal’s road construction is actually a force that the law will put on the people in the future
Arsenal get special treatment is f incarnation before telling them to allow them to layout.
Sure enough, after being informed by the Ministry of Industry, Hao Kejiu decided to build the railway by himself after seeing that there was no chance of reconciliation with the railway company.
In fact, the arsenal and the railway company have long been disgusted with each other in recent years. The former railway company was managing the arsenal. Hao Kejiu regarded the railway income as the arsenal income, but Tang Tingshu didn’t have this innate understanding after he took charge of the railway company. He felt that the arsenal was lying on the railway company, and neither company could leave the other, but once there was a fuse, their end would inevitably happen.
The Ministry of Industry asked the Arsenal to stop the conflict with the railway company and resume the railway construction. At the same time, it also asked the railway company to continue to perform the contract with the Arsenal for three years, and similar incidents should not happen again.
Hao Kejiu got the information from the Ministry of Industry and decided to invest in the railway so as to gain the dominant position. He was willing to build his own railway in the process of reconciliation, and the railway company was willing to resume and expand the production of Schneider factory when it got the official shares. Therefore, he did not want to entangle with the arsenal, so the two sides sat down and signed a settlement agreement.
In fact, there are three years. These three years are the preparation periods for both sides. One or two companies are bound to completely break down the arsenal. To build their own railway body in these three years, the railway company needs to build its own production body in these three years.
Their conflict caused public concern that their reconciliation also resolved public concern, but the war was far from over. Their agreement was not a declaration of armistice, but a declaration of war against the outbreak of a "violent" large-scale war.
After the signing of the settlement agreement, the two sides seem to have resumed their joint decision to perform the previous contract, but the struggle behind it is almost over
Arsenal Ma Xiangzheng f incarnation applied to build his own railway leading to Guangxi. Before the railway leading to Guangxi was monopolized by the railway company, it would have an impact on the railway company’s route. As a result, American railway companies built a large number of parallel railways, which hated each other and competed with each other. Railway construction was nothing but a blackmail, because once the parallel railway was built, the original railway giants were worried that their business would be affected and often had to’ spend’ high prices to buy this parallel line. After they bought it, they did not build it, but pulled it down.
The people’s bank of America has caused a bad influence in the world. Investing in American railways to make profits, British capital has criticized them for holding public opinion and discourse. The world agrees that this kind of parallel railway competition is not good.
Tang Tingshu’s opinion was still supported by many people. Hao Kejiu didn’t expect that he met with obstacles in the first world war. He was not an easy compromise person, so he decided that his railway and railway company had two lines in Guangxi, one leading to Guilin and the other to Nanning. Arsenal decided to build a railway leading to Liuzhou, which happened to be in Guilin and Nanning. He also applied to extend his railway to Guilin and Nanning, which will also restrict the railway company’s lines in the future.
Because it does not constitute competition, the Ministry of Industry approved the application for the arsenal, but the goal of the arsenal can be more than this. After discovering that Tang Tingshu can still restrain himself by public opinion, he worried that with the increase of railway lines, he would have an impact on the railway lines and cause repeated construction.
So Hao Kejiu decided to build three roads in a row, one from Guangzhou to Liuzhou, the Guangdong-Guangxi line, starting from Ning’ bo and passing through Zhejiang, a rich province, and not repeating the Hangzhou-Yong line. He went directly from Ning’ bo to Jinhua, then to Quzhou, then to Jiangxi Rao, then to Nanchang, and then to Changsha.
The railway lines of railway companies are mostly north-south vertical arsenals, and the railway will develop horizontally. However, Hao Kejiu can’t give up the golden line from Guangzhou to the sea, but it can occupy a favorable location before the railway company. Hao Kejiu will find another way. Most of the railway lines will be eaten up by the sea, and Hao Kejiu can take a step back and build a railway from Guangzhou to Huizhou, Heyuan and Jiaying (Meizhou). Third, Nanping, Lishui, Zhejiang and Jinhua will not let the railway company find an excuse. The arsenal railway will not set up a point directly in Hangzhou and Jiaxing.
The ambitious mileage of these three railway plans exceeds 2,000 kilometers, which puts pressure on railway companies, especially the armory Guangzhou-Shanghai Railway. Although it is not close to the port, it has the advantage of going deep into the land. No matter where Jiaying Prefecture is located, Hanjiang Tour or Longyan and Nanping are located at the foot of Wuyishan Mountain, they are all tea producing areas, which will greatly affect the monopoly of railway companies on tea.
So the railway company also decided to build a new line arsenal. Isn’t it necessary to control the tea producing areas? There are more than one industrial producing area. Wuyishan is one of the three largest tea producing areas, and Jiangxi is also one. Isn’t the arsenal developing vertically? The railway company decided to build a railway from Fuzhou to cross Wuyishan and enter Jiangxi.
Starting from Fuzhou, go along Minjiang River to Shaowu in Nanping, then cross Wuyishan vein to enter Fuzhou in Jiangxi, and then go to Nanchang Arsenal. The Ministry of Planning and Industry will not approve the same route, so the railway company will build and repair it from Nanchang to the northwest to Wuning and Xiushui, which are also famous black tea "Ninghong" producing areas, and then cross Xianning to Hankou from Xiushui to the north, which can also prevent the arsenal from expanding to Hankou in this direction, which may further strengthen the railway company’s control over Hankou.
The competition between the two giants, the arsenal and the railway company, has caused the giant war, which has once again attracted public opinion. The major newspapers are scrambling to report it, but this time they have put up with the competition much more because they think this competition is good and can promote the development of the big railway.
But these two companies are not the only ones in the giant war.
Zhejiang Province was incorporated into the national territory relatively late, and the development of land resources in the provinces was relatively late. Therefore, Guangdong capital used to control this place, but the land resources also developed. Moreover, Zhejiang is a rich historical memorial in the south of the Yangtze River, and as soon as their land resources rose, they broke out and fought bloody battles with Guangdong capital.
Hu Xueyan Silk Factory, which escaped from the raw silk market, laid the foundation for the second sprint to the peak and blocked in front of him was the Guangdong-funded giant Xu Rongcun family consortium.
After the economic crisis, Hu Xueyan Silk Factory was successfully run, and soon it developed into an integrated operation of reeling and rewinding. With the help of monopolizing one-third of cocoon raw materials in Jiangnan Township, it quickly developed into one of the best reeling giants, and then expanded from ordinary white silk to top raw silk raw materials, Lihu silk.
Xu Rongcun’s family has been monopolizing the silk in the series, and they are the first to run a special’ door’ to reeling the silk in the series. As early as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the silk factory monopolized the silk in the series, and Rongji silk was well-received in London, finally grabbing the most lucrative profit in the raw silk industry in Jiangnan.
But now Hu Xueyan wants to hand over the resources of Lake Silk in Jili, while Xu Run wants to enter Baise to run two giant industries, and a commercial war is inevitable.
Hu Xueyan is a local tycoon who has recovered his vitality after surviving the robbery. The wealthy silk merchants in Huzhou area can move tens of millions of two-level funds, while the Xu Rongcun family monopolizes the best quality series in Jiangnan in the second generation of Xu Run, and the accumulated capital of Lake Silk is also in the tens of millions.
This commercial war will not be smaller than the railway war.
Both companies are competing for high cocoon purchase price, monopolizing raw materials and reducing raw silk price at the same time, with high market share.
The giant war squeezes small and medium-sized silk reeling factories into trouble, and the raw silk industry in Jiangnan is crying.
The commercial war lasted from the’ spring’ silkworm market to the autumn silkworm market. On the one hand, small and medium-sized silk reeling factories could not collect enough cocoons, on the other hand, they could not produce and sell them. A large number of bankruptcies and bankruptcies occurred, and the raw silk industry in Jiangnan was developing towards monopoly.