Australian Storm 1876

  Chapter 288 Southbound Train (2)

  In-depth development of wool spinning industry?

  Zhu Wei's expression condensed. He has been involved in international import and export trade for many years, knowing that this is a risky decision that may touch the cake of the British, and he is quite sensitive.

  Since the steam industrial revolution

  As the birthplace of the steam industrial revolution, the British Empire took the lead in stepping into the ranks of industrialized countries with the help of the right time and place, and is the only industrialized power in the world today.

  The United States, France, Germany, and Italy are all in the process of industrialization at different levels. The Austro-Hungarian Empire has just started the process of industrialization, and the Ottoman Empire and Tsarist Russia are still in a fully agricultural economy.

  Especially Tsarist Russia is still in the feudal serf era. For more than 80 years from the 19th century to the present, more than 60 years have suffered from severe grain shortages. Domestic hunger and disease are raging, public grievances are raging, and deep class contradictions are hidden.

  Take the railway as an example;

  So far, the British Empire Railway has reached 23,500 kilometers (including the Indian colony and Australia's more than 2,400 kilometers of railway), Germany has 12,000 kilometers, and Tsarist Russia has only 1,500 kilometers. It was built by French loans and dispatched engineers.

  British Empire steam armored warships (including various types of ships) amounted to more than 260, and it is still growing at a rate of more than 50 per year. Tsarist Russia has only 22 small and medium-sized steam armored warships, the difference is not a star and a half.

  After the British Empire entered the industrialized society, the heavy industry was dominated by steel, shipbuilding and machinery manufacturing, and the light industry was dominated by textiles, and the products were sold all over the world.

Among the pillars of the British Empire’s industrial textile industry, the cotton textile industry is dominated, accounting for 93.6% of the textile industry. The raw material supply mainly comes from the Indian subcontinent and the Egyptian colonies. British machine-woven fabrics are even dumped to the Indochina Peninsula and the Far East. The artificial spinning of Manchu and Qing dynasty was beaten to the ground and suffered heavy losses.

  The wool spinning industry does not account for a large proportion of the British textile industry, because the wool that can be produced by the ranches in the British Isles is very limited, mainly imported from Australia.

  Since Australia increased its wool output, the original small-scale ranches in the British Isles declined sharply and switched to producing other agricultural and animal husbandry products to avoid the impact of the strong Australian wool industry.

   Among them, relying on the towering tree of Duke Victor can ensure the smooth entry of Australian wool into the British and European markets without encountering difficulties from farmers and textile industry associations in various countries.

The main exports of Australian woolen mills are combed tops and carded tops. This is a bulk wool export product that can be spun into woolen fabrics, pure wool or blended wool fabrics, woolen scarves, top hats, carpets, and woolen blankets. Cardigans, woolen clothes, woolen socks and other woolen products are widely used and are popular in cold European regions. They are an indispensable hard-core demand.

   Li Fushou said that the deep development of the wool spinning industry is to enter the woolen and wool and blended fabric industries on a large scale, and even enter the wool finished product industry, including the garment industry, which will inevitably touch the interests of a large number of British workers.

  The number of British workers and their families in this industry chain is 100,000. The factory owners, businesses and aristocrats behind them will probably not give up and break the financial resources of these people. Those with vested interests in this industry will inevitably create trouble.

  With the size of the Lord of Queensland, can he hold it?

  Zhu Wei frowned and pondered for a while, and asked cautiously; "The humble job knows its concerns and interests. Is there a proper response plan?"

"Haha... this is okay." Li Fushou waved his hand, and his expression was very confident, which made Zhu Wei immediately relieved and asked with interest; "Since this is the case, can you talk in detail, we are Normandy Import and export companies are also ready to prepare a complete response plan and conduct market research in advance to establish distribution channels."

  "Hongshan Industrial Headquarters is responsible for this matter. Brother Chaoshan will be introduced." Li Fushou simply shied away.

  Li Fushou is only responsible for decision-making on the direction of development, coupled with the elimination of entry barriers created by the British and European upper societies, especially solving the nobles behind the vested interest groups, other things are beyond question.

What kind of factory to build, what kind of products to produce, how to market the products, how to establish sales channels, how to distribute benefits, and other problems encountered in actual operation, will all be specially designated by the Red River Valley Industrial Corporation and Normandy Import and Export Corporation. When contacting, each one is in charge of a stall, and the contract is responsible for the settlement.

This will also involve the funding provided by Huitong Bank, the interstate transportation and distribution of products provided by the Australian 19th Century United Shipping Company, etc. It happens that all the bigwigs are sitting there, and problems can be solved face to face, reducing internal friction and delays. process.

  Hu Chaoshan, manager of the Red River Valley Industrial Headquarters, stood up, first saluted Lord Earl, and then made a round to all the big guys present, and said with a smile;

  "This time, Lord Earl made a strategic decision to hand over the burden of entering the wool deep processing industry to our Red River Valley Industrial Corporation. We deeply feel the responsibility and will be led by me to form a special team to study and implement.

  After extensive research

  Red River Valley Industrial Corporation is preparing to take the lead in establishing two wool deep processing industrial bases. Because of the large amount of power supply involved, one is located in Songjiang Town, mainly hydropower, and the other is located in Beilun Town, mainly thermal power.

Each wool deep processing industrial base includes woolen fabric factories, weaving factories, dyeing and finishing factories, carpet factories, socks factories (including gloves, scarves, hats and other products), garment factories, sweater factories, leather factories, etc. , To comprehensively enrich our export product categories and form the advantage of the entire industry chain.

The first wool deep processing base to be built is located in Songjiang. It has entered the stage of large-scale plant construction. The relevant production equipment is fully imported from Europe. It is expected that some of the equipment will be reached in the near future. Starting from the woolen factory and the weaving factory, one will be built and one will be put into production. , Hire high-paying professors and apprentices from European skilled technicians to reach industrial production scale as soon as possible.

According to the plan

  The Songjiang Wool Industry Base has an investment of approximately 870,000 pounds, and will build 17 factories one after another, absorbing more than 23,000 workers, and will rapidly increase production capacity as the market expands.

  After the Songjiang base can accommodate 100,000 industrial workers, we will officially start the construction of the Beilun base to digest the huge amount of wool products in the southern states.

  Of course, this premise is to fully digest one's own primary wool products-combed tops and carded tops.

  The earliest weaving factory of the Songjiang base factory will be put into operation in November, and other factories will be put into operation from the end of the year to the beginning of next year, forming a complete product category.

  Product sales in Australia and Southeast Asia will be distributed through the Carrefour department store channel under the Red River Valley Industrial Corporation. The Far East and European and American markets have only the full agency of Normandy and Higgins.

  In addition, in terms of capital and product transportation, I would like to ask the general manager of Huitong Bank Kestra and the manager of 19th Century United Shipping Company Jia Donghe for more help. I am grateful here. "

"Brother Chaoshan can rest assured that our fleet capacity is growing rapidly every year to ensure that your products and distribution are no problem. The 19th Century United Shipping Company will arrange a special team to station in the Songjiang base to be responsible for product outbound and distribution related matters. The docking transportation from the factory to the port will be handled later." Jia Donghe replied very heartily.

   "Thank you, brother Donghe, in the future, we brothers will get closer and closer." Hu Chaoshan replied with a smile.

  Zhu Wei's answer was also very refreshing. He said after a little consideration; “Wool deep processing products are an unfamiliar field that we have not touched before. It is necessary to establish relevant sales channels and distributor systems in various countries. The workload is not small.

  After returning this time, I will select a good soldier and a strong general to lead the matter.

  There should be no problem with the Far East market, especially in the northern part of the Manchuria, North Korea has a large demand for wool deep-processed products, but it does not have the corresponding production capacity, and it is a completely blank market waiting to be opened up.

  However, due to the shortage of silver in the Far East market, barter trade is more likely to be adopted, such as tea, porcelain, lacquerware, silk, handicrafts and bristles and tung oil and other specialties. The specifics need to be studied and implemented.

  The North American market is mainly represented by Higgins. We believe that our products are unparalleled in competitiveness. Our company also has certain channels for sale in North America, so I think it is not a big problem.

  The most difficult part is the European region. Europe is the world's largest wool product market today, and it also involves many industrial workers. In addition to the United Kingdom, France and Italy are all regions with highly developed textile industries, with strong trade unions.

  This aspect can only be done slowly, not too hastily.

  I will call the European manager, Mr. Zheng Canghai. He is now in Paris and Munich, Germany for a long time, and has a good understanding of the local business situation. It is more appropriate to entrust him to handle this matter. "

   "Thank you, thank you, brother Zhu Wei for your help." Hu Chaoshan was overwhelmed with joy.

  Solved the sales problem, Red River Valley Industrial Corporation can get rid of its arms and do a big job, but the current self-owned funds are insufficient, and the assistance of Huitong Bank is still needed.

For the Songjiang Base project, the Earl’s Neiku only allocated £250,000, and the Red River Valley Industrial Corporation has a lot of places to spend a lot of money. Only £300,000 can be collected for special construction funds, which is 32 short of the investment of £870,000. Ten thousand pounds, this huge sum of money can only ask Huitong Bank for help.

The construction of the Songjiang base requires 820,000 pounds. This is just a budget. In fact, the money spent must be much more than this. In addition, the labor cost of hiring European and American technicians and large-scale recruitment is also required. A minimum loan of 650,000 to 700,000 pounds is required. In order to put the whole project into operation.

  This huge funding gap, I am afraid that only Huitong Bank will be able to take it out without panting, and other banks are useless.

The 19th Century Shipping Company and Normandy Import and Export Company expressed their positive attitudes and fully assisted the Red River Valley Industrial Corporation in completing its plan to enter the wool deep processing industry, enriching product categories, improving efficiency, opening up new sources of financial resources, and focusing on core industries to continuously improve the value chain. It is a very reliable development plan.

  Kestner, general manager of Huitong Bank, sat silently in his seat, with a gloomy face that dripped water. Now all companies that want to borrow money are his enemies, and Huitong Bank has no money!

  Why does Huitong Bank have no money?

  Lord Earl’s military expenditures are staggering. The so-called killing of a thousand enemies will cause damage to 800, and the recent death and disability pensions of more than 6,000 people, plus huge medical expenses, nursing fees and other expenses, the total expenditure has reached a million pounds.

  Originally, it was planned to build a rear guard dragoon division, a guard tiger cavalry division, and two cavalry divisions with a total of 13,000 personnel.

  What is the situation now?

The Shangri-La Division alone has an astonishing size of 13,000. Coupled with the newly expanded Kalimantan First and Second Divisions, this is 26,000. Two new divisions with 13,000 personnel have been added in Australia, and the Army alone has reached 53,000 personnel. It’s huge, and there is a navy that spends money like flowing water. So many soldiers need to eat, drink, equip, pay for the army, and fight. The white money bills are like the collapse of the aortic blood vessel, and the blood flow is stopped. Can't help.

  Doesn’t the bullets go out without money? Don’t you need money for shells? Eating and drinking Lazarus wanted money because of the death and disability. The Lord Earl suddenly assembled the strength of 5 divisions and the navy that spent money like water. The account has already lost more than 4.3 million pounds.

  This is only mid-August, and 3 and a half months have passed since 1882!

  The purchase price of wool has soared since the shearing season in May, and a single season has brought in excess income of millions of pounds. The problem is that this money is still close to filling the previous deficit, and it is impossible to immediately use it to fill the big hole in military spending.

  No matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education, and no matter how hard you are, you can't be poor in the army.

  So, Li Fushou’s method is to take money from Huitong Bank, and use it first.

  "Mr. Kestner, look at our funding gap..."

   "No money."

   "Uh...this is the direction of the industry that Mr. Piaget attaches great importance to. Several of our companies have worked hard and are ready to do a big job. We can't do things without money. Can Huitong Bank squeeze some..."

   "No, I said that money is very tight now. I can only see if I can squeeze out a little next year. I will definitely have no money this year."

"This...Mr. Kestner, we have to send the arrow on the bow. The early Earl's internal bank funds and our own funds are used for large-scale engineering infrastructure and construction, except for ordering factory equipment in Europe. For the factory, dock and warehouse facilities, funding will be cut off by September, and you must be rescued. If you don’t have 700,000 pounds, you can settle for 200,000 pounds first. At least let the construction and personnel. Recruitment will not stop, and we can find ways to raise funds from the society for the later purchase of raw materials..."

Everyone’s eyes were on Mr. Kestner’s face, but the gray-haired old guy clenched his teeth and did not let go. Li Fushou secretly gave him a wink that was useless. Definitely an iron cock.

  See this scene

Li Fushou is also gone. Some time ago, it was forced to loan more than 2 million pounds from Huitong Bank for large-scale military operations in Shangri-La and Borneo, as well as material reserves and personnel transfers, as well as the expansion of the army. General Manager Turner is **** off.

  Without sufficient financial support, the battle of Shangri-La Island will not be fought so smoothly, and the army will not be so strong. The immediate death and disability pension and huge rewards are issued to motivate all soldiers. The result is a big financial hole.

  This is no way

The reorganization of the two divisions of   Borneo is in full swing. Recently, tens of thousands of militiamen have been sent to Samarinda, Balikpapan and other places to arm more than 20,000 soldiers. All this requires abundant financial support.

  What battles without money?

  (End of this chapter)