Beiyang reactionaries

"He hopes that there will be a truce between General Cao Kun and General Duan Xun, and that the fighting will not continue."

Duan Xun shrugged.

Then he said: "George, you also know that I am a member of Premier Duan, and now they are forcing Premier Duan to step down and set up a cabinet. If I negotiate peace with them immediately, no matter how people in the world look at me, they will think that I am an ungrateful person." And President Xu Shichang resumed Zhao Ti and Wang Zhanyuan's duties as Governor of Henan and Hubei, and asked me to give up Henan and Hubei. Do you think I can agree? Even if I can agree, can the soldiers who died on the battlefield agree? To be honest, I don’t want to fight, but I’m also in a difficult situation right now.”

"General Duan, you really..."

George Swire and Edward Dowood looked at each other.

The two of them had a lot of contact with Duan Xun.This seemingly carefree warlord seems to only care about making money and raising an army.But after really dealing with Duan Xun, both of them privately thought that Duan Xun was a very scary person.

And he is an unpredictable person.

Sometimes stingy, sometimes generous, sometimes stubborn.

Duan Xun was able to give up those very profitable businesses casually, and cooperated with British businessmen, Japanese businessmen, and domestic businessmen to make money with everyone.Those businessmen who can cooperate with Duan Xun are very happy, thinking that this is a free business.It looks stupid, but when you think about it carefully, it is actually Duan Xun who benefits the most.

Because many profitable transactions are indeed very profitable, and they are very profitable industries.But Duan Xun will not have the funds to develop those profitable businesses for a while, so he is very generous in giving up these businesses and cooperating with other people.During this process, Duan Xun was almost an empty-handed white wolf.Others took out funds and technology, but Duan Xun had only one mouth left, but in the end he shared a large amount of profits.

Including the Sichuan native product processing factory and sugar factory established last year, what Duan Xun actually paid for.Apart from taking out a piece of land, a factory building, approval, and guaranteeing the supply of raw materials, there is nothing else.But to put it bluntly, it includes the factory building, as well as raw materials and supply of electricity and water, all of which need to be bought by the company at its own expense, so there is no such thing as free.Duan Xun actually just took out a piece of land and approval.But it occupies about 40.00% of the shares.

There are also export rights to Japanese merchants for tung oil and bristles.

Japanese businessmen are very shrewd, and they have a good grasp of prices in the international market.Their control of tung oil and bristles in Sichuan is equivalent to controlling [-] to [-]% of the tung oil and bristles in the international market.

So they can manipulate prices in the international market.

Duan Xun only increased the price by 50.00%. After Japan bought these from Duan Xun, it raised the price by more than five times in the international market.Because the current international market still has great demand for these products.

Total profiteering.

Did Duan Xun suffer?

Think more.

Duan Xun also raised the export price of tung oil and bristles, and because of the formalization of these trades, he was able to collect a large amount of taxes.Not only that, the smuggling of tung oil and bristles in Sichuan is very serious at present.

Duan Xun's people can catch many smugglers in this area every day.

However, the smuggling situation is still repeated.

There are rumors that Duan Xun himself organized people to smuggle these things.In fact, Edward Dowood is very clear about this aspect.Because since the prices of tung oil and bristles in the international market have doubled, Duan Xun has been quietly smuggling these things for a long time.

And who is it that cooperates with Duan Xun?

That's Edward Dowood.Duan Xun sold it to Edward Dowood at twice the price he sold to Japan now, and Edward Dowood sold it to Japan at three times the price as soon as he changed hands.

Duan Xun's profit in the middle is astonishing.

Don't the Japanese know?

clear.

It's just that Duan Xun didn't do too much.70.00% of Sichuan's tung oil and pig bristles still fell into the hands of Japanese businessmen, so they turned a blind eye and didn't want to fall out with Duan Xun.

Duan Xun looked like a greedy businessman at this time.

But some things are so persistent.

Like a steel factory.

Duan Xun borrowed money to build a steel plant, borrowing 3000 million from Japan alone, and signed a lot of "unequal treaties".In fact, many people advised Duan Xun not to build a steel plant, because it was useless and he would not be able to make money in a short period of time.

But Duan Xun insisted on going his own way.

It's elusive anyway.

"General Duan, that's it. If you have any ideas, just tell us, and we will pass them on to Sir Zhu Erdian."

"Row."

Duan Xun nodded.

The two of them came here just to be a microphone.They came here today, in fact, they came to find out about Duan Xun's background, and see how Duan Xun can stop the trouble.

"Revoke the order to restore Zhao Ti's Henan Governor and Wang Zhanyuan's Hubei Governor, and ensure that the positions of Zhejiang Governor Lu Yongxiang, Fujian Governor Li Houji, Anhui Governor Ni Sichong, Gansu Governor Zhang Guangjian, and Songhu Guard Envoy He Fenglin will remain unchanged. My biggest dream is to become a general guarding the frontier like Wei Qing and Huo Qubing. Therefore, I hope that the Beijing government will appoint me as the supervisor of border defense, with jurisdiction over the nine provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Tibet, Hunan, Guangxi, Hubei, Shaanxi and Henan. At the same time, I will be appointed as the director of the Mongolian and Tibetan Committee, responsible for The daily work of the Mongolian and Tibetan Committee.”

George Swire scratched his head.

He understood some of what Duan Xun said, but didn't understand some of it.But even if I didn't understand some of it, I understood the general meaning.Duan Xun meant that what was swallowed up now would never be spit out, and he also asked the Beijing government not to remove those warlords from the Anhui faction.

This requires some….

But they just came here to pass on a message, so it's hard to say anything.So George Swire nodded and said: "General Duan, we will truthfully report your request to Sir Zhu Erdian, and he will discuss it with General Cao Kun and the others."

"it is good."

"Then we..."

"Don't worry. George, I have a big project I want to cooperate with you. I don't know if you are interested."

"General Duan, please speak."

"I am going to build a large shipyard in Wuchang. But you also know that I am short of money and technology. In this regard, your Swire Group has strengths. You have funds, technology, and experience. I want to cooperate with you. What do you think? ?”

George Swire frowned instantly.

Then he said with some concern: "General Duan, you should know that Britain, France, the United States, Japan and Italy have signed an arms embargo treaty against China. The arms embargo includes not only direct arms, but also things related to arms production. Warships are also prohibited. I still dare not break this prohibition."

George Swire's Swire Pacific is strong, but he still dare not offend the big countries such as Britain, France, the United States, Japan and Italy.

This is the time of the arms embargo.

If you help Duan Xun build a shipyard and finally produce warships, you won't be able to wash yourself off by jumping into the Yellow River.

Duan Xun laughed loudly when he heard George Swire's words, and said: "George, don't worry. I keep my word, and I won't do things like betraying my friends. I won't hide it from you, I really have built myself The idea of ​​warships, but that is not now, nor in recent years. I will never cheat you. The shipyard I cooperate with you only builds passenger ships and freighters, and will never build warships. Even if I build warships, I will start from this After the shipyard learns how to build ships, it will then build a shipyard. I can assure you of this."

Railway and water transportation are currently the most affordable and effective methods in China.

Therefore, Duan Xun needs a large number of ships.In order to adapt to different waters, Duan Xun needs to build ships of different tonnages.For example, in Sichuan, Chongqing can go down [-] tons and [-] tons, and when the water is sufficient, [-] tons can also travel.After arriving in Yibin and going further down, [-] tons is no problem.Even ships with a capacity of [-] tons can travel in Nanjing.

But if Chongqing goes up, only one thousand ton and two thousand ton ships can sail at present.

However, the upper reaches of the Yangtze River are still very rich in resources.Not only the Yangtze River is like this, but many tributaries of the Yangtze River can only take ships with relatively small tonnage.In the current situation, most of these places are driven by wooden boats, and the transportation volume is too low.

Therefore, Duan Xun hopes to set up his own shipyard to build more of these small freighters.Of course, there is also the idea of ​​cultivating one's own shipbuilding industry and shipbuilders.I hope to build a warship for myself in the future and reserve some technology.

But Duan Xun does not have the funds and technology in this area now, so Duan Xun is willing to cooperate with Swire Pacific.