The journey starts from the Titanic

Situ Nan smiled lightly and said to Zhang Jingjiang.

"Well, I also heard. On the Nanhua side, it is indeed easier to let go of their hands and feet, and there is not much historical baggage." Zhang Jingjiang nodded and thought.

The reason why Meihua is more open in South China is because the Chinese have a strong position in South China, and the local indigenous people are in a weak position. The South China Zhi Gong Party will not take the feelings of the indigenous people too much into consideration.

Of course, the more important reason is that Situ Nan designed an ingenious development path for Nanhua, making Nanhua's development relatively high.

"Except for the port, doesn't Zhang Lao make the Wusong Railway too stingy?" Situ Nan asked again.

"stingy?"

Zhang Jingjiang wondered, how should we understand the word stingy?

He tried his best to follow Situ Nan’s thinking, knowing that Situ Nan was testing him, he thought for a while, he was about to become the China Railway Company, in charge of all the railways in the southern region, naturally including the Wusong Railway. The railway company would naturally take some actions to cooperate with Shanghai. Construction plan.

The Wusong Railway is China's first railway, built by the British, connecting Shanghai Concession and Wusongkou. For this railway, Chinese (Qing court) and foreigners have had many ridiculous stories.

Zhang Jingjiang suddenly came up with a bold idea: "Build a deep-water port at the mouth of the Yangtze River to connect the port and the railway? Even if you don't take the Yangtze River channel, can you realize the flow of goods between the mainland and foreign countries through the railway?"

After speaking, he glanced at Situ Nan and immediately saw a smile in Situ Nan's eyes.

"That's right. Not only the southern railway combined transport, but also the land and sea joint operation, but also what I think."

Situ South Road.

It is necessary to transform the Wusong Railway. The railway is not long and the project is not large. The largest investment is to build a deep-water port at the mouth of the Yangtze River.

"Meihua's stall is a bit big, will it be beyond its power?" Zhang Jingjiang worried.He secretly estimated that the railway construction plan, the Greater Shanghai construction plan, and the thermal power projects in the Yangtze River basin are definitely not small numbers. One project is not a small number. Now several projects are going to be launched at once, and the pressure of funds is unimaginable.

"There will be pressure, but the problem is not big. The years have passed after gritting his teeth." Situ Nan said this, feeling a little heavy, feeling a little pressure, and thinking: Maybe I should go back to talk to Morgan and the others. They have money to talk to. Why don't you invest in Europe?

Git your teeth and pass?These are not a matter of one or two yuan?Meihua's money really can't be spent??

Zhang Jingjiang thought to himself, but did not ask. He didn't know where Situ Nan was confident, but he was convinced that the Wuhan government and the US-China Consortium had invested so much in economic construction, and they certainly didn't have the energy to go north. It is estimated that it will not change in the next few years.

Does this mean that there may be opportunities for the Kuomintang in the north?As a senior national soldier, Zhang Jingjiang naturally had such thoughts in her mind.

This kind of thought flashed by, and was instantly thrown away by him. On the contrary, it felt a bit funny to compare the Kuomintang and Zhigong Dang. The two were not at the same level.

The Zhi Gong Party did not go north, and the result was just the opposite. In the area ruled by the Southern Zhi Gong Party, it is difficult for other parties to develop opportunities.

Because the Zhi Gong Party’s strength is not only political and military, but also mainly reflected in changing China’s backwardness and building a backward agricultural country into an industrial power.

With such ambitions, can any force in the country have it?

Zhang Jingjiang sighed secretly.

The two of them were thinking about their own things, and the conversation fell into a short silence, and the silence was quickly broken.

Chapter 108 The Declining Jiangnan Shipyard

"Huh? Isn't that Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau below?" Yu Qiqing next to Zhang Jingjiang suddenly surprised.

"Really? Let me take a look." Situ Nan was a little curious, and ordered the captain to lower his height and look down the window.

That was a slipway on the bank of the Huangpu River. It really seemed to be a shipyard. The shipyard was surrounded by wasteland, surrounded by weeds along the river.

The factory area is not small, and several large factories are connected together. Unfortunately, the factory chimney does not emit smoke, and the large dock during working hours is quiet and quiet. There are few people, only a few people who were surprised by the sound of the plane and looked up curiously. Hope, the lazy face with the usual indifferent expression soon recovered.

Situ Nan vaguely felt the decline below, and was a little disappointed. It seemed that Jiangnan Shipyard had a very hard life, and shook his head: "So this is Jiangnan Shipyard? Nothing, the slipway has been suspended."

"Yeah! It's broken. I remember how prosperous the shipyard in Shanghai was during the last European war! Even the Americans came here to order ships. Four 10,000-ton ships were built, which is amazing!"

Yu Qiaqing sighed and seemed to miss the glory of the shipyard in the past.

"After building four ships for the United States, Jiangnan Shipyard did not take any big orders. In just three or four years, it declined to what it is now. What a pity!" Zhang Jingjiang followed with regret.

Situ Nan felt dissatisfied with the splendor of the Jiangnan Shipyard in the two populations of Yu Qiaqing and Zhang Jingjiang. Although the shipyard below has been popular for a few years, it was only a false prosperity. The shipyard really has the capacity to produce 10,000-ton commercial ships.

When building ships for American merchants, the steel plates came from Bethlehem Steel Company, and the engines came from Cummins Power Company. During the production process, they relied heavily on the guidance of American engineers. The United States had too many orders and was too busy to do the raw materials and parts. , Sent to Shanghai to assemble.

After the war, Situ Nan once considered the Jiangnan Shipyard, but considering that the domestic marine steel plate was not self-sufficient at that time, so he did not start to concentrate resources to operate the Hanyang Iron Works.Naturally, Jiangnan Shipyard has declined in recent years.

The story behind this is not easy for Situ Nan to tell Zhang Jingjiang and the others.

Now in Asia, the best-selling merchant ship is the 7,000-ton merchant ship from South China Meihua Shipyard. A total of 20 merchant ships have been produced. Because of their high quality and low price, this type of merchant ship is welcomed by the Asian shipping industry, except Japan.

Facing the fierce competition between Nanhua and Japanese shipyards, it is a miracle that Jiangnan Shipyard can survive the bankruptcy.However, it is almost bankrupt, if it can.

"Shanghai's shipbuilding industry is going to revive. I think, the hope has to fall on Jiangnan Shipyard. Since the government can invest in the shipbuilding industry in Wuhan, it must not favor one another, and let this rare domestic shipyard continue to rot? After all, Wuhan Although it is safe to be in the interior, it can build river ships at best, but it will never build large ships."

Zhang Jingjiang spoke long and earnest, watching the expression on Situ Nan's face all the time, thinking: How could Yi Meihua's greed easily let go of Jiangnan Shipyard?

"It makes sense. If Meihua can stand up and revitalize this leading shipyard, Shanghai's industrial and commercial circles are welcome."

Yu Qiaqing echoed the road, thinking of something, facing Situ Nan, seeing that Situ Nan did not refute, thinking that Situ Nan had listened, and said, "I see, since we are going to build a deep-water port at the mouth of the Yangtze River, we should China Merchants Steamship has moved over."

"Vessel China Merchants? That's also a mess..." Situ Nan frowned.

Like the Hanyang Iron Works, China Shipping Merchants Group was one of the star enterprises left behind in the late Qing Dynasty. It was once one of the largest shipping companies in Asia, and it can exist on a par with shipping giants such as British-owned Taikoo and Jardine.

It is a pity that the glory is only a flash in the pan. To this day, yesterday’s glory has long turned into a yellow flower, and China Merchants Shipbuilding has fallen, even worse than Jiangnan Shipyard.

Neither Jiangnan Shipyard nor China Merchants Ships can solve it easily.

"Official enterprises such as Jiangnan Shipyard and China Shipping Merchants have problems not only because of the external environment, but also because of their own internal problems. Just put money in and don't know how many holes should be filled? It's better to just let them die. Humph."

Situ Nan snorted coldly, as if he didn't have a cold.

Even if it was a big man like Sheng Xuanhuai at the time, the China Shipping Merchants Bureau was in his hands, and he was not doing his job properly. After making some money, he wanted to go ashore. What kind of real estate, pawnshop, and bank business would be compared with the Mitsubishi Shipping Company of the same period. It is definitely a profound negative teaching material.

However, the Japanese government's practice of selling half and half of shipping companies to Mitsubishi in those days seemed to have some reference value for Meihua.

"That said, Sheng Xuanhuai has gone forever, and only Meihua has the ability to clean up the mess left behind." Yu Qiaqing said unwillingly.

He also has a shipping company, which is much smaller than China Merchants Steamship. There are only a few thousand-ton small ships. He covets China Merchants Shipping. Unfortunately, his capital is limited and he has plenty of room to spare. If he can cooperate with Meihua, things will happen. It's much easier.It's just that Meihua would look to him to let him participate in the ship business?

"Let's take a look!" Situ Nan said lightly, took a look at Yu Qiaqing, and thought: Is this guy too enthusiastic?Advise yourself to accept Jiangnan Shipyard and China Merchants Shipping, what do you want?

Seeing that Situ Nan was not very enthusiastic, Yu Qiaqing and Zhang Jingjiang looked at each other and secretly felt a pity. They didn’t know that Meihua had invested in three shipyards in China. Except for the smaller Wuhan shipyard, the Longxue shipyard in Nansha, Guangzhou. The second phase of the project and the newly built Zhanjiang military shipyard are not small in scale, and the designed berth has reached 50,000 tons, far exceeding the Jiangnan Shipyard, which is still nested on the bank of the Huangpu River.

Maybe I felt that my tone had been indifferent just now. Situ Nan added and said to Zhang Jingjiang and the others: "I need a bite to eat. Mr. Zhang should know that our funds have been tight because of the railway construction."

During the Westernization Movement, Li Hongzhang and others set up the Steamship Merchants Bureau to make money to make up for the insufficient funds of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau.After China Merchants made money, it later participated in the founding of important enterprises such as Kaiping Coal Mine, Hanyang Iron Works, and China Commercial Bank.

Now that the Hanyang Iron Works is really prosperous, the Kaiping Coal Mine is secretly controlled by Meihua Mining, and the China Commercial Bank is jointly controlled by the Wuhan government and the United States and China Bank and reorganized into the Bank of China. What will be the fate of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and the China Shipping Merchants Group?

No one can ascend to the sky in one step, they are all climbing up on the corpse in front.