The journey starts from the Titanic

"Enthusiasm, of course enthusiasm. Premier He said that Wuhan left him a profound influence, but he did not expect such a big change in the country."

Huang Zhonghan said.

"Although I haven't returned to Shanghai for many years, from what I have seen and heard in Wuhan and Guangzhou, I also know that Shanghai is developing faster. The mainland of the motherland, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, has a richer foundation than our South!"

Wu Manli nodded.

He added, "Nowadays, Nanhua has encountered a lot of resistance to inland development. The lack of manpower is the biggest problem. I hope the motherland's family can help us a lot! After all, the natives are unusable and the foreigners are unpredictable, so the Chinese are still reliable."

"Sister-in-law, this is something that is beneficial to both parties. If you don't tell me, we will also help you." Lin Yimin replied, smiling at Wu Manli, and said in a negotiating tone, "I know that Nanhua produces gold and gold mines. It can't be developed for a while, just because we owe you a lot of gold, why not just use our labor services to compensate?"

"Oh?" Huang Zhonghan and Wu Manli glanced at each other and did not rashly agree. Although they are in the same line of China, the Meihua Consortium is involved in and leading the gold business on both sides, but after all they are separated.

However, neither Huang Zhonghan nor Wu Manli objected to Lin Yimin's proposal, saying that they would discuss with He Wenxiu and others before giving a reply.

"Since you are willing to come and help us open mines, why don't you help us suppress the bandits? We have insufficient manpower. If Wuhan can send a certain number of officers and soldiers south to help us rectify law and order, I think Premier He and the soldiers of the National Defense Forces will not be anxious to find Wuhan. Go back to gold."

Wu Manli suggested.I thought: After the soldiers who went south to get land in Nanhua and live and work in peace and contentment, they will have two opinions about whether they will return to the mainland.In the past two years, the number of the South China Army has been greatly reduced. In addition to investing more resources in the Navy, it is also due to the retiring of a large number of grassroots officers and soldiers to the newly occupied land to establish grassroots power.

In order not to compete with industrial construction for labor, it is necessary to introduce a certain number of military police from the mainland.To put it bluntly, it is a mercenary, and by the way, the mercenary is also included.

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In the past few days, Huang Zhonghan and other South China delegations have visited and inspected many places in Wuhan. The iron and steel industrial zone at the Hanyang Iron Works, the Hanyang Arsenal is also beside the iron works, and the Yangzi Machinery Company, which manufactures locomotives and ship power, is also in Hanyang Industrial. District, these units will naturally not go.

South Chinese are no strangers to steel complexes and large-scale machinery manufacturing. In general, the industrial scale and development level of Wuhan is not much different from that of New Tangshan. The scale of the Meihua Iron and Steel Plant in New Tangshan has reached an annual output of one million tons of steel. In terms of machinery manufacturing, the two sides are in the same line. What Nanhua has, and China also has. The difference is that the two focuses on different things.

The Chinese market is larger, the reserves of talents are greater, and the private wealth is even greater. After the tariff reform, foreign goods cannot be dumped in the country (Southern Customs Union area). Private capital invests heavily in industry, and more and more national capital has tasted Sweetness.

Although their technology is not high, the production of domestic products began to replace foreign products, driving foreign products out of the domestic market, especially the suppression of the same low-end Japanese products, and failed to make a lot of profits in the Chinese market. Japan's heavy industrialization process is more than historical It's a lot slower.

Compared with the conservative domestic market, South China's economy is much more open, and the export-oriented economy is more distinct.

The plantation economy itself is aimed at the international market. Before the founding of South China, bulk commodities such as spices, coffee, rubber, palm oil were exported to Europe and the United States in large quantities. After the founding of the country, the plantation economy was further enlarged, and a large number of agricultural machinery was introduced to replace labor and improve production efficiency. .

For coffee alone, the scale of Sumatran coffee exported to the United States reached 10,000 bags, and the total output was second only to Brazil and Colombia. In exchange for South China's foreign exchange for 10,000 US dollars, the New Tangshan Futures Exchange became more active in bulk coffee trading.

New Tangshan has replaced Singapore as the financial center and cargo distribution center in Southeast Asia. It is much larger than the coffee trade, and more influential is the oil and rubber trade. These two are the main forces of New Tangshan futures trading, and the annual transaction volume exceeds 100 million dollars.

U.S.-China Consortium exerts its own advantages and vigorously develops the petrochemical industry and rubber industry. High-value-added commodity oil and chemical rubber products replace crude oil and rubber and become the main export force of South China. In South China’s trade with the United States, petrochemical and rubber industrial products account for Half of the country.

The same is true for trade with Japan. Although the volume of trade is not as large as that with the United States, when they think that their precious foreign exchange reserves are used to import South China’s petroleum, rubber, coal, tin and other substances, the Japanese are jealous and coveted for South China.

It also made Song Ziwen and others envied that Nanhua is qualified to be a rich native with oil exports alone.

In order to balance South China's trade and pay off the debts of crude oil and petrochemicals imported from South China, the Wuhan government had to export various agricultural and mineral products to South China cheaply.

Of course, it also includes labor services.

According to the agreement reached with the South China side, the Zhi Gong Party government will send tens of thousands of construction corps to South China every year to undertake infrastructure construction and send a certain number of officers and soldiers to support the South China suppression bandits.

In addition, refugees must be organized, and after certain training, they will be sent to South China to enrich the population of South China and increase the proportion of Chinese population.

Sending the surplus population to South China, the Wuhan government agrees with both hands, but organizing immigration requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and the cost is astronomical, and it is also a big burden for the Wuhan government.

However, they are willing to do so. First, they are in need of governance. (The riots in the land of China have not been exploited by classes at all, but the population is too large to carry the land.) The second is to repay the debt to Nanhua.

In the gold that Nanhua just supported Wuhan, the Wuhan government can pay off part of its debts by "giving away people's heads." There is no better deal in the world than this.

"I think Nanhua is developing fast enough. We have established a steel complex in Xintangshan, built a machinery industry zone, an electrical industry zone, and a shipbuilding industry. The Sumatra Railway and the main island round-the-island railway have been called an industrial miracle. I didn’t expect the development momentum and achievements on the mainland side to be inferior to ours.”

Huang Zhonghan smiled from the bottom of his heart, "The Yangtze River Bridge is particularly magnificent. I stand on the bridge and overlook the three places in Wuhan. I deeply appreciate the majestic and heroic spirit and lofty ambition of the Chinese colleagues. It is amazing!"

Can't help but praise Song Ziwen, Lin Yimin and others with thumbs up!

"To get rich, we must first build roads. The domestic transportation industry is developing rapidly, and it is indispensable that Nanhua has generously donated to us and sent many engineering and technical personnel and railway management personnel to participate in domestic construction. We are grateful for this, especially the Ministry of Transportation where Huang Lao works. A lot of effort!"

Song Ziwen was humble and expressed his gratitude to Huang Zhonghan.

The Nanhua railway project predates the mainland. After the Wuhan government implemented the southern railway network construction strategy, Nanhua drew a lot of resources from its uncompleted railway project to support domestic construction, which impressed Song Ziwen.

Of course, Situ Nan's attitude behind this is decisive, and everyone knows it well, so there is no need to say it.

"Fortunately, you still know to say thank you, otherwise I will really want you to nag. In recent years, many of our Nanhua companies have returned to domestic investment. Some of them have developed very well, but they are good for our Nanhua industries. I lost my mind.

Wasn’t the five-bucket tractor factory that I visited in the past two days developed in South China from the beginning."

Huang Zhonghan grinned and grinned.

After hearing this, Song Ziwen smiled, then turned to ask Lin Yimin, "Do you think so? Old man Huang asked us wrong?"

"The instigator is not here. Old Yue Zhang, even if you block my house, that's what you said." Lin Yimin smiled.

"It seems that I still can't settle the account with Liu Wudou, but next time I go to the United States and meet the kid He Yongyuan, I can ask him to settle the account. Without his support, can Liu girl be so wild?"

Huang Zhonghan was unwilling.

He Yongyuan is Situ Nan's secretary, and Miss Liu Wudou, who studies tractors, fell in love with him, but after a few years, the two have not come together yet, and now they are on separate sides.

Huang Zhonghan is also joking. There are hundreds of thousands of Germans in South China, Meihua's funds to the government of the Communist Party and German technology. The three have supported the foundation of South China’s industrialization. In recent years, the machinery companies founded by Germans have been large and small. Hundreds, almost covering the upstream and downstream sectors of the machinery industry, with the support of the American China Bank, several have already developed, with assets reaching 10 million yuan.

Following the Germans are South China's local industrial capitalists. If they want to catch up with the Germans to start machinery companies, they will have to wait for several years. When the number of technical talents cultivated by South China grows, the number of Chinese technical talents will replace the Germans. (Even if more than half of the Germans later settled in South China, it would not be able to make up for the demographic advantage of the Chinese) and became the mainstream of South China engineering and technical talents.

"In other words, it's still a German who is willing to work and have good skills, and he is also willing to teach Chinese apprentices. If you switch to British and American people, they will be high-profile and difficult to serve. As for the Japanese, their skills are inherently good. It’s not good, and caress about it. Only fools will ask Japanese for technical equipment.

In our South China, Japanese things have not been sold, but we sold a lot of gold from them."

Wu Manli smiled, a little disdainful, "In order to reverse the trade with South China, the Japanese are often annoying and ask us to open up Japanese immigration and investment restrictions. On the face of our refusal, they organize smuggling or pretend to be China. People, many Japanese have poured into South China in recent years.

The hateful thing is that these bastards have bad intentions, spying on our intelligence and stealing the secrets of the Meihua Laboratory over and over again, which is impossible to prevent.

It's the same for Nanhua, and it's even more unscrupulous in the mainland, right?"

Wu Manli reminded Song Ziwen and Lin Yimin.

"Our intelligence department is paying attention to this matter, but there is not much to deal with it. The infiltration of people in the south is not serious, and it is hard to say in the north. Zhang Zuolin's invasion of the north is also very jealous of the Japanese. He still has some bottom lines. It’s even harder to say about the warlord of

Song Ziwen commented.Although his expression is a little serious, he is not very worried.

"I see, none of the northern remnants of the Northern Ocean can be trusted. Whether it is Zhang Zuolin, Yan Xishan, or Feng Yuxiang, we are boiling frogs in warm water and let them be proud of them for a few years. When we become strong, we will clean them one by one. Devil If you intervene, you will also clean up!"

Lin Yimin said, his attitude was more determined than Song Ziwen.Inspired by Wu Manli, these bereaved remnants of the Northern Ocean can be exiled to Nanhua if not sure.

"The two are in the same line of China, and the two parties are fraternal parties. The two countries have broad interests. South China unconditionally supports the mainland to resist foreign enemies and regain lost ground. I believe Premier He also has this attitude."

Huang Zhonghan promised.

Wu Manli also nodded.