The journey starts from the Titanic

"Last year, bp Fruit Company made a profit of 740,000 U.S. dollars, mainly from plantation mines and oil fields. In addition to land and minerals, public facilities such as roads and docks built by the company are also a huge asset, which adds up to 30,000 U.S. dollars. If it weren't for your order, I really don’t want to sell these assets. Even though I can get more than ten million dollars from them."

Chu Fu expressed regret.

Meihua Company and Situ Nan successively invested five to six million US dollars in the fruit company, established several large plantations in Cuba and Venezuela, and later expanded to public utilities such as mineral oil fields and road transportation.

At the beginning, mainly for the rich resources of South America, by the way, wealthy Chinese labor was arranged to explore in South America, and several large-scale Chinese settlements with tens of thousands of people were formed.

"It's nothing to be a pity. Selling the company's assets to Chinese employees will not only get several times the return, but also allow them to truly settle down and reduce the burden on the company. Isn't the South China country evolved from the Meihua company? ?"

Situ South Road.

After all, the fruit company is a country within a country, and it is a special existence. Even if the South American countries are not strong, the fruit company, which resembles the East India Company, will sooner or later be dissolved.

Since it is about to be dissolved, why not turn it into a Chinese settlement?

If the population is larger and the scale is larger, it may not become an autonomous region in the future.

"It's cheaper for the United Fruit Company, and now their family is the only one!" Chu Fu said angrily.

"After fighting for several years, let them feel good, but the economy will not be as prosperous as in the past few years, and their good days are not long."

Situ Nan smiled and said.

bp Fruit Company and United Fruit Company are competitors, and they are backed by American funds. The main market is the United States. The US economy will soon collapse, and the fruit company will be hit hard.

Dulles, an American young man who Situ Nan was optimistic about, cooperated with Chu Fu in handling the fruit company's business. Chu Fu returned to South China from South America. Dulles succeeded him. Dulles did a good job.

Situ Nan intends to sell the assets of the South American Fruit Company. Dulles received hundreds of thousands of dollars from it. By the way, he ended his career as a businessman and returned to the Coolidge government to engage in his passionate intelligence work.

Chu Fu commented on Dulles also full of praise, even though he was a little jealous of Dulles's deep fellow in the city.

The perception of Dulles is not the point. Chu Fu is more concerned about the strategic contraction of the US-China Consortium.He couldn't help asking Situ Nan again: "Is the US economy really going to have problems? If there is a problem in the United States, South China will also be affected. Exports of commodities such as rubber, tin, coffee, etc. will be very unfavorable!"

After finishing talking about the frowning and grim face, it is really hard to imagine what kind of difficulties the South China economy will face with US capital investment.

"Ten years! The U.S. economy has been prosperous for ten years. Even if it doesn't collapse, it will at least be adjusted, right?"

Situ Nan put his hands in his pockets. The wind on the Hudson River was a bit strong, and the temperature seemed to drop a lot. Seeing Chu Fu was still thinking, his face was a little unconvinced. Situ Nan saw more of this expression. Inside the William Consortium There were quite a few. Situ Nan was used to seeing Chu Fu lightly, then turned his head to look at the western setting sun.

When Chu Fu heard the words, his heart moved, not knowing why Situ Nan was so pessimistic, he wanted to say something, his mouth moved and then retracted.

The two of them did not speak, and the world seemed to quiet down suddenly, each immersed in their own thoughts.

After a while, Situ Nan said with emotion: "This is the residual temperature before the night, don't be deceived by the warmth in front of you, forget the fact that the cold night is about to come.

Look, many people are immersed in the warmth of the moment. The jazz champagne is consumed in advance, and they have glitzy dreams. When they are sober, they will find themselves in the ice and snow, wearing thin clothes."

For Situ Nan, dealing with fruit companies is just a small part of the strategy. Fortunately, the Chu Fu and Meihua consortium still obey their own words, and their efficiency is much higher than those of the William Consortium.

Chu Fu looked at Situ Nan’s back for a moment. He heard a chill from Situ Nan’s words. In view of Situ Nan’s almost godlike status in the American China Consortium, Chu Fu chose to believe the same as those at the headquarters of American China Bank. Situ Nan.

"If, as you have estimated, there are major problems in the U.S. economy, South China will prepare early, and on the contrary, it will be able to obtain better development opportunities."

Chu Fu seemed to have something to say, "When I was in Xintangshan, everyone was discussing the development of Shanghai's automobile industry, and they all believed that New Tangshan should also develop the automobile industry, and Shanghai cannot be surpassed."

"If you are optimistic, do it!" Situ Nan smiled. The consortium is so big that he can't intervene in everything.On the contrary, if not for this strategic contraction, Situ Nanzhen is reluctant to point fingers at the companies under the consortium.

New Tangshan is not without the automobile manufacturing industry, but the scale is too small and the development time is still short. This is nothing at first. It is just that Dasheng Automobile Co. and Shanghai Automobile Co. have successively settled in Shanghai. The domestic automobile industry has made such progress all at once. Stimulate, not to be outdone, want to make a difference.

Chu Fu briefed Situ Nan on the development of roads and automobile industry in South China. He emphasized that South China has advantages over the domestic automobile industry in developing its automobile industry, with low oil prices and sufficient fuel. Domestic railways still retain a considerable proportion of steam locomotives. Nanhua Railway has popularized diesel locomotives. A large amount of diesel is used as fuel.

Due to the large amount of cheap asphalt, the construction cost of Nanhua Highway is relatively low.

After nearly two five-year plans, Nanhua dare to say that it is an industrial country with a cheeky, and its industrial level is not much lower than that of Japan.Since Japan is developing the auto industry in China, there is no reason for South China to lag behind them.

Situ Nan was indifferent to the optimism of Chu Fu and the South China leadership towards South China’s domestic industrial development. He just smiled. He has invested so much in China and South China, and the test of effectiveness is Japan. Japan’s shipbuilding industry and military industry are the most in Asia. Strong, especially in the cultivation and reserve of industrial talents. Japan has trained millions of industrial workers, and the Chinese have to take a more difficult journey.

The two talked a lot while walking along the river. Chu Fu accidentally talked about the sinking of a freighter of the Southern Star Shipping Company in the South China Sea.

"Speaking of shipwrecks, I recently sold all of the shares of the White Star Shipping Company to Citibank. Compared with the White Star Shipping Company, the Southern Star Shipping Company is relatively lucky. I hope that sinking a freighter will let them learn their lesson."

Situ South Road.

"The White Star Shipping Company has been doing very well in the past few years, because it gave me a bad impression of this former employee. Fortunately, we established our own country and established a Chinese shipping company, so Chinese seafarers no longer have to be bullied by foreigners.

After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, we established navigation schools in Xintangshan, Palembang, Surabaya and other places, and now we have trained tens of thousands of crew members.Reluctantly, we had to hire pirates to serve in shipping companies and even the navy."

Chu Fu smiled and said that he understands and welcomes Situ Nan’s practice of selling the White Star Shipping Company. This is also in line with Situ Nan’s prediction of the economic downturn. Moreover, as far as he knows, the controlling shareholder of White Star Shipping Company is Morgan, and Situ Nan himself does not Cannot dominate the White Star Shipping Company.

I looked at Situ Nan with some regrets, "Nanhua Shipbuilding Industry still lacks funds. If you withdraw funds from the White Star Shipping Company and invest in Meihua Shipyard, they will have sufficient funds to launch a 20,000-ton shipbuilding project. Up.

In addition, the Navy plans to learn from Japan and convert an old coal carrier into an aircraft carrier. After verification, it seems that the Navy's future development route to an aircraft carrier has been confirmed.

They are planning to build a real aircraft carrier within three years, but the government does not give money, and the two sides are arguing. It is estimated that they have not stopped now."

Situ Nan did not refuse Chu Fu's alms, and agreed to increase investment in Meihua Shipyard.

However, the South China Navy is not very climate-friendly, and has no ability to fight in the open sea. Compared with Japan's Eight or Eight Fleet, it is very small.As Nanhua vigorously develops the shipbuilding industry, the situation will gradually change.

As for aircraft carriers, Situ Nan had no hope for aircraft carriers in the 1920s, not because of the small tonnage of ships, but because the level of aircraft engines had not improved.

As far as South China is concerned, as long as the aviation industry does not fall behind and maintains a lean air force, it is sufficient to defend homeland security.

Even if the Japanese went south like in history, wouldn't the Philippines stand in front to give South China warning time?

On the contrary, if we invest too much in naval shipbuilding, the first stimulus will be Britain and the United States, which will not be beautiful.

"We think so too, but the Germans seem to be very ambitious. Krupp's joint venture shipyard in South China has been encouraging us to build larger warships.

The Germans are subject to strict restrictions on the local military industry. In recent years, they have moved many military technologies to Asia, which can be regarded as using our conditions to conduct experiments for them."

Chu Fu smiled.With the cooperation of the two parties, the keel of the first cruiser on the berth of Meihua Shipyard was laid a month ago, and in one or two years, the first cruiser made by Nanhua will be launched.

Although the tonnage is only 7 tons, it is of great significance.

It seems that when I was not in South China, the development of that country was much better than I expected.

Situ Nan thought to himself.

This kind of weather seemed to make them the night when the Titanic sank more than ten years ago. The funny thing is that the two didn’t know each other at the time. Situ Nan didn’t know that there was a crew member like Chu Fu who had no day in sight. But destiny finally keeps them together.

I don’t know if it’s the experience of fleeing together, or whether Situ Nan looked at Chu Fu differently. Chu Fu felt that this trip to the United States to meet Situ Nan was a great harvest, because Situ Nan said that he would support Chu Fu to bear more weight in the US-China Consortium. Burden.

Chapter 216

This merchant ship went back and forth between Shanghai and Detroit, mainly transporting refrigerator tires, cloth, coffee, palm oil and other commodities to the United States. After leaving the United States, it transported the car production line ordered by Song Zi'an back to Shanghai. Of course, there is also a specialty of Detroit-SAIC Motor. T-car parts purchased by the company from Ford.

According to the new tariff bill promulgated by the Wuhan government, tariffs on imported cars and auto parts will be greatly increased to protect China's auto industry.