Today he met.

It was basically at this moment that Song Biao truly realized what the emperor actually means. By the way, this feeling is quite good. No wonder the Chinese subconsciously want to be emperors.

Song Biao smoked more than half of the Shengjing brand cigarette in his hand, and then he said to Yu Qiaqing again: "We should continue the topic just now, because there are still many very noteworthy issues when discussing this matter. The country should be prosperous and strong,

If the people want to be prosperous, the economy must first develop. To develop the economy, it must come from trade, and trade depends on transportation. This is why we should pay attention to railways and shipping. I want to solve many problems when I go to Sichuan this time.

But I think all the problems are caused by the closure of Sichuan. If we can open up the connection between Sichuan, Central Plains and Huguang, the key lies in railways and shipping. If these two points are done well, all the problems in Sichuan can be solved."

Yu Qiaqing deeply agreed and said, "Your Majesty is wise. In fact, when it comes to shipping in Sichuan, the first thing to solve is the problem of the Three Gorges Channel. Since the Qianlong period, the court...the previous dynasty attached great importance to solving this matter. The Xiajiang Channel was dangerous and sank.

, There are many reefs, and the passing ships were in danger one or two. In previous years, Yunnan copper ships were shipped from Chongqing to Wuchang. Because of the heavy copper, the shipwreck rate was higher. During the Daoguang period, Fengjie County once donated more than 10,000 taels of silver to clear dozens of reefs and rectified them.

The dangerous shoals, due to insufficient funds, were not very effective. In the 20th year of Daoguang, Hubei's giant businessman Li Pingzhong donated 200,000 taels of silver at one time to clear the Xiajiang channel between Kuizhou, Sichuan and Zigui, Hubei. At this point, sailing the Xiajiang River became safe.

, Nowadays, there are few incidents of falling into the reef. Steam turbines like us can control their own speed and slow down when they encounter dangers, and the danger is even smaller. But in my opinion, if the government continues to invest in renovation and clearance.

The capacity of shipping channels and Xiajiang River can continue to improve. During the flood season, thousands of tons of large ships can also reach Chongqing."

Song Biao asked, "How much do you think it will cost?"

Yu Qiaqing thought for a while and said, "It can only be done with small things for small money. To do such a big thing, it may take millions and twenty thousand yuan. It takes a long time and takes three or four years to complete it. But if it can be done, we will go to Chongqing and Wuchang.

There are thousands of tons of large ships between them, and it only takes a week from Chongqing to Shanghai. Relying on the Yangtze River shipping, all provinces along the coast can get rich. Business and tourism are prosperous and trade is more prosperous. Perhaps in seven or eight years, the government can earn more tax revenue through taxes.

Return to invest.”

Song Biao nodded and said, "Your statement is correct. And this matter must be done well. I think you can think of these things in the past few years and increase the ship a thousand tons in advance. Maybe you can take the lead in the future.

Business is getting bigger. Modern countries support capitalists because you are not only a big taxpayer of the government, but also create a lot of jobs. This is the case with Britain, France, Germany and the United States, and Japan is even more active. I am the same. I think you

Become a generation of shipping giants and shipbuilding kings. If you are confident, I can rent the shipyard of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau to you for operation, and you can gradually buy this shipyard with the profits from the operation. If you are confident, buy it directly.

No problem. If the capital is insufficient, the government can collect payments in installments. There is only one condition, that is, to operate the factory well and do a good job in China's shipbuilding industry. Now it is to build ships, and in the future, warships can be built."

Yu Qiaqing was overjoyed.

Although Yu Qiaqing was the leader of the Ningbo business gang at this time, he was only forty-three years old, and when he was upright and energetic, he naturally wanted to run such a big business after hearing what Song Biao said.

Song Biao has been thinking about Sichuan's problems for a while, why did Sichuan become the most serious place for warlord separatism and division, and why local forces are so rampant. After thinking about it, the only answer was Sichuan's closure.

Since ancient times, there has been a road to enter Sichuan.

The road to Shu is difficult, but it is harder than climbing to the blue sky.

This is the most important reason why the central government cannot directly control Sichuan. To break this situation, first of all, the construction of Sichuan Railway must be accelerated. Don’t worry about the idea of ​​Sichuan-Hankou Railway. This road was not truly built until the 21st century.

All the previous struggles were finally gone. The two governments of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China spent more than 30 million yuan on loans and only built a few small railways.

Song Biao plans to develop a more realistic plan, either the Xiangyu Line or the Rongxiang Line, built from Chengdu to Hanzhong, and then build the railway from Hanzhong to Shiyan, Xiangyang, and Suizhou to connect the Jinghan Railway. This railway seems to be circling.

A large circle, the construction of the middle section of Han is also difficult, but it is definitely much easier than the current Sichuan-Han line. Otherwise, it would not have been completed in the 1960s, and the latter was not completed until 2010.

It is said that because of the large number of karst landforms in the Three Gorges section, it is the most difficult railway to construct in the world, and the cost is higher than that of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway.

From this point of view, it is normal for the 30 million silver dollar loans in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China to easily get out of no sound.

Another advantage of leaving Hanzhong is that the railway can be built directly to Tianshui City and Wuwei, so that Sichuan's grain can be transported directly to the northwest region where China is the most food-deficient.

As for the railways in Sichuan Province, it is not a big problem. As for how the Sichuan railways arrive in Yunnan, this is also a headache. Song Biao can only say that no matter how much it costs, even if foreigners are invited to build them, they will need to be repaired.

Pass.

Whether the right to road is important or the national territorial sovereignty is important, it is probably not difficult to measure.

There are many things that can be discussed between Song Biao and Yu Qiaqing, which is definitely not just about shipping. During this period, he also asked Yu Qiaqing about the textile factory. Yu Qiaqing is no better than the Nanyang division of Far East Trading Company and Zhang Bishi, and Ningbo.

The merchants cannot withstand the big losses in the past two years. Coupled with the civil war and the financial turmoil some time ago, Ningbo merchants suffered heavy losses and the money market industry suffered huge losses. Even Yu Qiaqing could not escape the disaster. They could only use the large shares of the textile factory.

All sold to Far East Textile Corporation.

Shanghai Bank, Shanghai Bank.

The operations of Shanghai Bank's headquarters in Shanghai almost stopped. If it were not for the Far East Bank's lending, Shanghai Bank would have closed down in Shanghai. However, Rong Xingqiao was not a fuel-efficient lamp and took the opportunity to buy most of the shares of Shanghai Bank at a low price.

Among the Ningbo business gang, Yu Qiaqing had the smallest loss because he sold his rubber stocks at the end of last year after listening to Zhang Bishi's persuasion. His current loss is only affected by the entire storm.

After hearing Yu Qiaqing's words, Song Biao learned about these things.

Song Biao sighed truthfully: "The business is indeed very dangerous. I don't know that Far East Commercial Bank bought your textile factory. This is also good. In fact, you Ningbo merchants are not good at this. You are doing business in a bunch of ways. What do you see?

If you make money in business, you invest in one share and refuse to concentrate on doing one thing well. The shipping industry has huge room for development, so you might as well concentrate on shipping and shipbuilding. Shanghai Bank, wait until your strength is restored, and you want to

If you take back the shares, then let’s talk to Rong Xingqiao again. I don’t think it’s a big problem. Rong Xingqiao did not report this to me specifically, which means he doesn’t think it’s a very big thing, maybe it’s from the total assets.

In terms of amount, he didn't think it was a particularly big deal, and he needed to report it to me alone."

Yu Qiaqing smiled and said, "Your Majesty, your words really hurt the hearts of us Ningbo merchants."

Song Biao said: "Don't be sad. If I hadn't asked Zhang Bishi to secretly inform you to sell those fraudulent stocks early, you might have lost more. The rubber storm happened to be that the Intelligence Bureau found some very special things abroad.

Information, Zhang Bishi also inquired about the background of these rubber companies everywhere, and then found that they were all fake companies that falsely reported their assets. However, the situation at that time was already very complicated, and it was a mess that we could only wait and see what the changes were.

Unexpectedly, man’s calculations are worse than God’s calculations, and it ended up in a big chaos.”

Yu Qiaqing was silent for a long time and said, "Your Majesty, I thought this was the destiny of heaven, and it was destined to be like this. Now I think I was lucky enough to escape this matter. It happened that I did suffer too much loss in the textile factory. Zhang Bishi told me,

I sold these stocks early and reinvested the capital to run Hongchang Shipping Company. Speaking of which, Hongchang Shipping Company also has 10% of Zhang Bishi's dry shares."

Song Biao doesn't like to talk about this matter very much. After all, there are too many secret events behind it. For example, where have the big liars from rubber companies such as Mai Bianli, Jia Daoli, and Bai Kewen who are being questioned recently?

How to say this question, naturally, we have to ask the Secret Service.

It is precisely because there are too many spicy secrets that cannot be released that Song Biao cannot continue to talk about this issue.

He asked Yu Qiaqing a question: "I remember when I asked you to jointly establish a silk tea trading company with Far East Trading Company. How is it now?"

Yu Qiaqing was a little embarrassed and said, "Reporting to the emperor, Zhongrun Silk Tea Trading Company is a miserable operation. I don't have many solutions here. If you want to talk about the quality of raw silk, I have compared Japanese raw silk, and the quality is actually still

The key is that our taxes are too outrageous, and there are so many tycoons. I sold a bunch of silk abroad, and the selling price is only more than 400 taels of silver. The tax accounts for half of the selling price, while the tax rate in Japan is only 1 in ours.

3. Their raw silk exports to the United States are only 20% or 30% cheaper than ours. The textile industry is only 10% or 20% profit. This is a 10% lower cost purchase price. No factory will ask for our raw silk unless it is

There are really special requirements for quality. As for tea, this is another matter. First, all countries now have places to produce tea, second, all countries buy more black tea, third, our taxes are high, and fourth, our transportation is difficult and the cost is high

, Fifth, the quality of our tea is indeed gradually getting worse than before, Sixth, it is admiring foreign countries, and even the young citizens in Shanghai are proud of drinking Indian tea, which is shameless."

Song Biao said: "The tax problem is easy to solve. Now Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian are under the control of the imperial government. I have asked Ouyang Xi to conduct a special investigation on this. It is expected that the domestic silk tea tax will be temporarily adjusted before February next year.

The harsh and miscellaneous taxes in the area have been exempted first. Next year, take advantage of this good time to do a big deal. If there are any shortcomings in capital, you can find another bank to think of more solutions."

Yu Qiaqing felt extremely happy at this moment. In previous years, he was just like a grandson in doing business in China. He was just rich and was exploited by the court everywhere. This is the first time he has the pleasure of turning over and becoming a master.

Thinking of this, he sincerely exclaimed to Song Biao: "Master, if you can ascend the throne ceremony as soon as possible, it will be a blessing for my people."

Song Biao smiled slightly and said nothing.

Can money make the devil push?

He could make money under his rule, so of course he wished he could ascend the throne as soon as possible.

The current situation is that Song Biao has already said to be the emperor, and he just wants to be the emperor. Everyone knows that this is definitely the case. The forces of all factions across the country can't beat him. The last problem is Song.

When will Biao officially ascend the throne?

After officially ascending the throne, the year number must be changed, and other rules must be re-established. After that, you will have to wear a dragon robe and all three palaces and six courtyards will be purchased.

Everyone thinks so, now it depends on the specific time.

Yu Qiaqing really hoped that Song Biao would officially ascend the throne tomorrow, announce to the world, follow the orders of heaven, and govern all the people.
Chapter completed!