Chapter 108 What is most important (first update)

"You know, this is a hugely profitable investment."

One sentence came out of Li Zicheng's mouth, and then he said it with a sigh.

"When we offer those senior technicians a salary of fifty yuan a month and the mechanics a salary of twenty-five yuan a month, why do you agree, Ouchu?"

"Because the company needs these workers"

Mu Xiangyue immediately spoke.

"Right now, the company has not yet manufactured a locomotive, but now it can use these workers to produce spinning machines and flour machinery. By June next year, the company will be able to manufacture 200,000 pieces of spinning equipment. From this alone, the company will make a profit.

It can exceed 2.4 million yuan, and the flour machinery can make the company profit more than 603 million yuan. The net profit is only created by 2123 workers in 8 months, so they are worth this price."

Taking a look at Li Zicheng, Mu Xiangyue couldn't help but murmur in her heart. Bringing in these workers with high wages is probably the most cost-effective business you have ever done. As for other businesses, including the railway, they are basically either loss-making businesses or will not be seen in the short term.

A productive business.

"Well, these are more than 2,000 workers. They have created a profit of 3 million yuan for the company in 8 months. On average, each person has created a profit of more than 1,400 yuan. On average, it is 180 yuan per month. If we have 20

Ten thousand such workers can create a profit of 36 million yuan a month..."

Li Zicheng nodded with his elbow on the table and started doing arithmetic problems on his lips.

"Chairman, arithmetic is not something you do. We have to consider the market, not just production."

Once again, Mu Xiangyue realized that his manager didn't understand business at all, which is why he acted as the owner of the hands and left everything to himself.

, but still... I have endless whimsical thoughts.

"market"

Li Zicheng opened his eyes and smiled again.

"The market is very big. In two years or at most two years, the market we have to face will be the largest market in history. I know what I am most worried about now. It is not how big the market is, but our productivity.

How big is it? Can you seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to develop yourself? If..."

Just kidding, two years later, World War I started, and the European powers fell into war. The import of goods to China dropped to the lowest point in history. The domestic market alone is a market worth more than one billion yuan a year, and there is also a huge overseas market as support.

, Japan's industrial development in history was precisely due to the golden opportunity of World War I.

Suddenly, when the words came to his lips, Li Zicheng paused and fell into deep thought.

Japan

Yes, before the First World War in Japan, due to the inherent lack of domestic profits in Japan, and the profits plundered from abroad were used for capital accumulation, the profit rate dropped even more. In order to keep the economy running normally, Japan must continue to plunder from abroad, except for Japanese goods.

In addition to having special privileges in China and occupying certain markets with low prices, it has little competitiveness in the international market. It also needs to import machinery and capital from abroad. Before World War I, Japan’s foreign trade exceeded that of Japan year after year, and the national finances were insufficient to pay off foreign debts.

Interest and facing bankruptcy.

What finally saved Japan was the outbreak of World War I. The outbreak of World War I brought huge profits to Japan. First, European countries ordered large quantities of military supplies from Japan. Second, European countries were busy with the war and almost stopped importing goods, thus providing a

Japanese goods created opportunities to expand markets in Asia and Africa. It was World War I that gave rise to the rapid expansion of Japanese industry.

Li Zicheng frowned as he thought of the origins of Japan's economic development mentioned by the lecturer during his university lecture on the Japanese economy. If Liuhe Company could develop rapidly and its industrial production capacity increase rapidly, it would very likely cut off Japan's economic development.

As the industrial economy develops, what changes will occur?

During World War I, the cessation of machinery exports from various countries forced Chinese companies to import Japanese machinery in order to expand production capacity. The lack of domestic product production capacity also prompted the country to give up the "boycott of Japanese goods" initiated by Article 21.

Japanese goods occupied the Chinese market. It can be said that it was the Chinese market that nourished Japanese industry. In the end, Japan, which was nourished by the Chinese market, invaded China to monopolize this huge market.

On the other hand, in China, although the European powers concentrated on wartime production and the shortage of transport ships, they reduced exports to China, thus providing an opportunity for the expansion of Chinese-owned industries. Despite early orders for equipment abroad, production

Equipment still mainly came from abroad, so the opening of most new factories had to wait until the end of the war and the ordered machines actually arrived. At this time, they missed the precious golden development period, and the profits accumulated during the war were used by the factories.

The exhaustion of funds for purchasing equipment made it impossible for enterprises to resist the low-price dumping of foreign capital after the war, resulting in a large number of bankruptcies and closures of national capital enterprises after the war.

The market, it is the market that changed the ultimate destiny of China and the two countries.

If Liuhe Company can fully develop its own machinery manufacturing industry now, it can provide sufficient machinery and equipment to domestic enterprises in two years. This will block the import of Japanese machinery. At the same time as China's light industry rises,

It can prevent the import of Japanese light industry products, and even export them abroad, competing with Japanese goods for markets abroad. According to this idea, it should be... Liuhe production machinery, and Guoshang focus on light industry. Once the two work together, then

Coupled with the premise of a domestic boycott of Japanese goods, it is impossible for Japan's industrial economy to expand rapidly again during World War I.

The economic base determines the superstructure. If China's light and heavy industries are several times that of Japan, will Japan still dare to invade China?

While sketching out this chain reaction in his mind, Li Zicheng suddenly discovered that Liuhe, no, to be precise, it was himself. The business he was about to start now would not only lay a certain industrial foundation for China, but might even completely change the world.

History, saving tens of millions of Chinese lives

"Yes, this is what we are going to do."

Just as he was talking to himself in his heart, Li Zicheng heard Mu Xiangyue speak.

"Who can guarantee that there will be a big market in two years? Now we are just like picking up the slack, using installment payments to compete with foreign companies for the market. When they react, we will definitely face their dumping.

At that time..."

"Don't worry"

Li Zicheng smiled and waved his hands. By the time they reacted, it was already too late.

"The market is very big. As long as we can sustain it in the past two years, we don't have to worry about the future. We now have to concentrate on the following things. First, by January 1915, we will build the railway to Xi'an.

This is the top priority, so that in the future we can follow the railway to sell products from the industrial belt along the line to Shaanxi, even Gansu, and Sichuan. The second thing is the port. These two things are infrastructure construction and transportation is not solved.

Goods can’t be shipped out, and equipment can’t be shipped in. The third thing is to build a steel plant. Production equipment requires a lot of steel. Well, we also need to build an electrolytic copper plant. Copper is also needed to produce motors. The fourth thing is

, that is, the machinery factory must do everything possible to expand. The fifth thing is the locomotive factory and shipyard. These two things must be done as soon as possible. These two, railways and ports are complementary to each other..."

While Mu Xiangyue was rattling off the things that the company was going to do in the next two years, he frowned slightly when he was writing down the notes.

"If these projects are started, I'm afraid there will be funding problems. Although the company has sufficient funds, I'm afraid it's still a bit nervous if we want to do these things. What's more, the company is also planning to set up a bank, and the bank will also need to occupy a lot of reserves.

There are also a series of affiliated small and medium-sized supporting factories. Sufficient funds are the only prerequisite to ensure the progress of the project, and,"

Mu Xiangyue once again turned the topic to the previous argument between the two.

"You also need to run universities and primary and secondary education, which all require a lot of funds, maybe..."

Before Mu Xiangyue could finish speaking, Li Zicheng interrupted him.

"Schools cannot be stopped. These schools are the fundamental guarantee for the technical personnel and workers of future enterprises. Without them, it is simply impossible for us to achieve real expansionary development in the next seven or eight years. We would rather build one less factory than ensure the safety of workers along the line."

Education promotion, and the establishment of universities, there is no money, well..."

After pondering for a moment, Li Zicheng continued.

"When our factories start production one by one next year, we can consider using the enterprise as a counterweight and borrowing a few loans from banks. Even so, we must continue to carry out this education."

Perhaps because he was afraid that Mu Xiangyue still couldn't understand his intention, Li Zicheng said again in a serious tone.

"Ouchu, do you know what is the most important thing in the twentieth century?"

"Um?"

"Talent"

Li Zicheng hummed heavily, imitating Uncle Ge's accent.

"As long as we grasp these two words, the company's future will be bright. These talents not only refer to college students who will be trained in the future, but more importantly, skilled workers. In the past few years, if we can train 100,000 middle school students, five

Six years later, the company will have at least 60,000 skilled workers, 25,000 technicians, 10,000 teachers, grassroots managers, and 5,000 college students. How much profit can these people bring to the company?"

After sighing, Li Zicheng said seriously again.

"So, education, education is the foundation of a strong country. My Comrade Mu Ouchu, so..."

Looking at Mu Xiangyue seriously, Li Zicheng continued.

"I plan to go to Qingdao in a few days to talk with the Germans about jointly establishing a university."

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