The chats between women in Ping'anli may only represent some differences in life experience between Northeastern people and Shanghai people. At this time, a group of Northeastern masters sitting in Shanghai Oriental Building had a conflict of interests with local businessmen in Shanghai.[][].[23][wx].[] The core issue of the collision between two business groups is the expansion project of Shanghai Port Wharf.

At that time, a group of Northeastern great men built a 10,000-ton freight terminal in Shanghai to make a fortune. After several years of development, they have already gained 70% of the freight throughput of Shanghai ports. This made the Shanghai Business Group, who was silly at the beginning, suddenly see it. This not only allowed them to see the power of capital operation, but also caused them to suffer a lot of losses, especially the loss of great development opportunities.

Now the Republic of China government has announced that it will build a dock in Shanghai to reach the annual throughput of Shanghai Port to reach tens of millions of tons. The construction bidding for this dock allows the anxious Shanghai business gang to mobilize all forces to win the bidding for this dock. At the same time, the Northeastern great men who have tasted the sweetness naturally hope to get the first place in this bidding.

Both sides are working hard to compete for this large-scale project worth billions of Chinese yuan. It can be said that whoever gets this super project can hold the position of the boss in the domestic industry in the future. This temptation is far more important than the direct interests of dock construction, which means priority in the construction of port terminals in the future. Not to mention how much wealth the dock can create, the benefits generated by the ancillary facilities around the dock are enough to attract the attention of national capitalists such as them.

In this competition, the Northeastern great men are more confident because they not only have previous experience, but more importantly, they have very convenient channels for inclusion. The Shanghai business gang also has its own advantages, that is, the Shanghai business gang is based on Shanghai and has unique connections. Of course, the capital is not inferior to the Northeastern great men.

Therefore, the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea showed their capabilities, and the dock designers. They invited the best in the world, the strongest construction team, and the best in the country in financial management, and each formed a lobby to operate in Chang'an. This invisible operation model suddenly allowed Chinese companies to gain experience in the integration and upgrading of the industrial chain, and enhanced the internal strength of Chinese companies to further develop.

Among the Northeastern great men, the one who has the most say in this construction project was Zhang Fakui, Sun Xueming and others who came to Shanghai to build a 10,000-ton wharf. They came to Shanghai to work hard for the world. In just a few years, they relied on Shanghai Port to build a Yuanhua Company with an annual income of tens of millions of Huayuan. Because the scale of the expansion of Shanghai Port this time was much larger than the dock they invested in and built last time. Facing the competition from the Shanghai merchant gang, Watson Company attracted many Northeastern great men with strong strength in Shanghai to join. Shanghai is a city developed based on port trade, and the companies developed here are more or less related to sea transportation. They saw the huge benefits that Watson Company has gained in recent years. These Northeastern great men joined Watson's camp without hesitation.

Today, these great men sat together to discuss how to defeat the Shanghai Business Group and successfully seize the project bidding. This is Sun Xueming, chairman of Watson, who first spoke: "Today, I invite you from your busy schedule to discuss how to deal with the competition of the Shanghai Business Group. This is our most mature bidding plan so far. Let's take a look, what do you think?"

Everyone picked up the bidding documents that had been placed in front of them and looked at them carefully. Most of these people were from industrial backgrounds, and it was not unfamiliar to them to read the bidding documents. Soon everyone read it roughly.

Zhang Fakui, the major shareholder of Watson, said: "According to the news we got from there, their design plan was designed by the French, which can be said to be comparable to ours. What we have more advantages now is that our construction team has rich experience and smooth financing channels."

At this time, Yu Pinzhen, who opened a distribution factory in Shanghai, said: "I got some of the above news. The President will implement a banking austerity policy this year, but will relax the infrastructure construction investment accordingly, which means that we can successfully raise funds from banks. The Shanghai helps those people can also raise funds from banks. Our advantages in financing in the past are now likely to be offset by changes in the national financial policy. I have seen our engineering design. The framework should be designed by German engineers, but our country's design must be involved. On the basis of German pragmatic design, we have added the considerations of our Chinese designers to understand the actual situation. And the construction cost is also well controlled! The only thing that is troublesome now is that this project will be finalized by that big man in the end."

Yes, who will finalize this bidding plan has become a treacherous mood in everyone present. In theory, with the fall of the direct warlords, the current president, the prime minister, and the heads of major ministries and commissions are mostly officials from the Northeast. Their bidding plan will be more likely to be recognized by these big figures. However, with the current high-level struggle between the Liang and Yang factions, the Shanghai Business Gang has received support from the Liang faction, and its strength is not weak. The president and the prime minister must balance the power of the two factions. They can only do the same thing in one bowl!

The Shanghai Business Group, who was as worried as the Northeastern great men, also gathered together to discuss countermeasures. Yu Qiaqing, known as the God of Wealth in Shanghai, became the leader of this talks. He glanced at the people present and had at least tens of millions of dollars in wealth. He was very proud of it for a moment, "This time, our Minsheng Company and the Northeastern people competed for the Shanghai Port Terminal expansion project. We are all over the capital and life. As long as the bid is successful, it means that we not only regained the freight share of the Shanghai Port Terminal, but also allowed us to obtain some of the national port construction projects that followed. However, compared with the Northeastern people, we have less actual construction experience in port terminals, and the other is that we have less financing channels for Northeastern people.

I just got a message from my friend in Chang'an that our president will implement a five-year monetary tightening in the near future, but it has left a big hole in various infrastructure projects, which means that we will have sufficient financing sources for the port expansion project. In addition, we have invited French designers to design the port expansion project in Shanghai. In other words, this time we compete with the people of Northeast China for bidding, and there is no obvious difference in all aspects. Now at the last moment, I don't know which big man will determine the bid. The president and the prime minister should avoid this and try to equalize this bowl of water. Let's see if the Liang Rengong team who supports us can compete with Yang Xizi team."

As Yu Qiaqing finished speaking, all the business tycoons in Shanghai were silent. They had done everything they should have done before, but now they were waiting for the result of Liang and Yang's struggle. This feeling of involuntarily made these people who were calling the wind and rain on the beach feel uncomfortable.

At this time, two bids were placed on Li Changgeng's desks by Watson Company, a Northeastern native and a Shanghai native Minsheng Company. Li Changgeng had just roughly looked at these two bids. He was not interested in this. What he was interested in was that these two bids represent the current Chinese companies and had learned to integrate their forces to seek the development of the enterprise. This was the most valuable leap for Chinese companies. Judging from the efforts to compete for the bid, the competition attracted the attention of the Liang and Yang groups, and even used their respective political power. This was somewhat unexpected to Li Changgeng. He did not expect that he had just supported the political forces on both sides. He could not have imagined that they could integrate such a large political force in such a short time and put their hands into business control.

It is a good thing and a bad thing for a company to rely on political forces, but it is a good thing at present. This will be more conducive to his concentration of personal power and the rapid development of large Chinese enterprises. But should I let the third force reach out?

Li Changgeng quickly made up his mind that he wanted to let the third force rise at this time and threaten the Yang and Liang teams. So the bidding plan was detained by Li Changgeng. In less than a week, the third bid was placed on Li Changgeng's desk. This bid was handed over by the China Merchants Corporation. The ship China Merchants Corporation was also a bidding letter submitted by Yang Shiqi to Li Changgeng. It has been in Li Changgeng's hands for more than ten years. In the past ten years, the ship China Merchants Corporation has long grown into a super torrent. With China Merchants Bank as its core business, it controls 90% of China's ship passenger transport business and 90% of the ship ocean freight business, and also controls a large number of railways, mines, ports, heavy port machinery manufacturing, shipyards and other industries.

The accidental appearance of the Steamship Merchants Group immediately scared the Northeast Business Gang and the Shanghai Business Gang. This Tyrannosaurus Rex is too scary. It is incomparable to financial resources. It is incomparable to strength and connections. It is the president's direct lineage!

When Yang and Liang heard the news that the Steamship Merchants Group took action, they were silent. What else can be argued about? Both gangs were speculating on Li Changgeng's intentions in scepticism. But as representatives of the political faction, it was impossible to give up what they wanted to do easily. The two factions also discovered that there was another faction outside them, and this faction was the ace for Li Changgeng to check and balance their power. For example, the Steamship Merchants Group that suddenly emerged this time! It would definitely be unwise to directly suppress the centrist card in Li Changgeng's hand. Yang and Liang were still very afraid of Li Changgeng's political skills.

At this time, Yang Du had an incomparable advantage over Liang Qichao, that is, Yang Du had worked with Li Changgeng for too long, and his grasp of Li Changgeng's thinking was far stronger than Liang Qichao.

So Yang Du found a representative figure of the Northeastern heroes, Sun Xueming, chairman of Watson Company, and asked them to submit an engineering plan at the time. This plan should not be used to hire foreign designers. They should give full play to their accumulated experience and design this dock expansion plan from the most practical perspective of Chinese ports. They should also ensure that they will create greater influence in the future.

Sun Xuedong, who received guidance, returned to Shanghai to gather a group of engineers and old technicians who had participated in the construction of the dock to jointly study the new dock design plan. These people are practical workers. They do not know what kind of dock design is world-class, but they know what kind of dock design is suitable for the waterway at the mouth of the Yangtze River, what kind of dock layout is more conducive to the rapid loading and unloading of goods, the warehouse is most suitable for the dock placement, and the dock placed for ship repair and supply is more conducive to the operation of the port, and seafarers need the docks that are more suitable for the dock. Perhaps such dock design is not the best, but it is definitely the most beneficial to the Shanghai Port. Even an engineer considered the idea of ​​expanding the Shanghai Port next and wrote about this plan. This plan not only saves a lot of construction costs, but also greatly enhances the efficiency of the dock use.

Sure enough, when this port terminal expansion plan was placed on Li Changgeng's desk by Yang Du, Li Changgen saw the sincerity of Chinese companies. He signed his name on the bid without hesitation and wrote a message saying that any project in China does not need to pursue the best design plan in the world, but we must find the one that suits us the most and is most beneficial to us. Such a design is the best for us!

As Li Changgeng put an end to the epoch-making competition of Chinese enterprises, Watson won the Shanghai Port Terminal expansion project in a decisive manner. The winning bid plan and Li Changgeng's instructions were then published publicly to the whole society through newspapers. The retreating Shanghai Merchants Group and the Steel Shipping Merchants Group said that they had no objection to the winning bid for this plan.

However, this seemingly perfect ending thing has far from the end. After suffering this setback, the Shanghai Business Group did not recover. They saw the benefits of the expansion and cooperation of the enterprise industrial chain. So the Shanghai Business Group established a Minsheng Consortium with Minsheng Bank as the core. The Northeast Business Group also established a Watson Consortium with Watson Bank as the core in Shanghai. What followed was that each province established its own consortium. These consortiums were attached to the political systems of each province, with strong and weak among them. But they caught up with this era of development, and Li Changgeng was also very willing to see the birth of such regional consortiums, because in the future, he needed these large, medium and small consortiums to stabilize the country's economy in the world economic crisis.

Super projects like the Shanghai Port Terminal expansion project have projects that are enough to excite these consortiums at all important economic nodes across the country. The country will invest nearly 100 billion yuan in large-scale infrastructure construction in the next five years. Among them, there are 500 large-scale thermal power plants, as well as large-scale Yellow River hydropower hub projects, Yangtze River hydropower hub projects, Huaihe River governance projects and other super water conservancy projects. Further expansion projects of the national railway and highway network are 5,000-ton hydraulic press projects, and new urbanization expansion projects.

With the launch of a series of large-scale national projects, capitalists across the country frantically participated in this capital feast. However, what was not in line with this was the increasingly deserted stock market in the Republic of China.

Subsequently, the National Reserve Bank of the Republic of China suddenly introduced a policy, that is, the Huayuan will implement a fixed exchange rate free exchange policy, but the outflow of gold and silver is strictly prohibited.

This inexplicable policy made international economists ridiculed nothing. In the eyes of these economists, the economic policies of the Republic of China were too conservative and conservative. In recent years, the Republic of China was a foreign trade country. The currency value of the Huayuan was over-undervalued by the market. The Republic of China should adapt to this economic form. The appropriate opening of the Huayuan exchange rate was the most beneficial direction for China's financial industry. But China did the opposite. Although it was a good outward economy, it forced to transform into an inward economy with the will of the country.

Of course, the people of the Republic of China welcomed this policy. The implementation of a fixed exchange rate in the country can give the Huayuan in their hands more stable purchasing power. Chinese companies also remain silent with the release of a series of projects and the smooth financing channels. Some countries that mocked the economic policy of the Republic of China. They even took the initiative to export gold and silver to China. Such good things are naturally the better. So much so that China owed tens of billions of Huayuan in a very short period of time. At this time, the value of the Huayuan was stable at a two-to-one exchange rate with the US dollar.

A large amount of gold and silver flowed into the underground vault of the National Reserve Bank of the Republic of China. With these gold and silver mortgages, the National Reserve Bank began to issue Huayuan in a 10-to-1 quantity, and these Huayuan will be used in national basic engineering construction investment.

China's huge population market, with the stimulus of the issuance of Huayuan, which has a stable currency value, Huayuan's consumption began to make sudden efforts. The consumer market began to rise all the way. In the past, China could only use home appliances, automobiles, clothing and other products that could only be used to export foreign exchange to earn foreign exchange began to enter the homes of ordinary people.

Cars and motorcycles have begun to become the first choice for family transportation; installing a telephone at home has become a hot topic for relatives and friends; rice cookers and electric woks have become national fashion kitchen supplies, refrigerators and radios have become essential appliances for young families.

The sudden explosive growth of the commercial market in the Republic of China made the economic experts who once mocked China's currency reform stunned. In fact, this sudden change in the domestic market also confused Li Changgeng. In fact, this explosive growth had long been sown the seeds of growth. In recent years, the economy has been stable and maintained a constant growth trend. The people have long had the will to consume. However, the traditional Chinese concept of savings has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Everyone is afraid that the world will return to the past that day, and at that time, it is still unhappy to have money in their hands.

However, once the fixed exchange rate policy for Huayuan and gold and silver exchange issued by the National Reserve Bank was introduced, it was equivalent to giving the Chinese people a shot of a heart-warming agent. With a series of basic engineering construction, the people from top to bottom in the country have gained real benefits. People think that money is easier to make money. As long as you work hard, two people will earn a full set of home appliances a year, it is not a dream to buy a national sedan a year, and it is not a dream to buy a house of 100 square meters for five years.

When the Chinese government violated economic laws and stimulated the market, which led to the rapid economic growth of China, it was arousing heated discussion among world economists and politicians, the time came October 1929. At this time, the US stock market was several times more crazy than when Li Changgeng came a year ago. Americans were rushing to buy Chinese-made goods in shopping malls and supermarkets, preparing for Christmas in advance. (To be continued...)
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