On December 26, in Manhattan, New York City, Sam's country, countless cars and trams were traveling on the endless roads among the high-rise buildings everywhere. On the bustling Wall Street, a company called "Far EaSt Trade" was established.
New York, USA, 1923. At this time, Western countries were already very developed.
Translation: Far East Trade
Wearing a tuxedo and a top hat, the spy chief of Sam Country, Smith Wilson, got out of a black Ford Model T car.
"Wells, you little Bichi, you hung up our company's sign crookedly!"
Wilson wiped the sweat from his face. He had taken a seven-day cruise from Shanghai, China, and arrived in New York City, Sam's country, after a tiring journey.
He received an ocean telegram from his boss in China, Lu Xiaojia.
Let him open a trading company in Sam Country in the shortest possible time.
Although Wilson didn't know what his strange Eastern boss was up to.
However, he took action immediately. In the past twenty days, he had been running around everywhere, and finally opened this Far East trading company today.
At the same time, John's London, Gaul's Paris, Fuso's Tokyo...the same is true for these countries. On the most prosperous streets in the country, another company engaged in ocean trading has appeared.
At No. 656 Liuliu Road, Chongming, Hudu, Huaguo, Yan Shenying was reporting the situation to Lu Xiaojia in the lobby.
"Lord Lu, we have received ocean telegrams from Sam, John, Gaul... and other countries this morning, saying that they are ready."
"Oh, these foreigners are quite fast. They opened the company so quickly?"
Lu Xiaojia put out the cigarette in his hand. He was not idle these days.
Sheng Hengyi's real estate, antiques and cultural relics were sold off to collect 20 million silver dollars.
Then he personally traveled to many places, purchased machinery and equipment in the system mall, and upgraded all the companies under his name.
In the coal field under the Changxing Mountains, a power plant was built based on the original factory building, with 12 sets of Siemens W-923 gas turbine generator units installed inside, with a single unit generating 60,000 kilowatts per day.
The Tanqi Iron Mine and Shaoxing Lizhu Iron Mine were demolished by Lu Xiaojia because their previous iron-making equipment was too old and their small scale led to low efficiency.
On the basis of the original, he also introduced the most advanced iron-making equipment from the system mall.
High-voltage equipment, cooling stave systems, iron-making blast furnaces, etc. produced by General Electric are now available in these two mines with an annual output of 2 million tons of molten iron.
Not far from the Tanqi Iron Mine and Shaoxing Lizhu Iron Mine, steelmaking plants were built respectively, and the more advanced arc steelmaking method was introduced.
Each steelmaking plant is equipped with four Siemens 100-ton electric arc steel-making furnaces, five Schneider 50-ton steel furnaces, six 25-ton steel furnaces and eight 10-ton steel furnaces.
An electric arc is generated between the huge carbonaceous electrode on the top of the furnace and the pig iron of known composition put into the furnace. The resulting high temperature melts the pig iron. The quality of the steel produced by this method is good, but it consumes a lot of electricity.
As long as they can provide a steady stream of electricity and pig iron, the two steelmaking plants can produce 1 million tons of refined steel annually. Of course, this is nothing compared to the great powers.
But that's enough. You must know that the three northeastern provinces during this period, known as the land of China's heavy industry, only produced 240,000 tons of iron and 90,000 tons of steel per year.
At the Jiangnan Shipyard in Jiaxing, Lu Xiaojia invested heavily in the system to purchase three 2,000-ton hydraulic forging presses, three 100-ton hydraulic forging machines, and a 400-ton hydraulic forging machine attached to the annealing furnace. Press forging press, 1000-ton and 2000-ton hydraulic forging press for producing gun shafts, 650 mm rough edge rolling machine, 450 mm finishing steel rolling mill, large milling machine and bore milling machine, horizontal heavy-duty milling machine, heavy-duty gantry milling machine , heavy-duty driving... and other heavy industrial equipment.
With these heavy industry equipment, Jiangnan Shipyard already has the ability to manufacture large ships with a displacement of 50,000 tons and 400 mm naval guns, making it a veritable military shipyard.
However, the docks and workshops of Jiangnan Shipyard are too small, so they are still being expanded and may not be used until more than half a year.
The arsenal in Jinhua City is also under construction. In addition to the dozens of ammunition production lines, Lu Xiaojia also bought 20,000 machine tools of various types, such as lathes, drilling machines, boring machines, milling machines, planers, milling machines, boring machines, and grinding machines. , gear processing machine tools, thread processing machine tools, milling machines, broaching machines, sawing machines... they are all available.
On the basis of these heavy industries, Lu Xiaojia also opened many factories such as machine tool factory, spinning factory, pharmaceutical factory, stockings factory, small toy factory, etc.
In peacetime, these factories are civilian enterprises, but in wartime they can be quickly transformed into military-industrial enterprises.
In addition, he also took time to visit Zhang Ruojian, Liu Hongsheng, Ye Jingkui, Fang Yexian, Li Kangnian, Wu Baiheng... these entrepreneurs in the Yuhu area who established various national industries and advocated industry to save the country.
They were persuaded to upgrade all the factories including matches, cement, woolen fabrics, condensed milk, papermaking, brewing, department stores, cement, hardware, etc., and their output and profits increased a lot.
After Lu Xiaojia's reform of removing the old and renewing, all the above-mentioned enterprises have completed their upgrades. It will not only make Yu Province’s industrial strength grow by leaps and bounds, but also bring benefits such as employment and development of people’s livelihood.
Of course, this also caused Lu Xiaojia to spend all the money she got from Sheng Hengyi.
You must know that he bought these industrial equipment from the system mall. The industrial facilities in the system mall are much cheaper than weapons, and the price is more than ten times cheaper than the original price.
If you go to those foreigners to buy these industrial equipment, let alone whether you can buy it, even if you can buy it, you probably won't be able to get away with less than three to four billion silver dollars.
Investing so much money in industrial development will naturally produce huge benefits, and China cannot currently digest so many industrial commodities.
If the manufactured goods cannot be sold, they cannot be monetized to generate benefits, and they will lose money.
Therefore, Lu Xiaojia temporarily set her sights on the Western powers on the other side of the ocean.
And let the spies in charge of various countries set up trading companies to sell the goods produced in Yu Province.
You must know that these Western developed countries are now truly rich.
Even under the influence of the Great Depression, Sam's national GDP in 1922 could still reach an astonishing US$85.5 billion.
Converted into silver dollars, this is a total of 213.75 billion, which is ten times China's GDP.
The wealthy Western powers can make Lu Xiaojia a lot of money. It is conservatively estimated that the income in the first year will reach 20 million US dollars.
