It’s not easy! It is quite difficult to handle, because these devices were typical national weapons at the end of the 19th century!
In the previous life when Xiao Letian lived, people were very silent about this kind of equipment. Wasn't it just a blast furnace for iron-making and an open-hearth furnace for steel-making? These are all technologies that need to be eliminated. Who didn’t use oxygen-blown converters for steelmaking in that era?
The popularization of electricity has turned these old equipment into garbage, and humans even have to dismantle these highly polluting equipment for the sake of blue sky and white clouds!
But that was the 21st century, because other equipment had been replaced with better and more efficient equipment, and the steel industry was no longer the most cutting-edge industry!
This was not the case at the end of the 19th century. Most countries in the world were still in an absolute feudal system and still relied on the most primitive agriculture!
The steel industry is a typical high-tech industry, just like the cutting-edge technologies of information, electronics, chips, biotechnology, aerospace, etc. in the 21st world!
Industries with technological levels at the top of the pyramid bring absolute huge profits!
A foreign gun can be exchanged for ten times the profit, not to mention artillery and steel battleships, and the original industrial mother machine that produces all these is the stupid, big, black and stupid guys in these steel plants!
None of these equipment can be bought if you have money. You must establish extremely good diplomatic relations with the country that owns the technology. Only then will they sell you the most advanced equipment and open a new one for you on the high wall of technical barriers. Small hole!
European businessmen know the value of these things, don’t Chinese businessmen know?
Nowadays, in the Chinese business district, the four major families have taken shape. Needless to say, the Fan family. The Lao Taishan family, the father-in-law behind the head of state, has been a lineage of Shanxi merchants who have been doing business for generations!
Then there was Niu Jinfu, the shopkeeper of Sihai Company who boarded the Chinese warship in Tanggu!
Sihai Group has become a very large cross-border trade trust. Boss Niu has the largest fleet of merchant ships in Asia, and he is truly the shipping king of Asia!
The third place is boss Mi who started his business in Ryukyu and even saved his whole family's life due to Xiao Letian, Mi Fu!
Boss Mi controls the largest one-stop monopoly of grain production, processing, and sales in Asia. If Mr. Mi sneezes in Ryukyu, the price of rice in Asia will fluctuate three times!
The fourth family is Fukang Yinhao represented by Hu Xueyan. This is not the power of one person, it is the power of all the gods of wealth in Jiangnan!
A Fukang Bank basically represents the interests of Jiangnan Half-Arm businessmen, including the Hunan Army Group, which is the fourth largest family!
Xiao Letian is indeed disgusted with monopoly trust groups, but in today's world, you can't avoid the growth of these groups, because monopolies are formed on the one hand because their capital is large enough, and on the other hand, because they have no more opponents. plate!
Because the level of universal education in East Asia is too low, and business has always been an industry that can only be played by people with high IQs!
Even if Xiao Letian wants to support ordinary people to start their own businesses, they are illiterate! Too many illiterates preventing them from conducting responsible business operations!
Therefore, there is a reason for the emergence of capital groups in the early stages of mankind. Knowledge, experience, money, resources, and rights are all concentrated in the hands of a small group of people. There is no monopoly!
The four major families are just a random name among the people. It is recognized in official channels that no one will get into trouble with the head of state. Even if you raise your tail in front of Xiao Letian, your family is not big enough for him to kill!
These incredibly wealthy businessmen are no longer satisfied with primitive accumulation of wealth. How can ordinary businessmen be promoted to capitalists?
In fact, it is very simple. When he has an extremely large amount of investable funds, that is, living money, in addition to his main business, and this money is even larger than the main business, then he will be upgraded from an entrepreneur and businessman to a capitalist. !
Capital cannot be idle, capital is meant to make money!
When the Chinese have strong military strength that can protect themselves, the ambitions of these businessmen will naturally begin to expand. They will use the large amounts of living money in their hands to make more money!
And this world still revolves around the two star industries of steel industry and mechanical processing, where money comes in the fastest!
These people all know the details of the fortress plan. They have long known the secret agreement reached by the head of state and Zai Chun. They know that soon after the Franco-Prussian War, the Qing Dynasty used the land, resources, and transportation to build the Chinese Concession Special Zone to build a Chinese heavy industry base. The external conditions will mature soon!
Time waits for no one. These people had absolute trust in the head of state and began to place orders with Europe during the Franco-Prussian War. The four major families had a large number of orders for machinery and equipment, all of which were needed by their own steel companies!
Zai Chun wanted the goods in stock, but had no choice but to find the four major families!
But will these four major families give him these valuable equipment to make money? This question made Zaichun himself lose all confidence and confidence!
Cai Bixia carefully knocked on the gong and said, "Your Majesty! How did we use the power of capitalists to force Prince Gong before? What a violent power it was. You have seen with your own eyes the huge magic power of the world of money!"
"You are not one of those kings who live in a deep palace and eat minced meat. You are an emperor who has truly seen the world with your own eyes! You should know very well that those people are not easy to mess with!"
"One or two businessmen and capitalists may not matter, but what you want is not the interests of one family or two! This has disrupted their money-making plans!"
"If they unite and disagree, what can you do? What can even the head of state do?"
"Forcing a cow to have its head pressed if it doesn't drink water? They haven't broken any laws, they just won't sell you anything. How do you punish them? The head of state will not do such overbearing things. The head of state is a person who respects business rules very much!"
"Contracts are very important! Contracts are sacrosanct! What a commercial society needs is credit. If the head of state personally challenges this credit system, which businessman will dare to develop among the Chinese in the future?"
Zai Chun was unable to refute these words, and the good mood that the little emperor had just frowned suddenly disappeared!
yes! The equipment is in the hands of the head of state, and I may be able to use it as an apprentice to polish it, but what if it is placed in the hands of these businessmen? How could people give themselves this face!
This is not the Qing Dynasty, which squeezed businessmen to the extreme. Anyone who disobeyed could be beheaded directly. However, the Chinese did not have the stinky habit of suppressing business. The head of state's attitude towards all walks of life was very equal!
They didn't break the law, so why do you bully them? Do you still dare to buy and sell by force?
Ci'an saw Zai Chun's embarrassment and whispered, "My son...do you have to grab one or two years? Just three years. Does the Qing Dynasty still care about three years?"
"No! My queen mother, it's not that simple... Three years is calculated when everything goes well. God knows whether their companies in Britain, Germany or even the United States will delay us!"
"This is all possible! We are begging others to buy equipment, not others begging us, so they can be as fast as they want and as slow as they want!"
"And in three years, it can only guarantee that the first batch of molten steel will flow out of the steel plant. After the steel comes out, it will be slowly sold to downstream companies and it will take some time to finally turn it into a product..."
"So three years is just a rough number... It is very likely that our Qing Dynasty will have some changes after five years!"
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