Songjiang Prefecture Industrial Base is located to the east of Suzhou River and south of Jiading County, Suzhou Prefecture. There and to the east are the Huangpu River.
It has about 13 kilometers of Huangpu River coastline, 11 kilometers at its longest point from east to west, and about 5 kilometers at its widest point from north to south.
Crossing the Suzhou River from the industrial base, more than ten kilometers south is Shanghai County.
Before this, the entire Songjiang Industrial Base had no factories or other infrastructure. It was just a piece of farmland or simply wasteland. A considerable part of it was private land, but these private lands have been replaced and added by the government. The expropriation will be carried out in the form of compensation, and together with a large amount of official land, it will be used as development land for the entire industrial base.
Although this place is only a small area on the map, it is not easy to actually expropriate it. After all, land has a different meaning to farmers these days.
Not to mention that you not only want other people's land, but also their homes... and even ancestral graves...
And the Chu Empire was not just established, so it could do whatever it wanted without restraint.
Since you have set the rules, you must abide by them.
If you want to expropriate their land, you will naturally need to pay adequate compensation. Not only do they need to arrange additional farmland for them, but they also need to be given cash compensation.
Therefore, in order to expropriate private land in this area, the government spent a huge amount of money. Songjiang Prefecture itself could not handle such a large expenditure. It was only through the Jiangnan Provincial Finance Department that it provided part of it, and the central government subsidized another part.
After all the private land in this area is expropriated, the entire industrial base will be like a blank piece of paper, on which the Chu Empire can draw.
In order to better arrange the planning, personnel from the Royal Institute of Technology, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and many other institutions conducted on-site inspections many times and planned the entire industrial zone taking into account the needs of industrial development.
It is planned to have a large industrial freight terminal and three small and medium-sized passenger and cargo terminals.
There are three major areas planned around the dock. The area in the west near the Suzhou River is planned to be a commercial and trade center, the central area is planned to be a light industry base represented by the textile industry, and the eastern area is planned to be used for machinery, steel, etc. Heavy industrial base.
The reason why heavy industries such as machinery are placed in the east is because the Suzhou Industrial Zone built by Suzhou Prefecture next door.
Although this place is an industrial zone created by Suzhou Prefecture itself, it has no formal administrative level and is still nominally under the jurisdiction of Jiading County, but this place is the lifeblood of Suzhou Prefecture!
Because this is the most important naval and defense industrial base in the Chu Empire.
Here is the largest warship shipyard in the Chu Empire, the "Da Chu Empire Naval Shipyard". This is one of the few factories in the Chu Empire that is directly prefixed with the name of the country.
Surrounding the naval shipyard, the Industrial Department of the Dachu Empire deployed a Wusong Machinery Factory, Wusong Naval Gun Factory, Wusong Naval Food Factory and a series of factories in this area along the river. These factories are to supply the navy with warships nearby. Various equipment within.
Although the Wusong Naval Base next to it is the largest naval base of the Chu Empire Navy!
If these defense factories directly under the Ministry of Industry can be incorporated into the Songjiang Industrial Base, it can also effectively stimulate the development of heavy industries such as machinery and steel in the Songjiang Industrial Base.
But it encountered strong opposition from Suzhou Prefecture!
In Suzhou Prefecture, there are only a few modern factories in this small area. They are still hoping to build their own Suzhou Industrial Zone based on this area. In recent years, a Suzhou has been built around these large factories directly under the Ministry of Industry. In the industrial zone, the Suzhou government finance department raised a lot of money to invest in the construction of a number of supporting factories to make money from the navy...
People have worked so hard to come up with something like this, but it will make you pick peaches, unless this Songjiang Industrial Base is directly under the jurisdiction of their Suzhou Prefecture, not Songjiang Prefecture!
This change of jurisdiction not only involves industrial development issues, but also involves local financial issues.
After the tax collection of the Da Chu Empire was raised, it was part of the local finance. Suzhou Prefecture relied on these large factories for the industrial taxes included in the local finance revenue.
Even if it is an arsenal directly under the Ministry of Industry, it still has to pay taxes!
This involves local development and the more critical local financial issue, which cannot be solved in a coordinated manner.
The prefect of Suzhou even said that if their Suzhou Industrial Zone had to be demarcated, he would not be able to face millions of elders in Suzhou and could only hit his head on the stone monument of the Suzhou Industrial Zone!
Don't think that they are saying harsh words to scare people... If the empire's top officials really disregard the interests of Suzhou and directly zone out this area, the prefect may really be killed...
You think this is a matter of industry or not, development or not, but in fact it is a question of reputation!
The term "pure reputation for life" is still very important to civil servants these days, especially those officials who are stubborn and stupid in reading.
If the prefect of Suzhou takes office and gives away the industrial seed area, no matter what the reason is, no matter what the overall situation is, his reputation will be ruined. For some civilized officials who cannot change their minds. That would be worse than killing him.
Many things can become better if you do them, but you can't do them. This is the reason why.
In the end, the top management can only coordinate, and there is no need to merge the two industrial zones together, just ensure good industrial cooperation.
Therefore, the east side of the Songjiang Industrial Base is planned for heavy industry, especially the machinery industry and shipbuilding industry. This is to better cooperate with the Suzhou Industrial Zone in Suzhou, where naval supplies are the core.
After the Songjiang Industrial Base was planned, it also began to enter the subsequent infrastructure construction period of land leveling and building roads and docks.
But those impatient businessmen will not wait for the infrastructure of such a large industrial base to be completed before moving in.
Especially those private capitals, they all come here smelling the bloody smell of profit. If you ask them to wait for several months or even longer to build factories, the day lilies will be cold.
As a result, the official side began to measure and carry out preliminary infrastructure construction. Su Qin Textile Company couldn't wait to bring in an engineering team of several hundred people to start building small buildings directly on the land along the river allocated to them. What about facilities such as docks and factories?
Anyway, their textile factory buildings are simple and do not require infrastructure.
As long as there is a small dock to transfer goods, some factories are built, and the machinery and equipment are transported and installed, then production can be started immediately.
Very simple!
Su Qin Textile Company must put into production as soon as possible and obtain tax benefits, so that it can continue to stay ahead in the increasingly fierce market competition and become bigger and stronger.
Nowadays, the textile market is booming, but the competition is also becoming increasingly fierce.
It has been said that as long as you produce machine-made cloth and sell it, you can make money... This presupposes that you can sell it!
Su Qin is not alone in making cheap and beautiful machine-made fabrics. In addition to the large textile company Hantian Textile Company, there are also many small and medium-sized textile factories all over the country, as well as countless small workshops based on families.
Nowadays, there is nothing unusual about new looms and spinning machines. Many government-run machinery factories across the empire can make them. Let alone workshops, even private farmers can buy a spinning machine or loom. , and then spin or weave cloth at an efficiency several times or even ten times higher than in the past.
There are a large number of small family workshops in Nantong next door to Jiangbei. They replace the old machines with new ones, buy one or two spinning machines or looms, and then use They spin or weave cloth, and finally sell the things for money.
That place's cotton yarn production capacity and machine-made fabric production are much greater than those of Su Qin Textile Company!
At this time, competition naturally comes.
Whether it is reducing costs or improving quality, it is a good way.
Songjiang Industrial Base is a good way to reduce costs!
Therefore, Su Qin Textile Company would be happy to build a small wharf directly at their own expense.
This will be put into production one and a half years ahead of schedule, and the low-cost advantage brought by the production cost savings will be huge, and this low-cost advantage will bring a greater market share.
In order to gain a larger market share, Su Qin Textile Company is willing to invest a large sum of money in infrastructure construction... Although logically speaking, they do not need to do this themselves. The government will build various infrastructures, and they only need to come when the time comes. Just build a factory.
You don't even have to build factories yourself. The government will build a batch of general-purpose factories in advance, and then you can just rent the factories and produce directly.
Su Qin Textile Company did this, and Hantian Textile Company, which they had beaten to a bloody head in the past year, did not have the arrogance or disdain of government-run enterprises directly under the Ministry of Industry.
Instead, he just rolled up his trouser legs and went directly to the muddy ground. He also got a group of people to run over in advance and build the infrastructure on their own!
Hantian Textile Company was able to transform from a munitions factory that was previously positioned as a supplier of military supplies to become the largest textile company in the Chu Empire. The product lines involved four categories: cotton spinning, wool spinning, linen spinning, and silk spinning. There are many branch factories all over the Yangtze River Basin, and they have even opened branches in Guangzhou and Tianjin. The entire company has more than 20,000 employees.
It does not rely on the background of a government-run enterprise, nor does it rely on the support of official capital!
But they have never regarded themselves as government-run enterprises!
Well, in fact, this company is indeed a stepmother in the Ministry of Industry. Don't expect to get any support. After all, military textiles are not very technical things. Hantian Textile is not good at it. The military procurement department can turn around and find a lot of substitutes from other textile factories.
As for these industries that have little technical content and can be replaced at will, the Ministry of Industry has never been interested in supporting them.
Therefore, in order to survive, Hantian Textile Company aimed at the civilian products market early, took the initiative to lower its style, and gave up the pride of official capital. The senior managers in their company are serious officials affiliated with the Ministry of Industry, and they have grades, and their grades are still high. Not that low.
But even so, when they mix in the market, they give up their status as officials and integrate into the market.
This has also allowed Hantian Textile Company to do better and better in the market. The company has grown bigger and bigger, and the welfare benefits of its employees are also quite good. Several of the company's top managers have also been successfully promoted and made fortunes.
Although the senior officials of the Ministry of Industry do not attach much importance to Hantian Textile Company, and they value more the development of the entire textile industry, the people below have built Hantian Textile Company, solved a large number of employment problems, and turned over a large amount of profits and taxes. After all, they have made upgrades, and it would be unjustifiable not to promote them.
Therefore, Su Qin Textile Company is a relatively special member in the current industrial and commercial circles of the Chu Empire!
Siluke
For Nie Sixhen, who had just been transferred from the Textile Department of the Ministry of Industry to Hantian Textile Company, he deeply felt the difference in this textile company directly under the Ministry of Industry in the first few days after taking office!
Nie Sishen started his career in the Hantian Arsenal. Of course, what he did in the Hantian Arsenal was not guns and artillery, but in the attached lumber factory.
Because he did well, he was later transferred to the Light Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry. Later, the textile industry became increasingly important, and it was separated from the Light Industry Department into the Textile Department, and he became a mid-level official in the Textile Department.
In the past few years, he has seen many government-run enterprises, not to mention that he previously worked at the top Hantian Arsenal in the country.
But this Hantian Textile Company made him feel... embarrassed!
Just like now, Nie Sishen was attending a high-level meeting of Hantian Textile Company. At the meeting, Shao Chenggang, the general manager of Hantian Textile Company, spoke in a very personable manner, quoting scriptures... but everyone present was a well-read poet. The people who write books are all killed from the imperial examination!
Your words are elegant, everyone here can hear that Nie Sishen is cursing!
Like a shrew on the street, he would scold his friends and businessmen from time to time. In particular, Su Qin Textile Company was cursed by him at least a dozen times...
Nie Sixhen still remembered that one of Shao Chenggang's sons was a woman from the Qin family in Suzhou. Thinking of this, he could better understand why Shao Chenggang was so angry.
According to unclear information, in order to crack down on Su Qin Textile Company, the biggest competitor, Shao Chenggang sent his third son, Shao Lilin, who had successfully opened up markets in many places in the past, to Suzhou, the Qin family's base camp, to take charge of the local branch, trying to directly Break the yellow dragon.
But not long after, Shao Chenggang's son handed in his resignation, and by the way, he brought back the daughter of the Qin family, and wanted to get married despite Shao Chenggang's strong opposition...
Just after getting married, Shao Chenggang's son officially resigned from his position at Hantian Textile Company. This resignation not only caused him to lose his job, but also voluntarily gave up his official career.
Then he turned around and joined Su Qin Textile Company, the rival of Hantian Textile Company, and became the person in charge of the Yingtianfu branch of Su Qin Textile Company, and then led Su Qin Textile Company and Hantian Textile Company in the most important market of Yingtianfu. Beating people to death severely squeezed the market share of Hantian Textile Company.
The dignified son of the general manager of Hantian Textile Company had high hopes from the company's top management. The person in charge of the Suzhou branch, who wanted him to go straight to Huanglong, was actually abducted by the daughter of his biggest competitor...
And he became an enemy in turn!
Shao Chenggang was going crazy!
