Wang Tu, who came back from the provincial capital with money, was very energetic. As soon as he returned, he arranged for several superficial so-called government-run enterprises under the state industrial department. Some were responsible for purchasing and supplying gravel, and some were responsible for purchasing and supplying sleepers. , and some are responsible for daily necessities such as materials, rice, oil, salt, fruits and vegetables.
Needless to say, these materials are all directly supplied to the railway company.
In today's Heyuan Prefecture, only the railway company can make such large-scale purchases. When they build the railway, they need gravel to lay the foundation and sleepers.
At the same time, they have a lot of workers building railways, and they need a lot of daily necessities.
After all, building a railway is a big project. If it is built in a mountainous area, it will be even more troublesome. It requires digging mountains, building bridges and even building tunnels (the first railway tunnel in history was the Taylor Mountain single-track tunnel, which was completed in 1835 and was more than 700 meters long. rice).
The amount of work is much larger than building a railway on flat terrain. After all, basic engineering construction these days basically relies on manual labor and energy storage. As for mechanical equipment, there are only some simple machines, but there is no steam power, internal combustion engine, or electric motor equipment. .
It is troublesome to build railways in the mountains by manpower alone. It is troublesome to build tunnels alone. There are also many railway bridges.
In addition, even for ordinary ground railways, a considerable part is dug out along the mountainside.
All of this has resulted in a very long construction period and a huge cost for building railways in mountainous areas.
This is why so far, the Dachu Empire Railway Corporation has only built one mountainous railway, the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway. The investment is too great.
On the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway, there is Guangdong, or to be precise, the Pearl River Delta, which is a very developed area of industry, commerce and even agriculture that can be compared with the Yangtze River Delta. Even the high cost of building the railway can be recovered in subsequent operations. cost.
In addition, the Guangdong governor's finance department also knew that this road was too difficult to repair and the investment was too large, so it also passed some policies to reduce the burden on the railway company, such as low-interest loans and tax incentives for operating income after the railway was opened. And cooperate with the railway company to develop the commercial value of the railway station and surrounding areas, etc.
Only in this way can the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway be built.
Of course, the railway is difficult to repair and the investment is huge. Only the railway company and the bosses at the top will have a headache, and for Wang Tu.
The more difficult it is to build this railway and the greater the investment, the more benefits they will get from Heyuan Prefecture.
Such a big project is here, and the supply of some raw materials alone is enough to satisfy the government-run leather goods companies affiliated with the Heyuan Prefecture Industrial Department.
At the same time, the daily food and drink consumption of a large number of railway workers is also a large amount.
You must know that the number of railway workers in the Heyuanzhou section of the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway Company has been maintained at several thousand for a long time. The daily material consumption of so many people used to be purchased from Huizhou and even Guangzhou and transported by train. come over.
After all, Guangzhou, Huizhou and other places are areas with developed commercial economies, and the supply of various materials is very sufficient. Even the price of grain purchased in bulk is cheaper than here in Heyuan Prefecture.
As for the cost of railway transportation... that is only for outsiders. They are railway companies themselves, and they originally have to transport a large amount of construction materials to the front-line construction sites. By the way, they can also transport daily necessities. Not only that, they can also Use ordinary commercial trains to transport supplies incidentally.
For example, if there are not many passengers in a certain train and the locomotive is not fully loaded, then they will hang a freight car on it...
As for the cost, at most it means burning a little more coal plus the loss and depreciation of the carriage.
After rounding up, it costs basically nothing.
This is also the reason why they have not purchased daily necessities on a large scale locally before. The prices of local supplies are not cheap, and the quantities they need are too large.
If we really want to purchase all the supplies locally in Heyuan Prefecture, Heyuan Prefecture, a small state with a population of only three to four hundred thousand people, really can't supply it!
This time, Wang Tu pried open this hole and obtained the right to supply some living supplies, especially the nearby supplies of fruits and vegetables with a short shelf life.
As for staple foods such as rice and noodles...the local food in Heyuan Prefecture is not rich, and the locals can't even eat it themselves. How can they be supplied to the railway company on a large scale? Even if Wang Tu wants to supply it, he can only buy it from other places. If you supply it later, you will be a second-rate dealer, but the price will definitely be slightly higher.
However, although the railway company has opened its door, it is not stupid. It is impossible to let go of its own cheap staple food and ask Wang Tu to sell high-priced food to you.
After all, food is a bulk consumable material. Even if the price difference is only a few percentage points, it will be a huge amount in the long run.
Wang Tu is not greedy either. It is already good to be able to supply fruits and vegetables to a large number of railway workers of the railway company nearby.
With such a large sales channel, the government-run companies affiliated to the state industry department can not only make money as second-hand dealers, but also drive local fruit and vegetable growers to increase their income, and at the same time solve employment problems by hiring people.
The latter is actually what Wang Tu values more.
Why does Wang Tu toss around various industries? On the one hand, it is for tax revenue, and on the other hand, it is not to provide more jobs for the local people.
In addition to daily necessities, the supply of gravel, wood and other materials required for railway construction can also provide a large number of jobs.
In this way, not only can government-run enterprises under the state industry department make money, but it can also create more jobs.
After all, gravel and wood, although there are a lot of stones and woods in Heyuan Prefecture, they still need to be mined!
In this way, some quarries and logging sites can be established to provide jobs and increase the income of local people.
Finally, Wang Tusuo won the railway company to hire local people to build railway jobs, which could at least solve the employment problem of thousands of young people and increase the income of local people.
Finally, the transportation of various materials also requires manpower, which can also solve some employment problems.
Wang Tu estimated that the railway project alone could create jobs for at least 3,000 local people, not counting the indirect employment of planters and other industries that provide services to these employed people.
Those workers will have income, and the fruit and vegetable farmers will be able to sell their products and make money, so that they can live a better life, and their consumption can drive consumption in other industries.
For example, workers also need to eat, drink and clothe themselves, which requires other people to provide food, fruits and vegetables and other daily necessities. People also need to provide them with clothes, repair their houses, etc.
People in other industries also need services from different industries and provide consumption.
In this way, the entire economic cycle will start.
This kind of motivation is actually the same as Wang Tu's previous efforts to develop various industries. The ultimate goal is to increase jobs, increase consumption, and increase tax revenue.
Then various infrastructure constructions are carried out through taxation, which in turn further supports the development of industry, commerce and agriculture.
In this process, others win once when making money, but Wang Tu can win dozens of times... This is also why many local government officials are trying to develop the economy and develop industry.
Industry plays a huge role in driving the economy.
Not only in the small Heyuan Prefecture, but also in the entire Chu Empire.
The railway construction of the Dachu Empire has developed to this day and is no longer just a matter for seniors in the railway industry, but an infrastructure project that links the entire industrial system.
Through railway construction, it has directly promoted the development of basic industries such as coal, steel, and chemicals, and it has also directly promoted the development of various machinery industries and even all walks of life.
Even the shipping industry, a competitor of the railway, has received favorable benefits and has been stimulated to a certain extent. Why?
Because rails and other direct and indirect materials needed to build railways must be transported, and most of them are transported by ships.
For example, the rails required for the Guangdong section of the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway are basically supplied by Guangzhou Iron and Steel Company. The coal base of Guangzhou Iron and Steel Company is in Guangning, the iron ore base is in Qiongzhou, and the steel plant is also in Qiongzhou... This coal transportation and Subsequent transportation of finished rails requires the use of ships... The railway company cannot just drive the train to the sea and then bring the rails back.
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This is only talking about the direct impact on coal, steel, machinery, chemicals, shipping and other industries, but the indirect impact is even more. It is even exaggerated to say that it affects every link of the economic system of the Dachu Empire, even everyone.
How big would you say the specific impact is?
This can be seen from the railway construction funds obtained by the Dachu Empire Railway Corporation through various external channels such as bank loans, corporate bonds, subsidies, etc. during the 25th year of Chengshun.
In the 25th year of Chengshun, the Railway Corporation has raised a total of 60 million yuan in funds from outside through various channels!
Sixty million Chu Yuan, and this is only the funds raised by the railway company in one year!
If you include the railway investment in the previous few years and subsequent years, the amount of money invested by the Dachu Empire in railway construction is astronomical.
This astronomically huge infrastructure construction process will naturally drive the rapid development of other industries.
This situation will not be an exception even in the 20th century or even the 21st century. Many countries like to boost the economy through large-scale infrastructure construction during economic downturns.
Of course, there are advantages and disadvantages to this kind of thing, so I won’t go into details here.
By the way, large-scale investment in infrastructure such as railways, highways, ports, and water conservancy facilities, in addition to the economic development that the investment itself can drive, can also improve overall productivity after the construction of these projects.
Houses, on the other hand, are not consumer goods. They cannot improve productivity, but only consume productivity.
Therefore, large-scale investment in construction and vigorous development of real estate are two different things and cannot be confused.
However, as a bulk consumer product and a domestic consumer product, houses can also drive economic development on a large scale...
As for the problems behind it, such as inflation and high housing prices, we need to look at the problem from a different perspective.
The same thing has good and bad sides. Whether it is good or not depends on where your butt sits!
With the same high housing prices, some people are happy, while others are itching to hate it. This is normal.
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Wang Tu returned to the source of the river, and after settling various cooperation matters with the railway company immediately, he also asked people to prepare for the construction of several more important roads, and also to clean up the main stream of the Dongjiang River and several tributaries.
However, unlike before, where he invited some outside construction contracting companies to come over to do the work, Wang Tu directly asked the state construction company under the state industry department to do it.
In the past, when I contracted with companies from other places, it was because I had no money and no intention of paying...
Now that I have money on hand, naturally I can’t find outsiders, I can just do it myself.
If you build your own construction company, the price can be even lower. Moreover, the workers used by local construction companies are naturally locals, and the various building materials and tools used will also be supplied locally first, which can bring a lot of benefits. employment and consumption.
How can such a good thing come to an advantage for outsiders?
After watching Wang Tu go to Guangzhou and not only get a piece of fat from the railway company, but also ask for a so-called aid payment from the Guangzhou government, many people were convinced by Wang Tu. .
I originally thought that this was just a young man who climbed up the ranks and ran away to get promoted. However, I didn't expect that this young official was more capable than the previous magistrate and could get so much money.
So many people lamented that their Heyuan Prefecture had good luck, that is, after Lin Qixun, they welcomed another good state official.
Yes, people think Wang Tu is a good official!
He has brought money, created jobs, improved the economy, and made people's lives better. This is a good official for ordinary people in the area.
In this regard, Wang Tu was also slightly relieved. After taking office for several months, he finally started to open up the situation.
Next, he can find Song Alin and other foreign investors.
The basic transportation you want has been taken care of by me, so don’t hesitate to come over and invest.
Ahem, of course, this is just Wang Tu's self-pleasure. In fact, he is very polite to these merchants from other places.
In order to attract investment, he, a dignified fifth-rank magistrate of the state, began to come to Heyuan Prefecture again to call Song Alin his brother.
Song Alin was afraid of this affectionate look... Damn, this Wang Tu is acting like this. If he invests less, the other party may turn against him.
But Song Alin is not afraid. As long as the local traffic problem that bothers him is solved, the investment can still be settled.
When Wang Tu went to Guangzhou, Song Alin also went to another place for inspection, and the results were not satisfactory. Everything else was good, but there was no way to solve the traffic problem there.
Now that Wang Tu can solve the transportation problem, Song Alin has made up his mind to invest and build a large-scale tea planting base here. Not only will he plant it himself, he will also sign supply and marketing agreements with some local farmers to let them plant it. Supply yourself with tea.
After having tea, he planned to build a large-scale tea processing factory here in Heyuan City to process loose tea that was inconvenient for large-scale transportation, especially by sea, into tea bricks for easy transportation.
He wants to build a comprehensive tea production base here that integrates tea planting, acquisition and processing.
If this tea base can be successful, then his Donglin Company can also be established. Although it is not first-class in the national tea field, it is barely first-class in the province.
Moreover, relying on Guangdong's geographical advantages, tea exports are also very convenient. It can be sold not only to the colonies of the Chu Empire in Southeast Asia, but also to the puppet states in Southeast Asia controlled by the Chu Empire.
The most important thing is that he has recently established a connection with the Western Trading Company. The Western Trading Company has been promoting tea beverages in India, West Asia, and North Africa. It also used the Dutch, Portuguese, and English to promote tea beverages in Europe. Tea drinks.
At the same time, the Oriental Trading Company also promoted tea beverages in Spanish America and even Europe through the Spanish.
Currently in the world, I dare not say it is popular, but people in some areas have indeed begun to drink tea... Although the ways of drinking tea are all kinds of strange, and people in some places do not drink tea, but use tea as medicine. , the use of food additives and the like.
But this does not affect the gradual popularity of tea from the Chu Empire in America, Europe, India, West Asia, North Africa and other places.
Although the overall market in these places is not large yet, it has opened up to some extent.
However, this is not big, only compared to the huge business volume of Xiyang Trading Company, but for Donglin Company, this is an extremely huge market.
The Western Trading Company itself does not produce any goods. It is just a second-tier dealer. The tea sold in India, West Asia, North Africa and other places must be purchased from domestic tea companies.
Previously, Song Alin relied on the relationship introduced by others, and on the other hand, it was also because the tea produced by their Donglin Company had been successfully imported into Malacca Province and other Southeast Asian regions, proving his ability.
Only then did he get the approval of the person in charge of the tea business of the Western Trading Company, and reached a preliminary cooperation intention with Donglin Company to purchase tea from Donglin Company and sell it to India, West Asia and other places.
Although he only became one of dozens of suppliers for the Western Trading Company's tea business, Song Alin was still very happy.
Being able to open up export channels for Western trading companies is very important for Donglin Company, which is based in Guangzhou and wants to expand overseas markets.
After opening up this channel, Song Alin followed the lead... and gradually promoted other processed foods under their Donglin Company to Western Trading Company. Although they were all small orders, it was still a start.
For example, the various canned meats and canned fruits in their company.
These things can all be sold through Western Trading Company!
As for the domestic market...the competition is too fierce, and the quality requirements are too high, so the overall profit is not high.
The overseas market is different. Various additives can be used casually. As long as the shelf life is long enough and can withstand long-distance shipping, then everything else is not a problem... Although this kind of export product is low-priced, it does not affect the high profit.
Why is Donglin Company able to open channels to Western Trading Company... Isn't it just because the price is cheap... As for cheap but not good goods... Well, Western Trading Company exports various commodities, which have always been defective. Product priority.
For the same canned meat, the top quality products sold in China are safe, healthy and taste good, but the problem is that they are expensive and have a short shelf life.
However, the 'Donglin Brand Special Fragrant Meat Canned' series produced by Donglin Company for export has a super long shelf life, delicious color and good taste.
What, you said that all kinds of diseased pigs and cows and various leftovers are used. Even then, there is not much real meat, but a lot of low-quality starch.
In order to color, deodorize, and preserve the quality, we also use a lot of various chemical additives that have been banned in China... Well, the indigenous people have no legislation prohibiting the use of additives!
Donglin brand special fragrant canned meat is a product that can be sold legally in any other country except in the Dachu Empire.
Song Alin is a legal businessman and never does anything illegal!
This canned meat is quite popular in several countries in Southeast Asia, and some local dealers sell it to the indigenous people at very low prices!
After all, this is canned meat from the Kingdom of Heaven, and look at the color and smell, it makes sense to buy it a little more expensive!
Good things are naturally more expensive!
Recently, Song Alin plans to go back and expand the production of canned meat for export after establishing the tea production base. What if this thing becomes popular in India, West Asia, North Africa and other places?
