Yang Rui stayed in Dalinggou for a night. The next day, after crossing Dalinggou, he boarded the train sent from Tonghua. It was above 100 kilometers from Tonghua County, more than 130 kilometers to Tonghua New City, and nearly 200 kilometers to Yang Rui's destination Hongtu Cliff. At a speed of more than 20 kilometers, it is probably a day to walk.

Because of Chen Dafa's affairs, Du Yaquan only talked with Yang Rui for an hour in the past two days. Now that he has such a long journey, he has time to give a comprehensive introduction to Tonghua. However, he noticed that there were fewer people in Yang Rui's group, and said, "Where is that Cheng... girl?" He didn't know what to call Cheng Zhu, so he had to be called a girl in the end.

"She..." Du Yaquan was not a member, but everyone saw the achievements of the Revival Society. And for some reason, he was able to talk to Yang Rui very well. Although he was a few years older than Yang Rui, the two had a very close relationship, so he dared to ask some private matters. When Yang Rui saw him asking Cheng Zhu, he said helplessly: "She has gone back, so I am angry with her. I think it's better for my sister-in-law, who is well-educated and well-informed, and you don't want to worry about anything at home."

Du Yaquan also heard about Yang Rui and Cheng Zhu. He wanted to say a few more words, but when Yang Rui turned the topic to himself, he tactfully shut up. Some men don’t like to talk about family affairs. Perhaps Yang Rui is like this, so he turned the topic to work: "The arsenal is operating well, and the production of shells I mentioned before has also increased a lot. Now it has produced 4,000 shells per month. Others have not increased a lot of bullets. The output of everything has been increased except for one million bullets. A lot of coal has been stored in the Wudaogou coal mine. I just waited for the railway to release coal. The contract of 100 million tons was not signed with the Japanese, but I think there are many places to use coal now. Two million tons of coal are sold every year, and there are still three to four million taels a year. The coal mine in Fushun cannot move, otherwise the open-pit coal mine will produce a larger output..."

Speaking of the profits in the Northeast, Du Yaquan's interest suddenly increased a lot, but Yang Rui said: "Don't move Fushun first, just let the other side dig slowly. Also, has the Russian shares been resolved?"

"It's settled." Du Yaquan nodded and said, "I've redeemed it all, and it cost more than 400,000 taels. The Russians initially wanted to sell two million rubles of coal mine to an American businessman, but I found the American consul to stop this matter. In addition, the shares of Yalu River Timber Company have also been redeemed. Now the wooden handles in Yalu River are all on our side." He said this and thought that Yang Rui didn't like to cut down randomly. He also said, "Apart from the wood logging earlier, the new wooden handles did not issue any logging licenses. In fact, the wooden handles that are being cut down now do not like new people to come.

Once the railway is connected in the mining industry, everything is easy to deal with. Coal can be transported out, and pig iron in the steel mill can be transported out. I think there is coal and iron in Tonghua. It is time to expand the iron plant? The steel mill now has only one small blast furnace with a daily output of 20 tons of pig iron, and one with a daily output of 3 tons. Two steel mills with a daily output of 2 tons are used for research. Only the three-ton furnace is producing steel rails. The railway tracks to be paved from Meihekou to Changchun are produced by it. In the past, I was afraid that the railway was blocked, but now the railway is open, so it just expands the iron plant. The coal mines and railways here are very close to the railways, and the quality of iron coking coal is good. The pig iron produced must be lower than that of Ma'anshan."

Du Yaquan attaches great importance to steel mills. In addition to verbally expanding the steel mill, he also brought a written plan. The above plan is to add two blast furnaces with a daily output of 100 tons of pig iron. The steel mill will also add two alkaline Martin steelmaking furnaces with a daily output of 30 tons of steel, a large blending furnace of 100 tons. In addition, the rolling mill, rail factory, and steel plate factory will all be expanded. According to this plan, Tonghua Steel Plant produces more than 70,000 tons of iron and 20,000 tons of steel per year.

Yang Rui looked at the complete plan and smiled: "You are not afraid of conflicts with Ma'anshan. Hanyang now has money and has bought two 30-ton alkaline martin furnaces. Can China digest so much steel?"

"Hanyang has 30,000 tons of steel, 50,000 tons of steel, plus 20,000 tons of steel in Tonghua, a total of 100,000 tons, which is not too much." The market for pig iron is very large. The United States and Japan are importing a large amount of steel, but steel is not easy to sell. Except for Nanyang and South America, it is extremely high even if you can enter other places. The reason why the colonies exist is because it is a discriminatory market. The products of the sovereign state are unobstructed, and the products of the sovereign state are not allowed to be coldly treated. However, Du Yaquan obviously has some research on this. He said: "Those who use steel are the most important of steel, except for the steel rails and ships. Now the whole country is built, with a total of nearly 5,000 kilometers. In terms of forty tons of steel per kilometer, it requires two million tons of steel. Even if these railways need to be built in ten years, they will need two hundred thousand tons of steel every year..."

"You are so optimistic," Yang Rui interrupted him. "Now, in addition to the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway under construction, there are also our railways in Anhui, and the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway. Although other places have plans to build railways, they are just talking but not practicing. Taking the Sichuan-Hanzhou Railway as an example, many shares of this railway were forcibly raised, but the money raised was all placed in the Guandong Bank for interest. They didn't want to build a kilometer of railways, and the gentry just waited for interest. The same was true for the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway. Except for Guangdong, the capital of overseas Chinese in Nanyang who wanted to build the road, Hunan did not want to build it at all. Now, Hanyang Iron Factory has got money because it went public and wanted to build it.

The section from Zhuzhou to Hankou allows the coking coal from Pingxiang to be directly used to move to Hanyang by train, but the local gentry was afraid that the railway would be built and could not wait for the capital to earn interest. In addition, when the railway company was first built, in order to share more interest, they recognized more shares than the other, and they bragged about it, but they really couldn't take it out if they asked him to take the money. I can see that the Qing Dynasty was vicious, but as long as it was not involved in the throne, they were still merciless. However, the gentry below were ashamed, moral and righteous as they were, and they could do everything for money in their hearts. These people should be killed!"

Yang Rui's murderous intention only made Du Yaquan's whole body feel cold. He didn't understand why Yang Rui's hostility is so heavy now. He wouldn't say anything to kill cleanly before. He calmed down. He didn't answer Yang Rui's topic and said tremblingly: "If the railway cannot be repaired so many times, then shipbuilding can be considered a big steel user. The domestic shipping price is very high now, and a 10,000-ton ship requires 4,000 tons of steel, and a thousand-ton ship also requires 3,000 tons of steel. Although China's shipyards are small now, the annual shipbuilding totals of nearly 100,000 tons. In addition to other machines and railway steel, the 100,000 tons of steel can still be sold."

"Well." Du Yaquan said something reasonable. Yang Rui had no choice but to say, "You should give the detailed report to Shanghai. Now there are three iron plants in China, and Hanyang has merged with Ma'anshan. Tonghua has to build a large iron plant, and finally merge it. The three iron plants will eventually be unified in layout, not only to drive out the imported steel. We also have to occupy all the imported iron. In addition to the shipyard, Shanghai has also built a heavy machinery factory, which is built in it, which is like a tractor bulldozer used on the railway. However, it is not a steam engine, but a hot ball machine and a diesel engine. One such thing weighs more than ten tons, and one small one weighs more than four or five tons. One hundred machines costs ten tons of steel."

"Are you talking about that caterpillar?" Du Yaquan, the steam bulldozer on the railway, had a very impression. He just didn't know that this thing could be made by himself, and that thing would be useful. If it weren't for him, the railway would not have been built so quickly.

"Yes, that's the thing. The company in the United States is our holdings, and patents have been transferred to Shanghai. Tractors, bulldozers, road rollers, harvesters, cranes, these things can be sold all over the world, and there will be no great discrimination in tariffs." Construction machinery in this period was in its infancy. In the United States and the world of steam machinery, even tracks were not popular. It is not difficult to integrate all contemporary technologies into a world-renowned engineering machinery company based on what we have seen and known in later generations.

"But how much can these things be sold? The ones we bought are very expensive." Thinking of the prices of those big guys, Du Yaquan was a little amazed. If it weren't for the construction period, he wouldn't want to buy so many caterpillars.

"It's totally OK. There are eight factories in the United States that produce tractors, with an annual output of 600 steam tractors, but these tractors are very expensive, with the least of 3,000 US dollars, and the most expensive ones are tens of thousands. If they are made with hot ball machines or diesel engines, the cost per unit is only 1,000 US dollars. According to the analysis of the Marketing Department, even steam tractors are in short supply now, and many of them are backward. As long as we can build tractors with convenient and efficient performance, the sales must be quite large. The Overseas Marketing Department estimates that the annual sales of tractors in the US market will exceed 10,000 units in five years, and the annual sales will exceed 10,000 units in ten years. [Note: This data comes from the history of tractors.]" With the expansion and deepening of the commercial intelligence collection of the Revival Association, the intelligence from various industries will be gathered in Shanghai, and Yang Rui will carefully study these information and find some opportunities. Heavy machinery such as tractors are one of them.

"That's to make this thing in Shanghai? Also, isn't it a scramble for business with Americans when sold to the United States? Wouldn't they drive us out?" Du Yaquan and Chen Dafa had a good relationship with overseas Chinese, knowing that the United States is not that easy to be stupid.

"Whether the tractor is a hot ball machine or a diesel machine, they burn oil. There is someone in the United States who will be very happy that we make this kind of thing. We build tractors first. When the Americans also start to build crawler tractors, we will upgrade them. When the tractor has no market, we will build construction machinery. When the construction machinery has no market, we will build something else," Yang Rui originally wanted to say tanks, but he thought it would be fine. "The other way is that the tractor factory cannot be placed in Shanghai. It is too unsafe there, so it is better to put it in Tonghua New City. The climate here is cold, which is beneficial to making machines. And it is in the mountains. It is best to produce this, that is, oil... There is no hurry, so it is better to import it first. The feasibility report of the tractor factory will be reported in Shanghai soon, and they are counting data from other countries."

The steel plant proposed that after the negotiation, there was an additional tractor factory. Du Yaquan said for a while after listening: "Shanghai is not safe, is Tonghua safe?"

"Well, this place is safer than Shanghai!" Yang Rui replied: "Although it is close to the border, North Korea is full of mountains. Large troops cannot supply materials across the border. If they want to cross the border, they can only reach a scale of tens of thousands of people. There is nothing to worry about for these people. We are not afraid of fighting the jungle war."

Tonghua is good, but it is too close to North Korea. Since Yang Rui is confident about the safety of this place, Du Yaquan was relieved. He carefully wrote down the tractor matters in his work notes, and waited to go back and think about how big the place it would be if he wanted to open such a factory. There are also electricity, water, and how to all aspects of employment.

After talking about military industry, heavy industry, and then the next thing is light industry, agriculture and education. Du Yaquan turned the notebook over a page and began to talk about light industry. "We mainly used light industry in oil presses and refineries, we did not involve silk, flour, and textiles. We just trained a group of local merchants and gentry, and then the Kanto Bank gave them loans to them. Let them set up factories. Last year, we squeezed a total of 7,600 tons of oil in oil presses in various places, exported to the United States for more than 2,800 tons, and transported the rest to Shanghai. The 1,500 tons were hardened and used for making soap candles and lubricating oil. The rest were all left.

Edible. Last year, the soybean production in the entire Northeast was estimated to be about 65 tons last year. The agricultural trade company made 150,000 tons and exported more than 40,000 tons. It accounts for half of the total exports in the Northeast. It is mainly exported to Japan, Southeast Asia and the Philippines. However, since last year, the Japanese Mitsui have pulled a group of people to collect beans in various places. I am afraid that in another two years, they will suppress us by relying on the South Manchuria Railway." Soybeans are the highlight of Northeast economic and trade. Du Yaquan has always been watching it. He is so anxious that the railway is transporting beans in addition to transporting coal. Among them, transporting beans is the most important thing.

"The matter of soybeans is very complicated." Yang Rui said, taking out a prepared document to Du Yaquan, "This is the soybean industry development report formulated by Shanghai. You can go back and find someone to study it. As long as you can do the things in it, soybeans will always be controlled in our hands."

Du Yaquan took it after hearing this. The plan was very thick, so he only opened the directory. He saw several big titles on the directory. The first one was to open soybean futures on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. As soon as he saw Shanghai, he said, "Is Xingjian going to Shanghai for this?"

"Well. It's for this matter." Yang Rui nodded and said, "The stocks in the United States are about to collapse. Taofu cannot leave, so he can only send Xingjian to this matter. Shanghai is the financial center of China. Listing of soybean futures is conducive to the ease of sale. The price of soybeans in the future depends on the market conditions there, as well as raw silk, tung oil, and coal. These will be listed in the future. We are the market makers, and many things are easy to control. However, in order to be listed, the Northeast must have a graded trading of soybeans." Yang Rui added.

Du Yaquan said: "We are already doing this now. Soybeans have been divided into grades, soybean cakes and soybean oil also have grades. Compared with our own oil presses, there are many..."

"No, this is not enough." Yang Rui has read the entire report and knows that many of the things above are different from Du Yaquan. "The production of soybeans is still increasing, and the existing oil presses are not enough. Now Kanto Bank is about to implement an oil mill loan plan, that is, to provide low-interest loans to all those who are interested in opening oil mills. These oil mills will join the Northeast Soybean Trade Chamber of Commerce led by us. At that time, all oil mills will press oil according to our standards. The soybean oil and soybean cakes will be the same standard; soybeans will be made in various places.

Establish a storage warehouse, and the soybeans of merchants are classified into storage. They are no longer simply classified, but are divided into five levels. In order to avoid some people’s troubles, storage costs will be appropriately reduced and railway freight will also be discounted for soybeans after grading, which can be classified and can bring supply to railway companies, killing two birds with one stone. Finally, there is the local cooperative system, which is what the agricultural reclamation company needs to do. Soybeans are ultimately a commodity. The oil in the world trade has risen and fallen, and the climate will change every year, so it is still necessary to adjust them from the perspective of planting."

Yang Rui said everything he should say in one breath, but before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Du Yaquan. He said, "This is not just a simple business, this... It seems like we have become an official, manipulating the entire soybean production, processing and trade. It is enough. Do we have so much money to lend them to build an oil press? There is also a cooperative. This is to unite all the people. Can this be done?"

"What can't be done? Kanto Bank now has a great influence in Shanghai, and many people in Shanghai have made money in making soybeans. Even if it is not the oil press that we built with loans, as long as we use our machines and have received our training, they will join the soybean trader. In fact, what we do is to integrate these oil presses, and integrate weapons is railways and oil presses. Now the oil presses in various places are very backward. The type of press we used before is technically advanced than other people's equipment. Don't those who run oil presses know that they want to buy this kind of equipment?" The soybean industry plan is the top priority in the Northeast, and the entire plan has taken a lot of effort. "If you don't mention anything else in the countryside, the key is that we can grasp the price of soybeans."

Seeing Yang Rui talking about the price of soybeans, Du Yaquan said: "We have the final say in the past few years. This is because we have taken advantage of the Shanghai side. But as long as the Japanese export volume exceeds us, the price of soybeans in Northeast China will be determined by them. This... this is what I am most worried about!"

Pricing power is the most critical power in agricultural product trade. Whoever controls the source of goods will control half of the pricing power, and the other half is in the traders. Tianzi controls grain stations and cart stores, which controls the source of goods, and the volume of domestic trade and exports is extremely large. It controls trade, so the price of soybeans can be completely manipulated on this basis. However, with the increase in the foreign trade volume of soybeans, it will reach 400,000 tons in three years. Du Yaquan doesn’t know if this is true. In fact, according to history, this volume is not only true. And this volume is only half of the actual number. With such export volume, the Japanese bargaining power will naturally increase. Even if soybeans are resistant to storage than silkworm cocoons, but one is not good, Hu Xueyan is the second.

Yang Rui didn't take Du Yaquan's worries seriously. He smiled and said, "Brother Qiufan, don't worry, everything is within the control range." After saying that, Yang Rui changed the subject. He asked, "How is the school running here? Will the matter in Hangzhou have any impact?"

"The impact is, but not big." Although Du Yaquan couldn't imagine what Yang Rui's confidence was. Since he didn't mention it, it would be difficult to ask, he had to say, "Including the industry here, there is not much impact. At the end of last year, a group of people came from Beijing, saying that they were investigating the wood industry in Liaodong, but in fact, they were investigating the scale of Tianzi in Tonghua. Several people came here, all of whom were gentle and gentle officials. I had dinner with them. When they saw that the scale here was so large, they were shocked and asked me whether it was run by Chinese or foreigners. I said at the time that most of them were run by Chinese, but Yang Rui had a lot of shares. After they left, there was no movement, and they just rewarded me with a second-grade top-end dress, which was considered a bribe.

The school is better than that in the Guanzhong area. After all, the food here is cheaper than in the Guanzhong area. If you eat sorghum all, a student only costs five taels of silver a year. Now they eat together, and each person costs less than six taels of silver. There are more than 63,000 primary school students, more than 9,700 middle schools, and two schools, one is Tonghua Law and Political School, with more than 700 students, and the other is Tonghua Technology School. There are more people, about 1,300 people. Harbin University is still built, but it is estimated that it will be completed this fall. It is comparable to the Tongji University in Shanghai, and the number of Russian professors is not as high as in Shanghai."

"Why, you seem to be much larger than North China? Is education granting more funds?" Yang Rui remembered that elementary school students in North China only had just over 10,000 yuan, and added only 20,000 middle school students, but now there are more than 80,000 students in Northeast China. At 6 taels per person per year, it will cost more than 400,000 yuan. Education will definitely not allocate so much to Northeast China.

"Shanghai allocated 300,000 taels, and the Northeast subsidized part of it, and the Shangshen, who runs factories with us, donated some. Now all counties in the Northeast have our schools, especially in Liaodong, and all townships have schools, and there are many primary schools." Du Yaquan found that he was missing, and he was talking nonsense incoherently. He understood that he violated the internal management regulations. After all, all education is under the name of the Education Association, and any funds are controlled on the finance side. Since the Northeast has extra money to run schools, it must be that there are loopholes in the financial supervision system.

Four hundred thousand taels, the difference is nearly ten thousand taels. Shangshen cannot donate so much. Yang Rui stared at him and asked, "Where did this money come from?"

Seeing Yang Rui staring at him, Du Yaquan's back was full of cold sweat. He was very proud of Northeast education, but he didn't expect that Yang Rui could see the problem. He smiled bitterly: "I came from private orders. Mainly because of Tonghua Shipping Company, the approved load capacity is 500 tons, but in fact it can be loaded more than 100 tons each time, and a boat can be loaded more than 4,000 tons a year. Now, more than ten ships of the ship company can be loaded more than 60,000 tons a year. The 60,000 tons of coal is also 180,000 taels a year. Except for a small part of the money earned, all the others have been invested in the school."

After Du Yaquan said that, Yang Rui did not say anything. He knew about the overloading of the ship company, but the Hun River was too curved and the Yalu River was also a seasonal river. The water level was uncertain, so the opinion at that time was to prohibit overloading. Who would have thought that he would become more and more familiar with the route, and the temptation of additional income, the ship company's people actually overloaded more than 100 tons. He was really crazy about money...

"You can hand over what you have to do first. After the financial supervision investigation is completed, you can go to work." Yang Rui said coldly, and only coldly reached Du Yaquan's heart.
Chapter completed!