Shanghai is a place that Yang Rui is familiar with in this life and the future. This is his second hometown, past events are here, youth is here, regrets, suffering and annoyance will always remain here. + After receiving the news that the train was about to enter the station for half an hour, he couldn't help but stand up and opened a gap in the thin white screen window to look out of the car.

It was already dusk outside the window, and boats flowed endlessly on a small river not far ahead of the roadbed. Because the winding water surface was blocked by the river bank, from a distance, these boats seemed to be driving on land. There were feather-like short bamboo forests growing on the sand dunes, and the big black buffalo lying lazily in the mud beside the river bank, driving away mosquitoes with their thick and black tails. The sky was reddish by the soft sunset, and the reflection seemed even more brilliant in the water. Except for the sound of the train, all this was so quiet and beautiful.

"Prime Minister, the train is already slowing down and cannot be too close to the window." Secretary Li Zilong whispered.

"Yeah!" Yang Rui pondered, but was indifferent. He only felt that the scenery outside the window was too beautiful and wanted to freeze it forever. However, when Li Zilong was about to speak, he had to put down the screen window, wanting to say something but not knowing what to say. He knew that Li Zilong was a dedicated secretary and knew that the window could not be approached, but... he felt that something seemed to be missing in his life.

The train rolled forward, and after half an hour, he had already arrived at the Shanghai Zha in northern battle. Although he did not like extravagance, the mayor of Shanghai Stock Exchange Fei Yugui still prepared a military band at the station according to the convention of this era. With it, reporters from major newspapers in Shanghai, Yu Qiaqing, representative of the chamber of commerce, Li Deli, representative of the public concession, and others came. Since the welcoming was based on the convention of this era, Yang Rui had a routine work at the station according to the convention of this era, and then went to the Shanghai County Town under the escort of the Shanghai troops.

The county town in Shanghai originally had a city wall, but because the entire Shanghai was piled up with sand and soil. The unstable foundation made the city walls sink continuously for hundreds of years and could not be repaired. With the approval of the Cultural Relics Department of the Ministry of Rites, at some time last year, the city walls of the county town were demolished and turned into streets. The city walls were demolished, and Shanghai began to renovate the principles like the capital city, cleaning up stains and rectifying sanitation. After a few years, Shanghai also changed its previous crowded and dirty old appearance and became refreshing and pleasant. Yang Rui stayed in the Shanghai County Town Store in Longmen Inn, and a separate building was wrapped up. At the time of the routine dinner and preparing to go to bed, Li Zilong said Qiu Jin was asking for a meeting.

"Aren't you holding a huge sum of money to save those miserable women? Why did you run away from me?" Yang Rui teased as soon as he met. He saw Qiu Jin wandering around like a headless fly, and he had no idea.

"Although the 200,000 yuan is more than 200,000 yuan in the world!" Qiu Jin and Yang Rui were familiar with each other and spoke casually.

"Is it still too little for 200,000?" Yang Rui pretended to be surprised, "You only had 80,000 or 100,000 at the time."

"I wanted to get 100,000 yuan at the beginning, but you didn't approve it. We had to raise it ourselves. Now there is 200,000 yuan, but I always feel that it is so rare to raise it. I just bought some machines and sent it to branches in various places. It feels inappropriate." Yu Qiaqing's words made more and more reasonable Qiu Jin wanted to make an appointment. She came here to ask Yang Rui how to turn the 200,000 yuan into 2 million or 20 million yuan.

"Then let's go and run a factory." Yang Rui laughed and replied casually. "Tianzi started with 20,000 taels back then. You have 200,000, which is much better than we were back then."

"It's done. Then why do you want to make money when you say 200,000?" Qiu Jin ignored Yang Rui's smile, but asked directly. She knew that the size of the sky was actually made by Yang Rui, and this person had the best ability to make money in the world.

"What are you doing to make money?" Yang Rui's smile became even stronger. He said in an official voice: "Lord Qiu was visiting late at night and just came to ask me how I made money? Isn't this too insulting to be gentle?"

"You!" Qiu Jin was speechless when she heard this, and felt that it was indeed inappropriate to visit a prime minister in the late night and just to make money. When she was embarrassed, Yang Rui stopped joking, but said seriously: "You go back first! Making money does not depend on how much money you have, but on how many people you have and who you have. You must know that it is not money to make money, but people to make money. There will be a product exhibition in the light industrial park tomorrow afternoon. You ask Fei Yugui to give you a few visiting certificates. Then we will go and have a look together. Maybe there will be ways to make money."

Yang Rui sent Qiu Jin away after a few words. He didn't remember something until she left, "Is that guy Qiu Jin's troubleshooting such a thing considered absent from work?"

"Prime Minister, Lord Qiu is taking annual leave now!" Unexpectedly, Yang Rui was going to check Qiu Jin's post, and Li Zilong reported it for a while.

"Oh. Take annual leave..." Yang Rui sighed. If government officials have worked for less than one year or more, there are three days of paid annual leave. If they have been working for less than ten years or more, there are six days of annual leave. If they have been working for more than twenty years, there are ten days of annual leave. This is a rule made by him personally, but he has never taken annual leave.

According to the sunrise scheduled by Li Zilong, Yang Rui will stay in Shanghai for two days before going to Yanzhou. In the first morning, the first day is to go to Tongji University Hall, the afternoon is to Shanghai Light Industrial Park, and the evening is to attend the banquet at the invitation of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce; the next morning is to have a discussion with the Chinese and foreign business circles in Shanghai, and the afternoon is to visit the newly established Shanghai Bill Exchange, and to attend the welcome reception held by the Shanghai Consular Group to welcome him. At that time, his wife, Cheng Wu, will arrive in Shanghai by boat this morning and will also attend the reception in the evening.

The next morning's trip to the school was nothing unexpected. The Germans who worked hard to run the school very well. What really made Yang Rui look forward to was the trip to Shanghai Light Industrial Park, Shanxi National Industrial Park, Hanyang Military Industrial Park, and Nanjing Shipbuilding Industrial Park. This is the focus of private enterprises. This is a natural growth Chinese industry. Although it is immature, it will eventually thrive.

The industrial park is located near Luxing Town, 12 kilometers from the sea, 18 kilometers from Wusongkou, and 7 kilometers from Tongji University Hall. If there were no torpedo bombers and mines, Japanese warships would have to be about four kilometers away from the coast to not be stranded. At this sixteen kilometers, the main guns of the battleships were difficult to hit the target. However, this is just a hypothesis that the submarines and torpedo bombers drove the Japanese Navy far away. After the main ship of the Third Fleet was sunk, Japan did not immediately send large warships to the coast of China. They are still in panic about submarines. According to the information of the Military Intelligence Bureau, the Japanese are now discussing how to deal with submarines, but there is no good idea.

While Yang Rui was thinking about the location of the Industrial Park, the carriage had already arrived in the industrial park. A large group of gentry wearing new clothes were welcomed by the entrance of the industrial park. Zhu Baosan and Yu Qiaqing were walking in the front. They surrounded Zhang Jian, the Minister of Commerce, wearing official robes, and were waiting for Yang Rui's arrival.

"Mr. Zhang Jian and Lord Zhang also set up a factory in the industrial park." Li Zilong saw Yang Rui's doubts and explained.

"Yeah." Yang Rui nodded slightly. At this time, the welcome firecrackers were ignited, and the invited gongs, drums and suona began to ring in shock. If Yang Rui hadn't known that this was a welcome, he would have thought there was a wedding nearby.

There are more than 70 factories of large and small in Shanghai Light Industrial Park, with three connections and one square meter in the park. The land price is 100 taels per acre. After building a house, the factory can be mortgaged. The ultra-low mortgage interest is equivalent to free land delivery. However, because the park uses electricity, many silk reel factories, spinning mills, and weaving factories that are still powered by steam cannot be moved. On the contrary, those machinery factories with only simple machine tools have been moved on a large scale. Through various support policies, they can build factories here.

"There are seventy-eight factories, five of which are made agricultural machinery, eleven of which are made silk reeling machines, twenty-one of which are made cotton mills, four of which are made textile machines, three of which are made sock knitting machines, eight of which are made printing machines, and two of which are made lathes..."

Yu Qiaqing and Yang Rui were familiar with each other, so he introduced the situation of the industrial park. There is a lathe factory in Shanxi, and I don’t want it to be available here. Yang Rui said curiously: “There are people making lathes here?”

The meeting hosted by Yang Rui was only a factory registered in the Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce of the Qing Dynasty. Some other unregistered factories were not sure what the court was going to do, so they didn't go. They just waited for the people who went to Beijing to have a large meeting and came back with loans. These talents woke up from their dreams and went to Beijing to explain the situation to the Ministry of Works. The Ministry of Works lit them for a few days on the grounds of "not trusting the court" before sending people to meet them, and included them in the third batch of support list based on their size and situation. This lathe is also in this situation. However, he was just established last year.

"Yes," Yu Qiaqing nodded. "One is called Rongdatai Machinery Factory, and the owner is Sun Rongquan. We are from Ningbo. In our early years, we were in Guangtai Machinery Factory run by Xuanhuai Shengda." When Yu Qiaqing introduced, he did not forget to claim that some Ningbo people were very proud. "At first, there were only two British four and a half-inch old lathes, which were only for repairs. After the court supported it, he started to make lathes. He used the old lathes in the UK, and made wood samples from Maochang Wood mold factory, cast embryos from the shape Yongchang Sand Turning Factory, and the Yu Baochang Machinery Factory used hand-cranking trucks to plan the lathe plane, and then used Gongxing Iron Factory to mill the gears, and the turning processing was done by himself. Now ten machine tools can be produced every month, each selling 120 yuan, which is about 20% of the profit. The other is Yuanmao Machinery Factory, the owner is Feng Caiyun, and in his early years he was the lathe foreman of the Hanyang Arsenal, and he also made lathes..."

The lathe Yu Qiaqing mentioned was just an old-style lathe, and it was just a lathe frame. The turning tool still had to be imported from foreign high-speed steel, but it was rare to produce an old-style lathe under such simplicity. When Yang Rui praised it in his heart, he had already walked to the exhibition site surrounded by everyone. A row of machines were placed there, and the name of the factory and the name of the machine were all clearly visible. This suddenly reminded him of the medical equipment exhibition that he often participated in when he worked in Shanghai in later generations. The latest thing that caught his eye was the equipment of the new shipyard. Zhu Zhiyao Shipyard was not here, and he didn't know how to grab this position.

"This is..." Yang Rui looked at the first strange machine, "Is it a rice mill?"

"Sir, I'm very good at it..." Zhu Zhiyao, who was behind him, immediately squeezed up. He wanted to explain himself: "This is a rice mill invented by our factory in the past three years. It sold more than 70 seats. It was equipped with a steam engine. The year before, Shenwu felt that the steam engine was inconvenient, so he started to use the eight-horsepower and a half-temperature turbulent engine built by our factory. It was flexible and fast, and the benefits were once. He consumed 30 kilograms of turbulent oil every day and night, and could crush 130 stones of rice... Even the engine was sold for 1,500 yuan, and more than 70 seats."

Zhu Zhiyao brought out the machines before the founding of the country to demonstrate the technical level of the Qiuxin Machinery Factory. Seeing that he was like this, Yang Rui deliberately said: "Mr. Zhu took out the machines from the previous Qing Dynasty. Could it be that the things in the Qing Dynasty were better than those in Greater China?"

"Ah!" Zhu Zhiyao's face turned blue. He didn't expect that he could think about this. He was speechless. Yu Qiaqing next to him just smiled secretly, and he felt that the Zhu surnamed was so fond of cunning.

Yang Rui originally wanted to scare this person. He broke the rules and paid 10,000 taels to pat his manuscripts, which was too good to flatter him. "Mr. Zhu, I'm just kidding. You don't have to take it to your heart. Even if some people say that Greater China is not as good as the Qing Dynasty, it is innocent."

After Yang Rui said this, Zhu Zhiyao's face suddenly turned red, but his speech was still unsatisfied. "Sir... I really can hold a boat in the prime minister's belly, but I'm too much..."

"Okay! This is just a joke. If any official treats you like this in the future, you can tell me or the Inspectorate. Technology is technology, industry is industry, there is nothing that has happened before and now." Yang Rui said aloud. Everyone next to him suddenly applauded. He waited for the applause to stop and asked Zhu Zhiyao with a smile: "General Zhu, the diesel engine of Tonghua Diesel Engine Factory also has ten horsepower. Why do you need to build your own turbulent engine?"

Zhu Zhiyao only realized that the Prime Minister was just joking, but although he was shocked, his face was still pale. When he saw Yang Rui asking again, he answered carefully: "Sir, I originally wanted to use a diesel engine. After all, diesel only costs 18 taels per ton, while 45 and 6 taels of turtle oil may not be much. Some of them are remote, with only turtle oil but no diesel, so many businesses want turtle oil instead of diesel. Besides..., although the diesel engine produced by Tonghua in the diesel engine is better than foreign goods, the price is also equivalent to foreign goods. Each horsepower costs 100 to 120 taels, and the self-made turtle oil engine only costs 60 to 70 taels, so..."

"So that's it." Yang Rui immediately understood the whole story. With decades of operation by Mobil, kerosene has penetrated into every village in China. Diesel has always been used for industrial use and machinery. The demand is small, and the sales range is naturally narrow. In addition, the price of diesel is only one-third of that of kerosene. The cost of use is cheap, so the purchase cost will naturally be high.

"General Zhu, Qiuxin Factory still makes engines?" Yang Rui's previous impression of Qiuxin was that he had built several pretty good ships, but he didn't know that the factory could still build engines.

"Sir, our factory is made of all engines except diesel engines, including single-fire-bore steam boilers, double-fire-bore steam boilers, horizontal-bore steam boilers, vertical-bore steam boilers, and tin oil engines. The double-fire-bore steam boilers with a maximum horsepower of 500 horsepower are arranged on the wheels of Daxin, Chaoyang, and Xintai." Zhu Zhiyao said, and he felt that his legs were not shaking at this time.

"How much does a steam engine cost per horsepower?" Yang Rui asked. He wanted Li Zilong to go back and list it to himself to compare the purchase and use costs of each engine. After a long time of governance, he didn't know about these market data.

"Sir, the horsepower of the steam engine is about fifteen to thirty taels." Zhu Zhiyao replied. He was curious why Yang Rui asked this.

"Oh. Fifteen to thirty taels... diesel engines are 100 to 120 taels per horse..." Yang Rui turned around and looked at Li Zilong and said, "You remember it and compare these engines at different costs."

After Yang Rui finished explaining, there were some oil presses seeking new construction in front, but these were equipment around 1905, and then the oil presses in East Asia were monopolized by Tonghua. Just as he was about to stay away from the new construction booth, a specially enlarged photo made Yang Rui stop. He asked: "It turns out that the passenger and freight trucks of Anhui Railway Company are seeking new construction?"

"Sir, it is the factory that we built." Zhu Zhiyao replied. Other agricultural machinery earns some small money. The passenger and freight truck boxes used on the railway are the big ones. For example, the first-class passenger bus car costs four or five thousand taels per car, and even the cheapest third-class car costs two thousand taels. A train costs tens of thousands taels.

"Well. It's good to be new!" Yang Rui finally nodded and praised. At the late Qing Dynasty, it would be amazing to have a private factory that can build self-built engines and train cars. "If you have time later, you can go and have a look."

"Ah..." Zhu Zhiyao exclaimed again, but this time was different from the moment. He was scared just now, and he was happy this time. "That little man, no, I will make arrangements right away."

The word "villain" is prohibited in government documents. Zhu Zhiyao was excited and habitually called himself a villain. However, Zhang Jian pulled him aside, making him wake up immediately, and then bowed and ran away immediately.

As soon as the booth of Qiuxin Factory passed, the one coming was a flower ginning machine. This is the most imitated foreign machine in China except for silk reeling machines. However, this thing is not difficult to build, and it is all operated by small households. The head of these dozen manufacturers is Dongxin Machinery Factory, the owner of the factory is Fu Caiqin. Looking at the appearance that Yu Qiaqing strongly introduced, this person was also from Ningbo as expected.

"This ginning machine was built by Dongxin seven years ago in Shenwu, but the first machine was built in the Sino-Japanese War. At that time, it cost 200 bucks to buy a new Japanese eight-foot lathe, hire a wheeler, and then two small workers with a rocker lathe, so you can build it. At that time, a ginning car costs more than 30 bucks. The profit you make yourself can be 30 bucks. The more people you build now, the less profit you make." Fu Caiqin probably saw some things, and although he was not elegant, he was simple. "Now a ginning machine is only sold for 14 bucks, and the profit is not 20 bucks. When it was sold well, it was only in the three months of collection. Other times we built other machines to supplement the expenses."

"Then where are the cotton ginning machines sold?" Yang Rui asked.

"It's the area where flowers are planted in Jiangnan." Fu Caiqin replied.

"Do you know that it is starting to grow beautiful cotton on a large scale in Shaanxi?" Yang Rui suddenly said.

"Shaanxi... grow beautiful cotton?" Everyone around was surprised. Now the whole country said that it was necessary to improve local cotton, but only Zhang Jian's Tongzhou beautiful cotton planting was good after trying to plant in the late Qing Dynasty. Zhang Zhidong spent several years trying to test the beautiful cotton planting in Hubei, but it was not successful.

"Yes! If you really have confidence in your own ginning machine, you can go to Shaanxi to see it. I remember that there seemed to be no man-made this thing in the Shanxi Industrial Park for a while. Or you can go to the Ministry of Electrical and Agricultural Sciences for consultation and see what's going on there." Yang Rui said.

"Mr. Xie, please give me some advice." More than a dozen manufacturers of the cotton ginning mill hurriedly thanked. In fact, they did not dare to go to Shaanxi. After all, there are merchants from all over the country, but it would be great if they could go there through the Ministry of Agriculture to sell cotton ginning mills there.

"Prime Minister, does Shaanxi really grow beautiful cotton?" Zhang Jian asked immediately after hearing this. He runs a spoiler and is particularly concerned about cotton, especially beautiful cotton.

"Of course, northwest China has always been suitable for growing cotton, whether it is local cotton or American cotton. The Ministry of Agriculture will be implemented in Shaanxi this year, and it is estimated that it will push it westward in the next few years. It will continue to push it to the Western Regions. The Longmen Yellow River Bridge will be opened to traffic by the end of this year, and the train will be directly connected to Xi'an. Mr. Fourth will send people to Shaanxi to collect flowers next year." Yang Rui said with a smile.

"Isn't spending this year?" This year, US cotton production has been reduced, and Zhang Jian's Dasheng Spinning Mill has not collected much of it.

"The output this year is too small. And the volume this year is not enough for Shanxi's brass mills." Yang Rui said. "Shaanxi has always been poor. Shanxi merchants who know that the cost of spending is not high have already set up brass mills in Taiyuan. If Mr. Fourth wants to buy flowers, he will go early next year."

Yang Rui's words made Zhang Jian feel itchy. Jiangnan is not as good as Shaanxi. Even if Dasheng tries his best to control Tongzhou, those flower farmers will sell flowers to outsiders when the purchase price is lower. For spinning mills, the purchase price is too high, so the price of cotton yarn is naturally very high. Cotton spinning is still a competitive advantage in competing with agricultural products. Only by dyeing the spinning into cloth and then making it into clothes can it be increased. According to commercial information, the reason why Japanese cotton spinning is powerful is because of centralized procurement, then blending Chinese local cotton with Indian cotton and American cotton, plus government subsidies, which drives American and British goods at low cost. According to the strategy set by the cabinet meeting, if you want to avoid foreign yarn and cloth, the most important thing is to reduce the cost of cotton. In addition to choosing the Northwest with low labor costs as a cotton planting base, it also needs to provide chemical fertilizers and pesticides at low prices. Unlike worrying about pesticide residues on food, Yang Rui is not worried about Liuliu and ddt and other residues on cotton.

Yang Rui said a few words, and Yang Rui ignored him and only visited the loom behind. Yan Yutang, the general office of Dalong Machinery Factory, who had been prepared for a long time, said loudly: "Prime Minister, this is the iron-wood loom made by our factory. The wooden frame is equipped with another, and the cast iron and iron parts are made by our factory. Each cast iron is 120 kilograms and 70 kilograms of cooked iron. Each cloth machine is sold for 30 yuan, which is 20% cheaper than Japanese cloth machines. This profit is also about 20%."
Chapter completed!