Chapter 80 Urbanization (3)
On December 20, 1680, after a course arrangement was introduced, Liang Qiangdong finally stepped into the familiar Corps Fort classroom again on this day to teach courses to young students.
Speaking of the development of the Corps Fort to this day, the students trained are already quite large. These people entered the school at a young age and worked together in this semi-closed school to receive common education and training. Not only did the school system last (for ten years), but the content they learned is also relatively complicated, covering all aspects of society, economy, science and military according to different classes.
After graduation, students were uniformly assigned to the Corps and stationed in the capital and surrounding key areas. While doing a good job in defense and alert, they also received the final transitional study before entering society. This learning period was initially three years, but now it has been reduced to two years. After the two-year service period, the Personnel Department of the Executive Committee of the Corps Fort's superior management structure, the Executive Committee of the Executive Committee of the Corps Fort was changed to various departments based on the learning content and performance of each person. Generally speaking, the government, the military and state-owned enterprises have it, starting from the grassroots level and serving the country.
These people are undoubtedly extremely loyal to the country. After all, they were admitted to school at the age of 8-12, and then they studied for ten years. In addition to various skills and knowledge, there is no need to talk about how much brainwashing education content was instilled. Even though these people later entered the social dyeing vat, their initial ideals were faded, but their foundation was still there. They were still loyal to the country and the Executive Committee, and they could use and promote them with confidence. They were the most powerful weapon for the Executive Committee to control the country.
Moreover, unlike the Ottoman Empire's Ghanishari Legion, these scholars were not lifelong professional soldiers, so it was naturally difficult to rebel or decree the Sudan. On the contrary, the existence of scholars in the capital and suburbs was still the cornerstone of national stability! They trained together for ten years, and even though they had not been on any battlefield, their combat effectiveness was just that, but it was not difficult to hit the target at a critical moment. This eliminated any mutiny initiated by the Navy and Army, unless their power had completely penetrated the Corps Fort - of course this was unlikely. This could be seen from the fact that the Army did not like to accept too many graduate scholars from Corps Forts, and they never thought these scholars were "our own people".
Of course, the Army doesn't like it, but the Executive Committee likes it very much. Every year, the national finance will place a large amount of expenses and invest in the Corps Fort education and training system. Not only are the school, teaching aids, textbooks, etc., all are of the highest level, but the teachers are basically at the top level in the country (there are many outstanding students who graduate from Corps Fort). In addition, they also hired a large number of lecturers from outside the school and went to the school from time to time to teach students more professional knowledge. For example, Liang Qiangdong is often brought to give lectures, just like his Faxiao Qiang Xiaoman, who mainly teaches financial knowledge.
Today, Liang Qiangdong's lecture mainly focuses on urbanization, which is aimed at the students who will be assigned to government departments in the future. The course has been conducted about half of the time, and talked about the relationship between the transformation of corporate organizations and urban development.
"The wave of large-scale industrialization in recent decades has not only promoted the rapid development of social production, but also made market competition increasingly fierce. Coupled with the objective demand for the development of modern large-scale industries, the organizational form of Chinese enterprises has begun to undergo partial adjustments in recent years, that is, large enterprises have begun to develop towards the trend of vertical production integration and production and sales integration. Taking Tieling Special Steel as an example, this enterprise that has been upgraded to the group will go from mining of coal and ore, to smelting of iron and steel, and then to
The multiple processes of metal processing, which often extend to the manufacturing of heavy industrial machinery, are integrated into one enterprise. Even on this basis, the production activities of these enterprises may include the use of by-products of these production processes. For example, recently, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce has been planning to merge Tieling Special Steel Plant, Tieling Mining Bureau, Tieling Machinery Processing Plant, Western Forging Plant, Tieling Boiler Plant, First Heavy Machinery Plant, etc. to establish Tieling Heavy Industry Consortium Group. This is the idea that the Ministry of Industry and Commerce has adhered to."
"For example, Ping An Iron and Steel Plant in the north has not only actively developed its steel smelting industry in recent years, but also actively launched coal chemical projects, developed related industries, and carried out product diversification strategies. In addition, in order to compete with Tieling, Ping An Iron and Steel Plant decided to strengthen its market control and began to build its own allocation network. Establishing a commercial company is a concrete manifestation of this idea. This is the trend of vertical production integration and production and sales integration development that I mentioned just now. The performance of the two major groups of Tieling and Ping An perfect interpretation of this point. Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention that Ping An Coal Mine may also merge with Ping An Iron and Steel Plant in the future to form Ping An Coal and Iron Consortium to compete with the so-called Tieling Heavy Industry Consortium."
"This kind of group development idea will inevitably lead to a more obvious agglomeration effect of enterprises, and the proportion of workers and their families to the urban population is getting higher and higher. Just like Tieling County, the population of this city engaged in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery is much lower than the national average. The population of the entire city has increased rapidly in recent years, the urban area has been expanding, and the number of buildings has continued to increase, mainly due to the increase in industrial population, which is undoubtedly."
Liang Qiangdong first took the development of Tieling and Ping An as an example, pointing out the huge driving force of the transformation of enterprise organizational forms on the urbanization process. The students here have been to these two cities. They have been to these two cities several times during their internships before, and have a deep impression of industrial cities. Now Liang Qiangdong tells this story, and everyone has a rough idea of the impact of this corporate development model on the future of the city.
At the same time, they were also increasingly amazed at the power of large-scale industrial production. With the existence of some decent steel production enterprises in the Old Continent, England and North Germany, the total steel production capacity of the East Coast people was several times that of others. At the same time, a variety of metals and various alloys have been developed. The gap between them is indeed not something that can be calculated in the Dao.
After they enter politics in the future, they will inevitably bring their current understanding and emotions to more or less, and become firm supporters of large-scale industrial production. I believe that after decades later, after they have gradually become the backbone of the government, this production model similar to the later generations of German cartel-style will definitely become popular on the East Coast, because it is indeed in line with the trends and trends of industrial production development.
"Compared with Tieling and Ping An, a city that is mainly heavy industry, Qingdao, which is the economic center, has embarked on another road. Here, there are no heavy industry industries such as coal, chemical, steel, machinery, and military industry - even if there are, it is insignificant - replaced by a large number of scattered small businesses or individual handicraftsmen, involving all aspects of life, and naturally there are a large number of commercial and financial enterprises."
"But interestingly, in an international port city like Qingdao, the strong commercial capital and the fierce market competition have caused many commercial enterprises engaged in trade to extend their tentacles to the upstream. That is, in the trade and commercial fields, there has also been an integrated process like the heavy industry. In short, commercial capital has extended to the production field!"
"For example, those commercial enterprises engaged in small hardware, customized cloth, clothing, shoes, boots, furniture, publishing and printing industries have begun to establish solid cooperative relationships with small enterprises and even self-employed businesses in the same field. This integration of commercial trade and production is actually achieved by the implementation of direct or indirect influence and control of the production field in the field. To be more accurately described, it belongs to a certain degree of outsourcing system."
In fact, in today's Qingdao Port, Liang Qiangdong's company has established solid contacts with many companies that produce daily necessities, in which the method is to sign long-term supply contracts with advance payments, and even invest in some small workshops he is more optimistic about to help them overcome some production and operation difficulties and achieve faster development.
This stable cooperative relationship is very helpful for his Qiangdong Trading Company to start trade with North American Free State. Many times, he directly takes the list of other people's needs and talks with these companies about the price, produces it according to the order, and finally packages, transports, and ships to Xinjing Port in Free State. This is also a relatively advanced way.
At this time, merchants were basically purchasing various goods all over the world. It was not that no one had established stable cooperative relations with upstream manufacturers, but not many. Merchants engaged in wholesale trade always went to the large wholesale market to purchase goods, especially in the Amsterdam market. At that time, the Tripp family's company picked and selected cannons produced in England, Portugal, Germany, Milan, Venice and other places in the Amsterdam market, and then exported them to the United Provincial Military to obtain profits. The cooperative producers changed almost every year, and there was still a certain difference from the East Coast.
On the contrary, in countries and regions with relatively less developed business, such as the Kingdom of England, many merchants engaged in overseas trade have established relatively stable cooperative relationships with some manufacturers because of their narrow choices. However, in Germany, Italy and the Kingdom of France, because regular trade fairs and commodity fairs are held very frequently, merchants tend to temporarily purchase in the market rather than adopting the model of fixed partner outsourcing.
"Of course Qingdao is special and unique! In addition to this commercial outsourcing model, there is also a special relationship between banks and industrial enterprises here. In addition to some high-quality enterprises that can provide funds for their business expansion with their own operating profits, Northwest Reclamation Bank, United Industrial Credit Bank, Volkswagen Savings Bank (formerly La Plata Bank's business), and commercial clearing banks have a huge impact on the enterprise."
"It goes without saying that my Qiangdong Trading Company has been strongly influenced by United Industrial Credit Bank, and their representatives even have a certain influence in corporate decision-making. And this is a well-managed enterprise. In some companies that are not well-managed for various reasons, the pressure on business owners is very high, and you should not have heard of it. Of course, the same thing is the case. If your business is stable, has objective profits and has good growth, then you can even turn around and point fingers at banks that have the desire for your business in financial business, so that they can better serve you."
"The reason for this situation is actually related to our national policies. The State Administration of Precious Metals has been adhering to a positive policy for the past decade, requiring banks to take the initiative to play a greater role in social production. This has made the bank's staff increasingly large and an important part of urban population growth."
"Overall, in the past decade, the influence of various banks on industrial enterprises has increased day by day. Moreover, they have gradually begun to tend to support the alliance and merger of industrial enterprises, and provide financial support for this. This support is beneficial without any questions, because it has made more and more large enterprises and the overall strength of large enterprises continue to increase. For example, United Industrial Credit Bank intends to provide low-interest loans to help Ping An Iron and Steel Plant complete the business of acquiring Ping An Coal Mine. There is no need to say much about the future power of the newly established Ping An Coal and Iron Consortium."
"What will happen after this large industrial enterprise merger and acquisition becomes stronger after a period of development? I boldly predict that it will make its appetite for capital demand bigger and bigger, and then exceed the ability of a single bank to provide funds, which in turn will encourage banks to cooperate with each other and form a larger bank group. A while ago, the merger of the former La Plata Bank and Brazilian rural financial cooperatives to form a new mass savings bank has already shown that in today's East Coast society, the competitive disadvantages of smaller banks will only increase. It is necessary to carry out joint restructuring to have a glimmer of hope. This is a very clear thing."
Liang Qiangdong said so much and was a little tired, so he sat behind the podium, picked up the teacup and drank the tea, and asked the students below to divide them into groups to discuss the contents of the class. Some class cadres stood up and informed them one by one, asking them not to spread the contents of the discussion at will, otherwise once they were posted on newspapers or books, they would be out of control and would definitely be purchased by foreigners and then taken back for research.
However, Liang Qiangdong seemed to be a little dissatisfied with this, because in his opinion, although these lectures are relatively essence and have a strong guiding role in the East Coast Republic at this time and in the near future, most of the countries in the old continent were just dragon-slaying skills. The reason is that the social system, economic environment, etc. are completely different!
Chapter completed!