"The trains we invented facilitate the transport of goods from one area of ​​the country to another. Novels. But the degree of long-distance trains being better than the two-wheeled and four-wheeled trucks being dragged by horses may not be as good as the speed of first-class ships as transport vehicles being better than the best sailing ships. In recent years, many cargoes, especially coal, have repeatedly decreased compared to land freight, partly because the cost of manufacturing and operating ships is much faster than the cost of building and operating railways. At the same time, the full popularity of steam equipment for loading and unloading bulky cargo has also reduced the loading and unloading costs of sea freight more than land freight." On January 3, 1694, Liang Qiangdong, the former Qingdao Accounting Special School, which had been upgraded to Qingdao University of Finance and Economics, no longer remembers how many times he came to the school to teach voluntarily.

However, as a well-known business person, Liang Qiangdong enjoys this behavior very much. The young and cute female students in the school always remind him of the wonderful time when he was young. Unfortunately, time is not forgiving. Even though he pays great attention to maintenance, Liang Qiangdong's temples still grow some gray hair uncontrollably, which makes him very melancholy for a while.

Of course, he is confident in his body. In addition to still being able to gallop on the polo field, he can also charge in the battle field of men and women without the help of any mysterious drugs from the East or Peru, which makes him very proud. Ahem, okay, it's too far, let's continue to give a lecture.

"Bills of exchange and other primary tools in the world's financial market have long provided convenience for long-distance trade. About decades ago, the emergence of wired telegraphs led to the further development of the role of these tools. Post office telegraphs are familiar with them, right? This is just a legend in other parts of the world, but it has become a popular method on the east coast. There is no doubt that the improvement of such tools has a huge effect on promoting trade, but generally speaking, it is more important to long-distance trade than to short-distance trade. Now our country has built wired telegraphs in its local and some overseas colonies, but due to the barrier of the sea, a complete network has not yet been formed. Perhaps one day in the future, when our submarine cables are successfully laid, the network can play a greater role. Of course, this requires great progress in the electrical industry."

"In short, the rapid development of transportation, communication facilities such as railways, ships, telegraphs, etc. has a huge impact on trade. In 1486, two hundred years ago, the Portuguese Collierham arrived in India with only a small amount of cash and drove a few small boats of more than 100 tons. Now, we have opened regular steamship flights on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, adding a fire to the large-scale maritime trade between the American continent and other continents. Students must not underestimate the role of steamships. It is much better than sailing ships or sailing ships, ignoring the currents, wind directions, and speeds.

Fast is an ideal means of transportation for sailing between oceans. Now that our country has more than 20 such steam ships, it has greatly stimulated foreign export trade. These prosperous trades have in turn affected the large-scale production industries in China that are already very powerful and have further risen by huge capital. Students, have you observed that the number of domestic jobs has increased unlimitedly in the past two years. Although the wage level has not increased significantly due to the impact of foreign labor, the price of the package has dropped slightly, and full employment is achieved. This is the benefit of large-scale industrial production."

"The improvement of transportation tools has greatly improved our quality of life. Now even a non-national laborer is buying tea, sugar, tobacco and other consumer goods from afar. Their clothes are from the distant southern cone, and even New China Island in the Indian Ocean. Building materials and furniture have also experienced this transformation. In the past, many building materials and furniture materials came from the forests of the Yazi Lake basin. But after the great development of shipping, Brazil, Peru, New Courland and even the free states in North America were all

We are supplying wood for all aspects and providing us with high-quality wood for our furniture such as tables and chairs. In some big cities, even some non-national labor workers and carpenters pay great attention to whether the wood is light, hard, durable and cheap. They choose the most suitable part of the wood shipped from all over the world. Large furniture factories use wood types grown at different latitudes and under different environments, and they also use many kinds of high-quality wool or leather to process furniture."

"The booming industry and transportation industry regard the entire world as its own market, so all trade routes with a solid foundation will be expanded. Our country is currently trying hard to maintain the trade routes to United Provinces and Nazia, which are the two pillars of my country's foreign trade. As for the Far East, due to long distances, bad sea conditions, ocean currents and wind directions, the transportation costs in the sail era were too high, and many commodities had to be produced and sold locally, which gave rise to the development of the first batch of early industries in the Blackwater area. However, after the ships began to become popular, the adverse factors of sea transportation will be gradually weakened. When we can manufacture steamships of more than 3,000 tons in all steel structures, all transportation difficulties will be solved. The local industrial system will have the urge to sell all industrial products in the past, which may be a damage to the weak industry of Blackwater."

Yangyang said a lot, and Liang Qiangdong felt that he was quite happy. He did not have too detailed lesson plans in class, and often went to other places to go off topic. For example, this textbook was originally intended to talk about the development of transportation, but Liang Qiangdong also mentioned cable telegraphs, post office remittances, and the benefits of transportation development, etc., which was not a big deal at all. However, the students were very satisfied with listening to music, stories and knowledge.

In fact, Liang Qiangdong himself is the most touched by the development of the transportation industry. As a famous trade expert in the East Coast, Liang Qiangdong travels to and from the sea every year. In the past, in order to hedge the price risks caused by long-term sea transportation, he often bought road goods. Now Qingdao Port has also opened steamship flights to Xinjing Port of Liberty State, and the transportation time has been greatly shortened, so he rarely appears in the road goods trading center on Expo Street. Of course, he is slowly transforming to the industrial side. In order to offset the risk of purchasing raw materials, he may still have to go to the trading center to operate in the future, but this is all a later story.

After the lecture, the free questioning session was entered. The students asked a variety of questions, including industrial, trade, finance, tax laws, and even about Liang Qiangdong's private life. For example, a student asked Liang Qiangdong why he always liked to invite female students to dinner, which made a burst of laughter in the classroom.

Liang Qiangdong didn't answer this question with a dark face. His original wife died of an acute illness at the beginning of last year. The father-in-law, who was born in the military, had no idea how many years he had passed away. Therefore, he is now in a state of no one to control himself and let him go. He didn't know how to answer. After asking about it, he didn't know how to answer it. After a few perfunctory words, he announced the get out of class was over and then hurriedly got on the carriage and went home.

On the way home, Liang Qiangdong's thoughts quickly calmed down. He carefully thought about the direction and policies of the East Coast Republic in the next few years. In his opinion, the biggest uncertainty or risk in the future is war, that is, the possible war between the East Coast and Spain.

This war is basically inevitable in Liang Qiangdong's view, because many people in the East Coast have been waiting for a long time. To a certain extent, these people actually hope that Carlos II would give the Spanish throne to the people of the French Bourbon family before their death. Louis XIV is very greedy and will definitely not give up Peru. The New Spain Governor's District will definitely harm the interests of the East Coast people, so there will be an excuse to send troops. Even if Louis XIV is sober enough, the East Coast people will join the war under the banner of supporting the Habsburg family and try every means to send troops.

Of course, the main target of the East Coast people sent troops was Peru and New Spain's Governor's Region. People from the Army Department agreed that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and must be grasped well, otherwise they might be cursed by future generations in the future. Those warriors wanted to swallow all the two Governor's Regions in one breath, regardless of whether they would be indigestion. It was really a headache.

Liang Qiangdong vaguely felt that the executive committee was actually inclined to war, which could be seen from Chairman Shao Yaoguang's frequent visits to the shipyards. On the one hand, he saw how the technical research of the "Bianliang" class iron-armored warships was progressing, and on the other hand, he also urged major shipyards to speed up the production of fully steam-powered ships, the larger the tonnage, the better, so that sufficient and fast transportation capacity will be available when the war breaks out in the future.

"This Chairman Shao, as I was a child, I felt that he was a hidden war madman. Now it seems as expected." After leaning comfortably on the Turkish refined blanket hanging in the car, Liang Qiangdong thought silently. He was not very interested in war, but he was very concerned about the rapid development of transportation tools, and this is actually a necessary quality for a qualified maritime trader.

War is undoubtedly the catalyst for many technology, even on the East Coast. If the steel steamship with a load of 3,000 tons or even a larger load is in the past, it would probably take a lot of time to develop it slowly, and it would be finally completed after a few times of delay. However, under the urging of the war, everyone was not qualified to waste time, so it would not take too long to develop this big guy.
Chapter completed!