"Bang, bang..."

On the Luhan Railway, a train was rumbling on the railway. In the train carriage, Tang Hualong, the deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, was sitting on the soft seat of the sofa, listening to the prime minister's story in front of him.

"…So, Jiwu, no matter what, this is a good thing!"

After a brief pause, Li Zicheng glanced at Tang Hualong and showed a smile on his face.

"Prime Minister, it is good to open a Quanye factory. If the Quanye factory is successful, it will naturally lead the private hot money from all over the country to gather in the industry. In this way, it can become a trend of gathering less and becoming more numerous, thereby accelerating the development of the industry. However, changing the Tongyuan Bureau of each province into a Quanye factory requires considering various factors such as technology and equipment, which is indeed..."

After looking at the Prime Minister, Tang Hualong once again expressed his concerns. After the Ministry of Finance acquired the Tongyuan Bureau of Shandong, Henan, Hubei and Anhui Provinces, he had objected, but in the end, he failed to stop the Ministry of Finance's actions.

“**Companies can subcontract to those companies, but what about the future?”

Tang Hualong has always been extremely supportive of the State Council's commitment to industrial development. During the establishment of the Tianjin Dagang Economic Development Zone, he recommended to his friends many times to invest in and set up a factory in Dagang Development Zone, and even took the initiative to purchase 100,000 yuan in development zone stocks and subscribed to stocks from many companies to show support. Moreover, Yu, the deputy speaker of the State Council, coordinated development zones and iron ore matters with Tianjin and Hebei many times. In the capital, people even described him as "national affairs supporters".

However, such a "State Council policy supporter" has repeatedly opposed the Ministry of Finance's spending money to acquire local Tongyuan Bureaus. According to his suggestion, the Ministry of Finance should spend nearly 20 million yuan on new factories, rather than acquiring limited-scale guns and Tongyuan Bureaus from the local area to run a "Quanye Company".

"There is also the gun and artillery factory. Since the Qing Dynasty, all provinces have established machine bureaus and manufacturing bureaus to produce guns and ammunition. The major factories are such as Hubei, Jinling, Jiangnan, and Guangdong, and there is also the possibility of expanding modern military factories. However, the most of these factories include hundreds of old-style machinery and dozens of them. Such a huge amount of money is used to acquire them. Wouldn't it be wasted the central government's leisure? Zhou Jizhi founded Qixin Heavy Industry in Tianjin and invested only 20 million yuan. However, the Ministry of Finance used the acquisition of Tongyuan Bureaus of various provinces, but the funds required for gun and artillery factories were nearly 30 million yuan!"

While Tang Hualong was talking about his reasons, Li Zicheng looked out of the window and saw the fast-flying dead trees and wilderness. A group of sparrows were flying in the sky outside the window. At this time, he did not make any refutation, but looked out the window quietly. This time, he asked Tang Hualong to accompany him to Henan. Attending the opening ceremony of Henan Quye Company was not just to convince him with facts, but to another thing.

Now, the State Council needs Tang Hualong’s support. To be precise, Tang Hualong needs his support to convince his brother, Hunan General Tang Xingming, to send a telephone to support the State Council. Now the whole of China is looking at Hunan and Tang Xingming.

"Jiwu, Henan's copper monarch was first cast in the 30th year of Guangxu. In that year, Henan Governor Chen Kuilong submitted an approval to set up a Tongyuan Bureau in Kaifeng. In the 32nd year of Guangxu, Kaifeng's Tongyuan Bureau was renamed the Du Branch Mint Bianchang. By the 33rd year of Guangxu, the monthly production amount reached 480,000 pieces. Later, the Qing government restricted the mint and stipulated that Henan would make 300,000 pieces of copper coins per month. By February of the 34th year of Guangxu, the Henan Mint made a total of 23,000 pieces of copper coins. In the early years of the Republic of China, the Henan Governor's mint had a huge amount of military and political expenses, and in just two years, it was as many as 40,000 pieces of copper coins. It is precisely because of this that it was the first batch of reorganized copper coins in the central government."

Looking back at Tang Hualong who was scattered beards from outside the window, a wry smile appeared on Li Zicheng's face...

"If there was no current copper price surge, how could the provinces give up making copper coins for profit? If there was no need to apply for approval from the Ministry of Army to buy guns at a low price. How could the provinces give up gun factories?"

Thinking about the acquisition of Tongyuan Bureau, Guns and Cannon Factory, and the State Council Commissioner and the local government, and even after making an agreement to not increase the price of guns and cannons produced by the central factory for five years, he made a discount on the old guns. Now, there are as many as millions of old guns as various types summarized by various provinces, Remington's roller guns, single-company old Mauser guns, Berdan guns, Henry Martini, Shaleman and others, as many as hundreds of single shots in the mid-to-late 19th century, and dozens of calibers, and these guns have to be purchased at the center of the central government.

"After the reorganization of the Tongyuan Bureaus of each province, the central government can adjust the auxiliary coins after the coin rights are reclaimed to avoid the recurrence of the inferior coins of copper coins injuring the people. The guns and cannon bureaus will reclaim the local governments, and there is no power to make weapons, which can prevent the local government from blindly expanding its troops and then triggering a civil war..."

Looking at Tang Hualong, Li Zicheng pursed his mouth slightly, and then said.

"The central government has indeed paid nearly 30 million yuan in huge sums, but it has avoided domestic losses and stabilized the domestic situation. Only when the situation is stable can the country achieve real development..."

In front of Tang Hualong, Li Zicheng certainly would not say that in the so-called "national army weapon standardization", there is actually a conspiracy that is unknown and only a few people in China know about it.

When the State Council proposed that plan to the Ministry of the Army, the State Council and the Ministry of the Army formulated the standard caliber of the Chinese Army and chose the 6.8mm Mauser bomb that only China has used in the world. What is different from the Mauser bomb is that the shell is no longer made of the Mauser shell shrinking its mouth, and it is also different.

The reason why we proposed to the Army Department to adopt a 6.8 mm caliber, in addition to the small impulse of the rear seat of this caliber and higher accuracy than a 7.92mm caliber rifle, which is more important, in addition to the fact that only China uses this caliber weapon in the world. After a large number of such weapons are equipped in various provinces, their ammunition sources will be limited. Because of the differences in the size of the shell, even German ammunition factories need to consider the cost of "small-scale production". Restricting local force from the source of weapons is the most effective weapon against local powerhouses.

As long as the source of ammunition is controlled, even if there is chaos in the local area in the future, it is not afraid, especially after they have equipped machine guns. Although the equipment of machine guns can improve the combat effectiveness of the troops, the most direct negative effect it brings is that ammunition consumption will also increase accordingly.

In fact, this method originated from another warlord in Chinese history. The Shanxi general who Li Zicheng had always been interested in visiting, Yan Xishan, among so many warlords in China. Yan Xishan, the one who is known as the "tumbler". Yan Xishan was the leader of the Jin Dynasty for decades and established a complete military industry in Shanxi. The Taiyuan military factory can be said to be the largest manufacturer of "Type 38 rifle" except Japan.

At the beginning, the Type 38 rifle produced was completely compatible with the Japanese. After the establishment of a complete military-industrial system in Shanxi, especially after its ammunition production capacity could meet the needs, it changed the barrel and ammunition size. The shells of the bullets produced by it were modified to be incompatible with the daily system.

In the warlord melee in the following decade, in order to win foreign aid from all sides, the mass-produced "Taiyuan Made" spread to half of Northern China. When the recipients did not break with Yan Xishan, the supply of ammunition was naturally not a problem. However, once they broke with Yan Xishan, even if they bought Japanese ammunition, they would not be compatible, which directly led to the "Taiyuan Made" becoming a useless fire stick.

If it weren't for the conspiracy that could only be understood behind this "unified national continental system", how could Yuan Shikai agree with his proposal, and even agreed to the Army Department to compensate Lianyungang Machinery, a manufacturer of the new type of machine gun at an additional 15 yuan per unit. And the French loan to transform the arsenal will also be used to add transformation equipment for each factory to produce new weapons...

"Can……"

When Tang Hualong was still trying to refute, Li Zicheng smiled slightly and pointed out the window and said.

"Jiwu, now you have arrived at the Yellow River Bridge. Well, you will be able to reach Kaifeng soon. After Kaifeng, let's talk about this. I wonder what Brother Jiwu thinks?"

Facts are better than words! Compared to using words to convince people, Li Zicheng is more inclined to use facts to convince these people.

"Click!"

The moment the red silk was cut out by the scissors, the firecrackers raised high were hanging high at Tongyuan Bureau of Kaifeng, Henan. No, it should be outside the gate of Henan Province's Quanye Company. In that smoke, Henan General Tian Wenlie asked for help at the young man standing beside him.

"Prime Minister, please!"

At this time, Tian Wenlie seemed extremely proud. He resold the Henan Tongyuan Bureau and the Machinery Bureau to the Ministry of Finance at a high price of 950,000 yuan. As for the nearly 100,000 old scrap iron guns acquired by the central government, the hundreds of thousands of yuan he had already quietly deposited into Huaihai Industrial Bank.

If it were in the past, he would not have thought about selling copper coins, but now it is different. After the European War, the copper price surged. The copper coins game had initial huge profits. It has been a continuous loss since now, and the more it is cast, the more it is losing, and it still loses. So, in his opinion, it is just a burden now.

"General Tian, ​​please first!"

While making a request, Li Zicheng and Tian Wenlie walked into Henan Province Quanye Company side by side. After the Ministry of Finance acquired the factory, it dismantled hundreds of thousands of yuan to expand, add and renovate the factory building, and then it was the current factory that mainly processes plate metal parts.

“… Our company produces all kinds of stamping gold-pull parts, which are available…”

When the manager introduced the company's products, Tian Wenlie's wise choice was only ignored. He has always been an amateur in mechanical manufacturing and could not ask Li Zicheng some technical questions from time to time.

"... Stamping generally does not produce chips, and the material consumption is less, and no other heating equipment is required. Therefore, it is a material-saving and energy-saving processing method. At the same time, the cost of stamping is low. Because stamping has such advantages, stamping processing is currently widely used in various fields, such as aircraft, trains, cars, and tractors. The body, frame and ring of the car are stamped. 80% of the parts in bicycles, sewing machines and watches are stamped. Of course, due to the large stamping parts of the equipment, our company cannot produce them for the time being, but metal can shells, steel fine pots, enamel basins and simple tableware that are in great demand are all stamping products that use molds..."

When the manager gave an introduction, Tian Wenlie took out a metal can shell from the product booth.

"I've seen this, isn't this a canned shell?"

When he spoke, Tian Wenlie seemed to be extremely despised at the fact that the Tongyuan Bureau actually produced such an inconspicuous gadget, but a voice came from behind.

"Manager Feng, we agreed that our Lidake will cover all the canned shells for your Quanye factory this year..."

"Don't just talk about Lida, give us auspicious..."

Listening to the sound of robbing goods from behind, Tian Wenlie was stunned. Seeing his strange face, Li Zicheng turned his head and explained softly.

"General Tian. After the European War, all participating teams urgently needed various field foods, especially canned food. Now, every month, our country exports all kinds of canned foods as many as tens of millions of yuan. The manufacturing procedures and seasoning ratios of various canned foods are provided by each party. The canned manufacturing equipment is simple and the investment cost is low. However, canned shell equipment is not something that can be made by ordinary small factories...."

When talking, Li Zicheng's words were full of brisk meaning. He used the copper yuan factory to grow canned shells, steel pots, enamel basins and simple tableware. This was the conclusion drawn by the company after inspecting the equipment of the Tongyuan Bureau. Not only that, the copper yuan factory will also produce various stamping parts in large quantities, and most of these stamping parts are subcontracted by ** Company. It produces stamping parts of various sizes and sizes on behalf of the company...

OEM is a brand new concept for this era, but for Li Zicheng, who once lived a hundred years later, this is an extremely familiar word. The so-called miracle of reform and opening up in the later generations was actually the use of cheap labor to develop international OEM trade. But now, in this era, Li Zicheng hopes to use these "OEM factories" to create a new miracle of Chinese industry and commerce.

The current OEM model is completely different from later generations. ** Company undertakes orders in Britain, France, Russia and the United States, and then subcontracts them to these companies, which produce various parts or private label products.

"At present, the company's various steel pots and enamel basins and bowls have been sold on the market..."

While everyone was talking in front of him, some reporters occasionally could see that one of the entourages who came to Henan with the Prime Minister was extremely eye-catching - Tang Hualong, Vice President of the House of Representatives. The reason for the attention was very simple. He was the brother of Hunan General Tang Xiangming.

When people noticed Tang Hualong, Tang Hualong looked at the bright red basin, which was enamel. The patterns inside the basin were particularly lovely: in the middle are two characters "Red Double Happiness" nestled together, which are very large and rosy. If you touch the characters with your hands, you will also have a prominent relief feeling. The lower right corner of the two characters is a cluster of extremely prosperous peony flowers, which are also red, but the color levels are richer, deep red, bright red, pink, charming, and lush. If you look closely, there are two butterflies flying beside the peony flowers, which are clearly the "butterfly love flowers" praised by the ancients.

Looking at the other side, I saw that although the pattern in the other washbasin was double-happy, the pattern turned into a doll riding a carp. There were as many as dozens of colors in this washbasin.

"this……"

Looking at the basin with many colors, Tang Hualong seemed a little surprised and curious. In Beijing, Shanghai, and Wuhan, he had seen various basins, but he had never seen such basins. Even if they were carrying a large peony, they seemed very stiff. That was comparable to this basin. Such basins, not to mention that they would definitely buy them when ordinary people held weddings. Even if they were knowledgeable, they wanted to buy a few. This could even be used to give them to villagers who were doing weddings in their hometown...

"Jiwu, this washbasin is a flagship product in Henan Quanye Factory. I wonder if Brother Jiwu thinks that if such a washbasin is one dollar, how much can it be sold in a year?"

"Prime Minister, this flowery and beautiful washbasin is a favorite among Chinese people. If I estimate, not to mention other places, just Henan, I would probably sell one hundred thousand a year but it would be no problem!"

Before Tang Hualong could answer, Tian Wenlie took the initiative to say for him. After a visit, he even began to wonder whether the hundreds of thousands of yuan in Huaihai should be exchanged for the stocks of this Quanye Company. The Quanye Company produces all the new things that are in short supply. If such a factory does not make money, it would be unreasonable!

After hearing what he said, Li Zicheng laughed and said with a smile.

"According to the forecast of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, the annual demand for various types of enamel basins in the next ten years should be around 20 million. However, such flowers, at most, are several million a year, mainly purchased by newlyweds. The most real demand is monochrome and low-price. People like to be affordable, but that's the case, probably..."

Li Zicheng laughed at the exhibition hall of the Henan Quye Factory.

"I guess a few more factories like this need to be run to meet the needs of the whole country! However, other places do not necessarily need to produce such products. When setting up a Quanye company, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce will do it according to the idea of ​​a national chess, and it must fully consider the balance and demand between regions..."

While speaking, Li Zicheng turned his attention to Tang Hualong, as if he was telling him with his eyes that what he saw was the fact. The fact is that while Quanye factories in various places were engaged in OEM production, they would also open up the production of civil consumer industrial products in the province and expand the development of the civil consumer product market.

"Prime Minister, now the Quanye Company has set up a second factory using the equipment of the former Machinery Bureau to manufacture some new agricultural tools and machine accessories. It is also preparing to trial-making small machinery in the future, and at the same time to undertake various mechanical equipment to the society. There are now dozens of new factories around Kaifeng, but none of the machine repair factories..."

Listening to the manager's story, Tang Hualong finally understood why Li Zicheng repeatedly insisted on running these Quanye companies. His purpose was not just to "make money", but the most important purpose was to guide the industrial development of these industrial backward provinces through Quanye companies and improve the industrial level of each province.
Chapter completed!