Chapter 67: Disagreement
In Feng Tiankui's view, the 66th Division and the Sichuan Army were simply doing their best for the country and the nation. If there were indeed some knowledgeable people who realized the danger in Peiping and Tianjin, it would be like a blind cat catching a dead mouse. It was only right for the 66th Division to do its part.
"I don't think it's difficult for this kid to do business?"
"During the Spring Festival, I once visited your glass workshop that made a fortune every day. Xiaoshan talked to me for an entire afternoon! He told me that industry requires upstream and downstream coordination! Even the raw material soda ash of the glass workshop was produced in Tianjin and then transported by water from Shanghai along the Yangtze River. After the glass factory went into production, it purchased a large amount of soda ash. The price of soda ash in Chongqing doubled. Soda ash is still a necessity of life! Individual industrial raw materials are even more difficult . For example, the printing and dyeing factory, its grey cloth comes from the cotton spinning mill, and the cotton of the cotton spinning mill comes from the sea. Whether it is a printing and dyeing factory or a cotton spinning mill, the raw materials, dyes and machines are all imported. If you let a printing and dyeing factory move to Yongzhou, what about the source of grey cloth? What about dyes? The key is to work hard to transport the raw materials in, and also to work hard to transport the finished products out. The high freight generated is like tofu moving to the price of meat, and when it is included in the sales price, not to mention that the price is more than twice that of foreign goods, it can even be squeezed to death in the market."
Luo Jialie and Qin Guoliang are not experts in business, but they know how to do accounting.
"It's not that there is no solution. We can just bring the cotton spinning mill to Yongzhou, or even see if there is a chemical plant that can produce dyes, and build a joint venture with foreigners!"
When Feng Tiankui made a comparison with the dyeing factory, both of them took a deep breath!
"How much will that cost?"
"Xiaoshan said that the factory is a small business, but the transportation cost caused by the unchanged traffic and this inconvenience is fatal. In fact, Henan, AH, and XJ are all rich in cotton. In terms of straight-line distance, they are very close to Sichuan. The road is too difficult to travel. Without water transportation, it is impossible to get in. They cross the Qinling Mountains from Hanzhong to Xi'an, saying that it is an official road, and the Nationalist government is also building roads. In fact, many places are very difficult for cars to pass. There are potholes all the way, and there are even several steep slopes. After suppressing the bandits, they have to unload the goods and then push the truck up the slope."
“Oh my god!”
"What kind of country is this? What kind of Sichuan is this?"
Feng Tiankui hasn't stopped talking yet.
"Many difficulties can be overcome if there are outstanding national industrialists in the management of the industry itself. Tianjin is a concession, and foreigners cannot be taxed there. However, the surrounding 29th Army can collect taxes from other links such as product transportation and sales. The locals may not be willing to let these enterprises go. This is the fundamental reason why Xiaoshan brought so many soldiers!"
The complexity and difficulty of this matter far exceeded Qin Guoliang and Luo Jialie's imagination.
My head was buzzing and my lips were smacking, sighing at this bastard!
Go ahead to dangers!
"When Xiaoshan goes to Beijing and Tianjin this time, he will visit many universities and ask them not to move to Sichuan but to build a branch in Yongzhou. We will provide the materials and labor, and they can send people to Sichuan to recruit students, and also move some unnecessary materials and book backups here! In case of changes in Peking and Tianjin, they will have a place to go!"
"How much will it cost?"
"It doesn't cost much to build it. The cement factory is in operation and the bricks are ours . It doesn't cost much to build a house. It costs money to maintain a university like this. In fact, it doesn't cost much to maintain it. The famous National Yenching University is considered to be a relatively large university in Peking, and it only has about a thousand students! It's about the same as us maintaining two brigades!"
"Isn't that similar to our National Sichuan University?"
Feng Tiankui looked out the window. He was also worried about this boy.
After all, the suppression of banditry was over and they stopped sending telegrams every day.
Captain Mao had already taken all the captured bandits along the route from Hanzhong to Xi'an and was escorting them back.
It’s time for the special forces battalion to cross the Yellow River now.
The backgrounds of universities in Peking are very diverse. There are three types of backgrounds: church background, national background, and private background!
The church's university has the backing of the Holy See. Let them build a branch in Yongzhou without even thinking about it. Even if it falls into the hands of Japanese pirates, they will not move.
For the remaining two types, national universities receive funding from the Ministry of Education every year. Large administrative measures such as establishing branch schools need to be reported to Nanjing. If things go wrong, He Guoguang may even come to his office and yell at him, asking him what he is doing!
Thinking of Zhou Xiaoshan's analysis, Feng Tiankui shook his head like a rattle.
Private universities may have enough autonomy on the surface, but they make a living by attracting students. The monthly tuition fee of a national university in Peking is higher than a worker's monthly salary, not to mention private universities. Students spend so much money, it is impossible for them to come to study in a remote and poor place like Yongzhou.
What a wonderful world it is in Peking and Tianjin.
Moving private universities to Yongzhou is a dead end.
If we really move here in peacetime, the school will be sunk!
Feng Tiankui racked his brains but couldn't figure out how Zhou Xiaoshan would convince those industrialists and school principals to move to Sichuan or build .
If the fire doesn't burn your eyebrows and the knife doesn't cut your skin, you won't feel any pain!
Qin Guoliang, Luo Jialie and Feng Tiankui were chatting happily at first, but when they talked about Zhou Xiaoshan's mission in Pingjin, they felt more and more depressed, so they just did their own things!
Zhou Xiaoshan was even more depressed!
I brought Liu Xiang's handwritten letter and a box of high-end glass products, but I couldn't even get a chance to see that bastard Yan Laoxi!
I waited in the reception room for the whole morning in vain!
Until the afternoon, they all returned to the camp to have lunch and came again!
Yan Laoxi's adjutant, Yang Jindong, arrived late. He had no idea that this bastard had found out all the details of his convoy and only then hosted a banquet at Yan's mansion to entertain Commander Yan!
Don’t you even look at the time? It’s already three o’clock in the afternoon. What kind of meal is this?
After reviewing past records in detail, Yang Jindong discovered that there was no contact between the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army and the Sichuan Army at all.
These officers of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army have been able to do business since they were born!
These pickles and canned fruits taste great, and the price of picking them up from Yongzhou is very cheap. Not only can they be used as military supplies, but they can also be bought on the market. Especially the glass jar packaging, it’s like giving them away for free!
When several secretaries at the gatehouse found him, they wanted to team up to take over the canned food business and help Commander Yan extort a batch of goods from Baizhan Army's Glass Factory!
You are the temporary adjutant holding Liu Xiang's personal letter. For me, your adjutant, to receive you not only exceeds the standard of equality, but is even a compliment to you.
The dishes haven’t been served yet!
Yang Jindong put forward his request in a hurry!
High-end glassware is represented by a business affiliated with Chief Yan, and the goods from the food canning factory are represented by a designated business in their secretariat!
They not only wanted the agency rights for glassware in Shanxi, Beijing and Tianjin, but also those in Shandong and Henan. They even asked for a batch of goods on credit as a distribution channel!
