Chapter 87: Sichuan People Are Hospitable
Zhou Xiaoshan shook his head violently. He didn't want to listen to these people talking about the current situation anymore. They were all full of anger.
Fan Yongheng sighed.
"Your ship can be moved with you, but my factory is in trouble. The only ones willing to buy it are Japanese."
"How's the Japanese bid?"
Zhou Xiaoshan thought that it could be sold to the Japanese. At that time, the eight major cotton spinning mills in Tianjin were sold to the Japanese before the July 7 Incident, regardless of the price. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, all of them were confiscated by the National Government. In the end, they were all taken over by the four major families until the liberation of Tianjin.
"They want to get the match technology that Mr. Liu Hongsheng has spread, so naturally the price is good."
"Of course you can't sell the Match King's technology. I suggest you sell him the factory. Not only the factory building and equipment, but you can even sell him the workers."
"Impossible. I will take my old brothers who have followed me for many years to Sichuan even if they die. Besides, I would rather burn the factory down than sell it to the Japanese. I don't want others to point their backs at me and call me a traitor."
Fan Yongheng roared, and even Chen Mianyuan glared at him, as if Zhou Xiaoshan had touched their bottom line.
"Hey, you get the money and go to Sichuan, where can they find you? Besides, the workers have been fighting the devils for two or three months. Ask the shopkeeper to buy some train tickets for them, take them with you at night, and go south. They can still eat you. But don't write the workers' affairs into the agreement. I'm afraid the Nationalist government will help the evil, so be vague. At most, you can say that the devils abused the workers, and the workers couldn't stay there, so they went south to seek refuge with you."
After Zhou Xiaoshan finished speaking, Zhang Jixian burst into laughter. This bastard not only dared to compare the Japanese to robbers in front of them , but also dared to design a trap for the Japanese.
Although both of them are experienced businessmen, Fan Yongheng and Chen Mianyuan are not conservative.
Seeing that the boy hadn't finished speaking, he pricked up his ears and listened.
"To be honest, given the situation in Northeast China, once Tianjin falls, the Japanese will seize any factory, equipment, or ship they find useful in the name of military requisition. Rather than selling it to them for free, it is better to sell it to them now. But you must insist on the price, at least enough to order a batch of equipment and replicate your factory in Sichuan. As for the industries that have been sold, what if we fight back one day?"
Fan Yongheng calmed down and felt that what Zhou Xiaoshan said made sense.
A factory would take four to five years to recover most of the investment. When we fought back that day, the Japanese lost all their money.
"I suggest that if you have like-minded colleagues who feel that it is impossible to do business in this world, why not just sell it to the Japanese at a high price? They have the ambition anyway, and if we don't sell it, it will be cheaper for them in the end. Please do me a favor and help me mobilize more industrialists in the Chamber of Commerce to go to Sichuan."
"It's difficult. Tianjin has been a land and water port since ancient times, with convenient transportation. Leather factories, tanning factories, soap factories, shoe factories, cotton mills, dyeing and weaving factories, and chemical factories have formed a unique upstream and downstream relationship here. It is both a raw material concentration center and a cargo distribution center. In Sichuan, the raw material cost and transportation cost are too scary ."
It's good to be at home for a thousand days, but it's difficult to be outside. Zhou Xiaoshan knew that asking them to move to Sichuan and start a new business was as difficult as bringing a battalion of soldiers to Tianjin to act as lobbyists.
"West Sichuan produces yaks and sheep. Although the leather industry is in a difficult situation, it is not that we are completely unable to start a business. After all, leather shoes are made and shipped to Sichuan, which also incurs freight costs. Moreover, many shoe factories use German materials, and leather can also be imported through the Yangtze River route. High costs in the southwest will only result in high prices."
Zhou Xiaoshan was telling the truth. Sometimes, the goods just have high costs and high selling prices. Although the coastal market has been lost, there the inland market.
In this situation, what could be more important than protecting your own property?
"Brother Xiaoshan, since we two have the audacity to call you brother at the table, your business is our business. We will go to the Chamber of Commerce to help you mobilize. After all, if we go to Sichuan together, we will not be easily bullied, right?"
"Don't worry, Sichuan people are hospitable and will not bully strangers. Besides, you have the telegram sent by the Marshal himself as a talisman."
The three of them burst into laughter.
Zhou Xiaoshan, who was originally planning to go to Peking, did not go.
For three consecutive days, Zhou Xiaoshan, wearing a suit, was taken by Fan Yongheng and Zhang Jixian to visit his industrial colleagues in the Chamber of Commerce.
Wandering among the lights and wine.
Chang Desheng, Zheng Chunhua was not used to the colorful Tianjin Gate .
He did know quite a few industrialists, but unfortunately, none of them agreed to go with him. They all said they would consider it, but he didn't know if they were just trying to evade the issue.
He went to the paint factory specifically to visit the owner Chen Diaopu, but he was in Nanjing, busy with the affairs of the Yongli Ning Factory.
Feeling deeply frustrated, the guy felt that he really lacked the potential to be a socialite, and said goodbye to the three people regretfully. Unexpectedly, Zhang Jixian asked his son Zhang Zhenhua to accompany him to Peiping.
Only then did Zhou Xiaoshan know that his son actually graduated from Fu Jen Catholic University.
This is the church university with the most expensive tuition in Peking!
The life of rich people is just like this, dull and tedious.
Unlike the group of soldiers in the special forces battalion, the soldiers who followed Zhou Xiaoshan out every day would gather their brothers together when they came back at night, talk about what they had seen and heard that day, and talk about the Xuanlongmen Formation.
Feng Tiankui was very pleased in Yongzhou.
Traveling thousands of miles and reading thousands of books is the correct way to cultivate knowledge in this era.
When these soldiers from the special forces battalion come back, they will definitely have no problem becoming company commanders starting from platoon leaders.
Luo Jialie and Qin Guoliang were also surprised.
Has this kid changed his personality?
It's been a week since you arrived in Pingjin. You've been working honestly like a donkey and haven't caused any trouble?
"Jia Lie, Guo Liang, do you know why I let this kid take full charge of Pingjin's affairs, and even let him decide what to buy?"
"I'm afraid that the commander feels frustrated when being watched by others. He hates the days of being restrained by others."
Feng Tiankui sighed bitterly. What Luo Jialie said might be one of the reasons. Most of the time, he let his subordinates do their work freely because he had suffered enough from Liu Xiang's lack of trust in him.
"This is just one of the reasons. You didn't go with him during the last bandit suppression. Once this guy got to the battlefield, he changed completely. Don't be fooled by his cheerful appearance in the headquarters building. Even when he behaves properly, he can still make people laugh. But on the battlefield, he is a completely different person."
Many Sichuan people have this kind of personality. They are usually cheerful and talkative, but they are very decisive in doing things.
Zhou Xiaoshan has such a personality, Luo Jialie and Qin Guoliang are not surprised at all.
"How can I put it? He was so calm and his thinking was so meticulous that it was frightening. Even his soldiers became very unfamiliar. He led his troops wherever they went and gave orders in unison. He easily took down the Tianxuan Village, which was guarded by one man. Qinling was known as the reincarnation of the mountain god. He was the most vicious bandit on the Sichuan-Shaanxi Highway. Hundreds of his men had killed people. After a battle, there were nearly a thousand bandits, but they didn't get a chance to fire a single shot. Especially when they attacked the mountain village in the end, hundreds of people faced more than a thousand people, which scared the people to tremble. After the battle of Tianxuan Village, I took away his position as the commander-in-chief."
When Feng Tiankui thought of the boy's desperate expression at that time, he started to laugh.
