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Volume 1: Fierce Battle in Changsha Chapter 577: Industrial Alliance

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    There are many reasons for the rise of the Netherlands, among which the Netherlands concentrated loose domestic capital in the form of stocks and established the East India Company to carry out commercial activities. This is undoubtedly the reason why the Netherlands truly dominated world trade in the 17th century.  The concentrated use of capital gave the Netherlands an unparalleled advantage in commercial activities. It was the establishment of the East India Company that finally completely broke the monopoly of old powers such as Spain and allowed the Netherlands to finally rise.

    Xiao Yungui spent an hour patiently telling the story of the rise of the Netherlands to everyone present at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Finally, Xiao Yungui said slowly: "Today's world is already full of powerful countries, and various foreign goods are flooding every corner of the world.  , if our generation does not catch up, we will lose the opportunity to rise. In the next hundred years or so, our descendants will have to sell cheap raw materials and labor in exchange for goods produced by foreigners using cheap raw materials and labor.  Live a living. The factories and workshops you have now will no longer be able to withstand the impact of foreigners¡¯ cheap goods and will gradually die out. From now on, there will be no industry in the country!"

    Xiao Yungui¡¯s words are not alarmist. The national industrial systems in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places have experienced great development for several years after experiencing the Suzhou-Fu New Deal. This development is due to the stimulation of the new policies and the support of the government. But an industrial system, especially industry  The cyclic development cannot rely on policy stimulation and support for a long time. It must be able to face the impact of foreign commodities independently.

    After several years, the trade policies of Britain, France and other countries have also been adjusted. As the Taiping Army abolished various taxes and miscellaneous taxes in the mainland, encouraged industry and commerce, and vigorously developed foreign trade, more cheap goods began to hit the market under the Taiping Army.  market.  Gradually, small and weak domestic industries with little foundation began to fall into trouble.

    Historically, after the Qing Dynasty launched the Westernization Movement, some knowledgeable Han ministers in the Manchu Qing Dynasty also ran many industrial industries. Under the leadership of Li Hongzhang and others, they established the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, Jinling Manufacturing Bureau, Tianjin Machinery Bureau, etc.  However, because the products they produced were not good in quality, low in price, and lacked competitiveness, they were unable to be self-reliant. Therefore, instead of becoming a money-making machine, these industries became money-eating machines in which Li Hongzhang and others invested large sums of money every year.

    After occupying Shanghai, Xiao Yungui paid great attention to the way to support the industry. He combined the government and private industries and focused on supporting private industries. But it has reached this point.  It is also impossible for the government of the Kingdom of Heaven to invest endless money in it like Li Hongzhang.  For example, for the production of military uniforms, although orders can be given to private industries, making a set of military uniforms costs two silver coins.  But if a foreign businessman can buy it for one silver coin, the heavenly government can still bite the bullet and purchase domestic products once or twice, but if it happens too many times, fools will know to choose cheaper products.

    The most important thing about the reforms implemented by Xiao Yungui in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was to support the country's capital industry.  He didn't want to watch the situation he created fall into despair.  However, the domestic private industry is fragmented and mostly operates independently.  Where is the way out?  United Capital, by pooling its advantages in capital and technology, may be able to open up a new situation!  Therefore, the Dutch joint-stock East India Company has become a model that can be used for reference!

    "Today's world trade is almost monopolized by great powers such as Britain and France. Even the United States has been affected by the impact of British products and has experienced an economic crisis. If our domestic industry wants to continue to develop, we must achieve unity in terms of capital and technology, and unity  The best form is the Dutch East India Company model!" Xiao Yungui's tone was very calm, but it was like exploding a bomb in everyone's ears.

    Since ancient times, Chinese people have had a very strange subconscious mind for self-protection.  Many skills like to be spread among one's own people, so-called secrets that are not passed on should not be passed on to others.  It has resulted in the loss of many skills, so the Chinese people are conservative.  Nowadays, the kind of alliance proposed by Xiao Yungui is unacceptable to many businessmen for a while. Some private workshops can support it by relying on the secrets that no one has and I don't have. Once these technologies are spread, they will be worthless.  Capital alliances are okay, but sharing technology and professional talents is hard to accept.

    After Zhao Puzhai stood up and slowly talked about his worries about the technology alliance, Xiao Yungui did not respond. Tao Enpei said at the side: "Don't worry, Mr. Zhao, the Kingdom of Heaven will issue a new law recently called the Taiping Patent Law.  This law was formulated with reference to the patent laws of the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries, in order to ensure that unique skills are protected by national laws. In the future, even if the technology is combined, with the protection of this law, the person who provides the technology can also receive patent fees every year.  Companies that use technology also have to pay patent fees every year. This technology also requires communication to make progress. Everyone is hiding how to make progress? Isn¡¯t it?"

    After Tao Enpei's explanation, some people dispelled their doubts and some people waited and watched, but overall the resistance to this proposal was reduced a lot. Xiao Yungui struck while the iron was hot and continued: "Now foreign firms and companies can take over our mineral mining and railway projects.  In large-scale industries such as construction and shipbuilding, technical reasons are one aspect, but the most important thing is?In all aspects, they have strong capital, and although everyone here is very rich, they are weak when competing with foreigners alone.  We have cooperated with foreigners for so many years in technology, and we have learned a lot about it. Now that we want to develop some large industries ourselves in the future, we must carry out capital alliances.  "

    Xiao Yungui paused and continued: "Now Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places have all recovered. Guizhou, Sichuan and other places will also recover within a year. The southwest is rich in minerals. To exploit these minerals, we need to build more railways  , all of which require a lot of capital, and we cannot take care of it without strong capital. Just imagine, if thousands of kilometers of railways in the southwest were invested and built by the company we founded, and the minerals along the lines were contracted and mined by companies, how huge would it be in the future?  With a lump sum of income, future generations can sleep on the money, so why spend money to buy land and continue to be a rent collector?"

    Xiao Yungui continued to encourage: "After the minerals are mined, there will be a market, and we can also build larger steel plants, shipyards, etc. The surrounding small countries have an increasing demand for arms, ships, and various metal hardware.  We can completely use our resources, capital, and proximity advantages to gradually dominate the entire market in East Asia and completely squeeze out foreign goods! Then we can continue to expand to the east of the Pacific and south to the Indian Ocean. In the end, we will surely be like the Dutch East Indies.  Just like the company, it has achieved great achievements for a generation. Please imagine, gentlemen, that businessmen are not just for making money for themselves. When everyone in the world uses products made in China, I believe that your great names will go down in history and be famous for generations to come!"

    Xiao Yungui's rhetorical speech was still so inflammatory. In addition to making money, Chinese businessmen also pay attention to reputation. This is why after making money, they like to build bridges and pave roads and do good deeds. They like to stay.  Fame comes, and Xiao Yungui's words that will last forever impressed wealthy businessmen like Yu Songnian. However, small merchants hope to get benefits from capital alliances by following the big merchants, so businessmen pay attention to fame and fortune.  It can also be said that human nature began to be revealed, and everyone's eyes became eager.

    Yu Songnian stood up and cupped his hands and said: "Your Highness, according to His Highness's idea, this joint industry similar to the Dutch East India Company is bound to become the largest industrial company in the country. In the future, there will be many decisions on matters. So who will make the final decision in this company?"

    Shen Wanben said: "Of course, whoever contributes the most money will make the decision." Zhao Puzhai said: "What is this? Since everyone has contributed money and effort, naturally everyone makes the decision, otherwise it would be unfair."

    As soon as the topic started, everyone started a heated debate. It is strange to say that in every collective in human society, there is no collective like businessmen that can easily produce democracy. Farmers like the patriarchal institutional model of the family. Shilin  Talent and virtue come first, craftsmen look up to those with superior skills, and the army is the voice of the generals. Only the merchant class is the most likely to have democracy. Because merchants come from all over the world, everyone's goal is to make money and fame.  The goal is highly unified, but the businessmen and philistines are shrewd and know better how to unite horizontally and vertically, and better understand the power of alliance, and the basis of alliance is for everyone to discuss and decide things together!

    Before Xiao Yungui could give a suggestion, a group of people had already discussed it on their own. According to the model of electing the president of the Federation of Industry and Commerce, all shareholders participated in the founding shareholders meeting to elect a company organization similar to the executive, and then selected from these executive directors.  The head of the entire industrial company comes, and then the head and the executive body jointly manage the daily operations of the entire company, while the shareholders' meeting supervises, and major matters must be voted on by the shareholders' meeting when necessary.

    Seeing this scene, Xiao Yungui smiled. He knew that through this incident, he had opened a new era, from looseness to centralization, and then to initial democracy. What started this kind of democratic consciousness was precisely the people with extremely high status in this society.  Lowly business people.  At this moment, he seemed to have discovered the reason why there has been very little democratic consciousness in China since ancient times. That is that the long-term emphasis on agriculture and suppression of business has suppressed the classes that can sprout the basis of this consciousness, so people have always been accustomed to it.  With the Holy Lord and Mingjun sitting above his head, he has no idea of ??being the master of the country.

    After the heated discussion came to an end, the businessmen began to worry. This industrial entity with a combination of capital is a behemoth and may control a large amount of social wealth and resources in the future. Can the Kingdom of Heaven allow its existence?  At least it won't work in the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, absolutely not!

    When Yu Songnian raised this question tremblingly, Xiao Yungui smiled slightly and said: "Since it is a joint-stock industrial company that all people can participate in, I will also participate in it." Following him, he pointed to Wei Hexiang of Guiyun Company in a relaxed manner.  He said: "Actually, Guiyun Company has always been my private property. Boss Wei is the boss appointed by me. Since I propose to do business with you, I will naturally participate in it."

      Everyone turned to look at the smiling face of the fat-headed and big-eared Wei Hexiang. They were so surprised that they were speechless for a moment (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!
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