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One Person's Time and Space Smuggling Empire VIP Volume Chapter 87 The Rush of the Times

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    On the balcony outside the ballroom of the Chinese Grand Theater, the girl disappeared in shock.  Li Zhe came back to his senses and shook his head.

    "Let's go!" Li Zhe said uninterested.

    "Aren't you going in?" Li Jinglin, the attendant who came out to lead the team, asked in surprise.

    "If we don't go in, we won't have time to mess around with these people. Just come out to relax and relieve our boredom!" Li Zhe waved his hand and led the team away first.

    Behind him, a world has lost its color.

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    1912 passed in such a tense and busy manner, time flies, and in the blink of an eye it is already the middle of 1913.

    Looking back on the past, China in 1913 has undergone earth-shaking changes compared to 1910. It is a completely different world. From education, transportation, chemical industry, to the spiritual outlook of society, everything is completely new. The trend of working hard and getting ahead has taken over.  Chinese society.  If foreigners who lived in China in 1910 come to China again after a few years, they will find that this is a completely different country.

    The most obvious change is the construction of transportation infrastructure. Throughout 1912, China imported more than two million tons of steel from abroad. Among them, rails for railways accounted for the vast majority. In addition, China¡¯s domestic steel industry has formed  Productivity, supply to China's railway and engineering construction.

    After the grassroots agricultural revolution, most of the surplus labor released in the country's countryside was absorbed by transportation construction projects, becoming the fastest-expanding working class in China.  More than two million railway workers and highway workers are sweating heartily on the land of China, changing China's geographical appearance with the greatest enthusiasm.

    To maximize the utilization of manpower.  To speed up the construction, the construction of railway lines throughout China is often divided into dozens or even hundreds of railway sections for construction.  Almost every month.  There are a series of railway sections announced as completed.  News of the good news flooded Chinese media and newspapers, so much so that eventually people became numb.

    During this process.  The newly born Chinese automobile industry has made great contributions. Somehow, more than a dozen large automobile manufacturers in China have suddenly appeared from all over the world, almost like crazy, and are blasting out heavy-duty trucks for engineering.  Cranes, bulldozers, etc. are all over China's countryside, greatly improving work efficiency for transportation and railway construction.

    So much so, the use of these engineering vehicles.  The country has gradually grown in scale, and even the largest oil company in the world, Sinopec Group, cannot supply oil.  The empire had to import large amounts of refined oil products from the Anglo-Dutch Shell Oil Company in Southeast Asia for use in the domestic automobile industry.

    The newly born Chinese Empire has developed rapidly in some aspects, but in other aspects it still needs hard work to polish it slowly. This is evident from the uneven industrial development.

    Throughout China, the progress of industrialization is rapid. This rapidity has actually reached a staggering level, even with the full support of the United States and Russia.  The major powers would never have imagined that China's industrial development could advance so rapidly overnight.  Unknowingly, China's hidden growth rate has become a variable beyond the awareness of the world's major powers.

    A large number of basic industrial machinery came from Li Zhe¡¯s portable space transportation and made great contributions.  Time and space transportation is in full swing.  Hundreds of thousands of tons of industrial machinery every day, various machine tools and heavy machinery produced in the Three Kingdoms time and space and even in modern time and space, such as forging presses, rolling mills, roller presses, etc., are enriched in large quantities on the production line.  The skilled workers of the old era who were briefly and temporarily trained gradually mastered it after several months or even half a year of exploration, and gradually formed the core of China's heavy industry productivity.

    certainly.  The craftsmanship of these machine tools and heavy machinery date back to the 1930s and 1940s, and their structures are rough.  The operation is simple, otherwise, even modern machinery would be difficult to use in this era. Only this kind of old and ancient machinery is most suitable for this era.  And, because, the electricity infrastructure of this era is generally inadequate.  So much so that these machines have to use a large number of large steam engines or fuel engines as direct power, which undoubtedly adds to the burden on the transportation industry.

    Of course, in several major industrial zones and places like Shanghai and Nanjing, the laying of electric power infrastructure has been completed. Electricity is generally used in industry and urban construction. Every night, the neon lights in the city flicker all night long, forming the most beautiful scene of the era.  The night view is unforgettable.

    However, what supports such a large-scale power infrastructure are countless giant thermal power plants raging in the countryside on the outskirts of large cities. Thick smoke billows, covering the sky and destroying the original environment. It constitutes the most common industry of this era.  a scene.

    With the support of heavy industry, China's private light industry construction flourished everywhere. After the founding of New China, China's financial system was reorganized in more than a year from 1911 to 1912.After the reorganization was completed, the Central Monetary Bureau, the central financial management agency of the Chinese Empire, was established and began to issue a new currency, the Chinese Yuan.  In keeping with the times, the currency was issued as a mixture of silver dollars and banknotes.

    Subsequently, the assets of the original Shanghai Yuan Fengrun were reorganized and integrated into the Imperial Bank of China, the first state-owned commercial bank in China, referred to as Bank of China, under the management of the Central Monetary Bureau.  Immediately afterwards, various commercial banks emerged in China's financial system, including China Construction Bank, Bank of Communications, and Steel Bank. The financial services required by China's heavy industry also emerged one after another, and then began to be opened to the private sector. A large amount of funds poured in from these banks.  Enter the people, let China's private enterprises develop, and bloom all over the country like a sudden spring breeze.

    The textile industry with small investment and quick results has developed the fastest. China's major fields such as hardware, chemicals, papermaking, textiles, and food have all achieved extraordinary development.  The silk clothing industry has become popular all over the world overnight.

    Unlike China in this era, which was famous for its raw material exports, with its main exports focused on the production of raw materials such as raw silk, cotton, and soybeans, the current Chinese Empire has mastered the upper-level technology of productivity and has begun to export high-profit terminal light industrial products.  path of.  With the advantages of low raw material costs and labor prices, once China's light industry grew up, it began to go abroad and pursue high profits from international trade before it could fully satisfy the domestic market, squeezing the living space of European and American light industries.

    Especially in the petrochemical industry, the monopoly controls the entire industrial system. Almost all products from the upstream to the end are completely monopolized by enterprises in the Chinese system. With technology and industrial standards, Chinese state-owned and private enterprises such as Sinopec Group are competing with foreign enterprises.  It's a complete crushing.  In order to pursue higher profits, the entire industry has even begun to invest overseas, trying to annex the poor local chemical industry abroad.

    At the end of 1912, the Shanghai Stock Exchange was established, marking the maturity of China's capital operations and the beginning of true market-oriented operations.  At the same time, it also marked the official end of the integration process of the financial system within the Chinese Empire.

    It took more than two years for China's economy to complete an evolutionary process that took other countries dozens or hundreds of years to complete. In the late Manchu Qing Dynasty, the court spent decades cultivating a new generation of "Westernization" people of all kinds.  Talents were wiped out in one fell swoop. Together with the new generation of industrial workers trained by the expeditionary army-style night school vocational education and social education system, these people ushered in an era in which the entire world would advance rapidly along with China in the next few decades.  (To be continued)
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