Chen Zikun also worked as a banker and made a lot of money by speculating on Jiangdong Industrial Bank's stocks.
He had a clear understanding of financial profiteering, but he really didn't have the money to buy Mu Yichen's bottom at this time, because he used all the money to save the finances.
Buy guns and cannons and get ready for war.
A few days later, Mu Yichen sent another telegram, saying that it was fortunate that he didn't buy the bottom last time.
This time, the New York stock market fell even worse, and the price of first-class securities fell by 60%.
Chen Zikun took a breath of cold air.
Fortunately, he didn't buy the bottom, otherwise he would have lost all his money.
Mu Yichen and Che Qiuling were married and were traveling to the Americas on a cruise ship.
They happened to find that the stock market had plummeted.
They were temporarily embarrassed because they did not have a large amount of funds on hand, so they asked Chen Zikun for support.
However, Chen Zikun replied that the stocks were all fake.
If there are suitable bankrupt factories, you can pack up a few and bring them back.
Ordinary people don’t care about the economic crisis that broke out in Europe and the United States.
After all, it’s just a bunch of bankrupt speculators jumping off buildings on the other side of the ocean.
China has too much to deal with its own affairs, so it has no time to care about others.
The Kuomintang is in constant civil war.
Every few months Just set up a new central government, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Nanjing, as well as Guangxi, Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan, none of them are willing to take second place.
The always-affiliated Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions are also feeling a little tired.
In the past, wars in Beiyang were all symbolic.
The troops fired guns into the air, and the generals played mahjong and smoked opium in the concession to decide the outcome.
Now the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Kuomintang is all real.
Artillery and planes are all deployed in battle.
It would be embarrassing to fight unless thousands of people die in a battle.
Chen Zikun obtained information from friends in the banking industry.
As of last month, the Nanjing government's military debt had reached 138 million.
It was not enough to use all the tax revenue for military expenditures.
It relied entirely on the issuance of public bonds to maintain the debt.
The total amount of public debt was 50 million.
The public debt for cigarettes is 24 million, the debt for the aftermath is 50 million, and the salt tax treasury is for 80 million, most of which were subscribed by the Shanghai banking community.
Such a huge expenditure did not fall on the common people in the end.
Chen Zikun couldn't help but sigh that no matter how hard the people worked and how abundant the resources were, they could not withstand such a toss.
He thought that after the Northern Expedition was completed and the Northeast changed its banner, the common people would be able to live a peaceful life.
Today, it seems that I am naive.
Fortunately, Jiangdong Province was in a special position where he could not listen to propaganda.
Although Chen Zikun was not a direct descendant of the central government, he always supported the central government.
Chiang Kai-shek was also kind to him, and he still received one million military pay every month.
Not knowing how expensive firewood and rice are, Chen Zikun had to buy arms and armed forces as the war approached.
He was short of funds.
He originally planned to issue bonds, but Shanghai's fragile financial market had no blood.
At this time, the financial crisis broke out in Europe and the United States.
When the news came out, it gave him a wake-up call.
Even without money, things can be done.
Chen Zikun sent Lin Wenjing on a passenger ship to Fujian, and held a bidding meeting at the Chinachem Hotel in the Shanghai Public Concession.
He invited the bosses of foreign companies in Shanghai to participate.
The theme of the bidding meeting was to build a modern industrial city.
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The chairman of Jiangdong Province, the mayor of Beitai County, the president of Jiangdong Industrial Bank, and officials from the Jiangdong Provincial Department of Finance, Civil Affairs Department, and Industry Department all attended the meeting.
Jiangdong Province plans to build a series of factories and mines in Jiangbei, including a coal mine, an iron mine, a gas coking plant, a caustic soda plant, an acid plant, a steelmaking plant, an arsenal, a power plant, and a water plant. , these projects alone are breathtaking, and bigger ones are yet to come.
Beitai County's railway station, city hall, racecourse, Jiangbei University Hall, dozens of apartment buildings, four asphalt main roads, as well as the county's electric lights, telephones, and water lines are all open to tender.
The whole of Shanghai is boiling.
The Western economic crisis, overproduction, unemployment of workers, sharp decline in international trade volume, capitalists are in panic all the time.
Even the Far East is also affected.
China was originally the best place to dump products, but due to the ongoing civil war, the consumption capacity has been reduced.
Austerity has made life difficult for them, and now a big cake worth hundreds of millions of dollars suddenly appears, and who doesn’t want to take a bite?
At the bidding meeting, Beitai County Mayor Gong Zijun spoke in Mandarin, which made the bosses of foreign companies a little unhappy.
In Shanghai, all Chinese speak English.
Moreover, the bidding meeting was held in the concession, but the international language was not used, leaving the capitalists Their arrogant self-esteem has been hurt to some extent.
What makes them even more hurt is yet to come.
Gong Zijun said that the Beitai project requires Party B to advance the full amount of funds, and 10% of the money will be reserved as a deposit, which will be settled after 50 years.
The most important point is that the bidder with higher quality and lower price will win the bid.
As soon as this statement came out, the crowd immediately exploded.
The bosses in suits and leather shoes with tall noses and blue eyes left the venue with their compradors in protest and contempt.
These days, only foreigners are cheating the Chinese.
How can they do the opposite and advance the capital in full, just like us?
The bidding meeting ended hastily, with waste paper all over the floor.
Gong Zijun looked helpless, Gong Jiaxiang remained silent, and Chen Zikun sat high on the rostrum with a high-spirited expression: "Let's all go.
Let's go.
We'll see you later.
Don't blame me then."
Give them face."
Usually economic crises only last for a few months before recovering, but this time is different.
There are no signs of improvement.
According to a letter sent by Mu Yichen from the United States, the real economy of the United States will regress for at least twenty years, and a large number of factories will go bankrupt.
After going bankrupt, it is said that the Soviet Union took the opportunity to acquire multiple production lines from the United States at low prices.
Chen Zikun made a prompt decision and sent money to Mu Yichen, asking him to hire engineers and skilled technicians to come to China and quickly build Jiangdong's industrial system.
The bosses of the foreign companies who had walked out in protest a few months ago were now sneaking in and asking Chen Zikun for a project.
Chen Zikun really didn't give them a good look.
If you want to get the project, you should compete for it yourself first.
I showed no shame to you last time, but this time I didn’t even open the bidding.
All operations were done behind closed doors.
Whoever has the best design and the lowest price will win the bid.
For the sake of profit, the bosses of foreign companies in the UK, Germany and the United States have to compete to lower the price.
They started killing each other.
Beitai's factory project was launched first.
A large number of engineers from Europe and the United States gathered in Jiangbei.
Every train was full.
There were work sheds and foundation piles everywhere.
There were crowds of people and whistles.
A large number of cheap workers from Henan, Shandong, and Anhui arrived like a flood.
In the north of the Yangtze River, there are rows of makeshift shacks built for ground dragons.
When viewed from above by plane, they look like a ten-mile continuous camp.
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The plane landed at the newly built Jiangbei Airport.
This airport was flattened by civilians with stone rollers.
The runway is longer than the provincial capital airport.
The tower is a three-story brick and wood structure, with hangars and ground staff dormitories next to it.
The oil depot is further away.
What landed on the ground was a German-made Junker F13 passenger plane of Jiangdong Airlines.
The pilot was An Xue, who graduated from the Jiangdong Army School and later learned flying from the American master Pierce.
The plane carried Jiangdong Provincial Chairman Chen Zikun and Mu Mu, who had just returned from the United States.
Yi Chen and his wife.
Beitai County Magistrate Gong Zijun and Municipal Construction Commander Xiao Lang came to greet them.
There was no red carpet, no guard of honor, just dust and a few lonely ground workers.
Chen Zikun introduced Mu Yichen to Xiao Lang: "Mu Yichen, graduated from St.
John's University and studied steelmaking in Germany.
This is his wife, Che Qiuling, who is also a school girl of St.
John's and is engaged in chemical engineering.
You will be colleagues from now on. ” Everyone shook hands enthusiastically.
Those present were the main leaders in the construction of Beitai.
Gong Zijun was responsible for allocating migrant workers and coordinating relations between all parties.
Xiao Lang was responsible for civil construction and the construction of residential areas and municipal functional areas.
Mu Yichen and his wife were responsible for the construction of industrial zones.
"I studied steelmaking for three years in Germany and it finally came in handy."
Mu Yichen said eagerly.
"Without chemical engineering foundation and coke, how can you make steel?"
Che Qiuling looked at him sideways.
Everyone chuckled, but felt a lot in their hearts.
China's industrial foundation is too weak.
Everything has to be started from scratch.
Beitai is short of everything.
Even a screw has to be imported.
Fortunately, there are abundant coal and iron resources, and construction can be done nearby.
In coking plants and steel mills, even transportation costs are saved.
The war has caused a huge surplus of labor.
Labor can be recruited without paying wages.
Chen Zikun suggested looking around, so Mu Yichen drove a big Ford and took them straight to the river.
Next to the Huaijiang River is Ziyou Avenue.
This road named by Chen Zikun himself has six lanes.
French plane trees and street lamps are planted on both sides.
The road is paved with asphalt.
It is spacious and clean.
Cars rush by and you can see a river beach.
There are rows of camphor trees, and workers are wrapping the trees with hemp rope to keep them warm and painting them with insect-proof lime water.
Gong Zijun said: “It’s even more beautiful at night, when the street lights are lit up, it’s like being in Europe or the United States.”
Chen Zikun said: "The electric light factory was built so quickly."
Gong Zijun said: "Not yet, I'm just using a diesel engine to temporarily generate electricity to test the effect.
The electric light factory is still under construction, with an installed capacity of 100,000 horsepower.
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It uses an open alternator, and the steam engine is a double-cylinder vertical pull rod from the British Philips Company.
The engine and boiler are Bubbaco water-pipe chain furnaces, with an output of 400 tons of coal per hour.
Once completed, it will not only supply electric lights for the whole city, but also provide sufficient electricity for industry. " The car followed Liberty Avenue and passed an overpass to the industrial area.
There were scaffolding and walls everywhere.
Foreign technicians with high nose bridges and blue eyes were everywhere, and more were Chinese coolies wearing black cotton-padded jackets and wicker helmets.
Machinery equipment Not all are in place, and the task of transporting large objects is completed by them.
"Workers endure hardships and stand hard work, and the construction of Beitai cannot be separated from them."
Gong Zijun said.
Chen Zikun said: "Be kind to the workers.
If someone with ulterior motives incites a labor unrest, it will be too late for you to regret it."
Gong Zijun said yes.
Chen Zikun said again: "Let's go to Xicheng and see how the coolies live."
Gong Zijun hurriedly dissuaded: "Chairman, there is no need to go there to see it.
That place is smoky, messy and unhygienic."
Chen Zikun said: "You are looking down on me.
I have lived in a large courtyard and cleaned the toilet, but you are still afraid of this."
Xiao Lang interjected: "Actually, that's not what County Magistrate Gong meant.
The focus of the Western District is not dirty."
Chen Zikun looked suspicious.
"If the East District is a city of dreams, then the West District is a city of sin."
Xiao Lang explained
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