Chapter 220 Yingkou Industrial Zone

"I also know the difficulties of the Finance Bureau!" Zhou Ziqi's words were not to give Xiong Xiling face. It was not that he did not want to get financial support from the Finance Bureau, but that he also knew that the Finance Bureau was indeed suffering. It was said that he could not even take out the money to repair the general's mansion.

You know, Li San personally went to Xiling to ask for money and said that if the general's mansion was not repaired, how could you let Zhao Dongyun live in? However, Xiong Xiling was stunned and didn't give him a penny. In the end, Zhao Dongyun directly sold the whole former Shengjing General's mansion out of his own pocket and then paid for the repair.

To be honest, Zhao Dongyun now has more private assets than the financial bureaus of the three eastern provinces.

Xiong Xiling is about to be scolded as an iron rooster. Basically, many people block him from asking for money every day, but no matter how these people shout, he should not give what should be given, let alone give it to him. Anyway, in a word: no money!

So Zhou Ziqi never expected how much money he could get from Xiong Xiling!

"On the issue of construction plans and construction funds, the opinion of our Yingkou Municipal Government is that in the early stage, we mainly used the existing industrial urban areas to attract merchants to settle in through a series of preferential policies, which is not comparable to the construction of new cities in the suburbs like the Huludao Industrial Zone. In this way, the huge cost of infrastructure can be effectively reduced. At present, ports and inland river transportation can still initially meet the demand, and then gather funds to expand and dredge when it is insufficient in the future. At present, our problem is the railway branch line.

"We have negotiated with Fuyuan Construction Company, Fengtian Railway Company, etc., and have had preliminary discussions. Fengtian Railway Company is very interested in preparing for the construction of Yingkou Branch Railway. As long as we approve the business, then Fengtian Railway will jointly undertake Yingkou Branch Railway with Fuyuan Construction Company, specific Fuyuan Construction Company is responsible for the construction.

Zhao Dongyun listened to a series of enterprise names in Zhou Ziqi's mouth, and also assessed the gains and losses in his heart!

Fengtian Railway Company, formerly known as Huludao Official Railway Company, mainly manages and operates the Huludao Branch Railway. However, two months ago, after Zhao Dongyun set up and entered the customs, he sent troops to take over the railway line along the way and handed over the railway to Huludao Official Railway Company. The company was renamed Fengtian Railway Company to manage It operates today's Beijing-Feng Railway. At the same time, in order to develop Fushun Coal Mine, it also invested in the construction of Fushun Railway Branch.

Fuyuan Construction Company, which has no physical assets, is a pure construction enterprise. Many enterprise projects belonging to Fuyuan Company and most of the infrastructure projects in Huludao are undertaken by the company. Building houses is only their small business. The main business is port construction and railway Construction is also the first company in China with ultra-large-scale engineering construction, especially railway construction capacity.

When Yuan Shikai organized the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway in 1905, Fuyuan Construction Company undertook a large number of construction projects, and the famous Zhan Tianyou was the chief engineer of the company.

Such a large-scale development plan as Yingkou's industrial zone is inseparable from the support of Fuyuan Construction Company.

"The funds of Fengtian Railway Company are also tight. At the same time, I'm afraid it will be difficult to invest in the construction of two railways. Please help me tell them to properly arrange the investment plan, and it is not good to blindly expand to cause the rupture of the capital chain!"

After saying that, Zhao Dongyun said, "I will talk to Fuyuan Company about the construction of Yingkou at that time to see if they can advance part of the construction in the early stage and set up the shelf first, but your municipal government should also raise funds as soon as possible."

When Zhou Ziqi heard Zhao Dongyun say this, he immediately smiled. What kind of enterprise is Fuyuan Construction Company? Judging from the name, you can know that it is a subsidiary of Fuyuan Company. Although the company is not familiar to outsiders, people in the military and politics of Fuyuan Company know that this enterprise is under the name of Zhao Dongyun.

Zhao Dongyun asked them to advance the construction, which also relieved Zhou Ziqi, so that his financing period could be more relaxed.

"But this Yingkou railway branch line is to be connected to the Middle East Railway and then to the Beijing Railway. What does the Middle East Railway Company say?" Zhao Dongyun asked.

When it comes to railways in contemporary Northeast China, you can't bypass the Middle East Railway!

The railway network of the three eastern provinces is now composed of the Beijing-Feng Railway and the Middle East Railway.

The Beijing-Feng Railway, formerly known as the Inner and External Railway, began to be gradually built as early as the First Sino-Japanese War. By the year of Gengzi, it had been built to the new government. However, with the continuous outbreak of events such as the Gengzi Incident and the Russo-Japanese War, political, military and economic factors have seriously affected the subsequent railway construction. As a result, the new civil government inside and outside the customs went to Shenyang until the end of the Russo-Japanese war. After the Japanese and Russia began negotiations, the construction of this section of the railway was accelerated without the impact of the war.

And it was officially completed a few months ago. As a result, the whole line of the railway inside and outside the customs was opened, which coincided with the Republic and the new establishment, so it was renamed the 'Beijing-Feng Railway'

The opening of the whole line of the Beijing-Feng Railway means that the railway transportation in the three eastern provinces has reached a preliminary level of perfection.

In addition to the Beijing-Feng Railway, the rest is the Middle East Railway!

The Middle East Railway originated from the 'East-Qing Railway built by China and Russia. The railway was completely occupied by the Russian side after the year of Gengzi. Later, Japan and Russia changed its name to 'China Eastern Railway', referred to as 'Middle East Railway'.

The railway is centered on Harbin, west to Manzhouli, east to Suifenhe, and south to Lushun. After the Russo-Japanese War, the railway was changed to be operated by many countries. At the same time, the narrow-gauge military railway "Anfeng Railway" built during the Russo-Japanese War is also included in the scope of multinational co-management and is ready to be revised to become a standard regulation. Part of the East Railway.

The above 'Middle East Railway' is operated by the 'China Eastern Railway Company' composed of Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Japan and China. At the same time, in accordance with many treaties signed in the pre-Qing era, the 'China Oriental Railway Company' composed of many countries still has the priority development rights along the railway. List the power.

However, in the past, the extremely important railway garrison has been diluted. Because it is under the joint control of many countries, this garrison also has to come together with many countries, but not every country has the ambition to fully annex the three eastern provinces like Japan and Russia. What Britain, Germany and France want is money and priority development rights, but they don't care much about the garrison.

Moreover, the idea that Japan and Russia want to station troops has also been unanimously opposed by the five countries in Britain, Germany and France, but this railway cannot help but protect it, especially the Middle East Railway Company is still an enterprise with garrison power, executive power, judicial power, and similar to the colonial government along the railway.

So something strange happened. China Eastern Railway Company has a private army, that is, the 'China Eastern Railway Road Protection Team', and this army, like the United Nations peacekeeping force of later generations, is a purely international force, with a total number of more than 3,000 people. The commander of the road team is retired British Navy Colonel John, with four infantry battalions and a cavalry battalion.

Of course, on the surface, they are mercenaries, but in fact, most of them are active soldiers from various countries. For example, the cavalry battalion is the cavalry battalion of the Russian Army. Among the four infantry battalions, Japan itself occupies one, the Russians occupy one, Zhao Dongyun's patrol camp occupies one, and another is British and French. One of the soldiers sent by the state took up one.

In the eyes of future generations, this China Eastern Railway Company may be a product of humiliation, but in fact, this is already the biggest condition that China can gain.

What is the greatest role of the multinational co-mangation of the Middle East Railway and Lushun?

is to cut off the comprehensive infiltration and control of Russia and Japan to the three eastern provinces. As for Lushun Port, it did not become Japan's naval base, but became the same public concession as Shanghai, and Lushun Port became a public port without tens of thousands of * and so on.

As for the loss of some sovereignty and commercial interests, there is nothing we can do. This world is originally a worse world, and now it is better than letting Japan and Russia encroach on it.

The two major trunk lines of the Middle East Railway and Beijing-Feng Railway, coupled with a small number of branch lines along the route, such as Fushun Railway, Huludao Railway, Yingkou Railway, etc., constitute the railway network of the three contemporary eastern provinces.

In 1906, the three eastern provinces had the most complete and dense railway network in China. It can be said that the railway network of the three eastern provinces laid the foundation for the northeast to become an industrial base in later generations.

After agreeing on the Yingkou Railway, the biggest obstacle representing the Yingkou Industrial Zone is the disappearance, and then Zhou Ziqi talked about detailed investment promotion and other plans.

"According to the previous industrial structure of Yingkou, we still believe that we should continue to develop the soybean processing industry as the main direction to compete directly with Dalian!" Zhou Ziqi said, "Building a Far East soybean industry base as the core goal!"

Zhao Dongyun nodded: "This idea is still relatively down-to-earth. Yingkou has his traditional advantages and shortcomings. Don't blindly learn from Huludao Industrial Zone!"

In the Huludao Industrial Zone, in the early years, in order to develop, basically enterprises were pulled in. Soybean processing industry, brewing, textile, and even machine manufacturing, cement, chemical industry, etc. were almost more or less. In the end, there was everything in it, which caused certain challenges to the sustainable development and management of the industrial zone.

"The soybean processing industry is a dominant industry in Yingkou, but the development momentum of the textile industry in recent years is very good, and you should also pay more attention to Yingkou!" Zhao Dongyun looked at the table and said, "In the past two years, the industrial development path in our three eastern provinces has been correct. The soybean processing industry and the textile industry have advanced together. We should not only develop the advantageous industry of traditional soybean processing, but also the emerging textile industry!"

"Back, you will make a detailed investment plan!" Zhao Dongyun's plan, the preparation of Yingkou Industrial Zone will be formalized one day earlier. Otherwise, when all the investment in Dalian is taken away, what kind of industrial zone will Yingkou run?

After sending Zhou Ziqi and others away, Zhao Dongyun did not have time to breathe a sigh of relief. Yang Debiao outside said that Cao Kuan, Lin Yongquan and other military generals have also arrived!

Zhao Dongyun rubbed his head and said, "Let them all come in!"