Chapter 23 Leading Private Enterprises

For hundreds of years, compared with Western countries, China has had a number of major factors of production, although these factors of production have been artificially suppressed by the colonists, and after the founding of the empire, it made full use of these factors and developed other factors.

China has the world's richest labor force, extremely obedient labor, and a large agricultural population. It can transfer a large part of the population to the industrial sector and rich natural resources. The most important thing is that it has the world's largest market, with up to 440 million consumers.

But what China lacks is technology and entrepreneurs.

The shortcomings in science and technology, including mechanical equipment and science and technology, are quickly made up in the short term, mostly by importing foreign equipment, hiring many European and American technical consultants, and sending international students to study abroad.

Because of the ignorance and ignorance of the colonial rule of the Qing Dynasty, China failed to catch up with the industrial revolution, which is the fundamental reason why China lags behind other countries. But on the other hand, it has benefited from the late development of industry. China can take advantage of the latest technology developed by other countries after about a century of expensive trial mistakes. The most significant feature of this process is that China has grasped the industrial revolution with electricity as the core and quickly built a large number of world-class factories.

As for entrepreneurial talents, it is obviously impossible to rely on foreign countries. It should at least be the Chinese themselves who establish and own the main modern industries. Although, after the Gengzi change, everyone knows that no work is strong, for traditional Chinese businessmen, they are usually reluctant to invest a large amount of money in heavy industry, because they think it is too risky and the recovery cycle is too long.

Compared with those who are not strong, when traditional businessmen change to industrial merchants, they are more inclined to "no business is rich". They are more willing to invest in alternative industries such as textile factories, flour mills, match factories and other alternative industries that replace imports. In fact, they do the same.

The two most famous entrepreneurs in the early days of the empire, Zhang Jian, chairman of Dasheng Group, and Zhou Xuexi of Qixin Company, to some extent, have a common background - Confucian students. The former is from the top student, and the latter is from the top student. They are representatives of self-founded enterprises in the south and the north.

And both of them are quite taken care of by the political axe, and they have one thing in common. They both believe that the purpose of commercial success is for the interests of the country and the individual, which is also what the political axe wants to hear. Their private investment in charitable acts such as schools, hospitals and nursing homes have also made them popular among the public.

But the two also have another thing in common, but they are not what the political axe likes. The two are unwilling to invest in heavy industry enterprises with large investment and long recovery. Compared with the high return and high profit of textile factories and flour mills, they prefer the former, rather than steel mills and machinery factories, which also invest in coal mines and iron mines, but Zhang Jian only has a yarn factory.

It is also because of the resistance of the private business community to heavy industry projects that the political axe is disappointed with the private entrepreneurs, and this disappointment and the needs of the country make the political axe have to establish many enterprises by itself. Zheng Axe hopes that the success of these enterprises will become a model for private enterprises to follow, but in fact, in the end, Zheng Axe is obsessed with the miraculous development brought about by the planned economy. It is undoubtedly effective and successful to build a place to interfere with the economy and not allow the economy to be under the control of market forces, so as to guide and develop the economy in a way that is suitable for the interests of the country.

At the beginning, Zheng Axe invested mainly in factories in steel, military industry, shipbuilding and chemistry that the country urgently needed, but in the face of the success of the planned economic model, Zheng Axe quickly acquired private mines, shipyards and machinery factories. In order to expand the financing channels of government axe enterprises and promulgate new banking regulations, the bank was banned and the bank capital was increased, thus promoting the merger of small private banks and banks and banks by the Imperial Central Bank of Communications, the Bank, the Trade Bank, the Imperial Trust Bank and the Jianghuai Bank.

In the past nine years in China, the state's intervention in the economy has been far stronger than outsiders' imagination. Under this intervention, China's industry and commerce have become a machine, operating in full accordance with the operation mechanism formulated by the political axe. It is this forced and planned economic model that has promoted the development of China's industry.

In this process, private enterprises are struggling to support it. During the 14th plan, the investment of the government axe is concentrated on heavy industry projects. In the gap of the investment of the government axe, with the help of tariff protection, private enterprises have made great profits in light industry. During the period of the 2nd and 4th plan, with the increase of investment in light industry projects, Private enterprises that have just developed have almost fallen into a state of hard support. In just four years, more than 13,000 private enterprises either went bankrupt or chose to work with the political axe to seek survival with the help of the power of the political axe. Only some large-scale and technologically technologicallying private enterprises have suffered in the process of entering the country and retreating from the people. Hard to support.

It's hard to do business in China!

Almost every Chinese businessman would say that as long as there is no "national" on the head of the enterprise, it is impossible to survive in the cruel market, but not all of them. Perhaps because of the "black under the light", private enterprises in Jiangsu, Anhui and Zhejiang are very active, perhaps It is because there are a large number of "imperial products" in the three places. Of course, what is the real reason?

Datong Square is a large street square on the Guangfu Avenue from Xiaguan to Nanjing Inner City. Unlike Nanjing Inner City, Xiaguan District is scattered around Datong Square as the center. The outer diameter of Datong Square is 300 meters, the central island is 220 meters in diameter, and the area is more than 70,000 square meters. It is the largest street in Xiaguan District. On the four sides of the square, there are five landmark buildings. In the northwest of the Book of Changes, there is a building with a European palace style. The architectural design adopts the main door of the Greek classical style, which is unique with the European and American modern style. At the main entrance, there are ten "Dorlik" columns carved from granite, which support the thick and solid eaves. The appearance of the whole building is veneerized with granite, which is simple, heavy and magnificent in the overall effect.

And this European and American modern style building is an alien in Xiaguan District. In fact, the design and planning of the landmark building in Xiaguan District is completely different from the architectural style of the European Renaissance in the inner city of Nanjing. In the planning of Xiaguan District, a large number of young Chinese designers intervened in it, although Western-style steel concoagulation is also used. The earthen architecture, but in the architectural style, the Chinese and Western walls are a mixture of East and West architectural styles in the main architecture and carvings, that is, the structure of Western modern architecture, while the overall style is very similar to the oriental palace architecture, that is, the oriental roof and shaking arch as the main style.

In the history of modern Chinese architecture, Pudong is at most an attempt, while the real modern Chinese architecture originated in Xiaguan, Nanjing, which is in sharp contrast to a large number of Western buildings in Nanjing, and the Datong Square in the heart of Xiaguan District, and in the "financial position" But there is a Western-style building, which is really conspicuous.

With a gorgeous appearance and luxurious interior design and complete functions, it is Qinhuai Bank, the second largest private bank in China. Ten years ago, Qinhuai Bank was just a small private bank, but now in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces, the influence of Qinhuai Bank is not even inferior to that of the Imperial Central Bank. The scale is inferior to that of industrial banks, but its influence exceeds that of industrial banks.

As for the headquarters of Qinhuai Bank, which has two floors underground and four floors above ground, it has only been put into use for two years. It took four years, and the amount of steel bars used is as high as 5,000 tons, with a cost of 6 million yuan. As we all know, the head office of Qinhuai Bank won the name of "the strongest in Asia" as soon as it was put into use, and never It's a false name.

Anyone who steps into the magnificent bank hall with 28 natural marble columns will be surprised. When an eight- or nine-year-old child walks into the bank and looks at the huge marble columns and luxurious hall, his face also shows surprise, and his eyes are wide open.

This was his first time to come to the bank. After finally put away his curious eyes, Liu Zinian went straight to the lobby manager's desk.

"Excuse me, how can I get to the service class?"

The lobby manager looked at the child in a white shirt and black trousers in front of him, thinking that maybe it was the child of that family who came to the parents who had something to do.

"Children..."

As soon as he heard about the children, Liu Zinian's eyebrows suddenly frowned. Is he just a child in their eyes?

"Turn left from the second floor of the stairs, and you can see the house number."

"Thank you..."

When he thanked him, he looked at the man's badge again.

"Manager Fang!"

This little kid really doesn't have a tutor. The lobby manager muttered in his heart, watching the child without a "home tutor" go upstairs.

"Hello, I'm Liu Zinian. This is my school's guarantee..."

As soon as he entered the service class, Liu Zinian took out his letter of guarantee to the person behind his desk, "Huh? How old are you?

Li Xin looked at the child in front of him. How old is he? At most, he is only ten years old. In China, many minors will use their holidays to do handyman, but most of them are middle school students, and he... spread out the letter, which is indeed a guarantee issued by a primary school.

"Mr. Li, my father died early, and life at home was difficult..."

Liu Zinian didn't have any burden in his heart when he died early. From childhood to age, he didn't know who his father was at all, and his mother didn't talk to him. Even if he asked, anyway, for Liu Zinian, this was a saying. This time, it was a hard time to persuade his mother to agree to come to the bank as a small worker, but he couldn't let My mother underestimated herself.

"Oh, that's it..."

Looking at the child, Li Xin hesitated for a moment and turned over the documents on the table.

"Is the male bathroom attendant on the third floor OK? Half a day, one day off a week, ten yuan a month.

When Liu Zinian was led into the male bathroom on the third floor as the "premstress", in the manager's room on the fourth floor of the bank, Chen Huide, the general manager of Qinhuai Bank, was reporting to the chairman in front of him.

"...In short, if the news we get is true, we must choose whether to lend to the enterprise as in the past, or make appropriate changes!"

When Chen Huide reported, Liu Jingxuan just quietly looked at the document in her hand, which was an internal confidential document of the bank. In the document, the 600 large enterprises that had business dealings with Qinhuai Bank were credited one by one, and these 600 large enterprises were all well-known private enterprises in China.

For a long time, the business focus of Qinhuai Bank has been to provide loans and venture financing to private enterprises. This is the fundamental reason for the rapid development of Qinhuai Bank in the past nine years. Nine years ago, the bank also directly invested in some industrial projects, but now the bank has already given up direct operation of the industry and switched to profit. The shares of private enterprises are obtained through venture financing. Among the 1,000 largest private enterprises in the three provinces, all of them have director seats of Qinhuai Bank without exception.

However, Liu Jingxuan, the chairman of the bank, has been considering transformation. It is not easy for China to be an enterprise, and it is more difficult to be a bank, especially a commercial stock bank like Qinhuai, which is completely private and has no shares. Even if there is news that the government axe is going to liberal up the market, how can the market be easy? Let go? How can they completely hand over everything to the market like foreign countries? The political axe will still intervene in the market, especially the financial market. The financial market is fundamental. Over the years, through the financing of private enterprises, she can be very clear about the important surname of the financial market.

"Manager Chen, you mean..."

"Ansteel!"

Chen Huide spit out two words in his mouth.

"Angang?"

These two words only made Liu Jingxuan stunned and shocked again.

"You mean the Anshan Iron and Steel Enterprise Association!"

"Chairman, I mean to collect the saddle steel!"

Chen Huide, who was not amazing, spit out another sentence.

This is the largest enterprise in China! Looking at Chen Huide in surprise, Liu Jingxuan even felt that the bank manager she chose was too bold. Is it possible for the political axe to sell Angang?

"Manager Chen, this is the largest enterprise in the country!"

As a reminder, Liu Jingxuan thought about how much it would cost to buy Angang.

"Not only the largest, but also last year's profit exceeded 200 million yuan, with a net profit of more than 50 million yuan. It can be said to be the most profitable heavy industry enterprise in China. Whoever gets Angang will become a well-deserved Chinese industrial leader and the largest industrial consortium in China!"

For the 29-year-old chairman in front of her, although she rarely appeared, Chen Huide knew that she could be said to be one of the richest women in China. Only the queen's assets exceeded her in China, although she had refused the royal family's award and title for her achievements in her career, although she lived in a simple place. In the past seven years, he has rarely come to the bank, but he only knows that the chairman in front of him is very career-minded or ambitious.

He has heard more than once that the old chairman said that she wanted to leave her son with an empire, an industrial and commercial empire, and now it is an opportunity.

"How much does it cost to buy Angang?"

Looking up at Chen Huide, Liu Jingxuan asked softly.

"51% of the shares, at least 200 million yuan is needed!"

Chen Huide's answer silenced Liu Jingxuan. Perhaps Qinhuai Bank has hundreds of millions of yuan of deposits, but those deposits are not the bank's money. The bank can only take out part of the loan, part of the financing, and part of it to buy state bonds. This is the bank's "responsibility". Now let alone take out 200 million yuan. Yuan, even if you take out 20 million yuan, I'm afraid the bank can't take out. Industrial financing takes up too much capital.

"Is it possible to acquire Angang?"

Although she knew that the bank did not have that capital, Liu Jingxuan couldn't help asking that she could not ignore the "largest industrial consortium". In her heart, her greatest wish was to leave her son with a huge industrial empire, or he would not inherit it like his other brother in various cities. An empire, but he can leave him an industrial and commercial empire, an industrial and commercial empire that is not inferior to industrial companies.

Perhaps only in this way can her balance her heart. After all, compared with Chen Zixuan, Zi Nian gets too little. This mother only has the ability to make up for him.

"Chairman, if you seize this opportunity, Qin Huai will become the largest industrial and commercial enterprise in China, and now that the war has broken out, the price of steel has risen, it can be said that..."

"It can be said that at least now, it is difficult to buy Angang!"

Liu Jingxuan said a fact with a wry smile. The scale of Angang is too large and its reputation is too great, and now it is worth the rise in steel prices. According to the current rise, I really don't know when it will be a leader. If the price of steel falls, the political axe will be sold to the steel factory, which will not provoke criticism. But if the steel rises, the political axe may still bear the people. Is it a criticism of selling steel mills?

"It's difficult!"

Chen Huide nodded and did not deny the difficulty of buying Angang, but he immediately added.

"But if you say you don't try, it's not a difficult problem, and there is no possible problem at all!"

His voice raised slightly.

"So, we should try it anyway!"

"But what about the funds? How to solve the problem of funds? You know better than me how much money the bank can get out now!"

"Money can always be solved, as long as you think of a way. If it really doesn't work, we can still finance from other banks!"

Chen Huide said confidently that as a bank financing from its competitors, it may be a little absurd in the eyes of the outside world, but this is a fact for Qinhuai Bank. In the past few years, the rapid development of Qinhuai Bank has something to do with the many times of financing from central banks, trading banks and other banks. It is many financings to help Qinhuai Bank overcome one difficulty after another.

"Financing..."

Listening to this word, Liu Jingxuan's eyebrows jumped slightly. She knew better than anyone why those banks financed Qin Huai. Even why her bank could survive in the environment of China was because of that person, if not... no, she would never be favored by him.

In the past, there was no choice, but now she has a choice. After making a decision, she changed the topic.

"Let's put this matter alone, Manager Chen, what exactly is the matter you said on the phone today?"

The reason why I came here today is that the phone call, as a private bank, must have a good relationship with the political axe, and maintaining a good relationship with all parties in the Congress is the top priority. The House of Commons can refute many political axe decisions, and the choice of Qinhuai Bank is the Constitutional Party and the Ming Cook Party. Perhaps the Royalist Party is the largest party in the House of Commons, but the seats occupied by the Constitutional Party and the Mingzhu Party are not inferior to the Royalist Party. Compared with the Royalist Party, which is full of contacts in the political axe, the manpower of the Constitutional Party and the Mingzhu Party are very weak. Because of this, it is easy to deal with. These parties are inseparable from the business community. Support, they need funds, but most of the business community are state-owned enterprises. Naturally, they will not support the Constitutional Party and the Mingzhu Party. The two parties can only turn to private enterprises, and Qinhuai Bank is the largest fund owner of the two parties.

In the past few years, it has been the two parties that have tried their best to oppose the proposal of the full nationalization of banks. Of course, this is a reward for Qin Huai's support for them, but the most fundamental reason is that the donations of Qinhuai Bank account for more than half of the two parties' economies. Now the banks and the two parties have long formed a close alliance of interests.

And Chen Huide said vaguely on the phone that he understood the important surname of the two parties to the bank, so Liu Jingxuan came to the bank in person.

"Wang Chonghui, the leader of the Mingzhu Party, hopes that we can buy a thousand tickets for the Mingzhu Party rally this month. They want to..."

Low voice, Chen Huide said softly.

"They want to fall with the Constitutional Party!"

Inverted cabinet!

Liu Jingxuan was shocked and fell to the cabinet! This is almost a bloodless coup. Are the two parties crazy?

"They, do they want to die?"

"Chairman, it is well known that the cabinet's unconstitutional declaration of war has been declared. It is difficult to hide the unconstitutionality of the opening of Xinjiang, and the responsibility will always be investigated!"

Then Chen Huide talked about the details of the discussion with Yang Du of the Constitutional Party and Liang Qichao of the Mingzhu Party last night.

"This time, the two parties directly pointed the finger at Yuan Shikai, not your majesty. In order to calm the dissatisfaction of the people and the dissatisfaction of the two parties in the House of Commons, your majesty will definitely instruct Yuan Shikai to resign in the end, in this case..."

"In this case, the lower house election will be reopened!"

Although she doesn't care much about politics, Liu Jingxuan can still realize that the purpose of the two parties is not just to overthrow the cabinet, or to force Yuan Shikai to resign is only the first step.

"Chairman, this is the first step, and the most important step is the second step. If the second step can be achieved, everything will change, or even..."

With a slight pause, Chen Huide's heart was a little excited, not because of others, but because there was something to do.

"It will change the future of China!"

After a moment of meditation, Liu Jingxuan just asked a faint question.

"What are they going to do?"

"In the name of an unconstitutional declaration of war, he launched an attack on the cabinet, and then incited the people accordingly, attacked the guard cabinet, and finally forced your majesty to make real concessions!"

"Real concession?"

"Party cabinet system!"

Slowly spit out this sentence, and Chen Huide said hurriedly.

"The Constitutional Party and the Mingzhu Party will merge after the election of the House of Commons. Chairman, this is an opportunity!"

(to be continued)