Chapter 275 Chairman Hu

Fukang Company is a family company of the Hu family.

Therefore, Hu Chuyuan has no one to make decisions in many cases, and he doesn't really manage most things in the company.

Since it is a family company, there are naturally a large number of family children participating in the management. Hu Chuyuan pays special attention to these young people and searches for those who can entrust important responsibilities.

More often, Hu Chuyuan is very plain and leisurely.

He is like a fisherman, under cages everywhere, quietly waiting for the fish to take the bait.

He is more like an observer, standing silently in the garden, watching Fukang Company and China's every move. Compared with Fukang Company, he cares more about the army.

If Fukang Company is regarded as a person who produces bayonets, the army is the person who uses bayonets.

After the reorganization of Fukang Company, Hu Chuyuan continued to retire behind the scenes, letting his cousin Hu Weiyuan and his younger brother Hu Zhenyuan take charge of the company. He lived a plain life and thought about the taste of life itself.

He likes to chat with his little son Hu Weixin, talk about new things in Shanghai, talk about international changes, and inspire Hu Weixin to think about the world more steadily and observe the world.

He likes to play chess with Wu Shuzhen and discuss the next development plan of Zhihuatang with Pan Limei.

Life in the garden is so leisurely and calm, and the current situation in China is also particularly stable, gradually rising in a stable state.

At the end of 1905, according to the statistics of the Audit Bureau, the total annual output value of industry and agriculture in China had surpassed that of Germany, second only to the United States. With the promotion of large agricultural economic policies and new agricultural technologies, the total agricultural output value increased by 11 percentage points compared with 1904.

In the past few years, with the gradual increase of scientific and technological talents, the technical level of domestic national industries has continued to increase, and the number of national enterprises in the fields of electricity, machinery, shipbuilding, automobiles, engines, metallurgy, molds and other fields has increased rapidly. The traditional textile, porcelain and papermaking industries continue to maintain absolute excellence in Asia. Potential.

The number of new factories related to automobile and truck manufacturing alone has increased to 114, and the technology of the shipbuilding industry has further developed. The total domestic ship exports exceed that of the United Kingdom, and the total domestic steel output has also exceeded that of the United States. It has become the world's largest exporter of steel roughing products such as steel bars and rails.

In this year, the aircraft produced by Zibo Aircraft Manufacturing Factory were officially served in the army as reconnaissance aircraft. The dreadnought-class battleships served in the domestic navy, and the 320-horsepower TZA-5 was in service. The first domestic natural gas pipeline was completed in North China, and the first group of 75MW units in China was successfully tested in Shanghai...

This year, the National Academy of Industry began to officially operate, undertaking the industrial technology research work of the original National Academy of Sciences alone, and the National Academy of Sciences turned to natural science research.

This year, Guangnan Province was officially established, and the original name of North Vietnam was cancelled.

This year, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tianjin and Yanjing set up municipalities directly under the Central Government.

This year, the free trade treaty between China, Britain and the United States was officially signed. Within the scope of the trade treaty, the three parties granted most-favoured-nation treatment to each other. China and Britain continued to sign the new Sino-British Colonial Cooperation Renewal on each other's colonies, further expanding the economic opening plan of the two colonies, including Africa and the Middle East. And expanded the territory of Singapore to Johor, Batam, Liaonai Islands and Linga Islands by 13.7 times. The two sides continue to share the suzerainty of Singapore.

This year, taking advantage of the principles of the Berlin Conference (each countries must have militarized garrison and actual occupation in the occupied territories in Africa, which is actually aimed at Portugal, a weak country that has no troops and only relies on shouts to occupy territory), after five years of gradual adaptation in Africa, China began to The three divisions of the Congo and Guinea sent the Central South Corps (the source of the Guangnan Province on the basis of the former Liangguang Corps), the Nanyang Alliance and more than 50,000 local indigenous mercenaries marched to the Kingdom of Congo occupied by Nyalia and Belgium, and signed a colonial merger and acquisition treaty with Belgium in July. Belgium Congo was transferred to China. It belongs to Congo and is merged into a new Congo Overseas Colonial Province.

After occupying the entire Congo and Nepal, China continued to take advantage of the Macao issue to send the Marine Division of the Southern Ocean Fleet to forcibly occupy Mozambique and Angola, and continue to send troops deep into Angola from Congo to completely occupy Angola, resulting in the established fact.

This year, China continued to consolidate the throne of the world's largest territory and the second colonial country. At the same time, it is also the world's most populous country and the second largest economic country. There are 1.47 million active troops, the number of mechanized integrated divisions has increased to 14, the reserve has increased to 3.55 million, and the total tonnage of the naval fleet is guaranteed. Holding at 753,000 tons.

This year, China's total investment in domestic education reached 340 million yuan, the central government axe accounted for 45%, and the local government axe accounted for 55%, accounting for 10.3% of the total annual fiscal revenue of the government axe. The total private investment was about 845 million yuan, initially reaching an average of 20 primary schools and 10 middle schools in the county. The first stage goal.

In this year, the total number of Chinese international students in Germany, the United States, Britain, France and other countries reached 11,000, with college students and above accounting for 78%, the total number of domestic college students and higher vocational students reached 95,700, and the total number of high school students and secondary vocational students reached 1.33 million.

China still looks very strong. Of course, its overall education level and average quality are still at a low level among the great powers. Especially compared with Germany, it still takes ten years or even 20 years of long-term efforts to make up for it.

Everyone is very clear about this, whether it is the political axe, the media or the public.

It is precisely because of this that the vast majority of capitalists, including the Hu family, have concentrated their main funds in the field of education in tax-free donations. Fukang Company alone reached 158 million yuan in 1905.

1905 was also a watershed. With the development of the whole country's economy, the ratio of Fukang's industrial index in China began to decline, but the ratio in the financial sector continued to rise.

In fact, under the control of Hu Chuyuan, Fukang Company began to gradually adjust in the direction of financial oligarchs, and the shareholding ratio of major domestic industrial companies is gradually lowered.

Taking Jiangnan Heavy Industry Group as an example, the total shareholding ratio of Fukang Company was gradually reduced to 33%.

At the same time, major domestic large enterprises have also begun to strengthen their investment in Nanyang and the entire colonial economy under the regulation and control of Fukang Company, and expand the total exports of domestic enterprises through investment in Nanyang.

At this point, Sino-British foreign investment has completely different goals.

In 1905, the total investment of British, American and other foreign capital in China also increased by 873 million pounds. Among them, British capital continued to occupy more than 50% of the share. Taikoo Yanghang, Yihe Yanghang, Wanqi Group... are all leaders.

In 1905, 54% of the world's total iron ore mining volume, 72% of gold production, 77% of silver production, 42% of total oil production capacity, and 87% of the total aluminum mining volume were all under the control of the American consortium, the Siko consortium and the Fukang consortium.

The reading power of the Fukang consortium in the future controlled the three companies of MCC, Sinosteel and Rio Tinto, and began to occupy the international raw material market on a large scale, and cooperated with many affiliated enterprises such as Standard International, BHP, Wanqi Group and BASF Chemical to realize the monopoly on the whole world raw material market.

This is Hu Chuyuan's plan for the Fukang consortium. The first is finance, and the second is raw materials. On the basis of ensuring these two monopoly positions, he holds shares in major large international industrial companies.

1906, March.

Princess Caolani of the Hawaiian royal family arrived in Shanghai for treatment. She had diphtheria, which is both common and tricky in this era. The mortality rate is very high, and there is also a strong infectious surname. Her complications are more serious pneumonia and signs of myocarditis.

After arranging her in the best ward of Shanghai Tongji Hospital, Hu Chuyuan personally summoned the best Chinese and Western medicine experts in China to determine the course of treatment for her. For the time being, it was determined that she would use the combination of aminobenzenesulfonamide and flatocin. After the pneumonia was suppressed, she would take Qingguo Zhenre decoction and continue to cooperate with aminobenzene sulfonamide.

Because of the serious complications and the delay of a certain course of the disease during the treatment in San Francisco, Princess Kaorani's situation was not optimistic, which made Hu Chuyuan a little sad.

When he came out of the conference room, Hu Chuyuan saw Pan Limei.

Pan Limei suffered from diphtheria in her childhood. She has lifelong immunity and will not be infected. She and Princess Kaorani are also friends, so she visited her on behalf of Hu Chuyuan's family.

At this time, she just came out of the ward. Seeing that Hu Chuyuan looked gloomy, she couldn't help asking, "How's the situation?"

Hu Chuyuan sighed and said, "It's hard to say!"

Hearing this, Pan Limei seemed to know a lot of things. She also sighed silently, walked to Hu Chuyuan's side, took his arm, and calmly accompanied Hu Chuyuan along the hospital corridor to the balcony.

Walking to the balcony, she comforted Hu Chuyuan: "Shanghai's medical technology is first-class in the world. Director Yang and I have also asked. He said that Tongji Hospital's level in treating diphtheria is still very high, especially good at the combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine. What's more, the domestic experience in antibiotic treatment is richer than that in the United States.

Hu Chuyuan nodded.

In China, the application of ampicillin, xanthophyllin, and allicin have always been ahead of the world. In particular, xanthophyll, a natural plant extraction antibiotic, has a stable inhibitory effect on most infected viruses.

Even so, no one can guarantee that Princess Kaorani's condition will be controlled. If she didn't go to San Francisco first, but came directly to Shanghai, the situation might be better.

After thinking about it, Hu Chuyuan and Pan Limei said, "Tay to Director Yang of the hospital and arrange a suitable time for me to meet her."

Pan Limei nodded slightly and said, "The hospital has already arranged, and the isolation window will be placed in the ward. I looked at her and talked to her. I felt that she looked quite good. I heard from Director Yang that green fruit, white radish and green olive stew soup have a very auxiliary effect on this disease. Wait a minute, let's arrange it when we go home... People, as long as you are in good health, you won't get sick. Even if you get sick, you will recover quickly!"

"Yes!"

Hu Chuyuan also sighed with special feeling.

He has always paid great attention to exercise and maintenance. For so many years, he has rarely caught a cold, and there have always been famous traditional Chinese medicine doctors in Shanghai at home.

At this moment, he sighed that life was too fragile.

Maybe, if you don't pay attention, people will leave this world!

He thought that if he could, he would still make more contributions.

Back to the Garden, Pan Limei went to stew soup in person, and Hu Chuyuan went back to the big study.

In the past two days, he has been busy arranging Princess Kaorani's medical treatment, and there has been a backlog of many reports in the big study.

While it was still early, Hu Chuyuan opened these reports and read them one by one. As soon as he read half of them, Liang Qichao, the general secretary of the Secretariat, hurried in and said, "Chairman, really... I told you that Germany took action in Senegal and fought with France in the African colonial army. The two countries also quickly concentrated their forces in Europe. It seems that... I'm afraid the war is going to expand!"

Hu Chuyuan thought silently for two seconds. Suddenly, he raised his eyes and looked at Liang Qichao and said, "Send a telegram to Li Kaiye, Ye Zukui and Wei Han to hold a naval and army equipment development plan meeting for the next ten years in Shanghai... In addition, you call Huang Zhongying and Zeng Zongying first. I have something to discuss with them!"

"Yes!"

Liang Qichao immediately agreed and turned around and went back to work.

When Qu Hongji's cabinet surfaced, in order to achieve the effect of a larger-scale political axe change, powerful people such as Lv Han and Lu Guangquan, including a number of former cabinet ministers, followed Hu Chuyuan to withdraw from the political axe together.

Lv Han served as the commander of the new Indian Ocean Fleet, while Lu Guang Quan served as a senator in Parliament, served as the director of the Foreign Aid Committee, and served as the director of the Military Policy Advisory Committee of the National Academy of Social Sciences.

Of course, as long as the Dagong Party still controls China, they can return to politics at any time, just waiting for a new cabinet, and it may be their turn to form a cabinet one day.

In fact, as long as Hu Chuyuan is still alive, no one dares to covet the prime minister's throne. Who should do this position? In the final analysis, it's all his words.

Now, the cabinet army minister is Li Kaiye, the navy minister is Ye Zukui, and Wei Han is the director of naval science and engineering, with the rank of major general, responsible for the supervision of naval armament.

When Huang Zhongying and Zeng Zongying entered the big study, Hu Chuyuan talked to them first.

In recent years, the most important military equipment development and production plan in China is the Dreadnought-class battleship. After years of steady development, the domestic warship manufacturing capacity has long been the same as that of Britain and Germany.

It is internationally recognized that China's warship manufacturing is at the first-class level in terms of quality and design, and the export scale of warships far exceeds that of Britain, Germany and France. Of course, this is mainly due to the war.

Although China's warships are not necessarily higher than those of Britain in terms of quality, the warships exported by China have withstood many tests in the war. They have an outstanding reputation and are obvious to all. What's more, the price is relatively low, at least lower than that of Britain, France and Germany.

When it comes to the issue of domestic warships, Huang Zhongying talked to Hu Chuyuan: "There happens to be one thing to tell the chairman that the navies of the two countries are very satisfied after the Dreadnless class served in China and the United Kingdom. For more reasons, at present, Britain has carried out the preparatory development of the 22,000-ton duke-class battleship with us, and these things are still going well. However, in the design ideas of new battlecruisers matched with the Dreadnought-class battleships, the British and ours have very different ideas. The original plan to jointly develop the matching battlecruisers may not be carried out.

Hu Chuyuan said, he has a general understanding of this matter in the report submitted to him by the National Military Commission.

Considering that the tonnage of the main battleships will become larger and larger in the future, the price of a single ship will be very amazing. The Chinese navy has always adhered to the principle of the unification of the main artillery, the pursuit of using dense and unified main gun firepower to defeat the opponent in the same formation. Considering the speed, the Chinese navy intends to give up something similar to Second-class battleships such as the Jinzhou class can use battlecruisers to expand the firepower of the main fleet in times of war by improving the defense of battlecruisers.

This idea was actually the idea finalized before Hu Chuyuan and Lv Han went off the field together.

The British navy adheres to the original policy. They insist that cruisers are cruisers, that is, fast warships, not only to maintain high firepower, but also to increase defense, so there is no difference between cruisers and battleships.

It is understandable that the main opponents of the British navy in Europe, whether France, Germany, Italy or Austria-Hungary, are equipped with a large number of cruisers, and the armored cruisers needed by Britain are responsible for hunting these cruisers.

Unlike the Chinese navy, the Chinese navy has no rivals in Asia and does not need to face a large number of cruisers. It only need cruisers and large tonnage destroyers to complete the defense and patrol work of the Pacific Ocean. China needs more battlecruisers to fight together with the main battleships.

After listening to Huang Zhongying's words, Hu Chuyuan simply replied, "Then do it separately from the British. We still have to adhere to our own principles and ideas. For us, the battlecruiser should be a battleship that can become the main force in the local battlefield and assist the battleship in the main battlefield. Our navy has always been very flexible, and there is no need to be limited by the traditional thinking of European navies. If the battleship is sacrificing speed to pursue the strongest defense and firepower, our cruiser is pursuing balanced speed, firepower and defense.

Huang Zhongying nodded and said, "Yes, I think it's normal for us and Britain to have differences on this issue. For us, it is enough to use ordinary armored cruisers and larger tonnage destroyers to complete patrols in the conventional waters, including the hunting of opponents' cruisers."

At this point, Hu Chuyuan and Huang Zhongying ordered, "You and Wei Han should contact us in advance. Before the Shanghai Conference, the Admiralty Department should take out the plan of the new 4,500-ton destroyer in advance!"

Huang Zhongying continued to nod.

The Chinese navy can be said to be the father of destroyers, creating the situation of destroyers in the navy. It has always been ahead of the whole world in the design and manufacture of destroyers. Even Britain, Germany, the United States, Italy and other countries are always following the development of China in the construction of destroyers.

After the spring rain class, spring rain II class, shower class and spring dew class, China's latest generation of Chaoyu class destroyers directly selected the design displacement of 4,500 tons to replace the existing low tonnage cruisers, and at the same time rebuilt the shower class on the basis of the shower class.

After the formation of the Chunlu-class, Shower II-class and Chaoyu-class destroyer systems, the Chinese navy's cruiser police work in the ocean and offshore is mainly undertaken by destroyers, and the cruiser system has been readjusted to become a new series of warships with read-to-range and quasi-main combat capabilities.

In this series of adjustments, the Yangyuan-class cruisers with a displacement of 7,500 tons and the Weiyuan-class cruisers with a displacement of 10,500 tons are all battlecruisers, responsible for hunting the opponent's cruisers and destroyers, while the Far East-class cruisers with larger tonnage pay more attention to defense. The balanced design of force and speed maneuver enables it to assume the role of assisting the main battleship in combat.

Anyway, China's military spending is still relatively tight, especially at this stage of domestic construction. It can build the most powerful navy with less money, which is the path that the Chinese navy must choose.

(to be continued)