"Alas, talents are the most precious at any time!" Looking at the rainy spring outside, Zhao Dongyun sighed, and Yuan Jinkai said, "Now our financial talents are really lacking, but I heard that there are still several competent generals in the Finance Bureau and the Industrial and Commercial Bureau. Don’t worry!"
Zhao Dongyun listened, ha ha, and smiled. He has been a colleague with this Yuan Jinkai for many years. A little bit of words just guessed the meaning behind it. This Yuan Jinkai talked about the Finance Bureau and the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, and there are several good abilities. This is to recommend! "
Chapter two hundred and thirty Wei is
Zhao Dongyun, a secret agency, can often come into contact with Zhao Dongyun, especially those first secretaries who assist Zhao Dongyun in handling public affairs almost every day, so it is inevitable that many things will take on the role of think tank.
It is also common to recommend talents. Recently, Zhao Dongyun was distressed by the financial situation. These first few people can naturally see that this is why Yuan Jinkai took the initiative to recommend today.
After hearing Zhao Dongyun’s permission, he said, "A member Tang Wenye, an assistant minister of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, made a business law after he visited various countries in Taixi. He served as the agent of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Shang Gonghe and Qian Dingyou, and went to the vocational college to educate the member. He was good at business and was well informed. The secret office contacted Xiong Xiling many times and invited the North Vocational College to arrive in Shenyang a few days ago!"
Zhao Dongyun nodded. This Tang Wenye was also a senior official in the pre-Qing Dynasty. Zhao Dongyun also heard a lot before. If such a person is willing to vote for himself, he must raise his hand to welcome him.
Yuan Jinkai went on to say, "Fang Liantong, the director of the Commercial Division of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, has been working in the Industrial and Commercial Bureau for many years since he returned to China years ago, and has won many praises from the government."
"Song Xiaolian, the general manager of Fengtian Railway Negotiation Bureau, is familiar with many negotiations between foreign and Middle East railway companies. He has successfully signed two contracts to purchase land and plant trees to recover several land and forest areas illegally occupied by Middle East railway companies."
"Wang Yongjiang, the chief of the tobacco and alcohol tax section of the Tax Department of the Finance Bureau, sponsored the tobacco and alcohol tax section to rectify the tax system and severely suppressed the tax evasion of tobacco merchants. In recent years, the tobacco and alcohol tax has more than tripled!"
Listening to Yuan Jinkai’s words, Zhao Dongyun is also psychologically evaluating him one by one. Among these people, Tang Wenye is special. Although Tang Wenye has no name in history, he is a senior official in the former Qing Dynasty. He has acted as an agent in the Ministry of Industry and Commerce these years, but there are not many people with such high qualifications in Zhao Dong. In principle, such a senior official should take refuge in Zhang Dong or Duan Fang. Why did he run to Shenyang to take refuge in himself?
There must be a reason for this, but Zhao Dongyun is not in the mood to guess. There are too many reasons for this. For example, he doesn’t like Zhang Dong and Duan Fang. For example, he doesn’t like the Confederacy. For example, he was told by Xiong Xiling that Zhao Dongyun didn’t pay attention to these things. He knew that this man had come to Shenyang to rely on himself.
For such a person, let’s not talk about his ability, but if we want to win over, we can’t arrange a no no position, it has to be a high-level position. Of course, we can’t always have a transitional inspection period once we arrange a heavy position.
Yu Jinkai said that several of his people are middle-level officials with rare talents in the three northeastern provinces. Zhao Dongyun has also heard their names many times, such as Fang Liantong. Although he is young, his ability to handle affairs is not bad. Many old bureaucrats are far behind him.
This person has successively held positions in Huludao Industrial Zone and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and all of them have performed quite well. In his short political career, not only Yuan Jinkai, but also Zhao Dongyun noticed that this person is too young and only in his twenties. It is even difficult to rush to the top position, and because of his outstanding ability to study abroad, he has sneered at many bureaucrats and ridiculed Deng Jiazhen, the head of the industrial and commercial bureau, in public, who does not understand industrial and commercial experience.
Song Xiaolian was not well-known, but with the establishment of the Middle East Railway Company according to a series of contracts after the Russo-Japanese War, the former Dongqing Railway Anfeng Railway was taken over. Because the former Russians occupied a large amount of land that was not agreed upon, the Jiaanfeng Railway was also built by the Japanese army privately. It is natural for China to recover these benefits one by one and negotiate on behalf of the three northeastern provinces and the Middle East Railway Company. This is Song Xiaolian.
At present, the Fengtian Railway Negotiation Bureau is one of the few diplomats in the three northeastern provinces who have experienced real diplomatic negotiations. Now that many diplomatic disputes have been handled with the Middle East Railway, there is no need to continue to run these railway negotiation bureaus. Zhao Dongyun wondered whether to set up a foreign affairs bureau.
Wang Yongjiang? Zhao Dongyun is not familiar with this man. After all, there are so many civil servants in the three northeastern provinces that it is impossible for Zhao Dongyun to remember the names and resumes of every middle-level official. Naturally, I don’t know that this person and Yuan Jinkai were friends when Wang Yongjiang was able to enter the finance bureau in politics, and Yuan Jinkai recommended them to Xiong Xiling.
However, this person’s ability is really good. He is responsible for the tobacco and alcohol tax department to greatly increase the tobacco and alcohol tax by more than three times. No matter what means he has used to achieve this increase, Zhao Dongyun has tripled it after all. This is not enough to make Zhao Dongyun regard him with special respect.
Yuan Jinkai then recommended several people in succession, most of whom are middle-level officials in the three northeastern provinces, especially middle-level officials. If there is no special recommendation, it is impossible to rely on their ability to climb faster, but it will be impossible to get into Zhao Dongyun’s eyes and get serious words in a few years.
Now Yuan Jinkai’s recommendation this time naturally makes it impossible for them to reach the sky in one step, but it is not a problem to struggle less for three to five years.
Zhao Dongyun didn’t have too much scruples about these talented Chinese under his command. In the next few days, Fang Liantong was transferred from the commercial section chief of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce to the post of deputy head of Huludao Industrial Zone. This promotion span can be said to be very large. Although Huludao Industrial Zone is a place with a big fart, this place belongs to the patrol, the government is directly under the jurisdiction of feng tian, and its administrative status is one level higher than that of Yingkou City, the same industrial zone, and Shenyang City, the capital of Fengtian. It is similar to Tangshan area outside.
Moreover, this Huludao Industrial Zone has produced two big shots in a row. For example, Zhao E, the current commander-in-chief of Fengtian Industrial Zone, is now the director of the Finance Bureau. Recently, Xiong Xiling, the most popular in the three northeastern provinces, was the director of Huludao Industrial Zone.
At present, Zhu Qiling, the head of Huludao Industrial Zone, is also a veteran bureaucrat in the three northeastern provinces. This person was appointed as the head of Huludao Industrial Zone from 1995 to 1996, and in the autumn of 1996, he was appointed as the head of the inspector general office.
From Zhu Qiling’s working experience, it can be seen that the importance of the head of Huludao Industrial Zone is higher than that of the General Office of the Supervision Office and the status of the General Offices of the bureaus is the same.
It was also transferred that the director of the tax department of Wang Yongjiang Dan Finance Bureau was left with an’ average performance’ test and was transferred to Changchun, Jilin Province as a county magistrate to be demoted.
Considering that there is not a full-time diplomatic agency in many administrative agencies in the three northeastern provinces, Japan and Russia are adding the Middle East Railway Company and the Lushun Public Concession. However, many foreign affairs are handled by the Fengtian Railway Negotiation Bureau of the Secret Service. This time, Zhao Dongyun merged these two institutions into the Government Council and established the Foreign Affairs Bureau, headed by Song Xiaolian, the only diplomatic talent in Zhao Dong Yun’s hand.
Several of his officials were promoted, so they didn’t mention it one by one, which led to Tang Wenye’s difficult arrangement. Finally, Zhao Dongyun personally met him. When Tang Wenye said that he was interested in education, Zhao Dongyun solemnly hired him to be the director of the Education Bureau, but people didn’t accept it but set their sights on Fengtian University.
Actually, Tang Wenye lived in the north. He didn’t mean that he wanted to be a big official, but Xiong Xiling told him that the current Fengtian University Hall had begun to take shape, and it no longer belonged to several universities in Shandong and Zhili. He just wanted to be the president of Fengtian University Hall.
For Tang Wenye, a man with a complex of literati, he is the president of a few universities in China. Contemporary education is much better than being a mere education for Zhao Dongyun.
Although Zhao Dongyun is somewhat disappointed, he also plans to take Tang Wenye as a typical example to attract a large number of former senior officials to join the party. Many senior officials in the pre-Qing Dynasty are now idle, and some of them are still talented. If Zhao Dongyun can attract some words, it will greatly alleviate the pressure of insufficient talents in the civilian corps.
If it weren’t for the shortage of talents, Zhao Dongyun wouldn’t have to push Fang Liantong, who is only in his twenties, to the position of deputy head of Huludao Industrial Zone. This is not because he can’t find qualified talents at all!
These days, the standards for talents have been much higher. People who have returned from studying abroad or have overseas inspection experience can clearly understand the development of the contemporary world. For example, Fang Liantong and Tang Wenye are two typical examples, or they are practical talents who have been abroad for many years, such as Xiong Xiling and Zhou Xuexi.
This kind of talent is not easy to get!
However, since Tang Wenye was determined to devote himself to education, it was not easy for him to stop the school. The former president of Tang Wenye’s Fengtian University was Xu Hongbao, the director of the Education Bureau, and now Xu Hongbao is busy with many things in the Education Bureau, especially the preparation of primary schools in various counties, many normal schools and middle schools in various provinces, which kept him busy. Sometimes he stayed in Fengtian University to deal with school matters, and the basic line was to let others in Fengtian University handle them.
Moreover, although Xu Hongbao is known as an educator, he still has a career ambition, but he will not give up his career in the name of the university president. After seeing Tang Wenye not arguing with him for the director of the Education Bureau, he was very happy to give up the position of the president.
However, although Tang Wenye failed to stand up as a typical example, it did not prevent Zhao Dongyun from continuing to recruit many talents from other provinces such as Liang Shiyi!
Chapter two hundred and thirty-one Shenyang Arsenal
During the months from the end of 1996 to the beginning of 1997, after Zhao Dongyun returned to Fengtian, he devoted all his energy to rectifying the military, filling up the three divisions and five brigades with limited troops to protect the three northeastern provinces, and reorganizing the patrol troops into twelve patrol regiments with nearly 20,000 men. At the same time, he also wiped out a large number of bandits in the three northeastern provinces, increasing the actual combat experience and eliminating local bandits.
He set up a tour of the three northeastern provinces, which made the government cut down a large number of administrative agencies and established a number of new administrative agencies in line with the current situation, thus laying the foundation for the modern military and political administrative agencies in the three northeastern provinces. The tour of the three northeastern provinces made the government head, the army headquarters and the academy of the three northeastern provinces stand side by side, and the secret office served as the center and the inspector office as the judicial supervision, forming an administrative body composed of the military, civil servants, the center and the judiciary.
Economic Zhao Dongyun set up Fengtian Bank to launch Fengtian Silver Dollar Fengtian Paper Money, and at the same time, it also vigorously supported the private financial industry and promoted the reform of modern banks by unifying bank numbers and private banks.
Besides continuing to develop Huludao Industrial Zone, the industry and commerce also organized Yingkou Industrial Zone, shouting the slogan of building a world-class soybean industrial base, developing soybean processing industry on the basis of a large number of potatoes in Northeast China, and exporting soybean powder and soybean oil, two major processing soybeans, to Japan and three eastern European provinces in exchange for extremely valuable foreign exchange income.
In addition to further developing soybean industry, Zhao Dongyun naturally won’t give up or despise other industries, such as textile industry, which has been a key industrial project supported by the three northeastern provinces in the past two years. The Industrial and Commercial Bureau has already set two major goals. One is to focus on developing raw silk industry in Anton area. Although the scale of raw silk industry in Anton area is not as large as that in Zhejiang and Jiangsu in the south, the northern area is barely passable, and raw silk is one of the few contemporary China enterprises that can earn foreign exchange in large quantities, regardless of the scale, we will earn as much foreign exchange as we can after it is developed first.
The second is to focus on the development of the core cotton textile industry in Huludao Industrial Zone, including spinning, weaving, dyeing and other cotton textiles. However, the cotton industry is under great pressure. They must compete not only with foreign fabrics such as Japan and Britain, but also with the domestic textile industry represented by southern Nantong homespun.
These two major industries, soybean and textile, are the main pillar industries of the three northeastern provinces in the future. In addition to these two industries, there are also industries such as paper, flour, wine-making, mining, machinery and chemical industry, but these industries are not large in scale and can also become the economic pillars of the three northeastern provinces for the time being.
At present, the three northeastern provinces are not the heavy industry bases of later generations, but a very typical agricultural economic region. The most important production is not steel and coal, but wheat and soybeans, and the industrial development actually depends mainly on these two agricultural products.
It’s not that Zhao Dongyun doesn’t want to get out a few super-large steel mills to engage in heavy industry, but the problem is that he has no money to invest. When he takes a step back, even if he has money to invest in this trained steel, who will he sell it to?
Industrial production must be supported by the market. It is impossible to say that Zhao Dongyun has opened his mouth and waved his hand to build a large number of factories, and then these factories can produce production and make taxes for him. The products produced by these factories have to have a market
Take the cloth that people are most familiar with. This produced cloth does not mean that it can be sold. You have to compete with foreign cloth and domestic cloth from other manufacturers.
Besides, there are two main aspects of steel consumption in China these days: one is the railway, and the other is the military industry, which is almost negligible. There are not many iron and steel plants attached to Fuyuan Machine Factory, that is, Tangshan Iron and Steel Plant, which can meet the steel consumption of Fuyuan Machine Factory. Fuyuan Machine Factory also needs to import a lot of steel materials because it needs to import these materials, which are all high-quality alloy steels, such as gun barrels. Countries including Tangshan Iron and Steel Plant all refine these gun barrels.
At present, there are not many railways built in China, such as the Jinghan Railway in the south and the Yuehan Railway. These railway tracks have been taken over by Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant, while the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway in the north and the two straight-line railways in the three eastern provinces have been taken over by Tangshan Iron and Steel Plant.
The situation in the northeast of China Railway is still relatively good. Zhao Dong Yundalifa Huludao Gonghe District and Yingkou Industrial Zone both need a lot of steel, but these quantities can already be met by Tangshan Iron and Steel Plant.
Tangshan Iron and Steel Plant, which is affiliated to Fuyuan Machinery Factory, has a large investment scale. After several years of investment, Fuyuan Machinery Factory has invested a total of more than 3 million silver production capacity. Although it is not as good as Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant, it is also the second largest iron and steel plant in China.
Although the factory is planned to be built by the iron and steel plant affiliated to Fuyuan Machinery Factory, the steel output of Fuyuan Machinery Factory is too large, and most of it can be digested by the rails needed by Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway and several railways in the three northeastern provinces. To be honest, if there is no Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway and Anfeng Railway, which are undergoing standard rail transformation now, these two markets support this Tangshan Machinery Factory, it will fall into an embarrassing situation of stopping production just after its completion.
The market is not big, and there is already a Tangshan iron and steel plant. Zhao Dongyun can’t invest millions of taels of silver to build a steel plant and compete with Tangshan iron and steel plant. At present, the steel industry is not Zhao Dongyun’s priority development industry.
Of course, not giving priority to the development of steel does not mean that Zhao Dongyun will not develop his heavy industry, such as the coal industry. What does he support? Because this coal has been dug up, there is a market. Nowadays, foreign industries can be said to be steam industries. The train operation needs coal factories, and the ship operation also needs coal. The coal market in this country has been continuously expanding, even though there are several large coal factories in Tangshan, Zhao Dongyun still decided to send coal on a large scale in Fengtian to prepare for the future Yingkou Industrial Zone in Huludao Industrial Zone.
The key issue is that Fushun was widely used by Russian troops during the Russo-Japanese War, and Russian troops were stationed in Fushun. Because Japanese troops at the front line of Liaoyang have not been able to make a breakthrough, Fushun has been under the control of Russian troops. After the Russo-Japanese War, Russian troops withdrew from Fushun mines to resume normal operation, and Zhao Dongyun also set up Fushun Mining Bureau to manage coal production in this area.
And introduced Beiyang Luanzhou Mining Company, which is the two predecessors of the famous Luanhe Coal Mine in history. However, this company is not the same as the history. This company is government-run, but because Fuyuan Company joined this company, it has the same clause as many commercial enterprises that foreigners are not allowed to directly or take shares. This mining company is mainly sponsored by Zhou Xuexi and founded by Tianjin Guanyinhao and Fuyuan Company.
In addition to introducing the Luanzhou mining company Fushun to set up a branch, Zhao Dongyun also instructed the Mining Department of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce to invest and set up Fushun Coal Mine together with several other businessmen of Fuyuan Company, and directly annexed and acquired several small coal mining companies in Fushun, such as Wang Chengxiao hosting Huaxing Li Company.
What’s more, Fushun Coal Fengtian Railway Company also invested in the construction of the branch railway from Fengtian to Fushun.
If Zhao Dongyun has limited support for the coal industry, then he has fully supported the military industry.
Because Zhao Dong Yun, like Yuan Shikai, wanted to run an arsenal, but he didn’t have the money to run an arsenal of the same size as Fuyuan Machinery Factory. Just to buy equipment and hardware, he had to invest 35 million taels less, while the Finance Bureau of the three northeastern provinces couldn’t even get out the 400,000 hosts needed to expand the army. What he had to do was to take the old road of doing business.
In those days, Fuyuan Machinery Factory had not started a business and brought in a large amount of northern capital to engage in business together. This asset has exceeded 10 million taels, and Beiyang or Zhao Dongyun alone could not have started it.
He used administrative means to force Fuyuan Machinery Factory to transfer funds to Shenyang to set up a branch factory. However, the investment in setting up a branch factory is often hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the machine factory can’t get so much cash at the moment. Zhao Dongyun also asked the Fengtian Bank to give them loan support and build a bridge to find powerful merchants to join the partnership.
In the end, Fuyuan Machinery Factory holds 60% of the shares, and other businesses hold 40% of the shares.
It took a lot of effort to set up Shenyang Arsenal. At present, it has entered the stage of building a factory and installing a small amount of equipment, and more equipment has been ordered by Britain, Germany and even the United States, and will be delivered to China for installation and debugging in the next few months. It is expected that small-scale trial production will be able to reach the designed output at the beginning of the year, which will be the year after next.
In addition to this planned Shenyang Arsenal, Zhao Dongyun’s army department has also set up three machinery repair workshops, namely Harbin Machinery Repair Workshop, Jinzhou Machinery Repair Workshop and Shenyang Machinery Repair Workshop. These three machinery repair workshops have accepted some government-run arsenals in Northeast China before the Qing Dynasty. Naturally, the technology and scale of some old equipment and personnel in his enterprise can’t be large, but it’s still not a big problem to repair firearms. You can’t always take the rifle to Fuyuan Machinery Factory for repair if it is broken.
When Zhao Dongyun developed industry and commerce in the northeast and expanded his army, Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen troops are now fighting with the two rivers, Huguang area and the Confederacy.
Chapter two hundred and thirty-two The Southern War
Since December 1996, when Beiyang generals stopped fighting against Beiyang and established a Republican government, President Wang Yingkai, one of the major warlords in Beiyang, continued to sit in the capital and control Zhili. Zhao Dongyun went back to Fengtian, and Wu Fengling marched into Shanxi from Rehe South.
Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen led the first army, the second army south and the confederacy respectively.
At the end of December, South Wang Shizhen led an army to Henan along the Beijing-Han Railway. Wang Ruxian also led the first division of an artillery battalion with three infantry regiments to join the second army battle sequence.
At this time, the Second Army of Wang Shizhen probably has the sixth division, the first division and the first Hunchenglv. The sixth division is Wang Shizhen’s direct unit, and the first Hunchenglv is Wang Shizhen’s direct unit, which was formed by recruiting some new troops after the capital was incorporated into the seventh town. Although it is less effective, it is also Wang Shizhen’s direct unit.