Dominate the Country

Wu Bingjian is the son of Wu Guoying, who was a clerk of the Pan family. When he was young, he studied in the Nanhai Palace in Guangzhou for one year, but soon got bored. Despite his family's opposition, he dropped out of the Nanhai Palace and became a clerk in Pan Zhencheng's bulk goods stall. Later, when Pan Zhencheng entered Chen Han, he brought Wu Guoying to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, and later transferred him to the Silver Administration Commission.

Wu Bingjian's path also took another path.

In the original time and space, he was the world's richest man in the first half of the 19th century. His assets were about 28 million taels of silver, while the richest man in the United States at that time only had 7 million taels. In 2001, the Wall Street Journal of the United States counted the 50 richest people in the world in the past 1,000 years, and 6 Chinese were selected, and Wu Bingjian was one of them. He boldly invested in railways, securities trading and insurance business in the United States across the ocean. At the same time, he was the largest creditor of the British East India Company. Sometimes the East India Company had difficulty in capital turnover and often borrowed from the Wu family.

Wu Bingjian did not know his glory in the original time and space, and even if he knew his glory in the original history, he would definitely not hate Chen Hansheng.

Although the current Wu family is not as wealthy as in the original time and space, the Wu family has become more prestigious in the whole society. When his father retired, he was already a senior official from the third rank. Now he not only inherited many industries of the Wu family, but also held 10% of the dry shares of Hainan Sugar Group. His net worth is at least a millionaire.

In the original time and space, Wu Bingjian died a few years after the first crow, and the Wu family soon declined. Because of the five ports trade, Guangzhou Thirteen Hong is a privileged business group. The five ports trade destroyed their privileges, and without privileges, the unique and irreplaceable status of the Thirteen Hongs in the past no longer exists. Moreover, when the Second Crow came, the Thirteen Hongs also ignited that monstrous fire...

Even if Wu Bingjian knew his own glory in the original time and space, he would never shout good for the Qing Dynasty. He was very satisfied with his current living environment and social status. Although he did not go into politics, he was the vice chairman of the Guangdong East Provincial Advisory Council. As the president of the Hainan Sugar Group, Wu Bingjian had a great influence in Lingnan. When the councilors and councilors of Guangdong East saw him, they also had to respectfully address him as "Mr. Wu". In front of the genuine governor, he was also a formal guest. So what was he dissatisfied with?

Wu Bingjian's contact with the Zhu family was a secret contact on the eve of a big alliance. Zhu Ping'an still had a lot of say in the sugar companies in the north. Judging from the output of sugar cane, the Zhu family was one of the few companies in the sugar industry in the north.

Besides the sugar factory, food processing is another arm of the Zhu family, which can provide Zhu Ping'an with sufficient funds to acquire farms and continue to expand the sugar beet planting industry. In the first two years, a large part of the sugar produced by Zhu Ping'an's sugar factory was directly consumed by his food processing factory.

But as the output of sugar continued to increase, Zhu Ping'an completely combined the sugar factory with his food processing factory. Relying on the brand effect created by his food processing factory over the years, he quickly became famous, first expanding and strengthening in the Northeast, and then going south to North China to conquer cities.

But after several years of rapid development, Zhu Ping'an's Dalian Sugar Company also encountered the problems encountered by Hainan Sugar Group at the beginning, and reached a bottleneck. With the power of Zhu Ping'an and Ge Er, there was really no way to upgrade Dalian Sugar Company from the first-class to the top in the country.

Because the volume of the sugar industry in the north is smaller than the total volume of the sugar industry in the south, compared with the entire local market, Zhu Ping'an's Dalian Sugar Company is smaller than Li's Hainan Sugar Group. If the latter can occupy one-tenth of the country, then Dalian will be 1/12 or 1/15.

Although compared with the overall comprehensive strength, the Northern Sugar Group is a rising star, whether it is its own volume or the backers behind them, it is much inferior to its counterparts in the south, but no one can "force" anyone to take over without negotiation. Because the cost of colluding with Chen Cong's branch is too low, not to mention selling the company to Chen Jiqing and Chen Jigong, as long as they form a joint company, or even just give them a sales network, everything will be ok.

Cuba Island and the Spanish Island renamed Haiti Island are very suitable for the growth of sugarcane. The land there is fertile and does not need to be carefully cared for and fertilizers sprayed every year like the land on Chen Han's side. The production cost is much lower than that in Chen Han, and the quality of sugarcane there is very good, which greatly reduces the cost of sugar. Therefore, the long sea route is not a daunting journey. Even if enough transportation costs are added, the sugarcane from Song and Peng can also hit the sugar market in the mainland at the price of sugarcane...

Brothers quarrel outside the wall, defend against insults.

Zhu Ping'an's brother-in-law Ge Er played a very important role in the rise of the Zhu family. As an old minister who is loyal to the Chen Dynasty, Ge Er has been worried about the continuous expansion of the power of America many years ago.

The Caribbean Sea also belongs to America.

Ge Er agreed with the local sugar companies to "resist" the "attack" of American sugarcane without much consideration. Then Zhu Ping'an, who attached great importance to his brother-in-law's words, also agreed, and even took the initiative to contact many friends.

It can be said that Ge Er played a great role in promoting the meeting of the North-South Sugar Company.

When Chen Ming heard the news, he couldn't help laughing. This is just the beginning. Even if Cuba in the future is called the world's honeypot, Cuba now has only completed the first step of the Long March.

Cuba's sugar production in the future can reach 7 or 8 million tons, and exports can reach more than 6 million tons every year. It is much higher than the current sugar production in the whole world.

And how much is it now?

After Spain fully developed the sugar industry in the original time and space, Cuba's sugar production was increased to 550,000 tons in the 1860s. They started to develop the sugar industry after the war broke out in Haiti, and it took a full 70 years to reach such a scale.

Now, the island of Cuba has become the Song Dynasty. Chen Ming believes that when Cuba's sugar production reaches 550,000 tons, it will definitely be much earlier than in the original time and space, but there must be a degree of earlier. Human power is very powerful, but human power is sometimes limited. The development of machinery is the key to Cuba's sugar industry.

In the original time and space, when Cuba was in the hands of the Spaniards, the sugar production here never exceeded 1 million tons. But after the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898, the Americans invested a lot of money in Cuba, acquired all the plantations that could be acquired, and gradually formed a modern sugarcane plantation characterized by large-scale production, and caused small farmers who planted sugarcane to go bankrupt one after another. The land became increasingly concentrated, and the scope of sugarcane planting gradually expanded from the western provinces along the red soil plains to the wider areas in the east.

The United States built a number of irrigation facilities, so that sugarcane was widely planted in lowlands with an altitude of less than 100 meters, and the area of ​​sugarcane fields accounted for more than 60% of the country's cultivated land. As a result, the American sugar company became a terrible monster. They own large sugar mills, a large number of sugarcane fields, and process the sugarcane of self-cultivating farmers and tenants to make profits. In order to transport sugarcane to the sugar mills quickly, many dedicated railway lines were also built. By 1958, a total of 9,500 kilometers of narrow-gauge railways had been laid, accounting for 2/3 of the national railway lines, making Cuba one of the countries with the densest railway network in Latin America.

It was these modern scientific means that pushed Cuba's sugar production to a terrifying peak. Such a small country can produce nearly 10 million tons of sugar.

Cuba's population only reached over 10 million more than ten years after the 21st century.

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Chen Ming asked the intelligence department to continue to keep an eye on this North-South Sugar Industry Conference. His main focus was still on the choices of the Indian Marathas and the development of the war in the northwest, and then some news came one after another.

For example, it was normal for the Zhu family to bow to Wu Bingjian. Wu Bingjian relied on the Li family behind him, and the Li family was Chen Ding's uncle. Even if they were "traitors" in the "Hundred Acre Farm Plan" and caused resentment among many vassal states and vassal states that had not yet been established, the Li family's development speed was still very fast. There are so many people in China, and most of them are willing to flatter them.

The reason why Ge Er sent Zhu Cheng to Shanghai to meet Wu Bingjian secretly was to test Wu Bingjian's "mouth" so that he could have a bottom line before attending the alliance.

Although the conditions of both sides were handed over to each other two months ago, everyone hopes to get more benefits.

Ge Er said in the letter that he heard some news that Jiuzhou Chamber of Commerce might lend a large amount of money to the sugar industry in Cuba and Haiti, but Wu Bingjian sneered at it.

He knew very well that Ge Er must have got this news from a "big man", and it might even be that the "big man" himself said this. But from Wu Bingjian's point of view, this is impossible.

Chen Jiqing and Chen Jigong have a close relationship with the royal family, but no matter how close they are, they are not as close as the children. The Gao family and the Huang family are equally close to the emperor.

It is not the lack of money that is worrying, but the inequality. Jiuzhou Chamber of Commerce lent money to the Chen brothers, so does it have to lend money to other countries?

Although the Jiuzhou Chamber of Commerce is extremely rich, how many people can it "lend" its money to at the national level?

The Jiuzhou Chamber of Commerce is not a national bank.

Although from a certain perspective, lending to Song and Peng is really a very high-quality product.

Why is Chen Ming not interested in domestic affairs? That is a big reason. Domestic struggles are fought by his own people, and they are all within the scope he has set. This is too boring.

Chen Ming is the master of domestic affairs, so he is like a super GM in a large game. No matter how large the game is, no matter how many NPCs there are, what attraction can it have to him.

"Your Majesty, urgent news from the northwest..." The tense voice of the attendant came from outside the palace.