Valley Emperor

The actions of Qingpu Meat Company can be regarded as a typical example after the Datang Empire issued an economic development plan.

Taking advantage of the economic development plan, they appropriately launched the global meat product supply system and prepared to purchase meat products from all over the world for local supply.

Similarly, there are many other companies, not one or two, but the general participation of the entire industrial system.

This trend comes after Datang Railway Corporation announced the establishment of five overseas railway branches and plans to build railways in several overseas territories such as the American Railway, and many terminal service companies such as Shanghai Terminal Company are preparing to invest heavily in the construction of several overseas territories. After the large port facilities, the influx of capital is even more frantic.

Because before that, although the economic development plan has come out, it is still on paper after all. However, the Datang Railway Corporation and Shanghai Dock Company and many other super-large state-owned enterprises such as port service companies wholly-owned by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises. The actual investment behavior has already been seen by people.

The economic development plan of the empire this time is not just talk, but it is ready to really let go of its hands and feet.

As a result, the capital, who was still watching the wind direction, rushed in in an instant.

The construction bonds of the Inter-American Railway Company, which are guaranteed by the subsequent operating income of the Inter-American Railway, have been favored by many financial institutions after they were officially launched on the market.

The No. 1 investment bank in the empire, the Third Bank, directly and generously sold it on a consignment basis, and directly contracted the construction funds of the American Railway as high as more than 8 million Tang yuan.

At the same time, the stock price of the largest steel company in China, which is negotiating with Datang Railway Corporation, has skyrocketed.

Because a major achievement of this kind of negotiation is that it involves millions or even tens of millions of businesses, investors see the opportunity for huge profits, which directly drives the stock price up.

The many changes in the financial markets are also the area where the impact of the imperial economic development plans is most evident.

Driven by capital, many companies have begun to prepare overseas development plans, and the pioneers are still state-owned enterprises and royal-owned enterprises.

Of course, these overseas development plans are all within the framework of economic development plans.

For example, many companies want to go overseas to build factories, but without exception, they have not been approved.

Although the Import and Export Committee no longer restricts overseas territories, the newly established National Defense and Security Supervision Committee has taken over these functions. Today, all overseas investments in spiritual bodies need to be approved by the National Defense and Security Supervision Committee.

For some basic investments, public service investments, agriculture, animal husbandry and other investments, the National Defense Security Supervision Committee is relatively loose, and most of them will approve them.

But for industrial manufacturing, especially industries that can improve the level of the local defense industry, one is counted as one, and all are banned.

For example, the Datang Railway Corporation, although they can build and operate the Inter-American Railway, have even been approved to build a train maintenance factory.

However, this train maintenance factory needs to be built in Xinjinshan, or even more strictly in the military base of Xinjinshan. Just like the ship maintenance factory that has also been approved to build, all of them are gathered in the military base of Xinjinshan. The military directly supervises.

The Datang Railway Corporation, which is the head enterprise of the empire, is subject to such huge restrictions on building and maintaining factories in the Americas, not to mention others.

For the use and follow-up maintenance of machinery and equipment in overseas territories, the National Defense Security Regulatory Commission has a special guidance phalanx, that is, centralized supervision.

The centralized deployment of some maintenance projects in several overseas military bases, there is also a condition imposed by the military, that is, the concentrated area must be within five kilometers from the coastline.

Why?

Because it is necessary to ensure that all types of factories overseas, even the maintenance-type factories supervised by the National Defense Safety Regulatory Commission, must be as far as the range of naval guns of warships!

In other words, the Navy must be able to destroy these factories with naval guns as soon as something happens!

So it must be built in coastal areas!

Of course, the superficial reason is not this, but to better concentrate resources and avoid waste.

Therefore, in the future, although the empire will open up some factories overseas, these factories will be concentrated in the maintenance field, mainly to maintain various types of finished machinery and equipment produced locally. The construction is under the dual supervision of the National Defense Security Regulatory Commission and the military.

As for private capital, don't expect to be able to enter.

So where can private capital enter?

The agricultural field, whether it is planting, animal husbandry, or fishing, etc., will be the areas that the empire will focus on supporting overseas.

What the upper echelons of the empire hoped most was to turn overseas territories into granaries and resource supply places.

As for industrial production, homegrown is enough.

As for the cost of transportation, did you not see that the empire is supporting the development of the coal industry!

The Department of Industry and Mining under the Imperial Ministry of Commerce has already put forward a major strategic development plan, requiring large-scale mechanized coal production within the next five years, striving to double coal production and cut costs by half.

Coal production increased. , the cost is reduced, and the price will naturally be reduced.

As for the question of whether coal companies are willing or not, there is no need to worry about this. All large coal companies are all state-owned enterprises.

To put it bluntly, the price of coal is actually the official price of the empire.

To increase coal production and reduce coal costs, to a certain extent, this is the precondition for the implementation of the economic development plan at the end of the 40th year of Emperor Xuanping, because coal is the basic capacity, and its cost will directly affect the transportation cost and production of industry and commerce. The cost and even the heating living cost of the residents.

In order to improve people's living standards and to make them more affordable, energy costs cannot be too high.

This is also why in industrial countries, coal and steel are managed as core industries, because the influence of these two industries is too great.

As the emperor of the empire, Li Xuan is naturally aware of the importance of the coal industry and the steel industry.

When the time entered the 41st year of Xuanping, just after the Lantern Festival, Li Xuan held a steel and coal strategy development conference in Jinling.

Not only cabinet members and specific heads of various departments attended the meeting, but also heads of domestic top-ranked steel and mining companies.

At the meeting, Yu Shaoning, the general manager of the South China Mining Company, the largest mining company in the empire, reported the follow-up development plan made by his company to the Son of Heaven and the top cabinet!

"Our company plans to invest huge amounts of money to upgrade equipment for a total of 18 large coal mines in Guangning Coal Mine, Qiongzhou Coal Mine, and Shanxi Coal Mine to improve coal mining efficiency!"

"At the same time, our company is also ready to start mining large-scale coal mines in Australia and coal mines in the Southeast Asian provinces!"

"In addition to industrial upgrading and investing in new mines in the territory of the empire, our company is also actively expanding overseas markets. At present, we have controlled more than 70 coal mines in many regions of India, West Asia and Europe. Through the cooperation of indigenous countries, the In the next step, we will further develop coal mines in indigenous areas and make full use of the advantages of indigenous labor to increase coal production capacity and reduce costs.”

"After completing the upgrading of the domestic coal industry and the expansion of coal production in indigenous areas, our company's coal increment is expected to increase by more than 300%, and the cost per ton of coal will be reduced by 4%. The level of fifteen!"

When Yu Shaoning said these words, he looked around, and the corners of his mouth showed a slow pride!

He does have this proud capital, and the number of coal mines owned by the largest mining company in the empire, South China Mining Company, is beyond the imagination of ordinary people!

The company owns more than 40 large and small coal mines in the mainland region of the Empire, dozens of large and small coal mines under its command in overseas territories, and even more than 80 small and medium-sized coal mines that are purely artificially mined in indigenous control areas. Worldwide.

The annual coal production capacity of South China Mining Company reached more than 100 million tons, and when Datang Empire was in Xuanping forty years, the global coal production capacity was only 300 million tons, which also means that the coal production capacity of South China Mining Company The production capacity already accounts for one-third of the imperial coal market, a veritable coal mine giant.

You know, this is in the Datang Empire, where ships travel all over the world, the amount of coal consumed around the world every year is huge, and the South China Mining Company can supply one-third of it. Quite an easy task.

South China Mining Company first reported its development plans and achievements, and several other mining companies are not far behind!

Zhongyuan Coal Company, which occupies many coal mines in Shanxi, a major coal-producing province.

The North China Mining Company, which occupies many coal mines in North China, also has the Liaodong Mining Company, which radically controls the northeastern region.

Relying on the rich coal resources in a certain area, these giants developed and expanded to other places, and finally their business spread all over the world. At the same time, the giants involved in the steel and other mining industries also talked about their development plans.

These old mining companies together account for more than 95% of the empire's coal production capacity, and their movements can directly reflect the trends of the empire's coal industry.

But after the introduction of these old mining companies, Wang Haitao, the new general manager of the Americas Company, who did not even have a large-scale developed coal mine under his command, stood up.

This old man in his fifties, wearing a Confucian robe, first looked around, and then said calmly:

"Compared with your peers, our American company's business in the energy and ore fields has just started, and the current production capacity is not enough!"

"But our American mining business owns more than 40% of the proven coal reserves in North America, and our company has been planning for mining since the end of last year!"

"If all goes well, our Americas company's coal production capacity will be able to reach more than 100 million tons in five years, and if there is a larger market demand, within ten years, our Americas company's coal production capacity will be able to reach 300 million tons. It is comparable to the existing coal production capacity of the Empire!"

At this time, Wang Haitao's expression became suspicious: "Actually, in terms of our company's coal reserves, mining difficulty and cost, even if this production capacity is doubled to 600 million tons, as long as the market can digest it, then Our company can supply it!"

"It's not just coal, but also iron ore. We have abundant iron ore reserves in the Great Lakes region. The iron ore that has been proven is very high-quality and easy to mine. As long as we invest in mining, it is only our company's iron ore in the Great Lakes region. The ore production capacity is estimated to be comparable to the existing domestic iron ore production capacity.”

"There is also oil. Our company has discovered a huge oil field in the Gulf of Mexico in the southeastern region of North America, and our company has purchased a large area of ​​land in this area very early, and can cooperate with other oil companies to develop in the future. According to our estimates, once large-scale exploration and exploitation are conducted in this area, its oil production capacity may be enough to reach ten times or even more than a hundred times the existing oil production capacity of the Empire!"

Wang Haitao turned his head to Li Xuan at this moment, and said in a heavy tone, "Your Majesty, America Mine will definitely contribute all its strength to the economic integration of the empire!"

"For this reason, I dare to suggest that the American Mining Company be split!"

"It is not the blessing of the empire for such a behemoth to occupy overseas!"

Hearing this, everyone in the conference room couldn't help but exclaimed in amazement!

In fact, everyone present knows how rich the resources of America are. Otherwise, it would not have restricted the development of America in the past, because the abundance of various resources in America has made a large number of high-ranking officials of the empire fear. .

Later, for the sake of economic integration and also to appease overseas immigrants, only then did the deregulation and preparations for the exploitation of American resources led to the acquisition of American mining companies at a premium.

But in the past, all I saw was cold data. Everyone knows how rich the resources are in the Americas, but such a concept is still not deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Now, the general manager of the American Mining Company said by himself that in just a few years, the coal production capacity of one of their companies will be able to reach all or even more of the existing coal production capacity of the empire, and even have dozens or even hundreds of times more coal production capacity. Oil reserves and iron ore reserves.

In contrast, the core industry of the American Mining Company itself, which is precious metal mining, is not worth mentioning. .

Precious metal mining has always been the old business of the American Mining Company, and it was also the core industry that they relied on before, but compared with the huge mineral reserves they have, it is not worth mentioning.

What's interesting is that the reason why their company has so many reserves of coal mines, iron ore and oil resources is that they have been picking up leaks in the past 20 years. In fact, they didn't spend a lot of money.

After all, when the empire's first immigrant ship arrived in the Americas, the American Mining Company began to develop its business locally. Although the theme business is to engage in precious metals, sometimes it will buy coal mines and iron ore. Anyway, it didn't cost a lot of money to develop these minerals overseas at that time~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Because they couldn't be mined, they couldn't be shipped out, and no one wanted to ship them out...

However, the early behavior of mining companies in the Americas made them gradually become freaks who control almost half of the mineral resources of the Americas.

If it wasn't, they wouldn't have been trying to push the localization of the Americas all the time.

Even though the company has been acquired and has become an official holding company, as the company's new general manager, Wang Haitao is still worried.

Because he knows the horror of the American Mining Company better than anyone else!

It is no exaggeration to say that this company occupies half of America!

The Americas are rich in resources!

The emergence of a super mining company in such America is not a blessing for an empire!

On the other hand, the Son of Heaven on the top pressed his hand slightly: "I have my own plans for the mining business in the Americas!"