Red Alert 1895

Chapter 759: Great industrial development (middle)

"Your Majesty, I think that if we want to develop our industry, we must first find a way to clearly define the direction of our industry. ≥≥, I think that our country and the emperor's royal family can focus on investing in heavy industry, and then open up light industry to private investment. Encourage non-government investment in light industry, and light industry can absorb a large number of laborers for employment, and the investment return period is short, the return of funds is relatively easy, and it can quickly improve people's lives. The most important thing is that light industry has low investment, relatively low technical content, and needs funds It can be afforded by the vast majority of ordinary people. Heavy industry is different, heavy industry has large investment, slow return rate, and even high technical content. The most important thing is that it is related to the lifeline of national security, so it is not suitable for the private sector Businessmen invest, so it is better for the royal family and the country to invest together, and then the imperial court will give policies, and the royal family and the government will invest together.”

Wang Guorui heard about Xiao Hongsheng's arrangement, which was actually quite reasonable. Light industry can not only absorb a large number of laborers, but also has relatively low investment, quick return of funds, and easy return of capital. But heavy industry is different. Heavy industry has a large amount of investment and high technology. It is a capital-intensive and technology-intensive industry, and ordinary people can't play well at all. Even heavy industry is related to national security and has an inseparable relationship with national defense. If it is easily handed over to private individuals for investment, it may cause a huge security risk.

Wang Guorui even thought that in order to promote sales, some steel giants and arms companies in the West would not hesitate to encourage the government to go to war and then sell their arms. For example, a consortium in the United States that is famous for its arms management, the United States in World War I and World War II was absolutely indispensable for them to leap behind the United States to start wars. And this kind of heavy industry is related to national security. Once it is controlled by private individuals, it will easily cause danger. Therefore, according to the situation of later generations, heavy industry is generally controlled by state-owned enterprises, and private heavy industry develops very slowly. Moreover, they could not get the support of the government, and all parties even carried out a certain degree of overt and covert suppression. This is actually the most important thing. It is related to the security of the country, and it is not so easy to solve. In later generations, they are generally engaged in light industry, agriculture, and service industries. For other heavy industries, first of all, the state does not support private operations, and the most important thing is that the investment is large. The return is slow, the return period is long, and the technology is too high, which makes them have no confidence to invest.

But Wang Guorui also thought of another point, this Xiao Hongsheng let the royal family participate in this heavy industry, in fact, it might be a way. If the royal family can invest in heavy industry, then the royal family can obtain a huge share in the heavy industry and have huge influence, so that it can continue to maintain a significant influence on the country. Although it may not have the power to directly govern in the past. But it can make the royal influence continue for a longer time. Wang Guorui deeply knows that there is no dynasty in this world that will not perish, so what Wang Guorui can do is to continue as much as possible. If you can obtain a huge share in heavy industry, then you will be able to continue the power of your descendants as much as possible.

"Okay, I will immediately ask the royal family to provide a sum of funds as the development fund for heavy industry. The imperial court also allocates a part of the funds every year, and then invests them in. The imperial court provides policies, and then our royal family is also the main contributor. Then invest in the development of heavy industry. The development of heavy industry is related to the security of the country. And the investment is large and the technology is intensive. The payback cycle is long, and ordinary businessmen are unwilling to invest, so let us all invest. Of course, our royal family must fulfill our social obligations, so that we can It can make the people all over the world bathe in the grace of the emperor!" Wang Guorui said.

Wang Guorui felt that he was very hypocritical, because he obviously monopolized the heavy industry, and also hoped to increase his royal influence by controlling the heavy industry. Guaranteed his own power, but Wang Guorui spoke so righteously, obviously as if he had suffered a big loss. Anyway, this is the way this world is, many times you have to pretend to be a big loser when you get the benefits. This will allow your benefits to last longer. If you forget about yourself when you get benefits, you will be envied and hated by others.

"Your Majesty, let's talk about the heavy industry later. Our most important thing right now is the light industry. Light industry, especially imitation clothing and other industries, also require a lot of labor, and we have 400 million people in our country. Population, ours is also a huge market! How can we miss such a huge market? Why did foreigners invade us back then, even in the Opium War 60 years ago? Why did they fight? In fact, they just hope that we will open the country and then be able to obtain the market. So our market of 400 million people is even larger than the population of the whole of Europe. And such a large population represents each market demand, we can completely pass Domestic demand has developed our light industry." Xiao Hongsheng said.

Wang Guorui doesn't know anything else, but he knows that China has a large population, and that a large population actually has advantages and disadvantages. For people in the light industry, that is a huge market! With such a market of 400 million people, who is not jealous? Those Westerners have developed technology, why do they want to choose colonization? In fact, the most important thing is that their domestic demand is insufficient, and their population is small, so they cannot provide a large market. However, their own domestic productivity increased rapidly, and a large amount of materials were produced, but no one bought them. Moreover, their local resources in Europe are also consumed violently with the increase in productivity, and finally the resources are insufficient.

Forced by the market and resources, they embarked on a vigorous voyage, and then began to search for resources and markets. And China has a population of 400 million, and even the population of a single country is comparable to that of Europe. Is there any bigger market than this? Although China may seem relatively poor, it can't stand the large quantity, and even if it is small profits but quick turnover, it can make huge profits. Moreover, China's light industries such as textiles and clothing were completely backward at that time, and the advanced Western textiles and other light industrial technologies produced a large number of products, and their quality was better than those of China's local products. The quantity is large, the quality is good, and the price is low, so how can you resist it?

Wang Guorui immediately added a sentence, saying: "We must maintain this market well and not allow foreigners to dump it. In the past, the Manchu Qing government did stupid things by itself, collecting lijin and other legal taxes and non-taxes from domestic merchants. Waiting for apportionment, but for foreigners, they dare not collect taxes at all. This not only hinders the rise of our domestic national capital, but also becomes an accomplice of foreigners' products invading our country. This practice of the Manchu Qing is because they are afraid of foreigners .Outwardly they are servile, but internally they are vicious like wolves. This kind of imperial court doesn't matter."

"Not only will we not be able to do this in the future, we must not only protect our domestic market and prevent foreign goods from entering. The best way is to charge huge anti-dumping duties on foreigners' light industries, so that their goods cannot be sold after they come in. .”

Of course, Wang Guorui is aware of the so-called trade protectionism, and there are many such things in China and abroad in later generations. China scolds the United States for trade protectionism, and the United States also scolds China for trade protectionism. Even the so-called local economic protection exists to a certain extent between different provinces in the country, such as restrictions on products from other provinces, or crowding out through some special means. In fact, this kind of trade protectionism may exist in a large country, a small domestic province, or even a township or village, but the means used are different.

A few years before Wang Guorui traveled through the world economic crisis, at that time the country proposed to expand domestic demand, which was actually to expand the domestic market so that various domestic industries could tide over the difficulties. And that also allows the country to shift from exporting to expanding domestic demand, so as to ensure the survival of enterprises. Therefore, in a sense, guaranteeing the domestic market, and then guaranteeing the survival of enterprises, guarantees the survival of enterprises, but to a large extent, it also guarantees the employment of ordinary people in the country. Guaranteeing employment also means having income~www.mtlnovel. com~Having an income means ensuring that the family has food to eat.

In fact, this is a cycle, in short, it is to encourage spending money. From a macroeconomic point of view, in fact, protecting the domestic market also protects domestic employment and people's income to a certain extent, allowing them to form a virtuous circle. At present, the domestic market must be protected. At present, the domestic light industry is almost zero. Not only is it technologically backward compared to the West, but there is not enough room for growth. And this domestic market of 400 million people is an important factor for their development from small to large. Raise the domestic light industry through the domestic market, and then go abroad to compete with foreigners to expand the market.

"Okay, immediately formulate an anti-dumping tax plan for various light industries of foreigners. As for related products and tax rates, they can also be formulated according to different products. Of course, we must also carefully examine our advantageous industries and Inferior industries, our superior industries have lower anti-dumping duties, while disadvantaged industries have higher anti-dumping duties. We are also unable to provide unprincipled protection. The so-called life of sorrow and death of peace, if we protect too deeply, then the same will happen Let domestic enterprises have no motivation to move forward, so we can't protect too deeply. And this anti-dumping tax can be adjusted according to the development of our domestic industry, neither can let foreigners too much threaten our industry, nor Don’t let our domestic advantageous industries live too comfortably, otherwise there will be no motivation to fight.” (To be continued.) u