Chapter 1118: One Factory Enemy One Country (First Update, Please Subscribe)

Ever since the Qing Empire of the Aisin-Gioro family was overthrown, the entire family fled to India.

The Ming Empire increased its investment in China, from providing loans to support its currency reform and industrial construction to providing assistance to help it strengthen its land and naval forces.

Both the Ming government and the public are very interested in investing in China.

Moreover, joint ventures are not uncommon. There are many light factories such as spinning mills in China, all of which are funded by Ming Dynasty capital.

However, the joint venture proposed by Cheng Donghai still surprised Pan Zhijun. After all, this is an investment!

"Brother Denian, this is an investment of tens of millions!"

"So what if tens of millions?"

Cheng Donghai pointed at "Uncle Long" and said with a smile.

"Funds are not the most important thing. The most important thing is technology. Currently, the largest iron-making blast furnace in Europe and the United States has a daily output of 100 tons, while "Longbo" has a daily output of 450 tons. The blast furnace is undergoing a major overhaul on the 13th. Our technicians are carrying out a comprehensive transformation of the blast furnace to effectively increase production. It is expected that its daily output will exceed 550 tons after it is put into production again, and its annual output will be 200,000 tons! And these technologies were banned from export by the empire in the past, which means you..."

Turning his head to look at Pan Zhijun, Cheng Donghai smiled.

"Because Ming and Huaxia are brothers and sisters, the Empire agreed to issue an export license. If you miss this opportunity, you will never get it again! One furnace is equivalent to an entire country! The annual output of a Western country like the Austro-Hungarian Empire cannot match that of a blast furnace like this one!"

In fact, this is a bit exaggerated. Although the annual steel production of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is not much, it is also more than 500,000 tons. One blast furnace can produce 200,000 tons. What about two? Adding the Liguoyi, China's steel production will exceed that of Austria-Hungary.

What is this world competing for?

It's steel!

As for countries like Italy and Belgium, their annual output... is not as good as China's. Just like the poor imperialist Italy, I don't know if it is imperialist now, but its steel output is only a mere 10,000 tons, which is definitely the floor among those imperialist countries.

On the other hand, China has made considerable progress in recent years, whether in industry, commerce, economy, or even technology.

A strong China is in the interests of the empire. For this reason, the Ming Empire was generous to China in issuing export licenses. Of course, this generosity was based on a foundation, that is, a joint venture.

The Ming Empire did not mind exporting advanced technology to China through joint ventures to help China achieve industrialization. Of course, in this process, the empire's industrial and commercial enterprises and the banking and financial sectors could also obtain very generous returns.

But economic benefits are not the most important thing, what is important is integration!

After all, in Emperor Zhu's plan, the Ming Empire and China may be two countries in the future, but their economies are highly tied together, their interests are consistent, and the finance and industry of the two countries are integrated.

Just like the United States and the United Kingdom, through hundreds of years of investment and joint ventures, the financial and industrial sectors of the two countries have long been intertwined and inseparable.

It's not just the UK and the US, there's also Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, the so-called "Five Eyes Alliance". This "Five Eyes Alliance" is not just a close alliance formed by the Anglo-Saxons who share the same language and culture, but what is inseparable between them is the economy and finance. They are an "economic community" where all prosper together and suffer together.

It's just that this community is secretive and not even well known to the outside world. In fact, they have been inseparable since the daughters of the new American rich married into the families of the old British aristocrats.

Their economies influence and blend with each other, and this close alliance relationship will not change with the times or the change of government. Because both sides are very clear that once they betray each other and lose their support, they will suffer unbearable losses politically and economically.

In such an "integrated alliance", the Anglo-Saxons won the First World War, defeated the Germans, won the Second World War, defeated the Germans, won the Cold War, and disintegrated the Russians.

By sucking the flesh and blood of the defeated, the Anglo-Saxon Alliance became stronger and its ties became closer.

This is also the reason why they dare to face any other challengers in the world - because no ally is closer than them!

Of course, now in the 1880s, this alliance was still in the process of formation, the first step of a long journey had just been taken, the brides of American tycoons had just married into Britain, and the capital circles of the two countries had just reached out to each other through such a marriage.

The Ming Dynasty was also working hard. Unlike the Americans who relied on women to knock on the door of Britain, under the leadership of Emperor Zhu, the Ming Empire was realized through "Ming Yuan". The way to achieve it was very simple, nothing more than investment, borrowing, and of course joint venture was one of them.

In a word, the integration of finance and industry will eventually lead to the integration of Ming Dynasty and China, and this integration will also make the Chinese Alliance invincible in the future world.

"One factory is the enemy of one country!"

When Emperor Zhu received the news of the steel plant joint venture agreement signed between the Imperial United Steel Company and Huaxia, he, like everyone else, could not help but sigh.

The Liaodong Iron and Steel Company, with a total investment of 18.27 million yuan, will make China one of the world's steel powers once it is completed, second only to Ming, Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Austria. Isn't this one factory against one country? In fact, China's steel production is now second only to Russia, far exceeding Italy and other countries.

However, in this era of steel, steel is the foundation of industry! With the foundation of the steel industry, other heavy industries can be developed, laying a solid foundation for the next step of development.

"If we can continue to develop like this for ten years, China will be able to complete preliminary industrialization in ten years!"

Initial industrialization actually means establishing a relatively complete industrial structure, with steel production exceeding one million tons, the ability to produce all kinds of machinery and equipment, and the ability to produce all kinds of weapons from rifles to warships. According to Emperor Zhu's idea, it is almost equal to the level of Russia at the same period in history, and the plan is almost successful.

In fact, the Roman Empire is only slightly stronger now than it was in history. Even if China can achieve unification, the scale of its industry is likely to be close to that of the Roman Empire. After all, the Heavenly Kingdom has also been engaged in foreign affairs in recent years, such as the ironworks in Ma'anshan, the shipyards in Ningbo, and various factories in Hangzhou and Suzhou. The foreign affairs run by the Heavenly Kingdom may not be as good as those in the north, but they are not bad!

It has to be said that the war has greatly promoted and driven the industrialization development of China.

"Once everything stabilizes, it's about time we support their unification!"

After complete unification, the Ming Dynasty will further increase its support for China, not only in terms of industry and economy, but also in terms of military assistance, including training a modern army.

A China that has initially completed industrialization and has a modern army will inevitably become the biggest help to the Ming Empire in future world wars.

Only then will China have a chance to take back everything it has lost. What is lost on the battlefield must be taken back on the battlefield. This is an eternal truth in the world.

And this is also the only chance for China to participate in the last wave of colonial division in the world. Otherwise, there will be no more chances.

Thinking of this, Emperor Zhu once again walked to the table, then turned the globe vigorously, and finally pressed his finger on the globe. Looking at China on the globe, he muttered to himself.

"By then, wait another ten years, the time will be ripe..."

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