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On the surface, this economic war is about the economy, but in fact it is a political war. It is no exaggeration to describe it as having far-reaching consequences. The foreign bourgeoisie finally learned about Zhang Hanqing's skills and were surprised by the strength displayed by the government of the Republic of China.
¡°However, Zhang Hanqing did not give up when things got better. His eyes have turned to the issue of tariff autonomy.
When Beijing announced "tariff autonomy", it required Chinese customs, led by Shanghai Customs, to impose a 300% special tariff on imported rice, completely shutting out the country's large amounts of rice hoarded overseas¡ª¡ª Since you want to buy rice, then save the high-priced rice and eat it slowly!
Since the young marshal firmly and faithfully fulfilled the daily distribution of affordable rice by the government to citizens, people have jumped into the Huangpu River one after another. First, there was a small group of unscrupulous traders with small capital, and then even the head of the Yu family, the most famous food king in Shanghai, met the Dragon King alone one night. In the end, there was a rare incident of a foreigner jumping into the river.
From this we can see the miserable situation they were forced into!
But this is not worthy of sympathy. It is better to cry than to cry as a family. If they win, the citizens of Shanghai will cry!
The rice war between China and foreign countries caused the British and Japanese capitalists to lose face and suffer heavy losses. What is particularly important is that this battle boosted the morale of the Chinese people and made the country's cohesion and sense of honor unprecedentedly strong, profoundly weakening the power of imperialism in China.
But after all, China is a traditional agricultural country. After the central government controls the power of domestic grain production and sales, it is not a good idea to continue to use grain to fight against the central government. The British and Japanese governments were not willing to admit defeat in such a dejected manner. They found the weakness of China's industry, especially Shanghai's, which was cotton as an industrial raw material.
Without cotton, more than two million spindles in Shanghai would not be able to operate, and the world's textile capital would not be able to produce the goods it deserves, and the economy would be paralyzed. The raw materials were concentrated in the hands of British and Japanese capitalists.
Zhang Hanqing doesn¡¯t believe in this evil.
In terms of the national economy, the People¡¯s Party implements nationalization and public ownership of important materials. Due to China's vast territory, imperialism has never been able to fully colonize China.
In this time and space, due to the sudden rise of the People's Party and the public ownership of land, the state has controlled most of the food and cash crops. Just because of the limitations of geographical conditions and transportation facilities, a large part of the resources cannot be shared effectively. For example, cotton is not lacking in Xinjiang, but there is too much to transport to the coast.
The power of the country is amazing! Zhang Hanqing ordered the governments of Shaanxi, Gansu and New Zealand to use all means to gather a large number of important materials and export them to the eastern coast through the Longhai Line and the Beijing-Shanghai Railway.
He actively assisted industry and commerce in resuming work and overcoming difficulties. Those who are short of funds will be given loans, and those who are short of raw materials will be given raw materials.
Guo Dihuo, general manager of Yong'an Cotton Mill, had more than 3 million kilograms of cotton and 10,000 spindles of Swiss textile machinery stranded in foreign production areas and could not be transported. Zhang Hanqing specifically asked the banks, railways, and trade departments to provide full assistance, and even sent a special train to Hong Kong | After trying every possible means to transport, all the raw cotton and textile machinery were finally transported to Shanghai.
Another example is that the finished gauze cannot be shipped out and is unsalable. The market price of each piece of 20-count yarn is only 110,000 yuan (lower than the cost), so the state purchases it for 120,000 yuan Patriotic private industry and commerce can truly feel the support of the state.
The Song and Sheng families also clearly supported Zhang Hanqing¡¯s patriotic actions in this struggle. Through their connections in the United States, the Song family purchased some urgently needed industrial raw materials for Shanghai, allowing Shanghai to smoothly overcome the initial difficulties; the Sheng family used its own channels to open a raw material supply chain from Wuhan to Shanghai. It has effectively supported the Shanghai Municipal Government's battle for primary raw materials.
As a result of the anti-blockade struggle, only 40% of the textile industry was operating in mid-June, and it reached more than 90% by August. The output of private yarn mills increased by 75%, and the machinery industry was originally operating at 20%. Due to the increasing number of orders from Xinjiang, , increased to 60%. Shanghai's industry finally struggled out of the depression and difficulties and embarked on a recovery.
What is the significance of this victory? Zhang Hanqing said: "The imperialists once said contemptuously that the People's Party can only manage the countryside and fight wars, but has no talents and is inefficient in managing the cities; managing the economy is doomed to make a mess. Facts have proved that we can definitely learn to swim, Swim to the other side and swim faster than them!¡±
Another important significance is the political impact after the Song family reached an agreement with the United States.
Because the United States occupies a neutral position of "mediation", it can easily gain the trust of the Republic of China government and, to a large extent, replace the British position in China.
In this way, there were cracks between Britain and the United States due to the dispute over China's dominance, which ultimately played an important role in Zhang Hanqing's rapid, proper and unilateral handling of the "May 30th Massacre".
Taking the "May 30th Massacre" as an opportunity, Zhang Hanqing lost no time in putting forward the famous saying "If you fall behind, you will be beaten" and called on Shanghai citizens to actively subscribe for national debt for the development and growth of the country, so as to help the country raise funds and concentrate on doing big things. industry. In addition, in order to restore the silver dollar's basic currency status as soon as possible and stabilize the financial market, the People's Party mobilized the masses to preach the significance of gold control and its strong relationship with the country.
This time, the Song and Sheng families still came to the rescue. This time the Sheng family was in the limelight because their family's financial resources were astonishing, and they mainly relied on real money.
It was surprising that the Sheng family, known for its stinginess and extravagance, worked so hard, but insiders believed that this was a complete bet on the young marshal. Sheng Aiyi also sold headdresses for her wedding, which was highly praised by Zhang Hanqing. It is said that He promised to buy one for her personally.
Song Meiling does not have the financial resources of Sheng Aiyi, but she is born with excellent motivational ability! In order to gain Zhang Hanqing's approval, she published articles in newspapers every day and gave speeches in crowd gatherings, trying her best to promote Zhang Hanqing's big plan.
"Shanghai Shuangshu has considerable popularity and appeal. They work so hard. Although they may be suspected of being self-serving and half-public, they are beneficial to economic stability in general.
Their actions are very effective. Women are not allowed to show off to men, which makes men feel ashamed and guilty - they have given up their dowry for the sake of the country, what else do we have to miss? shameful!
Driven by the unprecedented patriotic enthusiasm of the people, the Shanghai Provincial Financial and Economic Commission collected more than 1 million taels of gold, 30 million U.S. dollars in banknotes, and countless silver in just one month, greatly filling the national treasury and achieving unprecedented achievements in many years. This is an amazing achievement that even the government has failed to achieve.
Many families have exchanged their family treasures passed down from their ancestors for silver dollars or treasury bonds. Some ordinary female workers were not spared even gold earrings and actively requested exchanges. This fully reflects the Chinese people's hope for a strong country and their trust in the current government. Affection.
With such people and such a government, China will definitely become strong again!
Of course, safeguarding sovereignty and national dignity is not blindly xenophobic. Before entering Shanghai, Zhang Hanqing emphasized this point to the takeover cadres: We must protect law-abiding foreigners, and treat foreign-owned enterprises differently in accordance with the central government's policies and gradually take them over, with a time sequence and methods such as confiscation and agency operation. Escrow, consideration transfer, etc.
For electricity, water, public transportation and industries and commerce that are beneficial to the national economy and people¡¯s livelihood, Chinese workers must be mobilized to unite with foreign workers to continue production and operations. This makes the takeover stable and orderly, and the struggle reasonable, beneficial and measured.
But it is different for gambling businesses run by foreign owners such as horse racing halls and dog racing tracks. Their operations are prohibited and not confiscated. Only high land value taxes are levied.
Less than a year later, the British boss couldn't bear it anymore and requested that the property rights of the racecourse be handed over to the people's government free of charge. Zhang Hanqing personally participated in the design and planning, and built the grassy People's Park to the north and the People's Square to the south.
??Similarly, the dog running track was later turned into a cultural square, the French nightclub was turned into a cultural club, and Hartung Garden was turned into the Shanghai Exhibition Hall. One after another, the blood-sucking dens and prostitution venues set up by foreign capitalists have returned to the hands of the people, turning decay into new life. This is something for later, so I won¡¯t mention it for now.
From early summer to the coming of autumn, after experiencing the anti-blockade struggle and experiencing three major price fluctuations, Shanghai¡¯s economy is gradually moving towards recovery and development.
In order to finally add some obstacles to China's economic recovery, the British Navy conducted an artillery exercise on the Huangpu River in an ingenious manner. Originally, the Shanghai industrial and commercial community had been quite enthusiastic about subscribing for public bonds after the May 30th Massacre. But once the cannons of the British warships were fired, everything was in vain. It seems that they have not suffered enough losses on the Huangpu River. The Chinese army must keep up!
In order to prevent the newly restored production confidence from being hit and prevent the resurgence of Anglo-Japanese disease, Zhang Hanqing specially convened a meeting with celebrities from the industrial and commercial circles on the evening of August 15.
He said bluntly: "You have no reason to be frightened by the cannons of the British and Japanese imperialists, otherwise you will fall into their trap. You should quickly discuss with the factory workers to resume production. We are responsible for restoring the power plant. Of course there are many difficulties, which must be solved through unity and cooperation.¡±
Then he said encouragingly in a tone full of confidence: "Our industrialists and the country's industrial scale have made considerable progress since the Republic of China. We cannot belittle ourselves and must work together with the people of the city and the whole country!"
It seems that the British are also at the end of their rope. They have repeatedly tried to intimidate, negotiate, and intimidate, but there are still no new tricks available. Still want to scare people with this trick? Okay, I'll scare you too!
After two consecutive days of arrangements, in the early morning of the 18th, people who got up early to work suddenly discovered that in the east of the Huangpu River, hundreds of cannons were lined up and aimed at the river, and tens of thousands of People's Army soldiers were on the public streets. Military preparations were made on the opposite side of the concession.
This was put together by recruiting eight artillery regiments and two infantry divisions from four armies. Due to the suddenness of the incident, looking at the dark muzzles, the British thought that this was the beginning of a fight. They alerted everyone. The Japanese, French, American consular groups all ran to ask Zhang Hanqing about their purpose.
Zhang Hanqing smiled heartily and said: "Military parade!" (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com)On the other side, tens of thousands of People's Army soldiers carried out military preparations opposite the public concession.
This was put together by recruiting eight artillery regiments and two infantry divisions from four armies. Due to the suddenness of the incident, looking at the dark muzzles, the British thought that this was the beginning of a fight. They alerted everyone. The Japanese, French, American consular groups all ran to ask Zhang Hanqing about their purpose.
Zhang Hanqing smiled heartily and said: "Military parade!" (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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