The impact of the complete localization of Beihai Province is huge. This is the first region among the empire's many overseas territories to completely complete localization and relax import and export controls.
Although the empire's many overseas territories have successively established Beihai Province, Luzon Province, Banten Province, Malacca State, and Australia, there are also state governments under the American Affairs Office, Indian Affairs Office, and African Affairs.
The state capitals under the yamen.
The land in the above-mentioned places is nominally the territory of the empire.
However, it is also an imperial territory. Due to different circumstances, the specific treatment of the phalanx is also different. Among them, Beihai Province has been regarded as a true imperial territory due to its successful complete localization, and import and export controls have been relaxed.
But in other places, technical controls have still not been relaxed, and some places are even under military control.
The thorough localization of Beihai Province also provides an important reference for the thorough localization of many of the above-mentioned overseas territories.
Not to mention the series of policy changes in the empire's overseas territories brought about by the complete localization of the Beihai, the impact even on the private sector was huge.
In the past, people were worried that Beihai was just an overseas territory, and life would be inconvenient due to import and export restrictions and many other restrictions.
For example, many people are concerned about education. In the past, Beihai Province only had government-run primary schools. There were no local middle schools, let alone universities.
But now, Beihai Province has announced that it will immediately launch a local middle school promotion plan, and will set up junior high schools in multiple places, and at the same time set up Osaka Preparatory School in Osaka.
As for a forty-year university, don't expect it for the time being. There are not many universities in the empire, and Beihai Province's population and economy cannot support a four-year university.
However, junior college is acceptable. The Beihai Normal College submitted by the local Beihai Education Department has already been approved by the Education Department of the Imperial Ministry of Rites. It is expected to start preparations next year and will start enrolling students nationwide the year after that.
All this means that Beihai Province is no longer any different from many native provinces in the empire.
Without such worries, people are more willing to work and live there, or even settle or invest there.
This also includes Song Wanzi!
In his early years, before the empire had regained Beihai Province, Song Wanzi had already passed through the naturalized empire on his own, then traveled to Busan, and finally arrived in Shanghai.
Although she is only a woman, after working hard in Shanghai for many years, she has already become a strong professional woman in the Shanghai textile industry.
In the 20th year of Xuanping, she has become a relatively famous female manager in the Third Industrial Zone.
In the 23rd year of Xuanping, she joined Jiangnan Textile Company, which was the leading textile company in the empire. Here she got greater training. In the 26th year of Xuanping, she even defeated many male professional managers in one fell swoop.
He eventually became the manager of the Hangzhou Branch of Jiangnan Textile Company.
In the twenty-seventh year of Xuanping, Song Wanzi, who was already an older leftover girl, finally found her partner. He came from a poor family, but had climbed to the middle management level in the textile industry through hard work. Although he was a bit older, he was already in his forties.
But Song Wanzi himself is not young, and the most important thing is that the two people's three views on career are very consistent. When other people are together, they are talking about love, but when they are together, they are talking about business...
After getting married, Song Wanzi and his wife quit their jobs to start a business. They used their savings over the years, plus loans, and some investments, and finally established a silk reeling factory in Shanghai.
However, in the past two years, although the scale of the factory was small due to low capital and the couple did not have a very deep background, it was difficult to do business. However, Song Wanzi's management experience in large textile enterprises over the years was enough for her to turn the factory into a big one.
Organized and orderly.
And his husband also comes from a business background and is out doing business every day to get orders.
It can support the factory, and after two years of accumulation, the factory's profits have increased significantly since this year.
This is not easy for Song Wanzi or his husband.
But both husband and wife are typical career madmen. Song Wanzi was able to achieve what he is today as a woman, and her husband was able to achieve what he is today as an ordinary farmer. This proves that the couple is also ambitious.
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The factory started to make money, and they just wanted to expand. This coincided with the complete localization of Beihai Province and the relaxation of import and export controls. This allowed Song Wanzi and his wife to see an opportunity.
It wasn't just the couple who saw the opportunity. In fact, many empire businessmen saw the opportunity and wanted to run over and make money.
So the couple discussed and planned to raise funds and go directly to Osaka to build a silk reeling factory.
Song Wanzi wanted to return to Osaka to build a silk reeling factory. It was inevitable that she had a feeling of returning to her hometown in fine clothes, even though her natal family had long since died in the years of war, and there were not many people in her hometown now.
He is a pure Fuso man, a pure imperial immigrant.
Even Song Wanzi, now she no longer thinks of herself as a Fusang person, but as a Tang Dynasty person.
If you say she is from Fuso, she will fall out.
Returning home in glory is just a trivial idea. More importantly, I want to avoid the highly competitive Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions and go to Beihai Province to open up new markets.
The couple did what they said, and after raising funds, they took the Feng Shipping Company's Laurel liner to Osaka, Beihai.
The Guishu Passenger Ship is the latest generation of large luxury passenger liner of Fung Shipping Company, with a displacement of five thousand tons. Its tonnage is even greater than the Pacific Line of the Pacific Shipping Company and the Huangpu River of the Yangtze River Shipping Company.
At present, in recent years, domestic shipping companies have made a lot of headway in competing in the high-end passenger transport field. Every family is investing in the construction of large-tonnage luxury passenger ships for free.
Pacific Shipping Company has the USS Pacific and USS Indian Ocean currently in service.
As for the Yangtze River Shipping Company, it has two ships, the Huangpu River and the Minjiang, in service.
Feng's Shipping Company has Guishu, New Lady, and Wu Gang in service.
These passenger ships are all large luxury passenger ships of about 5,000 tons, and they basically carry out ocean routes.
Among them, Feng's Shipping Company is the last one among the three major shipping companies to serve 5,000-ton ships, but it is a rising star. In just two years, it has served three ships one after another, and it has been in the limelight for a while.
After boarding the Guishu, although they purchased second-class tickets, the service they received was comparable to first-class on ordinary passenger ships. This trip was a rare experience for them.
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Both husband and wife are career-mad. Song Wanzi couldn't let go of work during her pregnancy last year. One month after giving birth, she returned to managing the factory. Her husband Lin Yu is also a similar person.
Otherwise these two people wouldn't be together.
After enjoying some rare leisure time on the Katsura, they also arrived in Osaka. After landing, they got busy, inspecting and choosing a place to build a factory.
When Song Wanzi and his wife went to Osaka to seek opportunities to make a fortune, Lu Zhenjiang also came to Osaka to seek opportunities to make a fortune.
Compared with three years ago, Lu Zhenjiang looks more mature today. He is dressed in professional attire and full of energy. When he stepped off the Guishu, few people would have thought that he was penniless a few years ago.
, and was finally forced to run to sea.
Originally, Lu Zhenjiang thought that it would be enough to just make one or two trips to save some money, but later it turned out that it was really profitable to travel to sea. In addition, the empire already controlled the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean, so there was no threat of pirates. At the same time, merchant ships traveling across the ocean were common.
They are all wooden ships with sails and sails of one to two thousand tons. The safety of navigation is greatly improved, and the round trip time is also faster.
So Lu Zhenjiang simply continued running until last month, during which he was promoted and his income was higher.
After last month, Lu Zhenjiang finally stopped traveling. He used the more than 3,000 yuan he saved as capital to open a trading company.
Of course, this kind of trading company does not have an overseas trade license and does not have its own merchant ships. To put it bluntly, it is just a second-rate dealer.
But the company had just opened and had not yet hired a few employees. Even after learning that Beihai was completely localized, he and many people went directly to Beihai Province.
Unlike Song Wanzi and his wife, who could still fly in second class, in order to save money, he flew in third class, where several passengers stayed in the same small room.
However, before getting off the ship, he tidied up and put on professional clothes, the latest fake leather shoes, fake jade hanging around his waist, and a pocket watch from the Xinhai Pocket Watch Company hanging on his chest.
Of course, this pocket watch is also a second-hand product, and it is also a bad second-hand product. The time deviation is extremely large, and it can deviate from the time by three hours in a day...
But it doesn't matter, because from the outside, this Xinhai pocket watch is no different from a normal Xinhai pocket watch, and a new Xinhai pocket watch costs more than 500 yuan.
A person without any strength or status cannot afford such a pocket watch!
Naturally, it was impossible for Lu Zhenjiang to spend so much money to buy a pocket watch. He had worked hard to save more than 3,000 yuan. This was the capital of his business. How could he buy a pocket watch to show off?
So he just spent more than thirty yuan to buy a broken Xinhai pocket watch.
In fact, he wanted to buy a fake one, but unfortunately the empire's patent law was so powerful that few people dared to make fakes and infringe patents, so Lu Zhenjiang failed to find a fake Xinhai pocket watch.
This broken second-hand pocket watch brought him a lot of convenience in the past, especially when he went to some high-end places. When the guests at the door looked at his pocket watch and then looked at his rented carriage, their expressions were...
As respectful as you are.
Everyone regarded him as a rich businessman, a powerful young man.
The same is true now. Many people on the dock regard him as a rich young man!