Chapter 207: The American Mining Company, which owns half of America
The actions of the Qingpu Meat Company can be regarded as a typical example after the Tang Empire issued an economic development plan.
Taking advantage of the economic development plan, they have appropriately launched a global meat product supply system and are preparing to purchase meat products from all over the world to supply the local market.
There are also many other companies, not just one or two, but the entire industrial system is generally involved.
This trend started after Datang Railway Corporation announced the establishment of five major overseas railway branches and prepared to build railway plans for many overseas territories such as the American Railway. Several terminal service companies such as Shanghai Terminal Company prepared to invest huge sums of money to build several overseas territories.
After the establishment of large-scale port facilities, capital poured in crazily.
Because before this, although the economic development plan had been released, it was still on paper after all. However, the Datang Railway Corporation and the Shanghai Terminal Company and many other super-large state-owned enterprises such as port service companies wholly owned by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises have
The actual investment behavior is already visible to people.
The empire's economic development plan this time is not just talk, but it is prepared to really let go and take action.
As a result, capital, which was still waiting to see which direction the wind would take, suddenly poured in like crazy.
The construction bonds of American Railways, which are railway construction bonds guaranteed by the subsequent operating income of American Railways, have been favored by many financial institutions since they were officially launched on the market.
The Third Bank, the leading investment bank in the empire, directly undertook large-scale sales and directly undertook the construction funds of more than 8 million Tang Yuan for the American Railway.
At the same time, the stock price of the country's largest steel company, which is currently negotiating with Datang Railway Corporation, has skyrocketed.
Because once this kind of negotiation is reached, it will involve millions or even tens of millions of businesses. Investors see the opportunity for huge profits, which directly drives up the stock price.
The many changes in financial markets are also the areas that best reflect the impact of the empire's economic development plan.
Driven by capital, many companies have begun to prepare overseas development plans, and the vanguard are still state-owned enterprises and imperial-owned enterprises.
Of course, these overseas development plans are limited within the framework of the economic development plan.
For example, many companies want to build factories overseas, but without exception they fail to obtain approval.
Although the Import and Export Committee no longer restricts overseas territories, the newly established National Defense and Security Supervision Commission has taken over these functions. Now all overseas spiritual investment activities need to be approved by the National Defense and Security Supervision Commission.
For some basic investments, public service investments, agriculture, animal husbandry and other investments, the National Defense and Security Regulatory Commission is relatively loose and will approve most of them.
But for industrial manufacturing, especially industries that can improve the level of the local defense industry, all are prohibited.
For example, Datang Railway Corporation, although they can build and operate the American Railway, they are even allowed 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 factories that are also allowed to be built, they are all clustered in the military base of Xinjinshan.
Direct supervision by the military.
Datang Railway Corporation is the leading enterprise in the empire. Such an enterprise faces such huge restrictions if it wants to build a maintenance factory in the Americas, let alone others.
Regarding the use and subsequent maintenance of machinery and equipment in overseas territories, the National Defense and Safety Supervision Commission has a special guidance phalanx, which is centralized supervision.
For centralized deployment of some maintenance projects in several overseas military bases, there is another condition imposed by the military, that is, this concentrated area must be within five kilometers of the coastline.
Why?
Because it is necessary to ensure that all types of factories overseas, even maintenance factories supervised by the National Defense Security Regulatory Commission, must be within the gun range of naval warships!
In other words, once something happens, the Navy must be able to destroy these factories with naval guns as soon as possible!
So it must be built in coastal areas!
Of course, the superficial reason is not this, but to better concentrate resources, avoid waste, etc.
Therefore, in the future, although the empire will liberalize the construction of some factories overseas, these factories will be concentrated in the field of maintenance, mainly maintaining various types of locally produced finished machinery and equipment. At the same time, they will be invested by enterprises directly under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises and imperial-owned enterprises.
Construction is dually supervised by the National Defense and Safety Supervision Commission and the military.
As for private capital, don’t expect to be able to enter.
So what fields can private capital enter?
The agricultural field, whether it is planting, animal husbandry, fishery, etc., will be an area that the empire focuses on supporting overseas.
What the upper echelons of the empire most hope is to turn overseas territories into granaries and resource supply centers.
As for industrial production, local production is enough.
As for the issue of transportation costs, don’t you 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 proposed a major strategic development plan, calling for large-scale mechanized coal production within the next five years, striving to double coal production and reduce costs by half.
Coal production increases, costs decrease, and prices naturally decrease.
As for 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, coal prices are actually officially set by the empire.
Increasing coal production and reducing coal costs are, to a certain extent, the prerequisite for the implementation of the economic development plan of the Empire at the end of the 1940s. Because coal is a basic capability, its cost will directly affect the transportation costs of industry and commerce, production
The cost and even the heating living cost of residents.
If we want to improve people's living standards and make people afford more goods, energy costs cannot be too high.
This is why in industrial countries, coal and steel are managed as core industries, because the impact of these two industries is too great.
As the emperor of the empire, Li Xuan naturally knew 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 strategic development meeting in Jinling.
The meeting was attended by not only cabinet members and specific heads of various departments, but also heads of the country's top steel and mining companies.
At the meeting, Yu Shaoning, the general manager of South China Mining Company, currently the largest mining company in the empire, reported to Emperor Sheng and the senior cabinet officials on the follow-up development plan formulated by their company!
"Our company is planning to invest heavily in the follow-up to upgrade the equipment of Guangning Coal Mine, Qiongzhou Coal Mine, and many coal mines in Shanxi, a total of 18 large-scale coal mines, to improve the efficiency of coal mining!"
"At the same time, our company is also preparing to start mining large-scale coal mines in Australia and coal mines in Southeast Asian provinces!"
"In addition to industrial upgrading and investment in mining new mines within the imperial territory, our company is also actively expanding overseas markets. Currently, it has controlled more than 70 coal mines in India, West Asia, and many regions in Europe. Through the cooperation of indigenous countries, our company has
We have established a global coal supply system by providing mining services and other measures. In the next step, we will further develop coal mines in indigenous areas and make full use of the indigenous labor force to increase coal production capacity and reduce costs."
"After completing the upgrade of the domestic coal industry and the expansion of coal production in indigenous areas, our company's coal production is expected to increase by more than 300%, and at the same time, the cost per ton of coal will be reduced to the current 4%
Level fifteen!”
When Yu Shaoning said these words, he looked around, and the corners of his mouth slowly showed pride!
He indeed has this proud capital. As the largest mining company in the empire, the number of coal mines owned by the South China Mining Company is beyond ordinary people's imagination!
The company owns more than 40 large and small coal mines in the empire's native areas, and also owns dozens of large and small coal mines in its overseas territories. It even owns more than 80 small and medium-sized coal mines that are purely artificial in areas controlled by indigenous peoples.
Worldwide.
The annual coal production capacity of South China Mining Company has reached more than 100 million tons. However, when the Tang Empire was in Xuanping forty years, the global coal production capacity was only 300 million tons. This also means that the coal production capacity of South China Mining Company is
Its production capacity already accounts for one-third of the empire's coal market, making it a veritable coal mine giant.
You know, this is the Datang Empire, whose ships travel all over the world. A huge amount of coal is consumed around the world every year, and the South China Mining Company alone can supply one-third of it. This is
Quite a difficult thing.
South China Mining Company first reported its development plan and achievements, and several other mining companies were not to be far behind!
Zhongyuan Coal Company is a company that occupies many coal mines in Shanxi, a major coal-producing province.
The North China Mining Company, which occupies many coal mines in North China, and the Liaodong Mining Company, which controls the northeastern region.
These giants, which relied on the rich coal resources in a certain area to develop, eventually expanded to other places, and finally spread their business all over the world, and are also involved in the steel and other mineral industries, have all talked about their development plans.
Together, these old mining companies account for more than 95% of the empire's coal production capacity, and their trends can directly reflect the trends of the empire's coal industry.
But when these old mining companies finished their introductions, Wang Haitao, the new general manager of the American Company, who was a junior and did not even have a large-scale 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 our peers, our American company's business in the energy and ore fields has just started, and our current production capacity is not worth mentioning!"
"But our American Mining Group 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 everything goes well, our America Company's coal production capacity will reach more than 100 million tons in five years. If there is still greater market demand, within ten years, our America Company's coal production capacity will reach 300 million tons. Generally speaking,
The existing coal production capacity of Shanghe Empire is equivalent!"
At this time, Wang Haitao's expression became suspicious: "Actually, judging from our company's coal reserves, mining difficulty and cost, even if the production capacity is doubled to 600 million tons, as long as the market can digest it, then
Our company can supply it all!”
"It's not just coal, it's also true for iron ore. We have abundant iron ore reserves in the Great Lakes region. The proven iron ore is of very high quality and is easy to mine. As long as we invest in mining, it's just our company's iron ore reserves 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 giant oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico area in southeastern North America. Our company has purchased a large area of land in this area very early. We can cooperate with other oil companies in the future to exploit it.
According to our estimates, once large-scale exploration and mining is carried out in this area, its oil production capacity may be enough to reach ten or even a hundred times the empire's existing oil production capacity!"
Wang Haitao turned to Li Xuan at this time and said in a heavy tone: "Your Majesty, the American Mine will definitely contribute all its strength to the economic integration of the empire!"
"For this reason, I boldly propose to split up the American Mining Company!"
"It is definitely not a blessing for the empire to have such a huge thing entrenched overseas!"
Hearing this, everyone in the conference room couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise!
In fact, everyone present knows how rich the resources are in the Americas. Otherwise, the development of the Americas would not have been restricted in the past. It is because the resources in the Americas are so rich that even a large number of senior officials in the empire are afraid.
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Later, for the sake of economic integration and at the same time to appease overseas immigrants, regulations were relaxed and preparations were made to exploit American resources, which led to the acquisition of American mining companies at a premium.
But in the past, all we saw were cold data. Everyone knew how rich the resources were in the Americas, but this concept was still not deeply rooted in people's hearts.
Now the general manager of the American Mining Company has said that within a few years, the coal production capacity of their company alone will be able to reach all or more of the existing coal production capacity of the empire, and have dozens or even hundreds of times more coal production capacity.
Oil reserves and iron ore reserves.
In comparison, the core industry of American Mining Company, which is precious metal mining, is not worth mentioning...
Precious metal mining has always been the core business of American Mining Company, and it was also the core industry that they relied on for survival before. However, compared with the huge mineral reserves they have, it is not worth mentioning.
What’s interesting is that the reason why their company currently has so many reserves of coal, iron ore and oil resources is because they have been collecting leaks over the past 20 years or so. In fact, they didn’t spend much money.
After all, when the empire's first immigration ship arrived in the Americas, the American Mining Company began to develop business there. Although the main business was precious metals, sometimes it would buy coal mines, iron ores, etc.
Anyway, it didn’t cost much to develop these minerals overseas at that time.
Because it cannot be mined, it cannot be transported out, and even if it is shipped out, no one will want it...
However, the early leak-picking behavior of American mining companies gradually allowed them to become monsters that control almost half of the mineral resources in the Americas.
If this were not the case, they would not continue to work hard to promote localization in the Americas.
Even now that the company has been acquired and turned into a fully-controlled company by the government, as the company's new general manager, Wang Haitao is still worried.
Because he knows the horrors of the American Mining Company better than others!
It is no exaggeration to say that this company owns half of America!
The Americas are rich in resources!
The emergence of a super mining company in America is not a blessing to the empire!
But the Holy Emperor above him slightly pressed his hand: "I have my own plans regarding the mining affairs in America!"