Chapter 2827
After the Qiong Lianfa trade center is put into use, Shandong locals will benefit from it far more than just the Ma family, which has a stake, and there will also be many merchants who will settle in it.
There are hundreds of Shandong merchants who have signed settlement agreements with Qiong Lianfa before. One of the preferential conditions they can enjoy is the various business resources provided by Qiong Lianfa.
Qionglianfa can provide merchants with information on supply and demand of goods at home and abroad, warehousing services at major ports, efficient and safe shipping routes, channels for connecting with upstream and downstream industries, and a huge sales volume that has taken more than 20 years to build. network.
For small and medium-sized merchants who are willing to expand their business outside of Shandong, the resources provided by Qiong Lianfa are simply pie in the sky, and the value they bring is difficult to measure in terms of money. Before this, these were services that were difficult for them to buy with money.
Even a powerful local business organization like the Denglai Chamber of Commerce found it difficult to resist such conditions because of its obvious shortcomings in overseas operations, and ultimately chose to cooperate with Qiong Lianfa.
The benefits to Fushan County from the commissioning of the trade center do not end there. Once Qiong Lianfa takes this initiative, other business giants from the south will soon follow. It is said that business organizations such as the Nanhai Commercial Association, Fujian Chamber of Commerce, and Yangzhou Salt Merchant Group have also begun construction of large-scale commercial facilities in Shandong and Liaodong.
After listening to Ning Zijing's explanation, Bai Letong nodded and said: "So Qiong Lianfa's real competitors in the north are not local businesses, but their counterparts from the south?"
Ning Zijing said: "You are right to understand that. After all, competition will only occur if the strengths are equal and the business scope overlaps."
Bai Letong frowned and said: "But in this way, the southern merchants who started early have a great first-mover advantage. Local merchants have to rely on the business resources they provide to engage in trading activities overseas. Wouldn't this mean that they will always be suppressed? Too dead to turn over? ”
Ning Zijing shook his head and said: "It's not as serious as you think. Whether it can turn over or not ultimately depends on each company's business strategy. It can only be said that in the foreseeable future, southern businesses will definitely have the advantage, but businesses like Deng Business organizations like the Lai Chamber of Commerce have actually been established in the south for many years, and sooner or later they will become transnational organizations similar to their counterparts in the south, and the gap in strength will only become smaller and smaller.”
Bai Letong said: "I am not optimistic about the trend you mentioned. There are so many coastal ports in the south and there are no ice period restrictions. The innate conditions for developing maritime trade are obviously much better than those in the north. If northern merchants cannot develop independent Some advantageous industries may never catch up with their counterparts in the south.”
Ning Zijing said: "Uncle Chen must have thought of what you said, so you see that the path that the Northern Region is taking now is not just traditional commerce, but a considerable part of the resources are invested in the development of industry. If the Northern Region If the district can realize the industrialization process that Uncle Chen expected, the situation will be different.”
The industrialization of the Northern Region, to be precise, the industrialization of the industrial chain based on mining, has indeed brought significant changes here. The continued considerable financial gains, the widespread application of industrial technology, and the emergence of a special occupational group of workers will have a profound impact on the Northern Region.
Just like the southern region's advantages in shipping, the northern region's mineral deposits are also endowed with unique conditions, and the resulting development value is difficult to estimate in numbers. Bai Letong has just completed an inspection of the copper mines, coal mines, gold mines, and downstream processing industries in the Denglai area, and he has a clearer perception of the impact of industrialization. This is a development route that is completely different from traditional agriculture and commerce. It is still a new thing in this era. But Bai Letong's generation grew up in Sanya and they know very well that the value that industrialization can create is far beyond what traditional industries can compare with. Chen Yixin's bet on the development of the northern region on the route of industrialization is not unfounded. Once it is on the road, the speed of catching up with the south will indeed be much faster.
However, for the time being, the area centered on Zhifu Port will still have commercial and trade functions as its main development direction in the future. However, the various resources entering the northern region through this window will definitely contribute to various industrial projects. development. Perhaps within a few years, you will be able to see various industrialized products on the shelves in the shops of Qionglianfa Trade Center.
After attending the opening ceremony of the trade center, Bai Letong began to perform his last task in Fushan County, holding a briefing session for local cultural and educational institutions.
Directors of cultural and educational institutions from counties under the jurisdiction of Dengzhou have arrived in Fushan County to receive a three-day short-term training. During this period, Bai Letong will explain to them some changes made by the Ministry of Culture and Education to the teaching material content, as well as the latest teaching requirements.
This job sounds easy, but in actual implementation it has to face many objective problems.
The first is the qualifications of the heads of these cultural and educational institutions. Not all of them come from the Haihan education system. In fact, most of them are heads of the original local academies, private schools and other institutions. The educational institutions where they work were changed to Primary school, the person in charge who was willing to stay was appointed as principal.
They used to teach students the Four Books and Five Classics, a subset of Classics and History, but suddenly they changed to the teaching materials provided by Haihan. In addition to basic courses such as literacy, they were also required to teach students general education, mathematics, and even Haihan's own textbooks. In modern history, it is true that there are some limitations. It was not until recent years that teachers trained in Haihan’s domestic teacher training system began to teach in these schools that the situation began to improve.
But despite this, due to the deep-rooted influence of traditional Confucianism, the promotion of Haihan's cultural and educational system among the people will still encounter a lot of objective resistance.
Not everyone is willing to cooperate with the arrangements of the Ministry of Culture and Education. There are still some educational institutions that regard the educational content formulated by the Ministry of Culture and Education as heresy and cut down the relevant educational content on their own initiative. It is not uncommon for them to violate the regulations.
Therefore, this meeting was held with the heads of Dengzhou cultural and educational institutions. In addition to teaching guidance, Bai Letong also brought a series of appointments from the Ministry of Culture and Education, appointing a group of reliable young teachers as actual heads of various educational institutions.
Those old academics who refuse to adapt to the past and are unwilling to cooperate will be transferred to literary and historical research institutions such as county magistrate offices, poetry societies, calligraphy and painting clubs, etc. They will be completely buried in the pile of old papers and will not be allowed to continue to participate in teaching work.
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