Chapter 13 Chapter 3 The country is broken (2)

In the 10th year of the Republic of China (1921), Zhang Songqiao decided to spend a huge sum of money to buy the most prestigious "Blatt" brand textile machinery in Britain.At that time, the price of famous British textile machinery was twice as high as that of Japanese textile machinery, and there were various strict conditions for monopoly supply.Many people don't understand this. They say Mr. Zhang, why don't you buy it because it is expensive?Are you willing to spend money wrongly?Zhang Songqiao patiently explained to them: Orientals imitate Europeans and Americans, so Orientals are students, and their technology is always second-rate.We can't learn from students cheaply, but learn directly from teachers.

For this reason, he hired overseas students from Europe with high salaries as technicians to recruit talents. The factory opened short training courses and hired foreign engineers to teach. The boss is as honest as the employees as students.He also established many factory regulations, such as workers and employees, who must undergo regular training when entering the factory, and those who fail the examination will be fired;He practiced it himself, respected the technicians as honored guests, and learned and delved into technology for a while in the factory. My father told me that the climate in Wuhan was hot and humid. There was no air-conditioning at that time, and the British textile machinery settled in Wuhan.Zhang Songqiao invited experts to consult and explore the localization of foreign machines. Later, they added a steam nozzle that could be manually adjusted, which effectively solved the quality problem of cotton yarn breakage.Production practice gave Zhang Songqiao a deep understanding. He realized that all imported products must be digested and absorbed, and he must not copy them mechanically or "eat foreign things".For this reason, he organized technicians to carry out a comprehensive transformation of the production process, which greatly improved production efficiency.

At that time, Yuhua Spinning Mill's competitors, apart from domestic counterparts, were mainly the "Toyo Fuhang" (textile mills) run by the Japanese.At the beginning of the establishment of the factory, Zhang Songqiao made a far-sighted decision to purchase some Japanese equipment and accessories while importing British machines. With a legitimate reason to purchase the machines, Zhang Songqiao was able to personally visit the Japanese factories in Shanghai and Qingdao for field inspections.In this way, he not only found out the details of his opponents, but also "took" back a lot of valuable production technology and experience.Later, he cooperated with the middleman "Taihua Foreign Firm", and in the twelfth year of the Republic of China (1924), he sent his right-hand assistant Xiao Boss and other ten people to study in Japan in two batches. They were "commercial trainees" and specialized in textile technology and textile technology. Marketing strategy.It was only later that Yuhua Spinning Mill rose to fame and became famous. The Japanese quickly tore up the contract and suspended the cooperation plan signed with it, but it was too late.

Zhang Songqiao's unique business strategy and strategic vision can be seen from this. On the eve of the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in 1936, the main products of Wuhan Yuhua Cotton Mill, "Red Racing Horse", "Green Racing Horse" cotton yarn and "evergreen" cotton cloth were well-known domestic brands at that time. North China, South China, Southwest China and the countries of the Nanyang Islands.The domestic textile industry has risen rapidly, and the market share of domestic yarn and cloth has increased year by year, which has formed an advantage over oriental products. The Yuhua spinning mill has also expanded from 10,000 spindles at the beginning of the factory to 45,000 spindles, and 500 cloth machines. Taiwan, with more than 2,400 workers, the production scale ranked fourth among private spinning mills in Hubei Province at that time.

3 In the spring of the twenty-seventh year of the Republic of China (1938), a mysterious visitor visited the heavily guarded East Lake Mansion in Wuchang. His unexpected visit was destined to become a fuse, which aroused Chiang Kai-shek's anger and anger. The uninvited guest is Mr. Tautman, the German ambassador to China. Originally, Ambassador Tao was a welcome and distinguished guest. He was not only the plenipotentiary representative of the German Empire in China, but also a personal friend of Chiang Kai-shek and his wife.But at this moment, this old friend of the national government did not come here for friendship. He had to send a note to Generalissimo Jiang with regret. The German government decided to recall the military advisory group in China and unilaterally suspend all cooperation projects between the two countries, including arms purchase contract.

Chiang Kai-shek angrily smashed a drinking glass on the spot. For the troubled national government, the Germans' betrayal was nothing more than a stab in the back. In 1931, Japan brazenly invaded and occupied the three northeastern provinces, and the country that advocated justice on China's side was neither the United Kingdom and the United States, which flaunted models of democracy, nor the socialist Soviet Union, but Hitler's Germany, which later became the head of the evil axis of fascism.The German government gave China full support. It not only sent military advisers to help China carry out military reforms and improve the combat effectiveness of the army, but also received free Chinese military officers to train in Germany, sold and provided free German-style weapons and ammunition aid, and helped the Chinese government formulate combat plans against Japan. etc.Until the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, most of the advanced equipment owned by the Kuomintang Central Army was made in Germany.

But this kind of international assistance does not mean that Germany is a country that upholds justice. There is no right or wrong in international exchanges, let alone a permanent position. The only principle is that interests dictate it.When the Germans opposed the Japanese invasion of China, the purpose was not to uphold justice but to avoid "making their strategic ambitions develop in a wrong direction" (Hitler's words), that is, hindering the future global strategic plan of the Axis alliance, so when " When the "Marco Polo Bridge Incident" broke out, the German ambassador immediately devoted all his efforts to mediate. It is said that Hitler personally sent a message to the Emperor of Japan, trying to persuade Japan not to expand the war in China, but to focus on dealing with "the dangerous enemy from the north - Communist Soviet Russia".Ambassador Tao has always carried out shuttle diplomacy between Tokyo and Nanjing as an ally of both sides. There was a dawn of peace through mediation. Tokyo agreed to a truce and withdrawal of troops, and the peace talks were about to succeed.