"So at the beginning of the development of each country, the government will take all measures to protect and support its own country, its own nation's industries and manufacturing industries, limit the import of foreign goods, and allow its own country's industries and manufacturing industries to gradually grow and grow until it can compete with foreign goods. The measures taken are mainly to provide technical support, financial subsidies, and tax reduction support for its own country, its own nation's industries; to hinder foreign goods mainly by imposing high tariffs. However, when the Qing court was in power, it neither supported its own industries nor restricted foreign goods, which resulted in our country's people's people's government.

The national industry and manufacturing industry cannot develop. Even if there are a few ethnic industries, it is only hard to support it. As a result, most of the goods used by our people can only be used with foreign goods. You just said that the goods of our East China government are not much worse than foreign goods. This is not that we are smarter and more capable, but that our East China government has taken measures to protect our own industries, manufacturing and restrict foreign goods. In just a few years, we have achieved a number of our own industries, and the quality of our products has also been greatly improved. Now that the concession has been included in the jurisdiction of our East China government, we will develop our own country, our national industries and manufacturing industries."

After listening to Li Songchen's speech, the room was silent for more than 2 minutes. The trade protection theory mentioned by Li Songchen was a very common principle in the society before traveling through time. Even if it was a WTO organization, it also had special trade protection regulations for developing countries. However, in this era, China was a brand new concept. Of course, it has been proposed before, such as developing national industries and controlling tariffs, but what was proposed was one-sided and not as a whole as Li Songchen said. However, this theory is not profound and easy to understand. Not to mention businessmen, even workers' representatives understand it, and no one can explain the reasons for opposition.

Seeing that no one spoke again, Li Songchen said again: "What we just said was just the input of foreign goods. Let's talk about the export of Chinese products." As he said that, Li Songchen paused and looked at the representatives of the merchants present. All the merchants subconsciously lowered their heads and did not dare to look at Li Songchen's eyes, which seemed quite guilty. Li Songchen did not say it out loud, and continued: "Our exports are basically mineral products, raw materials, and of course there are also a small amount of handicrafts. This is nothing. After all, the things we produce are not as good as foreigners. We can only buy these local specialties, but what is the price we buy? No need to say more."

As he said that, Li Songchen took out a piece of paper and read it. It turned out that this was the price of mineral products, raw materials and handicrafts exported by China to the outside world, mainly including various ores, raw silk, tung oil, boar bristles, tea, silk, porcelain, silk fabrics, etc., as well as the prices of commodities such as international trade. Most of the commodities exported by China were lower than the prices of normal international trade.

Listening to the prices Li Songchen read, many merchants were a little restless, because there was a contribution from these compradors. Since compradors were dependent on foreign capital, they naturally maintained the interests of foreign capital, so the lower the price of exported products, the better. In addition, there are also compradors' own interests. The lower the price of exported products is, the more the price difference the compradors earned. The Chinese who produce these commodities are basically small and medium-sized handicraft workshops, and even families are unable to negotiate with foreign capital in a reciprocal way. In addition, compradors' merchants have differentiated and promoted them, and sometimes they use the power of the government to suppress them. As a result, the price is suppressed to the extreme and can only be avoided from being maintained.

Li Songchen said again: "On the one hand, importing Chinese goods, high prices make huge profits, and low prices hinder the development of national assets; on the other hand, China's exports to the outside world have pushed the prices to the minimum limit, and the profits are small. We need to change this phenomenon, so we confiscate the assets of Britain, France, Japan and Russia. Now do you think it is or not to do this?"

After a while, an old businessman said, "District Mayor Li, what you said is indeed correct. What we did in the past is indeed not good, but we do have difficulties. As you said just now, we all rely on foreigners to make a living. How can we do it? And if we don't do it, others will do it. In the final analysis, this is because the court is incompetent, which makes foreigners rampant. If the court can control foreigners, we will not do these things. The East China government confiscates the assets of Britain, France, Japan and Russia. It is completely necessary. Just ask the East China government to think about the life and death of us. Without foreign business, our business can't be done. The whole family and the guys who work for us all have to drink the northwest wind. The East China government will always give us a way out."

If you introduce foreign goods into the Chinese market, you can still argue, but exporting the lowest price of Chinese minerals and raw materials is impossible to refute. Of course, if you are against others, these merchants can still argue. If you don’t force them, you can’t sell them if you think the price is low. But these merchants all know that this is not easy to use in front of the East China government, so don’t make it boring, and just play the tragic card.

So many people also echoed, saying that they were extremely miserable, and a few people cried.

Li Songchen then said: "Everyone wants to rest assured, of course we will not let you go to the forefront. We are all Chinese, all Yan and Huang, so we will definitely point you out a clear path."

Someone immediately said, "What's the way out?"

Li Songchen said: "First of all, I want to say that all the businessmen here have made a lot of money over the years, and many of them have also bought some small industries, and they just don't do anything, and they won't starve to death even if they eat for a few years. They just make less money. Of course, the income of workers is not as high as that of merchants, but they are much higher than that of ordinary Chinese people. Therefore, there is some accumulation, and it is no problem to support for a few months, so don't cry in front of me. The road will be pointed to you, but under the rule of our East China government, I still want to go to the past.

It is impossible to make the difference between import and export goods. Even if there is one, there is not such a rich profit. Therefore, if you want to have great development in the future, it is best to invest in industries and run large industries. This is the aspect of national and personal development. Moreover, our East China government will also provide technical guidance and training, and will also have certain policy support. Of course, I won’t explain the conditions in detail here. We have prepared detailed information and after the meeting, you can come and collect it. If you have any questions, you can also ask for it."

After hearing this, some people were a little moved, but most of them were half-believing and half-doubted. This time, a worker representative said: "District Mayor Li, what you just said about the businessmen and big bosses' way out, what should we workers do?"

Li Songchen nodded and smiled and said, "Don't worry, I will talk about workers immediately. The foreign industries we confiscated are still being cleaned up. However, it has been confirmed that some of them can be retained and some can be rebuilt after renovation. Mainly, the public facilities, services and manufacturing industries that are supported by the original concession. Among them, there are a number of enterprises, factories, and factories, which will be reopened immediately. Those who work in these enterprises and factories can also be reopened. In addition, there are a number of shops, which we plan to hand over to private operations. After 10 days, we will conduct public auctions and purchases. When the factories are auctioned and bought, someone will take over, and when purchasing, we will accept the original workers as one of the conditions, so the workers who work in these factories will not be able to do it for long."

"Of course, there are only a few factories that can be rebuilt. Most enterprises, factories and shops will basically be closed, so a considerable number of workers will definitely be unemployed. For this group of workers, we organized a group of factories in the Shanghai New District, and the shops will be recruited. It will be carried out here in three days. You can come here to find new jobs. After a while, after the meeting, we will post the list of factories, shops that can be rebuilt, and the list of shops that need to be recruited. We also ask all the representatives of the workers to inform other workers after they go back."

After hearing this, the 30 working representatives present discussed with each other. Everyone thought that the arrangements of the East China government were good. The workers' ideas were simpler than those of businessmen. As long as they had work, they could support their families with Qishui, which didn't matter who they did. Moreover, most of the work representatives also knew that the salary in the Shanghai New District was not as low as that in the concession, so they didn't say anything more.

At this time, Li Songchen said again: "This time, the factory and shop auction are for everyone. If you are interested, you can also participate in the auction. In fact, for you, this is a good opportunity to transform into an industry, because these factories and shops are all well equipped and skilled workers can open immediately as long as they obtain the operating rights, which can save a lot of trouble. If someone feels that they have insufficient capital or the risk is too high, they can also participate in the auction together. We have prepared the information, and those who are interested can come to collect it later. In addition, please inform other merchants of this information."

After hearing this, some people were quite moved and eager to try, while others were bowing their heads and pondering, while others looked around and discussed each other, with different forms.
Chapter completed!