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Chapter 168 Floods, Aviation and Insurance

Updated: 2012-08-18

At this moment, the Prime Minister and the Supervisor of the War have some moral integrity. Duan Qirui was keen to recognize people and boldly promoted and appointed Wang Geng. Now Wang Geng and Lao Duan are both successful and famous. At this time, the relationship between the two has added another layer of marriage and the relationship between the father-in-law and son-in-law, and always feels that it is a spoil or a cliché.

As for Duan Qirui, his trust and appreciation for Wang Geng is increasing every day. For Wang Geng, his position in the Anhui faction in the eyes of Lao Duan is becoming increasingly stable in the government and the Army Department. The establishment of the China Charity Foundation has brought him a reputation beyond his imagination.

Although they are not bound by the love between children, Lao Duan and Wang Geng are both flesh and blood people after all. The marriage event that Duan Hongyan participated in the war and supervised was finally annotated by Duan Hongyan's study in the United States. Of course, Duan Hongyan's best friend Lu Mei also went to the same place. Before leaving, Wang Geng and Duan Hongyan secretly got engaged in front of Lao Duan. After all, Duan Hongyan was only sixteen years old, so it would not be too late to get married after returning from studying abroad for two years!

Of course Lu Mei wanted to stay, but she couldn't bear to leave Duan Hongyan. Duan Hongyan was reluctant to leave Lu Mei, and she was worried that she would stay by Wang Geng alone, and accompany her to open her eyes. Doesn't Wang Geng still have a big career in the United States? She doesn't have to worry about having nothing to do!

After seeing off Duan Mansion Erya and Lu Mei's participation in the war supervision, he felt lost. He has been working hard to deal with national affairs for the past four months, and his family has to deal with five beautiful concubines. Have you ignored and missed the love between the children around you?

In July and August 1917, in Wang Geng's previous life, a major flood broke out in North China. The most flooded should have been the Haihe River Basin. However, since Wang Geng has been commanding tens of thousands of new soldiers in the battle army and nearly 100,000 civilians dredged and strengthened embankments on both sides of the Yongding River, the Yongding River is originally the largest tributary of the Haihe River in the upper reaches.

Effective governance led by the participating troops on both sides of the Yongding River led to the major flood in North China in 1917 in July and 8. The slightly more rain had almost no major impact on the dredged Yongding River. This was destined to be one of the greatest contributions made by Wang Geng, the butterfly, after flaunting his wings, to the people of Zhili and Jingji.

In 1917, the major flood in North China did not occur as scheduled, but the summer floods became a vast ocean in Henan due to the Yellow River breach. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Civil Affairs Department allocated a large amount of aid materials to provide assistance to Henan, Shandong and other provinces. Wang Geng hoarded imported American food in Nanyuan and urgently called dozens of trucks to transport them to Henan and Shandong.

This is not the biggest flood in the history of the Yellow River, but the people affected on both sides of the Yellow River are still huge and millions of people are displaced. Fortunately, Wang Geng also served as the governor of Suiyuan. Through the coordination of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the support of the Ministry of Transport, he used iron trains to migrate the victims from the Beijing-Hankou Railway and the Beijing-Sui Railway to Suiyuan every day. The reclamation and immigration in the Hetao area of ​​Suiyuan Province ushered in a new wave.

The China Charity Foundation launched a nationwide fundraising and disaster relief activity, with more than 5 million yuan in funds and disaster relief materials raised before and after, all of which were used for the resettlement and relief work of the disaster victims that year.

In this way, at the end of August 1917, with the official operation of China Airlines, it opened two-way air routes from Beijing to Shanghai, Beijing to Jinan, Beijing to Zhengzhou, Beijing to Wuhan, Beijing to Qingdao, Beijing to Fengtian, Beijing to Xi'an, Beijing to Nanjing, Beijing to Suiyuan, Shanghai to Guangzhou in the next three months.

The 24 Handley and Peji 0/400 heavy bombers all removed their weapons and converted them into 16-seat civilian passenger planes, and changed the cockpit of the head from open air to closed. The choice of routes, the determination of landmarks, and the alternate airport were gradually established while exploring.

Nanyuan Aviation School, a subsidiary of the Aviation Department of the Joint Military Army, trained 500 pilots within three months. Those with the best skills were given priority to secondment to the civilian 0/400 after the modified China Aviation Flight. Of course, the main pilots when the route was opened before were all old British flight instructors.

The training of ground mechanics in the aviation team is more difficult. After all, maintenance, repair and assembly of aircraft is theoretically much more difficult than flying an aircraft with just a rod. But even so, 2,500 ground mechanics have begun to play their roles in three months.

In fact, the first ten routes and those 10 airports made the newly trained skilled ground crews of the air force a little short of enough. Each of them was actually a pioneer of China's civil aviation.

The air force is a unit that is piled up with money. The monthly salary of pilots is as high as 100 yuan, ten times that of ordinary soldiers. Pilots who are seconded to China Airlines will be added to a flight allowance of 100 yuan per month. The monthly salary of ground staff of the air force is 50 yuan. If they are seconded to China Airlines' airports, the monthly allowance of 50 yuan per month will be added to a flight allowance of 50 yuan per month.

With China Airlines officially put into trial operation, China Insurance Company was quietly established. Traveling by plane is definitely not comfortable in this era, but it is efficient and has become a fashion for rich people. Just like those guys who carried Russian spacecraft in Wang Geng's previous life, of course, the most used ones are the big men in the political and business circles.

The registered capital of China Insurance Company is 10 million, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Transport each accounted for 15%, followed by Bank of China and Bank of Communications each accounted for 10%, China Airlines each accounted for 10%, Sino-US oil companies accounted for 10%, China Charity Foundation accounts for 5%, Citibank and HSBC, Zhengjin Bank each accounted for 5%, Shanghai Commercial Savings Bank accounts for 5%, and Jingsui Railway Company accounts for 5%!

China Insurance has a variety of underwriting scopes, and property insurance is a matter that has long been accepted, especially factory fire insurance, vehicle and ship insurance, aviation insurance, mail insurance, theft insurance, etc., while personal accident insurance and pension saving insurance surpassed people's knowledge in 1917.

China Insurance has rigorous and professional identification procedures for underwriting and claims. For example, if the fire insurance is insured by the cotton mill, the fire safety of the cotton mill itself is an important measurement indicator. The more complete and safe your fire prevention measures are, the lower the insurance cost, and vice versa, it will be higher until the insurance is refused.

At that time, there were only 59 members of the entire China Chinese Insurance Association, with a total annual income of about 7 million yuan, and the total registered capital was only 9.59 million yuan. The emergence of the giant China Insurance Company greatly encouraged and strengthened the development of the national insurance industry, which had originally dominated the foreign insurance companies, and opened a new chapter.

China Insurance Company has used a good subcontracting mechanism in the process of underwriting insurance for large factories and mining enterprises, which not only controls risks but also allows peers to form benign cooperation and alliances, and the entire insurance market is thriving.

In fact, if China Airlines had not opened a new chapter in civil aviation, Wang Geng would not have been so urgently established an insurance company. The first major underwriting target after China Insurance was China Airlines, and all aircraft and station equipment had invested huge amounts of insurance.

In other words, if a Handley or Peji crashes 0/400, China Insurance will pay enough insurance premiums to buy a new Handley or Peji 0/400. Whether it is a pilot or a passenger, the family of each victim will receive a insurance premium of up to 20,000 yuan, and if injured or disabled, you will pay 5,000 yuan to 10,000 yuan!

Of course, the mandatory ticket price for air travel includes 1 yuan insured fee. The air fare for different routes depends on the mileage of the route. At this time, the ticket price of the third-class railway passenger car is about 0.012 yuan per kilometer, and the railway mileage from Jinan to Fengtian is about 1,085 kilometers, while the fare is only 13.15. For the same mileage, the passenger fare for China Airlines is eight times that of the railway. For example, the air ticket price between Beijing and Shanghai is set at 98 yuan.
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