Mr. Wang, a citizen, is a collector, and in the past, when he was engaged in collecting, he encountered several former Baotou Electric Flour Co., Ltd. business reports and electricity bills during the War of Resistance Against Japan, and bought them.
▲Electricity bills during the Republic of China period
The appearance of the "pure manual" annual report is very neat
Mr. Wang said that around 2006, when he was walking around the waste collection station, a staff member of the acquisition station asked him if he wanted something, "It was some receipt books and the like that they found in the waste, I said I wanted to, and I bought it for 100 yuan at the moment." Recently, these materials have finally been sorted out. Mr. Wang said.
Not long ago, the reporter came to Mr. Wang's house, and the small coffee table in the living room was filled with several thick books of yellowed account materials, and there were some reference books on the history of Baotou's local history on the bed next to it. Recently, Mr. Wang has been studying these materials, and he has also found many written records related to them from these books.
▲Mr. Wang carefully sorted it out
The information collected by Mr. Wang this time is a business report of Baotou Flour Co., Ltd. from the 26th year of the Republic of China to the 35th year of the Republic of China (1937-1946), which includes a handwritten business report and some loan comparison tables and asset catalog tables, and the report is paid on December 21, 2005. The reporter saw that the full text of the report was written with a brush, the handwriting was beautiful, and the handmade forms were also very neat.
▲"Enterprise Annual Report" in the Republic of China period
According to the records in the "Baotou Historical Materials", Mr. Wang speculated that the person who made the report may be Zhao Guanyi, the deputy manager of the electric surface company at that time. "Combined with the historical data, my analysis of this report should be a report on the business conditions made by the manager of Baotou Flour Co., Ltd. to the shareholders at that time. Normal situation reports should be reported once a year, but because it is a time of war, it has not been reported annually. Judging from the content, with the slaughter and control of the Baotou noodle factory by The Japanese imperialists, the operating conditions of the flour mill should be barely maintained. Mr. Wang introduced.
The user name is very "age-sensitive"
In addition to this business report, Mr. Wang also showed the reporter several large books of Baotou Electric Co., Ltd. in the 23rd year of the Republic of China, the 33rd year of the Republic of China and other different periods of electricity receipts and a 250 volts 10 amps specifications of the old circuit accessories.
▲Original circuit of the past
The reporter saw that the user names registered on the handwritten receipts were Xinglongde, Cheap Zhai, Yishunyuan, Tonghedian, Dadecheng, Yidian Doupu, Xiangshengtai, and some other local business names in Baotou at that time, as well as Puji Hospital, Railway Hospital Telegraph Bureau, Huali Company, and other institutions, as well as some units of the military system and individual users, such as Director Li of the 70th Division's Armament Repair Institute, Liu Lianchang, and Hu Platoon. Judging from the electricity charges charged at that time, some businesses and units had more electricity bills, such as Dadecheng "Yang 17 yuan 5 corners 7 points", and most of the less individual users only had a few corners and a few points. Compared with the business report, the writing on the electricity bill receipt is very eclectic.
Regarding the past of the Baotou Noodle Factory, the reporter roughly learned after Mr. Wang's introduction and inquiry of information that in 1926, the domestic warlords were in a scuffle, the industrial and commercial circles were affected by this, and the business withered, and some patriotic gentry found another way out, among which Li Zhanyuan, Fang Weinong, and others organized the China Flour Company in Baotou, but later stopped work due to insufficient funds. With the success of the Northern Expedition, the beiyang warlord government collapsed, the capital moved to Nanjing, at this time some of the former civil and military officials in the beiyang government changed to business, the former shandong provincial council speaker Wang Hongyi and other new investment of 200,000 yuan, in 1930 to build Baotou Electric (electric lamp, flour) Co., Ltd. (also known as Baotou electric lamp flour company), began to generate electricity, in June 1931 flour put into production, trademark registration as double camel brand flour. Wheat originates in Hetao, Tumut and Houshan. This was the first modern industrial electric lamp flour company in Baotou, and by 1937, the city's electric lamps totaled about 5,000 lights, and the flour produced 300,000 bags. Baotou has also stepped from the era of kerosene lamps to the era of electric lamps.
(Reporter: Huo Xiaoxia; Editor: He Yixin)
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