Great Entrepreneur of the Universe

Chapter 223 Sihai and Nanhai

June 1901, 6, Father's Day.

The Pearl River Instant Noodles Factory in Yau Ma Tei, a large factory in Nuo Da, has not yet started production. Instead, 1000 young adults are dividing the open space in the factory into multiple small squares.

Either standing in a military posture, kicking forward, walking in unison, etc.

Sihai Escort Bureau has expanded again in the past 20 days.

The first 99 people who followed Tang Xiucai to join the Sihai Escort Bureau basically achieved % of the military training level of future college students under high-intensity training in just two months.

It exceeded Wang Shouliang's earliest expectations.

After all, in the 21s and 1901s of the st century, compared with the disaster victims and refugees in , there is really a big gap between the wealth of college students and their ability to endure hardships and endure stress.

Let me tell you something: among the victims and refugees gathered in Yau Tsim Mong, why were there only young adults and children? Because basically all the old people died on the way to escape!

The rest, those who are still alive, are all selected by nature and the elimination system of the weak and the strong in semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.

For life, for survival, for the future of the family!

The hard work and life-threatening energy of these people, with the whip flying, is really unmatched by future college students.

I'll give you a few hearty meals, and once you're full, you can carry a knife and go into the world of killing with you. Human potential and explosive power are really extraordinary.

In 1901, it was a very common phenomenon for wealthy families to freeze to death on the streets where wine and meat stinks.

In just over two months, the training was so-so and it looked decent. The Sihai Escort Bureau also ushered in expansion, not only recruiting 900 new escorts again.

The first 90 trainees became the new instructors.

Tang Xiucai also took nine colleagues and went to Yangcheng to open a branch with Zhuo Yifei. Wang Shouliang had also been there. Recruiting people, arranging residence, buying land and houses were all basic tasks. After he finished arranging the initial arrangements, In this situation, I watched the training there for two or three days before returning to Hong Kong and Kowloon.

The 110 people in the Yangcheng branch no longer wear uniforms. They were still under the jurisdiction of the late Qing Dynasty. Even if Wang Shouliang took advantage of the trend and opened a commercial escort agency to stand in the background, it would not be appropriate to wear uniforms.

But now the 990-person team at the Zhujiang Instant Noodle Factory is all uniformed and training starts from the military stance again.

In this large-scale training, the new operators will only receive four hours of training during the day. In the afternoon, they will learn Chinese characters and the multiplication table.

At another time, Wang Shouliang taught the 90 bodyguards the contents of the militia training manual.

Various movement methods and action essentials, shortcut operations and camouflage, impact preparation and impact, depth combat, actions in defensive combat, group combat actions, etc...

Wang Shouliang would break it open and mash it into pieces, demonstrate in person, and explain clearly to the 90 escorts. After all, how much the Sihai Escort Agency can do in the future will depend on the leadership of these earliest employees.

When the afternoon training and teaching ended, Mr. Wang asked the 90-person team to assemble, stood in front of the crowd and exhaled, "You have now gone through a round of selection and testing, and have successfully become junior escorts."

"The treatment for junior escorts and escorts is also different. Not only will their monthly salary be increased to 10 Yingyang, they will become squad leaders, and they will also receive benefits during holidays."

"The reward ratio for escorts will also be higher, and the pension standard will be higher."

"But more importantly, only starting from junior escorts, our Sihai Escort Agency will start to arrange the future education of your children and arrange the medical and pension guarantee system for your parents or wives."

"Since ancient times, we Chinese have had the cry of princes, generals and ministers, and we would rather have our own kind. The road now lies at our feet. It is up to you to choose what kind of life you want in the future..."

"..."

In the dignified Sihai Escort Agency, in addition to wanting the escorts and escorts to work hard and risk their lives for you, all kinds of benefits and systems have been set long ago.

As for the escort agency system, under him, the boss, there are several levels: chief escort, escort chief, senior escort, intermediate escort, junior escort, and escort.

When Wang Shouliang personally gave dozens of junior escorts a lot of words and blood, the effect was naturally overwhelming. Mr. Wang didn't just talk, he didn't just paint the pie, he really gave the big pie and divided the pie. Cake.

More than two months ago, 90 junior escorts still lived in wooden houses in the slums of Yau Ma Tei, where many disaster victims knew them.

In a short period of time, not only did this group of people become smooth and fat, their wives and children also lived in big brick houses, and there were many people around.

This is a depth-charge-level stimulus for the Yau Ma Tei slums, and because of their example, the 900 executioners who were re-recruited this time...

There are a large number of disaster victims and refugees among the poor, competing with each other for opportunities to apply for jobs.

After coming in, there is basically no such thing as cheating, fishing in troubled waters, petty theft, etc., because every new recruiter is admitted according to the principle of priority for Wang Shouliang, who has a family and a family.

They all have a family to support behind them!

When a group of junior bodyguards dispersed with enthusiasm and went back to their tents to prepare for dinner, a young man wearing black running shoes and a blue uniform and carrying a gun quickly ran from the gate to Wang Shouliang and stood at attention and saluted.

"Report to the big shopkeeper that Zhou Yongling is visiting and is outside the noodle factory."

This young man is one of the 900 newly recruited workers, whether it is training period or study period, or whether they are working in an instant noodle factory or a clothing factory.

Several factories with one or two floors were built, and the entrances were guarded by walkers.

Wang Shouliang nodded and followed the other person towards the door.

A moment later, when he saw Zhou Yongling standing next to a carriage smoking, he immediately stepped forward with a smile and said, "Zhou Sheng, do you have any good news? If so, I will give you a few bottles of good wine to thank you."

Zhou Yongling stepped forward quickly and laughed, "Shopkeeper Wang, I have contacted you for the batch of flour, potatoes and starch, including salt and oil, that you want."

"The goods will be shipped from Yangcheng tomorrow morning and will arrive at the dock in the evening. I first paid a 30% deposit for Shopkeeper Wang."

In the early days of the food processing factory, instant noodles were the main product. The industrial production equipment was brought by Wang Shouliang from the 1993 plane, and was a specially manufactured machine that suited the characteristics of this era.

As for the instant noodle formula and seasoning formula? Isn't that just a random copy?

Besides, with Wang Shouliang's master-level cooking skills, he can produce much more delicious noodles and seasonings than Master Kong, Uni-President, Baixiang, etc. in the 21s with just a little research and development.

What is needed now is the most upstream raw materials...

It's really good to leave this to Zhou Yongling as the middleman.

Lao Zhou is a sp. A bottle of medicinal wine mainly containing Hotan Cistanche deserticola can easily conquer Zhou Yongling.

After more than two months of travel and more than two months of busy work, after the team opened, the instant noodle factory can finally enter the preparatory production stage.

Wang Shouliang laughed and shook hands with Zhou Yongling, "That's great news. Come on, let's go to Sheung Wan tonight and find a reliable restaurant. We won't come back until we get drunk."

Zhou Yongling was overjoyed, "When it comes to eating, I also know a few good places. I'll be the host. I'll be the host. Shopkeeper Wang only needs to bring the wine."

After speaking for a moment, Zhou Yongling took another look inside the instant noodle factory and said in surprise, "Shopkeeper Wang, are these really 1000 people?" A thousand people is not a big number, but you have to look at the subordinates named Wang. What kind of lineup is it? It is almost standard with the Lee long rifle and a large number of bullets. Many people also have Mauser C96, even Maxim has it.

Zhou Yongling is just a small local tycoon in Hong Kong Island, but he also knows how many people there are in the small station under Yuan Datou, who looks like the new army in Beiyang? ? It probably started with a few thousand.

Wang Shouliang laughed, "The world is not peaceful now. If you don't have any skills, what can you do to travel around the world?"

Zhou Yongling was speechless and could only smile innocently, "The boss is right."

He also has a group of gangsters who dare to fight and kill, and can be equipped with bicycles and Mauser C96s. The fleet is engaged in various trading businesses.

The plate is not too small.

But comparing Lao Zhou with Shopkeeper Wang, he always felt like he was playing house... What made him even more speechless was that after being inspired by Wang Shouliang, he also wanted to spend money to operate it. Can he allow his subordinates to legally hold guns? question.

Go talk to the ghost guy, damn, the asking price is really bad!

It's not that he couldn't give away all his wealth, but if he gave it away, he would be destitute. How could he maintain other business ventures?

He could only complain that Wang Shoulianghao was inhumane. He only had 1 fast guns and 1000 million rounds of bullets, and he spent nearly a million taels of silver.

In the era of silver standard in many countries around the world, one million taels of silver is not a small amount of money.

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Another new day.

Wang Shouliang woke up from the Shijia villa in Sheung Wan. While eating breakfast, Shi Xicai smiled and said, "A-Liang, you have been here for more than two months. How are you adapting?"

Shi Aihua smiled and said, "Cousin, how is your factory going? Is the operation going smoothly?"

Mr. Wang took a bite of the barbecued pork bun and laughed, "It went well, it went well. Thanks to my uncle for introducing me to Kevin and Cliff. After we had a meal and drank some wine, the relationship was settled."

"The noodle factory I plan to set up has also secured the source of raw materials, and the ship arrived today with flour and the like."

"The machine has also been purchased. After debugging, it won't be long before you can eat instant noodles produced in my factory."

Shi Aihua asked curiously, "You have talked about instant noodles many times. What kind of instant noodles is this? Is it delicious?"

The earliest instant noodles in the original track were chicken soup ramen launched by Nissin in 1958. This was only in 1901. It is normal for Shi Aihua to be curious.

Wang Shouliang continued to explain with a smile for a while, mainly talking about the research and development process of instant noodles and satisfying his cousin's curiosity. He looked at Shi Xi and said, "Uncle, you have been in the Public Security Fund Raising Committee for so long. When will you come out and change?" Feeling?"

He had talked with Kevin, Cliff and others, and planned to run a Yau Tsim Mong for Shi Xi, mainly Inspector Zonghua of Kowloon.

Even if Shi Xi is not young, as long as he drinks Wang Shouliang's self-prepared elderly care medicinal wine for a few more years, it won't be a big deal for Shi Xi to survive another twenty or thirty years.

Shi Xi smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Forget it, if we don't defeat Luo Sanpao in one day, I guess the Marine Police Commando Team will always be closed... I'm too lazy to switch to join the land police."

“Just think of living your retirement life early, that’s good.”

Shi Xi still wanted to persuade his eldest nephew to get married and have children as soon as possible. It was only 1901, and the 21-year-old young man was unmarried... He was already an older man. He just remembered that the White Lotus sect rebelled and the Wang family was almost wiped out a few months ago.

It was inconvenient to speak again.

The breakfast ended with daily chatting. After Wang Shouliang pushed his bicycle out, he soon saw two ghost guys, Kevin and Cliff, smoking not far away.

Seeing him, the blond Cliff waved excitedly, "Wang, there is good news!"

Wang Shouliang raised his legs, stared at the pedals, and slipped over.

The three of them gathered together, and Cliff laughed and said, "The battleship you want is the twin sister ship of the Zhenyuan and Dingyuan. We have agreed. The two ships are 80% new and are in service in our Yinglun Navy. Their artillery systems It’s no problem.”

"It only costs 350 million taels of silver, which is less than 500 million Yingyang. How about we drive it over to you within two months?"

"You're not at a disadvantage, are you?! Kevin and I are still very good friends."

Wang Shouliang laughed and said, "Don't suffer any loss, we are indeed good friends. Let's go have morning tea together."

Are you at a disadvantage? Before you suffer a big loss, you must know that when the Hans Cat was delivered to the two sister ships Zhenyuan and Dingyuan of the Beiyang Navy in 300, the two ships totaled million taels of silver.

At that time, even Ambassador Yilun took the initiative to speak out. Hanscat manufactured and sold these two ironclad ships at real prices. It was not to make money from Beiyang, but to expand the influence of Hanscat country in the Far East.

Of course, this is the market price.

Hanscat didn't ask for an outrageous price, the price they gave was not unfair, and they didn't lose money. After more than ten years, if they buy an ironclad ship like that again, it will still be a second-hand one... The price will definitely be less than 300 million taels.

Kevin and Cliff asked for 350 million taels, which is equivalent to more than 480 million Mexican taels and more than pounds...

Their profits, transfer fees, etc. are definitely included, so they make a lot of money.

But this is the case with international trade, especially when it comes to battleships. There is not enough profit, and good things are not that easy to buy!

If you place an order with an arms dealer in North America, it is estimated that 300 million taels of silver will be enough. But Wang Shouliang is from Hong Kong Island after all, and it is not convenient to have a bad relationship with Ying Lun at this stage.

As Wang Shouliang rode forward, he smiled and said, "Two iron-clad ships, one is named Sihai, and the other is named Nanhai. When they arrive, remember to leave a group of people to help me train sailors."

Kevin laughed, "No problem, as long as we give you money, everything will be easy, and leave a group of manpower to train sailors, gunners, etc. It only takes 10,000 Yingyang to do it for a few months."

What can Mr. Wang say? With so many U.S. knives, Japanese yen and marks in his hand, he can give them as he wants. The total value of this small business is only over 40 pounds.

This was placed in the Genesis plane before he came. This small amount of money...wait, this is indeed small money, and it has always been real money given by Mr. Wang.

It's just that he tried to use the money he printed. When he recharged the mall for shopping in this plane, the mall wouldn't accept it... Fortunately, Yalun Ghost Guy was able to take care of it.

Damn money-making ability is always so simple and unpretentious no matter what era it is.

As for other small and medium-sized formations such as armored cruisers, impact cruisers, gunboats, etc., Wang Shouliang has no plans to buy them. The times are still developing. Before World War I, there were no major naval battles in Asia.

By the time of World War I and World War II, these things had been updated several times.

That's not right. You still need to buy some small gunboats. Gunboats similar to those that were sunk by Luo Sangun in Plan A can not only patrol offshore, but can also move inland rivers.

Small gunboats are cheap, costing about 10 taels each, and the Pearl River Basin can still fly the flag of the Sihai Escort Bureau.

(End of this chapter)