Great Entrepreneur of the Universe

Chapter 227 This is the origin of mechanization

Shi Xi was really confused and confused about the fact that he was suddenly transferred from the salty fish position in the old age, which was still a very disliked salty fish position, to Yau Tsim Mong.

The middle-aged ghost man smiled and made two cups of coffee, "Deputy Assistant Shi, Yau Tsim Mong is the best oil and water area in Hong Kong and Kowloon in the future. Is there anything else you are not happy about?"

Seeing that Shi Xi was still speechless after the words, Gui Lao smiled and patted the table, "Hasn't your nephew told you yet? That nephew of yours is not simple, and he doesn't run the factory alone."

"He should have a large number of partners. Not to mention the Pearl River Instant Noodle Factory, he is ready to start and just waiting to make a lot of money."

"Pearl River Garment Factory is also a clothing group that produces blouses and jeans and is destined to have a huge market. Pearl River Construction is building a large-scale five-story luxury residential building. Maybe many white rich people will think that kind of residential building is Upscale, wealthy quality homes.”

"At this stage, Mong Kok and Tsim Sha Tsui have not been included in his development scope, but the several thousand acres of core land in Yau Ma Tei are full of high-rise buildings."

"The planned factory areas and commercial areas are not comparable to the one- and two-story buildings in Central and Sheung Wan, which are mostly constructed of blue bricks and fir wood."

Shi Xi was surprised and asked, "Sir, you said my nephew didn't come alone? He has many business partners?"

The middle-aged ghost couldn't help but roll his eyes. Isn't this nonsense? Just because of your nephew's apparent identity and background, he said that he is a small rich man and came from a medium-sized landowner. There is no problem.

But how could a person like that spend four to five million taels of silver just to buy guns, bullets, and boats? ? Is this what small landowners can have? !

Besides, the 5,000 acres of Yau Ma Tei land was cheap and was picked up for free. After all, it was a rural area. However, Wang Shouliang took the lead in upgrading construction technology, using the most advanced reinforced cement concrete structures, and spent so much money on a series of Pearl River factories.

Putting aside the Sihai Bodyguard Bureau, a group that does not have the "Pearl River" status, whether it is an instant noodle factory, a garment factory or a construction company, which one has not hired hundreds or even thousands of workers? How much did it cost for so many industrial assembly line equipment?

He stepped forward with a smile and handed a cup of coffee to Shi Xi, "Wang is a young man with great ambitions who is destined to do great things."

"He is developing in the early days of Hong Kong and Kowloon. Since he chose Yau Tsim Mong as his base, as an uncle, you are transferred to help him take charge. Isn't it a good thing for you and me to be good for everyone?"

Shi Xi felt dizzy again for dozens of seconds, took a sip of coffee and thanked him.

Then he took the letter of appointment and left. Before leaving, the ghost boss gave him a gun!

You must know that before this, all Chinese police officers on Hong Kong Island, except for the one on the Third Ring Road, were not qualified to carry guns when performing non-important arrest tasks.

Only in the third ring road of the town can guns be carried 24 hours a day.

Now there is another Stone Assistant!

After watching Shi Xi go, the middle-aged ghost took another sip of coffee and laughed and cursed, "Who is behind this wave of big fat sheep? They have no manufacturing capabilities and only rely on money to buy guns and boats."

"This is the local favorite big fat sheep."

That's right, Wang Shouliang's transaction has gone smoothly so far, with no obstacles, except that as long as he places an order, he can buy products of the same quality from North America or Hans Cat.

What's more important is that he is just starting out. Not to mention manufacturing Lee's long rifles and corresponding standard bullets. Looking at eastern Guangdong now, is there an ordnance industry company that can repair broken guns?

The same is true for large ironclad ships. Let alone building large ships, if the ship breaks down somewhere in eastern Guangdong, you won't even have a repair base.

This is the favorite market of an agricultural country when an industrialized power dumps goods!

It is certainly not easy to buy equipment for a production line. Even at the Hanyang Arsenal, Hanscat eliminated the 1888-type committee rifles and began to install the 1898 upgraded version across the board.

Only then did he sell the Type 88 materials to the Qing court to make money.

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The sun was shining brightly. Shi Xi stood on the street and touched the gun on his waist. He still felt a little dazed. This did not mean that he had never been to Yau Tsim Mong since Wang Shouliang traveled through time.

I have never visited my nephew’s business.

Instead, he visited several times. Wang Shouliang only took him to visit the Pearl River Instant Noodles Factory, other factories near that factory, and the surrounding five-story tenement buildings, including planned commercial streets, schools, hospitals, etc.

The various constructions have been ongoing for several months, and the full picture has not yet been revealed.

After thinking about it seriously, Shi Xicai smiled and said, "This kid did such a big thing and didn't say a word to me. Forget it, young people will always grow up."

"Experienced the effects of the White Lotus Rebellion..."

Shi Xi didn't know much, but he also knew that this was a turbulent era. Since the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was suppressed, the Sino-Japanese War of Sino-Japanese War and the Eight-Power Allied Forces' invasion of China last year scared the old witch so much that she fled in a hurry.

Last year, the assassination of the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi by progressive young people caused a sensation.

Occasionally, I go back to the mainland. When I go north, I see a large number of grassroots people living in troubled times who are no longer as good as a Taiping dog, and more and more disaster victims and refugees are gathering in Yau Tsim Mong.

Anyone with a forward-looking perspective will know that troubled times have arrived in China’s homeland north of Hong Kong Island.

He was getting older in his life, and he was content with just waiting to take care of himself and have grandchildren. Wang Shouliang didn't take the initiative to talk about young people's affairs, and he was too lazy to study more.

Even if Wang Shouliang is not alone, but has many partners... The ghost boss just said that there are a lot of high-quality companies and factories rising in Yau Tsim Wang.

You will make a lot of money in the future!

There are also a large number of five-storey residential areas in Yau Ma Tei that even wealthy people would consider to be high-quality and high-end residential areas. They will become a new gathering place for the rich in the future.

Assistant Shi's mentality quickly stabilized at this moment, and it was also because Gui Lao's boss didn't tell him that in addition to large factories and enterprises, Wang Shouliang was also building guns and ships on a large scale! !

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August 8, tomorrow is the traditional Chinese Valentine’s Day.

Several wooden sailing cargo ships came along the river and arrived at a riverside dock in Foshan, when a group of people started to disembark.

All kinds of cargo ships and coolies near the dock, including small country squire capital, etc., all saluted this group of people with stunned eyes. Many of them were so frightened that they wanted to run away. Instead, they only stopped after seeing a few foreigners in the crowd. Stabilized his body.

This is Wang Shouliang and more than 100 escorts and escorts from the Sihai Escort Bureau wearing crisp blue uniforms, running shoes, armed belts, carrying Li's long rifles and security hats.

One by one, they pushed 28 large bicycles and disembarked one after another.

The 100 Dagong is very resistant to cargo. There are two iron frames hanging on the back seat, which can carry one to two hundred kilograms of cargo. There are more than 100 young escorts and more than Dagong vehicles accompanying ships to and from Hong Kong Island and Hong Kong. In Foshan, a lot of things can be transported at one time.

Wang Shouliang and his party gathered in the dock area one after another. Seeing that more and more people were being disturbed nearby, and many people gathered from further away to watch the excitement, he gave the ghost guys who came with the team one by one Loose cigars.

"Henry, William, when our Sihai Bodyguard Agency opens a branch here and prepares to build the Pearl River Steel Plant, we will definitely quarrel with the Qing court." "The reason why I hired you is to quarrel with each other, do you understand?"

The industrial zone in Yau Ma Tei was under construction in full swing, and Wang Shouliang's business was also booming. Instant noodle factories, garment factories, and Pearl River Construction were all able to expand step by step.

But when it comes to the planned Zhujiang Bicycle Factory, Wang Shouliang will have to build his own steel factory to source the steel needed to manufacture bicycles.

Modern bicycles that can withstand hard work basically contain seamless steel tube technology. This technology was not backward even in 1901. The world's first seamless steel tube for bicycles was developed by Hanscat Company in 1887. of.

In 1888, Irish veterinarians applied pneumatic tires to bicycle tires, which laid the foundation for all the basic structures of future bicycles.

Talking about Wang Shouliang’s Pearl River Bicycle, if you want to be at the forefront of the times, or even ahead of the times, it can also serve as part of the cavalry even in wars...

Whether it's seamless steel pipes or pneumatic rubber tires.

All are very important links.

The natural rubber needed for tires can be purchased from East and Southeast Asia by spending money, and a ship is waiting for transportation. Speaking of steel, how about casting seamless steel pipes?

This is not difficult for Wang Shouliang, who is fierce in cheating. He built a steel plant in Foshan and set up a systematic raw material processing workshop, iron-making workshop, steel-making workshop, and steel-rolling workshop. Iron-making, steel-making, and steel-rolling machinery and equipment were produced.

Regardless of whether it is iron-making or steel-making blast furnace technology, including process equipment? This set is done.

Then the next step to producing seamless steel pipes is to build a pipe rolling unit.

Whether it is hot-rolled pipes, cold-rolled pipes, cold-drawn pipes, extruded pipes, etc., with his financial resources and influence at the Genesis Plane in 1994, all he had to do was spend money to develop mechanical technology that was in line with the times.

In 1994, not to mention Europe and the United States, the mainland was already a leader in seamless steel pipe manufacturing technology.

The reason why we came to Foshan to build this steel plant is that there is no shortage of industrial water required by the steel plant, and there is no shortage of domestic water even if it expands greatly.

In addition to convenient water transportation from Foshan to Hong Kong Island, Foshan was a famous iron smelting town in China during the Ming and Qing dynasties and the foundry center of the entire south.

Even though Foshan's traditional iron smelting and casting techniques were defeated by the industrialized products of the great powers, there are still old masters here who have mastered a large number of iron smelting and casting traditions...

It has great advantages in building steel plants and recruiting labor sources.

There are no iron ores in Foshan. Along the Beijiang River, you can reach Shaoguan. Convenient waterway transportation can transport and mobilize iron ore from the Shaoguan Iron Mine.

Shaoguan, this famous place in northern Guangdong, is not only the birthplace of Guangfu culture, not only the great treasure of Chinese uranium mines, but also one of the largest iron ore bases in eastern Guangdong.

It is also the hometown of non-ferrous metals in China!

Foshan Iron and Steel Plant and Shaoguan Mine, along the way, the skeleton of the Pearl River bicycle is cast and assembled. Of course, everyone knows, seamless steel pipes...

It can be a necessary large part for manufacturing bicycles, or it can be the core power source for manufacturing gun barrels and gun barrels.

The Four Seas Escort Bureau is launching a crazy counterfeit banknote offensive all the way. The fierce development of Hong Kong Island is cooking oil, and there are a lot of ghosts who take the initiative to push you away.

At this stage, it will also cost money to develop in eastern Guangdong and open branch offices.

Spending money is not a big deal, but Wang Shouliang's communication with local officials as an authentic Chinese will definitely cause a lot of trouble. It would be much more convenient to hire a few Yalun ghost guys to negotiate and send money.

After all, this was the handover in the summer and autumn of 1901. The governor of Guangdong and Guangxi had just been assassinated last year. He and the more than a hundred escorts and escorts in the escort agency all had short hair. If there were no ghosts in the middle, they would probably attract more people when they got off the ship. The firepower dispersed.

Under his words, Henry and other ghost guys all smiled brightly and promised, promising to get things done beautifully.

Henry and William were not white ghosts from some official department in Hong Kong Island. They were affiliated with some foreign companies. But precisely because they were businessmen, they could sell anything as long as they made money.

When some people from Foshan officials walked towards Wang Shouliang's escort team with trepidation, the blond Henry stepped forward with a decisive smile and went to explain politely and establish relations.

Wang Shouliang brought 120 escorts and escorts this time. When he opened a branch in Foshan, he also wanted to recruit people. The initial plan was to recruit 500 people.

After all, this will be the steel training base and steel center for the Pearl River series of enterprises in the future!

The most important thing here is not the various machines and equipment specially produced from the Genesis Plane that are in line with the technology of the 1901 era. What is important is the first batch of high-quality steel workers who were recruited and trained! !

In order to protect those workers and protect factories and enterprises, we need to recruit people on a large scale.

After the exchange was over and the people in the dock area were calmed down, Zhuo Yifei and Tang Xiucai came on bicycles with several escorts from Yangcheng.

They came from Yangcheng before to inspect the business environment, buy land, buy a house, buy a large yard for the escort agency, etc.

With abundant financial ability, Zhuo Yifei, Tang Xiucai and others can still do well in running errands. Zhuo Yifei himself is a man of the world, and he knows all kinds of entertainment and games.

Tang Xiucai, he was a scholar in the formal imperial examination system of the late Qing Dynasty. He was admitted as a scholar and had a good reputation. He interacted with the local squires, scholars, local tyrants and evil gentry in Yangcheng and Foshan, so they naturally had overlapping backgrounds. plate.

When the crowd gathered together, Tang Xiucai smiled brightly and said, "Master, Lao Zhuo and I have bought several houses before, including traditional one-story three-in-one and four-in-one courtyards, as well as brick and tile attics."

"They are all in one block. If the branch expands its enrollment in the future, it will definitely not be able to accommodate so many people, but the current more than 100 people will be enough."

Wang Shouliang smiled and nodded, "Well done. After I get used to it in Foshan for a few days, you guys will be transferred back to Hong Kong Island. After working for so long, it's time to go back and get together with your family."

Zhuo Yifei, Tang Xiucai and others have also been busy in Yangcheng and Foshan for two months. Except for Zhuo Yifei who has enough food for the whole family, Tang Xiucai and others are living in Yau Ma Tei.

I have been away on business for two months and it is necessary to go back for a holiday reunion.

Today is August 8. I hope that when the time enters 19, everything from the mines in Shaoguan to the Foshan Steel Plant and Zhujiang Bicycle's rubber tire factory in Yau Ma Tei will be successfully established and put into production.

At this stage, including in the coming decades, the bicycle market is almost monopolized by major powers.

Starting from 1902, the Pearl River Bicycle also had to bring a little shock to the great powers.

If you start with a bicycle, you may not be able to try a motorcycle in the future!

This is the origin of mechanization. To put it bluntly, one rider on the 28th pole and one sitting on the beam can both fire the Li's long rifle ten times and reload bullets.

The great technical pacesetter is the double cavalry!

(End of this chapter)