Great Entrepreneur of the Universe

Chapter 233: Speaking a little louder

A few days later, the factory director's office at the Pearl River Instant Noodles Factory in Yau Ma Tei.

The naval battle of Kume Island in Xiaoliuqiu has ended, various war inventories have been taken, and the post-war inventory has also been completed. Wang Shouliang looked at the reward list of more than 30 people, and the emotion in his eyes was still full and full of emotion.

The island country's Asahi fleet has a total of one Asahi, seven destroyers and cruisers with displacements ranging from 2000 tons to 4000 tons, plus two -ton cargo ships.

According to statistics, the seven destroyers and cruisers that were sunk were torpedoed by 10 torpedo boats, with 10 people on each of the 36 torpedo boats, ranging from three to five people per boat.

Each person will be rewarded with a heavy reward of 10 taels of silver and a five-star escort position. This reward is 360 million taels and 36 escort positions.

Just the bonus is enough. He placed an order for Yanlun Shipyard to build half of the Asahi or Shikishima. 36 dart heads, 36 ships? There were 11 people on board the three torpedo boats killed in action.

So the bonuses are given to their families and the inherited positions are reduced.

Now all we need to do is arrange 25 new dart heads.

As for the Asahi, which was finally sunk by his order and surrendered with the white flag raised? That was done by the last seven torpedo boats. Based on the surrender of the Asahi and the state of floating motionless and being torpedoed, Wang Shouliang planned to reward 100 million taels and divide it equally among the twenty or thirty torpedo boat sailors of the seven boats.

Just these, 460 million taels of silver were distributed. Even though Wang Shouliang started his business by printing counterfeit banknotes, he was a little surprised by such post-war accounting.

"No matter how you calculate it, the losses in this battle plus bonuses and pensions exceed fifteen million taels of silver and one to two million pounds."

It's not that Joseph deserves to be scolded. He talked to him about purchasing a Shikishima-class battleship in a nice voice, but he clearly refused. He had to think carefully after being scolded.

In one war, Wang Shouliang lost 1300 million taels of silver, but with more than 2000 available iron-blooded veterans, the Japanese lost about 10000 million taels of silver, which was only 100 tons of armor steel, which was only million pounds.

Of course, he will not lose a cent of what is due.

That kind of fanatical attitude that puts everything on the national destiny and gambles will definitely be poured out by this basin of cold water! !

Luo Sanpao's Nankai ship was hit by too many shells. In order to avoid being chased by Mikasa's fleet rushing to the battlefield, the crew had to be transferred and abandoned on the sea.

Joseph paused for a few seconds before hesitating, "I'll try my best. I'll try my best to help you fight for it."

After fighting this naval battle, it was announced to the whole world that the Sihai Escort Bureau can be used as a force to make its global debut. It must be a regional overlord after all.

"And from now on, you can unscrupulously rob the merchant ships of the island countrymen to regain blood."

"It's just like what the ghost guy Yalun planned. My escort and the ghost stabbed each other and bleed out."

“But it’s still worth it!”

"Shikishima-class battleship, you must transfer one of the Yin Lun currently in service to me. It is all for your business. 600 of my men were killed in the battle, and the expenditure was more than 1500 million taels of silver."

In addition, there are more than 2100 naval forces in total. After this battle, there are more than 1300 people who can still move without hindrance, and more than 200 people are left disabled and injured, which is equivalent to an overall death of nearly 600 warriors.

The most I can do is print a few more yen. After all, the island country dared to spend about 40 million taels of silver to build six large ships for the Six-Six Fleet Project. Then Wang Shouliang would not be afraid of smashing it if he opened an escort agency to pave the way for the navy. money.

After this blow, the island nation was on the rise, and its fierce attitude towards becoming a first- and second-rate power had to be stunned by this blow, and it began to doubt life.

"The 1 tons of armored steel we got are useful..."

One Asahi plus seven destroyers and cruisers with a total displacement of 10,000 to 20,000 tons is also a lot of money, not to mention the elite navy with at least two to three thousand people on those eight battleships?

After a while, Wang Shouliang put down a document, took a sip of coffee, grabbed the landline and called out, "Joseph, I suffered heavy losses in this battle. I want to buy a boat, a big boat."

Donghai needs to be returned to the factory for overhaul.

Joseph looked melancholy on the other side of the phone, but it was melancholy with a bad smile, "Wang, your injuries are so exaggerated, that's because the bounty and pension you offered are too outrageous!!!"

Wang Shouliang cursed, "If you want people to work hard, what can you do if you don't give them enough money?"

In a war, the death rate was close to 30%... If Mr. Wang hadn't given them much, they would have been defeated long ago.

But after the first battle, Joseph and the Yalun ghost guy behind him did discover that Wang Shouliang was an extraordinary high-roller.

I spent more than 600 million silver to buy the Sihai, Nanhai, Donghai, and Beihai ships. Is it okay to scrap half of them at once? Several other destroyers and cruisers were also sunk.

As for the island country whose vote was wiped out, do you want to place a new order and spend money again? ?

What kind of arms dealer wouldn't like Wang Shouliang, a wealthy businessman? Joseph was extremely suspicious that the two Shikishima-class ships sold to Wang Shouliang would sink the Shikishima and Mikasa along with them after a while.

What's more important is that the island country is not experiencing an ordinary blood collapse this time!

The island country won the Sino-Japanese War and suffered losses in the war, but they could negotiate a contract with Daiqing, Shimonoseki, extort 2 million taels of silver, occupy Wanwan, and so on.

A fight with Wang Shouliang? What can we talk about as an island nation?

The person surnamed Wang is basically a Hong Kong businessman owned by Hong Kong Island, a big businessman, and he just runs an escort agency.

Are you going to let the guy from the island country negotiate a hard-fought settlement with the guy surnamed Wang? ? Will Wang Shouliang be forced to cede the Pearl River Instant Noodles Factory and the Pearl River Bicycle Factory to the island country?

So, if the new big ship is sold to Wang Shouliang now, will the fight continue and Wang Shouliang and the island country go bankrupt together in the end? !

That Ying Lun is... wrong. We need to support the island country to fight against the big bear. We can't let it die too quickly. However, it is obviously in line with Ying Lun's interests in the Far East if the island country becomes weaker and less powerful.

It would be better if the big furry bear and the entire island country become as bad as the late Qing Dynasty. This is what Yan Lun wants most.

After ending the call, Wang Shouliang got busy again.

One is to give bonuses and posts to 25 new bodyguards in a step-by-step manner, to give super-standard pensions to each of the fallen warriors, and to recruit new ones! !

There are more than 1300 escort sailors who can run, jump and fight. This time they will go to the 3300-person scale. Various five-story tenement buildings in Yau Ma Tei will also be built with great efforts.

There are hundreds of houses distributed as rewards for this war.

In the same way, land power must also expand!

The 3000 people in the main port of Hong Kong Island will be expanded to 5000 first, and Shaoguan, Yangcheng and Foshan will also increase their efforts.

When Wang Shouliang waved all kinds of American knives, marks, francs, Japanese yen, rubles and other money, he set off a big movement in Hong Kong and eastern Guangdong.

The Battle of Kume Island also gradually spread through some people.

Not to mention that there were already war observers like Joseph during the naval war, but the news that the 25 new naval escort chiefs each received a sky-high bonus of 10 taels was too explosive.

Post-war impact…

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December 1901, 12, 23 days after the Battle of Kume Island.

Wang Shouliang was at the Foshan Zhujiang Iron and Steel Plant, watching a new batch of seamless steel pipes being produced, and still checking the quality, when he saw a Samsung escort from the Ministry of Communications running from outside the workshop, arriving beside him and saluting, "Report to the university." Shopkeeper, the governor of Yangcheng is visiting." Wang Shouliang was slightly surprised and nodded, "Go and see him."

When he left the workshop and arrived at the factory building, he saw a middle-aged man in official clothes cupping his hands from a distance, "Shopkeeper Wang, I have admired your name for a long time. When I saw him today, he turned out to be a heroic young man. I came to visit him rashly and abruptly." Please forgive me for any mistakes."

Mr. Wang also smiled politely and said, "My lord, I have seen you. My Sihai Escort Bureau can develop smoothly in Yangcheng. I would like to thank you for your care."

He has never seen this person before, but the 300 escorts and escorts of the Yangcheng Escort Bureau can be stable until now, especially since they have launched a new round of expansion.

It would not have been possible without the acquiescence of the Yangcheng prefect in front of him.

Although there is a silver bullet offensive here, and ghost guys are invited to help deal with it, but in this stage of the late Qing Dynasty, there may not be many good officials to help you get things done, and there are corrupt officials everywhere who can ruin your affairs.

With simple politeness, he invited the person into the factory director's office, sat down and drank a cup of tea, and then the governor of Yangcheng got into the topic, "Master Wang, I wonder if you are interested in entering an official career?"

"You are also a serious scholar and have a good reputation. If you want to enter an official career, I am sending a message on your behalf to guarantee you a position as the admiral of the Guangdong Navy."

Wang Shouliang laughed dumbly, "Are you asking for that Master Yuan?"

Now is the era when Li Diaobo died and Datou became the governor of Zhili and the minister of Beiyang in the late Qing Dynasty.

Eleven days have passed since the Battle of Kume Island. Everyone who should have reacted must have known about it, no matter how the European and American powers viewed this battle.

Dai Qing... Dai Qing must be shocked to the point of being stunned.

A bodyguard's waterway power achieved a victory that was even more glorious than the Sino-Japanese War?

The governor of Yangcheng took a sip of tea and shook his head with a smile, "Master Yuan is having a headache right now. He is being bitten by the Japanese devils and wants to negotiate. He is explaining in various ways that the Sihai Escort Agency has nothing to do with the government and is purely an overseas civil militia... …”

"If he wants to appoint you, he will probably transfer you to the northwest, at least to a place that is not exposed to water, so that he can capture your water power."

The Battle of Kume Island, in which both sides suffered extremely heavy losses, really stunned the people in eastern Guangdong. Why are you fighting this battle?

The total loss was more than 1500 million taels of silver. They really died together.

The Japanese are also jumping up and down now, wishing to pursue the big head at the negotiation table to recover the losses, but Beiyang Yigua will definitely not admit it.

If you can control the more than 1300 sailors, gunners, and ships from all over the world after the victory, it will be an elite navy, and it will be worth it.

You haven't gotten anything yet and you still have to be chased for debt? Loss of blood.

After hearing this, Wang Shouliang also suddenly realized that no matter whether Datou wanted to win over him or not in the future, Datou would definitely cut ties with him in the aftermath of the just-ended Kume Island War.

The governor of Yangcheng took another sip of tea and said with a smile, "Whether the big shopkeeper is willing to enter Shilin for development or not, your sub-bureau personnel in Yangcheng can all have their braids cut off, wear uniforms, and be trained with Lee long rifles and Mauser C96s. "

"Since the beginning of time, the people of Yangcheng have been suffering from oppression by ghosts. Having such a strong force standing in Yangcheng is a good thing for many people."

"In fact, there are many gentry and wealthy families in Yangcheng who want to hire experts from the escort agency to help them protect their families and homes."

Before today, there were hundreds of branch agents and junior escorts in Yangcheng and Shaoguan, but training was training, and those good men recruited locally still had braids and did not wear the uniforms of the Blue Jackets.

Long and short guns are also not suitable for public appearances, let alone practicing live ammunition in public like Yau Ma Tei.

The Qing court's paper coat is still on.

Only the Zhujiang Iron and Steel Plant in Foshan is more important. It is the foundation for easily making seamless steel pipes and has a large number of skilled workers... so it can hit the most silver bullets and let the blue-shirted team protect it with the long and short guys.

Wang Shouliang thought for dozens of seconds and said with a smile, "Thank you, Lord Magistrate, for your kindness. It would be better for me to be the head of the escort agency, so that I can move forward and retreat freely."

"But I plan to expand the branches here in Shaoguan, Yangcheng and Foshan to 1500 people each, plus my 5500 onshore team in Yau Tsim Mong."

"In the future, I can have more confidence when speaking, and my voice can be louder."

The governor of Yangcheng smiled brightly and said, "Then I wish the great shopkeeper a bright and smooth future."

This time he indeed came to represent Yangcheng and some gentry in eastern Guangdong, big landowners and local tycoons. This battle gave countless wealthy, land-rich and well-connected tycoons in eastern Guangdong a sense of security.

In an era when countless decent people in the north and south of China are kneeling down to lick the foreign masters, and even the Japanese devils are beginning to rank you higher than you, having a team of your own who can stand by your side and have the ability to protect your property and family safety is so overwhelming.

Not to mention, no matter how much the outside world doubts where the funds for Wang Shouliang's escort agency come from, it cannot be denied that Wang Shouliang is a serious scholar from Yangcheng and a member of the Yangcheng scholars.

The backbone of his escort agency is all Chinese, and half of them are recruited from good families in eastern Guangdong! !

The other half are basically disaster victims and refugees from western Guangdong, Fujian, Hunan, and Jiangxi.

This is a Jinshan Silver Mine-level regiment-trained armed force basically composed of soldiers from eastern Guangdong... It can fight much better than a certain Hunan soldier who has shaved his head.

No matter how anxious Datou is to clear away the relationship between the official and the Sihai Escort Bureau, eastern Guangdong is extremely happy, especially Wang Shouliang's Zhujiang Instant Noodle Factory. One of its main sales areas is eastern Guangdong.

You can still come and go in business and make a fortune together.

Nowadays, there are many wealthy businessmen in Yangcheng who dream of winning the sales agency rights of Pearl River instant noodles in the northern provinces. Well, exclusive sales rights in one province are difficult to negotiate.

我在你这里1鹰洋一箱，一船拉200箱运去皖省、豫省，200鹰洋转手卖400或600鹰洋也是赚钱啊。

The cross-century dimensionality reduction attack of instant noodles on the taste buds has made this thing travel far and is sold as a super luxury food, which is also a trading model.

In the future, Zhujiang Bicycles will start selling to all over the world. Do you want to do errands?

A certain prefect came this time to show goodwill, build relationships, and negotiate business for some people. For example, Wang Shouliang built the Pearl River Power Plant in Yau Ma Tei Major Infrastructure in order to provide as many telephones and lights as possible.

In order to illuminate the Pearl River Iron and Steel Plant in Foshan, a branch of the Pearl River Power Plant was also established.

Yangcheng, if you want to buy some DC generators, AC generators, etc., you can also build a power plant.

This year alone, a foreign company has established a thermal power plant in Yangcheng. So what if there is another shopkeeper Wang? Only when Wang Shouliang's various factories and businesses opened more and bigger in Yangcheng, his Sihai Escort Bureau could more conveniently protect the safety of the homes of the gentry and wealthy families in eastern Guangdong.

In this regard, it is not easy for the governors of Guangdong and Guangxi to block Taotao's public opinion.

To put it bluntly, during the background check, no one knew the source of Wang Shouliang's financial resources, but everyone knew that he was a member of the White Lotus Sect's chaos, and his family was devastated by the gangsters. He was the only one left in the gentry class.

(End of this chapter)