Great Entrepreneur of the Universe

Chapter 234 People named Wang are just ordinary residents.

A few months passed by, April 1902, 4.

As the first bicycle was assembled by master craftsmen at the Pearl River Bicycle Factory in Yau Ma Tei, bursts of cheers erupted up and down the assembly site again.

This is really a self-produced bicycle owned by Wang.

A steel plant was opened in Foshan last August, and the first seamless steel pipe was produced in November. Production and construction continued for another half a year. All kinds of steel parts needed for bicycles were mass-produced by the machinery and equipment brought by Wang Shouliang. .

Then natural rubber from Nanyang is used to form pneumatic tires.

It was assembled at the bicycle factory and had not yet entered the assembly line stage, but this big piece was indeed completed.

This is not a box of 20 packs of instant noodles from Black Mexican Yingyang.

A brand new Zhujiang brand 500 big bar, the back seat can easily carry a load of one or two hundred kilograms, but it still costs about 350 black Mexican eagles. After all, in the mountain city before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, a car cost yang.

In the factory director's office at the moment, there were many businessmen from all over eastern Guangdong who wanted to discuss business with Wang Shouliang and place bicycle orders.

Yangcheng and Foshan are big cities with a huge demand for bicycles. Needless to say, Yangcheng and Foshan have successively set up the Pearl River Steel Plant, the Pearl River Ordnance Factory, the Pearl River Power Plant, etc., recruiting talents from all over the country, and taking advantage of the geographical location and water transportation. .

Not to mention grabbing materials such as natural rubber and armor steel, if the road is not in your way, you can even grab bird droppings.

Four months later, Wang Shouliang's Sihai Escort Bureau not only expanded its land strength to 10,000 people, but also all new recruits received four months of training. The militia training manual began to be refined to improve their overall quality.

But the island country feels too bloody! !

They were deceived miserably. It was a competition between a country and an escort agency. Even if they won the claim, they didn't know how to blackmail them.

The Escort flagship Sihai was also transferred to the former dreadnought, plus the brand new Nanhai, Beihai, Donghai and Xihai.

It's not that Wang Shouliang can't afford to fight a war that's too big.

Are they fighting with Dai Qing to extort money and territory, gambling everything with Mao Xiong, are they fighting for the interests of the peninsula and going deep into the Northeast, and are they fighting Mr. Wang? Want Yau Ma Tei from Wang Shouliang?

Forget the several guano wars that took place in the nineteenth century.

Eight destroyers and cruisers of three to four thousand tons, combined with a large number of small gunboats and a large number of torpedo boats, this power...

When doing business, there are comings and goings, which is an important factor in the further development of our relationship.

Just like what Joseph complained a few months ago, Wang Shouliang lost a lot of blood in the battle on Kume Island, but the continuous and long-term robbery of the merchant ships of the island nation after the war can steadily restore the blood.

The navy of 3300 people is not weak at all.

The Japanese called Yin Lun more than once to mediate, hoping that Yin Lun would help them make the decision. Of course, Yin Lun gave full play to the skills of an offshore balancing expert. Who can't do this?

A large number of businessmen from eastern Guangdong want to sell Pearl River bicycles to Shanghai, Tianjin and Beijing.

Don’t think it’s ridiculous to fight for guano. Guano wars have happened many times before industrial fertilizers were invented and promoted on a large scale.

It can be said that Zhujiang Bicycle is currently ahead of the major bicycle brands in Europe and the United States in terms of quality and quality.

Wang Shouliang was rich, and the newly printed rubles, Japanese yen, U.S. swords, and marks flowed into Yanlun on a large scale, in exchange for two Shikishima-class battleships with a displacement of 15,000 tons.

The most direct result is that whether the merchant ships from Malacca to the island country or from the other side of the island are robbed and captured by the navy of the four seas.

After the Battle of Kume Island, the island country did not initiate a war with Wang Shouliang, but there was only a small friction. Ordinary armed merchant ships and light cruisers fired at each other several times a month.

Yau Ma Tei is under the jurisdiction of Yin Lun! The person named Wang is an ordinary resident of Yau Ma Tei.

Foshan is developing really fast now.

Whether it is South America or some small islands in the Pacific, there are islands where a large amount of guano has accumulated. The guano has boosted agriculture in various countries around the world, which is as simple as doubling food production.

For example, in 1901, there was an island of Nauru between Hawaii and Australia. The wealth of guano on it was so explosive that it was directly equivalent to the level of gold mines and silver mines.

Both Hans Cat and Yin Lun are frantically grabbing bird droppings. Taking them back can greatly increase the output of agricultural staple food, doubling or more.

People who want to get guano from Nauru also include North America, island countries, Australia, etc.

That is to say, the merchant ships transporting guano from the island country return to the island country from near Hawaii without passing through China's East China Sea and South China Sea routes.

Nauru has been prosperous and prosperous for nearly a century with the help of its abundant guano resources.

Too many people have been robbed. It is useless to protest to Yalun in the past few months. There are many more killers sent by the island country to assassinate Wang Shouliang...

Still useless.

Not to mention that Wang Shouliang himself was not afraid of this kind of assassination, even his uncle Shi Xi and cousin Shi Aihua were fully protected by the Yalun ghost guy.

In one sentence, Wang Shouliang is now the God of Wealth in Yalun, who can not be interested in him?

Because of this kind of financial resources and generosity, even if a Pearl River Ordnance Factory was built near the Foshan Zhujiang Iron and Steel Plant, its main focus was on repairing firearms such as Lee Long Rifle, Mauser C96, and Maxim.

Including trying to produce the standard bullets required for these types of firearms.

Yalun Ghost Guy didn't express much opinion.

This is how Wang Shouliang learned from Zhang Dashuai in setting up the Fengtian Arsenal. Let’s lay the foundation from scratch. Zhang Dashuai started repairing guns and making bullets nearly 20 years later. He has steadily invested a large amount of wealth all year round and hired various experts from all over the world.

Step by step, the largest arsenal in China was built.

Wang Shouliang can go back to 1994, work hard with high technology to make old equipment, and make equipment that meets the characteristics of this era, and then get the raw materials to produce the bullets needed.

From now on it will be cannonballs...

After the Pearl River Ordnance Factory in Foshan had developed for three or four months and gradually grown in size, he was considering increasing the number of Foshan Escort Bureau branches from 1500 to 3000.

It's nothing more than re-recruitment of these 1500 extra people? Or transfer 1500 people from Yau Ma Tei?

The existing 10,000 land warriors and escorts of the Sihai Escort Bureau have all passed the military training stage long ago, and are only waiting to be continuously improved and polished by Wang Shouliang according to the militia training manual to improve their talents and various life survival tips. .

After seeing off a group of wealthy businessmen from eastern Guangdong who came to place orders in the bicycle factory building and the factory director's office, Wang Shouliang took a sip of tea and stood in front of the window and complained in his heart, "Now with the expansion of each factory, new ones are being opened. financial resources."

"This steady flow of money can be regarded as a cover for my continuous counterfeit money."

"Without these cover-ups, people will expose them sooner or later. But with them, it's different. A Zhujiang 500 big bar costs 10 Black Mexican Eagle Oceans, and one unit is the price of Li's long rifles."

Who can doubt that he can't make money? !

In fact, if you want to make money, you just have to follow a serious method, whether it is producing penicillin in advance, penicillin, or industrial fertilizers... Which one is not a source of money? !

It's just that if he takes it out, it will only be snatched away by shameless ghosts. If you pirate it, you will have no solution. This is only 1902, and it is a joke to try to protect your own patent rights.

Patents only cover the range of your cannon caliber.

After all, North America openly copied Hans Cat's Mauser M1898 rifle :, and the lawsuits were not trivial. It seems that they only lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in copyright fees.

While Wang Shouliang was thinking, there was a knock on the door. When he shouted to come in, Tang Xiucai, the earliest follower of his family, pushed the door open and said, "Report to the boss, there has been some unrest within the Lu Division of the Escort Bureau recently."

"The ideological fluctuations are a bit big. I followed the instructions of the big boss and tried to calm and guide them, but there were still many people who gradually expanded the friction and disputes."

"In the final analysis, the navy is still able to go out to sea to get a vote every now and then. However, it has been a full year since the first batch of land divisions were established, and there has never been a real battle."

"There is never any loot to speak of..."

"And just the day before yesterday, Mr. Luo, along with the Nanhai and Emei cruisers, captured three armed sugar merchant ships from island countries..."

"There are many people in the Navy who are walking around in a hurry and don't take the Marine Corps seriously..."

Wang Shouliang felt speechless for a while as he listened, wasn't he? Anyone who knows it knows that since the 20th century, the conflict between land and sea has been very serious in military-industrial empires like island countries, which lasted for almost half a century.

The Navy has always looked down upon Army rubes.

Wang Shouliang didn't expect that the land and water divisions of the Sihai Escort Bureau, which had been established for a year, would also see this kind of trend quickly emerge, and it would become more and more intense.

In the final analysis, a land team of 10,000 people, not to mention bloody battles from beginning to end, did not even suppress bandits.

This affects the promotion and salary increase rhythm of the onshore team, and there is no extra money!

Looking at the Navy, from the first time when Luo Sanpao went to sea and brought back several ships loaded with natural rubber, the Luo Navy was divided into 100 million taels of silver. The second time in the great battle of Kume Island, that It’s not just how much Luo Sanpao’s subordinates earn.

Instead, there were more than 30 people, each receiving a bounty of 10 taels of silver. Even those who died in battle had relatives and friends receiving the bonuses. There were also various promotions and even more receiving other bounties.

He could only say that the sailors of the 3300-man regular sailor-gunner regiment were all delighted to hear the battle, ecstatic!

What everyone fears is peace and having nothing to do.

Luo Sanpao went to sea the day before yesterday and brought back three armed sugar ships. They were white sugar, with a total of 300 tons of white sugar.

Sugar! ! White sugar has become the benchmark for modern significance. This kind of thing was definitely a controlled material during the war. White sugar is not only edible, it can quickly restore the strength of the dying people. It is small and easy to store.

This thing is also an important component of high explosives. If sugar bombs are used well, they can almost catch up with the explosive power of TNT.

Well, now it is estimated that only Wang Shouliang in the world knows the power, formula, and production method of sugar bombs.

However, white sugar is an indispensable material in people’s daily necessities. Since the late Qing Dynasty, small private workshops in the Qing Dynasty, using cattle and horses to produce sugar, have been completely overtaken by European and American steam machinery and sugar cane manor sugar production models.

Animal-powered sugar making can only squeeze about 30% of the sugarcane juice from sugar cane, while steam presses can squeeze more than 70% of the sugar cane juice. Moreover, the sugar from small handmade workshops is often yellow and not as white as snow. Western sugar making can be as white as snow after adding some ingredients. White sugar.

Starting from white sugar, the entire Chinese market is now basically overwhelmed by foreign soaps, foreign fires, foreign oils, etc.

As a figure, until 1929, China imported 74 tons of cane sugar from outside each year, worth million taels of silver.

It costs 100 million taels a year to import from abroad.

This is the sugar trade that began in the late Qing Dynasty and lasted until the 20s.

Starting in the 30s, only Chinese national enterprises introduced machine production equipment and successfully revitalized the national industry.

At this stage, when there are no large-scale wars in China, nor the First World War, the price of white sugar is basically equal to two kilograms of high-quality rice.

It's not brown rice or old rice, it's high-quality rice.

After the war comes, the control period will begin.

Luo Sanpao robbed 300 tons of sugar, which is equivalent to 600 tons of high-quality rice. Every sailor and bodyguard who went to sea would definitely have to share the reward again.

Wang Shouliang lit up a cigarette and complained, "It's time to do something real. No matter how you use training and martial arts to assess your performance, good results will be rewarded... The intensity of rewards and punishments is incomparable to that of a navy who often goes to sea."

The next moment, he looked at Tang Xiucai, "You send a message to the Army Division Headquarters. The 5500 people will screen out three dart heads and drop them at the place where the Black Flag Army died, so that they can fight guerrillas."

“What results they can achieve is entirely up to them.”

"Who can serve as the first batch of guerrillas will all depend on their own performance in the competition."

Let’s not talk about the navy for now. The division of the navy depends on the ship. The armaments on land are the junior bodyguards and nine bodyguards. Apart from the bodyguards, the nine bodyguards are the three-three system.

Intermediate bodyguards lead three junior bodyguard divisions, plus a guard team of five intermediate bodyguards, for a total of 3 people. Senior bodyguards lead three intermediate bodyguard divisions, plus their own security team of 5 people, for a total of 36 people.

The bodyguard leader on land leads three senior bodyguard divisions, plus his own security team of 3 people.

After the Sino-Japanese War of Sino-Japanese War, the island nation turned into the agricultural, food base and sugar-making center of the entire island nation. It used the dumping of white sugar to save military expenses for various wars.

The place where the Black Flag Army died in battle can be a place where everyone can take over the burden.

Tang Xiucai nodded happily, and when he was about to take the order, he stopped again and said, "Big shopkeeper, what about Shaoguan, Yangcheng and Foshan?"

Wang Shouliang nodded, "Foshan branch will recruit another 1500 people and start training. In addition to daily training and garrison, the teams in Shaoguan and Yangcheng can take turns taking over escort and bandit suppression tasks according to the scale of a senior escort division." "

"In addition, let Zhujiang Construction continue to build the Pearl River Sugar Factory in Foshan. The white sugar business cannot just let the dumping of European and American products and island domestic products sweep our market."

People's livelihood includes basic necessities, food, clothing, housing and transportation. Wang Shouliang was the first to open an instant noodle factory since time travel, which provided the best military rations. The clothing factory provided uniforms. The earliest escort uniforms were brought by him from the 1994 plane.

Now, whether it is training clothes or daily jeans, they all cover the needs of tens of thousands of escort agencies and then export them.

When I followed Zhujiang Construction, I opened a cement factory and purchased steel bars. At the steel plant, I could make steel bars, bicycles, gun barrels, and gun barrels...

He hadn't yet decided what to start his next business, so Luo Sanpao got three ships of white sugar.

Just in time to take over!

It is not difficult for the whole of China to eat 100 million taels of white sugar a year.

(End of this chapter)