Great Entrepreneur of the Universe

Chapter 243 This is someone who knows the factory security department

On October 1902, 10, Wang Shouliang took a boat to go north. When he arrived in Foshan New District, there was already a bodyguard with 18 people waiting in formation on the pier.

This is Foshan's 3000-strong army, which is permanently stationed in Foshan, but belongs to the 400 members of Wang Shouliang's Guards.

In daily life, whether Wang Shouliang is in Hong Kong, Kowloon, Foshan, Shaoguan or going to Shanghai, the ten-man guard team that always follows him are all the close confidants led by Xu Si.

But now, his guard system exists everywhere.

In this era, there are various factions or factions within any large group or enterprise, and even the Sihai Escort Agency is not immune.

What he, the big shopkeeper, can do is to conduct internal control in advance and divide the escort agency into two system sequences, one is the guard team and the other is the non-guard team.

He can remember the name of every guard soldier, remember each other's family members, and hand-deliver monthly salary to every guard.

Outside the guard force, most are sent directly to senior escorts, whether it is 5500 in Yau Ma Tei, 3000 in Foshan, or more than 3000 in the security department in Shanghai...

If Wang Shouliang really wants to send wages to every lowest-level worker every month, he really can't do it. It's not that he's tired, but it's too time-consuming!

At present, there are more than 20,000 people in the Sihai Escort Agency on land and sea, and how many workers are there in a series of Pearl River enterprises? Even if the factory system is roughly and extensively managed, it only counts the more than 20,000 people in the escort agency, lining up to receive money one by one in different cities?

Then don’t do anything else during this month!

All reports start from the Sihai Escort Bureau. For example, a certain escort was attracted by a wealthy gentry family in Yangcheng, and was given a house or shop in Yangcheng, or a non-lineage daughter from a prominent gentry family to warm the escort's bed...

In addition, the guards stationed in various places hand-delivered a hand-me-down handout to every patrolman... to talk about daily life, no matter whether the relative is sick or not eating well, such as the child is short of milk powder, or the child is not paying attention to studying, or is naughty. kind.

The bodyguards above senior bodyguards and the chief bodyguards are not allowed to interfere with the money matters of the top soldiers below. This is to prevent internal troubles.

Just taking a boat to and from the city and queuing up one by one took more than ten days.

Or some middle-level or high-level escorts and escort bosses began to become Chen Shimei, abandoning their wives and marrying younger beauties.

When I come back in October, I will continue to send you messages for November or the next three months.

Of course, this kind of Jin Yiwei attribute is a weakened version. He does not have the authority to arrest. He just collects all kinds of information, listens a lot, doesn't speak, and doesn't do anything randomly. When Wang Shouliang comes back, he will report it, and then Wang Shouliang will make the decision.

During the ride, the guard leader quickly reported various situations.

The current Sihai Escort Bureau has two payment models. No matter how many people there are in the team outside the guard, they are all composed of a senior escort department with a full complement of 120 people.

Some high-level escorts are also frequently treated to meals and travel to brothels and casinos with people from various backgrounds.

Talking about family matters when giving out money, considering Wang Shouliang's inferior status to the grassroots gangsters, in this era, can really warm people's hearts and warm up loyal loyal soldiers!

Of course, Wang Shouliang often travels between different cities, and shipping efficiency in this era is also limited, so his salary for the guards is not monthly.

When Wang Shouliang got off the boat, put on his bicycle, greeted the head guard and three senior bodyguards of the Foshan Guard, and set out after joking, the bicycle team of more than 400 people headed towards the escort branch in great style.

The Guards have taken care of the issue of heartfelt loyalty to the Guards from all over the country, so during Wang Shouliang's absence, they also have some of the characteristics of the Ming Dynasty Jin Yiwei...

It’s all on the way to making money.

If this continues, Luo Sanpao's influence on the sailors who first followed him will gradually decrease.

Even if he pays 100 people, Wang Shouliang can only pay it to senior bodyguards himself.

But I am in Foshan recently. I may go to Shanghai to start a business next time, or I may go to disaster relief. It will take a long time. It is now July. This time, I will send you the money for the next three months in advance.

A grassroots traveler, July includes 12 black Mexican Eagle Oceans in the next three months, taken away.

The middle managers who control the full staff of 120 people are a great way to control all branches of the entire escort agency.

In the troubled times of the late Qing Dynasty, people had to listen to whoever had their food eaten. This was the case for the rank-and-file soldiers. Chief escorts like Luo Sanpao did not participate in the monthly salary payment of the rank-and-file sailors under their command. At most, they led them to rob merchant ships to get another kind of bonus.

There are 3000 people in Foshan, seven full dart heads, leaving behind the guard six dart head warheads, plus 200 other members of the logistics and medical team.

In just over a year, it is true that many people have gone from abject poverty to having enough food and clothing, and after becoming rich, they have experienced too many temptations in the colorful world, and have gone from good men to depravity.

The more Wang Shouliang listened, the more helpless he became.

But he knew that this kind of thing would inevitably happen if he couldn't stop it.

Originally a man from a good family who could not afford to have enough to eat and support his wife and children, he was quickly promoted and raised his salary in just over a year. A senior escort's monthly salary was 100 yingyang, which is equivalent to more than 70 taels of silver.

A bodyguard's monthly salary of 300 yingyang is equivalent to more than 220 taels of silver.

This is just salary and does not involve other benefits.

With the purchasing power of silver and Yingyang in this era, it is normal for men to become bad when they are rich, not to mention that there are all kinds of famous families, local tyrants and evil gentry who are greedy for the power in their hands, the guns under their hands, and take the initiative to give away things. corrosion……

It would definitely not work if you asked the prominent families and local tyrants and evil gentry in Yangcheng or eastern Guangdong to directly spend money to make them betray Wang Shouliang. It would be too scary.

There are too many people who are just throwing sugar-coated bullets and giving away beautiful women, and asking for food and drinks without asking for much. There are too many people who cannot withstand these offensives.

This time I came to Foshan, it was time to deal with a group of such people.

If the situation is minor, they will be directly demoted, from head escort or senior escort to escort. If the situation is serious, they will be directly fired and will never be hired.

In the troubled times of the late Qing Dynasty, the most indispensable thing in China was people.

In October 1902, Wang Shouliang entered Foshan, and his first move was to reorganize the army!

We comprehensively investigated and cleaned up the middle and high-level managers who tended to go astray, and gave the Foshan branch a major clean-up.

Of the six escort chiefs excluding the guards, three were dismissed directly, two were demoted to senior escort masters, and one was demoted to the rank of escort.

Of the 18 senior escorts under their command, nine were dismissed, and the remaining nine were demoted to intermediate and junior escorts in turn, and were punished by not being promoted through normal channels within a few years.

Where there is punishment there is reward.

There are still six dart heads in the original sequence. According to daily performance, 16 new generation senior escort masters and six generation dart heads will be promoted.

During the process of reorganizing the army, Wang Shouliang was dismissed or demoted one by one. No senior bodyguard or bodyguard leader dared to resist, and no disturbance was caused. An army reorganization and purge caused great turmoil in the Foshan branch. This fire even burned Yau Ma Tei, Shaoguan, Yangcheng and Shanghai, even though Wang Shouliang had not yet started the army reorganization and purge in other places.

It still scared many people to tremble, and some who were about to be corroded by sugar-coated bullets immediately corrected their positions and mentality.

On October 10, when Wang Shouliang arrived at the Pearl River Ordnance Factory with Xu Si and other ten-man guards, they arrived at several bullet production line factories and observed the bullet production of the Lee long rifle, Mauser C20 and Maxim machine gun before saying with satisfaction , “Our factory has taken a solid step by being able to stably produce various bullets and repair firearms.”

This ordnance factory was established during the Spring Festival. It has been completed for more than half a year now. In the early days, it only repaired and recruited a group of firearms and bullet experts...for example, poaching people from Hanyang, or asking Hanyang engineers to recommend talented people.

When they were almost done with their research, Wang Shouliang started from the 1994 plane to specially create a bullet production line that suited this era.

The first batch of industrialized assembly line bullets was actually made in mid-September. At that time, he had just finished disaster relief, was preparing to establish the Shanghai Security Section, and was preparing for the recent Xiaoliuqiu naval battle.

He didn’t even have time to review and accept the comments.

Now I have free time. In addition to observing and accepting, and issuing rewards to the master masters and munitions engineers, there is also a new big thing to do.

When the luncheon to reward the engineers was over, Wang Shouliang asked the factory secretariat to remove the leftovers from the private room on the second floor of the cafeteria, then walked to the corner and picked up a big box, "Gong Li, Liu Gong, I This time I brought good things from Shanghai."

"This is currently the most advanced field gun in Europe and the United States. The M1897 1897MM gun was successfully developed by France in 75 because it added a hydraulic retracting and retracting mechanism."

"Therefore, the recoil force after the artillery is fired is absorbed by the retracting machine, which reduces the pressure transmitted to the gun mount. There is no need to push the artillery back to its original position every time a shell is fired, and there is no need to re-aim and calculate the trajectory. etc."

"This is an epoch-making invention in field artillery."

"Before this, even the field artillery that never set could only fire two rounds per minute at most, but the M1897 75MM artillery can reach a terrifying firepower of 15 rounds per minute, or even 30 rounds per minute."

"This is the Maxim heavy artillery in the field artillery sequence!"

"I hope our factory can research and understand this technology as soon as possible. When the time is right, I will also buy a production line and try to operate it."

The land forces of the Sihai Escort Bureau, including pistols, rifles and machine guns, are currently equipped with the most advanced ones in the world, although rifles will soon be eliminated...

Because it will be eliminated soon, Wang Shouliang is not yet sure who to purchase next, but he is still considering it.

But artillery, especially field artillery, doesn't have so many complicated things.

When the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded China, France took out this M1897 75MM artillery, which really shocked the world, including Yinglun and Hans Cat.

Then it caused the global powers to imitate the M1897. Even so, Hanscat did not develop their rapid-fire field gun until 1906, with six to seven shots per minute, which was far from France.

Until the outbreak of World War I, Hanscat couldn't keep up with the development of French rapid-fire cannons, so he took a detour. I won't play rapid-fire cannons with you anymore. I can't beat you anyway.

The effective range of your rapid-fire cannon is just over eight kilometers, with a 75MM caliber.

Let’s play directly with the 105MM howitzer and the 150MM howitzer, which have an effective range of one to twenty kilometers! ! Come on, hurt each other. We fire slowly but have a long range. Your 75MM rapid-fire artillery cluster was blown up by us before it even entered the range...

At the beginning of World War I, the French Army was beaten to pieces by Hans Cat.

It's not that the M1897 75MM field gun isn't good, it's that it's so good that it forces powerful enemies to not dare to continue playing, so it's time to switch to another track!

Do you think France has cannons with a longer range? have!

France has various 150MM howitzers that are better than the Hanscat 155MM howitzer, but the damn thing is that France is too confident in its 75MM rapid-fire cannon.

No 155MM howitzers will be installed in the army at all, they will all be sold...

Beginning in 1914, the stubborn France was beaten by Hans Cat for a year or two, and the damage was insignificant, so he had to recognize the reality and equip himself with the 155MM howitzer that he had only produced for takeout before.

From today on, the Pearl River Ordnance Factory will begin to produce the M1897 75MM field gun, which will not be built until 1903 or 1904.

These are all superior to the capabilities of the Hanscat rapid-fire cannon ten years later.

It would definitely not work to rely solely on late Qing artillery engineers from the Plan A plane for research and development. It would be impossible, not even to death, but Wang Shouliang had already brought a complete set of paper manufacturing process technical information for the M1897.

After several months of research in Foshan, he came up with industrialized assembly line equipment that was in line with the characteristics of the times.

That’s it!

With an effective range of more than eight kilometers and a limit of 30 rounds per minute, it is a heavy artillery. It can be said that this field gun will not be outdated in Asia even 30 years later.

After all, this is a field rapid-fire gun, not a howitzer above 150MM, nor is it a coastal defense gun or anything like that.

I chatted with several engineers all afternoon, including Wang Shouliang, who acted as a mentor and taught them a lot of knowledge and ideas. When leaving the Pearl River Ordnance Factory, Wang Shouliang said to Xu Sida, "Starting from the research and development of artillery, the status of the ordnance factory and the The importance will explode."

"Make arrangements to recruit 5000 more Foshan security guards."

"The training is still based on the model of escorts and escorts in an escort agency, but without guns, the standard weapons are only tactical daggers and plastic batons."

"Then a standing staff of 2000 people will work in the ordnance factory in three shifts, and the remaining 3000 people will be deployed in steel plants, construction, cement and sugar factories, lighter factories, etc."

Xu Si nodded quickly. If Hong Kong Island is now rushing towards a population of 50, Foshan is already approaching a million people.

The entire Foshan New District is filled with five-story residential areas that have been completed or are under construction, two- and three-story commercial streets, and various factories.

It is full of industrialization, and there are more and more large chimneys that discharge sewage into the sky all day long. There are more than 20,000 formal workers affiliated with the Pearl River series of enterprises, and 3,000 escort agencies, which involves 20,000 to 30,000 families, with seniors and subordinates in each family. Small, based on an average of five or six people, that's one or two hundred thousand people.

Coupled with the food, clothing, housing and transportation surrounding one or two million people, including the commercial radiation driven by medical education.

Foshan has changed rapidly in the past year or so. Its appearance is comparable to that of mainland counties in the 1990s, and it still has a style that can only be found in wealthy counties.

Foshan is now more populous and more developed than Yangcheng.

The roads in the new area are basically cement roads, which are spacious and convenient. The landscape trees and street lights on the roadside run side by side, giving it a more or less like a city that never sleeps.

There is a large immigrant population, so we are not afraid of not being able to recruit suitable members of the security department.

Xu Si simply felt that his boss's definition of the factory security department was too evil.

In addition to knowing the escort agency, the big shopkeeper also knows the security department!

(PS: I wish you all a happy New Year in advance, and wish all my brothers and sisters all the best in the new year. There are many things before and after the Spring Festival, so I will explain the direction first, and try to ensure that there are constant updates on New Year’s Eve and the first and second days of the new year ~ I hope everyone can understand.)

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