Great Entrepreneur of the Universe

Chapter 278 Finally there is hope of escaping from the suffering of copying books

In late July 1907, starting from Hongkou, nylon stockings, a specialty of Siwu, Sarawak, began to sweep across Shanghai like a hurricane.

Silk stockings actually have a very early origin. As early as the 15th and 16th centuries, the European courts had silk stockings, which were usually hand-woven from silk. They were luxury goods for high-ranking officials, nobles, and royal families.

In the original track, the DuPont Group launched nylon stockings around 1940. At the price of 1.5 or 2 US dollars a pair at that time, it was many times cheaper than real silk stockings. Not to mention how many pairs were sold in a day, overall supply exceeded demand.

At that time, no man had silk stockings in his hands, and it was almost impossible to pick up girls.

In addition to being able to cover up the leg hair of white beauties, stockings can also extremely highlight the shape of a beautiful woman's legs. Paired with a long skirt, it adds too much temptation.

After all, a beautiful woman can't bear to wear a skirt in summer. When the breeze blows, the smell of sweat and leg hair will fly away.

That affects the beauty so much!
Once the Siwu nylon stockings were launched, they were sold out as quickly as possible even though the retail price of a pair was as high as 8 black Spanish eagles, which is approximately equivalent to 5.76 taels of silver.

You can't deny that Shanghai in this era was really prosperous and there were many foreigners.

For female foreigners living in Shanghai, real silk stockings are generally something that only aristocrats, aristocrats or ladies of great aristocracy can afford to wear and consume.

The pirated nylon industry in North America has been suppressed.

The trend of rolled up silk stockings also includes the Great Business War... This thing is dumped in Europe and the United States to collect money like a gold-swallowing beast. Once something is invented, no matter whether it is patented or not, the confidentiality situation is the same.

What Yin Lun gave him was a land reclamation contract for more than 70,000 square kilometers in Sabah, a dreadnought, and several years of nylon industry patents.

To put it bluntly, when the nylon industry explodes, petroleum raw materials will be indispensable. Having an oil field in Yanlun means making money from materials upstream! !

This originally represented the combined values ​​of decency, beauty and charm.

This also allowed Yin Lun, France and others to see the potential of the Pacific to contain North America. One thing is that when the First World War broke out, the North American continent was alone and stood in the New World and watched the old powers fight each other? As a top trouble maker, Ying Lun can't see this geographical advantage at all?
Yin Lun could see that the global will was no longer controlled by Yin Lun alone.

After wearing it, it seems that all the dead ghosts in the family have become younger!
The earliest rush-buying trend was all about white women rolling up their stockings. During this time, few Chinese women dared to go out and show off their stockings.

It was more or less negotiated.

Therefore, Wang Shouliang obtained the patent rights for the dumping of silk stockings in Europe and the United States for several years at the cost of helping Yin Lun exploit a new oil field in Java Island.

After all, serious female education has just been established and promoted.

However, this is not completely stable. For example, his Four Seas Fleet, a total of nine large ships with a displacement of 14,000 to 5,000 tons, confronts the Great White Fleet in North America in the Hawaiian Islands.

They can't control it either.

Wang Shouliang did not personally serve as the artilleryman, but the veteran artillerymen who had been trained year by year under the Sihai banner were able to perform effectively in the artillery fire.

Everyone's slogans are very beautiful, combat piracy, protect patent laws, and make countless women in North America beautiful as soon as possible. This is a stockings war for beauty.

North America is quite capable of manufacturing big ships, but it just doesn’t have the iron-blooded veterans.

This misfire and accidental bombing also completely proved one thing. In the Pacific, the Sihai Fleet not only suppressed the Japanese navy, but North America was also a little behind the pace.

Now seeing that the Sihai Escort Bureau can confront and conflict with North America, Yin Lun is eager for this. When silk stockings are dumped on the North American continent, Yin Lun will support and support.

He went to develop Sebu, Sarawak, including later Sabah Island. He had already negotiated a new oil field in the contract, plus a nylon industry patent that started with silk stockings.

And a misfire accidentally blew up several ships.

They only had one pair of black Xi Ge Ying Yang's stockings. They were so cheap. They matched well with high heels and skirts, which instantly made them more attractive.

There will definitely be friction in this process. Wang Shouliang himself went to Java to stay for a few months and built two new oil fields with a production capacity of about a quarter of the Sumatra oil field before the incident entered a stable period...

There are many oil fields in North America. Once the technology of chemically refining nylon from oil is launched and sold on a large scale, it will really be difficult for the top scientists to imitate it. Whether the business will be successful depends on the big ships and cannons!
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February 1908, 2, two days later will be the Lantern Festival.

Go to Shanghai, Wang Mansion.

After Wang Shouliang checked the income generated by silk stockings in the study room last year, he was ready to send a telegram to ask Siwu Production to stock up a large number of silk stockings to continue to be sold to Europe and the United States to attract huge profits!
As for East Asia...the market is really limited at this stage.

It’s not just a matter of whether it’s expensive or not, it’s also a matter of social trends.

Maybe in another ten or twenty years, when countless singers and lilacs start to wear rolled-up stockings, this thing can be introduced into thousands of households. For now, it's just a matter of starvation marketing.

However, before his telegram was opened, he heard a knock on the door. When he shouted, come in, Bai Xiuzhu, who was 16 years old, barefoot and meters tall, had twin ponytails, and was wearing a student skirt and black silk stockings. High Heels walked in.

She was still holding a cup of coffee in her hand, "Big shopkeeper, do you think I look pretty today?"

Wang Shouliang, "..."

He couldn't help but lean back tactically, so you gave him such a challenge? Who can stand up to the challenge of a 16-year-old angel wearing black stockings?

Wang Shouliang felt that he couldn't bear it!

He watched Bai Xiuzhu put down the coffee, then frowned and rubbed his forehead, "Didn't you copy the illustrations from the [Compendium of Materia Medica] more than a year ago?"

"It's just right this time. Go back and add the illustrations. There are one or two thousand pairs of exquisite illustrations. It won't be a problem for you, who are so smart."

Bai Xiuzhu was dumbfounded for a moment, "No, how could you do this to me? I'm pretty tall, right? But here I am just a copycat?"

Wang Shouliang waved his hands with a dark face, "Go. If you don't go, the task will be doubled."

Bai Xiuzhu looked at Wang Shouliang sadly, but did not leave. She ran behind him and stretched out her hand to massage Wang Shouliang's shoulders, "Are you a man? We have known each other for three years, and you have never even held my hand!"

"How am I worse than Sister Cao Yun?"

"Isn't today a traditional Western Valentine's Day? Let's go shopping and watch a movie? You used to say I was young, but now you say I'm a child. Even according to Yinlun customs, I have already held an adult ceremony."

Wang Shouliang coughed twice and said, "Don't be cute. In the past few years, you have been studying and studying, including following some female medical teams. Don't you know that the age of eighteen is the period when girls stop growing?"

Bai Xiuzhu increased the strength of the massage on her hands, "Don't be ridiculous, am I taller than many women in their 20s?"

"Sister Cao Yun is not as outstanding as me."

Wang Shouliang coughed again, "Forget it, I'm too lazy to talk to you. You can go out to watch a movie, but you have to go back and change into suitable clothes." Bai Xiuzhu was delighted and nodded, "That's easy to say."

She said that as long as Wang Shouliang's personal preferences were grasped, there was finally hope of getting rid of copying books and prescriptions, and even facing the hardship of mathematics and chemistry examination papers! !
Sister Cao Yun still feels sorry for her!
The next moment, Bai Xiuzhu asked curiously, "I heard that stockings are sold very well in Tokyo? Is this thing so expensive? Is it so magical? One of the eight black Mexican Yingyang pairs was torn after being worn once... …”

Wang Shouliang stopped paying attention to her.

Some topics are indeed very strange. If you want to make stockings from high-end to low-end and cover the whole market, it is difficult for East Asian and Southeast Asian women. How many years has this been a traditional Confucian concept? Who dares to wear it randomly?

But island countries are different.

Ever since the war, a large number of island sisters and sisters-in-law have sold themselves to anyone to pay off debts and save money. This has long been a popular trend and one of the main core incomes.

This thing is really expensive. Rich people like to experience novelties.

High-end kabuki in island countries are basically the main consumers.

Sibu nylon stockings have become more popular luxury fast-moving consumer goods across the island than bicycles, lighters, flashlights, sugar, etc...

That market is indeed not small.

The concessions in Tokyo are about to be even more lavish and luxurious than the Shili foreign market in Shanghai. I heard that the Shanghai Green Gang has begun to set up a branch in Tokyo and grab business.

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March 1908, 3, the ninth day of the second lunar month.

At Xiangshan Airport, the first batch of military aircraft delivered to the Sihai Escort Bureau by the Wright brothers, including Curtis, another founder of the North American aviation industry, were consigned to the airport runway one by one.

Under the watchful eyes of the visiting group headed by Wang Shouliang and others, the Air Force Department of the Sihai Escort Bureau and the first batch of more than 10 pilots such as Huo Ting'en, Zhu Chuanwu, Cao Shan, etc. were all packed up and ready to go.

Wang Shouliang gave an order, and six pilots came out and entered the three Pigeon fighters one after another. After a decent operation, under the command of Curtis and others, the three Pigeon fighters took off one after another.

It really looked like huge flying pigeons, carrying pilots and aviation light machine guns, into the sky!
From last year to just over a year ago, after poaching people, Wang Shouliang was not stingy in spending money and supplies. In addition to money, he also poached technicians from various aviation associations and purchased technical materials.

In the original trajectory, Curtis joined the North American Aeronautical Association and then designed military aircraft. He designed the Propeller 1, an amphibious aircraft that was also developed by the Wright brothers.

Not only can it take off on land, it can also take off on water and land on warships. Its main function is to act as an observer for the naval fleet.

It can carry two people and has a speed of 96 kilometers per hour. It really beats the speed of all battleships at this stage, and torpedo boats are far behind.

However, Wang Shouliang still took out the design drawings of the Pigeon fighter and a lot of technical information... This is not surprising. The Pigeon was originally invented and manufactured in the past two years. It was also used by Hans Cat and other large-scale fighters in World War I. Installation.

Wang Shouliang obtained the finished product design drawings and various technical standards in advance. The outside world most suspected that he had stolen the achievements of Austrian engineers.

The pigeon type in front of me also rides two people. The weapon is a Lewis light machine gun. It was "developed and created" by the Pearl River Ordnance Factory after getting the finished product design a few years in advance. It is now named Wushen 1908 light machine gun. .

This pigeon style is very mature, with 100 horsepower and a top speed of 100 kilometers per hour.

On the contrary, the training of pilots is a bit more difficult.

Sihai Group recruited people from the Army Division, the Navy Division, and the Security Bureau for interviews, and eliminated batch after batch. In the end, only about 100 people were screened.

After about half a year of training, training and test flights, etc., there are now only more than 10 pilots above the qualified level.

Of course, this group of more than 10 people is already the earliest flying fire in China, the pioneers.

Especially Zhu Chuanwu, who has long been at the level of captain of the Security Department and is a senior escort of the Sihai Escort Bureau. He has also learned a lot by himself in the past few years and has successfully eliminated illiteracy.

Now that he has joined the Air Force Ministry, he has become a middle-level leader on the surface.

The newly established Air Force Department was composed of Zhu Chuanwu's head escort and Huo Tingen's senior escort, who in turn took charge of the remaining pilots.

When the pilots of the six-person team flew ten or twenty kilometers and landed smoothly one after another, Wang Shouliang began to applaud, and came forward to meet everyone, talking to the pilots one by one to encourage them, including giving rewards.

The maximum range of the Pigeon fighter is still limited, only 140 kilometers.

But today, with the Pigeon, we still start with three. Others, such as the Albatross fighter series, can also be included in the development and creation process.

All these inventions and creations belong to Sihai Group!

Of course, aviation pilot training is also a top priority!

To put it bluntly, when the Albatross series appears and Wang Shouliang's fleet arrives at Hachijo Island, the Albatross can take off and directly bomb Tokyo...

Even if the Albatross can't carry too many large bombs, the light machine guns of the aircraft will sweep across, small bombs will fall from the sky, or incendiary bombs will drop. This is already a dimensionality reduction strike against the Japanese.

Originally the Albatross D was launched in 1917, with a range of three to four hundred kilometers. There were too many small islands that could bring Tokyo into the attack range.

It's just that those small islands were originally owned by the Japanese, but now they have been divided up and occupied by many foreign powers.

These fighter jets that shined in World War I seem a bit funny when compared with World War II and later generations. However, for large companies like Sihai Escort Bureau and Yi Escort Agency, training and cultivating batches of powerful pilots is an indispensable preemptive step. Advantage.

At the end of the day's acceptance project, Wang Shouliang waved his hand again, causing countless people to move up and down the Xiangshan Airport, inside and outside, to celebrate the achievements of a large group of meritorious officials.

Rewards such as wine, sex, wealth, etc., which may corrode people or make them happy, are not suitable for rewarding pilots...

But this group of pilots' family members and various relatives and friends should not be stingy with rewards and promotions.

For them, it means arranging serious blind dates, promotions, salary increases, money and houses!
When more than a dozen pilots looked at the large number of Yangma wearing high heels, black stockings and white stockings, and the sisters-in-law from the island country going to reward the engineer group, everyone couldn't help but be a little impulsive.

Wang Shouliang smiled and patted Zhu Chuanwu on the shoulder, "Xiao Zhu, you are the leader of the air force. Stay calm. You really want to start a family. Our escort agency will send you a wife. Don't worry, I will arrange the best blind date for you right away." "

Zhu Chuanwu waved his hands hurriedly and excitedly, "No, big shopkeeper, I'm not..."

The other awesome guys also explained excitedly.

Wang Shouliang waved his hand again, "A blind date meeting? With the conditions of these great guys, it's like choosing a good wife at an audition."

(End of this chapter)