Alchemy Greater China

The world situation is changing with each passing day, and the whole world is trying their best to build ships, so Long Hao is very satisfied that Schmidt can buy the shipyard of the Trapattoni family at a mere price of 42 pounds .

As for whether any non-commercial means were used during the purchase process, Long Hao didn't care, because the large group of Italians standing respectfully facing him at the gate of the shipyard was the best interpretation of the perfect result.

The original name of this shipyard is Italian (nonsense), and the translation seems to be called "Gladiator's Spaghetti". In short, it is a mess. Due to the acquisition, the shipyard is now renamed "Kunpeng", the English name is 'rocshipyard'.

Kunpeng Shipyard is located in the South Seaport of San Francisco. Unlike the North Seaport, which is mainly engaged in maritime commerce and trade, there are basically no cargo ships. The piers and docks here are all private, and most of the owners are Hispanics and Italians. The descendants left over from the great days of Spain.The city of San Francisco was originally built by Spanish colonists. It has not yet reached the 20th century. Many famous landscapes in San Francisco - the Golden Gate Bridge, the Bay Bridge, and the Transamerica Pyramid - do not exist yet. Most of the city of San Francisco is Spanish-style buildings, European-style small castles, post-Renaissance oil wall graffiti... By the way, there is also the famous Chinatown!

The Bell and Drum Flag Tower, the Angry Lions on Stone Street, the dark green alleys and alleys, the Chinese pedestrians with braids and caps, the current Chinatown does not have the famous four characters of "the world is for the public", people live It's just a somewhat unexamined life.

The urban area of ​​San Francisco is not too big. Outside the urban area, the hillsides outside are mostly manors built by rich people. Grapes are planted here, which are gifts brought by Spanish missionaries.Now a large-scale winemaking industry has not yet formed, and there are only sporadic family wineries that produce wine for their own enjoyment.

Kunpeng occupies a very large area, surrounded by a bay, all of which are used for shipbuilding.

Most of the Italians standing at the door were the foreign boatman left behind by Trapattoni. Trapattoni was not there. I wonder if it was to avoid Long Hao. This middle-aged handsome guy just came from Shimi After getting the money in his hand, he hurried back to Italy.

This made Long Hao's plan of "slapping the face" come to nothing.

It is said that after Schmidt acquired the shipyard, he rushed back to Portland non-stop, and did not do any sorting work. Therefore, the management team of Kunpeng Shipyard is still the same group of Italians.Fortunately, these foreigners are also dedicated. Although they know that the owner of the shipyard has changed, they still work conscientiously. The progress of the unfinished shipbuilding orders has not fallen at all.

Melissa was wearing a straw hat and a grass-green gauze skirt. Her figure was soft and slim, giving her a very cool feeling. However, the noble aura that no one else could imitate on her made these Italians They were heartbroken and did not dare to blaspheme.

An Italian who seemed to be at the supervisory level stood out, bowed and said to Melissa, "His Royal Highness, I heard that you are coming to the shipyard for inspection. All our staff are here waiting for you!"

Melissa frowned slightly, but unfortunately the Italian couldn't see it: "All? Where are the Chinese boatmen?"

The Chinese boatmen that Melissa refers to are the "Qin prison boatmen" bought from Li Hongzhang at the price of 300 taels per person by Homecoming (you should remember), and they were divided into two according to Long Hao's order. Half of them came directly to San Francisco with Schmidt, and after the acquisition of the shipyard was completed, they would work in it to 'redeem'.

And the other half, logically speaking, should have arrived with the Pioneer and the First Number a few days ago, why has no one been seen for a while?

Long Hao was slightly surprised: won't you run away?

Running away is naturally a joke. The First Fleet watched, and the group of 'offendered boatmen' who were valued by Long Hao were hard to fly. The Italian supervisor heard Melissa's displeasure, and quickly explained: "They are all in Working in the dry dock..."

Melissa snorted coldly: "They are working, what about you? Also, aren't the Chinese boatmen employees of the shipyard? Without them, how dare you say that all the employees are here?"

"This, this..." The Italian supervisor was sweating on his forehead. He never imagined that the Spanish princess was so sharp in her words, she was just here to find fault!

Could this be the legendary three fires for a new official to take office?

Long Hao stood up at the right time, waved his hands and smiled, "Go, call everyone except the necessary security personnel. Her Royal Highness has something important to announce!"

Melissa seemed to be still angry: "Go and come back quickly, if this little thing can't be done well, I will give you the money and go back to Italy directly!"

The Italian executive was startled, and hurried away, bitter in his heart: Oh, it seems that the princess really took good care of the group of yellow-skinned monkeys as the rumors said!And that oriental boy just now, with a gentle smile and a strong smile, it is very likely that he is the princess's male favourite...

Those prisoner boatmen were the best batch of shipbuilders in China in this era. They came to San Francisco and lived in Kunpeng Shipyard as arranged.

More than a dozen freighters over a thousand tons are lined up, moored at the pier, swaying with the waves, and there are also new freighters that have been drained in several dry docks, a group of blond foreigners, wearing plain clothes , Manipulating the equipment that these prisoner boatmen have never seen before, they are working in full swing.

This group of convict craftsmen are all elites of the Mawei Ship Administration Bureau, and their knowledge is not weak, but compared with the ships built by Mawei in the past few years and here, the difference is orders of magnitude!

A freighter with thousands of tons?The Mawei Ship Administration Bureau can't even build it, and here, a row is casually parked.

The difference!

I don't know the difference if I don't go abroad. I used to sit in the shipbuilding bureau and listen to the boastful talks of those foreign technicians hired by a lot of money. I didn't feel deep, but now I saw it with my own eyes, and immediately shocked these prisoner boatmen. The seven souls came out of the body, and I really felt that I was always watching the sky from sitting in a well before!

It turns out that the gap between the Qing Dynasty and the big powers is a few streets wider than the high-ranking officials in the court, oh no, a few cities!

When they heard that they were going to work in this shipyard in the future, the long-lost excitement surged in the hearts of these prisoner boatmen: I am going to get in touch with the advanced shipbuilding technology of foreigners!

When it comes to the bottom line, most of the current craftsmen are still patriotic, but the stupidity of the Qing Dynasty and the corruption of the upper-level bureaucrats made these craftsmen have nowhere to serve the country, with ambitions and no hatred.

Although Schmidt left in a hurry, he still fulfilled Long Hao's confession, that is, all Chinese boatmen can work with those foreign boatmen, and if they ask questions, the foreign boatmen have no excuse not to answer.

The original foreign boatmen in the shipyard did not object to this. They did not have the tradition of contemptuously cherishing themselves. When they saw Chinese boatmen coming to help, of course they were happy to teach them.With one more helper, my work can become very easy, and the salary is not bad, so why not do it?

For example, on today's big day to welcome the new boss, these foreign boatmen took the opportunity to be lazy, ran to the door, and lined up to welcome them, while those Chinese boatmen were still working hard in the dry dock.

Chinese people are born with the good quality of hard work and hard work!Naturally, the willingness of those convict boatmen to study advanced shipbuilding technology also played a large part in their new arrival.

The threat of a job made the Italian supervisor quickly summon the Chinese boatmen. Fortunately, the entrance of the Kunpeng Shipyard was wide enough for hundreds of people to stand, but it was not crowded at all.

[I finally have my own shipyard, please vote!Thank you again for your support! 】