Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 2297 Luoyang Mansion ([-])

"Very good, is this the third generation gas lamp system?" Sun Dapeng, general manager and chief designer of Dapeng Architectural Design Office, was talking with installation engineers from Dong'an Gas Company in Nancheng District, Luoyang.

The scale of Dapeng Architectural Design Office is getting bigger and bigger. Now it has employed more than a hundred people including designers (including apprentices). Although it cannot rank first in the domestic architectural design industry on the East Coast, it is still stable. Sitting firmly in the top three is not far from the Design Institute and Transportation Design Bureau directly under the Ministry of Construction, and it is not impossible to surpass them in the future.

Dapeng Architectural Design Office undertook the design business of several landmark buildings in Luoyang, the new capital, such as Luoyang Railway Station, Naryshkin Building, Taoist Association and Mingjing Lake Sanatorium.They even went overseas and took over the design projects of Bahrain Island Naval Club, Pumba Island Trade Center and Liangshan City. The business is blooming everywhere, and the profits are rolling in, which makes others envious.

According to news, Dapeng Architectural Design Office will have two headquarters in the future, one is located in the Expo Street of Qingdao Port, and the other is located in Hepan Road, Funancheng District, Luoyang. .

Many people used to want to invest in the firm, but most of them failed. So far, out of the total 100 shares of the company, 75 shares are controlled by Sun Dapeng, and 25 of the remaining 10 shares are owned by several major designers. and sales representatives, 15 shares are in the hands of partners (generally construction companies), and Sun Dapeng is still the actual controller of the company.

The business is getting bigger and there are more people, so the office space and office facilities also need to be updated.No, Sun Dapeng made a decision a few months ago. After the Spanish owners—well, they are also from the east coast now—bought the houses on the left and right sides, Dapeng Office began to decorate Gao Zai, Among them, the gas system is naturally the top priority.

Modern life on the east coast cannot do without the help of gas.For example, gas lamps have super lighting capabilities. Due to the busy business of Dapeng Design Office, they often need to catch up on drawings overnight. It is unimaginable without the help of gas lamps. After all, you cannot rely on the dim light of candles or oil lamps to help you do things. Is not it?For another example, in order to resist the aggressive electric competition, the East Coast Gas Company, the only legal person franchised in the gas business, has laid down heavy defenses. After research and development, they launched gas stoves and gas stoves for the urban middle class and high-income class. use, and improve the city's air quality.

Gas stoves and gas stoves have been sought after by the wealthy class once they are released.They love this relatively clean utensil very much and regard it as a symbol of civilized life.This is the case for the wealthy class, and many middle-class people with higher incomes also bought a lot in fashion, and gritted their teeth to pay a large sum of initial installation fees to the East Coast Gas Company, trying their best to bring their living standards closer to those of wealthy families.

The East Coast Gas Company has done research and analysis, and finally concluded that the production and sales of gas stoves and gas stoves should be able to increase at a rate of 10% per year, so that their production costs and initial installation fees can also be reduced, and then turn to stimulate The further increase in the sales of these products has finally made it a standard configuration for families above the middle class on the East Coast—especially at the moment when strata apartment buildings are becoming popular in cities, the cost of installation and use of gas stoves and gas stoves will be much lower .

The introduction of gas stoves and gas stoves has caused the sales of briquettes to decline, and the operating profits of enterprises have also fallen.At present, except for the honeycomb coal factories under the coal mine bureaus (they have resource advantages), the life of the self-operated honeycomb coal factories in counties and townships has gradually become difficult.For this reason, state-owned capital has begun to prepare to gradually withdraw from this field, handing it over to private capital with lower production costs and more flexible operations, although the quality of briquettes produced by these private business owners is often criticized.

In addition, it is said that the East Coast Gas Company is spending a lot of money to develop a new product, the gas water heater, and has already trial-produced several models. In the future, it may choose one of them to produce and put it on the market.To be honest, this kind of product is quite trendy, and it is likely to be favored by the wealthy class in the future, and then slowly spread to the middle class.The East Coast Gas Company hopes that these products will increase the public's demand for gas and maintain the profits of the gas pipelines they have spent huge sums of money—loans from banks, and are still repaying the principal and interest every year.Now that the East Coast Power Company is becoming more and more active, the threat to the gas company is not very big at present, but who knows in the future?It is reasonable to maintain a certain sense of crisis, which is conducive to the long-term development of the company.

Dapeng Architects and Design Office is currently installing a brand new third-generation gas lamp, first-generation gas stove, and gas stove (this is mainly used in the kitchen, providing three meals a day and overtime supper for company employees), including the initial installation fee, The total cost reached thousands of yuan, but Sun Dapeng thought it was all worth it.If you can buy the quality of life at a reasonable price, why not do it?

Here is an additional point, the third-generation product of East Coast Gas Company is centralized gas supply, and it is no longer the old one that requires you to build a boiler room (for installing the gas generating device) and independently design the gas pipeline. product.That kind has been eliminated and sold to the Far East as cheap second-hand products one after another to recover the residual value.

The new gas pipeline is cleaner than before, and the odors (mainly ammonia, coke, asphalt and sulfur) that once affected the user experience have completely disappeared. The East Coast Gas Company and the Engineering Technology Research Institute have jointly developed a treatment for the by-products in the gas. technology.Take ammonia water as an example. At present, the East Coast Gas Company processes it at a cost of eight cents per cubic meter, and then sells it to companies such as Northern Chemical Plant for the production of ammonium sulfate - a very valuable chemical , which is helpful to agricultural production. Although farmers on the east coast are not very keen on buying chemical fertilizers, they are still sold on some professional farms.

Coke and asphalt can also be recycled to generate economic benefits.The East Coast Gas Company now sells recycled coke at a price below the market price of 4.1 cents a ton, and the market for asphalt is even better, at 6.5 yuan per cubic meter, which is more expensive than the asphalt lake from Huaiyuan Island (Trinidad). The products shipped back in China are much cheaper.The only shortcoming is that whether it is ammonia water, coke, asphalt or sulfur, because they are all recycled products, their output is too small, and the turnover in this area is still not enough. The source of ammonium sulfate in the northern chemical plant comes from the east. Only 74.5% come from the shore gas company, [-]% come from the coke industry, [-]% come from the metallurgical industry, and the rest come from other miscellaneous industries. In order to achieve growth, we should find ways to expand gas users and increase gas supply amount, so as to obtain greater profits.

During the planning of the new capital city, it has been proposed to centrally install gas lamps in residential buildings. In the future, it may be extended to gas stoves, gas stoves and even gas water heaters. This is a great benefit for East Coast Gas Company.The new capital, Luoyang, is a benchmark. In the future, other big cities may follow suit. After the cost of technology development is further reduced, it is likely to expand to lieutenant-college cities.

As the boss of the East Coast Gas Company, Wang Huadu, who already holds 10% of the company's private shares (the rest of the management's total shareholding is close to 5%) very much hopes to see this day come.For this reason, he decided to give Luoyang Fu users a "shocking discount price" to attract more people to use their company's products.The profit margin of the gas business may not be as good as other industries, but because of the huge user base, the total profit is not a lot, and this is a long-term business. Every knowledgeable family knows what it means-the richest man in a special zone later It is not without reason that I like to invest in public utilities such as water supply, gas supply, electricity supply, and telephone.

Gas lamps, gas stoves, gas stoves, gas water heaters, flush toilets, and running water are basically the standard equipment for the life of the middle-class cities on the east coast in the future.Well, there is also a well established light rail streetcar system - steam powered streetcars are currently gradually replacing horse drawn streetcars, which will obviously lead to fewer imports of Sharmas from the UK, but this is the trend - sell world Department stores with goods from all over the country, hospitals that can perform surgical operations, city parks and libraries that serve the public, rich and colorful cultural and entertainment activities, such as polo, chess, drama, concerts, etc., the cities of the Eastern Republic of China Before I knew it, I had thrown away dozens of streets in the old continent.

It's no wonder that rich people from Ningshao, Denglai and other places immigrated to the east coast.Accustomed to the comfortable and secure life on the east coast, who wants to live a life of backwardness?The only shortcoming of the east bank is probably that it is not very convenient to hire servants. This requires increasing the import of non-national laborers from the old road. It is not easy to solve in the short term, but this is not an insurmountable obstacle.Overall, life is more comfortable here, no one disputes that.

After negotiating with the engineers from East Coast Gas Company about the details of installation, commissioning and after-sales service charges, Sun Dapeng finished his conversation with him, and then returned to his work.Although he is already the boss of the company, he is still engaged in the design work himself out of his love for the design career and his desire to leave a mark in history.For example, he plans to design the new Luoyang Railway Station (located in Shendu District) himself, and plans to add some special and groundbreaking elements to make the building more dazzling.If possible, he also hopes that this building can be preserved without being demolished, become a part of the history of the East Bank, and become a tourist attraction for people to visit and remember.

There is plenty of time for the design of Luoyang Railway Station, because the railway has not yet started construction, and people need to complete the first-class national road from Mingfu Port to Luoyang, which is not easy.

(End of this chapter)