"What? You said it was gunpowder!"

Mu Xiangyue's words only surprised Li Zicheng, and at the same time he looked at him in surprise.

Is rayon a gunpowder? What is a gunpowder? It’s something like explosives.

"Yes, it is gunpowder! The first step of making rayon is the same as making smokeless gunpowder! The raw materials are also the same! They are cotton, nitric acid, and sulfuric acid. It can be said that making rayon is making gunpowder!"

Mu Xiangyue's voice was not loud, but now his voice kept rushing into his ears. For a moment, Li Zicheng only felt that it was reverberating in his ears, like the sound of gunshots.

"Rayon,...smokeless gunpowder...same!"

It seemed that the gunshot-like reverberation had not ended yet, and Li Zicheng heard Mu Xiangyue add another sentence.

"If there is a war, the rayon factory will be converted into a gunpowder factory! If it is producing rayon, it may come in handy when the country needs it that day!"

The country needs it! Come in handy!

No need, no need, no need to wait for China to need it, just need to wait two years. In two years, the whole world will need rayon and smokeless gunpowder. In the war, the most profitable thing is not steel and ammonia.

Products, but weapons, only weapons have the highest profit.

If your factory can produce thousands or even tens of thousands of tons of gunpowder and explosives a year, how much profit can the factory make by then?

And just like Mu Xiangyue said, if these factories are developed now, they will definitely be of great use to the country in the future, but for me, at least right now, it is not the most important thing. The most important thing is profit. This kind of

The "quasi-military industry" can bring a steady stream of profits to itself and Liuhe!

This is the most important thing! And these profits can support Liuhe Company from Yuan Shikai's plot!

Swallowing with excitement, Li Zicheng said hurriedly as he looked at Mu Xiangyue who put down his pen.

"Write it down, write this down. The first batch of factories we set up in Lianyungang are a motorcycle factory, a steel factory, and a third one that produces textile machinery and flour mills. Well, it also has a machinery factory that produces machine tools. As for the third

Fourth, this is rayon, as well as dye, chemical and other factories. These are the first batch of factories we are going to build. Once these factories are completed, maybe in two or three years, the company will..."

How much can you earn in a year?

In a daze, Li Zicheng began to make a total in his mind. The steel factory's annual profit was at least 300 million, followed by the motorcycle factory and the machinery factory. The profit might be lower, but it was at least tens of millions, and it could be hundreds of millions.

, this depends on the scale, rayon, after two years, who will still produce rayon? It is more profitable to produce smokeless gunpowder, and then chemical raw materials, dyes, pharmaceuticals and other products, earning two to three hundred million a year.

It's definitely not a problem.

In this case, in two or three years, these pillar industries alone will make us, well, as rich as the country!

Maybe we can also consider other industries. After pondering for a while, Li Zicheng felt his eyes light up again when he looked at the location of Lianyungang on the map.

"Yes, Ou Chu, maybe the company should also consider shipbuilding. If we want to build a steel plant, we can't just think about exporting steel. We must also consider producing high-profit value-added products. Steel is needed to produce machinery and equipment, and steel is also needed for shipbuilding.

The profits from shipbuilding are much higher than the profits from directly exporting steel!”

After wiping out the cigarette butt in the ashtray, Li Zicheng pressed his hand on the map and continued.

"In the future we will build a large shipyard in Lianyungang! Since the company has built so many factories, those products will naturally be exported abroad in the future, so we will definitely have shipping needs in the future!"

More than just a need!

I sighed from the bottom of my heart. After the war broke out, Germany launched a submarine war, and British, French, and American merchant ships were sunk one after another. By then, these countries would not be buying ships all over the world, and even in history

Jiangnan Shipyard has also accepted orders for four 10,000-ton ships from the United States. There is definitely market demand for shipbuilding, and profits are also higher than usual.

When I was in the United States, I considered buying a cargo ship to transport things back to the island. But later, considering the price and the crew, I could only rent Thomas's ship for the price of a one-ton cargo ship.

It was 45 US dollars, and after the outbreak of World War I, it could increase at least three or four times. If we could build 500,000 tons of merchant ships a year, there would be no problem in making a net profit of more than 100 million US dollars a year.

At this time, Mu Xiangyue was really speechless. Listening to Li Zicheng's narration, for a moment, he really couldn't tell whether these were fantasies, ideals, or wild thoughts. He didn't know anymore.

No matter how she refuted him, Mu Xiangyue just silently remembered that her boss had come up with "wonderful ideas" one after another in the past half hour.

"Of course, these are long-term planning ideas, we still have to solve the urgent tasks!"

Perhaps, even Li Zicheng realizes that he has too many ideas. Although there are technical patents in the steel cylinder as support, those are just dead patented technologies, drawings and development data. In the end, it will take a lot of efforts to turn those technologies into products.

Technical personnel as support, and are there enough technical personnel in China? Obviously it cannot be solved at the moment.

"To solve the financial problem, we don't necessarily have to start by setting up a factory. There are other ways, such as land!"

Li Zicheng raised his eyebrows, and there was a hint of pride in his words.

"land?"

"That's right, it's land. We can get extra income by buying and selling land, that is, we can buy land at low prices from farmers along the line, and then carry out unified planning, construction, environmental improvement, and road construction.

It can be sold to operators who invest near the station at a high price. Of course, we must build a port, which can increase the land value of Lianyungang and also obtain port income. With a port, a railway, and good municipal planning

, with a good investment environment, the land prices in Lianyungang have also gone up."

It's just a real estate business.

Muttering in her heart, Mu Xiangyue finally felt that her boss had finally found a more reliable business. How could he, who grew up in Shanghai, not know that the tycoons in the Shanghai Concession were not all real estate tycoons.

"Well, this is a good idea. When Shanghai opened as a port, the British purchased land in the Huangpu Beach area for only 50,000 to 80,000 yuan per mu. However, within a few years, the average land price in the concession rose to more than 100 yuan per mu.

Two, and later even tens of thousands of taels. As long as we plan Lianyungang like foreigners plan concessions, and maybe just sell land, it will be enough to maintain the company's operations in the next few years."

"Shanghai Concession?"

With a snort, Li Zicheng watched Mu Xiangyue resist the urge to hit him, and a geographical term popped up in his mind. To be precise, it was the day when he first stepped into the land of China in this era.

The name of the city.

"Brother Ou Chu! We have all been to Qingdao. What do you think of Qingdao being planned by the Germans?"

(Three updates today, try to update four. Alas, every time the computer is turned on, there will be a blue screen, and then there is no signal when the screen is restarted. Wuyu is so depressed. It has been more than two weeks, and it is like this every day. Today Wuyu rectified the computer for almost two times.
Chapter completed!