"Why doesn't it work? Brother, you are just stupid!"
While they were talking, a voice as clear as a silver bell came over. A woman in her twenties stood next to Zhang Tinglan and others. Everyone knew her. She was Qiao Ruixuan's sister Qiao Lanyun.
Liu Shucheng recommended her to manage the Xingye Trading Company and be responsible for smuggling to Russia. Zhang Tinglan personally talked to her and found that this woman had amazing business talent and a fierce and decisive spirit. She was even better than his brother, Zhang Tinglan.
He did not hesitate to put her in charge of the trading company. During this period, the smuggling work became smoother and smoother, and Qiao Lanyun was indispensable.
"Brother, you must have heard what Mr. Zhang said. I told you this back then, but you just didn't listen and were so stupid!"
"Sister, don't talk nonsense. Our Qiao family has been doing business for generations with honesty and small profits but quick turnover. This is our root. We can't forget it. And this time we are selling cans to the British. They are big powers. Once
If you offend them, won't you cause trouble for Mr. Zhang?"
"You talk about integrity, but others don't. Our bank account has been bullied so much over the years. The foreign bank obviously couldn't play with it, so it secretly ran the bank and instigated the court to bully us. How much suffering we have suffered. It's not easy to take advantage of us.
How could they let go of their advantage so stupidly!"
"Brother Qiao, I very much agree with your business philosophy. If a businessman or a factory wants to stand firm forever, it cannot do without these four words."
From the bottom of his heart, Zhang Tinglan agreed with Qiao Ruixuan's Confucian business philosophy. No matter when it comes, this kind of real trade is the safest. No matter how fancy the capital game is, there will eventually be problems one day.
"But the most important thing in business is flexibility. Now is the time when flexibility is needed. Everything on the European battlefield has become a consumable, including lives. Soldiers on the front line will die at any time. Who cares whether they are shot to death by bullets or eating canned food?
And the Americans will only do worse things than us. As long as the cost can be reduced, the British will be grateful to us and will not consider anything else!"
Qiao Lanyun listened with a proud smile in her eyes: "Brother, you have nothing to say now! In fact, making cans is not difficult. What we lack most are two raw materials, one is thin iron sheet, and the other is
Preservatives, these must be imported from the United States. As long as the cost of raw materials drops significantly, more can be imported, and the output will naturally increase. After half a year, it is not a dream to produce 500,000 cans per month."
Zhang Tinglan listened and kept nodding. Qiao Lanyun is indeed more spiritual than his brother and is worth cultivating. Zhang Tinglan thought for a while and then said: "If thin iron sheets are difficult to import, we can also produce some cans in glass bottles. In short,
Just keep the price low, even if the UK doesn't want it, you can still sell it to a Russian!"
They had almost finished the discussion and walked around the factory. A special slaughterhouse was arranged behind it. Many people had already sent cattle, sheep and other livestock here, and many of them were herdsmen who came after hearing the news.
It is now September, and winter in the north will soon arrive. For herdsmen, every winter is a severe test. If the snow is too severe, it will cause white disasters, causing large-scale livestock deaths and huge losses.
It was so heavy that they heard that the cannery purchased a large amount of cattle and sheep, so they found a way to send them here.
"Brother Qiao, if you are worried about selling low-quality cans and harming the world, just give these farmers and herdsmen some benefits. When purchasing meat, raise the price a little, and give workers a higher treatment every New Year. They are all our compatriots.
As for those foreigners, no matter what they do with their life or death, it would be better if they were all dead, so as not to commit evil in the world!"
At present, the factory has been officially put into operation, with thousands of cans being produced every day. More than a dozen workers hired from Russia are carefully teaching techniques and training apprentices. Once the British machines are in place, the production capacity will definitely increase exponentially, even by ten
It is not difficult to grow hundreds of times. After all, the technical difficulty of canning is not difficult, and the market is very broad.
Even if World War I is over, there will still be joint intervention in the Russian war, and the Fengjun army will develop, the annual demand for military cans will be staggering, enough for this factory to thrive.
Even if calculated based on the current production capacity, a can is 0.1 pound, and the profit is calculated as one-tenth, you can earn 30,000 pounds a year, which is equivalent to more than 300,000 oceans. And relying on this factory, you can still
Feeding many workers is also a good news for herdsmen.
If heavy industrial enterprises can be established and the industrial chain can be extended, more people will benefit. With tangible benefits in front of them, Fengtian businessmen are increasingly interested in starting industries.
After Zhang Tinglan left the factory, he plunged into the recruitment work. According to Zhang Tinglan's idea, the ** Brigade must be built into an ace force, and all the bad habits of the old army must be completely abandoned. It must be built from head to toe.
For a brand new armed force, recruitment is the first step and must be strictly controlled.
Therefore, the recruits must have a clean family background, no bad habits, good health, and no hidden diseases. In addition, Zhang Tinglan has special requirements for cultural level. If he can understand more than 500 words, he can be selected as a key training target.
The military salary will be 20% more than that of ordinary soldiers, and they will also be promoted as reserve officers. Most of the soldiers in the 27th Division are from green forest backgrounds. They have little impression of cultural knowledge, even Zhang Zuoxiang.
On the contrary, they even think that if you read too much, you will be less courageous. Without courage, how can you fight? Therefore, it is more appropriate to be a rough and tumble soldier when fighting desperately. The more stupid a soldier is, the less afraid of death he is.
Zhang Tinglan obviously does not agree with this idea. War is not just about courage, especially modern war, it is also a contest of intelligence. Weapons are becoming more and more complex. If you want to maximize the effect of these weapons, you must
Have a certain knowledge base.
Moreover, the battlefield situation is changing rapidly. To grasp the battlefield situation, implement tactical intentions, reconnaissance, surveying and mapping, etc. all require specialized training. It is difficult to imagine that an uncultured army can adapt to the needs of modern warfare.
In fact, from people like Zhang Zuoxiang, Zhang Tinglan also saw the problems of the Chinese Army in this era. They were just an old army equipped with foreign guns and cannons, and did not have the qualities that a new era soldier should have.
Zhang Tinglan could only spend a lot of time explaining the importance of cultural knowledge to her father. In order to increase her credibility, Zhang Tinglan pulled Yang Yuting over.
Yang Yuting is training artillery, but it is not too difficult for him to train a little artillery. After figuring out the performance of artillery, he quickly formulated a corresponding training plan. However, Yang Yuting also encountered the serious low quality of soldiers.
question.
Take the soldiers of the artillery regiment as an example. They know how to fire a cannon very well. Moreover, most of the old-fashioned artillery equipped by the Fengjun rely on visual sighting. Therefore, these people have no idea how to use the advanced aiming instruments on the artillery.
, there is a weapon in the empty hand, but it cannot exert its combat effectiveness.
Yang Yuting was also worried about the quality of soldiers, so Zhang Tinglan pulled him over. Yang Yuting couldn't help but talk about the difficulty of training soldiers. He was a cadet studying in Japan, and he was obviously more familiar with the army than Zhang Tinglan. It was more embarrassing to talk about it.
People are convinced.
Zhang Zuoxiang was also persuaded by them and agreed to Zhang Tinglan's recruitment requirements. In addition, Zhang Zuoxiang arranged for several teachers to be hired to teach these recruits so that they could read and write.
After the conditions for recruiting soldiers were determined, Zhang Tinglan used newspapers in Fengtian to start publicity. At the same time, he posted recruitment notices outside major stores, detailing the conditions and benefits for recruiting soldiers.
It turned out that Zhang Tinglan was planning to spend a lot of money to recruit qualified soldiers, but Zhang Zuoxiang stopped his plan to commit suicide. After all, Zhang Zuolin was still watching. If the salary of the ** Brigade was significantly higher than that of the 27th Division, how would Lao Zhang be able to survive?
Department, isn’t this just a slap in the face!
Zhang Tinglan also knew the importance of it and gave up his original idea. However, he still formulated some welfare benefits. The soldiers' meals were guaranteed to include two dishes and one soup, one meal of meat every three days, enough polished rice and white flour on weekdays, and each soldier was given two rations.
Wear clothes inside and outside the suit, and arrange half a month of family leave every year. Priority can be given to helping military family members arrange jobs, and there are also subsidies for children's schooling.
In addition to these, the more attractive thing is the reward plan. The military salary of ordinary soldiers is one yuan a month. If you perform well in training, you can increase it. If you make great progress in reading and study, you can be rewarded, up to one and a half yuan. And those who are already
Soldiers who are literate can also take the initiative to teach others how to read. They can also win awards based on the number of soldiers. They can get up to two oceans a month.
Ordinary people in Fengtian certainly don’t understand why the army needs to read and write. They even think of it as a joke and the ** Brigade has turned into a literacy school! But some people understand the meaning of this. The most sensitive ones are the Japanese. They have been plotting against the three northeastern provinces.
Naturally, Fengtian was not allowed to raise a strong army, so this group of people began to step up their planning of conspiracies.
"Brother Tinglan, brother Tinglan, big news!" Zhang Xueliang ran to the teahouse panting and found Zhang Tinglan in his usual place.
Zhang Tinglan has been busy recruiting soldiers these days, and finally had some free time, so he came to a teahouse to sit for a while. A teahouse is a small society, and Zhang Tinglan is also happy to listen to the people's opinions on various things here.
Zhang Xueliang ran over in a hurry, "Brother Tinglan, there is a master who was invited by Duan Zhigui into the Marshal's Mansion. This master is profound and it is said that he has unpredictable powers."
Having said this, Zhang Xueliang leaned forward and asked in a low voice: "Brother Tinglan, isn't this arranged? I heard that this master drove back a group of vicious dogs with a wave of his sleeves, and he did so three times in a row.
He doesn't eat or drink for days, but he can still walk on the water in the end. He is like a land god!"
Zhang Tinglan took a slow sip from the tea cup and said with a smile: "Han Qing, you also know this master. Do you want to learn two-handed magic from him?"
