Before going to bed, Zhou Wenhua decided to visit the Chinese shipyard of this era and its founder Yang Junsheng the next day.
This is a shipbuilding expert who focuses exclusively on studying ships and innovating new technologies. He is also an industrialist who saves the country and is not good at management. He is also generous and lacks a sense of precaution.
He was a shining star in the shipbuilding industry during the Republic of China, and Zhonghua Shipyard was founded by him.
Of course, in addition to wanting to see this industrialist, he also planned to see if there was any opportunity to cooperate with him to build ships and ships.
Because Zhou Wenhua knows very well how powerful this industrial founder is,
The shipbuilding factory built by him hand by hand, from its establishment in 1926 to the 1980s, it had built over a thousand ships of various types.
And it can not only manufacture various large and medium-sized surface ships, running-in ships, and even 20,000-ton and below ocean-going and offshore freighters; it can also manufacture various engineering ships, enhanced horsepower tugs, dredgers, oil
Exploration platform, etc.
In addition to planning to visit the owner of this Chinese shipbuilding factory,
Zhou Wenhua also plans to visit Ye Zaifu, a famous ship designer in the Republic of China era.
In the ship design industry during the Republic of China, this person was also known as Ye Zaifu during the era.
He served as chief engineer of Jiangnan Shipbuilding Institute from 1917 to 1937.
And his resume is also very impressive,
In 1912, he was admitted to the Department of Shipbuilding at the University of Glasgow, England.
In 1914, he was sent to the United States to supervise the construction of ships built by China in the United States.
In 1915, he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States to study warship design and manufacturing, and received a master's degree in naval engineering in 1917.
After returning to China, he worked at Jiangnan Shipyard. From 1927, he served as chief engineer and director of the shipbuilding department, creating a new situation in which production power was controlled by the Chinese.
In 1943, he was appointed professor and director of the Shipbuilding Department of Chongqing Jiaotong University.
He personally designed more than 500 ships, especially the design of Chuanjiang Ship.
He devoted his life to the cultivation of ship design and shipbuilding technical talents, and cultivated batches of elite talents for the domestic shipbuilding industry.
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It is also because he has such a good character that Zhou Wenhua also wants to meet him and learn shipbuilding techniques.
After deciding to visit these two celebrities in the shipbuilding industry,
Zhou Wenhua didn't mind and went to visit his friend Chen Ziting in his father's shipbuilding factory.
Anyway, he and Ye Zaifu, the chief engineer of Jiangnan Shipyard, are in the same shipyard, so it is very convenient to visit.
In addition to these visit plans,
Zhou Wenhua also planned to ask his housekeeper Liu Xing to recruit a group of strong and obedient young people to come back at dawn to train his security team and find out where weapons and equipment are for sale.
After taking care of these things,
Zhou Wenhua also stopped studying and went to sleep.
Soon, he fell asleep.
This is the third day that he traveled to the Republic of China era.
During the period of the Republic of China, due to civil strife and foreign invasion, except for the Jiangnan Shipyard, a joint venture between the military and capital, the shipbuilding industry in Songhu was controlled by other shipbuilding factories such as Yinglian, Moller, Donghua, Qiuxin, etc.
In the hands of British, French, American, Japanese and other businessmen,
As for the remaining domestic shipbuilding factories and merchants, they can only set up some small shipyards, mainly demolishing and repairing old ones, and cannot compete with foreigners and foreign merchants.
Even the more famous steamship companies such as Datong, Dada, Minsheng, Sanbei, and Chongming in Songhu cannot compare with the shipbuilding technology of foreigners.
Even the Japanese army's shipbuilding technology is ahead of them.
It is also because of this that before Zhou Wenhua fell asleep, he also hoped that he could make a contribution to the domestic shipbuilding industry of the Republic of China.
Especially after the first Battle of Songhu broke out in 1932,
The Great China Shipbuilding Machinery Factory was once occupied by the Japanese army.
However, before the war, it was about to receive an order from the National Army's Navy Department to build the "Yangtze" gunboat.
However, at this time, Yang Junsheng had just rented a piece of desert beach on Fuxing Island, about 30 acres of land, through the relationship between Song Ziliang, the director of the Songhu Binpu Bureau, and also recruited more than a hundred people to work on the reclamation
factory.
The shipyard is also under construction, and the project has just started a few days ago.
Because his previous three-year contract with the factory leased in the foreign concession had expired.
He wanted to renew the lease, but Japan, Britain, and France explicitly prohibited Chinese people from setting up shipyards in the jurisdiction of their foreign concessions.
Therefore, Yang Junsheng could only move his shipyard to Fuxing Island in Songhu for reconstruction.
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The next day, after dawn,
Zhou Wenhua first went to see his father and expressed his condolences.
Just start having breakfast,
He cooked the breakfast himself because he felt that his cooking skills were more delicious than those cooked by the chefs and workers hired by his family, so he cooked it himself.
In this regard, his family's chefs and workers could only prepare breakfast for his father's wives and housekeepers.
After breakfast,
Zhou Wenhua also asked someone to take a look at some current affairs newspapers published this morning.
After finding out what happened in the last few days,
Only then did the housekeeper Liu Xing make arrangements for the three people he wanted to visit, Yang Junsheng, the founder of the Zhonghua Shipyard, Ye Zaifu, the chief engineer of the Jiangnan Shipyard, and Chen Ziting, his father's friend.
Before visiting, you must first obtain the other party's consent.
Fortunately, the relationship between Chen Ziting and Ye Zaifu, the chief engineer of Jiangnan Shipbuilding Institute, was relatively good and familiar, so soon the housekeeper Liu Xing made an appointment with Ye Zaifu, the chief engineer of Jiangnan Shipbuilding Institute, through Chen Ziting.
As for Yang Junsheng, the founder of Zhonghua Shipyard, since Zhou Wenhua asked the housekeeper Liu Xing to make an appointment in the name of cooperative shipbuilding, Yang Junsheng, who lacked new orders, made an appointment quickly.
The time to meet that day.
Then, the housekeeper Liu Xing also continued to follow Zhou Wenhua's instructions to recruit soldiers and horses for him to form a security team.
After making arrangements,
Under the protection of two bodyguards, Zhou Wenhua got into his father's black Mercedes-Benz and headed towards Fuxing Island in Songhu to visit Yang Junsheng, the founder of Zhonghua Shipyard.
At this time, Yang Junsheng was also busy directing his workers to build a shipyard.
So busy,
But after being busy for a while,
He also looked at the time on the watch on his hand.
Because he was also curious about where Zhou Wenhua came from and whether he was really willing to place an order to build a ship.
In fact, when he received a call from his housekeeper Liu Xing,
He was also very stunned,
He clearly remembered that no one knew the temporary phone number of his new shipbuilding factory except Song Ziliang, the director of the Songhu Binpu Bureau, a few close friends and relatives, and his own workers.
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Therefore, for Zhou Wenhua to be able to find his new phone number so easily and ask the housekeeper to call for an appointment, he could also feel that the family background of Zhou Wenhua's family was not simple.
Therefore, he paid more attention to his first meeting with Zhou Wenhua.
"It seems that Mr. Zhou should be arriving at my place soon!"
"I have to entertain him well. Maybe there will be a big order for me!"
When Yang Junsheng read the time, he muttered a few words.
Then, he also put down the work he was doing and let the workers under him continue to work.
And he began to prepare for receiving Zhou Wenhua, as well as the meals and place for the reception.