The day after meeting Gao Shun, Yuan Su got up early to pack his bags. He had made some arrangements in the past few days, and it just so happened that today was the opening of a joint venture between him and a local gentry in Tianjin, so he had to rush
Went to attend the opening ceremony.
Although in order to avoid suspicion, he has tried his best to avoid any direct contact with Luanzhou, but he still needs to take care of the many personal properties he manages in Luanzhou. This is not something that even the outside world would criticize.
I believe that even if the monitors sent by Yuan Shikai reported it, it would not be a big deal.
In addition to Suye Company, Northern Bank and related factories, the busiest business in the past six months has been the 101 Factory. Since the 101 Factory designed a new rifle and was approved by the Central Army as the standard rifle, the 101 Factory
The factory immediately made huge profits from this huge project. Even though the largest production unit of the "Xiangcheng" new rifle is the Beiyang Machinery General Administration, the raw materials, technical components and related equipment operations required by the Beiyang Machinery General Administration are all
It has to be imported from Factory 101. Furthermore, Factory 101 has also accepted several OEM orders, so it can be said that it makes money in many ways.
It is precisely because of the huge profits from the "Xiangcheng" rifle project that Factory 101 has enough funds to expand its independent research and development department. It not only hired more research and development experts with heavy sums of money, but also introduced a large number of state-of-the-art research and development equipment.
Just in July this year, Factory 101 signed a joint research and development project with Daimler Suye Shipbuilding Company to jointly develop the latest gasoline engines and more complete electric spark ignition devices.
Daimler himself had completed the invention of the gasoline engine and electric spark ignition device thirty years ago. Later, American and British engineers also made similar inventions. However, as early engines and devices, there are naturally many
Small flaws. Due to World War I, Daimler Corporation in Europe had to transfer its research and development projects to China, using China's environment and funds to speed up the continued research and development of previously unfinished projects.
This time, military industry experts from Factory 101 joined Daimler's engine project, and coupled with the large amount of funds provided by China, Daimler was able to achieve rapid breakthroughs in several projects.
Just in the middle of last month, the cooperation project between Daimler Suye and Factory 101 was officially declared successful. After more than four months, China and Germany invested a total of nearly 150,000 US dollars in research expenses. Of course, these ten
China accounted for the majority of the 50,000 yuan. Precisely because China invested and contributed, and spared no effort in negotiations in the later period, it finally obtained the joint signature property rights of the new engine and electronic ignition device.
For China, although this new type of engine and spark ignition device is not 100% independent property rights, it is also a major sign of changing China's modern industry. At least in the future, it will not have to pay additional fees for property rights when producing engines. So in the next ten years
In a few days, Yuan Su took time to contact local investors in Tianjin for cooperation and decided to start China's first automobile factory.
With Yuan Su's current reputation in the industrial world, coupled with his signature engine, there are naturally countless local gentry responders in Tianjin. Although cars are novel gadgets and extremely expensive on the market, after Yuan Su proposed
In the development plan, he will focus on official and military cars, which means that with a fixed group of customers with spending power, it will definitely be a profitable business.
The preliminary negotiations for the entire company only took a few days. Anyway, the subsequent production lines, mechanical equipment, and skilled workers can be solved slowly. With the company, we can immediately promote and attract orders to local governments and military agencies.
It will obviously be easier to produce according to orders later.
The opening ceremony attended by Yuan Su was the first automobile company in China to be announced.
There are four major shareholders in this company, and Yuan Su is naturally one of them. He didn't even contribute a lot of money. He only used his engine technology to act as a resource stock. The other three are all famous tycoons in Tianjin, including
Shang Dequan, who had just hosted a banquet for Yuan Su not long ago. In addition to the major shareholders, there are also some small shareholders who take part in the shares. Basically, they are just taking advantage of the favor to get a share of the pie. However, they can also invite the largest official and businessman in the Republic of China.
Zhang Jian participated in it, but I don’t know why. Zhang Jian, who was originally the most powerful and most enthusiastic about this, only contributed a few tens of thousands of yuan to become a small shareholder.
Because he is the major shareholder and the founder of the automobile company, Yuan Su left his residence for the automobile company's office before nine o'clock in the morning. The office building is a four-story building that has been put aside for a long time. Because of the rush of time, the interior of the building
We are still rushing to renovate. Only the main hall and a few rooms on the first floor were renovated overnight.
However, the ceremony in front of the gate was very lively, with a red carpet, a large platform, a wide screen, and a temporary "wall" made of red silk and satin around it. There were also many busy staff at the scene, neatly dressed.
Uniforms, reception and related ceremony arrangements for invited guests, etc.
When Yuan Su's carriage arrived, not only more than five staff members came to greet him, but even several major shareholders rushed to greet him. After getting off the carriage, he greeted everyone and then went to the office building together.
I took a short break in the lobby on the first floor. I listened to several other major shareholders describe the arrangements for the ceremony later, and chatted for a while. After a while, it was time to invite the guests.
The guests present were all celebrities of the Beijing and Tianjin generation, senior government officials, and Yuan Su was very polite. He shook hands with every guest and chatted for a few words, regardless of whether they had known each other before.
As it approached ten o'clock, all the invited guests had basically arrived. Various horse-drawn carriages filled the street in front of the office building. In fact, this was a deliberate arrangement during the opening ceremony. When the ceremony began, the cars
When several shareholders of the company take the stage to give a speech, they can use these carriages to make fun of them, saying that there will no longer be such various carriages in the future, but will only be replaced by various cars.
The opening ceremony officially started at 10:20. After a lot of red tape, several major shareholders headed by Yuan Su took the stage to give speeches one after another. The guests below the stage also pretended to be grand.
His extremely enthusiastic appearance added a lot of brilliance to the opening ceremony.
In fact, all the guests present were waiting for was to have a meal at the most luxurious hotel in Tianjin after the ceremony.
Fortunately, Yuan Su had explained the preparations for the ceremony in advance, and reduced or deleted unnecessary links as much as possible, so the entire event did not last more than an hour and ended at almost eleven o'clock. For this reason,
It saves many guests from waiting outside in the cold weather.
Just as the ceremony came to an end, the attendants, butlers and other figures brought by several shareholders each led some guests to the grand hotel to prepare for their seats. Yuan Su and the other three major shareholders stayed behind to deal with the aftermath.
Suddenly someone came to report that Zhang Jian, the president of the National Water Conservancy Bureau, came to the scene in person and is now outside the office building.
Yuan Su and others were very surprised. It was said before that Zhang Jian was not in Beijing. In the reply to the invitation letter sent before the ceremony, Zhang Jian also made it clear that he could not attend the ceremony. Why did Zhang Jian himself come over just after the ceremony? So
Everyone hurriedly came to the door, only to see Zhang Jian with only one entourage, standing at the door waiting in simple attire. They hurriedly came forward to greet Zhang Jian and asked Zhang Jian to move to the office building and take a seat first.
Zhang Jian first apologized to everyone, saying that he had indeed had no time to get away before, but he had temporarily canceled some travel arrangements yesterday evening, so he took the early morning train from Beijing to Tianjin.
Although in front of major shareholders such as Yuan Su, Zhang Jian's investment of tens of thousands of yuan is simply not enough, but with Zhang Jian's qualifications and status in the industrial and commercial circles in Beiyang and even the country, he is like a leader-like figure, even if Zhang Jian did not invest a penny in shares,
As long as you can show up to support the car company, everyone should be grateful.
Thinking that Zhang Jian had rushed to Tianjin by train in the early morning, and now that he was old, his health must have been a little bit too much. This made everyone feel more and more frightened, and also a little confused and strange.
Since Zhang Jian had no intention of occupying a major shareholder position from the beginning, if he really had something to do and had no time to get away, there would be no need to rush over in such a hurry. It can be seen that Zhang Jian most likely had other plans for his trip.
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[I'm really sorry, everyone. I have repented and started to adjust my status since yesterday. But I am currently following "Downton Abbey". Readers can also go and watch it. It is much better than domestic palace fighting.]