On the west side of the Huangpu River, between the North Building of the China Merchants Bank and the Public Concession Waterworks, two foundation pits with a length of more than 130 meters and a width of 30 meters were excavated. A 3,000 tons and a 5,000 tons new reinforced concrete dock were already in the
The bottom plate was poured, and the Hudong Shipyard, which had just been established for more than a year, showed extraordinary courage from the beginning.
Lin Shu spent 40,000 silver dollars to buy the Fachang Machinery Shipyard, which was on the verge of bankruptcy under the joint suppression of the British Shang Yesong Shipyard and Xiangsheng Shipyard. This is the first private national machinery manufacturing enterprise in modern China that can continue to survive.
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Fachang Machinery Factory has more than 200 skilled workers who can skillfully control various machine tools, but has never had its own dock, which has always been at a disadvantage in the competition with foreign shipyards. After Lin Shuo took over the factory, he took over the factory.
, immediately spent nearly 200,000 taels of silver in the Yangshupu area to purchase nearly 1,000 acres of land along the river, and began to plan to move the shipyard from Hongkou to the bank of Yangshupu River.
Xu Jianyin, a shipbuilding expert who was dismissed from his post and was unemployed, was invited to serve as the manager of Hudong Shipyard, responsible for the planning, design and construction of the shipyard.
At first, Xu Jianyin advocated the construction of two 2,000-ton wooden docks first, but Lin Shuo stubbornly demanded to build two permanent docks with the latest European reinforced concrete structures, which surprised Xu Jianyin. He was also in such a dock.
I saw it in Germany when I was supervising the construction of Haichen and other warships, but I don’t know how to construct it.
Fortunately, Xu Jianyin has always had a good relationship with major German shipyards. In the end, with the help of Volkeng Shipyard, he got back a complete set of construction drawings and several German construction technicians. This complete set of dock drawings in Germany
Including two drawings: 5,000 tons and 8,000 tons. The construction cost of a 5,000 tons steel-concrete dry dock is about 30,000 taels of silver, while an 8,000 tons dry dock requires more than 50,000 taels of gold, and the supporting equipment of each dock requires about 50,000 tons.
, 60,000 taels of silver. In addition to some large equipment that needs to be purchased from Europe, the Fachang Machinery Factory can also produce some small equipment, which can save some investment.
According to the plan, Hudong Shipyard will expand the scale of the machine factory, wood factory, boiler factory and cast iron factory. It will subsequently build a new steelmaking furnace, add a 300-ton large free-type hydraulic press and some supporting forging equipment to achieve the capacity.
The ability to independently process and produce the main components of the hull.
The power machine factory will also add more than 240 machine tools with various functions, which can process and manufacture most power components including steam engines, spindles, crankshafts, bearing shells, gears and other power components.
The initial investment scale of Hudong Shipyard, including land purchase and factory building costs, reached about 1.9 million taels of silver, which is a very shocking figure in the late liquidation. After production, Hudong Shipyard will become China.
The largest private shipbuilding company.
Lin Shuo has no worries about capital, and there is no problem with larger investment, but the current situation is that China lacks technical workers, and the domestic market still needs to be cultivated. After all, domestic shipping is still being shipped by China Merchants and Yi.
And, the two foreign companies in Swire are monopolized.
Zhang Zhidong, Hubei opened a security gunpowder factory. Somehow I remembered Xu Jianyin again and sent his son-in-law Chen Nianrong to Shanghai to invite him to preside over the gunpowder factory.
Xu Jianyin felt very embarrassed. Zhang Zhidong was kind to him, which made it difficult for him to refuse, so he came to find Lin Shuo.
"After Mr. Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, he has been in charge of building no less than four or five arsenals? Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, Jinling Machinery Bureau, Fuzhou Machinery Bureau, Tianjin Beiyang Machinery Bureau, Hanyang Machinery Bureau, the guns and cannons made are no more than those of the Japanese.
Bad, but what is the result?" Lin Shuo calculated Xu Jianyin's contributions over the years with his fingers, and then changed the subject, "How is the Japanese army's equipment compared to Beiyang in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895? I'm afraid it's worse than that in the battle of Pyongyang and Liaodong
, all the guns and cannons in stock are used to make use of the enemy. Besides, the battle of Dadonggou is actually not a defeat!"
"Oh, why did you say that?" Xu Jianyin's eyes lit up. The result of the naval battle he was in charge of the investigation after the Battle of the Yellow Sea. The first time I heard that it was not a defeat.
"First of all, the real strategic purpose of this naval battle is to compete for sea control. If there is no sea control, the Japanese army will not dare to land in North Korea or even Liaodong on a large scale. The war can only be said to be limited to North Korea and evolve into a local conflict. The Japanese Navy wants to
The primary goal of seizing the sea control power was to sink the town and set two ironclad ships, but they did not achieve this goal in the naval battle. As for the five cruisers that were sunk in the naval battle, it was also a crime of non-war, the old wooden warships
It is normal not to be able to defeat the latest steel warships. However, as long as the town and the two ships are still there, the Japanese Navy will not be able to obtain sea control. Moreover, during the naval battle, it also showed that the Japanese Navy warships could not sink the town and set two warships. On the contrary,
After the naval battle, the two ships of Zhen and Ding were trapped in Weihai Guards, and watched the Japanese army land calmly in Liaodong, and did not dare to go out to sea to fight. They handed over the control of the sea to the Japanese. This was the real big failure."
"The situation of Zhen Ding Second Ship was really impossible to go out to sea at that time. At that time, there was no dock in China that could accommodate such a large warship to enter the dock for maintenance." Xu Jianyin said.
"Why can there be no dock to accommodate two ships? When these two warships are bought, we should think that the warship needs to be repaired. Is it because the warship is half-war and the warship is damaged and wants to drive back to Germany for maintenance? Let's talk about Beiyang.
Without money, why can we spend more than 20 million to build Lushun, Weihai Fortress and Fortress, and can't we spend a hundred thousand taels of silver to build two docks that can accommodate 8,000 tons of warship repairs? This is a question of concept, no matter how good the gun is,
The cannon, if you put it in the hands of Ye Zhichao and others who are greedy and afraid of death, it would be better than the beggar's beating stick!" Lin Shuo was a little angry, "I'll say so much. If the gentleman thinks that making gunpowder is more meaningful than building a shipyard,
You can’t force yourself to stay, but please ask the sir to build the dock before making a decision!”
Just kidding, if you go to Hanyang, you will be killed. Lin Shuo read an article that mentioned that when Xu Jianyin was in charge of the Hanyang Steel Pharmaceutical Factory, he found that the equipment used in the factory happened to be when he was studying in Germany ten years ago
The used machine was because he made a mark on the machine, and the purchase price of this old equipment was ridiculously high. Xu Jianyin was upright and upright, and was very annoyed by this matter and insisted on thoroughly checking who was buying it.
These machines were bothered and were greedy. As a result, a group of officials who had benefited from purchasing machines joined forces to set up a plan. The explosion in Xu Jianyin's death was actually a man-made conspiracy.
Lin Shu would definitely not watch Xu Jianyin die. If it really doesn't work, even if he uses kidnapping, he has to let Lao Xu escape that disaster. Where can such talents be found?
Xu Jianyin saw that Lin Shuo was very serious and the shipyard was indeed halfway through, so he could not leave. In Lin Shuo's words, what would it be if he helped Xiangshuai build an arsenal? The difference made the Eight Kingdoms
The coalition forces occupied Beijing, and the emperor was still scared to the point where he could not go home.
After Xu Jianyin found Chen Nianrong, he said that he was indeed unable to get rid of his body. He could only politely decline Xiangshuai's kindness. He was afraid that Chen Nianrong would not believe it, so he led him to the construction site of the shipyard.
Zhang Jian visited Lin Shuo's newly opened shipyard with great enthusiasm. Because the business was going well, he looked full of spring breeze and spirit. It seemed that his gray hair and beard had become blacker, no longer the miserable appearance he had when he was worried and asked for help everywhere.
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"Why did Mr. Ji Zhi come to the shipyard? Is there something difficult about the spoiler mill?" Lin Shuo said.
"This time I came here not for the matter of the yarn mill, but someone came to ask for something. Zhonghu was also very familiar with this person."
"Who is that?" Lin Shuo was also familiar with Xu Jianyin when he heard that he was familiar with him, and guessed that this person was either a skilled person or a former reformist official.
"Wenting-style Wenyun Pavilion." Zhang Jian said, "This Wenyun Pavilion was wanted by the court some time ago. Sheng Xuanhuai took the opportunity to take advantage of the situation and wanted to get the Wen family's coal mine. The Wenyun Pavilion's "Guangtai Fu" coal number was suppressed by Sheng Xuanhuai.
I couldn't hold on. I heard that my yarn mill made money, so I came to the door to rescue me."
"Interesting, Mr. Wen Yunge also opens a coal mine, but he didn't expect to be one of us." Lin Shuo smiled. This Wenting style was also a great celebrity in Guangxu year. He was a disciple of Chen Li, a famous scholar in Lingnan.
In the mansion of General Changshan, Guangzhou, he had a close relationship with his heir Zhirui. He served as a tutor for Concubine Jin, who later became the favored concubine of Guangxu. He served as a tutor for Concubine Zhen. He was the main figure of the "Qingliu" and "Imperial Party" in the court, and was with Wang Wu.
Luan, Zhang Jian and others were called "The Six Sons of Wengmen". Due to the relationship between Zhenfei, Wen Tingshi was appreciated by Guangxu and was promoted to Hanlin's attendant, and also talked about daily life, that is, he was with the emperor every day and was responsible.
Record the emperor's daily words and deeds.
After the 1899th, Wen Tingshi was dismissed by Cixi and sent back to the country. Because of inciting reforms, he was secretly visited by the court after the Wuxu coup. Wen Tingshi got the news and fled to Japan. Later, during the Gengzi period, Wen Tingshi returned to China and Rong
Hong, Yan Fu, Zhang Binglin and others formed the "Chinese Congress" in Shanghai. Tang Caichang failed to launch the self-reliance uprising, and Wen Tingshi became a "disruption party". Unexpectedly, such a person actually had a coal mine at home?!
The "Guangtai Fu" of the Wen family has dozens of mines and more than a dozen coking ovens in Pingxiang. Pingxiang Coal Mine is one of the few high-quality coal mines in several provinces in the south. After Sheng Xuanhuai became the general office of the Hanyang Iron Plant, he began to respond.
Pingxiang Coal Mine started to think about it. At first, she was afraid of the relationship between Emperor Guangxu and Weng Tonghe and the Wen family, and signed a long-term coal supply agreement with "Guangtai Fu". After the Boxer Emperor, Emperor Weng was dismissed from his post, and the emperor seemed to be the throne.
After losing protection, he was imprisoned in Yingtai. Sheng Xuanhuai no longer had any scruples and immediately lowered the purchase price of coke, resulting in "Guangtai Fu" suffering serious losses and wanted to use this to redeem all of Wen's mines.
Wen Tingshi is now hiding in the French Concession. The news has been a bit tight recently. He can only rent a house in the concession. The Qing Dynasty has no control over this place, which is similar to running abroad, but it is a bit embarrassing to see the situation.
Lin Shu accompanied Zhang Jian to a small courtyard in Fengqing, French Concession. Wen Tingshi heard that it was Zhang Jian himself and went to the door to welcome the two into the living room. Lin Shu couldn't see the man being slapped.
What's so special about the romantic talent people praised by people? Instead, I feel a little bit of downfall in the master.
At first, Wen Tingshi only thought Lin Shuo was a student of Zhang Jian, but she was a little surprised. Lin Shuo looked strong and didn't look like a scholar. After Zhang Jian made a special introduction, Wen Tingshi learned about the young man who was not good-looking in front of him.
Talents are the main person in the negotiation today.
The price of mines in Pingxiang is similar to that in southern Anhui. In southern Anhui, most of the mountains and forests have tea gardens, mulberry gardens, etc., while in Pingxiang, it is because most of them have coal fields under them. However, because artificial mining is not very cost-effective, each ton of high-quality coal is only available in the local area.
It can be sold for two or three taels of silver, and the sales are not very good.
Although the Hanyang Iron Factory paid 16 taels of silver per ton of coke, the burned coke transported coal from Pingxiang to Hanyang. The ship fee, water foot and removable cost would cost more than eight taels of silver per ton.
The process is backward, and the local coke oven in Pingxiang can only burn more than one ton of coke every two tons, and by-products such as coal tar are not recycled at all.
Lin Shu listened to Wen Ting's detailed introduction and gradually understood the reason why Pingxiang coal mine was in trouble. This is also a common problem encountered by modern Chinese industry and commerce, and transportation difficulties. This is why the local economy along the southeast coast and along the river is developing faster, and the more we go.
The main reason why the more difficult it is inland.
To get rich, build roads first.
This slogan from later generations is still very scientific.
In the era without cars, this road refers to railways. The construction of railways requires a lot of investment. The investment per kilometer of railways is about 30,000 taels of silver. Wherever you want to build a road, you can't afford such a large amount of funds.
Compradors of money are often concentrated in trade ports such as Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Tianjin. Few people have the vision and courage to invest in the mainland.
Sheng Xuanhuai was a person with insight and courage in this era, but he had a fatal flaw. In fact, Sheng Xuanhuai was good at dancing and spent all the money from others. The Sheng family was born into a bureaucrat and was not a rich businessman.
Moreover, Sheng Xuanhuai is relatively greedy for money and cannot allow shareholders to get rich together.
For example, when Huasheng Textile Factory was rebuilt in 1894, it was changed to the IPO Office of the Office of the IPO. At first, Sheng Xuanhuai had only more than 20% of the shares, but under the leadership of Sheng's family, his financial losses were suffered year after year. Sheng Xuanhuai sold, sublease, and changed the factory name.
He used a series of techniques and embezzled the public property of the China Merchants Bank, and embezzled the rights and interests of other shareholders for his own use, gradually turning the Huasheng Textile Factory into the private property of the Sheng family.
Sheng Xuanhuai made his fortune by using his position as a state-owned enterprise chief executive and embezzled public funds, but he didn't care about the development of the enterprises he was in charge.
The Shanghai Shipbuilding Merchants Company, which was established in Beiyang, was able to buy two or three new ships every year. The scale and efficiency exceeded that of British Pacific and Jardines Co., Ltd., but after the Sheng family, he has not bought one for more than ten years.
The business of a ship shrank day by day, and millions of profits were used for other purposes every year. Li Hongzhang called it a "business genius". It was really strange, and it was the Qing Dynasty that could produce this.
The talent is gone.
The more money Sheng Xuanhuai is greedy, the more stable his position in the officialdom. Even the governor of Huguang Zhang Zhidong treated him as a treasure and asked him to preside over the Hanyang Iron Factory. Sheng Xuanhuai used his official power and power to force Pingxiang local people.
The owners of the small mine sold the mine to the newly established Anyuan Mining Administration.
The state-owned assets of the State Administration of Mining belong to Hanyang Iron Factory in the name can only be turned into Shengjia's ATMs.
Lin Shuo looked down on corrupt officials in state-owned enterprises like Sheng Xuanhuai. What is most unbearable is that Sheng Xuanhuai used all means to make money. A few years later, most of the Daye mines under the name of Hanyang Iron Factory were mortgaged to the Japanese, causing the Japanese to gradually control them.
During World War I alone, the Japanese made huge profits of nearly 300 million US dollars in the price difference of the Daye I iron ore during World War I alone.
Japanese lackey! Traitor! These words are not wrong at all when they are put on Sheng Xuanhuai's head. Whenever Lin Shu reads these history, he is so angry that he is itchy.
Out of the basic awareness of being a Chinese, Lin Shuo must take action against Sheng Xuanhuai.
His move was out of righteous indignation, while Wen Tingshi was related to his own interests. Another Zhang Jizhi was not ashamed of Sheng's character, but the three had only one purpose and one person to deal with.
"If Pingxiang Coal Mine wants to operate, it will cost at least eight million! A large coal mine requires four to five million machinery and equipment, and to build a railway to Zhuzhou, this section of railway also requires two to three million."
Lin Shu was thinking for a long time in his mind, then raised his head and said, "Sheng Xuanhuai doesn't have money, and even if he has money, he can't invest it in the mine."
"So he can only collect business shares or borrow foreign debts!" Zhang Jian said.
"It is difficult to collect business stocks, because Hanyang Iron Factory has been losing money all the time and has no attraction. Sheng Xuanhuai has to borrow foreign money." Wen Tingshi said, "We must create momentum to stop Sheng Xuanhuai from borrowing from foreigners. The court is concerned about this.
I'm quite mindful."
"Not necessarily. Since the rebellion of the Gengzi, the court may not dare to take care of it. If you don't see the princes and important officials in the court have been sentenced to death according to the wishes of foreigners?" Zhang Jian said, "But the business people are willing to do so."
If you are in charge, the court will help the country first, so Lord Zhang can't say anything."
"I am willing to take on the investment and promotional stocks with all my strength. Please rest assured that I can get a few million taels of silver myself." Lin Shuo was embarrassed when he saw Wen Tingshi's face, and immediately cheered him up and said, "I saw Wen.
Tingshi immediately opened her mouth and couldn't speak.
"There is another point. Yuanzhou is the territory of Liangjiang. Liangjiang wants to run its own coal mine. Zhang Nanpi is embarrassed to reach out again. Yanshuai has to ask Mr. Ji to come forward to talk about the situation." Lin Shuo turned his eyes to Zhang Jian.
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"This is no problem, I will come forward to the side of General Liu." Zhang Jian agreed immediately, "But the gentry in Yuanzhou still has to ask Yunge to come forward and encourage him."
Lin Shuo's real goal in his heart was the entire Hanyang Iron Plant and Daye Iron Mine. He did not say this and took down Pingxiang Coal Mine, which was equivalent to controlling the life of Hanyang Iron Plant. At that time, Sheng Xuanhuai would give up when he knew the difficulties.