Williams said confidently: "It is a small shipbuilding industry, compared with large warships, the American industry does not dare to say that it is ahead of the world, but the small industry is definitely ahead, because the large shipbuilding industry, now it is still the most powerful shipyard in the United Kingdom, if it continues to operate, it is not that it cannot be operated, mainly because they feel that they should be able to have a better development when they return to the United States." ”Young Master Meng nodded, "I'll send a technician to Shanghai to check it out immediately, hoping that Mr.
Williams will help me contact me." ”Williams nodded and said: "Young Master Meng, you are really a very resolute person, if you can win this business, it is very cost-effective, they invested 500,000 taels of Chinese official silver, and it has been opened for less than ten years, and now the equipment and workshop, together with the warehouse, are only sold for 300,000 taels." ”Young Master Meng: "I don't want factories and warehouses, I just need equipment and technology for you to help me contact me, and I will send someone today." ”Williams nodded, "Okay, in this case, it should be cheaper." ”Young Master Meng smiled: "Of course, I can go anywhere to buy equipment, but they are in the Great Qing Kingdom, and it is difficult to find buyers." ”Williams sighed, "Yes, the later industrial countries, when they come to the Qing Dynasty, can only do some trade, and if they want to fight with the British who entered China one step earlier, they can't fight for industrial production." ”Young Master Meng is also very jealous of Britain's world hegemony at this time, and the sun never sets on the empire, which is not blown out.Coupled with a French ally, it is a king and hegemon everywhere, and uses military strength to ensure economic aggression, which is indeed very efficient, if it were not for the big losses in World War II and the rapid rise of the United States, I really don't know what Britain would have developed.History is inevitable, but there are also many accidental factors, Young Master Meng has always been very generous in his investment in technology, but he will not spend money indiscriminately, where he should bargain, he still has his subordinates.Young Master Meng is very good at business, and by the way, all the compradors of Klinsmann are master negotiators.A company, an enterprise, is also the same as an army, what kind of personality was the initial commander, what kind of personality this company will be later, the management of the entire Klinsmann Company, in this era, is the most advanced technology of the Klinsmann Company, has not yet gone up, but the management is already very advanced, more than any company.Out of the U.S.
Consulate, Zhao Qingluo saw Yuemeng's face with joy, and asked: "Except for sending a sum of money out, I haven't seen what has come into the talks, you really plan to buy other people's old equipment" Young Master Meng smiled: "The accounts are not calculated like this, this is an early investment, and it is not a loss to invest in people like Williams, he has asked us, and we have also asked him, this relationship is more stable and reliable than any relationship, and moreover, I also got a transaction information, isn't it very good to invest hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, For me now, we bought it, even if we don't start work, with these technicians and equipment, at least we can open a technical school first" Zhao Qingluo shook her head, "Okay, anyway, I don't understand what you think, when your shipyard is profitable, it seems that you have to wait for ten years, I haven't seen people so enthusiastic about things after ten years." ”Xuan Yuemeng said with a smile: "Prepare early, there will be hope in ten years, if you never prepare, just wait for another ten years, isn't it in vain besides, buy other people's old equipment now, you can also kill the price of scrap copper and rotten iron, tomorrow you will tell Timothy Li about this, let him take someone to Shanghai to talk about this project to bargain to the death, if you can't kill it, let him come back first, this business, we are determined to win." ”Zhao Qingluo: "Okay." ”Young Master Meng smiled contentedly, he didn't expect to come to the U.S.
Consulate and get a very useful information, compared to the new equipment, he would rather have the old equipment, provided that the technology is not outdated.In fact, he believes that if the dispatch of foreign students goes smoothly and has his own scientists in advance, within ten years, he should be able to master the shipbuilding process, master the metallurgical process, and wait until it can smelt qualified steel, and it can be shipbuilding, so what is the problem of guns to know, more than ten years ago, the machine bureau created by Zeng Guofan led by Zeng Guofan can already imitate foreign guns and foreign cannons.
It's just that there is no metallurgical and energy industry in China, and the imitation effect is too poor, and the Qing government does not realize the necessity of these things.
Otherwise, you will be smoked to death by stinky feet.After Timothy Li got the instructions of Young Master Meng, he took more than a dozen technicians, as well as Dali, Xuan Yuewu and others to Shanghai.The two sides negotiated very smoothly, and it was not as difficult as Master Meng began to envision, and in only three days, an agreement of intent was reached, and the telegram was sent back to Tianjin, and Master Meng was also satisfied with the result.The equipment with a valuation of more than 200,000 taels only needs 20,000 taels in the end, and all the transactions will be made, because except for Young Master Meng, no one in the Qing Dynasty will buy these shipbuilding equipment, even if these equipment are much better than the equipment of the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau, which is the most sound in the Qing Dynasty, those masters of the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau don't look down on the old goods, they don't care about the technology, they just want new things, and they think that the old things are not good.The most important thing is that the 20,000 taels of silver spent by Young Master Meng also include more than 50 technicians, including more than 10 advanced technologies with more than 20 years of shipbuilding experience, which is the most satisfying for Young Master Meng.In another half a month, Master Meng's small shipyard will take shape.The site is next to the wharf of the American Concession, and the area of the entire shipyard is only more than 100 acres.There is a steam engine workshop and an iron association factory, and after talking with those high-level American technicians, Young Master Meng is quite excited, and he learned that they have the experience of producing small Western steam engines and steam engine ships a few years ago, and can imitate small ironclad warships.Meng young master to these technicians, according to the level, divided the level, he is also the first time to systematically substitute the professional level into the modern industry, Meng young master will be complex industry into ten levels of his division is very simple, let the technicians hire each other, combined with their previous salary technicians how many levels of each other, everyone has a rod scale in their hearts, this is the most accurate, Meng young master turned over 50% of everyone's salary and promised to provide them with excellent housing after working in Klinsmann for a year, and pay for it, Bring their family in the United States so that although Young Master Meng's shipyard is not about to start, however, the teachers of his technical school are complete, and the equipment of these shipyards has temporarily become machinery manufacturing equipment, so that these technicians are busy training potential Chinese workers and doing some complex machining.Young Master Meng is simply turning waste into treasure, which stunned Timothy Li and others.Timothy Li, "Mr.
Yuemeng, is it worth the 20,000 taels of flowers" Young Master Meng nodded with a smile, "It's worth it This is currently the most worthwhile investment in China's workers are cheap, let the people below arrange more workers who usually perform well in their work to technical schools for training, focusing on cultivating those workers who perform well, and I will send them to the United States for further study in the future" Timothy Li was inexplicable, and Young Master Meng smiled and said what he talked to Williams secretly.Timothy Li nodded in appreciation: "Mr.
Yuemeng, I really admire your vision now, and your courage is a long-term thing, which is indeed very good." ”Young Master Meng sighed, "It's a pity that there is no steel mill, otherwise, I will build a steel mill now, and in less than five years, we can produce our own ships" t1706231537: