October 10, 1928. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The new chairman of the Kuomintang government in Nanjing and members of various ministries were sworn in, and huge celebratory parades were held in Nanjing, Shanghai, and other places.

In the afternoon of the same day, Swire Pacific Hong Kong held a shareholders' meeting to officially spin off Swire Shipyard and become a professional company with independent legal personality.

Sir Cheng Lanting, a shareholder of the shipyard, exchanged shares in Swire Properties for shares in Swire Shipyard and received 20% of the shares of the shipyard transferred by HSBC, becoming the largest shareholder of Swire Shipyard with 37.5% of the shares, the remaining shareholders are Sir Rochester, Lord Chancellor, Mr Wright, Chairman of Anglo-Chinese Commercial Trading Company, Swire Shipyards and HSBC Hong Kong Head Office.

October 11, morning.

The Hong Kong Swire Precision Machinery Manufacturing Company, a subsidiary of Hong Kong Taikoo Shipyard, was officially established.

Zheng Yi made his official appearance as a special assistant to Sir Cheng Lanting, explaining to all shareholders the production and sales plans of the two new products and the new steel helmet.

The two new products are the M1928 machine gun designed by Zheng Yi himself and the reduced caliber imitation Colt 1911 pistol.

Although the M1928 submachine gun is copied from the German Bergman MP18 submachine gun, its appearance and performance are very different.

Zheng Yi canceled the cumbersome and cumbersome porous heat dissipation sleeve in the design, directly thickened and lengthened the barrel, increased the speed and slow machine that is now very mature, and eliminated the major defects of the Bergman MP18 submachine gun that is easy to misfire, so that the redesigned M1928 machine gun has a single shot and burst function, both in shape and performance are much better than the improved Bergman MP28 submachine gun.

Since the design patent of the Colt 1911 pistol has expired, there is no obstacle to imitating the Colt pistol, but Zheng Yi still made some improvements on the basis of the 1911 type, canceling the grip insurance and saving costs.

The reduced caliber of 9 mm not only facilitates the use of 9 mm barabam pistol cartridges, which are widely available, but also increases the ammunition capacity from seven to eight, and after repeated calculations, the manufacturing cost of each steel produced by Indian steel mills is only $6.5, and the domestic sales price is no less than $15.

The new steel helmet designed by Zheng Yi was not unanimously approved by shareholders.

This kind of product improved on the basis of the M35 steel helmet that has not yet been manufactured in Germany, although the protection is good and the price is also very affordable, but nearly half of the shareholders believe that the backward Chinese army cannot even guarantee a pair of rubber shoes for each soldier, and will not buy a large number of steel helmets that can fully protect the soldier's head but are relatively less "practical".

Under Zheng Yi's patient persuasion, the shareholders finally agreed to the production plan of this product, but required Zheng Yi to guarantee the annual sales of 50,000 steel helmets, otherwise the production of this product would be cancelled.

The unsmiling HSBC representative Bogues. Hill admired Zheng Yi's fluent English and outstanding talent, but he was not optimistic about Zheng Yi's sales forecast, and after listening to Zheng Yi's report, he asked solemnly:

"Mr. Zheng Paul, what method will you use to sell the two weapons and steel helmets we have produced to the troops of the Nanjing government?"

Zheng Yi modestly explained: "As we all know, the arms embargo treaty on China led by the Yankees has never been observed by European and American countries. ”

"According to the trade figures released by HSBC in the first half of the year, the weapons and equipment smuggled into China every year is not less than 3 million pounds, but the weapons and equipment entering China through formal trade channels are only 1.2 million pounds......

"Personally, I think this figure is closest to reality, so we have to fight for both ways of trading, and I believe we can do better."

The shareholders immediately pricked up their ears, in their opinion, neither of the two ways of trading weapons and equipment was what they were good at, and Zheng Yi's self-confidence surprised them.

Zheng Yi said without modesty: "Let's talk about the smuggling channel first, the biggest buyer of this channel is actually not the army of the central government in Nanjing, but the army of local factions with a total strength of up to two million people, which we cannot reach in the far north of China, but the Yangtze River basin and the area south of it are the traditional trade areas of the British, which is the biggest advantage we have." ”

"And I myself have two smuggling channels in my hands, and I can sell the weapons and equipment we produce through the local warlords in Fujian Province and Gui Province, as long as you gentlemen give me full trust, I promise to sell all the weapons produced by our precision instrument manufacturing company!"

"You only need to give me half a year to see what I'm capable of."

The shareholders immediately looked at Zheng Lanting, as if to ask if Zheng Yi's guarantee was valid?

Zheng Lanting, who had long known what his son would do, nodded with a smile and expressed his absolute support for Zheng Yi.

Zheng Yi continued: "Another channel is formal trade, which requires Sir Zheng's strong support. ”

"As far as I know, Sir Zheng has been friends for many years with Jiang Jieshi, the newly elected chairman of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang Party, and General Yu Feipeng, the quartermaster of the army directly under the central government in Nanjing."

"Moreover, Sir Zheng also has the right to sell some special drugs in China, and it is completely possible to sell weapons and steel helmets to the army of the central government in Nanjing through this relationship."

The shareholders were overjoyed to hear this, and Lord Justice Leicester, who had long known about this relationship, smiled at Zheng Lanting: "Dear Zheng, it seems that you need to make a friendly visit to Shanghai and Nanjing as soon as possible on behalf of our Hong Kong government. ”

Everyone laughed, Zheng Lanting smiled very happily, and said that after the official production, he would bring samples to the transfer circle in Shanghai and Nanjing, as a gift to his old friends, and by the way, he would give a batch of special drugs to Mr. Jiang, the new chairman of the government who was about to launch a large-scale civil war.

As soon as these words came out, they once again caused a burst of laughter.

Everyone here is an old fox, and when they hear it, they know that Zheng Lanting will bundle the special medicine with the produced weapons and equipment for sale, so it will be difficult for the precision manufacturing company under the Swire Shipyard not to make a fortune.

The meeting ended in a pleasant atmosphere.

When Mr. White saw Zheng Yi put away the materials and was about to leave, he immediately stopped Zheng Yi: "Paul, if you have time, how about having a drink together later?" ”

Zheng Yi smiled: "It's an honor!" But you'll have to pay for the drink. ”

White laughed: "You haven't changed at all, okay, I'll pay for you." ”

Rochester was surprised by the familiarity of White and Zheng Yi, and asked suspiciously, "It seems that you are very familiar with each other?" ”

"I met Paul three years ago, when I was the manager of the Taikoo Shipyard in Guangzhou, and Paul was the first Chinese technical director I hired, and since then, we have been working closely together. ”

"Wait! You just said that Paul is the technical director of the Guangzhou shipyard? "Rochester was very surprised.

White nodded solemnly: "Yes, he is more talented than me, especially in electromechanical and mechanical, Paul is the best designer I have ever met." ”

Rochester immediately turned to Zheng Lanting: "Why don't you recommend Paul to the company, just let him be your special assistant?" ”

Zheng Lanting said with a smile: "I still have a lot of things to do for Paul, if you agree, you can let him serve as the company's technical advisor, he is very talented in mechanical design, and is very familiar with the weapons and equipment of today's countries, and also has his own unique views on trade." ”

"No, no! Dear friends, I sincerely hope that Paul will join the company to take up specific leadership positions, you are the largest shareholder of the company, and you have the obligation to recommend talents. ”

Rochester has a high regard for Zheng Yi, who is talented and has a sales channel.

White and Boggs Hill echoed the words, both hoping that Zheng Yi could enter the company as deputy manager and technical director, Zheng Lanting thought for a moment, and had to look at Zheng Yi: "No matter how you choose, I respect your opinion." (To be continued.) )