On March 5, 1910, Chen Xuan's fleet successfully arrived in Shanghai, Chen Xuan and others disembarked at the Zhenhua Freight Wharf in Pudong, which was established solely by Zhenhua, with a huge loading and unloading wharf and a huge row of warehouses.

Chen Xuan and others got off the boat, Chen Qimei, Zhao Xuechu, Du Yuesheng, Zhang Jingyun, Du Xin and others had already waited on the dock, everyone saw each other, and they were naturally happy, but it was also indispensable for Zhao Xuechu and others to complain, Du Xin met Xu Ruohan and kept listening to Xu Ruohan's injury.

"You're good, you said that you will come back after going to Nanyang for a month or two, who knows that it will be more than a year after you go, Jingyun and I are busy with three of them, and you have also transferred a lot of backbones, do you want to exhaust us?"

Zhao Xuechu was still indignant at Chen Xuan's irresponsibility.

"Brother Xuechu, with you in charge, and with the help of Jingyun and their talents, what can I do, besides, I'm not coming back, as for burying me like this?"

A group of people returned to the headquarters of Pudong Zhenhua Group, what they saw and heard along the way, Chen Xuan found that Pudong has changed greatly, when he left, the planned commercial center has been completely built, and even a lot of buildings, Zhenhua Group's 12-storey building is the most conspicuous, covering the largest area, and other unified 10-storey Nanyang Group headquarters, Changjiang Group headquarters, commercial bank buildings and other Zhenhua Group buildings have been completed and put into use.

Chen Xuan even saw Yu Qiaqing's Siming Group Building and several unknown buildings, under the introduction of Zhao Xuechu, Chen Xuan knew that Shanghai's great businessmen saw the word-of-mouth effect brought by the completion of several buildings in Zhenhua, so they also proposed to Zhenhua to invest in the construction of their own company building, after more than a year of development, Pudong is already full of buildings.

This new area has the deterrence of the Zhenhua Escort Force by force, and Chen Qimei's communication and coordination, the forces of the Green Gang must also act in accordance with the rules of Zhenhua in this area, and the Lujiazui area belongs to a high-end community, and the Green Gang has no room to gain a foothold, and the Shanghai government has long been bought by the Zhenhua Group, and Zhenhua has brought a lot of financial revenue, so naturally there is no reason to add to Zhenhua.

As a result, this area of Lujiazui has become the safest, most standardized, and cleanest place in China, even the concession can not be compared with the Pudong Financial Center in many aspects, Zhenhua has also built parks, stadiums, farmers' markets, food streets and other public facilities here, Zhenhua himself has also spent a lot of money to build the Pudong Hotel, many businessmen and dignitaries from the south to the north choose to live in this new area, Zhenhua once again became famous, Chen Xuan has also become a successful person in many people, if not Chen Xuan has been married, I don't know how many little girls and big beauties want to pounce on you.

Over the past year, Zhenhua's various industries have also made great progress, the factory has expanded and expanded, the research center has developed countless new products according to the needs of the market, and the assets of the entire Zhenhua Group have reached an astonishing level of 10 million, and can already be compared with Zhang Jingjiang, Yu Qiaqing, Zhu Baosan, Li Pingshu and other bigwigs.

Zhenhua is developing, others are not idle, Lu Xinpei's garment manufacturing has become famous, products are sold at home and abroad, and Chang Guixin, Li Zhantang, Hong Yunxian and others who have been following the footsteps of Zhenhua have become giant businessmen, even Jiang Zhiqing, who only started to do business later, is also in the business world, and the Huangpu Group founded is also a big gold absorber, Chen Xuan sometimes really feels that he is not taking Jiang Zhiqing astray.

"Yiyang, the general situation is like this, in addition, our mechanical research center has developed an internal combustion engine, can already produce cars, but the investment is too large, we have not started, with the help of Shaochuan (Gu Weijun), our steel plant in Chuansha has been put into operation, the annual output can reach 90,000 tons, not only can ensure our own use, but also can take out most of the 。。。。。。"

"What?"

Chen Xuan was taken aback, you must know that the steel output of the whole China today does not reach 100,000 tons, and the steel output of Zhenhua's family actually exceeds that of the whole country, how can this not surprise Chen Xuan!

"How big is Chuansha's factory, and how much output can it have?"

Jiang Fangzhen was also surprised, he knew that the Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant, which invested millions of dollars, only produced a few tons of steel a year, so he hurriedly asked.

"It covers an area of about 100 acres, but we neither coke nor iron, just simple steelmaking, so we can have such a large production capacity, coke and pig iron are basically provided by our factories in the northeast."

"It's incredible, it's incredible, Hanyang invested millions of silver to produce a few tons of steel, and we can produce so much, you guys are amazing!"

Jiang Fangzhen sighed from the bottom of his heart, Chen Xuan is also honored.

"That's not how the account is calculated, Brother Fang Zhen, Hanyang Iron Works was poor and white at the beginning, and it is not just about making iron and steel, it is a comprehensive group, not only to make iron and steel, but also to produce a series of products such as rifles, artillery and ammunition, etc., and the energy is not only focused on the steel plant."

"And the Hanyang factory is through the comprador to import machinery and equipment, there was no proficient talent in the country at that time, it is inevitable to be deceived by foreign devils and even sell some useless products to us at a high price, the major foreign companies have eaten a layer, the compradors have eaten another layer, the bureaucrats at all levels have eaten another layer, and we don't know, so down, the Hanyang factory does not spend so much money is the hell, with the scale of the factory, if we let Zhenhua do it, the investment will not exceed 2 million or even less to reach their production capacity."

"This time we are through Shaochuan directly to the factory bidding, naturally it will spend a lot less money, and the United States economy continues to be sluggish, a large number of factories closed, this is also one of the important reasons why we can spend less money and do more, but according to Shaochuan said, Western countries have seen our speed of development, has set up trade barriers for us, and if you want to buy advanced technology and equipment in the future, I am afraid it will be more and more difficult."

Zhao Xuechu was a little proud and a little embarrassed, but fortunately, Chen Xuan's vision was long-term enough, Zhenhua now basically has some basic industrial foundation, and sent a large number of students to Europe and the United States to learn advanced industrial technology, these countries want to block the development of Zhenhua, in fact, it is a little late.

After a general understanding of Zhenhua's current situation, Chen Xuan and others inquired about the domestic situation, according to Du Yuesheng's report, there are still various uprisings in the country, natural and man-made disasters continue, and the political environment is also chaotic.

Chen Xuan knows that the prosperity of Lujiazui is actually a deformity, but now, Chen Xuan has no better way to solve it, so he can only do his best to take care of his own one-third of an acre.

According to Mr. Cai Yuanpei's analysis, various political groups have been organized, all kinds of national salvation trends have been emerging, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty's control over the local area has become more and more powerless, and the League has basically swept south of the Yangtze River with lightning speed, and the development of Fuxing D has also taken advantage of this shareholder wind, and the number of D members has grown to more than 20,000 people.

After the dust-washing dinner held at the Pudong Hotel, Chen Xuan took Xu Ruohan back to his villa in Shanghai, and now the villa area is becoming more and more lively.

After some passion, Chen Xuan and Xu Ruohan chatted about some things about Zhenhua today, Xu Ruohan since Nanyang organized the construction of Xueyuan Town, also had a strong interest in going out to do things, after hearing that Zhenhua now has the strength to produce cars, he couldn't help but be very interested, and wanted to build China's first automobile factory by himself.

Chen Xuan knew Xu Ruohan's ability, and naturally he would not disappoint her interest, and promised to invest 300,000 Dayang to set up an automobile company, with the early plan to produce a car, an off-road vehicle and a truck, and it was also at this time that Chen Xuan knew that the arms business with the alliance had not stopped, and the income from these businesses had been into Chen Xuan's private account, according to Chen Guangfu, this money alone had exceeded 1.5 million.

Just do it, Chen Xuan has long hated the car styling and driving troubles of this era, so he found a pencil and paper to start designing the exterior and interior of the car, and Xu Ruohan also put forward his opinions in pajamas.

Chen Xuan didn't know anything about mechanical technology, but he learned on the Internet that the most important thing about the car is the three major parts, the engine, the gearbox and the turf, as for these things, Chen Xuan just put forward his own design ideas, and raised the three gears of the gearbox to five gears, 1234 forward and a reverse gear, added the clutch pedal, removed the reversing pedal, and some things when he drove in later generations.

Husband and wife, you and I say a word, the design drawings of China's first car appeared in Chen Xuan and Xu Ruohan's bedroom, as for whether it works, it is necessary to organize Zhenhua's mechanical experts to study together, but with the direction of design, there should be a lot of detours.

Before I knew it, it was already four o'clock in the morning, and the sky was already slightly bright, Chen Xuan and Xu Ruohan hurriedly made up for sleep, and prepared to go to Chuansha the next day to convene a few experts in this field to hold a preparatory meeting for the automobile company.