Chapter 92 Ma'anshan United Iron and Steel Plant
Unconsciously, Zhenhua has become a behemoth, although Zhenhua is constantly splitting up, but it can't hide from these bigwigs living in Shanghai.
"Yiyang, Yiyang, Zhang Jilao has a letter to you."
On this day, Zhao Xuechu rushed to find Chen Xuan, who was studying new weapons with Peng Jianyuan in the arsenal, and now his wife rarely goes home, so Chen Xuan is basically soaked in the arsenal most of the time, Zhao Xuechu is also a victim, and he also went to the mechanical research center and did not go home, if Bai Xunjian is also there, three lonely men can fight the landlord together.
Chen Xuan took the letter in Zhao Xuechu's hand and read it carefully.
"What did Zhang Jilao say?"
Zhao Xuechu already knew that Zhang Jian agreed to set up a joint venture with Zhenhua to set up the Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Plant, and of course he knew that this steel plant was of great significance to Zhenhua, to Fuxing D and to the country, so he couldn't help but be excited.
"Brother Xuechu, I'm afraid that the two of us are going to Haimen, Zhang Jilao has agreed to our suggestion, and during the time he returned to China, he also acquired the small iron factories in Ma'anshan, their people have settled in, and asked us to send people over to reinforce as soon as possible, and Zhang Jilao served as the director general of the 'Nanyang Industry Association', and your father-in-law (Yu Qiaqing) held the industry meeting together, because we have held exhibitions and have certain experience, so he invited me to be his consultant."
Chen Xuan raised a beautifully made invitation card in his hand and said.
"My father-in-law also invited me, but you hadn't come back at that time, I was worried that Jingyun wouldn't be able to do it alone, so I refused, and this time I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to go."
"Convene a meeting of Zhenhua's senior management, this time we both go, the team I brought back from Nanyang will also be drawn out, and tell Ruohan a few of them, if Hongyuan can build a prototype car, this time it can also make a name for itself in the Quanye Association, by the way, is there any news about letting Shaochuan (Gu Weijun) register our car patent in Europe and the United States?"
"It's only like this, but Vision Cloud can hold on, now Zhenhua has a lot more things to do than before, and it's much more difficult, and our talent pool is still far from enough!"
Zhao Xuechu said with emotion:
"As for Shaochuan's side, he sent a telegram saying that the matter of registering a patent in the United States has been completed, and several automobile companies want to cooperate with us, and they are waiting for our reply, and the European and American sides are still in progress, and I believe that the problem is not big."
"Let's talk about cooperation later, our country is too weak, and if we rush to invest in the United States, we will only be left with the scum that those capitalists eat, Jingyun has also been trained now, we should believe that he can do a good job."
This is the third time Chen Xuan has gone to Haimen, standing on the steamer, the way is still so lonely and dilapidated, this is still a place with convenient water transportation, and the inland does not know what it has become now.
Chen Xuan and Zhao Xuechu brought a team of more than 60 people this time, all of whom are elites in Zhenhua's management technology, and there are also a few old skilled workers working in Chuansha Iron and Steel Plant, and there is a team of more than 100 people, led by Tan Fangcheng, a Jiangxi man who has studied military affairs in Germany, and Li Jinxu, a veteran player, and a few instructors, these guards will also take root in the Ma'anshan area for the time being. Zhenhua already has several military schools, Sun Hongye's branch in the Northeast, Tan Fangcheng and Li Jinxu's branch in Ma'anshan, the Pudong General School, and the Nanyang side.
Disembarked near the Nanshan mining area in Ma'anshan, Zhang Jian and Yu Qiaqing had already led a group of people to greet them, and arranged for people to unload all kinds of machinery and equipment brought by Chen Xuan's fleet.
This steel mill is not only steelmaking, but also copper and gold, etc., with a total investment of 3 million oceans, Zhenhua out of 1.2 million to occupy the position of major shareholders, Zhang Jian second, Yu Qiaqing again, the rest is left to these people to carve up, some of which are invested in their own mines.
The iron ore in Ma'anshan has not been mined on a large scale in this era, but there are some sporadic small workshops, but these mines are ownery, either to buy, or to agree that these mine owners to mine shares, these shareholders participate in the company's financial work, but do not directly intervene in the company's management, in fact, they themselves do not understand the operation mode of modern enterprises, so in fact, Zhenhua to lead.
It's not that these squires are useless, the words of the squires in this era are much more useful in the local area than the government, and with the addition of these people, there will be a lot less trouble, and it will be much easier to recruit miners.
Zhenhua also plans to build a hydroelectric power plant in the Ma'anshan area for the use of the United Steelmaking Plant, that is to say, the United Steelmaking Plant is ahead of many foreign steel mills, and will realize electrification, Zhenhua's Eastern Power Grid has a certain technical reserve after more than a year of development.
Chen Xuan and Zhao Xuechu visited several major mining areas under the leadership of Zhang Jian and others, but in fact, there was nothing to visit, there were barren mountains and mountains everywhere, and Zhenhua's own geological engineers had already surveyed the coal and iron reserves here.
After a group of people visited the mine and the existing workshop, according to the sand table designed by the designers of Zhenhua in the early stage, some fine-tuning was carried out, and then the first shareholders' meeting of the United Iron and Steel Plant was held, and finally it was decided that Zhang Jian was appointed as the director general (general manager) of the United Steelmaking Plant, in fact, it was a name, and the actual management of Zhenhua was still Zhenhua, but there were other external negotiations, which were solved by Zhang Jian, and Zhao Xuechu was the chief engineer and was responsible for all the daily affairs of the steel mill.
So began to select the site, plan to purchase the follow-up machines, recruit workers, build plants, etc., these things were also handed over to Zhao Xuechu, and the other shareholders were to cooperate with the recruitment of workers, after arranging everything, Zhang Jianyu Qiaqing and Chen Xuan naturally could not stay here in Ma'anshan for a long time, and there were still a bunch of things waiting for them to deal with there.
In the first year of Xuantong (1908), the Nanyang Industry Association was approved to be held in Jiangning (Nanjing) in the form of a joint government and business office, with the new Liangjiang Governor Zhang Renjun as the president, Yu Qiaqing as the vice president, Chen Qi as the office, Xiang Ruikun as the assistant office, and Li Zhejun as the meeting office, specifically responsible for the preparation and preparation.
In fact, the Nanyang Industry Association is a commodity expo for later generations, providing an opportunity for domestic commodities to make a collective appearance, and also facilitating all strata to have an in-depth understanding of domestic industry, commerce, technology, craftsmanship and other aspects, promoting the circulation of domestic commodities and opening up the fame of commodities.
The site of the Nanyang Industry Association is located in the area of Dingjiaqiao, Jiangning, under the recommendation of Yu Qiaqing, the construction of the exhibition hall was handed over to Zhenhua's Kang Shengmin's Shanghai Urban Construction Company, and now it is April, the theme project has been roughly completed, many businesses have been refining the decoration, Zhenhua is naturally indispensable.
Zhang Jian recommended his quasi-son-in-law Chen Xuan to Zhang Renjun, the governor of Liangjiang, Zhang Renjun also understood the strength of Shanghai Zhenhua, and greatly appreciated Chen Xuan, a young man.
Zhang Renjun is a traditional literati background, the whole person looks quite majestic, and in the past two years Zhang Renjun's official reputation is not bad, in 1907 when the Japanese occupied the Dongsha Islands, Zhang Renjun in 1909 as the governor of Liangjiang sent the naval commander Li Zhun, deputy generals Wu Jingrong, Liu Yikuan and other sailors to the Xisha Islands, identified 15 islands, and Leshi Weiji in the Yongxing Island flag-raising cannon, to declare sovereignty to China and foreign countries, to protect the territorial integrity of the country, on this basis Chen Xuan felt that he knelt down to him to salute, It's not so unacceptable anymore.
Zhang Renjun gave his staff ** to Chen Xuan, Chen Xuan was known and flexible, under the bridging of various gifts and Chen Xuan's deliberate flattery, these staff members also knew that Chen Xuan was only temporarily leading them, so there was not much resistance, everyone was still harmonious, and after Chen Xuan joined, he made some adjustments to the previous work, which greatly improved the efficiency of work, so he also won the recognition of these old-style literati.
What made Chen Xuan happy was that his teacher Ma Xiangbo, whom he hadn't seen for more than a year, was also in Jiangning, Ma Xiangbo and Chen Xuan just missed it in the process of going to Nanyang, and Ma Xiangbo went to Jiangning again after Chen Xuan returned to China, so they never met.
The two met and were very happy, Ma Xiangbo took Chen Xuan to visit a lot of his old friends, all of them were some giant businessmen or celebrities, which also made Chen Xuan's connections qualitatively improved, although Chen Xuan has been in this era for two years, but he has been busy with his own career, except for Zhenhua's people, there is not much communication with others.
This time, with the introduction of Ma Xiangbo and Zhang Jian, and often followed Zhang Renjun to attend various banquets, he also got acquainted with many powerful figures and literati from all walks of life in China, and had a deeper understanding of the domestic political and economic situation.
So Chen Xuan's life is to sort out all kinds of information every day to report to Zhang Renjun, provide reference advice when Zhang Renjun has questions, and attend various dinners in the evening, and the children of the family have seen a lot, Chen Xuan is only 22 years old now, with a military temperament, and has a well-known Zhenhua Group, which can be described as a proper young and promising.
Thanks to the fact that most of the people in China look down on Nanyang, and they don't know much about Nanyang, otherwise, Chen Xuan's strength will be even more amazing, even so, Chen Xuan has become the object of the family's children and celebrities.
It's just that Chen Xuan is still completely unacceptable to the deformed aesthetics of this era, a good big girl, when the bound feet are exposed, Chen Xuan will lose her appetite and pity at the same time, and secretly resolve to eradicate this perverted aesthetics.