The ferry route from Mason to Somsonas, which originally started in the morning and arrived at night, has been shortened by half after the opening of the Free Lorraine Canal, and now leaves early in the morning and arrives after lunch. In this spring season, sitting on a stable ferry, blowing a warm breeze, although there is no beautiful hot pot, but there is a young lady with impeccable appearance, figure, and knowledge, or reading, or chatting, or in a daze, the mind is free, and the face is pleasant. Put aside those troublesome and mundane things, enjoy spring, scenery, and people, so comfortable.

When they first met, Professor Xiao Yang's long black hair amazed Weiss, and the short hair that first arrived in Lorraine showed the shrewd, capable, decisive and neat side of an intellectual woman. In a few months, short hair and ears are full, light makeup and simple makeup show another kind of intellectual beauty. The hairstyle alone brings a different freshness with a changeable attitude, and the clothes are also simple, simple but not simple - after so many contacts, Weiss has never seen her dress casually or messily, whether it is a skirt or pants, ladylike style or professional style, always down-and-out, generous, and decent, and properly handled, not too ostentatious, giving people the feeling of a delicate life, confident and self-loving lady. This time she went to Somnas, and she chose a brown series: a dark maroon lady's small round hat with a beautiful bow on the hat, which set off the elegant temperament; Brown-colored woolen coat with a placket and double-breasted, perfectly showing off the slender figure; Brown-red leather boots, round toe and short boot roots, which are both classy and easy to move......

Before you know it, the ferry travels to the Liberty Lorraine Canal. After construction and operation in autumn and winter, the climate has gradually formed in the new industrial zone on both sides of the canal. The towering chimneys spew hot smoke day and night, the roar of machines comes from the factories, the trucks of all kinds come and go in the factory area, the ships enter and exit the canal wharves, and the cranes are busy. The ore raw materials are transported from the upstream and smelted into iron and steel ingots in the new metallurgical plant, and sent to the foundry to die cast into industrial parts or directly transported downstream, and the logs are processed into various semi-finished products or furniture products in the factory area in the same process. Chemical production "goes the other way around", with most raw materials arriving in Mason from outside Lorraine, arriving at the plant by river, where they are synthesized into industrial, agricultural, or household chemicals by new production equipment, and then transported by river and land to towns and cities in Lorraine.

All this is the result of the joint efforts of many members of the Lorraine Industrialists Alliance, but without Weiss's overall planning, bold promotion and financing and development concept, this place would have been a wilderness.

Leaning on the railing, Professor Xiao Yang looked at the busy scene on the north bank of the canal, and suddenly asked, "Is this the largest of your Clumberg-Haisen plants?" ”

Weiss can confidently answer this question in the affirmative, but this is not enough to give him a sense of superiority. If the liquidation is carried out at the current cut-off point, not only these new factories and equipment will have to be "cleared", but also the old factories and even the Château Klumber-Haissen will have to be compensated to those financial institutions and consortia. From this point of view, Weiss is now an out-and-out "loser", and how to rely on hard work in the future is not comparable to the stable and fulfilling life of Professor Yang.

"There is a saying that 'the building near the water is the first to get the month', and the Klumber-Haysen factory took the lead in promoting the Canal Industrial Zone project, and the enclosure of the factory did take a small advantage. At present, there are four branch factories, the military factory and the agricultural and forestry machinery factory have completed the first phase of construction and put into operation, and the metal materials factory and the power plant are under construction, and it is expected that the construction will start within the year. If it goes well, by the summer, I'll be able to fly you and the little candy around in a farm plane. ”

Professor Xiao Yang did not seem at all interested in Weiss's depiction of air travel, she propped her chin in her right hand, looked at the retired officer with a curious expression, and asked, "Do you often say sentences that I have not heard but think are very reasonable, are they all said by foreign scholars or historical figures?" ”

Weiss laughed: "Some of them were said by others, I thought it was interesting and remembered them, and some of them were broken by me, don't mind!" ”

"How could I mind such an apt and expressive sentence?" Saying that, Professor Xiao Yang actually looked at him with a "little fan girl" look.

In this situation, Weiss couldn't help but think of those scripts that traveled back to ancient times and used Li Bai Dufu's poems to pick up girls, is it called "standing on the shoulders of giants"?

Speaking of "the shoulders of giants", Weiss's dedication to industry can achieve today's results, which is also stained with the light of the ancestors of the Clumber-Heisen family. Regardless of the fact that the Clumber-Haysen factory was left with a pile of broken copper and iron after the end of the war, the name of Clumber-Haysen was a golden sign in Lorraine. After the war, the old lord and the better members of the family generously donated money to build the free Lorraine Canal and plan the canal industrial zone. A considerable part of the financing obtained from various financial institutions and consortia is also due to the good goodwill accumulated during the time of the Clumber-Heisen family.

Such a favorable time, place and people make Weiss not have too many worries, and can focus on industrial layout and promotion. Due to the extreme sluggishness of military orders after the war, the rebuilt firearms production line of the Clumber-Haisen factory used only one-third of its production capacity to produce exquisite commemorative firearms and various civilian firearms, and its subsidiary firearms research and development department in response to the military's strategic adjustment, focusing on the research and development of lightweight, automated firearms, local skilled workers can fully meet the employment needs of these two aspects, there is no need for large-scale recruitment in the short term, mainly to recruit and train high-end talents.

The cooperation with the Lawrence family has been carried out in depth, with the traditional model of car assembly and engine production still located in Mr. Lawrence's hometown of Comerson, and the new agricultural and forestry machinery manufacturing plant and technical research and development department in the industrial zone on the north bank of the free landing canal. After several months of trial operation and adjustments, the plant's first new agricultural and forestry machinery production line is now in normal operation and can now produce and assemble three sizes of agricultural tractors, with a total output of up to 180 units per month, and the ancillary production line is used to manufacture a variety of tillage tools and trailers, including flatbed trailers that can be used to transport timber for short distances.

The second agricultural and forestry machinery production line, which is still in the preparatory stage, will be used to manufacture and assemble tracked agricultural and forestry vehicles, and it is planned to mainly push crawler bulldozers and crawler tractors. In the mountainous and forested Lorraine region, tracked agricultural and forestry vehicles are more practical than traditional wheeled tractors and tractors, and are useful in reclamation, logging, and exploration. Of course, the metallic texture is easily reminiscent of military use, in fact, in the later stage of the war, the warring parties invariably began to use tracked combat vehicles with stronger breakthrough capabilities, but the difference in tactical concepts made the Norman army and the federal army choose different emphases: the Normans continued to emphasize the rapid mobility of ground operations, and the manufacture and equipment were mainly fast light armored tracked combat vehicles, which were constructed as if replacing the armored combat vehicles with tracked power, and the ground tactics of the federal army emphasized steady and steady fighting. They opted for a heavy Breakthrough tracked combat vehicle, which was constructed like a heavy tracked bulldozer equipped with artillery. Regardless of the practicality of these tracked combat vehicles in different battlefields and different combat situations, the Federal Army issued technical indicators and production instructions to several factories during the war, so that after the end of the war, the Clumber-Heisen plant was able to smoothly introduce the corresponding equipment and technology. In addition, when Weiss recruited talents in this area, he deliberately focused on engineers who had worked for the military or the military industry. This kind of talent usually does not flow into the market, but there are exceptions, some people have been out for many years, especially after the war, hoping to return to their roots and return to their hometown to develop, and some people feel that they are not valued, hoping to get a better salary and development opportunities, so they consider changing their homes.

Production is gradually on the right track, and sales are the key to profitability. Lorraine is a traditional mining and forestry area, and agriculture and animal husbandry are more dispersed, in the case of Somsonas, the open area in the north is suitable for farming or animal husbandry. But where there is a new thing, people will always have a psychological adaptation period, out of the understanding of this law, Weiss did not adopt the traditional sales promotion method, but mobilized the members of the Lorraine Industrialists Alliance, so that they can participate in the promotion of agricultural machinery in various forms. For example, they can rent or act as an agent for agricultural tractors from agricultural and forestry machinery factories, select a village or a certain area with dense farmland, and wait for spring ploughing, and provide these agricultural tractors to farmers and farmers for a certain fee. If it is rented, then the income other than rent is net earning; If it is an agent, the agricultural and forestry machinery manufacturing plant will give a certain agency commission according to the use of the product. These two methods are more flexible than direct purchases, even if you are poor and have no funds, you can participate.

In Lorraine, the land suitable for cultivation is often scattered in river valleys, depressions and lakes, and one or two farm machines often cover just one area. Compared with traditional animal power and manpower, agricultural machinery is undoubtedly more efficient, and the time saved can be used by farmers to cultivate more land, and can also free up energy for other productive activities, such as breeding, picking, logging, etc. Therefore, after the agricultural machinery strategy of selling on credit, leasing and acting as a breakthrough was launched, it quickly showed the strong vitality of the flexible strategy. As soon as the business plan was announced, in just over two weeks, the agricultural machinery that had been produced was rented and sold out.

Since Lorraine still had little land for farming in general, Weiss set his sights early on the neighbouring federal state of Neuchâtel, where there were large tracts of land suitable for farming. There, agricultural machinery has been produced and used more than ten years ago, but the new model that is being promoted through leasing and agency is still rare. In the south of Neuchâtel, some farmers have rented ten farm tractors in one go, and there is a steady stream of agents who lack funds.

Machines alone are not enough, dozens of young people were recruited in advance this winter for agricultural machinery operation and maintenance training, and arranged for them to work on the production line for a period of time, so that they can understand the structure of these agricultural machinery, so as to master the most basic maintenance skills. After renting or acting as agents for various agricultural machinery, they quickly went to various promotion points to teach how to use and maintain skills, forming a one-stop high-quality production-marketing-management business model.