Chapter 2 Miniature Match Factory
"Director Jiang, do you mean there's really no way?"
Jiang Shu, the director of the North Machinery Manufacturing Factory, was introduced by Huang Jinsha. The Huang family's business is very large, and a large number of machinery and facilities are the products of the North Machinery Manufacturing Factory, and they are the VIP customers of the factory.
The VIP Huang Dashao invited a treat, or introduced business, and Director Jiang naturally came over excitedly.
But in the face of Qin Mu, a new customer, Director Jiang was a little embarrassed, not to mention embarrassed, he was a little annoyed.
Is this a pastime to play on your own? It is necessary to simplify the facilities of a cement plant to fit into a cabinet. It's not like that, the joke is not like that.
It's a cement kiln with several floors high, and you told me to put it in a cabinet, an ordinary big wardrobe, and I shouldn't be looking for me, I should be looking for a magician.
"Mr. Qin, I'm sorry, to put it mildly, your request is not only that our North Machinery Factory can't do it, but the whole world, oh, to put it bigger, the machinery factories in the whole universe can't do it."
Qin Mu looked at Director Jiang's angry expression, knowing that people had misunderstood, and thought that he was entertaining him.
However, Qin Mu knew that Director Jiang was telling the truth. He also checked a lot of information and knew that this was really too difficult for a strong man to do.
It's just that he still has words. Otherwise, there is no need to invite Director Jiang over.
"That's right, Director Jiang." Huang Jinsha hurriedly refilled the tea for Director Jiang, "My buddy has some special needs, you can listen to it again." ”
Jiang Shu nodded, for the sake of Huang Dashao's face, just bear with it.
"Director Jiang, you may think that the conditions I said are very unreasonable, or rather, nonsensical and inexplicable. But I'll tell you a little bit about the actual situation and you'll know. ”
Jiang Shu saw that Qin Mu was not looking for him to be happy, and finally became a little more angry.
Think about it, he is not a movie star, rich people want to have fun, how can they find a mechanical factory director. Let's see what this guy surnamed Qin is going to do.
"Director Jiang," Qin Mu said sincerely, "Actually, I want to develop a career in Africa. It's not about selling mobile phones and slippers, I want to do business. It's about opening a factory. ”
It sounds like it's true. Jiang Shu nodded. It's not like it's okay to entertain yourself.
The North Machinery Factory is not big, but it is by no means a small factory. Jiang Shu also has an identity and status, how can he be happy by young people.
"I was going to open a cement factory, but you said it couldn't be put in a cabinet, so I couldn't continue."
"Mr. Qin, let me interrupt." Jiang Shu is a little inexplicable, Africa is not the moon, and space flight is needed, so it is necessary to calculate the load of each gram. But across the sea, a full set of equipment is transported over, and a sea ship is enough to be rich: "Is it the size of a house in the place you want to open up in Africa?" So all the equipment should be kept in one cabinet? ”
Jin Sha laughed out loud.
In a country as big as a house, Director Jiang is really humorous.
Qin Mu was a little embarrassed, but fortunately he had already thought of an excuse: "Director Jiang, I'm not afraid of your jokes, in fact, my ideals are very big." What if I copied a Tangshan steel plant in Africa? Don't say that I don't have this strength, even if I do, it's just a repetition of the path of my predecessors. ”
Ranking of the world's steel production:
1st Place: China (excluding Hebei Province)
2nd Place: Hebei Province, China (excluding Tangshan City)
3rd place: Tangshan City, Hebei Province, China (excluding production concealment)
4th place: Japan
5th place: United States
6th place: India
7th place: Russia
8th place: South Korea
No. 9: Concealed production in Tangshan City, Hebei Province, China
(Tangshan City concealed 50 million tons of output, just a little more than Germany, which ranked tenth)
10th place: Germany
Looking at this ranking, Director Jiang really doesn't understand. Does this young man have a big tone and want to build a giant steel plant in Africa, does he know how difficult it is? And does it make sense? Doesn't he know that the whole world has become a village, and the price of domestic steel is enough to beat the whole world, and to build factories in Africa, it is really too much money to spend - it must be thrown away. Otherwise who will build steel plants in Africa.
I'm afraid the young man has a problem with his brain, or he hasn't woken up.
This doesn't sound reliable.
"Director Jiang, let me tell the truth! I don't want to follow the path that people have walked before, I want to take a new path. Not in Africa, but out of Earth and into deep space! The sea of stars is my goal. Qin Mu pretended to be passionate and waved his hand vigorously.
"A sea of stars?" Director Jiang didn't understand. Does the cement plant have anything to do with the sea of stars? Do aliens need to build houses out of cement too? This alien seems to be very low.
"Yes, don't toss on Earth, if you want toss, go to outer space, alien. A few of our friends set up a company, Yuqiong Jinsha Industrial Company. This is my business card. Saying that, Qin Mu handed over the newly printed business card. His title is Director of Production.
Dong Yuqiong is the general manager, and Huang Jinsha is the chief financial officer.
"Yuqiong Sands Industrial Company." Director Jiang looked at the business card, which had the word "Jinsha" on it, which seemed to be not false. At least Huang Dashao is rich, he is sure.
With Huang Dashao's participation, real money, even if it sounds ridiculous, it can make money! If you have money to make, it's worth sitting down and talking about it yourself.
"Yes, the company's initial stage is not yet a climate." Qin Mu just showed his due demeanor, after all, no one believed his excuse, but he had to make him believe: "Our goal is the sea of stars, and we want to start a new era in aliens." ”
"......" Director Jiang was dumbfounded, just with the two of you? Can a new era of aliens be ushered in?
"We are not prepared to follow the path of a slave society, a feudal society, an agrarian society, an industrial society. We are ready to start the industrial age directly. That's why I thought about putting the cement plant in the cabinet. Qin Mu smiled shyly, full of the charm of bragging about not paying taxes: "Because the spacecraft is not yet mature, every gram of weight must be considered, so there is this condition." ”
I see. Director Jiang understood. These two people dare to think about it! But the country has not yet opened up private spaceflight, right? Can you build rockets? Even if you can build a rocket, you can still carry people? Even if you can carry people, where do you go to find a planet with aliens?
Even if you find such a planet, can you be sure that you colonize the aliens, or go to deliver food to the aliens?
Isn't that?
However, other companies have been established, and apparently they are not fooling themselves, at least not to cheat themselves out of their own money, but to give themselves money.
Director Jiang decided that he had to make this money anyway.
For fools, it is a crime not to earn money.
So he changed his attitude just now, became very sincere, and said to Qin Mu: "Qin Shao! He is not called Mr. anymore, Mr. can't do this, and the second generation of the rich can be so unreasonable: "You and Huang Da rarely have such ambitions, which is really a five-body throw that I admire." Of course, I would never dare to compare with the talents of the two, but I am also willing to contribute to the cause of the sea of stars. ”
"Thank you, thank you." Qin Mu looked at it, there was a door! Could it be that the director of the factory has the ability to cram so much equipment into it?
"Qin Shao, you said that you want to start the era of alien industrialization, how to do this, naturally you are a great talent, I don't dare to say much, but because you talked about the cement factory, I will think of one thing and give you a reference."
"Director Jiang, please speak."
"Since the aliens have started the era of industrialization, obviously you mean that the aliens are still in the slash-and-burn period, at most at the level of the last years of the Qing Dynasty, right?"
"Yes, yes, yes!" Without waiting for Qin Mu to speak, Huang Jinsha nodded again and again: "Director Jiang, you are too smart, that's it." ”
"Okay, then there is a contrast between the ready-made. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Britain was the first to industrialize, and they exported products from the Qing Dynasty, do you know what they were? ”
"Opium!" Jin Jinsha took over again. Who doesn't know this, the Opium War, and it was fought twice.
Director Jiang was slightly embarrassed. Opium, what Huang Dashao thinks.
"You're talking about matches?" Qin Mu has checked a lot of information these days, especially in the early days of industrialization, and knows that Britain dumped matches in China at that time.
"Yes, matches, you two may not know when you are young, but my parents' generation still called matches foreign fires, which are foreigners' things."
Director Jiang talked eloquently.
"Britain had a lot of industrialized products at that time, but the actual situation in China at the end of the Qing Dynasty led to the fact that most of them were not marketable, and only matches were cheap and indispensable, which quickly opened up the market. Since you two are going to colonize aliens, and their technology level is not as good as that of the late Qing Dynasty, I think you can build a match factory first. After all, there was no cement, and they didn't sleep in the field. ”
"What Director Jiang said makes sense."
Qin Mu was instantly attracted by this plan. The cement factory seems to be out of play, but the matches are not bad.
In the current Great Song Dynasty, there is no such thing as a match, and the fire is kept in the stove every day, which is not only inconvenient but also very wasteful. If you make matches yourself, you will definitely be able to quickly open up sales, not only in the Great Song Dynasty, but the whole earth needed matches at that time.
The Ren family is about to develop!
"So you mean that a match factory can fit into a cupboard?"
"This can barely be done, but there is still a problem, I can design and manufacture the machinery and equipment of the match factory according to the size you give, but not the chemical industry."
Director Jiang carefully introduced the production process and raw materials needed for matches to Qin Mu.
When Qin Mu heard this, his head was a little big. It turns out that a match is so complicated to make, no wonder at the end of the Qing Dynasty, even if China saw the match and understood its convenience and use, it was so difficult to produce it by itself.
The chemical industry alone can't be solved.
For example, potassium chlorate must be used in match heads, but potassium chlorate is not a natural product and needs to be synthesized by process. This requires a chemical plant.
Even if Director Jiang has great ability, it is impossible to stuff a chemical plant into a cabinet.
However, Director Jiang only wants to make money, and if he wants to make money, he must provide thoughtful services to customers.
The solution he gave was that since you want interstellar colonization, just like Britain at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the empire on which the sun never sets, colonization all over the world, then colonization is not immigration, you have to come and go. If you don't return, it's called immigration.
It's easy to come and go. Prepare all the chemical raw materials on the earth, only bring a miniature match factory to the past, and when the time comes, the assembly line will be built, and all the chemicals will be ready-made, only wood and coal need to be obtained from the alien locality.
It's a good idea! Wonderful! Qin Mu's problem was solved in one fell swoop.
He really can't get potassium chlorate in Da Song. Maybe other traversers can't, but Qin Mu really can't.
In the era of great industry, it was not a handicraft workshop. It is not a fairy tale, it is a myth.
According to their alien colonization plan, Director Jiang considered that there was no electricity there, so everything was modeled after the early stage of British industrialization, and the power was the steam engine.
Your alien can't live without water and firewood. If you have these two things, you will be motivated, if not, then don't colonize, people without water will have to die, and what else will be colonized.
This set of integrated solutions is quoted by Director Jiang for 20 million.
Qin Mu felt that this was simply a money grab!
But Director Jiang has something to say. Because everything has to be considered for size and durability, everything has to be designed and made from the ground up, and there is simply no equipment that can be used off-the-shelf, so it is not expensive at all.
If it's not the right size, it won't fit into that cabinet.
If it is not durable enough to pull it back to Earth from an alien planet for repairs, the cost will be too high.
So the price is very conscientious.
And also send chemical raw materials, prepare a ton for you first, and then negotiate the price.
Twenty million, Qin Mu gritted his teeth and signed the contract.
Golden sand to it doesn't matter. What is 20 million, not to mention that his family has money, even if Qin Mu casually reverses a thing, it is more than this amount.
It's just a number. Hurry up and sign it.
Yuqiong Jinsha Industrial Company's first single transaction was completed, a set of miniature match factory, 20 million, about to take root in the Great Song Dynasty!