De Mons's anxious mood has not eased after arriving in Huzhou, and he sees more competitors here, not only his old friend Ryan, but he even sees Rusya, and some real strongmen in Shanghai, both Chinese and Western.

Although he claims to have assets of tens of millions, he knows very well that now, including him, the entire Westerners in Shanghai have just started for a few years or more than ten years, and the amount of funds that can be mobilized is very limited, and there is only one real monster, that is, HSBC.

So he had to think about how to borrow a large amount of money from HSBC, but he decided to show the pie first, so he quickly exchanged 1,000 taels of silver from a bank and dressed himself up.

And now, in addition to Westerners, the silk merchants in Huzhou have also jumped out, they don't know what industry is, and they don't know how to run a factory, but he knows that Huzhou is already the territory of the Hongjun, and he should do something to have a good relationship with the Hongjun.

And now Hongjun has decided to sell some of the factories, although the price is not necessarily favorable, and it may be smashed in their hands, but they have decided to spend money first to make the relationship better.

You must know that the silk industry in Huzhou is a big business of tens of millions of silver yuan just for export, plus domestic sales, which can be said to be a super industry that the entire country of China will drool, and there are too many people who make a living from the silk industry, so everyone has to think about how to have a good relationship with Hongjun.

Although the Hongjun is now in Huzhou and has not really moved, everyone knows that this is just a façade, when a real state power uses its violent power machine, no one can have the power to resist, even if they can have more assets.

Therefore, De Mons encountered a great obstacle when he wanted to see Zhou Xiuying, although his relationship with the Hongjun was good, but Zhou Xiuying was now in a very busy situation, she was not only responsible for the military progress in the entire Anwei territory, but also responsible for the handling of the coal and iron battle.

Therefore, she had to meet dozens of people every day, sometimes even sixty or seventy people alone, and she could not sleep until late at night, and even with the good relationship in the past, De Mengs only managed to gain fifteen minutes: "Mr. De Mengs, I know that you are an old friend of our Hongjun and His Royal Highness King Yan, but I am very sorry, we must make a long story short and end our conversation in fifteen minutes",

Dermons was not angry that he had waited for two hours, he knew very well that there were more than a dozen soldiers and merchants waiting behind him, and that he had been able to get fifteen minutes of his time, which was already a special favor, considering that the one in front had only been in it for seven or eight minutes before retiring.

He also decided to make a long story short: "Dear Ms. Zhou Xiuguan, I now inform you that I am very interested in the metal processing plant that you are about to sell and am willing to quote a reasonable price for the acquisition. ”

In the original plan, this processing plant was part of the military factory, but after the lock, Hongjun found that there were two such metal processing factories in his hands, so he decided to sell one of them to reduce the waste of money.

"Longyin Metal Processing Company, right?" Zhou Xiuying quickly found out the information of this worker corpse in a series of tables: "This factory has more than 170 employees, as well as complete sets of equipment, we once invested 13,000 silver yuan in this factory, and now you only need to take 5,700 silver rounds, you can buy everything in this factory, including equipment, workers and plants."

"Thank you for your good cut" De Mons said with a smile: "I am an old friend of His Royal Highness King Yan, so I can't let Hongjun suffer such a big loss, I have a better proposal, I will buy this factory for seven thousand silver yuan,...,

Zhou Xiuying glanced at De Mons, she clearly knew that this De Mons in front of her was a real old fox, she said softly: "Our order will last for a full eighteen months, and there will still be enough military orders within eighteen months, of course, you can also turn it into a civilian factory, but I don't know why you want to raise the price of this factory to seven thousand silver yuan",

"It's good for both of us, at least I can maintain a good relationship with you",

Zhou Xiuying smiled: "It seems that you are right, then I will increase the price of this factory by another five hundred silver yuan, do you have any opinions?" ”

"No opinion", De Mons just said with concern, "I just want to know how to better cooperate with your steel industry, although the current steel production is still small, but my metal processing plant will need a lot of steel." ”

"Huh?" Zhou Xiuying is now equally concerned about the succession of the local steel plant: "What do you want to say? ”

"I obtained the concession of the Huzhou-Hangzhou railway from His Royal Highness King Yan, although there have been many twists and turns, but thanks to the great victory of His Royal Highness King Yan, our railway has completed the preliminary work and is ready to start construction in the near future?"

"In the near future?" Zhou Xiuying sensitively found this: "What is it in the near future? ”

For the Huzhou-Hangzhou railway, as the person in charge of the Huzhou and coal and iron battles, she has always had extraordinary concern, although she does not know what kind of changes the railway will bring, but from the mouths of Liu Chang and some foreigners, she clearly knows that the railway will change everything.

The Huzhou-Hangzhou railway is already the first railway in the whole of China in the planning, but she does not think that the construction of this railway will be implemented in the near future, because for a country in the midst of war, it is too luxurious to spend a lot of money to build such a railway.

De Mons obviously bowed Zhou Xiuying's interest, he said with a smile: "Fifteen minutes is not enough, I brought a full set of drawings",

Zhou Xiuying agreed with him: "You're right, we have enough time to talk about this, how much time do you need?" ”

De Mons didn't answer Zhou Xiuying, but just opened the drawings he brought: "Do you think the current line planning is reasonable?" This will determine the fate of villages and towns and even county towns along the route for a whole hundred years. ”

For these villages and towns or county towns along the line, the direction of a railway can indeed determine their fate for a hundred years, Zhou Xiuying nodded first, and then said: "Can you give me a copy?" There's so much at stake in that. ”

There are indeed too many comedies and tragedies in the history of Huzhou-Hangzhou Railway in the following history, some gentry are afraid of affecting the atmosphere and organize protests, which makes the whole town plummet, there are also small villages that have become new county seats because of the establishment of stations, and Hao Qiang, who was the first to open the trend, kidnapped engineers to ask for a change of line, and finally succeeded in getting the railway to set up a station in his own village.

De Mons nodded, and he replied, "I'm afraid you're going to have a lot of resistance?" ”

Zhou Xiuying returned to the original topic, she asked, "That's what you bought the metal processing plant for?" ”

"We need a lot of rail facilities, especially railroad tracks!" De Mons cleverly replied: "It would be better if we could take a direct stake in the steel consortium!" ”

Zhou Xiuying is also worried about the next step of the steel complex she operates, although she already has a considerable pig iron production capacity and the first furnace of molten steel, but the high production cost makes Zhou Xiuying have to consider the future of the steel complex.

You must know that the quality of the steel produced by the steel complex is much inferior to that of the steel shipped from Shanghai, and the cost price is already twice the price of Shanghai to Hong Kong. …,

But Zhou Xiuying had to think more: "That is the key to the military industry." ”

De Mons went on the offensive: "Actually, I'm also interested in chemical plants, and I can raise a lot of money from Shanghai. ”

"It's not just your money?" Zhou Xiuying became serious: "But with your strength alone, it is already the limit of the limit to build the Hangzhou-Huzhou railway, answer me a question, when is it in the near future?" ”

De Mons also knows that the Hangzhou-Huzhou railway is the key to the key to the health, although he claims to have completed the preliminary work, but the fact is far from the case, only the most preliminary work has been completed, but he told Zhou Xiuying: "If it goes well, the groundbreaking ceremony can be held within this year!" ”

"When is the actual start of construction?" Zhou Xiuying has already grown up: "I must be responsible for His Royal Highness King Yan." ”

In the face of Zhou Xiuying's questioning, De Mons replied cleverly: "It is impossible to have a substantial start before the New Year, you know that it is not economically appropriate." ”

Zhou Xiuying agrees with this point of view, the concept of Chinese people going home for the New Year is too heavy, and if work starts before the New Year, then it will soon usher in a considerable period of shutdown, which will bring great economic losses.

"You mean there will be a substantial start of construction during the Spring Festival next year?" Zhou Xiuying replied: "If you are going to take the products of the steel consortium, then I can consider allowing you to take a stake." ”

"Thank you very much for your kindness." De Mons had a smile on his face: "We will build the most advanced steel production company in the world." ”

Although the current industrial system in northern Zhejiang is not complete, De Mons believes that he will be the most glorious industrial in the entire Chinese country, and that it will also represent huge profits if he can take a stake in the military industry monopolized by the government.

"Don't lift it up too early." Zhou Xiuying said with a smile: "Iron and steel complex, at least in the short term, there is no hope of profitability!" ”

De Mons scratched his hair, but replied with a smile: "So... Can we move on to the issue of our stake in a chemical complex? I have always been an old friend of His Royal Highness King Yan! ”

[This text is provided by Qihang @ Peach Blossom Three or Two Branches Outside the Grave]