Hu Wenkai and Carrotta's trip to New York was simply terrible, the snow kept falling, and there were car accidents everywhere on the road from Chicago to New York. Halfway through the trip, the two left their car at the hotel, abandoned it, and took the train to New York.

Heavy snow shut down the entire city of New York, with exchanges closing, company holidays, and schools closed. In addition to going to the mall to buy gifts, the two huddled in the hotel to read books and newspapers to pass the time, and the newspaper said that the snowstorm would continue for a week before it stopped. The heavy snow thwarted all his plans, and he opened an account with Morgan Bank to transfer some of his money to the account.

A wealth investor was hired in the bank to receive the telegraph investment, and the first beneficiary of the property was Carrotta. After the two handled the business, they returned to Chicago the same way, and along the way, Hu Wenkai couldn't stop scolding the ghost weather for causing him not to get things done. As long as Carotta is satisfied with him, it doesn't matter if it snows, and the angry Hu Wenkai said along the way that she was a nymphomaniac.

Back in Chicago, Lao Yi gloated and laughed, the two of them were moldy, and the snow stopped here just two days after they left. Hu Wenkai shrugged his shoulders and lay on the sofa speechlessly and asked Lao Yi how the situation is here?

Lao Yi grinned and threw him a record book. Hu Wenkai flipped and sat up.

"Lao Yi, this is all signed in the past few days?"

"It's all signed after you leave, and Ford signed a formal contract two days later."

"Lao Yi, did you send a telegram to Yang Siliang? Don't be able to keep up with your production capacity. ”

"The telegram is sent every day, how dare I sign it if I don't send it, I only dare to sign it if I ask him about his production capacity." Lao Yi proudly picked up the cigarette and lit it.

"Boss, the key is that the tractors, hydraulic presses, and machine tools we sell are our fist products, and they are immediately reflected in people's use. Don't want raw alloy steel, which requires a process. ”

Hu Wenkai patted the record book: "Well, it's not too much to think about, but a Ford car factory sells more than 100,000 cars a year, and our tractor is only more than 4,000, which is much smaller." More than 130 hydraulic presses are normal, and 70 machine tools are also reasonable. Flooring, furniture and cutlery sales exceeded my expectations. ”

He could only spend about four days in Chicago to take care of the rest, and the next stop was California, which was to buy a very small engine factory. was originally going to buy a house in the United States, but Carotta agreed at first and finally resolutely opposed it, she didn't want to be separated from Hu Wenkai, for fear that Hu Wenkai would leave her alone in the United States. Even if you think about it, you can buy it whenever you have money.

Ford sent someone to sign the contract two days later, and the contract was a lot of overlord clauses, mainly because it was afraid that Xingye Industrial would not have the strength to deliver the goods on time. Hu Wenkai explained that there was no way to organize workers to produce during the Chinese New Year, and hoped to postpone the delivery date by one month, and the rest of the overlord clauses were recognized. Doing business with big business, he knows that the other party also takes a lot of risks, and it is normal for some overlord clauses to have it. The contract becomes effective after the certificate of default margin is issued by JPMorgan Bank.

The JN-4 "Gianney" aircraft has been proposed from the US Department of Defense's Strategic Material Reserve, 10 aircraft for 750 dollars each, which is the same as in history. There are more than 6,000 aircraft in the United States, and a few years ago the order price was more than $10,000, and the surplus "Gianney" aircraft was disposed of by the cabbage price to private buyers. Three on the water and seven on land, and Bryant called to say that ten planes had been loaded onto the freighter.

There are still many things to be completed in the next few days, and it is estimated that there will be few opportunities to go to the United States in the future, and there are a lot of things waiting for him in Haimen. For the purchase of instruments and machinery and equipment, several people have been arranged to send an inquiry letter from the company of Industrial Industry in the United States, and there is a general response, which is sent directly to the San Francisco Bryant.

Bidding farewell to the Chicago employees, the three drove to a small town near Oakland, California, which was full of processing workshops. Hu Wenkai was looking for a handicraft workshop named Old Pete, who is said to have produced air-cooled in-line engines of particularly stable quality. It has now been three years since the end of World War I, and the U.S. aircraft market is in the Great Depression.

Along the way, I found a dilapidated factory with discarded machines and parts scattered around. The door had collapsed, and there was a pungent smell of oil sour from the grease-stained concrete floor. Hu Wenkai estimated that it had not been produced here for at least two years, and an old man in his fifties walked out with a wine bottle in his hand and a cloudy look in his eyes.

This trip was completely different from the trip to New York, and things went so smoothly. After the end of the war, the elder Pete had no orders, he drank and beat his wife, his wife took all his money and left him, and his son also died in the European theater of World War I. He is now helpless, and if he never meets Hu Wenkai again, it is estimated that he will have to sell all the factories to pay off his debts.

When people have hope, their spirits will immediately improve, and a day later, old Pete dressed neatly and carried a suitcase, locked the factory door and left with Hu Wenkai. He handed Hu Wenkai a list of machines that needed to be purchased, looked at them and told him that Shanghai would have all the machines ready. Air-cooled in-line engines have a backup on the computer, but a precision machine like an engine can take a long time without a skilled person to guide it.

The big purchase began with more than 4,000 books, including machinery manufacturing, shipbuilding, smelting, chemical engineering, materials application, mathematics, chemistry. I bought all newspapers and periodicals as long as I could buy them. The purchase of complete sets of inspection and laboratory instruments, pressure testers, temperature testers, liquid level meters, microscopes, etc., are all money-burning goods. If you buy an instrument, you have to buy a few books, and you don't necessarily have to teach it yourself.

Hu Wenkai also became generous after signing a lot of contracts, five Ford buses, four cars, ten trucks, and 50 tons of nickel, and he almost scraped the titanium he could buy. He was busy forgetting the Spring Festival, but fortunately he didn't care much about the Spring Festival, and Lao Yi and Carrota, two foreigners, couldn't remember the Spring Festival.

Henyep Industrial's large-scale recruitment in the United States began last week, and the most concerned are machinery manufacturing and industrial theoretical technicians, and Hu Wenkai's salary is 130% of that offered by his American counterparts, including a round-trip ticket to the United States within two years. Young people stand in the majority, one has a high salary, and the other is to appreciate the exotic atmosphere.

At the end of February, Hu Wenkai returned to Shanghai with 35 American technicians.

Hu Wenkai's two months in the United States was the most critical period for the development of Xingye Industrial, and the real estate company and the pledge company became more and more mature after Hu Wenkai's several rectifications. As the leader of Shanghai's real estate transactions, the company steadily manipulates housing prices. Every time a property is launched, the timing is indeed good, and the property in hand is sold out in the previous year.

According to Yang Siliang's arrangement, after five days of the New Year's holiday, he was transferred to the spring training of employees, and only a few stores were left in the store to go to the factory auditorium on Yatian South Road to participate in the company's training.

The factory on Yatian South Road went to work as usual during the Spring Festival, and the order time in the United States was very tight, and the workers also asked not to take a holiday. Large crawler tractors, walk-behind tractors, hydraulic presses, and machine tools are working overtime in the factory on Yatian South Road.

When it is full of 100 units, it will be shipped to the United States, and orders are still being added. The Tianfen plant has already started assembling walk-behind tractors and crawler tractors, so that the production pressure here is slightly better, and it can concentrate on the production of high value-added products for hydraulic presses and machine tools.

Several important factories in the Tianfen Industrial Base have all been built, including a steel-making plant, an iron-making blast furnace, an electrolytic copper plant, a cement factory, an axle factory, an equipment manufacturing plant, a port, and a 30-kilometer railway. More than 2,000 workers worked in shifts, the machines were running non-stop, smoke was billowing over the base, and screeching hammers and machine tools were emitted.

Yang Siliang lost seven or eight pounds in two months, this busy everything has to be coordinated, the coordination between the steelmaking mill and the ironmaking plant has made him miserable, and the molten iron is transported to the steel mill here, and the steel mill cannot vacate the steelmaking furnace to accommodate it. There is a shortage of raw materials in the electrolytic copper plant, the iron ore is afraid of not being supplied, the order of ships calling at the port, the transformation of the hot rolling workshop, and the supply of steel rods in the axle factory.

Relying on shouting tasks every day, molten iron cannot be made into steel to directly produce iron ingots for sale, and the arrival of blister copper, the raw material for electrolytic copper, last week in Peru, reversed the dilemma of insufficient operation of electrolytic copper plants. After two months of training, Yang Siliang slowly adapted to this high-intensity management work, and trained several apprentices to assist him in management.

He knew that even if Hu Wenkai returned, he would not focus on the base, and estimated that most of his energy would be on integrating Haimen and Nantong counties.

He could no longer wait for the boss to come back and then arrange the personnel of the industrial base, so he and Wang Changrong, Wu Hongxia, Deng Jun, and Jiang Qiuming studied the establishment of a dispatch room for the Tianfen Industrial Base, appointed the directors of several factories, and the heads of the ports.