The adventurous spirit of Westerners in the industrial age, the desire for money, and other qualities of Chinese have only appeared in a large number of private entrepreneurs after the reform and opening up. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The adventurous spirit is inherited from the Age of Discovery, and the desire for money is also in the same vein, but it is more the result of the emergence of new technologies and ideas.

It is difficult to explain their spirit of indomitable for money and complete disregard for the safety of life, this kind of psychological motivation cannot be measured by money alone, it should be said that it is out of a desire for success, and the implicit psychological motivation is the pursuit of the value of life.

Old Nobel is definitely one of those people.

Now Zhu Jinglun has remembered the identity of Nobel, after the mechanical body in his body is fully activated, the brain function has been fully developed, and the memories hidden in the depths of the brain, even the weakest memory, he has also remembered it, from the articles and data recited in class in elementary school, to the content of the poster that he accidentally scanned on the street, as long as there is information in the brain, it has now become memory.

He remembered that he had seen a brief introduction of Nobel at a Nobel Prize exhibition, which mentioned Nobel's father, who only had one name, and his identity was an inventor, but it was enough for Zhu Jinglun to judge that the Nobel in his factory was not the guy who invented gunpowder, but the father of that guy, this is the old Nobel, and that is the little Nobel.

The old Nobel's life experience and adventures are legendary, but unfortunately he was not successful enough, and he had a radiant son, so his deeds were directly hidden.

This person's personal qualities are the same as any successful person, that is, he is very hard-working, very persistent, he has not received a systematic education, in his time, the Swedish state is not able to provide everyone with a quality education, in addition, he is like all entrepreneurs, he has a restless heart, he is not a good student, he does not like to study.

His hometown was a commercial port, and his mother's family had some relatives who were sailors, so he was sent to work as a seaman at the age of fourteen, and he worked as a sailor for three years, and he had been to the Mediterranean and the East, but in India, and not to China.

After three years of grinding on the sea, he became a mature man, and after returning to Sweden, he became interested in painting and architecture, and after a year of self-study, he entered the Stockholm Institute of Technology, where he excelled, won three scholarships, and finally worked as a designer and teaching assistant in the college's mechanical department, where he developed a hobby of design and construction.

After graduating, I started my own business, first working with a partner, and finally working on my own. He built many things, pontoons, wooden houses, and machine tools of all kinds, which were recognized for their performance, and also invented a mechanical technique called Nobel Mechanical Motion, on which he designed advanced rollers.

At the age of twenty-two, he established Sweden's first rubber factory in Sweden and devoted himself to the research of this new material, but he could not find a market for various products made of rubber in Sweden, and the Swedish army could not afford the rubber pontoon bridge he made.

A few years later, when Nobel had his third son, he went bankrupt, but such a person was not easily depressed, and soon decided to venture into Russia, and in Finland under Russian rule, he became acquainted with a Russian officer, who was interested in his invention and introduced a mine technology to Russia, and the Russian tsar rewarded him with a few thousand rubles, and he used the money to open a military machine factory.

Three years later, the elder Nobel took root in Russia, and only then was he able to take his family to Russia to reunite with him.

His factory in Russia, where the industrial base is backward, is a relatively advanced factory, business development is good, but limited to the Russian market, the scale is not large, the real development is the outbreak of the Crimean War, Russia needs a lot of military supplies, his factory got a large number of orders.

The elder Nobel continued to expand the scale, and there were many difficulties, such as the blockade of Britain and France, Russia, which could not import machinery and equipment, but fortunately he was able to produce it himself, eliminating all difficulties, employing and training Russian workers with relatively poor basic knowledge, and producing all kinds of equipment by himself, and after the Crimean War, his factory had expanded to the size of 1,000 people.

Nobel's management and technical ability to organize the production of 1,000 people played a considerable role in the process of Zhu Jinglun's establishment of the arsenal, and although there were 100 mature skilled workers, Nobel brought out more apprentices and the highest level, for which Zhu Jinglun also gave him a reward of 2,000 taels of silver.

Although the old Nobel's factory in Russia was not small, after the Crimean War, the Russian military canceled those orders, and as a result, his factory went bankrupt with a large amount of debt.

This failure wiped out twenty years of hard work in Russia, and he returned to Sweden himself, leaving his three sons still working as technicians in the factory, trying to save it. But he was not depressed, and when he returned to Sweden, he still tried to create a new business and began to study gunpowder.

After that, he was recruited by Zhu Jinglun to Guangdong, and it was three years in a flash, it was really difficult to keep this kind of person, he saved enough money, and the contract expired, so he immediately started to run his own business.

He found three partners, scraped together 10,000 taels of silver, and managed to rent two acres of land from one of his apprentices in Chiwan Village, so it can be said that he has all the preparations to open a factory.

At this time, he began to find customers for his first business, and he was still eyeing Zhu Jinglun's army, because of the relationship between the arsenal, he knew many quartermasters, and kept telling these people about the functions and qualities he was going to produce, and produced samples, one by one to demonstrate to these officers.

Or he used some other means, in short, let the quartermaster report the procurement demand to Zhu Jinglun, because the procurement is not a regular supply, so they have to make a special demand.

This is a kind of rubber products, Nobel's name is, can build a complete set of military backpacks for pontoons, this kind of military backpacks, placed on the ground can be used as a mattress, there are padlocks between each other can be connected together, inflated can form a pontoon bridge, Nobel believes that in Guangdong, an area with many rivers, there is a great need for such a product, he is using this product, to impress a few colleagues who work in the arsenal to cooperate with him, and even pulled more than 20 apprentices to work with them.

also impressed the quartermaster under Zhu Jinglun.

When the report arrived in Zhu Jinglun's hands, he knew that it was too late, or even if he knew it earlier, he could not stop the determination and desire of people like Nobel to start a business, he was not the kind of person who could honestly work for others.

Soon Zhu Jinglun met with Nobel and discussed with him about his products.

Nobel's military backpack was displayed by the river, which attracted many people, and he successfully used the backpack to build a pontoon bridge connecting the East Battery, which was not stable enough for people to walk on, but not to fall.

"If you can improve him and get the carriage on it, I think I'd be happy to use him to form a professional bridge unit."

Zhu Jinglun made a request for him.

Such a request was probably mentioned to him by the quartermaster, and he was prepared for it, so he asked his colleagues to bring some planks and pounce on it, which was a solid pontoon bridge.

Nobel continued: "We can also improve and add some padlocks to the planks on it, so that we can build a pontoon bridge of more than 100 meters in half an hour, which will definitely be of great help to your army in battle." ”

Zhu Jinglun nodded: "Okay, if your new product can achieve the performance you said, I will purchase three hundred pieces." ”

Nobel's offer is one hundred taels, and three hundred pieces is a business of thirty thousand taels, which is already a considerable order for a factory in this era.

Seeing him politely bending over to Zhu Jinglun and touching his chest, he turned his head and hugged his companions to celebrate, completely happy like a child.

I can't help but sigh that the progress of society is driven by technology or by the continuous drive of these risk-taking entrepreneurs.

Zhu Jinglun couldn't be happy, he felt that he was about to lose a talent.

But from another point of view, China has not lost this person, he will continue his career in Guangdong, Zhu Jinglun has lost only the control of a talent, but he can't let this talent work in his factory. And a person who is easy to be controlled, who is willing to do a certain job conscientiously for a lifetime, is difficult to become a person like Nobel.

Putting away the feeling of being slightly lost, the most important thing for him now is to keep those Nobel colleagues, the hundred old technicians. These people have lived and worked here for three years, they know the Chinese, for Zhu Jinglun, these three years are a huge time cost, wasting three years to cultivate a group of technical personnel to understand the local area, he cannot afford this cost.

The head of the arsenal was William, he was one of the first consultants to go to Guangdong, he was a mechanic, and now Zhu Jinglun already knew that he had twenty years of work experience in Sweden's national arsenal, and when I first met him, he said that he was a licensed mechanic and it was not a lie, because he did have a license.

This is not a particularly good, but decent, especially old-fashioned person who can strictly follow the procedures, but it is this kind of person who can produce the best products, and the cannons and rifles produced by Zhu Jinglun's arsenal are no different from British goods, at least in terms of quality.

Zhu Jinglun was quite satisfied with this, he was afraid that the kind of shoddy state-owned enterprises in later generations would happen, and the weapons produced in the Jinling Machinery Bureau built by Li Hongzhang were not willing to be equipped by Li Hongzhang's Huai Army, and Zhu Jinglun did not want to see this kind of thing happen in his arsenal.

Therefore, as long as any method can retain these people, Zhu Jinglun is willing to let these people leave until Chinese managers and skilled workers have grown up thoroughly, and even let their management ideas and working habits form a corporate culture.

"William, don't you think it's a pity to leave a country where you've lived for so long?"

This is no longer a matter of money, so Zhu Jinglun decided to start with feelings.

William frowned and sighed, "Yes, I've lived here for three years, but I've lived in Sweden for forty years. Mr! ”

William continued: "I miss my family so much! ”

Missing home is a beautiful emotion shared by human beings, and Zhu Jinglun knows that he can't keep this person.

But he still made one last effort: "If it is convenient, you are more than welcome to bring your family to Guangdong." (To be continued.) )