Williams said confidently: "It is a small shipbuilding industry, compared to large warships, the industry of the United States does not dare to say that it is ahead of the world, but the small industry is definitely ahead, because the large shipbuilding industry is still the most powerful in the United Kingdom!" If this shipyard continues to operate, it is not that it cannot be operated, mainly because they feel that they should be able to have a better development when they return to the United States. ”

Young Master Meng nodded, "I'll send a technician to Shanghai to check it out immediately, hoping that Mr. Williams will help me contact me." ”

Williams nodded and said: "Young Master Meng, you are really a very resolute person, if you can win this business, it is very cost-effective, they invested 500,000 taels of Chinese official silver, and it has been opened for less than ten years, and now the equipment and workshop, together with the warehouse, are only sold for 300,000 taels." ”

Master Meng: "I don't want factories and warehouses, I just need equipment and technology!" You can help me get in touch, and I'll send someone today. ”

Williams nodded, "Okay, in this case, it should be cheaper." ”

Young Master Meng smiled: "Of course, I can go anywhere to buy equipment, but they are in the Great Qing Kingdom, and it is difficult to find buyers." ”

Williams sighed, "Yes, the later industrial countries, when they come to the Qing Dynasty, can only do some trade, and if they want to fight with the British who entered China one step earlier, they can't fight for industrial production." ”

Young Master Meng is also very jealous of Britain's world hegemony at this time, and the sun never sets on the empire, which is not blown out.

Coupled with a French ally, it is indeed very efficient to use military strength to ensure economic aggression with military strength!

If it weren't for the great losses suffered in World War II and the rapid rise of the United States, I really don't know what Britain would have developed.

History is inevitable, but there are also many accidental factors!

Master Meng has always been very generous with his investment in technology, but he will not spend money indiscriminately, and he still has his subordinates where he should bargain.

Young Master Meng is very good at business, and by the way, all the compradors of Klinsmann are master negotiators.

A company, an enterprise, is the same as an army, what kind of personality was the initial commander, what kind of personality this company will be later, the management of the entire Klinsmann & Co. is the most advanced in this era!

The technology of Klinsmann has not yet gone up, but the management is already very advanced, surpassing any other company.

After leaving the U.S. Consulate, Zhao Qingluo saw Yuemeng's face with joy, and asked, "Except for sending a sum of money out, what did I not meet and talk about?" Are you really going to buy someone's old equipment? ”

Young Master Meng smiled: "That's not how the accounts are calculated, this is an early investment, and it doesn't suffer if you invest in people like Williams, he has a request for us, and we also ask for him, this relationship is more stable and reliable than any relationship, and moreover, I also got a buying and selling information, isn't it good?" Hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, what is it for me now? We bought it, even if we don't start work, with these technicians and equipment, we can at least open a technical school first! ”

Zhao Qingluo shook her head, "Okay, anyway, I don't understand what you think, when your shipyard gets benefits, it seems that you have to wait for ten years, I haven't seen people so enthusiastic about things ten years later." ”

Xuan Yuemeng smiled: "Prepare early, there will be hope in ten years, if you never prepare, you will wait for another ten years, isn't it in vain?" Besides, if you buy other people's old equipment now, you can still kill the price of scrap copper and rotten iron, and tomorrow you will tell Timothy Lee about this matter, and let him take someone to Shanghai to talk about this project! Bargain to the death, if you can't kill it, let him come back first, this business, we are determined to win. ”

Zhao Qingluo: "Okay." ”

Young Master Meng smiled contentedly, he didn't expect to come to the U.S. Consulate and get a very useful information, compared to the new equipment, he would rather have the old equipment, provided that the technology is not outdated.

Besides, the equipment for ship repair is mainly based on Seiko, which can also help his machinery manufacturing industry lay the foundation in advance!

Young Master Meng said that it was ten years, in fact, he thought that if the matter of sending foreign students went smoothly and he had his own scientists in advance, he should be able to master the shipbuilding process within ten years! Master the metallurgical process!

When qualified steel can be smelted and ships can be built, what is the problem with guns?

You must know that more than 10 years ago, the machine bureau created by Zeng Guofan's leadership could already imitate foreign guns and cannons, just because China did not have a metallurgical and energy industry, and the effect of imitation was too poor, and the Qing government did not realize the necessity of these things.

The Westernists of the Qing court, like the Chinese men's football team, are very thoughtful, very slogans, and sometimes even make people feel quite enthusiastic, but when they want to take the results to see, they have to cover their noses, otherwise they will be smoked to death by stinky feet.

After Timothy Li got the instructions of Young Master Meng, he took more than a dozen technicians, as well as Dali, Xuan Yuewu and others to Shanghai.

The two sides negotiated very smoothly, and it was not as difficult as Master Meng began to envision, and in only three days, an agreement of intent was reached, and the telegram was sent back to Tianjin, and Master Meng was also satisfied with the result.

The equipment with a valuation of more than 200,000 taels only needs 20,000 taels to be sold in the end!

Because except for Young Master Meng, there is indeed no one in the Great Qing Kingdom who will buy these shipbuilding equipment! Even these equipment are much better than the equipment of the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau, which is currently the most sound in the Qing Dynasty!

Those old men of the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau don't look down on old goods!

They don't care about technology, they just want new things, and they think old things are bad.

The most important thing is that the 20,000 taels of silver spent by Young Master Meng also include more than 50 technicians!

Among them, there are more than 10 advanced technologies with more than 20 years of shipbuilding experience! This is the most satisfying thing for Master Meng.

In another half a month, Master Meng's small shipyard will take shape.

The site is next to the wharf of the American Concession, and the area of the entire shipyard is only more than 100 acres.

There is a steam engine workshop and an iron association factory, and after talking with those high-level American technicians, it makes Young Master Meng quite excited, he learned that they have the experience of producing small Western steam engines and steam engine ships a few years ago!

And it is capable of replicating small ironclad warships.

Master Meng gave these technicians, according to the level, divided the level, he is also the first time to systematically substitute the professional level into the modern industry, Master Meng will be the complex industry divided into ten levels!

His division is simple, let the technicians hire each other, and then combine their previous salaries!

How many levels of technicians do they have with each other, everyone has a rod scale in their hearts, this is the most accurate, and Master Meng has turned over fifty percent of everyone's salary! And promised to provide them with good housing after working at Klinsmann & Co. for a year, and pay for their families in the United States!

In this way, although Young Master Meng's shipyard is not about to start construction, however, the teachers of his technical school are complete, and the equipment of these shipyards has temporarily become machinery manufacturing equipment, so that these technicians are busy training potential Chinese workers and doing some complex machining.

Young Master Meng is simply turning waste into treasure, which stunned Timothy Li and others.

Timothy Lee, "Mr. Yuemeng, is it worth the 20,000 taels?" ”

Young Master Meng smiled and nodded, "It's worth it!" It's the best investment ever! Chinese workers are cheap, let the people below, arrange more workers who usually perform well at work to technical schools for training, focus on training those workers who perform well, and I will send them to the United States for further study in the future! ”

Timothy Lee was inexplicable, and Master Meng smiled and told him what he had talked about with Williams.

Timothy Lee nodded in appreciation: "Mr. Yuemeng, I really admire your vision and courage now!" It's a long-term thing, and it's good. ”

Young Master Meng sighed, "It's a pity that there is no steel factory!" Otherwise, I'll get the steel mill up now, and in less than five years we'll be able to produce our own steamers!" (To be continued.) )