Timothy Lee said: "Didn't we get the right to mine coal in the form of official supervision and foreign management? Why not start a steel mill? ”

Xuan Yuemeng smiled and shook her head, "It's not as simple as you think, the Qing government is not strict with coal mine management, there are small coal kilns everywhere, we also provide them with coal mines for free, and they don't use much, they don't do the same thing at all, steel is different, Qing Guo adopts a salt and iron monopoly, and it relies on these two to make money, otherwise, which foreign company have you seen opened a steel plant in China?" ”

Timothy Lee sighed, "So, there's nothing we can do about it?" ”

Young Master Meng said with a smile: "It's not that there is no way at all, it's just that this place is not suitable!" Otherwise, how can I get a small shipyard first? It is mainly run as a technical school, and you can try to build some small barges! To benefit from a small boat, avoid the British and French giant ships first, and don't irritate them! In this way, we will be able to seize the small mechanical steamship market in the entire Qing Dynasty as soon as possible, and this market is already not small. ”

Timothy Lee was pleasantly surprised: "Mr. Yuemeng, I found that you have changed, and you are now unwilling to stimulate Britain and France, which is very good." ”

Young Master Meng laughed, "What do you mean I've changed?" I didn't want to stimulate them from beginning to end, but if we want to develop, we will inevitably stimulate them! After the last bloody cleansing of the Japanese and the British, they must now be waiting to find our stubble, and if they are allowed to grasp any more sore spots that hinder British industry and commerce, they will definitely report to the British government! When the time comes for the British government to clean us up, our Klinsmann & Co. will really not be able to stand it, do you think Germany, or the United States, will go against a country for the sake of our little foreign firm? ”

Timothy Lee nodded, "I'll rest assured." ”

Young Master Meng smiled: "What can you rest assured of?" Do you think I'm a reckless man who only knows how to move a knife and a gun at every turn? We are secretly developing in the cracks, so naturally we should be careful. ”

Timothy Lee smiled: "Yes, yes, yes, the secret development in the cracks, this sentence is very good." ”

Xuan Yuemeng smiled and said, "Mr. Timothy Li, is there anything else?" ”

Timothy Lee laughed, "No." ”

Timothy Li had just turned around, and suddenly turned back again, "By the way, Mr. Yuemeng, I want to tell you a good news, recently, not only have Chinese companies come to our concession development zone to buy commercial land, but there are also Chinese companies that want to buy land and build factories in our industrial zone, there are several." ”

Xuan Yuemeng was surprised: "Yes? This is great, I said earlier, there are always Chinese who will come, right? ”

Timothy Lee said with a smile: "It's because our price is too high, otherwise, there would have been Chinese companies coming in to invest, and this kind of business is a big business." ”

Xuan Yuemeng said with a smile: "There is no way to do business, of course, you have to pay attention to strength, if you rely on discounts and charity, it is not a journey to help the commercial development of the Qing Dynasty, there should be a few small businesses without strength, or even a dozen." Joining forces, or directly affiliated with a powerful firm like our Klinsmann & Co., can form a competitive advantage. ”

Timothy Lee nodded, "In a few days, the business that built a factory in the industrial zone will hold a big opening ceremony, maybe you will invite the famous actors here to sing, and there will be dragon and lion dances, or something, will you go?" ”

Xuan Yuemeng nodded, "I will go, the Chinese set up factories in our industrial zone, this is the first one, I must be the first." ”

Timothy Li nodded and said, "Okay, I will tell you that you are too famous now, and many people who invest in us want to visit Mr. Yuemeng." ”

Xuan Yuemeng smiled bitterly, "It seems that I am still not low-key enough, you just say that I am not free, I didn't want to meet people to socialize, and I will solve the entertainment matter at your level in the future, if you are also annoyed, or can't get out, just leave it to those compradors to do, not every customer has to do it himself, otherwise you will die of exhaustion sooner or later." ”

Timothy Li nodded, "Although the speed of our business has slowed down, the speed of investment has gone up, and I am getting busier and happier every day." ”

Young Master Meng smiled: "Then congratulations on being busier in the future." ”

After Timothy Lee left, Master Meng jumped twice in the same place, and he was in a very happy mood, this step is of little significance for making money, but for the long run, it is of great significance!

The technology of the shipyard, in this era, has come into contact with the edge of heavy industry! Let Klinsmann take a big step forward in technology.

Young Master Meng asked Dali to clean up a building next to the shipyard, which was originally planned to run a middle school, because the middle school was not possible to get up for the time being, so it was given to the technical school first, as a place to train skilled workers, and the students here took turns to learn theoretical knowledge every day, and participated in factory labor at other times, providing all kinds of apprentice workers for the shipyard.

Young Master Meng is planning to give his Klinsmann & Co.'s current more than 30,000 workers a chance to receive a little education! In order to select the excellent 500 excellent workers, in order to send them to the United States to prepare!

Master Meng's teaching system integrates teaching, learning, and practice, and it is also a very elite system after a hundred years.

Compared with these foreign technicians, the local craftsmen are almost all wasted, and now it is the mechanical age, and then relying on manual equipment, it can't keep up with the development of the times!

Young Master Meng and Xuan Yuewu were in the Seiko workshop of the shipyard.

Xuan Yuewu was pleasantly surprised: "Yuemeng, I really don't regret giving up the imperial examination at all now, what I have learned in the past two months, I think it is more useful than the past ten years." ”

Xuan Yuemeng smiled and nodded, "You know all these devices?" ”

Xuan Yuewu smiled: "I can drive nuts, do you think I know them?" ”

Young Master Meng stretched out his little chubby paw and gave a thumbs up, "Brother, you cow!" In the future, you will be responsible for leading the team to study in the United States, and now the technical school will be in charge of all the things you are responsible for! ”

Xuan Yuewu was pleasantly surprised: "Really? Can I? ”

Young Master Meng smiled: "Remove the word "mo", you can do it!" During this time, your processing task was a small steam engine, but unfortunately we didn't have our own steel mill! We can only do some small equipment processing, and grab the market with imported equipment from foreigners as soon as possible! Foreigners don't grasp the small equipment tightly, and the price is ridiculously high, and they don't plan to do business with the small businessmen of the Qing Dynasty at all. ”

Xuan Yuewu nodded and said, "Got it, how much to produce first?" ”

Young Master Meng smiled: "Five hundred, at most that, it's not bad to have two a month, the key is not so many materials." ”

Xuan Yuewu Great Khan, "Then you still say five hundred?" Two units a month, isn't it at most about 20 units a year? How many years does 500 take? More than twenty years? ”

Young Master Meng smiled: "Who told you to ask me?" ”

Xuan Yuewu scratched the back of his head, "Then I'm not used to asking you?" ”

Young Master Meng smiled bitterly, you are all used to asking me, who should I ask?

In fact, many times, he is also very slim.

It is developing, however, it is really too slow, the most important thing is to suffer from gains and losses, every step of the way, I am afraid of making a mistake, and the scope is too small, the land in the US concession is expensive, it is impossible to develop large-scale factories, let him go to the land outside the US concession to develop large-scale factories, he really doesn't dare, when the Qing court is happy, if the property confiscated to him, isn't he stepping on?

Young Master Meng thought of that background again, if there was a giant bull's background, it would be good if he could ignore the threat of the Qing court, and it would be best to be able to catch up with the royal industry! No one is going to confiscate the royal estate, right?

Young Master Meng suddenly felt that it would be good if Zeng Siping and his little fiancée were a princess.

As a colt, he can let go of the boldness!

At the beginning, he thought that Zeng Siping's identity was quite noble, but now it seems that Zeng Siping, Li Jingshou, these girls are noble, and they are all right, this is an era when Manchu people use their bloodlines to control the Han people! Since you can't kill the Manchurian people all at once, you still have to honestly lie down under the hands of others.

After that, Young Master Meng spent most of his time in the industrial area, sometimes going to the shipyard, sometimes going around, occasionally going to Dashu Hutong, listening to the old master's lectures, and Zeng Siping, Li Jingshou, Zhou Xuexi, Wu Baochu, Sophia and they went to class together.

Life is also fulfilling.

Since the last time Young Master Meng thought about Zhao Qingluo, and Zhao Qingluo clearly rejected him, he no longer talked to Zhao Qingluo, just like a real working relationship, Young Master Meng During this time, he was still like a little adult.

It seems that he has really become a manager of this development zone.

He has gradually become accustomed to this kind of life in the late Qing Dynasty, with electric lights, comfortable accommodation, exquisite food, and a leisurely life.

The opportunity is still very pitiful to the cute young master.

Two months later.

The weather gradually got hotter, and Young Master Meng was naked, revealing a fat body, sitting on a recliner, and Xu Xiangzhi fed him watermelons.

Xuan Zonglu smiled: "Okay, okay, the little belly of the food is bulging!" ”

Young Master Meng said with a smile: "In a year, only summer can be eaten, alas, but unfortunately there are no greenhouses to grow vegetables and fruits." ”

Xuanzong Luqi said, "What is a greenhouse?" ”

Young Master Meng snorted, thinking about how to explain, "It's a big shed made of plastic!" Let the temperature of the land be the same in winter as in spring and autumn, so that you can eat out-of-season vegetables and fruits in winter, and you can eat watermelon in winter. ”

Xuanzong laughed, "This kid, I don't know how long his brain is, he has some weird ideas all day long, eating winter things in winter, eating summer things in summer, what's so out of season?" (To be continued.) )