Chapter 287: Rubber Frenzy
From the first day of textile machinery, Baotou United Machine qì company has obtained more than 10 million large orders, next, sales are rising, especially textile machinery, Chinese have always had a tradition of weaving, from silk to cotton, lagging behind the pace of the world, did not further enter the era of industrial textiles, not because China is unwilling, or has no idea to enter, completely because, the import of textile machinery is relatively closed, and even there is no way to import.
China's import and export, a certain Cheng dù above, not in the hands of the Chinese, but in the hands of foreigners, all kinds of foreign firms and compradors, control China's import and export, under a certain Cheng dù, they all have a tacit understanding, unwilling to develop China's industry, old China even screws need to be imported, not without reason.
Napoleon once said: "China is not weak, it is nothing more than a sleeping lion, and when the lion sleeps, even a fly dares to fall on its face and bark a few times." "Once China is awakened, the world will be shaken!"
Napoleon in Europe, it can be said that he was a great man, when he was arrogant, he challenged the whole of Europe, miraculously achieved relative success, even if he failed in the end, no one did not take him to heart what he said, therefore, even if it was a victory in several wars, countries including Britain and France, only weakened China for a certain extent, not directly into the hinterland of China, China was too big, and the power that the royal family could control was only a very small part.
In the eyes of Britain and France and other powers, they would rather arm and strengthen India, or other small colonial powers, than arm China, let alone advanced machines. Even a little bit of manufacturing is unwilling to be popularized in China, and China is slowly moving forward in such difficulties.
Right now. With the emergence of the Northwest United Manufacturing Company, a large number of cotton textile machinery and light industry machinery representing the world's top are suddenly displayed in the eyes of the world, Zhang Jian, Zhou Jing. They are not simple characters, behind them, and the entire South China family, are inextricably linked, competing with each other. However, the trend of Baotou machine qì was still publicized.
In just one week, almost half of the super-rich and invisible riches who came to Wuhan came to Wuhan, and most of the eyes were on the scene. Put it on the textile machinery, which is recognized as a money-making business, a small part. I put it in flour, rice processing, food processing, matches, daily necessities, soap. On top of the machinery of glass products, one by one huge orders. It can be said that the goal of each factory is one by one. The whole Baotou ushered in a burst period of orders, a large number of orders, are so signed, the scale of the order is getting bigger and bigger, more and more powerful, not only for one type, almost full flowering.
The liveliness of Baotou not only aroused the attention of the people of Wuhan, the attention of a large number of southern merchants, inevitably, attracted the attention of the great powers, the magic of light industry machinery, and even cotton textile machines, at most, just surprised the powers, even Britain, they were directly affected by the cotton textile machinery, but they did not care, now Britain, sitting on the world's largest colony, all kinds of raw materials are almost equal to zero prices, integrated into the entire world's industrial chain, they do not think a small machinery, How much effect will it have, even if this machinery crowns the world, in their opinion, the expansion of these large-scale textile machinery, can not change the pattern of the textile industry, textile machinery is only the final step of the textile industry, the key is still on cotton, how big is China's cotton production area, can digest such a huge textile machinery, several British officials, and other consuls of the powers, a little bit of a head, and decided to in the next year, a substantial increase in the price of cotton, international trade, Commodity circulation, not so fun.
Investors on the scene would not have thought that faintly, the great powers have made such a vicious plan, this is not the first time they have done this, Hu Xueyan, the richest man of the year, finally lost somewhere, isn't it in the raw silk trade against foreign companies, he wants to use his own strength to fight against foreign merchants, in order to increase the price of raw silk, so that many silk farmers profit at the same time, they have also obtained huge wealth, by the other party with a global perspective and strong strength, directly in a few days, let him completely bankrupt, The huge wealth of 20 million taels, as far as individuals are concerned, can definitely be called powerful, and it is also one of the super-rich people in recorded history, but unfortunately, the era of globalization, the accumulation of wealth in the industrial age, is far from what he can imagine.
A layer of haze-like net, just like this cover to the ascendant Chinese textile industry, the vast majority of people, can not see this crisis, the rich people in the south of the Yangtze River, they are just immersed in a large number of advanced machines, and did not notice this, Yang Yuanzhao is the same, his heart was touched by Baotou, did not expect such a big conspiracy to cover them.
In the process of paying attention to Baotou, they inevitably noticed some things in Baotou, and they were surprised to find that it was only the operation of the real yàn room, and the vulcanized rubber that had just appeared in foreign countries had a certain result, and it actually appeared in the Baotou product directory, although there was no physical object, but there were detailed performance indicators and application methods.
Rubber, starting from 1908, gradually started, in the whole world, set off a huge upsurge, the price of rubber and rubber plantation projects, in the stock market and capital investment market gradually rising, everyone knows, this is a very hot thing, there is research about it, in many countries and enterprises, have invested a lot of money, anyone can only determine its approximate use, there is no exact way to use, I did not expect, Baotou in this one step ahead.
Could it be that there is any secret in Baotou, the tentacles of various countries began to notice the emerging power of Baotou, but the prejudice against China made them miss the opportunity to discover the secret of Baotou at this moment, and the cooperation with Williams's real yàn room was signed in secret, and there was a confidentiality clause in it, Williams was a scientific expert, and after paying attention to the application of oxygen blowing roof, he did not publicize the cooperation with Baotou too much, and Baotou built a 150-ton steelmaking blast furnace. On the side of Williams's room, he was enlightened, and instead of exposing it, he exposed Smith's room.
Smith in the United States, is a well-known scientist, his real room is not big, engaged in the same research as others, but with the support of Yang Yuanzhao, coupled with his guidance and requirements in some key places, in less than a year, a series of breakthroughs have been obtained, and now some cutting-edge products have begun to be put into production, suddenly, Smith's fame began to skyrocket, most of the powers and companies, all of the Smith as vulcanized rubber or the application of rubber among the leader, From a calf to a big cow, the pinnacle scientist of the industry, who shares Smith's real room technology, is regarded as a nouveau riche like a deposit.
When the tentacles of the great powers began to pay attention to Smith's room, Baotou avoided this head-on confrontation, and at the Wuhan Persuasion Conference, some small foreign firms or compradors made preliminary contact with Baotou and began to order small quantities.
Vulcanized rubber, even if it is an initial product, has a wide range of functions, from the sealant in the raw rubber to some rubber products and closed containers, a certain degree of dù above, can enhance the efficiency of the steam engine, increase the sealing, which is a considerable improvement in power.
For foreign sales, it is a unique business, even if it is some small batch orders, a certain amount of dù above, but also pushed up the total sales of Baotou, the most important thing is that the export is a project, why did Tianjin persuade the industry to cause such a big sensation, is not because of the cement plant cement, exported thousands of barrels, more than 1,000 tons, although the number of Baotou exports is not as much as Tianjin Qixin cement plant, but in the total turnover, far exceeding, the special large steam engine sealant, after the propaganda of Harpy, It attracted shipyards from all over the world, including Germany, France, the United States, and Italy.
The sealing technology of large steam engines has always been a problem, and the sealing of water pipes in Germany can be said to have dug deep into the potential of steam engines, but the mature products of rubber have set off a new upsurge, which belongs to the application of vulcanized rubber and ordinary rubber technology, not to mention that it is just a paper diaphragm, which is a unique technology in Baotou, and even Smith Shiyàn Room has not been invented, at least in a specific time, this is a unique business.
Anything, involving the military industry, is of excellent quality, the price is high, to the navy, it is doubled, when the effect of the real yàn is determined, the sealing process of the steam engine is greatly improved, bringing about the improvement of the overall power and operating environment, large-scale sales began, even the arrogant Britain, also had to lower their heads, they in Europe and the North Sea, provoked by Germany, what the other side has, they must also have.
The total value is 7 million pounds, and the price per ton is as high as 40,000 pounds, that is, about 200,000 US dollars, such a price, among industrial products, can be called very high, but no great power is unwilling, because the sealing rubber is not used much in the entire steam engine, take the steam turbine on the battleship as an example, a 2-30,000 horsepower steam turbine unit, the number of sealing rubber used, will not exceed 300 kilograms, that is, on a battleship worth tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions, At most, only one or two thousand pounds of products will be used, but the power of the steam engine can increase by about 4%-8%, this proportion is definitely extremely strong, the United Kingdom, which has the most battleships, bought 50 tons, and Germany did not show weakness, buying 30 tons, and the rest was divided up by the United States and other powers, and even the weakest Japan bought 1.5 tons to upgrade its own warships.
The largest sale of the Wuhan Industry Association was signed, 7 million pounds, equivalent to 35 million US dollars, equivalent to more than 70 million silver dollars, this money did not have the previous installments, and the powers did not care about some preferential treatments, and the direct payment was cash, hard currency in various currencies, which suddenly made the overall sales climb to an unimaginable height. (To be continued) R580