Chapter 147: Take a long-term view
The content is actually very simple, the local import of Mawei industrial products, and the sale of agricultural products and resources produced in the future, and as the signatory of the North Borneo Company, can enjoy the benefits of both transactions, of course, the Mawei Company will not do loss-making transactions, but how the benefits are generated, the speculator Ali Guo is also a little confused......
He weighed it for a long time, but he didn't understand the benefits, because it summarized too much content, to put it bluntly, many aspects may lose the sovereign rights and interests of the local area, but it is indeed the North Borneo company that gets the benefits, but if it is modified, the interests involved may be greatly lost, this is definitely a contract that can only be drawn up by a business genius, and the next day he signed the contract happily, since he is profitable, the matter of Borneo is completely indifferent.
After sending away Ali Guo, Lu Zhiyuan came to the shopkeeper Wang to ask about the other party's order, and the task here was almost completed! He was somewhat unaware that Lord Qin was going to trade with British companies that operated local industries, but this did not affect his decision in the slightest.
After selling a small consignment of goods at the port of Kuching, under the greedy eyes of Aliko, this fleet of the Great Qing Kingdom continued southward and disappeared into the distant sea level......
Germany, Berlin, Celtic company has recently grown steadily under the operation of James, and the accounts are presided over by the two people from China, Wang and Chen, who are in charge of the trade, and the two shopkeepers are busy with the surge in trade volume and the increasing amount of funds, and the two shopkeepers are a little anxious, and Wang Li, who is in charge of Berlin's business, has also sent an urgent telegram to the country, asking for additional manpower.
This can't be blamed on Wang Li, this time a total of No. 8 people were brought out, two shopkeepers are indispensable, this is Lord Qin's repeated care, the remaining No. 5 people, two sent to the foreign bank to follow James students, this business can not be controlled in the hands of foreigners, in addition, the store must leave two rest assured, in the end, Wang Li went out to do something by himself, and had to ask the two brothers to run together.
And last time, he ran all the way from Budapest and sent the Mr. Tesla that Lord Qin designated to find to Berlin, and from then on, his priority was no longer the business here, but the nanny of Mr. Tesla...... Of course, there are some part-time tasks!
But to be honest, Wang Li was more curious about this Tesla, and after arriving at the University of Berlin, after Qin Daren's personal connections and money opening, Tesla quickly completed the formalities and became a scholar in the physics room of the University of Berlin in 1881.
For such an arrangement, Tesla didn't say anything, except for soaking in the real yàn room all day, that is, scattered in the Humboldt garden at the entrance of the University of Berlin, Wang Li came to see Tesla every day, but a few months have passed, this one still maintains the appearance when he entered the school, but the time in the real yàn room is longer.
And often, Wang Li will not find Tesla in Humboldt Garden, run to the real yàn room, and can't find Tesla, at this time, no need to ask, run to Tesla's dormitory alone, and will definitely find this person lying in the room and writing hard, and then look up and smile at Wang Li's arrival, and continue to talk about his affairs.
However, Wang Li has become accustomed to this matter, and it must be Tesla's so-called new discovery...... He had seen this many times in the past four months, but this was only half of the reason why Wang Li came to the University of Berlin, and the other half was because of another task he shouldered - recruitment!
In the past four months, he has secretly signed agreements with more than a dozen Chinese students and more than 30 German students, and Instructor Qin is willing to go to Mawei in this matter regardless of the cost, and provide a salary equivalent to at least 3 times the average salary in Germany! However, this matter can only be done in secret, and if it is made public, I am afraid that the German government will also have an opinion.
And who in this world knows Tesla's capabilities better than Qin Kai? There is absolutely no second person! If Edison is a great inventor, then Tesla is definitely a genius inventor, which is an indisputable fact in the world where Qin Kai once was. After receiving the news that he had successfully found Tesla, Qin Kai even had the urge to come to Berlin to meet this magical person......
However, he eventually gave up on this idea, and the domestic situation was so rotten that it would take at least a few months to take a trip to Berlin, and he could not afford it, but the unanimous news from Berlin, Hamburg, London, Birmingham, New York, and Houston all suggested that due to the large increase in business volume, the country was urged to continue to send personnel to the local area. ,
Now the overseas business continues to be managed by He Xing, He Xing is somewhat powerless, Qin Kai understands that it is time to carry out some reforms, he has also had a headache for a long time, the overall situation of this overseas is a matter of success or failure, and the plan must not be taken lightly, but fortunately, he has a candidate at hand now.
After pondering for a long time, Qin Kai sent someone to call Tang Shaoyi, it seems that this guy has a wide heart and a fat body during this time, and his body that originally looked thin no longer looks thin.
Tang Shaoyi has been rotating in various factories in the past few months, this is a rotation training program formulated by Qin Kai for all the students who are studying in the United States who are directly on the job, so that they can have a perceptual understanding of the industry of Mawei Shipbuilding, of course, the confidential workshop is not open to them, but just the steel mill, chemical plant, steam engine factory, artillery bureau, and shipyard have opened the eyes of these young people!
I heard that Lord Qin summoned him, although Tang Shaoyi thought that he was very free and easy, he was also a little nervous at this time, and when he arrived in Qin Kai's courtyard, he came to verify his identity and then took him to the small living room.
So when he saw Qin Kai, his expression was somewhat excited.
"Shaochuan, how many places have you been training in rotation recently?" Qin Kai smiled and looked at the qualified coolie he had found.
"Report to your lordship, I have already been trained in rotation in the Artillery Bureau, steel mills, shipyards, and chemical plants!"
Qin Kai hummed, nodded, and asked again: "Do you see what problems there are in our Mawei industrial system, even if you say it bluntly, there is no need to scruple!" ”
This problem can be said to be quite difficult, that is, Qin Kai himself is also thinking about it, and the factories he is now open to students in the United States are all industrial-oriented factories, which do not involve light industry, because even now, sewing machines, textile machines, textile dyes and other industries are still high-level secrets of Mawei and are not announced to the public.
Unexpectedly, Tang Shaoyi immediately answered this question, "Report to my lord, I have thought about this question for a long time, Mawei's very excellent heavy industry capacity should be transformed into an industry that can quickly create profits, so that industry can be used to support industry!" But ......"
"But what?" Qin Kai secretly praised this guy's shrewdness, this coolie works!
"I guess, though...... Adults must have done so! Tang Shaoyi naturally knew that today was his chance, and he would not give up this performance, speaking of which, he raised his eyes and looked at Qin Kai, and saw Lord Qin with a smile on his face, and his heart was relieved.
Qin Kai looked at the young man below, he deserved to be the potential of a big man, what he fancied was his ability to control the overall situation, this was undoubtedly what he was urgently lacking now, today Tang Shaoyi showed enough shrewdness, very good, he smiled, "Shaochuan, I'll give you another question, you don't need to answer me now, go back and think about it, write a detailed plan for me!" ”
Speaking of this, Lu Shu, who was standing on the side, picked up a large cowhide envelope and handed it over, when Tang Shaoyi took the envelope, his eyes glanced at it, and the two big "top secret" words printed on it made his hands tremble, but he was ecstatic in his heart, which showed that he had ascended to the sky in one step, from now on, he can be regarded as a real person in the Mawei Ship Administration......
However, he still asked very cautiously, "My lord, what is this?" ”
"This is the information of some of our industries and products of Mawei Shipbuilding, some of which have been put into production, and some have not been put into mass production, you study it, I need to put these products into the markets of Europe, America, and Japan, what I need is that you develop a reasonable management to manage these sales agencies, and create greater wealth for the shipyard!"
Tang Shaoyi was a little dazed when he heard this, this Lord Qin is really a top-notch character, these students who studied in the United States on the way back to China and during the internship at the shipping master, they didn't discuss this issue less, the group of students who returned to China two months earlier were originally sent to the Shanghai Telegraph Bureau as operators, and some went to the Jiangnan Bureau to work as workers, but they were all set out by Qin Kai.
In the past ten years of living in the United States, they have come into contact with the period of great industrial change in the United States, filled with the wave of industrial revolution in the newspapers, and there is no trace in China, which obviously surprised them who studied Western studies overseas! ,
But when they arrived at Mawei Shipyard, they were surprised to find that there was some industrial capacity beyond their imagination, and there was a technical team that they could not imagine, and here they felt that what they had learned was put to use.
Tang Shaoyi held the thick brown paper envelope and pondered the tasks assigned to him by Lord Qin all the way.
Back in the dormitory, Zhan Tianyou, who was in the same dormitory, has been missing recently, and it is common for him not to come back today, it is said that he is doing research and development in the steam engine workshop, which is not just happy and clean, but after opening the kraft bag and taking out the envelope, Tang Shaoyi immediately couldn't sit still, the things introduced above, there are things he knows, but he has never heard of industrial projects actually account for the majority, but he understands the products.
After being greatly stimulated, Tang Shaoyi didn't feel sleepy that night, but he also thought about resting well, and thought about it carefully the next day, but he couldn't sleep at all after lying down, he simply got up and fought all night, and drew up a plan for "Overseas Business System Management", and the next day he revised and perfected it for a day with blood-red eyes, and in the evening, he hurriedly came to see Qin Kai.
Seeing Tang Shaoyi's red eyes, Qin Kai asked people to make strong tea to refresh this guy, and he carefully studied the management system. After reading it, he was also secretly amazed in his heart, Tang Shaoyi's proposal to have an institution in charge of overseas affairs in the domestic city, and he very keenly analyzed the situation of Chinese exclusion in the United States, and a series of plans such as establishing a company in a neutral country were not less similar than Qin Kai's own ideas.
What's more, this guy has a very far-sighted view of the division of labor, and even refers to the director system of American companies, which can gradually change from front-of-the-stage management to the acquisition of local enterprises, and control through the guò director system, so as to reasonably avoid the risks of Chinese-funded companies.
With the experience of Qin Kai's later generations, these plans are obviously operable, but now the branch system designed by Qin Kai is undoubtedly a risk-averse approach, but it brings a huge demand for human resources, and now it is time to integrate and subdivide.
Soon Qin Kai issued an order to establish the Mawei Foreign Trade Management Department, the current director is temporarily served by Qin Kai, the deputy director is He Yong, and the specific person in charge of practice is Tang Shaoyi, in addition to recruiting 10 clerks from within Mawei. The Ministry of Foreign Trade has also set up a platform.
And when he really participated in Mawei's overseas trade, Tang Shaoyi was really convinced of Qin Kai, this huge situation that had already been laid out, how much ability it would take to put it into practice, and the news sent from the various branch companies was almost all good news, in such a situation, Lord Qin still took precautions......
And now he has really come into contact with some information about Mawei's internal business, which makes him shocked by Mawei's financial ability, and he has millions of funds at every turn, and these funds are not transported back to China by sea, and the German funds are more to purchase various equipment and instruments, and then transfer them back.
Only then did Tang Shaoyi understand what Lord Qin had instructed him to say, "Look far ahead!" ”
Qin Kai also issued orders to purchase equipment in the United States, or merge factories, but it was later proved difficult to implement, Houston's Jefferson Shadow Company is now growing rapidly, and the main income comes from chemical products, but the industrial model of local American companies in Houston is not even comparable to Mawei, and there is no value of acquisition at all.
So after he learned about Minister Guò Schleier, he turned his attention to Austria-Hungary, Germany's ally, so the gains from the United States were transferred to Hamburg, Germany, where Wang Chenyu, the head of the Iston Company, was planning a big plan.
The income of the British side, Qin Kai's original plan was to hope to buy shares or merge with British heavy industry enterprises, but the current progress is not smooth, these years, as long as it is a slightly powerful British company, the profitability is amazing, not to mention large shipyards, as long as it is a shipbuilding enterprise, even if it is only a merchant ship research and development ability, it can obtain a large number of orders, obviously, to merge such a company requires a huge amount of money.