Chapter Seventy-One: Leaving Shanghai
The whistle sounded, and Yang Yuanzhao and his entourage of five stood on the dock of the port, on one side were the send-off people from the Yang family, and on the other side, there were Harpys, and several staff members of foreign companies.
In the past 3 days, Yang Yuanzhao was almost with Harpy, 100 30 guns and 100 47 guns were delivered to Harpy, Harpy was not impressed with such a small cannon, in Germany, the army, the 75 guns have been reduced to the regimental firepower, not in the support firepower of the large corps, the real support firepower has been increased to the 105 guns and 155 guns Cheng dù, the power of the heavy artillery is far from being able to resist by the small artillery.
Fortunately, China's artillery sales are not much, only 200 guns, and the big deal is still on the side.
In just 3 days, Yang Yuanzhao and Harpy instructed a lot, the most important thing is to let Harpy recruit a group of personnel, between 100 and 200, when he goes to Germany in May and June, take them away, as for the goods, he will instruct the Yang Family Chamber of Commerce to purchase them on his behalf.
Of course, among all the goods sent to Germany, the most important thing is that batch of high-purity tungsten powder, the Jiangxi Chamber of Commerce of the Yang family sent 6 batches of blackstone mines, a total of more than 300,000 tons, purified tungsten, almost 300 tons, 5 tons of boxes, a total of more than 60, later, thinking of this era, the crane or something is not complete, and changed to a ton of boxes, these are specially sealed, even Harpy, but only know this batch of goods, I don't know what exactly is in this batch of goods.
In China, it has become fashionable to study abroad, and many wealthy families will send their children abroad, and the view that the moon in foreign countries is brighter than in China is also formed in this era.
However, like Yang Yuanzhao, a large-scale overseas trip, except for the United States back then, used Gengzi indemnity as tuition and trained a large number of international students, the others were all individual soldiers, Yang Yuanzhao's idea should be very difficult.
For this, Yang Yuanzhao does not have too many ways, if he came to China two years earlier, he may be able to train a group of people, but now, he at most with the help of the Yang family and other families, to provide a part of the international students, China, in natural science research, is too backward, must catch up, this batch of students, he hopes to enter the mainstream engineering colleges in Germany.
"Harpy, I'll leave all the affairs of Shanghai to you, but the more difficult thing is to go abroad!"
"I see, boss, I'll take care of it!" Although it has only been less than a month, but there is a large amount of turnover every day, including controlling one side, Harpy's mental condition is completely different from before, and he has a trace of the temperament of a superior.
Yang Yuanzhao nodded, in a month in Shanghai, not only obtained a large number of drawings, completed most of the factory materials needed for a primary industrialization, but also obtained a large amount of money, in just one month, just the sale of arms, obtained nearly 500,000 pounds of funds.
This amount of funds, Yang Yuanzhao only took out a little, as a start-up and emergency fund in Baotou in the future, and the rest will be handed over to Harpy, and even most of the goods brought out this time will be used as funds for the purchase of various foreign machines, to establish a preliminary industrialization base, the money needed, but an astronomical amount, during this time, the refined tungsten is barely enough for the primary level, Yang Yuanzhao of course will not introduce it all, he will only introduce one set of the most important, and China can not produce, as for the rest, When the situation in Baotou is stable, he will personally go to a foreign country, which should be a hydraulic press, a calciner, a dock of more than 10,000 tons, a large crane crane and the like, which are closely related to heavy industry, and are related to the manufacture of a country's most high-end weapons.
Yang Yuanzhao is very clear about this, the development of industry, not overnight, need to develop steadily, these machinery is very important, in the future, Yang Yuanzhao will definitely be in Baotou, put them up, but now, the existing equipment, is enough.
The whistle sounded, and the passenger ship from Shanghai to Tianjin was about to sail soon, and Harpy and the others sent Yang Yuanzhao and them to the entrance of the passage, waving their hands, until Yang Yuanzhao and they disappeared on the side of the ship.
The steamer started slowly, leaving the largest city in the Far East, Yang Yuanzhao sighed and walked into the cabin, this is a warehouse, than when he came, the steamboat was much bigger, for no other reason, this ship is very large, and the river travel, can only take more than 200 people compared with the steamboat, the sea ships that sail in Shanghai and Tianjin, the tonnage is much larger, this one is basically 10,000 tons, a ship is enough to accommodate more than 1,000 people, so the layout is much better, but the largest separate box, just sell to foreigners, even if it is empty, it will not be sold to Chinese, although Harpy can afford to buy, but it is Yang Yuanzhao who lives in, where it is received by foreigners, basically, it is impossible.
Fortunately, the first warehouse is also good, although the area of the cabin is no more than 15 square meters, and it is two single beds, but it is much better than the high and low beds on the river boat.
The speed of the ship accelerated, Yang Yuanzhao closed his eyes, just after getting on the ship, he copied the information of this ship, this ship is an American ship, with a total tonnage of 18,000 tons, in this era, it is already a behemoth, of course, he is not specifically opening a route in Shanghai and Tianjin, but also after getting on the ship, Yang Yuanzhao knew that the original ship was from Shanghai, transferred to Tianjin, and then went to Tokyo, Japan, and finally arrived in the United States Cruise ship, of which nearly half of the people on board were going to the United States, Some of them were going to Japan, so when I left Shanghai, it was almost full of people.
At the beginning of April, there is no bad weather such as typhoons, this cruise ship is a fast cruise ship, 1500 kilometers from Shanghai to Tianjin, high-speed cruise ship at a speed of about 14 knots, it takes up to 3 days to arrive in Tianjin from Shanghai,
Along the way, because of the noise on the ship, Yang Yuanzhao did not go out, he finally had the opportunity to start sorting out the layout in the future, to be honest, what China lacks the most, I am afraid that it is heavy industry based on the arms industry, but Yang Yuanzhao also knows that this is impossible, industry is a very rigorous thing, there is not enough training, there are not enough industrial workers, even if a complete and perfect industrial system is really established, it is useless, there is no way to run completely.
The more you have, the more ideas you have, the more things you need to consider, you also need to have more, many of the previous plans, may have to change slightly, itself is based on agriculture, first the basic building materials of the project to be established, and gradually train industrial workers, but the receipt of Shanghai and Wuhan, and the next Tianjin, is a heavy industrial city centered on Beiyang, which may be inferior to Shanghai in terms of commerce and light industry, but heavy industry, shipbuilding, and many repair projects, industrial strength, even the highest in the whole of China.
The whistle sounded, Tianjin finally arrived, Tianjin is a port city that the Qing Dynasty gradually developed, in the Ming Dynasty he was almost just a small town, the Qing Dynasty, with the development of science and technology, especially the sea transport a certain distance dù above replaced the Cao Yun, Tianjin also slowly developed, and later the Beiyang Navy Division was established, and a large number of industries were built in Tianjin, such as Tianjin Machinery Bureau, as well as the Beiyang Navy Repair Factory, Gunpowder Factory and a series of industries, built here, Tianjin's city expanded several times, It's exactly what it looks like a new city.
The ship slowly docked at the deep-water wharf of Tianjin Port, where the ship would dock for three hours for passengers to disembark, and some guests from Tianjin to the United States would board the ship here.