Chapter Seventy-Seven: Expansion of Power, Rush to Invent
Ruthless killing is not only to punish the evil and eliminate evil, but also to accumulate black gold, create your own business, and build your own reputation. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info And the greater the energy, the stronger the attraction, and the more willing the talent is to gather around you.
The effect is obvious, first of all, the financial problem has been temporarily solved, the factory can continue to build, the workers can receive the work, the hungry people have porridge to eat, and the poor children are not sold; The second is the surge in the power of the entire group, Hong Jiu Leopard's gang is finished, Shen Guansheng and Zhang Chunbao withdraw from the docks they dominate, and these territories are silently controlled by Xingyitang, and the disbanded gangs are absorbed by Xingyitang.
Of course, this is only on the surface. The leadership core of Xingyitang has been transferred to Longxingtang, after investigation and selection, the best and the inferior, Xingyitang's manpower is gradually enriched to Longxingtang, and after a period of time, Xingyitang is only an empty shell or signboard. On the other side, the preparation of the trade union is also nearing completion, and after its establishment, it will become the new reserve force of Longxingtang.
To put it another way, such a consolidation change is very much like a backdoor listing of a joint-stock company, or an asset restructuring. The echelon structure of such an organization is clear, the action team is the elite, the shadow, and the action is also for quality rather than quantity; Longxingtang is the armed force of the trade union on the surface, responsible for some routine operations; Trade unions, on the other hand, are large and powerful, distributed in all walks of life, and openly show their strength.
Evil cannot be completely eliminated, and it is impossible for bad people to kill the light, but it can squeeze the space for their existence in both light and darkness, and limit their power to do evil.
Although the thieves are still a bit of a luxury for Chen Fa for the time being, the training of the action team is continuous, there is actual combat training, and with his planning, some actions will soon not have to be carried out by him personally. Now, Chen Fa has temporarily stopped, on the one hand, observing the effect and trying to achieve the goal effortlessly; On the one hand, it sums up lessons and lessons, conducts reconnaissance and spies to collect intelligence, and strengthens the quality and ability of the operational team during training.
Every time it is planned and then moved, it seems to be killing and slashing indiscriminately, and the target of the killing seems to have no connection except for the death of the innocent. But in fact, it was the action after the reconnaissance and reconnaissance, and the death of some people was to expand the power and make a long-term layout.
For example, receiving the dock, although it is a common way for gangs to make money, has considerable benefits for future trade.
After the opening of the concession in Shanghai, many wharves for loading and unloading cargo were established along the Huangpu River, especially with 16 shops. Most of the wharves are operated by foreign businessmen, but the direct managers are some contractors. The contractor, that is, the overlord of the wharf, is mostly the green and red gang. Each piece of goods is moved from the ship to the wharf, or into the warehouse, the light is 1,200 catties, the heaviest is 5600 catties, and the freight foreman often has to extract 50 to 60 percent, and the porter who sells coolies only has 4 or 5 percent.
In addition, every New Year's festival or foreman's wedding and funeral, workers have to share the gifts. And these dock tyrants often belong to the same gang and communicate with each other. As long as one dock overlord does not use one dock worker, it will be difficult for other docks to enter.
A dock has to hire one or two hundred people when it is busy, and the income of the dock master is quite considerable. Because of the considerable income, it often leads to violent disputes and bloody clashes over the docks.
In the eyes of Jin Sanye and other old people of Xingyitang, it is certainly a happy thing to increase the income of the gang and expand the sphere of influence. Although under Ah Fa's order, the new boss He Zhaoxing reduced the commission of the two docks to 20% at once, Jin Sanye didn't have much of an opinion, after all, this was also a newly increased income.
The signboard of Xingyitang is still there, but the style of acting has begun to change, Ah Fa thinks long-term, the power of the gang is very useful, but don't make a bad reputation, even if you stink yourself.
Fa's reputation and connections are still very lacking for Ah Fa, and the amount is obviously not enough to rely on a monosodium glutamate patent. And to wait for the factory to produce goods, open the market, and increase the prestige of Ah Fa, it will not take a year and a half to succeed. Therefore, he needs to take shortcuts, and he needs to use the knowledge in his head to take advantage of opportunism and make himself fame and fortune as soon as possible.
A bloody killing, expanding power, seizing funds, and the sensation in Shanghai also covered up the fact that the United States and France issued MSG patent certificates to Ah Fa. Of course, Ah Fa didn't care much about this, because he had a more practical invention, that is, the exclusive product that Charlie Song guessed came out.
In 1869, celluloid was born, which led to the creation of the plastics industry, and over the decades, the corresponding development of molding and injection molding techniques. However, due to the lag of the theory of polymer molecular structure, plastics have not formed an independent industry, and some chemists are completely empirical in the laboratory.
The exclusive product produced by Ah Fa can be described as a breakthrough, but it is very easy, or it can be said that it is opportunistic, taking advantage of the discoveries of others.
As early as 1872, the German chemist Adaobar discovered that after the reaction of phenol and formaldehyde, there were some stubborn residues at the bottom of the glass tube. But Beyer's eyes were on synthetic dyes, not insulation, and for him, the slimy, insoluble substance was a dead end.
But for Ah Fa, this simple chemical reaction is something that can make him reap great fame and great benefits. As long as the appropriate filler is added to this reaction product, it can be made into molded products, laminates, coatings and adhesives after hot pressing. This was the world's first fully synthetic plastic, phenolic, which was the alchemy of the twentieth century in the soon-to-be-burgeoning automobile, radio and power industries.
It's easy to say, but if you don't know why, it will be a time-consuming and labor-intensive process. You must know that the American chemist Beckland began his research in 1904 and did not succeed until 1909 and applied for a patent for phenolic plastics. Now, Ah Fa easily snatched this honor in his hands, or stole it.
The patent application was submitted to the embassies of the United Kingdom, the United States, France, and Germany as quickly as possible through Neumann, and the chemical plant under construction in Lujiawan changed its plan and changed from an acid-alkali plant to a coal coking plant, while the acid-alkali plant was relocated to Chenjiadu (i.e., Baili South Road - now Changning Road) in western Shanghai, so that the nearby American businessmen could use the power of the public concession to produce acid and alkali by electrolysis.