Yang Yuanzhao looked into the distance, the construction site under construction, Nie Yuntai didn't say much, to be honest, those are the hope of the future Jiangnan Shipyard, the current mainstream ship is about 10,000 tons, although relatively speaking, about 5000 tons of ships are more expensive, but the total price and the profit of a single ship, compared with those ships, the difference is really big, many new shipowners, as long as more than 10,000 tons of ships.

Finally seeing Yang Yuanzhao turn around, Nie Yuntai asked, "Do you want to go to the dock to have a look!" ”

"It's good!" Yang Yuanzhao nodded, there is the hope of the future, and it is currently under construction, which represents the current strength of Jiangnan Shipyard, there is information on it, and the intelligence department also has a report, but it is always better to see it with your own eyes, especially after seeing Qingdao Yiqiē.

In the dock, the keel is being laid, the workers, like worker ants, work in the wide dock, little by little to assemble the ship, now, the old method is still used here, the willow joint shipbuilding hair, the efficiency of electric welding is higher, the northwest after several years of development, has formed a complete electric welding system, if applied to shipbuilding, just the overall weight reduction, you can make a 10,000-ton giant ship reduce more than one percent, which is extremely important for cost control, but also to speed up the construction, Even in the future, when the electronic computer reaches a certain level, it will be possible to build tens of thousands of tons of ships directly on the slipway by processing parts separately, without all of them having to be in the dock.

That's the vision, not even a few decades of effort, almost impossible, even electric welding, Yang Yuanzhao did not intend to apply it here, for the northwest, it is inconvenient to apply this technology to civilian ships, this is the future Qingdao shipyard after the establishment, and Germany to negotiate the conditions of an important weight, weight reduction for strict requirements for tonnage, buoyancy and compartment ratio of the warship, than ocean freighters are more important, if the cutting-edge warship is added to the electric welding and some other northwest things, The impact was epoch-making.

Among the busy workers, they are divided into two categories, one is wearing a variety of clothing, and the other is the workers who are uniformly wearing blue clothes, these workers are from the northwest, and the northwest has unified the tooling among the workers, and they are also brought to the Jiangnan shipyard.

The workers in the northwest wore this at first, which was very inconvenient, but slowly, from hard orders and attraction, to conscious wearing, in this process, many benefits of tooling were shown.

Nie Yuntai noticed Yang Yuanzhao's gaze, saw Yang Yuanzhao looking at those workers, and said: "President Yang, the workers from the northwest are too powerful, and the skills are very good. ”

Yang Yuanzhao nodded, not to mention whether these workers are suitable for shipbuilding, but to say that under the strict discipline and training in the northwest, the strength of the workers in the northwest is much stronger than the original workers in the Jiangnan shipyard in all aspects.

After turning around, in the dock, there are more than a dozen foreign engineers, and some people are checking the drawings, conducting on-site command, the number of workers is not only sufficient, but also more than enough, some workers wearing other clothes, take the opportunity to be lazy, or hand over the work at hand to the blue-clothed Northwest workers to do, so that they seem to be relaxed, but for the Northwest workers, this is a greater exercise.

Yang Yuanzhao thought in his heart, I don't know when this group of workers will be able to eat these experiences thoroughly, maybe this time will not be too far, until the large dock arrives in Qingdao, when the real test will begin, warships are much more difficult to manufacture than civilian ships.

Yang Yuanzhao's eyes didn't stay on the personnel for long, he directly turned his eyes to this ship, and asked casually: "Who is this ship?" ”

"It's the British Swire & Co., they have opened a new route from Shanghai to Hong Kong, a total of two ships, and the other one will start construction after the main body of this ship is completed!" Nie Yuntai said with a little excitement, generally speaking, the gross profit of ocean-going cargo ships will reach a total cost of about 30-40, and these two ships are more urgent, so they reach about 45, as long as they are completed, it is a lot of income.

Nie Yuntai signed the agreement on behalf of Jiangnan Shipyard, with a total displacement of 4,500 tons and an unladen displacement of about 1,600 tons, and agreed that the price per ton would be 223 US dollars, and the gross profit would be about 100,000 yuan, and the net profit would be considerable, which was the first income after the restructuring of Jiangnan Shipyard.

"By the way, has the ship's steam engine been ordered?"

"Not yet, it's being chosen, the British and American engine manufacturers have sent quotations, and the German ones also have them?" Nie Yuntai replied solemnly, from his tone and the order of answers, Britain and the United States are the first choice, Jiangnan Shipyard has cooperated with Britain and the United States before, and under the introduction of Swire, it is more likely to choose the United Kingdom.

Before Nie Yuntai could continue, Yang Yuanzhao said casually: "If there is no offer, it will be refused!" ”

"Refusal? But should we choose the German steam engine, although the German machinery is good, but the tonnage is too large to be installed, and the price is a little more expensive? ”

"Who said I was going to choose Germany?"

"What's that?" Nie Yuntai's face immediately changed, in addition to Britain, Germany and the United States, the shipbuilding industry is a big country, could it be France, Russia or Italy, as for Japan, most of his own steam engines are imported from Britain and the United States, and his own production is scum, in this era, it is an absolute third-rate product, and no matter how cheap the price is, he will not choose him.

"Made in the Northwest!"

"President Yang, I know that the industrial products in the northwest are very good, but do you think about it again, Swire has requirements for the quality of the ship?" Nie Yuntai said in a panic.

"Is it going to be bundled?"

"Not really!"

"It's okay if you don't have it, you report the parameters and send them to the Northwest Steam Engine Group, and it is estimated that there will be a reply soon!" After Yang Yuanzhao finished speaking, he left by himself, the dock has a lot to see, I was just curious before, now in addition to the construction of machinery, it is still the construction of machinery, it is better to go to the office to look at the report.

Nie Yuntai didn't keep up, his face was full of bitterness, he was afraid of this, the ship is a very sophisticated thing, he has the experience of studying in the United States, plus 2 years of time here, to have today's results, the reason why he chose Britain and the United States, not only the performance, but also the suitability of the above, Jiangnan Shipyard is based on the development of the British and French base, and the British and American steam engines are naturally suitable.

But in the face of the order of the major shareholder, he was also very helpless, it seemed that this time he might be messed up, and the gross profit of more than 100,000 US dollars in his eyes might become tens of thousands, or even not make money, which was a little unbearable.

Nie Yuntai was angry in his heart, but he didn't violate the yin and yang, or according to Yang Yuanzhao's request, he sent the parameters of the marine steam engine over, no matter what, let's take a look first, if the performance indicators are really not suitable, then change them.

The telegram traveled through most of China and arrived in Baotou, Yang Yuanzhao had already said hello in advance, the steam engine, the northwest is also the world's leading, there is such a power expert as him, whether it is a steam engine, a steam turbine, a gasoline engine or a diesel engine, it is almost easy to come by, even if you don't use the special materials of the all-in-one machine, just the ordinary special steel plus the processing capacity of the Northwest machine tool, it is enough to be the world's first.

About 3 hours later, the telegram came back, and the engineer in charge of checking the number of jù couldn't believe his eyes, and after carefully checking it three times, he reported it to Nie Yuntai, who looked at the general indicators and found Yang Yuanzhao almost with a blue face.

Yang Yuanzhao didn't care about Nie Yuntai's face, looked at him, and asked calmly, "What's the matter, is there a reply from the Steam Engine Group?" ”

"Here, Chairman Yang, shipbuilding is a thing that can't be faked, how can it be done by temperament!"

"Hu, I'll take a look!"

Nie Yuntai handed the telegram to Yang Yuanzhao, he took the telegram, swept the number on it, raised his eyebrows and said, "What's wrong, isn't it normal?"

"Is it normal, only three-quarters of the volume of the British and American steam engines, but it can provide 120 power, and the performance of all aspects has been improved by one or two percent, so how can the steam engine be produced, and the price, fool me, only about one-third of the imports?"

After listening to Nie Yuntai's words, Yang Yuanzhao understood that Nie Yuntai regarded him as a person who stretched out his hand to the shipyard, holding a thing that he didn't know what to say, and directly took advantage of the shipyard, he smiled bitterly, the production capacity of the power unit in the northwest is definitely the world's first-class, which is directly related to the fact that the northwest has such a power master as Yang Yuanzhao, and the power of this thing is mainly restricted in three aspects, on the one hand, the design ability, on the one hand, the quality of the material, and on the other hand, the processing capacity.

Design level, Yang Yuanzhao as a future engine engineer, in the design, far beyond this era, material quality, civil engine Yang Yuanzhao will not come up with the materials in the integrated machine, but even if it is the ordinary material level, it is also the world-class level, many aspects even beyond the world-class, as for the processing capacity, with the powder smelting bit, the northwest machine tool in the performance is beyond this era.

Two of the three major elements are much higher than the world's ordinary level, at most there is a slight lack of high-level technicians in the number and level, but the two transcendences are enough for the northwest to be unique in the steam engine, as for the cost, it is not a problem, as a high value-added industrial product, the powers have never been soft on takeout, and if they don't get 10 times the profit, they will also get six or seven times, and the profit is scary.

The northwest is a local production, aside from the transportation costs, plus the efficiency of machine tools, artificial materials and many other aspects, on the basis of the cost of adding 3 times the profit, it has become the current price.

Yang Yuanzhao figured it out, looked at Nie Yuntai with a smile, and said, "Brother Yuntai, what is your opinion?" ”R1152