At the end of the trip to Zha Shan, the visit to Hanyang Iron Works has also come to an end, and the remaining one or two factories, most of the things, are repeated, Yang Yuanzhao still carefully checked it, and scanned some small machines, and completed the entire drawing entry work from the beginning to the end.

Almost half a day, the entire Hanyang Iron Works turned around, Yang Yuanzhao was a little tired, but his heart was extremely excited, in this small half a day, the entire Hanyang Iron Works, from the operation, to the storage of equipment, he has almost read a time, the drawings included in the integrated machine, almost reached more than 6,000 copies, from the iron-making furnace, to the steel-making furnace, to the coke, cold rolling, hot rolling, rail production workshop, these Hanyang Iron Works took 20 years to build up the industrial system step by step, It's almost all in his hands, and if he wants, he can copy a copy of the Hanyang Iron Works in Baotou.

This is the concentration of the strength of the whole of Hubei, as well as the cooperation of all aspects, this is the construction of a large heavy industry enterprise, although in the establishment of the time, has gone through a lot of detours, no one will deny his achievements, now, in a small half a day, half of this wealth, has entered Yang Yuanzhao's pocket, the remaining half, is those workers.

In Yang Yuanzhao's view, even in Europe and the United States, he has not noticed the importance of workers, let alone in China, the technicians trained in 20 years, as long as he spends his effort to find it, he can definitely find a large part, so that he can completely copy a Hanyang factory, or even stronger, without spending too much cost.

In one day's time, most of the things that need to be done to come to Wuhan have been done, looking at the sun has been getting westward, Yang Yuanzhao was about to beckon Yang Shixun to go back, at a corner in front, a young man in Tsing Yi stood here, saw them, and hurriedly bowed down and said: "Two gentlemen, my master is invited!" ”

Before Yang Yuanzhao could speak, Yang Shixun passed him and asked, "Your master, who is your master?" ”

The little guy in Tsing Yi said proudly: "My master is Sheng Xingsun!" ”

"Sheng Xingsun!" Yang Shixun frowned, and Yang Yuanzhao asked beside him, "Who is Sheng Xingsun?" ”

"Sheng Huaixuan!" Yang Shixun said in a low voice: "Just now, in front of the steelmaking furnace, we saw the second-grade topped one!" ”

The second grade is topped, Yang Yuanzhao can't remember clearly, but the name of Sheng Huaixuan, let him be shocked, in the history of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the name Sheng Huaixuan, I'm afraid it is any business and foreign affairs related research, can not avoid the figure, belongs to the late Qing Dynasty big businessmen, history, for him mixed, he is a corrupt official, damage the public fat private, whale swallowing the results of foreign affairs, only caused his own huge wealth, in the later period, even betrayed sovereignty, Hanyang Iron Works, from the largest iron factory in Asia, Step by step, he became a raw material supplier to the Japanese Iron Works, and he was a mixed figure.

In this era, he is also the general office of the Hanyang Iron Works, is the money bag of the Beiyang Group, even in Beijing, it is also the palace, the governor's guest, I heard that he has a very good relationship with Yuan Shikai, Yuan Shikai's Beiyang New Army, many of which are military expenses, are prepared by Sheng Huaixuan, under the complex environment of the late Qing Dynasty, any local governor, more or less united with the merchants, the merchants with the help of the power of the governors, to expand their influence and trade routes, the governors from the hands of the merchants to obtain large sums of money, whether it is Hu Xueyan, or Sheng Huaixuan, most of them are like this.

Yang Shixun frowned, Sheng Huaixuan, this person, took the official and business route, and now there is a second-grade top, such a person, the Yang family is unwilling to offend, his words often make a family, or even a field, appear a large amount of turmoil, but invite them without warning, their Yang family is also a New Year's holiday, to the Sheng family to seal an agenda, this is just a convention, and strangers, there is not much difference.

"Yuan Zhao, what do you say?" Yang Shixun couldn't decide, so he turned around and asked Yang Yuanzhao.

"Let's go check it out!" Yang Yuanzhao didn't think much about Yang Shixun, his influence on the Sheng family in Hanyang was still not as profound as Yang Shixun, in his opinion, Sheng Huaixuan was just the second historical celebrity he saw after Feng Yuxiang, and his status and influence were far inferior to Feng Yuxiang, who was still a camp manager.

"You lead the way!" Yang Shixun said casually.

Following the little guy in Tsing Yi, through the entire Hanyang Iron Works, at the gate of the iron factory, there was a four-wheeled carriage in some British style, all the way to the center of Wuhan, Yang Shixun introduced next to him, this piece, leaning on the East Lake, has always been the villas of dignitaries, sure enough, between the mountains and rivers, a place with excellent scenery, a huge villa, reflected in front of him, in terms of style, is a combination of Chinese and Western.

The layout of the villa is very reasonable, the luxury is even more luxurious than the hundred-year-old Yang family, the power of the Chinese officials, there is no doubt here, under the move, they are welcomed into the guest room, this is a full of British style rooms, even on the bookshelf, there are a bunch of English books, very elegant.

Yang Shixun felt a little awkward, but it was Yang Yuanzhao, but he calmed down, he looked at the layout of the room, and what he thought in his heart was this Sheng Huaixuan, what did he do with them, carefully recalled the history, combined with what Yang Shixun said before, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he stabilized his mind.

There was a sound of footsteps outside, and a middle-aged man in his fifties, chubby, and who looked like a rich man, walked into the room, saw Yang Shixun and Yang Yuanzhao, and smiled all over his face, and said: "The old man is a little presumptuous, please come here, please forgive me!" ”

Sheng Huaixuan said forgiveness, but the momentum was condescending, which made people very uncomfortable.

Yang Yuanzhao looked at him, he suddenly thought that this person he had just met, it was the official who was pointing in front of the steelmaking furnace with Robt, at this time, he had already changed out of the official mansion, replaced by a Confucian shirt, which looked a little more literal, Yang Yuanzhao or Yang Shixun, it can be seen that this is a character who has been trained for a long time and is decisive in killing. After his death, because of the problem of family property, there was an uproar, and finally created a miracle of women's inheritance of property.

"I've seen Mr. Xingren!"

"Please sit down, this is the tea I brought from Fujian, you can taste it!"

The tea is very fragrant, in Yang Yuanzhao's eyes, I can't see what this tea is, but Yang Shixun tasted it and said approvingly: "But Zhengshan is a small species!" ”

"Shopkeeper Yang is really knowledgeable, please use it!"

Yang Yuanzhao found that Sheng Huaixuan didn't have too much of their origins, nor did he say the purpose of this trip, just drinking tea, it seems that in Sheng Huanxuan's eyes, Yang Yuanzhao is just a young master of the Yang family, and his purpose is more on Yang Shixun.

The previous chance encounter in front of the steelmaking furnace, especially Yang Yuanzhao's happy conversation with Robute, made Sheng Huaixuan move his mind, he was in charge of the entire Hanyang Iron Works, and he could also use the power of Beiyang to investigate such two people, which was simply handy.

Sure enough, soon, the results of the investigation were sent to Sheng Huaixuan, the Yang Family Chamber of Commerce, behind him, is the Shanxi Yang family, among the Jin merchants, it can be regarded as a relatively powerful one, the rising star of the eight Jin merchants, and the family is rich.

Since this period of time, Sheng Huaixuan has been considering, that is, the private ownership of Hanyang Iron Works, he himself is also preparing for this time, on the external offering, the entire Hanyang Iron Works is priced at 20 million, he will subscribe to a part, but the remaining gap is huge, he basically, are trying his best to sell the shares, but unfortunately the effect is not good, historically, he spent more than 3 years, until the 3rd year of Xuantong, that is, when the Qing Dynasty fell, it was only 8 million taels.

Before, in Sheng Huaixuan's thoughts, he has not set his sights on Shanxi, but just put it in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Huishang, where on the one hand is his base, Beiyang originated in Hunan, and later in Anhui and Jiangsu are very influential, those places, because they are traditional rich in China, are very rich everywhere, Sheng Huaixuan wants to come, and he can complete the IPO casually, but in fact, the effect is not good, the shareholders' meeting, not opened, private contact, has not been less, a certain Cheng dù above, The public is not very interested in taking a stake in this project, after all, Hanyang Iron Works has spent tens of millions of dollars, and in the past 20 years, under the ups and downs, it has not made much profit.

Sheng Huaixuan is very clear that the reason why Hanyang Iron Works is not well managed, more is in terms of management, there are too many moths, as an enterprise supervised by officials and businessmen, there are too many people who can intervene and reach out, he is confident, after turning him into a private enterprise, he will make a profit, China is too big, there are too many places that need steel, not to mention the rails of the railway, it is said that it is a variety of farm tools, knives and machines, the steel needed is enough to make the Hanyang Iron Works full, the rails may not be sold in large quantities because of the quality, but ordinary farm tools, Knives and machines qì, this is an absolute big head.

It's a pity that no matter what he says, Zhejiang businessmen and Huizhou businessmen, except for a few people, can't erase their feelings, and take out a small amount of funds to invest in the project of Hanyang Iron Works, and more people just pretend to talk about him, and don't spit out, so that he can do the work of raising shares, and the progress is slow.

Yang Shixun and Yang Yuanzhao appeared at the Hanyang Iron Works at this time, but they knew that Yang Yuanzhao came with Yang Shitang's son Yang Yue, and they didn't know much else, but they were all surnamed Yang, and they should also be the children of the Yang family.

After a big circle in the clouds, Sheng Huaixuan mentioned a lot of things, and in the end, he said straight to the point: "Shopkeeper Yang, I don't know how you feel about the IPO of Hanyang Iron Works!" ”