There are a lot of things to talk about, Li Kongrong first said that he bought Xinzhong Engineering Company's original intention, he looked at Wei Ru and Zhi Bingyuan thoughtfully, and then said: "I know that my company is not comfortable to be acquired by outsiders, but Xinzhong's operation is not stable, or the company's decision-makers have no understanding of politics, so that every time the company's expansion coincides with war, this result makes Xinzhong either bankrupt or acquired by capital predators." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info I really want to ask the two of you, don't you read the Central Daily? ”

"Do you want to read the JoongAng Daily?" Zhi Bingyuan looked at Li Kongrong and whispered. He graduated from Jiaotong University in 1902 and was taught in 1902 at Nanyang College, the predecessor of Jiaotong University. After the tide, the liberal arts that will make trouble will be abandoned, which really doesn't know whether it is the luck or sadness of Jiaotong University.

"This..."Wei Ru seemed to be smiling, he wanted to hold back but still said, "The Central Daily reads, but ...... Is it possible? ”

"Look at it the other way around." Li Kongrong also seemed to be smiling. "For example, it says that although the economy has been affected by the international economic crisis, it has stopped its decline this month, and the recovery momentum is gratifying, and the reverse reading means that the economy is irretrievable, and the government will go bankrupt and close down in the near future."

"But this is what the German media said, and the Central Daily just reprinted it." Wei Ru also read the Central Daily, this news was in April last year, it was after seeing this news and similar news of economic recovery, coupled with the increase in orders for railway bridges in hand, that he decided to increase his capital and shares to 300,000.

"German media? What is the German media reporting on China's economy? Li Kongrong smiled, "I asked the embassy, it was only written by the embassy, and then published in a German newspaper, but in the end, the Central Daily turned back and said that it was said by the German media." ”

"Ahh Wei Ru was dumbfounded, he didn't expect that the former Qing Dynasty would use foreigners' newspapers to tout how wise and martial the imperial court was.

"After 918, the government is secretly preparing for war, the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway, the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway, the Sujia Railway, the Northwest Railway ......, why are these railways built in recent years? It is because there was a war between China and Japan for a long time. If it is not fought, the foundation of Manchukuo will gradually stabilize, and it will be lost forever outside the border. Li Kongrong looked at the two of them, Wei Ru pondered, and Zhi Bingyuan stared at himself with his mouth open as Wei Ru did before.

"Chang...... The chairman of the committee is anti-Japanese?! Zhi Bingyuan jumped up, and the news that Li Kongrong said shocked him incomparably.

"Where is he not resisting Japan?" Li Kongrong is not critical of Chang Kaishen's anti-Japanese attitude, but he strongly disagrees with his hooligan style.

"They all said that Chairman Chang did not resist Japan, that he was a traitor, and that he only knew how to beat his own people......" Zhi Bingyuan spewed out a bunch of words, which all said his previous cognition, and he was resentful of it.

"Hehe...... if you go to look at the newspapers again, it is best to look at the newspapers of a few years ago and the newspapers of the present day, and you will find that those who used to say that the Standing Committee Chairman did not resist Japan are now scolding the Standing Committee Chairman for being incompetent and the Kuomintang for corruption. If you don't fight, people will say that you are a traitor, and if you do, people will say that you are incompetent. Those literati who hid in the concessions and wrote articles did not understand war at all, did not know the difference between industrial and agricultural countries, they only knew how to curse people, and each time they were from a different angle and different standards. Li Kongrong said.

He wanted to turn back to the topic, but he didn't want Wei Ru to say again: "That 'railway expert empty two grids' knows how to fight, I read the brochure he published, and it's really good." He didn't say that the Standing Chairman was bad, but only said that the following people who stole chickens, Zhang Zhizhong, and Sun Yuanliang, who were transferred to Rufeng, were not good, and said that if the war was not fought in Shanghai, the country. The army will definitely be able to fight better. ”

"Pamphlet ......" Li Kongrong was a little confused, he remembered that he didn't publish a pamphlet.

"The government did not allow this person to publish his article, saying that 'railway experts are empty two grids' is a sarcasm of Premier Sun, who said that he would build 100,000 miles of railways, but the last half of the railway was not completed, and now that person is called Premier Sun's railway expert, which is obviously ironic. Some bookstores in Shanghai secretly published a collection of his articles, and I heard that within a few months, more than 100,000 copies were sold, and there were even pirated copies in various places, and some people said that this booklet was sold for 500,000 copies. Wei Ru shook his head and sighed.

actually sold 500,000 copies, Li Kongrong was surprised, but after a while, he found that it was actually crooked, so he straightened out: "Let's get down to business." Xinzhong's step to today is completely caused by closed-door construction, and the prediction of force majeure risks is insufficient. Even without this acquisition, if this situation does not change, it will still suffer in the future. In the final analysis, business is a kind of decision-making, and the most important thing in decision-making is political decision-making, followed by economic decision-making, then industry decision-making, and finally market decision-making.

In addition, I am not satisfied with Xinzhong's large-scale participation in the railway bridge project. "Li Kongrong has long received a briefing from Zhong Qiangong about Xinzhong, and he has an overall understanding of the company." I remember that you didn't say that in the 1928 prospectus, it used to be to build machines, but now how do you go to build bridges on railroads? ”

The original decision of this ...... was that Woodward, a foreign engineer of a foreign firm, suggested that Xinzhong Company contract construction projects such as iron house trusses, water towers, cranes, chimneys, bridges, etc., out of consideration of the technical equipment of Xinzhong. Later, the company took advantage of the relationship between the alumni of Jiaotong University to contract the bridges on the Guangdong-Hanzhou, Zhejiang-Jiangxi and Sujia railways, which greatly expanded the railway project. Wei Ru felt Li Kongrong's dissatisfaction, he said: "The company suffered heavy losses in the 128th Anti-Japanese War, and the re-registration of 120,000 yuan was still false. ”

There is really no way, thinking of this, Li Kongrong's tone lowered a little, and said: "In the future, it is better to separate the railway project and leave the manufacturing department." ”

"This," Wei Ru glanced at Zhi Bingyuan and said, "But the only thing that can make money at the moment is engineering, Jiangsu and Zhejiang have been occupied by the Japanese, and most of the company's pumping and internal combustion engines were sold to Jiangsu and Zhejiang." ”

"In the future, Xinzhong Company will only build machines!" "More specifically, the company is no longer an engineering company, but a weapons or defense company. Its name could be retained, but the name would be changed to 'New China Defense Co., Ltd.'. ”

'Weapons' and 'defense', Wei Ru and Zhi Bingyuan listened to their tongues, making weapons, is this what they can make? It's something that I never dreamed of. Zhi Bingyuan said: "Colonel Li, can this work?" Will the government agree to private companies to build arms? ”

"This is not domestic, the government and we don't want to do it? The new company is a foreign-funded company, and in view of the current situation, it cannot be set up in China, and it cannot be placed in China after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. Li Kongrong said.

"Where do you put that?" Wei Ru and Zhi Bingyuan were dumbfounded, "Can you set up a company overseas?" ”

"There will be a part of Switzerland, and the rest will be in the Americas." Li Kongrong said that Zhou Yingcong has been moving around in various countries in the Americas for half a year, and his task is not only to be responsible for the supply of the Ninghai and the resale of the captured goods of the Ninghai, but also to find a suitable country to set up a factory. "There is a Chinese exclusion order in the United States for the time being, but a small number of managers can still get in. Other American countries are looking at it, mainly to get the support of their own governments, and even if they can't, they have to find a country with a relatively stable political situation and a good industrial base, all of which will be negotiated by the Admiralty and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the other government.

In fact, weapons companies are different from other companies, and whichever country the arms company is located in will enhance the military strength of that country, and will also recruit personnel to increase employment. For example, if anyone says that they want to set up an arms company in China, I think the Standing Committee Chairman will definitely go back and greet him, but the country will soon be blockaded by Japan, and he will not be able to do so. ”

Unexpectedly, Li Kongrong suddenly pulled his attention to the Americas, Wei Ru said: "Do you want to use their workers?" Is this okay? ”

"This shouldn't be too much of a problem, the assembly line is very rigid, each worker has to do only mechanical work, and the preliminary training is more troublesome. We can find English-speaking foreigners to manage the factory, and then find English-speaking Chinese-level executives, and if it weren't for the United States, the wages could be slightly higher. ”

"May I ask Colonel Lee, what weapons are we going to produce? Cannons and firearms? "No matter where Zhi Bingyuan runs a factory, he just wants to know what the company does.

"Of course, it's not artillery, the new China Defense Company will focus on the production of high-tech weapons in the future, such as a flying artillery shell, such as a radio detector that can detect enemy aircraft and artillery positions in advance, or an underwater detector that can detect enemy submarines." Li Kongrong explained: "If the aircraft cannon is a human fist and foot, what we have to do is to install the eyes and ears, and even the whole brain on the aircraft cannon, so that the fists and feet become more accurate and flexible.

The ideal of the two to build a machine for China is good, but this direction is wrong. Think about it, if you don't have a dog and a gun at home, can you live a stable life? For a country, the value of weapons is better than machines, without the protection of weapons, the machine will definitely be robbed by others, so in the future, the positioning of the new Chinese defense is the manufacturer of smart weapons, in addition to this direction, the other direction is the new jet engine manufacturer, the aircraft is too big may not be easy to sell, but the cost of smart flying bombs is low, large and small countries can afford it, this business is done. ”

The Xinzhong project became the Xinzhong defense, and the machine company became the weapons company. Zhi Bingyuan didn't care much about this change of identity, but Wei Ru was worried about many problems, and he said, "But it takes a lot of money to invest in it." Also, this Swiss nine-tailed fox company, this company ......"

Weapons companies don't pay attention to what brand, what matters is the weapon itself. Previously, Li Kongrong's request for the company's name was only sinicized, and the library of the Sino-German Cultural Association borrowed this book of mountains and seas, and after turning it over, he only remembered the nine-tailed fox, so he wrote a "" and sent it to Switzerland. Wei Ru asked the nine-tailed fox of course not to ask why he chose this name, he wanted to know the background of this company, and he was also worried about the changes in shares and personnel after changing the company's name.

Li Kongrong naturally knew his worries, and he said: "I only know that the company of the Nine-Tailed Fox was founded at the request of the Admiralty, and it is not for the purpose of making profits, but only to serve the Anti-Japanese War. Most of the funds come from donations from overseas Chinese and secret funds. There is no need to worry about R&D expenses, the key is to find a way to build weapons well. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the company will be reorganized, but it will not move back to China. This is actually a last resort, it is difficult for the company to survive when it moves back to China, and it is impossible for the government to let such a company be independent of the military industrial system, and once it is merged into the military industrial system, what will happen to the two of you should know better than me. ”

"But isn't this company the Admiralty?" Wei Ru was a little confused.

"The company was founded at the request of the Admiralty, nominally by the Admiralty, but in accordance with the principle of who invests and who benefits, all the assets of the company belong to the investor. The company will fully support the navy during the war, and after the war, it will become an international arms dealer or defense contractor, selling arms to countries around the world. If the country is invaded again in the future, it will fully support the cause of resistance at home. Li Kongrong introduced the company's positioning, and they said that Wei Ru and Zhi Bingyuan had no opinion at all.

"The current situation is that there are two companies, the Swiss Nine-Tailed Fox and Xinzhong Engineering, but considering your feelings for the company, we will re-register a company, that is, Swiss Xinzhong Defense Co., Ltd. The specific division of labor is that the Swiss nine-tailed fox is only a holding company, and the actual operation of the entire company will be assigned to the management of the new China defense company. On the side of the Xinzhong Engineering Company, the railway bridge was first separated, because the weapons company did not need this business, or in other words, the Xinzhong Engineering still existed, but it was only an engineering company, and the business was a railway bridge, and the managers and experienced engineers of the internal combustion engine and pumping engine business of the Xinzhong Engineering Company would be transferred to the Xinzhong Defense to be responsible for the actual operation of the defense company.

Because weapons are only now being developed, there is no need to transfer many people to defense companies in the early stage, just manage the laboratory, and wait for a year or two to achieve research results, and to build overseas factories, more and more personnel will be needed. At that time, in addition to recruiting people, the engineers who were originally engaged in bridge engineering could also be transferred to the Xinzhong Defense Company as long as they were suitable, and the bridge business would be completely abandoned.

In terms of share structure, the assets of Xinzhong Engineering can be converted into Xinzhong Defense at the same price, and the assets of the Nine-Tailed Fox can also be converted into Xinzhong Defense, but considering that the registered capital of the Nine-Tailed Fox is 200,000 pounds, you and key personnel can be granted a certain proportion of shares, but these shares only have the right to dividends, and they can only be fully held and resold when the working years are reached; At the same time, the company's management has not changed, Mr. Zhi is still the company's manager, Mr. Wei is still the chief engineer, as long as the management is really thinking about the company's development, everyone's position can be retained. ”

Hearing that the registered capital of the parent company was actually 200,000 pounds, Wei Ru's face immediately turned pale, and Zhi Bingyuan's side was also very unsightly, which is equivalent to saying that the 1,000 shares of Xinzhong Engineering shares and 100,000 national yuan of assets they held in their hands were injected into Xinzhong Defense -- if all the assets of the parent company were injected into Xinzhong Defense -- it accounted for less than one percent. (To be continued.) )