Looking at the people who were impatient to make a lot of money, Lu Liang had to emphasize when he was about to end the meeting: "The establishment of our Guangdong Self-improvement Chamber of Commerce is to strengthen the national capital and seek benefits for the majority of the people, the short-term goal is to drive all foreign goods out of the Guangdong market, and then seek to occupy the entire domestic market, and the ultimate goal is to make our national enterprises become the world's factories, producing all the products that can be produced in the world, even large machine tools, engines, sea ships, etc., of course, this requires the joint efforts of all colleagues, I believe that this day will not be long away. Focusing on the present, those who invest in setting up factories should seize the time to organize manpower and select a place to build a factory, and our technical personnel will provide help; Agents do not ship for the time being, wait for the completion of the construction of all the factories in Guangdong hoarding goods, I guarantee that the goods before the sale of funds are all borne by Ziqiang, will not lose a penny of you. Our purpose is to suddenly exert force, catch those foreign businessmen off guard, do not give them time to react, and strive to quickly occupy the market in a short period of time. At that time, we will negotiate the price of the goods in the Chamber of Commerce, and no internal price competition will be allowed, otherwise the membership will be cancelled. ”

After the sales channels were prepared, Lu Yi was also sent to Guangzhou to take charge of the construction of the new industrial zone, where a light industrial base several times larger than Huizhou would be built. The superior conditions would have made the construction there much faster than here—a more powerful and widespread group of squires and merchants, and almost all the forces of the upper, middle and lower layers would be accommodated; an almost endless abundance of manpower; Huizhou's previous experience and foundation; More abundant natural resources, mainly building materials, are no longer needed to be provided by the base, but the cement provided by the Huizhou Cement Plant. Huizhou will be used as a heavy industry base, which accommodates more population than the light industry base, now only built steel plants, machine manufacturing plants, power plants, cement plants, and scale, production capacity is still relatively small, more factories such as engine plants, rolling mills, coking plants, train manufacturing plants, automobile manufacturing plants, etc. are still under construction, mainly the lack of qualified workers, training for them requires a certain amount of time to accumulate, in a hurry. In addition to providing a variety of machinery needed to build a factory, the steel base is mainly responsible for providing a variety of seabed minerals and resources, and the steel base will be used as a resource export place after the industrial improvement in the future.

Chambers of commerce are established, agreements are signed, factories are built, goods are hoarded, but there is still one final task to be done, and that is the road. If it is only sold in Guangdong, the existing road conditions can barely cope with the situation, but if you want to face the whole country and face a large number of goods, the existing conditions will not work. Moreover, land transportation is not safe, bandits, soldiers, officials, and local forces will greatly increase the cost. Moreover, at this stage, there are only a few short-distance railways in Guangdong and even in the whole of China, and most of the road construction rights are controlled by foreign powers, so it is simply too late to start building roads now.

Of course, it can also be carried out by sea, and shipyards are stepping up the construction of the first self-strengthening ship, and it is also possible to form a sea company by purchasing freighters. However, it is not possible to operate after the establishment of the company, Li Hongzhang's steamship China Merchants Bureau monopolized the domestic shipping industry, suppressed the newly formed shipping company, without a tougher background, it is difficult to develop, and Lu Liang does not want to confront the Huaijun system and the Beiyang system represented by Li Hongzhang now. Therefore, the Ambrera Company of America, which is far away on the other side of the ocean, began to purchase sea vessels, and the shipping company in Luliang will temporarily operate in the name of the American company.

Ambrera is headquartered in San Francisco, also known as San Francisco. It was also November at the end of 1900, and a few months earlier, fifty genetics under the pseudonym Todd had arrived in a submarine mining vehicle, carrying with them the identity documents provided by the base, some technical information, and a large number of gold and silver collected by the submarine mining vehicle. After arriving here, they first bought a four-story house in the city center, established a physical Ambrera company, and began to post notices, recruit workers, and set up zipper factories and lighter factories in the suburbs. During this time, Todd and other genetic people were attacked seventeen times, including three large-scale attacks, all of which were rifle and pistol firepower, but they were all repelled by heavily armed genetic people, how could the genetic people made by special forces be able to compete with these shrimp soldiers and crabs, none of the genetic people were killed, and the attackers suffered heavy casualties, and the whole of San Francisco was shocked by this new group of powerful forces, and Todd bought several congressmen and government officials, and the new forces were finally recognizedAs a result, the factory was successfully developed.

After receiving the telegram from Lu Liang, Todd immediately began to look for shipbuilding companies in San Francisco, at this time American shipbuilding companies were mainly located on the East Coast, and there were only a few small shipyards and repair shops in California. Luckily, Todd learns that Henry Huntington, the new owner of the Newport News shipyard on the East Coast, is in San Francisco.

"Henry, this is Mr. Todd, his Ambrera company has just been established, he has a lot of capital, I heard that you are here, and I want to discuss some business with you." Henry's uncle had an old friend of San Francisco Congressman Walter, who happened to be one of the congressmen Todd had bribed with, so Todd invited the two to San Francisco's most famous restaurant.

Henry had just taken over his uncle's shipyard and was now making business contacts everywhere trying to expand the shipyard. He is very optimistic about the shipping business, and his factory also has the basic conditions for expansion, now it is up to him to see if he can get orders and lay a good foundation for the expansion of the shipyard.

Todd took a sip of red wine and said: "My Ambrera company is engaged in garment manufacturing, zipper manufacturing, lighter manufacturing and overseas transportation, and the manufacturing plant is located on the outskirts of the city, and there is also a branch in Guangdong Province of the Qing Dynasty on the other side of the ocean. Our strength is not comparable to those large groups and consortia, and we can only find some ways to make money in the barren and backward Qing Dynasty, so our company's newly established Ambrera Shipping Company needs some transport ships. ”

"I wonder what kind of ship your company needs?" Henry didn't care what they were used for, there were very few ships to the Qing Dynasty, most of the market there was controlled by Britain and France, and the American open door policy was not responded to at all, and it was estimated that these people would do a bad job.

"We need ten 5,000-ton steamers, preferably with the latest steam turbines, and even better if you can produce internal combustion engine ships."

"What about delivery times?"

"The sooner the better, and if it can be delivered in two months, I will compromise on the price."

Henry pondered for a while, it was definitely impossible to build a new ship in such a short time, and his own Newport shipyard was undergoing a technical transformation, and it would not be possible to produce internal combustion engine carriers within half a year.

"Mr. Todd, you see if this will work, two months can only buy second-hand ships, new ships cannot be built in such a short time, and our slipways are all pre-ordered ships. But my family happens to have a fleet of ocean vessels, more than half of which are new ships launched in five years, and you can choose ten of them that you like, and I can give you a discount on the price. ”

"Okay, where is your fleet? I'll send someone to pick it out. ”

William received ten large transport ships with a displacement of 5,000 tons from New York, recruited seamen from the vicinity of New York, and returned to the West Coast with the fleet. At this time, the Panama Canal was not yet open, and that was not until around 1914, so the journey had to take a detour through the treacherous Strait of Magellan. After resting in San Francisco for about ten days, replenishing supplies and repairing ships, he began to cross the Pacific Ocean and return to Huizhou. In addition to William, the head of the fleet, and the recruited seafarers, he was accompanied by tens of thousands of tons of grain, which Todd had purchased in the United States. At this time, the last thing that China lacked was the hungry refugees, and the grain was brought back by the way in line with the principle that the ship would not run empty. Most of the land under the name of Huizhou Luliang and the land of the squires in the system are planted with high-yield rice, which not only meets local needs, but can also be sold in large quantities. But Lu Liang never disliked the abundance of grain, and in this era, grain was also a strategic weapon.