Chapter 138: Huaxing's Assets
It has to be said that Ford's idea is good, and the arrangement they made is also wise, just like God said that there are always opportunities for those who are prepared.
After Li Tie took a test ride on this latest Ford IV transport plane, he had the idea of wanting to travel around the world, and he happened to have a lot of technology in his hands, so he could go around the Western countries to see how many partners he could pull.
Li Tie knows very well that with China's current domestic environment and industrial base, it will not be possible to build decent industrial equipment within 10 years.
Therefore, after Li Tie returned to the Golden Tiger Club with the Thousand Tailed Scorpion, he handed over all the work of the Food and Medicine Statistics Department to the Thousand Tailed Scorpion to arrange, and he himself sent a telegram to Dai Li in Nanjing, telling him that he was going to go abroad to lay a foundation for his Huaxing Airlines to open up international routes.
At the same time, he also told Dai Li that he would do his best to complete the tasks assigned to him by Commander Jiang, so please rest assured that Commander Jiang would rest assured. In addition, during the time he left Shanghai, he also asked Dai Li to help take care of Huaxing's business in China.
In case there is any unsightly person looking for trouble with Huaxing. If Dai Li can't help solve it from official channels, don't blame the Axe Gang for solving it in a way that is Jianghu.
Seeing Li Tie's soft and hard request, Dai Li couldn't cry or laugh. Although this little brother is knowledgeable and righteous, he mixes with gang members every day, and now his gangsterism is getting stronger and stronger.
Moreover, Li Tie is still young in the end, this childishness is still too strong, and he is obviously not satisfied with the task given to him by Commander Jiang, so he found a reason to go abroad to relax.
But fortunately, he agreed to the errand after all, and it was impossible for the Northern Expedition to be launched again in the first half of the year anyway. Just let him go out and have fun.
Li Tie asked Dai Li for half a year off, and then Li Tie returned to Huaxing to tell Mike about his upcoming trip abroad.
As a result, when Mike heard that he was traveling around the world by plane, he would follow him if he said anything, looking at Mike's enthusiasm, why did he give Li Tie the feeling of being far away from his wife.
Although the Huaxing passenger plane can seat 20 people, it is to be able to fly farther, and it is also to reduce the number of people traveling.
In the end, Li Tie, Thousand Tailed Scorpion, Mike, Carl plus Wang Qi, Li Yuhong, plus Doberman, Hei Da, Hei Er and a manager of Huaxing Airlines, a total of ten people.
After all, although Li Tie traveled in the name of Huaxing Airlines this time, it was actually in his own name, so he didn't bring too many staff.
Before setting off, Li Tie and Mike first determined the route of the flight, and finally decided to take Europe first, and then fly across the Atlantic Ocean into the United States.
After determining the route, Mike arranged for people to go to various consulates to handle the relevant entry matters, and there was no such thing as a visa in this era.
However, you still need to have a certificate such as a passport to the relevant country, and this certificate is also very easy to handle, as long as you pay enough security, it is almost as simple as you go to the street to open a single certificate.
Soon Mike opened the certificate of ten people going abroad, on the grounds that Huaxing Company went abroad for a delegation. When Mike went through the relevant procedures for going abroad, Li Tie was not idle.
Li Tie went to Huaxing Laboratory several times and got several scientific research materials that were being studied. These things are the capital of his trip abroad.
In addition, Li Tie also went to Citibank and exchanged a large amount of US dollars and some cash cashier's checks from Citibank.
After doing all this, it was already the 28th Lunar New Year, and Li Tie gave a generous year-end bonus to all the employees to whom he belonged.
All Huaxing employees, whether managers or ordinary employees, are paid an extra month's salary. When Li Tie saw that he was going to spend nearly two million more silver dollars for this small decision, he was also shocked, when did Huaxing have so many people?
As a result, Mike and several managers of foreign banks calculated a detailed account for Li Tie, and now there are more than 3,000 registered employees in all industries of Shanghai Huaxing Company, including car dealers, shipping dealers, airlines, pharmaceutical factories, hospitals, and various processing plants, plus more than 100 foreign experts and professors in the laboratory and corresponding service personnel, plus 500 guards.
If you count it carefully, there are nearly 4,000 employees under Li Tie's hands, just counting Shanghai. For an average monthly salary of 20 silver dollars per person, 800,000 silver dollars had to be spent.
In addition, there are nearly 3,000 employees and 2,000 guards in Hong Kong, as well as Chongqing and Guangzhou, and although most of the branches in Shenyang do not have many workers, there are also dozens or hundreds of employees in each place. Therefore, if you take a closer look at the entire Huaxing industry, it now has 10,000 workers.
In other words, Li Tie's extra month's salary will cost nearly two million silver dollars. Fortunately, until today, all industries in Huaxing are profitable.
Whether it is the arms business in Shanghai or the various industries of foreign banks, it can create millions of profits for Huaxing every month.
As for Hong Kong Huaxing's profits, the profits are even greater, and the cigarettes sold by the Huaxing Tobacco Factory alone make Huaxing a profit of more than one million yuan per month.
Others such as canneries, garment factories, steel mills, and shipyards are also profitable. In short, after removing all the expenses of Huaxing every month, in fact, Huaxing's monthly profit is now more than 3 million yuan.
As soon as he heard that Huaxing Industry was so rich, Li Tie's little caution that he was a little reluctant to do so was of course gone. It turned out that inadvertently, his own Huaxing has become such a money-making machine, not to mention that he still has an extremely rich small treasury.
Thinking of the small treasury, Li Tie couldn't help but think of the Variety Mouse, and asked him to take the gold, silver and jewelry obtained from Hong Kong to Japan to sell, I don't know how it went? I'll have to send a telegram to ask.
I don't know if Matsumoto's kid and Naoki Ono are in contact with the Variety Mouse now? However, he was not worried about the safety of the Changeling Rat, this old boy was better than a ghost. It is estimated that the little Japanese devil has to make him choke enough now.
Li Tie looked at the asset reports in front of him one by one, and was satisfied, so he naturally had to boast about Mike and several managers.
After two years of work, the managers of Huaxing Bank know that the real behind-the-scenes boss of Huaxing Bank is actually their general manager Li Tie. And Li Tie also knows that everyone knows about this, but no one wants to pierce this layer of window paper.
Now that everything in the company has become formal, he has taken Mike around the world with him this time, so he naturally has no worries, not to mention that Tie Dan still stays in Shanghai as a liaison between Huaxing and the Axe Gang.
Moreover, on this trip, Li Tie also brought two high-power radios, and above the altitude, Li Tie could contact any radio station of Huaxing Company thousands of kilometers away.
Li Tie remembered in later generations that someone used a shortwave radio station and accidentally got in touch with a car radio station on the West Coast of the United States. So this time, he deliberately brought two high-power radios with him, and he planned to take this opportunity to try how far he could transmit in the air.
Not to mention how the employees of Huaxing Company cheered after learning that all employees of Huaxing had received an extra month's salary this year.
Not to mention how other company's employees are envious, jealous and hateful after such a good treatment of Huaxing employees. It was only said that after finally arranging all the preparations, Li Tie deliberately chose an auspicious day for this trip.
This day is January 28, 1928, which is the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Li Tie, who has just finished the Spring Festival, and a group of thousands of scorpions came to Huaxing Airlines early.
At this time, on the side of the airport runway of Shanghai Huaxing Airlines, a large plane with a unique style was parked on the tarmac.
The aircraft is powered by a unique twin-engine, high-power engine, and the fuselage is painted with a distinctive Chinese and English logo, the Huaxing.
Under the fuselage, the propaganda slogan written in Chinese, English, German and French Chinese dialects was temporarily sprayed, "Huaxing Airlines, the world passes".
Li Tie led the travelers to the airport, and the employees of Huaxing Foreign Bank who came to see them off, the black killers of the Axe Gang, and some well-known leaders in Shanghai came to the airport.
For example, even if the three tycoons in Shanghai did not come in person, they all arranged for heavyweight cronies to send Cheng Yi, Li Tie has always been a non-refusal to come to the money, but because the load of the plane is strictly calculated, so he did not bring any gifts from these people who came to see him off, and even the money was registered by the guys of the foreign bank, and then transported back to the foreign bank.
Li Tie was in front of the plane and delivered an enthusiastic speech, showing the world their Huaxing initiative to open up new routes around the world, and then specially thanked the people who saw them off.
Li Tie's speech was warmly applauded by everyone, and dozens of reporters who came to hear the news raised their cameras and pressed the shutter continuously, they wanted to record this historic moment.
At this time, since the Americans completed their first round-the-world flight in 1924, in just a few years, many countries have completed the round-the-world flight.
But in Asia in China, as the first to accomplish the feat of globetrotting, there are too many articles to be written here. It's a pity that Li Tie didn't accept the reporter's request for random interviews, otherwise, the first reporter to complete the global flight would also have great newsworthiness.
In any case, Li Tie's trip represents China's aviation industry going abroad and is an act of winning glory for the country. Therefore, dozens of reporters present tried their best to give the most shots of ten people in this line.
Whether it is Li Tie or the thousand-tailed scorpion, even Harris, as a driver, has been favored by countless cameras. However, Wang Qi, Dubin, and Hei Da were very resolute in refusing to be interviewed and photographed.
But as the only staff member, the manager of Huaxing Airlines. It's rare to show his face, I believe that he will also be a celebrity in China after today.
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