Chapter 118: The Broker
All the tests had been completed, Fisher was still there, and the assistants had taken their leave, leaving him alone to sit in the room, and after a long time, he got up and went outside, holding the remaining half of the tungsten metal.
"Mr. Fisher, how's it going?" Harpy was a little anxious, looked at Fisher with a solemn face, and asked hurriedly.
Fisher looked at Harpy carefully and asked, "Harpy, with all due respect, where did you get these metals!" ”
Harpy nodded and said, "These tungsten are commodities from our Chamber of Commerce. ”
Commodity, Fisher raised his eyebrows, he didn't think it was such an answer, he was stunned for a while, and then asked: "It's a commodity, does that mean that there is a lot of this thing!" ”
Harpy nodded and said honestly: "It's a lot, about five or six cubes." ”
Five or six cubic meters, the professor shook violently, as if an electric current suddenly passed guò, beating violently, this is not ordinary steel, five or six cubic meters of steel, but twenty or thirty tons, very pure tungsten sand, five or six cubic meters is one hundred and ten tons, this number, even as a famous professor of the smelting department, he couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, when, such a powerful chamber of commerce emerged in Germany, thinking of Harpy throwing a lot of money in the university circle, he also knew it, he didn't have such a big confidence, how can you sprinkle so much.
"And Mr. Harpy, do you have a buyer?" Fisher said with a hint of excitement in his heart.
"Not yet!" Harpy replied.
"Let me introduce you to a buyer"
"That's great, it's just ......" Harpy hesitated for a moment and said, "I have one condition." ”
Conditions, Fisher was stunned for a moment, and then he thought that the Harpy in front of him was not a rich man who knew nothing about industry, the Jews, who were very good at business, and had always had the metaphor of vampires, but in terms of science and technology, they were not weak, and the Jews who attached importance to learning were important forces in the entire German scientific and technological community, and Harpy's circle should know the importance of tungsten, which can be called a strategic metal, and it was not sold at all.
Fisher measured, on the one hand, he is the deputy director of the metallurgical department of the University of Berlin, and the current subject is responsible for the research of the barrel of a batch of heavy artillery, tungsten alloy, is an important technology of Krupp, not only makes the volume of the entire barrel a lot smaller, the quality of the whole gun, as well as the firing range, wear performance and other aspects, there is a very good table, once used on the heavy artillery, the performance index of the heavy gun, far higher than before.
The military industry has always only required performance, not price, in the face of an alloy with ultra-high performance indicators, even if its price is high, whether it is an enterprise or a researcher, they have invested in it without hesitation, but unfortunately, even if Fisher is a metallurgical expert in Germany, the amount of tungsten alloy provided to him is still limited every semester, which makes his research have to come to a standstill.
The performance of tungsten is excellent, but the output of tungsten is not high, from more than ten years ago, Germany began to import tungsten from China, during this time, because of the emergence of a large number of tungsten alloy, and increased the amount of imports, a large number of black stone across the ocean, in the smelting workshop, into tungsten powder, which requires too many steps, the cost of money is too great, because of the imperfection of extraction, a lot of tungsten has been wasted, every ton of tungsten purified, the electricity, energy, labor, and even wealth, it is enough to make tungsten into a sky-high price, Tungsten is also one of the few precious metals with a purified value of about 10,000 times that of mineral powder, and it has no price.
Fisher knew that Harpy's request would be more difficult, but the desire in his heart suppressed this idea, as long as he completed this matchmaking task, thinking about it, the other party who got 100 tons of tungsten would leak out a ton and a half of it for him, which represents a hundred, or even a thousand times the tungsten alloy, hesitated slightly, and said: "Say, see if I can do it!" ”
Since he mentioned it, Harbis simply asked, "Professor Fisher must have heard of why I came here." ”
Why, Fisher hesitated for a moment, focusing on academics, but he heard that Harpy was throwing money around various universities, thinking about it carefully, thinking of some rumors about Harpy, and trying to ask: "Could it be to go to school?" ”
"Yes, you also know, my company is in China, this batch of tungsten, and many other products, are thanks to the partners in China, this time to come, they only put forward such a request, arrange a group of students in Germany!"
"How many?" Fisher really didn't ask about this carefully, he only knew that he spent 250,000 yuan at the University of Hamburg and inserted 5 students, including 2 in the metallurgical department.
"250, but now, 50 have a place!"
"200 left?" Fisher's words were stammering, his eyes were a little dull, he knew that Harbixiang arranged some international students, if three or five international students, with his ability, it was okay, but this number is a bit large 200, and it must be an engineering college, Germany's scientific outlook, very rigorous, did not reach a certain level, don't want to go to school, if he wants to solve a few, he can also press down, 200, even if he has the ability to reach the sky, he can't do it, even their principal.
Seeing Fisher's expression, Harpy felt a few thrills in his heart, it seems that he thinks things are too simple, to solve the problem of students going to school, relying only on a department head, or even the principal of the school, can not solve it, unless he can have the capital to buy one or several universities, but this money is astronomical, tungsten income, including those handicrafts, needs to support 250 students to go to school, and also needs to purchase a large number of machines in Germany, millions of them are good to say, more than 10 million, It's extremely difficult.
Harpy didn't sit at Fisher's place longer, and left, Fisher looked at the tungsten powder in his hand, his expression changed, and finally, with a long sigh, his back looked a little stiff.
dragged the tired body, back to the hotel where he stayed, there are some trivial things at home, it is not easy to move, the wife is cleaning up at home, after a while, will come over, go to the United States with him, return to China in the United States, this is equivalent to a few months, across the whole earth, before the arrival of the power era, is unimaginable, but now, as long as it is a continuous voyage, that is, two or three months, if the sea route to land, the time will be less, Around the globe in 80 days, that was a long time ago, and in this era, the command is faster.
Pushing open the door of the hostel, Harpy found that there was a person waiting for him, who looked a little familiar from a distance, and when he saw Harpy pushing the door in, he greeted him warmly and said, "Hello, Harpy! ”
Only then did Harpy notice this man, this man he knew, old John, he was also Jewish, in the circle of Hamburg, he was relatively famous, starting as an ordinary broker, and later became the leader of the industry, and his subordinates controlled thousands of brokers of all kinds and sizes, and even Butters was originally mixed with him.
In the past, Harpy knew him, and it was only a few faces, at that time, Old John's status, he would not look at such an inconspicuous small businessman as Harpy twice, but he didn't expect that he was waiting for him here.
"John, how are you doing, I'm really glad to see you." With such a character, Harpy gave a warm hug to Old John.
"Harpy, I heard that you went to China, how are the pianos selling!" As a commercial broker, Old John's information is very in place, and it can be said unceremoniously that Harpy bought a piano and went to the Far East, almost making a lot of jokes in the circle, some of the more serious, and even went to the Far East to inquire about what happened to Harpy next, and felt that maybe Harpy would not be able to come back.
However, in the recent period, the most widely circulated in the circle is that Harpy not only came back, but also brought back a large ship of Chinese goods outside everyone's imagination, which was in quite good condition, which shocked everyone at the same time, but also coveted this batch of goods, Old John was also one of them, after a few days of observation, Old John decided to take the initiative, and then waited for Harpy's return in the hotel.
"Don't mention it, the piano was lost in the Far East, and I came back with the company's goods this time."
Old John didn't mention much about the piano for the sake of these goods. "I know, I've heard, the October number, it's really a huge ocean-going freighter, how is it, how is the thing, can you give me some?"
"Absolutely!" Harpy was not hypocritical, he knew John's strength, and directly took out a list, which recorded almost all the goods except those that had been sold, and asked John to choose.
Old John was very satisfied, and sketched it on the list, and after a short time, he selected 3 million goods, most of which were silk and tea, and a small part of porcelain, as for the official kiln porcelain and Shu brocade, for the time being, Harpy was not placed in the catalog.
3 million, in the current Germany, is definitely a large number, which can also be seen from the energy of old John, the network he touched, including almost all large and small brokers, there is such a person, and other large companies, it is already good.
Both parties were satisfied, and Old John was about to say goodbye, when Harpy suddenly remembered that he had found Professor Fisher before, but he had not solved the problem, and he heard that Old John's path was very wild, and he had a very close relationship with many military industrial groups, so he hesitated for a moment, and still asked: "Old John, there is still a business, I don't know if you are interested in doing it?" ”RS