Wang Chenhao's successful merger of Parsons into Beiyang Technology is not very glorious, but in the face of national interests, it is understandable to do so.

Wang Chenhao became Parsons' behind-the-scenes boss, but he did not prevent Parsons from signing a cooperation agreement with British Admiralty Fisher. The reason is that the steam turbine technology currently developed by Parsons is mainly for large power station units, while Wang Chenhao needs steam turbine technology for large warships, and now only Fisher and his Navy's Landing Equipment Department have the ability to perfectly install these technologies on large warships in a short time. If Wang Chenhao and his Shanghai Shipbuilding Industry Co., Ltd. were to complete the project, it would take at least ten years, and the huge technical gap between China and Britain forced Wang Chenhao to continue to cooperate with Fisher, hoping to make up for this gap as soon as possible.

Fisher, after obtaining authorization from Parsons, retrofitted the Turbonia with weapons systems and converted it into a torpedo boat destroyer. Since the Turbonia was about the same size as a torpedo destroyer, the design was quickly improved with the technology of the British, and the British began to build the epoch-making torpedo boat destroyer C-class destroyer with a speed of more than 30 knots two years ahead of schedule.

The C-class destroyer's lead ship, the Star-class Destroyer, was designed and built under the auspices of British Third Sea Secretary Fisher, and the Stars had a design displacement of 475 tons, nearly 200 tons more than the previous Longtail Tuna-class destroyers, mainly because the steam turbine technology was still immature and the equipment was bloated. The ship is designed to be 60 meters long and 6 meters wide, with one 12-pounder rapid-fire gun (76 mm), three 6-pounder (47 mm) rapid-fire guns, three 18-inch Fish**, a steam turbine power of 6,000 horsepower, and a design speed of 30 knots.

In consideration of the military situation in the Far East, Wang Chenhao decided to use this class of destroyers to supplement the strength of the Beiyang Naval Division in order to deal with the large number of torpedo boat formations of the Russian Far East Fleet.

After Wang Chenhao and Fisher discussed, the British Admiralty decided to build 16 Xingchen-class torpedo boat destroyers, six of which were purchased by Wang Chenhao, and they were called Exocet-class destroyers. Two of them were built by the UK to strengthen the partnership. The remaining four are manufactured by Shanghai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry. However, in order to enhance the seaworthiness surname, the Exocet-class hunting ships will be extra high freeboard to adapt to ocean voyages.

During his two weeks in London, Wang Chenhao achieved extremely fruitful results. In addition to auctioning off all the remaining antiques to make a huge profit, he also obtained Parsons, which could influence the power of naval ships in two eras, and successfully connected with Fisher, thus opening the door to obtain future key technologies from the British Navy.

On the one hand, Wang Chenhao maintained technical cooperation with the British Navy, and on the other hand, he transferred a series of core technologies and key technical personnel of Parsons to Tianjin Beiyang Science and Technology in order to carry out research on naval equipment in China.

Last year, Wang Chenhao ordered Xu Jianyin, director of Beiyang Science and Technology, to introduce talents from various countries, the effect is very ideal, from all over the world has recruited two or three hundred scientific and technological personnel, their participation has brought a large number of foreign advanced science and technology to Beiyang Science and Technology, and has played a vital role in the promotion of Beiyang Science and Technology.

This time, Wang Chenhao will spend 5 million pounds, on the one hand, for the introduction of high-tech talents, on the other hand, from Europe and the United States to introduce the most advanced laboratory related equipment, and prepare to build a large-scale comprehensive scientific research laboratory in Tianjin, specifically for Beiyang science and technology.

Wang Chenhao now has enough money in his hands, and he always feels unsafe with him, except for exchanging 200 tons of gold and storing it in the safe to be transported back to China, the rest of the more than 20 million pounds Wang Chenhao is ready to spend it.

But it's not so easy to spend such a huge amount of money. Wang Chenhao decided to carry out a sweep in Europe and the United States, introducing the main light and heavy industrial projects, related equipment and technologies of the current European and American powers into China, and he planned to build a large-scale comprehensive industrial base in the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangzhou region.

Among them, the heavy industry mainly introduces equipment and technology for three types of industries, the first is the extractive (logging) industry, including petroleum, coal mining, metal mining, non-metallic mining and timber harvesting industries; The second category is the raw material industry, which mainly includes the industry that provides basic materials, power and fuel to all sectors of the national economy. For example, ferrous and non-ferrous metal smelting and processing, coking and coke, chemicals, chemical raw materials, cement, as well as electric power, petroleum and coal processing, glass raw materials, sawn timber and other industries; The third category is the processing and manufacturing industry, which includes the machinery and equipment manufacturing industry, chemical fertilizer, metal structure, cement products, other building materials manufacturing and other industries that equip various sectors of the national economy, as well as the means of production provided for agriculture such as chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

Some of the heavy industry projects Wang Chenhao is concerned about include the introduction of large-scale power industry equipment from the British company Holmes to support the basic power energy supply in the Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Industrial Zone. The coal mining industry already has the Kaiping Coal Mine, Li Hongzhang is old, and Wang Chenhao only needs to stay up for a few years to get it. In terms of the one-stop steel industry, there is already a Zhili Iron and Steel Company, and Wang Chenhao doesn't have to bother anymore. The cement raw material industry is very important for the national infrastructure construction and national defense industry, Wang Chenhao knows that there will be a big war with Russia in the future, and the construction of war readiness channels and fortress fortifications are inseparable from cement, so Wang Chenhao introduced a 500,000-ton large cement plant.

Among the heavy industries, the automotive industry is a budding industry that has been around for more than a decade. As a new means of transportation, the car has great potential in the developed markets of the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States. At this time, Karl and Gottlieb in Germany had already built the world's first gasoline-powered bus and the first gasoline-powered truck, and Ford in the United States had also built the first Ford car in Edison's company.

Wang Chenhao knew that in the short term, the heavy and light industries he had built in China would not be enough to compete with the companies of the great powers, and it would be very difficult not only to export but also to compete with foreign companies at home under unequal treaties. Wang Chenhao chose some emerging industries in heavy industry to take the lead in development, so that the international competitiveness is small. The automobile industry is in line with his requirements, because the demand for cars in Britain, Germany and the United States is huge, and their own domestic automobile companies cannot meet the supply, so that Wang Chenhao can develop the automobile industry in advance to obtain export profits. At the same time, various resources such as steel, rubber, and internal combustion engines required for automobiles can drive a large number of domestic industrial chains. In this way, even if domestic enterprises are suppressed by foreign companies, they can rely on their own supply chain to survive until they become competitive.

In accordance with this concept, Wang Chenhao has successively introduced heavy industry technologies and patents in some new technological fields, such as automobile manufacturing and radio production, and is ready to take the lead in the field of new technologies, so as to seize the commanding heights.

For example, radio production technology and patents. When Wang Chenhao learned of the successful radio transmission technology developed by Marconi and was about to file a patent application for the British political axe, Wang Chenhao immediately sent someone to contact Marconi and bought Marconi's radio patent at a cost of 200,000 pounds, and obtained the British telegraph patent application numbered 12039. At the same time, Marconi Radio Company was also sold to Wang Chenhao for 12,000 pounds because of the loss of patent ownership, and was included in the communications department of Beiyang Technology.

In light industry, cotton, wool, linen, silk textile and sewing, leather and its products are all existing industries in China, which does not need Wang Chenhao's heart. What he wants to introduce are all unavailable and unrefined in China, such as metal, chemical, glass, chemical fibers and their fabrics, matches, wood products for daily use, and other industries. In particular, the manufacture of matches, the country is completely dependent on imports, Wang Chenhao does not want the Chinese people to call matches every day, so the introduction of light industry technology and equipment, match manufacturing is listed as a priority.