In Lübeck, Germany, Helden took a fancy to a small shipyard in a good location.

To be honest, opening a shipyard in Austria was not so promising in Germany. At this time, the German navy was just in its infancy, and Tirpitz proposed a plan to expand the German navy - the "Navy Act" had not yet been passed by the parliament, and after that, the golden age of German shipbuilding was ushered in.

At present, among the private shipyards in Germany, only the Shuoxiao shipyard in Danzig and the Volken shipyard in Stettin have experience in building large ironclad ships, while the new Germania and Wiesel shipyards have also built small ships for the navy, while the Blom shipyard in Hamburg. The Foss shipyard has just been founded.

The three naval shipyards of the Second Reich would soon be at a disadvantage due to their high costs.

In general, the shipbuilding industry in Germany is just getting started, and there is still a lot to be done.

"It's a shame that our shipyard is so small that we've only built a few wooden sailboats and small wooden short-haul freighters. At present, the shipbuilding industry in Germany is fiercely competitive, and small shipyards cannot compete with those large shipyards at all, and can only receive some orders that those large shipyards do not look down on and have little oil and water. Indeed, I intend to sell this shipyard. "Link, the owner of the shipyard, is a middle-aged man in his forties, slightly chubby, and slightly bald, but honest and experienced.

Indeed, Link was right, the North Sea Shipyard was a very small shipyard with only two 500-ton wooden slipways and a small mud dock, with old equipment and a lack of metalworking workshops to build steel ships.

But Helden only liked its location, and the name of the shipyard - the North Sea Shipyard had built the high-performance Brandenburg-class anti-submarine frigate and the Brunswick-class missile frigate 100 years later, as well as the 212-class conventionally powered submarine, which of course was certainly not the shipyard it is now.

Still, Helton Lee liked the name very much.

"Mr. Lingen, we are ready to invest in shipbuilding in Germany, and in fact we are planning to build a new first-class shipyard in Germany. However, we lacked a suitable manager, and after investigation, we felt that you were a reliable partner. So the purpose of our visit this time is not to buy your shipyard entirely, but to add new investments to your shipyard to increase equipment and scale. Lechelton said.

"Investment?" Link looked at the nobleman from Austria in front of him with some confusion, what was the purpose of their doing this? He thought about it for a while, and no matter how he looked at it, it would not hurt him, so he asked: "Mr. Friedrich, how much money are you going to invest in the shipyard?" ”

"Well, the upfront plan is 9 million marks." Lehairdon paused slightly, "Of course, if it's not enough, you can add it." ”

"5 million?" Link was shocked that the total value of his shipyard would not exceed 90,000 marks, so that he would only have one percent of the shares in the shipyard.

"You don't have to worry, your existing shipyard will cost 150,000 marks, and you will own two percent of the shares first. In addition, if the shipyard is running smoothly, I am prepared to give 10% of the shares to the shipyard's main managers and engineering personnel, including you, Mr. Link. Lechelton said that he would give Link a reassurance pill and then draw a big pie, so that he would definitely work hard for the shipyard.

In the following week, the shipyard made the procedures for the transfer of funds and the change of shares. The designers who followed Lee Hayton made a rough plan for the future shipyard after measurements. The detailed investment plan will not come out until two months later, but Link can buy the land around the shipyard in advance according to the plan.

Heldon's plan is big, and it could be even bigger in the future.

The basic planning requirements are more than 700 meters of shoreline, covering an area of 1,600 acres, and it is necessary to build a new independent office building, lofting workshop, metal processing workshop, power workshop, wood processing workshop, electrical workshop, a small steelmaking and rolling mill, self-provided power plant, various material warehouses, etc., of course, slipway, dock and outfitting dock are essential hardware facilities.

Helden had some experience in building a shipyard, and the size of the Islaia shipyard was no less than that of any of the current German shipyards, and he was confident that within three years a new shipyard of the same size would be built in Germany. Of course, most of the workers, technicians, engineers and designers at the shipyard had to be recruited in Germany, and the management staff also needed a large number of Germans.

As a standard arms dealer, Lee Hayden certainly had his own chemical factory early on, focusing on producing a more bitter sour fry. Yellow fried medicine is safer. Medicine - invented by Mr. Wilbrand in 1963, but has not been noticed, i.e. **.

As the main filling agent of cannonballs, picric acid has considerable instability, especially the picrate produced when it is in contact with metal, and it is easy to explode in the encounter. frying, and phenol is also much more expensive to produce than toluene.

Lechelton noticed a problem, the world's major saltpeter sources were accused of being in the hands of the British or the Americans, and if war broke out, Germany and Austria and other countries would face an embarrassing situation of saltpeter shortages. In later generations, a middle school student would learn about the synthesis of ammonium nitrate in the real room, but now at the end of the 19th century, Mr. Mendeleev discovered that there are only 78 elements on the periodic table.

Lehedon could have become a great chemist comparable to Mendeleev if he wanted to.

But forget about it.

He now needs to talk to the chemists at the plant about a new project -- a synthetic ammonia and chlor-alkali complex.

He was going to ask his chemists to develop a new low-cost method for making nitric acid, a new process for the synthesis of ammonia, soda ash, ammonium carbonate - the joint alkali production method invented by the great Chinese chemist Mr. Hou Debang.

Soda ash is a basic and important chemical raw material, which is used by many industries such as glass, chemicals, petroleum, metallurgy, building materials, textiles, etc., but its production patents are monopolized by the Solvay Soda Association, which is composed of a few companies in France, Germany and the United Kingdom, and they have obtained high monopoly profits for nearly 100 years.

Until Mr. Hou announced the method of its manufacture.

Heldon wasn't going to do that, he didn't know the details, but as long as he gave the chemists some inspiration, he was sure that he would soon get what he wanted.

New technology always represents a lot of things, of course, mainly money -- a high enough profit before it is developed by someone else.

Hayden could imagine the impact of ammonia technology, which represented the collapse of British and American companies that monopolized the saltpeter market, enough to make him even more motivated.

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