Until he picked up the teacup, Hu Nianzu's eyes were still fixed on the coke on the table, which was the result of the past two months, in the area of Xie Jiaji in Fengtai County, he did find a coal mine, perhaps it should not be said that he found a coal mine, because coal has been used for hundreds of years.

“…… Although the coal mines there are small mines mined along the exposed veins, with an annual output of only a few thousand tons, the quality of the coal is far better than the original imagination, more prosperous than Pingxiang coal, and it is also a high-grade bituminous coal with low ash and low sulfur, which can be said to be the best for coking, and the reserves are abundant, I am afraid that it is the most abundant in China! According to the rough calculation of Nian Zu, the underground coal storage in the Fengtai area can exceed one million tons! ”

Surprised, Hu Nianzu put down the teacup in his hand and picked up the piece of coke from the table.

"However, you look at this coke, although it is made by the soil method, but its quality is excellent, Huainan coal can not only be used to make iron, but also high-quality thermal coal! ……”

Chen Moran didn't wait for him to finish speaking, Hu Nianzu's results were already in his expectations, Huainan was the "coal capital" of East China in the future, and now he was most concerned about the steel plant equipment that Liu Shilun said that day.

"Xianglin, the reason why you let Huainan rush back is because of the equipment of the steel mill!"

After interrupting Hu Nianzu's words, Chen Moran continued.

"Xianglin, Assistant Manager Liu of Lihe Foreign Bank told me that there is now a batch of ready-made steel plant equipment, if we are willing to buy it, it only takes one year for the steel plant to produce iron and steel!"

"Oh! There is such a good thing! ”

Hu Nianzu was stunned, looking at Chen Moran in surprise, but saw Chen Moran hand him a document.

"In this way, an Italian iron and steel company has used loans to order five 100,000-ton and four 150,000-ton iron-making blast furnaces, a 600-ton iron-mixing furnace, two 100-ton steel-making open-hearth furnaces, three 40-ton steelmaking open-hearths, and two 100-ton Siemens refining furnaces. Tower benzene distillate, 25000kw generator set and other equipment, the main equipment is produced by Krupp, Madeke, Siemens, Telefunken! ”

When Chen Moran spoke, Hu Nianzu began to look at the documents left by Liu Shilun, all of which were explained in German.

"Those Italians invested 86 million gold lira in an attempt to make Italy a steel powerhouse! It's a pity that creation makes people! Later, their steel plant was not completed, but the German companies had already produced a batch of equipment, and if we wanted, we could buy this batch of ......."

Hu Nianzu, who was looking at the documents, raised his head and looked at Chen Moran, and the fanaticism in his eyes almost didn't startle Chen Moran.

"Chairman, if you want to be the steel king of Asia!"

Hu Nianzu swallowed his saliva violently as he spoke, his eyes looked directly at Chen Moran, and the fanaticism in his tone was revealed.

"Then we not only have to buy this batch of equipment that has been manufactured, it is best to complete the contract of the Italians, this contract is only left for half a year, the German company has completed nearly half of the contract, as long as we take over this contract, within two years, we can establish a large-scale steel enterprise of one million tons by the Yangtze River, once it is completed, it will be thirty Hanyang, and twenty Yaman Iron Works will not be able to catch up with us! At that time, Ma'anshan will really be the world's most powerful factory in Asia! ”

Unfolding the document in his hand, Hu Nianzu seemed to point to one of the pages feverishly.

"Chairman, these equipment are all the most advanced smelting equipment in the world, iron-making blast furnace tons of coke than 860 kilograms, this number is not only far lower than Hanyang, Yawata, than Britain and the United States and other large blast furnaces are still 10% lower, steel mill equipment is more up-to-date large motor direct transmission equipment, its efficiency is far more than Hanyang, Yawata and countries generally use steam, motor axis transmission equipment can be compared, not only can produce rails, is special-shaped steel, building wire, thick sheets, seamless steel pipes can be produced, The Italians are short-sighted to abandon such modern steel mills! ”

Compared with Hu Nianzu's fanaticism, Chen Moran was not infected by him, but frowned and pondered, this modern steel mill is indeed tempting, but in the same way, the expenditure is a little too large, and the sales of the steel plant's products are also limited.

Hu Nianzu, who had calmed down a little, saw Chen Moran's frowning slightly, and vaguely guessed what he was worried about.

"Is the chairman worried about the sales of steel after the completion of the steel mill?"

Chen Moran nodded, no matter how high the production capacity of the steel plant is, it can't be sold after refining it, and in the end it is still a loss-making business, and this bite can't be eaten by a fat man.

"Last year, after Nian Zu explored the iron ore, he was in the last line in Liu, Guangxu 26 years, my Qing Dynasty imported steel metal worth 8.65 million taels, the same year said that the imported steel amounted to 24.16 million yuan, said that the country has so far built 5,600 kilometers of railways, only need to replace more than 100,000 tons of rails per year, and China's large-scale construction of railways has been sworn to inevitable, these two major markets need nearly one million tons of steel per year, and the Russians built the Trans-Siberian Railway, the rails required are millions of tons, and the steel used to lay rails in the northeast and other placesIn addition to the country's own transportation, it is still necessary to purchase from Britain, France, Germany and the United States, if my steel mill is completed when it can compete for this order, not to mention the annual output of Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Plant of one million tons, it is doubled, and there is no worry about sales. ”

Looking at the impulsive person in front of him, although he knew that there were many unknown political factors in the markets he said, when his words fell, Chen Moran shrugged his shoulders and showed a helpless expression.

"Well, even if there is this market by then, then there is a question, the Italians have spent 86 million lire to buy these equipment, how much do we need to invest! That's a lot of money! ”

Industrialists are very stingy, and it can be seen at a critical time that Chen Moran may have opened a "banknote printing factory", but 86 million lirah is a huge sum of more than 20 million US dollars, although Catherine's bank, in addition to converting tens of millions of US dollars in banknotes into silver or gold coins and transporting them back to China, has also transferred more than 20 million huge sums to US and Philippine banks, and in the past few months, the equipment, machinery, and even building materials ordered from foreign banks have been transferred from US banks.

Although Catherine never asked about the source of her dollar bills, but the more than 40 million gold coin bills, national bank bills and green backs that she printed from one dollar to $100 have approached the safety limit, and the circulation of national bank bills and green backs is only about 4 billion, and the gold coin bills are only a few hundred million.

If he took out half of the money to run this iron factory, Chen Moran really didn't have that much courage, it was not courage but risk.

"However, the fact that the Italians spent 86 million lire does not mean that we have to spend that much money!"

Hu Nianzu took a deep breath, raised his head and looked at Chen Moran, it was his dream to run a large-scale steel enterprise.

"According to the international standard, Italy needs to pay at least 30% of the deposit, with the progress of equipment manufacturing, pay the rest of the order money month by month, the Italian should have actually paid more than 50% of the deposit, after its default, even if the two parties reach an understanding, the contractor will not be less than 30% of the deposit for breach of contract, if we negotiate directly with the German company, we can complete all the orders of the Italians in exchange, and ask for succession, rather than recontracting."

Hu Nianzu, who could not hide his excitement, looked at Chen Moran and continued.

"For German companies, it seems that it is a loss to accept this suggestion, after all, we buy some of its completed machinery and equipment, at most only about 10% cheaper than the market price, but it cannot be compared with the completion of all the equipment in Italy, for them, even if the base price of the Italian contract is 20%, it is also profitable, one is the Italian liquidated damages as a guarantee, and the other is to complete the Italian contract, these German companies have purchased a large number of materials in advance, and after the Italians breached the contract, all these materials are backlogged in the warehouses of German companies. The backlog of raw material costs has even exceeded the penalty for breach of contract, and the continued completion of the contract, even if it is a concession, can still ensure that the German company can obtain more profits than the original contract. ”

When Chen Moran slowly sat up from the sofa, Hu Nianzu looked at him, Xiao Xinren also looked at him, looking forward to his answer, the air in the room seemed to be frozen, Hu Nianzu's words moved Xiao Xinren, he looked at Chen Moran who was speechless, and reminded him softly on the side.

"Silently, this has been said, in the future, our automobile factory, a year to build 100,000 or even a million cars, then the whole United States, and even the whole world will run our cars, indeed, we all understand the truth that speed is not reached, but the million-ton steel plant is indeed the need of a strong country, once these steel mills are completed, they can immediately turn the fact that China's steel falls in Europe and the United States, not to mention the steel power, not to mention, even ......"

Xiao Xinren turned his head to look at Hu Nianzu, and swallowed back the words when he came to his mouth, some words can't be said in front of Hu Nianzu, Hu Nianzu has a lot to do with Liu Kunyi, not to mention that the fewer people who know that kind of thing, the better.

Decades ago, people founded a modern blast furnace iron plant, but also put forward the name of "steel is the country", steel is the mother of modern industry, guns and artillery manufacturing need steel, the railway needs steel, build machines need steel, shipbuilding also needs steel, even if you build a house and build a factory with the need for steel, no steel is no industry, however, you once said that chasing Britain and the United States started with the car, but there is no steel without the car, this ideal you still understand! ”

From beginning to end, when they spoke, Chen Moran did not say a word, just looked out the window, in the final analysis, it is still silver, if he runs this iron factory, plus the future automobile factory, plus a series of supporting factories such as machinery, I am afraid that his family will really be hollowed out at that time, if he really runs the iron factory, I am afraid it is equivalent to taking out half of the money originally scheduled to run Pudong.

Running a factory is always more profitable without developing real estate, and the factory may not be able to recover the investment within three or five years, and the real estate in Pudong may even be able to recover all the investment within two or three years.

“…… You only get one chance! And if this steel mill is completed, we can take advantage of it."

Xiao Xinren's words just made Chen Moran sigh in his heart, the steel mill is an opportunity, and Pudong is not an opportunity.

On the one hand, it is the silver that will really flow into his pocket, and on the other hand, it is indeed the foundation of a strong country as Xiao Xinren said, which of the two is more important, Chen Moran began to weigh it in his heart, according to the original intention, he preferred to hold Pudong, he thought that he was very realistic, and he could not control his temptation in the face of silver, but at this time, on this issue, it was difficult to make a decision for a while.

Standing up, Chen Moran walked towards the window, walked a few steps and then stopped, then returned to the sofa, swallowed his saliva violently, pressed the cigar into the ashtray fiercely, and then looked at the two of them.

"Xianglin, you go to Germany in person, talk to those companies, as long as the price is two percent lower than Italy, or even one or five percent, we will run this steel plant, and I will build the largest steel plant in China and Asia!"

After saying this, ignoring the surprised and admiring gazes raised by Xiao Xinren and Hu Nianzu, Chen Moran sat on the sofa softly, holding the plaster leg with his hand, and his lost eyes turned to the window, he even saw the hundreds of millions of taels of silver flying away from his pocket, and his heart was difficult to calm down for a while.

When Hu Nianzu was about to say something, Chen Moran waved his hand as if he was dejected, and then looked at Hu Nianzu and Xiao Xinren, they let themselves buy a factory! Chen Moran, who originally wanted to hold on to the bottom anymore, really couldn't hold it anymore.

"Okay, Xianglin, you quickly pack up your things, select a few people from the company to go to Germany with you, as for Ma'anshan and Huainan, you don't have to worry for the time being, the mining experts hired by the company through foreign banks will go from the United States to Shanghai in these two days, and there is no problem on both sides."

The reason why he said this was actually because Chen Moran was afraid that he would regret it if he was not strong-willed for a while, after all, Pudong was the real money that could be made without losses, and the only thing that could be hoped for now was that Huang Huiyun could get enough silver for himself to come back, which was really not good...... Chen Moran's eyes suddenly lit up, and the company still had a sum of money to move. The railway, if it is really not good, will not build the railway for the time being, use the ship to transport coal, for the railway can prepare a huge sum of 10 million yuan, although the money invested in Pudong can not catch up with the tens of millions of yuan originally used in Pudong, if a part of the additional bonds are issued, the effect may not be as good as in the past, but at least the silver can still fall into his pocket.

People's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants, even until now, Chen Moran has not been able to overcome the greed in his heart, or he has no intention of overcoming it at all, but chooses to obey his inner **, no matter what**.

After Hu Nianzu left, Xiao Xinren looked at Chen Moran with a smile and said with a smile.

"However, from knowing you until now, this is the first time I have seen your heartache!"

"Nonsense, not raised, my silver is not blown by the wind, nor does I have a gold mountain silver vault at home, as soon as this steel factory is opened, my Chen lame man will be really lame!"

Saying this, I felt a pity in my heart, and at the same time began to think about what banknotes to print next, and the plate-making rollers set by Congli and foreign banks had arrived last month, and it was time to make up for the deficit once.

"It's lame, as soon as the steel mill is put into operation, won't the silver come back!"

Xiao Xinren grinned, and took out a cigar from the cigar box in front of Chen Moran.

"The Year of the Monkey!"

Chen Moran shook his head, it is obviously impossible to recover the cost of the steel mill in the short term, among the few factories he ran, only the paper mill last week, finally made a business, or the business with the Commercial Press, in which he has a stake, the printing factory workers are still in training, and now the silver is spent in large sums of money, not to mention that there is no input, which is slowly like speculating in stocks, and his net worth has fallen into it.

"Weiyang, you put other things aside for the time being, whether it is an iron mine or a coal mine, the place is not quiet, you start to prepare, we have to build a mine protection team first!"

Nuo is in the past, Chen Moran will not be as eager as now, but now it is different, it is not guaranteed until the second half of the year, after the opening of banks, automobile factories, iron factories, and Pudong, his net worth will be exhausted, and it is impossible to leave at that time, so he is worried that his family business will be robbed, it is better to prepare in advance.

"Mine Guard?"

"Yes, it is the mine protection team, Huainan Coal Mine, Ma'anshan Iron Mine are located in a remote area, in the name of anti-bandit, anti-theft, to the Anhui governor's invitation, these days from our engineering team picked out two hundred people, back to pull them to Huainan and Ma'anshan, then it will be an expansion, pull out two two or three thousand people mine protection team is no problem!"

Chen Moran smiled slightly, a chill flashed in his eyes, and his hands were clenched into fists.

"From now on, I, Chen Moran, have no way out, if they ...... Hello, I'm good, everyone, but if there is really that day, whoever reaches out to me, they don't think that I, a lame man, will obediently obey, on the contrary, at that time, although I will not fight with them, but it will also stir up the Qing Dynasty upside down, let's hold these two treasure mountains, and we have to hold the things next to it. ”

Standing up and leaning on crutches, Chen Moran walked to the window and looked at the scenery outside. He lit the cigar he was holding when he got up, and turned to look at Xiao Xinren.

"I believe that I don't know how many people want to hit us now, they don't know that I'm a lame man with hard bones, whoever wants to put his mouth here, he has to see if their teeth are bad first!"

(Finally, Chen Moran was forced to go on a road by his big appetite, whether he was happy or not, whether he liked the revolution or not, he always had to do something for his industry, or that sentence, good teeth, good appetite!) I hope the protagonist's appetite is getting better and better, and so is the tooth mouth! Compared with the excitement in the discussion area of small citizens in the past, it seems that Manjianghong is a little more deserted, and please give some opinions to the speechless in the discussion area or group, and the speechless will definitely listen to it with an open mind! ）

(To be continued)