Chapter 44 Site selection and factory construction
Now the Zhao family has really taken out 150,000 taels of silver in cash, although this 150,000 is not much, but it is also the largest amount that the Zhao family can raise in a short period of time.
"In addition to the 150,000 taels I brought from home, plus the 10,000 taels of cash you took out from the Baoding Mansion, a total of 160,000 taels of silver were invested in the Fuyuan Yarn Factory, so that the share capital of the Fuyuan Yarn Factory will be divided into four rooms of my Zhao family!" Zhao Chenliang said: "Of course, the big head is still your three-room side, accounting for seventy percent of the shares, the big house accounts for one percent of the shares, my side of the three-room accounts for seven shares, and the fourth room accounts for one percent of the shares." ”
With the other heads of the Zhao family invested money together, Fuyuan Yarn Factory has become the Zhao family's share, although the previous share price of 200,000 taels of Fuyuan Yarn Factory has been considered a lot higher, but in the share distribution of Fuyuan Yarn Factory, the share distribution of the Zhao family's four rooms is not strictly in accordance with the capital share capital of their respective positions, but favors Zhao Dongyun's side, the reason is very simple, because Zhao Dongyun is the guarantee of the development and expansion of Fuyuan Yarn Factory, and it is also the biggest guarantee for the establishment of Fuyuan Yarn Factory. The investment in other houses can simply take out the money, which can be regarded as a hitchhiker.
When Fuyuan Yarn Factory absorbed as much as 160,000 taels of silver in cash, it was still far from enough to control the controlling stake of Fuyuan Machinery Factory, so Zhao Dongyun directly mortgaged many equipment and factories in Fuyuan Yarn Factory, and borrowed 80,000 taels from Hong Xuwei's Dingsheng ticket number, and 70,000 taels from Zhou Xuexi's Tianjin Guanyin number.
In this way, Fuyuan Yarn Factory has made up enough 310,000 taels of cash, although this figure is not half of the expected total share capital, but the investment can not be calculated in this way, because it is Fuyuan Yarn Factory that first set up Fuyuan Machinery Factory, and if the descendants want to invest, it is not to say how much shares will be given, but to talk about them one by one, and when absorbing investment, it is a premium absorption.
For example, when the total share capital is only 1 million taels, you can only get 40 percent or even less of the shares if you invest 500,000 taels of silver, and you can't get 50 percent of the shares.
As a result, after absorbing 530,000 cash investment, Fuyuan Yarn Factory only paid 57 percent of the shares, and Fuyuan Yarn Factory still controlled 43 percent of the shares, although less than half of the shares were left, but Fuyuan Yarn Factory was still the largest shareholder of Fuyuan Machinery Factory.
The second largest shareholder is the Dingsheng ticket number under the name of Hong Xuwei, who has invested 100,000 yuan and occupies 10% of the shares, and the shares held by the remaining other shareholders are in single digits, and it is worth noting that although more than 20 senior officials in Beiyang only took a few thousand or tens of thousands each, they added up to more than 80,000 taels, although the money invested was much less than the Dingsheng ticket number, but they accounted for 10% of the shares.
So in less than a month, the Fuyuan machine has already collected more than 800,000 yuan in cash, and at this time they have not even determined the address of the factory!
The fund-raising of the Fuyuanji factory can be said to be the most rapid fund-raising in China in recent years, and in less than a month, it has pulled down more than 800,000 taels of silver, and the sufficient cash has also greatly increased the speed of the construction of the Fuyuanji factory.
The first batch of contracts included a complete set of production equipment for 50 Type 88 rifles per day, a production line for 25,000 7.92 mm round bullet Mauser rifle cartridges per day, both of which were old, and a new production line of 300 pounds per day for smokeless gunpowder. In addition to these large equipment, we also purchased raw materials for making guns and bullets.
In addition to the introduction of materials, in fact, the employment of technical personnel is also a big project, in order to allow these equipment to be installed and produced smoothly in China, Lihe Foreign Bank promises to hire relevant technical experts to work in China for a certain period of time, of course, the high salary has to be paid by the Fuyuan Machinery factory.
The machine has been decided, but the site has not been selected at this time, and this is not something that Zhao Dongyun can decide alone, because in essence, this Fuyuan machine factory is a Beiyang collective enterprise, and it must serve the Beiyang Group from the military and politics, so the location problem has to be considered from the height of the entire Beiyang.
At the beginning, Yuan Shikai said that it could be built in Dezhou, saying that Dezhou was deep inland, which could avoid the military strikes of foreign powers, and at the same time, because of the storage of the canal, the transportation was also more convenient.
However, it was rejected by several executives of the machine factory, and their reason was that the new transportation plant must be selected in an area with convenient transportation, shipping and railway, preferably in Tianjin, of course, if Tianjin is not good, Beijing and Tangshan can barely be used, or simply choose to go to Baoding or Shijiazhuang, anyway, do not go to Texas.
In that small place in Texas, to be honest, there is no geographical advantage of running a large-scale military industrial enterprise, even if it will be better to have railway transportation in the future, but it will be many years later, and it is not yet that time. A large part of the reason why Yuan Shikai chose this place is that it is located in the middle of Shandong and Zhili, and Shandong and Zhili are his old nests, and Dezhou is his old territory, and building there can reassure him.
In the end, after arguing for a few days, seeing that the equipment had already begun to be shipped in Germany, it was naturally impossible to even choose a factory site, so in the end, Yuan Shikai still considered the commercialization practice and said that it could be set up in Tangshan.
In fact, for Zhao Dongyun, in fact, there is no problem in setting up in Tianjin or Tangshan, he knows that the landing of the Eight-Nation Alliance in Tianjin will not happen again, at least not until history has not changed much, and if China does not fight with all the powers, then the safety of the arsenal can still be guaranteed.
However, Tianjin has too many concessions, so in the end, Tangshan, which has convenient transportation, was finally chosen, and relying on the Tangjin Railway, it could efficiently import equipment and raw materials and transport finished munitions abroad.
In addition, Tangshan has a lot of coal, which is still better for an arsenal that consumes more coal, and Zhao Dongyun is also considering the establishment of an affiliated steel mill, which is also convenient to be close to the coal-producing area at that time.
After the site of the factory was selected, the things on the side of the Fuyuanji factory were almost done, and although the rest of the factory construction matters were cumbersome, there was no need for Zhao Dongyun to worry about anything, so naturally a group of people from the Fuyuanji factory would deal with it, otherwise it would cost so much money to hire them to do something.
"You don't care if you invest so much money, don't you have to worry about it?" Fang Ruolian said as she cut the chilled watermelon into slices, and then forked a piece of watermelon flesh with a fork to Zhao Dongyun's hand.
And Zhao Dongyun was like a big man, lying on the recliner, taking a bite of the chilled watermelon and saying, "It's really hot this summer!" ”
Fang Ruolian was annoyed that he changed the topic, so she didn't hand him the watermelon, but ate it by herself, and the watermelon flesh cut into small slices entered her mouth one by one, and it didn't take long to finish eating those on the table, Zhao Dongyun, who was lying down, hurriedly turned over and sat up, and on the last few remaining pieces of watermelon meat, he said while eating: "You are too inauthentic, what are you doing eating so fast!" ”
Fang Ruolian smiled!
Since Zhao Dongyun broke into her room on a dark and windy night a month ago, she didn't know what was wrong, she seemed to have forgotten about her resistance, and even more forgot about the God who had been thinking about her in her heart, as if it was so natural that she seemed to live with him unconsciously.
Is this like being in love? She didn't know, but she was sure that it wasn't the kind of love in books, because he hadn't even said a gentle word to her, let alone those who liked it, loved it or not, and she didn't have any heartwarming or blushing like the ones mentioned in the book.
So she was also confused by the relationship between herself and Zhao Dongyun, but although she was a little confused about the relationship between the two now, she still liked the current feeling.
"It's getting dark, let's go, go back to the house!" Although the summer night comes later, it will still come, and although it is cool in the yard, there are many mosquitoes and they are big, and it is not good to stay for a long time.
As he spoke, he had already stood up, then bent down and leaned over to Fang Ruolian, and then picked her up by the waist, causing her to scream, but Zhao Dongyun didn't care about her struggles, and directly carried her back to the house, and then went straight to the bedroom upstairs, and then there were bursts of laughter upstairs, but it didn't take long for the laughter to turn into moans.
Steward Xu downstairs closed the door with a sigh, and said for a long time: "It's not okay to always mess around like this, it seems that I have to send a telegram to the old lady in Xuzhou!" ”
Steward Xu's action was still fast, and the next day he sent a telegram to his hometown in Xuzhou, and then Zhao's mother heard that her son was messing around with other wild women who came out of nowhere in Baoding, and they lived together without a name or a point, so she immediately sent a telegram with very strict wording to Baoding.
reprimanded Zhao Dongyun fiercely, but Zhao's mother didn't learn from those traditional parents to give him an engagement or something like that, but sent a telegram to Zhao Chenliang, who was in Baoding, to find a suitable woman to marry.
It's just that Zhao Dongyun is now a middle and high-level official in Beiyang, and his marriage is often equivalent to another word: marriage. And there are really not many people who are qualified to marry Zhao Dongyun, and there are even fewer people who have suitable daughters among these few people, anyway, after Zhao Chenliang inquired around in Baoding, he found that there were really not many choices, so he had no choice but to expand the range of choices, and finally in the case of finding a needle in the big net, he really let him find a few suitable marriage partners-
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