Zhao Chenbin looked at the telegram in his hand, and couldn't help but admire Zhao Dongyun again, what was almost impossible for others came to Zhao Dongyun's hands, as if it had become extremely easy.

Commercial Arsenal, looking at China, this is the only one!

It's just that this arsenal, which has no personnel, plants, equipment, and funds for the time being, is ready to be established in a purely commercial way, but to be honest, it is not a pure commercial enterprise.

His sponsor Zhao Dongyun is a Beiyang officer who is a serious Beiyang officer, the minister of the imperial court, and the other existing shareholder is the boss of Beiyang: Yuan Shikai, not to mention that there will definitely be high-ranking officials and dignitaries of other Beiyang factions in the later stage.

Looking at China, there is no commercial enterprise with a more official background than this arsenal that is still in the pipeline.

Since Zhao Dongyun has solved the political obstacles, then Zhao Chenbin has no worries, as soon as he received Zhao Dongyun's telegram, he discussed the articles of the arsenal with a cadre of managers in the Fuyuan Yarn Factory, but when discussing this charter, in fact, Zhao Chenbin was just a spectator, and the main personnel were all foreigners......

Although this sounds a little embarrassing, it is true, the future arsenal is scheduled to adopt a Western-style enterprise management model, and Zhao Chenbin is not capable of coming up with the articles of association of a Western-style enterprise.

At the same time, Zhao Chenbin also conveyed Zhao Dongyun's meaning, that is, in the future, this military enterprise will transfer some administrative, business and other management personnel from Fuyuan Yarn Factory to serve in the new arsenal, which makes several foreign managers in Fuyuan Yarn Factory very excited.

Fuyuan Yarn Factory is just a yarn factory, but in fact the scale is very large, the total assets through guò two consecutive expansion, more than 200,000 taels of silver is not a problem, in addition to this yarn factory because it was opened by foreigners at the beginning, although it was subsequently acquired by Zhao Dongyun, but most of the middle and senior managers in the yarn factory are mostly foreigners, and the yarn factory also adopts the management model of modern Western enterprises.

Therefore, if Zhao Dongyun wants to set up an arsenal, he can completely transfer a large number of experienced senior management talents from Fuyuan Yarn Factory, and it can be easily solved from administrative management to financial supervision to sales and production. It's just that the above people are not technical talents but management talents, as for technical talents, Zhao Dongyun is planning to hire foreign technicians at the same time, but also to dig the corner of the Beiyang Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, now although the Beiyang Machinery Manufacturing Bureau said to be rebuilt, but it will take at least a few years to rebuild, and those skilled technicians can be used during this time period.

As for ordinary workers, it is enough to directly hire local farmers, and it will not take a few months to train thousands of industrial workers.

Soon, Zhao Chenbin went to Baoding to see Zhao Dongyun with a stack of company articles that he couldn't understand, and in the face of the thick stack of company articles of association, although Zhao Dongyun felt a little numb in his scalp, he still looked at it in detail.

The articles of association of this company were obviously written by foreigners who are familiar with China's national conditions, and in addition to integrating the modern western enterprise management system as much as possible, it also takes into account some of China's current national conditions, and does not blindly copy Western experience.

At least those terms such as board of directors, general manager, and financial director still look quite modern, but if you look deeper, in fact, this organizational system has a strong style of Fuyuan Yarn Factory, which is not strange, because the people who wrote this organizational charter are all managers of Fuyuan Yarn Factory, and it is strange that there is no style of Fuyuan Yarn Factory.

In addition to this articles of association, there is also a factory construction plan made by Dougel and other people from Fuyuan Yarn Factory, including a series of follow-up work such as fundraising, land selection, building factories, and installing equipment.

Of course, especially those written by laymen, these things can only be seen as a preliminary plan, and the content is relatively general, and the detailed plan in the later stage has to be done by someone in the arms industry or the aircraft industry.

But even though it's a general plan, it's dozens of pages!

Zhao Dongyun was dizzy when he saw it, and when he showed it to Yuan Shikai, Yuan Shikai looked at the thick pile of Wen Jiàn in front of him and scolded with a smile: "These foreigners, things that can be clearly explained in just three words have to be long." ”

Yuan Shikai naturally didn't go to see these hundreds of pages of Wen Jiàn in person, he chose a more straightforward way and directly threw Wen Jiàn to a few of his staff, giving them a headache, and then he talked to Zhao Dongyun while waiting.

"The articles of association are estimated to be no problem, if the method of building a factory according to the foreigners can really improve efficiency, you might as well use them!" Yuan Shikai knows the morality of government-run enterprises and even those domestic government-supervised and business-run enterprises, if it is carried out according to domestic methods, it is difficult to say whether this arsenal can be built, let alone reduce costs and improve efficiency, if the guns are produced with average quality and the price is more expensive than imported goods, he might as well directly import them on a large scale, and why should he support Zhao Dongyun to build an arsenal.

"Now that the charter is in place, the next step is to raise funds, how are you preparing here!" Yuan Shikai continued: "If it's not enough, I'll let Zhou Xuexi solve some of it, but the interest may be higher!" ”

Zhao Dongyun said secretly in his heart, if I was worried about the problem of funds before, but since Yuan Shikai said that you would also invest money in, I have not worried about the problem of funds, as long as you say your name, you will not worry about not being able to raise funds.

Immediately said: "In terms of money, I have asked my hometown to prepare, it is estimated that there will be more than 100,000 taels of silver, and all the investment in the early stage, in addition to the cost of equipment, the labor, plant, and raw materials in the early stage are not a small amount, adding up to six or seven hundred thousand taels of silver to start, and I plan to raise funds to raise shares for this part of the shortage, and if it is not enough, it is part of the loan!" ”

The overall problem of funds is not big, although Zhao Dongyun himself has no money, but there are more rich people in the Beiyang system, and those who can take out tens of thousands of taels of silver can grab a handful, and now Zhao Dongyun has to think about how to grasp the controlling stake.

When Yuan Shikai agreed to the company's articles of association and preliminary plan, Zhao Dongyun's action was very fast, and within a few days, the "Fuyuan Machine Qì Factory" was officially established on Victoria Road in the British Concession in Tianjin.

The name of Fuyuan machine qì factory is a direct borrowing of the word "Fuyuan", although it is a bit clichéd, but it is simple and easy to use, of course, the main thing is that this shows the subordination of the two. Because Zhao Dongyun did not directly invest in the establishment of the machine factory in the name of a private person, but invested in the name of Fuyuan Yarn Factory, this Fuyuan Machinery Factory belongs to Fuyuan Yarn Factory.

As for whether it is reasonable for a yarn mill to invest in the establishment of an arsenal, it is not a question for him to consider.

After the establishment of a listing, various administrative institutions were also quickly improved, the board of directors, the general manager, the chief financial officer were established one by one, and the main management personnel were also from the Fuyuan Yarn Factory, Zhao Chenbin is the chairman, and the general manager is Dougel, and the financial director is the external Englishman William, who was previously an accountant of Tianjin HSBC, was tempted by Zhao Chenbin's direct high annual salary, and Dougel was also persuaded on the side, so he plunged in.

There is also a chief engineer who is a German, who is rumored to be the former engineer of the Mauser Arsenal, anyway, the gift and foreign company that introduced him said so, as for whether it is true or false, only he knows it, but the truth is not to say, but the ability is still quite a set, just took office and got a complete set of factory construction plans for Zhao Dongyun, and this plan is much more perfect than the previous Douglal and others.

After all, these technical things let a group of people engaged in spinning to engage in military production, it is quite nonsense, management and finance are fine, the difference in large enterprises is not big, but when it comes to specific technology, professionals have to do it.

The newly established Fuyuan Machinery Qì Factory is also the same as Fuyuan Yarn Factory, except for Zhao Chenbin, the other executives are all foreigners!

In the eyes of later generations of Chinese people, this kind of personnel arrangement will definitely shout that the arsenal has fallen into the hands of foreigners, shout that Zhao Dongyun has betrayed the country, and so on.

But in fact, in recent years, it is common for foreigners to hold important positions in domestic factories and bureaus, and most of the other factories in Hubei Gun Factory and Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau have traces of foreigners, and this common phenomenon cannot rise to the height of the country and the nation.

As soon as the Fuyuan Machine was established, Zhao Dongyun couldn't wait to let the news out, and even found Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang, saying that if there is spare money and nowhere to spend, let's do business with my buddies! Of course, this process must be mentioned, and Yuan Shikai has joined in.

And this effect is even better than Zhao Dongyun imagined, he turned around in more than a dozen high-level Beiyang executives who had a good relationship, and he had already harvested almost 50,000 taels of silver, although most of them were funded for Yuan Shikai's sake, but this was enough to scare people.

You look at the list of shareholders, although all of them are unfamiliar names, but these names are all relatives and friends of today's core executives of Beiyang, through those unfamiliar names, you can see Yuan Shikai, Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang and others.

Of course, although tens of thousands of taels of silver can be collected from these officials, there is still a huge gap between the total number of seven or eight hundred thousand taels of silver, but it doesn't matter how much money Yuan Shikai, Duan Qirui and others invest, the important thing is that Zhao Dongyun needs their name.

As long as he takes out this list of secret shareholders, then it can be said that this Fuyuan Machinery Factory is no longer a simple commercial enterprise, but a commercial enterprise with a strong Beiyang background, and these names on the list are the guarantee of future profits.

Why?

In addition to the fact that these bigwigs on the list can save the Fuyuan Machine Qì Factory from being troubled and obstructed by the authorities, it is also enough to cut off all the black hands who are watching it. To put it bluntly, if anyone dares to attack the Fuyuan Machinery Factory, it will be against the entire Beiyang high-level system, and Yuan Shikai will definitely dare to take tens of thousands of Beiyang New Army to kill him.

In addition, the arms made by the arsenal must be sold, and the biggest buyer of this arsenal in the future must be Beiyang, and now Yuan Shikai, Duan Qirui and other Beiyang bigwigs are on the list of shareholders, which means that the products of Fuyuan Machinery Qì Factory will not be a problem to enter the Beiyang New Army.

In short, the future Fuyuan Machinery Factory is an enterprise that has a background that is not inferior to that of government-run enterprises, and has the flexibility of commercial enterprises, as well as an advanced Western-style management system.

And these things are to let Fuyuan Machinery Qì Factory have the guarantee of profits in the future, and when there is a guarantee of profits, and at the same time there is an opportunity to have a relationship with a large number of high-level officials in Beiyang, ordinary businessmen will inevitably be tempted.

How can ordinary businessmen have the opportunity to partner with Yuan Shikai and other Beiyang bigwigs on weekdays, but now the opportunity is in front of him, even if it is to invest tens of thousands of dollars in order to pull relations, not to mention that this is still an arms business that can make a lot of money.

So before the rumor was released, someone quietly came to the door!