Xiao Zhenlei said with a smile: "Don't worry, my lord, I know what you think, according to the current production scale of Han Yeping due to the problems of the previous terms and conditions are subject to the Japanese, you want to use the method of expanding the scale of production to get out of the control of the Japanese, I understand this, originally now Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant only needs 30,000 or 40,000 tons of coking coal every year, and it is enough to purchase from the Japanese, but due to the constraints of the terms of the contract, the Japanese say how much is how much in the price, which makes Han Yeping Company suffer a big loss. However, in the contract you signed with the Japanese, the price of repaying the iron ore of Daye Iron Mine to the Japanese as the principal and interest of the loan was fixed, 3 yen per ton for first-class ore and 2.2 yen per ton for second-class ore, and the price of the ore was agreed once every 10 years. And you can't repay the cash, you can only repay the principal and interest with ore, I really can't figure out, why did you sign such unfair terms to yourself at that time, my lord! If Hanyeping Company expands its production scale, it will need far more than 30,000 or 40,000 tons of coking coal, except for 30,000 or 40,000 tons that must be purchased from Japan, the rest can be purchased from other countries, so that the coking coal will not be controlled by the Japanese, and if a new ironmaking plant is put into operation, the iron ore it needs may not even be able to meet its own needs, so it will be impossible to sell it to the Japanese, then the conspiracy of the Japanese to control Daye Iron Mine and use Daye Iron Mine as an iron ore base will be bankrupt, Master Shan, I'm not wrong, right? But have you ever thought about it? Even I can see your intentions, but the Japanese can't see it? Will they have no new moves? ”

Sheng Xuanhuai listened to Xiao Zhenlei's words, broke out in a cold sweat, and said coldly: "Then you came here today to sue the old man, do you see the old man's plan?" ”

"Of course not. Now that Han Yeping Company is a commercial company, if you don't want it to continue to lose money. If you are swallowed up by the Japanese in the end, sell me your stake in this company! ”

Sheng Xuanhuai smiled angrily: "Ha." I think you're dreaming! Someone, send off! ”

Xiao Zhenlei got up and said with a smile: "My lord, I hope you will think about it, if you change your mind, you can send someone to Zhenhua Company to find me and bid your leave!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei knew very well that Sheng Xuanhuai's idea of offering 20 million yuan to merchants was basically impossible to realize, and in the next few days, Hanyeping Company held the first shareholders' meeting as scheduled. Sheng Xuanhuai proposed at the general meeting of shareholders to build a new iron-making plant near Daye Iron Mine, to raise 20 million yuan, this proposal was unanimously approved by the shareholders, and the shareholders could not disagree, because Sheng Xuanhuai's current official position is the right attendant of the Zhengerpin Postal Department, although nominally it is said that Han Yeping Company has been completely changed from an official supervision and commercial office to a commercial company, but it is limited to Sheng Xuanhuai's identity, who among the shareholders dares to oppose his proposal? He is a high-ranking official of Zheng Erpin, and the shareholders are just flat-headed businessmen. Don't you want to get mixed up with his mention? Therefore, at the shareholders' meeting, his proposal was unanimously approved, and the matter was settled, but the matter of offering 20 million yuan was slow. Let the original shareholders pay money, they will definitely not do it, then the money can only be recruited from outside businessmen.

It will cost less than 20 million yuan to build a new iron-making plant, and at most 8 or 9 million yuan. As for the extra money, Sheng Xuanhuai must have other uses. Even if you want to recruit, it is not easy to get 80,000 or 90,000 commercial stocks. After the outside world learned about this, the businessmen reacted merely, and the IPO proceeded slowly.

Xiao Zhenlei has been waiting for Sheng Xuanhuai's reply, but Sheng Xuanhuai doesn't seem to be moved at all, not only continues to raise shares from the outside world, but also doesn't send people to reject him. If this is the case, Xiao Zhenlei can only feel regretful, but as long as Sheng Xuanhuai borrows from the Japanese again and no longer falls for the Japanese tricks, the Japanese can only control the mining work of Daye Iron Mine, and cannot occupy Daye Iron Mine, and Hanyeping Company can barely maintain it.

Xiao Zhenlei originally planned that if he could buy the largest stake in Hanyeping Company, he would not need to build a separate steel company. His plan is actually the same as Sheng Xuanhuai, after buying Han Yeping, he will expand the scale of production, and at the same time look for an iron ore raw material base, and so on to let Han Yeping Company get out of the supervision of the Japanese, Sheng Xuanhuai did this in history, but Sheng Xuanhuai did not recruit enough business shares, I don't know why he borrowed from the Japanese again, of course the Japanese were willing, so that they could put forward new conditions, and the contract signed later really caused Han Yeping to be completely accused by the Japanese.

But Xiao Zhenlei knew that he was too wishful thinking, and if Sheng Xuanhuai didn't agree, he really didn't have anything to do, and Sheng Xuanhuai was not something he could deal with now.

If you can buy coal from Pingxiang Coal Mine, you can also buy iron ore from Daye Iron Mine, if you can't buy coking coal from foreign countries, buy scrap steel and iron ore from foreign countries for steelmaking, first put the shelf up, you don't need much output in the early stage, as long as you can maintain the steel needed to make guns and guns for the army and maintain the Zhenhua Company. As far as he knows, there are coal mines and iron mines in Jiangsu, and he also knows the location of the vein mine, although the reserves are not very large, but as long as they can meet the needs of the iron and steel company, it is completely fine.

Now more than 80% of the world's steel is made from open-hearth furnaces, and open-hearth steelmaking is also the mainstream technology, but the manufacturing process of open-hearth furnaces is complex, and it seems impossible to produce them by themselves, so the only way is to go to Western countries to buy one, and after buying back, the structure of the steelmaking furnace will be studied clearly, and then make it yourself, and see if it can be improved in the process of use.

To buy a steel-making furnace, Xiao Zhenlei decided to find the German Bauer, who has a wide range of paths, and Germany's technological blockade of China is not as strict as that of Britain and other countries. Xiao Zhenlei hadn't seen Wang Yanan and Cheng Baguio for several days, and he went to see Bao Er this time and decided to take the two girls with him, taking care of himself and doing his business. You can also spend time with both of them, and you can go to lunch with them after talking to Ball.

Bauer, the manager of Lihe Foreign Bank, was very happy with Xiao Zhenlei's arrival. Every time Xiao Zhenlei comes to him, he will bring a lot of business, which is the reason why he is happy when he sees Xiao Zhenlei. In his eyesight, Xiao Zhenlei is completely a gold owner.

"Ha, Mr. Xiao, it seems that I haven't seen you for a few months, I heard that you have recently mixed with the army, and it seems to be doing well, I think you must have come to buy arms from me this time, right?" Bauer greeted Xiao Zhenlei with a happy face, when he saw Wang Yanan and Cheng Baguio beside Xiao Zhenlei. There was more of a smile on his face, "Oh my God, who do I see?" Aren't these our most beautiful Miss Wang and Miss Cheng? Hello young ladies and young ladies, it's an honor to see you again, please come to my office for a drink! ”

When he came to Bauer's office, Bauer poured a cup of coffee for each of them, and he himself held a cup of coffee and chatted with Xiao Zhenlei and the others.

He babbled, "Oh, Xiao. I remember that you were just a small commander for more than a month, how did you become the standard of an army in such a short period of time? You must know that the standard commander is equivalent to the regiment commander in our Germany, you really make me envious, I think I was also a soldier back then. It's a pity that I was discharged from the army after just getting mixed up with a sergeant at that time, what a pity! ”

Xiao Zhenlei shrugged his shoulders: "No way, because I'm too handsome." You know that in our country, being handsome is also one of the capitals for promotion! ”

Xiao Zhenlei's self-ridicule immediately attracted the two women to join forces to besiege him, and Wang Yanan gave him a blank look: "Nonsense." How did I not know that being handsome is also one of the capitals for promotion? You're all making it up! ”

"Yes, I think you're stinky!" Cheng Baguio also said with a delicate look.

Bauer was also amused by Xiao Zhenlei. He didn't know that Xiao Zhenlei was joking at first, and he didn't see it until the two women besieged Xiao Zhenlei.

"Hahaha, you three are funny, oh, I envy you!" Bauer looked at Xiao Zhenlei with envy, and then remembered the matter, "Xiao, let's say, how many weapons are you going to ask for this time?" I'm totally available for any of your needs! He waved his hand, very arrogant.

Seeing Bauer talking about 4 business, Cheng Baguio and Wang Yanan stopped messing with Xiao Zhenlei, and sat beside him obediently drinking coffee, Xiao Zhenlei put down the coffee cup and said with a smile: "Bauer, this time I'm really not for the arms business, the arms of our army have been allocated, most of them are from the Hanyang Arsenal, although I really want to buy you, but you know what the top gave me, I can't do without, unless I don't want to be the commander of this army!" ”

Bauer couldn't help but be a little disappointed, the look of disappointment was on his face, and he asked again: "Then you didn't just want to talk to me this time, oh God, I don't want to see you three flirting here!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei smiled and said, "Okay, I did bring you a lot of business this time, but I don't know if you can do it!" ”

It's a fool not to do business, as long as there is a copper plate profit, Bauer believes that he can break his leg for this profit, who calls him a businessman? He hurriedly said, "What business?" Let's talk about it first? ”

Xiao Zhenlei lit a cigarette and took a few puffs and said: "I was thinking about building a new steel company recently, and I originally planned to buy Han Yeping Company directly, but our dear Sheng Da didn't want to sell it to me, he would rather let this company continue to lose money, no way, since he refused to buy it, I had to build a steel company by myself, you know that you need to buy a steelmaking furnace to build a steel company, do you have any way in this regard?" ”

Bauer's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he hurriedly said: "Xiao, if you want to buy a steelmaking furnace, you are definitely looking for the right person, don't you know that some of the bosses above me are engaged in the production industry, if you hand over the business of buying a steelmaking furnace to me, I can definitely buy back the world's most advanced steelmaking furnace!" ”

Xiao Zhen said solemnly: "Dear Bauer, you should be clear about my temper, this time I don't want old goods, I want a brand new steelmaking furnace, as far as I know, now that all countries have generally adopted open-hearth steelmaking, I don't want to buy a converter that is very limited by raw materials!" ”

Indeed, today's Western countries, including Japan, have basically abandoned the converter steelmaking, and generally use the open-hearth steelmaking, the earliest use of open-hearth steelmaking is the Frenchman Martin, so the open-hearth steelmaking method is also known as Martin furnace, the open-hearth steelmaking method and the converter steelmaking method at that time have the following characteristics: first, a large number of scrap steel can be used, and the ratio of pig iron and scrap steel is flexible; Second, the requirements for the composition of molten iron are not as strict as those of converters, and ordinary pig iron that cannot be used in converters can be used; Third, there are more steel grades that can be refined than converters, and the quality is better. Therefore, the alkaline open-hearth steelmaking method has been widely used by various countries since its advent and has become the world's main steelmaking method. It was not until the sixties that this steelmaking method was replaced by oxygen converters and electric furnaces.

Bauer shrugged his shoulders and said: "Okay, you are a person who understands the current situation of the development of industrial technology in the world very well, this is really rare in your Great Qing Kingdom, I really don't know how you know so much, don't worry, open-hearth steelmaking is not high-tech in various countries, I can reply to you now, if you give me this order, I promise to get you the best open-hearth, how big do you want to buy open-hearth?" ”

Xiao Zhenlei thought for a while and said, "At least it's bigger than the open-hearth furnace of Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant!" In addition, I may have to go to Germany to see the sample to be sure, I can give you the order, but I want to go to Germany to see the sample! ”

It doesn't matter if Bauer can get the order, as for whether Xiao Zhenlei wants to go to Germany to see the sample, it is not a problem at all, "No problem, on behalf of our Lihe Foreign Bank, I would like to extend a warm welcome to you to Germany, if you go to Germany and can buy more factory products, we will be even happier!" ”

You have to find a reason to go to Germany, Xiao Zhenlei pondered for a moment and said: "Bauer, you know that I am now the standard of the forty-six standards, there is no special reason, I can't leave the station and China without permission, this time I went back to Shanghai Beach or sneaked back, so I hope you can think of a way for me to find a reason to go to Germany enough without causing my boss to be dissatisfied!" ”

Bauer thought about it for a while, and quickly came up with a good solution, he said: "I have a friend in the German Ministry of Defense, I sent him a telegram, asking him to send you an invitation in the name of military exchanges, I think with this reason, your boss should not be dissatisfied with your departure from the station and China, right?" ”

“ok！” Xiao Zhenlei was very satisfied, "That's it!" (To be continued......)