Xia Han, who has experience in buying the bottom, once again acted as the commander-in-chief of the bottom-buying operation, and not long ago, the Anshan Iron and Steel Plant under his name underwent a complete change.

As the earliest and largest iron and steel enterprise in the three eastern provinces and even the whole country, Anshan Iron and Steel is also the only super-large enterprise with an annual output of more than one million tons of steel, and every move has attracted everyone's attention.

In this transformation, Zhang Tinglan completely merged his private shares, the original government shares, military shares, and some bank shares into state-owned shares, accounting for 40 percent of the steel plant, of the other 60 percent, Xia Han accounted for 20 percent, and the rest was held by various shareholders and companies.

After this reform, Angang's shares were completely clarified, and the problem of multi-headed management was also solved, and both the government and the military withdrew from the management field. Businessmen run their own business, and the risks and benefits are also borne by businessmen, and the government also looks at business operations as a shareholder.

Xia Han also knew at this time that the burden on his shoulders was heavier and he had more things to be responsible for, but at the same time, his freedom was also unprecedentedly enhanced, and he could use his fists and kicks as he wanted. So just before the reform was completely over, they went to the United States with a huge purchasing delegation.

The steel industry will always be an important indicator of a country's industrial strength and war potential, and it is also the focus of this procurement.

Their first stop was Pittsburgh, the headquarters of the famous U.S. Steel Company. As an industrial city, Pittsburgh's main theme is always rumbling and smoky.

Every winter, the snow falls, and if you grab a handful and melt it in the palm of your hand, it will be all black water. Thousands of workers are working in this air. I don't know how much PM2.5 will have......

It's just that the winter that has just passed was exceptionally cold, and even in the spring, the cold has not dissipated, on the contrary, it has become more serious. The rumbling factory stopped working, the black smoke in the sky disappeared, and I was finally able to breathe a breath of fresh air.

But the people of Pittsburgh no longer had that mind, the factories stopped, they lost their jobs, and thousands of people lost their livelihoods and slept on the streets. In the cold winter, I don't know how many homeless people died of hunger.

They tried every means to keep warm, and even stuffed newspapers into their shirts to keep out the slightest hint of cold wind. For the summer cold, Pittsburgh. U.S. Steel is a mythical behemoth.

American Steel was founded in 1901. It's not a long time. But there are two behemoths behind it, one is Carnegie Steel, and the other is the Morgan family.

It is precisely by relying on advanced management experience and sufficient capital supply that the U.S. Steel Company is like blowing up a balloon, rapidly inflating. Especially when it came to World War I. It was the golden time for the U.S. Steel Company, and in 1916, the annual output of the U.S. Steel Company reached 19 million tons!

What a number is that? Before World War I, Germany's national steel production was only 17.6 million tons. In other words, a company in the United States can overpower Germany! It is no wonder that Germany lost the war, and it was too difficult to challenge such a behemoth as the United States.

As for China's just cheering for an annual steel output of more than 5 million tons, compared to the United States, the difference is more than an order of magnitude!

When Xia Han saw the continuous factory area and the forest of factories, just such a huge scale, people couldn't help but exclaim, and the accompanying personnel were even more dumbfounded. Where is this still a factory, it is clearly a huge city!

"Don't be stupid, go your separate ways right away, show me which factories are worth buying, and be sure to get them back for me."

Seeing that these attachés ran over like hungry tigers, Xia Han also secretly clenched his fists: "Ten years, as long as it takes ten years, Lao Tzu can also establish a steel kingdom, a steel kingdom that is bigger than the American steel company!" ”

It took Xia Han a week for them to figure out the U.S. Steel Company, and this time they chose all the new equipment, and it was large. General small and medium-sized equipment can already be produced in China, although the United States is better, but China's industry also needs to develop, can not blindly rely on American equipment.

Therefore, the standard set by Xia Han is very clear, the blast furnace must be more than 500 cubic meters, preferably 1000 cubic meters, and the open hearth should also be about 50 tons or 100 tons. As long as these large-scale equipment are shipped back to China, China's steel industry can develop by leaps and bounds.

A 1,000 cubic meter blast furnace, a year to open full horsepower production, can produce 15 to 200,000 tons of pig iron, as long as more than 10 can be purchased, the domestic steel industry to break through the 10 million tons mark, just around the corner.

In fact, Zhang Tinglan has a more long-term plan, he knows very well that open-hearth steelmaking has been eliminated in later generations, and replaced by converters and electric furnaces.

The converter steelmaking efficiency is higher, the speed is faster, the quality is better, and the consumption is less, and the comprehensive economic benefits are more than two or three times that of the open-hearth. Using converter steelmaking, the core of the jishu is to blow oxygen, from the top, bottom, middle, mixed oxygen.

Although Zhang Tinglan doesn't understand specific things, there are so many engineers, as long as they have ideas, they will definitely be able to figure it out. The real trouble is the large-scale oxygen production jishu, which China cannot do yet.

However, Zhang Tinglan has arranged for people to buy equipment in Germany, hire talents, and prepare to break through the problem of oxygen production, as long as it is solved, before World War II, China can popularize converter steelmaking on a large scale. Coupled with the automated production line, relying on these two magic weapons, China can go crazy and riot, and China, which has more human resources than the United States, will arm tens of millions of soldiers, just like drinking cold water.

As long as it reaches this point, no matter how far the war is fought, China will be a well-deserved winner.

Watching the Chinese unscrupulously select equipment, those Americans are also twitching in their hearts, and they still can't figure out what happened, how the factory that was originally soaring suddenly ended. All of a sudden, these precious machines stopped, and the bustling factory district became a dead graveyard!

As if from heaven to hell all at once, they had no choice but to watch the Chinese pick up what they wanted.

In normal times, the Americans would never sell these machines, especially not to a rising country like China with huge potential, but the Great Depression completely messed up the United States, and they could even sell the machines to the Soviets, of course, China would not be a problem.

In addition, behind this, there is a complicated transaction, and that is the Chinese stock market!

Western capital has entered China's stock market in a big way, blowing up the bubble, and trying to take advantage of the opportunity to make a profit. However, Zhang Tinglan decisively threw out the action of enterprise reform.

At this time, a large number of stocks were suspended, and Western capital could not exit the market and was trapped in the stock market, and this stalemate was not a good thing for both sides, and financial capital lost its liquidity and lost its life. And China is vigorously adjusting its enterprises, and it also needs a blood transfusion from the financial market.

After a few months of perseverance, the two sides reached a compromise, and Zhang Tinglan gradually restored the stock market, and then allowed the financial capital to exit the market at an appropriate price. And these big conglomerates want to open the door and provide convenience for China to buy the West Jishu.

Of course, the main direction of Chinese procurement is also focused on these large conglomerates, such as U.S. Steel Corporation, which is an industry controlled by Morgan.

This agreement is a good thing for both sides, China has got what it needs, and these consortia have billions of dollars in orders and can continue to do whatever they want.

After several battles, the financial capital of the West did not dare to move China easily, and the laws of the East Shijie were completely different from theirs, and there were not enough spokesmen in the Chinese government, and they would rush in recklessly, and if they encountered an official document, they would be defeated, and the gains outweighed the losses.

With the withdrawal of these capitals, China's stock market has gradually returned to calm, and the reorganized enterprises have re-entered the stock market with an unprecedented appearance, and they have been instantly popular.

In fact, for such a strong figure as Zhang Tinglan, what everyone is most worried about is that he is the one who runs the world and treats everything as private property, so these entrepreneurs will not be able to play. Without the sanctity of private property, there can be no rapid development of capital.

This time, Zhang Tinglan's reform completely clarified the relationship between the family and the government, and not only did not take any more points, but also transferred a large amount of industry to the name of state-owned capital. Obviously, China's market is more standardized, the government's behavior is also standardized, the rules of the game are becoming more and more clear, everyone is qualified to participate, and a new wave of entrepreneurship is surging in China.

If you want to support entrepreneurship, you need to have a large number of talents, and if you don't have enough in China, you need to make up overseas. Xia Han and their backs and goings in steel companies these days have also attracted the attention of many Americans.

Just as they were about to leave, they were finally found by a dozen workers, all of whom were unshaven and sloppy, and without a source of livelihood, they were instantly inferior to beggars.

"Sir, do you just need equipment, don't you need workers to operate it? I have worked in a steel company for 20 years and know everything about production, as long as you can give me a job, I can do anything. ”

"Does that include as far away as China?"

"No problem, I do!" Without hesitation, the worker said, "I'm old, and if I leave the factory, I won't be able to find any work." ”

Xia Han looked at the eager eyes of these workers, as if he had instantly found the feeling of copying Germany back then, so he said with a smile: "No problem, as long as you can prove your worth, I will definitely let you get a satisfactory salary." In fact, our headhunters have already arrived in the United States, as long as you register with them, you can get a salary, and we can send goods, bread, butter, steaks, down jackets, coal, everything......"

Before Xia Han finished speaking, these people went crazy, nothing was important to fill their stomachs, and the temporary recruitment office was crowded in an instant! (To be continued......)