"Professor Cheng, do you think this will work, I, Ye, on behalf of the entire Tianjin Health Chamber of Commerce, donated 10,000 yuan to the Work-Study Society in France, specifically to support these students to go to the land of Taixi to learn advanced knowledge and culture, and help our Chinese workers take root." Sitting on the Taishi chair, Ye Dengbang took a sip of tea unhurriedly and stretched out a finger: "If you can, the Chamber of Commerce in Tianjin Wei can even contact the businessmen in France to provide some work-study positions for our students." ”

Bian Yinchang, the second-in-command of the Tianjin Chamber of Commerce, who was sitting on another Taishi chair, said with a kind face: "Money opens the way, those red-haired ghosts are also very good at talking, not to mention that the students we can study abroad are all high-quality and educated, not as good as their local countrymen, and they don't know a few big characters, but they are too strong." ”

Ye Dengbang changed his posture and leaned back in his chair: "In modern times, countries are busy with wars, and France is an old power, and a large number of young and strong people have to shed blood on the battlefield, so they recruit a large number of laborers from our country to support, but these people will only throw their arms and work hard, where do they know how to chirp some bird language, so we students can do translation work there." ”

With the outbreak of the First World War, France suffered many casualties after entering the war, and although we, as a side of the Entente, did not directly participate in the war, the French Ministry of Industry still recruited a large number of Chinese laborers from us, and went to France through various channels, totaling about 150,000 people.

Although the Chinese laborers who came over were basically doing manual work such as digging trenches and delivering military supplies, it was a big problem to manage so many people because of their language barriers, poor customs, and different diets. Faced with this situation. The French government also wants to carry out French education and open chemical schools to solve the problems of "language barrier", "lack of habits" and "insufficient application of technology", "so as to achieve a happy and righteous life".

Therefore, combined with the historical background at that time, the Tianjin Chamber of Commerce was more of a "part-time worker", and they didn't think so much about Cheng Nuo's "student assistance" as they wanted.

The reason why I threw out all kinds of preferential conditions as soon as I came up, in addition to the respect for the status of Cheng and Zhang, the two education scholars, also has the idea of retreating as advance, which means that I will take out the benefits first to prove that the Chamber of Commerce supports your education. Everyone is in the circle, and what they pay attention to is a skin on their face, and they still open their mouths after they are gagged, but they are not kind, and it will make people gossip when it is passed on.

Rubbing the handrail, Cheng Nuo said with a smile: "I have received the intention of the Chamber of Commerce for the work-study society in France, but we can't accept this money." ”

The teacup had already been brought into the air, and when he heard this, he put it down again, and Zhang Boling whispered: "Zhiyuan, don't you think the money is not enough?" 10,000 yuan is already a lot, and the Chinese technical school supported by the French government in the past few months has not paid much money, so we had better accept it when we see it. ”

Cheng Nuo patted his arm lightly, signaled his reassurance, and said loudly: "In my opinion, the Tianjin Chamber of Commerce can directly take out 10,000 yuan to help students, which is already very generous, enough for a hundred years of dye and lamp fees for a civilian home in Beijing. ”

Ye Dengke was puzzled, frowned and asked, "If it wasn't for raising education funds, then why did Professor Cheng come here this time?" ”

Cheng Nuo sold a pass: "President Ye, from the perspective of your many years of business, what are the future development prospects of Zhonghua Match Factory?" ”

Although Ye Dengke was puzzled, he still gave his opinion after thinking about it: "The future is bright, and it is not impossible to see it as a hen that will go down to the golden mountain. ”

After saying this, he silently lowered his evaluation of Cheng Nuo by a notch in his heart, a promising educator, who is not good at doing great things in the world, but now he has taken a crooked path, and his mind has fallen into the cracks of money.

Cheng Nuo lowered his head and smiled, and said, "I believe that President Ye's vision will not deceive, and the profits will only be greater in the future, but I want to take out a large part of it now and distribute it to you, what does President Ye think?" ”

"Ahem, ahem." Bian Yinchang, who had just picked up the teacup and was about to drink a little, was choked half to death, and it took him a long time to calm down, and he didn't care about the half-wet cuffs, and quickly asked: "Professor Cheng, I heard you right, do you want to sell the shares of the Zhonghua Match Factory, or do you want to sell it directly, but think twice, no matter how much you sell, you will be able to make money in the future." ”

Zhang Boling also hurriedly grabbed him, with anxiety on his face: "Zhiyuan, you are going crazy, I heard that the match factory has started to make money recently, even the British guy is greedy, how can you be willing to sell him, don't tell me that the money I said before is for this gift." ”

Ye Dengbang is well-informed, after the change of dynasty, it stands to reason that no matter how big a thing is, he should not be surprised, but when he encounters this kind of behavior of not giving money and scattering it outside, he still can't understand: "Professor Cheng, if there is an urgent matter at home that needs money, I believe that with your status and status, if you open your mouth casually, there will naturally be people rushing to send money and stammering, and you can't kill the golden rooster directly." ”

Cheng Nuo shook his head, took a sip of water and said with a smile: "No, the short-sighted behavior of killing chickens and taking eggs, of course I Cheng will not do it, I want to ask President Ye again, what do you think is the reason why China Match Factory can kill a way out of a crowd of foreign goods?" ”

Ye Dengbang didn't think twice: "Only technical ears." ”

Cheng Nuo clapped his hands and praised: "By the way, what I sell here is technology, so that more people can make a fortune with the China Match Factory, and it is better to be happy alone than to be happy." ”

When Bian Yinchang heard this, he said with shortness of breath: "Professor Cheng is saying that he is willing to be open and honest and publish this advanced preparation technology?" ”

Cheng Nuo nodded: "Of course, we have all the raw materials for preparing matches, but before the China Match Factory, domestic products in terms of quality and output are not able to catch up with foreign goods, in my opinion, the technology is not good, so we deliberately poached several foreigners at a high price, and privately developed them for several years, and finally broke through the technical difficulties, and even had to win, and the future is the world of our domestic products." ”

Here, Cheng Nuo deliberately exaggerated the difficulty of technical research, in order to give people a feeling of hard work, and raise the value of China Match Factory, so as not to make people feel that it is too easy to come and not so cherished when the real technology is shared.

After hearing the convinced news, Bian Yinchang smiled: "This is very good, our match preparation industry will no longer be pinched by people in terms of technology, the output and quality will be improved, the price will naturally be beaten down, and the daily life of civilians can spend less money, although it is not much, but it is also a lot of savings after a long time." ”

Ye Dengbang thought about it a little more, and said cautiously: "So many of our peers have not overcome the difficulties, China Match Factory has done it, which must have suffered a lot, this technology can't be taken out so easily, right?" ”

Cheng Nuo crossed his hands and crossed Erlang's legs: "Shengmi en's fight against Mi Qiu, the ancients once said that business is like a battlefield, although it is a bit exaggerated, but it is not a child's play after all, so we naturally have our own plans." ”

"Please."

"The Chinese match factory will also develop steadily according to the established plan, and at the same time, we will also sell all kinds of raw materials prepared, such as potassium chlorate, red phosphorus, sulfur, manganese dioxide, etc., which are large machinery, as long as the money is in place, it can be discussed."

"Is there a threshold for entry?"

"Of course, non-Chinese sole proprietorship is not sold, there are cheats and abductions are not sold, and there is oppression and goodness are not sold, and the most important point is that a part of the profits should be used every year to run education, and this work-study society in France is the threshold."

Of course Cheng Nuo will not take out the things that he has worked so hard to develop by his subordinates, that will only make the things too cheap, and if he doesn't cherish them, it will be very likely to go to the enemy.

A monopoly can indeed make money, but the problem is that the match industry is not big, the profit is thin, and it can be rubbed out by hand. What's more, Cheng Nuo's original intention of developing this is also not to want the necessities of life to be controlled by foreigners and reduce the cost of living for the people, but it is difficult to lay it to the whole country in a short period of time by relying on his own efforts, and it is not easy to cover the entire North China region in the future.

Therefore, simply only do the upstream industry, supply raw materials and machinery, take away the high value-added profits, and hand over the rest to the market, set the threshold to screen partners, and save people's eyes and stab them in the back.

Seeing that there were profits to be made, these businessmen of the Tianjin Chamber of Commerce immediately moved faster, with a lot less fake politeness and more sincerity, and immediately rushed back from all over the country after receiving a telegram from the Chamber of Commerce, even if it was not the local Chamber of Commerce, they also had to ask people to come and participate.

On the day of the appointment, everyone gathered at the door of the Tianjin Chamber of Commerce, looking at the notice on the wall, each with a ghost.

"Hey, Li Lezi, it's not easy, you're still alive, I haven't seen you for more than half a year, right?"

"Look at what I said, aren't you An Fuzi alive, even if I die, I can't die in front of you, isn't it, how unlucky."

"Don't talk to me about the calf, the last time I bought the goods from me, why hasn't the balance been paid to me until now, no wonder I call you Li Leprosy, I was thinking at the beginning that although you are ugly, frustrated, short, and you don't have a leprosy, how to take this nickname, it turned out to be a debt, the big guy said yes!"

There are many people watching the excitement next to them, all of them have the idea of a dead Taoist friend and an immortal poor monk, and they will naturally not miss a joke, and they all coaxed: "Yes, isn't it." ”

"Fuck your uncle, Anfuzi, don't be unkind, don't be unkind, last time I sold my fish oil wax, guess what, it's all mud, just a layer of wax outside, it's not a shame, you talk about this, which family doesn't have a long eye to give him a tail, it's good not to let him bleed if you don't sneak it." Seeing this, Li Lezi also broke the jar and broke it, and explained all the things of the two.

It's good now, the people who come here are all heads and faces, and neither of the two can get along, Cheng Nuo and they didn't even let the door in.

Seeing is believing, hearing is false, in order to let these "customers" who come from afar see the effect of new matches, Cheng Nuo specially arranged for people to buy all the matches that can be bought on the market, in order to conduct better and more intuitive control experiments.

In the midst of everyone's exclamations, Cheng Nuo dipped the brush in water and dipped it in all the match heads.

"Everyone, it's not easy for everyone to come here, and they must be here for one word - 'money', so I won't talk nonsense, can you talk about this damp match?" After the operation was completed, Cheng Nuo came to the podium and asked the audience.

"Don't talk nonsense, but it's a mess, and the wet wood will definitely not burn." An unfriendly voice wafted from the crowd, causing everyone to laugh.

Cheng Nuo was not angry, walked to the podium, and sure enough, as the man said, either the match powder fell off, or the matchbox was cut, and none of them could be successfully ignited.

"I'll just say, it's nothing more than a young age to do some foolish things, and ask us to call them over."

Before the unfriendly voice could finish speaking, it stopped abruptly, and was interrupted by the last match, and it actually burned.

Cheng Nuo held the burning match and said confidently: "This is the match of our China Match Factory, the only moisture-resistant technology, the technology that our peers can't do, we have!" ”

Everyone knows that the Chinese match factory is powerful, but they all know that he makes great money, and it is the first time to see it in such a prominent technology.

In fact, it is not difficult for Cheng Nuo to achieve water and moisture resistance, according to the scientific proportion of the match head of various drugs, blended evenly into the medicine head, after drying, immersed in the characteristics of the vinyl resin solution to dry, of course, the match scale surface also has to do a good job of water resistance, which requires another phenolic resin solution.

And these valuable experiences all come from the huge science books that Cheng Nuo bought when he was a child when he used match heads, tin foil on the inner wall of cigarette boxes and table tennis balls to make rockets, and now his memory is good enough to remember all the content in it.

With a good start, the introduction behind is relatively simple, whether it is temperature-resistant technology, or a new version of the paper matchbox, are step by step to refresh their cognition, those who come here are knowledgeable, know how leading these technologies are, consumers will not consider competing products for a second when facing the two products, and will definitely choose the cheap, good quality, waterproof and moisture-resistant one.

The lead is surprise, the lead is shock, the lead is shock, and the lead three is panic, but it is taken for granted.

Looking at the leeks in the audience, Cheng Nuo was happy with a bumper harvest and smiled: "Everyone, I didn't call you here to show off, but to say that all the technologies placed here, as long as they meet our requirements, we will teach each other, never hide their selfishness, and work together to make the market bigger and stronger, so that foreign goods can roll from where they come from." ”

At this time, the unfriendly voice in the audience came again: "Your Chinese match factory will be so kind, and after saying so much, I am afraid that you want to take advantage of this time to sharpen the knife and think about how to kill us, right?" ”

Everyone in the audience, you look at me, I look at you, although I didn't have the confidence to echo just now, but the thoughts expressed were still similar to that person.

Seeing this, Cheng Nuo did not pursue the person, but smiled calmly: "Our China Match Factory has a tolerant mind, and naturally it will not put 40,000 yuan in the market to eat alone, we also understand the difference between a bowl of rice and a pot of rice, although there are more people who eat later, but there are also more people who cook, and there will only be more than before, and consumers can enjoy the dividends of the development of the industry faster, why don't we do it?" ”

The voice was unrelenting: "Don't talk nonsense, the dead are about to be lived, hurry up and show all the conditions of cooperation." ”

Now the man aroused the anger of the people, and they searched everywhere to settle accounts with him.

"Be polite to Professor Cheng, is there such a picky person as you?"

"You have to smash the pot when you eat, everyone has it in this world, and you have a wolf's heart and dog lungs in human skin."

"Hurry up and find this person and blast him out, I think he is definitely looking for trouble, and he will be honest if he is cut off."

However, they searched and searched, but they could not find any trace of this person, and everyone had to give up.

Cheng Nuo smiled and signaled everyone to be quiet: "I believe that the people who come here are all people who have the heart to serve the country with industry, but this kind of thing is impossible to achieve with only one enthusiasm, so we still need to learn, especially Taixi culture, how did these technologies of the Chinese match factory come about?" But it is not rewarded by foreign noses, and even they are not as good as us, these are all developed by us Chinese. ”

Looking at the way everyone listened carefully, Cheng Nuo continued: "Our ancestors once said, 'Ten years of trees and a hundred years of people', talents do not appear out of thin air, it takes years of training, it is a long-term investment and time-consuming process, many poor children do not even have the qualifications to step into the threshold, even if they are lucky enough to enter the middle of the school, they will have to lose due to various practical problems, it is a pity, and because of this, we have too few industrial talents to meet the demand." ”

Speaking of this, everyone seems to feel the same way, there is never a shortage of coolies, and there are very few people who may really fiddle with the machine, and it is not feasible to chant the scriptures for this iron lump, so they have no choice but to pay the tuition to the foreign nose over and over again, and this person may not necessarily accept it.

Seeing that the heat was almost over, Cheng Nuo paused and said: "In order to better learn Taixi culture, cultivate more industrial talents for our use, and avoid the students sent to Europe to develop an arrogant and lascivious life, we specially established the China Scholarship Foundation to moderately help those students who want to go abroad but are not qualified to go abroad, and use this platform to let them also open their eyes to the world." ”

Someone came back to his senses and said directly: "Professor Cheng, just say, let us pay how much, as long as it can be done, we will seriously consider it." ”

"Yes, everyone will contribute to education."

Cheng Nuo waved his hand and smiled: "You don't need to pay for this directly, as long as you buy from us, we will take out a part of the profits from this batch of goods and donate it to the China Scholarship Foundation in your name. Of course, the purchase price remains the same as before, and it will not change because of this. ”

As soon as these words came out, they immediately exploded below, and it sounded like Cheng Nuo was using his own money to do good deeds, but the name was theirs, and it was simply a cheap one.

Even if it is actually their money, but the China Match Factory is a player and a referee, and what kind of pricing is not up to people, at this time, it is definitely a conscience to be able to wear a high hat more.

Cheng Nuo did this mainly for two reasons, one of which was that he really wanted to support the work-study society in France, and wanted to give more students a way to study and cultivate more talents; The second is to take the two carriages of fame and fortune, carry more "passengers", form a community of interests, and ensure their own safety.

In this way, the China Match Trade Union and the China Overseas Study Foundation were founded on the same day, and both were headquartered in the British Concession in Tianjin, which attracted the attention of the business and education circles for a while.

After the meeting, inside an unknown tavern.

Cheng Nuo looked at the "unfriendly" person before, smiled and laughed, and didn't know what to say.

The unfriendly people didn't care so much, they put a slice of cut beef in their mouths, and smacked their mouths: "Don't say it, this spiced beef tastes really good, the last time I ate such an authentic thing, it had to be in the palace." ”

Cheng Nuo poured a glass of wine and handed it over, arching his hand in admiration: "Mr. Zai, don't say anything, you have enough beef today, you can eat as much as you want, in terms of acting, you are definitely one of the few corners in Sijiu City!" ”

The so-called unfriendly person is Zaitao, and Cheng Nuo on the stage is singing red face and black face, the combination is called a subtle, and even Cheng Nuo in the middle thought that he was coming to make trouble, and kept everyone in the dark.

(End of chapter)