"Zhiyuan, do you know what kind of person we are going to visit this time?"

On the way to the new machinery factory, Jiang Jiangzuo, who was sitting in the back seat, suddenly asked Cheng Nuo such a question.

Cheng Nuo did not answer this question immediately, but looked to the side of the street, observing the people coming and going on the street.

Although Shanghai is the largest city in the entire Far East, and everyone looks like a princess and a princess, there are still many ragged people on the streets, or selling agricultural products or selling personal labor.

Holding a rake and carrying a basket on his shoulders, all he asks for is a bite to eat.

"Lifu, our road is still too slow, it is difficult to give fundamental help to our people at the bottom, and we have to speed up the pace in the future!" The scene on the street made Cheng Nuo unbearable to look at it directly.

"I'm the opposite of you, it's not that we're going too slow, it's that we're going too fast." Jiang Jiang Zuo got up and closed the curtains on both sides of the car window, and said seriously: "In the past year, our Academy of Sciences has been spending money constantly, and the speed of open source cannot keep up with the speed of investment, so it will drag us down." ”

After a slight pause, Jiang Jiangzuo secretly glanced at Cheng Nuo, and after seeing that the other party did listen, he added: "Zhiyuan, don't blame me for speaking too badly, the Chinese have 40,000 compatriots, you want to save this, that want to save, can you save it?" I think what we need to do now is to try to 'live'. ”

Cheng Nuo crossed his arms and said: "Someone has to play the role of a salaried person, since we have the ability, then we have to take on this responsibility, the muddy life is live, the meaningful life is also the life, the choice is different, the way of living is different, we just need to do the current thing, and leave the later ones to the future generations to judge." ”

Jiang Jiang Zuo turned sideways and looked serious: "Yes, everyone wants to be a hero, but not everyone can be a hero, and being a hero is also conditional.

If we can't think of any other way to open source, some not very important projects will have to be cut, and we can't drag down the main body of our academy, otherwise our years of hard work may be in vain, and we may also make wedding dresses for others, and some people have already begun to sharpen their knives. ”

"The ideal is the ideal, the realistic is the reality, I have already considered the financial problems you mentioned, and I already have some eyebrows." Faced with this problem, Cheng Nuo said calmly: "What I can tell you now is that one of them is to start with our target candidates this time. ”

"Zhu Zhiyao? Looking for a new machine factory manager? Isn't he about to go bankrupt right now? Jiang Jiang Zuo was puzzled.

"China is poor, and if it is poor, it will change, and if it wants to build its own machinery, it must first manufacture the machines needed by the vast rural areas, and at the same time train a large number of basic industrial contingents, and if it wants to build its own ships and warships, China must have its own heavy industry." Cheng Nuo opened the curtain again, and the car immediately lit up: "That's what he said." ”

"So what do you mean?" Jiang Jiang Zuo was a little confused, and by the way, he also opened his curtains, and the car instantly became much more transparent.

"Whoever holds a salary, let it not be frozen to death in the wind and snow; Those who open the way for industry must not let it be trapped in thorns. Cheng Nuo patted Jiang Jiang Zuo's knee and smiled: "Even if it's me, there's no way to guarantee that we will be able to stay in good shape in the future, and maybe there will be times when we need help from others." ”

Jiang Jiang Zuo was not only not convinced, but also a little anxious: "Yes, I know that this Director Zhu also wants to contribute to the nation, but his stall is too big, as far as I know, hundreds of thousands of yuan have been invested in the past few years, but now it is still difficult to escape bankruptcy, with our size alone, it is difficult to reverse the situation." ”

Cheng Nuo smiled: "If you look at the liquidity on our books alone, it seems that we can't really do anything, but I just have a small way to try, which can not only save this new machine factory, but also solve the problem of helping us to open source." ”

"How?" Jiang Zuo hurriedly asked.

"Don't worry, let's see what kind of person this Director Zhu is, whether he is a comprador or a businessman." Cheng Nuo closed his eyes peacefully and muttered, "Or both?" ”

It's a pity that no matter how he asked later, Cheng Nuo didn't reveal the mystery.

In our traditional sense, a comprador is a Chinese manager or distributor of foreign goods who acted as a manager of a foreign company, a bank, a bank, or a factory, or a distributor of foreign goods.

In order to facilitate the conduct of business, foreign banks appoint people with credibility and status in Chinese society to act as compradors, which is much more advantageous than direct operation by foreigners.

In other words, from the perspective of the organization of a foreign bank, the comprador is one of its cashier departments; In terms of responsibility, it is similar to a guarantor; From the perspective of business operation, it is the intermediary and agent of foreign capital activities.

As the nephew of the great educator Ma Xiangbo, Zhu Zhiyao relied on Ma Xiangbo's support politically and Crédit Agricole CIB as his backer economically. Energy continues to undertake factory equipment, road and bridge construction projects from Dade Oil Plant, Zhabei Hydropower Company and the Qing government, so that the business has been booming.

However, foreign banks generally do not prohibit their Chinese compradors from concurrently engaging in their own independent industries, so the compradors can be employed by foreign businessmen and at the same time be independent businessmen or entrepreneurs, which brings certain convenience to Zhu Zhiyao's business activities.

As an officer and principal of a foreign bank, he may sometimes enjoy partial consular jurisdiction, and if he commits any law, the Chinese government must first obtain the consent of the foreign employer before he can be arraigned. This privilege brought to the comprador by the unequal treaties between China and foreign countries sometimes became his talisman in his business activities.

In addition to his apparent identity, Zhu Zhiyao also has a secret that ordinary people don't know, that is, the bank treasury of Crédit Agricole CIB is often temporarily transferred by him to his own business, and in layman's terms, he often embezzles funds from foreign banks to support the development of Qiuxin Machinery Factory.

As for the profits, he did not use them for enjoyment, but continued to invest in other factories in the country, including machinery, shipbuilding, mining, oil extraction, textiles, hydropower, flour, printing, shipping, etc., and he was everywhere.

Among the modern Chinese enterprises, the number of entrepreneurs who have turned from the technical backbone of the new machinery factory to the largest number of entrepreneurs. Many of the technical backbones of the factory later became managers of various machine factories.

Interestingly, Zhu Zhiyao has a strong interest in machinery, and under the influence of a strong family style, his son Zhu Binhou is not bad, he is very interested in aircraft, and directly as a foreign legion during World War I, he successfully shot down a German ace pilot, which can be called the first person in China's air combat.

It's a pity that such a family with a strong interest in industry is invincible to the destruction of the times after all.

"It's a pity, it's a pity, it's sad, such a big factory, it's gone." Turning his gaze to the window, Cheng Nuo was thoughtful.

Without a long delay on the road, the car quickly drove to the new machine factory.

What is strange is that there is no roar of machines in the new machine factory, but a fragrance.

"Zhiyuan, this fragrance?" Jiang Jiang Zuo hesitated.

"You can smell it too, it seems to still smell cottonseed oil." Cheng Nuo sniffed carefully in the air, and then concluded.

"But aren't we going to a machinery factory, how can there be a smell of cooking oil?" Jiang Jiang Zuo was very puzzled, got off the driver and didn't do anything, went straight to the door of the factory, and looked at the big signboard with black letters on a white background: "Yes, that's right, it's indeed a new machine factory, we didn't come wrong!" ”

The movement outside the gate attracted the attention of the factory, and several large wolf dogs jumped up and down around the gate inside, if the door was a little thinner, it was estimated that the door could be knocked down in a second, and it was directly mouthed at people.

"Zhiyuan, I don't think this factory is good at stubble, and I estimate that the melon pulp inside has already been replaced." Taking Cheng Nuo a few steps back, Jiang Jiang Zuo said: "Didn't you say last time that you were going to be acquired by a French foreign company, I estimate that they have already completed it, and the signboard is still there." ”

Cheng Nuo didn't leave in a hurry, but came to the wall, tiptoed to look inside, and happened to see someone coming inside: "Lifu, it's all here, let's inquire clearly, otherwise it's a trip in vain, I just saw someone coming here." ”

As he spoke, an old man of about sixty or seventy years old walked over slowly with his hands behind his back.

Those wolf dogs liked this old man very much, hugged each other, and licked all kinds of things on the old man, which was called a warm one.

After finally calming the wolf dogs, the old man noticed that there was a car outside, and there were two young people standing next to them, who were looking inside curiously.

"Housheng, this is not the place for you to come, let's go."

"Uncle, why do you want us to go." Jiang Jiang Zuo was puzzled, he wanted to come to the door and pinch his waist, but he didn't expect that a certain wolf dog pounced directly, although there was an iron door in the way, but he was still startled: "You have to take care of this dog." ”

The old man shook his head, did not speak, and turned away directly.

Cheng Nuo sighed and took the initiative to come forward and greet: "Uncle, may I ask if this is a new machine factory, right?" ”

The old man's figure paused, and he slowly turned around: "It was before, but it won't be in the future." ”

Cheng Nuo hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Uncle, I don't know your name?" ”

"Zhu Zhiyao." The old man said expressionlessly.

……

Although Zhu Zhiyao was resistant to contact with strangers at first, after learning Cheng Nuo's identity and the purpose of his visit, he still opened the iron door.

Shut up these big wolf dogs, Zhu Zhiyao was a little embarrassed: "I'm sorry, the factory is relatively large, and the recent turmoil in the current situation, the surrounding security environment is not good, thanks to these little guys." ”

Seeing these dogs being locked up, thinking of the embarrassing appearance of being frightened just now, Jiang Jiang Zuo suddenly felt provocative, swaggered to the dog cage, and shook it there with a blade of grass: "Puppy, puppy, you also have today, just now it was your favorite jump, and now you have the ability to jump again."

But he also knows that people can't be too complacent, otherwise they will be the ones who slap their faces, and they will be ready to leave after teasing.

At this moment, Jiang Jiang Zuo suddenly found that the latch of a certain dog cage was loose, and under the violent slapping of the wolf dog, he fell directly to the ground in a second.

It's good now, the dog is cold, and the person is stupid.

Or the reaction of the person is faster, Jiang Jiang Zuo didn't think much about it, and ran away.

The wolf dog behind also reacted, and immediately rushed out to chase after it.

Zhu Zhiyao, who saw this scene, was also a little dumbfounded, and hurriedly instructed: "Housheng, don't run away, the more you run, the happier the dog will chase." ”

Looking back, the wolf dog was running vigorously, and his tongue was flying in the air, how dare Jiang Jiang Zuo stop: "Don't stop, if you stop, there will be a piece of meat missing from your body, and it will not be easy for my mother to pull me." ”

Seeing that the dog was about to catch up, Cheng Nuo was still quick with his eyes and strength, and he pulled up the rope and instantly caught the wolf dog.

Looking at Jiang Jiang Zuo, who was panting, Zhu Zhiyao felt guilty: "Housheng, I'm really sorry, I didn't pay attention to this dog, are you okay?" ”

Jiang Jiang Zuo bent down to support his knees, only to feel that his chest was about to be blown up, and the spit in his mouth was a little fishy: "Whew, it's okay, Zhu Lao, you must look at that dog, it's not good to hurt your own people." ”

Zhu Zhiyao nodded, and after leashing the wolf dog, he came to the two of them again: "That's it, in order to express my apologies, I will prepare some gifts for you in a while." ”

"Gifts?" Neither of them knew why.

But after following me to the workshop for a while, I instantly understood what it meant, and I also knew where the fragrance came from when I just came over.

In the huge workshop, an oil press is placed at the door, and it is working non-stop at the moment.

Looking at this roaring machine, Zhu Zhiyao was a little sad, stepped forward and patted the machine and said: "Let me make you laugh, this is the first machine I researched when I was young, mainly for oil extraction, and it was exclusively for Lord Sheng Xuanhuai at that time. ”

Sheng Xuanhuai, the richest man in the late Qing Dynasty, is known as the "father of Chinese industry", "father of Chinese business" and "father of Chinese higher education", etc., and plays an important role in modern history.

Sure enough, when people get old, they talk more, especially when there is a listener next to him, Zhu Zhiyao's conversation box is completely opened.

"This is the loom we studied before, at that time there was no machine tool, the large shaft and small shaft were hammered by hand, processed by hand bit by bit, and then the parts of each part were installed and made into a product.

The other one was the engine we were studying at that time, which first forged the steel plate into a flat shape and then bent it into a fritter shape, so that the iron filings could automatically exit when drilling, not to mention, this kind of homemade tool had the same effect as the imported fritter drill in the later period

……”

The old man walked forward, and Cheng Nuo followed behind.

watched Zhu Zhiyao's eyes go from turbidity, to clarity, until there was a bright light, and finally to dead silence.

"Housheng, do you know what I wanted most when I went to school?"

Suddenly turning his head to look at Cheng Nuo, Zhu Zhiyao asked.

"Zhu Lao has been working hard in the machinery industry for half his life, and he was also influenced a lot when he was young, maybe he made up his mind to save the country with industry when he was young?" Cheng Nuo replied.

Zhu Zhiyao bowed his head: "When I was in school, I was very impressed by the advanced machinery such as trains and ships of the great powers, and I always felt that if I could not build various machines such as airplanes and cannons, the country would not be strong, and the people would save and the country would be rich and strong.

It's a pity that we were born at the wrong time, we seek new machinery factory development to the back of the everywhere by people restricted, raw materials steel plate is often threatened, finally have an eyebrow, the result of the capital chain broken, years of foundation ruined. ”

In the depths of love, Zhu Zhiyao was in tears.

"Mining is urgent, the land is more urgent, and now it is more urgent than the land reclamation and the day and night can not be delayed, it is better to open the door of the brains of my compatriots.

As soon as the door of this brain is opened, there is an infinite amount of gold gushing out like a spring, which is inexhaustible and endless, that is, Mencius said, 'The official of the heart thinks, thinks about it, and if you don't think, you can't get it'.

Half a life is just to produce machines, produce talents, machines become brighter, and talents rise. I am afraid that if the new machine factory falls, everything I do will be lost. ”

Cheng Nuo couldn't bear to look at it directly, and stood up directly and said, "Old Zhu, maybe things will take a turn for the better." ”

(End of chapter)