Just when the Demon Capital was engaged in the Anti-Japanese War, in March 1932, the steel plant built by the Qin family in Dukou City was put into operation.

According to manager Zhang Zhenye, an 80-meter-high iron-making furnace and two 150-ton steel-making furnaces can produce more than 20,000 tons of steel if they rotate normally! It only takes 40 minutes to make a furnace of steel, and if it rotates continuously, it can make one million tons of steel a year, but the problem is that iron ore and coking cannot keep up, and the efficiency of workers is not so high, so the annual output of 2-30,000 tons is still reliable.

In this year, China's steel output was only 30,000 tons, so the commissioning of the Dukou Iron and Steel Plant was equivalent to a sudden doubling of steel output.

Qin Di did not publicize it to the outside world, because this is an enterprise independently invested by the Qin family, if it is hyped up, it will definitely usher in official shares, although it is said that it is a matter of time before the official shares enter, but he does not want to lose his controlling stake so quickly.

On May 1, 1932, the "Shenlong Bicycle Factory" was also built in the magic capital, all the machinery and equipment were shipped from the United States, and there were dozens of foreign technicians on board, and the manager Wang Shouqing hired more than 200 workers and technicians from the magic capital, so the bicycle factory soon began to put into production. Products include bicycles and tricycles, which share the same principle and are produced in a similar way.

As soon as the "Shenlong Bicycle Factory" was put into operation, it was able to produce 3,000 bicycles and 200 tricycles per month. According to the design output, it can reach a monthly output of 10,000 units after one year.

Because the price is low, a bicycle only costs 50 oceans, which is half cheaper than imported foreign goods and 20% cheaper than assembled goods, so bicycles are popular with people. Not only private people are actively buying, but also Tongchang, Deli, Daxing, Taichang, Runda and other car dealers have also placed orders to buy rickshaws.

With the commissioning of the "Shenlong Bicycle Factory", the original assembly factory and the parts factory have closed down, and some personnel have become workers of the "Shenlong Bicycle Factory", and two parts factories have been absorbed by mergers and acquisitions.

On May 15, Qin Hanxu and Keiko returned from Japan.

They have gained a lot in the past six months, inspected the economic situation in Japan, contacted 20 or 30 companies, and negotiated five agreements.

Before the third uncle went to Japan, Qin Di had a secret conversation with him and mentioned the names of some companies.

As a regenerator, Qin Di knows that there are some world-famous century-old enterprises in Japan, which have been established before this, such as Toyota in 1896, Mazda in 1920, Suzuki in 1920, Isuzu in 1916, and Yamazaki Mazak in 1919...... There are hundreds of similar companies, and many of them have investment value.

But there is a problem here, because during the war, more than half of the companies switched to the production of military materials, such as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which produced combat vehicles, tanks, and airplanes, Toshiba produced radars and military electronic tubes, and Hitachi produced engines for warships and tanks...... There are countless companies like this.

Since Qin Hanxu went to Japan to invest at this time, he could not invest in enterprises that strengthened the Japanese military industry, so after careful selection, he chose Yamaha, Sharp, Olympus and two catering companies.

The Yamaha brand was founded in 1887 as a company that produced musical instruments, starting with organs, upright pianos in 1900, grand pianos in 1902, and later expanding to a wide range of instruments.

This is a company that has been on fire for many years, but it only suffered from the economic crisis of the 1930s, many people could not eat, naturally did not bother to buy musical instruments, and it was very difficult to export. For this reason, Qin Hanxu seized the opportunity and injected 2.6 million yen to get a 25% stake in Yamaha.

You know, the yen was very valuable at this time, and it was not comparable to the later yen, and the size of Yamaha was not as large as it was later.

The other company was Sharp, which was founded in 1912 to produce pencils and radios, and was still a small company until 1932, so Qin Hanxu only spent 1.4 million yen to get a 25% stake.

Of course, at this time, 25% of the shares, after a long time, may not be able to maintain this number, because if the company wants to grow, it often needs to increase capital and expand shares several times, which will dilute the previous shares.

In any case, the Qin family seized the opportunity and diluted the shares in the future, which also occupied a favorable position.

The third is Olympus, which was founded in 1919 and has been producing microscopes since 1920.

Qin Hanxu injected 1.8 million yen and got a 20% stake in the company.

The two catering companies are Hibiya Matsumoto Building and Azabu Rice Warehouse.

Hibiya Matsumoto Building is Japan's first Western-style restaurant opened in 1903, and the restaurant is surrounded by the beauty of the four seasons, making you feel like you are in a forest in an urban business district.

Azabu Rice Warehouse is a 200-year-old eel rice specialty store that is a work of art that foodies will praise with its carefully baked eel and drizzled with a unique sauce that has been passed down since its founding.

Qin Hanxu inspected everywhere in Japan, spent half a year, spent 10 million yen, and won part of the shares of five companies, which made Qin Di feel very surprised.

Qin Di didn't expect that Japanese companies would be so cheap in those days! He thought it would be a large company worth hundreds of billions of yen later!

He thought about it a little and felt that this was completely understandable, it was a different age, Japan was still very poor in the early days, from 1921 to 1929, the annual economic growth rate was only 3%, and from September 1929 onwards, many workers lost their jobs, and the peasants' lives were more difficult, and at this time, Japan's major role was still on light industry, such as the textile industry, so enterprises like Yamaha, Sharp, and Olympus developed relatively slowly. This is very different from the period of rapid economic growth in the 50s and 80s.

Therefore, after Qin Di learned these news, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Third uncle, you should go to Japan again and spend the rest of the money as soon as possible!"

However, Qin Hanxu grinned and said, "No! your aunt is pregnant, I won't go anywhere for the time being!"

Qin Di was a little surprised: "This is strange! The third aunt went back to Japan to live for half a year, and then rejuvenated?"

Because Qin Hanxu is fifty years old, and Keiko is only two years younger than him, after giving birth to Qin Zhan before, there has been no movement for many years, but he didn't expect to suddenly become pregnant, so as soon as Keiko returned to Qin's mansion, she went into the house to rest.

Qin Hanxu smiled happily: "I'm still looking forward to getting old and having a son! For me, this is the top priority!"

Qin Di asked: "Third uncle, if you don't go to Japan, how did you arrange the collection of economic intelligence?"

Qin Hanxu replied: "Of the three people who went with me, two of them stayed there, and it was the same for them to collect information." ”

So, Qin Di stopped urging.