Chapter Twenty-Seven: Admiral Huo Yunting
Although this transaction greatly reduced the income of the Xinghuang Gang, once he caught the line of General Wiggins, it means that Li Changsheng has the capital to be able to play with other countries, after all, the current England is still the unstoppable empire on which the sun never sets, and it occupies the first place among all countries in the world, and the future hegemon of the United States, at this time, is just a backward country with a tail to develop.
Embroidery is just one of the most prominent industries in the Xinghuang Gang, and Li Changsheng does not plan to put the main field of sales abroad, although the country is chaotic, but this market is still huge, enough to support the Xinghuang Gang.
After negotiating the deal, General Wiggins's originally somewhat arrogant and indifferent face had long since disappeared, replaced by a look of enthusiasm, and Li Changsheng was like a flower butterfly, constantly shuttling through the banquet hall.
First led by Father Herbert, and now introduced by General Wiggins, as long as you are smart, you will know that Li Changsheng, a young man who is much younger than Westerners, is definitely not an ordinary Chinese, at least, compared to them, his weight is much heavier, therefore, many people have also put away their prejudice against the yellow race and released kindness to him, in a short period of time, Li Changsheng has met the nobles of several countries, and he can barely be regarded as hooking up.
I even met Joey, an arms dealer from the United States, and I have to say that the United States today is not the world hegemon that made a lot of war money in World War I and World War II and gathered a large number of talents with the help of war. The immigrant country with a history of only a hundred years is really not very good in terms of heritage and strength, and even the arms are only stronger than those of China, so the terrible arms dealers of the United States in later generations are also dismal in this era.
Facing Li Changsheng, who came to the door and wanted to buy arms, this arms dealer did not dare to say that he was as enthusiastic as fire, but he was much more enthusiastic than ordinary foreigners. Soon, Li Changsheng ordered a batch of munitions in his hands, although it was a variety that was almost eliminated, but it was already good for the Huaxia and Xinghuang Gang, which were still in the era of cold weapons. And Li Changsheng also knows that this group of foreigners is not stupid, it is impossible for them to sell real elite arms to arm Huaxia, and if they want to become strong, they can only rely on themselves.
At this point, Li Changsheng also began to prepare early, in the Xinghuang Gang, in addition to those industries on the surface, the underground of the Xinghuang Gang, there is a huge basement dug out, which is dedicated to various technical research, including but not limited to weapons, crops, handicrafts, etc., Li Changsheng completely regarded the Xinghuang Gang as a scientific research institution in later generations, encouraging those workers to develop various technologies, propose technology sharing, and invent technology, all of whom can get a lot of wealth.
Of course, because of traditional thinking, many people are reluctant to hand over their technology when they invent and want to keep a hand. But as the saying goes, one person counts the short, two people count the long, although most people are very stubborn, but under Li Changsheng's money offensive, there are still people who are willing to pay, no matter how clever the technology is, in the case of many people joining forces to overcome it, there will still be a day when it will be cracked.
What's more, all kinds of technologies in Huaxia today are basically superficial handicraft stages, no matter how clever the techniques, in the case of the cooperation of peers, they can't keep it, seeing that a family heirloom craft is gradually being found out of the way, that group of stubborn old guys, and finally can't help it, hand it over, you can still have money to take, if you don't pay it, sooner or later it will be cracked out, but it will be beaten by chickens and eggs.
Under such circumstances, several workshops under Li Changsheng's hands can develop rapidly, let's just say that this textile workshop, the reason why it can have such exquisite craftsmanship is because of the integration of various means, however, in such handicrafts developed rapidly, in the manufacture of weapons is far behind, after dismantling the few guns that Li Changsheng bought privately, it is just to touch some doorways.
However, Li Changsheng also knows that weapon manufacturing and weapon research and development are not so easy, even if this workshop has not achieved any results during this time, it still spares no effort to invest funds for them to research, which is why Li Changsheng must establish a teaching hall for them to learn Western knowledge, without the foundation of modern science, it is too difficult to understand the manufacture of machinery.
Fortunately, Li Changsheng came from later generations, and he was born in archaeology and history, although he is not from science and engineering, but he still knows some about the history of weapons, and some principles can be roughly said.
Just when Li Changsheng followed General Wiggens in the banquet hall like a hard-working little bee, constantly shuttling between the nobles of various countries, suddenly, an English tone with an obvious Chinese accent sounded in his ears, "Dear General Wiggins, I don't know who this gentleman is?
Hearing this voice, Li Changsheng and General Wigans turned their heads, only to see that the person in front of them was also very conspicuous in the Western banquet full of Western clothes, wearing a navy blue nine-python five-clawed python robe official uniform, all wearing a ruby top with a flower feather, and a golden unicorn with red auspicious clouds tattooed on his chest.
Li Changsheng had long heard that this Admiral had come to Foshan a few days ago, but he had not made any moves, but he didn't expect that this time he would actually come to General Wiggins's banquet.
Just thinking about it, General Wiggens already had a smile on his face, nodded towards Lord Admiral, and said, "Dear Huo, hello, this is my business partner, Immortal Li of the Xinghuang Gang, Li, this is your official in Huaxia, Lord Admiral, Yunting Huo, you are all from the same country, let's get to know each other." ”
Hearing General Wigens's words, Admiral Huo Yunting's eyes suddenly flashed with a glimmer of light, and his gaze swept over Li Changsheng's body like a searchlight, and after a while, he said with a little arrogance: "It turns out that you are Li Changsheng, this official has heard of you, Xinghuang Gang? Hmph, what a big battle, I don't know, I thought that your Xinghuang Gang had no court in their eyes, and they intended to rebel! ”