If Yuan Shikai didn’t feel surprised at the first 362 thousand silver, then Yuan Shikai was shocked when Zhao Dongyun said the sentence of mass production in two years!
Two years of mass production? How is it possible to know how many years it took before and after Hubei Gun Factory bought the production rifle? The trial production was started years ago, and it was not until this year that the design output was reached, that is, 50 rifles per day. Although it was faster, the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau tried to produce them in 1997. Last year, the production was changed to 20 or 30 rifles per day, so it took five years before and after.
And these two factories and bureaus can be said to represent the highest level of military industry in China immediately. Even it took them many years to get to this point. Now Zhao Dongyun actually said that it would take two years to get out a rifle factory with an output no less than that of Hubei Gun Factory, which did not surprise Yuan Shikai.
"Is this true?" Yuan Shikai now doesn’t even pay attention to the 362,000 silver just now. He pays more attention to what Zhao Dongyun said two years ago.
If mass production can be achieved in two years, it will be of great benefit and strategic significance for him to expand his army in Beiyang, because the pace of expansion in Beiyang is too fast and the demand for new rifles is very high. It is not a problem to rely on imports all the time, and Yuan Shikai, two factories and bureaus in the south, really believes that they are unreliable. If there is an arsenal that can produce rifles in large quantities in his own territory, it will be of strategic significance for Beiyang’s expansion.
However, he still doesn’t quite believe what Zhao Dongyun said. He has to make sure that what Zhao Dongyun said is true and effective.
Actually, Zhao Dongyun was a little surprised by Yuan Shikai’s reaction. Isn’t two years enough? You know, large and small equipment, including screws, have been shipped to you by the Germans, and they have also helped with debugging and trial production training. The workers are almost teaching you how to do it with their hands.
And to tell the truth, it’s just an old rifle, not a cannon. How difficult can it be to produce airplanes? Zhao Dongyun thought that it would only take him some time to build a factory. He was careless.
Up to now, Zhao Dongyun, the arsenal, is really a bigger manual workshop.
However, both Yuan Shikai and Zhao Dong Yunshi want a slight deviation. First of all, it was not Zhao Dongyun himself who said this two years ago, nor was it a Chinese industrialist in China. A Chinese businessman said that this timetable was a courtesy and a foreigner engineer from a foreign firm said that it would take two years, that is, before establishing a purely commercial operation, transporting the administrative bodies of large German enterprises and hiring German engineers.
To put it bluntly, this is the time when Germany sets the timetable according to its own construction progress. Two years is not long.
However, the timetable in Yuan Shikai’s mind is that before the establishment of the factory in China, these arsenals are actually a government office, and it is natural that they can’t do things with all kinds of disadvantages of the government office. It is good to build them, so don’t think about how fast they are progressing.
It is said that Yuan Shikai’s work is much smoother than Zhao Dongyun’s imagination. Zhao Dongyun’s original idea that it would be very difficult to do something like an arsenal privately, but he did not think that Yuan Shikai’s so-called official or commercial roots would not matter.
After asking many questions, Yuan Shikai asked, "Where are you going to build this factory?"
Zhao Dongyun said, "Because everything is pending, if we can make it, we should find a place with convenient transportation, coal and rail in Zhili!"
When Yuan Shikai heard the word Zhili, he showed approval. He wanted to build Zhili property. He didn’t care whether you were privately run or officially run. When the time comes, all the guns and ammunition will be given to Beiyang Army. Is it legal or not? Yuan Shikai didn’t take it seriously.
A host of the New Deal in the late Qing Dynasty, he is ambitious and decisive. How can the Beiyang New Army be established in his hands if it is not unusual?
Therefore, regardless of so much, he said directly, "It would be good if the arsenal could be set up!"
Yuan Shikai’s statement means that he has agreed to this matter in principle, but whether it can be done or not depends on the follow-up situation.
However, after he finished, he added, "But although you have some family background, it is even difficult to come up with hundreds of thousands of taels!"
Zhao Dong said, "There are some difficulties. If this matter can be completed, the Ministry is going to set up a joint venture!"
After thinking about it, Yuan Shikai added, "This is purely commercial, and according to you, if you want to reduce the quality and quality of guns, this official is afraid it will not work!"
Yuan Shikai, who is in charge of Beiyang, didn’t object to Zhao Dongyun’s running this arsenal, but he didn’t say whether to let it go. Zhao Dongyun also said just now that if you want the guns and ammunition produced by the arsenal to be reliable and cheap, you have to let shareholders make money at the same time. First of all, you must ensure that you can’t bring the bad habits of the government yamen into the factory. Zhao Dongyun is going to adopt a purely western management system to put an end to the name of officials and officials.
Just because the official can’t come forward to manage it doesn’t mean that Yuan Shikai can’t manage it, so he said, "In that case, I will also invest 12 thousand!"
Yuan Shikai, although he has no mind to occupy shares, is an official. When he is at this point, private property doesn’t mean much to him. He said that to occupy shares in the arsenal, he mainly wants to facilitate private supervision. What’s the problem when the arsenal is established?
However, Zhao Dongyun was ecstatic when he heard this. Once Yuan Shikai also invested money, no matter how much or how little it was, the word Yuan Shikai alone was enough to make those who stopped it fear, and the opportunity to do business with Yuan Shikai was definitely something that several people could not ask for day and night.
To let this wind out, it is estimated that several officials and businessmen are running around crying and crying for shares!
After Yuan Shikai even got a little support from Yuan Shikai, Zhao Dong Yun immediately sent a telegram to Tianjin Zhao Chenbin to prepare for the establishment of the factory immediately!
Chapter 42 Fuyuan Machine Factory
Zhao Chenbin looked at his hands and couldn’t help admiring Zhao Dongyun once again. For others, it is almost impossible that things will become easier in the hands of Zhao Dong Cloud.
Commercial Arsenal. Looking at China, this is the only one!
However, the personnel, factory buildings, equipment and funds are temporarily unavailable. The arsenal is prepared to be established in a purely commercial way, but to be honest, it is not a purely commercial enterprise.
His sponsor, Zhao Dongyun, is the official minister of the Beiyang military court, and the other shareholder at present is Yuan Shikai, the boss of Beiyang, not to mention that there will definitely be other high-ranking officials and dignitaries from Beiyang in the later period. Such an arsenal is actually a Beiyang enterprise.
Looking at China, there is no business enterprise with more official background than this one that is also planning to build a Chinese arsenal.
Now that Zhao Dongyun has solved the political obstacles, Zhao Chenbin will have no worries. After receiving Zhao Dongyun’s article, he will discuss the articles of association of the arsenal with a bunch of management personnel of Fuyuan Cotton Mill. When discussing the articles of association, Zhao Chenbin is actually a spectator, and the main personnel are all foreigners …
Although it sounds awkward, the fact is that the future arsenal is scheduled to adopt the western-style enterprise management model, but Zhao Chenbin is unable to work out the articles of association of a western-style enterprise.
At the same time, Zhao Chenbin also conveyed Zhao Dongyun’s meaning, that is, in the future, this military industrial enterprise will transfer some administrative and industrial management personnel from Fuyuan Cotton Mill to the secondary vocational school of the new Arsenal, which makes several foreign managers of Fuyuan Cotton Mill very excited.
Fuyuan Cotton Mill is a cotton mill, but its actual scale is very large, and its total assets exceed 202,000 silver after two consecutive expansions. In addition, this cotton mill is managed by foreigners, although it was subsequently acquired by Zhao Dongyun, but most of the middle and senior managers of the cotton mill are foreigners. The cotton mill is also a modern western enterprise management model.
After Zhao Dongyun wants to run an arsenal, he can transfer a large number of experienced senior management talents from Fuyuan Cotton Mill, from administrative management to financial supervision to sales and production, which can be easily solved. These people are not technical talents, but management talents. If Zhao Dongyun intends to hire foreign technicians, he is also preparing to dig the corner of Beiyang Machinery Manufacturing Bureau. Although Beiyang Machinery Manufacturing Bureau says it will be rebuilt, it will be few years later. During this period, those skilled technicians can be dug.
Just hire local farmers directly for ordinary workers, and thousands of industrial workers can be trained in a few months.
Soon Zhao Chenbin was holding a stack of articles of association that he couldn’t understand himself. When he arrived in Baoding, he saw Zhao Dongyun and faced the thick stack of articles of association. Although Zhao Dongyun felt a little numb, he looked at it in detail.
This company’s articles of association are obviously written by foreigners who are familiar with China’s national conditions. Apart from integrating the modern western enterprise management system as much as possible, it also takes into account part of China’s current national conditions and does not blindly copy Western experience.
The words like board of directors, general manager and chief financial officer are quite modern, but if we look deeper, it will not be surprising that this organizational system has a strong Fuyuan mill style, because the people who wrote the articles of association are all Fuyuan mill managers, and it will be strange that there is no Fuyuan mill style.
In addition to this company’s articles of association, there is also a factory building plan made by people from Fuyuan Cotton Mill, such as Dogel, including capital, land selection, factory building and equipment installation.
Of course, especially for laymen, writing these things can be regarded as a preliminary plan, and the detailed plan in the later stage has to be done by people in the arms industry or machinery industry
But even though it is a general plan, it is dozens of pages!
Zhao Dongyun’s head swelled when he showed it to Yuan Shikai, who looked at a thick pile of documents in front of him and criticized that "these foreigners can make it clear in a few words that things have to be lengthy."
Yuan Shikai naturally won’t go to see these hundreds of pages of documents in person. He chose a simpler method and threw the documents directly to his staff to give them a headache. Then he talked to Zhao Dongyun while waiting.
"There is no problem with these estimates in the articles of association. If it is really efficient to build a factory according to the foreigner’s law, you might as well take them!" Yuan Shikai knows the virtue of those state-run and commercial enterprises in official enterprise. It’s hard to say whether this arsenal will be built according to the Chinese method, let alone reduced to a high-efficiency category. If the guns produced are of average quality and more expensive than imported goods, he might as well directly import them on a large scale and will support Zhao Dongyun to build an arsenal.
"Now that the articles of association have been done well, it’s time to raise funds. What’s your plan here!" Yuan Shikai went on to say, "If it’s not enough, I’ll let Zhou Xuexi solve part of it, but the interest may be higher!"
Zhao Dongyun’s heart andao If I was worried about the money before, I haven’t been worried about the money since Yuan Shikai said that you would also invest in it. If you want to tell your name, you can’t worry about getting the money together.
I immediately said, "In terms of money, I have asked my hometown to prepare an estimated 100,000 taels of silver. Besides equipment, the initial investment in labor, factory buildings and raw materials is not a small amount. I am afraid that it will take 6,700,000 taels of silver to get the first part. If I plan to raise shares, it will be part of the loan!"
Although Zhao Dongyun doesn’t have much money on his own, there are many rich people in Beiyang who can take out tens of thousands of silver people at will. Now Zhao Dongyun has to consider how to grasp the holding.
When Yuan Shikai agreed to the company’s articles of association and the preliminary plan, Zhao Dong Cloud acted very quickly. In a few days, Fuyuan Machine Factory was formally established in Victoria Road, Tianjin British Concession.
The name of Fuyuan Machinery Factory is directly borrowed from the word’ Fuyuan’, which is a bit cliche, but simple and good. Of course, more importantly, it shows that the two are subordinate. Zhao Dongyun does not mean to directly invest in the establishment of machinery factory in the name of Fuyuan Textile Factory, but to invest in the name of Fuyuan Textile Factory, which belongs to Fuyuan Textile Factory directly.
It is not his concern to say whether it is reasonable for a cotton mill to invest in establishing an arsenal.
After the listing was established, all kinds of administrative agencies were quickly established, including the board of directors, general manager and financial director. The main management personnel were also from Fuyuan Cotton Mill, and Zhao Chenbin was the chairman, while the general manager was Doug, while the financial director was an expatriate Englishman. William was an accountant of Tianjin HSBC, and was lured by Doug Chenbin’s direct high annual salary. Gadogel also plunged in while persuading him.
There is also a chief engineer who is a German. He is said to be a former engineer of Mao Se Arsenal. Anyway, he was introduced to the ceremony and foreign firm. Only he knows whether it is true or not, but it is still quite a set of things. Just now, he got Zhao Dongyun a whole set of plans for building a factory, which is much more perfect than the previous ones, such as Dogger and others.
After all, these technical things are nonsense for a group of spinning people to engage in military production. Management and finance are fine. There is not much difference in big enterprises, but when it comes to specific technology, professionals have to do it.
The newly established Fuyuan Machine Factory is the same as Fuyuan Cotton Mill, except for a Zhao Chenbin, whose executives are all foreigners!
This kind of personnel arrangement will definitely shout that the arsenal has fallen into the hands of foreigners and shout that Zhao Dongyun is a traitor.
But in fact, it is common for foreigners to hold important positions in the national factories and bureaus these days. The Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau of Hubei Gun Factory, however, has traces of foreigners in most of its factories. This common phenomenon can’t raise the country and the nation.
As soon as Fuyuan Machinery Factory was established, Zhao Dongyun couldn’t wait to let the wind out. He found Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang. They said that if they had spare money and no place to spend it, they would do business with their buddies! Of course, this process must be a matter that Yuan Shikai has joined in.
And this effect is better than Zhao Dongyun imagined. He has a dozen friendships, but he has turned around in Beiyang’s high-rise buildings and gained almost 52,000 silver. Although most of them are funded by Yuan Shikai, it is enough to scare people.
Look at the list of shareholders. Although all of them are unfamiliar names, these names are all high-level relatives and friends of Beiyang today. You can see Yuan Shikai, Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang and others through those strange names.
Of course, although tens of thousands of silver can be collected from these officials, there is still a huge gap from the total number of 702,000 silver, but it doesn’t matter how much money Yuan Shikai, Duan Qirui and others put in. What matters is that Zhao Dongyun needs their names.
If you want him to take out this secret shareholder list, then it can be said that Fuyuan Machinery Factory is not a purely commercial enterprise, but a commercial enterprise with a strong Beiyang background, and these names are the future profit guarantee.
What?
In addition to the list of these bosses, Fuyuan Machinery Factory can be troubled and obstructed by the government, and it is also enough to cut off all the black hands who are watching. You are welcome to say that anyone who dares to fight Fuyuan Machinery Factory will definitely dare to kill the whole Beiyang high-level athlete Yuan Shikai with tens of thousands of Beiyang New Army.