Chapter 1308 War is business (Third update, please subscribe)
Author: Xiaoyu’s Destiny
Chapter 1308 War is business (Third update, please subscribe)
In the early morning, gray clouds blowing from the Pacific Ocean press over the sea, and the gentle sea breeze blows the trees on the shore.
The Taichang Shipyard was as noisy as ever.
Sitting in the office, Wang Pengju moved the globe with his fingers from time to time, listening to the sound of the tinkling air hammer hitting rivets outside. He seemed to be looking for something on the globe.
What is he looking for? Of course he is looking for new business opportunities.
This shipyard was founded by him. When it was first founded, it was just a ship repair yard. From the ship repair yard to the shipyard, it has been more than 20 years now. The current Taichang Shipyard not only has three ships that can build 5,000-ton ships.
The slipway even has two large docks that can build 10,000-ton merchant ships, and there are also two floating docks for ship repairs. There are nearly 5,000 workers in the shipyard. Although such a shipyard is not to mention the largest in the world.
The Ming Dynasty is not that big even in Linhai, but a factory of this size definitely belongs to a large enterprise.
However, in Wang Pengju's view, his shipyard has entered a bottleneck period. Since Taichang Shipyard took advantage of the country's encouragement of shipbuilding to develop, although it has built many civilian ships and expanded its scale in recent years, it has always been unable to do so.
cannot be further developed.
If you want to achieve further development, you must not only build civilian ships, but also build warships! Because building warships that symbolize the cornerstone of the empire will bring extremely high benefits to the company, both financially and in terms of prestige.
Of course, what's more important is that compared to those stingy shipowners, the military has always been very generous. In order to enhance the R&D enthusiasm of the factory, the Imperial Navy has not only provided them with sufficient R&D funds, the Navy
There is no too much entanglement in the price issue - as long as they are willing to spend the money they earn on research and development, the navy will pay no matter how high the price is!
Fortunately, the Navy did not spend too much money. With this strong support, the Imperial Navy has always maintained a technological level that leads the world.
The Navy is very generous and generous.
It's just that the Imperial Navy only has Nanhua Shipyard and the Navy's own large shipyards in their eyes. Of course, there are also some large shipyards.
Shipyards like Taichang, which are not large or small, are unlikely to be cooperation partners of the navy.
But what is the situation now?
It is simply a feast for the shipbuilding industry.
Because the Imperial Dreadnought was launched, the warships previously built by various countries became obsolete for a while. The United Kingdom, France, Germany, the United States, Rome, and Italy successively built their own dreadnoughts. The warships built by everyone in the past became obsolete overnight.
The navies of all countries around the world must redesign various indicators. In any case, they must at least ensure that their navies do not lag behind other countries.
But many times, one thing affects the other. When the dreadnoughts were built in the era of dreadnoughts, the cruisers, destroyers, transport ships, and supply ships that were used with the dreadnoughts also became outdated. So almost all of these also need to be updated.
, the navies of various countries are always getting a lot of orders, but every shipyard's eyes are red when they see it, and anyone who has anything to do with the ship swarms in, wanting to get a piece of the pie.
Navy is a piece of Tang Monk meat. Everyone knows that it tastes delicious, but whether you can eat it depends on your ability.
Thinking of this, Wang Pengju felt a little helpless!
It's really frustrating to be looked down upon by others. After all, Taichang's scale is really limited! Let alone building a dreadnought, even a 10,000-ton cruiser cannot be built.
Compared with those large shipbuilding companies that are like wolves and tigers, Taichang Shipyard can only be regarded as a small group of people who want to eat the meat of Tang Monk. Originally, they planned to build a lot of ships this time, and they could get a piece of it more or less.
However, after several rounds, Taichang was still empty-handed. The navy looked down upon Taichang at all, not because of his size, but because of his lack of experience - he had never built warships, so there was no possibility of bidding.
It sounds reasonable, but Wang Pengju is not convinced. Why does the Navy require experience in building warships? Who built the warships when there was no experience in the first place?
Of course, the Navy would definitely not answer his question.
It's just that he is depressed!
Why can other people drink wine from large bowls and eat large pieces of meat, but I don’t even have any leftover soup residue?
At this moment, someone was knocking on the heavy door outside, and Wang Pengju temporarily put away his depressed mood.
"Who is it, come in."
The concierge, Uncle Qin, opened the door and walked in. He stood at the door and said:
"Boss, there is a Mr. Liang outside who wants to see you."
"Mr. Liang? I don't seem to have an appointment with anyone? Tell him I'm not free."
Wang Pengju, who was in a bad mood, naturally did not want to see guests.
"Boss, that man said that he and the young master were classmates in middle school."
"Jingchu's middle school classmate?"
Wang Pengju raised his head and said to Uncle Qin standing at the door:
"It's better to bring him to me."
Jing Chu’s classmates always wanted to meet him. After a while, a fair young man wearing gold-rimmed glasses appeared at the door of his office.
"Hey, isn't this Liang Dong? I remember that after graduating from middle school, you were admitted to Nanyuan Business School, and you were good at studying business."
He was still impressed by several of his son's classmates. The Liang Dong in front of him was not particularly outstanding in his studies, but he was still admitted to university in the end, so he could be considered successful in his studies.
As for business schools, after graduating, you will work in companies or enterprises. Generally speaking, it is not bad.
"Hello, Uncle Wang."
Liang Dong didn't have much impression of the "rich" Uncle Wang in front of him. Although he and Wang Jingchu were middle school classmates, after all, their identities were very different and they had only met a few times.
"Sit, please sit down. Liang Dong, how are you? Where are you now?"
With a smile on his face, Wang Pengju politely asked Liang Dong to sit on the sofa, while he sat down on the side and asked.
"I set up a trading company of my own and have been doing foreign trade business with some foreign customers in the past few years."
"Foreign trade business."
Wang Pengju nodded repeatedly and said:
"Not bad, not bad! This business is good, much better than that boy Jingchu. You said to that boy, if you don't go to a good university, you have to go to a military academy. Why don't you go to Africa all of a sudden? I'm almost two years old."
I haven’t seen that boy in years...hey,"
When he mentioned his son, Wang Pengju felt a twinge of discomfort in his heart. He had not seen him for two years!
"Jingchu is a man with great ambitions. When he was admitted to the military academy, he said that he would never do better than you in business in his life, so he went to the military academy. Only in this way can he achieve success.
Only then can I live up to you, uncle..."
When he said this, Liang Dong's mood was a little complicated. In fact, he was full of envy for Wang Jingchu in his heart, because the wealth his father created for him allowed him to pursue a career he liked, unlike him who could only do it for
A few taels of broken silver to run around with.
The compliments from his son's classmates made Wang Pengju feel better and said again and again.
"Hey, no matter what your ambitions are, it's good to have someone by your side. By the way, are you here for anything?"
"Things, there's no point in talking about things."
Liang Dong said.
"The main thing is that I want to discuss a business deal with Uncle Wang."
"Let's talk about a business deal?"
Liang Dong said casually:
"Yes, the business of building warships."
(End of chapter)
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