Chapter 349 Merger (please vote for me!)

The air in the early morning is the freshest and most pleasant. Early morning is also the most peaceful moment when everything on earth is about to wake up.

Many people like early morning and like to get up early. Some of them think that early morning is the time when people’s minds are clearest, and it is the most correct time to deal with things and make judgments at this time.

Therefore, people who get up early often start to deal with things in the early morning. For some people, the early morning routine is often part of a person's habits and personality.

When a ray of sunshine shone into the villa in Yuntai Mountain, Fan Xudong, who had gotten up at five in the morning, had already started his day's work early. As the general manager of Jiuda Refined Salt Company, although Lianyungang provided him with a good investment and

The market environment even provided it with loans and the most important technology, but he knew clearly that if Jiuda Refined Salt Company wanted to achieve real development, it had to face Gonghe Dye.

Gonghe Dyestuff is a wholly-owned subsidiary of ** Company. Compared with Jiuda Company, Gonghe Dyestuff, which started by producing synthetic dyes, although it was founded only a few months earlier than Jiuda Refined Salt, has now developed into a world-famous brand.

Large chemical companies.

The production of chemical dyes has always been monopolized by European countries. Take the United States, a large country that did not participate in the war, as an example. Before the war, there were only two or three chemical industry companies preparing to develop and produce dyes. However, the market demand for chemical dyes was very large.

Because Britain and Germany monopolized the world's dye supply, and the dye technology of each country was backward, after Britain and Germany stopped the supply of dyes, the green cotton cloth turned gray, and the printed cotton cloth turned gray after being washed.

Into a scarlet color.

Originally, civilians in various countries could only endure all this, and dyeing and printing companies could only hope that British dye companies could free up their hands to produce some dyes and then sell them to them. However, Lianyungang Republic Dyestuffs solved this problem immediately.

In the past six months, the synthetic dyes produced by Republic Dyes have been continuously transported to all parts of the country by train, and at the same time shipped to the United States and India by merchant ships. While the dyes are exported, Republic Dyes has also become famous around the world.

Compared with Gonghe Dyestuff, which has grown into a behemoth, Fan Xudong founded Jiuda Refined Salt Company, which is simply an enterprise worth mentioning. However, deep in Fan Xudong's heart, he hopes that one day it can grow into a large-scale chemical industry like Gonghe Dyestuff.

Enterprise. Although he knew that this dream was a bit like a wishful dream. What's more, Jiuda Refined Salt Company also had shares in ** Company.

The Revolution of 1911 broke out and the Provisional Government of the Republic of China was established. Fan Xudong's brother Fan Yuanlian was invited by Cai Yuanpei to serve as deputy minister of education, and Liang Qichao became the chief justice of Yuan's government. Fan Xudong also returned to China with his wife full of patriotic enthusiasm, and was recommended by Liang Qichao to the Ministry of Finance.

At that time, the Ministry of Finance wanted to convert the silver coins with the "Long Yang" pattern in circulation into silver coins with a bust of Yuan Shikai. Fan Xudong was sent to the mint to be responsible for the laboratory analysis of the silver coins. This was his first official position.

According to the minting regulations, each silver dollar weighs seven cents and two cents, and the pure silver content is 96%. However, the mint cut corners, embezzled, and lowered the pure silver content without authorization. Fan Xudong worked hard every day to test, but always found that the analysis results did not meet the standards.

He repeatedly complained to the superiors and asked for recasting, but was not allowed. Out of anger, he resolutely resigned two months later. This was the first time he had tasted the corruption in officialdom. This was good, and it also strengthened him.

The determination to find another way and find a way out.

Salt has been one of the most important daily necessities for human beings since ancient times, and salt management has also been one of the important materials monopolized by Chinese governments of all dynasties. However, until the establishment of Jiuda Salt Salt, although the Chinese people guarded abundant marine resources, the salt they consumed was still

It is coarse salt made by local methods, with low efficiency, low purity, and contains many harmful substances. At that time, Western developed countries had clearly stipulated that salt with less than 85% sodium chloride content was not allowed to be used as feed; but in many places in China it is still

Salt with less than 50% sodium chloride content is used for human consumption. Westerners once ridiculed China as a 'soil-eating nation'. In fact, making refined salt is not difficult and the cost is not high. It is just that China lacks chemical talents and no one has set foot in it.

That's all.

That is to say, after resigning from the Ministry of Finance, Fan Xudong went to Lianyun. When he was hesitating whether to enter Gonghe Dyestuffs, and when he learned that Lianyungang was just an abandoned salt farm in the past, he unexpectedly made the decision to establish a salt company to produce refined salt.

While his brother's connections were developing and shareholders were attracting investment, he tried to apply for a loan from Huaihai Industrial Savings Bank. To his surprise, the bank not only approved his 500,000 yuan loan, but the company also provided him with

Soda ash process.

This was really beyond his expectation. Fan Xudong, who was born in the chemical industry, naturally knew what pure salt was. Alkali and sodium carbonate are one of the most basic chemical raw materials. There are two methods of making alkali: one is the Lubrand method, that is,

Sodium sulfate is used as raw material to make alkali; one is the Solvay method, which uses sodium chloride and limestone as raw materials to make alkali. The latter method has higher purity and is very popular. European countries have formed a patent monopoly on technology.

It is never disclosed to the outside world, and even Japan’s soda ash is monopolized by the British company Benemen.

With the support of ** Company, Jiuda Refined Salt Company not only built underground rock salt brine extraction drilling and underground brine salt fields in northern Jiangsu, with an annual salt production of 100,000 tons, but also established a soda ash production workshop with annual production.

Although Jiuda Refined Salt paid 45% of its equity, in Fan Xudong's view, it was all worth it. Soda ash gave Jiuda Refined Salt a flagship product, especially when the great powers were fighting to the death on the main battlefield in Europe.

, the production and sales of soda ash in the international market have been affected. Due to supply problems in the Asian soda ash market, alkali prices have been rising again and again. Some glass factories, paper mills, textile mills, and dye factories that use soda ash as the basic raw material are struggling in difficulties.

Three months ago, the commissioning of the Jiuda Refined Salt and Soda Ash Workshop not only broke the barrier, but also replaced the Benemen Company, occupying 45% of Japan's soda ash supply in a short period of time, with a monthly profit of hundreds of thousands of yuan.

.

But everyone has certain ambitions. For Fan Xudong, he hopes to build a certain "chemical kingdom". Just soda ash cannot satisfy his ambition. To realize the dream of "chemical kingdom", Fan Xudong knows that he

The first thing that needs to be solved is talent and technology, which is also the prerequisite for attracting investment. Scientific research precedes production. At the beginning of the year, China's first private scientific research institution, Huanghai Chemical Industry Research Institute, was founded. Although the scale is not the same as that of Gonghe Dyestuffs' "Chemical Research

Compared with "So", but at least there is a beginning. Scientific research must precede production before it is possible for the company to be competitive.

Republic Dyes, China Rayon, and Harvest Phosphate Fertilizer. Looking at the three companies on the document, these are the only three chemical companies in China. Among them, Republic Dyes is the largest and most famous, while Republic Dyes and China Rayon,

But it is a wholly-owned subsidiary of ** Company.

"Harvest phosphate fertilizer, Yu Hongyu!"

Looking at the information on the desktop, Fan Xudong had a smile on his face. Yu Hongyu was a student in the Department of Chemistry at Dehua University, but he dropped out of school. With the help of the huge bonus he received from the discovery rights of Jinping Phosphate Mine, he founded

Fengshou Phosphate Fertilizer Company, and the phosphate fertilizer it produces, is mainly sold to the China Agricultural Technology Research Institute, a research farm with one million acres of arable land, owned by the manager.

"We can start with Yu Hongyu first!"

Fan Xudong whispered to himself. Before and after the Spring Festival, he had been thinking about how to build a Chinese "chemical industry empire." If he wanted to establish such an "empire," he must avoid the internal friction of China's chemical industry enterprises and establish

A large chemical monopoly is extremely necessary.

Only by clenching your hands into a fist can you exert all your strength to merge the three companies and establish a large chemical company! However, due to capital and scale reasons, Fan Xudong knew that this road would not be as easy as he imagined.

And today, today is a beginning!

In front of the mirror, he tied the red tie that brings good luck, looked back at his wife's face, and prepared to leave the house. He smiled happily and said to his wife Xu Fu, whom he met in Japan, who also studied in Japan like him:

"I'm going to work!"

Xu Fu also smiled, looked at Fan Xudong quietly and said:

"come back earlier!"

As a middle school teacher, she knew that today was a big day for her husband, an unprecedented big day.

"waiting for your good news!"

"Um!"

Fan Xudong responded softly, smiled at his wife, and then walked out of the house.

Exactly three weeks later, on this day, in the rooftop office on the 28th floor of the headquarters building of ** Company, Mu, the director and general manager of ** Company, was sitting on a leather armchair. He glanced again

The report in front of me, and then he gave instructions skillfully. The current ** company has already developed into the largest enterprise in China, and even the largest enterprise in Asia. It owns the largest coal mine, the largest iron mine, and the largest steel plant in Asia.

The biggest... But none of this is the most important. The most important thing is that he owns the longest private railway in Asia, and on both sides of this private railway, there are many commercial districts with the train station as the center.

Surrounding the station, there are industrial and commercial cities scattered with industrial areas outside the commercial area. This is the most important thing.

As the general manager of ** Company, Mu knows better than anyone, even Li Zhiyuan, the chairman of ** Company, that the current ** Company has actually reached the "enemy state". Compared with China, this

This company has too much capital, and every day, companies affiliated to ** Company start construction or put into production. On both sides of the railway from Lianyungang to Chang'an, there are dozens of stations attached to the land, and only ** Company directly plans to invest.

There are as many as 4,000 enterprises.

Too huge!

Mu thought to himself, there are thousands of companies, except for a few subsidiaries, most of them are directly invested and directly managed by ** companies, which invisibly makes the company's management more and more complex.

, increasing management costs.

“One business, one enterprise!”

Mu Fan looked at the report on the table. It was a report he was going to hand to Zhiyuan to rectify the company's affiliated enterprises. He would make a comprehensive adjustment to the company's industrial departments and implement the principle of "one enterprise, one enterprise" within the company.

A monopoly company is established in each industry, and then the related companies are merged into this monopoly company. This monopoly company then manages those branch companies and is responsible for the investment and development of the entire industry. As the head office, ** company

It only manages industry companies through equity holdings.

This is the company's future development strategy formulated by Taylor, the company's senior consultant. According to that strategy, after the reorganization, the company will form a huge Concern Group. This huge Concern Group will be responsible for the entire China in the future.

Industrialization mission, and ** Company will be responsible for China's industrial planning and development.

At that time, ** Company will be closely integrated with this country and form an inseparable combination. It will be the first union of a country and an enterprise in the world.

"Company, country..."

When this thought came up in his mind, Mu felt his heart tremble slightly, and he felt an involuntary fear in his heart, but he didn't know where that fear came from.

He stood up from the big desk, crossed the room, walked to the flower window on the south wall, and stared at the people and vehicles on the street downstairs.

Now it has become the heart of the entire Lianyungang, and Lianyungang is the leader of Longhai, the steel dragon. In the future, Longhai, the steel dragon, will become a powerful engine leading the development of China's industry and commerce. Not only will this place become *

*, which is destined to become the heart of the financial and industrial empire, and will also become the economic heart of all China.

While looking out the window, Mu Que suddenly had the illusion that the whole of China had turned into a jungle, and ** Company was a tiger in the jungle that would devour everything in the jungle.

"bell……"

Just then the phone rang, and Mu walked to the table and picked up the phone.

Minutes later, the door mounted on the wall paneled with wooden planks appeared. When the door was closed, it looked like part of the wall.

"Mr. Fan, please sit down!"

It was Fan Xudong who came. When he entered Mu's office, he took a look at the spacious office. This was not the first time he came to this office, but this time, his mood was completely different.

"Manager Mu!"

After bowing gently, Fan Xudong sat on the chair.

"Huh? Why didn't Manager Yu come with you? It's really gratifying that Jiuda and Fengsheng have merged into one company!"

When mentioning the merger of Wynn and Fengshou, Mu Dao took a careful look at Fan Xudong. The merger of the two companies seemed to have no impact on Lianyung, but in fact, to some extent, it meant that the merger of Lianyungang
To be continued...