"Mr. Parker, your views are really... shocking to me."

Li Xuewu said he was shocked, but the expression on his face was full of satisfaction and a smile.

He waved to Peng Xiaoli, and then asked Pike: "Is this your first time in the capital?"

"Of course, a first time, one of many wonderful firsts in life"

Parker's mental state seemed very relaxed, and he was not at all nervous about participating in foreign affairs activities.

Even though the person sitting opposite him is the one being negotiated for cooperation, it can indeed be seen that the old capital has a certain background.

He watched Li Xuewu spread his hands, gestured to the scene passing by outside the window, and said seriously: "Your country is too big and has absolute depth of development."

"I have no doubt about the future here, let alone that a country with thousands of years of splendid civilization will always fall behind."

"Thank you, thank you for your sincere opinion"

Li Xuewu nodded with a smile, took a picture album from Peng Xiaoli and placed it on the small table between the two parties.

"As a personal invitation to welcome you, I have a gift to give you."

"Oh? What a surprise"

Parker's eyes had been on the album for a long time. Now he raised his head and looked at Li Xuewu and Xue Zhifu, nodded and said, "Can I take a look now?"

"Of course, it's yours"

Li Xuewu politely pushed the picture album forward and raised his hand to signal him to do whatever he wanted.

Parker first greeted the two of them with a smile, and then opened the album in front of him.

"oh--!"

As soon as he opened the first page, he was shocked by the exquisite design in the album.

The prototype of a factory suddenly appeared on the unfolded page, and scenes of some buildings and workers' labor appeared on the page.

Three-dimensional paper model, an extension of traditional paper-cutting technology, has a unique and exquisite shape.

"This is the early stage of the establishment of Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill"

Li Xuewu leaned forward and introduced: "At that time, we had just ushered in new social changes, and everything was starting from scratch."

"I have learned about your history. It is very difficult and I feel deeply about it."

Pike nodded and said: "The British mainland was also bombed by the Germans, and even our king had to hide in an air raid shelter."

"War is cruel and cold-blooded. It has left deep wounds on every nation."

Li Xuewu said with a serious face: "So we must be independent, work hard, and be scientific and innovative."

At his signal, Parker turned to the second page. A steelmaking blast furnace rose from the ground, and several representative steelmaking workers stood in the workshop holding tools in hand.

"Gangcheng Steelmaking Plant, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hongxing Steel Rolling Plant, with an annual production capacity of 450,000 tons"

Li Xuewu said: "We now have six blast furnaces, including two special steel refining blast furnaces."

"Raw materials are purchased locally, and the steel output is mainly supplied to projects such as steel rolling mills, shipyards, hardware factories, and the automobile industry."

"This way"

He gestured to Parker to continue turning the page and introduced: "Yingcheng Shipyard is located in an excellent port in the Bohai Bay. It is a downstream project acquired by the steel rolling mill last year."

"The shipyard has the manufacturing capacity of 10,000 tons of cargo ships, and its orders mainly include cargo ships, fishing boats, speedboats and luxury yachts."

"Andrew's project?"

Parker interrupted Li Xuewu's introduction, nodded and said, "I heard Andrew introduce this place, it's very beautiful."

"It's like this. We have cooperated with Geely Star Shipbuilding to develop a luxury yacht project. What Mr. Andrew saw is probably just the tip of the iceberg."

Li Xuewu tapped the location of Yingcheng Port Pier on the page with his hand and emphasized: "The shipyard's project far exceeded his expectations."

After saying that, he opened the document handed over by Peng Xiaoli and found a plan and placed it in front of the other party.

It's all in English and easy to read. Parker just lowered his head and knew what Li Xuewu wanted to say.

"Development project for large cargo ships?"

He looked at Li Xuewu with some surprise and asked, "Does Yingcheng Shipyard already have the manufacturing capacity for large cargo ships?"

It is not surprising that he was suspicious. The information provided to Andrew by the steel rolling mill showed that the Yingcheng Shipyard would not be able to complete all construction projects until June this year at the earliest.

A shipyard that has not yet been completed is going to build a giant ship of 10,000 tons?

“You may have heard of Ben Thanh Shipyard”

Li Xuewu said frankly: "At last year's Yangcheng Foreign Trade Fair, we both reached a unanimous cooperation agreement."

"Bincheng..."

Parker nodded clearly, temporarily dispelling his doubts, and looked at the document in his hand.

Li Xuewu continued to introduce when he was halfway through reading: "The advantages of container transportation in long-distance shipping and railway transportation have been revealed."

"So the next 10,000-ton giant ship project to be built by Yingcheng Shipyard will be a container transport ship."

"Oh, I've seen it"

Pike pointed his finger at the mark on the document, nodded and confirmed: "Whoever said that the mainland's thinking is backward is simply nonsense."

He raised his head and looked at Li Xuewu, smiled and said with emotion: "As far as I know, there are very few companies that are starting to deploy container ships now."

"No, the advanced transportation field in Europe and the United States has already begun. We are not too advanced."

Li Xuewu would not be stunned by his two words. He clicked on the market research report at the back of the document and said: "It's not too late to pursue it now."

Parker looked at the investigation report carefully, frowned slightly, and asked, "Where does this data come from?"

"In the newspaper"

If Li Xuewu wants to say something, he will naturally say it. If he doesn't want to say something, he can lie casually without any interruption.

Just such a sentence left Parker speechless. He didn't want any newspaper to be so boring and bold as to dare to publish data on several large ships in the world and the overall situation of shipping.

Information exchange in this era was not as smooth and transparent as in later generations, and many key data were kept as secrets.

He could only say that the steel rolling mill had a profound foundation and that Li Xuewu had great supernatural powers.

Putting down the documents in his hand, Parker smiled and nodded, saying: "It's a great idea. I think this project has unlimited future."

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Li Xuewu seemed to understand his idea, and did not dwell on the project, and continued to introduce the picture album.

After seeing the steel rolling mill, the steelmaking plant, and the shipyard, Li Xuewu showed him the introduction of the tertiary industry factory, the Tianjin Trade Management Center, and the joint enterprise.

The last page was unfolded, and there was a map of the country. Little red flags were raised in the cities where cooperative relationships had been established at the steel rolling mill and offices had been established.

"oh--"

Parker looked at the cities marked on the paper film, as well as the associated company and office marks, and said in surprise: "You are already building your own sales network?"

"Integration, opening up the upstream and downstream industrial chain, integrating humanities, travel, scientific research, teaching, production, sales, recuperation and other integrated in-depth enterprises".

Li Xuewu pointed to several key cities and introduced: "This, this, this, this, and this are the cities selected for the offices to be developed this year."

Based on the previous introduction to joint enterprises and trade, Parker knew that the office mentioned in Li Xuewu's words was actually the prototype of a sales subsidiary.

It has an integrated management structure of sales, purchasing, finance, maintenance, and after-sales, which is said to be a branch.

But as the overall structure continues to improve, these branch structures can independently complete incubation and extension, forming subsidiaries and third-level branches.

Every establishment of an office in a large city or key city means that the province in which it is located has an anchor point for development.

Next, provincial-level sales companies will be created upwards, and municipal-level branches will be extended downwards. During this period, independent projects can also be incubated.

By then, the steel rolling mill will have Beijing as the main control brain, Tianjin as the core eye, and the Steel City as the hematopoietic heart. Its tentacles will be all over the country, and the domestic sales situation of products will be fully opened.

With Jinmen as the key node and Yingcheng as the transportation springboard, goods will jump out of the country and go to the world. This behemoth, both internal and external, will break down all trade barriers with low prices, high quality, and high-efficiency weapons.

Even if it faces siege and interception, it will not affect its rapid development. Instead, it will give it stronger motivation and the products it produces will become more sophisticated and cheaper.

At that time, factories and enterprises of the same type can only be passively involuted, compared with labor, technology, equipment, materials, and even culture.

There were beads of sweat on Pike's forehead. He knew this nation and the cultural heritage of this country very well.

Really, when it comes to comparing cultures, who can beat them?

What he is afraid of is not that the giant ship of trust, the Red Star Rolling Mill, will crash into the pattern of world trade. What he is afraid of is that there is more than just a trust, the Red Star Rolling Mill.

Intelligent and research-oriented enterprises can be incubated around Beijing, production- and manufacturing-oriented enterprises can be incubated around Steel City, and trade- and exchange-oriented enterprises can be incubated around Tianjin.

The three points are mutually structured and dependent on each other. In the end, this game can only be incubated more and more integrated enterprises will be formed, and finally a particularly large trust economic complex will be formed.

This is only in the north. If such a group-type, integrated trust appears in the south, where the climate and industrial production environment are better, will it be another nonsense?

Pike slowly raised his stiff neck. He was a little too focused just now and even neglected to be polite and courteous. He smiled apologetically at Li Xuewu and Li Xuewu.

“It’s really shocking, indeed”

He shook his head and sighed: "I believe you have many projects and contents that you have not introduced, but I can imagine how huge such an enterprise is."

Li Xuewu shrugged his shoulders and gave him an expression that said it was true, you guessed it, but there was no reward.

"You should be very clear that the nature of our enterprise is collective and organizational ownership."

He looked at Pike and explained seriously: "The establishment and development of all factories must conform to the needs of the times, the needs of the people, and the needs of the organization."

"At the same time, the application and service of the tertiary industry in joint enterprises is another exploration of the economy compared with market liberalization."

Li Xuewu tapped the document at hand and said: "We need foreign trade to maintain the introduction of technology and equipment, and then quickly improve the existing production level."

“Perfect layout and management ideas”

Parker nodded in agreement, then leaned back, looked at Li Xuewu and asked, "Is this your work, Mr. Li?"
To be continued...