() Busy time always passes quickly. The bigger and bigger the base and more and more people, the result is faster and faster construction progress, and the cost is a huge amount of money and dedicated efforts like running water.
Investment. Liu Fu is not under great pressure in terms of funds. His "Golden Elephant Pharmacy" and David's "Shandru Pharmaceutical Company" sell "anti-inflammatory tablets" in Asia, Europe and the United States, which are more expensive than gold. A large number of
Silver, pounds, francs, marks and US dollars continued to flow into his pocket. However, Liu Fu was under great pressure in management. Various daily affairs and current accounts took up almost all of Liu Fu's time, and he could not even take time to eat.
, and also listen to various treatment options.
Finally, Liu Fu couldn't bear it anymore and gave up the idea of slowly cultivating talents. He telegraphed to David and asked him to immediately find a team that can manage these factories and mines. It is best to have people who can speak English.
No limit, according to the current industrial scale of Keelung, it is enough.
It seems that David is doing well in the United States. Less than two months after the telegram was sent, a management team of more than 20 people boarded the ship from the United States. According to David in the telegram, this was from several large-scale companies in the United States.
Those who were poached from the enterprise at high prices include senior and mid-level managers and various experts in finance and law.
In October 1888, the management team finally arrived in Hong Kong. Liu Fu sent people to rent a boat to bring the saviors to Keelung. When Liu Fu stood on the Keelung pier and saw the ship docking, he felt that he was about to collapse. However,
Liu Fu was happy too early. What followed was a full day of meetings, discussions on various authority and treatment details, and the signing of a lot of legal documents. Fortunately, David specially hired a separate team of lawyers.
He came over and was responsible for negotiating with the other party on behalf of Liu Fu. Just like that, it took more than a week to finally finalize the contract details. To put it simply, three companies were established: Keelung Mining, Keelung Heavy Industry, and Keelung Chemical. According to the company model
, these professionals serve as company managers and some middle-level cadres, responsible for managing most of the company's daily affairs, and are personally responsible for Liu Fu. In addition, the legal team David hired for Liu Fu serves as a shareholder to help Liu Fu with his financial affairs.
Supervision and advice.
It was Liu Fu's first time to come into contact with this kind of professional manager. In his previous life, he had only heard of it and had no chance to get involved. However, he actually caught up with it in this life. He saw that various legal documents and contracts were signed with more detail than a lawsuit.
The anxiety also calmed down a little. Through this incident, Liu Fu realized that many Western technologies and business models were far beyond the Qing Dynasty of this era. However, he could not control so much, so he first put his own
Only when the living space is preserved can we pursue more advanced pursuits.
Originally, a management team took over and he could get away. Unexpectedly, these American elites were more troublesome to actually manage. All kinds of bizarre suggestions were constantly put forward, and there was even an application to establish a labor union. Liu Fu had to put these elites together
Ying called them together and held a popularization class on national conditions. Based on what he knew, he described the Qing Dynasty of this era to them, and then asked them to consider the national conditions of the country they live in before making suggestions. Finally, he solemnly
Remind them that you paid them to come here, not to lead the Qing Dynasty to carry out all-round reforms, but to help them create more value for the industries under their management name.
However, Liu Fu also adopted some reasonable suggestions, such as establishing a staff training mechanism, improving work processes, etc., and also paid bonuses in public to managers who made reasonable suggestions.
As these managers gradually became familiar with various situations in Taiwan, they all quickly made their own adjustments. The obviously inappropriate suggestions gradually disappeared, and Liu Fu was completely relieved of the heavy management burden.
The senior management of Tianhe Management Company held a small meeting to communicate with each other about their ideas and the company's situation.
Although Liu Fu handed over the management of the company to a professional team, he still paid more attention to the operation of the company and closely monitored the capital control and financial status through his team of lawyers, in order to restrict the company's senior managers so that they could not
Easily change one's own will and endanger the interests of the company.
After breaking away from Wenshanhuihai, Liu Fu devoted his main experience to the research institute. After several months of running-in and preparation, some simple imitations and analyzes have yielded initial results. First of all, in terms of explosives, several chemical experts invented bullets from later generations.
A very powerful explosive component was isolated from the chemical, which is estimated to be more than ten times more powerful than contemporary explosives. However, since the chemical plant has not yet been put into production, the specific
The mass production process has not yet been completed. Secondly, the imitation of engines has also achieved some success. An imitation motorcycle engine built with simple equipment can already operate normally, but the output power, noise, heat and lifespan are not up to par.
to the parameters of the original product, but there is still room for improvement in these aspects. Through adjustments to the manufacturing process and materials, there is still the possibility of improvement.
Liu Fu is very pleased with the research results. There is basically no problem with the explosives. If the engine can reach half of the original parameters, it is enough. If it can be improved any further, it will overfulfill the task. Liu Fu is well aware of the limitations of the times. Some things, such as
Processing precision and the application of new materials cannot be solved by human brains.
Another surprise is that the mechanical research team assembled the motorcycles and trucks taken from the fishing boats according to the drawings. The workmanship is actually very good. If you look closely, you can’t tell that they were made by a group of 19th century people who had never seen a car or a motorcycle.
What kind of person assembled the car? What surprised Liu Fu was not the success of the assembly, but the suggestion made by Carl Schneider, a German engineer in the mechanical team. He said to Liu Fu, why not mass-produce such a good machine?
?This is the best gift God has given to mankind.
Liu Fu didn't know whether it was a gift from God, but it was definitely a good idea to produce cars and motorcycles for sale. Liu Fu remembered that the first car in the world also appeared at the end of the 19th century. On TV, the Empress Dowager Cixi even had a car given by a foreigner.
Well, if we build our own cars, then Mercedes-Benz and Ford will probably go bankrupt. Their cars are simply shabby compared to our own.
At first, Liu Fu planned to build a factory in Taiwan to produce cars and sell them all over the world, which could just make up for his embarrassment of having only one income from pills. After several days of planning and preparation, Liu Fu gradually woke up from his dream of a car empire.
I was shocked by my own thoughts.
Let’s not talk about the problems of raw materials and marketing transportation, nor the problems of assembly lines and worker skills. Just because this car is made in Taiwan, it will make you miserable. Those European and American capitalists will tolerate a Qing man to create such an epoch-making product.
Mechanical? As soon as your car is launched, what will follow will not be pounds and dollars, but commercial spies from various developed countries; if you agree to sell the car to them at a cabbage price, then that's fine, it's just
If you don't say a word, then warships and cannons will follow. Those capitalists will definitely find various ways to catch themselves in their factories, produce cars and motorcycles for them, or make themselves disappear, or simply
No one should give birth. By that time, let alone the little nobleman David Warburg, even the Queen of England cannot protect herself. This is called a common man who is innocent and guilty of carrying a treasure. If you don't have such great ability, don't do it.
Such a big thing.
Not only can we not build a factory in Taiwan, but we cannot build a factory anywhere in the world. We cannot sell such cars and motorcycles, we can only keep them secretly in our own hands. As for when they will be produced, it depends on when we can protect ourselves.
