Liao Yaquan suddenly settled down. Although she continued to participate in social activities, she did not show up as often as before.
The Lunar New Year arrived in the blink of an eye, but there was no sense of the New Year in big cities, and Chang Kaishen had no intention of celebrating the New Year. He finally stung the hornet's nest, unable to defeat Hu Hanmin politically, so he defeated him physically.
This undoubtedly violated a huge taboo and put everyone within the Kuomintang in danger.
Going back three to five years, Hu Hanmin, Wang Zhaoming, and Liao Zhongkai were known as the "Three Giants of the Kuomintang". At that time, Chang Kaishen was not ranked at all.
For such a hugely influential figure, Chang Kaishen actually said he would be put under house arrest, and there were rumors that Hu Hanmin would be shot. What about other members of the Kuomintang? Will Chang Kaishen also be shot in the future?
Even the members of Chang Kaishen's own faction couldn't stand this approach, and Wu Zhihui was so angry that he closed his doors and stopped seeing guests.
Wang Zhaoming took the opportunity to jump up and down, win over the Kuomintang faction that supported Hu Hanmin, and bribed newspapers to criticize Chang Kaishen's dictatorial methods, causing Chang Kaishen's reputation to plummet.
The "War between Ningxia and Guangdong" was officially on the table, and the civil war was about to break out again. Zhang Xueliang's nerves were also tense, because his newly attached warlords were also ready to take advantage of the chaos in the south to cause trouble.
Zhou Hexuan did not get involved in this dispute. On the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, he took his wife Zhang Leyi to Tianjin Taikoo Pier to prepare to welcome his father-in-law who returned from the United States.
Also accompanying him were Zhang Zhongyuan, president of the Tianjin General Chamber of Commerce, and Wang Yibao, vice president.
Both of them came to clean up Zhang Mouzhi's reputation, which shows that Zhang Mouzhi is very famous in the Chinese business community. Nowadays, the condom business in the United States is getting bigger and bigger. Last year's net profit reached 600,000 US dollars, and Zhang Mouzhi plans to continue to expand.
Production scale.
Since the late Qing Dynasty, I have only heard of foreigners making big money by opening companies in China, and no Chinese has been able to make big money by opening companies in Europe and the United States. Zhang Mouzhi is the only one who has become the pride of Chinese businessmen.
In addition to Zhang Zhongyuan and Wang Yibao, Li Shoumin's father-in-law Sun Zhongshan also came. They were doing silver business together, and Zhang Mouzhi had to be entrusted with the import of silver, so Sun Zhongshan had to come and coax him.
A cargo ship sailed into the dock. The coolie porters on the shore had been waiting for a long time. The ship could only start unloading after the ship docked.
Zhang Mouzhi was accompanied by a foreign attendant. He walked off the ship with great pride and said, "John, you are responsible for keeping an eye on the cargo. Don't damage it."
"Okay, sir." The foreigner responded, and the word "master" was even in Chinese.
Zhang Zhongyuan looked extremely envious, clasped his fists and said: "Boss Zhang is so majestic, even foreigners can do whatever he wants."
"No, no," Zhang Mouzhi said with a smile, "Foreigners are also human beings. If you can afford the wages, you can ask them to help you with things."
Zhou Hexuan introduced: "This is the president of Tianjin General Chamber of Commerce, Zhang Zhongyuan, Boss Zhang."
Zhang Mouzhi cupped his fists and said, "President Zhang, nice to meet you!"
"Nice to meet you!" Zhang Zhongyuan replied.
Zhou Hexuan introduced Wang Yibao and Sun Zhongshan. They were both businessmen, and the conversation soon became lively.
Although Chang Kaishen only unified the country in name, this kind of central government is a sharp weapon. The party headquarters of the Kuomintang has extended to Sichuan, Shanxi, North China, and Northeast China under the legitimate name. Even the Tianjin General Chamber of Commerce has been influenced by the Kuomintang.
Control of Tianjin Party Headquarters.
A few days ago, the Tianjin General Chamber of Commerce just held a general election. Although the candidates for the president and vice president remained unchanged, the internal situation of the chamber of commerce has changed greatly.
At the general election meeting, important members of the Tianjin party and government organs of the Kuomintang were present. Zhang Zhongyuan also led 22 members of the Chamber of Commerce to swear an oath, which read: abide by the Prime Minister's will, obey the party's principles, and pursue the laws of the central government and higher authorities...
On the dock, porters are already busy, and some large machines must use tripods and pulleys.
Zhang Zhongyuan looked at the machines and asked in surprise: "Boss Zhang is going to open a factory in Tianjin?"
"I want to open a factory, but not in Tianjin," Zhang Mouzhi explained. "I plan to open an enamel factory that will use the most advanced automatic oil-burning furnaces and electric bicycles in the United States. Not only will the production efficiency be higher than that of enamel factories in China and Japan,
It is 5 times higher and the harm to workers’ health is greatly reduced.”
"Really increase productivity five times?" Wang Yibao asked in surprise.
Zhang Mouzhi smiled and said: "This is still a conservative estimate. As long as the production is done properly, the efficiency can continue to improve."
Sun Zhongshan admired and said: "Boss Zhang is still good at business and has better means than us in banking."
"I don't dare," Zhang Mouzhi said. "I am also grateful to have a good son-in-law. It was he who suggested that I introduce American machinery to open a factory."
Zhou Hexuan stood beside him and smiled. This was indeed his idea to take advantage of the U.S. economic crisis. But Zhang Mouzhi had to decide what project to invest in. Unexpectedly, Zhang Mouzhi actually chose to open an enamel factory.
China learned its enamel technology from Japan, but Japan was not a good teacher.
It was not until six years ago that a wholly Chinese-owned enamel factory appeared in China. Among them, the Shanghai Huafeng Factory introduced a complete set of embryo-making machinery from Germany and Japan two years ago, which can be regarded as a semi-automatic assembly line production.
However, except for two or three large factories such as Huafeng Factory and Zhufeng Factory, other enamel factories in China are still operated in a workshop style, and the making of embryos requires workers to beat them with hammers.
Especially in the pickling and degreasing process, workers are required to wear rubber gloves during the entire process and fish the iron billets in and out of the pickling pool, clear water pool, and neutralizing alkali pool. This method is not only labor-intensive, but also low in production efficiency and energy-intensive.
The consumption is high, the quality of the finished products is poor, and the harmful gases emitted in the air will seriously affect the health of workers.
It was not until the founding of the People's Republic of China that China's enamel degreasing technology was revolutionized. Only improvements in automatic oil-burning furnaces and drying beds increased output by more than three times.
Zhang Mouzhi bought back a complete assembly line from the United States this time, from embryo making, degreasing, glaze making, enameling to decoration, the whole process of semi-automatic assembly line production. The overall production efficiency is at least 20 times higher than that of several major enamel factories in Shanghai.
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As for the price of these machines, haha, it’s half free and half free, and the total adds up to less than 100,000 US dollars.
Not only that, Zhang Mouzhi also invited back several American engineers. Their salaries were pitifully low, and they were basically given food to eat. Who made them unable to find jobs in the United States?
The only thing that cannot compare with the Shanghai Enamel Factory is that this kind of assembly line consumes a lot of electricity. Electricity was very expensive during the Republic of China. Some factory owners would rather hire dozens more workers than spend money on electricity.
If you want to build an enamel factory in China, Tianjin is the best choice.
Firstly, there is no competition among peers in Tianjin, as China's large enamel factories are all located in Shanghai; secondly, there is Jiuda Group in Tianjin, which can independently produce many chemical raw materials, and the purchase of raw materials is extremely convenient and economical.
But Zhou Hexuan strongly opposed it, because this assembly line is the most advanced in Asia, more advanced than the enamel factories in Japan. If the factory is built in Tianjin, it will be all for nothing in a few years, and Zhou Hexuan will not do this.
Stupid thing.
The location chosen by Zhou Hexuan to build the factory is Shancheng, Chongqing!
