The first shipyard of Feng's Shipping Company is located in the north of the North Coast Development Zone. This is also the first shipyard invested and built by their company, which set off the integrated operation model of shipbuilding, shipping and port of Feng's Shipping Company.
However, although Feng's No. 1 Shipyard is of great significance to their company, it is actually not large in scale. There are only a few docks, and its largest dry dock can only build ships of 400 tons.
Compared with the other shipyards that their company has acquired before, they are much larger than the Feng's First Shipyard.
However, today, this No. 1 shipyard welcomed a group of senior executives from their company headquarters!
The senior executives of these companies were looking at the steam liner under construction in the dock. Among them, a young and somewhat excessive young man was surrounded by everyone.
This young man surrounded by everyone has a very special surname for Feng Shipping Company: Feng!
This person’s surname is Feng and his first name is Jiwen!
The second son of Feng Zhanlin, the late founder of Feng Shipping Company, is no more and no less than twenty years old this year. After his father passed away due to illness this year, according to the will, as the second son, he surpassed the eldest son.
The eldest brother, second brother and other brothers inherited almost all the family property, including part of the shares of Feng Shipping Company, a large amount of land, real estate, numerous negotiable notes, cash, etc.
He is not the only son of the Feng family, nor is he the eldest son, just the second son. According to secular concepts, it is impossible for him to take over the family business, but his father Feng Zhanlin gave him the family business, and according to these days
The inheritance tradition of Chinese gentry families allows him to inherit all the family property.
Traditionally, in order to maintain the continued prosperity of the family, aristocratic families would often concentrate most of the family's wealth on one person to inherit it, and other sons would generally only receive a small amount of wealth, rather than sharing it equally among all descendants.
Feng Jiwen is the beneficiary of this traditional inheritance system of aristocratic families. Basically, each of his brothers can only receive an inheritance worth thousands of taels or tens of thousands of yuan, but he has received an inheritance worth millions.
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Most of the millions of inheritance came from the stocks of Feng Shipping Company and some stocks of related companies. In particular, the 21% stock of Fung Shipping Company was of huge value.
Feng's Shipping Company used to be a purely family business, but then it reformed itself in order to develop and gradually introduced capital investment. The shares held by the Feng family also gradually reduced from full ownership to the current 21%.
Although the Feng family gave up the shares, it doubled the value of these shares. Moreover, when investment was introduced, the voting rights of many shares were fully entrusted to the Feng family. This is why the Feng family can continue to control
The reason for this shipping company.
Of course, this is why investors believe that the Feng family can lead Feng Shipping to go further.
Feng Jiwen, who inherited the shares, started to take charge of the family business in accordance with his father's wishes. To this end, he went through the formalities of suspending his studies at the Imperial College. He is still a sophomore student at the Imperial College. Unfortunately, if nothing else happens, he will almost
It is unlikely that he will continue his studies.
Relying on the shares in his hands, and when the capital was introduced, some of the voting rights of the shares were in the hands of the Feng family. He successfully took over his father's throne and became the chairman of Feng Shipping Company, controlling the company.
The market capitalization has reached millions, making it the second largest comprehensive shipping company in the entire empire.
Feng Jiwen's figure was slightly thin. He stood and looked at the steamship under construction in front of him. He suddenly turned around and looked at a group of middle-aged and elderly men behind him, and then said: "Perhaps many of you will have questions.
, why my late father chose me to inherit the family business, to be honest, I am also confused myself!"
"But this is not important anymore. Since my late father handed over Feng Shipping to me, as the son of man and as the helmsman of Feng Shipping, Jiwen has the responsibility and the confidence to continue to lead Feng Shipping forward!
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"Now, the future is in front of us, steamships, this is the future, steamships will have greater advantages than traditional sailing ships, with larger cargo capacity, lower costs, and more importantly, they will not
Affected by the season and wind direction, you can go wherever you want, anytime, anywhere!”
"Steam ships are the future, they will set off a huge shipping revolution and lead the future!"
"And the Yuanfang ship in front of us is our future!"
"At the same time, I officially announce that we have officially reached a supply agreement with the Naval Ship-Based Steam Engine Factory. In the next three years, they will supply us with at least 60 sets of commercial ship-based steam engines, and they will be a priority in addition to naval orders.
supply!"
Feng's Shipping Company built the Yuanfang, the first purely steam-powered passenger ship, which attracted great attention from Feng Jiwen. As his first big move after taking charge of Feng's Shipping Company, he single-handedly promoted the construction of the Yuanfang passenger ship.
After learning that the Royal Institute of Technology had developed a high-pressure steam engine in August, he realized the huge potential of the high-pressure steam engine, so he quickly started the research and development of steam ships.
However, when they learned that the commercial shipboard steam engine production capacity of Zhaoqing Machinery Company and Tianjin AIA Company were taken over by the Yangtze River Shipping Company, Feng Jiwen did not compromise. He went directly to the Royal Institute of Technology and spent a high price to buy one of their prototypes.
I purchased the machine and then conducted various tests on my own.
At the same time, they found the Navy and wanted to order shipboard steam engines from the factories under the Naval Shipyard. Although the Naval Shipyard is not an external enterprise, but an internal shipyard of the Navy, in terms of its nature
, the ownership of the naval shipyard does not belong to the navy, but to the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises.
The Navy only has management rights!
Moreover, the empire has always been relatively sensitive to the military's business. There are actually voices within the navy that oppose direct management of the shipyard, because it is okay if this kind of thing doesn't go wrong, but if it goes wrong, it will be a big problem.
In addition, the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises also wants to take back the management rights of the Naval Shipyard. Therefore, the issue of the management rights of the Naval Shipyard is already in progress.
Several sub-factories under the shipyard, including the newly established shipboard steam engine factory, were officially separated from the Naval Shipyard. The Ministry of State-owned Enterprises has both management and ownership rights, but the Navy still owns these factories.
Huge supervisory power, and sent Navy representatives to supervise.
Finally, an opportunity was found by Feng Shipping Company. They came to the door and expressed their willingness to provide a large interest-free loan to help the steam engine factory affiliated to the Naval Shipyard build a production line. All they wanted was a contract for a commercial shipboard steam engine.
Just an order contract.
In the end, the two parties hit it off, and Feng Shipping Company obtained the supply contract for shipboard steam engines!
The Yangtze River Shipping Company had countless calculations, but it failed to calculate that at this juncture, the Naval Shipyard would undergo management reform, and only then would the Feng Shipping Company take advantage of it.
This also means that the plan internally planned by the Yangtze River Shipping Company to monopolize commercial ship-based steam engines in the next two years has actually come to nothing before it has even begun.
Feng Jiwen said: "This also means that in the next three years, we will directly compete with the Yangtze River Shipping in the emerging field of steamships, and this will also enable us to replace the Yangtze Shipping and become the first shipping line in the empire.
Best opportunity for business!”
Following Feng Jiwen were all senior managers of Feng Shipping, many of whom were senior executives sent by investment institutions. These people heard what Feng Jiwen described about using steamships to completely defeat the Yangtze River Shipping and become the number one shipping company in the empire.
When doing this, they couldn’t help but show excited expressions and applaud.
They are private enterprises and do not have the messy restrictions of Yangtze River shipping. As long as it is profitable, they can invest at any time and then compete.
Just like in the field of steamships, the Yangtze River Shipping Company has taken the lead and even tested the first steamship Lady. Unfortunately, as a test ship, Lady is far from complete.
It is not mature yet, so it cannot be put into commercial use yet. It is still only undergoing various experiments.
Although Yangtze Aerospace Corporation has various plans now, they are just plans.
How could a private enterprise like Fung Shipping Company have the courage? Before commercial shipboard steam engines were available, they directly put the only prototype engine purchased at a high price from the Royal Institute of Technology on the slipway.
Used for commercial operations of steamships.
According to their plan, it is estimated that the Yuanfang will be put into commercial operation in February. At that time, the steamships of the Yangtze River Shipping Company had not yet disappeared, and the only Lady was only a test ship, and the ownership was still there.
It is not completely owned by the Yangtze River Shipping Company. The Royal Institute of Technology still has general ownership, because the steam engine above is the asset of the Royal Institute of Technology. Therefore, both parties share the ship for various experiments. However, the Yangtze River Shipping Company is unable to use this ship.
The ship was put into commercial operation directly.
What's more, as the first experimental ship, various technologies are not very mature. If it is barely put into commercial operation, I am afraid that various problems will arise.
But Feng Shipping is different. People don't have too many scruples, and they are willing to spend money in order to seize the market and improve the reputation of the company. As time goes by, the gap comes.
As a latecomer, Feng Shipping Company is more willing and more aggressive in order to catch up with Yangtze River Shipping!
These two companies are chasing each other. It can be expected that there will definitely be another bloody storm in the shipping market next year!