Datang Railway Corporation is worthy of being a wealthy enterprise. After seeing the samples and detailed technical data of Xutie's new products, they signed a contract to order new rails and steel wheels on the spot!
In addition, the Railway Corporation has also signed a large number of orders for ordinary wrought iron rails with Xtie!
The orders for the former two new materials are only small batch orders. The Railway Corporation is also in the process of testing and has not yet been applied on a large scale. On the one hand, it is to explore the technology in the early stage, and on the other hand, it is also to reduce costs. Whether it is Xu
Whether the iron company's new rails or the other five companies' new rails, the prices are not cheap.
In order to reduce costs, the Railway Corporation cannot use these expensive new materials on a large scale in the early stages of railway construction.
Those new types of rails and new steel wheels are prepared for the future, not now.
Therefore, what really brings profits to Xutie Company is the large number of orders for ordinary wrought iron rails.
This order alone created a direct profit of more than 100,000 yuan for Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company!
However, there are so many companies that can produce wrought iron rails, so why can Xutie Company get a large number of orders, while other companies can only get a small one.
That is naturally the purpose of the Railway Corporation to support the development of Xutai Company.
What the Railway Corporation values is the future. They hope to find five or six strategic partners across the country. However, they will use massive orders to support the development of these steel companies and significantly reduce the production costs of railway tracks.
If possible, they would actually prefer to choose only one or two companies as strategic partners, but the empire's railway construction plan is too huge, and local political factors must be taken into consideration.
For example, if the northern railway network does not use products from steel companies in northern provinces such as Hebei, the local government will not be very happy.
Therefore, taking into account local political factors, the Railway Corporation plans to expand cooperation with local companies as much as possible across the country. In some places, it cooperates with local steel companies, and in other places, it cooperates with local lumber companies.
Some places cooperate with local coal companies, while others cooperate with local cement companies and other companies.
In short, we should try our best to allow every local enterprise to benefit from railway construction, so as to form a nationwide railway benefit network and facilitate subsequent large-scale railway construction.
Otherwise, even if the local government does not cause trouble but only cooperates slightly, it may cause great trouble to the Railway Corporation.
Even though the Railway Corporation is a special type of enterprise, it is still an enterprise anyway and is not an administrative agency. Its uniqueness is that it has the only railway operating license in the entire empire.
Therefore, it is also very important to have good relations with various localities. By cooperating with local enterprises, allowing local enterprises to develop well and pay taxes, and allowing local officials to achieve economic development achievements, this is what is good for you, me and everyone.
A good example.
Of course, the Railway Corporation does not choose strategic partners randomly. Their requirements for partners are also quite high. For example, in the steel industry, they must have a huge production scale and excellent technology research and development capabilities.
Otherwise, we will not be able to keep up with the pace of development of the Railway Corporation.
Although the Railway Corporation has only been established a few years ago and railway construction has just begun, the Railway Corporation has repeatedly mentioned the technical indicators of railway construction.
When the Beijing-Zhenjiang Railway was first built, the goal of the Railway Corporation was only to build a railway to carry horse-drawn carriages. Therefore, the design standards of some sections of the Jing-Zhen Line built at that time were relatively low, and some unimportant branch line sections were designed to reduce the cost.
The cost is low, and the rails used are even pig iron.
However, in the 18th year of Xuanping's reign, after the high-pressure steam engine was successfully developed and the corresponding steam train was built, the railway company's goal was to quickly upgrade the steam train and put forward new requirements for the transportation load-bearing capacity of railways and trains.
High demands.
The Railway Corporation has made an outlook on the future train transportation capacity based on the suggestions of technical personnel.
The Railway Corporation believes that in five years, the power of steam locomotives will double, and it is possible to increase the single engine horsepower to 200 or even 300 horsepower. In ten years, the single engine horsepower should be able to reach at least 500 horsepower.
,even more.
More horsepower can pull heavier trains.
This means that the railway must be able to withstand such heavy trains!
Based on this consideration, all railway construction after the Jingzhen Line, whether main lines or branch lines, will use wrought iron rails, and technical reserves will be made in advance to prepare for the laying of higher-grade rails in the future.
This is why the Railway Corporation launched a tender in advance and tested special rails and steel wheels.
The Railway Corporation is preparing for the future.
Therefore, when selecting various types of partners, it is also necessary to choose from thousands of partners, requiring scale, as well as technology research and development capabilities.
There are more than a dozen large and small steel companies in Jiangbei Province, and when this scope is expanded to the entire Wanbei, Jiangbei, Shandong, and Henan regions, there are hundreds of large and small steel companies. But in the end, the Railway Corporation only chose Xutie Company as the company here.
As a strategic partner in a region, what they value is nothing more than that Xutie’s current scale is not small and it has strong technical reserves.
The choice of the Railway Corporation makes Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company the sixth strategic partner in the steel industry of Datang Railway Corporation!
As a result, Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company is just around the corner from becoming a first-class steel company!
Bringing such rich returns once again proves that Xutie Steel Company is right to recruit scientific research talents at high prices. Although Xutie Company paid a high price to recruit Sun Yuan, 100,000 in cash plus 8%
of shares.
However, within just two months of Sun Yuan's arrival, he brought returns to Xutie Company that far exceeded this figure, which made Lin Puxiang and other shareholders smile.
After all, everyone loves making money!
Lin Puxiang, on the other hand, has become more determined. If he wants Xu Tie to develop better, he must have a large number of R&D talents, and poaching people at high prices is not very reliable. After all, he cannot poach people like this all the time.
That would be too expensive.
To this end, Lin Puxiang, after discussing with other shareholders, plans to set up a research institute in Shanghai, taking advantage of Shanghai's geographical advantages and educational advantages, and then recruit and train talents.
As for why I didn’t choose Jinling, that’s because although there are more universities there, including the Royal Institute of Technology, the competition there is even greater.
Jinling is not only the headquarters of Jiangnan Iron and Steel Company, but also the headquarters of Zhili Iron and Steel Company. In addition, Dangtu Iron and Steel Company, Zhaoqing Iron and Steel Company, and Tianjin Iron and Steel Company have all set up R&D institutes in Jinling City, and these five steel companies
, are currently the top first-class steel companies in the country, and they are still a little behind Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company.
Although Shanghai is a place of economic prosperity and several steel companies have production bases in Shanghai, for the time being, no first-class steel company has set up a large-scale R&D institution in Shanghai. This gives Xuzhou Steel Company an opportunity.
.
Let them go to Jinling City to grab talents, while Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company is toiling in Shanghai.
Anyway, there is also Jiangnan University in Shanghai. In addition, there are seven or eight universities such as Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai Institute of Technology and Business, Songjiang Higher Normal College, and Songjiang University. Although only one of them, Jiangnan University, is a first-class comprehensive university, the other universities
Not very famous.
However, Shanghai Institute of Technology is pretty good in science and engineering and can provide a lot of talents.
Although students trained by other schools may lack abilities, they can still engage in basic research.
In addition, their Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company is located in Jiangbei Province, which is naturally a first-class large enterprise. Although Jiangbei University in Jiangbei Province is not in Xuzhou, but in Huai'an, many of its graduates have been recruited in recent years.
Recruited by Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company.
Adding the two together, Lin Puxiang is confident that within three years, Xuzhou Iron and Steel's basic research and development capabilities will be raised to a higher level, so that it can join the ranks of the other five major steel companies and completely join the ranks of domestic first-class steel companies.
Lin Puxiang is ambitious, not to mention the other shareholders of Xu Tie. They are not from technical backgrounds. These businessmen are more eager for money, and all of them have dreams of breaking out overnight!
Moreover, the other shareholders do not know much about technology. When they started a business with Lin Puxiang in the early years, they said that Lin Pu has always been responsible for technical matters, and they will be responsible for administrative management and marketing. As long as Lin Puxiang can develop the product
Once it comes out, they are responsible for selling it.
Now that Lin Pu proposed to establish a Shanghai research institute, this group of businessmen and shareholders who had fallen into the eyes of money naturally supported it with both hands. The new shareholder Sun Yuan is a very pure scientist. People just said, what are you doing to me?
I don’t care, I only care about whether there are enough research funds, and I also added that the annual dividends should not be less.
After obtaining the permission of many shareholders, Lin Puxiang once again boarded the steam liner of Fung Shipping Company and prepared to go to Shanghai!
This time I went to Shanghai without being in a hurry. I sent an urgent letter to the Shanghai office in advance, so when Lin Puxiang arrived at the Shanghai Business District Pier, the office staff were already waiting for him.
After arriving at the office, Lin Puxiang began his visit!
To open a research institute, you can’t just put up a name. It must have a large number of researchers. Before putting up a name, Lin Puxiang plans to find people first!