Because he couldn't figure it out. The predecessor of Dingsheng Shipyard was just an underground shipyard. How could it have the technical ability to build a third-class cruiser with a standard displacement of 550 tons?
With confusion, he couldn't help but take a few more glances at the people in the Dingsheng Shipyard. Later, he discovered that the people from the three government-run shipyards, Guangzhou Shipyard, Lianzhou Shipyard and Zhaoqing Shipyard, were actually all together.
He congratulated them and was quite respectful in his words.
Unable to bear it, he immediately asked the navy official in front of him!
"This Dingsheng Shipyard has a long history. Could it be that it is also a government shipyard?" Xu Bingfu asked.
But the navy captain smiled: "Executive officer Xu made a mistake. They are not a state-owned shipyard of the Ministry of Industry, but a shipyard affiliated with the Imperial Industrial Department!"
"Royal property?" Upon hearing this, Xu Bingfu couldn't help but pay more attention to this Dingsheng Shipyard.
Royal industry, this is a term that merchants in Guangdong and Guangxi, and even businessmen under the entire Tang Dynasty will come into contact with, and even ordinary people will deal with royal industry.
Especially the Royal Bank. No matter whether it is Xu Bingfu or anyone else, who doesn't have a few Royal Bank banknotes in their hands?
As the name suggests, the royal family's property is the property of the royal family. This background is unrivaled in the Tang Dynasty, and it is said that there are many assets, more than the national treasury.
However, at the same time, the royal family industry rarely directly conflicts with ordinary businessmen. Except for the previous money industry, there is basically no royal family industry involved in other traditional industries.
Because the royal family is involved in some emerging industries, except for the Royal Bank, which has political significance, the industries it is involved in are all emerging industries, such as textiles and daily chemicals, and the most representative ones are textile products and daily soap.
, soap, toothbrush, toothpaste and other daily necessities.
In short, the royal family's industries are all about novel products and rarely get involved in traditional industries, so there is no way to compete with the people for profit.
But why did this royal family suddenly get involved in the shipbuilding industry?
But then, the navy captain seemed to see Xu Bingfu's worries, and said directly: "Don't worry, Dingsheng Shipyard is very ambitious. The shipyards under construction all start with a thousand tons, and there is no competition with you!"
People in the Navy did not brag. The reason why the Imperial Industrial Department organized the Dingsheng Shipyard was based on Li Xuan's oral instructions, and the purpose was quite simple, that is, to explore and build large merchant ships and even warships of more than 1,000 tons, as is now popular.
Ordinary civilian merchant ships of two to three hundred tons or even four to five hundred tons have nothing to do with it.
The current main purpose is not to make money from shipbuilding, but more importantly, to develop technology for large ships, alleviate the funding and scale difficulties of the Ministry of Industry's shipyard, and use it to undertake the construction of large warships.
As for the future, in Li Xuan's plan, it will naturally be used to build large steamships with thousands of tons or even thousands of tons!
However, even though the people in the navy said so, Xu Bingfu still felt huge pressure, because Xu Bingfu's ambitions were far greater than those of ordinary shipbuilders. He was also preparing to build a thousand-ton shipyard and enter the field of thousand-ton ships.
Field!
But then I thought, in the future, there will only be a few companies competing, which is better than dozens of small and medium-sized shipyards competing together now. The plan for the thousand-ton ship must still be advanced, and it must be advanced quickly.
The royal industry has money and people, but after all it is an official background, and there must be many concerns behind it. Like its own Shamian Shipyard, it can purchase machinery and equipment.
As long as he seizes the time, he may be able to complete the construction of the thousand-ton dock earlier than the Dingsheng Shipyard. By then, even if the other party is the royal family's property, he may not be able to compete for it.
The reason why he wanted to fight was naturally because he had never heard of the royal family relying on their background to suppress other businessmen. Business competition was basically carried out legally and reasonably, and they even gave up getting involved in traditional industries in order to avoid suspicion.
After the cruiser recruitment was over, Xu Bingfu stopped thinking about his thousand-ton ship plan for the time being, and instead focused all his attention on the upcoming bidding for third-class frigates!
After all, the previous order for the cruiser had nothing to do with him. The follow-up plan for the thousand-ton ship was also a matter of the future. The most important thing now is to get the scheduled order!
In this bidding, he only paid attention to one thing, and that was the order for third-class frigates, and it wasn't the other three-class frigates, but order No. 5!
Because of order No. 5, the tender requires delivery before June of the sixth year of Xuanping at the latest, which means delivery in June of the following year, and cannot exceed June of the sixth year of Xuanping, otherwise it will be a breach of contract.
As for his shipyard expansion plan, the construction of the 500-ton dock will also take nearly a year. Construction will not be completed until next spring and summer. If they start building warships later, they will have to work overtime for more than half a year, which is enough for them to build the hull.
Then we will carry out the outfitting test, and it will be just in time to complete it in June!
As for other orders, to be honest, his shipyard simply couldn't make it in time!
However, the competition for orders for this third-class frigate was fiercer than he expected. Three government-run shipyards, Guangzhou Shipyard, Lianzhou Shipyard, and Zhaoqing Shipyard, as well as his old rival Guanghe Shipyard, all competed.
Although the competition was fierce, the results came out quickly. Lianzhou Shipyard monopolized orders for three ships, Guangzhou Shipyard got an order for one ship, but Zhaoqing Shipyard didn't get even one order, and he
Guanghe Shipyard, its old rival, also failed.
When the bidding for order No. 5 began, Xu Bingfu personally submitted the documents to participate in the bidding, and then waited for the results like other shipyards.
The navy's review officers conduct the review on the spot and announce the conditions of all parties!
When he saw the announced conditions, Xu Bingfu's heart couldn't help but jump wildly!
Guangzhou Shipyard, their proposal needs to be delivered in September, because they have too many orders for warships and they can't queue them up.
Several other shipyards are in line with the delivery time, but although the price they proposed is less than the previous four orders, the price of their Xujia Shamian Shipyard is completely less than the official benchmark price.
Five percentage points, less than them all.
And this price was temporarily changed before Xu Bingfu submitted the documents!
Relying on this price, Xu Bingfu's Shamian Shipyard undoubtedly won the order for the No. 5 third-class frigate.
At this time, people from Guanghe Shipyard on the side looked unwilling and said: "Executive member Xu, if you take the order at this price, I'm afraid you will not only make no profit, but also lose money!"
It is reasonable for the people at Guanghe Shipyard not to give in. Their quotation is four percentage points less than the official benchmark price, and this price is already worthless to them. After all, they are the same as Xu Bingfu.
, want to take advantage of this opportunity to enter the warship market, and rely on the reputation brought by building warships to expand the civilian market.
And they didn’t believe that Xu Bingfu’s shipbuilding costs were lower than theirs!
But Xu Bingfu is more ruthless than them. Not only does he not make money, he is even willing to give money back!
Without the quotation of these five points, the Xu family will directly lose two points, but Xu Bingfu doesn't care!
I am rich and I can afford to lose money. As long as I can win this order and make this start, I am afraid that there will be no orders for warships or large civilian ships in the future.
I can even build warships, but it takes only a few minutes for you to build a civilian ship of three to five hundred tons.
With the formal contract signed with the Navy, Xu Bingfu looked extremely happy, and then asked his group of craftsmen and core family technicians to hand over the contract to the officials of the Navy's Ship Administration Department.
The order is in place, but the blueprints and related technology still need to be provided by the Navy!
He also briefly looked at the drawing. He thought that the design of this warship was unusual. If he could imitate the warship and create a merchant ship, he would be able to make a lot of money by then.
But soon he was completely disappointed. The design of this warship was too extreme. All the designs were for the pursuit of speed, firepower and protection. The possibility of loading cargo could not be considered at all.
Especially when he knew that the slogan shouted by the designers of the Ship Administration Department was: Never waste a ton on loading cargo! He even cursed the navy as a prodigal.
This is a large ship of several hundred tons, and it can’t even carry any cargo except for daily necessities and ammunition!
Ordinary businessmen like them naturally cannot realize that the purpose of the navy is to fight wars. It is not their job to load goods and take people!
When Xu Bingfu scolded the Navy for being a prodigal, he did not know that people from Dingsheng Shipyard were also in the conference room next door and were participating in a very high-level meeting.
In this meeting, there was Rear Admiral Bao Yifen!
Bao Yifen directly handed a stack of documents to the middle-aged representative of Dingsheng Shipyard, and said at the same time: "This is the latest warship design of our navy. Before meeting you, we also met people from Guangzhou Shipyard. They
Said that we currently do not have the ability to undertake the construction of such a large warship, so we found you!"
The person from Dingsheng Shipyard took the document and looked at it, then frowned: "Twelve hundred tons, fifty-four guns, this is a typical third-class battleship design. Your navy needs it so soon.
Are you starting to build battleships?"
Bao Yifen said: "I'm sorry, it will take one or two years to prepare for the hull design and technology research and development, and the construction period will also take two years, and then the outfitting test will take at least half a year. Even if everything goes well, we still have to
It took three years to get this battleship, so it’s not too fast, it’s too slow!”
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