The sun never sets in America

Chapter 229 Han Business: Longjiang Group

Youzhou, Longjiang Port...

Hulong... Hulong...

A two-thousand-ton cargo ship with billowing black smoke slowly docked in the port.

On the front of the boat, "Power" is written in big red letters, three big characters, and there is a fishing boat logo next to it.

This logo is that of Longjiang Shipping Company, which is the second shipping company listed on the Xijing Stock Exchange after Jinshan Shipping Company.

The establishment of Longjiang Shipping Company happened to be the day when Han Dynasty defeated the United States and obtained Texas.

The owner of this company is a wealthy businessman who immigrated from Shanxi Province in northern China. His surname is Yan Mingxi.

In his early years, he worked as a tea merchant in Lingnan. Later, he switched to hardware processing and built a copper bar processing factory that was famous in Tongshan City.

The year when the annual output value was the highest, it reached a scale of one million. Later, during the war, it also received orders from the army and helped produce bullets.

Later, Boss Yan somehow saw the opportunity in the then-Houston Port and decisively established a Houston shipping company, which was the predecessor of Longjiang Shipping Company.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to serve the army during the war and the need for repairs and transportation of supplies after the war, his shipping company with only seven or eight ships immediately received a large number of orders and made a lot of money in a short time. He took this opportunity to stand up. Arrive at the No. 1 Shipping Company's seat in Longjiang Port. (Even the ships at that time were obtained from official post-war trophies auctioned, which shows the decisiveness of Boss Yan)

Later, Boss Yan even invested in a civilian shipyard in Longjiang, and the slogan was to become the third largest shipyard in Han Dynasty after Xijing Shipyard and Jinshan Shipbuilding.

Although it may sound whimsical to outsiders, after all, the first two shipyards have developed from the founding of the People's Republic of China to the present. If you say they are comparable, they are comparable. Do you think they are fools? ?

But later, the Longjiang Shipyard, which had just been established less than three months ago and had not even built a shipyard, actually received an order from the local government in Longjiang.

Moreover, the scale of the project was one million, which immediately solved the shortage of funds for development at that time.

So much so that after this incident, people began to speculate about the relationship between Boss Yan and Chen Xingjun, the current governor of Youzhou.

Some people even spread rumors that the two are related, engaging in nepotism and corruption.

There was even a rumor that Mr. Chen was as good as Long Yang, and he was overjoyed when he saw Yan Xi's beauty! ! (Yan Xi: I am forty years old and have a wife and children. Don’t make such jokes)

In fact, the real situation is that because Youzhou has the only port in Han Dynasty that leads to the Atlantic Ocean, the local government also wants to establish an enterprise similar to Xijing Shipyard and Jinshan Shipyard.

Unfortunately, many people decisively gave up on this seemingly promising industry when they heard that it would compete with the other two shipyards.

Yan Xi seized this opportunity and established this shipbuilding company before many people could react. If coupled with his previous Longjiang Shipping Company, which was famous for its foresight, he established this shipbuilding company.

Then the future shipping lifeline of Longjiang is actually in Yan Xi's hands, which is why he took the risk to establish Longjiang Shipyard.

And the million-level government order is just the beginning.

In the follow-up capital plan, the plan of the local governor's office in Youzhou, Longjiang City will have three pillar industries. The first is foreign trade, mainly Han Atlantic trade.

The second one is to rely on the geography of Longjiang Port to engage in food processing industry, industrial manufacturing and export trade inland.

The third one, which is the link between the past and the future, is the marine industry with shipbuilding and shipping as its core.

In this industry, shipbuilding is the first priority, trade is second, and offshore fishing is the third.

The two companies established by Yan Xi happened to be stuck in Youzhou's policy plan and were in the most important position.

In this way, the so-called support begins.

Even later, at the beginning of this year, Yan Xi even established a Longjiang seafood company to develop ocean-going seafood products.

He even purchased a cannery to develop canned seafood products and vowed to build the largest marine products company in America.

Longjiang Shipping, Longjiang Shipbuilding, and Longjiang Marine Products, these three companies together form the largest individual enterprise in Longjiang, Longjiang Group...

The company developed tremendously during the four years of the Sino-American War. With early government orders and planning support, the company even had the momentum of being the largest group enterprise in Longjiang and even Youzhou.

And how big the limelight is, how high the risk is. Apart from anything else, from the repeated attacks on the relationship between Yan Xi and Governor Chen, it can be seen that there is someone behind the scenes who wants to punish him, or in other words, he blocked it. Money for some people.

But after all, the Han Dynasty is a country ruled by law, and everything is governed by the law. Without conclusive evidence, it is difficult to bring down Yan Xi and his Longjiang Group.

The people behind this are also very aware of this, so they can only look for trouble in some random places. They don't dare to look for big trouble. After all, there is a true god above everyone.

Yan Xi knew exactly what these people wanted to do. After all, according to the current development trend of Longjiang Group, it would be difficult for ordinary local companies to compete in the future.

And as Longjiang Group continues to grow, it will always come into contact with the interests of certain places, and these people will not sit still and wait for death! !

It's just that Yan Xi is like this. The more difficult it is, the more he wants to do it.

Yan Xi even had a motto:

"What are you afraid of? The more afraid you are, the more you want to do it to him!!"

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Longjiang City, Southwest District, Longjiang Building.

This is a fifty-meter-high, ten-story building. Yan Xi started construction in the second half of last year and completed it in March this year. It took more than eight months in total. In Han Dynasty, the current construction period is often four to five months. , which is actually quite slow.

In big cities like Xijing and Jinshan, there is even a miracle of building one building in three months. This is indeed a miracle in terms of current engineering technology.

The main reason why the Yanxi building is so slow is the design.

The entire building is based on the square building that is currently the most popular in Han Dynasty. It looks easy to build, but the internal requirements are extremely demanding.

Yan Xi first requested that the interior of the building should be dominated by Western-style circular staircases, and a large number of relief designs should also be added.

He also invited the most famous Feng Shui master in Han Dynasty, Lan Shaojun, to select the address for this large building and calculate the date for starting construction, sealing the land, and even erecting the building. The reason why it was not until March was because of what this master said. , all things revive in March, it is the time when all things flourish and are full of vitality. If you enter the building on this day, it will be smooth sailing.

In addition, according to rumors, Lan Shaojun also designed a so-called golden carp bureau for Yan Xi's chairman's office. He raised two golden carp in the office, left an air inlet, and finally used it with another The openings of the two bedrooms are connected, which means that the wealth will never end and the wealth will not be dispersed.

It is said that Longjiang Shipping was successfully listed this year because of this Feng Shui situation. I don’t know if it is true or not.

Suddenly, the value of Master Lan soared, and prominent people in Youzhou came to him for Feng Shui.

As a result, the price has also risen, and it is many times higher than when it was built for Yan Xi.

There was even a joke about inviting him to tea and giving him 300 yuan for tea. Although it was a joke, it was true.

Yan Xi himself has never made any statement. In fact, he himself is dubious about the so-called Du Feng theory. After all, if this thing is really so effective, those dynasties that have occupied famous mountains and rivers and have so-called dragon veins since ancient times should start from It started with the First Emperor, or tens of thousands of years since the Han Dynasty, but what happened next.

It must be finished, it must be finished, history is like this, and so are people! !

But this does not mean that Yan Xi really doesn't care about this. If nothing else, from the time he went to Longjiang Temple to burn incense and worship Buddha on the 15th day of the Lunar New Year, it can be seen that he is still very willing to believe in the gods and ghosts. , otherwise there would be no Feng Shui bureau. (Longjiang Temple is on the hillside of Longjiang Mountain, a peak that is not too high)    …………

"Boss, here is this month's bill, please take a look." In Yan Xi's luxurious office, a beautiful secretary was wearing a silk Chinese dress with a Western-style pink bow tied on her chest and her hair tied up. She looked extremely delicate. .

After Yan Xi took the bill, he showed no expression at first, and then frowned, while the beautiful secretary Xiaoli beside him was a little nervous and didn't know what he had done wrong.

"Why is there an extra expenditure of 300,000 yuan this month??" Yan Xi asked his secretary Xiaoli, pointing to the fifth line of the second page of the bill, an expenditure item counted in the salary list.

It seemed like he was asking, but his tone was actually very tough. This is what Yan Xi is like. As long as his interests are violated, he will show no mercy.

"This is what Zhang Hui calculated. He said that it contains a sum of money from last year, mainly the bonuses we promised to technicians poached from the Xijing and Jinshan shipyards." Xiaoli's mind It was quite flexible, and I quickly recalled a conversation I had with Zhang Huiji two days ago, which included the reason for this expenditure.

"Bonus??" Yan Xi thought about it and realized that there was indeed such a thing, but he remembered that it shouldn't be that high? ?

The bonus he initially promised was 180,000 yuan or something. Why is it now 300,000 yuan? ?

Xiaoli on the side didn't dare to take a breath. After all, Boss Yan seemed to be a good old man who was keen on donating money outside, but in the company, he was a well-known tyrant.

"Forget it, it's just like this, there are people down there, it won't be easy..." Yan Xi's expression changed slightly, then returned to normal, as if nothing happened.

After recovering, Yan Xi looked at Xiaoli. The more he looked at her, the more he liked her. He couldn't help but blurt out: "You are so beautiful in the way you are dressed today!!" Yan Xi looked at his secretary and his eyes gradually became strange.

"Boss..." Xiaoli seemed to know what was going to happen next.

Yan Xi closed the curtains on the floor-to-ceiling windows, then walked up to Xiaoli, put his arm around her shoulders, and whispered in her ear: "You look so attractive, you know?" "

Xiaoli's face suddenly turned red, and her whole person became a little charming.

After Yunjuan Yunshu, Yan Xi put on his coat, looked at Xiaoli who was still in the bedroom, changed his previous warmth, and said: "Fire the person who got the bonus last time and tell him that if you don't want to go to jail, , it’s best to keep your mouth shut and get out of Youzhou..."

Xiaoli's face in the bedroom, which was originally very gentle, immediately froze, and when she was about to say something, the man who was as gentle as water to him just now had already left this magnificent chairman's office with a bedroom. , what was left to Xiaoli was an empty room and a smell that was unique to him.

When Yan Xi walked out of the office, he shouted directly to the receptionist at the door: "Call Lao Wang over..." Lao Wang was Yan Xi's personal coachman.

"Go to the shipyard..." When he saw the old queen, Yan Xi gave simple and concise instructions, and then walked to the first floor.

Lao Wang, the coachman behind him, immediately followed.

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Yan Xi sat in the back seat of the carriage, opened the blue velvet curtains, and looked at the street scene outside and the busy construction sites everywhere, with a smile on his lips.

This is what Yan Xi wants to see most. The better Longjiang develops, the more valuable the Longjiang Group's assets he controls will be in the future.

With money, he can do bigger things, such as make some achievements, attract His Majesty's attention, and finally obtain the title he dreams of, and create a family belonging to the Yan family. (Many nobles in the Han Dynasty currently call themselves aristocratic families, but in fact they are all fake. Without three or five generations of accumulation, they are not considered aristocratic families at all. At most, they are nouveau riche. And the so-called aristocratic families in Yanxi are actually like this)

When the carriage stopped in front of a huge shipyard, the person in charge of the shipyard immediately came to open the door with a smile on his face, almost flattering.

Yan Xi didn't say anything, but walked straight in.

The shipyard director next to him immediately followed in, fearing that his boss would find fault.

"Mr. Yan, our current shipbuilding orders have been scheduled until July next year..."

"This ship is the cruise ship we are currently building, mainly used for sea sightseeing."

Director Sun is a middle-aged man in his forties. He once worked as a manager in a subordinate unit of Xijing Shipyard. Later, he was hired by Yan Xi to be the director of Longjiang Shipyard at a high price.

What he is introducing now is a three-thousand-ton luxury cruise ship launched by a local ocean travel company.

This kind of cruise ship is mainly suitable for the increasingly prosperous economy of Han Dynasty and the increasing number of wealthy people.

After all, when people have money, they have to spend money. If they eat too much delicacies from mountains and seas, and see too many beautiful scenery on land, they have to do something strange.

Therefore, something like a maritime tourism company was born. Xijing and Jinshan, the most economically developed cities, have been established in the past two years, and they have special routes to Mexico to see the sea.

The ship is extremely luxuriously decorated. In order to ensure fresh air for passengers, the steam engine and chimney are turned off during the journey, and sails are used, which are about to become obsolete.

Even in the cabin, there are high-end restaurants, pubs, dance halls, opera singing, storytelling, and even performances by belly dancers invited from the Arabian Peninsula. In this era when entertainment is relatively scarce, many wealthy families and even After getting rich, the only thing you must do is no less than the Hanzhou people saving money just to watch a crucial polo match.

As the author Long Wu wrote in the 1930s:

"The emergence of cruise ships, and even luxury cruise ships, marks the overall rise of the Han economy. After eight years of rapid economic development and industrial construction, the Han people have fully entered the Chinese life..." (The so-called Chinese life , it is the new transportation life composed of bicycles, trains, and ships. Of course, food, drink, housing, and transportation can all be included in it)

Yan Xi looked at the huge cruise ship opposite, and there was an indescribable feeling in his eyes. If this cruise ship was the original Shenzhou himself, he would definitely criticize it and waste people's money and money. But now, he hopes that this cruise ship will become more and more beautiful. The better they are built, the more they are built, because only when there are more cruise ships on the market can the strength of Han's economy be further proven. The stronger Han's economy is, the richer and richer he will be, and he will even get what he wants.

"boss……"

"boss……"

Director Sun shouted a few words, bringing Yan Xi, who was deep in thought, back to reality.

"Mr. Yan, this is the seafood fishing boat we designed for the seafood group. Take a look..." Director Sun asked someone to bring over a design drawing. On the design drawing, it is a huge fishing boat, at least two thousand tons. .

"Such a big fishing boat won't lose money, right??" Yan Xi looked at the tonnage mark of the fishing boat on the design drawing. The number of 2,500 tons kept hitting his eyes. In Yan Xi's mind, the current fishing boats of Han Dynasty The maximum tonnage is only this number. If it were to be so large all at once, if there were any risks, the losses would be huge.

"Mr. Yan, no problem. Our ship is based on the Dragon King from Jinshan Shipyard. The technology inside..." Director Sun said this, his tone became smaller and smaller.

After Yan Xi heard this, his expression changed.

Upon seeing this, Director Sun quickly whispered: "They are all technicians recruited from Jinshan Shipyard. They once participated in the design and construction of the Dragon King, so..." At this point, Director Sun stopped talking. .

Yan Xi, who was on the side, looked gloomy at first, and then asked Director Sun: "Are you sure there is no problem? Can you bypass the patent??"

What Yan Xi fears most is the patent issue. After all, the Han Dynasty has a special patent office that is responsible for managing domestically invented technology and even cultural patents.

There was a famous locomotive case two years ago. A newly established locomotive factory stole the design drawings of Hanji Company and built an identical locomotive. The price was 15% cheaper. The market is in chaos.

In the end, Hanji Company took the factory to court, and the factory was eventually ordered to pay 500,000 yuan in compensation and revoke its manufacturing license.

This is already a very severe punishment for the manufacturing industry. In view of this, Yan Xi has to be careful.

"Don't worry, boss. We can completely change part of this design and use our own technology. In this way, they won't be able to win even if we go to court. You can't say that we copied something different from them..." Director Sun is very confident in this, and it seems that he does this kind of thing in private a lot.

After hearing this, Yan Xi's expression changed slightly, and he finally said: "It's better to be careful. After all, it's not easy for everyone!!"

The implication is that if something happens, you have to take responsibility! !

Director Sun felt his heart pounding after hearing this. Finally, he looked at Yan Xi's smiling expression and could only reply: "At that time, I will have nothing to do with you, boss, and Long Jiang!!" Sun There was a trace of struggle on the factory director's face.

After Yan Xi heard this, he patted Director Sun on the shoulder with satisfaction and left Longjiang Shipyard.

Director Sun was left with regrets.

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