Nanyang 1931: From piglets to giants

Chapter 44 IPO
The birthday banquet begins.
The birthday party is over.

The protagonist Li Jiqian was very sensible and did not waste too much time on other people. After happily toasting, he quickly excused himself for not being able to hold his liquor and went back to the back room to rest.

After the banquet was over, the servants, children and guests still stayed to watch the show, but the real protagonists such as Zheng Yi, Li Xiaoshi, Chen Jiageng had already left and found a secluded room to chat about business.

Under the introduction of Li Xiaoshi and Li Huaishuang, Zheng Yi shook hands with them one by one and got to know them, putting aside all the pleasantries and courtesies.

Zheng Yi asked his servants to bring many large blackboards, and walked forward with chalk and said loudly:
"My eldest brother told me that all of you seniors are quite interested in my Taiyou Machinery Factory. I'm honored. Since you're willing to invest, I'll show you Taiyou Mining's current assets, operations, technology, and strategic plans for the next ten years."

"Thaiyou Machinery has invested a total of RM35 million, of which % of the shares were given to British Electric and Shell in exchange for support related to technology, electricity, and Chinese workers' raw materials, as well as policy support."

"The entire factory currently has twelve furnaces and kilns of various types, as well as over two hundred lathes, drilling machines, boring machines, grinders, milling machines, planers, saws, and other machine tools, and over three hundred other pieces of equipment."

"We currently have 2,724 workers, including 1,150 skilled workers. However, more than 700 of them are still apprentices and are still some distance away from becoming masters."

"Currently, the factory's most mature and key product is the rubber washing and cutting production line, which has been successfully trial-run in three of Jinluntai's rubber plantations, and the results are quite good."

"Secondly, the company has the ability to produce, install, and commission three production lines simultaneously. The standard production line can process 30 tons of natural rubber per day, with a production cycle of about 20 days. Once the factory's apprentices become experienced, we should be able to produce five lines simultaneously."

"In this round of financing, we at Taiyou Mining intend to raise 32 million yuan from you with a 1500% stake. We will also invite you to bid for the full defense industry chain supporting work."

"Five million yuan will be used by the factory for alternative research and development, and the remaining ten million yuan will be used almost entirely for factory expansion.

The factory will have more than 800 machine tools and equipment, and British Electric will help build independent generators and a dedicated power grid.

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But he spoke incessantly and eloquently for more than an hour, writing and drawing, covering everything from technical principles to financial statements, from market prospects to future risks.

Mr. Zheng, you are so professional!
These big guys came here just to invest in Zheng Yi. In fact, they are not very concerned about the current operating conditions of Taiyou Machinery.

Now it seems that he is not just a technical talent, but clearly a business talent, and he even understands financial investment.

Fucking all-rounder!
This is more worth investing in.

One person asked: "Mr. Zheng, I noticed in your prospectus that the 10 million yuan expansion is still mainly concentrated on various machine tools to further expand production capacity.

This will certainly allow all our plantations in Southeast Asia to use machines more quickly, but rubber plantations are limited after all. When all rubber plantations use machines, won't all these machines be idle?"

Zheng Yi smiled and said, "Of course not. Taiyou Machinery's initial goal is to fully mechanize Nanyang's existing industries, primarily those related to agricultural products and minerals, within three to four years, and no later than five years."

"Currently, the factory's production focuses on machines needed for the rubber production line, simply because Nanyang Rubber produces the most. Besides rubber, the other production lines are being researched in the following order: tin panning, tin mining, starch production, sugar production, tobacco production, and jam production."

"Mr. Zheng, are you confident that all of these industries can be machined, perhaps even automated, like rubber production, which requires very little human labor?"

Zheng Yi: "What do you mean by confident? We designed the machinery months ago. Often, once you master one principle, you master all the others. Now that we have the rubber production line, everything else will fall into place." "I won't be personally involved in this kind of production line development anymore. At most, I'll just ask about it. The person in charge is Hunter, our factory store's deputy technical director. If you want more specific details, you can ask him later."

As he spoke, Zheng Yi made another gesture to the maid, and soon another maid came with trays and placed black things in front of the bosses.

"What you see now is the final product produced by the rubber vulcanization production line in the factory. After the rubber production line was installed, I slightly modified the film forming machine and turned it into a vulcanizing machine.

I also designed the production line. The factory masters were very hardworking. I was busy with other things during this period, but I didn't expect that they could actually build the production line according to the design.

I went back to the factory yesterday to check out the vulcanized rubber they've made. This is it, and it seems okay."

"This type of rubber, after being embossed, can be used directly to make tire outer tubes. Of course, it's not difficult to make an embossing machine, or even a tire inner tube. It all depends on whether we can find customers and whether there's demand."

"Boss, if any of you are interested in rubber deep processing and are confident that you can secure orders for finished rubber from European and American auto and tire manufacturers, we can discuss cooperation in detail after this meeting."

"Anyway, let's first practice on the raw materials production line. Once the workshop masters are proficient, we at Taiyou will officially enter the manufacturing industry!"

Another person asked, "Mr. Zheng, when he said he was going to spend five million on research, did he mean researching these deep-processing machines and production lines?"

Zheng Yi: "Of course not. Drawing a blueprint is not research at all. Aren't these just things I drew casually? Why would I spend money on it?"

Everyone: "…………"

For a moment, all the big guys were a little shocked by Zheng Yi.

No words were spoken for a long time.

What the hell, you already have the finished tires in your hands, and you tell me this isn't a strategy but something you just did for fun?

You are going to heaven!!

If someone else said this, they would definitely think it was bragging, but Mr. Zheng.

Didn’t he just come down from the sky?

Even Chen Jiageng, the leader, could not help but sigh, "Mr. Zheng, you are truly a rare talent. I'm afraid you are one of the best mechanical experts in China, and perhaps even in the world."

Zheng Yi: "It's okay, I wouldn't say so. Mechanical design is not my forte after all. There are many hidden talents in Europe and America. I think there must be many who are better than me.
My real major is chemistry, and I'm confident I'm number one in chemistry, definitely not number two."

Tan Kah Kee: ???

Everyone:? ? ?
(End of this chapter)