The affairs on the African side make Xie Kai's head bigger, and although poor countries deserve sympathy, they also have hateful points.

It's exactly the kind of state that is barefoot and not afraid to wear shoes.

Kovarubi looked for him for many days, but he didn't see him, so in desperation, he simply asked the old party to talk to him.

Once went to Tanzania, Lao Fang and his party all knew Kovarubi.

Xie Kai didn't ask about the specifics, and stayed at school honestly every day.

It's almost the end of the term, and even Mozi and Xie Kai let her rarely participate in the negotiations on the division of Africa.

It's been a few days, and I don't know if Kovarubi is gone, and when Xie Kai returned to the guest house, Zheng Yucheng was waiting for him at the door with a smile on his face.

"What's the good thing? Tanzania has got it?" "What can make this old guy happy now is to get rid of his Shonya's-stirring sticks."

Zheng Yucheng nodded, and took a puff of the cigarette in his hand, "The ship king is coming." ”

"Boat King, which ship king?" Xie Kai didn't react for a while.

"The founder of Heung Kong Global Shipping Company, Sir Pao Yugang, the king of ships. Zheng Yucheng said excitedly, "Hudong Shipyard has allocated it to us, and the 100,000-ton cargo ship is counting on getting orders from him." ”

"It's finally done?" Xie Kai was also overjoyed.

These days, Africans are so upset that you don't want to.

"It was a while ago. If they had come a few days earlier, it is estimated that it would not have gone so smoothly, and the navy did not want to give us the Hudong shipyard, and now it seems that the prospects are good. Zheng Yucheng smiled.

It's like picking up a big bargain.

Hudong Shipyard is currently producing 053-class frigates at full capacity, two in Bahrain and four in Saudi Arabia, all of which will be delivered after the year.

The profits of these ships are quite high.

053H3 is made, although the tonnage is not large, not only has air defense capabilities, but also anti-submarine, ground target attacks, the comprehensive performance is quite good, and it is definitely a good thing for offshore defense.

Compared with the same type of warships in Europe and the United States, the comprehensive performance at least on the surface looks much higher.

The Navy felt that there were more export opportunities, so it did not give the shipyard to 404 as urgently as it did before the order.

"Hasn't the dockyard expansion just begun?" Xie Kai asked.

Although the construction technology of merchant ships is not as complex as that of warships, it is not easy to complete.

Zheng Yucheng looked at Xie Kai, "Are you kid confused when you read books for a while? The No. 2 dock of Hudong Shipyard was rebuilt in 80 years, the slipway was widened, and the lock was also expanded to 30 meters, and although it was reluctant to build a 100,000-ton cargo ship, it could be built. ”

Xie Kai really forgot about it.

When I first went to Hudong Shipyard, Li Qingming, the director of the factory, introduced it.

The original expansion was to build a 100,000-ton ore carrier from the United States, but the order was snatched away by the shipyard of the little devils.

Hudong Shipyard, which has no business and has invested a lot in upgrading infrastructure, fell into a financial crisis and has been engaged in it for several years before finally looking for 404 to take over to save the shipyard.

"Besides, isn't there still a section construction? First of all, various parts and components will be produced in various supporting units, and the dock expansion will be completed, and then it will be assembled and built directly in the dock, and after the construction is completed, the various systems inside will be installed. Zheng Yucheng said.

The plan was originally proposed by Xie Kai.

Building in sections is far better than building next to each other, from the bottom to the top.

"This is also to verify the technical feasibility of the construction of warships, and there are no problems with the sectional construction of 053. Zheng Yucheng pulled Xie Kai to the conference room inside.

What Xie Kai didn't expect was that the leaders of Hudong Shipyard were also in the conference room with Qi Zhiyuan, who had always been in the navy's ship-building units.

They are having a meeting inside.

Xie Kai listened for a while, only to find out that these guys were talking about continuing to expand the No. 3 and No. 4 docks, so that the entire shipyard could build four giant ships with a tonnage of more than 100,000 tons at the same time.

Fortunately, they are not talking about building several aircraft carriers at the same time, it is not too scary.

"Ladies and gentlemen, isn't it a little early to discuss this now? Global Shipping has always been buying large-tonnage merchant ships, although they also have ore ships in their hands, but ore transportation is not their main business...... Xie Kai didn't want to pour cold water on them.

Bao Yugang is now retired, and all the shipping business of Global Shipping has been managed by his son-in-law.

Bao Yugang's feelings for the country, that is definitely not to say, but Su Haiwen is not Chinese, not even British, the first consideration must be profit.

"How can it be early? The development of domestic ocean shipping has been very rapid in recent years, and the ocean freighters used are all leased internationally, and there are almost no ...... domestic companies with large-tonnage ocean freighters," Qi Zhiyuan saw Xie Kai pouring cold water and hurriedly introduced the current development of domestic ocean shipping.

With the continuous advancement of reform and opening up, low labor costs and strong national preferential policies, China has begun to become more and more important in international trade, and the annual growth of import and export volume is very fierce.

China has begun to move towards the world's factory.

A large number of products need to be transported by sea.

Under such circumstances, China's domestic production capacity is only tens of thousands of tons of freighters, which is almost incomparable with the transportation cost of international super freighters of hundreds of thousands of tons.

"Also, the ore ship under construction has also been ordered by Horwath International Trading Company, which is under construction......" Li Qingming was also afraid that Xie Kai would oppose this.

Work is underway to expand the No. 1 dock, six 053 frigates are also being produced at the same time, and even 100,000-ton ore carriers are being put into production......

Except for the warship, the others are all invested by the 404 side.

Xie Kai happens to be the person who can influence the 404 policy.

"Not the problems. I mean, isn't the investment too big to expand and renovate several dockyards at the same time? Even if we expand now, even if we have the technology, will we be able to have market orders?"

You can't become a fat man by eating in one bite.

"Now we have abundant funds, if we wait until the future when the funds are scarce to expand, it will be too late to have orders. Qi Zhiyuan said a little anxiously.

He came up with the plan.

At present, Hudong Shipyard is designing container ships, bulk dry cargo ships and oil tankers according to the modification of 100,000-ton mining ships.

When the time comes, if there are more orders, even four docks will not be enough.

What's more, to build large warships, but also to prepare for aircraft carriers?

"If you have enough funds, you can invest them endlessly?" "Can you squeeze out funds for other projects?" Xie Kai snorted coldly.

This is absolutely impossible.

Xie Kai is a little angry, and he doesn't have to say anything about the attention of other units to fight the funds in the hands of the base, but Qi Zhiyuan is like this, and it is impossible to use this method to make the base focus on this aspect.

The old guy doesn't think about other projects on the base.

"Let's do the expansion of the dockyard gradually. Now our other projects also have a large demand for funds, especially many projects have to rely on base investment to continue. Zheng Yucheng glared at Qi Zhiyuan.

Why are you so ignorant and want to invest money in the field of naval equipment when you have the opportunity?

"Let's talk about the coming of the Heung Kong Global Shipping Company for a while. Zheng Yucheng pulled the topic back.

Li Qingmin saw Xie Kai's opposition just now, and he was also worried that Xie Kai would affect the development plan of Hudong Shipyard, so he hurriedly explained, "Global Shipping, originally proposed to order four 100,000-ton cargo ships from China, and we were also asked before, and we are the only ......one in the current production of 100,000-ton cargo ships in China."

The meaning is obvious, it is because of the order that they are ready to expand the other two dockyards to the extent that they can manufacture ships of 100,000 tons or more.

"Let's not mention the uncertainty of the orders for global shipping, even if it is confirmed, can the profits of these four ships support the expansion of so many docks? Everyone is now a family, and if the capital chain of any project of the base is broken, it will affect the operation of the entire base. I hope you don't have the intention of fighting local tyrants......" Xie Kai shook his head with a wry smile, "Horwath International, that is Tan Lin's investment to invest in foreign mines, etc., those boats, I forced them to buy!"

You're not polite at all.

Qi Zhiyuan was a little angry, but he could only blush and not speak.

It's not that he doesn't know the status of 404, but if he doesn't speed up the progress, he won't be able to get any orders.

"The expansion of the shipyard requires a lot of investment and a very long time. All of them have been converted into docks that can make 100,000 tons, what if we need to make larger tonnage freighters? Could it be that the expansion has just been completed, and because it cannot meet the market demand, it will continue to be rebuilt?" Xie Kai never thought of touching naval equipment.

Now that it has been touched, it must be done as well as a large aircraft project.

Zheng Yucheng, the old guy, too, let himself come, it must be for this purpose.

"Comrade Xie Kai is right, you can't get all these docks to such an extent at once, take your time, after all, cargo ships are not like warships, and it is too difficult to improve technology......" Zheng Yucheng hurriedly came out and diluted the mud.

The old guy is very good at being a good man now.

"Let's talk about the cooperation with the global shipping company, haven't they been asking?"

"Global Shipping has indeed been asking about the situation in China, and it has not yet been determined which unit to order the freighter from. At present, we are the only ones who have the manufacturing technology for 100,000 tons of merchant ships......"

"Can it be built right away?" Xie Kai asked Gu Baonong unceremoniously.

Gu Baonong suddenly stopped talking.

If it could be built right away, they wouldn't have to meet here.

What Hudong Shipyard has is only the design drawings and manufacturing technology of 100,000-ton ore carriers, while merchant ships are different from ore carriers, and the requirements for sailing speed and east-west systems are much higher.

"The design is being revised, and the plan will be available soon after the Spring Festival. Li Qingmin hurriedly explained.