Datang Railway Corporation is also worthy of being a wealthy enterprise, when after seeing the samples of Xu Tie's new products and detailed technical data, it signed a contract to order new rails and steel wheels on the spot!

In addition, the railway company also signed a large number of orders for ordinary wrought iron rails with Xu Tie!

The order of the former two new materials is only a small batch of orders, and the railway company is also in the test, 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 the new rail of Xu Tie Company or the new rail of the other five companies, the price is not cheap.

In order to reduce costs, it is impossible for the railway company to use these expensive new materials on a large scale in the early stage of railway construction.

Those new rails and new steel wheels, that are for the future, not now.

Therefore, what really brought profits to Xu Tie Company was a large number of ordinary wrought iron rail orders.

Just this order, the direct profit created for Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company is more than 100,000 yuan!

However, there are so many companies that can produce wrought iron rails, why can Xu Tie Company get a large number of orders, while other companies can only get a small one?

That is naturally the railway company in order to support the development of Xu Tie Company.

The railway company is looking at the future, they hope to find five or six strategic partners across the country, but with a large number of orders to support the development of these iron and steel enterprises, and greatly reduce the production cost of rails.

If they could, they would prefer to choose only one or two companies as strategic partners, but the empire's railway construction plan is too large, and local politics have to be taken into account.

For example, if the northern railway network does not use the products of steel companies in the northern provinces of Hebei and other provinces, the local yamen will not be very happy.

Therefore, taking into account local political factors, the railway company intends to expand the cooperative relationship with local enterprises as much as possible throughout the country, some places are with local iron and steel companies, some places are with local timber companies, some places are with local coal companies, and some are with local cement companies and other companies.

In short, it is to let every local enterprise get benefits from railway construction as much as possible, so that a railway interest network can be formed all over the country and facilitate the subsequent large-scale construction of railways.

Otherwise, even if the local yamen does not make trouble at that time, but only cooperates a little lightly, it may cause great trouble to the railway company.

Even though the railway company is a special type of enterprise, it is still an enterprise anyway, and it is not an administrative agency, and its particularity lies only in the fact that it has the only railway operating license in the whole empire.

Therefore, it is also very important to build a good relationship with various localities, and through cooperation with local enterprises, the local enterprises can develop well, pay taxes, and let local officials have the achievements of economic development, which is a good example of hello, hello, hello, everyone.

Of course, the selection of strategic partners by the railway corporation is not chaotic, and their requirements for partners are also quite high, such as the steel industry, which must have a great scale of production, and at the same time have excellent technical research and development capabilities, otherwise, it will not be able to keep up with the pace of development of the railway corporation.

Although the railway corporation has not been established for a few years, and the railway construction has just begun, the railway corporation has mentioned again and again the technical indicators of railway construction.

When the Jingzhen Railway was first built, the goal of the railway company was only to build a railway, and then pass the horse-drawn carriages, so the design standards of some sections of the Jingzhen Line built at that time were relatively low, and some unimportant branch line sections were even pig iron rails in order to reduce costs.

However, in the eighteenth year of Xuanping, after the high-pressure steam engine was successfully developed and the corresponding steam locomotive was built, the goal of the railway company was to quickly upgrade to the steam locomotive, and put forward higher requirements for the transportation capacity of the railway and the train.

Based on the suggestions of the technicians, the railway company has made an outlook on the future train transport capacity.

The railway company believes that in five years, the power of the steam locomotive will be doubled, and it is possible to increase the horsepower of a single engine to 200 or even 300 horsepower, and in ten years, the horsepower of a single engine should be able to reach at least 500 horsepower, or even more.

The more horsepower you have, the heavier the train will be pulled.

This means that the railway must also be able to withstand such heavy trains!

Based on this consideration, all railway construction after the Jingzhen line, whether it is a trunk line or a branch line, will use wrought iron rails, and at the same time, technical reserves will be made in advance to prepare for the laying of higher-grade rails in the future.

That's why the railway company is bidding ahead of schedule and testing special rails and steel wheels.

The railway company is preparing for the future.

Therefore, when selecting all kinds of partners, it is also a thousand choices, to scale, but also to technology research and development capabilities.

There are more than 10 large and small iron and steel companies in Jiangbei Province, and this scope has been expanded to the entire northern Anhui, Jiangbei, Shandong, and Henan regions, and there are hundreds of large and small iron and steel companies, but in the end, the railway company only chose Xu Tie Company as a strategic partner in this region, and what is valued is nothing more than that Xu Tie is now not small in scale, and has strong technical reserves.

The choice of the railway company has made Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company the sixth strategic partner of Datang Railway Corporation in the steel industry!

As a result, Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company is just around the corner from becoming a first-class iron and steel enterprise!

Bringing such a rich return is once again proving that Xu Tie Iron and Steel Company is right to poach scientific research talents at a high price, although Xu Tie Company paid a lot of money in order to recruit Sun Yuan, 100,000 cash plus 8% of the shares.

But Sun Yuan has been here for only two months, which has brought a return far more than this figure to Xu Tie Company, which makes Lin Puxiang and other shareholders smile.

After all, everyone likes to make money!

And Lin Puxiang is more determined in his idea, if you want Xu Tie to develop better, you must have a large number of R&D talents, and it is not very reliable to poach people at a high price, after all, you can't keep poaching people like this, the cost is too high.

To this end, after consulting with other shareholders, Lin Pu plans to set up a research institute in Shanghai, taking advantage of Shanghai's geographical advantages and educational advantages, and then recruiting and cultivating talents.

As for why you didn't choose Jinling, it was because although there are more universities in Jinling, and the Royal Institute of Technology is also there, there is more competition there.

Jinling is not only the base camp of Jiangnan Iron and Steel Company, but also the base camp of Zhili Iron and Steel Company, in addition, when the coated iron company, Zhaoqing Iron and Steel Company, Tianjin Iron and Steel Company have set up a research and development institute in Jinling City, and these five iron and steel companies are currently the top first-class iron and steel enterprises in China, and they are strongmen, Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company is still a little behind.

Although Shanghai is a prosperous place of economy, and several steel companies have production bases in Shanghai, there is no first-class steel company to set up a large-scale R&D institution in Shanghai for the time being, which gives Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company an opportunity.

Let them go to Jinling City to grab talents, and Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company is tossing in Shanghai.

Anyway, there is also a Jiangnan University in Shanghai, in addition to Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai Industrial and Commercial College, Songjiang Higher Normal University, Songjiang University and other seven or eight universities, although only one of them Jiangnan University is a first-class comprehensive university, the other universities are not very famous.

However, the strength of science and engineering at Shanghai Institute of Technology is not bad, and it can also provide a lot of talents.

Although the students trained by other schools lack the ability, they can still engage in basic research.

In addition, their Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company 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, but in recent years, many graduates of the school have been recruited by Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company.

Together, Lin Puxiang is sure that within three years, Xuzhou Iron and Steel's basic research and development strength will reach a new level, so as to stand side by side with other five major iron and steel enterprises and completely rank among the first-class iron and steel enterprises in China.

Lin Puxiang is ambitious, and Xu Tie's other shareholders are not needy, they are not from a technical background, these businessmen are more eager for money, and they are all dreaming of exploding overnight!

And the other shareholders don't know what technology, in the early years when they started a business with Lin Puxiang, they said that Lin Pu has always been responsible for technology, they are responsible for administrative management and marketing, as long as Lin Puxiang gets the product out, they are responsible for selling.

Now that Lin Puxiang proposed the establishment of the Shanghai Research Institute, this group of businessmen and shareholders who fell into the eyes of money naturally raised their hands in favor, and the new shareholder Sun Yuan is a very pure scientist, people only say, I don't care what you do, I only care about whether there is enough research funds, and then added that the annual dividend can not be less.

After getting the permission of many shareholders, Lin Puxiang once again boarded the steam passenger ship of Feng's Shipping Company and prepared to go to Shanghai!

This time I went to Shanghai, but I was not in a hurry, and sent an urgent letter to the Shanghai office in advance, so when Lin Puxiang arrived at the dock of the Shanghai Business District, the staff of the office was already waiting.

After arriving at the office, Lin Puxiang began his visit!

To open a research institute, it is not enough to hang a sign, there must be a large number of researchers, before the listing, Lin Puxiang plans to find someone first!