Wang Xinyu sent a fleet to carry out the "clean-up" operation, but he went to Manila himself, and then took the shareholders of Nanyang Company to Borneo.

When the fleet arrived at Pontianak, the group got off the sea boat and transferred to a small boat sailing on the Cangshui River to visit the cement factory and glass factory upstream.

In fact, compared with glass, Wang Xinyu attaches more importance to cement. In the future, the glass factory was just a tool for producing luxury goods, which were sold for money and silver. And the cement plant produces an important strategic material! With cement, you can quickly build castles, build forts, build sturdy buildings, build docks. Just for the future Singapore Fortress project, I don't know how much steel and concrete will be consumed.

Wu Feng, who competed with Wang Xinyu for the second largest shareholder, of course, also followed. He wanted to see how powerful Wang Xinyu's so-called new technology was. If glass and cement can really be fired, then Wu Feng is willing to give up the throne of the second largest shareholder and honestly become the third largest shareholder. After all, Wu Feng is a very economically minded figure, he knows that if these two things can be burned, Nanyang Company will not worry about making money in the future, and glass and cement, whether they are sold to foreigners or natives in the future, will be absolutely hot sellers.

The passenger ships sailing on the Cangshui River are not small, but the draft is very shallow, and it is a kind of inland river vessel. Forty-two meters long and ten meters wide, the boat was a four-two-metre long and ten-metre-wide river boat bought from Siam on the opposite side, and below deck was a paddleman's cabin, in which sat forty slave oarsmen, all of whom were Sulu slaves sent from the city of Yanping. The slave oarsmen were chained to the floor of the cabin and sat on the ground to be responsible for rowing, and there was also a full-time supervising boatman in the oarsman's cabin, armed with a leather whip, to supervise the slaves so that they would not be lazy. On the deck of the ship, there are two floors, the first floor is the guest house, and the second floor is the dining room and observation deck. Going up further, there is a helm tower at the stern of the ship, and the boss of the ship who is in charge of the helm is on it.

Although it is against the current, the speed of the ship is not slow, and it has a speed of seven knots. After a morning, the ship anchored at the pier of a new town named Tao City.

Pan Ying had been waiting on the dock for a long time, the boat came ashore, Pan Liu walked down from the boat, Pan Ying greeted it like a gust of wind, and shouted excitedly: "Grandpa! You're here! ”

"You dead girl, you definitely didn't come to see grandpa!" Pan Liu smiled and stroked his granddaughter's hair, "You, you must have come to see Wang Gongzi, right?" ”

"Ying'er doesn't want to see him! He already has a marriage partner! Pan Ying quibbled in her mouth, but her eyes rolled around, wanting to see if her sweetheart had come.

"Miss Pan!" Wang Xinyu appeared behind Pan Ying as if he had come out of the ground.

"Scared the hell out of me!" Pan Ying turned her head, "Childe, where did you come from?" Why didn't I see you get off the boat and run behind me? ”

Wang Xinyu showed a mysterious smile on his face: "Xiaosheng has a stealth spell, and he can appear unnoticed. ”

"Humph! Come on! You must have come down from the other side while I wasn't looking! "This time it was guessed correctly by Pan Ying, Wang Xinyu got off the boat from the stern. Because of the large number of people, Pan Ying did not find Wang Xinyu in the crowd.

Pan Liu turned his head to Wu Feng and said, "Old Man Wu, let's go!" Take a look at our factory! ”

The cement factory and glass factory were built here on the edge of a river ten miles away from Taocheng, which is a tributary of the Cangshui River. On the river, a barrage dam is being built to use water power to propel machinery.

When I walked into the cement factory, I saw that the big furnace had just burned a batch of cement. Workers use shovels to pull the freshly burned cement clinker out of the kiln and shovel it onto a cart, and then someone pushes the cart to the mill by the river. After firing the clinker in a kiln, on the other side, workers push the milled clay, limestone, coal, etc., into the kiln. Then a new kiln of cement began to be fired.

After the stove is lit, a bellows pulled by a donkey supplies air to the stove. Under the influence of fresh air, this new energy-saving and high-temperature furnace quickly reaches a high temperature of more than 1,400 degrees Celsius, and the mixed raw meal is fired.

"Let's go to the mill!" Pan Liu greeted the shareholders.

Wu Feng and his entourage walked into the mill and saw the workers pouring the clinker into the grinding tray, and the donkey pulled the mill to grind the cement clinker and grind it into powder.

Pan Ying told shareholders: "At present, the dam has not been completed, and the cement produced can only be milled with animal power. When the dam is completed, the grinding disc can be pushed by a water wheel, which is more efficient. ”

The cement is ground into powder, packed into bags, and then sent to be loaded onto a ship and sent to Pontianak City.

Looking at these fine powder-like things, Wu Feng stepped forward, grabbed a handful, and held it in his hand for a long time, asking, "Does this fine powder have such a strong function?" Can you build a building as hard as stone? ”

Pan Ying couldn't answer, but Wang Xinyu answered for her: "The headquarters of the Nanyang Company is being built in Pontianak City, and when we go back, you can visit the construction site and you will know." ”

"That's right, construction is underway in Pontianak City, but the foundation has just been laid, if Old Man Wu doesn't believe it, he can see it after living in Pontianak for a month." Pan Ying said.

Wu Feng frowned in disbelief, he didn't know if this kind of thing was as good as Wang Xinyu boasted. Anyway, he has time, so he will stay in Pontianak for a while. As for the issue of shares, after looking at the glass factory for a while, as long as the glass produced can satisfy him, the matter of shares can almost be decided.

The glassworks are on the other side of the river, and you can walk from a temporary bridge at the dam site.

Walking into the gate of the factory, people found that the scale of the glass factory was obviously not as large as the cement factory, but the glass factory was very heavily guarded, the wall was very high, there were barracks and towers inside, there were guards at the door, and all the craftsmen lived in the glass factory, and they were not allowed to go out at will without permission. There are many more buildings in the glassworks, all of which are decentralized workshops, and the craftsmen live in their own small workshops. In every house where the craftsmen lived, there was a stove for firing glass. Several craftsmen are busy inside.

"Burning transparent glass, but it's a delicate job. We mix the ingredients and send them to the craftsmen, who create products in various shapes. Pan Liu introduced to the shareholders.

However, in terms of raw material processing and firing of glass blanks, only Pan Liu and Pan Ying have mastered the secret. After the white quartz rocks mined from the mountains are transported here, they are smashed by several workers and then ground into powder with animal power to turn into snow-white quartz powder.

Quartz powder is fed into a furnace with some auxiliary materials and fired at high temperatures.

There are many craftsmen who make glass, but in fact, the process of making glass is similar to that of making glass, but the furnace temperature of making glass is a little lower.

The firing process is strictly confidential, and even these shareholders are not allowed to enter the workshop to see the craftsmen at work, but can only stand outside and wait.

After the raw material has been burned and melted into a liquid, the shareholders are allowed to enter the workshops where the finished products are made, and watch how the craftsmen make the softened glass into various finished products.

According to different needs, adding different substances can make the glass have different colors.

Wu Feng, led by Pan Liu and Pan Ying, walked into a workshop.

I saw that the two craftsmen inside were busy, and the glass, which had turned red and soft, was blown out of different shapes by the craftsmen. There are also colored glasses that are being cut while they are hot and made into a variety of different accessories.

Soon after, the glass-blowing craftsman made a glass.

On the table, there are still a few finished products that have been cooled.

"Old man Wu, pick it up and take a look, how about this transparent glass we made ourselves." Pan Ying said to Wu Feng with a smile.

Wu Feng picked up a glass and looked back and forth in his hand, only to see that the glass was crystal clear, without any impurities, and the glass was as transparent as if there was nothing. If you sell this kind of superlative, a glass can sell for a lot of silver.

There are also some glass crafts, there are glass products of various colors, there are wine bottles, there are vases, there are large glass balls, etc. Every piece of glass is a good thing of high quality!

"Oh my God! How much silver can these transparent glasses be sold for! Wu Feng gasped.

"The formula of this transparent glass was taken out by Wang Gongzi, did Old Man Wu agree to let him take a stake in technology and become the second largest shareholder?" Pan Ying asked with a smile.

"Good! The old man agreed to Wang Gongzi's technology shares! He is the second largest shareholder, and the old man is the third largest shareholder! Wu Feng agreed. After visiting the glass factory, Wu Feng was already willing to bow down at this time, he was willing to let Wang Xinyu become a shareholder with technology and become the second largest shareholder, and he would honestly be the third largest shareholder and get dividends every year. Wu Feng knows that as far as the glass factory is concerned, the annual dividend will definitely not be less! Not to mention that Nanyang has other industries.

After visiting these two factories, Wu Feng asked, "How useful is the cement we just saw?" Can you let us go to Pontianak and see the construction site? ”

"That's no problem, you're all shareholders, we're definitely going to let you know!" Pan Liu touched his beard and said to the shareholders with a smug smile.

"Let's go, let's go to Pontianak!" Wu Feng said.

The group went back to the dock and got on the boat. Pan Ying also followed the shareholders and took a boat to Pontianak together.

Because the schedule was very tight, the shareholders also wanted to go to Pontianak City as soon as possible, so they did not eat in Taocheng, and everyone had lunch on the boat.

On the return ship, the restaurant on the second floor opened for dinner, and the chef on the ship cooked the dishes ordered by Pan Liu. Afterwards, the waiters put plates of delicacies and bottles of wine on the table.

Wu Feng looked at the waitress who served food on his table, and saw that this girl was about fifteen or sixteen years old and very beautiful. So he asked, "Old Man Pan, this little girl is very beautiful!" The old man likes it very much, can you give some money to Mr. Pan? The old man wants to buy this little maid as a concubine. ”

Pan Liu shook his head and said, "Old man Wu, you are wrong!" This is not a maid, this is a waiter! They are employees who come to our company to work, not slaves. The old man has no right to sell her to you. If you really like it, you can ask her yourself if you would like to be taken as a concubine! ”

When the waiter came up again, Wu Feng asked: "This girl, although the old man here is not as good as Old Man Pan, he is also rich and rivals the country, I wonder if the girl intends to enter my Wu Feng's house?" ”

The waiter blushed and said a blessing: "This master, I'm really sorry, the little woman has a marriage contract, and the little girl can't agree." ”

Wu Feng was bored, but Pan Liu laughed and said: "We are free to come and go here, and the waiters in the company are all our regular employees and have their own freedom." ”

The ship stopped at the Pontianak wharf, and the shareholders hurried to the Nanyang Bank construction site to visit.

Workers poured bags of powder, known as cement, into an iron jar, and poured sand and gravel into it, and then poured water into it to mix. Then someone put a lid with a stirring device on top of the iron cylinder and drove the donkey to pull the rotor.

The rotor on the top of the lid of the iron cylinder rotates under the pull of the donkey, and through the variable speed gear, the mixing device below is driven to mix the cement, sand and stones.

"Just these cement powders, add water, and then use stones and sand to build a house?" Wu Feng asked in surprise.

"Not yet, I need some iron sticks as pillars." Pan Liu replied.

Walking into the foundation of the bank building, I saw that a worker had erected brackets made of thumb-thick iron on the foundation, and the outside was made of wooden planks.

Pan Liu said: "These planks will be dismantled in the future. We pour the mixed cement into it, and after a few days, when the cement is dry, the planks can be removed. When the planks are removed, the pillars will be as strong as the stone pillars! Then we started the construction of the roof. ”

Wu Feng was very surprised: "Just these small iron brackets, plus these cement, can you build a solid building?" The old man still doesn't believe it! Anyway, the old man has time, so let's watch the bank finish here! ”

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