Chapter 40: Matheson & Company

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Yang Rui saw that he pushed the problem over, and then saw that he didn't look like a spy, so he put his mind at ease, and said: "I said in my speech just now, now China's sober people are anxious, they see that most of the Chinese people are confused, and when they see foreigners with ill intentions, can they not be in a hurry, they can't wait to make China strong in one day, or find something, as long as China can become strong as soon as it is used."

This republic is the medicine that these eager revolutionaries are looking for, they don't figure it out at all, is the republic so strong, or the republic after it is strong, they don't figure out the relationship between the country's prosperity and the republic, people are afraid that the emperor will worry about their own money after they are rich and strong, so they want a republic, what is the purpose of the republic, is to limit the rights of the government, let the government bully the people for no reason, and do not casually steal the house and kill the head, so the republic was made. It was only after they got fat that they threw away the small clothes of ** and replaced them with the loose clothes of the Republic. But now someone is telling you that it doesn't matter if you're thin now, as long as you wear the big dress of the Republic, you will become fat. It's not ridiculous, it's ridiculous, the republic has become a panacea, and it works as soon as it is used.

They will also give you the example of the United States, saying how the United States is strong as a republic, but you must know that the United States was very weak when it was first founded, and Britain still often bullied him, when was the United States strong, starting after winning the war against Spain, which has taken almost a hundred years, can we wait a hundred years, we can't afford to wait. And I am talking about a centralized government that can make China stronger, and Japan is an example, it took 40 years to become stronger, and the elimination of the shogunate made Japan a centralized government, and through guò to work together to solve domestic problems one by one, and finally became stronger.

If there is a sea on both sides like the United States, and there is only a very weak Mexico next to it, then we can choose a republic and slowly become stronger, but we are not, Russia in the north, Japan in the east, Britain in the west, and France in the south, this is the enemy on all sides, so we can only choose to centralize, only through the centralized government to concentrate the country's strength, to repel the strong enemy outside, and solve the problem one by one, the country can have hope, the country can be strong!

The Western philosopher Bacon said that reading history makes people wise, and the old Chinese saying also says that if we take history as a mirror, we only need to look at the history of the United States, the history of Japan, and the current situation of China, and we will naturally understand what we want to choose and how to do it. ”

As soon as Yang Rui's words were finished, the students applauded, because they were crowded, so they raised their hands in the air to shoot, only to see the hand shadows in the room, and the wind made the lights around Yang Rui continue to sway, and finally the pop went out, and the room was suddenly dark. I don't know who laughed, and then everyone laughed, Yang Rui also laughed, and said after laughing: "Okay, it's time to end the meeting, let's go to dinner first, the dishes are all fried, if there is something to say, let's talk about it after eating, if I can't finish it, I'll go to school tomorrow." After saying that, he lit the lamp with a lighter and arranged for everyone to go out to eat.

The meal was enjoyable, and after eating, we chatted for a while and let the students go back to the school, the students were full of food and drink, and the knot in their hearts had been solved, they were all very happy, and they bowed to Yang Rui and thanked them, and then went back to the school club together. Watching the students walk away, Yang Rui said to himself: You are fooling people again, giving people hope but making people face the cruel reality, isn't this playing with others. Yang Rui, why don't you die, what's the point of living.

On Monday morning, Lu Te sent someone to ask Yang Rui to go in the afternoon, and Yang Rui received the information and knew that there should be a response to the matter of chlor-alkali factory equipment, and when he ran in the afternoon, Lu Te was waiting for him. Rutte opened straight to the point: "Dear Yang, Germany has no way to provide the mercury electrolysis equipment you want, only diaphragm electrolysis equipment." ”

Yang Rui was taken aback and asked: "Didn't you say that the mercury electrolysis equipment is the latest, it is impossible for Germany not to provide such equipment, you must know ......?"

"You must know that Germany's technology is the world's leading," Rutte touched his beautiful beard, "but now the patents for mercury electrolysis are in the hands of Americans and Austrians, and there are mercury electrolysis equipment in Germany, but the parent company of this company is Belgian, called Solvay." The company was reluctant to sell its most advanced stuff to anyone else, so they produced chlor-alkali themselves and supplied it to the whole of Europe, and they had an agent in East Asia, which was Bnemen & Co. ”

Hearing the relationship between Su Wei and Bu Neimen, Yang Rui knew that Su Wei's equipment was hopeless, and was about to ask about the situation in the United States, but Rutte said: "As for the United States, there are two companies that can provide such equipment, one is called Castner-Kellner, which is a company composed of two patent holders of mercury electrolysis patents, this company is very large, and it also has branches in Europe, and may not sell its own equipment, and the other is Matheson Company, which is not big and only serves the United States. That's why this company is what we're looking for. Power plant equipment and potassium chlorate equipment can be used in Germany, the offer has already come. ”

Yang Rui heard that there was still a company that would sell mercury electrolyzers, and his heart was relieved, no matter what, there was still a glimmer of hope. Thinking about who to ask for it, Rutte handed over the power plant quotation and a written note, and said, "This is the address of that company, which is in Salterville, Virginia, USA, and you'd better telegraph over and ask for it yourself." ”

Yang Rui took the note and thanked him, "Thank you so much, Mr. Rutte." ”

Rutte smiled kindly: "Young sir, everything is new to you, there is a very beautiful business waiting for you to create, I can see that with my help, a chemical company in the Far East is established, which is the greatest joy." There you go. Good luck! ”

Yang Rui walked out of Rutte's office, took the note and thought about it, it was better to come forward under the guise of McNeill, after all, Americans deal with the United States better than barbaric Chinese deal with them. Go back to the instrument hall to find McNeill in the real yàn room, this guy has been playing wireless telegraphy a lot recently, and now their new variable capacitor is made of copper foil rolls, which is better than the previous flat plate, and the trial is also good, and the farthest transmission distance has reached the 6-line factory.

McNeill took a stack of papers, "Boss, this is the patent information for the glass tube that I summarized last time, did you really fill in my name here?" And the boss I think that since this glass tube can be used on the receiver, then it can also be used on the transmitter, and I am now studying the characteristics of the glass tube and trying to use it as well. Of course, it would have been better if Harry had arrived, and I am sure he would have been able to send the signal to San Francisco very quickly."

Yang Rui took the information and said, "That's good, I'm looking forward to it." Your name, oh yes, I'm going to fill in your name as one of the glass tube makers, and of course the beneficiary of this name is the company. Do you understand? ”

"Oh, I see, it's really thanks to God," McNeill drew the cross, he now fully understood the importance of this glass tube, and it was only a matter of time before he became famous as a Akito.

McNeill's telegram was replied the next day - of course, it was the third day in Shanghai, and the Matheson company was very interested in the idea of an American who wanted to build a chlor-alkali plant using mercury electrolysis technology in the Far East, and of course he was only interested in how this guy went so far to build a chlor-alkali factory, and he didn't plan to come and see, it should be that the Far East did not pose any threat to Matheson, and the company was very happy to come to the quotation in the reply, according to the output requirements of ten tons of caustic soda per day in Shanghai. The price of the entire plant without the power plant is $150,000, and Matheson will send engineers to guide the construction of the plant and stay in Shanghai for a period of time so that the employees here can take over, and these engineers will have to pay an additional fee.

150,000 US dollars is more than 200,000 silver dollars, plus 300,000 yuan for the supporting power plant -- because there is no need to build a power grid, the cost of the power plant is still cheap, and the potassium chlorate equipment is 70,000 yuan, which is more than 170,000 yuan compared with the previous budget. Another way to do this is to reduce the daily output of caustic soda from ten tons to five tons, and the output of hydrochloric acid has also been reduced by half, to about ten tons of daily output, so that it is necessary to change the solid-liquid ratio of the monosodium glutamate factory, and the problem of grain consumption will be solved by importing Canadian wheat, so that the cost of the factory will also be greatly reduced, and the total investment in equipment is only about 300,000 yuan, but whether this decision needs to be discussed by shareholders.

Thinking about this section, Yang Rui asked McNeill to report, that is, to reduce the daily output of caustic soda from ten tons to five tons, and see how the other party quotes. When negotiating with the United States, the goods of the monosodium glutamate factory are full of people every day, and they are all paying for the goods, because the output is limited, and they can only sell as much as they produce, and they can be unavoidable as soon as the monosodium glutamate wind blows, the orders are scheduled to three months later, and there is a trend of increasing, the margin and the payment have been collected hundreds of thousands, everyone has paid the money, so they all go to the goods to ask for the goods, and the goods have to come according to the order, but the amount of some orders is too much, and only a part of it can be satisfied, so as to put the goods more than a few people, So the person who picks up the goods has opinions and squats at the goods every day.

Fortunately, everyone is still vegetarian, and there is no evil **. Yu Huizu, who watched this scene, shook his head, and when he saw Yang Rui, he said that it would be nice if he had ordered an extra set. Yang Rui had no choice but to comfort him and said that it would be good to wait for two months. On Friday, a telegram arrived from the United States, and the price was lowered to $90,000, explaining that although the output has decreased, the electrolyzer can be reduced by more than 100, but many equipment cannot be reduced, and the price needs at least $90,000. As for the payment, because the other party does not go to the foreign bank, if there is no objection to the price, then after remitting 10,000 US dollars to the other party, the other party will send an engineer to guide the planning and construction of the plant, etc., and sign a contract in Shanghai, after paying the deposit, they will provide these equipment within two months and ship it over, and the engineer who came before will be responsible for installation, commissioning and training of employees.

This time the telegram was very long, and people could feel the sincerity from the telegram, and of course there was a remittance address. Yang Rui felt that this might be the final offer of the other party, so he asked the shareholders to come to the instrument hall in the evening to discuss the chlor-alkali plant. At more than seven o'clock in the evening, everyone arrived, all acquaintances, everyone was not polite, Yang Rui said straight to the point about the equipment, and also mentioned the payment method required by the other party, everyone has different views on Yang Rui's idea of reducing the scale, five or six hundred thousand equipment according to the current monosodium glutamate sales is not unacceptable, although the daily output of ten tons of caustic soda has a lot of pressure on sales, but Mr. Xu Huafeng believes that the production of caustic soda can be supplied to China's domestic soap, paper and textile three major industries, In addition, it can also be exported to Japan, and Japan's chemical industry is also very weak.

Brother Ade and Yu Huizu have no concept, Zhong Guanguan actually wants the bigger the factory, the better, and Yang Rui also likes to make money from the Japanese, so the plan to build a chlor-alkali factory with a total investment of 630,000 yuan was unanimously approved. As for the raising of funds, Adego said that there is no problem, the shape of MSG sales and the acceptance of the market make him feel that this is a very low-risk financing, he can write a post-dated check in the Dutch bank as the general office, and then take the check to the bank for mortgage exchange, you can easily withdraw the money, as long as you pay some interest, and according to the current sales form, when you pay for the equipment, the funds needed will not be very much.

After this, Mr. Xu Huafeng had a mention, that is, the MSG factory acquired his soap factory, which he himself was in charge of, the soap factory did not die, did not make money, and it was not a way, I heard that there was a new process in the real room, he thought of letting the soap factory out, and secondly, the chlor-alkali factory was built, so the price advantage of caustic soda was enough to increase the profits of the soap factory. Yang Rui didn't expect him to have this mention, so he discussed it with everyone, and went to the soap factory tomorrow morning to take a look, and if he wanted to buy it, he would evaluate the value of the factory casually.