After working hard in and outside the city for a while, Li Dingqiao finally brought the security work of the machinery repair shop in Nanjing to the right track.

It is hard to say that it is professional and formal, but ensuring the safety of the repair shop is no longer a problem. After all, it is a place for building firearms, and there is no shortage of weapons and ammunition. The pile of these alone cannot be easily done by small armed forces.

Of course, it is not to say that you can rest assured. This can only deal with direct external attacks, infiltration, insurgency, and instigation from the inside. The enemy's methods must be diverse.

However, the newly established equipment repair shop, and some of the enemy's arrangements should be lagging behind. In addition, strict temporary measures have been taken for personnel review and access management, which are currently enough for the equipment repair shop to deal with the current situation.

But Li Dingqiao has no time to further improve it. In addition to the base outside Nanjing, which is mainly responsible for R&D work, there is also a base not far from Nanjing. It has been officially established and needs him to organize security matters as soon as possible.

The tasks undertaken by this base are complicated. First, it is responsible for the small batch trial production and testing of new weapons after the development of new weapons, and it is necessary to undertake the work of the suburban base.

The second is to be responsible for the production and transformation of some weapons and equipment with less demand. Before this project, it mainly serves the Military Intelligence Department. At the same time, the base will be equipped with the best batch of machinery and equipment produced by the repair institute. The formal personnel are basically middle- and senior technicians and even engineers, so they also need to bear the production of weapons and spare parts that require high precision.

Finally, this base is also responsible for the training of talents in the machinery repair institute, mainly responsible for providing systematic knowledge learning to some potential and capable young workers and students, imparting skills and experience, and cultivating talents that can grow into middle- and senior technicians and even engineers for the machinery repair institute.

At the same time, it also undertakes the selection and training of some young researchers. The selection is to select suitable talents from the previous students to enter the research institution, and provide internship and practice opportunities for young researchers recruited from other channels to help them accumulate relevant experience and lay the foundation for their future careers.

In addition, the base will also undertake some research and development and testing, such as gunpowder, which is not suitable for conducting outside Nanjing City, as well as providing technical support, guidance, etc. to the production and manufacturing departments of the second-level repair facilities, as well as research and development of production processes, processes and other matters that are more efficient and fast to improve quality and reduce costs.

The base here was still chosen to be built on an old factory. The place was a valley in the mountainous area on the west side of Dangtu on the south side of the Yangtze River southwest of Nanjing, which was originally an iron plant.

The iron plant was established for a long time. It was established by some enlightened local officials and gentry landlords in response to industry saving the country, but unfortunately they had a tragic fate.

When the construction was started, the participants could be said to be ambitious, but unfortunately the reality immediately slapped him hard. First, he made a statement that building a factory would destroy Feng Shui, forcing the factory site to move from the river with convenient transportation to mountainous valleys far away from the crowds.

Then there was the layer of exploitation and blood-sucking by corrupt officials at all levels at the end of the dynasty. They originally cleared nearly a kilometer of land on both sides of a large stream in the valley, prepared to build a factory, and there was iron ore along the stream, and also prepared to open up a large mining site.

But at this point, many of the people who participated had already shrunk and retreated, and only a few of them were still insisting on doing this. In the end, the factory was built several hundred meters along both sides of the stream, and the planned three-point one-minute mine was turned into a few mine holes and mined.

The iron plant was not much better. First, there were not many domestic factories at that time, and all the monsters and monsters wanted to get a piece of the iron plant. Moreover, the iron plant lacked technology and experience, and most of the production was mainly pig iron, with only a small amount of crude steel output, and it was still the usual road goods. There were foreign goods outside, and when the domestic situation was turbulent, the iron plant could only support it and even pay back.

In the end, few families left and left one after another, leaving only a local gentry surnamed Huang. Because his family was wealthy, he was unwilling to lose so much. He took over the share of the rest and endured it.

However, he really had a chance to survive, that is, the outbreak of a war, foreign goods were reduced in large quantities and even local products were exported in reverse. Although the iron plant produced some ordinary goods, transporting iron was always more convenient than transporting iron ore back to smelting. Moreover, because in war, the demand could be said to be endless, so in those years, the iron plant was producing day and night, which made the iron plant recover a lot of blood.

Unfortunately, a few years later, with the end of the World War, orders were cancelled, foreign goods and foreign capital made a comeback, and steel, a core material in the war, also rapidly innovated and developed technology in the war.

After the war, foreign goods made a comeback. The situation faced by the iron mill was more difficult than before the war. It was already behind enough, but now it is even worse. For a moment, the iron mill became deserted again.

However, after taking advantage of the benefits, the Huang family also tasted the sweetness of the iron factory. They no longer chose to deal with it with it by enduring hardships, but took the initiative to find ways to solve the problem of sleep.

In the end, the Huang family introduced a batch of processing machinery and technology, which of course were not very good things, so they could produce some agricultural tools and iron tools in daily life, such as kettles, iron buckets, iron nails, hoes, etc., which was more efficient and low-cost than traditional domestic methods, and were better than before, simply producing iron blocks and ingots.

However, although the situation has changed, it is almost as hard as before the war. Moreover, due to the gradual transformation of the achievements of new technological innovation in the war, the impact of foreign goods has gradually increased, and their changes cannot catch up with the increased impact at all.

The iron plant gradually could not support it, and some factories were closed and it was close to bankruptcy. It was not until the heirs of the Huang family took over the iron plant, and it took a lot of effort to restore the iron plant to its full capacity.

Huang Shixin, the eldest son of the Huang family, had been with the iron factory for decades. Influenced by this, he entered the mining and smelting major of Beiyang Institute of Technology and took over the iron factory after graduation.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content below! Unfortunately, due to the backward equipment, technology, production capacity, etc. of the iron plant, it is the limit to restore production and barely support it. No matter how much Huang Shixin does, it has not improved much.

Of course, Huang Shixin did not give up and was preparing to purchase and introduce new equipment and technology to re-energize the iron plant, so he went to British foreign companies.

Unfortunately, I am still too young, so it’s not good to look for anyone to find. I have to look for British people to cheat. It’s not that other foreigners don’t cheat, but that they are the most cheating. Especially for Huang Shixin, the huge amount is based on orders that are a one-time transaction. If you don’t understand the tricks, you’ll be waiting to be cheated by them!

Huang Shixin just didn't understand. When she was negotiating with a British foreign company, she was trapped by the other party and agreed to the other party's payment in pounds, the delivery time was to be negotiated, and the huge liquidated damages were also required. Because of her lack of experience in dealing with foreign capital, Huang Shixin was deceived by the other party's words and tricked her into signing the contract.

There is a huge pit hidden in these articles. The pound is denominated for the ocean payment. Once the exchange rate of the ocean against the pound falls, the actual payment for goods needs to be paid will have to be increased by a large number.

Although the ocean is mainly made of precious metal silver, its currency value is not stable and often fluctuates up and down due to various factors, and the fluctuation range is sometimes extremely violent.

Based on this, some foreigners choose to denominate or pay in foreign currency to avoid risks, but some foreigners see business opportunities and set up traps to cheat people for profit.

The delivery time is to be negotiated. The other party is preparing for stock, exporting industrial equipment requires government review, and the long-term transportation distance may have unexpected risks, etc., convinced Huang Shixin that the huge liquidated damages were caused. The other party's reason was procurement and transportation costs were huge. He was worried that Huang Shixin would breach the contract, and the liquidated damages were still two-way. Huang Shixin was still afraid that the other party would breach the contract, so he naturally would not refuse.

When Huang Shi signed the contract, he was at a high level of the exchange rate between the ocean and the pound, so the other party chose to pay in pounds. If the exchange rate was at a low level, they would in turn pay in pounds denominated by pounds denominated by pounds.

As long as the other party arranges the delivery time at the low or high level of the exchange rate, it can obtain the ocean or pound far higher than the contract when the contract is concluded. Then, when the exchange rate is high, the ocean will be exchanged for pounds or other foreign currencies, or directly purchase supplies from China in the ocean. The difference between the exchange rates is the return. If it is pounds, even this step will be saved.

The delivery time is pending and the huge liquidated damages are both for this trap. The delivery time is pending and for the delay is to delay the delivery at the exchange rate. The huge liquidated damages are to prevent you from realizing that the trap refuses to perform the contract. As for the so-called two-way, the delivery time is all to be determined. If I delay for ten or eight years, it is not called breach of contract, and I cannot restrain the other party at all.

Huang Shixin was like this. It took several years for people to delay the contract from the contract to the delivery. As a result, after accounting for the delivery, I found that the amount to be paid was 30% more than the one calculated at the time of signing the contract.

Realizing that he was cheated and wanted to save him, he had no choice but to fail to fulfill his contract. The amount of money was higher than the amount of extra money. He could not get anything after leaving. He dragged on and refused to accept the goods. The other party directly used his relationship to put pressure on the government. The government did not dare to offend foreigners at all, so the Huang family could only pinch his nose and admit it.

This is not over yet. When the goods arrived, Huang Shixin found that the goods were inconsistent. Not only were the models much worse than those signed by the contract, but the second-hand goods that others had used.

This time, Huang Shixin did not compromise and forced himself. As a result, the other party argued that he had shipped the wrong goods and that his goods were in Hong Kong, so he needed to ship the wrong ones back to Hong Kong for handover.

Huang Shixin negotiated for a long time, but in the end he had no choice but to do it according to the other party's request. However, Hong Kong was the other party's territory, so naturally all kinds of obstacles caused bad luck. It was not until Huang Shixin agreed to buy the batch of second-hand defective equipment at the market price of the brand new goods that the matter was completed.

However, the large amount of freight costs for the equipment was transported, and the number of second-hand defective equipment was also quite large. When Huang Shixin came back, he found that the Huang family could not afford much money to build a factory and put the equipment into production. The equipment was not very useful when he threw it directly into his hands.

The Huang family has been affected for decades of turmoil and war, and it has long since disappeared from its former rich background, let alone the construction of a steel factory.

Huang Shixin wanted to sell the second-hand equipment in his hand to get some money, but several people expressed their intentions one after another, but the bid was directly pressed on the floor. In an accident, the Huang family found that one of them was doing business for Japanese investors. After checking, they found that those people were all arranged by the same Japanese investors.

The Huang family built an iron factory in response to the industrial and national saving trend that was launched in China after the 1898-1899. How could they be willing to sell equipment to Japanese capital? Moreover, the other party's bid was so low.

After being discovered, the Japanese-owned company simply stopped pretending. If others dared to contact the Huang family, they used various means to suppress, exclude, and threaten them, and did not give the Huang family any other choice. The target was the Huangjia Iron Factory Iron Mine and all the equipment, whether brand new or second-hand.

The business of the Huangjia and the Iron Factory was also suppressed and intercepted by the other party. The iron factory has only one iron furnace, one steel furnace and a processing factory, and has started construction. By producing agricultural tools for surrounding villages and towns, all iron tools are barely closed.

Fortunately, Wu Liangdong's processing plant used to import metal raw materials from Ma'anshan not far from Dangtu. He had heard of this, so after discussing the various conditions of the base, he listed the iron plant as the target for investigation. Anyway, he didn't have to care about any Japanese capital at all.

Because this base requires some metal smelting tasks such as steel, it is best to set up a base in a mining area or not far from the mining area, and it is better to have its own mine.

Ma'anshan, which happens to be not far from Nanjing, is one of the seven major iron ores in China. The Huang family is a small iron ore on the edge of its radiation range. Although it is small, it is completely sufficient for the base. Moreover, some of the equipment in the Huang family's hands are lacking in machinery repair facilities, so the Huang family's iron plant was selected as the base.

Regarding the iron factory, the Huang family had long wanted to give up the operation, but they couldn't support it even if they didn't want to, so the two sides hit it off. Of course, the machinery repair shop was not charitable, and the price offered was not high. After reaching a cooperation and paying a certain amount of cash, they took down most of the equipment in the iron factory, mine and Huang family.

All the smelting and processing equipment in the iron plant will be demolished, and the smelting equipment will be modified and upgraded for a certain amount. The smelting equipment in the hands of the Huang family will be selected and opened a steel plant in the rear Hunan-Chongqing area as a supplier of repair facilities.

Although the equipment of the steel plant is not advanced, it can only produce some ordinary steel and iron materials, but it is more than enough to produce raw materials such as grenades and landmines.

All the processing equipment of the iron plant and the Huang family are included in the repair facilities. The repair facilities will select useful ones and provide them to weapons processing and manufacturing plants. Although it is more than a little behind the same type of equipment abroad, there is no problem in processing some parts or products with less demanding requirements. It can completely share the secondary production of the batch of advanced military equipment obtained by the repair facilities and improve the effective use of those equipment.
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