The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

Liao Yaquan suddenly settled down. Although he continued to participate in social activities, he didn't show up in public every now and then like before.

In a blink of an eye, the Lunar New Year is coming, but there is no sense of the New Year in a big city, and Chang Kaishen has no intention of celebrating the New Year. He finally stabbed the hornet's nest, unable to defeat Hu Hanmin politically, so he defeated him physically.

This undoubtedly committed a huge taboo, and made everyone in the Kuomintang feel insecure.

Going back three to five years, Hu Hanmin, Wang Zhaoming, and Liao Zhongkai were called the "Big Three of the Nationalist Party". At that time, Chang Kaishen could not be ranked at all.

With such a huge influence, Chang Kaishen actually said that he was under house arrest, and there were rumors that Hu Hanmin would be shot. What about the rest of the National Party? Will he be shot by Chang Kaishen in the future?

Even Chang Kaishen's own faction's henchmen couldn't understand this kind of practice anymore, and Wu Zhihui was so angry that he shut the door behind closed doors.

Wang Zhaoming took the opportunity to jump up and down, win over the KMT faction that supported Hu Hanmin, and bribed the newspapers to criticize Chang Kaishen's dictatorship methods, causing Chang Kaishen's reputation to plummet.

The "Ningyue Controversy" is officially on the table, and civil war is about to break out again. Zhang Xueliang's nerves also became tense, because his newly subordinate warlords were also ready to move, wanting to take advantage of the chaos in the south to make trouble.

Zhou Hexuan did not get involved in this dispute. On the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month, he brought his wife Zhang Leyi to Tianjin Taikoo Wharf to welcome his father-in-law who came back from the United States.

Zhang Zhongyuan, president of Tianjin General Chamber of Commerce, and Wang Yibao, vice president, were also accompanying him.

Both of these two came to clean up Zhang Mozhi, which shows that Zhang Mouzhi is well-known in the Chinese business community. Now the contraceptive (harmonious) condom business in the United States is getting bigger and bigger. Last year, the net profit reached 600,000 US dollars. Zhang Mouzhi plans to continue to expand the production scale.

Since the late Qing Dynasty, I have only heard of foreigners opening companies in China and making a lot of money, but no Chinese can make a lot of money starting companies in Europe and the United States. Zhang Mouzhi is the only one in Scorpion Baba, and he seems to be the pride of Chinese businessmen.

Besides Zhang Zhongyuan and Wang Yibao, Li Shoumin's father-in-law Sun Zhongshan also came. Let's do the silver business in partnership, and Zhang Mouzhi has to be entrusted for the import of silver, so Sun Zhongshan has to come and coax him.

A cargo ship sailed into the dock, and the coolie porters on the shore had been waiting for a long time, so the ship could only dock and start unloading.

Zhang Mouzhi, accompanied by a foreigner attendant, stepped off the ship complacently and said, "John, you are in charge of taking care of the goods, and don't damage them."

"Okay, Master." The foreigner's follower replied, the word "Master" even spoke Chinese.

Zhang Zhongyuan looked very envious, and clasped his fists and said, "Boss Zhang is so majestic, even foreigners can order him around at will."

"Where is it?" Zhang Mouzhi said with a smile, "foreigners are also human beings. If you can afford the wages, you can ask them to help you with things."

Zhou Hexuan introduced: "This is the president of Tianjin General Chamber of Commerce, Zhang Zhongyuan, Boss Zhang."

Zhang Mouzhi cupped his fists and said, "President Zhang, it's a pleasure to meet you!"

"It's a pleasure to meet you!" Zhang Zhongyuan replied.

Zhou Hexuan introduced Wang Yibao and Sun Zhongshan, both of whom were in business, and the chat soon became lively.

Although Chang Kaishen only unified the country in name, this kind of central justice is a sharp weapon. The party headquarters of the National Party has extended to Sichuan, Shanxi, North China, and Northeast China under the legitimate name. Even the Tianjin General Chamber of Commerce is under the control of the Tianjin Party Headquarters of the National Party.

A few days ago, the Tianjin General Chamber of Commerce just held a general election. Although the candidates for the chairman and vice-chairman remain unchanged, the internal situation of the chamber of commerce has greatly changed.

At the General Election Conference, key members of the National Party’s Tianjin party and government agencies were present. Zhang Zhongyuan also led 22 members of the Chamber of Commerce to swear an oath.

On the pier, the porters are already busy, and some large machines must use tripods and pulleys.

Zhang Zhongyuan looked at those machines and asked in surprise, "Boss Zhang is going to open a factory in Tianjin?"

"I want to open a factory, but it's not in Tianjin," Zhang Mouzhi explained. "I plan to open an enamel factory, which uses the most advanced automatic oil-burning stoves and electric cranes in the United States. It is not only more efficient than the enamel factories in China and Japan. 5 times, and greatly reduce the hazards to workers' health."

"Really increase productivity by five times?" Wang Yibao asked in surprise.

Zhang Mouzhi said with a smile: "It's just the efficiency of the automatic oil-burning stove and electric driving, and other links are not included. The entire assembly line is used, and the efficiency can be increased by at least 20 times."

Sun Zhongshan was speechless and said in admiration: "Boss Zhang is still good at business, and he has more means than us in banking."

"I don't dare," Zhang Mouzhi said, "I also owe it to my good son-in-law, who suggested that I import American machinery to open a factory."

Zhou Hexuan stood beside him and smiled. It was indeed his idea to take advantage of the economic crisis in the United States. However, what project to invest in depends on Zhang Mouzhi himself. Unexpectedly, Zhang Mouzhi chose to open an enamel factory.

China's enamel technology is learned from Japan, but Japan is not a good teacher.

It was not until six years ago that there were truly Chinese-owned enamel factories in China. Among them, Shanghai Huafeng Factory introduced a complete set of embryo-making machinery from Germany and Japan two years ago, which can be regarded as a semi-automatic assembly line production.

However, except for two or three large factories such as Huafeng Factory and Zhufeng Factory, other enamel factories in China are still operated in a workshop style, and workers need to beat with hammers to make embryos.

Especially in the pickling and degreasing process, workers need to wear rubber gloves throughout the whole process, and fish in and out the iron billets in the pickling pool, clean water pool, and neutralization alkali water pool. This method not only has high labor intensity, low production efficiency, high energy consumption, and poor quality of finished products, but also the harmful gases emitted in the air will seriously affect the health of workers.

It was not until the founding of New China that China's enamel degreasing technology was innovated. Only the improvement of automatic oil-burning furnace and drying bed increased the output by more than three times.

Zhang Mouzhi bought back a full set of assembly line from the United States this time, from embryo making, degreasing, glaze making, firing enamelling to flower decoration, the whole process is semi-automatic assembly line production. The overall production efficiency is at least 20 times higher than that of several large enamel factories in Shanghai.

As for the price of these machines, hehe, half sale and half free, all add up to less than 100,000 US dollars.

Not only that, but Zhang Mouzhi also invited back a few American engineers, whose salaries were pitifully low, basically just food, who made them unable to find jobs in the United States.

The only thing that can't compare with the Shanghai Enamel Factory is that this kind of assembly line consumes a lot of power. Electricity bills were very expensive during the Republic of China. Some factory owners would rather hire dozens of workers than spend money on electricity bills.

To build an enamel factory in China, Tianjin is the best choice.

Firstly, there is no peer competition in Tianjin, and China’s large enamel factories are all located in Shanghai; secondly, there is a Jiuda Group in Tianjin, which can independently produce many chemical raw materials, and the purchase of raw materials is extremely convenient and economical.

But Zhou Hexuan strongly opposed it, because this assembly line is the most advanced in Asia, more advanced than the enamel factories in Japan. If the factory is built in Tianjin, in a few years all the fuck will be given away to Little Japan, so Zhou Hexuan will not do such a stupid thing.

The address Zhou Hexuan chose to build the factory is—Shancheng, Chongqing!