Put the cigarette out in the ashtray, and then looked directly at Mu Xiangyue.

"and……"

When the words came to his lips, Li Zicheng suddenly fell silent, and then thought again for a moment.

"Maybe, if done well, this will be a good thing!"

Having said this, Li Zicheng paced back and forth with satisfaction, his expression a little deep, but deep and full of ambition.

"But, Zhiyuan, railway, locomotive factory, steel factory, this stall is so big, how much money needs to be invested! Even a rough calculation, at least 30 to 40 million is needed in the first year, if you include the employees

The salary, after this year, will be at least this amount!"

Stretching out a hand, Mu Xiangyue still had a look of worry on his face.

"No matter what kind of business you are doing, the biggest fear is that there is no income. If you can't get in or out, no matter how big your family fortune is, it can't withstand the tossing. Once you have no money to fill in the company, then when the time comes, these things will

But you have to..."

"It sucks, doesn't it?"

With a smile on his face, Li Zicheng looked completely indifferent. He had money to fill it, not to mention that he would not make any income.

"Then it depends on what we do!"

After pondering for a moment, Li Zicheng said slowly, holding a cigarette in his left hand.

"One year, we have at least one year, maybe one and a half years, which means that we must choose a few companies with a factory construction cycle of about one year. Well, many people in China now want to

Investment in industry, of which textile, dyeing, and flour are the main ones. Textile is inseparable from various textile machinery, and dyeing is also inseparable from dyeing machines and dyes. Textile machinery is produced in Britain, France, Germany, the United States, and Japan.

To compete, we can consider setting up a textile machinery factory to test the waters. As for dyes, almost all chemical dyes in the world are monopolized by Germany. If we open a dye company, the profits will be considerable!"

Then Li Zicheng thought about it again.

"Looking back, we will invite a group of experts from the United States to specially plan some enterprises with simple processes, low investment and quick results. In this way, the company will have income. Within three years, as long as these enterprises can maintain the company's operation and operation, especially

It’s staff wages. As long as the profits of these companies allow us to pay staff wages, for us, it means success. As for the steel plant once it goes into operation in two or three years, the company will be waiting to count the votes.

,Yes, we are also preparing to establish a chemical enterprise when building a dye factory!"

When it comes to chemical companies, Li Zicheng's eyes light up: ammonia synthesis!

Two years later, as soon as World War I broke out, Britain used its naval superiority to block Germany's import of saltpeter from Chile. People predicted that Germany would not be able to get Chilean saltpeter, farmland would be short of fertilizer, and explosives factories would cease production. So Germany would eventually

It was necessary to voluntarily surrender as late as 1915 or 1916. However, after 1916, Germany was still fighting tenaciously, and the farmland was still dark green. The artillery fire on the front line became more intense. As early as before the war, a group of German troops led by Haber

Chemists, long before the war, overcame the world's chemical problems at that time and synthesized an important chemical raw material: ammonia with cheap air, water and coal.

Synthetic ammonia can be used to produce nitric acid. Compared with nitric acid extracted from Chilean saltpeter, the cost of synthetic nitric acid is low, and nitric acid is an indispensable military raw material in the war. Two years later, nitric acid production will definitely be a hugely profitable industry that is not inferior to steel, and even if

In the future, ammonia can also be used as the main raw material to produce high-efficiency nitrogen fertilizer-urea, thereby increasing China's grain production.

Yes, that’s right, ammonia synthesis, there must be a technology patent for ammonia synthesis in those steel drums!

At this time, Li Zicheng's mind came back to a story mentioned in the novel he bought at JFK Airport. During World War I, the German submarine "Tecland" was criticized by the American people after it docked in Baltimore Port. Warm welcome. Various newspapers reported the reason for the popularity of German submarines with prominent headlines: The German submarine brought 1,000 tons of dyes and medicines. The captain of the German submarine also made a public speech: "We brought a batch of dyes made in Germany Come here and give it to the American people, and we will continue to bring it in the future."

Once Germany stops exporting dyes to the United States, 4 million people in the United States will have nothing to do, and millions of people will not have enough medicine. The production of chemical dyes and medicines has always been monopolized by Britain and Germany, and there are only two or three chemical companies in the United States. Industrial companies are preparing to develop and produce them, and the market demand for chemical dyes is very large.

Due to the backwardness of dyes, the green khaki uniforms of the US military participating in the war turned gray, and the stars on the Stars and Stripes became scarlet. Due to the shortage of medicines in hospitals, hospitals even had to stop selling medicines to patients. This was true in the United States, not to mention Asia. , if the company establishes a dye company or a western medicine company, and uses those patents to produce dyes and medicines, it can easily fill the market gaps in Asia and even the Americas, and thereby obtain unimaginable huge profits.

Huge profits!

After thinking carefully, Li Zicheng found that there seemed to be huge profit-making industries everywhere in front of him, all of which were the "positive impacts" brought about by the four-year European War.

And the most important point is that this is not only a huge profit, but also a good opportunity to seize the market and create a brand. As the war progresses, Chinese manufacturing will be expanded to the markets that European countries have withdrawn from. Initially, they will take advantage of the market gap to enter the market, and After the war, you can use the reputation of the goods during the war to win the market. This is simply a good business that can win with one stone!

Not only can we produce these goods, we can also consider other goods. Finally, we can use the precious development opportunities of these four years to do everything possible to expand the factory's production scale and product types. Isn't this equivalent to using foreigners' money to build a complete industrial system?

Of course, this has to be done step by step, taking the road ahead first.

"Zhiyuan!"

Mu Xiangyue put down the pen in his hand and raised his head to look at Li Zicheng.

"Maybe, we should consider rayon!"

"Rayon?"

Is it nylon? Or something else? Listening to rayon, Li Zicheng couldn't help being stunned. Wasn't nylon invented by DuPont more than 20 years later?

"Zhiyuan, when I was in the United States, I studied and inspected American rayon manufacturing technology and found that the rayon process is simple, requires less investment, and has quick results. The factory construction cycle only takes a few months. The raw materials of rayon are cotton and nitric acid. Sulfuric acid, sodium hydroxide, and the process is not complicated. It is a technology that appeared thirty years ago, but it has only been developed in recent years. It uses plant fibers to chemically process rayon. It not only has absolutely uniform , shiny, and can be interwoven with various raw materials including raw silk to create dazzling silk fabrics, and can be dyed in a variety of colors, but its price is only half of raw silk, or even lower. Now Britain, Germany The four countries of Italy and France almost monopolize the world's rayon production. The silk fabrics woven from rayon are cheap and high-quality. In the future, with the import of foreign rayon and rayon fabrics, traditional natural silk products will inevitably be affected. I think maybe we We should consider building a rayon factory. There is no such factory in Japan now. If possible, the company should probably introduce rayon technology. The process is not complicated, the investment is low, and the results are quick!"

Listening to Mu Xiangyue's suggestion, Li Zicheng nodded and did not object.

"And, Zhiyuan, rayon is gunpowder!"
Chapter completed!