Valley Emperor

Because he couldn't figure it out, the predecessor of this heyday shipyard was just an underground shipyard. How could it have the technical ability to build a third-class cruiser with a standard displacement of 550 tons?

Confused, he couldn't help but look at the people in Dingsheng Shipyard, but after a while, he found out that the three government-run shipyards, Guangzhou Shipyard, Lianzhou Shipyard, and Zhaoqing Shipyard, turned out to be Qi Qi. Congratulations to them, and the words are quite respectful.

He couldn't help but immediately asked the previous naval officer!

"This Dingsheng Shipyard has a lot of background. Could it be the official shipyard?" Xu Bingfu asked.

But the navy captain smiled: "Xu Yuanwai is wrong, they are not the state-owned shipyard of the Ministry of Industry, but a shipyard under the Royal Industry Section!"

"Royal industry?" Upon hearing this, Xu Bingfu couldn't help but pay more attention to this prosperous shipyard.

Royal industry, this is a word that a businessman from Guangdong and Guangxi, and even the entire businessmen under the Tang Dynasty, will come into contact with, and even ordinary people will deal with the royal industry.

Especially the Royal Bank, whether it's Xu Bingfu or anyone else, who doesn't have a few Royal Bank banknotes in their hands.

As the name suggests, the royal family's industry is the industry of the royal family. This background is unmatched in the Tang Dynasty, and it is said that there are many assets, and the assets are more than the national treasury.

However, at the same time, the royal family industry is rarely in direct conflict with ordinary businessmen. Except for the previous money industry, other traditional industries basically do not see the royal family industry involved.

Because the royal industry is involved in some emerging industries, except for the politically significant Royal Bank, the industries involved are all emerging industries, such as textiles, daily chemicals, and the most representative ones are textile products, daily soaps , soap, toothbrush, toothpaste and other daily necessities.

In a word, the royal family industry produces some novel products, and rarely gets involved in traditional industries, so there is nothing to compete with the people for profit.

But how did this royal industry suddenly get involved in shipbuilding?

But then, the navy captain seemed to see Xu Bingfu's concerns, and said directly: "Don't worry, the Dingsheng Shipyard has great ambitions. The docks under construction all start with a thousand tons, and it has nothing to do with you!"

The people in the navy did not brag that the reason why the Royal Family Industry Section organized the Dingsheng Shipyard was based on Li Xuan's oral order, and the purpose was quite simple, that is to explore and build large merchant ships and even warships of more than 1,000 tons. It doesn't matter if the ordinary civilian merchant ships of two or three hundred tons or even four or five hundred tons.

At present, the main purpose is not to make money from shipbuilding, but to research and develop technologies for large ships, so as to alleviate the difficulty of funding and scale of the Ministry of Industry Shipyard, and to undertake the construction of large warships.

As for the future, in Li Xuan's plan, it is naturally used to build those large steam ships of thousands or even thousands of tons!

However, although people in the navy said so, Xu Bingfu still felt huge pressure, because of Mao, because his ambitions were far greater than that of ordinary shipbuilders. He was also preparing to build a thousand-ton dock and enter a thousand-ton ship. realm!

But then I thought about it, anyway, there will only be a few competitions in the future, which is better than the competition between dozens of small and medium-sized shipyards now. This thousand-ton ship plan must still be advanced, and it must be advanced rapidly.

The royal industry has money and people, but it is an official background. There must be many concerns behind this. Like their own Shamian shipyard, they can purchase machinery and equipment when they say it is purchased.

As long as you hurry up, you may be able to complete the construction of the thousand-ton dock ahead of this heyday shipyard. At that time, even if the other party is a royal family, you may not be able to compete.

The reason for the idea of ​​​​competing is naturally because he has never heard of the fact that the royal family industry relies on the background to suppress other businessmen.

After the cruiser recruitment was over, Xu Bingfu stopped thinking about his plan for a thousand-ton ship for the time being, and focused all his attention on the upcoming bidding for the third-class frigate!

After all, the previous cruiser orders have nothing to do with him, and the follow-up thousand-ton ship plan is also a matter in the future. Now the most important thing is to win the scheduled order!

This time, he only paid attention to one order, and that was the order for the third-class frigate, and it was not the other third-class frigates, but the fifth order!

Because of this No. 5 order, the tender requires that the delivery be delivered before June of the sixth year of Xuanping at the latest, that is to say, the delivery in June of the following year cannot exceed June of the sixth year of Xuanping, otherwise it will be a breach of contract.

As for his shipyard expansion plan, the 500-ton dock will also take nearly a year to construct. The construction will not be completed until next spring and summer, and if the construction of the warship starts, then overtime for more than half a year will be enough for them to build the hull. Then carry out the outfitting test, and the completion in June is just right!

For other orders, to be honest, his shipyard was simply too late!

However, the competition for this third-class frigate has exceeded his expectations. The three government-run shipyards, Guangzhou Shipyard, Lianzhou Shipyard, and Zhaoqing Shipyard, as well as his old rival Guanghe Shipyard, are all competing.

Although the competition was fierce, the result came out very quickly. Lianzhou Shipyard took the order for three ships, Guangzhou Shipyard got one order, and Zhaoqing Shipyard did not get one order, and he The old rival, Guanghe Shipyard, also failed.

When the bidding for order No. 5 started, Xu Bingfu personally submitted the bidding documents, and then waited for the result like other shipyards.

The review officers of the Navy are on the spot to review and announce the conditions of all parties!

Looking at the conditions of the announcement, Xu Bingfu's heart couldn't help jumping wildly!

Guangzhou Shipyard, their proposal needs to be delivered in September, because they have too many orders for warships and can't be lined up.

Several other shipyards are in line with the delivery time, but although the cost they proposed is a little less than the previous four orders, the cost of their Xujia Shamian Shipyard is much less than the official benchmark price. Five percentage points less than both of them.

And this price was temporarily changed before Xu Bingfu submitted the document!

Relying on this price, Xu Bingfu's Shamian Shipyard has undoubtedly won the order for the No. 5 third-class frigate.

At this time, the people from Guanghe Shipyard on the side showed an unwilling look and said: "Mr. Xu, if you accept the order at this price, I am afraid that you will not only have no profit, but also lose money!"

It is also reasonable for the people at Guanghe Shipyard to be unwilling. Their quotation is four percentage points lower than the official benchmark price. For them, this price is not even a penny. After all, they are the same as Xu Bingfu. , want to rely on this opportunity to enter the warship market, and rely on the reputation brought by building warships to expand the civilian market.

And they don't believe that Xu Bingfu's shipbuilding cost is lower than them!

But Xu Bingfu is more ruthless than them. Not only does he not make money, he would rather pay back!

Without the five-point offer, his Xu family would have to lose two points directly, but he, Xu Bingfu, didn't care!

If I have money, I can afford to lose money. As long as I can win this order and start this business, I am afraid that there will be no orders for warships or large civilian ships in the future.

Lao Tzu can even build a warship. It is not a matter of minutes for you to build a civilian vessel of 300 to 500 tons.

Holding the official contract signed with the navy, Xu Bingfu looked extremely happy, and then let a group of craftsmen and core family technicians under his hand hand over to the officials of the navy's ship administration department.

This order is available, but the drawings and related technologies still need to be given by the Navy!

He also took a look at the blueprint. He was thinking that the design of this warship was unusual. If he could imitate the warship and create a merchant ship in the future, he would not be able to make a profit at that time.

But soon he was completely disappointed. The design of this warship is too extreme. All the designs are for the pursuit of speed, firepower and protection, and the possibility of loading can be considered at all.

Especially when he knew that the slogan of the designers of the Ship Administration Department was: Never waste a ton for loading! At that time, he even scolded the navy as a prodigal.

This is a large ship of several hundred tons. Except for living materials and ammunition, it can't hold any cargo!

They, ordinary businessmen, naturally cannot understand that the purpose of the navy is to fight wars, to load goods and bring people, that is not their job!

When Xu Bingfu scolded the navy prodigal, he did not know that the people from Dingsheng Shipyard were still in the conference room next door, and they also participated in a very high-level meeting.

In this meeting, there is Rear Admiral Bao Yifen!

Bao Yifen directly handed a stack of documents to the middle-aged representative of Dingsheng Shipyard~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and said at the same time: "This is the latest battleship design of our navy. Before meeting you, we also saw Guangzhou. People from the shipyard, they said that they are temporarily unable to build such a large warship, so we found you!"

The person from the Dingsheng Shipyard took a look at the document, and then frowned: "One thousand two hundred tons, fifty-four naval guns, this is a typical third-class battleship design, your navy is so soon Are you starting a battleship?"

Bao Yifen said: "Sorry, the preparations for the hull design and technology research and development will take one or two years, and the construction period will take two years, and then the outfitting test will have to be less than half a year. Even if everything goes well, we have to It will take three years to get the battleship, so it's not too fast, it's too slow!"

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