Chapter 591 A Little Shock Brought by Enamel Production Equipment

"Haha, Mrs. Livermore, you are joking. Please come this way. Let's talk while we walk." Ye Luo secretly glared at Huixin and made a "please" gesture, and by the way asked this little woman who had been reunited for a long time to stop making trouble.

Huixin responded with a "well-behaved" expression, holding her daughter, and walked towards the convoy parked at the dock surrounded by the crowd.

Seeing that she was not angry because of her wrong words, Bai Xiongqi and Yu Qiaqing looked at each other, each of them breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly followed to continue flattering.

"Since the late Qing Dynasty, I have only heard about foreigners opening companies in China to make a lot of money, and how they use special powers to influence our political and business circles. This is the first time I have seen Chinese people serve as important political figures overseas. Mrs. Livermore, great!"

Zhang Qun's flattery was very good, emphasizing Huixin's influence in American politics, and not mentioning her controversial marriage and business behavior.

After all, during the US stock bubble, Huixin's Hongxing United Group was sold to the Bank of New York after a huge loss, and the perfect business myth became a laughing stock.

To this day, some people say that she decided to marry Jesse Livermore because she couldn't make ends meet, and borrowed his money and resources to climb into politics.

But the winners are the losers, and now Huixin has indeed made a comeback and has become a powerful senator, so these rumors naturally cannot continue to spread.

Anyway, Zhang Qun doesn't know how she views her business behavior, so it's always right to flatter her politically.

Huixin responded to the three people in a casual manner, but her eyes always fell on Ye Luo from time to time.

She hadn't seen him for more than a year, and she didn't even tell him that she had a child. At this time, all the lovesickness surged in her heart. She just wanted to get away from these people as soon as possible and have a good time with Ye Luo alone.

Seeing Huixin's emotions that were almost uncontrollable, Ye Luo signaled her not to reveal her flaws because of panic, and he pulled Zhang Qun and others to look at the ship.

Huixin came here mainly to represent the Livermore Group to discuss business cooperation in China.

Since the bursting of the US stock bubble, the Livermore Group has raked in more than a billion US dollars and has become a new American consortium. However, due to being squeezed out by old consortiums such as Morgan and Rockefeller, it decided to expand its market overseas.

As a senator, Huixin also has a lot of political resources and power. With the combination of politics and business, whether in China or in the United States, as long as you can cooperate with her, you will definitely make a lot of money.

Such a good opportunity, the principal will certainly not let it go easily. Therefore, after receiving the news, he immediately ordered the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, the Ministry of Finance and other departments to fully cooperate with Huixin and strive to create a foreign company in the south that can rival the Sassoon Company!

The backers behind the Sassoon Company are the British, and there has always been a rift between Britain and the United States. Taking this opportunity, the principal thinks that it can also make the Shanghai business community a three-legged tripod -

The confrontation between the British, American and Chinese Chambers of Commerce will make the business community more prosperous while providing more opportunities for Chinese businessmen.

In this way, he can make more profits when he harvests businessmen for military expenses in the future.

But they all don't know that behind Huixin is not Livermore Group, but Ye Luo's Ye Investment.

The final winner of this so-called three-country chamber of commerce game must be Ye Luo who is hidden behind the scenes!

"These are the advanced equipment and workers that Mrs. Livermore brought from the United States. She wants to build several enamel assembly line factories in China." Ye Luo pointed to the slowly approaching cargo ships and said.

He is the only businessman on the Republic of China side who has had in-depth cooperation with Huixin. This time, when talking about business with Livermore Group, Ye Luo is of course the only choice for the Republic of China.

One after another, cargo ships entered the dock. The coolies and porters on the shore had been waiting for a long time. As soon as the ship docked, they ran over to start unloading.

Some large equipment requires the use of tripods and pulleys, and the scene is quite shocking.

"What are these equipment? Does the enamel factory still need such large machines?" Yu Qiaqing was stunned and asked.

Huixin glanced at Yu Qiaqing as if he was looking at a bumpkin, and continued to maintain his original high-cold personality, disdaining to explain his question.

Ye Luo stepped forward and acted as a translator: "These are the automatic oil stoves and electric vehicles that Mrs. Livermore brought from the United States. They are the most advanced mechanical equipment in the enamel industry. If they are used, production efficiency can be increased by at least five times, and the damage to workers will be less."

"Can it be more efficient than the Japanese enamel factory?" Yu Qiaqing asked again.

The Japanese enamel factory is the largest manufacturer in the Republic of China's enamel industry. The market is almost occupied by them because they use more advanced equipment and technology.

"Of course, at least twice as fast as them." Hui Xin rolled her eyes at Yu Qiaqing.

Twice!

Hearing this, Yu Qiaqing finally understood why Hui Xin would choose the enamel industry first.

After tariff autonomy, domestic enamel products will receive substantial preferential policies, because the import tax on enamel products will increase from 5% to 12.5%, which is almost a devastating blow to foreign imported enamel products.

But as long as the Japanese enamel factory is there, Chinese businessmen will still be unable to move forward.

Now Huixin said that the new factory's production efficiency is higher than that of the Japanese factory. With the policy tilt, wouldn't it swallow up the entire industry in an instant?

At the current stage of the Republic of China, enamel still has great market potential.

Enamel products began to be imported into China during the Guangxu period. At that time, they were mainly made in Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire and were relatively high-end daily necessities.

During the First World War, Japan took the opportunity to squeeze out the German and Austrian market share and dumped a large number of enamel products into the Republic of China. In a few years, it monopolized the enamel market in the Republic of China.

It is said that in just ten years, Japan earned 3 billion oceans from the Republic of China by relying on enamel products.

It can be seen that its market potential is huge!

Now there are only dozens of enamel factories in China that learn from the Japanese model, but Japan is not a good teacher.

Among them, only Shanghai Huafeng Factory introduced a full set of embryo making machinery from Germany and Japan two years ago, which can be regarded as semi-automatic assembly line production.

Other enamel factories are still operated in a workshop-style, and embryo making requires workers to hammer and hit with hammers.

Especially in the pickling and degreasing process, workers need to wear rubber gloves throughout the process to pick up and take out the iron billets in the pickling tank, clean water tank, and neutralization alkaline water tank.

This method is not only labor-intensive, low in production efficiency, high in energy consumption, and poor in finished product quality, but the harmful gases emitted in the air will also seriously affect the health of workers.

It was not until the establishment of the New China that the domestic enamel degreasing technology was innovated. Only the improvement of automatic oil-burning furnaces and drying beds increased the output by more than three times.

According to Ye Luo's instructions, Hui Xin used her status as a senator to buy up various bankrupt enamel factories in the United States.

In this way, they pieced together a complete set of production lines, from embryo making, degreasing, glazing, enameling to decoration, all semi-automatic production.

Ye Luo estimated that the overall production efficiency of the new enamel factory would be at least 20 times higher than that of several large enamel factories in Shanghai.

The so-called five times is just a modesty.

As for the price of these machines, taking advantage of the fire and Hui Xin's political status, all added up to less than 100,000 US dollars, almost cabbage price!

Not only that, Hui Xin also invited back several American engineers, but the salary they paid them was pitifully low, basically just enough to give them food, because they couldn't find a job in the United States.

The cost was low enough, the equipment was good enough, and with the help of the principal, Ye Luo could imagine the miserable appearance of the Japanese crying after the Ye's Enamel Factory was opened! (End of this chapter)