In terms of light industry, cotton, wool, linen, silk textiles, sewing, leather and products are existing industries in China, so Wang Chenhao doesn't need to worry about it. What he wants to introduce are all industries that are not or are not refined in China, such as daily metals, daily chemicals, daily glass, chemical fibers and their fabrics, matches, daily wood products, etc. Especially the manufacturing of matches, the country relies entirely on imports. Wang Chenhao does not want the Chinese to call matches foreign fire every day in the future. Therefore, in the introduction of technology and equipment of light industry, match manufacturing is listed as a key point.

In addition, Wang Chenhao received a telegram from Li Hongzhang, saying that Li Hongzhang was planning to establish Beiyang University in Tianjin, and asked Wang Chenhao to help hire a group of foreign teachers in Europe and the United States. Then Wang Shizhen explained the reason in the telegram. To put it bluntly, Li Hongzhang asked for money in disguise because he had learned that Wang Chenhao had made a lot of money selling antiques, but he was embarrassed to speak. In response, Wang Chenhao just smiled bitterly and had to put a lot of money to bear all the construction funds of Beiyang University.

Wang Chenhao was organizing the introduction of advanced industrial technology and equipment in Europe, but his order was sent back to Tianjin, which made Wang Shizhen both afraid and happy. What was happy was that Wang Chenhao handed over the idea and task of building the Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Industrial Base, which was a huge trust and dependence on him. What was afraid of being such a arduous task was handed over to him, and he was afraid that he would not be able to do it and let Wang Chenhao down on his respect and expectations for him.

Wang Shizhen convened a meeting of core members of the Little Beiyang Shogunate and conveyed Wang Chenhao's latest orders, and everyone was surprised.

The noise this time was so big. I remember that Li Hongzhang, Zuo Zongtang and other leaders of the Westernization Movement had spent more than 30 years to complete thirty or forty modern Westernization industries, and no more than ten survived, and almost all of them were in losses. Now their master Wang Chenhao is going to build a Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Industrial Base and establish hundreds of Westernization Movement industries of all sizes in one breath. This noise scared them.

Ruan Zhongshu first asked a question and asked: "Shizhen, the Grand Marshal wants to start hundreds of Westernization industries at once. These industries will cost hundreds of millions of taels of silver alone. The court is not a penny. Where can we raise this money?"

Wang Shizhen replied: "You don't know that our adults are very capable, so we don't have to worry about funds. In fact, he has sent a request to the Ministry of Industry, Agriculture and Commerce of Europe and the United States, asking them to help contact relevant industrial equipment export, technology transfer, authorization, and necessary auxiliary technicians. He has spent a huge amount of money to buy all the equipment and technology needed for the Westernization industry, and will be shipped from Europe and the United States soon."

Everyone was surprised and happy when they heard this. Zhang Feng said, "Is this really? How did the lord raise such a huge sum of money?"

His words represented the thoughts of others. Everyone looked at Wang Shizhen because he was the only one who was responsible for contacting Wang Chenhao, and he must have known the inside story.

Wang Shizhen then briefly told everyone about how Wang Chenhao dug up the treasure of the undersea shipwreck to obtain a huge sum of money.

Ruan Zhongshu was surprised and then looked so mean, and smiled and said, "The Grand Marshal is really capable. He has made hundreds of millions of taels of silver at once. No wonder he dared to start hundreds of Westernization industries at once."

Everyone was amazed. As Wang Chenhao's confidant, they felt that they had not followed the wrong person and were full of confidence and fighting spirit in the future.

Yan Xiu said: "Since you have bought back all the equipment and technology needed for the hundreds of Westernization industries, then we will build this Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Industrial Base according to your wishes."

Liang Ruhao said at this time: "What you are talking about is lightweight. How easy is it to start hundreds of Westernization industries at once? Even if adults solve the most difficult problems in capital, equipment and technology introduction, it takes at least tens of thousands of people to work in founding these Westernization businesses, and it is easy for ordinary workers to handle, but where can we find so many people to go to for those technical work?"

Zhang Feng said unhappily: "You can't tell the adults that we can't do it, right? Then what else do we have to do? We have to bear this matter or not."

Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, and Zhang Feng's words undoubtedly touched their hearts.

Ruan Zhongshu said: "Zhang Feng is right! Since you have followed the Grand Marshal, you have to share the worries of the Grand Marshal. You can't let the Grand Marshal find a way alone in everything."

Wang Shizhen nodded and said, "There are a batch of Westernization Industry List listed by MP3 that are focused on construction. There are too few technical workers in our country. I think we should focus on the key points first."

Zhang Feng agreed and said: "It makes sense! The equipment transported from various countries will take as fast as three or four months. Some heavy industry equipment is larger and more transported, and it will take a year or two to complete. We will take advantage of this time to select the place first, divide the land for each Westernization enterprise, build the infrastructure first, focus on some important things, and do the easy things first, and then we will find a way to solve the difficult things."

Yan Xiu added: "In fact, there are many foreign pragmatic industrialists in China. Since the day foreigners began to bully us, knowledgeable people in China have begun to learn advanced Western technology. It has been fifty or sixty years since today. As long as we are willing to work hard to find it, it is not easy to find 100,000 people, but there are always 100,000 or 20,000 people."

Ruan Zhongshu further added: "As Zhang Feng said, many large Westernization equipment will take a year or two to arrive in Tianjin, and it will take some time for the Westernization equipment to be installed and operated. During this period, we will first find some industrial scholars and foreigners to serve as teachers, and it is still time to learn now."

Everyone asked me to make suggestions and came up with a lot of solutions, which made the entire big problem break up into small problems one by one, and then solved one by one.

Finally, everyone developed a solution. On the one hand, they first looked for land suitable for building large industrial parks in the coastal areas of Tianjin, and first carried out simple and easy-to-use infrastructure construction, such as marking the factory site and factory buildings, first building workers' dormitories, roads, railways and port facilities. When the equipment arrives, they directly allocated to the designated factories of various Westernization industries. On the other hand, Wang Shizhen and Ruan Zhongshu and others contacted domestic industrial elites and scholars to recruit relevant technical workers from all over the country.

Zhang Feng and Yan Xiu went to Shanghai and Guangzhou to find industrial talents from all aspects, and at the same time recruited foreign technicians from the concession areas of the great powers in Shanghai and Guangzhou to return to Tianjin to teach relevant technical knowledge.

Such a big news cannot be hidden from Li Hongzhang. Wang Shizhen conveyed Wang Chenhao's telegram to Li Hongzhang and informed Li Hongzhang of Wang Chenhao's large-scale Westernization.

Li Hongzhang had previously known that Wang Chenhao had obtained a large sum of money from digging the treasure under the sea. He didn't know the detailed amount, but just used the establishment of Beiyang University to test Wang Chenhao. Unexpectedly, Wang Chenhao was generous and directly assumed all the construction funds of Beiyang University, which made Li Hongzhang very happy. However, when he learned that Wang Chenhao wanted to develop more than 100 Westernization industries, he was still very surprised. Such a huge amount of money proved that Wang Chenhao had made a huge sum of hundreds of millions of taels of silver, he was immediately envious.

However, Wang Chenhao was very smart. In his telegram to Li Hongzhang, he said that he spent all the money he earned on purchasing more than 100 related equipment and technology transfers of the Westernization Industry.

"Ten millions of taels of silver were spent like this. Chen Hao is really a prodigal son!"

When Li Hongzhang learned that Wang Chenhao had spent all his money, he felt extremely distressed.

Yang Shixiang smiled and said, "Sir, this is a good thing. Chen Hao spent all his money on the Westernization Affairs Office, which can strengthen the strength of the Beiyang Dynasty and enrich the country and strengthen the people."

Li Hongzhang said: "I used to think that I used to use money to do Westernization. But after decades of Westernization, it was not a waste of money to get a bamboo basket, but it was fattening those borers. It was better to do Westernization than to prepare military equipment. The most important thing now is to build the Beiyang Army and the Beiyang Navy into iron barrels, and the rest are still secondary."

Yang Shixiang smiled and said, "Don't worry, sir! Chen Hao can easily get hundreds of millions of taels of silver. I think Chen Hao's ability to make money cannot be just this one. Judging from his personality of liking to control military power, he cannot leave enough funds for the military preparation."

"It seems that you know him quite well in Lian Mansion." Li Hongzhang smiled and then frowned and sighed: "I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing!"

Yang Shixiang naturally understood Li Hongzhang's concerns, so he comforted him: "Sir, don't worry too much. I think Chen Hao still respects the court very much."

"I hope!" Li Hongzhang smiled bitterly, and then said, "I won't talk about this anymore. Anyway, I still don't have the courage to do it in my lifetime. As for the funeral after my death, I can't take care of that much."

Yang Shixiang smiled and said nothing, Li Hongzhang said again: "Since Chen Hao spent so much money to handle the Westernization business, you should worry more about Lianfu and help him do it. Don't waste this huge sum of money!"
Chapter completed!