Today is the last day of 1686. In the headquarters of Xingnan Port South Railway Company, President Xu Xiangdong put away the pen in his hand, got up and walked to the window, looked at the railway line vaguely across the sky in the distance, and sighed softly.

According to the latest agreement signed by the company and the government, the transfer date of the South Cone and the two-yang railway was set at the last day of this year. The government naturally couldn't wait for this. They had originally determined that it was handed over at the end of 1688 and even communicated with the senior management of the South Railway and took it back one year in advance. To be honest, the impact of the South Railway Company was not very big on them, not to mention that the government specially approved them to allow them to transform and issued many licenses (such as financial licenses), allowing them to establish a large Kangcai enterprise, Nantie Group.

It is reported that the main assets of the Nantik Group in the future will include the Jiao Smoke Railway Company (including railway affiliated areas and some terminals of Jiaozhou Port), Nantik Trading Company, Nantik Machinery Factory (production, assembly, and maintenance of steam trains), Pacific Shipyard, Nantik Publishing House (the parent company of Nantik Weekly) and Nantik Guesthouse, and other enterprises such as Nantik tannery, Nantik Flour Factory, Nantik Oil Press, Nantik Brewing, Nantik Fishery Company, Xingnan Port Wharf, and Araukan Port Wharf. They will either sell (the purchaser is required not to use the Nantik brand) or hand it over to the state in exchange for other policy support, such as the Nantik Insurance Company, which is about to be established to provide assistance to railways and affiliated transportation and operations.

It can be said that after the adjustment, the assets of Nantik Group are directly following several other super state-owned enterprises, such as Nanhai Group (under the jurisdiction of Nanhai Transportation Company, Nanhai Fishery Company, Nanhai Linear Company, and also own shares in many terminals), Tieling Heavy Industry Consortium (under the jurisdiction of Tieling Special Steel Plant, Tieling Mining Bureau, Tieling Machinery Processing Plant, Western Forging Plant, Tieling Boiler Plant, First Heavy Machinery Plant), Ping An Coal and Steel Consortium (under the jurisdiction of Ping An Iron and Steel Plant, Ping An Coal Mine, Coking Plant), National Grain Reserve Depot, China

Central Railway Company is vaguely better than Heishan Industrial Company, Northern Chemical Corporation (Northern Chemical Factory, Dye Factory), Caribbean Shipping Company and other companies. It is also a giant enterprise in the East Coast. Of course, then again, all the above companies are not as good as the famous "Mr. 20%" in the East Coast Republic of China in terms of asset size. East Coast companies that have been involved in many industries are the real giants, but they are usually very low-key and do not show off.

In fact, this is good. Nan Railway Group can concentrate on building railways in the Far East in the future. It is a huge market that represents the future. At present, Jiaoyan Railway has begun to make stable profits. Although the railway transportation department is still losing money, the operation of the affiliated areas is still good, so it is still profitable overall. Although the construction of Shangding Railway has also begun substantial preliminary preparations. This is a railway that can make profits in the railway transportation industry itself. Nan Railway Company is very confident in this. In addition, after the two railways of Jiaoyan, they will also plan to cooperate with local governments to build the third railway in the Far East, namely the long-planned Pingrong Railway, to further prosper the transportation industry in the Denglai area.

All other businesses, including publicity, financial insurance, machining, accommodation, hotels, commercial trade, etc., are all about railways, that is, railways are the core businesses, and other businesses make money based on this. Even the Pacific Shipyard (a medium-sized shipbuilding company, which is said to be about to move to Liuchenggang, which has relatively abundant shipbuilding resources) are used to provide repairs to ships transporting railway equipment and personnel, and are not outside this whole.

Xu Xiangdong, who has been automatically promoted to the president of Nan Railway Group, just signed the document handed over to Liangyang Railway as his secretary. At this point, this railway that had been operating for almost 40 years finally left Nan Railway and became another important asset under the Central Railway Company and one of the most profitable railways.

In principle, the stay and departure of Liangyang Railway employees depends on their personal wishes, but in actual operation, Nantie Group still tried every means to retain some core personnel. About one-third of them entered a railway machining and manufacturing company like Nantie Machinery Factory, which was considered to be local; one-third were hired by the Far East and went to the local area for a few years to go on a long-term basis, and helped the local area to train a group of professional talents; as for the remaining third, most of them went to New China Island, which was the Xinhua Railway Company (Nantie originally owned shares, but now most of them have been sold, and only retained less than 5%) invested a lot of money to hire it as a professional talent team for future operations and maintenance of the Daqing Railway and Tadong Railway.

Nan Railway Company, a large enterprise that has been in the East Coast Railway business for many years, has gradually faded out of the domestic related industries. It only retains a related railway manufacturing enterprise in the remote Nanzhi, which is a proof that it has controlled the Liangyang Railway for 40 years. In the future, the focus of this company will shift to the Four Far East Familia, relying on the millions of people and countless wealth there to start a business again, and eventually build itself into a powerful transportation group.

Here we will focus on the Nantie Machinery Processing Factory located on the outskirts of Xingnan County. When this company was first established, it was purely for the maintenance of trains, its personnel and tools, and it basically did not have the ability to manufacture cars and locomotives. It was the patent of the Nanfang Vehicle Factory in Meilin County (until now). Later, with the development of the Nanci Liangyang Railway and the increasing business of business, the Nantie Machinery Factory gradually began to take on the heavy responsibility of manufacturing some train parts and railway equipment. To this end, they obtained a license issued by the State Administration of Railways, and then purchased a large number of machine tools through the parent company's loan. At the same time, they recruited many skilled workers to slowly build the rack.

By now, Nantie Machinery Factory is a large machinery manufacturing enterprise with more than 700 technicians and apprentices. It has the ability to process nearly half of railway equipment and train parts, and its quality is quite good. It is widely used in the "La Plata Star" train used by the Liangyang Railway. Even due to overcapacity, it was exported to the Far East in large quantities in the past two years, and competed with the Meilin Railway Machinery Processing Factory in the Xinhuaxia Island Railway Market, which shows its strength.

So you see that after selling a series of assets such as Nantie Fishery Company and Nantie Leather Factory, Nantie Group still kept the machinery factory firmly in its hands. Not only did it not bring it to the market, but it also planned to increase investment, on the one hand, it expanded its production scale, and on the other hand, it also planned to enrich its product line.

The former is actually easy to understand. Even though the Liangyang Railway has been handed over to the country, the Nantie Machinery Factory is close to each other and is familiar with the actual operators on this railway. In the future, it can be foreseen that a considerable amount of the demand for railway equipment of the Liangyang Railway will depend on them to meet. To enrich the product line, this is the decision made by Xu Xiangdong just this year, mainly to launch an impact on the parts that the Nantie Machinery Factory did not produce before, and to compete with the Meilin Railway Machinery Processing Factory, the "own son" of China Railway Company.

For example, Nantie Machinery Factory is currently researching and producing the latest railway signal devices: interlocking switches and interlocking signal machines. This device that installs the rods in a separate long locking frame can ensure that the signal machine will not give instructions that are inconsistent with the position of the switches, thereby avoiding two trains entering the same closed section at the same time, resulting in a vicious accident of crashes. You must know that in the East Coast Republic of China, most railways are single-line railways. The reliability of the signal devices is very critical and is also a big market.

In addition, some improved night signal indicators will also be manufactured. Compared with the traditional gas signal indicators, Nantie Machinery Factory plans to cooperate with East Coast Power Company this time to try to replace gas lamps with arc lamps that are inconvenient to switch. Although I don’t know if there is a market, the factory is full of confidence and plans to conduct research on this aspect. They think that electrification is the future trend. If they can continue along this road and continue to research automatic electrical signal indicators, then the market will be very broad, and it may not only be used in railways, but also sold to many other industries, and the profits in it will be huge.

Another new four-wheel locomotive bogie that they invested money to develop and improve and applied for patents. This new bogie is different from the traditional one. Its wheelbase is quite long, and the pivot can move in a transverse groove. The transverse movement is effectively controlled through some inclined surfaces, so the steam locomotive will be more stable when driving.

The design of this new four-wheel bogie is very exquisite, so it was praised by the motorcycle manufacturer Nanfang Vehicle Factory as soon as it was launched, and it plans to use this new equipment on the "East Coast Star-3" model, the latest steam locomotive in the East Coast, which it is developing. There is no doubt that this means that the beautiful era of the Nantie Machinery Factory is coming. In the future, as long as the "East Coast Star" is produced, the more they will make money, and even some old motorcycles may undergo major modifications to be able to install the new bogies they produce, the market is too big.

From this we can see that the railway manufacturers on the east coast have not been idle for many years. People who are amateurs don’t know that they think that the steam locomotive is just a name, but they don’t know that there have been too many changes inside! First of all, the improvement of reliability, which is due to the improvement of mechanical processing level and the improvement of materials, which is directly reflected that the train no longer breaks down at will, the accident rate has been reduced to the extreme, and the efficiency has been greatly improved.

Then there are improvements in design, such as the new four-wheel motorcycle bogie applied for patent by Nantie Machinery Factory, the new railway signal indication device developed by the Engineering Technology Research Institute and authorized for a fee to major manufacturers, and the new coal water truck developed and applied for patent by Meilin Railway Machinery Factory, etc. These little progress together have made the East Coast railway industry make great progress, and its performance is simply incomparable to those years ago.

Think about it, Europe is now starting to get a headache about how to copy the steam locomotives and marine steam-powered propulsion systems on the East Coast. What they are studying is actually the designs used by the East Coast many years ago, and the indicators are far inferior to those on the present. Therefore, when Europeans spent all their efforts and exhausted their financial resources and energy, they didn't know where the railway technology of the East Coast people had developed. If export restrictions were really lifted at that time, I believe that major manufacturers in the East Coast railway industry could instantly defeat the railway industry in the continental countries, which was still in infancy, so that they could never develop again. Unless they used weapons for tariff market access, there would be no solution.

Okay, let us focus on the Nantec Group. After disposing of the largest asset at hand, Xu Xiangdong, the company's fourth president, was still a little sad. After all, the Liangyang Railway was the foundation for their fortune. After being handed over to the government in the future, perhaps he still had some conveniences when using this railway to transport goods, but it was definitely incomparable to the past. From now on, under fierce competition, the profits of the Nantec Trading Company, which mainly trades between Peru and Mexico, will drop significantly. In fact, after the monopoly trading rights expired at the end of 1678, the company's profits began to decline, but because of the existence of an inertia, the once rich commercial company, is actually very clear about the direction in which it will develop in the future, that is, to follow the steps of the group's railways and go to the Four Far East Families to develop, there is a brand new world.

In fact, Nantie Trading Company has been slowly adjusting its focus in the past seven or eight years and began to lay out its layout in the Far East. Especially after the official commercial operation of the Gum Smoke Railway, they have invested a lot of funds in the railway affiliation area and established a large warehousing and logistics center, a collective market, a professional leather market and several stores. Of course, they also invested in and built some commercial real estate, and then rented it to local merchants who were willing to do business within the railway affiliation area to prosper the economy of the railway affiliation area and create more profits for the head office.

Now that the Liangyang Railway has been handed over to the country one year in advance, the Nantec Trading Company will be bound to accelerate the transfer of capital. Except for part of it that continues to be placed along the Jiaoyan Railway, most of the others are planned to invest in the wealthy Ningshao area, and build large-scale construction in the affiliated areas along the Shangding Railway, and officially start commercial operations. They are very optimistic about the future of the Shangding Railway, believing that a large amount of funds flow here, the business is very prosperous (even surpassing many local areas), and the profit is almost 100%. Xu Xiangdong also agreed with this and ordered them to operate industries in the affiliated areas with the Nantec Guesthouse, striving to turn them into a treasure pot of the company, and provide a steady stream of cash for the development of the group company in various places.

Finally, the Pacific Shipyard, which is still located in the Port of Araucan. To be honest, Xu Xiangdong once wanted to give up this shipbuilding company, but after the persuasion of some old people in the company, he finally decided to keep the company. However, given that the company is currently short of funds, he did not intend to invest huge amounts of money in the transformation like the Nantie Machinery Factory, but only gave some money and bought a little machine to allow it to continue to maintain it. Fortunately, the domestic shipbuilding situation in the East Coast is still booming, so the Pacific Shipyard is not too uncomfortable.

As for the future prospects of the factory, it actually depends on whether the group company is going smoothly or not. To put it bluntly, it depends on whether the head office has money in the future! Although their current focus is on the railway, how can they know that after the future situation changes, they will not start a diversified development strategy and start to enter the shipbuilding and ocean transportation industries? You must know that this is the same as railways, and it is not too outrageous to develop. Now diversified development on the east coast is also a very fashionable practice.
Chapter completed!