Ma Xiaopeng, holding a briefcase, flashed into the Nareshkin Building.

As a township under Shanghai County, Nancun Port is actually far more prosperous than Shanghai Town, which has been defined as the location of the county government. This is actually easy to understand. Nancun Port is now the commercial port with the largest throughput in Pampa. Whether it is Niuzhuang Port in the south or Xincao, Xinbian, Mingfu and other places in the west, they are far less than here. In Nancun, too many immigrants from various counties, too many merchants from various countries, too many goods from all regions, and too much funds from various fields. If this continues, it will be basically the most stable first city in the Pampa grassland.

As the general manager of East Coast Power Company, Ma Xiaopeng came to Nareshkin Building today, mainly to rent an office for the company and meet with friends from the banking industry to raise funds for the company's future development.

As soon as Ma Xiaopeng entered the Nareshkin Building, two big men over two meters tall leaned over. They wore special tweed coats, wide-brimmed hats on their heads, straight and bright eyes. When they saw Ma Xiaopeng dressed and extraordinary in temperament, and there were three or four followers following behind them, they did not dare to come forward to ask, and silently retreated aside.

Ma Xiaopeng sneered. These two guys were the indigenous people of the Fuero Island in the south. If nothing unexpected happens, they should be the security guards hired by the commercial building. Ona people from Tiero Island are not known how they grow. There are many people over two meters tall and are very popular in the east coast. The army likes to recruit them as grenadiers, embassies abroad, and commercial stations like to use them as gatekeepers. High-end business buildings like Nareshkin Building also like to hire them as security guards. This is a show of appearance! They have a good appearance and are powerful figures, so you don’t have to worry about finding a job. It’s really fucking that you can’t say it!

Ma Xiaopeng once chatted with a doctor. The man believed that Ona's tall figure should be due to the long-term use of high protein (protein, a nutrient that has been publicly proposed by the East Coast people). Whales on Tierra del Fuego are often washed ashore, and the indigenous people like to feed on these whales. Especially the thick whale blubber is one of their important foods. In addition, they also hunt seals, llamas, and fish, basically do not eat grains (they do not know how to grow them). At most, they eat wild fruits or other plant tuber (such as potatoes) to adjust the nutritional intake, so they grow very tall.

But Ma Xiaopeng did not agree with this. He cited the indigenous people in the jurisdiction of the Manchuria and Mongolian pioneer team as an example. They also hunted wild animals, fish, and ate high-protein things. Why did they grow horizontally one by one? Those people are not tall, but are very solid, strong, with thick joints. Kong Wu is powerful, and they are two extremes with the indigenous people of Tierra Tierra.

The doctor believes that this may also be related to the environment. Shandan people in the northeast mainly live in mountains and forests. Tall people cannot eat here, and hunting is not as efficient as short and strong people. Under long-term natural selection, tall Shandan people are likely to be eliminated. However, the indigenous people of Tierra Tierra mainly live by the sea, and the forests here are relatively sparse, and people are not very interested in prey in the forest. The overall living environment is mainly empty fields. Therefore, tall people have the advantage and eventually eliminated short people and passed on their genes.

Ma Xiaopeng ignored the doctor's words. But he also agreed that intake of more foods rich in protein such as fish is very helpful for improving the physical fitness of the people. Taking the third generation of people born in the East Coast as an example, their height, weight, bust circumference, grip strength and other indicators exceed their grandfathers. Especially their height, they grow very fast, significantly exceeding their peers in mainland China and southern Europe.

This fact made Ma Xiaopeng face it. Nutrition may really be an important factor in physical fitness. Looking back at the Qin and Han dynasties, when there were only tens of millions of people in China, the height of the people was still higher than when there were more than 100 million people now. Isn’t this really a nutritional pot? Ma Xiaopeng can only be glad that now the Heavenly Lord gave the East Coast to endless beef, and there were countless fish and shrimp near the sea. The children were nutritious, which ensured that the people’s physical fitness would not fade and the race would not deteriorate.

After Ma Xiaopeng entered the Nareshkin Building, he went directly to the second floor of Nan Railway Bank. Qiang Xiaoman, a member of the bank's board of directors, was waiting for him in the reception room.

Ma Xiaopeng is really familiar with Qiang Xiaoman. Both of their fathers have been members of the executive committee and grew up in the same courtyard. They studied and played together. Although the relationship is not very close, it is not too bad.

Last time, the East Coast government sold some shares of state-owned enterprises in order to raise La Plata's land purchase money, including East Coast Power Company. Ma Xiaopeng, who has been a senior executive in the company for many years and is familiar with the inside story of the company, seized the opportunity and raised a large amount of money from his family and bought 8% of the shares of East Coast Power Company. If we count the stock rewards given to management by the company over the years, Ma Xiaopeng personally has held more than 10% of the company's shares, basically dependent on the company's development.

It is also because of this that in order to achieve great development, Ma Xiaopeng did not hesitate to sell his old face and once again found a very good cooperative relationship. At the same time, Nantec Bank, which also invested in equity and financially in Dongpin, wanted to borrow 200,000 yuan from it to support the company's power generation business expansion.

Qiang Xiaoman is very clear about Ma Xiaopeng's intention. But as a shareholder and management of Nantec Bank, he was also in a difficult situation. The reason is that Nantec Bank is not a large bank with strong financial strength, and a loan of 200,000 yuan is not a small amount for them. Especially when they have invested equity and financially in this state-owned enterprise, they should be more cautious in every move. They must not cause unnecessary risks because they have poured too much money on it.

Moreover, Nanzhi Bank itself is in its expansion period, and it is time to use money. They have just negotiated with officials of the State Administration of Precious Metals to open their first branch in Shanghai County to absorb social deposits and support the economic construction of the East Coast. Before that, they had to "live" in the Nanzhi area, where only a few people were there? How much deposit can they absorb? How much money can they borrow? Their lives have been hard for many years, and they have been supported by local enterprises such as Nanzhi Company and not falling down.

This time they entered the Pampa area and made great decisions. They drew up many business backbones, mobilized a lot of funds, and rented many rooms in the famous Nareshkin Building as office space, which was a lot of money. Moreover, they were worn out and did countless tasks, which convinced the Shanghai County Government and the relocated modern special ship factory to borrow 400,000 yuan from them. At this time, Ma Xiaopeng came to him and asked for 200,000 yuan at one's notice, which really made Qiang Xiaoman embarrassed.

"Mr. Ma, our industry has investigated the situation of Dongdian Power Company. The future prospects are undoubtedly very bright, otherwise our industry will not make financial investments. But, is it necessary to be so radical? Is it not good to develop step by step?" Qiang Xiaoman personally made a cup of coffee for Ma Xiaopeng and asked with a smile: "Is it a bit too big to build two new power stations at once? Who should I use the electricity sent for? Is it possible to use so much electricity by relying on arc lamp lighting alone?"

The meaning of Qiang Xiaoman's words is actually very clear. There are actually three main places for electricity use in the East Coast Republic, one for lighting, one for industrial use, and the other for post and telecommunications departments. Lighting is easy to understand, and the specific point is lighthouses and urban lighting. The former faces fierce competition among gas lamps. Although arc lamps have their own advantages, to be honest, Wang Huadu's gas company has been deeply engaged in this field for many years, with mature technology and broad connections. Dongpin Company has struggled to compete. At present, due to insufficient infrastructure (too few power stations) and a small market share.

Industrial electricity is not widely used at present. So far, only some small companies have bought lead-acid batteries to make electrolytic products, such as electrolytic saturated salt water, etc. One of the prominent features of these companies is that they are not large in scale and have low power consumption. They have to kill the charging demand for some batteries. If they cannot use power stations, they can buy some small charging equipment.

The postal and telecommunications department is similar to it. Although the use of lead-acid batteries is also huge due to the huge scale of wired telecommunications, the only part that Dongpin Corporation can make money is still repairing batteries and selling charging equipment, which is not much profit. What they dream of is that the postal and telecommunications department uses the electricity emitted by their power stations and then pay the monthly fee, but this is not difficult.

After all, electricity has high requirements for infrastructure. You need to invest in and build a power station in advance before you can discuss the purpose, just like the power station invested and built by Dongdian Power Company in Weihai Port to supply power to the lighthouse. Qiang Xiaoman often goes to Dongdian Power Company on behalf of Nantel Railway Bank to conduct research and know the operating conditions of the company very clearly, so he asked what he asked just now.

"Brother, don't look at new things with an old eye." Ma Xiaopeng drank a sip of coffee and said with a smile: "Our company cooperated with the Engineering Technology Research Institute to improve the motor prototypes developed in the past and launch a new generation of motors. Well, the patent of this motor is shared by our company and the Engineering Institute. It can be combined with machine tools to process various wood and metal parts, and has a very broad application prospect."

"Isn't this the same as a steam engine? They all drive machine tools for processing. Why do you think that industrial enterprises will buy your electric motors?" Qiang Xiaoman asked after thinking about it.

"Hehe, we have tried it. The motor is much more stable than the steam engine and has faster speed. You know, the steam machine tools used in our country currently have a huge disadvantage, that is, they are not stable enough and the vibration is too large. The greater the vibration, the less it is impossible to carry out some precision processing. The motor does not have this disadvantage, or it greatly weakens this disadvantage. In addition, the higher the speed of the machine tool's cutting head, the more stable the cutting head, the more precise processing can be carried out. If a steam-driven machine tool wants to increase the speed, it is too difficult and the cost is too high, far less than that of a motor-driven machine tool." Ma Xiaopeng replied with a smile: "Look, with such a huge advantage, it will be a matter of time before the electric machine tool replaces the steam machine tool."

Qiang Xiaoman nodded after hearing this, frowned and thought for a long time, shook his head and said, "Mr. Ma, even if what you said is true, so what? You also know that our country now uses a large number of steam machine tools, and the number is already very large, and a considerable number of them are still very new and far from the time to be scrapped. It is probably a bit difficult for you to launch this now. Electric machine tools and steam machine tools seem to be different in power, but I think the cost of transformation should be very high, right? Those industrial enterprises are afraid that they are unwilling to spend this in vain."

"Brother, you are really an expert. You have to say it. Indeed, the structure of electric machine tools and steam machine tools is very different. You can't simply say that the power system can be used for transformation. That's a delusion, and I know it. But the superiority of this new thing is unquestionable, and there will definitely be people who know the goods. I have already thought about it. Isn't it now building the "Bianliang" ironclad ship? This is a national political task. All companies must contribute their efforts, and our Dongpin Company cannot leave it behind." Ma Xiaopeng said with a sarcastic smile: "As long as your bank's loan is here, it's a traitor.

I immediately applied to build a power station in Qingdao Port, and then sent a few electric motors to the shipyard to transform several machine tools on site - well, the company also paid a lot of money to process some high-precision parts. Brother, I am afraid of comparison in anything. As long as the electric-driven machine tools show their advantages in comparison, are you afraid of no business? Brother Qiang, I will help me this time, how about it? A national stage such as the 'Bianliang', as long as our electric machine tools are fired, then it will be a wealth that will come in the future!"

"You are very good at this abacus." Qiang Xiaoman smiled, but he still didn't let go. He just heard him say, "Mr. Ma, if I don't say anything, I will just grant you the loan. What a big deal! But you know that our bank is in a period of rapid expansion, and the money is really nervous! It's not too much to say 200,000, but it's very fatal at this critical moment. I can't make a decision! This way, don't worry, I'll send a telegram to the head office to see what the boss thinks. If I agree there, I naturally have nothing to say. If I don't agree, then I can't do anything. What do you think?"

"This--" Ma Xiaopeng was a little disappointed when he heard this, but he quickly adjusted and said, "That's all. I'll say a few more beautiful words to you, and I will never forget each other after the matter is completed!"
Chapter completed!