On October 5, 1692, the sky was clear.

In a large villa on the banks of the Song River, Qiang Xiaoman had just finished a dance and was sweating profusely. After taking a bath in a large wooden barrel for a while, he felt a little hungry and crawled out, put on his clothes and cooked himself, and fryed a piece of fragrant and tender steak for himself.

He was in a good mood today, not so good, because the BMW Bicycle Factory, which he owns a majority stake, received a large order: the newly established Shanghai County Government purchased 200 bicycles in one go for use by police, postal officers and other government officials.

There is no doubt that this is the single largest order since the establishment of BMW Bicycle Factory, so that their production capacity is seriously insufficient, so they have to post advertisements everywhere and recruit workers to the factory in order to quickly expand their production capacity. Qiang Xiaoman supports the decision of the factory management because the situation is clear now. With the increasing improvement of the East Coast National Highway system and the increasing improvement of bicycle performance, the market prospects of this new thing are becoming more and more broad, and the profit prospects are becoming more and more favored by many people.

It used to be that no one came to Qiang Xiaoman for a joint venture, but they were all sent away by this former financial broker and current banking industry insider. What a joke? Do you look down on me, Qiang Xiaoman? I have large real estate in the capital, Qingdao, Ping An and other places, and ranch in Australia. I am also a shareholder of Nantec Bank. I want your investment with a few melons?

Qiang Xiaoman has decided to set up a new branch in Shanghai (formerly Buenos Aires City, the core main urban area of ​​Putrajaya) next year, and to draw backbone technicians from the Tieling County area to prepare for construction, and the bicycles produced are supplied to the entire Pampa area on site. This is also one of the important reasons why the Shanghai County Government purchases bicycles in large quantities. They have even promised that as long as the BMW factory opens a branch here, even if it is just an assembly plant, they will have subsequent procurement support.

The Shanghai County Government has received a large investment from the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Transport to build infrastructure, including the construction of a very intensive national highway system. Once all of them are completed in the future, bicycles will indeed be of great use.

Of course, Qiang Xiaoman is not satisfied with his current achievements. In fact, he has been urging the factory not to rush to pay dividends after making profits, but continue to invest in research and development, constantly improve the performance and manufacturing process of the bicycle, and at the same time develop various new models to enrich the product line.

Qiang Xiaoman just said to the two factory leaders who arrived in his lounge: "As the major shareholder of BMW Bicycle Factory, I have invested so much money to do research and development, business, and channel. I am not in a hurry to distribute dividends now, so why are you anxious? Don't worry, the bonuses and stocks that should be given to you will not be less. You can relax now and continue to find ways to improve technology and quality. I want to do it as a century-old store in BMW Factory. Don't mess it up. What? Other shareholders are looking forward to dividends? Don't be nonsense, I don't agree! If they are unhappy, sell the shares to me, I will not bully them. I will acquire them at a premium and let them come to me!"

Qiang Xiaoman's straightforward words showed his determination. He has been talked about by others for half his life. This is not a good reputation. He also wants to change actively, but he has never found a way. This time, he set up a bicycle factory and even made it. This made him very excited. He planned to make it bigger and stronger and become a century-old store, so that the group of guys who once talked about themselves and despised themselves had a good look. He could also do business!

"Even bad people like Wang Hui can make the industry very exciting. Why can't I, Qiang Xiaoman? Hehe, the road is still long, let's take a look." Qiang Xiaoman thought while eating steak.

Wang Hui is the son of Wang De, a former senior official in the court system. He had been in politics for a while and had no reputation. After Bai Shiwen's son Bai Yutang focused on politics, he resigned from his public office and served as the director of the Guangming Candle Factory, which owns a certain stake, which made him very successful.

Director Wang Da’s greatest achievement is probably the launch of a new product for Guangming Candle Factory, which is the kerosene lamp. This lamp uses a liquid fuel extracted from coal, which is processed with even combustion, bright flame, and beautiful appearance and windproof. It is really an epoch-making product and is very popular.

Of course, due to the low production and high price of kerosene, a liquid fuel extracted from coal, kerosene lamps are not particularly popular on the east coast, and only have some markets for some people who are not short of money. However, with the gradual efforts of the kerosene refining industry, the high-profile price of kerosene will sooner or later drop. At that time, kerosene lamps will probably be rapidly popularized among thousands of households and become necessities in people's daily lives. The market prospects can be imagined.

Qiang Xiaoman had bought two kerosene lamps before and conducted detailed research on them. Finally, he had to sigh that this was indeed a masterpiece, and at the same time he was envious and jealous of Wang Hui's luck. He vaguely heard that Wang Hui had already gone to Dingnan County because some local scientific research institutes used simple equipment to produce a new black liquid fuel from the ground. He might be trying to see if this liquid fuel is of use. After all, the cost of extracting kerosene from coal is still higher. If this liquid fuel called "petroleum" is valuable, it would be better.

Although Qiang Xiaoman didn't know much about coal chemicals, he subconsciously felt that since oil is born with a combustible liquid fuel, maybe it can be used as the main combustion substance of kerosene lamps. In short, it can also be refined and processed. The cost will not be more expensive than coal-to-oil, right?

However, it seems that Wang Hui still believes in coal-to-oil more. After all, the coal chemical industry has a history of decades on the east coast. The technology of extracting components such as gas and coal tar from coal is quite mature. Although coal-to-oil is not as long as the above products, it also has a deep technical accumulation, which is not comparable to new things like oil.

Moreover, all sectors of society have invested a lot of money in the coal chemical industry. The country also regards coal chemical industry as a strategic industry. Various new production and refining processes are emerging one after another. The scale of the entire industry is expanding, and its costs have been declining accordingly. Guangming Candle Factory spent a huge amount of money to build a factory for producing kerosene two years ago, located in Ping'an County. It is said that its process level has been steadily improving, which is very terrible.

Of course, new things like oil cannot be viewed casually. No one can tell what will develop in the future. Take electricity as an example. At the beginning, few people knew this new things. Except for the country that has been investing money to maintain, few private capital was willing to enter this basic field, although the country did not seem to have let go of this industry.

However, Ma Xiaopeng has never given up for many years. He has been asking his grandfather to raise funds and encouraged the people in his company to maintain confidence. As a result, he seems to have seen the dawn of success in the first ray of success. The entire society is increasingly aware of new things such as electricity, and the sales of various instruments, batteries, generators (small sizes) produced by Dongpin Company are gradually increasing.

In the near future, Ma Xiaopeng has even planned to build some power generation rooms again, and then gather factories that need power and lighting to concentrate on providing them with power. Sooner or later, it will make a big comeback in the future. This is extremely strong.

"It's all a bunch of guys who have lost their luck!" Qiang Xiaoman curled his lips and complained: "But the emergence of new things may also have an impact on the old industries. Ma Xiaopeng is now working hard to promote the application of electricity, and those domestic companies that produce old steam machine tools feel the pressure. Will the emergence of kerosene and oil also put pressure on the old industries? Will the companies that produce steam engines also study this new fuel? Once it is proved that the liquid fuel of oil is more advantageous than coal, will those steam engine manufacturers also transform their products to adapt to the ever-changing market conditions?"

Thinking of this, Qiang Xiaoman suddenly remembered that steam-powered vehicles that are not very popular in the East Coast. These vehicles include both the famous steam trains, as well as steam tractors, steam road rollers and other vehicles. Especially the former, the land in the Pampa area is relatively dry and is more suitable for the use of steam tractors than humid and hot northern areas. If kerosene or oil is proved to be more suitable for power fuel than coal and can greatly reduce the weight of the vehicle's power system, the weight is too large to damage cultivated land and roads. This is the most important factor in the inability to popularize steam tractors, then this is likely to be another surprisingly huge market in the future.

BMW Bicycle Factory currently produces unpowered bicycles, and it can really be studied in this aspect in the future. Guangming Candle Factory can break out of the traditional candle rut and create amazing kerosene lamps. Can't our bicycle factory develop a relatively light tractor or other vehicle?

Qiang Xiaoman felt that he seemed to have found a new development idea. It can be expected that bicycles will be a very profitable industry for a long time in the future, but people will have immediate worries without long-term plans, and it is definitely not possible to rely on their credit book to make money. After the patent expires in the future, a large amount of social funds will be squeezed into this industry, and the profit will be greatly impacted. The best plan for BMW factory is to take advantage of the favorable opportunity when the funds are slowly becoming abundant, and decisively develop new products to make new preparations for future enterprise transformation. A brand new power tractor or vehicle seems to be a very good breakthrough!
Chapter completed!