Lee Haydn took a fancy to a small shipyard with a good location in Lübeck, Germany.

To be honest, opening a shipyard in Austria is not as promising as Germany. In this era, the German Navy was just starting, and Tirpitz proposed a plan to expand the German Navy - the Naval Law has not been passed by the parliament. Only after that will the golden age of the German shipbuilding industry be ushered in.

Currently among the private shipyards in Germany, only Danze's Shuoxiao Shipyard and Studding's Vulken Shipyard have experience in building large ironclad ships. In addition, the emerging Germania and Wiesel Shipyards have also built small ships for the navy, while the Bromfoss Shipyard in Hamburg has just been established.

The three naval shipyards in the Second Empire will soon be at a disadvantage in the competition due to their high costs.

In general, Germany's shipbuilding industry is just starting out and there is still a lot to do.

"I am ashamed that our shipyard is very small in scale, and we can only build some wooden sailing fishing boats and wooden short-distance cargo ships with small tonnage. Now the shipbuilding industry in Germany is fierce, and small shipyards cannot compete with those large shipyards. They can only receive orders that are despised by those large shipyards and are very small in oil. Indeed, I intend to sell this shipyard." The shipyard owner Link is a middle-aged man in his forties, slightly fat and slightly bald on his head, but he is very honest and experienced.

Indeed, Link said it right. Beihai Shipyard is just a very small shipyard, with only two 500-ton wooden boat platforms and a small mud dock. The equipment is old and there is a lack of metal processing workshops, so it is impossible to build steel ships.

But Lee Haydn just took a fancy to its geographical location and the name of the shipyard. The Beihai Shipyard had built excellent Brandenburg-class anti-submarine frigates and Brunswick-class missile frigates with excellent performance 100 years later, as well as the 212-class conventional power submarine. Of course, it is definitely not the current shipyard.

However, Lee Haydn still likes this name very much.

"Mr. Lingen, we are planning to invest in the shipbuilding industry in Germany. In fact, we plan to build a first-class shipyard in Germany. However, we lack a suitable manager. After investigation, we think you are a reliable partner. So the purpose of our visit this time is not to fully acquire your shipyard, but to add new investment to your shipyard to increase equipment and expand the scale." Lee Hayden said.

"Investment?" Link looked at the nobleman from Austria in front of him with some confusion. The purpose of their doing so. He thought about it carefully for a while and did nothing to him. He asked, "Mr. Fredrich, how much money are you going to invest in the shipyard?"

"Well, the early plan is 9 million marks." Lee Hayden paused for a moment, "Of course, if it is not enough, you can add it."

"5 million?" Link was startled. His shipyard was worth no more than 90,000 marks in total, so that he could only own one percent of his shares in the shipyard.

"You don't have to worry that your existing shipyard will be priced at 150,000 marks, and you will first own two percent of the shares. In addition, if the shipyard is operating smoothly, I will take out 10 percent of the shares to reward the main managers and engineering and technical personnel of the shipyard, of course, you, Mr. Link." Li Haidn said, giving Link a reassurance first, and then drawing a big pie, so that he will definitely work hard for the shipyard.

In the next week, the shipyard completed the procedures for transferring funds and equity changes. The designers who followed Lee Haydn made a general plan for the shipyard in the future. The detailed investment plan will take two months to come out. However, Link can purchase the land around the shipyard in advance based on this plan.

Lee Haydn's plan is very large and may be larger in the future.

The basic planning requirements are that the shoreline is more than 700 meters and cover an area of ​​1,600 mu. New independent office buildings, planner workshops, metal processing workshops, power workshops, wood processing workshops, electrical workshops, a small steelmaking and rolling mill, self-produced power plants, various material warehouses, etc. Of course, ship platforms, docks and outfitted docks are indispensable hardware facilities.

Li Haidn has some experience in how to build a shipyard. The scale of the Isleya shipyard can be said to be no less than any of the current German shipyards. He is confident that within three years, he will build a new shipyard in Germany that is comparable to the Isleya shipyard. Of course, most of the workers, technicians, engineers and designers of this shipyard need to be recruited in Germany, and the managers also need a large number of Germans.

As a standard arms dealer, Lee Haydn certainly had already opened his own chemical factory very early, focusing on the production of a yellow explosive that is safer than picric acid explosives. The medicine - a ** that Mr. Will Brand invented in 1963 but has never been noticed, namely **.

As the main filler for shells, picric acid has considerable instability, especially the picric acid salt produced when in contact with metals, which can easily explode and explode when impacted, and the production cost of phenol is much higher than that of toluene.

Lee Haydn noticed a problem: the world's major saltpeter production areas are controlled by the British or Americans. If a war breaks out, Germany and Austria will face the embarrassing situation of shortage of saltpeter. In later generations, a middle school student would learn the synthesis process of ammonium nitrate in the laboratory, but now it is the end of the 19th century. There are only 78 elements arranged on the periodic table discovered by Mr. Mendeleev.

If Li Haidn wanted to become a great chemist who could compete with Mendeleev.

But let it go.

He now needs to discuss a new project with the chemists in the factory - starting a synthesized ammonia and chlor-alkali combined enterprise.

He is preparing his chemists to develop a new low-cost method for making nitric acid, a new synthesis of ammonia, soda ash, ammonium carbonate - a joint alkali production method invented by Mr. Hou Debang, the great Chinese chemist.

Soda ash is a basic and important chemical raw material, and is in many industries such as glass, chemical industry, petroleum, metallurgy, building materials, textiles, etc., but its production patents are monopolized by the Survey Alkaline Association, composed of a few companies in France, Germany and the UK. They have thus obtained high monopoly profits for nearly a hundred years.

Until Mr. Hou announced its manufacturing method.

But Lee Haydn was not going to do this. He was not sure about the specific details, but as long as he gave these chemists some inspiration, he believed that he would get what he wanted soon.

New technology always represents a lot of things, of course, mainly money - high enough profits before it is developed by others.
Chapter completed!