The Chrono Admiral

Chapter 5: The Company's Incorporation

After selling the four paintings, Lin Daxin met Mr. Dong, a friend who owned a jewelry store, through Mr. Wang, an antique shop owner. He spent 30 million RMB to buy 100 kilograms of gold bars, each weighing 500 grams, and transported them back to 1892.

Actually, buying silver would be the most cost-effective option, especially in the Qing Dynasty. However, purchasing gold bars is more convenient, as is transporting them to the timeline of 1892. Besides, Lin Daxin had just made a fortune, so these smaller sums were no longer a concern. With a huge sum of money in his pocket, Lin Daxin then began a series of actions in the modern era.

First, Lin Daxin bought an abandoned artificial board factory in a remote suburb of Weihai City. The abandoned artificial board factory covered an area of 50,000 square meters. All the machinery and equipment inside were gone. Apart from the empty land, only two empty large factory buildings and a three-story office building remained.

Lin Daxin chose this place mainly because of the two large factory buildings, each 200 meters long, 30 meters wide, and 20 meters high. In addition, many residential areas have been developed not far to the east of the artificial board factory in recent years, so the transportation here is relatively convenient. Moreover, there are no other buildings around the artificial board factory, so no one will notice what is coming in or out. Therefore, these two large factory buildings are very suitable as a transfer base for the modern time to the original time!

Lin Daxin then contacted contractor Zhang Guangfu to renovate the office building of the artificial board factory, adding modern electrical equipment, and converting the two large factory buildings into enclosed warehouses.

Then Lin Daxin registered a company called Daxin Trading Company with a registered capital of 500 million yuan. He put up a sign for Daxin Trading Company on the gate of the artificial board factory and recruited ten college students and six veterans from the talent center. He then took a taxi back to the factory.

In the newly renovated conference room of the factory's office building, Lin Daxin assigned positions to the sixteen employees he had recruited.

Six veterans were appointed as security guards. One of them, Liu Tie, was 29 years old. Before his discharge, he was a reconnaissance soldier and served for 10 years. He was a third-level sergeant and was appointed as the security manager by Lin Daxin with a monthly salary of 8,000 yuan. The other five security guards had a monthly salary of 5,000 yuan.

Ten college students, including two female accounting majors, Li Ling and Zhang Xue, were appointed by Lin Daxin as cashier and accountant, respectively, while also serving as office clerks, each with a monthly salary of 6,000 yuan.

The other eight college graduates majoring in mechanical processing or related fields were appointed as purchasing personnel, with a monthly salary of 6,000.

After Lin Daxin finished making the announcement, all sixteen people showed their joy on their faces.

As six veterans, everyone is very satisfied to have found such high-paying jobs.

The ten college students were overjoyed. With such intense job competition these days, graduating is practically equivalent to unemployment. These ten students were all recent graduates, and to find such jobs right after graduation, how could they not be happy!

When Li Ling and Zhang Xue, who were both girls, heard that they would have a monthly salary of six thousand, they couldn't help but hug each other in celebration.

Originally, all sixteen people had some doubts about this new job because of Lin Daxin's age, but now that Lin Daxin has announced the salary and benefits, all their doubts have disappeared!

The atmosphere in the meeting room reached its peak when Lin Daxin announced that because the factory was far from the city, each of the sixteen people would be provided with a car. The sixteen young men couldn't help but shout the slogan, "Long live the boss!"

Looking at the sixteen excited young faces, Lin Daxin felt very happy. After all, he was now an official! He had more than a dozen people under him! This felt great! No wonder so many people wanted to be officials!

In fact, Lin Daxin was already an official in 1892, and a seventh-rank instructor at that! However, since the naval academy was still under construction and there were only three people in the entire academy, Lin Daxin and the other two were his superiors. As a result, Lin Daxin had not yet experienced what it was like to be an official.

Lin Daxin knew that all sixteen employees had driver's licenses! So he kept his word and led the sixteen people back to Weihai City. At a Beijing Hyundai 4S store, Lin Daxin bought sixteen Beijing Hyundai cars and distributed them to his sixteen new employees.

Watching the employees test drive the cars, Lin Daxin's hands were itching to drive, but unfortunately, he didn't know how to drive, so he could only watch enviously, while resolving in his heart that he must learn to drive as soon as possible.

The group drove back to the factory in a grand procession. Lin Daxin gathered the eight purchasing staff together and returned to the conference room in the office building.

"Everyone, please sit down!" Lin Daxin said to the eight young purchasing agents.

After the eight people sat down, each took out a pen and notebook, waiting for Lin Daxin to assign them work. This job was quite good; not to mention the considerable monthly salary, each of them was given a Beijing Hyundai car as soon as they arrived at the company. These eight recent college graduates secretly decided that they must work hard at this company. Now that the boss was assigning tasks, all eight of them listened very attentively.

Lin Daxin cleared his throat and said, "Now I'll assign tasks to the purchasing staff! First, you'll be divided into four purchasing groups, two people per group. I have four purchasing lists here, one for each group!"

The eight purchasing agents quickly divided themselves into four purchasing groups, and then Lin Daxin distributed the four lists that had been prepared in advance to the eight purchasing agents.

After the eight purchasing agents took the list, they were all surprised when they looked at it carefully. Why were the things the boss asked them to purchase so out of touch with the times? The four lists were equipment lists from four factories: a shipyard, a machinery manufacturing plant, a thermal power plant, and a steel plant. The reason they were out of touch with the times was because the lists were full of outdated machinery and equipment.

These four lists were painstakingly found by Lin Daxin online. He planned to transport the equipment from these four factories to the timeline of 1892 to establish the four factories. Advanced machinery and equipment, if brought to the Qing Dynasty, would not only be difficult to use but would also easily arouse suspicion. Therefore, it was necessary to purchase some relatively outdated equipment in this timeline.

Although it was outdated equipment, it was considered very advanced in the Qing Dynasty.

One of the purchasing agents, Liu Jian, asked with a puzzled look: "Boss! The equipment on this list should be from a shipyard, but aren't the requirements for this equipment too outdated? It has to be manual machinery, without data control or computer equipment. According to the requirements on the list, this shipyard is at the level of the 1950s or 1960s! Boss, do we have any customers who want to buy these?"

Lin Daxin had already prepared his explanation, and said to the eight purchasing agents, "Yes! The four factories I need to purchase from require equipment from the 1950s or 60s. I've already found buyers for these four factories; it's a very small African country! This small African country needs some outdated equipment. Even if we give them some advanced CNC equipment, they won't be able to find anyone to use it! Moreover, I need you to find professionals to create the design and installation drawings for these four factories! And the equipment on these four lists may not be complete. Just buy back all the equipment these four factories need! I will give each group a big bonus after completing the task!"

Then Lin Daxin reminded the purchasing staff that they must hurry up, as the customer urgently needed equipment from these four factories.

At this point, another purchasing agent named Wu Qiao suggested to Lin Daxin, "Boss! A lot of these machines aren't in production anymore. I wonder if used equipment would work? And used equipment is cheaper! There's a private steel mill in my hometown. The production equipment is all second-hand equipment imported from Germany in the 1960s and 70s, which should meet the requirements on the list. I heard from a phone call home recently that the steel mill was losing money every year because of outdated technology and has now stopped production. It should be easy to buy the equipment from that factory. I wonder if that factory in Africa needs second-hand factory equipment!"

Upon hearing this, Lin Daxin realized that while the steel mill's technology was outdated in modern times, it would be considered advanced in 1892. He immediately told Wu Qiao, "Yes! Contact the steel mill in your hometown right away, find out its situation, and if the equipment is in good working order and can continue production, buy the equipment from that steel mill!"

Wu Qiao immediately nodded in agreement, promising to make sure he understood the situation at the steel plant.

Lin Daxin also instructed the purchasing staff that second-hand equipment was acceptable, but it had to be well-maintained and usable; otherwise, no matter how cheap it was, if it was unusable, it would be a waste!

If the eight purchasing agents are unsure about the machinery and equipment, they can hire some professionals to evaluate it and see if it meets Lin Daxin's requirement of four factories. However, the purchasing agents need to find these professionals themselves, as Lin Daxin doesn't have the time, but the company will reimburse their commissions.

Furthermore, Lin Daxin specifically instructed the eight purchasing agents that he needed them to find professionals to prepare planning and design documents, installation documents, and process documents for the four factories, and then translate these documents into traditional Chinese characters.

This left the eight purchasing agents quite puzzled. Why did it need to be translated into traditional Chinese characters? Weren't they going to sell it to Africa? If it needed to be translated, it should have been translated into English!

Lin Daxin waved his hand dismissively, dismissing the questions from his eight purchasing staff with a simple reason given by the client.

After handing over the purchasing tasks for the four factories to eight purchasing agents, Lin Daxin hurriedly took a car to the airport in Dashuipo Town, Weihai City, and boarded a flight to Kaohsiung, Taiwan.