Zhang Peijia thought about it and thought it seemed interesting, but she still shook her head and said, "I appreciate it, Mr. Santos, please take a look at the plan first!"
Then the room fell silent, save for the rustling of papers. After a while, Zhang Peijia said: "Xiao Zhu, bring over the summary of the situation just reported by the United Shipyard. Also bring over the Navy's shipbuilding plan for the next quarter."
Soon, she found the documents from the huge bookshelf and placed them in front of her. After flipping through them quickly, Zhang Peijia raised her head and said, "Mr. Santos, I'm afraid your trip will be in vain this time! The bank refused to accept this request." Invest funds and loans for shipyard expansion.”
Santos, who was originally full of confidence, immediately became surprised! He opened his eyes wide and said, "Why? Madam, this time I only need a loan of 60,000 taels of silver to hope that you can inject 120,000 taels of silver! This amount is just a small amount for United Bank and cannot be any smaller!"
Zhang Peijia said seriously: "Mr. Santos, this is not a question of quota! This amount of money does not even need to be invested by Lian Sheng Bank. My uncle can afford it personally! It's just that the shipyard has expanded too much too fast, and serious problems have arisen. "
Santos shouted: "This is impossible! The shipyard has been prospering under my guidance!"
Zhang Pejia said: "Mr. Santos, please don't be excited. Now that I'm here to talk to you, you will understand what's going on!"
Santos bowed slightly and said, "I'm sorry, madam, could you please tell me what went wrong?"
Zhang Peijia said: "As shown in the summary of the situation, the two warships of the Navy completed last month were eight days and 11 days longer than the expected construction period respectively without process improvements! The same happened to other ships. A similar situation has occurred, which shows that the shipyard has expanded too fast, but the proficiency of the craftsmen has not improved. This is the disadvantage of a large number of new people entering the industry!"
Santos said with some embarrassment when he heard this: "Don't worry, madam, I will step up the training of these craftsmen, and they will soon adapt to the work of the shipyard!"
But Zhang Peijia still said seriously: "Not only that, Mr. Santos! Judging from the summary of last quarter, your material loss has also increased by 25%. This should also be caused by unskilled craftsmen! Moreover, the slave family also To be sure, material losses have begun to rise this quarter! This shows that there are also problems in your management! The root cause is still expansion too fast!"
Santos took out a handkerchief and wiped his sweat and said, "Well, there may be problems in this regard! But don't worry, countess, I will correct these problems as soon as possible when I get back!"
Zhang Peijia continued: "This is not the most serious problem! The most serious problem is that the materials stored in the shipyard are insufficient, especially the aniseed materials used for shipbuilding! According to the current situation, the existing wood is only enough to last four years. To six months. Judging from the summary of the situation, you have not developed a new wood purchase channel! If the shipyard expands again, the existing materials can last for two to three months at most, and this is not counted. Material losses caused by management and craftsmen during the last period! Once this happens, the shipyard will have to be shut down, which will cause even greater losses to the shipyard!"
Santos said hurriedly: "Madam, please rest assured, I have contacted some lumber dealers and are currently negotiating. I will definitely solve this problem!"
Zhang Pejia said: "Mr. Santos, although I don't know much about shipbuilding, I also know that you can't buy the kind of aniseed materials you want to buy! In particular, the wood needs to be dried in the shade for a long time, so you can find it." If you get that kind of aniseed material, you won’t be able to use it in a short period of time. I wonder if what I said is right?”
Now there is even more sweat on Santos' forehead! But he still reluctantly said: "In this case, I can turn over some wood from other shipyards, enough to maintain the use of the shipyard."
Zhang Pejia said helplessly: "But that will cause a serious increase in costs! Mr. Santos, our goal is to make money while turning the shipyard into the largest shipyard in the world, rather than simply building the largest shipyard in the world." The shipyard!"
Then the two people communicated back and forth like this. Santos proposed countless methods and reasons, but they all failed.
Zhang Peijia relied on data to refute it, and in the end he failed completely!
His requests for loans and capital injections were completely rejected. After leaving the office, the furious Santos couldn't help shouting to the female escort who escorted him out: "What a terrible dictatorial queen! Is he always like this?"
The female guard said with a cold face: "Mr. Atta, please pay attention to your words! This is not your barbarian land, this is the Ming Dynasty, and the imperial power is supreme! Any behavior that desecrates the imperial power will be severely punished!"
At this time, Santos also knew that he had made a mistake, so he wiped his forehead with a completely wet handkerchief and said, "I'm sorry, I was indeed rude!"
Santos failed and left, but the other shopkeepers in the waiting room heard what he said, but did not show any sympathy! Because this kind of thing has happened to them more than once, especially when they thought that they were about to face Zhang Peijia, their hearts beat like drums!
At this moment, the female guard opened the door and said loudly: "Please call the head of the loan department!"
A middle-aged man stood up and walked out of the waiting room door amidst the sympathetic eyes of everyone. From the looks of it, he shouldn't be having a pleasant meeting either!
After Liu Haojia walked out of the gate, he led people directly to the military camp outside the city. When he was in the city, the speed of the war horses was not very high. After leaving the city, he led the people to run the horses quickly, finding a little fun in the speed! Now he rides around every day, and his riding skills have improved very quickly!
At this time, the military camp is no longer the shabby little camp it was at the beginning. It has become more than six or seven times larger than it was at the beginning! A racecourse has also been built, and a small group of cavalry is currently training there. The first thing Liu Haojia arrived at was the cavalry training ground.
This training ground does not train regular cavalry, but trains at night! A capable Ye Bu Sheng is the eyes of the army and must be strictly trained! For this reason, Liu Haojia spent a lot of money to hire a few good soldiers from the border army to come back and be responsible for the training at night!
The salary he gave was very high, so the veterans Lao Ye Bu Sui also taught seriously, so these young Ye Bu Sui improved their skills very quickly.
