Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 313 52 Chen Muwu helps out

Not only Zhu Zhaoxin, but three of the four people in the room were shocked by Chen Muwu's last request.

It is required to share 20.00% from the net profit. What is the concept of this number?
In 1901, British engineer William Knox Darcy obtained a charter from the King of Persia, granting him the patent rights to discover, mine and export oil. These rights were paid for the annual net profits from oil extraction and twenty thousand pounds. The cash also included [-] pounds worth of shares in the oil company, which were exchanged from the then King of Persia.

Darcy was the founder of the Anglo-Persian Petroleum Company. Later, due to various reasons, the company was acquired by the British government led by Lord Admiral Churchill and became a state-owned enterprise, which gradually evolved into the British Petroleum Company BP.

Even the King of Persia, the owner of the land where the oil field belongs, only dared to ask the British oil giant for the net profit. Why did Chen Muwu say 20.00%?
The Persian king had land, what did Chen Muwu have?
As a digression, it is not an easy task to get the British, who are full of gentlemanly spirit and fully respect the terms of the contract, to abide by the treaties they signed before.

By 1920, the annual output of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company had reached nearly 140 million tons per year. However, the King of Persia only received 3000 million pounds of the 1000 and [-] million pounds stipulated in the contract that year. Not even a fraction of it.

Even if the oil company jointly opened by Chen Muwu and the Italian side cannot earn as much profit as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, if the production scale is one-tenth of the latter, according to the contract, Chen Muwu can still get from the net profit every year. Walk away with a huge sum of 400 million pounds.

——This is equivalent to building more than 20 cyclotrons for the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge every year, and is equivalent to two-fifths of the cost of the Empire State Building.

If he could really get such a sum of money, he wouldn't have to do anything else all day long except lie down and count the money.

After Ciano translated Chen Muwu's request, the other big shot didn't even have time to get angry. His face was full of surprise and shock.

How dare you?

How dare he!

Zhu Zhaoxin, who was the first to react, quickly smoothed things over for Chen Muwu beside him: "Han Chen, did you say the wrong thing when you got excited? It's not twenty percentage points, it's twelve, right?"

Zhu Zhaoxin even thought that twelve percentage points was high. He wanted to say two percentage points at first, but it was impossible to say this all at once.

Perhaps rather than being a physicist, Chen Muwu should join the diplomatic system and become a diplomat?

After all, he really dares to ask for conditions from foreigners. This alone can surpass many of his colleagues.

Prime Minister Mo stared at Chen Muwu for a long time with raised eyebrows, and then he slowly spoke.

"Dr. Chen, is this [-]% dividend a little too much?"

He has given Chen Muwu a step down. If the other party is not dignified yet, the Prime Minister will not mind helping him look decent.

"Well, I think it's a bit too much." Chen Muwu actually nodded along with his words.

Then he took back one of the two outstretched fingers, leaving only the lone index finger still gathered on the hand.

"Otherwise, I have another plan. If a large amount of oil can really be explored and the well is successfully drilled, I will only have a small profit from the oil company in the future. The premise is that you must agree to my request. .”

"any request?"

Suddenly it dropped from 20.00% to 400%, from 20 million pounds per year to [-] pounds per year. Chen Muwu made such a large concession in profits in a few minutes. No one would be tempted to change it. ?
Ciano, who was sandwiched between the two people as a translator, even forgot about his own job. He did not immediately translate what Chen Muwu said into Italian, but subconsciously asked Chen Muwu directly about his request.

Prime Minister Mo Mo couldn't understand what Chen Muwu said, but his body language was basically universal, and he could understand that the gesture changed from "two" to "one".

The other party's request was suddenly reduced by half, but the Prime Minister still seemed not so satisfied and was wondering if Dr. Chen could be made to make some more concessions.

Ciano calmed down and translated Chen Muwu's new request.

This made Prime Minister Mexico no longer interested in bargaining. The other party had already reduced profits to the minimum. If he continued to lower the price, how could he lower the price?
Replace the percent sign with a thousand percent sign?As the dignified prime minister of a country, he couldn't afford to lose that person.

"The Prime Minister also wants to ask Dr. Chen, what exactly is your request?"

Ciano used other people's words to ask the question he just asked again.

“Starting next year, Italy will unconditionally accept no more than [-] Chinese workers every year to intern and work in major factories in the country. Each worker must ensure that they can work in the factory for at least five years and be treated equally with Italian workers. , we must pay sufficient wages on time and in fixed amounts, and we must ensure that workers are not discriminated against and that all their rights and interests are not infringed.”

It sounded like Chen Muwu had made a strange request.

But he had told someone about this once a few years ago, but the person at that time was not the Prime Minister of Italy, but the Crown Prince of Sweden.

Chen Muwu has long wanted to understand one thing, that is, no matter how much money he makes abroad, when he returns to China in the future, it will definitely be detained by various countries for various reasons, and less than one-tenth of the money he can take back.

Therefore, the money he earns now only needs to be able to provide for himself and his family to live without worries abroad. There is no need to be greedy, become a miser, and then make wedding clothes for others.

Since the wealth cannot be brought back, it is better to convert the wealth into things that can be brought back to the country, such as students who have learned advanced knowledge and skilled workers who have accumulated rich work experience.

If these two things can be continuously transported back to the country, it will have a greater impact than if he returns alone.

If Sweden is considered a third-class power, then Italy can at least be considered a second-class power, and its domestic industrialization level is definitely richer and more advanced than Sweden's.

After Ciano translated Chen Muwu's answer again, Prime Minister Mo was somewhat unable to understand the brain circuit of the young man opposite.

Instead of giving up the annual profits of millions of pounds and sending [-] workers as interns, this deal is not cost-effective.

The average monthly salary of Italian workers is about [-] lire.

In this conversion, a worker's annual salary is 8 lire. On August 28 last year, the Mexican Prime Minister himself announced the implementation of "Quota novanta" in the exchange rate between the lira and the pound in order to curb inflation in Italy. "Quota 1927)", that is, to stabilize the exchange rate at around 1. In 92.46, this value was [-] pound equal to [-] liras.

So the equivalent of a worker's annual salary is about one hundred pounds, and the annual salary of five hundred workers is only fifty thousand pounds.

Moreover, these five hundred workers are not just lying in the factory every day working as foreigners and eating for free. In addition to necessary labor, they can also provide a large amount of surplus labor.

Looking at it this way, the dividend was reduced from 400 million pounds to 20 pounds per year, and an additional [-] young and middle-aged laborers were provided to Italy. Chen Muwu seemed to have suffered a big loss.But in a transaction, what is not a good deal for one party is like a free bargain for the other party.

Although Prime Minister Mo was a little confused, he couldn't refuse to accept the gift from Chen Muwu.

Seeing the minister representing the Chinese government next to Chen Muwu, he seemed to understand something.

But he did not see any communication between Chen Muwu and Zhu Zhaoxin during the dinner. Could it be that before the dinner, Chen Muwu had already guessed that this was what he was going to say?
The purpose of asking someone to call the Chinese minister was to find a companion for the dinner. Unexpectedly, he actually did him a favor.

"Dr. Chen, so you are not actually representing yourself this time, but are representing your government?"

After listening to Chen Muwu's previous answer and Ciano's current translation, Zhu Zhaoxin was already in a state of complete confusion.

Why did Dr. Chen suddenly drop his profits so much?Why did he propose to send workers to Italy again?
Prime Minister Mexico actually raised a very good question. Next year, after the Beijing government completely defeats the Beiyang government and comes to power, China and Italy will still have a honeymoon period of nearly ten years, which will provide more opportunities for Chen Muwu’s plan to dispatch workers. For convenience.

However, Chen Muwu didn't want the fruits of his hard work to explore for oil to be plundered by the government, so he planned to do it himself.

Of course, when it comes to dispatching workers abroad, we need to cooperate with the country, but the partner of the cooperation must not be his own bald Zhejiang fellow, but it can be his fanboy, Mr. Zhang from the Northeast.

Mr. Zhang has a lot of money and loves to devote himself to various public undertakings. In addition to education, he also likes to run industry.

In addition to Northeastern University, Northeast China also has the most advanced arsenal, automobile manufacturing plant and aircraft manufacturing plant in China.

Although these things would be handed over to the Japanese after 1931, if we carefully analyze the request that Chen Muwu just made, he allowed these Chinese workers to work as interns in Italian factories for five years.

He decided that after the first few groups of workers came to Italy, they would all enter arsenals in various places to study how guns and cannons were made.

After entering the factory in 1928, five years later it was 1933. By that time, Mr. Zhang had already arrived in Naian from the Northeast.

These first batch of well-trained workers will definitely not be able to go back to the Northeast. Then after they return to China, they will probably put the arsenal they built after completing their studies in Shaanxi. It will still be regarded as one-third of an acre of Mr. Zhang's land. .

In addition to the Northeastern Army and the Northwest Army, there is also a third party in Shaanxi.

After these factories are built, who can they use them?That's hard to say.

But one thing is very clear, that is, the Italian guns and Italian cannons produced by these workers who have drank foreign ink will definitely be very popular in the surrounding areas.

Next to Shaan'an is Shan'an, and there is Ping'an County in Shan'an'an Province. No matter who is attacking Ping'an County, Chen Muwu will definitely help!
"Your Excellency, Prime Minister, you are not cooperating with the Chinese government, but with me personally. You may not know the current situation in China. There is a government on each side of the north and the south. I don't know which side I should belong to now, and how can I represent it?" What about the government’s cooperation?”

After all, Zhu Zhaoxin is a representative of the Chinese government who maintains integrity outside the country. Hearing Chen Muwu's remarks, he always felt a little uncomfortable - even though the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not allocated funds for almost a year.

"Han Chen, for such a big matter, I think we should discuss it with the domestic authorities."

Zhu Zhaoxin tugged on Chen Muwu's sleeve and whispered.

"Discuss? Who should we discuss with? The south or the north?"

Chen Muwu didn't want to talk any more with the minister on this topic. Zhu Zhaoxin said on the surface that he wanted to contact the country, but among the ministers abroad, he was the most aggressive in asking for salary.

He was the leader of the Federation of Ministers to Europe, and he also threatened the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Beiyang government, saying that if money was not distributed, everyone would all fall to Wu Chaoshu in Guangzhou.

Because the topic of today's dinner is how and where to find oil, not which of the two governments Italy supports, Beiyang or the Northern Expedition.

Everyone is well aware of this matter, and the reason why Zhu Zhaoxin raised the above question was just a formality.

Since Chen Muwu does not represent the Chinese government, there is no need to discuss this matter in depth.

"Dr. Chen, we fully accept this request you made. I can even agree to it now. It will be no problem for someone to prepare a treaty and sign it."

Prime Minister Mo also thought that he had gotten a big deal. He was afraid that Chen Muwu would regret it after realizing that something was not right, so he also wanted to settle the matter as soon as possible.

"Of course that's the best, but it seems a little too hasty tonight, and I'm not very good at these terms and conditions. Maybe I need to hire some professionals to finalize it.

"But now that we have reached a preliminary intention of cooperation, I will never change it. I hope that the Prime Minister can also ensure that this matter will not change again."

Chen Muwu doesn't know how to do business, but he has many friends who do.

De Broglie, Oppenheimer, the British aristocratic children of the Cambridge Apostolic Society, and little Marcus of the Swedish Wallenberg family, just pick one among them, they are all business talents.

It couldn't be easier than asking them to send someone over to help see if there is anything unreasonable in the proposed contract.

"Of course, of course."

Chen Muwu's thoughts coincided with those of Prime Minister Mo. From his perspective, he was an unexpected joy because he listened to his secretary read the newspaper. He had caught such a big fish as Chen Muwu, not to mention that there were countless hidden things behind him. of black wealth, oil.

"Then I wish us happy cooperation!" Prime Minister Mo picked up the wine glass again and drank it down in one gulp.

"Dr. Chen, can you tell me in advance where you think oil will be produced, and whether it is far from Italy?"

"Mediterranean, right in the Mediterranean."

Chen Muwu pointed to the map of Italy hanging on the wall.

(End of this chapter)