Chapter 4: Submarine Principles
For Zhou Wenhua, handling the welfare and benefits for those child laborers, and handling those injured workers, including the injured child laborers, was just a very simple and ordinary matter.
But for those child laborers and injured employees, that was something they wouldn’t even dream of.
So after Zhou Wenhua left the match factory, all the employees in the entire factory were boiling over with excitement.
“Are we dreaming? This Fourth Young Master actually not only gave money to our injured employees to see doctors, but also plans to improve everyone’s salary and benefits and welfare? I feel it’s not real at all! It feels like we’re in a dream!”
“I also feel like I’m daydreaming?”
“Hey! I feel even my daydreams wouldn’t dare to dream this!”
“The question is, does this Fourth Young Master have the authority to improve our welfare and benefits? This match factory belongs to his father, not him!”
“He should have it! I heard his father was sneak attacked and seriously injured, so now all the affairs of the factories and companies have been handed over to this Fourth Young Master to handle!”
All the employees up and down the entire factory were buzzing, discussing heatedly Zhou Wenhua’s authority issue and his father’s injury.
But regarding these matters, Zhou Wenhua was completely unaware.
After returning home,
Zhou Wenhua first checked the accounts of all the factories and companies under his father’s name, to see the monthly business operation amount and the annual business income.
“These accounts are all very normal, no loss-making operation?”
“There are even a few factories with good business, bringing in considerable income!”
“Then why does the system say my father’s factories and companies will go bankrupt in three months?”
“What exactly is the situation?”
“Could it be that those Japanese people plan to openly rob the Zhou Family’s wealth and business?”
After Zhou Wenhua finished checking all the accounts and found that all the income was very normal, even profitable,
he was full of puzzled confusion, murmuring to himself.
In the end, he still attributed the most suspicious point to the Japanese people stirring things up.
As for what the Japanese people planned to do to make his father’s all factories and companies face closure and bankruptcy, he was completely unaware for now.
However, since he already knew that the possible situation was related to the Japanese people,
Zhou Wenhua relaxed his whole body and prepared to respond accordingly as things came.
Then, he again planned the accounts for buying airplanes to give to Commander Liu Xiang, and buying some heavy machine guns and artillery cannons to give to other Sichuan Army troops, calculating how much it would cost.
However, when he was preparing to calculate how much money it would take to buy these munitions, he discovered a very important matter, that was, he fundamentally did not understand the current market prices for airplanes and heavy firepower weaponry and equipment, and also had no connections to help him find these arms dealers willing to sell munitions for transactions.
So he suddenly stopped his calculation work in embarrassment.
Couldn’t find sellers,
Didn’t know the market prices either,
How could he buy?
Let alone give them away.
But soon, his mood completely relaxed.
Because he was very clear that in this international metropolis Shanghai, full of dragons and snakes, arms sellers were not lacking at all,
Here there were foreign arms merchants, homeland merchants, and even arms dealers from the Japanese side,
It just needed time to find them,
And with his current identity and status, and the family’s connections, he felt that finding these arms merchants was not a difficult matter,
He just needed to have Butler Liu Xing inquire about these people for him tomorrow.
So after figuring these out, Zhou Wenhua no longer worried about purchasing airplanes and heavy firepower weaponry and equipment.
Thus, he took out the 1931 edition of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering again and continued to browse and learn.
After he read through it six times in a row, the system prompt sound in his mind rang again.
「Ding……Congratulations on reading the latest 1931 published Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering for the sixth time, comprehending the essence 20%, and permanently storing the knowledge in the book to the memory system! Level just beginner rookie!」
「The main course contents of this book also include Theoretical Mechanics, Material Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, Structural Mechanics, Ship Principles.」
「Please host continue to work hard on learning, to lay a good foundation for becoming intermediate level soon!」
After hearing that he had obtained the beginner rookie knowledge and technology reward,
Zhou Wenhua smiled happily,
Then, he took out another 1931 edition of Higher Education Institutions Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Professional Textbook · Modern Submarines,
This book, although it has the same name as the 2007 edition of Higher Education Institutions Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Professional Textbook · Modern Submarines from later generations, has different content.
Besides this book, there was also a 1931 edition of Submarine Principles.
This book was also a gift from Chen Ziting, the friend from the Navy Department that his current father Zhou Jiawei knew.
As for why this Chen Ziting would give several books related to submarines and oceans for no reason,
Zhou Wenhua also did not know,
But for him who had always loved fleets and airplanes in his previous life,
That was simply a very lucky thing,
What’s more, now he increasingly hoped to learn more knowledge and technology in manufacturing ships, warships, even submarines, and airplanes in these days of 1931 approaching the end of the year.
Then, he would find ways to find places, purchase equipment, and recruit and poach talent to conduct self-development.
Although this process might be full of difficulties,
But he had already made up his mind to achieve this wild goal.
This was the dream he couldn’t implement and realize in his previous life.
So Zhou Wenhua also very attentively began to read the two good books he had in hand, studying them carefully.
「Ding……Congratulations on reading the latest 1931 published Higher Education Institutions Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Professional Textbook · Modern Submarines for the fourth time, comprehending the essence 10%, and permanently storing the knowledge in the book to the memory system! Level just rookie rookie!」
「The main course contents of this book systematically introduce submarine navigation performance, submarine structural performance, submarine armament, submarine power plant, submarine diving gear, rudder gear and sonar equipment, development of submarine key technologies」
「Please host continue to work hard on learning, to lay a good foundation for becoming beginner level soon!」
「Ding……Congratulations on reading the latest 1931 published Submarine Principles for the fifth time, comprehending the essence 10%, and permanently storing the knowledge in the book to the memory system! Level just rookie rookie!」
「The main course contents of this book mainly cover ship statics, ship drawing, ship resistance, ship propulsion, ocean engineering statics, ocean engineering statics drawing, ship propeller drawing, submarine statics, ship propulsion studies」
「Please host continue to work hard on learning, to lay a good foundation for becoming beginner level soon!」
