Chapter 163 Steel Kingdom (2)
"How could this happen? What has your education department been doing over the past year, and what are you, the human resources department responsible for recruiting technicians, doing." Wang Zhenyu was very difficult to get the third floor of the administrative building to do it once, but the whole building heard his roar. All the staff in the department were silent, basically not daring to speak, for fear of being bad.
No wonder Wang Zhenyu is so angry. Recently, he feels that he is very smooth. Whether it is political or military, both the Kuomintang and the SS have determined the direction of development, and the financial problems are about to be alleviated. But at this time, there are problems with the economic aspects that Wang Zhenyu places high hopes on.
Specifically, there was a problem with industrial construction. Wang Zhenyu now finally understood what things meant not to be diverted by human will.
A large number of industrial projects planned in the second half of the first half of the Republic of China were not ideal after a year. Wang Zhenyu wanted to shoot all the relevant persons in charge. Now these unlucky guys are in the conference room on the third floor of the administrative building, praying that the gods and Buddhas in the sky must bless themselves to survive the disaster.
Looking at the report materials in front of you, it was really bad.
In addition to the progress of two million-ton cement plants, which have successfully completed the construction target six months ahead of schedule, the Anjiang Spinning Mill of the Rong brothers has also completed the overall construction. With the help of Xiangxi Development Company, the raw material problem has also been effectively solved. It is expected that by 1914, the cement plants and spinning mills can provide Wang Zhenyu with an annual return of up to 20 million silver dollars and 200 million Chinese yuan. Wang Zhenyu himself knew in his heart that once the European war broke out, this number may automatically double without expanding production. If he takes back the customs himself in the future, the number will reach 50 million oceans. However, if he really reaches that point, it is probably not up to this amount of income.
The good news ended here. The next one was the steel plant project that Wang Zhenyu had high hopes for. It was really heartbreaking. The original plan was to produce one million tons annually, so that China's steel production suddenly exceeded that of Japan. However, when I went to the field, I realized how easy it was to scold the Qing government for being corruption and incompetent in later generations. Industrial development is a problem of supporting system construction. Building an industry is like playing football. It must abide by the basic laws of the development of things themselves. Many problems cannot be solved by funds. Otherwise, with the fourth-most GDP of the Qing Dynasty, the world's largest, could not become a world industrial power through the Westernization Movement.
The most important thing in industry is to rely on people, engineers and industrial workers with qualified technology and experience. These people need time to educate and train them. They are not automatically generated by taking a lot of money and having a strong reward.
But the officials of the Qing Dynasty were the same as those of the later Football Association. I'm sorry, I said it was reversed.
Anyway, they just don’t do things in a vague way. What kind of youth training and education are there, they will not spend time doing such things that are not successful. They will focus on pursuing finished products and pursuing results. Well, they built the house and then got promoted and made a fortune, but the house cannot be lived in. Why? The foundation was not dug.
Wang Zhenyu's Anjiang Steel Plant project has other projects that have a little technical discussion, such as automobile manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and chemical engineering, and all stagnated. The steel project is fine. A large number of technical backbones were dug from the Hanyang Iron Factory, but I'm sorry, the annual production there was only 40,000 tons, so the Luxembourg people struggled together, and 200,000 tons was 200,000 tons. Wang Zhenyu set up such a large piece of land and spent so much money, but the production capacity did not even reach one-fifth of the original plan. It would be nonsense to say that he did not want to kill people, but thinking about the 200,000 tons in front of him was pretty good. There was a lack of technicians, and the supply of coal and iron could not keep up. This year's Second Revolution, Jiangxi was ruined. No, if the coal in Pingxiang cannot be transported out, it will be useless to transport more pig iron from Hanyang. Besides, the problem of this technician is actually a historical problem. Although he has run a special vocational and technical school in Anjiang, it cannot play an effective role because of the lack of teachers. The current factory technicians are still taking the old path of the old master leading new apprentices. Moreover, it is not just a technical school. Why does his nine-year compulsory education repeatedly shrink and become the last four-year compulsory education one of the main factors is the lack of teachers. Wang Zhenyu looked at the management personnel standing in front of him and knew that he had blamed them a little wrongly, after all, they also tried their best.
"I was a little angry just now. I apologized to you. I know you have done your best." Wang Zhenyu's apology made everyone look at him in shock.
"What are you looking at? I said you like to be scolded." Wang Zhenyu became anxious again.
"Master, there is a Luxembourg man outside the door. He claims to be the consul of the Principal of Luxembourg in our Hankou, named Paul Phillips. He said he had something urgent to ask to see you. It seemed that he was running very urgently." Wang Chenhao knocked on the door and came in to report.
"Phillips, I have some impression that a few people came to them." Wang Zhenyu asked.
Wang Chenhao immediately replied: "Only one, and he also brought an interpreter."
Wang Zhenyu looked at the people from the industrial and educational departments and waved, "I want to see a foreigner here. I'll talk to you later. If this problem of industrial development is not solved, the general will go to drink the northwest wind next year. You can think about it yourself,"
"Dear General, our country needs your help." Phillips was indeed a consul who was on duty. That was quite unprofessional. The first sentence was to unconsciously betray his motherland,.
"So your dear uncle agrees to move your country's citizens and various industries into my territory." Wang Zhenyu is in a very complicated mood now. After listening to the words of Phillips, a guy who has not been seen for more than half a year, he was doubting the authenticity of this matter, and thinking about how to place it and where to place it.
Phillips's next words dispelled his doubts: "With me, the ambassador to Luxembourg, the Minister of Finance, Foreign Affairs, Defense, Health and Education of the Principality, and His Highness Charlotte, she is the sister of our granddaughter. According to my dear Uncle Paul, he hopes that you can demarcate a piece of land, preferably a large enough city for our subjects who have moved to China. He is willing to provide a 5 million pound interest-free loan as a guarantee. If this matter is ruined, the five million belongs to you and does not need to be repaid. If it is done, my uncle hopes that you will use this money to build infrastructure first. As for the relocation plan and cooperation, it is not me to talk about it. His Highness and the ministers of the Principality will talk to you in detail."
In fact, Phillips was also very surprised along the way. He never thought that the power of the Chinese warlord Wang Zhenyu would expand so quickly. Even after more than a month of climbing, they learned in Vietnam that there was no need to go to Shanghai to walk the Yangtze River, but could directly flow from Guangzhou to the beautiful Youjiang River to Lai Gu. The reason was that the damn warlord king in Phillips had just launched a Guangxi War and won the war in mid-October and won this province near the sea. Because the victory time was too short, Phillips When we arrived in Guangxi, we found that this road was a bit difficult to walk. According to the words of Mr. Huang Xuchu, the secretary-general of the provincial government in charge of reception, if we really relied on the carriage to the passage to get on the train, it would take at least four or five days. This was the result of the crazy repair of the old post roads by the engineers. Phillips could only choose to ride his horse first and stand for the noble princess and ministers of the priest. God knows whether the already growing Chinese warlord leader still needs the friendship of the Principal of Luxembourg in a year.
Wang Zhenyu obviously still needs it. Not to mention the issue of 5 million pounds as a deposit, if 300,000 Luxembourgs can finally move half of it, it will be of great help to Wang Zhenyu, who has suffered from talent and labor.
You should know that Luxembourg has a large number of technical workers in the steel industry and a large number of talented people in various industries. More importantly, many of the lack of talents in basic people's livelihood industries will be solved. As for whether this will allow Luxembourg people to control their economic lifeline, it doesn't matter. Wang Zhenyu's abacus is very loud. The European war will take at least four years. He will use the method of hiring to attract Luxembourg people to work in various industries in China, and then arranges Chinese apprentices to follow them. Then when the war is over, a large number of Chinese technicians may be trained, and the number may be three to four times that of Luxembourg people. Even his own government can hire Luxembourg employees to improve various systems, especially the law. This damn Qin Zhen has not been able to establish and implement the judicial system until now. According to Zhou Lan's report, the judicial personnel sent in the early stage were basically corroded by local tyrants with sugar-coated shells.
Then the thing that attracted Wang Zhenyu the most was the relocation of the entire Luxembourg steel industry and military industry led by Albed Company. The current Anjiang military factory is responsible for it. The output is almost the number in China. Unfortunately, the products are limited to replication, and innovation is not a question. In this way, in the future national unification battle, the SS, which he just founded, is probably only quantitative and qualitative in terms of weapons and equipment.
The more you think about it, the more you get, the more you get. Wang Zhenyu couldn't suppress his inner excitement, but a more realistic question was placed before him. Where should he place the Luxembourg people who traveled thousands of miles and did not go to the stronger United States and Japan, but chose the turbulent and uneasy Chinese settled in China.
When Phillips spoke about the Luxembourgians, Wang Zhenyu knew that he wanted to reduce immigration costs and at the same time obtain sufficient coal and iron resources to continue to make money. After all, the 300,000 subjects in the kingdom depended on the steel industry.
Wang Zhenyu stood up and walked to the wall with Phillips's surprised eyes. The alert deputy chief Wang Chenhao immediately pulled open the curtain covering the wall, and then handed the wooden pole to Wang Zhenyu in the reverse direction.
Chapter completed!