Chapter 362: The German Envoy (10)

Of course, the detailed terms and conditions of the club cooperation project, such as the scale, production capacity, technical level of the factory, the machinery and equipment that need to be purchased, the cost, the construction period, etc., are not the content of the negotiation between Qin Zheng and Heinrich, but by the subordinate officials, as well as the professionals of both sides to negotiate in detail, and the signing is no longer an agreement, but a formal contract, and each club cooperation project will be negotiated separately and a commercial contract will be signed. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 ο½‰ο½Žο½†ο½

However, some projects such as Qingdao Arsenal, Qingdao Shipyard, and Sifang Locomotive Factory have been completed or partially completed and put into production, and what the traverser needs is to expand the functions and production capacity of these projects to meet the needs of the traverser. Machine building and processing plants, on the other hand, start from scratch and start with a project proposal and a feasibility study.

Both parties need to send a large number of professionals to negotiate and determine the expansion, renovation and new construction plans of the project. Germany has a group of engineers and technicians in Qingdao, but there is a lack of corresponding business negotiators, after all, Germany is only responsible for construction in Qingdao, and there is no need to negotiate with anyone. Therefore, Heinrich asked Qin Zheng to let the German consul in Tianjin, Qin Moman, come to Qingdao to preside over these negotiations.

Although the traversers organized an advance team to come to Qingdao, the number of the advance team was not large, and some of them stayed in Qingdao to take charge of administrative affairs, and some of them were assigned to villages along the coast of Jiaozhou Bay to manage local grassroots affairs, and there were not many professional and technical personnel, and they were all assigned to Qingdao Arsenal, Qingdao Shipyard, Sifang Locomotive Factory and other factories to temporarily manage the construction of factories, equipment installation, and start production, and there were no special negotiators.

So Qin Zheng immediately contacted Tianjin, asking the Tianjin government to organize relevant negotiators as soon as possible, and bring Qin Moman to Qingdao to negotiate with Germany on the club project. In this way, Germany can also organize relevant technicians, machinery and equipment to Qingdao as soon as possible, after all, it takes at least two months to travel from Germany to Qingdao.

In fact, after the results of the negotiations reached Tianjin, the Executive Committee and the Administration Department were very happy, because with the technical support of Germany, the development speed of the crossing group will be rapidly increased, which is naturally quite important for the crossing group that urgently needs to establish its own industrial system.

Although it has been more than half a year since this era, and the traverser has basically established its own power institutions and administrative system, and also formed an army of initial size, but in terms of economic construction in the ruling area, there has not been much achievement, because it is the construction of the industrial system, there is almost no achievement, although a series of factories have been established in Tianjin, but in addition to the Kaiping coal mine, the scale of other factories is not large, and the machine production used is not much, the production is still mainly manual, and the Kaiping coal mine uses a large number of machinery and equipment, but these machines and equipment are purchased in the Qing Dynasty, and the traverser has nothing to do with it。

After the traverser occupied Qingdao, it was only after the confiscation of a number of large factories, such as Qingdao Arsenal, Qingdao Shipyard, and Sifang Locomotive Factory, that they had a little industrial foundation, but these factories were all invested and established by Germany, and they were not the credit of the traversers. The only industries that are really established by the traverser organization are Tianjin Shiyu Textile Factory and Tianjin Shipyard under construction, which are indeed a bit lackluster.

The reason for the small achievements in industrial construction, on the one hand, is that since the traverser came to this era, it has basically not stopped, from the landing of Dagukou, the capture of Tianjin, to the defense of Tianjin, and then to the capture of Weihai and Qingdao, it can be said that it was not until the traverser occupied Qingdao that it was basically stabilized, and the establishment of industry naturally needs a stable situation.

On the other hand, it is also because it is not an easy thing to develop industry in this era, according to the generations of the industrial revolution, we are now in the initial period of the second industrial revolution, and the first industrial revolution has passed about 150 years, and has established a relatively complete, Mature social division of labor and mechanized production system, so if you want to start from scratch in this era, it will take a long time to complete the construction of a modern industrial system, not to tinker with a few steam engines, to build a few local steelmaking plants is industrialization, the most typical example is China's neighbor Japan, in the Meiji Restoration for nearly 30 years, it can be regarded as a primary modern industrial country.

And industrialization itself is a gold-swallowing monster, which requires a lot of investment, Japan is relying on the blood and sweat of a whole generation, with agricultural products, textiles made by cheap female workers, and even the bodies of young women to accumulate a huge amount of money needed to build industrialization little by little, and in this, the Qing court is also indispensable, [Shimonoseki Treaty], paid 230 million silver to the capital, and also took the island of Taiwan, providing Japan with a lot of funds and cheap resources to complete the industrialization construction.

Although the traverser has advanced science and technology, but these technologies belong to the third industrial revolution technology, in this era, almost no use, or only a very small part, in addition to the traverser also lacked the funds to establish industrialization, although the traverser seized more than 6 million taels of silver and more than 1 million taels of silver worth of national currencies in Tianjin, but this amount of money can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket for the establishment of industrialization. Therefore, if it is developed by the traverser himself, it will take at least 10-15 years or so to initially complete industrialization, and it is estimated that it will take at least 30 years to catch up with the developed countries of this era.

Although Germany will not provide the best technology and equipment to the traverser, Germany is the first industrial power of this era, so it will not be bad there; The cost of equipment can be deducted from the cost of the redemption of prisoners and the cost of selling military technology, which also solves the problem of insufficient funds of the crossing group in the current period of industrialization, and there is no need to engage in industrial and agricultural scissors in exchange for the funds needed to establish industrialization.

This can not only greatly shorten the modern industrialization construction time of the traverser, and on this basis, the traverser can also use their own advanced technology, as well as the understanding of historical development, rapid development, industrial upgrading, although in the foreseeable time, it is not possible to reach the scientific and technological level of the old time and space, but to achieve corner overtaking, in the shortest possible time to catch up with the advanced countries of this era, is completely possible.

Then the top priority now is to organize negotiators to go to Qingdao as soon as possible, continue negotiations with Germany, implement the terms reached in the [Qingdao Cooperation Agreement] as soon as possible, and put the terms in the agreement into action and implement them as soon as possible, after all, these projects will be implemented one day earlier, and the industrial system of the group will be completed sooner.

However, each project must be negotiated separately and a contract must be signed, so each project must form an independent negotiation team, fortunately, the group has already begun to prepare for the takeover of several large factories in Qingdao, and has determined the project legal person, leadership team and related technical personnel of Qingdao Arsenal, Qingdao Shipyard, Sifang Locomotive Factory, and Jiaoji Railway.

Moreover, the Administration Department has made a plan to invest at least 500 traversers in these four projects, on the one hand, to fully control these four projects, and on the other hand, to accumulate experience and train personnel through these four projects. At the same time, it also digested a group of people who are still unwilling to do practical things, and according to the plan of the Ministry of Administration, take the opportunity of Qingdao's construction to eliminate all the soy sauce people.

Only the power plant and the steel mill are new projects, so they have not yet had time to form a project legal person, but they can first talk to Germany about the first four self-built projects, and the last two new projects can be discussed slowly.

At this time, all the wrecks in Dagukou have been salvaged out of the water, and after simple repairs, they are moored in Dagukou, and these warships are of course to be towed to the Qingdao shipyard for repair, although the Qingdao shipyard has a certain ability to repair ships, and there are also some German workers, but there is a lack of materials and spare parts needed to repair ships, and these things need to be ordered from Germany at present. Moreover, the salvage team from the United States will also be transferred to Qingdao to continue salvaging the warships sunk in Qingdao Bay.

In addition, at the year-end meeting, the group decided to move the administrative center to Qingdao, and although many things have happened since the New Year, this plan is still progressing step by step. Although the Traveler has not built a new administrative building in Qingdao at present, the Traveler's sphere of influence in Shandong has expanded considerably, and the current administrative structure is somewhat inappropriate, and the formal administrative system needs to be re-established. It is advisable to establish a preliminary administrative framework to prepare for the next step of the group's move to Qingdao.

In this way, the number of people who want to go to Jingdao is not small, so after serious discussions, the administrative department decided to arrange for about 1,000 people to go to Qingdao this time, and to transfer a ro-ro passenger ship to Qingdao together with the Taihu ship. On the one hand, the purpose of these two ships going to Qingdao is to give the traversers going to Qingdao a place to live temporarily, after all, there are not many houses in Qingdao now, and they cannot accommodate so many traversers; on the other hand, they also provide a berthing power supply for the Kunming and Sanya warships stationed in Qingdao.

In the old time and space, when the warship was moored in the port, the port generally provided electricity, and the main engine of the warship was shut down to reduce the consumption of the main engine and prolong the service life, but in this era, there was no such condition, in order to ensure the life of the main engine of the five combat warships, when berthing in the port, the three passenger ro-ro ships, as well as the Changbaishan ship and the Taihu ship provided power for the five combat warships.

The warships that were salvaged out of the water, together with the two working boats of the salvage team, and Qin Moman, the German consul in Tianjin, also went to Qingdao this time.