The winter in Shanghai was humid and cold, and when the second master and Bellman arrived in Shanghai, it was already December 3, 1914.

At this time, Shanghai's Datang Garment Factory has developed to a jaw-dropping point according to the planning plan arranged by the second master in advance.

The factory area has expanded more than fivefold. What's even more exaggerated is that the land within 4 miles along the Huangpu River with the old factory area as the center was bought by Datang Company.

Not only the Shanghai industrial and commercial circles were collectively silent. Even the capitalists of the West panning for gold in China are puzzled - can factories still be built like this? Are they not afraid of going out of business at a loss?

The only exception is Ford's managers. Because Ford is the first company in the Western world to adopt assembly line operations, and it is also the only enterprise with high wages and high benefits among Western enterprises. They all know the benefits of Datang Factory doing this.

It is difficult for the local business community in Shanghai to understand the behavior of giving employees four-season work clothes and building dormitories for employees. Doesn't this invisibly increase operating costs? How can they possibly make money?

How can they know that their handicraft mode of production, which relies on monitoring and exploiting workers, cannot increase the profit growth point of industrialized enterprises in large-scale industrial production.

Innovation, improving production efficiency and reducing the production scrap rate are the profit growth points to improve the large-scale industrial intensive production model.

In the era when social materials are not abundant, as long as there are products, there is no worry about not being able to sell!

In this context, time is money and time is profit. In the shortest possible time, the maximum number of qualified products is produced. That's the key to industrial-scale production! That's where you get an edge over your competitors!

The model of high wages and high benefits of the second master seems to increase the cost of the enterprise on the surface.

However, this model, at the current stage of China's lack of qualified industrial workers, has reduced labor costs.

I can recruit qualified workers, you can't. The qualified employees you have worked so hard to train have all gone to my factory. I can produce qualified products, but you are still worried about labor.

You're still competing with me! ~~~

Therefore, Datang's people-oriented business philosophy has given the company's employees a full sense of belonging. It has burst out with unprecedented enthusiasm for the work of the owner.

Every employee consciously self-examines and corrects his mistakes in the work, and strives to improve his production skills.

Look at the learning of an inconspicuous operation technique, and a reasonable cutting of indifferent leftovers.

These are "inconspicuous", and it saves operating time and saves raw materials. In the production scale of tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of pieces, it will be infinitely magnified!

This kind of conscious behavior has virtually improved the qualification rate of Datang products, saved time, and reduced the loss of raw materials in the factory.

Isn't that about reducing costs?

This kind of workers' conscious enthusiasm for work. However, in modern times, the second master listened to the grandeur of the agricultural Dazhai and the industrial celebration that the elders said.

Whenever I think of the spectacular scenes of that era, I always make the second master's blood boil! I wish I was born in that era.

He came to this era, always wanting to replicate their model as his predecessors did. Inspire the "enthusiasm" of this ancient people. So I took Datang clothing as an experiment, but I didn't expect ~~~ The effect was unexpectedly good!

O Chinese people! It's been a long time since the sun was gone! - Give a little sunshine and they will burst into brilliant sparks!

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In the French Concession of Shanghai, a new place name appeared - Datang New Village.

Yes, you guessed it right! This is the workers' dormitory area of the Datang Garment Factory.

Although the second master plagiarized the matchbox-style unit building in the 80s, the layout of the entire community was plagiarized from the later generations, and the design of fully enclosed greening to the extreme. The community is full of green trees and flowers.

The community is fully equipped, with vegetable markets, small shops, and staff nurseries. If you want anything, you can buy all kinds of necessities of life without leaving the community.

The factory protection team patrols and protects 24 hours a day, and there are 8 members of the factory protection team standing guard with guns at the gate of the community alone.

What if an employee's relatives are in a hurry? I'm sorry, I can't go in, there is a phone in every unit building in the community, and there are several "neighborhood committee aunts" in each building guarding the phone, and who to call to confirm before you can go in.

(Hehe, it's still the form of the neighborhood committee plagiarized by the second master.) In modern times, the second master thinks that the aunt of the neighborhood committee is more effective than the police)

"Dude! What does it feel like to see your designs come to fruition? ”

Chen Shouting rolled a cigarette in his hand, standing on the roof of the new 12-storey office building with the second master, Yao looked at this large factory area and the living area not far away and asked.

"Brother Shouting! You know what I'm up to. The construction of Xinjiang is my focus! Look at it! Brother Shouting, this is just the beginning of our career! ”

Zhang Erye looked at the Tang New Village in the distance, and his eyes were intoxicated with the vitality of that area.

"Dude! It's not a good road! You haven't done anything yet, the Beiyang Army will fight with us! ”

Chen Shouting poured cold water with a smile while adding clay cigarette paper.

When the second master heard this, he immediately recovered from his reverie. Hurriedly asked:

"Brother Muzhi, how are they doing? Is it enough to provide for it? ”

"Don't worry! The second batch of guns and ammunition that you ordered with Mr. Pitt in Shanghai had already been handed over to Makiyuki by water. Supplies have also been regularly delivered by your caravan from the path, and he doesn't lack anything there now. I heard that it played well! Lu Jianzhang has now become a big joke in the Beiyang system. ”

"Oh! ~ The Beijing government does not plan to send a large army to encircle and suppress it? ”

"Hey! How can they take care of it! I heard that the Japanese had declared war on Germany and landed from Longkou to occupy most of the Jiaozhou Peninsula.

The government is dealing with all parties! Where did you pay attention to Lu Jianzhang, the clown who killed the good and risked the work?

In fact, everyone understands what is going on with your homeless detention point, so everyone is watching the joke that Lu Jianzhang killed Liang and was broken! ”

(It turned out that after Japan issued an ultimatum to Germany, Germany did not reply at the end of the period, so Japan declared war on Germany on August 23, but did not send troops to Europe, but with more than 20,000 naval and army troops ashore from Longkou in Shandong, China, and crossed the Laizhou Peninsula as a war area, all Chinese towns along the way were occupied and treated as enemy countries.) The landing of Japanese troops in Shandong was carried out without prior notice to the Chinese government. After learning of this news, the initial countermeasure of the Beiyang government was to use the method used during the Russo-Japanese War to demarcate a corridor for the Japanese army to cross and a theater of war for the participating countries, in addition to a neutral zone, in order to prevent the war from spreading to China. ）

Hearing Chen Shouting's words, Second Master Zhang breathed a sigh of relief.

As for the Japanese landing incident this time, the second master has also seen it from the historical materials of later generations. Although the Japanese stole all the unequal rights and interests of the Germans in Shandong, China, they only got some advantages, which was not the same as the occupation of Northeast China in the future.

In the Northeast, it was a de-sinicized colonial occupation. As for the fact that China's sovereignty has been violated, does China still have sovereignty? Even the Beiyang government, which represents China, the legitimate representative, acquiesced, and he Zhang Erye was even more helpless! Weak countries will be bullied! This is the eternal law of the jungle.

I will make up for all these second masters, so let you little Japan be arrogant for a while~~~

"That's good! I have to hurry back to Beijing, I can't fight any more. Beware of the Beiyang side, annoyed and angry, the dog jumps over the wall! There is no room for maneuver when a large army is sent to encircle and suppress. ”

"That's right~ Brother Shouting! I've made my custom military uniform and winter padded jacket, right? ”

"All of them have been made, 200,000 sets of winter military uniforms and 300,000 sets of cotton jackets and pants for the poor have been completed. It's the chromium-molybdenum steel helmet you are talking about, which has not yet been made. The stamping machine bought by Germany has been debugged and put in place, that is, the chromium-molybdenum steel you said about making steel helmets was not bought! ”

The second master patted his head and suddenly remembered ~~~ There is no such chromium-molybdenum steel now, at that time he just copied the design drawings and production process of the German M35 steel helmet to Chen Shouting. There is no consideration at all that the materials used are available now.

Chromium-molybdenum steel is the secret steel used by Germany to make steel helmets during World War II, and it was not until the end of World War II that the Allies deciphered the reason why the German steel helmets were several times stronger than the steel helmets used by the Allied countries from the captured German materials.

It turns out that the M35 steel helmet made in Germany is made of chromium-molybdenum steel with the best impact absorption performance.

"The production of steel helmets is not in a hurry, first send the winter cotton jackets and cotton pants to the resettlement sites of the displaced people, the north is already frozen in December!"

The second master knows that there are no cotton clothes in the winter in the north, and it will freeze to death!

Don't be afraid of steel, the second master has a formula! In later generations, chromium-molybdenum steel is not a secret material, and its various formulas have long been rotten on the Internet. Some recipes are even several times stronger than the Germans.

Now the trouble is that in order to protect the formula from leakage, the second master has to build a small steelmaking plant by himself. As long as you have money, it's not a difficult thing to do.

"Winter clothes have been sent a long time ago, and it is for this batch of winter clothes that our newly established weaving factory has no cotton available."

"Cotton? Cotton is ~~~ Tomorrow you send someone to pick up the goods from the warehouse on our dock. I came back this time and brought some American cotton, enough for the mills to use until next year's new cotton. ”

The amount of cotton used by a textile mill for a year is a drop in the bucket for the huge inventory in the second master's space. On this second master's trip to the United States, cotton was one of the key points of his search.

"In addition, the finished military uniforms will also be sent to the warehouse by the way, and someone will come to pick them up."

The second master plans to take down the number of the army when he returns to Beijing this time, even if it is a security militia. In this way, you can recruit troops justifiably. As for how much to recruit, it depends on yourself, and you don't expect the Beiyang government to allocate funds anyway.

The second master didn't stay in Shanghai for a few days, and then went to Wuhan Hanyang Arsenal non-stop. He knew that the Hanyang Arsenal could produce German-made 7.92mm bullets. Because all the production equipment of the Hanyang Arsenal is made from Germany.