As we move into August, Beijing will theoretically soon be reduced to a front-line position. But no one knows exactly when.

As a result, many of the core institutions of the Industrial Division, including the Academy of Engineering and the Academy of Sciences, have also moved to Tokyo.

In addition to the administrative affairs organization, Shen Kuo also divested the aircraft factory team, and in response to the instructions of the Great Demon King, began to build an air base and a Bianjing aircraft factory in Tokyo.

On August 11, Shen Kuo, as the person in charge of the work of the Department of Industry, brought seven assistants and many information reports to the cardinal mansion to report to the Great Demon King.

Theoretically, Shen Kuo's qualifications are still shallow, his official position is still low, and he is limited to the organizational level of the Industrial Department, so it is impossible to appoint him as an envoy for the time being. However, since ancient times, he has undertaken many of the work of the Industrial Division, and everyone is familiar with him, and after the Great Demon King transferred Shangguan away, he was the one who had the final say.

First of all, he took the first assistant's report and glanced at it, and Shen Kuo said: "Xiao Wang Xianggong, this is about the existing workers in the Department of Industry, since you left office at that time, with the help of the dividends of the civil affairs household registration policy obtained during your period, until now, there are 1.1 million more industrial workers than at that time. They have basically left the apprenticeship stage and are working as workers in various industries that have moved inward, and even a few gifted ones have provided a lot of advice and have begun to take apprentices. Our company expects that by this time next year, there will be another 1.5 million industrial workers that can be used by Da Song. It is just that such a large expansion needs to be coordinated with the food strategy of the agricultural population, and if the food problem is not solved and the subsidy policy is not uniform, it is impossible for the local government to allow the release of so many workers. ”

The Great Demon King nodded slightly and said, "You don't have to worry about the food problem, that's what I'm worried about." Due to the unstable situation in the southeast, grain output has been affected and cannot be exported, but the problem of barely self-sufficiency is not big. Chengdu Plain because of its climate, soil and folk customs and other conditions, is the vanguard of my per capita grain output in the Song Dynasty, in the early stage of some Chengdu mechanized planting promotion, and the new varieties of high-yield grain of the Agricultural Communications Bank in Gyeonggi Road and Chengdu Fu Road to promote the area, so now I only care about the Chengdu section of the railway, as long as there is this railway, then the grain strategy in this war can be carried out, even if the Daimyo Prefecture grain production area falls, there is no problem. ”

Shen Kuo nodded, this was the second question he wanted to report, took the document from the other assistant's hand, and reported: "Before Xiao Wang Xianggong left office, he took precautions to determine many internal relocation investment plans, and he never forgot that the Chengdu section of the railway is the top priority. So even if you leave office later, after the completion of the Dengzhou Railway, all the strength of the First Railway Engineering Bureau owned by our Industrial Division has been forced by me to sign a military order and deploy in Shudao for assault, their technology and engineering equipment are not the best, but the team you set up by yourself, so it is the best engineering team in this period, there is no one. ”

"Although there is no news about the opening of the Shudao Railway, it is working day and night. Several sections of the railway, including Hazhong Province to Gyeongzhao Province and Gyeongzhao Province to Gyeongwon Province, have been completed. Due to the lack of construction capacity of the First Engineering Bureau of our railway, the two ends of the railway are divided into three sections, Ye Wushuang and Cao Ji undertake the construction of the majority, in addition to the local state-owned enterprise Yinzhou Second Construction Bureau, that is, the state-owned enterprise under Lu Huiqing, also won a bid, and it was the first to be completed. ”

Hearing this, the Great Demon King squirted out a mouthful of tea, "Lu Huiqing is amazing, he also formed his own construction team?" ”

Shen Kuo said: "Yes, he has a team that is no smaller than the Railway Engineering Bureau, and he stalked me about public relations and won the bid, I am careful that they are not qualified enough and don't want to give it, but in order to introduce a third party to put pressure on Cao Ji and Ye Wushuang, I gave them a paragraph." Facts have proved that although they are building fast, there are also big problems in management, and the first quality defects to be found are in their sections. After two reworks, they were the first to finish, but the acceptance process was still not smooth, there were too many small slots, so that I couldn't report it in detail here, in short, he Lu Huiqing was really enough, once he was bitten by a snake, I would never dare to cooperate with him in the future. ”

The big demon king couldn't help but have a black line on his face, in some aspects, Lu Huiqing's problem is indeed not small, and there is a tendency to take the initiative to indulge. This characteristic, at that time, Dayan was preparing for the Volunteer Army, and he felt it when he visited Funing County in advance, and the whole Berlin complained about it at that time.

But at this level, it is not convenient for the Great Demon King to make judgments easily. That can only be said after careful investigation and research, but there are no resources for these things at this time.

And it seems that because they are two kinds of thinking, the contradiction between Shen Kuo and Lu Huiqing is not small.

In general, Wang Yan trusts Shen Kuo more, but Lu Huiqing is a very sensitive political figure, and now that he is used to pacify Liangguang and raise the southwest half of the country, it is impossible for the Great Demon King to easily set the tone for Shen Kuo's words.

So seeing that the newspaper in Shen Kuo's hand was very thick, I really didn't know how much black material there was about Lu Huiqing, Wang Yan sighed with a bad face, waved his hand and said: "Stop this problem, put the newspaper down, and read it myself slowly." ”

Shen Kuo was relatively straightforward, and said unconvinced: "Little Wang Xianggong, there are still many unfinished officials to finish, Lu Huiqing ...... him."

"I'll let you report something else." Wang Yan stood up sharply and glared at him.

"Well, okay." Shen Kuo knew that the Great Demon King was obscene and unreasonable at the very beginning, so he didn't dare to say more, and skipped this issue for other reports.

The rest of the data is obscene.

Because the Great Demon King spent money before stepping down from the Department of Industry, those investments have continued to ferment for more than a year, and now on the report of the Department of Industry, more than 80,000 steam engines are paying the machine tool use tax, and more than 250,000 machine tools of various types.

These high-end things were mainly concentrated in Beijing and Funing County in the early days, and Beijing and Funing County occupied more than eight floors in the country, but now it is reversed, and the mechanical share of Beijing and Funing County is not even fifty percent of the country. This is the proof that the Industrial Revolution has unfolded.

Even in Chengdu, which is the most difficult to transport, the Department of Industry has deployed a lot of steam engines and special equipment at any cost. Otherwise, relying on manpower, it will be difficult for the Chengdu railway to be built within five years.

"Since you stepped down from the Department of Industry, there have been 2,157 additional cement and coking plants in operation across the country. This is all the data, which is mixed with local state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, and central enterprises directly under the Department of Industry. ”

"Xia Guan knows that you advocate avoiding too bloated organizations, focusing on high-tech industries and abandoning low-end industries. But there is no way, there are many conservative areas that are still reluctant to act, and if the Department of Industry does not take the lead in investing, they will not follow up and continue to bask in the sun and farm. In addition, in view of the 'world war' that you spoke of at that time, there was a need for a sufficient number of state-owned industries to house disabled veterans and their families in the future, so as a political task, the Industrial Department has been carrying out operations on such investments and factories, but the expansion has not been disorderly. ”

Hearing this, Wang Yan nodded slightly, "The purpose of appointing you is to share my worries, I personally can't figure out all the national problems, it is impossible to take care of all the problems, of course you can take the initiative to a certain extent, this is the meaning of the chief governor." ”

By the way, a newspaper shows that while the Department of Industry is expanding in various places, it has also helped build many public toilets for everyone.

It's a well-known philanthropic effort that reduces open defecation, reduces the spread of air pollution diseases, and reduces the cost of collecting organic fertilizer. This strategy was first suggested by the Great Demon King, and it was a suggestion rather than an order. Anyway, it is not a hassle to use the remaining building materials to build a few public toilets, even if it is a local aid to improve the environment.

For this reason, Princess Zhao Yunxi's mouth smiled crookedly, and she once made Zhao Yunxi hurt her brain in order to collect feces, and the cost was very high.

Objectively speaking, in view of the rise of basic science in various colleges and universities, the Great Song Dynasty began to have chemical fertilizers, but although chemical fertilizers are convenient, they are not too cheap for the time being. In addition, there are more and more wealthy diseases in the Great Song Dynasty, similar to Zhao Yunxi's high-end greenhouse vegetables for the powerful, which is a gimmick, not chemical fertilizer but organic fertilizer.

These fields have a fixed market and fans in Da Song, mainly in the Bianjing market, and the profit margin is amazing. The prices in Bianjing are clearly divided, and there are two extremes, either the cheaper instant meat, that is, the meat that eats feed. For example, beef and mutton, the ones from Zhuo Luolan's territory sold for about seven times the price of feed meat, but they were still in short supply.

Since the Western Xia sent troops to Qingtang, the Great Song Dynasty "sanctioned the Western Xia", resulting in the almost severance of trade, and now that the price of that kind of meat is higher, but Cao Jiye Wushuang is not sensitive to the price, even if they eat it for ten pounds, not to mention that it is less than a pound consistently.

Khan, because it is the charity achievement of the Department of Industry, so about how many public toilets have been built in the place, Shen Kuo, this kid, also reported to the big demon king in detail.

The big demon king had a black line on his face, but he was very helpless that he did suggest them on this issue, and now he is embarrassed to scold him for it.

When Shen Kuo debriefed and left, he came out and looked dumbfounded, there seemed to be a lot of departments waiting in line outside to report, there were people from the Ministry of War, people from the Ministry of Industry, people from Sinong Temple, and Princess Zhao Yunxi from the Agricultural Institute of the Academy of Sciences was also waiting to see the Great Demon King.

"You wait slowly, this official will go." Shen Kuo flicked his sleeves and left with a sense of superiority.

"Hey, Shen Kuo is getting more and more arrogant, but he was the last to report first, indicating that the Great Demon King treats him preferentially."

"Isn't it, when the Great Demon King comes to power, of course, they are the industrial party, and the others are scattered."

In fact, they wronged the Great Demon King, and during this period, the Great Demon King also treated the agricultural strategy as equally as the industry, which is why they were asked to make a report, and they were taken separately to show their attention.

"Shen Kuo, the turtle son, complained a lot about Lu Huiqing in private to appease Liangguang, sooner or later something will happen, he has no Jinshi bloodline and does not seek to be motivated, if he is not hung up by Lu Huiqing in the future, I will lose."

"It's serious, after all, he is a member of the Industrial Party, and with the big demon king protecting him, Lu Huiqing can't jump high."

"You are wrong, it is precisely because of the internal struggle of a party and the masses that it is serious, according to religious theory, heresy is more likely to be stabbed than heretics, and this is not false."

"The Great Demon King has named you, and if you don't go in, you still blow?"

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