List of goods purchased and spent by the first trading fleet in Guangzhou:

10 taels of local navigators and liaison with the government

100 taels of water and 20 taels of bribes to tax officials

5,000 taels of cash were handed over to the Guangzhou advance station

Handed over 3,000 taels of cash to the Qiwei Dart Bureau as an investment (withdrawn from the receivables at the high place)

A self-guided tour of Guangzhou for all staff costs 100 taels for a few days

Buy Lori, Zhengtai and their parents for a total of 500 taels (including handling fees)

Total: one hundred and seventy-six. (Note: 98 people have been repatriated)

20 catties of various vegetables and spice seeds, a total of 10 taels

Buy a roll of Brazilian tobacco from a foreign company, weighing 100 pounds and 30 Spanish dollars

The freight of each shipment totaled 3 taels

"That's my financial report." Xiao Zishan finished the report in the conference room in front of a group of people with serious expressions, and he also added a sentence: "I promise that I am not greedy for money!" ”

"Whether there is a financial problem or not, you will know after the audit of the financial department, so you don't have to guarantee it." Ma Qianzhu has no trust in swearing to guarantee such a free heart. If there is no corruption now, it is because there is no need to be corrupt right now.

"Now I would like to talk about the current progress of the various departments, their requirements and the problems they are facing." Ma Qianzhuo took out his notebook.

As of today: November 10, 1628, the progress of the work of the traverser since D+71 is:

Communication: The wireless communication network centered on Bairencheng has been basically completed, with a coverage range of 35km~40km. A long-range radio station was set up in Guangzhou, and a 15W radio station was set up in Yanchang Village.

The next step: complete the erection of wired telephones in Bopu Port - Bairencheng, Damei Village - Bairencheng, Yanchang Village - Bairencheng, and set up a general telephone office in Bairencheng.

Problem: Lack of adequate wires and insulation.

The industry and communications sectors have jointly agreed that it is possible to produce their own telephone lines, provided that they have access to raw materials: iron or copper wires. As for the insulating equipment, glassware can be used instead.

Energy: The total installed capacity of power generation is 630KW, including 200KW hydropower generation and 420KW thermal power generation (Bopu and Bairencheng each have 1 213KW pot camel machine for power generation). Other energy sources 10KW. Completed the transmission and distribution network of Bopu-Bairencheng. A wind power generation system has been installed in the village of Yanchang.

The next step: the second phase of Bairentan Hydropower Station, add 1 200KW unit.

Problems: Lack of building materials and labor.

Building: 1 16-hole wheel kiln, 1 lime kiln, 2 combined brick and tile machines, 1 soil electric grinder. The maximum annual production capacity of bricks and tiles is 30 million pieces. In addition, it can produce 1 ton of volcanic ash cement per day. 1 vertical cement kiln, the progress of the project is 85%, and the daily output of Portland cement is 55 tons after completion.

Problem: Lack of coal and iron ore necessary to make cement. Cement and steel are scarce and cannot be constructed using concrete.

Transportation: The construction of Bopu - Bairencheng - Lingao County simple highway has been completed.

The next step: build the Bairentan Bridge, open the Yanchang Village-Bairencheng simple road, and renovate the Bopu Port-Bairentan section of the Wenlan River to make it suitable for navigation.

At present, there are 12 four-wheel drive agricultural vehicles, 2 Beijing 212 jeeps, 4 750 motorcycles with buckets, 10 125 motorcycles, and 200 bicycles. The industrial sector also refurbished 17 trolleys captured during the fighting and built 10 two-wheeled carriages on its own. In addition, two small boats were unloaded from the Fengcheng ship to serve as water transport on the Wenlan River, but the depth of the runoff of this river is limited (only 1 meter in dry seasons), and the crossers lack suitable shallow draft boats, so the water transport is actually very small.

The wear and tear of large-scale construction machinery is more serious, especially the consumption of hydraulic parts, and these accessories are limited to the industrial level and cannot be repaired. According to the current project strength estimate, all kinds of vulnerable parts will be consumed within 18 months. Cars and motorcycles are in good condition. It's just that the outlook for fuel supply is worrisome. There are still many reserves of diesel, and gasoline is not much because it is volatile and deteriorating, and it is about to be consumed, so it is necessary to develop alternative energy sources as soon as possible. Lubricants are stockpiled in large quantities and the development of products to be used has been carried out by the agricultural sector, targeting castor beans. The manufacture of the carriage ran aground due to the lack of metal materials, and the steering machine, the leaf springs of the shock absorber could not be manufactured.

Manufacturing and processing industry: completed the infrastructure construction and equipment installation of the machinery factory, which is made by adding some machinery and equipment on the basis of the endless machinery factory. However, so far, the start of work is seriously insufficient, and it is in a state of waiting for the rice to be cooked.

The processing and manufacturing of woodware, bamboo and rattan ware is relatively prosperous. In particular, helmet manufacturing has formed a batch capability. Bopu's wood processing and wood manufacturing have formed a stable scale, with one drying kiln and one dry distillation kiln. It can not only open boards, furniture, and wood components of various sizes, but also make wood tar, tannin gum, and charcoal. Although there is a lack of jute, it has succeeded in making a fairly strong rope from local flax and hemp.

Chemical industry: controlled the main salt works of Lingao: Ma Yuan Salt Works. Using the traditional manufacturing method, it can produce 1 ton of salt per day. The immediate goal is to improve and expand the scale, and strive to produce an average of 5 tons of unpurified coarse salt and 1 ton of table salt per day.

An 800-ton synthetic ammonia combined alkali production system and a coal coking chemical system are being installed, these complete sets of equipment are heavy, many components, and have many pipelines, the installation is very complicated, and the progress is slow. Fortunately, for a while, the traversal did not have the ability to supply coal on a large scale. The chemical department Jihua applied to expand the capacity of the generators in Bopu to build another earth-based electrolytic salt plant in Bopu to produce table salt, caustic soda and bleaching powder.

Since the synthetic ammonia industry has not been put into production, the chemical team can only put the fire yao and zha medicine on the use of existing materials, and successfully used the ammonium nitrate in the inventory to make ammonia zha medicine, and is currently focusing on the granulation of the fire yao seized from the Gou family. In addition, the finished nitric acid brought by the product was used to try to produce nitrocellulose and thundermercury. Because of the greater danger, I applied to find a safer location as a ZHA pharmaceutical factory.

Mining and metallurgical department: mastered 1 construction quarry. The mineral resources that can be fully supplied are: clay, limestone, quartz sand, lignite.

Four small converters and supporting steel processing equipment such as forging mills, rolling mills and cold drawing machines are installed in place, and if pig iron can be fully supplied, 10-15 tons of crude steel can be produced per day. However, only one one-ton converter has been built intermittently, and the raw materials are iron cannons, weapons and iron captured in previous battles, as well as partially damaged steel tools. The fuel used is charcoal, which consumes a lot and can only make much-needed hardware and tools. The construction of blast furnace requires a large amount of iron ore, coke and lime, and once ignited, it is not suitable to stop the furnace, and the construction will not be carried out temporarily when the supply of raw materials cannot be guaranteed.

Civil sector: 1 local papermaking workshop has been put into operation, and daily coarse paper has been made from rotten cloth, waste cotton and straw. Jihua recruited some papermakers on the mainland to improve the paper. In addition, after the acid and alkali products are put into mass production, the construction of a modern paper mill will be started, which can not only fully supply the office and household paper needs of Guozhong itself, but also export to the mainland and overseas on a large scale.

The textile mills, garment factories, food factories, and ceramic factories that have been put into operation or are about to be put into operation are.

Glass factories, sugar refining factories, and cigarette factories are temporarily unable to be put into production due to raw material problems, and the raw material problem is being solved.

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"Generally speaking, our industrialization is stuck in three important issues: electricity, coal, and iron." Ma Qianzhuo concluded his speech by saying that building an industrial system, even if they were positioned as an industrial system in the 19th century, would still be difficult to implement.

The problem of pig iron, if the channel for obtaining pig iron from Guangdong can be opened, a stable supply of pig iron will be obtained for a long time. Coal, the Executive Committee decided to send people to Vietnam to buy coal as soon as possible. He suggested that if you buy coal, you might as well send a barge and simply buy it for 1,000 tons at a time. As the main chemical raw material, coal consumes some diesel fuel is not an exaggeration.

"With plenty of coal and steel, the industrial sector can imitate the steam engine, and with a full prime mover, industrial capacity can be immediately raised to a higher level." Ma Qianzhu explained. The efficiency of the steam engine is not high, but it is simple in structure and easy to manufacture, which is very suitable for crossing the current situation. In addition to being used to drive the generator, it can also directly drive the operation of some machinery. The Executive Committee is also preparing to use it as a power for future ships.

In addition to the steam engine, the industrial sector also manufactures a wide range of hardware and tools in large quantities, which are in great demand during the current infrastructure boom, almost in short supply.

Next, as the head of the labor department, Wu De reported, "The labor force is still relatively tight. As of 0:00 a.m. today, the human resources under direct control are as follows-"

Traversal: 478 people

100 production team: 141 people

Bairen Production Team 2: 605 people (moved from the original Goujiazhuang)

Prisoners: 153 (Gou family's servants, family members, family members, etc.)

Slaves: 176 (bought in Guangzhou, 98 shipped back)

The human resources indirectly controlled by Traverse are:

Yanchang Village: 200 households, about 800 people

Damei Village: 50 households, about 250 people

From the perspective of demographic structure, there are many young and middle-aged people in the indigenous labor force, but the ratio of men to women is imbalanced, especially in the two production teams, the ratio of men to women in the first team is as high as 9:1; The second team is also 5:1. In the two villages, except for Yanchang Village, where the ratio of men to women is relatively normal, Damei Village also has such a problem.

The reason for this is that there is a large number of floating people from outside Lingao, and it has always been the main place of immigration from the mainland, and there are many peasants from other places who come to reclaim the land and do long-term and short-term work alone, mainly from Guangdong and Fujian, but after checking down, it is found that there are as far as Jiangxi, Lianghu, and even Beizhili and Shandong.

Such a demographic structure is very favorable in the short term, after all, young men are the main force of construction, but in the long run, where there is a shortage of women, men will not start a family in the local area. Therefore, in the future, it is necessary to focus on the ratio of men and women when bringing in immigrants.