"It's not so easy for electricity to replace the steam engine. Not to mention anything else, the huge manpower and material resources invested by our country in steam engines and related industries alone are a great obstacle. Not to mention that your current electricity is completely immature and does not have practical significance, even if the technology is fully mature, this is very difficult to promote. You have to know what kind of system our country is, how can the central government make overall arrangements and unified command, and if it does not wipe out the residual value of the steam engine, or even take the opportunity to mislead a handful of Europeans, how can electricity come out to replace steam power? Impossible! In the office of the Maolin Port District Administration, a thick middle-aged man was speaking, only to hear him say in a slightly helpless tone: "So, Lao Pan, what's the use of you coming to sell these things to me?" It's not that you don't know, our South Chile region has always been poor, and we can't wait to break a penny in half and spend it, so it's absolutely wrong for you to come to me to ask for sponsorship, no money! And it's not like I'm talking about you, the funds allocated to your Institute of Electricity every year are actually quite a lot, so it's definitely more than enough for you to develop normally, don't keep thinking about one step to the sky. Just go step by step according to the progress given by the Ministry of Science and Technology, how good, as for those who are in such a hurry to get on fire at the moment, do you want to be fully electrified in the next moment? It's unrealistic and stupid! ”

was hurt by the middle-aged man sitting opposite, this guy called "Lao Pan" was also a little annoyed, I saw that he blushed, raised his voice and said to the person opposite him: "Commissioner Zhao, the comparison between the advantages and disadvantages of the electric motor and the steam engine, I don't think I need to explain more, right?" People of your level should have some understanding, and that is greatly superior! In other words, electricity points directly to the future and represents the future, and if you don't develop now, the future will be regretted. ”

Zhao Ke suddenly had a big head when he heard this, and saw him put the teacup on the wooden table, and said in a somewhat helpless tone: "Deputy Director Pan, what I said in front of you?" Then I will say it again, our country has invested so much manpower and material resources in steam engine technology, if after so many years of development, drive a package of upstream and downstream enterprises, countless people rely on this to live and eat, you say that the total overthrow will be overthrown? Is it realistic? Is it possible? ”

"Now that the East Coast Electric Power Company has been established, and our Institute of Electricity has made some progress in technology, it is time to carry out some more in-depth actions......," Pan Yan, deputy director of the Institute of Electricity, is still arguing. The East Coast Electric Power Company, which he just mentioned, was secretly established on the shore of Xuefeng Lake in the second half of last year, and is a wholly state-owned enterprise under the Ministry of Science and Technology.

"I've read TEPCO's founding charter, Lao Pan. It is clearly written above that some ideas for verifying electrical research, integrating and producing simple electrical testing instruments, hand-cranked generators and other basic electrical equipment, do not mention the start of commercial operation. At the end of the day, this is still a closed enterprise serving scientific research, and it is not for you to do commercial promotion. Zhao Ke ruthlessly exposed Pan Yan's old background, and only listened to him say: "Moreover, the East Coast Power Company was not only established quietly, but I am afraid that the investment it has received is also very limited, right?" Doesn't that tell the story? That is, Mr. Qiu of the Ministry of Science and Technology (Qiu Haiyang, formerly the commissioner of the Yicheng District Administration, who was transferred to the Minister of Science and Technology at the beginning of this year) is not very optimistic about your Electric Institute and Dongdian Company, otherwise will I give you these three melons and two dates? Therefore, I suggest that Lao Pan, you should not think about it, go back quickly, honestly manage your own one-third of an acre of land, cultivate more talents for the country, and improve technology, this is the right way. If what I heard is correct, your institute of electrical engineering has not yet solved the problem of periodicity of pulsating currents, and the problem of excessive heat generation has not been alleviated, so let's continue to work hard. Or, like your brother Pan Ren, wouldn't it be a good business to open a company that electrolyzes saturated salt water to prepare chlorine? It is interesting that the state will continue to authorize your company to use it at a preferential price after three years of free exclusive patent enjoyment. If you don't seize this opportunity to develop the enterprise quickly, what kind of effort will you come to me, our southern Chile region is really poor, and there is really no money! ”

In fact, to some extent, Zhao Ke is right. After the establishment of the East Coast Electric Power Company, the most hand-picked and high-tech equipment is probably a small power generation equipment called "self-excited field generator", which is purely handmade and extremely expensive.

This new type of generator, unlike the traditional mechanical generators (which can only be called toys and is used in the laboratory), is a masterpiece based on the principle of electromagnetic induction, that is, the current through the electromagnetic coil has already caused the core of the magnet to acquire a small amount of permanent magnetism to make the generator start. When the generator is running, a shunt of the current from the permanent magnet generator passes through its own electromagnet, providing the required magnetic force.

This generator is undoubtedly a huge improvement over the past, but it is not enough to make people look at it differently. Because the Institute of Electricity and TEPCO themselves know that the technology of this self-excited field generator is far from mature, and the production of various parts and components is extremely troublesome and costly. Also, a lot of things work hard in the lab, but when you multiply them and want to use them to build a power station (even a power station the size of a room) to generate electricity, it's ridiculous.

Therefore, probably the Pan family father and son of the Institute of Electricity also understood that the plan to apply to the Ministry of Science and Technology and even the Executive Committee to build a power station was not very likely to be approved, so they tried to solicit sponsorship everywhere, but it seems that there are few applicants at present. After all, the state has not yet allowed private capital to enter, and it is completely kept in secrecy by state investment, and they can only go to state-owned enterprises or local governments to pull sponsorship, but how difficult it is. Without him, the technology is not mature, no one wants to spend money to play, and Zhao Ke, who was recently transferred to the Southern Chile Regional Administration Commissioner, is undoubtedly a typical example!

Pan Yin grinded here with Zhao Ke for a while, and after seeing that there was really no possibility, he said goodbye. And after he left, Zhao Ke also sighed heavily, and was speechless in his heart: South Chile is now at the node of development, and he is still afraid of insufficient funds, so he almost went around making a fortune, how can he spend money to go to electricity with you to toss blindly? It is a bottomless pit, a bottomless pit that may not produce any output if you invest hundreds of thousands of yuan in cash, and whoever goes will die.

"Well, it's a big hole over there. At present, the largest investor in our southern Chile region is actually the navy, and Liucheng County has almost become a navy county now. But this is good, save a lot of effort and a lot of things in the local area, if the Southern Railway Company can also slow down the pace of divestment, it would be better, now the economy of several counties here is supported by them, really can't stand the toss. Zhao Ke took out a bag of "Nantie" brand spiced whale jerky from the drawer, and muttered to himself while chewing and eating.

In other words, the six counties in South Chile today, Qingfeng, Guanhai, Qinghe, and Maolin County, where the regional administration is located, are basically supported by the Southern Railway Company. For example, in Qingfeng County, the pillar industry is whaling, fishing and artificial salmon farming, which are the result of 20 years of deep cultivation of the South Iron Fishery Company, making Qingfeng, a desolate county dominated by broken islands, have the highest per capita output value and per capita income in southern Chile, and even three points stronger than the commercially developed Maolin County. The reason for this is that it catches a large number of horse mackerel every year and sells them to the Atlantic coast, and at the same time, the deep processing industry (whale skin, whale oil, whale meat, baleen and other commodities) developed by the whaling fleet has also generated huge profits, coupled with its sparse population, the per capita income is naturally very high, although it is indeed very desolate and the climate is cold.

Guanhai and Qinghe counties are located in the north and south of Fenggu Island (Chiloe Island), which is the granary of the early development of southern Chile by people on the east coast, and is also one of the birthplaces of potatoes on the earth, producing a large number of potatoes, wheat, corn and other agricultural products, while the fishing industry and forest industry are also quite good. Especially the latter, the Southern Railway Company originally encircled many forest farms, established many timber processing factories and special wharves, and greatly invigorated the local economy. It's just that now I heard that the Southern Railway Company is in transition, and these old industries have been sold off a lot, even if they have not been sold, they have begun to close slowly, and the intention of withdrawing and leaving is quite obvious, which undoubtedly makes the local governments of the two counties very depressed: I haven't found anyone to take over, so you will close the forest farm and withdraw your capital and leave? Don't bring such a tricky person, right?

Maolin County was also an important place for investment by the Southern Railway Company, such as the Southern Railway Trading Company, which traded with the Spaniards and made a lot of profits. However, after the expiration of the 30-year trade concession of the Southern Railway a year ago, the company lost its biggest reliance, although it still relied on the old connections and old channels to occupy the largest market share, but the trend of prosperity and decline has been irreversible. Therefore, through a series of dazzling actions this year, the top management of the Southern Railway Company sold part of the business of the Southern Railway Trading Company (the sale of these businesses was actually negotiated before the end of 1678), and a considerable amount of money was recovered. At the moment, the company only retains some of its still competitive trading operations, but it is not ruled out that further sales of these assets will be held in the future, as it is said that they are also quite short of money now.

Maolin County was also hit by the turmoil of the Southern Railway Trading Company. Some of the businessmen who bought the business and channels of the Southern Railway Company did not have any plans to operate in Maolin County for a long time. They either went to Araucan County, the end point of the Liangyang Railway, to register their businesses, or moved their business locations directly to Lima and other places in the Spaniards, which made the market in Maolin County a lot depressed, and the government revenue was reduced, which was enough for Zhao Ke to have a headache.

Now there is not much influence on the Southern Railway, probably only Liucheng and Boling two counties are left. Among them, Liucheng has become the home port of the Navy's Third Fleet, which can receive large sums of investment every year, and the shipbuilding industry, ship repair industry, weapons manufacturing industry and some upstream and downstream related industries have developed rapidly, feeding a large number of workers, attracting a large number of immigrants, and is the fastest growing among the six counties in southern Chile.

The future development of southern Chile, Zhao Ke calculated, or have to focus on the word "trade", that is, continue to take advantage of the geographical advantages, focus on the development of trade with the Spaniards, through this accumulation of funds, and then develop other aspects. This is undoubtedly an excellent idea, because in terms of the location of Maolin and other counties, it is reasonable to become the agent of Spanish goods in Lima, Quito, Guayaquil, Panama, Acapulco and other places on the east coast, which is the wealth that Tianzun has given to more than 100,000 people in southern Chile, and it must be held firm.

Secondly, the replenishment of the population is also extremely crucial, which brings us to the issue of the South Pacific route. With the urine of the Ministry of Immigration today, in fact, there are not many immigrants distributed to southern Chile, and even if there are, there are very few, which cannot meet the needs of the local area at all. Therefore, the population replenishment of the six counties in southern Chile still has to rely on migrant ships that take the South Pacific route. However, because of the unprofitability and the excessive wind and waves at sea, the ship wreck rate is too high, and there are not many ships taking the South Pacific route, so the number of immigrants who can piggyback on it is naturally not much, so it is quite a headache for Zhao Ke. In the future, he wondered whether the regional administrations and county governments should use some of the scarce revenues to subsidize the trading companies or captains who often use this route (including the ships of the state-run transport fleet), and at the same time provide them with more preferential ship repair and maintenance services to reduce their risks and costs, and do everything possible to increase the migrant population in southern Chile.

Of course, there is actually another way, that is, to increase the intensity of accepting exiled prisoners, and this is actually what Liu Jianguo has already done when he was in office, as evidenced by the establishment of the slatted house prison reclamation system. Zhao Ke is not a person with moral purity, and he has no ill feelings towards exiled prisoners, anyway, he is cannon fodder for reclamation, what?

Therefore, he had already written to the relevant departments of the Ministry of Justice, asking them to send twice the number of exiled prisoners to the southern Chilean region every year to support their local development. Zhao Ke believes that this problem is not very big, because now many places in the mainland because the population is not so short, they are also picky and selective of exiled prisoners, and they are unwilling to accept all of them, plus the central government also has a policy of exiling prisoners to border areas, so the advantages of southern Chile are still very large, and there is almost no competition. In this case, wouldn't it be nice that the regional administration could take care of the people who were supposed to be sent north of the boundary river to cross the border to reclaim crops (this is a political task and had to be sent) and stay in the core area, and replace them with exiled prisoners. Well, maybe there's going to be a new prison in addition to the famous Slatted House Prison.

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