Chapter 118 Industrial Development in the New Era (1)
In 889, the spring ploughing in the north has just ended, the Department of Industry and Commerce of Tiance Mansion has also released a summary of industrial development, gathered in Chang'an City, the representatives of the northwest industry and commerce all sent people to participate, the meeting lasted two days and two nights, the Department of Industry and Commerce formulated a large-scale industrial development plan, and released the industrial development directory, announced the guidance and support of industrial development plans in the whole region, opened up salt, textiles, porcelain, leather, agricultural product processing, food manufacturing, winemaking, part of the mining industry, There are a total of 73 industries, including paper making and printing, and provide technical guidance for some high-tech industries. Some of these industries are more mature traditional industries in the market, such as textiles, porcelain, etc., and some are proposed for the first time or are open, such as salt making, mining, new papermaking and movable type printing, etc. In particular, movable type printing, which was invented by Li Xuanqing "unintentionally" when making Tang coins, is currently directly using wooden movable type or iron movable type technology, and directly copied the typesetting technology used in the prosperous period of the printing industry in later generations, and suddenly shortened the development time of the printing industry by a hundred years. In addition, at this industrial development conference, Murong Hanhai also proposed for the first time to divide all industrial and commercial groups into two names, "company" and "individual industrial and commercial households", which are compatible with later generations, and cancel the previous strange names such as workshops and shops.
Shortly after the meeting, the local merchants in Guanzhong Province were still hesitant to wait and see, but the wealthy merchants of Fengzhou took the first step to act, and the business circles of Fengzhou, led by the five major merchants, monopolized the two traditional advantageous industries of leather and porcelain. Xu Xingxia and Yelu Yaqi began to build large-scale textile factories and garment factories in the Weihe Plain in Guanzhong, taking advantage of the conditions of growing mulberry and silkworms in the Guanzhong Plain to make silk and other clothing or purchasing goods from Yizhou to be processed in Guanzhong. Xu Xingxia even went to the Ministry of Civil Affairs to find Cen Tianshi to inquire about whether the next step was to enter Yizhou, but fortunately, Yizhou arranged it in advance, so that Cen Tianshi couldn't cry and laugh, and at the same time began to realize the political reaction of the new class that Li Xuanqing said.
The other three in Fengzhou, the Murong family, the Yuwen family and the He family respectively entered the food processing, northwest salt and cement production, and even began to cooperate to build the printing industry and paper industry, these industries that are closely related to the military and government of Tiance Mansion have also been supported by all parties, road construction in the northwest region, urban renovation and housing construction, etc., need a large amount of building materials, cement and steel began to be in demand, the He family began to target the cement industry after the development of the leather industry to the extreme, and the participation of the logistics department, Two new large-scale cement plants were built in Guanzhong Pizhou and Fangzhou, and the cement plant of the logistics department in Fengzhou was bought, so that the original mature technology of the logistics department was promoted in the market at once, but in view of the current cement is exclusively produced by Tiance Fu, so the logistics department of the cement plant of the He family supervised the production on behalf of Tiance Fu. However, at present, several large-scale projects in Tiance Mansion are all made of cement, so almost when the cement plant was just built, the Department of Communications ordered 50 million catties in one go, which is almost the output of this cement plant in a year, so that when Zhu Laichen came over, He Wenjin could only helplessly say that he would start building the second phase of the plant immediately. However, this year, cement production is still carried out by soil method, advanced ball mill and other equipment are only in Li Xuanqing's mind, similar technology has to be given up because the power system does not meet the requirements, but some people in the technical team of the logistics department have begun to pay attention to this piece.
A similar steel plant was also bought by Yuwenjia at a high price, and the Northwest Ironmaking Group was also formally established, on the basis of the steelmaking plant in the early stage of the logistics department, Yuwenli set up a new factory in Gyeongju, which is located in the iron ore and coal mines that have been discovered at present, and is close to the water source of the Yellow River, and is also very close to the weapons manufacturing group of the logistics department in Ningzhou, which is convenient for freight transportation in several places. Qin Yao of the Equipment Department placed the base camp of the military industry group in Ningzhou, and according to Li Xuanqing's plan, Ningzhou, Gyeongju and Pizhou will build an integrated steelmaking industry cluster. In order to speed up the connection between the three places, the logistics department dispatched more than 50,000 people from the construction corps to open up the post roads in the three places within a month when the roads in other places have not yet been completed or have not yet started, so as to ensure the priority development of iron and steel enterprises. Moreover, with the large military industry, Yu Wenli could not even estimate the scattered business of the private sector, and decided under the trade-off that the original factory in Fengzhou would start construction, and the steel produced by the main plant would be supplied to bulk customers.
These industrial logistics departments involved in the military field all sent people in to supervise, and even Xuan Yingwei secretly sent people to follow in. However, these are not a matter for these businessmen, all the industries in the military industry are given to these Fengzhou wealthy businessmen who started with the Tiance Army, and they will not easily betray the Tiance Army.
After the businessmen of the four provinces digested the industries taken out by the Ministry of Logistics, the Department of Industry and Commerce began to promulgate the second round of industrial stimulus plans formulated by Li Xuanqing, and began to set up the Tiance Mansion Highest Achievement Award, which is similar to the highest achievement award of the country in later generations, which aims to reward innovation and encourage invention and creation, and Murong Hanhai solemnly promised on behalf of the Tiance Mansion that no matter who is in the world, as long as there is the most novel invention and can bring help to the people's lives, they can apply. He also won the highest medal of honor of Tiance Mansion and the title of the highest national scholar of Tiance Mansion, which has been passed down from generation to generation. The Tiance Mansion Highest Achievement Award is awarded every two years, and can be applied to the local industrial and commercial institutions at any time, and non-Tiance Prefecture ruled areas can also come to Chang'an to apply.
For the first time, the award has also given scientific and technological talents a political opportunity to present their research results, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs of Tiance Prefecture has begun to set up a new agency under the Department of Education, the Department of Science and Technology, to manage such matters.
The scene of the booming industry also made the wait-and-see attitude of Cen Tianshi began to increase investment, and with Li Xuanqing to implement the third part, began to implement a new industrial technology access system in the whole region, and formulated various unified standards, this model similar to the standardized production of later generations began to take root in the land of China nearly a thousand years in advance, the Department of Industry and Commerce spent half a year to compile a standard roster of industrial machinery and equipment, began to guide from the field of machinery, and with the efforts of the Logistics Department, the first generation of the original mechanical mother bed began to roll off the assembly line, Produced in the Ningzhou Military Industry Group, this hydraulic processing facility that can process small machinery and equipment and common spare parts began to enter the market, and after the military industrial group developed the second generation, the first generation of equipment and drawings were packaged and sold to the Murong family. Combined with the previous standardized production, the traditional handicraft industry began to open the door to machining.
After the machine mother bed to the market, the Department of Industry and Commerce began to investigate the factory and mining company, and began to promote the use of new mining machines in addition to reviewing the safety production, this specially formed factory and mining machinery and equipment with pulley group began to settle down in hundreds of factories and mines in the northwest, because these factories and mines except for a small amount of gold and silver ore is mined by the logistics department, all the others are sold to major businesses, so these factories and mines directly drive the development of the newly established machinery manufacturing plant.
This kind of government-promoted, enterprise production and then distribution method is also no way to do it, temporarily under the authoritative guidance of the Tiance government, the first wave of industry is basically developed, but the follow-up of various processing enterprises and even the chemical industry is the most important moment. However, compared to the lack of suitable talents, after Li Xuanqing hesitated again and again, it was handed over to the chemical industry of the Logistics Department, and other processing enterprises were a headache for the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Many of these processing enterprises were established for the sake of establishment, except for Li Xuanqing himself, no one estimated that there was no way to know what they were used for, such as the vehicle manufacturing factory, which Li Xuanqing took Xu Tianxiang and others to invest in and handed over to Yin Honglin's younger brother to manage, and this factory is said to produce steel carriages and wagons, and according to publicity, the cargo capacity and firmness are more than three times that of ordinary wooden carriages. And because the big boss is Li Xuanqing himself, under the guidance of Qiaoxi, the boss lady, propaganda methods from later generations emerge in endlessly, not only the boss lady personally went into battle to publicize, but also even took Xu Tianxiang and other generals in the army to publicize when they were fine. This kind of carriage called "BMW" brand did not expect to sell really well, whether it is those big families in the city have ordered, even the construction corps after personally testing the performance of the new car also ordered 500 trucks in one go, and with the establishment of a new sales team, soon this kind of vehicle will also follow the caravan into other surrounding states, exported to all over the country.
Moreover, the BMW factory looks like a production base for steel horse-drawn carriages, but in fact it is a laboratory for the logistics department to secretly test new power. With the participation of Qiaoxi, the later generations, the models of the first generation of steam power engines have been imitated, compared to Li Xuanqing's need to take into account the factors of the times and whether the level of science and technology can be achieved, Qiaoxi's purpose is very simple, do the opposite, first build the most important power equipment of the industrial revolution, in order to promote other industries to follow together. And when Li Xuanqing couldn't make up his mind, Qiaoxi had already started the manufacturing process with the mechanics who were good at machinery secretly selected by the logistics department.
After Qiaoxi and Li Xuanqing talked about the progress of the BMW factory, Li Xuanqing simply stopped asking about it, anyway, for himself and Qiaoxi, the steam engine was not so much an imitation as an impression to instruct the workers to build it. However, with the smooth implementation of Qiaoxi's plan, Li Xuanqing began to really consider the use of the steam engine. At the beginning, if you really want to start this big killer, wouldn't it make other industries fall too far behind all of a sudden, and the industrial and commercial class you have cultivated has not reached a dominant position in the social economy, not even half of the proportion, is it really appropriate to do it yourself?
"Big brother, Qiaoxi doesn't think there's anything wrong with it. At least you and I will not have a reversal situation, and as long as the bourgeoisie develops very quickly, as long as it passes the initial period of primitive accumulation of capital, it does not need our support in the later stage, and they themselves will take the initiative to pursue interests and political status, at most there will be repetition, but the overall situation will not become. Qiaoxi saw that Li Xuanqing was silent, knowing what he was thinking, and immediately came over to comfort him.
Li Xuanqing smiled bitterly and said: "I also know this truth, but I can't help but be afraid, if what we did before can be explained by other reasons, then this step now really advances history by more than a thousand years." Li Xuanqing's quiet voice revealed unprecedented confusion and loneliness, which made Qiaoxi on the side feel distressed for a while, gently leaned on Li Xuanqing, and said: "Big brother, don't worry, Qiaoxi will accompany you." We're a miracle in the first place, so it doesn't matter if it's ahead of time. It's a big deal to travel back again, as long as you are there, you won't be afraid of Qiaoxi. ”
Looking at the clear face around him, Li Xuanqing's mind gradually became stable, maybe Qiaoxi was right, he was a miracle, so it didn't matter if he didn't advance in advance. Besides, as long as the agricultural foundation does not change, even if it is messed up, there will be no other impact. ”
"Qiaoxi, help me think about how the railway in Guanzhong is planned?" Li Xuanqing took Qiaoxi, scratched his head and smiled: "I forgot how I got there back then?" ”
"I know, I know, I learned much better than my big brother back then." Qiaoxi clapped his hands and cheered, took the charcoal in Li Xuanqing's hand and began to draw carefully on the map.