At half past three o'clock in the afternoon, Mussolini and others, accompanied by the mayor of Milan, rushed to the production base of United Motorcycle.

Now in this era, there are still many industries in Milan City in the urban area, such as United Motorcycles are rarely deployed in the periphery, although the suburban land is cheap, but the employment and commuting expenses are not small expenses, but Contini's ideas are completely different from them, he is based on long-term and large-scale expansion, so although the current production capacity of United Motorcycles has not been released, but occupies a large territory, in addition to the use of the original site and facilities, a large number of new buildings.

At the entrance of the base, Contini first pointed to the huge planning sign to introduce the joint industrial park: the entire park covers an area of nearly 400 hectares, and at the same time retains nearly 1,500 hectares of usable land and water in the north, east and south, of which the easternmost section is the Milan aviation base, which will be placed here in the future, and then the central area is the aviation town and characteristic park, including all kinds of living facilities are gathered here, the new village of workers and experts are also placed here, and the "Youth Daily" is indispensable Facilities such as the distribution department, United Express, logistics and warehousing, and the area closer to the city to the west is where United Motorcycle is located.

There is also a railway branch line on the planning map connected with the Milan railway station, with a total length of about 60 kilometers, which can realize the convenient transportation of materials and personnel - the son of the Minister of Transport, the back door must always be opened, and Contini is not in vain, this enterprise branch line is financed by him himself, and the Ministry of Transportation only needs to provide supporting vehicle scheduling.

Mussolini looked at the empty space to the southwest and asked, "What are you going to build here?" Will United Motorcycles expand in the second and third phases in the future? ”

"No, that's the production area of United Power......," Contini blinked, "In the future, this place will produce vehicles and aviation engines, but at the moment the personnel are not in place, and all kinds of facilities are still under construction, and I am afraid that it will not be officially opened until the second half of next year." ”

"Looks like you're still planning to enter the automotive industry?"

Contini nodded: "It's not enough to have a Fiat in Italy, there must be more modern car factories, but my positioning and Fiat will be staggered, our medium-term goal is to be in the field of trucks and other engineering surveys, appropriately involved in the production of large and medium-sized buses, and basically not involved in the production of small cars." ”

Alberto nodded: the dislocation competition is still very scientific, and it is also very reasonable from the perspective of park planning, the only difficulty may lie in the funding, just in the current situation he thinks that it is not 2-300 million lira can be won, it may take 10-1.5 billion lira to build the whole.

How did he know that Contini's grand plan was to eventually build a new heavy industrial base covering an area of more than 10 square kilometers outside Milan, not only for the production of motorcycles and trucks, but also for tanks and airplanes, to form an industrial base that would stand on a footing with the Fiat base, with an overall investment of no less than 20 billion lira, and an ambitious request to build it within 15 years - so that the war could be fought.

Mussolini was pleased with this, and he had a very modest relationship with the Agnelli family, who controlled Fiat, who did not seem to have taken his position until now, and realized that he was the supreme ruler of the country, that he was a mere flash in the pan, and that he was willing to re-establish another brand to play against Fiat.

"I heard that you are still planning to buy land in the port of Venice?"

Contini did not shy away from admitting: "That's right, but I don't speculate on land, that's played by people with a low pattern, I am ready to set up United Chemical, United Shipping and United Steel, United Chemical is mainly salt chemical and petrochemical, petrochemical, in view of the lack of coal and oil resources in Italy, these industrial raw materials basically have to be imported, and it is more appropriate to put them in Venice - to the east through the Adriatic Sea into the Mediterranean, to the north through the Alps into the hinterland of Central Europe, which is the best of both worlds." ”

He thought very clearly that coal can only be obtained from Germany, Poland and other places at present, and oil can be considered in the direction of North Africa and the Middle East. Ciano Sr. originally wanted to persuade his son to put the shipyard in Genoa, but because United Steel was going to be placed in Venice, it would not be appropriate to put the shipyard in Genoa.

"Calais, your industry is basically concentrated in the north, why don't you consider arranging it to the south?"

"To the south? It's hard, now the most we can do is Livorna and Florence, Rome is not among them......"

"Why? Although the industrial base of the north is a little better, the cost of resources and labor in all aspects is higher.......

Contini sighed and shook his head: "I also know that I can't concentrate all on the north, the problem is that I still need to hire a large number of German engineers and skilled workers, the psychological distance from the north is acceptable for them, and the south is too difficult." ”

As soon as they heard that the Germans were hired and the layout was not in Rome, everyone's faces were strange, but after thinking about it, they understood: although Italy is known as a great power, there are significant differences between Britain and France and Germany in the industrial field, and this difference is not only reflected in the overall scale and strength of industry, but also in the quality of personnel, not only in the field of cutting-edge science and technology, but also in the huge field of science and engineering engineers, not to mention Germany, which has a much larger population than Italy, and even France, Britain, whose population is basically the same as Italy, The number of engineers with a standard university diploma is 2-3 times that of Italy, and the gap is even greater when it comes to skilled industrial workers. The north of Italy is barely an industrial country, and southern Italy, especially Sicily's generation, is almost an agrarian society, not to mention the great powers, even worse than the Czech Republic and Austria, at best the level of Romania and Hungary.

"At present, there are about 170 German engineers working for the United Group, and about 500-600 skilled industrial workers, and if possible, I would like to use all Italians, but Italy can neither draw so many good engineers, nor can it find many skilled workers at once, and there are many unemployed vagrants without any skills, but they can only be used to do odd jobs, deliver newspapers, and do not work as skilled and mechanics. Moreover...... "Contini spreads his hands," the further south you go, the worse the discipline and organization become, and there are a lot of young people...... Without vigorous training and organization, I am afraid that it will not be useful. ”

Everyone knows this, compared with the discipline and obedience consciousness of the Germans, the Italians are indeed a lot worse, how to strengthen the discipline of this group of people Contini has prescribed a prescription: the formation of a railway construction labor front, the use of militarized management methods to organize young people to build roads, and the initial sense of obedience and discipline will be cultivated after 1-2 years of tempering, but this method was put on hold by the old Ciano for fear of being too hasty and the rebound was too great, and Mussolini would not do such a thankless job when the regime was newly established.

"As for the engineer ......" Contini smiled wryly, "There are many Italian universities, but there are many liberal arts majors, what sociology, history, law, literature, accounting, business and other training talents account for a large number, the advantage is that as long as the cost is very low, you can train a group of college students, the disadvantage is that Italian students generally avoid the importance of these majors, science and engineering are difficult, liberal arts are easy to learn, and then you can sharpen your head and squeeze into the government to become an official, luck plus a family background, plus be able to speak, Maybe in two years......"

Then he pointed to his nose without self-deprecation: "You see, I'm not the best example? I switched from law at the University of Rome to history, and then I became an assistant to the minister, and then I wrote articles in newspapers, and I gave all those head-scratching scientific formulas back to my teacher......"

"Hah!" Everyone burst into laughter, this irony is too vivid, and it is a true portrayal of Contini - lucky, with a background, able to speak, a liberal arts, and fast, all of them are accounted for!

Now these bureaucrats feel more interesting when they look at Contini, this is not the second generation of officials who do nonsense, this is the second generation of officials who have lofty ideals and ambitions and can toss! - Of course, misconduct and tossing are two expressions of the same meaning.