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As the capital city of Nanzhili, Anqing was interpreted by China Travel Service as his place name "Anqing". Such an interpretation makes this place always attract the attention of some tourists.

A city, 800 years of history, countless stories are told in it.

Although it is summer time, the early morning is still somewhat cool under the effect of the river breeze. The sky showed a touch of fish belly white in the east. The bell in the bell tower on the city wall rang, and the low and deep sound of the bell echoed over the city for a long time, and this bell also reminded people who did not have a clock at home to get up. Even today, the clock tower still plays its role, after all, not everyone is willing to buy a clock.

The buildings inside the city walls are blue-gray, almost unchanged and have even stood in the middle of the city since hundreds of years ago, and beyond the walls, the place that had been razed to the ground in the war years ago is now also lined up with houses, one after the other, one after the other, and the houses are not only very similar in appearance, but also the same color, and from a distance they look blue-gray.

The change of the city is not in the city, but outside the city, this row of half-new and half-old houses, inhabited by people from all over the world, since the first year of Kaihong, after the first factory built in Anqing, factories have risen one after another outside the city, tall chimneys all day long outward spitting thick black smoke, these factories absorb people from all over the world, people work in these factories, live in those houses built outside the city, this is a house rebuilt after the war, each household has two to three main houses, two side rooms, two to three front compartments. Although these houses look inconspicuous, they are the first houses in Anqing to have toilets and sewers, and they are also the first places to introduce electric lights and running water.

However, with the influx of new immigrants, many tenants have been inhabited in these neatly planned houses, and tenants from all over the world have divided the courtyards. As the sky grew brighter and the bell on the castle tower rang, the whole city woke up. Pale cyan smoke slipped out of the kitchens, converging into a faint blue-gray mist over the block, and the humid air was filled with the smell of firewood and breakfast. Once upon a time, those kitchens were located in the front compartment, but now, the kitchen in the front compartment is cleverly divided into rooms by the owner's house to rent to tenants, and the kitchens are mostly made of wooden planks and wooden sheds built in the courtyard, and these citizens will always do everything possible to increase their income.

When the sound of bells and people's words came into the room through the wooden board, Ah Yue opened his eyes, and by the light coming in through the window, he glanced at this narrow room, the wall was painted with a layer of white ash, this is a room separated by wooden boards, in the past, this used to be the kitchen, even in the corner of the wall on the ground, there is an exposed water pipe, but now the kitchen is divided into two rooms for rent, and this room is very narrow. It's just a table, and there's a single table. The room is only less than two meters wide and 2.5 meters long, but even such a room costs a dollar for a month's rent!

The morning sun shines through the window, illuminating half of the room, and darkness envelops the sun. And in this cramped, musty room, Ah Yue, who was lying on the bed, glanced at the desk, which was full of books, which were borrowed from the library, and of course, some textbooks issued by the school.

Anqing's engineering school is different from the junior primary school in his hometown, there are textbooks here, and the daily homework is very heavy, the cultural classes of the upper primary school are learned in the morning, the machine theory is learned in the afternoon, and the machine operation is learned in the factory every Saturday, in short, the time here is crowded, only on the weekend, there will be a day to rest.

But for Ah Yue, he didn't dare to rest, he also had to go to the library to read books, as a condition for the owner to sponsor him to go to the engineering school - every semester he must achieve excellent results, only in this way, in order to continue to get the sponsorship of the owner, after three years of graduation, he will enter the owner's factory, after the expiration of the five-year contract, if he is willing, he can continue to be admitted to Wuchang Engineering School to continue his studies.

And the reason why he will rent a house outside the school is because as a "commission trainee", he does not have a dormitory in the school, and even after three years of study, he does not have a graduation certificate, only a "certificate of completion", although so, but can still enjoy the same treatment as ordinary graduates.

Of course, Ah Yue didn't care about any of this, he knew that from the day he entered this school, just as he had expected for many years, his fate had changed.

"Electric Motor ......"

While Ah Yue was recalling the principle of the electric motor, in the hall in the courtyard, the family was eating around a small table.

"Mom, the teacher said that each of us should bring a piece of copper yuan, saying that it was the gunpowder cost of military training......"

Du Pengcheng buried his head in eating noodles and muttered vaguely. When he looked up, his eyes were fixed on his father, who was sitting on the top side of the noodles.

"Dad, the teacher asked me to hand it over today!"

"Money, money, money, everything, war, war, war, but let the students in the school do some training, but also guns......"

Du Da Niu didn't raise his head, and complained sullenly, as an ordinary person, it was difficult for him to understand military training, although he had heard of the military training of students in the past, but as we all know, it was exclusive to college and secondary school students, and there was no military training in ordinary schools at all, even if there was, it was just walking, as for shooting, it was even more unthinkable.

But now that the war is good, not only many people have to go to the army, even high school students, but also have to carry out military training, and even learn to shoot, and college and secondary school students military training bullet money is not the same as the public burden, high school students are responsible for gunpowder by the students themselves, but because they use front-loading rifled guns for training, so the gunpowder cost is very small, but only a copper dollar.

A copper dollar, although not to say, but it is enough to buy two steamed buns, for Du Da Niu, who is used to being thrifty and thinking about his son going to college and having a good future in the future, he is naturally a little distressed about this extra copper dollar!

money

Always!

The more you spend, the more you feel that the money is not spent.

With a long sigh in his heart, Du Daniu couldn't help but complain.

"Gunpowder money, school uniform money, I really don't know what else can be made in this school, and I don't look at it, it's so hard to earn money now......"

However, it is a bit unrealistic for him to say this, he works in the shipyard, since the start of the war, he will work overtime for a few hours every day, not to mention anything else, now he earns overtime pay every month is equivalent to his salary in the past month, and at the beginning of the month, in order to keep them and prevent skilled workers from being robbed by other factories, he deliberately increased their wages by more than 20%, and now he earns a monthly salary equivalent to the past two months.

This kind of daily overtime and wage increase is not only limited to shipyards, but even the yarn mills outside the city are now working overtime every day, because the supply of imported yarn has been cut off due to the war, and the demand for yarn and cotton cloth at home and abroad is increasing day by day.

Although more and more people are now setting up factories, the unprecedented expansion of the market is still not satisfied, and the demand for workers in factories is also increasing, so many factory owners are afraid that their workers will be poached by other factories, so they have increased the wages of workers, especially the wages of skilled workers, which have generally doubled.

It can be said that the war increased the income of the workers, but on the other hand, the war also stimulated the price of goods, such as cloth, grain, and even meat, which increased the price of the war, and because of this, the burghers felt that they did not earn money, and that everything was expensive.

"It's getting harder......"

Although he said so, Du Daniu was full of expectations for his future life, after all, now he can earn nearly twenty yuan a month, and if he puts it aside, even the county magistrate's one-year salary may not be worth his one-year salary. Even so, he never had to save the province in general.

Money is to save, but more to earn, in the past Du Da Niu every day at 8 o'clock in the morning, will arrive at the unit, but now it will be half an hour in advance, until 7 o'clock in the evening will get off work, exactly 12 hours, compared to the past two hours, if you need to rush to work, maybe will work fifteen or six hours, this is all to make more money.

After entering the shipyard, the roaring air hammer sound continued to come into the ears, the whole shipyard was a busy scene everywhere, several steel hull ships of about 1,000 tons on the slipway were under intense construction, in the dock, a 5,000-ton merchant ship had just begun to lay keel, this is the largest tonnage merchant ship built by the shipyard, if it was left last year, Du Da Niu didn't even dare to imagine that the shipyard would build such a big ship, but now, the war has changed everything.

"Last year, for shipowners, the first thing they considered was the shipyard's shipbuilding capacity, this ability does not refer to your equipment, but how big a ship can you build, how many tons of the largest ship we built last year? 850 tons, and this year, the smallest order received is also a standard coastal passenger and cargo ship of 1,350 tons......"

Lin Yufeng, who was an engineer, looked at Xu Chuan and watched the shipyard owner say his suggestion slowly.

"The largest, that is, the limit of the shipyard's shipbuilding capacity now, five thousand tons, now shipowners need ships to get bigger and bigger, one thing is for sure, the tonnage will increase this year, such as standard coastal passenger and cargo ships!"

The standard coastal passenger and cargo ship in his mouth is a kind of passenger and cargo ship manufactured according to the standard drawings formulated by the Ministry of Communications, and the reason why it has become a standard is that its cost is relatively low, the construction period is short, and it basically meets the needs of the navy's southern operations.

"Right now, the Army and Navy need standard ships that can meet the transportation requirements between the mainland and the South Seas, as far as India, but what about Australia? And the African colonies, now we are in an advantageous position in the South Seas, and we need to put more forces elsewhere, so we need more transport ships, and they are ocean-going carriers......"

When he mentioned the needs of the navy, Xu Chuan, who was only forty years old, was just silently smoking a cigarette and occasionally drinking tea, this shipyard was run by his bankruptcy, when others chose a factory such as a yarn mill, he chose the shipyard, at the beginning, that is, to build an iron-ribbed wood-hulled ship, although the equipment and technology are not first-class, but with the increasing prosperity of the Yangtze River shipping, the shipyard is also very profitable, to last year through a few additions of equipment began to build iron-hulled ships, after the war started, The shipyard's orders can't be received, and the orders that the shipyard holds now are enough to start construction three years later, and it is precisely because of this that he will borrow three million from the bank to expand the shipyard, but in the construction of the shipyard, there is a disagreement with the chief engineer he hired in front of him.

"Therefore, we must focus on the future, build a larger dock, and build a 10,000-ton ......."

"10,000 tons!"

Without waiting for Lin Yufeng to finish speaking, Xu Chuan's brows jumped, and he looked at him and said.

"10,000-ton ship, how big is the largest transport ship now, more than 6,000 tons, and it was built by Changxing Dockyard, let's build 10,000 tons, even the gunboat is not so big!"

Xu Chuan doesn't know how to build ships, but it doesn't mean that he doesn't know about ships, China doesn't have such big ships at all, well, except for a "Great Eastern" captured by the British, "Great Eastern" arrived at Changxing Dockyard after a long voyage, everyone was stunned, no one thought that there would be such a big ship in the world, like a small mountain, Xu Chuan of course also saw the ship from the newspaper.

"We don't have it, but the British do!" The Great Eastern "has tens of thousands of tons!" ”

Looking at the shipowner, Lin Yufeng took a deep breath, and then said seriously.

"We have to look to the future, we may not be able to build such a big ship now, but the dockyard can be built bigger, the equipment can be bigger, so that in the future, we can build a bigger ship......"

Staring at the factory owner, Lin Yufeng's tone has an unquestionable taste, among Chinese factories, there is a very special phenomenon, that is, as an investor, the factory owner has to give in to the engineer most of the time, because the production of the factory is inseparable from the engineer, he knows that once he insists on this decision, the factory owner will choose to give in the end.

Just as he guessed, feeling Lin Yufeng's insistence, knowing that the factory could not do without him if it wanted to produce, Xu Chuan said helplessly after hesitating for a moment.

"If that's the case, I'm afraid we'll have to borrow more than a million more from the bank!"

"The owner, more than a million is not much, the dock is big, we can build two ships at the same time, build three, four ships, as long as there is a large dock, we can tell those shipowners in the future, we can build a big ship, the bigger the ship, the more money can be made, after all, we have to focus on the future, consider the future, not the present, if possible, I even want to try a new machine on the ship......"

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