When Cai opened the envelope, he found that in addition to a letter, there was also a check from the Bank of East China, which was a check for five million yuan.

With this check is very illustrative, when Cai Yi began to read the letter, the content of the letter was only a few sentences, "I heard that Mr. Songpa is ill, I will give a little medical expenses, if Mr. Songpa wants to go anywhere, I can send troops and horses to escort him......

Five million yuan in medical expenses, this seems exaggerated.

Obviously, this is not a medical expense, but a kind of funding, and Xia Jun also promised to send people to escort him in the letter, which obviously revealed his intentions, which made Cai Yi deeply surprised.

At the same time, Xia Jun also invited him to participate in the topping out ceremony of Huadong Building in the letter, "If Mr. is nervous, he does not need to participate, I will send someone to escort Mr. back to Nan......"

This emergency is clearly a reference to the current situation.

Cai Yi picked up a pen in the hotel and wrote a reply, saying that his condition was critical and he should not be sloppy.

Then he handed the letter to the SS officer, and he stayed at the hotel that day, and in the evening a company of the East China Army came from the hotel, and bought a train ticket for him.

Under the protection of a company's troops, Cai Ye embarked on a journey back to Yunnan. On the way, Cai Yi's calm appearance was very excited, because although the attitude of the East China Autonomous Political Axe was ambiguous, at least it was against Yuan Shikai's claim to be emperor.

…… The topping out ceremony of the East China Building began, and Xia Jun and people from all walks of life attended the event, although it was only a 36-storey building, but it was currently the tallest building in China.

There is a big copper bull in front of the building, this big copper bull weighs tens of thousands of kilograms, and it looks like a bull head is looking up to the sky and struggling to move forward.

Xia Jun stood on the steps, on both sides stood the owners of 16 enterprises and well-known people from all walks of life who were about to settle in the East China Building, and a group of reporters were under the steps.

Xia Jun smiled into the microphone and said: "I'm very happy that everyone can come here today to participate in the topping out ceremony, the building itself does not mean anything, even if it is to create a world's tallest building, it also does not mean anything, maybe it only represents extravagance and waste, maybe it can fill the empty national pride, but I don't think we need to do that, in the near future, we will say goodbye to this emptiness." So the real significance of this building is not how tall it is, but that it can allow our national capital to simply connect and unite together to win a trade war without gunpowder. ”

"Did you see the bronze bull? I hope that in the future, our national enterprises will be as bullish as this copper bull, and there is a word 'win' on the head of the copper bull. If a company wants to win, it must first correctly interpret the meaning of this word. Xia Jun said to everyone: "You can first see that the top of the word win is a 'death' word, if an enterprise wants to win, the first thing to do is to survive, if the enterprise is in difficulty, you can submit a report to me at any time, the political axe will make great efforts within reasonable boundaries, but more important is the enterprise itself." ”

"Below the word death is a mouthword, the meaning of this mouth is brand and word of mouth, I think everyone has experienced the important surname of the brand, but the brand also has a good reputation, which is not just by advertising to smash out, but by good quality and service to create. The following left side is a month word, which means to tell you that if an enterprise wants to win, it must accumulate to improve its own heritage and carry out refined management. ”

"Next to the word moon is a word, which tells people to do business to be down-to-earth, don't be ambitious, do not do business overnight, everything can not be quick success, but also look at the long-term direction."

"The last one is the word shell, I think everyone knows the meaning of this word, as long as a company can do the above elements, then it will be able to make a profit, and become bigger and stronger." Xia Jun said with a smile: "So the meaning of this bronze bull's warning is far higher than the auspicious meaning, but I think it will definitely bring us good luck, whether it is its shape or its weight, or its placement and direction, it has been determined by many feng shui gentlemen, and it is absolutely not wrong." ”

Xia Jun's words made everyone's faces smile, and at the same time, they applauded warmly for his wonderful speech.

The topping out ceremony ended quickly, and the first batch of 16 companies began to move into the East China Building, which is not something that any company can occupy.

If you want to live in this building, you must first have credibility and professional ethics, just this is the golden signboard, as long as it is a company that settles in the East China Building, then it is absolutely the existence that can be trusted by consumers.

The sixteen settled enterprises, all of them are reputable enterprises, and the strength is relatively strong, these enterprises are also supported by Xia Jun, a few sole shares, most of them have other shares, and there are no foreign shares in it, these are pure national capital.

These national capitals are settled in the same building, which means that the large enterprises in East China will no longer be as decentralized as in the past, and it will be very convenient to communicate.

The strength of these enterprises has increased significantly this year because they are very profitable.

1915 was a period of take-off, and this year's major enterprises made huge profits, but at the same time, many enterprises were also levied windfall profits tax by the Ministry of Taxation.

Some industries are indeed very profitable at this time, especially the current labor costs of workers are not very high.

The average labor cost of workers today is only five dollars a month, compared with the average annual income of workers in the United States, which has reached two hundred dollars.

Enterprises in the seven provinces of East China still have huge profits based on the labor cost of workers in the United States, but there are more and more labor forces this year, and there has been a trend of too much.

Last year, large-scale mechanized farming of grain production in agriculture has already transferred many rural people to the cities, and this year the degree of mechanized farming is still increasing, and this year more agricultural people will be transferred to the cities to become industrial population.

However, there are not many workers, as long as there are more workers, there will be new projects immediately.

Now there are many projects that can be started, such as railways, highways, bridges, water conservancy, buildings, etc., as long as there are workers, they can be digested.

Now there is no shortage of engineers, and the East China Autonomous Government has hired a large number of foreign engineers in these projects, and has also trained many engineers themselves.

There is also no shortage of money, and now there is money.

Although the workers can digest it in time, the wages of the workers still cannot rise for a while, except for those skilled workers.

However, the salary for overtime and holiday work is doubled, so if you are willing to work, the salary will still rise a lot.

The low cost of labor has also made corporate profits skyrocket, and many enterprises have reached the critical point of being levied windfall profit tax.

Only those industries that are disadvantaged by market competition will be granted tax reductions and exemptions to allow enterprises to survive, provided that enterprises must find ways to rectify.

How to rectify their own work, the technical political axe will always meet their needs. In terms of raw materials, Huadong Group will also try to provide them with cheap raw materials, and the focus is only on management.

Whoever can be the first to come out will be able to survive, and others that cannot be rectified will be ruthlessly eliminated, which is the law of enterprise survival in East China.

On the first day of settling in Huadong Building, Xia Jun agreed on some plans with these companies.

Enterprises in agriculture will begin to invest in Xinjiang Province next year, mainly in the development of cotton planting and fruit cultivation in Xinjiang Province, so as to make good use of the land in Xinjiang Province.

In terms of industry, the main thing is to strengthen the price communication between raw materials and processing to ensure the competitiveness of both parties, for example, the production of a car, the price competition in the market is not as good as others, then you can communicate with the steel mill, so that the steel mill can reduce the price of steel on a special case, so as to ensure the survival of the automobile manufacturer.

It's all about unity, bringing these businesses together.

There are two things in the world that can unite people, one is a common ideal, the other is a common crime, or there is a common interest, which can be attributed to the ideal or the crime.

The unity of these enterprises is based on common interests and common ideals, and the common ideal is simple, that is, to revive national capital and make it the strongest in the world. The common interest is to cooperate with each other and generate higher profits.

This kind of cooperation goes beyond Xinjiadi's model, because it is a cross-industry, internal and competitive model, and externally it is a business practice of monopoly in a cooperative way.

Internal monopoly is not allowed, this is the principle set by Xia Jun, but competition must also abide by the basic principles, and whoever does not abide by the principles will be spurned by people.

Externally, competition is minimized and competition is carried out in a cooperative manner with the capital of other countries.

…… At this time, the seven provinces in East China are not only the prosperity of agriculture, industry and construction, but also the service industry has begun to have signs of development, under the strict supervision of the political axe, a large number of enterprises with good faith and quality, the roots of the enterprises have developed, the enterprises have become rich, the people have gradually become rich, and the service industry has naturally begun to appear.

The Ministry of Education has also opened a lot of literacy schools, these schools are absolutely very popular, a large number of workers want to get rid of illiteracy, because after getting literate can become skilled workers, some of the good moral character may even be hired as administrative staff by the political axe, although the number is not too many, but it is exemplary.

Recently, in order to encourage the people to get rid of illiteracy, Xia Jun also specially promulgated a reward bill, and after any Han person successfully got rid of illiteracy, the political axe immediately rewarded him with five yuan revival coins.

Although the reward is not too high, at least there is a material reward.

Even if 20 million people are lifted out of illiteracy every year, the political axe can afford to pay for it, and that is only 100 million yuan, which is only a small investment in terms of improving the overall quality of the people.

This reward bill has received widespread support from all levels of society, and the number of students in night schools and Chengren schools has increased significantly. These Chengren schools are tuition-free, but do not provide meals.

And these Chengren schools are similar to the assembly line teaching model, each student after today's course, can not come tomorrow, or come back to class after a week, there are still next courses, because the school will divide the course into several paragraphs, the teacher will arrange the course according to the number of people who participate in a certain paragraph that day, each Chengren school only needs to remember what progress they have reached, if some courses have not been mastered, you can also repeat it.

In addition, since the number of participants in Chengren School is large, there is no need to worry about the number of students being too small and it is difficult to arrange classes, but there are too many people.

There are too many people in Chengren School, and there is no way to do it, so I can only take my time. Many of the teachers of the Ministry of Education have been invested in other provinces, and there are not so many teachers to increase the scale of literacy for the time being.

But it would be good to wait another two years, at this time there are already students who have graduated from school and are engaged in education, and in two years the teachers will be able to do enough.

In terms of literacy, the 'Xinhua Dictionary' compiled by the East China Autonomous Government has become a powerful tool for eradicating illiteracy, and many students can recognize many words at home after learning pinyin.

And the Ministry of Education soon added a literacy dictionary to the types of Xinhua dictionaries, which is to list the commonly used words that people who are getting rid of literacy need to know, and then add them to the back of the original Xinhua dictionary, otherwise there are so many words in the Xinhua dictionary, how long will it take to learn them?

As far as literacy is concerned, generally knowing 1,000 words is enough to use it in daily life, and recognizing three words a day is a thousand words in a year.

The common words in the literacy dictionary are divided into two levels, the first level knows 1,000 words, the second level knows 1,000 words, and the total is 2,000 words.

The literacy eradication policy of the East China Autonomous Political Axe is highly supported by the press, because after all, the increase in the education level of the people will lead to an increase in newspaper sales, and this is a policy that concerns their vital interests.

Since the East China Autonomous Political Axe came to power, the sales of major newspapers have been rising steadily, and the main buyers of newspapers are political axe departments and schools.

Especially in schools, there are more and more students who are used to buying newspapers. The number of intellectuals in society has also increased considerably, and newspaper sales have also risen.

In the case of a commercial newspaper such as the News, the amount of sales in the present day is the sum of the sales in half a month of 1911.

The daily sales of the Gazette were the sum of the months of 1911, and the growth rate was greater than that of the News, because the newspaper did more commercial news, and although the number of people engaged in commerce had increased considerably, it was still somewhat inferior to the growth rate of intellectuals.

The largest seller is the "Fuxing Daily", which is a newspaper run by the Baath Party, and the style is not rigid, on the contrary, the content is very rich and vivid, and there are often some news that breaks out, and you can see the voices of many political leaders in the Fuxing Daily. Fuxing Newspaper is a newspaper that political axe departments, schools, and enterprises will subscribe to.

The pattern of the newspaper industry has basically been determined, but the level of sales depends on the establishment of word of mouth, and all newspapers are riveting their efforts to find ways to improve the quality of newspaper content in order to occupy a larger market share.

At the same time, the golden age of the press is also coming, in this era there are only radios, radio, newspapers are an important link in the transmission of information.

With the strengthening of education, more and more people have culture, and more and more people are getting richer, and the habit of reading newspapers is rapidly spreading.

Take literacy as an example, literacy is not only about reading dictionaries, but also about reading, so reading newspapers is also an important part of literacy.

In this golden age of the press, competition was fierce, and anyone who slackened the slightest bit and caused problems with the quality of the newspaper was likely to be surpassed by other newspapers.

If young people want to get rid of illiteracy without suspense, then they will join the army, and they will be able to succeed in the eradication of illiteracy in the army, which is the compulsory study of surnames, there are night schools every day, and the speed of literacy is definitely the fastest.

After attending night school and Seongin School, it was time to take the literacy test when I was almost finished.

If you want to get a blind certificate under the age of 30, you also need to learn history, which is not too complicated history, the most important thing is the national history of the Han nationality, as well as the revivalism proposed by Xia Jun.

The purpose of adding such examinations is to ensure that those in their thirties can have a sense of nationality and have some sense of revival.

If you are over thirty years old, then it is not forced. Most of these people over the age of 30 are unlikely to become the main force of society in the future.

At present, the administrative and military personnel of the East China Autonomous Political Axe are very young, and they can be described as full of vitality, but they are also relatively stunned, not so scheming, and their thinking is also very active. On the contrary, it is not easy for those who are older to go up, and those who are younger have a greater chance of going up.

In East China, there is nothing too young to test and test, what is not stable enough, it needs to be tested, and what East China Autonomous Government wants is to be younger.

The test comes and goes, the most energetic in life, the most active thinking, the most full of ideals in the stage of the test is gone, the result of the test is to understand all kinds of unspoken rules, know how to protect oneself and not talk much, the ideal is also tested to nothing, and finally some people are tested to be useless, and then live in silence. Some people are tested to be a crystal ball, only know how to cater to the leader, but can't do the right thing.

And Xia Jun is not very old, which is also one of the main reasons.

Now as long as you have the ability and political achievements, you can be promoted, those who are older and those young people do not have any competitive advantage, steady and mature is indeed an advantage, but in terms of ideals, energy, and thinking, they do not have an advantage.

At present, literacy has become a trend, and those under the age of 30 who do not go out of illiteracy will be seen as a sign of unmotivated people, and even women are encouraged by the political axe to attend a large number of night schools and Chengren girls' schools, and more and more women are going out to work.

The emancipation of women helps to increase the productivity of society, and at this time, the autonomous government of East China is vigorously promoting the equality of men and women, and a strong country must not be a country with a deformed status of men and women. A female surname can create at least one-third of the wealth for society, or even closer to one-half.

Under the intervention and guidance of the political axe, the social atmosphere in the seven provinces of East China is changing, and there is resistance, but Xia Jun believes that as long as the new generation grows up, those outdated ideas will be thrown into the trash.

(To be continued)