Chapter 107 The Great Construction Period

"Do everything, general, from documents to pleadings, don't dare to say everything, that's also very familiar!" Hu Jinke is not ambiguous at all.

"Okay! Then I will temporarily assist me in managing military discipline, punish according to the system, and not be negligent," Zhou Ruidong thought about it, this guy is in the Yamén, that is also an important position, and it is not his idea to give up lightly, "You do it first, if there is news, you must inform us!" Remember to call me Commander Zhou! ”

Hearing Zhou Ruidong's words, Hu Jinke was also really excited, the big tree he climbed today was definitely far more than that stupid county order, and he immediately bowed down and saluted, "Xie Zhou commands and promotes, and the lower officials will definitely do their best to find out the news for the adults!" ”

After the first month, the main project of the fortress at the mouth of the river has been basically completed, and the ammunition warehouse and warehouse built by using the mountain are also working hard to catch up, and the artillery has also carried out a test shè, which naturally killed many shrimp soldiers and crab generals in Qingheli, and the artillery under Zhou Ruidong who has only played with mortars has also practiced this heavy artillery.

And Qin Kai's big move in Hue City, the official document of the King of Vietnam has been transmitted to Haiphong and Zhiling through the messenger, Master Hu was surprised and delighted when he heard the news, he didn't expect that he had just joined the banner of Lord Qincha, and now Lord Qin has come to fully start to control Vietnam, and his future is really bright.

He was the first to run and report the news to Zhou Ruidong, but Zhou Ruidong got a handwritten letter from Qin Kai two days earlier than him, and he already knew the whole situation.

Qin Kai also brought with him a copy of the "Protecting Military Discipline" drafted by him, which is naturally based on the system based on the ten articles of military discipline and the three major disciplines and eight points of attention of the later Iron Army, and the punishment for violating discipline is also clearly stipulated.

Originally, the Mawei Shipbuilding Security Regiment had strict discipline, and now there is a written military discipline, Zhou Ruidong immediately set up a military discipline officer in the army, and the new recruits and veterans in the army have carried out the study of "Protecting ** Military Discipline", and at the same time began a large-scale recruitment of soldiers around Zhiling, and some recruits who were originally stationed in the coal and iron base in the upper reaches of the Qiujiang River also began to rotate with the Zhiling Fortress.

After the completion of the main project of the fortress, a large number of workers immediately built a semi-permanent military camp on the side of the fortress, and the shops of the Mawei Shipping Company have been quickly opened in Zhiling, and a large number of goods have been transferred to the county town for sale after getting the dock of the fortress through the guò waterway, which is much more convenient and convenient than the transportation of Haiphong by land.

According to Qin Kai's plan, a large wholesale market for goods was built next to the barracks, which made full use of the advantages of the Chi Linh Wharf waterway running through the central and northern parts of Vietnam, and effectively reduced the amount placed on the coastline, which was robbed of great danger by the landing of the French that day.

Qin Kai is very aware of the arduous situation of a possible war in the future, the French have a very strong navy, and in the Sino-French War, nearly 30,000 army troops were invested, 30,000 army forces with regular training and actual combat experience, although they also have the limitations of this era, but Qin Kai is not so idiotic that these people are fighting against burning sticks......

Now he is so quick to arrange the industry, it is because a few days ago, he received the first important information from Consul Schleier, this German, often send some news from France, all of which are outdated or inconsequential, but just when Qin Kai was almost about to give up the news channel of this guy, the cunning German sent a big radish in time!

Originally...... The term of office for the temporary formation of the Jouferi cabinet has arrived, and the French are busy with the election of the cabinet, and the more accurate news is that because the progress of the Jouferi cabinet in the Far East is not ideal, and the expansion of Africa has not brought obvious economic expectations, so the opportunity to form a cabinet again has been lost......

This made Qin Kai quite depressed, could it be that history has changed somewhat, and this big war leader actually lost the stage because of his butterfly effect? A careful examination of history has proved that he, the butterfly, has not been able to reverse any major historical changes, and that Jouffier, an expansionist who advocated the permanent occupation of the colonies in the Far East, did take a temporary break after 1881, and then because of the incompetence of the new French cabinet for external expansion, the war leader was once again elected......

He immediately called Schleier to thank him for the French news, but tactfully suggested to him that this important news should be more timely in order to show the sincerity of cooperation and friendship between the two sides.

After coming here, hundreds of technicians and nearly 20 German technicians began the construction of the steelmaking blast furnace, and now the initial test and trial production have finally been completed.

Thousands of miles from Mawei in Fuzhou to this mountain nest to build a steel base, originally even Qian Qing had some ideas, but after coming here, he was immediately attracted by the high-quality anthracite and high-grade iron ore here, and more superiorly, the coal seam here is rich in natural coke, which is definitely a great advantage for ironmaking and steelmaking.

The effect of using coal for blast furnace ironmaking is not very ideal, especially in the sulfide residues in the steel, the brittleness of the steel plate is greatly increased, and it is not easy to completely remove it in the secondary smelting, and the combustion temperature of ordinary anthracite is far less than that of coke, and after a large amount of natural coke, the quality of the molten iron will also be greatly improved, which will also help to improve the quality of subsequent steel.

With these favorable conditions, the molten iron of the first furnace was baked less than a month and a half after the blast furnace was built, and after testing, the quality of pig iron reached the second grade, which can be directly used in one-step decarburization of steelmaking to produce ordinary steel. This is a huge improvement over the complicated steel process that started from coking at the Mawei Steelworks.

Soon the first furnace of molten steel was also baked, after rolling steel into steel plates for measurement, the quality is quite good, Qian Qing expects that these steel materials will be transported to Mawei for deep processing, and the steel armor produced will definitely be better than the local iron ore in Fujian in the past! However, the two steelmaking furnaces are running for 24 xiǎo hours, and the more than 100 workers from Mawei are already running at full capacity.

Even the German technicians, seeing the working conditions of the Chinese workers, also asked Qian Qingjian to reduce the labor intensity, otherwise this steelmaking is not a simple job, and every step and process requires the full cooperation of the workers.

Qian Qing was obviously aware of this problem, and discussed with the senior workers who came with him, but he could only temporarily reduce the speed of baking and slow down the labor intensity of the workers, and at the same time sent someone to immediately send a telegram to Xu Guofang, who was left behind by the Mawei Shipping Administration, asking for additional workers, and at the same time proposing to quickly purchase new smelting equipment to speed up the development of several copper mines of good grade found here.

In the face of the high-speed mining of two iron-rich mines and one rich coal mine, the labor costs invested in them have also risen significantly. Now around the coal and iron base, the villagers in the surrounding neighboring towns, in addition to the old and weak who work in the family farm, young people have basically come to work in the mine here.

The Mutual Masonic Association has not less publicity, this is a mine opened by the Celestial Empire, with good welfare and high salary, and free lunch supply, of course, it is just the kind of fullness, what is the cheapest in Vietnam, that is, rice that is ripened three times a year, and there are fruits that cannot be hidden! You must know that the laborers in the mountain villages here may not be able to earn a few taels of silver a year, but now in the mines, at least 900 yuan a month, which is naturally irresistible for people in the countryside.

Atai is a blacksmith in a nearby Dai village, and in the past, he relied on making a farm tool in various villages, repairing and repairing his family's food, and walked around the villages all day long.

Two months ago, he pulled the wagon from the mine to the nearby warehouse, and saw that many people were building a strange kind of huge tube building, which was actually a blast furnace for steelmaking, and he naturally didn't know, but he heard that iron was to be made here, and he didn't understand how to make iron.

Soon after, he saw that the factory was recruiting apprentices, the conditions were still difficult, and it was the most basic to be able to bear hardships and stand hard work, and it was naturally not good to be stupid and stupid.

Atai was almost sent away, because Master Wang was the first to ask him if he was literate! Although Chinese characters were still the only official script in Vietnam at this time, he was a Dai man, and he knew Chinese, but fortunately, Master Wang asked him some more information and found that he had worked as a blacksmith, which was a bit of a worker's foundation, so he accepted him. ,

This recruitment, completely changed Atai's life line, because he has the foundation of being a blacksmith, and it is easy to use his master, so he learns very quickly, and it has not been a long time to replace the junior worker in the post, these excellent performances have made his salary rise to 40 Wen per day.

And all kinds of machinery from the factory also attracted his attention, the intermediate workers and senior workers in this base are almost all generalists, and almost all of them are good at using machines and knives, which makes Atai, who has always only used a blacksmith hammer, very interested, he has no home anyway, so he soaked in the factory, and a few masters are not stingy with studious disciples, and they have come and gone, but they have also taught him a lot of skills.

And one of the things that he makes these masters quite important is that he likes to use his brains, and in this era of rough machinery, he can often come up with whims and repair them himself, and he really helped the factory solve a lot of xiǎo problems...... In addition, in order to improve the level of employees in the factory, there are fixed teachers to teach the workers, and the literacy in the big classroom is reminded, and under the reminder of the teacher, he is also very diligent to participate in the cultural class, and it didn't take long to learn a lot of words.

Early this morning, as soon as he entered the factory, a master came to tell him, "Atai, you go to the big mén to read the notice, there is something good ......."

When I arrived at the entrance of the factory, I saw a lot of people crowded in front of the wall where the notices had always been posted, and there were also many tables set up, and four or five senior workers of the factory were sitting there, and there was a long queue of workers in front of them.

"Alin, what is this for?" Atai grabbed a worker from the same village.

"The proclamation said that Lord Qin Cha Qin wants to open a school for skilled workers, and all workers who have passed the assessment of the factory can go to the school for three months to study, and they can directly become junior skilled workers through the examination over there! Junior workers, 2 taels of silver per month! Alin said yes and quickly ran to the queue.

"Skilled Worker School ......"

"Atai, you must be able to do it, I heard what the master said, the technical school has to be taken by boat, you can see the sea, and you can also go to the Great Qing Kingdom!" There are already workers next to it!

"Okay, the master has the final say! You haven't signed up yet! Ah Tai retorted twice.

This news immediately made him a little dizzy, and this kind of good thing, he has been thinking about wanting to be promoted to junior worker, but that is work experience, only after working independently on the steelmaking furnace for a year, all the tables are good, and after the assessment at the end of the year, you may be promoted to junior technician.

Now there is such a good opportunity, of course, to fight for it, I have been in the village of the Dai people for more than 20 years, but I have never stepped out of this place, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, I often hear the masters talk about the magical place of the Mawei shipbuilding, I finally have the opportunity to take a look!

In the long queue, there were all peasant children born and raised in this mountain, all of them talking and laughing nervously with each other, and all of them were full of longing......

The sensation caused by this news was by no means limited to the steel mills, when these workers brought the news back to the villages in the evening, it was obvious that this time these peasant children were allowed to take a steamer to Fuzhou, where Lord Qincha was located, and each family regarded this as a favor from the coal and iron industrial base to the locals, and presumably their own children would be able to take their turn sooner or later as long as they worked hard!

As a result, a few days later, the elders and tribal leaders of various villages came to visit Qian Qing, the manager of the base, and asked for some places in their villages! Set up the blast furnace, Qian Qing is an expert, but he speaks the local language with these chatters, and he has to find a local worker to be a translator, this bō person tossed him so that he cried without tears, but fortunately, he finally made a decision, he found the Wu family to stay here Liu shopkeeper tossed with these people, and then escaped and ascended to heaven.

As a result, after a while, a room of indigenous leaders and elders were politely sent out by Shopkeeper Liu, and before leaving, he thanked Shopkeeper Liu in local language, and Qian Qing, who was thinking about the training of workers, was sweating dripping on his face......

He stepped forward very curiously and asked: "Shopkeeper Liu, you are really good, you have settled all the things that these indigenous masters said, but I have made a big noise for them!" ”

Shopkeeper Liu smiled, "Manager Qian, I don't understand the machine here at all, but the people here, no matter how you look at it, are similar to our place, don't these indigenous uncles reflect some psychological imbalances, I told them, go back and write the building, let's take it back to Lord Qincha!" No, they all went back to ponder ......",

Qian Qing's face was black, this shopkeeper Liu was really good, and as soon as he said that this tossing thing was said by him, it really became a good thing......

With the construction of a new industrial zone outside Fangcheng County, those businesses who got the contract have been stationed, and two large plots of land have been planned here, on one side is a large-scale textile factory, which is the main business in the hands of the Mawei Shipmaster, and more than 6 percent of the wealthy households in the city have invested here.

The operation of the textile factory, this time by Wu Jingui transferred their deputy to manage the textile factory Lu shopkeeper to operate, with the experience of managing the He family textile factory, the operation of the new textile factory can be very easy, and the 17 local businessmen who participated in the shares have long lost confidence in their own original mountain goods business, the original trading are no longer in operation, there are textile factories as backers, most of the merchants began to do garment trading.

A sum of 200,000 silver raised by local merchants who were ready to buy and sell ready-to-wear garments, ready to buy the next batch of sewing machines to work alone, but after getting the price of the machine qì opened by Mawei and the conditions of cooperation, I carefully calculated it, and found that if I did not cooperate with Mawei Hai Trading Company, the cost of this machine alone could extend the time for them to earn back their capital by two times.

In the garment industry, the Mawei shipmaster accounts for sixty percent of the share, and the xiǎo merchants account for forty percent of the share, of course, if their investment is counted, it is impossible for these merchants to get these quotas, Zhang Kui is not a fuel-efficient lamp, since you have all joined the company, then you must contribute to the company, and each household will dry the hands that can work, these are all counted into their contributions.

Then, for the sale of ready-to-wear garments, each household subcontracts one or two provinces, and is responsible for the local purchase of cotton huā these raw materials, and the sales amount and purchase value are included in the dividend assessment at the end of the year, which easily saves the construction funds of the garment sales network. However, in the early days of the garment factory, there was really no money for a while, one is that there are few workers, and this male worker is a tailor, and it is impossible to find nine out of ten!

In the end, it was the magistrate who was wise, and proposed that fifty village fù in the village could be recruited to learn the tailor's technique, after all, the NV man would not sew and mend, of course, due to the super boldness of this decision, in the management of NV workers, the full public management was fully implemented, and all the NV officials were used, which really made Zhang Kui toss for a while, and finally used the families of locally recruited soldiers to carry out grassroots management, which put an end to those controversies that may be caused.

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