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The large conference hall of St. George's Castle, which can accommodate 1,000 people, is showing documentaries made by the army film studio. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

This chamber was built by the colonial government to meet the British king for meetings with Indian politicians and businessmen, and was used only once in 1911, when George V made impassioned speeches to Congress leaders including Gandhi, Subanaji, Anne Baishante, and the plutocrats of Tata, Birla, and Sinhania, and finally tied India to the British chariot and contributed money and efforts to join the British in the First World War.

The large conference hall was silent, and almost all people's thoughts rotated with the changes in the screen and the accompanying commentary.

After the An Jiajun entered India, the Political Department organized elite soldiers and strong generals, and transferred professionals from major film studios to set up several film crews to urgently follow the army's advance, faithfully recording the disasters that occurred on the land of India, as well as the means and measures of the officers and men of the Anjia Army, focusing on the fearless and fearless performance of the officers and soldiers in treating the victims and dealing with the decomposed and decomposed corpses, demonstrating the spirit of the officers and men of the An Jiajun who are not afraid of sacrifice and have the courage to dedicate.

At the same time, the film crew also took live photographs of factories, enterprises, shops, and some places of interest in the receiving areas, and all the audio and video recordings were edited and used by the higher authorities for future political and economic decision-making.

In the big conference hall, a documentary about the industrial situation in India was filmed by a film crew, and then combined with the actual situation.

With the solemn voices of the commentators, these experts in the economic field and the leading cadres of the soon-to-be-appointed factories and enterprises began to have an in-depth understanding of the beginning, development and glory of Indian industry, and had more personal thoughts and opinions on the work to be carried out.

India's industrialization began in the twenties of the nineteenth century, when China was still part of the so-called "Jiaqing Zhongxing" period of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and there were already some small handicraft workshops such as silk reeling, cotton ginning, sugar refining, and textiles, as well as a large number of coal mines and small steel mills, all of which used simple machinery and equipment purchased from the British.

From the fifties, the British and Indian governments built a large number of railways in India, and British capitalists and Indian merchants who made a fortune from China's opium trade began to build large-scale factories.

In 1854, the first jute textile factory was built near Calcutta, an Englishman, and put into production. In the same year, Davar Bombay, an Indian merchant and opium dealer, established the first cotton mill. Subsequently, a number of jute textile factories and cotton mills appeared in India, which were accompanied by a large number of small raw material processing enterprises.

By 1893, India built 28 jute textile mills, 9,580 looms, employing nearly 70,000 workers, jute products can be made into sacks, gun clothing, the United States, Europe, Australia and Sealand have a large market, but these factories, all controlled by British capital.

India's cotton mills were mainly located in the Greater Mumbai area, which included what is now Gujarat, Maharastra and the southern part of the Central Province. Among them, the Tata family, who also made a fortune from the opium trade, established the "Queen's Textile Mill" in Nagpur City, northeast of Mumbai, from 1877 to 1913, when the European war broke out, the profit was as high as 24.24 million rupees, because of the good income, the Tata family built another factory in Mumbai in 1885, named "Siwadhi Textile Mill". By 1895, there were 72 cotton mills in the city, all but 14 of which were British-owned, all of which were founded by Indian national capital.

Apart from Mumbai and Nagpur, Gujarat, with Ahmedabad as the center, is also home to a large cotton textile industry. The cotton textile industry is concentrated in West India, mainly because of its proximity to the cotton-producing regions of Rajasthan, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, which makes it extremely convenient to supply raw cotton, which can greatly reduce transportation costs.

By the end of the 19th century, there were 142 cotton mills, 3.65 million spindles, 31,100 looms, and 130,000 workers in the entire Mumbai region, including the Gujarat region, and the West Indies became the birthplace of India's national capital.

By the outbreak of World War I, the number of cotton mills in India had increased to 264, with 6.62 million spindles and 96,700 looms, and the cotton cloth produced in India increased from 420.6 billion yards in 1900 to 12,141 yards in 1912. The scale of India's cotton textile industry, Asia occupies the first place, surpassing *** and China. At that time, the number of spindles was 2.54 million, which was one-third of India's, and China's was only 300,000, which was less than one-twentieth of India's.

With the massive construction of railways and telegraphs, India's demand for steel and coal has gradually increased.

In 1875, India's first iron and steel enterprise, the Bengal Iron and Steel Company, was established, mainly for ironmaking, in addition to a small number of locomotive repair shops, ordnance factories and cotton textile mills. In 1901, the Tata family, who made a fortune by running a textile factory, began to prepare for the establishment of a metallurgical complex, and then issued 1.63 million pounds in shares, James De Poel established a steel company, and the following year began to produce steel, with an annual output of 160,000 tons of iron and 100,000 tons of steel, and the products were sold to China, China and Southeast Asia in addition to meeting the domestic market. The Tata family founded its first cement factory in 1910, built a hydropower plant in Mumbai in the same year, and began generating electricity in 1914, and the Tata family quickly became one of India's largest monopolies.

In terms of mining, in 1911 there were 153 coal mines in Bengal province alone, producing 11 million tons, and by 1913, production was as high as 18 million tons. The Central Province and Bilal were the first to mine manganese ore in 1892, and by 1911 there were already 20 mines, and in 1913 the output reached 815,000 tons, ranking first in the world. There are 14 mica mines in Bihar and Orissa, and eight gold mines in Hyderabad and Mayr. Without exception, these mines are mined by artisanal and are extremely inefficient and unsafe.

In terms of the concept of large-scale production, in fact, the plantations produced by employing agricultural workers can also be counted in the industrial economy.

As early as 1833, in view of the importance of tea to Britain, the East India Company stole tea seedlings from China, and tried to plant them in the Assam region of India, and the results were very successful, the tea area was expanded to 2,000 acres in 1853, and by 1871, it had increased to 31,000 acres, and the output increased from 3.66 million pounds to 6 million pounds, and Indian tea was exported to Britain, gradually replacing the position of Chinese tea.

Before the middle of the 19th century, almost all of the tea consumed by Europeans was imported from China, and by the end of the 19th century, almost all of it was imported from India. In the British market, Indian tea sold more than five times as much as Chinese tea, and between 1909 and 1914, Indian tea exports averaged 32.2 billion pounds per year.

At the end of the 19th century, the British capitals of South India, Burma and Ceylon, opened rubber plantations, and by 1913, rubber production reached 26 million pounds. In addition, India has also built a large number of indigo, coffee, cotton, wheat, rice and other plantations, and the plantation economy has almost become a unique production mode of Indian cash crops.

The boost to the British economy of the First World War was undoubtedly enormous.

Of course, the colonists were never at ease, and during the war, the British conscripted 1.5 million troops from India, suffered more than 100,000 casualties, and paid up to £30 million a year for their own military expenses. During this period, Britain intensified the extraction of raw materials from India, purchasing agricultural products and various raw materials at prices far lower than those on the world market, and transporting grain, oil crops, raw silk, jute, tea and furs from India. The colonial authorities also raided the mining of strategic mineral materials, such as 2 million tons of manganese ore, 90,000 tons of saltpeter, more than 6,000 tons of mica stone and a large amount of timber.

With the Middle East waterways blocked by German submarines, the British began to exploit India's industrial potential to meet the needs of the war effort. Britain sent a large number of engineers and technicians to India to help Indian national capitalists build steel mills, shipyards, military factories, gunpowder factories, chemical plants, oil refineries, cement factories, engine factories, automobile factories, locomotive factories, tanneries, shoe factories, quilt factories, etc., and India has built a well-established basic industrial base.

With the emergence of India's military products, the guns, ammunition, artillery, steel, bridges, rails, trains and locomotives needed by Britain in the Middle East and Near East, Africa and some European battlefields basically came from India.

As a result of colonial plunder, famine and plague spread, and in 1918 alone, about 12 million people died, equivalent to the entire population that had increased naturally since 1911. Due to the unclean way of life and the effects of famine, the plague in India has a tradition, and the great plague that led to the decline of the Eastern Han Dynasty in China in 184 AD came from India, and the direct consequence of this plague was the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, which in turn brought about a rare era of chaos in Chinese history, until the Sui Dynasty was reunified hundreds of years later.

By the end of World War I, India had four large steel conglomerates, but the largest was Tata Steel, which supplied 1,500 miles of steel rails and 500,000 tons of steel to the British colonizers, making a profit of 40 million rupees over five years. In addition to the establishment of the hydropower company in 1910, the Tata family also established the Andhra Valley Power Company and the Tata Power Company during the war, monopolizing the supply of electricity for the main railway lines in central and western India, as well as the supply of industrial and residential electricity in Mumbai.

In the twenties and early thirties, Indian industry continued to develop, and by 1930 there were 95 more establishments in the cotton textile industry, 2.5 million spindles, and 60,000 looms.

By 1931, India's steel output had exceeded 3 million tons, with more than 1.5 million tons at the Tata Steel Plant alone, and more than 50 shipyards belonging to the major monopoly chaebols, most of which were capable of producing 10,000-ton ships.

In the industrial sugar industry, many large Indian joint-stock companies invested in the establishment of sugar mills, with 32 sugar factories opening in 1932 and 130 by 1935, and sugar production rose from 1.56 million tons to 5.78 million tons. The development of the cement industry was as rapid as the sugar industry, and the Tata family had already begun to establish the Indian cement company before the First World War, and in the twenties, driven by the development of the construction industry, British and Indian capitalists competed to build cement factories, and there was a boom in factory construction. By 1935, Indian cement was not only available for domestic needs, but was also exported to the rest of the world.

At the same time, the jute, mining, chemicals, electrical appliances, automobiles, footwear, paper, fats, soaps, tanning and transportation industries continued to develop, and Indian industry was thriving.

From 1934 to 1938, when Germany invaded Poland, the number of Indian national industrial enterprises rose from 10,000 to 15,000, with an investment of 5 billion rupees. Taking the cotton textile industry as an example, the number of textile mills increased by 37 again, spinning ingots increased by 4.46 million, the number of textile machines increased by 8,000, and the number of employed people increased by 670,000.

In addition, the production of coal, cement, chemicals, and sugar has increased significantly, and India has gradually developed into the sixth largest industrial body in the world.

After the documentary was shown, the lights in the large conference hall were turned on one after another.

Zhou Chongan waited for everyone to discuss for a while, before he walked to the rostrum, stood in front of the movie screen, and said loudly into the microphone:

"Although India's industry is developed, it is affected by colonialism, and the development of industry is very regional. For example, cotton textile mills, engine factories, motor factories, automobile factories, food manufacturing plants, etc., are mainly concentrated in the West Indies, while iron and steel companies, jute factories, sugar factories, and tea processing factories are mainly concentrated in the East Indies. At the same time, due to the deliberate guidance of the colonizers, India's industrial development is very imperfect, for example, they do not have a machinery factory known as the mother of industry, and almost all the machine tools, machinery and production lines used in almost all factories are purchased from the British, which is greatly restricted by the British!

"Therefore, our task this time is not only to accept and put it into production, but also to strive to make the rapid and healthy operation of various enterprises, promote the improvement of factory equipment, complete supporting facilities, so that these enterprises to take over from the beginning of the youth and vitality, rather than at the end of such and such problems, seriously delay production!

"You don't need to know about the property rights of these factories, but in order to increase everyone's enthusiasm, I might as well tell you that every piece of machinery and equipment here, in other words, these factories will be nationalized, and the value it creates will be used to improve the welfare of the people, improve everyone's medical care and security, and at the same time use it for infrastructure construction! In a word, the value created by these factories will be owned by everyone! ”

Warm applause suddenly came from the large conference room, Zhou Chongan waited for the applause to stop, and then continued: "Different historical stages, there are different actual situations, all of you are economic experts, presumably everyone knows very well that at the beginning of Nanhua's industry, it was basically dominated by Jiangnan Group and South Sichuan Group, supplemented by a small amount of national capital and investment capital from Britain, France, Germany, the United States and other countries. But on the whole, it is still the dominant group in Sichuan.

"I have discussed this matter with Chairman An many times, and the economy is incomplete if a country does not have a certain amount of state-owned enterprises in its hands. When we started up in South China, we have to try out all kinds of economic systems, so in principle, the enterprises we take over this time will be nationalized. Of course, our nationalization is not a plunder, and so far, the Tata Consortium, the Birla Consortium, the Sinhaniya Consortium, the Dalmya Jain Consortium, the Varchande Consortium, the Thapa Consortium and other Indian chaebols have not yet come forward to declare ownership of these companies that we have taken over from Sheng Shicai, but if someone comes up with a certificate, we will use state funds to redeem it.

"Due to the suddenness of the war, most of the enterprises here are still in the stage of converting from peaceful production to military industry. According to the plan, these factories will be fully taken over by the wartime production bureau led by General Ye Ziquan, and a number of them will be transferred to military production, with emphasis on the production of weapons and ammunition, and factories and enterprises with the right conditions must work out the technological process for the production of weapons and ammunition and the tools and accessories needed for the manufacture of weapons and ammunition in accordance with the tasks they undertake and the existing equipment, and quickly replenish the mechanical products, raw materials, and semi-finished products needed for the production of weapons and ammunition.

"In wartime, the Production Bureau will, according to actual needs, increase the number of military technical equipment produced, reduce the number of infrastructure projects that require a large amount of metal materials, as well as the reserve of market commodities, and increase the number of military factories, telephone, fuel industry, metal smelting industry, chemical industry, and other enterprises."

Zhou Chongan talked eloquently, and the nearly 1,000 listeners in the audience were attentive and meticulous, and some people even took out their notebooks and recorded them carefully.

At this moment, the door of the large conference hall was suddenly opened from the outside, and An Yi, who was wearing civilian clothes, walked in, and all the economists and managers from various factories and enterprises in Nanhua turned their heads together, and when they saw that it was An Yi, they all stood up excitedly, and warm applause quickly rang out.

Zhou Chongan saw that the person who disturbed his speech was An Yi, and he had no choice but to clap his hands with the people. Although An Yi is said to be his brother-in-law, he is the head of state, and with the help of the Political Department and the Propaganda Department, An Yi has become the spiritual idol of South China citizens, and his role in the cohesion and centripetal force of the people cannot be underestimated.

Although An Yi is not very interested in such a ***, but this is the leader of the country, the central idea of Confucian culture is filial piety, loyalty, faithfulness, courtesy, righteousness, honesty, shame, the core is benevolence, but emphasizes the traditional relationship between respect and inferiority, and pays attention to the ethics between people. Under the deliberate creation of the political and propaganda departments and the rendering of Taoism, An Yi, as the leader of South China, was portrayed as a great hero who rescued the people from suffering, and quickly won the loyalty and support of the people.

An Yi knew that the Political Department and the Propaganda Department had set off this "idol" movement, but he had no intention of opposing it, a country that was established has confused ideas, many nationalities, and even the language is not unified. When the future consultation is developed, newspapers, television, the Internet and mobile communications appear, the artificially created gods will naturally step down from the platform, and at that time, the people's wisdom has been opened, and An Yi will consider gradually opening up and speeding up the process of democracy.

An Yi waved cordially to all the economic workers in the audience, and walked to the rostrum with a smile all the way.

When An Yi turned his head, his gaze swept over the faces of the people in the audience one by one, and finally fell on Nalan Piaoxue, the director of the wartime mobilization bureau, who was sitting next to Ye Ziquan.

I haven't seen her for six years, Nalan Piaoxue has lost a lot, her slightly rounded chin is sharpened, her eyes are deep and clear, and her face, which is already very beautiful, is a little more mature and steady, and it looks even more beautiful and moving.

According to the information at hand, after Nalan Piaoxue arrived in the United States, Zhong Zhizhai, who was in charge of international student affairs, arranged to study at Harvard Law School for three years, and then was admitted to the Harvard School of Political Science, which was established only in three or six years, majoring in public policy and public administration, understanding various political ideas, and finally figuring out the problems that had plagued him for many years.

The year before last, Nalan Piaoxue obtained a double master's degree, and Zhang Xi personally arranged for him to serve as a lawyer and policy adviser to Sharapova, the general manager of the United States Bank.

With the establishment of the War Production Bureau in South China, this powerful department had the power to mobilize all its resources, and could compel enterprises to accept its supervision and management, expropriate private property, distribute raw materials, and stop the production of goods that were not urgently needed. In the three months since Ye Ziquan took office, the wartime production bureau has stopped the production of hundreds of civilian products that require iron and steel, and has basically completed the task of turning the economy into a general war.

However, because there were still many important departments that were not under the jurisdiction of the wartime production bureau, and the military's logistics department was constantly in conflict with its production decision-making power, for this reason, An Yi decided to establish a wartime mobilization bureau outside the wartime production bureau.

The purpose of this bureau was to supervise the work of the War Production Bureau, the War Labor Bureau, the War Manpower Committee, the Economic War Bureau, the Industrial Council, etc., and to act as a mediator between the highly competitive military and civilian production. This is a body that can coordinate the needs of military and civilian organizations, although it does not have the power to make direct decisions, but it can report everything to An Yi at any time, and An Yi will make the final decision.

Some people may say that this is too child's play, how can such an important department be put in the hands of a person who has long been outside the business, the government and the military? However, this is an important reason why An Yi asked Nalan Piaoxue to take up this position, and it is precisely because he has nothing to do with all aspects that he can withdraw the influence of the faction and look at and analyze the problem calmly. Moreover, Nalan Piaoxue is not out of control, during her study in the United States, Nanhua's intelligence department has been under high surveillance, and Nalan Piaoxue's classmates have agents of the Intelligence Bureau arranged at any time, on the one hand, to protect her safety, on the other hand, out of a responsible attitude towards the leader An Yi.

The people around An Yi are very clear that there is an indescribable ambiguous relationship between Nalan Piaoxue and An Yi, and they are the few people who can get close to An Yi's side, whether it is Zhao Rui, Du Yi, or Liu Qing, they are unwilling to have problems, so they all sent their own backbones without informing each other. It wasn't until An Yi remembered whether it was time to invite Nalan Piaoxue back to China and wanted to adjust her situation in the United States to take a look, but the three intelligence departments all came up with their own detailed reports, which made An Yi cry and laugh, but he also learned about Nalan Piaoxue's circle of friends and living conditions during his study in the United States.

During the study period, Nalan Piaoxue spent almost all of her time between the school, the library and the student apartment, and went to the Huaqing Club to help on holidays to deal with some clerical and archival affairs, Nalan Piaoxue heard that Lin Xiaotong and Lin Xiaoran sisters were An Yi's fiancées, and they deliberately made friends, and soon the three daughters became good friends.

After joining the United States Bank, Nalan Piaoxue performed her duties well, put forward constructive suggestions many times, helped the bank avoid losses several times, and had unique insights on international affairs, which was deeply appreciated by Zhang Xi. Of course, Zhang Xi also knew the ambiguous relationship between Nalan Piaoxue and An Yi, and he did not hide his selfishness, taught his management experience in the enterprise, and took Nalan Piaoxue to attend social activities in American high society with Sharapova many times to broaden her horizons.

From various aspects, Nalan Piaoxue is undoubtedly the ideal candidate for the director of the wartime mobilization bureau, so An Yi's olive branch was quickly passed to the United States and handed over to Nalan Piaoxue to choose by himself.

After receiving An Yi's summons, Nalan Piaoxue almost did not hesitate, and packed up and returned to China, which made An Yi very pleased.

After Nalan Piaoxue and An Yi's eyes met, a thin layer of mist was covered in his eyes, An Yi's nose suddenly became a little sour, and he quickly turned his gaze, turned his head, smiled apologetically at Zhou Chong'an, and then said to the audience:

"I don't have anything to say, I believe that the importance of this meeting and the huge role of the enterprise in promoting the current war situation after the start of construction are very clear in everyone's hearts. At present, we and the devils each occupy half of the land in India, and the number of factories and enterprises obtained is also the same! However, the *** people have already taken the lead and successfully digested it to serve their military expansion, and I now ask you to also bravely take up the heavy responsibility and quickly incorporate the industry of the West Indies into our defense industrial system!

"Please keep in mind my requirements: regardless of whether these enterprises are public or private, the welfare and treatment of workers must be consistent with those of the factories in Nanhua, and it is not allowed to lower workers' wages or increase working hours without authorization in order to increase output, and to ensure the living conditions of workers and improve the working environment. Many of the systems that Nanhua has proven, such as standardized operations, three-shift work, and pre-repair, must be unswervingly implemented. The essence of planned economic management is macroeconomic regulation and control, and you must use your brains and coordinate with each other to ensure that there will be no idle production lines, make full use of existing resources, and go all out to produce military products!

"Comrades, your duty is glorious and sacred, and many of you have to formulate relevant management systems and coordinate the production progress of each factory. Many people want to take up the leadership positions of these factories and enterprises, I know that before this, you have been systematically trained, and you also have full confidence to do your job well! I have four words here: Seek truth from facts! There is no investigation without the right to speak, self-righteousness and reconciliation as a teacher can not solve the problem, in daily work, we should not listen to bias, everything must go through the actual investigation, so that we can come up with a specific solution to the problem! ”

Speaking of this, An Yi bowed deeply, and while receiving dense applause like a tide, he left the podium to Zhou Chong'an and walked down quickly.

When An Yi walked out of the big conference hall, the applause was still continuous.

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: This chapter cites some industrial information from India, mainly to pave the way for the next step of economic expansion. However, these are not simple cuts, but the crystallization of the Son of Heaven's synthesis of five or six history books on India, which were typed out by the Son of Heaven word by word!

Well, I suddenly found that the plague written in this book, if not controlled, really has the possibility of an outbreak, and the probability is very high, because World War I and World War II, India had a great plague, killing tens of millions of people, which is confirmed by several Indian history books that have been consulted! The only difference is that this time the fisherman is not a British, but a traverser An Yi!

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