Chapter 220: The Value of Japan (Part I)
However, Fukushima Yasumasa could not go to Ito Hirobumi, not because he was worried about affecting his recovery, but because he was afraid that Ito Hirobumi, who was more loyal to Meiji, would refuse directly, and Japan would be completely finished. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The only thing that made Fukushima Yasuma happy was that Li Hui did not ask the Japanese mission to reply immediately, but thinking that the conditions proposed by China would become more stringent every day of delay, Fukushima Yasumasa was still inevitably anxious.
This pain of knowing what to do, but suffering from not having enough power to do anything about it, has greatly stimulated Fukushima Yasumasa and made him have an unprecedented desire for power.
However, it is not without benefit to do nothing, and Fukushima Yasumasa can finally take a closer look at the "A Brief History of Momen", which has almost subverted the history of China for more than 2,000 years since the Warring States period......
"At first glance, it looks a bit strange, it's almost like a 'utopia'. But if not, where did all that talent, weapons, and advanced technology come from? Until a better explanation is found, you have to believe if you don't believe it! Fukushima frowned, trying to find out the weaknesses of the Datong Party in order to increase Japan's now pitiful bargaining chips.
"The rules of Momen are too strict for ordinary people to endure no matter what, and they can only be achieved on overseas islands like the one described in this booklet, right? Even if Li Hui wisely lowered his standards and founded a more down-to-earth Datong Party, there would still be sharp conflicts with the outdated and backward old culture on the mainland. Thinking of this, Fukushima Yasumasa couldn't help but light up, "Perhaps the reason why Li Hui is so tough on the outside world is, to a certain extent, to use this to establish his authority, intimidate those potential opponents in China, and reduce the resistance of the Datong Party to transform Chinese society......"
Fukushima Yasumasa, who made up Li Hui's decision-making brain to hope that his compatriots in China would shed less blood, couldn't help but admire him, but he didn't know that the more important reason why Li Hui did this was actually the damn system whose thirst for precious metals was almost never satisfied......
What Fukushima Yasumasa wants to know most is what kind of value Japan has after taking refuge in China, just like selling something, only by understanding the value of the commodity can the price be determined.
However, due to his lack of knowledge, the current Fukushima Yasushi is exactly what he cannot figure out anyway, because in order to understand this, it is necessary to have a deep understanding of "industrialization". For the Japanese, who have been simply imitating the West since the beginning of the Meiji Restoration, this question is so profound that they have not even thought about it......
But Li Hui, as a traveler from the 21st century, has been thinking about this question, "What does industry need?" It is nothing more than raw materials, labor, technology (in a broad sense, including material technology. As long as these four points can be satisfied, the industry will be able to develop, as for the management level and other factors that affect industrial efficiency are the icing on the cake, which can be put aside for the time being (but then again, there is also a position for industrial management in the system technology tree, even if Li Hui does not pay attention to it, this aspect will not be bad.) )。 ”
For China, with its large population, the market has never been a problem; As for the industrial raw materials, which are still lacking according to the requirements of the twenty-first century, at the end of the nineteenth century, when the industrial sector was much smaller, they were completely self-sufficient, and there was a part of the system technology for mining and smelting, so these two aspects were the least to worry about.
Speaking of which, although system technology only includes the part related to military use, the relatively high technical content is basically there, and it is rare that the system can be used to directly produce all kinds of machinery and equipment, including the so-called "industrial machine tools", which is enough to form a cycle of its own, so there is no big problem in science and technology. And it is worth mentioning that the industrial sectors that are lacking in system technology have basically been established in Japan today, although the level is very low, at least it can solve the problem, and the help is not small, but this is not the biggest value of Japan in Li Hui's eyes.
At the end of the 19th century, compared with the Republic of China and after the liberation, the biggest difference was that there were very few people in China who had received Western-style education, not to mention high-end talents who understood industry, even qualified ordinary workers were difficult to find, and after the biochemical technicians, the former was easily solved, and the serious shortage of qualified workers became the biggest difficulty in China's industrialization.
Most of the workers have very low education requirements, basically only need a little literacy and understand the basic four arithmetic, such as miners, road builders, dock workers, and most light industry workers. This part can directly carry out surprise literacy and on-the-job training for adults, and the brain is not too stupid after half a year, and there is no need to worry about the quantity, when will China be short of people?
The real trouble is those skilled workers, among which it should be difficult to train senior technicians is not difficult to solve, Li Hui can recruit more biochemical technicians, anyway, the demand for senior technicians is relatively small, more than 50,000 (of course, most of them are only level 1 technicians, after all, Li Hui mainly uses them as teachers in technical schools and colleges and universities and front-line senior technicians/engineers, and the requirements for leadership, comprehensiveness and language ability are not so high.) Biochemical technicians with a technical level comparable to that of a seventh-level technician, not to mention for China now, will be enough even in ten years, and if it weren't for the great demand for the positions of engineers, business leaders, and technical school teachers, Li Hui would not have spent a huge amount of money to recruit so many now.
On the contrary, the number of ordinary skilled workers who are not so valuable is extremely large (although not as many as ordinary workers, but the number is also quite large, and the industrial system based on the annual output of 2 million tons of crude steel needs almost 400,000 people in heavy industry alone. ), which made Li Hui very worried.
Even if Li Hui knows the tricks of China's accelerated mechanics after the liberation of history, it will at least require Chinese, or young people who have graduated from primary school but are smart and studious to have the value of training, but now in addition to a very small number of church schools in China, there is not even a single modern primary school, where is there so many reserve troops? And if you start with illiteracy, it will take too long......
For this reason, Li Hui once pinned his hopes on overseas Chinese, but he soon found that the number of overseas Chinese at this time was not as large as during the Republic of China, and the proportion of them who had received Western-style education was much lower, and most of them were banana people who were closer to the West, and their availability was actually limited...... (To be continued.) )