The technology mastered by biochemical technicians is advanced, but they have the congenital defect of lack of creativity, and once they encounter new problems that did not appear before 1900 years in history, it is difficult to expect them to think of solutions, but China's terrain and climate are complex, and the possibility of encountering new problems is particularly high. And Zhan Tianyou is not too young now, but he is a late bloomer, in fact, he has just entered the period of rapid growth, as long as he can master all the new technologies, his business ability will never be inferior to that of a biochemical technician, even if it is a level 5 technician.

Another point is that the biochemical soldiers are too expensive, the monthly salary of a level 5 technician is as high as 2 kilograms of gold, which is equivalent to more than 1,300 US dollars, and it costs almost 16,000 US dollars a year, and it has to be paid with real money, and the hidden cost is higher. In the current world, the world's top scientific and technological experts only have an annual salary of a few thousand dollars, and they only need to pay paper money, which is a difference of more than ten times? Therefore, even in order to save expenses, Li Hui will not let go of any outstanding or even just qualified technical talents.

It's just that these words can't be said directly, Li Hui thought about the wording for a while, and then spoke again, "Chengcheng, don't be presumptuous, it's true that you are still a little short of your business ability, but I am very optimistic about your potential." ”

"In the next year, how can you compare with those young people in terms of potential?" Zhan Tianyou shook his head slightly, and replied with envy and regret that after he returned to China, he once changed careers to serve in the navy, and after the Battle of Majiang, he worked as a foreign language teacher for several years, until 1888, when he finally got the opportunity to work in the major he chose when he was in college, at that time it had been seven years since he returned to China, and many professional knowledge had forgotten that he had to re-learn, and if he had the opportunity to become a railway engineer just after returning to China, it would definitely be much higher than the current level.

But Li Hui shook his hand and said, "Gan Luofa is early and late, how can you just look at age and talk about potential?" They grew up in a relatively closed and simple environment, although it is conducive to learning and studying, but the thinking is often not broad enough, lack of enough imagination, the future development may not be able to compare with you! Besides, even if they are better than you, it won't affect how much I value you, how can there be too much reason for this talent? ”

"How can there be too many talents? That's a good point! Zhan Tianyou only felt that his eyes were sore, and he almost burst into tears, he had seen many big officials over the years, but there was no second person like Li Hui, who was so eager for talent, he was suddenly full of hope for his future.

And Li Hui was afraid that he would not be at ease, and sketched a grand blueprint for him, "Because the military industry is more important, our base is on the island, and there have not been many talents in the railway industry, and the engineers who are currently building railways in Jiaodong have accounted for more than half, but China has a vast territory, and at least 100,000 kilometers of railways need to be built, how can it be enough to rely on so many people?" Showing you this is a relief from the urgency of the eyebrows! ”

When Zhan Tianyou heard this, his eyes lit up, for a technical expert like him, the status and salary are not the most important, the development platform and job opportunities that can be fully displayed are the most attractive, thinking that there are so many railways waiting to be repaired by himself, he is even more excited than the wedding night, and his favorability towards the new regime has finally increased

Li Hui originally wanted to ask Zhan Tianyou if he had any classmates to recommend, but when he thought that Zhan Tianyou was studying at a university in the United States, he would give up and tear his face with the United States within a year or two, so it was not a good idea to introduce American talents, not to mention the problem that the mixing of the British and metric systems would increase the measurement error. Having said that, in fact, even if Li Hui asked, Zhan Tianyou did not have any good candidates to recommend, because he was Chinese and had good grades, when he was studying at Yale, American classmates generally discriminated against and jealous him, so he did not make a few friends, and after returning to China, he broke off contact for more than ten years, where are there any connections?

Because Li Hui attaches great importance to technical talents, except for those like Zhan Tianyou, who happened to go out, the others were basically directly captured by the rebel army, the most important of which was the Kaiping Coal Mine technical team including Wu Yangzeng, Kuang Rongguang and other mining engineers.

However, the technical content of coal mines is much lower than that of railways, and they have not made any pioneering contributions to the development of world mining technology, and their historical achievements cannot be compared with Zhan Tianyou's, coupled with the refusal of Kaiping Coal Mine to sell high-quality coal to Beiyang Sailors in order to make more money before the First Sino-Japanese War, Li Hui left a very bad impression, so his attitude towards these people was not so polite

But Li Hui still attaches great importance to the Kaiping Coal Mine, after all, this is currently the largest coal mine in China, and the coal quality is excellent, the coal type is also good (mainly coking coal), Li Hui sent a skilled technician in mining and metallurgy to inspect and came to the conclusion that only need to improve the management, the annual output of Kaiping Coal Mine can easily break through the 1 million tons mark, and if you can make additional investment and upgrade equipment, there is no difficulty in reaching an annual output of 5 million tons, or even 10 million tons of raw coal.

In addition, Tangshan's iron ore reserves are also very abundant, and if vigorous efforts are made to develop them, the goal of producing millions of tons per year can be easily achieved. What's even more pleasing is that there are also a lot of manganese ore reserves here, as if they were specially prepared for the development of the steel industry

After reading the investigation reports written by the technicians, Li Hui decided to change his original plan and build his first coal-iron complex in Tangshan instead of the "Anshan-Fushun-Benxi coal-iron complex" in Fengtian.

From the perspective of resource conditions alone, Tangshan is undoubtedly inferior to the latter, but with the current scale of the world's iron and steel industry and the more realistic industrial development speed of China in the future, it will be enough for at least ten years, and Tangshan's unique advantages are incomparable to Fengtian's "Anfuben Coal and Iron Complex".

First of all, Tangshan is located in the densely populated eastern Hebei region, and the source of workers is very abundant, so there is no need to worry about not being able to recruit workers, and because the local people have more land and less land, the survival pressure is very high, and the conditions for recruiting workers can also be lower.

In contrast, the population of the Northeast at this time is still very scarce, even if it is the most dense Fengtian, the whole province has a population of only more than 3 million, so that even the cultivated land has not been completely reclaimed, and if there are no extremely favorable conditions, I am afraid that it will not be able to recruit workers at all, and even if the conditions are good, the number of workers that can be recruited will not be much, after all, the total population is so much.

Although this problem can be solved by vigorously attracting immigrants from the Guannan to "break into the eastern part of the country", how can it compare with the fact that Tangshan already has enough human resources available? (To be continued.) )