"Chief, please review the steps for the development of heavy industry formulated by the base at your request." Lu San handed over a thick stack of documents, this was Lu Liang's order a few days ago, and it was also the most critical step after returning to this era. Agricultural stability can obtain the foundation, light industry can enrich the people, but only heavy industry can make the country strong, and the most critical thing in heavy industry is steel, in this era steel production often means national strength. Steel is the skeleton of industry, railways, buildings, bridges and other civilian facilities are inseparable from steel, guns, warships, automobiles are also inseparable from steel, and these things are necessary for the strength of the country. Lu Liang's efforts some time ago have given Huizhou's light industry a certain foundation, so that millions of acres of land can have a bumper grain harvest, and in order to achieve the goal of becoming strong and prosperous, it is necessary to shift energy to iron and steel.

I don't have professional knowledge myself, but the base can. The steel base can produce all the machinery, advanced technology and training manuals needed for a complete industrial system, but because the higher the social productivity and the more complex the industrial system is, the steel base can only produce industrial machinery before 1942, which frustrates Lu Liang's desire to possess nuclear weapons, because the Manhattan Project, which produced the first atomic bomb, was only implemented in 1942. According to Lu Yi, a gene person, even if it can only produce industrial items before 1942, the steel base has spent all the efforts of later generations of scientists and integrated a large number of high-tech projects, after all, only 1942 is a huge project. But the subsequent scientific and technological achievements are stored in the base, and some simple products can also be produced, such as AK47 or SCAR rifles, but the difference in materials is just that the performance will be worse.

Even so, Lu Liang is very satisfied, in his plan, when the actual industrial construction is almost the same, the steel base will become a provider of seabed resources, and there will be no resource problems in his industrial system after the mass production of seabed mining vehicles, which will be his most advantageous link.

According to the plan provided by the steel base, the vigorous heavy industry construction kicked off. First of all, a larger scale of workers to recruit work, power plants, steel plants, coking plants, machinery factories, etc. need a large number of workers, as well as light industry garment factories, light bulb factories, etc., the next period of time Huizhou will become a giant beast that devours manpower, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people will be easily eaten. More than 3,000 recruitment team set off again, fortunately, there was a wealth of recruitment experience before, as long as it was carried out according to the previous way, but Huizhou has been unable to recruit people, a large number of farmers because of high-yield crops need to be stabilized on the land, so this recruitment will be targeted in the entire Guangdong region, and Fujian in the east will also be an important target area, where there is less land and more people, the land is barren, and it has always been the area with surplus population. With the hot sale of cotton cloth and the sales of dyed cloth, Ziqiang cotton yarn factory has become famous and has become a star enterprise, and it is more convenient to recruit workers in this name.

Recruitment is underway, and the steel base has also begun to produce various machinery and genetic human senior technicians, engineers, managers, etc., to prepare for the next step of construction. Lu Liang's generosity could not hide from the local squires, and there were already more than 50,000 workers in the factories built and under construction.

"Mr. Lu, you see that we now have a cotton yarn factory, a dye factory, a watch factory, a flour factory, a garment factory, and a match factory under construction, I wonder what are the plans to continue recruiting workers now?" Wu Shimin and a group of squires came to inquire, and with the establishment of the factory, many squires had already built temporary residences in the towns near Wu's house, and as soon as there was any news, they could gather and discuss it immediately. The factories that were built provided a large amount of dividends in a few months made these people taste the sweetness, so this time they asked Wu Shimin to inquire about the news.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we now have about 50,000 workers, but the factories that have been built are expanding, and the garment factories will be able to accommodate nearly 10,000 workers in the first phase, so these people are not enough now. As for the new factory, I have countless projects in my hands, but I have to take it step by step, right? If I build a new factory, I will definitely say hello to you, and you will not be left behind in making money together. Lu Liang motioned to his subordinates to send a document down, and then said: "This is the new factory plan I plan, most of the workers will enter these factories to do things, everyone sees, and finally there are the conditions needed to exchange the shares of these factories, you can accept it if you think you can accept it, and you can't and don't force it." ”

Wu Shimin held the document and looked at it carefully, but he couldn't understand it! I haven't heard of any steel plant, coking plant, power plant, etc., just look at the back, Lu Liang will definitely make money as long as he runs a factory in his later life, whatever factory he runs. Turning to the last page, Wu Shimin almost didn't scold, looked up, and saw that the others had similar thoughts as themselves, all looking at the last page, their faces were not good, Wu Shimin said to Lu Liang: "Mr. Lu, what kind of factory are these?" How can the value of shares be so high? ”

Lu Liang smiled at everyone and said, "Everyone, I don't know if you have seen foreign warships and ships outside Guangzhou?" ”

"I've seen it, last year I put my youngest son on board and went to England to study. Good guys, up close, the swarthy ones are bigger than the hills, and there are several big chimneys emitting coarse smoke, and I can't stand it just for a while, it's scary! ”

"I've seen it too, oops, that thing is much more powerful than a train, what, does Mr. Lu want to build a ship?"

"It's not a ship, of course, it may be built in the future, but now it's the steel used to build ships, the steel to build trains, and the steel to build foreigners' muskets! You may not know that the machinery needed for my new steel plant was shipped from the United States, and one machine is worth millions, and a total of tens of millions of silver dollars are needed, which is not something you can afford. Do you know the Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant built under the auspices of Mr. Jang Zhidong? It was presided over by the imperial court, and it cost more than 5 million taels from the beginning of construction to production. After Lu Liang finished speaking, everyone gasped, this is indeed not something that his own people can afford.

Of course, Lu Liang will not take them to play, heavy industry will be the core of his own industry, and no one can interfere, so he set a lot of unbelievable conditions on the last page, the purpose is to let these people retreat from the difficulty, and heavy industry will not produce benefits at all in the short term, so let them focus on light industry.

The construction of the plant in the early stage has begun, with a planned area of 100,000 square meters, and it is selected on the east side of Huizhou, which is more than 100 kilometers away from the sea, so that it can at least have some depth of defense in the face of foreign invasion. The choice of the steel base by the sea is not the best choice for Lvliang, and it is easy to suffer from the interference of external forces, so the heavy industry base can only be built inland. Construction workers do not need training, they can be recruited nearby, and the generous wages and food attract a large number of laborers to come and dig the foundation and build the factory under the organization and management of the genetic people. With the expansion of the scale of construction, there was a shortage of steel, cement and other building materials produced by the steel base, and Lvliang had to build a cement plant first in order to cope with the construction.