Chapter 43: Knowledge is Power

Chen Cheng has been thinking about the idea of cooperating with the Japanese for a long time. Pen, Qu, Ge www.biquge.info Now there is technology and equipment in the northwest, and the three links and one level are almost done, so there is a shortage of experienced, skilled, and disciplined workers. In the past few years, the focus of their development has been on projects related to military production, and the supporting industries that are not very important are all about to be dealt with, and now it is time to make up for them.

Since the Meiji Restoration, Japan has trained tens of millions of industrial workers, and has a large number of industries, including steel, shipbuilding, and military industry, and has initially completed industrialization. However, the current technology of the Japanese is very problematic, and the full set of equipment and technology imported from Germany after the First Sino-Japanese War has not been able to operate normally due to the lack of adaptation to the water and soil (in fact, it is the composition of iron ore).

When the first blast furnace of the government-run Hachiman Steel Institute was established, Ito Hirobumi and other Japanese government dignitaries attended the opening ceremony, who knew that they would be slapped in the face in the blink of an eye. On November 30, 1901, the Tokyo Economic Journal described the situation in which operations began on November 18 of the same year: "The furnace door of the iron melting furnace could not be opened, and the molten iron could not flow out, and the two houses of parliament and the ministers of the government were stunned. ”

The Japanese believed that due to the use of foreign equipment and foreign technology, these techniques were actually "bonsai" techniques, and Noro Keiyoshi, a former professor at Tokyo Imperial University, was recruited to solve technical problems. Finally, in July 1904, the renovated No. 1 blast furnace was successfully re-ignited.

In other words, Japan is still dealing with technical problems in a hurry. Otherwise, the entire set of equipment and technology that has been imported at a sky-high cost will become waste. Historically, China actually had the same problem.

The Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant, founded by Zhang Zhidong, spent a total of 5 million taels of silver, but in the end it was found that the ore provided by Daye Iron Mine contained too much phosphorus, which did not match the equipment they had introduced, and the steel produced was all scrap. Then it took a long time, longer than the Japanese, to produce qualified steel before the Xinhai Revolution.

If we can help Japan and Hubei solve the technical problems at this point in time, it will be an excellent bargaining chip. Whether it is the Japanese or Zhang Zhidong, who is now in Beijing, they have to take a good look and think about it.

Therefore, Chen Cheng seized this point in time and threw out the bait to Aoki Xuanchun to help solve the problems of the heavy production process of the Yawata Iron and Steel Factory.

Although Aoki Xuanchun has been shocked a lot in this short period of time, after Chen Cheng threw out this topic, he was still shocked and couldn't speak. He was already so excited that he was about to lose his excitement and said in a trembling voice; "Do you really have a solution to the problem at the Yawata Iron Works?"

Chen Cheng glanced at the wall clock hanging on the wall, and then said, "I can send you some of the information first, and if it is useful, we will continue to discuss this issue." It's been time, Aoki-kun, I still have things to deal with here, so I won't continue to entertain you. Well, I'll have someone send that part of the information to the office. ”

Aoki Nobujun also knows that none of the issues he is talking about today can be decided upon, not even the current Minister of War Kodama Gentaro or Prime Minister Katsura Taro, and they must wait for a cabinet meeting to discuss before making a decision.

So, he stood up and said respectfully, "Yes, I will definitely send the news back to Japan as soon as possible." ”

Knowledge is power, and information is wealth. Unlike Lin Mengchu, who completely admires power, Chen Cheng pays more attention to the various forms of power and the mutual transformation between forces. When the time is right, knowledge, information, and power can be transferred to each other.

The research on the materials and related issues of the Yawata Iron and Steel Works and the Hanyang Iron and Steel Works has been settled for a long time in later generations, and the related issues have been discussed countless times by professionals. And these information are public, and they can be answered very simply, or with a little effort.

And now these materials that are worthless in the future can do what even a hundred thousand troops can't do. Convincing a person and coercing a person requires different methods. Coercion and inducement are two different methods to achieve the goal, as long as the dog uses these two methods well, it can basically be invincible.

For Japan to prepare for war against Russia, the Yawata Iron and Steel Works was a top priority. If this problem cannot be solved, Japan's annual steel output cannot even compare with those earth-made steelmaking things in Handan. However, although the steel plant near Handan is said to be ordered to shut down in the future, it can be regarded as high-tech in this world.

The new steel plant near Taiyuan could produce six million tons a year if there was no shortage of raw materials and well-trained workers. This is just a cover-up of Tangshan's output in the 21st century, an era that has been able to crush an impoverished imperialist country like Russia.

Just to make such equipment fully operational, hundreds of thousands of well-trained workers are needed, which is exactly what the Northwest Town Guard lacks.

After the annexation of the Beiyang Department, Chen Cheng and his team no longer lacked personnel in artillery, signal corps and other technical arms, nor did they lack administrative personnel. If the shortage of industrial workers is solved, it will only take two or three years to accumulate enough power to sweep over China.

It's just that the Japanese won't be so kind and selfless to help the Chinese, and Chen Cheng is still prepared for this. Of the three points he and Aoki Xuanjun said, as long as one point can be completed, it will be a great gain. Even if it helped the Japanese solve the problem of the Hachiman Iron and Steel Plant, it was only a year ahead of history.

It would be nothing if the Japanese were to be greatly strengthened and the Russians were completely abused. In any case, it was impossible for the Japanese to go all the way from Siberia to the hinterland of the Russians. For the Russians, losing the war was only an obstacle to expansion, and if they won the war, they could directly put the bayonet into the stomach of the Japanese, and the benefits were obviously much more than the danger.

It was at this time that Chen Cheng threw out these three suggestions to the Japanese, not only to end the crisis in Liaodong, but also because the Japanese were almost about to solve the technical problems of the Yawata Iron and Steel Plant alone. Taking the technology that others are about to complete in exchange for benefits, this is simply a model of the white wolf with empty gloves.

After the reform and opening up, the Americans used to use this hand to play China to death, and now Chen Cheng is just picking up people's teeth and wisdom. (To be continued.) )