After the end of the state activities in Dongying, Yang Chao immediately went to Laiwu, which is growing into a new industrial city, with Diesel, arsenal, and steelmaking mills as leading enterprises, driving a large number of machine manufacturing industries to settle here, such as Heath's heavy machine tool factory, railway equipment factory, foundry, rolling mill, these downstream factories for the production of accessories are more, and there are more than 1,000 factories recruiting more than 100 employees. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

However, compared with the three super cities of Dongyanqing, it is still much smaller, with a population of only about 300,000, so there are fewer problems than those cities, the security is better, and the personnel are more stable.

This is because the population here is small, and the quality is higher, as a manufacturing industry, the demand for labor quality requirements is higher, basically all technical schools at all levels of technical workers graduated, and the personnel come from all over the country, not only in Qingdao local, these people first have no conditions to go home, and then in the city to create an atmosphere of life, the city culture is richer than Dongying, to come harmonious.

Obviously, such small and medium-sized cities are more able to graft on the tradition more smoothly, have fewer problems, and can transition more smoothly, perhaps the urbanization of European countries is more natural, which is the reason, because there are few megacities in Europe.

This time in Dongying, Yang Chao came to attend the commissioning ceremony of a power plant, which is a special power plant.

Because this is a 50,000 million power plant invested by General Electric, a power plant can meet the rising power demand of the entire Laiwu, but this is not special, the special thing is that this power plant has only one unit, a super-large unit, and the slogan played by the Americans is: a unit meets a city.

Obviously, in the competition with Siemens, the Americans won, but the construction process was not so smooth, they developed the technology three years ago, but encountered difficulties in the construction process, it took three years to solve these problems, solve these problems, let them add thousands of patented technologies.

According to Yang Chao's promise at that time, after the successful development of this generator set, Yang Chao will build a total of ten power plants in Northeast China and Shandong, basically meeting the power demand of these two places and allowing the four eastern provinces to complete electrification.

Yang Chao told Siemens that the next generation of technology is 100,000 kilowatts, and if they can take the lead in developing it, Yang Chao will definitely promote electrification across the country.

Siemens continues to step up research and development, but their future is bleak, because they can only rely on German R&D personnel in Shandong and a large number of Chinese R&D personnel recruited, and behind General Electric is the scientific and technological power of the entire United States.

Siemens sold the vast majority of Shandong assets, now Siemens only has a percent of the equity, the other shares are listed in Shanghai, for Siemens shares, Yang Chao is a large-scale holding, although it is only the shares of Siemens China, Siemens after the post-war domestic economic recovery, they will buy back, and Yang Chao's plan is to wait for the post-war, the acquisition of Siemens European industry.

Of course, GE China is also a joint venture, and Yang Chao owns 40% of the shares, but compared with German-funded companies, Yang Chao has little control ability, which is the property of the Morgan consortium, and they have a controlling stake.

So if for security reasons, Yang Chao is more inclined to support Siemens, but that will have to wait until the war is over, and Siemens has no hope of competing with General Electric before the war.

Now Siemens' production of electric locomotives, electric motors and other equipment in China is also making profits, but Siemens uses most of the profits to dividends, because the Siemens family needs this money to buy German bonds.

When the German officers personally carried the letter of the Kaiser, these big families with deep roots in Germany really could not refuse, so they could only sell their shares, and then with the intention of redeeming them in the future, they would first support the emperor to tide over the difficulties, and they believed that the emperor would also vigorously support them after the war, but only if they could win.

Because these families are not ordinary families, in the case of the family that founded Siemens, Siemens is Werner von Siemens, and the word "von" indicates that this is the Juncker family, whose father once fought Napoleon for Prussia and ran an agricultural estate in the countryside.

Werner also followed the rules of the Juncker family, served as a soldier, went to military school, graduated from the artillery academy, and later raised nearly 20,000 marks at one time through his cousin to start investing in industry, and started a business with several younger brothers, developed power products, innovated steelmaking, and the steelmaking method that opened the steel industry was named the Siemens Martin steelmaking method.

In short, they followed the way of the Junker aristocracy, which did not break away from the military feudal tradition, but also calmly integrated into modern industry, and it was cutting-edge technology and heavy industry, which gave Siemens a very high position in the power industry, vehicles and metallurgy.

But now they are frantically supporting the military, supporting the German cause, and can only temporarily interrupt the pursuit of their own cause.

Yang Chao met with the general manager of Siemens, William Siemens, the youngest brother of the four brothers of Siemens, covering the long-distance transmission network of the entire Shandong, some small counties in Shandong, such as Jiaozhou and Laiyang, these counties have no conditions to build a power plant, but some places are very suitable for building power plants, such as Weifang, which has convenient transportation and rich coal resources. Let Shandong completely enter the era of electricity within five years.

Siemens has experience with this, they have already built a simple power grid, and the intercity electric locomotives they built and operated in Shandong are the biggest customers of this power grid, and now they are just expanding the capacity of the power grid, and they have the biggest advantage.

Siemens is happy to accept this order, and the push for electrification means that the power is shifting to electricity, and the electric motors they produce will sell more well.

The social significance that Yang Chao values is that the factory is slowly getting rid of the power of steam engines and diesel engines, coupled with lighting, which can make the industry work day and night, in addition to reducing fuel costs by more than 30%, it also reduces the railway capacity in various places, and there is no need to send coal to every factory, only need to pull a wire to go over, which is the improvement of the efficiency of the entire industrial system.

Shandong industry, with Siemens and Diesel as the benchmark, does not dare to say that it is the most advanced in the world, but at least one of the most advanced, based on the advanced enterprises that symbolize the second industrial revolution of electricity and internal combustion engines, Yang Chao is confident that in the next decade, it will have a move with the most powerful opponent of the United States.

But before that, he had to deal with one of the biggest difficulties, and that was to readjust the industry again. (To be continued.) )