What's more, the children of overseas Chinese who meet the requirements are basically from rich backgrounds, and how many of them are willing to return to China and only become ordinary skilled workers?

Therefore, this road did not work at all, so that Li Hui once gave up his plan to rapidly promote industrialization, and only prepared to engage in some exemplary large-scale enterprises, that is, the so-called "foundation plan". Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

However, after the Japanese mission came to China to sue for peace, Li Hui unexpectedly discovered that it was not impossible for China to rapidly advance industrialization, and the key to solving the problem lay in Japan.

Although the Japanese government has not had enough financial resources to implement even free compulsory education at the elementary school level in the country because of the arrogance and extravagance of the ruling class and the need to expand arms and warfare, the primary school enrollment rate, which was close to 30 percent in 1873 and is now as high as 5 or 60 percent, is enough to produce a considerable number of workers with Western-style education, at least much more than in China today.

Although there is no direct data to support it, judging from the enrollment rate of new elementary school students in Japan every year from 1873 to the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, there are at least several million, if not 10 million, of people who have attained a high school education level in Japan, and the number of graduates of so-called "junior high schools" and more highly valued technical schools should be no less than one million combined.

Li Hui estimates that if these resources can be fully used for their own use, they should be enough to support China's industry. At the very least, the scale of heavy industry will quickly surpass that of the United Kingdom, and within five years it will be able to leap into the top three in the world, so that it can initially achieve self-sufficiency in industrial products and get rid of dependence on the system.

Don't look at the cost of the system is unusually cheap, but if the industrial products that China needs are provided by the system, not to mention that Li Hui himself can't deploy it at all, even if he is busy, it is impossible to always have so many precious metals for his consumption, after all, the stock of gold and silver is limited, and it is too wasteful to use a little less to produce consumables needed for daily life!

Not only industrial construction, but also the public service sector also needs a large number of educated ordinary workers, if they all use biochemical soldiers to fill the vacancies, not only overkill, but also financially unbearable, especially those positions that only the most expensive agents can be qualified for, it is not enough to collect all the real money and silver existing in the world!

Before the First Sino-Japanese War, there was still a little reverence for China in Japan, and literate Japanese people could at least write Chinese characters even if they could not speak Chinese, as long as they were not in positions that directly provided services to Chinese, and they could be qualified without too long of training, which could greatly reduce the consumption of precious metals.

With so much precious metal saved, Li Hui had the energy to recruit more infantry, cavalry, artillery, engineers, and gendarmes to expand the army and police forces more quickly, so as to quickly achieve complete control of the country, and the benefits were self-evident.

In addition, the use of Japanese to help China with its initial industrialization has the added benefit of alleviating the inevitable urban youth employment crisis in the future.

Li Hui has never been a very patient person, so he knew that there would be hidden dangers in doing so, and when he promoted modern education, he still adopted the method of rapid development in China after the liberation, rather than the gradual development of Japan.

The advantage of this is that within ten years, a large number of suitable talents will emerge, so as to completely solve the big problem of insufficient workers. But this also means that millions of young people will emerge at once, and this will be the case every year since, and it will not be possible for China's industry at that time to develop to the extent that it can fully meet the employment needs by increasing alone, even if the supporting service industry is included, it is still not enough.

"Going to the mountains and going to the countryside" only postponed the problem, and it will only worsen after a long time, so Li Hui only planned to set up a few production and construction corps to develop the frontiers, and his help in solving the problem of employment was limited.

As for the use of the world market to solve this problem after China's reform and opening up in history, it is even more unworkable, not to mention that at that time, even Britain was forced to build trade barriers, and there is no such big global market as in later generations, even if all countries can be opened to China, with the current level of productivity in the world that is far from comparable with a few decades later, it will definitely not play as big a role as in history.

Employing a large number of Japanese to accelerate industrialization can largely avoid future crises, starting with the ability to expand China's economy even more before the graduation frenzy arrives, and the annual growth will naturally increase with the tide, so the number of new jobs will naturally increase significantly. If this is not enough, Li Hui can also take a salary from the bottom of the pot and lay off the Japanese on a large scale to make way for the intellectual youth in China......

As for how those Japanese will find employment after returning to China, that is their own business, anyway, they are foreigners, and the Chinese government is not obliged......

Hiring Japanese people to work in China is a language problem that cannot be bypassed, but fortunately, they at least know Chinese characters, so it is easier to adapt than in other countries. What's more, when Li Hui recruited biochemical soldiers, he could still preset the languages he mastered, not to mention teachers who taught Chinese to the Japanese, even if he let the biochemical soldiers who mastered Japanese directly lead the Japanese to work, the number would definitely be enough, not to mention that there are many people in Japan who can speak Chinese, although most of these people are from higher backgrounds and it is impossible for them to become workers, but recruiting cadres to manage their compatriots who do not speak Chinese will also be a good supplement.

After realizing that the fruits of Japan's Meiji Restoration were of strategic significance to China's industrial development in the next ten or twenty years, Li Hui immediately made up his mind to subdue Japan no matter what. For this reason, Li Hui was even ready to launch a full-scale war against Japan, and if the peace talks failed, even if tens of thousands or even more troops were to be killed or wounded, he would definitely force the Japanese government to completely surrender.

Of course, having said that, it would be best if this goal could be achieved peacefully, because in this case, the Japanese who came to work in China would have no psychological guilt, would be more motivated, and there would be much fewer hostile elements hiding in them who were ready to engage in sabotage.

However, even peace talks also require the deterrence of force, and Li Hui initially felt that Deng Shichang's plan was somewhat risky, but now he sincerely hopes that it can succeed. Because the sooner the Chinese army captured Singapore, the fewer troops it used, the greater the pressure on the Japanese mission...... (To be continued.) )