Guangxu took Li Hongzhang and Li Enfu back to Beijing by train overnight, leaving the Nanyang Chinese to continue their journey to the motherland accompanied by Zhang Zhidong. (top) (point) ().2.o

Tianjin No. 1 Locomotive Factory, Tianjin No. 1 Arsenal, Tianjin Shipyard and so on are the main places for Nanyang Chinese to visit and investigate. Here, the Nanyang Chinese learned about the national military system and learned that the country's military production still does not reach the level of Western countries in terms of technology. The same 203 mm naval gun, the naval gun imitated by the Qing Dynasty using Italian technology still does not reach the Italian level. The shortage of talents, the lack of technology, and even the equipment cannot reach the level of Western countries have become the biggest problems that plague the development of the country's military industry.

Wu Rongguang, president of the National Academy of Sciences, who accompanied the visit, was indignant and denounced the Western powers, especially Britain, for deliberately supporting Japan to challenge the Qing Dynasty in order to better exploit and squeeze the Qing Dynasty. In the process of introduction, Wu Rongguang mentioned more than once that the most difficult thing in the training of workers is literacy. Wu Rongguang was very envious of the high literacy rate and high knowledge of the children of the Chinese in Nanyang, because they could read and understand the drawings and instructions. But these honest workers would rather be punished for cleaning the toilet than go to class, they always think that it is the emperor's grace that they can have a full mouthful of food, and such a profound thing is not something that they should learn from the mud feet they have just climbed up from the farmland.

Wu Rongguang spoke eloquently about how adversely the lack of technical capability will have on military construction and even on national security. You must know that none of the main battle naval ships in the entire Qing Dynasty was self-made by the Qing Dynasty. The British simply stopped selling warships to the Qing Dynasty. As a result, the entire Qing Dynasty was at a loss in the face of the newly formed Japanese fleet. Now the Navy is refitting all the small fast boats, that is, to install enough explosives in the bow, and the Huludao shipyard is even secretly developing a small fast ramming boat. The purpose is to use these fast small ships to ram the Japanese ships once all the main battleships of the Qing Navy are sunk to defend the mainland. This is the only way that the navy can come up with to prevent the people of the world from going through the war again, the navy has already selected the daredevils, and even the navy's commander Wu is ready to personally drive the last ramming ship for the last attack.

In order to keep the enemy out of the country, the imperial court is planning to exchange the lives of the soldiers. The Nanyang Chinese nose was sour, and they all said that they would immediately send their children to the motherland to contribute after returning to Nanyang. And that's not all. The Nanyang Chinese also vowed that they would contact all overseas Chinese organizations, and as long as the imperial court issued a list of required equipment, they would use all their strength to transport the equipment back at all costs.

Zhang Zhidong, on behalf of the emperor, expressed his gratitude to the Nanyang Chinese on behalf of the imperial court. At the same time, please take care of overseas Chinese, because every Chinese is an indispensable force for the Chinese nation. There are still many secrets of military production that the Nanyang Chinese cannot know, and they can understand. However, factories of ordinary civilian products and general commercial factories and mines, such as Dasheng Garment Factory and Shunfeng Logistics Tianjin Branch, are places where you can learn more about them.

Everyone has the impression that the garment factory is full of dusty cloth and workers wearing dusty clothes and shuttling through the messy factory buildings. But after entering the Dasheng Garment Factory. Everything here completely changed everyone's perception. Inside the bright factory door is a uniformly dressed worker, neatly arranged equipment, and a well-planned material area. Every corner of the factory is divided by yellow lines, and the signs hanging in each area clearly indicate what this place is for.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please look here. A reverse fan is installed behind each processing equipment to suck out the line dust generated when cutting the fabric in time. When foreigners come to visit, they think that these are completely unnecessary, but in fact, before the installation of these equipment, every month because of the worker's illness or delayed time, far more valuable than these equipment. Dr. Jin Dating of the Beijing Medical Center told us that the main cause of the workers' illness was that the dust was sucked into their stomachs. Although every worker wore a mask, the mask was not airtight enough. There are also people who don't even take it because of the heat. Ma Xiaoliu, the director of the Dasheng Garment Factory, introduced the situation in the factory to the Nanyang Chinese who came to visit: "Everything in the factory is actually the emperor's will. The emperor would come to inspect once a year, and these were specially arranged by the emperor to see that the workers were often sick. ”

Ma Xiaoliu, who was almost fired for accepting bribes. In the end, because the emperor took pity on his talent, he decided to give him another chance. The emperor once said at the whole factory meeting: You can learn if you don't have the ability, and you can sweep the floor if you don't have the ability. But there is no salvation for the corruption of virtue, and as a royal enterprise, it cannot allow a rat feces to be in it. Now that I think about it, it was really not worth the risk to receive the ten taels of silver, and now my monthly salary is 40 yuan, which is equivalent to ten taels of silver, and the people in the factory don't need money to see a doctor. Where to find such a good treatment, I didn't see that the people outside who wanted to come in and go to work were crowded. It is precisely because he has a disgraceful past that he wants to be more open. If the governor of the prefecture and county wants to arrange his family members in, he will be expelled if he doesn't do well, and he will not be under the control of these officials, and if he wants to be expelled, he must need the emperor's nod.

When it comes to the big and small affairs in the factory, Ma Xiaoliu is full of confidence. Although the ideas were all made by the emperor, it was not all his own credit to really implement him. When explaining the production process in the factory to the Nanyang Chinese, Ma Xiaoliu said: "The assembly line production of foreigners is actually nothing, as early as the pre-Qin period, China already had the assembly line production method, but it was lost later. However, how to increase the production efficiency to the maximum, it is necessary to investigate and understand each production station in detail to get the best plan, and this is the top secret of our Dasheng Garment Factory. All of you are Chinese, which is naturally no secret to everyone, but this good way cannot be known to foreign devils, especially the damned British. ”

Looking at Ma Xiaoliu's gritted teeth, everyone present laughed. When visiting the process engineering department, Ma Xiaoliu expressed a good credit for his achievements. Here is when he heard that the emperor had set up a route planning department in Pacific Freight and achieved great results, he thought that sea shipping could be planned. The production in the factory should also be able to be planned. So he wrote to the emperor that he also wanted to do a production plan, so half a year later, there was here.

"Can you write directly to the emperor?" Li Guanshan's eyes widened and asked Ma Xiaoliu in surprise. In Li Guanshan's view, Ma Xiaoliu's flat-headed people who have no official or official position can write to the emperor. It's incredible.

"Of course I can, although I am just a small person, but we are in charge of the emperor's factory. It's like writing a letter to the general manager of a foreign company to the general manager of a foreign company. The emperor said that I am the manager of a branch of the royal enterprise, and it is normal to write to the general manager to tell me what I think. Later, my father heard that I had written to the emperor and beat me. What is the emperor's ninety-five honor, which is what we ordinary people can say. Ma Xiaoliu laughed: "As a result, the palace guards really brought the emperor's reply letter, but my father said that he could see the letter written by the Son of Heaven, which caused the smoke to billowing from the ancestral tomb of their old Ma family for hundreds of years." He was not allowed to confess the letter. I had to sneak up in the middle of the night to watch ......"

The Nanyang Chinese laughed one after another, it turned out that the current emperor was not the emperor who sat on the high court hall in their hearts, with a expressionless face and could only give orders. Today's emperor is a down-to-earth emperor who is really planning for the country. From the visit to both the military factory and the royal factory. Whether it is the factory model or the management method, everything in this comes from the emperor who has learned from China and the West, and has many ideas. These models and methods began to spread from the earliest Dasheng Garment Factory, and the domestic factory owners sent their henchmen who used to live in the Dasheng Garment Factory to study, and they encountered three waves in the two days when the Nanyang Chinese people visited the Dasheng Garment Factory. They even met foreigners who came to learn in the Tianjin branch of Shunfeng Logistics.

The Nanyang Chinese did not go directly to Beijing. From Tianjin, they took another boat to Lushun. When the workers complained that the huge cracks in the hull of the Longyin were difficult to repair, and when the dockyard keepers complained that the imperial court had not allocated enough money for repairs, the Nanyang Chinese belly bore the cost.

The Nanyang Chinese got on the train and went north along the Fenglv line. In the fierce cold wind, they stepped on the thick ice and snow, and worshiped the souls of the dead who died fighting for their country on the Grange.

In Mukden, Zhang Jian, general manager of Asia Mining, Asia's largest steel group, warmly received them. When the ore turns into reddish molten iron and flows into the mold, when a huge forging press presses the ingot into a discus. When the steel plates were cut into steel plates and loaded onto the train, Zhang Jian told them. These will be transported to Huludao, Lushun, and to the shipyards in Nanjiang. There, the plates are assembled into warships to patrol the coast. The red molten iron not only reflects the faces of the Nanyang Chinese, but also reflects the hearts of the Nanyang Chinese. The once weak motherland began to work hard to catch up with the great powers that had gone away.

The Huludao Shipyard may be the only place where the Nanyang Chinese arrive at the door but can't get in. It was heavily guarded, as the last magic weapon against the Japanese fleet was being built here - ramming destroyers. The heavy iron gate separates this place into two worlds, and this place can only enter but not exit. All materials and equipment are parked in the designated place and then hoisted into it by a crane erected at the other end of the wall. Even universal daily necessities are no exception. For the sake of confidentiality, all workers are not allowed to go out except for signing a confidentiality agreement. The Nanyang Chinese don't know yes, but the people who work in it are required not to leave this place until the ship starts a war with the enemy, which is also for the good of the workers, because if the secrets are leaked, many people will die.

The Nanyang Chinese didn't mind, at least they saw that the imperial court was trying to find a way to protect their families and defend the country. There are only a few people who can freely enter the factory area, including Wu Deren, the former commander of the Qing Navy and the current director of the Huludao Shipyard. Many Chinese in Nanyang were indignant that the emperor had belittled a meritorious hero in such a way, but no one claimed to go to Beijing to seek justice for him. That's because Wu Deren really asked for it.

The imperial court does not allocate the cost of maintenance of warships, do you negotiate with the household department well, can you use it to kidnap Lin Qizhao, the servant of the household department? What if someone is forced to issue a repair fee? The result is not that the money is not received and the official is lost. Wu Deren didn't care about other people's regrets, drinking wine and blowing cowhides, and the scene was lively. Li Guanshan, who knew his lover, knew that it was actually the emperor who was not worried about the effect of the new warship, so that he, the commander of the navy, would personally stare at it. All this is just to disguise the real purpose. Li Guanshan even wondered if there was really a ramming destroyer under construction.

The Nanyang Chinese turned around in the northeast and saw the most advanced industrial capacity of the Qing Dynasty, and after nearly a month, they were still warmly welcomed in the capital. They gave speeches in the hall of Beijing Normal University, and their strong ideological feelings and patriotism deeply infected every student. They had a banquet with the emperor in the Purple Light Pavilion, and when the emperor asked them how they felt, they were more deeply worried than the enthusiasm of the motherland.

Most of the processing work that the Qing Dynasty engaged in was the most basic processing, or agricultural products that did not have much profit. Not to mention that heavy industry still has to rely on foreigners for a while, but most of the final products of light industry, such as ready-to-wear garments, are still monopolized in the hands of foreigners. This is not a good phenomenon, because they use Chinese raw materials and manpower to earn the hard-earned money of the Chinese. It has been very dangerous for a long time, and the Chinese in Nanyang understand this truth. That's what the Nanyang Chinese did, so they eventually mastered the Nanyang economy.

Guangxu frowned, in fact, he also understood, but there was no way in a short time. It would be nice to be able to feed more and more people who have no land. Li Guanshan smiled faintly, this is not a problem.

More excited than Guangxu was Tang Shaoyi, who had just returned to China, and after a few days of secret discussions, a large publicity plan was newly released. Under the pen of the literati, articles were published in major newspapers under various titles.

After the battle of Qing and Dutch, the Qing treasury increased greatly in income, and as the imperial court, it was more confident to develop basic industries and build more railways and highways. This in turn has led to the development of consumer goods-related industries, which in turn will pay more taxes to the state. If the state tax increases, more railways and roads can be built, which stimulates the expansion of factories. The country's economy has entered a virtuous circle.

When the "Shi Ji Bao" publicly publicized this viewpoint, it immediately attracted the same applause from all walks of life. Countless articles supporting this viewpoint were published in the major newspapers of the Qing Dynasty, and the "Shi Wu Bao" took advantage of this drum to launch a new slogan -- to use domestic products to strengthen national defense. (To be continued......)