In the office, Yang Yuanzhao not only has to shoulder the daily operation of Baotou, but also needs to contribute to the research institute, and even from time to time to participate in the foundation laying or commissioning ceremony of a certain factory.

It is in this kind of busyness that Baotou has developed step by step, and even in a certain way, the speed even exceeds that designed by Yang Yuanzhao, and the rolling tide seems to have formed in Baotou, even if it only affects the surrounding area of Baotou now, but what about the future, he has only been in Baotou for a year, if it is 2 years, 3 years, 4 years?

Now, the development of Baotou has reached a certain level, Yang Yuanzhao's heart is still a little dissatisfied, he hopes that the Ruhr is not a closed-door Ruhr, but a real, Ruhr with extraordinary influence on China, just like Germany, is the heart of the real heavy industry. At present, the Baiyun Obo Iron and Steel Plant has not yet been put into operation, and there are almost two months before the completion of the nearest blast furnace, but Yang Yuanzhao can't wait.

Baotou's commodities are sweeping the northwest, and all walks of life are soaring, but outside, there is little influence, especially in the coastal and southeastern rich areas, one is more difficult to enter, and the other is that Yang Yuanzhao also consciously controls zhì to enter, after all, it is the traditional area of Britain and France, Baotou is not only not ready to confront the center of the Qing court, even if it is the great powers, it is even more difficult.

With the formation of the 54 mixed formation association, it has been almost more than half a year, a large number of logistics supplies, almost unlimited ammunition supply, and finally a well-trained army has been trained, such an army, with a large number of heavy artillery, may not be enough to attack, but it is more than enough to defend it, stick to the periphery of Baotou, with a large number of permanent fortifications around, resist the attack of three or five times the army, it should be no problem, it seems, you can choose, expand your influence.

How do you expand? It was during this time that Yang Yuanzhao had been thinking about something, and his eyes fell on the piece of paper in front of him, which had a name that made him unfamiliar, Wuhan Persuasion Association, but after reading its introduction, Yang Yuanzhao understood what it was, in the world, there was a World Expo, in later generations, it was called the World Expo, in this era, it was generally called the World Expo, and when it came to China, it was the Persuasion Industry Association.

This is the place to introduce products, China has won the gold medal of the World Exposition, most of them are food or wine, or silk tea and the like, are the basic raw materials, is China's more well-known products, the only industrial products, I am afraid only alkali, Hou's alkali method, is the only industrial product in the world of the Republic of China, in the world's advanced ranks, but also caused the shocking invention of the powers, they have been committed to buying or poaching, but unfortunately Hou Debang has remained in China.

The London International Exposition in 1908 was not good, there were only two or three industrial products in Baotou at that time, and they could be listed in the advanced ranks of the world at a certain time, but for Yang Yuanzhao's ambitions, these were not enough at all, besides, Baotou at that time was too weak, once it came out, maybe it would be devoured by hungry wolves at once, but unfortunately the next time, until 1915, it was already the period of the First World War, and he was confident that on that Universal Exposition, it would make a sensation, In a certain sense, let Made in China re-enter the world's mainstream sight, but I didn't expect that there was actually a Wuhan Industry Association.

After a detailed inquiry, I learned that the Wuhan Industry Association was not the first time it was held in China, since 1906, the country has been holding such a business meeting, Tianjin Industry Association is the first, each factory produced products can get the opportunity to exhibit in it, the order signed on the exhibition has also greatly promoted the development of the national industry of the Republic of China, and even the ignorant Qing government, specially for the industry will reduce a lot of taxes, the success of the first Tianjin Industry Association, In addition, the vigorous development of private capital in Tianjin has a huge connection with this.

"Xiaoman, go and invite Brother Zelin!"

Baoken Company, Yang Yuanzhao's office, not far from Liu Shu's, a second floor, a third floor, compared to before, a simple old-style house, this small building, must be on the way, very similar to the office buildings of later generations, simple but with enough offices, and more connections between each other.

Liu Shu came quickly, and when he saw Liu Shu, Yang Yuanzhao pointed to the invitation letter in his hand and asked, "Brother Zelin, how did you get this thing?" ”

"The shopkeeper of the Yang family in Wuhan was invited, and Chen Kuilong, the governor of Huguang, directly issued an invitation letter, asking us to participate in this industry persuasion meeting!"

Governor of Huguang? Chen Kuilong, the former is very powerful, in its list, there are suddenly familiar names such as Lin Zexu, Li Hongzhang, and Zhang Zhidong, but the latter is very unfamiliar, at least for Yang Yuanzhao, I have never heard of it.

"What do we need to exhibit?"

Liu Shu said: "We need some money and products! ”

"Is there a list of exhibitors?" Liu Shu nodded, since the Wuhan Industry Association began to blow the wind in April, but due to the relationship between funds and exhibitors, until August, it has not yet opened, and the opening time has been postponed again and again, and it is estimated that it can be opened in October, which is already good.

"That's it!" Looking at the roster that Liu Shu took, Yang Yuanzhao pondered, on the roster, in addition to the two kinds of treasured fabrics named by Chen Kuilong to participate, there are more than 120 kinds, most of these products are products of light industry, which are slightly different from his purpose, the ability of light industry to accumulate wealth is very strong, but some things still have to rely on heavy industry. After thinking about it for a while, Yang Yuanzhao added a few things to the list of exhibitions.

High-speed spinning machine, ginning machine, loom, printing machine, new fine cloth machine, high-efficiency steam engine, brick making machine, match assembly line, flour machine......

"Yuan Zhao, what is this?" Liu Shu looked at Yang Yuanzhao with some astonishment, these are basically the machinery they need to expand production, which is a full set of imported from Germany, which is also the root cause of Baotou's ability to form Baotou manufacturing, is it that these can already be produced?

"This is an alternative catalogue that needs to be featured as an important part?"

"But Yuan Zhao, can we already produce these things?"

Yang Yuanzhao shook his head, Liu Shu was a little anxious, and said: "Yuanzhao, I know you want to show your face, but the Governor of Huguang is different from others, he is the governor of several places second only to the central ministers, and he really angers him, but it's not an ordinary joke!" ”

"Of course I won't joke about that, Wuhan Industry Association will start in October, we still have 2 months, after more than a year of development, we have accumulated a large number of workers, skilled lathe workers, it can be said that there is a large number, it is time to participate in machinery manufacturing."

Liu Shutong guò during this period of study, also very clear, machinery manufacturing, is always the largest profit, light industry profits, more on the sales volume, light industry products each profit is not high, only continue to occupy the market, keep selling products, this profit will gradually rise, machine qì industry, market sales are not large, but the profit alone, is definitely very considerable, from a scrap iron, into a precision machine, the difference can not be calculated by idle, This is the power of technology, but also the improvement of profits.

Liu Shu asked with a little worry, "Can we produce this?" ”

"Rest assured, trust our workers!"

Last year, in the whole country, a large number of workers, the promotion of these workers themselves, coupled with the real estate project that occupies the hearts of the people, although the top technicians, only some foreign technicians put into it, but the middle and lower level technicians, is simply very eager, the huge technical school, for most of the technicians to provide a soil for practice and learning, even if you do not enter the technical school, you can also communicate with the factory in your spare time, use their machine tools, factory managers, Knowing the difference between ordinary technicians and higher-level technicians, the value of their creation is absolutely different, and it is a green light for this, and finally in August, the number of technicians in Baotou came to a blowout, the total number of more than 16,000 people, in September is expected to participate in the level 2 exam, there are other technician upgrade exams, there will be more than 8,000 people, and in the next few months, there will be a very obvious increase.

Although, as far as 16,000 technicians are concerned, more than 95 are the lowest level of first-level technicians, but such mechanics can also use guò machine tools or other tools to carry out simple processing of some equipment, such subjectivity and initiative, for the factory is very helpful, plus there are actual financial rewards and points rewards, the absolute number of higher levels, such as three poles, four levels, and even five levels is also increasing, although relative to the overall number, is not obvious.

The emergence of a large number of technicians has made the technicians no longer concentrated in some key locations of the research institute and the factory, so that Baotou has a certain number of technicians, and the number of technicians is somewhat rich, so that these technicians with subjective work ability are engaged in the work of the most ordinary workers on the assembly line, which is a waste from a certain process dù, Yang Yuanzhao has been thinking about how to strengthen their use and let them play a better role.

Wuhan Quanye Association appeared at this time, itself, what Liu Shu and others wanted to do was to use this platform to promote the industrial products of the entire Baotou, so that the products of Baotou, outside the original western region, and the traditional control area of the great Jin merchants, expanded to the southeast coast and the whole of China, and even considered the export of a certain amount of dù, but did not expect that Yang Yuanzhao directly targeted the production of the machine. R1152