January 11, 1898, East Asia Seris, Chang'an Street, Beijing.

January is at its coldest in Beijing, and Chang'an Avenue is still covered with snow left behind by sanitation workers.

In front of the Xinhua Gate in Zhongnanhai, a foreigner wearing a Western-style fur coat with blue eyes and high nose with high cheeks was wandering back and forth here, making the sentries standing guard in front of the door amused.

The reason why the four sentinels did not arouse their vigilance was that they all knew the man in front of them, and this slightly thin foreigner was none other than Sir Douglas, the new British minister who had been running to see the head of the Republic for the past few days.

"Mr. Minister, don't wait. I've told you several times that the Führer is not in Zhongnanhai right now. ”

The foreman's sentry kindly stepped forward to remind the British minister in front of him.

"It doesn't matter, I'll wait here for Your Excellency, it doesn't matter. Otherwise, I don't know when I'll meet him again. The half-baked and broken Chinese made people laugh, and at the same time, the sentry in front of him smiled bitterly and retreated to the front of the post.

Sir Dou Nale, who felt the bitter cold, tightened the collar of his coat on his chest again, and silently continued to wait......

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Sir Dou Nale was destined to run in vain today, because the person he asked to see had already left the city of Beijing by this time.

Compared with the cold north of Seris, the weather in Shanghai in the south in January is slightly warmer due to the difference in latitude, and the never-ending Siberian cold current seems to have softened a little after passing through the Yangtze River.

Shanghai, facing the sea in the east and North Korea and Japan, bordering Hangzhou Bay in the south, and Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces in the west, whether from the perspective of economic or coastal defense strategic location, this emerging city located at the mouth of the Yangtze River is extremely important, and because of its proximity to Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, Shanghai is also full of Wuyue flavor culturally.

As early as a few days ago, Chen Zeyu set sail by ship and came to the city under the escort of two Taiwan-class cruisers from the Tianjin military port. Chen Zeyu, who is full of trivial matters, naturally will not come here to play, as the head of state of a country for several days, he has been inspecting the Baoshan Iron and Steel Project under construction.

A large barren area on the south bank of the Huangpu River, across the river from Changxing Island, is the Baoshan Industrial Zone, a newly planned heavy industry base in Shanghai. Except for the easternmost section of the port wharf and the Wusong port fort, most of the thousands of hectares left vacant are for the Baoshan Iron and Steel Plant, the third phase of Avalanche Iron and Steel Heavy Industry's project, which is currently under construction.

As the first heavy industry base to be built on the mainland, Shanghai's Baoshan Iron and Steel has devoted all the efforts and technology accumulation of the entire Avalanche Group since the day the project was launched. Not only a large number of first-class elite engineers have been transferred from Nanyang, but also the planning and design of the entire project is improving. Under the influence of Chen Zeyu, the entire Baoshan Iron and Steel Project has aimed at the world's first-class goal from the beginning, and has pursued the best in process equipment, and the epoch-making energy consumption and environmental protection standards have also been introduced to the industry of Seris for the first time.

And because of the abundant financial and technical support, the entire Baoshan Iron and Steel Project has shown an extraordinary construction speed from the day it just started. With the sweat and efforts of a large number of workers and elite engineers, after more than a year of intense construction, the Baoshan Iron and Steel Plant under construction has begun to take shape.

According to the set schedule, the first phase of the Baoshan Iron and Steel Project will be completed and put into operation in four months. If nothing else, on May 11, the third anniversary of the capture of Beijing by the Republican army, Chen Zeyu was able to hold the ignition ceremony of the No. 1 blast furnace for the Baoshan Iron and Steel Plant.

In order to cope with the increasingly huge industrial demand in China, the first phase of Baoshan Iron and Steel has started construction, and the second phase of the planned project has already been designed. According to the plan, when the entire ambitious Baoshan Iron and Steel Plant project is completed in six years' time, Seris's annual steel output will exceed a record 20 million tons for the first time.

At the same time that the construction of the Baoshan steel construction site is in full swing, the two steel plants in Liaoning, Anshan and Wuhan in Hubei Province, which are supported by domestic industrial construction bonds, are also in the process of starting construction day and night. Unlike the Baoshan Iron and Steel Plant, which was built solely by the Chen family in Shanghai, the two steel plants in Anshan and Wuhan, which were built with government bonds, will be the first state-owned enterprises in the Republic. Inspired by the previous life, these future state-owned enterprises will implement a strict system of separation of ownership and management rights, and because of Chen Zeyu's instructions, in the future, including mines and railways financed by the government, will also continue this model.

Standing on top of the construction site with the roar of machines, Chen Zeyu listened with great interest to several engineers around him explaining to him the engineering design and progress of the steel plant.

Just from the huge construction land allocated by the government, it can be seen that the planned Baoshan Iron and Steel Plant has a grand scale, thousands of hectares of land, which is completely the area of a small town, and the future Baoshan Iron and Steel Plant is an envisioned steel industry city.

As time goes by, the country's industrial base will become more and more solid, but with the explosive growth of this industry, it will reveal a serious shortage of industrial workers in the country. Although all kinds of technical schools in China and Nanyang can send a large number of qualified skilled workers to the Seris industry, the number is still limited, and the overall domestic industrial development is still limited by the number of skilled workers. Therefore, how to transfer the huge surplus rural population in China to the industry in a timely manner has become a matter of urgency for local governments.

Seris's two "five-year development plans" for 10 consecutive years will undoubtedly fundamentally change this situation. While speeding up the establishment of various technical training schools in China, a large number of infrastructure construction projects have also led to the birth of many private construction companies. In addition to a few model standardized infrastructure teams selected by Nanyang Industries, most of the infrastructure construction and industrial construction in China will be undertaken by these local construction companies in the future. While benefiting a large number of private capital, these large-scale state-level projects have also invisibly created a large number of qualified industrial workers, and there is no doubt that all domestic industrial construction will benefit from them in the future.

Chen Zeyu waved his hand and put aside the support of the guards, and surveyed the construction progress with Zhao Bingxu, the engineer next to him, in the busy construction site.

"All construction parties should not blindly pursue the speed of the project, and the personal safety of workers must also be guaranteed."

"Yes, Führer!" Several private construction owners who were interviewed suddenly nodded like chickens pecking rice.

Chen Zeyu turned sideways and asked the avalanche engineer beside him, "How are the company's personnel arranged?" ”

In the refreshing voice, the middle-aged engineer only felt like a spring breeze, and immediately replied excitedly after hearing the question clearly.

"Report the Führer! Chief Engineer Deng has already formulated a plan for the northward relocation of technical personnel, and the time should be in place early next year. ”

Zhao Bingxu, who works as a project supervisor in Baoshan District, belongs to the early veteran technical employees of Avalanche Steel, and the chief engineer Deng in his mouth is Deng Shicong, the president of the Iron and Steel Heavy Industry Group.

"Hehe, just order it, don't be too nervous."

After several years of self-discipline and learning, Chen Zeyu has gradually grown into a qualified politician. While still maintaining his energy, Chen Zeyu's body began to slowly fade away from the slightly aggressive image of the past, and while not losing his sharpness, his body has begun to show a natural kingly demeanor.

"Yes, Führer!"

Chen Zeyu nodded with a smile, and with the roar of several blast furnaces being assembled, he continued to walk to the southwest construction site with great interest after staying in the industrial area for a morning.

In addition to steel smelting and forgings processing, Avalanche Steel Heavy Industry Group has also begun to get involved in steel-related peripheral industries such as military industry, electric power, coal, industrial gas production, docks, warehousing, and transportation. As the first heavy industry base built by the group in the mainland, the Baoshan Iron and Steel Branch will undoubtedly occupy an extremely important position, according to Chen Zeyu's previous instructions, in the next few years, the company's technical team originally rooted in Nanyang will be moved to the mainland in batches. Including several military, steel, pharmaceutical, and shipbuilding companies, the entire Avalanche Group's technology development, technology transfer, technical services and technical management service teams will be successively transferred to the Asian continent, where the strategic depth conditions are more secure and superior.

In addition to their own strategic transfer considerations, relocating these companies to the mainland is also a very realistic interest choice.

Just late last summer, the province of Luzon in the southern seas of Seris was hit by a wave of typhoons. Buildings in the western Luzon region were particularly badly damaged, and in some areas there was even a tsunami. In order to cope with these natural disasters in the South Pacific, various projects in Luzon Province of the Republic of China were in a dilemma of rising construction costs in order to increase local shore defense and water conservancy projects at the beginning of construction.

According to Chen Zeyu's plan for the future, the Nanyang region will still reduce the intensity of industrial construction in the future. In addition to the various enterprises that have been built in the early days, all kinds of large-scale industrial construction in China will be gradually transferred to the mainland in the future. According to his idea, in the future, these areas of Luzon will mainly develop agricultural products, tourism and the production of raw materials for characteristic industries, especially the rubber industry with unique requirements for the climate.

Thinking of the rubber industry in Nanyang, the corners of Chen Zeyu's mouth, who was being surrounded by everyone, once again drew a proud amplitude.

Benefiting from Chen Zeyu's foresight for more than ten years, Luzon, Hainan, Guangxi and other provinces of the Republic have been continuously introducing and developing the rubber industry over the years. In today's world rubber market, except for the pitiful rubber output of Brazil in South America, rubber, an important new industrial raw material for automobile tires, has gradually been monopolized by the rubber industry in Seris.

As the country's top leader, as long as Chen Zeyu is willing, the entire world rubber market can change according to his wishes at any time. From this point of view, in the entire European and American markets, the high prices of all kinds of cars and the lagging automobile industry also have a contribution to Chen Zeyu.

Second-rate businessmen adapt to the market, and first-rate businessmen control the market. Chen Zeyu is not only a first-class businessman, but also a super-first-class politician! On the industrial map of the world in the future, the Republic of Seris will be destined to occupy the forefront position.