In the late autumn grassland, the autumn wind turns yellow, and the withered yellow grass is blown by the wind, undulating like waves, but in this wave, I can see some young people measuring the land with surveying tools, and at the end of the horizon behind them, a busy construction site can be faintly seen. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Even in the undulating yellow waves, several steam tractors or steel dozers can be seen leveling the land and scraping out a subgrade, while on the limestone mixture, steam rollers roar forward, compacting the soft limestone stabilized soil.

Although natural and man-made disasters in Kannai and limited land meant that labor companies never had to worry about labor, and thousands of immigrants were recruited to Tohoku every day, it did not prevent companies from using large machinery and equipment such as steam tractors, steam rollers, and even steam excavators to reduce their dependence on manpower in road construction.

"Manpower!"

Sun Mu, who was standing upwind, lifted the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose and said to Cascent beside him in fluent English.

"It is the most valuable resource, we can indeed replace machinery with manpower, and there is indeed a lot of cheap labor in China, but, Mr. Cartel, now in addition to the Tiexi Industrial Zone in Mukden, there is also the construction of Dalian and railway factories and mines, manpower is needed everywhere, if I remember correctly, now even excluding the agricultural reclamation group, the labor company has invested more than 450,000 laborers in the northeast, and it is ...... in Tiexi"

The "Tiexi" in Sun Mu's mouth refers to the land under his feet. After the emperor moved the capital to Shengjing in the fifth year of the emperor's reign, he plundered all the Han people outside the city as slaves, and divided the land he had cultivated for generations to the Eight Banners. The west of the city is inlaid with blue flags. Nurhachi's nephew, Zilharang, was named Prince Zheng. Collar inlaid with blue flag flag owner. Until 1892, Lanjuntun, Luguantun, Yanfentun, Niuxintun and other places in the western area of Fengtian City were all inlaid with blue flags. Lanjuntun, Luguantun, Yanfentun and so on belong to the palace village.

Before 1892, although the land in the west of the city was repeatedly reclaimed, but the scale of its reclamation as a royal village was not large, and most of it was still a flag land pasture, and after the completion of the Northeast Governor's Palace, in addition to conducting land and forest surveys to find out the family background, it also issued an order to confiscate the flag land, although the confiscation of the flag land caused an uproar. But he didn't encounter much resistance, after all, the princes and nobles who should have fled at the beginning basically fled to Beijing, and most of the people who stayed were ordinary banner people, and they didn't dare to resist the official authority of the governor's palace.

Unlike other areas where land was reclaimed by agricultural reclamation groups, from the outset, thousands of square kilometers of confiscated land around Mukden were designated as urban land, while nearly 1,000 square kilometers of land to the west were designated as industrial zones. Because it is located at Fengtian Railway Station and the west side of the railway, it is designated as "Tiexi District".

It is not only an industrial zone, but also a new urban area in Fengtian, which is the core of the two major urban circles of Shenyang and Dalian planned in the "First Fourth Plan".

"There are more than 70,000 laborers who work day and night. Just to speed up the construction, after all...... Time is not waiting for me! ”

Gaze at the busy construction site in the distance. Sun Mu's brows furrowed suddenly, it was already autumn, and when the first snow fell, the construction site would be silent, and it would not be possible to reconstruct until next year's spring. At present, the buildings of those key factories have not been completed......

"Mr. Sun, I'm not against the use of machines, but you have to understand that I think we should put in more manpower, even though tractors can level the ground, rollers can tamp the roadbed, excavators can dig ditches to build sewers, but we have to take into account speed!"

As one of the planners of the "Four-Year Plan", as an economic expert of the German historical school, like other colleagues, he hoped to confirm their idea in this desolate land of East Asia -- to establish a rational or planned economy, in which the state with monopoly represents the overall interests of society, and the state determines the distribution of property, labor, and profits. As a student of Schmuller, Cassente saw in the Northeast the possibility of a dream come true.

Only with strong national strength can backward countries achieve the rise of the country. In the world, there is no more powerful state force in the economy than in the Northeast, and the economic control it implements is to gradually turn the entire country's economy into an organic whole.

So much so that when Carcent came into contact with economic control, especially its effect in North Korea, he was even more excited to write to discuss economic control with his teacher Schmuller, of course, more on the "four-year plan" proposed by the Governor's Office, even if it was an ambitious attempt to invest 150 million pounds in four years to initially build a basically complete industrial system from scratch, what is more fascinating is probably the plan and intervention in it.

The intervention and dominance of the economy is exactly what the economists of the German historical school advocated, and even the government control of economic behavior that they once advocated dominated Germany's economic development and achieved Germany's rapid economic development. However, with the ouster of Bismarck in 1890 and the abolition of the Anti-Socialist Law, the foundations of the existence of the historical school began to waver, and it entered a process of decline and disintegration. In particular, the conflict between the big capitalist groups and the state intervention in the economy also led to the decline of the historical school in Germany.

But what Cascent sees here is a much stronger state intervention than Germany, and although the "four-year plan" is undertaken by the Northeast Heavy Industry Development Corporation, or "Dongye", and the government is only responsible for guidance and supervision, this company is a "national policy company" that is subject to the government's overall guidance and supervision.

It is precisely because of his longing for the economic control of the Northeast that Carcent is full of enthusiasm for the "four-year plan", and of course, his enthusiasm also stems from his desire to prove the effectiveness of the "economic control" to the world through the success of this plan, and thus to prove the correctness of the historical school.

"I have calculated that if an additional 30,000 workers had been invested three months ago, at least one-fifth of the 176 factories in Tiexi District would have completed the first phase of civil construction, Sun."

Turning his head to look at Sun Mu beside him, Cassente said in a sighing tone.

"After all. In accordance with the principles of the four-year plan. Except for large-scale projects, other small and medium-sized projects should be completed in an average of 3 years. Although the current rate of return on investment in industry in China is extremely high compared to any other country, it is still extremely difficult to recover investment in three years, and whether or not the investment can be recovered in three years is related to whether the second four-year plan can be carried out smoothly......

If there is one reason why Cascent admires the "four-year plan", it is probably its interlocking development. Standing at the national level of industrial investment planning, by no means different from the general enterprise scattered investment, its more targeted, such as metallurgy, machine tools, machining, shipbuilding and textile, papermaking and other aspects of investment, all complement each other, this is only one of them, more important is the four-year plan to fully consider the market problems, especially the market to determine the investment recovery time, and the reason why it values the return of investment is based on the next "four-year plan" long-term planning.

If the first four-year plan was just to build an ordinary but complete industrial system, then the long-term "Second Fourth Plan" is an enlarged version of the "First Fourth Plan". Its investment is larger, and 50% of its investment comes from the recovery of the "14 Plan". And more importantly, the "First Fourth Plan" will train a large number of technical personnel for Northeast China, and after the "Four Years of Talent Training and Precipitation", those Chinese technical personnel will be fully used in the "Second Fourth Plan", unlike the "First Fourth Plan", which completely relies on foreign technical experts.

If it weren't for the fact that the marshal was too busy, I am afraid that Cascent would have been more than willing to discuss his invention of the "control economy" with him, but by talking to Sun Mu, who was a protégé of the marshal and is said to have had students of the marshal Tang in almost every industry, and Sun Mu's profound attainment in economic control, he could naturally answer some of Cascent's questions.

"Human ......"

After pondering for a moment, Sun Mu shook his head helplessly and said.

"At present, the company is facing two situations, abundant or nervous, for example, in terms of reclamation, because the government provides subsidies for ferry tickets and resettlement loans, so now the migrants in the customs are more willing to be the most ordinary farmers. In addition, the army, which is also conscripted in the Guannai, no longer pays generous salaries, but replaces them with land in lieu of salaries, and they are more eager to own their own land than as workers, even ......"

Thinking of the setback of the vocational training jointly organized by the company and the army, Sun Mu's wry smile became even stronger.

"Even for soldiers, when they want to retire, they either choose to be police officers, because many of them were police officers in the past and are naturally willing to return to their profession, and some are influenced by their comrades-in-arms to be willing to become policemen, and more people are willing to be farmers on 25 acres instead of workers with 8 yuan a month!"

The wages of workers are higher than those of soldiers, but this is only a superficial phenomenon, after all, soldiers do not have workers' tooling and food expenses, and compared with workers, according to the provisions of the "Northeast Military Status Law", soldiers enjoy the right to take public transportation at half price and free of charge, and all kinds of social status priorities make the status of soldiers much higher than that of workers, at least to some extent.

However, compared with the peasants, the workers have the convenience of living in the city, and their living environment is better, but despite this, those soldiers are still willing to be peasants rather than workers when they retire, and even to a certain extent, under the premise of ensuring the number of police, the Governor's Office also hopes that the soldiers will act as peasants, and serve as the chief of the armor as soldiers in the township, and then assume the function of establishing the grassroots power of the Governor's Office in the countryside, and bear the responsibility of training the peasants, after all, compared with the conscription of skilled workers to join the army, The conscription of peasants in time of war was undoubtedly more grounded and in the interests of the Governor's Office.

This sentence can be used to describe the "four-year plan", and it can also be used to describe the Governor's Palace's setting of rural construction work, at least the setting of resettlement points is controlled layer by layer, but in contrast, for the city, the workers are not paid much attention, and even include the recruitment of workers.

"The labor recruitment in the Northeast comes entirely from the mainland, farmers, soldiers, and workers are almost all from the mainland, and among them, the requirements for farmers are the lowest, and the training time is the shortest. Two months of training, need to carry out simple literacy, and later have to go to night school, even the worst construction workers, are required to obtain literacy certificates, not to mention skilled workers, in short, in a word, compared to becoming more demanding workers, farmers are naturally more willing to be farmers, which makes the number of workers now seems to be sufficient, but in fact it is very limited, not to mention, even enterprises such as the arsenal of the three eastern provinces, there is a shortage of more than 3,000 workers, as well as Dalian's Shahekou locomotive factory, machine tool factory, workers ......"

Sun Mu shrugged his shoulders helplessly, pointed to the road construction workers who were busy on the construction site and said,

"Now, Mr. Cascent, we don't have enough people, but we don't have enough workers, even the simplest construction workers, you know, these construction workers are also the main source of skilled workers!"

The selection of skilled workers among simple skilled workers is a long-standing practice of the company, and the reason is simple: first, the technical requirements of infrastructure workers are low, suitable for newly recruited workers, and second, the implementation of militarized management of infrastructure workers, this management model makes workers accustomed to discipline, and during the militarized management, they receive basic literacy training, literacy education paves the way for further training, and now almost all company workers have experience in infrastructure workers.

"Sun, isn't the company planning to set up a series of technical schools in Kannai right now? If these technical schools are completed, then there will be no need to worry about the workers, and now we need more infrastructure workers......"

The technical school that Kasente refers to is an idea of the company, which is actually a model for the establishment of a technical school in Kannai, recruiting young people to train them in technical skills and entering the factory directly after graduation, rather than the time-consuming and laborious multi-layered selection method that is now available.

"It's just a plan, and there are still a lot of difficulties to implement, and it needs the consent of all parts of the country, as for the infrastructure workers, ......"

After pondering for a moment, Sun Mu shrugged helplessly, and finally sighed and said with a long sigh as he looked south,

"According to the plan of the prefecture, 5 million households will be resettled in ten years, and one million people a year, plus infrastructure workers, these people are all young and strong in the Guannai, and this Guannai ...... Who knows if immigration will be restricted in the future? After all, population is the lifeblood of the Northeast! As long as the population is stuck in the Kannai, what "four-year plan", what immigration is real, what land development, but it's just a joke! Person! ”

With a heavy emphasis, Sun Mu's gaze narrowed slightly.

"No one, nothing is empty talk!" (To be continued.) )