Chapter 108 Misunderstanding (Best Wishes Mid-Autumn Festival!) Ask for a commuter pass! Read! ）

"Picking up a sesame seed and losing a watermelon is exactly the misunderstanding of the current industrial and commercial development of the empire"

Shi Si's words were not loud, but they were extremely harsh in Guan Mingtang's ears, because that was the business policy he formulated.

For Liu Nengxian, although he is a "minister", in the past year, the performance of investing in the top ten yarn factories and top ten textile factories in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Anhui, Guangdong and Wuhan has always been Liu Nengxian's proudest thing.

"In order to make alternative industries profitable as soon as possible, Zheng Fǔ directly purchased spinning mills and weaving mills from the United States and India last year, and finally integrated them into large factories by foreign technicians, and at the same time purchased machines, they built factories, yes, these yarn factories and cloth factories have indeed been put into production, and they have seen benefits, if I don't remember, Lord Liu once said that it will be effective in half a year, recycled in two years, and expanded in three years"

Regardless of the changes in the faces of Guan and Liu, Shi Si still said to himself.

"From the perspective of alternative industries, whether it is a yarn mill or a textile mill, a printing and dyeing factory, it is impossible to be kind, after all, China needs to exhaust nearly 200 million taels of silver every year to import cotton yarn and cotton cloth, but what if you stand in the country's perspective?"

Shi Si asked rhetorically, and without waiting for the two to answer, he answered himself.

"If you look at it from the perspective of the country, whether it is these yarn mills and cloth factories to recover their investment within two years, or to double their production capacity in three years, the apparent benefits cannot make up for the actual losses."

A de facto loss? Not to mention Guan Mingtang and Liu Nengxian, even Chen Moran doesn't understand, where is this loss, and the factory has seen benefits?

"Please also ask Mr. Shi to make it clear that as far as Guan knows, these factories have achieved initial design profits without exception, and their products are in short supply."

Suppressing the unhappiness in his heart, Guan Mingtang opened his mouth and asked.

"Master Guan, the actual loss I am talking about is not a short-term financial loss, but a long-term loss."

Shi Si raised his chin slightly, as if he didn't feel anything surprised that Guan Mingtang hadn't noticed this.

"I remember Mr. Guan once said that for China, the most needed machine is steel, but I want to ask, Mr. Guan, from last year to this year, how much has the state invested in projects such as textile factories? Will this type of industry contribute to China's rapid industrialization? ”

Two rhetorical questions in a row, while Guan Mingtang pondered, Chen Moran also understood the meaning of Shi Si, and Shi Si's meaning could not be clearer, that is, to develop heavy industry.

"In fact, I would like to thank Mr. Guan, it was the meeting three days ago that Mr. Guan benefited me a lot from the question of "what does China need", China needs machines, it needs steel ......."

"Then there is no need for cotton cloth, cotton yarn, printing books and newspapers related to the national economy and people's livelihood, and paper to popularize culture?"

Guan Mingtang obviously couldn't accept Shi Si's accusation, and while refuting it, he turned to His Majesty and explained.

"Your Majesty, whether it is a textile mill or a yarn mill or a paper mill, these factories all have one characteristic, low investment and quick results. When the substitution industry was first developed, the minister once said that relying on this kind of project to put into production to replace imports, save gold and silver coins, and at the same time, make the government recover a large amount of profits, so that the profits can be invested in steel, railways, machinery manufacturing and other industries with large investment and slow results, so that the country's industry can enter the good cycle, and after the country's industrial base is initially formed, the state should start from the industrial and commercial industry, so as to avoid the state interfering in industry and commerce, affecting the development of the market mechanism."

"If the country has all the industries with little investment and quick results, then what should those people who want to invest in industries with quick results?"

Shi Si retorted coldly, he had been thinking about this question since the end of the meeting three days ago, in fact, this question had come to his mind very early, 30 patents introduced by the Technical Analysis Bureau were transferred to military enterprises, 55 were sold to industrial companies, and only 15 were sold to enterprises owned by Sī.

"The government's investment in industries with little investment and quick results will lead to the public's interest in investing in industry, and now we import more machines in a year than we have imported in the past ten years, and how many of them are imported by private enterprises, except for military factories, government enterprises and industrial companies?"

At the same time as a rhetorical question, Shi Si's eyes stared at Liu Nengxian, this "Liu doesn't care" doesn't know that his speech, will it sometimes affect the people's enthusiasm for investment? ,

"Lord Liu, your half a year has been effective, two years of recycling, three years of expansion, said in Nanjing, said in Shanghai, said in Guangzhou, and reported in the newspaper, yes, this is the achievement of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, amazing, but in Shi's view, the biggest benefit of this amazing achievement is...... The gentry's interest in investing in the industry has been greatly reduced, let me ask, those who have managed to scrape together hundreds of thousands of dollars of local old wealth, they are very bold, and they also know that they can't touch the government-run enterprises, regardless of others, the scale of the government-run enterprises is large, chūn Shenjiang Yarn Factory, obediently, as soon as it is launched, it is 500,000 spindles, how much will the expansion expand in the past three years? A little bit of brain knows that at this speed, this courage, in less than five years, China's textile market, these government-run factories can eat seventy or eighty percent, who dares to invest in yarn factories? Your display is the people's heart to invest in the industry."

While ridiculing Liu Nengxian's "showmanship", Shi Si turned to Guan Mingtang.

"Lord Guan, if there is no public investment in an industry like a yarn factory, which has few investments and quick results, and wait for ten or eight years, even if we want to sell steel mills and machinery factories to the people, who can eat such a big enterprise? All the businesses that can make money have been taken away by the government, and what is the end result? The country is rich, but the people are poor"

At the end of Guan Mingtang's rebuttal, Shi Si interrupted him again.

"Don't say that if the country is rich, the people will be rich, this is not a rational word, no matter how rich the country is, it has nothing to do with the people, you and I understand this truth, the factory is sī people, the workers can strike and increase wages, or if the factory is the state, the strike is useless, the workers are not strong with batons, and the son is still his own parent"

Finally, he snorted coldly.

"Maybe this biological son is very rich, and he even ignores Lao Tzu's words, maybe he will take advantage of Lao Tzu at every turn, and that one will take advantage of Lao Tzu, as for the workers? Whatever he is. Anyway, when the son stabs the big Lou Zi, when Lao Tzu will give him a pocket, there is no way, the son is shameless, and Lao Tzu has to take care of his face. ”

Shi Si's cold snort, in exchange for Chen Moran's admiration in his heart, this Shi Si has not seen a few "official enterprises", but he has told all the faces of the official enterprises after sitting on the big and strong.

"That's not necessarily the case, if ......"

"My lord, we can't hope for everything, and it's ......"

Interrupting Guan Mingtang's rebuttal, Shi Si looked at him, although he felt a little unbearable for his unceremonious insolence, but now he couldn't hesitate.

"You once said that we are 100 or even 150 years behind the West, and it will take 10 to 15 years to catch up with them. That has time to go làng fee"

"Master Shi"

Liu Nengxian, who had always been willing to be a "minister", couldn't help it, and almost as soon as Shi Si's voice fell, he spoke.

"So what do you think to do? We can't afford to do without those factories."

"It's not that I don't do it"

Turning around Liu Nengxian, Shi Si said directly.

"It's about prioritizing and prioritizing, and what should be done, such as the new machine chuáng factory, further expanding, now we can only produce 6,000 machines a year, even according to the plan, four years later, that is, 15,000 units, the number is too small, we reached a contract with the United States, Britain, Germany, and French companies in the first half of this year, and 23,000 units of chuáng were adopted, and 50,000 units of chuáng were imported and signed this year, so, The plant should be further expanded to achieve an annual output of 28,000 to 30,000 units in four years, which is far less foreign exchange savings than producing millions of cotton yarns."

"It's not realistic, we don't have that many workers"

Guan Mingtang immediately retorted that the industrial plan he drew up at the beginning was based on "step-by-step" development, and everything was based on reality and developed synchronously as much as possible.

"How many workers were there when the industrial company was founded? How many workers are there now? Workers can be trained, specialized schools can be built, there is a shortage of technicians, hired from abroad, there is a lack of technology, there is no money to bring in, in short, as long as you are willing, as long as you put in enough strength, there is nothing that cannot be done"

Some of the jī moved Shi Si again faced His Majesty.

"Your Majesty, if you want to train retired soldiers, then set up a professional school now, so that these soldiers can go to the school to study as soon as they retire, build factories while training workers, and when the factory is built, the workers will be trained, and it is better to wait for machines than for machines, and the problem of China's industrial development is in the final analysis people rather than machines."

Chen Moran looked at the report in his hand, the thick report embodies the hard work of the staff of the History Department and the Technical Analysis Bureau, and compared with Guan Mingtang's original set of industrial plans based on the development of alternative industries, this plan is actually a plan that points out the current lack of industrial development in China, which is more in line with his own dreams and the needs of the country.

But there is still something missing in this plan, looking at this outline, which is to some extent similar to the "five-year plan" of the Soviet and Russian style, Chen Moran, who is a mechanical student, understands that if he wants to turn the outline into a feasible plan, he also needs some experts to help formulate a detailed development plan and regional planning.

But just like Shi Si said, the problem of China's industrial development is in the final analysis people, not machines, as long as there is money, in this era can buy the world's most advanced machines, can introduce the most advanced technology, in this era of trade supremacy, there is no limit to the output of technology, but the problem lies in people

China not only lacks skilled workers, but also lacks skilled personnel, just as even if you want to turn this program into a program, you need a large number of experts to help formulate development plans and implementation plans, and China does not have such people

Or...... Hear what they have to say

"Guan Qing, Liu Qing, here is an outline, you can take a look"