Chapter Seventy-Seven: Mechanic Speed
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"The Red Eighth Army has a total of more than 120 million yuan in gold, silver, and foreign exchange," although Hu Weidong had rehearsed it many times in his heart, he was still a little nervous after he really spoke.
And Taizu stood up in shock, and asked with some suspicion, "How can there be so much money?" Comrade Xiaohu, you haven't violated the discipline of the masses, have you? ”
"Absolutely not, these gains come from the bureaucratic capital under the name of the Chiang and Yan regimes, as well as the big landlords and big capitalists who coexist with the Jiangsu, Zhejiang chaebols, and Jin merchants, and in addition, the Japanese and traitors have also got a lot of them, and as long as there are no serious crimes, we have not touched any of them." , Hu Weidong replied truthfully, and explained by the way, "In fact, this money is not too much, after all, Hangzhou and Taiyuan are among the top ten big cities in China"
"In such a dark China (where the gap between the rich and the poor is too great), how can the people not rebel?" , Taizu suddenly stood up excitedly and shouted, which made the guards outside the house give a false alarm. After a while, Taizu's mood calmed down, and he motioned for Hu Weidong to continue, especially to ask him to explain why he wanted to go abroad to buy now, instead of using it to accelerate the victory of the revolution, and wait until he grasped the national power before buying from foreign countries.
"It turns out that the Soviet Union was able to develop so fast, and it was actually because it picked up a bargain?" After listening to Hu Weidong's explanation of the Great Depression in the West in 29-33, Taizu suddenly realized, and the little awe that there was left of the Soviet Union in his heart was almost gone, and what Hu Weidong said, "Although the opportunity is not as good as a few years ago, it is as cheap as it can be taken, once the Western economy recovers, not only will the price be several times higher at that time, but even if you have money, you may not be able to buy those important equipment and jishu with strategic value, and it is even more difficult to dig people to the sky." It made him even more excited. But this kind of big thing Taizu can't do alone, he decided to invite Vice Chairman Zhou first, and then persuade the commander-in-chief after reaching an agreement, as long as the three of them agree on it, then others can't object.
Vice Chairman Zhou is also a great man, and knows more about foreign countries than Taizu, although he feels that Hu Weidong's Jihua is very risky, but he also feels that this is indeed a great opportunity for China's rise, and it would be a pity if he misses it, and he is now convinced of Taizu's vision, and finally cast this crucial vote in favor after pondering for almost a quarter of an hour.
At this time, Hu Weidong had to inch in and said, "120 million yuan is a lot in China, but when converted into US dollars, it is only about 40 million, even if it is the price of cabbage, it is impossible to buy back a complete industrial system." Although the potential profit margin of new products such as penicillin is huge, due to the poor local conditions, the current production is not enough for self-use, if possible, I will try to use the long-term franchise as collateral to borrow from large foreign consortia and large companies, so as to get more cash as soon as possible to purchase more machinery and equipment, and introduce more Jishu talents. And before we went abroad, we didn't know what we could buy, what kind of talent we could bring in, and how we would bring them back to our home countries and transport them to the base area, so I wanted to be able to get full authority to adapt to the situation. ”
Taizu has always been suspicious of people and employing people, and when he heard this, he was about to agree, but Vice Chairman Zhou, who has always been thoughtful, raised a question that could not be skipped, "Even if 120 million yuan is not enough to complete China's industrialization as you said, it is already a very large amount in China, and it is said that Yan Xishan is building an industrial railway in Shanxi, and the total investment is only tens of millions." However, at present, there are only a few million industrial workers in the mainland, of which less than one million are in heavy industry, and even if it is only 120 million yuan of machinery and equipment bought, I am afraid that there will not be enough workers to operate it, so what is the use of raising more cash in a short period of time? ”…,
"This problem is not difficult to solve, on the one hand, we will not buy those outdated old machines, labor productivity is naturally higher, and there are relatively few workers needed. On the other hand, there are many unemployed workers in Western countries now, as long as the wages are higher, it should not be too difficult to hire some excellent jishu workers to come back as masters, in addition, we have invented a method in Yuxi, which can train an illiterate person who is not stupid into a skilled operator in one to two years, if there is a cultural foundation above the high school or a little smart and studious, it only takes more than half a year, which has been proven effective in the past few months. Hu Weidong said with a smile when he heard this, and the method he said was the key to laying the foundation in just a few years after the founding of New China in history
At that time, Soviet experts came to China to teach, and most of those factories were brand new, and often only had hardware equipment, and the level of operators was miserable, not to mention high-level workers, often there was not even an ordinary technician, and the jishu workers trained in China did not actually have any jishu, they were all middle school students who had just graduated. Under normal circumstances, it would be impossible for such a plant to be put into operation without training Soviet specialists for a few years to more than 10 years, what should be done back then? The task of building factories in the country was tighter than anything else, and the number and time of Soviet specialists were limited. The Chinese's solution is - subcontracting! The teaching content is completely decomposed, a person's course is sent to more than a dozen groups to learn, each group only listens to a small part of it during the class, and the same is true when the internship is held, zuihou basically in less than a year, each group is proficient in the skills within the scope of the task, and then combine them after a short run-in The entire factory has the necessary software requirements for production.
Relying on this trick similar to the ant colony effect, New China trained millions of high-level technicians within a few years, and after the withdrawal of the Soviet Union, although the industry was relieved, it quickly recovered and fully blossomed (of course, it is much more difficult to upgrade). It is not wrong for a senior technician to take more than ten years, but it only takes a few years or even a few months for a combined technician group with all the abilities of a senior technician. Of course, the price of doing this is the skyrocketing labor cost, but the characteristic of New China is industrialization regardless of the cost, and money is the only thing that does not need to be considered!
At present, the direct goal of industrial construction in the Soviet area is to support the future war of resistance, which is of a wartime economic nature, and it is also industrialization regardless of cost, so this trick was immediately used by Hu Weidong and received amazing results. You must know that it is only 36 years now, and there is a big gap between the global scientific and technological level and the 50s, and the requirements for workers are relatively low, so the speed of training is naturally faster!
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