Chapter 51: Huge Investment

In fact, everyone also knows that the light bulb invented by Edison in the United States last year caused a sensation all over the world, and it is very polite to say that its invention will bring light to thousands of households, turn night into day, so that factories can operate normally at night, so that schools can teach students at night, and so on! From these uses, we can see that this invention that changes the world needs one thing, that is, electricity! However, the current use of direct current, there has always been a headache that the price is too high, not easy to promote and use, but the alternating current we are about to invent is indeed a cheap new energy, along with the successful development of our alternating current generator! When the time comes, the patents of these two things will bring us a lot of wealth! Because its prospects are too broad!"

From his description, everyone has already understood!

"Wouldn't that be a dead earning! Millions of taels of silver a year!" Huo Yu, who was unwilling to be lonely, shouted for the first time, in his heart, millions of taels of silver was already an unimaginable amount of money!

"Hehehe, a few million taels, young master, I'm ready to wait for tens of millions of taels of silver every year! Now there are almost 1.6 billion people in the world, and even if only a quarter of the people have access to electricity, according to the price of 4 cents per kilowatt-hour, that will be more than 10 million US dollars a year! If the price is rising, my God, it will be more! Plus we can also sell generators, and we can also sell electric motors......!" Thinking about Tesla's series of inventions, Huo Shan couldn't help but see pieces of gold and silver in front of his eyes, and the dollar and the pound flew towards him!

Looking at the trace of saliva flowing from the corner of the young master's mouth, Huang Sheng, who felt a little embarrassed, hurriedly coughed.

Coming back to his senses, he glanced blankly at the angry teacher and the desperately suppressed smiles on the faces of the people around him, Huo Shan couldn't help but touch his nose in embarrassment! He knew that his appearance of being a wealth fan had been seen by everyone! Immediately, he reached out and wiped the corners of his mouth, and hurriedly asked: "Mr. Xu, how long will it take for our radio to be successfully developed and put into use!"

"We have successfully developed it, but the distance of radio wave transmission is not very far, and it may take a few more years to penetrate into practical applications!" Xu Jianyin replied with some regret.

After listening to his words, although there was some regret in his heart, Huo Shan still nodded in understanding! Even if there is the technology he provided as a basis, I am afraid it will still take a lot of time to really turn it into a real thing and have application value!

"In addition, we also plan to strive to successfully develop the elbow boiler, No. 2 armored steel (that is, Harvey steel), 203mm speed shè naval gun, fire control system and other ship equipment mentioned by the young master in five years...!" Looking at the excited Xu Jianyin, Huo Shan shook his head with a headache, he still hasn't liberated himself from the concept of the chief designer of the warship before! As long as any topic or technology related to warships is mentioned, the whole person will always become very excited!

"Mr. Xu, I see, tell me how much money you plan to get?"

"Forty million taels of silver!" Xu Jianyin stretched out his right hand, raised four fingers and said with a serious face.

"What, so much?" Huo Shan stood up with a shocked expression, looked directly at the middle-aged man sitting opposite him, and asked in disbelief.

Xu Jianyin shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Young master, those guys in the dragon's den you got are all big money-eaters, especially that Tesla, his hobbies are too extensive!"

Looking at his embarrassed expression, Huo Shan nodded clearly, these people should have resentment in their hearts! After all, people used to live well, but now they have been tied to Taiwan by themselves in an unknown way, although they can get sufficient funds and engage in their favorite research work with peace of mind! However, the consequences of losing zìyóu will not be comfortable in anyone's heart.

"Isn't it just spending some money? What Lao Tzu has now is money!" Think of the thousands of students who followed behind these science masters, acting as assistants and learning technology! Huo Shan finally gritted his teeth, raised his head and said slowly: "This money can be given to them!"

"You agreed?" Xu Jianyin asked in disbelief, he still thought it was too outrageous, after all, if the money is invested, it may not be able to produce results!

"Well, I agreed!" Huo Shan smiled bitterly: "Who told us that we lack high-level scientific talents! There is no way!" Thinking of China's weak industrial base and few high-level talents, can it be done if you don't agree?

Although Huo Jiajun's development in the first year was very smooth, and he made unimaginable industrial achievements, and created conditions for Huo Jiajun's rise! But all of this was built on the basis that he received most of the industrial workers trained by the Qing Dynasty's Westernization Movement for several decades! I am afraid that it will be really difficult to have such a speed of development in the future, after all, it takes time for workers to be trained! In comparison, not only are there fewer people who can possess a wealth of knowledge and be able to conduct various scientific and technological researches, but it will also take at least ten years or more to achieve results in cultivating them by themselves! Huo Shan really can't wait for such a long time! So he ordered the Dragon's Lair Plan and secretly carried it out!

In order to solve the biggest bottleneck in the development of Huo Jiajun, at first he also thought about tempting these people to come to Taiwan with high salaries, but as soon as they heard that they were going to China, no matter how high the salary was, they were unwilling, even Tesla, a person who wanted to come to China to support China's scientific and technological inventions during the Republic of China, was unwilling, so he had no choice but to tie them up.

Xu Jianyin looked at the boy in front of him, who was a little dim, and all the resentment that still existed in his heart was gone all at once! Huo Shan's enthusiasm and dedication to the development of China's science and technology and industry made him, a middle-aged person, a little ashamed of himself.

Thinking of the three elders who had gone to teach in the engineering department of National Taiwan University, Xu Jianyin suddenly found that Taiwan may be the most suitable for him in all regions of China, without the intrigue in the factories of the Qing court, he can concentrate on the research and development of his beloved science and technology, and let it become an industrial achievement in his own hands, laying a solid foundation for China's industry and education little by little.

"This is the life I want! Maybe I should really do more for him!!" Xu Jianyin looked at the seven-year-old boy in front of him and thought secretly.

"So I calculated that the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications allocated 40 million yuan, the Ministry of Railways allocated 300 million yuan, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce allocated 80 million yuan, the Ministry of Environmental Protection allocated 10 million yuan, the Ministry of Civil Affairs allocated 50 million yuan for immigration funds, the Ministry of Communications allocated 165 million yuan, the Ministry of Water Resources and the Ministry of Agriculture allocated a total of 50 million yuan, the Ministry of Science and Technology allocated 40 million yuan, the Ministry of Health allocated 10 million yuan, the Ministry of Education allocated 113 million yuan, the Ministry of Urban Construction allocated 90 million yuan, plus the operating funds of various departments, the funds for the staff of the zhèngfǔ were 10 million taels, adding up to 953 million taels of silver！！！”

Listening to such a huge number, everyone couldn't help but take a breath of cool air, close to one billion taels of silver, close to 200 million yuan per year, you must know that the United States' investment in its own country in a year in this era is only slightly higher than this!

Looking at their surprised faces, Huo Shan couldn't help but shake his head with some sighs! If it weren't for the fact that the army had copied all the family resources of those landlords and old wealthymen, and the troops fighting on the islands of the South Seas had handed over all the gold and silver accumulated by those chieftains for generations to Taiwan, it would have been inconceivable that such a huge amount of capital would have been invested in the first five-year plan.

"Don't worry, everyone, we still have the army's investment!"

Hearing his words, everyone reacted and looked at Huo Long, Huo Shi, Huo Hu, and Huo Feng sitting on the sidelines, as well as Huo Rongguang of the General Political Department, Wang Zhengqing of the General Logistics Department, and Li Yunfeng of the General Armament Department! The seven giants of the army have not yet spoken! They are also big money-eaters!

Looking at everyone's eyes, Huo Long couldn't help touching his nose, to be honest, it was really uncomfortable to be stared at by so many people, but he would not lose a cent of the funds that should be won for the army, otherwise the group of rabbit cubs below would have rebelled!

"Young Master, in accordance with the previously formulated guidelines for army building, in the next five years, we will complete the construction of a regular army with thirty-two divisions, twelve dúlì regiments, three special forces, and forty-four second-line guard regiments armed only with rifles and grenades, including 660,000 regular troops and 210,000 reserve troops! A total of 870,000 troops! It is equipped with 720,000 Type 80 rifles, 50,000 pistols, 1,800 7.62mm light machine guns, 400 12.7mm heavy machine guns, 1,000 small and medium-sized guns with a caliber of 60mm or more, and 200 heavy guns with a caliber of 100mm or more!"

"Wait, Huo Long doesn't talk about whether our logistics can be done, just say that the output of our military factories can guarantee the production of so many weapons and equipment for you before 85 years?" Huo Shan listened to the huge figures, and his heart was also a little shocked, China is not ready to fight a world war! If it really wants to be equipped at this level and the logistics can keep up, it will really sweep through Asia!

In fact, due to the lack of heavy equipment such as large hydraulic presses, large-tonnage air hammers, large cutting machines and jīng dense processing machine tools, the production of heavy artillery has not been able to rise, and until now, the troops of the twelve divisions have only been equipped with two zhōngyāngjǐng guard divisions, the first division of Fujian and the fifth division of Huo Jianguang of Borneo, and all the heavy artillery produced later became shore defense artillery!