The early days of the establishment of the alliance were the best time to lay the foundation and carry out a big move, and after the patent bill was half passed, Xia Lin struck while the iron was hot and submitted three pre-prepared proposals one after another.

First, in the name of the business alliance, five primary schools and two middle schools will be opened in the imperial capital to cultivate talents suitable for the management of production and research and development in the industrial park.

Xia Lin also provided the members with an estimate of the cost of investment in the school, because paper, bricks, and cement can be produced by themselves, in fact, the investment in a primary school is only 30 gold lundes, and the middle school is 60 gold lundes.

In order to prevent these members from opposing the proposal, Xia Lin also proposed that the funds from the monthly profits of the industrial park for technology research and development could be used to invest in the proposal, but the business alliance would need to hire some university scholars to help write the textbook.

According to the contract signed between Xia Lin and the shareholders, this part of the funds was originally allocated to him, the executive director, for use, and the shareholders only have the power to supervise.

After explaining the pros and cons, the nobles, who were not too interested in it, finally passed it without caring after seeing that this bill was strongly promoted by Her Royal Highness and Earl Karen, who would ensure the future of the business alliance.

Second, the establishment of the alliance R & D center, funded by the alliance, integrates the technical strength of various chambers of commerce, and conducts professional research on core technologies.

Xia Lin recommended himself as the general person in charge of the R&D center, and on the condition that all the technologies of the R&D center are conditionally shared with members, in exchange for the annual investment of each chamber of commerce in the R&D center and the right to call the craftsmen under the chamber of commerce at any time.

The so-called conditionality is actually to decide which chamber of commerce will obtain the technology developed by the R&D center through meeting discussions, and this aristocrat will not object.

No matter how much they looked down on Xia Lin's humble background, in front of such a large industrial park, they would not deny Xia Lin's ability to develop new technologies, and it was a good thing for all members of the alliance to have someone who could make a big cake, so this bill was quickly passed.

Third, the establishment of an internal commercial bank, the proportion of capital contribution to determine the bank's equity.

In the future, any chamber of commerce that needs funds can obtain low-interest loans directly from commercial banks after review, and at the same time, the flow of funds in all aspects of the alliance will also be carried out through banks. The bank conducts quarterly accounting and submits it to the board of directors of the bank for review.

If the commercial banks are operating well, they can consider getting involved in external financial business.

This bill is very special, and the impact it has had is difficult to fully estimate even in the eyes of Queen Dorothea and Count Karen, after all, the bank is a completely new thing in this world.

However, according to Xia Lin, the bank has many functions that can make the business alliance closer, helping the princess and the alliance's top management to better control the alliance, so after some exchange of interests, the bill was successfully passed.

At this point, the business alliance has become a veritable large-scale organization that is politically, economically, and technologically closely connected, and its organizational strength can be described as almost worlds different from that of primitive industry guilds.

And this kind of organization, which has a bit of a modern meaning, also provides an immature but very promising executor for Xia Lin's industrialization plan.

Such a major change will naturally not be ignored by these great nobles, until they board the Flanya and embark on the way home, there are still many nobles who are thinking carefully about the impact that the establishment of this novel business alliance will bring to their families and chambers of commerce.

But now Xia Lin, who wears many hats, has begun to get busy non-stop.

However, he is not busy with the affairs of the Alliance R&D Center that still exists on paper, this thing needs to communicate with the minor nobles and merchants of the enlightened faction who have not yet been present in all aspects, and it will be some time before it is officially approved.

What's more, after the pass, it is necessary to establish a commercial bank before there is an entity to provide funds, and if Xia Lin wants to carry out the action, he will have to wait for the bank to get the money from there after the establishment of the bank.

Xia Lin is busy with his educational program.

The first five primary schools to be established, although small in scale, are sparks in Xia Lin's eyes.

With the nature of the people of the Celestial Empire, no matter how poor they are, they can't be poor in education, and if they want the rapid development of industry, the sooner the implementation of education, the better, so Xia Lin would rather use the R&D funds of the industrial park to invest than argue with the members of the alliance at the meeting.

However, before the school could be established, Xia Lin needed to solve a very difficult matter, and that was the problem of the printing press.

Without printing, there would be no textbooks, no test papers, so what kind of education could we talk about?

The complicated operation of early movable type printing was certainly not considered by Xia Lin, and with the efficiency of manual word picking, it was better to print a book than engraving printing.

However, the investment in engraving printing to print books for five grades of Chinese, mathematics and science is too large, so there are only two printing methods that Xia Lin can consider at present.

One is the wax paper ink printing that was often used to print tabloids in the previous life, and the other is the Gutenberg printing machine and the supporting typewriter developed from movable type printing technology.

The former only requires a stack of wax paper, a few typesetters with clear handwriting, a pen and high-quality ink, and can easily print thousands of copies of repetitive text.

The disadvantage is that the legibility of the handwriting decreases with the number of uses of wax paper, and it is not suitable for printing work where the text content is too complex.

Because one page of the textbook requires ten sheets of wax paper, the proofsetter's hand is broken, and I am afraid that he will not be able to print three fifth-grade textbooks of at least 100 pages each.

The latter, as the originator of modern printing, is more complex, requiring the development of professional printing presses and pick-ups.

However, the printing quality is several levels higher than the former, and it is fully capable of various printing tasks, and it will not be a problem for Xia Lin to run a newspaper and periodical when the time comes.

Therefore, after weighing it, Xia Lin, who now has a lot of money and a lot of technical power at hand, simply decided to go directly to the Gutenberg printing press and pickup.

The structure of Gutenberg's printing press is not complicated, in fact, it is just a wooden frame, a set of movable type printing plates, and the most critical threaded pressure rod.

By turning the screw, the printing plate under the screw can be in close contact with the paper, and the printing process can be completed with high definition.

The structure of the pick-up machine is also very simple, that is, through a transmission mechanism to connect the keyboard of the rear storage room switch to control the drop of the letter type, and then through the spring mechanism of the foot pedal, the letter type is pushed into the typesetting version to complete the pick-up work, and the efficiency is dozens of times higher than that of manually picking up the letters in the letter disk.

This job is like that of a typist, a skilled picker who can arrange a printed type plate with thousands of words in an hour from a manuscript.

The most difficult of these things is the screw, thread, before there is no lead screw, only the smooth rod, can not carry out stable feed machine tools can only rely on manual speed control processing.

Xia Lin previously assigned the task of Master Faun to upgrade the woodworking lathe and then develop the lead screw, and for this reason, he also told them the principle of vernier calipers.

However, the development of the lead screw is very difficult, Xia Lin gave them three months, and he didn't know how the progress was.

If it really doesn't work, Xia Lin is ready to use the screw processed by hand to reluctantly use it first, anyway, the screw requirements of the Gutenberg printing machine are not high, as long as it can provide pressure on the printing plate.

Arriving at the machine tool factory with the drawings he had drawn, Xia Lin saw Master Faun directing the dwarven masters to install a lead screw onto an all-steel lathe.

With a high-temperature rune disk that is enough to melt steel, the dwarven masters are obviously a little ahead of the progress of the upgrade plan of the machine tool, and they have already manufactured an all-steel machine tool without carefully going to the machine tool factory for half a month, which Xia Lin did not expect at first.

However, this machine should still be in the experimental stage, otherwise the dwarven masters would not have hidden it in the shareholders' visit just now.

These Xia Lin didn't care much, what Xia Lin was most concerned about at present was the steel threaded rod on the lathe that was obviously processed according to his own requirements, that is, the lead screw.