The journey starts from the Titanic

"It's mainly technology. Of course, it needs at least ten million or more funds. At present, the most lacking is technical personnel. The chemical industry is almost blank, and there are few who understand the periodic table. Therefore, I applied to the headquarters for investment in a natural gas company and a synthetic ammonia company. Unfortunately, the factory has not responded.

However, once the project is completed, it will have profound significance for Sichuan's industrial construction.Whether producing explosives or fertilizers, there is a huge market."

Said Friday.

This is indeed a big project with great potential.It is difficult to do this with domestic technology.

Natural gas is the main raw material for synthetic ammonia, and it is also a source of energy. Natural gas is the most indispensable in the Sichuan Basin. Natural gas and related chemical industries are the most suitable.

Well, just in the past few years, South China’s oil and gas industry has developed the fastest. Meihua should master a considerable part of the technology in its cooperation with Giant Chemical Company of the United States and BASF of Germany. Perhaps it can be introduced to Sichuan. Situ Nan wasn't sure where to go.

After thinking about it, Situ Nan replied: "It is estimated that it is not due to funding. Fortunately, we have obtained foreign technology to build some chemical industries in Nanhua and Guangxi.

After less than ten years, the technical foundation is weak, and there is a lack of technical talents to take the lead. Our site has suddenly expanded so much. Now construction is started everywhere, and it is not normal in Sichuan for a while.Well, let me help you contact Chevron Petroleum Corporation and let them provide technical equipment."

When I heard about Chevron Petroleum Corporation on Friday, I was refreshed. I am no stranger to the famous Chevron Petroleum Company. One of the pillars of the US-China Consortium, the technology of the US-China Petroleum Company, comes from Chevron Petroleum, which is sold in large quantities every year. The vast majority of products such as kerosene, candles, and gasoline that come to China come from the joint venture factories of the two parties in Nanhua.

On Friday, he knew how much tung oil, grain, and pigs were exchanged from Sichuan with these products every year. Hearing Situ Nan's mention, he felt a little more confident in his heart.

"Unfortunately, China is an oil-poor country. Otherwise, like South China, it will develop faster because of its rich oil resources."

There was a sudden mutter on Friday.

"Oil-poor country?" Situ Nan listened for a moment, and immediately relieved, and said: There are not many oil resources in China in the oil and gas fields in the deserts of Daqing, Shengli, and Xinjiang, but they are all not in the Wuhan government. For a while, it is beyond reach, so most of the domestic petroleum products are imported.

However, there are only a handful of oil-producing countries in the world, and Nanhua is one of them. After the Minas Oilfield was developed in advance by Situ Nan, Nanhua's oil production has soared, which is somewhat amazing.

In this regard, the Japanese feel the strongest, but the Japanese's desire for technology, the sense of crisis for survival, and the madness of foreign development are not comparable to the Chinese.In fact, it is not that the Japanese have not explored the Daqing oil field because of the implementation of the southward strategy of oil in history, but only a little bit of bad luck.

"Talents are the most precious resource! An important reason for the rapid development of Nanhua's industry is the large number of German technical talents.

Although I don't want to deny the millions of Chinese and migrant workers from South China who have emigrated in the past, it is realized that one day when all German engineers go home, South China's industry will be hit hard and even collapsed.

Therefore, on the South China side, digging oil fields is as fast as building schools."

Situ Nan said with emotion, secretly rejoicing in his heart. Thanks to the Treaty of Versailles, South China is friendly to Germany. Industrial giants such as Krupp, BASF, Rheinmetall have all gone to South China to invest and set up factories, and hundreds of thousands of Germans go to South China to make a living. They brought the advanced technology that South China desired most and greatly accelerated the process of South China’s industrialization. Situ Nan believed that the important surname in this regard was no less than the funds brought to South China by him and the William Consortium.

Talent is the most precious resource?

On Friday, I was taken aback for a moment, and suddenly thought of the children I taught on Chongming Island, in the schools built by the William Foundation and the Meihua Foundation, and those orphans who grew up in all walks of life will be Meihua Foundation and The precious wealth of this country.

"The boss is right. I think I should strengthen contact with Wilhelm University and ask them to send excellent teachers to Sichuan to build schools and cultivate various technical talents. Well, some German teachers are needed. They have always performed in vocational education. excellent."

Friday’s voice was deliberately raised a bit. Seeing that Situ Nan had no objection, I was secretly happy, ready to use Situ Nan’s name to invest more of the William Foundation’s resources in Chengdu.

After drinking a few cups of tea, nagging with Friday, accidentally, the afternoon sun became softer unknowingly, and the sun slanted westward.

Situ Nan patted his butt, stood up, and stretched."A cup of tea, a pile of peanuts, a few taels of wine, talking all day long, if you ignore the changing world outside, this kind of life is indeed enviable."

"Hehe. Mr. Situ is a busy man, so you can come to Chengdu often, just take a break while you are busy!"

Friday smiled and said with some extravagant hopes: With Situ Nan's love and generosity, if he spends a long time in Sichuan, the little bit of resources that slipped out of his hands would be enough for Sichuan to develop faster.

"Hehe. The women here are so tender and red with the chilli peppers that they look more pleasing to the eye than the Nanhua side. Unfortunately, I just can't stand the hotness of Sichuan cuisine."

Situ Nan joked that as he traveled all the way to Sichuan, it is estimated that such things will not happen in a few years.

I gave a dry laugh on Friday. As a Sichuanese, he loves this place and works hard to build it. Perhaps, in the near future, he will try to obtain an official position and mobilize more social resources to participate in the construction of Sichuan.

Coming out of the teahouse, Situ Nan and Friday boarded a rare car in the city to visit Meihua's slaughterhouse, cannery and leather factory in Chengdu.

The slaughterhouse is nothing beautiful. The only bright spot is that Mr. Friday imitated the assembly line of the Chicago slaughterhouse in the United States. This did not stimulate Situ Nan, but in Chengdu, it caused a sensation.

"Sichuan is the country's largest pig breeding area. Every household in the countryside raises pigs to help their families. After the pigs are slaughtered, the meat is sent to the frozen warehouse built not long ago for storage. Some are sold to the market, and more are used to produce canned food. , Sales are very good, mainly for the army, the army purchased 2,000 tons of canned meat last month.

After the railway started, the pork business became better.Ha ha.Every day, dozens of pigs are sent to the construction site. In order to eat meat, the hooligan beggars established in Chengdu rush to the construction site, even without wages, as long as they eat meat and eat meat every day."

Frankly explained on Friday.

He is not only China's largest porker, but also involved in the management of railway projects, knowing much more than others.

Chapter 82:

"On the day the railway started, many workers couldn't help crying when they ate full of meat for the first time. Some were reluctant to eat, hiding the meat and preparing to take it home to their family."

Situ Nan’s words on Friday made Situ Nan a little moved. Situ Nan thought about it. This is indeed a bitter fact. The history of the Republic of China is a history of hunger. In the corners of remote rural areas and urban slums, how many people have never eaten meat in their lives. Wearing new clothes, I didn't have a decent day.

However, Situ Nan is not a god. God never saves mankind, only self-improving people save themselves.Situ Nan asked casually: "How do you calculate wages?"

"Ordinary workers work 10 hours a day, and the monthly salary is 8 yuan. The high point of craftsmanship, the average technician is not less than 50 yuan, and the high is several hundred yuan." Friday introduced.

Of course, foreign engineers are the most expensive, and you have to be careful to hold them, because many problems in railway projects must be solved by foreign engineers.

"Will it be a bit low? Can 8 yuan support the family?" Situ Nan asked with some doubts, thinking to himself: Capitalists are really black, and working people are suffering!In fact, after the railway is built, it is the big capitalist himself who makes the most money?All costs will soon be recovered by then.

"Low? It's not low. How much money do you rush to get to the construction site? The food is full, the fat is enough, food and housing are included, clothes, shoes, toothpaste, toothbrushes are provided free of charge, half a day off for 10 days, and a month for a month. One day off, I bought them insurance. There is an hour night school every night to teach them literacy. This is a great gift." Friday said proudly, as it should be, many people are rushing to work?

Seeing that Situ Nan was a little bit confused and felt a little blunt in his tone, he added, "The prices in Chengdu are much lower than those in Wuhan and Shanghai. 8 yuan is equivalent to 14 or 15 yuan in Shanghai. At least it can be guaranteed that a few people will not Hungry. We pay the wages in two parts, half of which is sent to the workers’ homes in the form of rice, and the other is deposited in the workers’ accounts. They are very satisfied, and even think that the two sets of tough denim uniforms are more than 8 yuan. The boss. , You have to know that after Song Ziwen's currency reform, the legal currency has strengthened a lot!"

"That makes sense." Situ Nan nodded, satisfied with Friday's answer.If it weren't for your care, you wouldn't know these details.

Ask yourself, Situ Nan really doesn't know how much rice is a catty, and what is certain is that the price of food imported from Nanyang is much cheaper.As long as the Wuhan government is stable and prices are stabilized with the support of the US-China Consortium, the wages allocated to workers are nothing more than printing money, but they can be transformed into huge productivity.

"According to you, Sichuan’s labor costs are much cheaper than those in Guangdong, and human resources are abundant! We must make good use of them. Let me think about South China, Africa, South America, our mines, factories, farms, and fishing grounds. If there is a shortage of labor, make a plan. First, organize 10,000 laborers, and if the results are good, then expand labor export."

"Well, Sichuan has no shortage of people." Friday said freely. He also hopes that Sichuan's surplus labor force can be transferred to the outside world, which can stabilize the society and obtain high labor income.You know, most of the immigrants from Guangdong, Guangdong and Fujian who first set off to Nanyang to South China have made their fortunes. They have either become small merchants or small landlords. They are lucky enough to contract mines, open factories, and become big bosses. Se, especially when returning to the hometown to face those poor villagers in the past.

Then there are the second batch of immigrants mainly from Shandong and Anhui. They have close ties with Meihua Company and Zhi Gong Dang, and are organized in the form of provincial labor unions to immigrate to the factories and mines of Meihua Company.Now they all have a firm foothold. Meihua Company pays some of the land or shares of factories and mines as wages to its workers, so these people have become small landlords or industrial workers who hold shares in the company.

Today's Meihua company's activities are far beyond the South China Sea, with tentacles all over the world, including plantations in Central and South America, plants on the west coast of the United States, fruit orchards, deserts in Nevada, oil fields in Western Canada, Western Australia's iron ore, North African grasslands, and South African mines. In the deserts of the Middle East, the number of Chinese Chinese workers in each region is more or less, cautious, or honest and courageous. They are not all the same. One thing is the same. These people are tenacious and hardworking, using their sweat to create a better life.There are also many people burying their bones in their hometowns. However, the story of returning home in good form stimulates restless youths to venture out time and time again.

"The Japanese have done a great job in this regard. The Japanese immigrants are living well in places such as the United States and Brazil. The only thing that is unhappy is that they also performed very well in the Northeast. Unfortunately, our strength is not in the north, and the road to the north is hit for a while. It doesn’t work, we can only emigrate south. The most important thing is to develop a large number of domestic industries. If Sichuan develops well and the manufacturing industry can absorb a large amount of labor, maybe we will not export young and strong labor, but industrial products. Now. Like this!" Situ Nan came out of the brush factory, holding a delicate brush, and said with emotion.

"I feel the same way. The bristle industry has great potential in Sichuan, but in the past few years, the gap between the mainland and the coast has grown. If the boss hadn't insisted on building the Sichuan railway, I might not have returned to Sichuan happily. "Friday nodded, with a look of urgency that I don't want to wait.

Brushes are made of pig bristles. Before chemical fiber appeared, brushing teeth, walls, machines, and cannons were all inseparable from brushes made of pig bristles.The most popular factories in Chengdu and Yucheng are those related to bristles. There are dozens of large and small factories, with foreign merchants and local merchants competing.Does anyone know that if he hadn't accidentally appeared on the Titanic, it would be hard to imagine that the Chinese in the War of Resistance would have to rely on the export of bristles in exchange for Americans' demanding arms.

However, all this has changed with the arrival of Situ Nan.The efficiency of Friday was very high. Within a few days, the Chengdu newspaper published information on Nanyang's recruitment.

Situ Nan came to the teahouse again. As soon as he entered the door, he heard someone discussing Nanyang recruitment and opened the newspaper. Apart from the advertisements, there were a lot of recruitment advertisements, including cement factories, brick factories, sand yards, stone yards, wood factories, etc., mainly around Railway construction, since the start of the railway, these recruitment information has not stopped.The most surprising thing now is the Nanyang recruitment advertisement!To be precise, I want to work in South China.

"Where is Nanhua? Good question!" In the teahouse, a man in a long gown, wearing a melon fur hat, shook the newspaper in his hand, took a sip of tea, and looked a little proud of the surrounding guests. Show off his knowledge.

In an era when information is not spreading smoothly, this storyteller still has a market, and teahouses are undoubtedly the most active social place.People who can go to the teahouse are generally not poor, and most of them are literate, but they still enjoy the anecdotes from the storyteller.

"Nanhua is Nanyang. A few years ago, the Han Chinese in Nanyang drove away foreign devils and established a country in Nanyang. That is the dignified founding of the country!" At this point, the storyteller was a little envious.

"It's Lao Tzu, the newspaper has been published early. Who doesn't know that there is a Han country in Nanyang? Just talk about the recruitment this time!" Some people in the crowd were dissatisfied because they were tired of Mr. Storyteller's opening remarks. They thought Know some more practical content, such as this recruitment will not bring them any benefits.