Chapter 108 Myths

"I picked up a sesame and lost a watermelon! This is the misunderstanding of the current industrial and commercial development of the empire!"

Shi Si's words were not loud, but it was extremely harsh in Guan Mingtang's ears, because it was his policy.

For Liu Nengxian, although he is a "regardless 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 most proud thing.

"In order to make the benefits of alternative industries as soon as possible, Zheng Axe purchased spinning mills and weaving factories directly from the United States and India last year, and finally integrated foreign technical personnel into large factories. While purchasing machines, they built factories. Yes, these yarn factories and cloth factories have indeed been put into production, and have seen benefits, such as If I don't remember, Lord Liu once said that it will work in half a year, recycle in two years, and expand production 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, neither yarn factories, textile factories nor printing and dyeing factories can make a good difference. After all, China needs to deplete nearly 200 million taels of silver to import cotton yarn and cotton cloth every year, but what if from the perspective of the country?"

Shi Si asked rhetorical questions and made his own answer without waiting for the two to answer.

"From the perspective of the country, whether these yarn factories and cloth factories recover their investment within two years or double their production capacity in three years, the superficial gains cannot make up for the actual losses!"

De facto loss? Not to mention Guan Mingtang and Liu Nengxian, even Chen Moran can't figure out where this loss is, and the factory has seen the benefits?

"And please make it clear that as far as I know, these factories have achieved the initial design profits without exception, and their products are in short supply!"

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

"Your Excellency, the factual loss I'm talking about is not the immediate loss of money, but the long-term loss!"

Shi Siwei raised his chin and seemed to be surprised that Guan Mingtang didn't notice these.

"I remember that Lord Guan once said that for China, the most needed machine is steel, but I would like to ask, Lord Guan, how much has the country invested in projects such as textile factories from last year to this year? Can this kind of industry help China achieve rapid industrialization?

Two rhetorical questions in succession made Guan Mingtang sink his mind. At the same time, Chen Moran also understood the meaning of Shi Si. The meaning of Shi Si could not be more clear, which is to develop heavy industry.

"In fact, I also want to thank Lord Guan. It was the meeting three days ago that the question of Lord Guan's "what China needs" has benefited me a lot. China needs machines and steel..."

"Then don't you need cotton cloth, cotton yarn, printing books and popularizing culture paper related to the national economy and people's livelihood?"

Guan Mingtang obviously can't accept Shi Si's criticism. While refuting, he turned to His Majesty to explain.

"Your Majesty, whether it is a textile factory, a yarn factory or a paper factory, these factories have a characteristic of low investment and quick results. When developing alternative industries, I once said that relying on this kind of projects to be put into production to replace imports, saving gold and silver coins can also make the government axe recover a large amount of profits, so as to invest profits in steel, railway, machine manufacturing and other industries with large investment and slow effect. Only in this way can the national industry enter a good cycle, and the country After the foundation of the industry is first completed, the country should withdraw from the industrial and commercial industry, so as to avoid the state's intervention in industry and commerce and affect the development of the market mechanism!"

"Good! What an industry with little investment and quick results, if the country has occupied all the industries with little investment and quick results, what about those people who want to invest in the industry?

Shi Si retorted coldly that after the meeting three days ago, he had been thinking about this problem. In fact, this problem came to his mind for a long time. 30% of the patents introduced by the Technical Analysis Bureau were transferred to military enterprises, 55% were sold to industrial companies, and only 15% were sold to private enterprises.

"Political axe's investment in industries with less investment and quick results will lead to people's interest in investing in industry. Now we import more machines in a year than in the past decade. In addition to military factories, political axe enterprises and industrial companies, how many of them are imported by private enterprises?"

While asking a rhetorical question, Shi Si's eyes stared at Liu Nengxian. This "Liu doesn't care" doesn't know his speech. Does it sometimes affect the people's enthusiasm for investment?

"Lord Liu, you have been effective for half a year. You have recycled for two years and expanded production for three years. You have said it in Nanjing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. It has also been reported in newspapers. Yes, this is the achievement of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce. It's amazing! However, in Shi's view, the biggest benefit of this amazing achievement is that... The gentry's interest in investing in industry has greatly decreased. May I ask, those who have finally collected hundreds of thousands of yuan of local wealth are even very bold, and they know that they can't touch official enterprises. No matter what else, the scale of official enterprises is large, Chunshenjiang Yarn Factory, good boy. Good boy, as soon as you get on the horse, there will be 500,000 ingots. How much will the expansion of production be expanded in these three years? Some brains all know that at this speed, this courage, in less than five years, in China's textile market, these official factories can eat 70% or 80%. Who dares to invest in yarn factories? What you show off is the heart of the people to invest in the industry!"

While mocking Liu Nengxian's "show", Shi Si turned to Guan Mingtang.

"Your Excellency, if there is no people to invest in a rare and effective industry like a yarn factory, after ten or eight years, even if we want to sell steel mills and machine factories to the people, who can eat such a big enterprise? All the businesses that can make money have been taken away by the political axe. What is the final result? The country is rich, but the people are poor!"

At the stall where Guan Mingtang wanted to refute, Shi Si interrupted him again.

"Don't say that the country is rich and the people are rich. This is not a logical word. No matter how rich the country is, it has nothing to do with the people. You and I both understand this truth. The factory is private. Workers can strike and raise wages, or if the factory is the country, the strike is useless. Workers are not as strong as batons, and the son is still their own relatives!"

Finally, he snorted coldly.

"Maybe this biological son is extremely rich, and he even ignores my words. Maybe it's always like this. That's taking advantage of me. As for the workers? What the he cares about. Anyway, when my son stabbed Louzi, I will give him a bag. There is no way. My son is shameless. When I am an old man, I have to take care of my face.

Shi Si's cold hum was in exchange for Chen Moran's admiration in his heart. Shi Si has not seen several "official enterprises", but he has told the face of the official enterprises behind the strong.

"That's not true, if..."

"Your Excellency, we can't put everything on the hope, and..."

After interrupting Guan Mingtang's rebuttal, Shi Si looked at him. Although he felt a little unbearable for his rudeness in his heart, he could not allow him to hesitate now.

"You once said that we are 100 or even 150 years behind the West, and it will take ten to fifteen years to catch up with them. How easy is it? Then there is time to waste!"

"Lord Shi"

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

"What do you think we should do? We can't afford to run those factories!"

"It's not that I won't do it!"

Turning to Liu Nengxian, Shi Si said directly.

"It is necessary to prioritizing and further expand what should be done, such as the newly built machine tool factory. Now we can only produce 6,000 machine tools a year. Even according to the plan, four years later, that is, 15,000 units, the number is too small. In the first half of this year, we reached the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and France. In the contract, 23,000 machine tools have been adopted. It is certain to import and sign 50,000 machine tools this year. Therefore, the machine tool factory should be further expanded and strive to achieve an annual output of 28,000 to 30,000 units in four years! This is far more foreign exchange than producing millions of cotton yarns!"

"This is unrealistic. We don't have so many workers!"

Guan Mingtang immediately retorted that the industrial plan he originally formulated was based on "step-by-step" development. Everything was based on reality and achieved synchronous development as much as possible.

"How many workers were there when the industrial company was established? How many workers are there now? Workers can be trained, special schools can be built, technicians are not enough, hired from foreign countries, skills are not enough, and money can be introduced. In short, as long as you are willing, as long as you invest enough strength, there is nothing you can't do!"

The excited Shi Si faced his majesty again.

"Your Majesty, as you said, to train retired soldiers, then run a professional school now, so that these soldiers can study in the school as soon as they retire. While building factories, they train workers. When the factory is built, the workers will be trained. It is better to wait for machines than machines than let machines and others. China develops workers. In the final analysis, the problem of the industry is people! Not the machine!"

During the three people's heated argument, he remained silent. Chen Moran looked at the report in his hand. The thick report condensed the painstaking efforts of the staff of the Department of History and the Bureau of Technology Analysis. Compared with Guan Mingtang's original industrial plan based on the development of alternative industry, this ostensibly the plan actually refers to The current plan of China's underdeveloped industry is more in line with its own dreams and the needs of the country.

But there is still something missing in this plan. Looking at this outline, which is similar to the Soviet-Russian "five-year plan" to some extent, Chen Moran, who has a mechanical background, understands that if he wants to turn the outline into an implementable plan, he still needs some experts to help formulate a detailed development plan and regional plan.

But as Shi Si said, the problem of China's industrial development is ultimately about people, not machines! As long as you have money, you can buy the most advanced machines in the world and introduce the most advanced technology in this era. In this era of trade supremacy, there is no technical output limit at all, but the problem lies in people!

China not only lacks skilled workers, but also lacks technical personnel. Just as even if you want to turn this outline into an implementable plan, it needs a large number of experts to help formulate development plans and implementation plans. There is no such person in China!

Why don't you... listen to their opinions!

"Gang Qing, Liu Qing, here is an outline, you can have a look!"

(to be continued)