At the Shanghai shipyard of Jiangnan Shipbuilding Group, a group of visitors with a "visit" sign on their chests lined up in a neat queue to enter the dry dock. Shipyard workers and engineers take a look at the faces of the Asians. It was already determined that they were Japanese. The People's Party is the most institutionalized, and visitors will have a national flag on their signs, and the red circle in the middle of the white cloth in Japan is very recognizable. The Chinese workers and engineers wondered why the Japanese came to visit.

The visit was attended by some representatives of the Japanese delegation to China related to the shipbuilding industry. After the Showa Restoration, Japan has had a much better time in recent years.

After Kita Kazuki and other Showa Restoration factions took control of the military department, they formed the Japanese Socialist Liberal Democratic Party based on the Japanese Anti-Feudal Alliance, which became the largest party in the parliament in the new government, and Kita Kazuki became the prime minister of Japan. Immediately, a policy of joint development with China was established.

After the normalization of Sino-Japanese relations, Japan first received a relatively sufficient supply of iron ore. Steel is the backbone of modern industry, and Japan's own steel production is soaring with iron ore from China and North Korea, even though there is not a shortage of coal itself. After purchasing a large amount of equipment from China, Japan's steel production skyrocketed to more than one million tons.

In order to balance trade, China bought a lot of products from Japan. It has also provided many jobs to Japan, such as the Kra Canal project, in which China employed 100,000 Japanese. After these 100,000 Japanese went to the construction site, the progress of the project was greatly promoted.

Japan is a country with a large population, a scarcity of raw materials, and an even more scarce market. After hitching a ride on China's free ride, Japan's production and sales suddenly boomed under China's deliberate trade tilt. The rebuilt state-owned enterprises became the fastest expanding part of the economy in the middle. The Japanese military department once shouted that the state would take on the work of retired soldiers, and after yelling for many years, Kita Kazuki thoroughly practiced this matter.

Regardless of whether they supported or opposed the Showa Restoration, or even military personnel who had previously retired and were not resettled, they could get the opportunity to work in state-owned enterprises as long as they applied for it. Thanks to the policy of separating Japanese officers from soldiers, the soldiers, who had never had a chance, finally found a place to live. Joining the army was tantamount to employment, and such a policy alone curtailed the loyalty of the Japanese soldier class.

Therefore, after Kita Kazuki proposed the compulsory land reform bill in 1938, the Japanese landlords also rebelled, but this rebellion did not get many supporters. In particular, the soldiers of the army who came from tenant farmers firmly rallied around the Prime Minister and chairman of the Socialist Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, Kita Kazuki, and those young soldiers from the middle class and petty bourgeoisie were even more full of idealistic passion, and they either went to persuade their own families, or went to the grassroots level to organize the masses in the countryside, and they took the lead in completing the initial land reform in the Kanto region, where there were many plains.

In the Kanto region, where land reform was completed, Prime Minister Kita Ikki reduced the agricultural tax to 50% in accordance with the policy commitments, and also cut the price of chemical fertilizers and pesticides by relying on state-owned chemical plants. The Kanto region, which had been uneasy for a while, immediately became a staunch supporter of Prime Minister Kita Kazuki and an iron vote of Japan's Socialist Liberal Democratic Party. The rest of Japan then leaned toward Kitaikki across the board.

The people of Japan are accustomed to obedience, and Kita Ikki established a policy that workers cannot be fired at will by state-owned enterprises, but workers must receive various trainings. After this policy was introduced, workers in Japan's state-owned enterprises felt that the sky had become bluer. In Japan, it is not uncommon to want to fire workers or to make things difficult for them by deducting wages. Enterprises can't just fire workers, this is a real moral policy.

Not only did he not fire the workers, but Kita even accepted Chen Ke's suggestion and implemented a new enterprise system in Japan. "Corporate culture", "team spirit", "lifelong employment" and "seniority" are the characteristics of Japanese enterprises, and Kita Ikki has also begun to implement them in Japanese state-owned enterprises. Bei Yihui even implemented the "professional manager system". Managers of state-owned enterprises are not appointed from above, but are selected openly and transparently.

Since most of the employees of state-owned enterprises are military personnel at this stage, they are naturally quite suitable for these systems, which are very suitable for Japan's national conditions. And Japan's "shame culture" also played a very good role in this stage. Since the policies propagated by such a big man as Prime Minister Kita Kazuki, who wields military and financial power, are truly beneficial to the workers, the Japanese workers are naturally willing to obey.

Of course, the Japanese people do not quite understand why Kita Ikki actually appointed Konosuke Matsushita, a young entrepreneur in his thirties, as the chairman of Japan's State-owned Assets Commission.

In addition to these, Kita Ikki attaches great importance to the Chinese market, and strictly requires Japan to standardize the import of industries from China and implement the same standards of weights and measures. In short, after such an operation, Japan's private "flesh and blood factories" were soon crumbling to the brink by state-run "sweatshops."

In the intervening two or three years, Japanese society, which had been so turbulent that it almost exploded, miraculously stabilized. This is not because the living standards of the Japanese people have improved a lot, but because everyone has hope. Even the landlords' losses were limited, and Kita Yihui engaged in a single fiscal inflation, but implemented a strict bill system for basic daily necessities. The landlords were given a bunch of money that soon began to depreciate, but the money could not be used to hoard it. It was also the suicide of so many landlords. Of course, the ferocity of such a policy is nothing compared to the brutality of the Japanese exploiting class against ordinary Japanese people.

Of course, after all, Kita Yihui had taken courses in China, and he knew that all his current achievements were due to China's support. If China had not provided credit to Japan financially, the new government of Kita Ichiki would have been completely bankrupt dozens of times by this time. In order to be able to quickly put Japan on a new track, Kita Ikki sends a business delegation to China every year, firstly to discuss Sino-Japanese trade, and secondly, to learn from China the latest industrial production standards, so as to increase exports to China as soon as possible.

The opportunity to visit Chinese shipyards is also a new height of cooperation between China and Japan. Originally, Japan mainly cooperated with China in light industry. Japan's shipbuilding industry is very wary of China. Regardless of the level of development of the Chinese Navy, the Japanese side still believes that China's shipbuilding industry is somewhat backward than Japan's. The purpose of this visit is not necessarily to really want to communicate, but to see the true face of China's shipbuilding industry.

When they entered the shipyards in China, Japan realized that something was wrong. The layout of China's shipyards is very different from Japan's, and as a connoisseur of shipbuilding, the Japanese side can see a lot of ways, but it is clear that the craftsmanship adopted by China's shipbuilding industry is very different from that of Japan.

When the Japanese saw the huge gantry cranes used in the docks, their uneasiness became even stronger. The design layout of the gantry crane is different from that of Japan, because the rails used by the gantry crane can be moved back and forth between several docks. After passing through one door after another, the main construction site of the shipyard appeared in front of the eyes of the Japanese shipbuilding experts, leaving all the Japanese experts dumbfounded.

In those days, ships were built in a dock, and the dock was occupied when it was built. It could take months, maybe even years. The structure of the Chinese dock before the eyes of Japanese experts is very different from the traditional dock. If I have to describe it, the traditional manufacturing method used in Japan is that craftsmen produce individually, while Chinese shipbuilding is a production line model.

After the sectional hull is manufactured, the section of the hull is transported to the assembly hall by means of a huge gantry crane and other cranes, and the large parts including the keel are assembled together with the sectional hull. The initial hull was then sent into the water from the dock in the assembly hall to begin outfitting.

After visiting the basic process, the Japanese experts stood dumbfounded in the outfitting dock and could not move, and two thoughts were tumbling in their minds, "The Chinese are crazy!" "How many ships does China have to build?"

During World War II, the United States was able to build an escort aircraft carrier in 33 days, and a 10,000-ton cargo ship was launched in 7 days, and the paint was not dry when it was launched. It simply won't work without this approach.

Of course, at the time of the visit of Japanese experts, China turned off all laser rangefinders. Chen Ke only knew that there was such a shipbuilding method, but in the beginning, the People's Party suffered a lot. The devil is hidden in the details, China has been engaged in welding technology since 30 years ago, and even used carbon dioxide protection very early, and later argon protection. However, there are still many problems.

A steel plate with a length of more than one meter has an error of 5 mm, which is less than 5 thousandths of a difference. However, 100 pieces of this error add up to 50 centimeters. After the warship dares to assemble it, there will be a problem of half a meter, which is going to be a big incident. If it is based on the traditional production method, it can also be adjusted during the production process. The problem with sectional production is that it can't cut half a meter off a steel plate. If you do this, it is equivalent to the end of the load-bearing design and so on. The load-bearing properties are completely different between a one-meter-long steel plate and a half-meter-long steel plate.

These are only the problems on the X-axis, shipbuilding is a three-dimensional industry, and the correspondence of the Y-axis and Z-axis needs to be tightly matched. Thousands of welds are needed on a single ship. The details of these adjustments add up to a headache for even an old engineer with decades of shipbuilding experience. The quality of the first welded vessels, which were produced using sectional shipbuilding technology, was not much higher than that of conventionally built riveted vessels. The cost and adjustment time are much higher than those of traditional shipbuilding technology.

Shipbuilding is not a small investment, and a ship will be smashed into hundreds of thousands or millions. If it is a large ship such as an aircraft carrier, tens of millions, not to mention hundreds of millions of dollars. Fortunately, it was Chen Ke who proposed this way of thinking, and fortunately it was Chen Ke who proposed this way of shipbuilding. After the initial experiments caused a huge waste, they should have been taken down immediately, or even investigated for "economic sabotage".

However, with the advent of laser measurement technology in China, this problem has been greatly solved. Precise measurement and positioning technology enables errors to be within millimeters. Even so, solving a problem means that other devils hidden in the details finally have a chance to emerge. In order to solve these devils, China's shipbuilding industry relies on the huge research system formed by the Science and Technology Tree Program to solve problems one by one. While solving the problem, China's basic research industry has also made great progress.

It can be said that without Chen Ke sitting here, no one has the ability to hold on under such tremendous pressure. By 1939, China had spent enormous manpower and material resources to finally increase the speed and quality of shipbuilding to an unprecedented level.

The shipbuilding industry has also been purged several times for this reason, and those who are self-contained, gangsters, and in short, those who engage in the feudal system have all been purged from the shipbuilding team. The rest of the comrades, of course, everyone has their own opinion on shipbuilding, but everyone has a common opinion on two things: "In the industrialization system, it is either fast and good, or slow and poor." There is no such thing as fast and bad and slow and good. "If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools."

The Japanese have no idea how much effort China has made, let alone how much China's manufacturing thinking has changed. All they see is the mode of production that China has already defined. The Japanese visitors this time are experts in the shipbuilding industry, and although they do not know much about China's technology, they know very well how fast China can achieve shipbuilding according to this production method. That would be more than ten times that of Japan, dozens of times.

Of course, these Japanese experts are lucky. Historically, Japan faced the United States, whose shipbuilding level was definitely not inferior to China's, and the time and space where Chen Ke was located, it was recorded in the history books, "Therefore, in June 1942, Kaiser finally won a contract to produce 50 escort aircraft carriers. These 50 ships, later designated the Casablanca class, were completed in 13 months from July 1943 to July 1944, and the initial construction took 119 days due to lack of skill, but with mass production on track, the best result was 33 days!"

In the face of the traditional shipbuilding speed of Japan's handicraft workshops and the dumpling-like American shipbuilding industry, the United States, even though it has invested its main forces in the North Atlantic, still draws Japan like a pig's head with one hand in its pocket.

And the sea wolves of Nazi Germany fought hard, even if they could sink millions of tons of ships a year, but the United States made them faster than the Nazis. World War II was a war of industrial capacity, and the United States was able to become the world's top spot through World War II, definitely not because of luck, but because of real strength.

The fact that the Chinese side was able to let Japan visit it was a kind of strategic intimidation. After all, only some people in Japan are willing to make friends with China. There are still people who are unwilling to make friends with China, such as these guys in the Japanese shipbuilding industry, who are afraid that China will learn Japan's "advanced technology", and there are many Japanese Navy soldiers with a hard-line attitude among this group. These guys supported the Showa Restoration, but they did not necessarily support Sino-Japanese goodwill. For these people, we must use strength to let them know that the sky is high and the earth is thick.

Of course, the accompanying People's Party comrades were satisfied to see that the naval hardliners on the Japanese side were one by one tense or opened their mouths in disbelief. Regardless of the requests of the Japanese for a closer tour, the Chinese comrades took them all away. After all, when these people visited, they delayed China's production progress very much. China is frantically building ships and preparing to improve its defense system in the western Pacific, and with China's current production efficiency, a one-day delay will be the progress of one tenth of a 10,000-ton ship. In particular, the laser measuring instruments on the entire construction site have been turned off, and such a demonstration will at least delay the manufacturing progress of tens of thousands of tons of tonnage ships.

After finally sending the boiling Japanese away, the head of the shipyard breathed a sigh of relief. For industrial countries, some waste is not necessarily a waste of physical goods, and delays in progress are often the biggest waste. When the whole country is gradually integrated into a production system, one link goes wrong, and it triggers a chain reaction.

The Japanese are now lagging behind China, but this does not mean that the Japanese are stupid. The units visited were not only shipyards, but also machine factories, arsenals, various heavy industry enterprises. Japan had hoped to secure orders for heavy industry production from China. After all, these industries are the most profitable. Japan had to produce a million shirts, or bedding, to make a profit that could match the profit of a warship. After seeing China's heavy industry and military industry with his own eyes, the Japanese side really gave up.

Not only are they dead-hearted, but many people in the delegation are inclined to the Japanese chaebol, and they are very dissatisfied with Kita Ikki's state-owned enterprises and many economic measures. The excuses used to oppose Kita Ichiki are still the same old as the technological backwardness of the state-owned enterprises, the efficiency of the state-owned enterprises, and the laziness of the workers of the state-owned enterprises.

After personally touring China's state-owned enterprises, the Japanese opponents could not say much. Unless they admit that the Japanese are inherently inferior to the Chinese, they simply cannot deny the tremendous success of China's state-owned enterprises. Japan's private companies, even if they exhaust their workers, will not be able to reach the level that China's state-owned enterprises can achieve.

When the Japanese delegation returned to Japan, representatives of private companies among them either remained silent and stopped attacking state-owned enterprises. Or simply change the foyer and ask Japanese state-owned enterprises and private companies to develop together and move forward together.