Chapter 102 Industrial Achievements
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"Young marshal, why don't we enter Heilongjiang, haven't we already said that we will take the opportunity to take it?" Li Jun couldn't understand why Feng Yong couldn't wait to transfer the guard brigade back after receiving the news of the victory in the Northern Theater. Li Jun was also anxious for a reason, the provincial government had already made a plan for the officials to be dispatched and the possible situation, but the young marshal suddenly called a stop, which made them feel very puzzled.
"Brother Chuan, don't worry. This Heilongjiang can't run. I am now worried about the attitude of the government of the Republic of China. President Yuan Da became the emperor, and the whole country was against it, and we in the Northeast were silent about this matter. Now that I have received information, Mukden has begun to become restless. Zhang Dashuai launched the movement of 'Fengtian people ruling Fengtian'. My father has also declared his support. Now the two are working together to expel Duan Zhigui from Feng. The situation in Mukden became tense. All forces are paying attention to the attitude of the Republic of China government. It's not a good time to expand. ”
"Young Marshal, do you mean that the government of the Republic of China will do something to Mukden?"
"This won't be, after all, Duan Zhigui's actions in the three eastern provinces are really ugly, and the corruption and perversion of the law are light, and the government of the Republic of China is deliberately covering up, and I am afraid it is not easy to do it clearly. What's more, now the government of the Republic of China has changed its name to the Hongxian Empire. No one can guess the thoughts of President Yuan Da, who sat on the emperor's throne. Now the Beiyang government is in chaos. President Yuan Da also did not have the energy to make a move against the three eastern provinces. However, this is a sensitive period, and if we don't deal with it well, it will affect our development. Feng Yong said with a frown. In history, Zhang Zuolin also launched this movement, and Feng Delin followed suit, but Feng's wrists were not stiff, and he was tricked by Zhang, offending Duan Zhigui to death, which eventually led to Feng Delin's fall from grace. As a result, Zhang Zuolin confirmed the identity of the king of the Northeast.
But now the situation is different, and the Northeast has its own powerful Jilin overseer. Its own attitude has also become an important measure for the Republic of China government to judge the attitude of the three eastern provinces. Now the whole country is opposing President Yuan Da as emperor. Although the powerful people of all sides also oppose it in their hearts, they are not as radical as those revolutionary parties. The warlords on all sides generally chose autonomy and said they would not participate in the central government's statements. And Yuan Shikai's Hongxian Empire, in order to prevent these powerful princes from opposing him, would also return the favor and give him a higher title. It was also at this time that Zhang Zuolin climbed to the Fengtian Overseer Army and served as a patrol envoy, laying the foundation for becoming the king of the Northeast in the future.
Feng Yong couldn't just watch Feng Delin care. Although he didn't agree with many of his father's practices, after all, it was his old son, the closest person in the world, and he knew that he was wrong, how could he let him fall into it.
Therefore, Feng Yong suspended the war in the north and paid full attention to the situation in Fengtian.
"Staff Officer Xu, has the telegram been sent?" Feng Yong said to the staff officers beside him. As soon as he got the information about Fengtian, Feng Yong sent a report to Feng Delin, suggesting that he could launch the activity of 'Fengtian people rule Fengtian', but don't offend Duan Zhigui. After all, although Duan Zhigui is greedy and unscrupulous, he is a representative of the central government and President Yuan Da's person after all. It was suggested that the 28th Division should take a moderate approach when expelling the section. You must not do anything that makes Duan Zhigui hate it to the bone.
"Is there a call back from my father?" Feng Yong is really a little anxious, if Feng Delin completely offended Duan Zhigui as in the original history, and let Zhang Zuolin become the overseer of Fengtian, it will be extremely detrimental to his own development. Placed on his own as the patrol envoy of the three eastern provinces, Feng Yong didn't even dare to think about it. After all, he has not yet reached the crown according to his age. It's hard to feel safe.
"Not yet. But young marshal, don't we express our opinion on Zhang Dashuai's 'Fengtian people rule Fengtian'? ”
"Don't worry, let's take a look first." Feng Yong was able to calm down, and it was not yet three months. According to his memory, President Yuan Da held on to the emperor's throne until the end of March, and now it is only the end of February, and President Yuan Da should not be at the end of the mountain.
Feng Yong then inspected the Changchun Industrial Zone. Looking at the factories in the industrial area, black smoke is emitted from huge chimneys. There was a faint smell of smoke in the air. Feng Yong frowned when he saw this situation, but in later generations, he knew that this primitive industry was hugely polluted. But now even if you know, you can't help it. The Jilin Provincial Government has developed on the basis of poverty and whiteness, and all equipment is imported. At this time, it would be good to have equipment that can produce industrial products, and there is still an industry that requires environmental protection.
Fortunately, Feng Yong built the industrial zone more than five kilometers away from the city, and although the city was not completely unaffected, it also minimized the pollution caused by the factory.
Feng Yong's inspection focused on the large thermal power plants under construction. In this era, power plants are energy centers and the basis of industry. In the early days of the establishment of the industrial zone, the first projects included a small thermal power plant. Although Jilin is not very rich in coal resources, there are several good medium-sized coal fields, and it is no problem to meet the needs of power plants. Feng Yongke is well aware of the important role of energy in industry. Therefore, great importance is attached to the construction of power plants.
The equipment of this thermal power plant was collected by the Kitazawa family from Western countries, and the equipment is certainly not brand new, but it is a good model. It was all in foreign languages, not English, and Feng Yong couldn't recognize which language it was. I don't know if it's the loot that the Kitazawa family picked up from that country.
Although the weather in the northeast is cold, it is not suitable for construction. However, Feng Yong believed that man would win the day, and there were many prisoners in the hands of the provincial government, and these prisoners could not be left idle as free labor. As long as it doesn't snow, they can always be seen toiling on the power plant construction site.
Although Feng Yong knew that the primitive accumulation of capital was built on blood and bones. But after all, he was educated in later generations as humanitarians. You can't do that kind of thing that uses people as animals. Therefore, although these captives work every day, they can at least ensure that they can only have enough to eat. And every once in a while, you can take a day off. It is also this humanitarianism that has led to more and more coolie thinking to be converted into the security corps, and then trained to become qualified soldiers of the security corps.
In the provincial government, prisoners and criminals are two different concepts. Although the captives also had to work to obtain the necessities of life, the provincial government had regulations. If these captives have worked for three years, they can obtain the status of residents and become ordinary people. After all, the security corps regarded these prisoners as reserve soldiers, and political workers from various units often came to the prisoner barracks to do ideological work, and then dragged away a group of soldiers who were willing to join the security corps.
And criminals can't. Of course, they also have to work, but often do the dirtiest and most tiring work. It's normal for someone to die in prison. Minor offenders and felons are separated. Minor offenders are generally not subjected to too much torture, as long as they complete their daily work, persevere, and are released from prison and become ordinary people, but felons often have extremely long sentences and are mostly murderous. The interior is extremely bloody, and dead people are even more common, and the death of these felons is not too concerned with the security corps. After all, human life is not very precious in this era. Feng Yong is not a saint either. It is impossible to care about everything.
Feng Yong then visited the steel mill, which was bought from the French, although it is only a small steel mill, but after all, it is a complete modern steel plant. It is capable of producing the vast majority of advanced steel of this era. The annual output of steel is nearly 100,000 tons. It has been possible to solve the material problem of the arsenal. Feng Yong also wants that kind of medium-sized, large-scale steel plant, but unfortunately that kind of steel plant is also a treasure in the eyes of the European and American powers, and it will not be easily taken out. And this kind of small steel plant is a bit of a chicken rib for countries such as Britain and France. Some of the gains outweigh the losses of demolition and reconstruction. So the small steel mills on the territory occupied by Britain and France were basically sold to small countries.
Feng Yong, a small steel mill like this, bought a total of three through the Kitazawa family. At present, only one is under construction and production, and two are still under construction. It is estimated that no month will be complete.
Now comes to the point. The Kitazawa family spent a lot of money to get the industrial machine from the West. Feng Yong established Jilin Machinery Manufacturing Factory to house this industrial machine. Industrial machine tool is a general term for a series of mechanical equipment. Other finished industrial equipment makes goods, but this industrial machine makes machines, the kind of machines that can produce goods. It's like the eggs laid by the former can't hatch into chicks, while the eggs laid by the latter can hatch into chicks, and then the chicks grow up to lay eggs. For a regime like Feng Yong, which wants to build an industrial base, the industrial machine is the foundation for success. Therefore, Feng Yong attaches great importance to this industrial machine tool, and he is ready to build the industrial machine in a safer place. But Feng Yong thought about it for a long time and was still ready to build the industrial machine here, after all, only here can there be sufficient energy supply for the operation of the industrial machine tool. The construction of industrial machine tools is extremely cumbersome, and all kinds of machinery and equipment need to be debugged. But the electricity produced by small power plants is simply not enough to power industrial machine tools. And the big power plant has not yet been built.
Feng Yong recruited a large number of Western mechanical engineers because of industrial machine tools. These engineers had to pay a high fee for the provincial government to come to this bitter cold place. And these foreign engineers are also more dedicated. Now that the equipment is not operating, they are visiting and teaching with some apprentices according to the requirements of the provincial government. This is also what Feng Yong requires, and all the industrial equipment we Chinese must be able to master. Feng Yong knows that foreigners are unreliable. This kind of technology can only be considered our own if we have mastered it ourselves.
During this period, the provincial government funded the establishment of various technical schools the most. A large number of foreign engineers teaching in technical schools have also become a beautiful landscape.
The provincial government's population recruitment program has also begun to bear fruit, with a large number of impoverished farmers in Guannai entering the Northeast through large businesses such as the Maossen Chamber of Commerce and then into Jilin, where they have acquired land and taken root. These people are basically farmers in the areas of Shandong and Henan. Feng Yong believes that with the success of this first batch of people, the three eastern provinces will definitely attract more and more people. Moreover, many tenants in Fengtian Province fled to Jilin.
For a whole day, Feng Yong almost walked around the entire industrial area. Although this industrial area cannot be compared with later generations, compared to this era, Feng Yong is still relatively satisfied. Light industries such as textiles and food are the most abundant in industrial areas, after all, the huge international demand has made these industrial products almost out of stock. It quickly attracted a large number of businessmen to invest in these business activities. The provincial government is also happy to see that the First World War will be fought for a while anyway, and this kind of war money cannot all let the old beauty hair, and we Chinese can earn as much as we can.
Feng Yong also made a lot of suggestions for the enterprises controlled by the Mansfield Chamber of Commerce. Feng Yong didn't want the industrial foundation he had worked so hard to build to become the kind of state-owned enterprise that would lose money for no reason in later generations. The development of the Mansfield Chamber of Commerce is good, and now it has made several international transactions and accumulated a certain amount of financial resources. But there is still a big gap with the strength accumulated by the Kitazawa family and the Nalan family for hundreds of years. Now the president of the Mansfield Chamber of Commerce is concurrently served by Wang Qi, Minister of Industry, although Wang Qi has good ability, but after all, he is part-time, and he still has a lot of work. For the Mansfield Chamber of Commerce, it is not possible to do everything. This gave Feng Yong the idea of finding a qualified helmsman for the Mansfield Chamber of Commerce.