When Yang Rui was fiddling with the black gauze hat at home with great ease, dozens of international students in the official office of the Ministry of Industry were listening to Xu Huafeng's speech on industrial standards, and when he said the strange theory that 'pigs can also lay eggs', many people in the official office suddenly laughed. Others felt incredible, but more than a dozen Liuyang doctors, such as Wang Jixu and Li Fuji, who specialized in machinery, felt that their brains had suddenly opened, and an unspeakable thing was poured in, so that they didn't hear Xu Huafeng's words at all.

After everyone left, Wang Jixu took the lead and asked Xu Huafeng: "Mr. Huafeng, what does this group of techniques mean?" ”

Wang Jixu is Wang Jitong's younger brother, a doctor of engineering from Cambridge University, although he received a doctorate a few nights later than Li Fu, but because of Wang Jitong's relationship, these engineering students are headed by him. Xu Huafeng is actually very kind, even if it is not Wang Jixu, he will answer patiently, he looked at Wang Jitong and said with a smile, "You sit, you sit, this group technology is to standardize and standardize the parts, according to the actual statement, there are two types of production, one is the process type, such as steelmaking, chemical industry, and the other is the assembly type, such as tractors, cars, ships, and even guns and munitions, all belong to this type."

The analogy of 'pigs can lay eggs' is not entirely appropriate, but it is not entirely wrong. As long as the parts are the same, then the automobile factory can also produce shipbuilding parts, as long as the process, material and standard of the parts are the same, this is the meaning of 'pigs can also lay eggs'. ”

"Mr. Hua Feng. We all know what it means, but how? Chen Shishi, who graduated from shipbuilding, asked that the utilization rate of the slipway is the key to the efficiency of the shipyard. If the automobile factory can also produce ship parts, then the production efficiency of the shipyard will be greatly improved.

"Cheng only told me that he wanted to code various parts according to different materials, shapes, and processing techniques to become a part family, but he didn't elaborate on how to do it." Xu Huafeng said with regret, now Yang Rui has limited time to see anyone. In just a few hours, it has been extremely efficient to give him the concept of flexible production in popular science, and the rest of the things have no time to say.

Xu Huafeng said truthfully that he didn't know. Only let the hearts of these dozen engineering students hang high, and the cadres left the official office and returned to the dormitory, without eating, but only gathered together to discuss how to implement this so-called group technology. But decades from now, management technology can't imagine the details. It was a night in which nothing was gained. Officials can't figure out the boss's idea, and they will think about it later, but a few doctors can't figure out the academic problems, and will only come to the door to ask for advice. So Wang Jixu took the lead, begging Xu Huafeng to bring a few of them to Prince Zheng's mansion to see Mr. Jingcheng, Xu Huafeng was also willing to help each other when he saw this, and he brought everyone with him at noon that day.

"Actually, this is Xiao Xu's younger brother. See Lu, Ph.D., University of Cambridge, UK; This is Li Zemin. Ph.D., University of Bonn, Germany; This is Qingyun Liu, Ph.D. in Engineering from the Technical University of Berlin; This is Zhang Jiye, Ph.D. in Engineering from the Ye University of Berlin; This is Zhu Qilie, Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Leipzig; This is Yang Enhong, a doctor of science from the University of Leipzig...... "More than a dozen engineering and science doctors spent a lot of time introducing, but Xu Huafeng became more and more addicted the more he talked, and in the end, even the bachelors who did not come also introduced it."

"Actually, what you told me yesterday, as soon as I went back and announced, they couldn't sleep, and today they begged me to bring them here, and they wanted to hear what you said about the group technique again, so ah, I only have to pick the time to eat," After he finished speaking, he looked at Yu Huizu Xie Zhangtai, who was eating with Yang Rui, and said with a smile, "Don't delay your talk, right?" ”

Xu Huafeng rarely spoke like this, Yu Huizu said with a smile, "The matter of the Ministry of Industry is the biggest, we people raise money for the Ministry of Industry, Mr. Huafeng, you bring so many jinshi, can we not get aside?" ”

Doctorate, master's degree, bachelor's degree, these three kinds of Western degrees in accordance with the regulations of the Ministry of Rites, in the new dynasty corresponding to the level of Jinshi, Juren, Xiucai, but it is not to get the degree to have fame, the Ministry of Rites will assess the degree winners, and those who pass guò can have meritorious fame. This kind of new jinshi and new jinshi are the same as the previous jinshi, and the new jinshi and new jinshi of the Ministry of Industry have the most new jinshi, and the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs want to back down when they see this.

Yang Rui was very excited when he saw this circle of doctors, most of them were sent out after graduating from Tongji University, eight years, and finally became a talent, he said kindly, "Since Brother Hanzhang and Brother Chong'an have no opinions, then our meeting will be postponed for half an hour, but now is the time to eat, everyone eats first, eats first." After he finished greeting, he thought of another thing, and called the secretary, "Remember, I am going to hold a symposium with returning students in the near future, and the theme of the meeting is to build a new China in this way, and this matter will be arranged a few days after the establishment of the provisional government, not too late." ”

"Understood. Premier! Li Zilong looked at Yang Rui, who was rarely smiling, and nodded solemnly.

In the era when there was no CNC machine tool calculator, the group technology could only partially realize flexible manufacturing, and the way to achieve it was to classify the parts, and the classification was the final coding. Yang Rui has a special chapter on production management that talks about group technology, which is based on his fluent answers to the doctors' questions, and after answering all the questions, he also asked the secretary to call up this part of the text and authorize them to read it, so that the doctors were finished.

The affairs of the Ministry of Industry were played, but by the time he turned back to discuss financial issues with Yu Huizu, Xie Jintai and others, three hours had passed. He said not unapologetically, "It's really a mistake to say too much, making the God of Wealth wait for a long time, sin, sin." ”

Yu Huizu and Xie Jintai smiled and said, "Don't be sorry if it turns out to be you, I'm done talking with Chong'an." You can rest assured, the household department will not lag back, and there is no problem in terms of money. ”

Yu Huizu was so confident, Yang Rui smiled, "Then you can tell me, how much money can you get from the financial side?" ”

"The money of the household department is mainly taxes, bonds, loans, and the confiscation of the property of the Manchurians and corrupt officials, and in the case of borrowings, minus the 43 million taels of foreign bonds and the deposits of foreign banks that cannot be paid for the time being. This year's income is about 450 million taels, but if the foreigners refuse to pay the tariffs in the name of not recognizing us. That's only 410 million. Of these, 150 million are founding bonds, the other 220 million are taxes, and the remaining 40 million are confiscated income. Yu Huizu reported these figures, in fact, he has not counted the 30 million military spending in the northeast, and if it is reduced, it will only be 380 million taels.

"Because it's only half a year. At the same time, the number of troops and officials is small, and about 150 million taels will be needed for government operations this year, minus military spending. This year, there will be a balance of about 200 million taels; This year there are bonds and confiscations, but next year it will only rely on taxes, and if the peasant associations in various places are formed, the various monopoly systems will also progress. Then next year's tax revenue can exceed 400 million taels. The fiscal balance can be more than 170 million; The tax revenue of 400 million yuan next year should reach 500 million taels the year after next, and the surplus should exceed 200 million. In other words, before 14 years, the amount of money that can be invested in industry will be more than 570 million taels.

When the meeting was held in Hong Kong before, it was estimated that the amount invested in the industry would not exceed 600 million taels plus borrowings, but in retrospect, this was because the founding bonds were not counted. That's why there is such a deviation. This is only the balance of the last three years, if you add the balance of 300 million for 14 years. In the next four years, more than 870 million taels of money can be invested in industry. "More than 800 million taels is obviously a large amount, Yu Huizu said very excitedly.

He was excited Yang Rui but not excited, he did not borrow foreign debts, and in the past ten years, he could raise more than 800 million taels by himself, minus the military expenditure of 500 million taels for the war against Japan, and only more than 300 million taels were invested in industry, which was the same as the original expectation, and if he wanted to achieve an investment scale of 500 million, he would have to borrow about 150 million taels from abroad, but the legation had a lot of opinions on the revival meeting, and the banks of the four countries were afraid that except for the United States, the other three countries would not borrow.

Is it really necessary to spend 500 million taels to fight a war with Japan? Yang Rui didn't know how to think of this problem, but as soon as he changed his mind, he decided that he must fight a war with Japan. This is not only a question of the rule of the Renaissance Society, a question of the living space of the national industry, but most importantly, a vote for the Americans. Don't turn your face with the Japanese, the Americans are unhappy, the Americans are unhappy, even if China can produce enough goods during World War I, it may not be able to sell to Britain and France and other countries from the beginning, Japan can make so much money in history, and it has a lot to do with the status of the Anglo-Japanese alliance and the Japanese Entente, and it can't do entrepot trade through the United States, even if it invests in many industries, it will be profitable, don't think about earning two billion, it is difficult to make one billion.

The business environment in this era is not as good as that of later generations, Yang Rui felt so much after making his mind. In the case of politics, or rather, war is a prerequisite for commercial trade, just as in later generations ten yuan of capital should have five yuan for marketing, in this era ten yuan of capital must have five yuan for politics or war, otherwise, the other five yuan of industrial investment will be unprofitable.

"Brother Hanzhang, how is the foreign loan contacted? Can you receive 200 million? Yang Rui asked, this is a big deal, he has always remembered it.

"We have already negotiated, excluding the banking groups of the four countries, and there are three sources of borrowing, and 200 million taels is no problem." Yu Huizu said confidently, "First, there is a Rockefeller of the United States, and we have an old relationship, he is willing to borrow from us, the amount of the loan can reach 200 million US dollars, the way is to issue bonds in the US financial market, the annual interest rate is 5%, 97% off the sale of bonds, 95% off delivery, 10 years, the guarantee is the national finance, the attached conditions are still being discussed, mainly he wants a certain period or range of oil monopoly rights and oil prospecting rights;

The second is the Russian-Belgian consortium of the Russian Daosheng and the Bank of Belgium, whose loan amount is relatively small, only 10 million pounds, with an annual interest rate of 5%, and a 97% discount, and the mortgage is the national treasury and the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway. The Russians wanted us to borrow money from him to build the Zhangjiakou Railway connecting Mongolia with Ulan-Ude, and the Lanxi Railway across the Western Regions, which added up to 3,500 kilometers and would take about 150 million taels to complete.

Third, on the German side, the Deutsch-China Bank sent a message saying that as long as we can form an alliance with Germany and Austria, Germany will forgive the previous arms loans, and can also lend us 300 million marks at a low interest rate, and give us full diplomatic support. In my opinion, this is the most unsafe, Germany is still too stingy, 300 million marks is only 120 million taels, and military spending is not enough. ”

"Germany has no money to build warships now." Yang Rui is also not optimistic about German loans, "but in order to put pressure on Britain and France." You can also talk to them. According to what has been said before, the best way to deal with the United States is to attack Japan, and the best way to deal with Britain and France is to get close to Germany and Austria. But this closeness must be done with proportion, if it really annoys Britain and France, it will be troublesome in the future. ”

"Now we are the principle," said Mr. Hsieh, "and we can properly recognize the remainder of the loans that Germany had given to the Manchus, excluding the arms that had been spent." Only the obstacle with Germany was solved. ”

"How much can I admit?" Yang Rui also thinks that whether or not to admit arms loans is not a big problem, and the key is whether the Fuxing Association will not be unable to step down.

"Seventy percent, the remaining unspent portion of the arms loan is about 20 million marks. The total amount of loans was thirty-five million, and another five million marks were embezzled. The money has been recovered, but it cannot be withdrawn because it is deposited in Deutsch-Hua Bank. Yu Hui Zu said.

"Then admit it!" Yang Rui said. "But only if Germany is asked to recognize the new government. Can this Germany agree? ”

"If they did not privately promise to stand on the German-Austrian side, it is estimated that the Germans would not agree." Xie Zhangtai said.

"Then ask the Germans to continue with the plans that had been interrupted." Yang Rui said that he still has a lot of thoughts about submarines, "In addition, we have to buy some submarines and airships, which they can't disagree with." ”

"It's not that difficult." Xie Jintai said, "Now that the Manchu Qing is gone, the Germans really can't find anyone else except to befriend us." It did. I have a feeling that the Kaiser has always attached great importance to establishing good relations with China. When Gengzi was in power, he said the Yellow Peril Theory and gave a powerful speech to the soldiers who came to fight in China, but when the Manchus sent Zaifeng to Germany to apologize, the Kaiser gave special etiquette and did not embarrass Zaifeng; Not to mention the alliance between Germany and China, even on the eve of our great uprising, the German crown prince is also preparing to visit China wèn. In this way, it can only be said that the Kaiser has always had a soft spot for China based on special considerations. ”

"There is a way to be a long-distance friend and a close attack, and Germany and we are in such a situation," Mackinder's Lu Quan said a few days ago to awaken some of Yang Rui's memories, and his thoughts on diplomacy began to be different from before, "but the United States speaks English, and Britain and the United States have a natural alliance basis, so we and Germany will never be able to form an alliance." ”

Hearing Yang Rui actually make such an assertion, Xie Zhangtai said, "Then who can we ally with?" ”

"It's better to form an alliance with the United States now, but although the Pacific Ocean is vast, it's too small, don't look at the current competition between Japan and the United States, but in a few decades, it will be China and the United States. At that time, the situation will be completely opposite to what it is now, and the United States will no longer pull us to suppress Japan, but Japan to suppress us. Yang Rui said what he thought, he actually said it with reference to the situation in later generations.

"If that's the case," Xie thought about it...... "then the relationship with Japan will be very particular." ”

"That's true." Yang Rui also had to admit that although this is rational but contrary to feelings, "Either we are strong and destroy Japan, set up a pro-China government, and let them become our puppets, but this is basically impossible." We don't have such a strong navy, and even if we do, the United States and Russia will not sit idly by, and the United States is far away, but Russia is too close, and once they send troops to threaten, we can't fight; ”

"Doesn't that mean an alliance with Japan?" Xie Jintai asked.

Xie Zhangtai said it, but Yang Rui didn't want to admit it, and said, "There is no need to form an alliance, as long as we support them to expand southward, the Philippines will give them to them, and Hawaii will support them to fight...... Even if there is an alliance, it is an alliance dominated by China; Otherwise, the Sino-Japanese alliance will also work, didn't Kang Youwei mention it earlier, when the time comes, the votes will be counted according to the capitation, and China will win. ”

Yang Rui's last sentence was obviously a joke, Yu Huizu and Xie Jintai were immediately happy, the two finished laughing, Yu Huizu said, "You should find another time to discuss diplomatic matters." There is still a big problem that has not yet been solved on the part of the household department, that is, who is the general office of the National Taxation Bureau, and now the counties are already preparing for the National Taxation Bureau, and the personnel of this general office must always be determined earlier. ”

"There are several people mentioned by the ministry, Tao Huanqing wants to go to the Ministry of Agriculture, I think it's better to hand it over to Wang Menghui." Yang Rui said.

"That king is restored...... Isn't he the one who broke into the Forbidden City and forced Guangxu to death? "As soon as Yu Huizu heard the name, he thought of Wang Menghui's life, which is also known throughout the country." Would he like to come to Malaysia? ”

"Hmm. That's him. Yang Rui smiled, the national tax is to be in charge of the star, "He is a soldier, and the IRS also has a tax police force, and he can be transferred with a single order, Brother Hanzhang, don't you worry, I'll send someone to find him now." ”

"I'm relieved! I'm relieved! Yu Huizu was happy in his heart, what the household wanted was a fierce thug, Wang Menghui was the most fierce, which was exactly what he wanted, "I don't want to see it, but it's best for him to be on duty earlier." ”

Yang Rui's arrangement only satisfied the household, but when Yang Rui brought him in the next day, Shaxing was unwilling. What he wants is to fight on the battlefield, not to scare the people with knives and guns to collect money, his words only made Yang Rui angry, and in the end, he could only let Wang Menghui's political commissar Wu Xifen be responsible, and the matter of national taxes was settled.

Before the first day of October in the solar calendar, Yang Rui basically talked with the ministers of the prime minister's office, and the work plans of the ministries were also briefly mentioned, but in fact, the main things that really had to be bothered were the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Transportation, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Rites.

The former is just a missionary, although he has some influence in China, but he was appointed as the head of a department, or very surprised, before meeting with Yang Rui, Pei Yili thought that Yang Rui was a believer in God, but after understanding that Yang Rui didn't believe anything, he just regretted calling God;

And Sheng Xuanhuai, because of the state-owned case of the iron factory and railway, he was dismissed at home at the beginning of the year, and his family property was confiscated. Last month, he was invited by Yang Rui, thinking that he had dealings with the Fuxing Association before, so he came in disbelief, and saw that Yang Rui actually wanted to appoint him as the secretary of the Ministry of Transport, and his hands kept shaking when he was talking. However, when he finally heard Yang Rui say that he would take back the postal right, he stabilized his mind slightly. He understood what Yang Rui meant, he was the minister of commerce before, and the foreigners' treaties were all involved with him, and now the revival will ask him to do the same old thing, that is, to negotiate with the foreigners, draw up a new covenant, and recover his rights.

Zhang Jian of the Ministry of Commerce is another ministerial-level non-Fuxing person, he didn't want to get involved with the new government, but under the persuasion of Zhao Fengchang, he also had to agree to Yang Rui's request, but even if he agreed, it was only a nominal person, and Du Yaquan was alone in charge of the affairs of the Ministry of Commerce. Only Yu Qiaqing in Shanghai also wants to get a position in the new government, but after seeing the various rules and regulations of officials, he also quits, there are Zhong Guanguan, Yu Huizu, Yu Zixun These people are here, even if he is in Shanghai, he is equivalent to half of the minister of commerce, why go to Beijing to eat sand.

Cai Yuanpei of the school department and Zhang Taiyan of the Ministry of Rites also discussed with Yang Rui for a long time, the school department is mainly about the popularization of education, Cai Yuanpei's plan is very large, and he wants to popularize it to junior high school in one step, and Yang Rui's construction is to popularize junior high school first, that is, three years of compulsory education, even so, there are 10 million students.

According to the number of education associations, not including food and clothing, each person will have three taels per year, and it will be nearly 100 million taels in three years; Upper primary and junior high schools are counted as one out of ten, and one million students have a four-year short-term education system, which also requires 12 million taels; In high school or technical secondary school, there are 200,000 students in 20000, and the education cost of these people is not 3 taels, at least 10 taels per person per year, and 4 million taels in two years; And the university enrolls 100,000 students every year, four years, 20 taels per year, it needs 8 million taels, and finally there are international students, 1,500 taels, and 2,000 people are sent abroad every year, that is, 3 million taels.

These budgets, together with other expenses, add up to 130 million taels. Due to the economic situation of the founding of the country, the annual budget for the school was extremely limited, and the average annual education budget for the first five years was 30 million taels. In this way, 2,000 international students were sent abroad, 3 million taels; 50,000 college students, 4 million taels; 200,000 for high school and technical secondary school, 4 million taels, 500,000 for high school and junior high school, 6 million taels; The remaining 13 million taels, plus the original 6 million taels per year of the Education Association, only 19 million taels can be used for primary education. (To be continued......)