As the train slowly pulled into Nanyuan Railway Station, Zhu Xianhai once again looked out the window at this somewhat fantastical modern industrialized city. The bustling street scene had been obscured by twilight, but the light of the electric lights was like stars, dotting the city.
According to the plan, Emperor Zhu Da took a special train to Nanyuan - the largest heavy industry city in the Ming Dynasty, located in the central hinterland of the Ming Dynasty. Before coming to Nanyuan, he deliberately searched for books from the "bookstore" for a long time, and then combined them with the books
He hand-drawn a sketch of the production line design and the corresponding management regulations from his memory, and prepared to hand these materials over to Wang Jiamin of Nanhe Locomotive Company - now Maxima Motor Company, which is still a subsidiary of the locomotive company.
Zhu Xianhai's request was very simple. He was asked to find a way to study the production line within one or two years and apply it to automobile production.
Not only the manufacturing of automobiles, motorcycles and other mechanical equipment can use similar technologies. With the blessing of production lines, Daming's industrial production capacity will definitely take off again.
As for whether the production capacity of Maxima Automobile Company can catch up with Ford's level by then, Emperor Zhu Da is still not sure, but as long as the production assembly line can be applied in the automobile industry, it will be just around the corner to achieve the achievements of Ford in another world.
matter.
“The future is promising!”
Staring at the city outside the window, Emperor Zhu Da had a smile on his face.
Today's Ming Dynasty may still be a enterprising student, but in many aspects it is far behind other countries!
What is lacking in the Ming Dynasty now?
Not technology!
But production capacity!
With the technical support from the mall, Daming's technical capital is sufficient, but its productivity is not yet high enough.
It's not big enough, it's very inadequate.
This situation is a bit like...like that country?
Nothing like it!
When there is no powerful country that rises, it has superior technology but insufficient production capacity. There is only one alternative, the Ming Dynasty.
What Emperor Zhu Da needs now is to push Ming Dynasty's industrial production capacity to new heights by implementing two five-year plans.
In fact, as early as 1862, out of security needs, Emperor Zhu Da formulated the first Five-Year Plan—a five-year industrial plan centered on heavy industries such as steel, coal, and machinery.
The industrial rise of the Ming Dynasty began at that time. Although when it was completed, the steel production of the Ming Dynasty was only 120,000 tons, the coal output was only 600,000 tons, and the output of machinery, equipment and arms could only meet the initial demand. But
But it laid a good foundation.
When was the Ming Dynasty’s real five-year plan implemented?
1869!
In 1868, with the return of the first batch of overseas students and the maturity of the local technical personnel trained in the past seven years, Zhu Xianhai formulated the "First Five-Year Plan".
"We will take five years to concentrate all our efforts and strive to double our industrial output value."
The main task of Ming Dynasty's first five-year plan is only one thing - to concentrate on industrialization. Concentrate the main efforts to carry out research-oriented development focusing on the fields of metallurgy, machinery manufacturing and shipbuilding. In the past three years
Among them, through concentrated investment, the industrial output value of Ming Dynasty has advanced by leaps and bounds.
Even if Daming's steel output is expected to exceed 1.8 million tons this year, its railway mileage is expected to exceed 20,000 kilometers, and its ship tonnage is expected to exceed 850,000 tons, so what?
Compared with Britain, Ming Dynasty is still too weak!
"In the past three years, the gap between us and the UK has not narrowed, but widened..."
Standing in front of the scorching blast furnace of Dahua Steel, company manager Zhao Xiangzheng said.
"Since 1870, British steel production has increased by 70% in just two years. Investment in steel has also driven investment and profits in the upstream coal and iron ore mining industries. Currently, the amount of steel in the UK has exceeded 7.8 million tons, and
We only have 1.8 million tons. Our development speed is fast, but the UK’s development speed is even faster!”
Zhao Xiangzheng's words made Zhu Xianhai raise his eyebrows.
"That's true. After all, they are all old industrial countries with good foundations and good technological foundations. Of course they will develop faster than us!"
In fact, in the past few years, the heavy industries of various countries around the world have been developing at a rapid pace. The United States, the North German Federal Republic and France have all planned large-scale railway construction and have made increasing demands on steel and energy.
demand, thus promoting the rapid development of the metallurgical, coal and petroleum industries.
Even France, whose economic development has been weak in history, because the important industrial and mining areas of Alsace and Lorraine were not ceded to Germany, the development of heavy industry far exceeded the level of the same period in history. Even Russia has also developed rapidly, focusing on the creation of industry.
Enterprises and railway construction have also set off a climax of "indiscriminate establishment of enterprises".
but……
"This year is 1872, and next year will be the final year of the First Five-Year Plan. It doesn't matter!"
Zhu Xianhai smiled confidently.
The reason why I don’t take it seriously is because... next year is a good time!
Anyone who has studied history knows that from the 1860s to the early 1970s, Western capitalists added a large number of means of production in order to build railways on a large scale and start industrial enterprises, which promoted the rise of the capitalist economy. At the same time, due to the large-scale expansion of fixed capital
, industrial production institutions achieved huge growth, which created the material basis for overproduction.
And what has this led to?
The economic crisis of 1873!
The 1873 crisis was the most serious crisis in the history of capitalist crises in the 19th century. Not only did it affect a wide range and scale, it also lasted for a long time, starting in 1873 and ending in 1879, which lasted as long as 7 years!
His crisis is my opportunity!
In another world, how did Soviet Russia rise?
Isn't it just taking advantage of the economic crisis to get involved from Europe and the United States?
During that economic crisis, the prices of machines in Europe and the United States even fell below the cost. While Soviet Russia introduced a large number of machinery and equipment, it even directly purchased bankrupt factories from European and American countries, hired unemployed workers, relocated the factories back to Soviet Russia, and then
Rebuilt as is.
The workers who were rebuilt were the same workers and technicians who demolished the factories in the United States. They also recruited a wave of technical talents—hundreds of thousands of workers and technicians.
During that wave of economic crisis, when European and American countries fell into recession, Soviet Russia had a bad taste in its mouth.
Now that this wave of economic crisis, which is said to be second only to "1929", is about to happen, if Ming Dynasty does not take the opportunity to take advantage of it, can it live up to its advantage of foresight?
Thinking of this, Zhu Xianhai can't help but look forward to next year...
This chapter has been completed!