You must know that for now, the overall plan for the dock area still prioritizes the development of industry, supplemented by military and commercial development.
After all, the most advantageous thing that the Time Travelers have over the indigenous people of this era is the industrial technology they possess.
As long as the industry develops, it can be said that it will have no problem crushing the world.
But here's the problem. Focusing on developing industry, most manpower and resources are tilted towards industry, which creates a problem.
Some other things developed more slowly, and we didn’t even pay attention to them at all.
Just like this navy.
If some existing ships in the dock area are used to build a navy, the Interim Management Committee has no objection.
But now that Sun Xuebin and Wang Haitao are demanding the construction of a shipyard or the purchase of a sailboat, this becomes even more difficult.
When building a shipyard, the first issue is manpower.
Shipbuilders are not so easy to find these days.
To put it simply, shipyards are either government-run or owned by large shipping companies.
Small businessmen and hawkers don't have much capital to start a shipyard.
Therefore, the vast majority of shipwrights are in these shipyards.
Even though the Qing army has now occupied half of the country, leaving many shipwrights homeless among the people, it will take a lot of effort, money and time to recruit them.
As for buying a boat, it is even less possible.
Merchant ships are okay, if you spend more money, someone will sell them.
As I said before, many ships were captured during the battle against pirates, and most of them were actually converted merchant ships.
But if you want to buy a warship, you can imagine how difficult it is.
Folks are not allowed to keep warships. This is the same reason that the imperial court does not allow folk to hide armor privately. Anyone who hides armor privately will be punished for treason!
Then you can only build your own ship.
The interim management committee initially disagreed, even though Sun Xuebin and Wang Haitao had two votes.
However, there are eight leaders in the management committee, and the remaining six voted against it.
Finally, Sun Xuebin found Fang Xiaoyue, and Fang Xiaoyue helped him come up with an idea.
The general idea is that the shipyard will eventually build it, and it is definitely better to build it sooner than later. Among other things, the modern ships currently docked at the dock will also break down as time goes by and they are constantly used.
Why don't you take advantage of the construction of the shipyard now to train relevant technical personnel, and then wait until all the modern ships are broken?
Besides, Sun Xuebin also said that the harvest from this crackdown on bandits was not small, so he would use this harvest to invest in the navy and build shipyards, without the need for additional funding from the management committee.
I have to say that Fang Xiaoyue's idea was pretty good. After hesitating for some time, the other big guys in the interim management committee reluctantly nodded and approved Sun Xuebin's plan.
The location selection of the shipyard, the construction of workshops, docks, etc. are all relatively easy, but Chen Liuxiang's help is needed to recruit shipwrights.
In view of the tense atmosphere caused by the pirate attack, the vast majority of time-travelers are unwilling to go out to take on this task.
Sun Xuebin and Wang Haitao, who proposed this plan, are also responsible for building the army and navy. They cannot leave at all and cannot implement the principle of whoever proposes it will implement it.
Under such circumstances, we could only ask Chen Liuxiang to come forward and ask the shipping merchants to help recruit shipwrights.
As a result of several campaigns against bandits, the harvest was quite abundant. The silver and gold alone were almost equivalent to 27,000 taels of silver. As for food, ironware, artillery and even silk, raw silk, cloth, official kiln porcelain, jewelry, etc., Qiqi
The total of eight and eight is estimated to be more than 30,000 taels.
While helping the military group sell the captured loot, Chen Liuxiang announced the recruitment of shipwrights and other craftsmen in Qiongshan County.
Anyway, the more skilled workers like these in the dock area, the better, so we simply released the news.
Although carpenters, blacksmiths, and craftsmen who make guns and cannons, etc., even if they are recruited, they still need to be retrained by the industrial team.
But compared to newcomers who are completely blank in technology, they still have certain advantages, at least they have a foundation in learning.
After all, people who can be craftsmen are somewhat talented in this area.
However, what Sun Xuebin did not expect was that within a few days of Chen Liuxiang announcing the recruitment of craftsmen, hundreds of craftsmen came from Lingao, Ding'an and other places to apply for the job.
This is not because these craftsmen have no jobs or income, but the wages offered by the dock area are too good.
If you apply successfully, you will get 2.5 yuan per month, which is 2.5 taels, and then you will be trained for one month, and you will be rated according to your technical strength after the training.
A first-level worker is equivalent to a general worker, and the monthly salary is 2.5 yuan as usual.
For second-level workers, the salary rises to 4 yuan a month.
For third-level workers, the monthly salary is as high as 6 yuan.
However, level three workers are the peak for the time being.
If you want to be promoted to level 4 workers, you need to master certain modern technologies.
For now, the technical rating for naturalized workers in the dock area is tentatively set at the highest level five, but it is not ruled out that level six, seven, and eight will be introduced in the future.
Well, the first-level job alone costs 2.5 yuan a month, which is 30 yuan a year!
A salary of 30 taels a year!
Looking at the entire South China Sea Island, that is a high salary that has never been seen before.
At first, only craftsmen from nearby counties came to apply for the job, but later, craftsmen from further away places such as Changhua, Zhanzhou, Wenchang, etc. also came.
What surprised Chen Liuxiang the most was that some craftsmen from Qianhu Shuo came to apply for the job secretly, and even the shipbuilders from Baishui Jiangshui Village had more than 20 people.
But this is not surprising. The craftsmen who came from Qianhufu and Shuizhai all had extremely tattered clothes, sallow complexions, and skinny bones. They all looked like they were going to die soon.
It can be seen from this that the quality of life of the craftsmen in these thousands-household villages and water villages at this time was poor.
If it were an ordinary businessman, he probably wouldn't have the guts to accept these fugitive craftsmen.
After all, according to the law, if you are caught sheltering a fugitive military household, you will also be implicated.
Well, although Nanming is in chaos now, and many military households have fled, and no one is pursuing them, ordinary businessmen are still unwilling to cause such trouble.
But it doesn't matter on the Chuanzhong side. As long as you are really a craftsman, it doesn't matter. You can charge as much as you want. We are worried about the lack of human resources.
In fact, in less than three months from time traveling to the present, the total number of farmers, craftsmen, and soldiers recruited in the dock area has exceeded 6,000, and this does not include Jiaozhihong.
What about the miners recruited from the base coal mine?
If the miners there are also included, there are already tens of thousands of people.
Having a large amount of human resources in our hands will play a great role in promoting the development of the dock area.