Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company started relatively slowly. It has only been established for six years. Although it attaches great importance to technology, it only built a laboratory in Xuzhou.
However, if Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company is to develop into a truly first-class steel enterprise, it is not feasible to rely solely on a laboratory with only dozens of researchers.
Which of the first-class domestic companies does not maintain a large number of researchers and establish large-scale researchers and laboratories?
I won’t talk about companies in other industries, but in the steel industry, the five major steel companies all have their own large research institutes and laboratories. For example, Jiangnan Iron and Steel Company, in addition to having a large laboratory at their headquarters in Dangtu,
, and also set up a research institute in Jinling. In this research institute alone, the number of active scientific researchers has reached more than 300. These more than 300 people are all university graduates, and some even graduated from universities.
Most of the project leaders are professors from the Royal Institute of Technology.
Through cooperation with the Royal Institute of Technology, they conduct various research and share technical results.
Without huge research capabilities, they would not have become the largest steel company in the country, and their size would be larger than the next four major steel companies combined.
If Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company wants to become a first-class steel company in China, it is necessary to establish a large research institute and have its own R&D team.
After all, you can't always buy patents from other companies or Royal Institute of Technology.
What's more, the research at the Royal Institute of Technology in recent years has been too advanced. Many of the things developed are typical laboratory products that cannot be mass-produced with current technology.
Take the steam engine as an example. The current research and development of the steam engine project team of the Royal Institute of Technology has completed the steam pressure limit test of up to five megapascals. However, if you want to mass-produce a steam engine to this level, let alone it is impossible now.
, and it is estimated that it will not be achieved in another ten or twenty years.
Now among the major steam engine manufacturers, only four major manufacturers can achieve a steam pressure of 0.35 to 0.5 MPa. If it is any higher, the cylinder will basically explode.
In addition, the steam engine project team has completed the research and development of a four-cylinder steam engine. As for the three-cylinder steam engine, they have stopped playing with it a long time ago.
But among the four steam engine manufacturers in China, only the three-cylinder steam engines produced by the Navy Steam Engine Factory are mature and stable, and can achieve high power output. As for the other three, the three-cylinder engines produced by the other three are not very stable, although they can barely produce them.
came out, but the cylinder exploded and the power output did not meet expectations, so the main model was still a parallel-bar steam engine.
As for the four-cylinder steam engine, I'm sorry, all the major manufacturers are still trying to figure it out and can't make one.
Today, the Royal Institute of Technology's steam engine project team is already moving towards various extremes, and the technology it has developed is already seriously out of touch with industrial production capabilities.
Therefore, in the past two years, many of the technologies exported by the Royal Institute of Technology cannot be produced and applied at the first time, and require major manufacturers to digest and explore on their own.
In addition, the Royal Institute of Technology now pays more attention to various theoretical research. A lot of monsters with IQs of over 100 or even more than 200 are immersed in the world of mathematics and theoretical physics. What else can they care about?
Various application technologies!
Various researches at the Royal Institute of Technology are seriously ahead of their time, which is also a very helpless thing.
However, Li Xuan is still extremely supportive of this situation, especially the research of new technologies, such as medicine and electromagnetism. Li Xuan has always spared no effort to support the Royal Institute of Technology in investing a lot of money and manpower in research.
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As for medicine, this is what Li Xuan uses to save his own life. He has always asked people from the Department of Medicine at the Royal Institute of Technology to develop various antibiotics, such as penicillin. Unfortunately, they are not available yet.
Because Li Xuan only knows the name of penicillin, but if you ask him to tell you how penicillin is produced, if you ask him, who will he ask? There is no such thing as Baidu and Google these days.
Therefore, a lot of geniuses can only use the most primitive methods to conduct various experiments one by one. As for when they can come up with it, it depends on whether God will give them face.
As for electromagnetism, Li Xuan attaches great importance to it, not because he wants to make an electrical revolution or something like that. The Tang Empire does not have much urgency about it. The telegraph Li Xuan needs does not matter whether it is a wired telegraph or a wireless telegraph.
, he doesn’t mind.
Because only by developing the telegraph can rapid long-distance communication be achieved, and communication was crucial to maintaining the rule of the Tang Empire, especially the rule of overseas territories in the future.
Now that there are trains and ships, if the telegraph is developed again, the Tang Empire's rule over overseas territories will be more stable, and there will be no chance of overseas territories being captured by the enemy or rebelling. It will take a year and a half.
It was only later that we learned the news and sent troops there, which took another year and a half. In total, two or three years had passed, and the cucumbers and vegetables were all cold.
Moreover, what Li Xuan needs to solve now is the problem of whether it is available or not. As for whether it can be mass-produced and what the cost is, it is not within the scope of his consideration at all.
If antibiotics such as penicillin are produced, even if one gram of penicillin is dozens or even hundreds or thousands of times more than one gram of gold, it will not be a problem. Li Xuan does not plan to produce much anyway, just a little for himself and his family.
Just save your life. As for popularizing it to the public, wait until later.
The same goes for the telegraph. As long as it can be produced, it doesn't matter the cost. No matter how high the cost is, it can't be higher than the stable rule of the empire.
The construction of the national railway network is now estimated to require an investment of tens of millions. It is estimated that the initial investment will be hundreds of millions, but it is not completed yet. How expensive will the telegraph be in the future? Even if it is all produced in a laboratory, the Tang Empire
If you throw money at it, you can create a telegraph network.
Under Li Xuan's urging, the Royal Institute of Technology carried out various researches at a rapid pace and never stopped to wait for contemporary industrial manufacturing capabilities.
Large-scale industrial production capacity cannot keep up with the research progress of the Royal Institute of Technology, so now major companies are focusing on development and trying to catch up with the research pace of the Royal Institute of Technology.
However, it is estimated that this situation will not be possible for a while, or even in the next few decades.
Because many things are kept confidential for technical reasons, Li Xuan strictly prohibits the leakage of technology. Some of the teaching materials written by Li Xuan are basically only available at the Royal Institute of Technology. Other universities do not have these teaching materials. Even if outsiders want to learn
, there is no way to learn.
The Royal Institute of Technology is rushing ahead, and major companies are chasing behind. This has also resulted in major companies' urgent need for technical talents.
In Shanghai, Lin Puxiang once again felt that talents are rare!
To set up a research institute, I won’t say too much, but to set up the structure, at least dozens of people will be needed.
And these dozens of people are not just cats and dogs. University graduation is the most basic. It is best to be graduates of science and engineering majors from seven famous domestic universities, or from Shanghai Institute of Technology, which specializes in science and engineering.
students from the school.
However, it is difficult to recruit talents from these schools!
Although the number of universities in the empire is increasing nowadays, there are already nearly 30 four-year universities, and nearly 50 three-year universities and higher normal schools. However, for the huge empire, these universities are
, not much at all.
There are not many universities, and naturally there are not many graduates. And the most important point is that the outstanding talents these days are basically rushing to take the imperial examination.
Even in the industrial age, studying and becoming an official is still the first choice for many scholars these days. Even if they want to engage in scientific research, they will choose to stay in school and teach, because in this way they will still have an official status, a lecturer in an ordinary university
, Professor, those are all high-class people who eat royal food.
When most outstanding talents consider being an official their first choice, there are not many talents who are willing to work in companies, and even fewer top ones.
Under this kind of environment, it would be extremely difficult for Lin Puxiang to recruit people!
There was no other way, Lin Puxiang could only resort to his ultimate move again: Give money!
In order to recruit talents, he gave extremely generous conditions. In terms of salary, it was directly compared to the salary level of Jiangnan Iron and Steel Company Research Institute, and on this basis, it was increased by 10%.
In addition, in order to make talents feel at ease, a generous signing fee will be given. As long as you sign the employment contract, you can get a signing fee immediately.
Then there is a room and a car!
As long as you join the job, you will be given a house immediately, and you can transfer the ownership directly after three years of employment. Moreover, these houses are not ordinary houses, they are all high-end residences in the Shanghai business district.
A single double-story building is worth thousands of dollars!
Then it is equipped with an exclusive carriage, groom and horses, and the company covers all expenses!
In terms of daily life, the company will hire servants to take care of the researchers' daily life. If you hire yourself, the company will subsidize the servant's salary.
In short, all aspects of treatment are in accordance with the highest standards, or even exceed the standards.
We must ensure that people feel the sincerity and strength of Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company!
Rich and generous, this is the first feeling many people have when they are invited by Lin Puxiang.
There are so many rich companies, but to be honest, even if scientific researchers are valuable and have high salaries, there is still a certain limit. After all, not every scientific researcher is like Sun Yuan, who starts with a net worth of hundreds of thousands, and a signing fee of just
One hundred thousand yuan kind.
There are only a few top scientific researchers like Sun Yuan across the country, and in the field of alloy steel, there are only a dozen or so who have the same level as him, and except for him, all the others teach at the Royal Institute of Technology.
The salary of an ordinary university science and engineering graduate is generally only about a thousand yuan a year. Generally, after working for a few years and achieving results, the salary can be several thousand yuan or more a year.
Now Lin Puxiang is recruiting people, and they all start with an annual salary of 2,000 yuan, with an exclusive carriage, a servant, and a house after three years of service!
Looking at the entire Shanghai and even the entire empire, there is no one like Lin Puxiang who is so generous!
Relying on checks one after another, Lin Puxiang launched a vigorous poaching campaign in Shanghai. He hired all the fresh graduates majoring in steel from Shanghai Institute of Technology, including more than a dozen with the best grades!