Chapter 106 Comprador of the Republic of China
After Qin Yue returned to the Demon Capital, he spent a month organizing and pondering the poems, and then published the collection of poems "The Goddess of Wushan", which once again caused a sensation.
The great poet Qin Yue has another popular new works, which has made her position in the poetry world stable again.
At the same time, as the movie written by Wang Shu received praise, Qin Yue's relationship with him became closer.
Wang Shu was from Jiangsu. His father died early, and his mother supported him by spinning and weaving cloth. He had an uncle who was once the director of a department in Jiangsu Province. He followed his uncle to study in Japan. After returning home, he was enthusiastic about drama and became a poet, drama writer, opera writer, and film script writer.
In terms of family background, Wang Shu and Qin Yue are very different. However, Wang Shu is very talented, while Qin Yue doesn't care about money. The two gradually got together because of their pursuit of poetry and their common ideals.
Qin Yue's sister Qin Ling gave birth to a son not long ago, which is considered to be both children.
Zhu Wan is over fifty years old. Because she is a world-famous scientist, she rarely goes to the hospital for surgery. She focuses on the "Chian Medical College" and supervises the "Chian Medical Research Institute" when she has time.
Not long ago, several papers on streptomycin sent by Qin Di have been published, and at the same time, patent applications have also gained some insights.
The paper is signed by Zhu Wan and Qin Ling, with Qin Ling as the first author and Zhu Wan as the corresponding author.
These papers have once again caused a sensation in the medical community. Some people say that they are epoch-making initiatives and may win the Nobel Prize.
Historically, Waxman, who discovered streptomycin, did win the Nobel Prize in 1952. However, Zhu Wan has won the Nobel Prize three times. If she wins the fourth time, it would be incredible.
Zhu Wan's three Nobel Prizes are sulfonamide drugs, penicillin and vitamin C. This time, streptomycin was discovered. Even if she could win the Nobel Prize, it would be delayed for several years. After all, penicillin is the first biological antibiotic, which has a greater impact on people. Streptomycin is the second type, and the efficacy of anti-tuberculosis needs to be verified slowly.
In May 1930, John Old sent a telegram saying he had bought a bankrupt steel factory.
The factory is called "Nevada Slos Steel Plant". Its main equipment is a 180-meter-high ironmaking furnace and two 150-ton steelmaking furnaces. It uses the open furnace steelmaking method. It is not the most advanced oxygen converter or an electric arc furnace.
Qin Di asked Old John to dismantle the steel plant as a whole and ship it to China. At the same time, he hired some engineers and skilled workers to come to China for short-term guidance.
At the same time, he began to advertise in major newspapers, hiring Chinese engineers, managers, workers and geological exploration personnel with a lot of money.
Previously, he had found a manager who was nearly 60 years old, named "Zhang Zhenye".
Zhang Zhenye was originally the director of the "Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant".
The Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant was founded in 1890 and produced an annual output of 50,000 tons of steel at its peak, but it stopped production in 1925 and did not recover until 1930.
During the Republic of China period, China's steel production was very pitiful.
In 1913, China's steel production was 43,000 tons, while India's steel production was 63,000 tons. In 1930, India's steel production was 600,000 tons, but China actually reduced it to 15,000 tons. What do you think of such a low steel production, how can you use to fight against the war?
And what is outrageous is that the "Hanyeping Iron Mine" does not produce steel itself, but supplies the refined iron to Japan's Hachiman Steel Factory, allowing others to build weapons and attack the Chinese!
Zhang Zhenye has been "semi-unemployed" for five years since he left Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant, and has made a living by teaching in school.
He studied in the United States in his early years and worked in the factory of the steel king Carnegie for a few years after graduation. If it weren't for his old age and weakness, and his attachment to his hometown, he might have taken root in the United States.
Qin Di entrusted him with the construction of the steel plant, wrote him a large check of 8 million yuan, and equipped him with several subordinates, so he let him solve the rest himself.
China does not lack steel workers, nor does it lack low-level engineers, because before that, there were steel plants such as Ma'anshan, Anshan, Tangshan, Benxi, and Dalian, which had already cultivated enough workers.
Zhang Zhenye held the check and felt a little embarrassed: "Mr. Qin, why did you build the steel plant in Dukou City? Are there any conditions for building a factory there? Is it too hasty to prepare for the construction of the steel plant now? We haven't even done the preliminary exploration yet!"
Qin Di said: "I'll draw a map for you. You went and searched for iron ore and coal."
"Ah? Have you done your exploration in advance?"
"Well, I went and took a look. There was a lot of magnetite and sufficient coal supply. But there was no excavation yet, everything was blank. You were just in need of showing off your skills!"
"I'm old, I'm afraid I won't be able to work for a few years."
"It doesn't matter. You just need to build the steel plant to ensure it can operate normally. I will give you a reward of 50,000 oceans!"
Zhang Zhenye was shocked, excited, and said, "Even if I try my best, I will do this!"
Next, Qin Di became the boss.
To be honest, he is not too concerned about the steel mill, and he doesn't expect it to make a lot of money anyway. He is purely contributing to the country. As long as he continues to entrust, he asks for money, asks people to recruit people, and ends up doing whatever he does. If he can't do it, he won't be too upset. On the other hand, even if he does it, he may not be able to operate smoothly and for a long time.
You should know that the Qingbai Party’s national government did not support private capital to invest in heavy industries. They only knew that buying steel from abroad would get 20 to 30% rebates, which became an important means to get rich first. Of course, the royal relatives and relatives were all happy and had no motivation to develop their own steel industry.
In this way, the Beiyang warlords could make cannon steel and gun barrel steel. After the "golden decade" of the Republic of China, they could not make them any more!
In 1920, under the rule of the Beiyang warlords, the national industrial and mining state capital was calculated at comparable prices of 222.6 million silver dollars. The Qingbai Party was a family for ten years, inherited and annexed. By 1937, it did not rise but fell, and lost a lot of money, which turned into 206 million yuan.
Not only that, the Qingbai Party is short-sighted and constantly weakens itself and strong enemies.
After the September 18th in 1931, the Qingbai Party continued to facilitate the expansion of Japanese capital in China. As a result, before the July 7 Incident in 1937, 29% of the coal production, 90% of iron ore and sand, and 95% of modern iron smelting were under the control of Japanese capital. The war broke out and Japanese capital withdrew from the national-controlled area, and as a result, China's steel production from 1938 to 1939 dropped sharply to less than 1,000 tons.
This is nothing. In 1943, a strange thing happened in the Kuomintang-controlled area: the industrial crisis in the rear, a large number of steel plants went bankrupt, and the machine factory kept the frequent start of work less than one-tenth of the workers. On the one hand, the Kuomintang army was short of guns and artillery, and on the other hand, the Kuomintang-controlled area was neither short of raw materials nor workers, but the steel plants and machine processing plants went bankrupt in large numbers!
How could such a strange thing happen? In the final analysis, it is because the comprador of the Qingbai Party is too strong and unwilling to run industries in a solid manner.
Therefore, Qin Di built this steel factory, which was considered as having dates but not having dates. He built the steel factory in Dukou City, western Sichuan because the sky was high and the emperor was far away, so he wanted to hide in the corner and run for a few more years.
"It's too difficult for private capitalists! There is neither a unified country nor an enlightened government. If you invest in factories, you have to struggle and you can only struggle in the cracks. Perhaps, this is also part of the phoenix nirvana. I just need to make efforts and don't have to care about the final outcome. Even if the factory cannot operate, then doing a good job in early exploration and leaving the factory site and blast furnace can lay the foundation for the future."
Chapter completed!