After the Spring Festival, the First Federal Congress of the Chinese Federation also came to an end.
The major issues have almost been decided, and the constitution has been compiled. The remaining specific regulations are left to the intellectuals in the federal parliament to argue. This is what the representatives of each province have planned.
After February 2, Sheng Xuanhuai, who was appointed as the Minister of Railways, found Lin Youde and wanted to "borrow" Zhan Tianyou from Lin Youde. Lin Youde laughed three times and took out the business card of the president of Lin's Railway Engineering Company.
Sheng Xuanhuai's most famous achievement in the previous time and space was to save Han Yeping, and his biggest stain was giving Han Yeping's sovereignty to the Japanese. It can be said that Xiao He succeeded and Xiao He failed. But in this time and space, Han Yeping transformed
As soon as the reorganization began, Japan turned its focus to supporting the revolutionary army. Later, it discovered that Lin Youde was extremely powerful and had to step up its military preparations. Therefore, Han Yeping was not able to obtain many Japanese loans, and the pace of transformation was slower than in the previous time and space.
too much.
Although Han Yeping is much better now than during Zhang Zhidong's time, the cost is high, the output is low, the quality of the steel is poor, and the competitiveness is not as good as that of foreign iron from afar. It is impossible to compete with the steel companies in the hands of Lin Youde.
.In the future, everyone knows that the Chinese Federation will definitely enter an era of large-scale railway construction, because the principle of building roads first to get rich is not actually summed up by modern people. When the First Emperor built the Qin Straight Road, he not only strengthened his control over various parts of the empire.
, a very important purpose is to transport tribute taxes from various places - in other words, to make money and get rich.
How much steel will be needed to build railways across China? In fact, the period when the steel production of all capitalist powers increased greatly overlapped with the period of large-scale railway construction. The demand for steel in railway construction stimulated capitalists to increase production capacity.
The main motive - followed by military necessity.
Everyone knows that Lin Youde will make a lot of money from building the railway in the future. But now that Lin Youde has shown the name of the railway engineering company, he is telling Sheng Xuanhuai that not only will he do the steel business, but he will also cover the railway engineering business.
Come down.
At this time, Lin Youde already had an engineering team trained in the construction of the Luzon Island Ring Railway, and he also absorbed technical workers and engineers from the Japanese Railway Company. His technical strength was no worse than that in Europe and the United States, and Lin Youde's steel plant was closer to the mainland, plus Lin Youde
Due to the bonus provided by its own skill tree, Lin Ji's steel production cost is lower than that of foreign iron shipped to the mainland. Combining these advantages, Lin Ji's construction plan is definitely more attractive than that of foreign companies.
How could Sheng Xuanhuai, a shrewd person, fail to see this? The characteristic of capitalism is the pursuit of profit. As the person with the most obvious capitalist tendency among the Qing Dynasty bureaucrats, Sheng Xuanhuai certainly could not refuse Lin Youde's conditions. There were many horizontal lines determined at the Federal Congress.
Most of the national railways that span several provinces will be built by Lin Youde.
As for other railways, even if they are outsourced to foreign companies, it is estimated that in order to save labor costs, they will still use Lin Youde's steel.
This is the benefit of mastering technology. Others in China are powerless if they want to compete with Lin Youde.
In addition to the railway, Lin Youde's arms business was also in full swing. After the Spring Festival, the first batch of guns for Yuan Shikai were shipped to Tianjin Port and officially delivered to the Beiyang Army - now called the Federal Army. The speed of delivery prompted all provinces to
Lin Youde placed the order. According to Du Qifeng's estimate, with Lin Ji's current production capacity, it would take 1905 to complete the order.
So Lin Youde ordered to expand the arsenal in Helangyabo, restart the original Japanese naval arsenal in Wugang as soon as possible, and invest in the establishment of a new arsenal in Kitakyushu, which Lin Ji controlled more firmly. The reason why it was built in Kitakyushu was that it was nearby.
Using the steel from Yawata Steel Works, on the other hand, the Japanese are famous workaholics, working hard and meticulously, so there is no reason not to make full use of this high-quality labor force...
Although being too rigid is a problem, Linji is the first company in the world to implement assembly line production. Assembly line production does not require originality, but rigidity is an advantage.
The wealthy families in Kyushu Island basically support Lin Ji, and after nearly eight months of continuous propaganda and tolerant policies, the lower class people in Kyushu have gradually increased their support for Lin Ji, especially the leftist Japanese who were originally in Helang Yabo.
A large number of overseas Chinese moved back to their hometown, which provided a good foundation for Lin Ji's rule on Kyushu Island.
Therefore, Lin Youde signed an order to turn Kitakyushu and Sasebo into industrial pilot zones.
In the last time and space, Lin Youde had an idea. He read a lot of literary works describing modern social life in Japan, and also read a lot of academic works on Japanese society in the 1970s and 1980s, especially Japanese enterprises during the period of great economic development.
Writings on management systems.
Lin Youde discovered that in the era of great economic development, Japanese companies had good profits. At the same time, red tide was rampant in the country, and there were many trade union and pro-government movements. Therefore, the corporate welfare system was a bit like eating from a big pot: Japanese corporate employees in this era only needed to pay for
After working in the company for a certain number of years, you don't have to worry about being fired. Even if you don't make any big achievements, as long as you don't make mistakes, your salary will continue to increase with your working years, and it feels like you will be distributed according to your needs.
If the Chinese were under such a welfare system, they would have to start working as foreign workers. But at that time, most Japanese people still worked diligently after working for enough years without worrying about being fired.
This is a nation with a worker-ant-like nature, and this worker-ant nature becomes more obvious as the years go by.
Therefore, Lin Youde believes that the Japanese national character makes them more suitable for sweatshops like Foxconn than the Chinese.
And this is exactly what Lin Youde is planning to do in Kitakyushu City and Sasebo. He is planning to build large-scale factory clusters here to concentrate on the use of young laborers participating in national labor. Young people will live in collective dormitories like military service, only once a year.
During the holidays, in addition to the food, accommodation and clothing provided by Linji, he only receives a small subsidy. Once such a factory succeeds, due to the extremely low labor costs, it will definitely greatly improve Linji's industrial strength.
Of course, a lot of money is needed to build a factory area of this scale and related supporting facilities, but thank God, Lin Youde no longer needs to think about civil war, and he has collected a lot of money to order weapons. He has the money.
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By the time of the Shangsi Festival, the third day of the third lunar month in 1903, the domestic situation had basically settled.
On March 3rd, according to tradition, Wanshou Mountain Linji Camp held an open-air banquet by Kunming Lake.
At the banquet, Josephine, who had almost recovered, took off into the air and had a dogfight with Xun.
Lin Youde craned his neck to look happily when Sophie, who was sitting next to him, suddenly pulled his sleeve.
"Dad, when are we going home?"
Lin Youde didn't react for a moment and looked at his daughter strangely.
"Is ours at home?"
"I mean, Horangabo's house. I miss my laboratory."
Only then did Lin Youde react. He stretched out his hand to touch his daughter's head and said softly: "The things here haven't been completely finished yet. I'm afraid it will take a while... How about you go back first? Take Luo Tianyi with you by the way. She will be there soon."
I’m clamoring to go eat southern delicacies..."
Sophie pouted and expressed her displeasure directly with her expression.
Lin Youde curled his lips. In fact, his remaining task in Beijing was to continue to expand Lin Ji's business. After all, it was more appropriate for Lin Youde to take the initiative in meeting ambassadors from various countries to sell weapons. Chen Tianhua could not be allowed to meet Zhu Erdian? The British Empire
You will feel that you are being looked down upon...
In the past few days, Lin Youde obtained an order for Renyin submachine guns from the United States, and exchanged a large torpedo order for France to completely give up its concession and consular jurisdiction in China - this torpedo order made the British look ugly.
In addition, there are national railway construction rights, mining rights in some poor provinces, etc., which are the focus of Lin Youde's struggle.
In addition to these, the formulation of some laws and regulations that Lin Youde is interested in also requires him to continue to exert his influence in Beijing. Simply having an agent in Beijing is obviously not enough.
Lin Youde stared at Sophie. The father and daughter stared at each other without giving in for a long time. Finally, Lin Youde softened.
"Okay, after being out for so long, it's time to go back and take a look."
As soon as Lin Youde finished speaking, his second mistress looked like she had something to say, but he said before she could say anything: "In Helang Yabo, you can also get better care."
"But...things in Japan..."
"The dust has settled on the Japanese side, there will be no problem."
"But..." Ba didn't seem to be convinced so easily, "Although many representatives have left Beijing, it is because they are rushing back to the province to fight for power. The naval system is internally stable, so we should take advantage of this time to station in Beijing.
Stay and strive for more benefits, right?"
"That's what I say, but we have already made enough profits, so we can't be too greedy."
After Lin Youde finished speaking, seeing that his beloved wife still wanted to refute, he kissed her directly to stop her from opening her mouth.
In the past, Ba would definitely push Lin Youde away and insist on rebutting to the end, but this time, although she pressed her hand against Lin Youde's chest, she did not use any force.
When his mouth was finally freed from Lin Youde's passionate kiss, Ba decisively pushed Lin Youde away and sighed: "It's not a very important thing this time, so I have reservations."
Lin Youde smiled and reached out to rub Ba's chest, but was dodged.
He could only shrug and said: "If I am stubborn about something important next time, please persist until you convince me."
"You don't need to tell me that I can do it too."
Lin Youde looked at Ba, who was a little unhappy, and reached out to wipe the oil. As a result, Ba picked up the wine glass, stood up, left his seat and walked towards the visiting guests.
Lin Youde curled his lips and turned to look at Sophie.
"You made little mother angry," Sophie said.
Lin Youde reached out and scratched his daughter's nose: "It's not just for you."
Sophie grinned and dug a big spoonful of braised pork into the bowl of Selinyoude.
At this time, Victoria came behind Lin Youde, bent down and put her mouth against Lin Youde's ear and whispered a few words.
Lin Youde frowned, turned to look at Victoria and said, "Really?"
"Our commissioner recorded their conversation."
"Record it?" Lin Youde glanced at Sophie from the corner of his eye.
His daughter said nonchalantly: "I improved Paulson's wire recorder, replaced the wire with magnetic paper, and designed a new magnetic head. The sample was given to Victoria's men to play with."
Just for fun? In an instant, we improved technological progress for more than thirty years, but it was just for fun?
Lin Youde looked at Victoria again: "Send that prototype back to Helang Yabo and organize people to make productive improvements."
"It has been done, and Situ Meitang's legal team is already doing the work related to the patent application."
"very good."
"So, those Mongolian princes who plotted to fall to Russia..."
Lin Youde curled his lips and scratched his neck with his right hand.
"Do it more vigorously, and don't leave any traces that can clearly point to us. It's best to kill all the Russians who come into contact with them."
"learn."
Just as Victoria was about to leave, Lin Youde stopped her...
"After thinking about it, I still don't think it's good to use the same name for your unit, Sophie's direct unit, and our scientific research and experiment unit..."
"It's okay, it doesn't matter what our names are, or you can just call us anonymous..."
"No," Lin Youde shook his head, "You want to make our enemies afraid and jealous. So you need a resounding name, a resounding, formidable reputation and low-key, stealthy, efficient and quick actions. Only then can you
It is a qualified secret police agency. What do you think of the name 'Gestapo'?"
Victoria stood there for a while, turned to Lin Youde and showed a gorgeous smile that she hadn't seen since she volunteered to take on Lin Ji's "dirty work".
"feels good."
With that said, Victoria turned around and approached Lin Youde unexpectedly, and kissed him gently on the face.
The spoon in Sophie's hand fell to the ground with a clang.
"Don't worry," Victoria looked at Sophie with a smile, "I am your sister, I will not become your mother."
After saying this, she turned around with a light movement, made a gesture to her two subordinates who had been standing silently in the distance, and left the Kunming Lake in a meteoric stride.
Three days later, an explosion occurred in Beijing. The Mongolian prince and his bodyguard Shen Ji who had come to attend the Federal Assembly, as well as the Russian chief military attaché in China and his bodyguard Shen Ji who had secretly met with him, were killed in the explosion.
At the scene of the explosion, the newly established federal police found a large-character poster stating that the prince was conspiring to unite with Tsarist Russia to instigate Mongolian independence. It was signed "Gestapo" and had an ingenious English translation: the_greatest_spy.