Guangzhou’s first trading fleet cargo purchase list and expense list:
Hire local navigators and government liaison personnel for 10 taels
Pay 100 taels for water and bribe the tax official 20 taels
Hand over 5,000 taels of cash to Guangzhou Advance Station
Hand over 3,000 taels of cash to Qiwei Escort Bureau as an investment (withdrawn from the receivables at Gaoji)
A self-guided tour of Guangzhou for all the staff for several days cost 1oo taels
The total purchase of Loli, Shota and their parents is 5oo taels (including handling fee
Total: one hundred and seventy-six. [Read the latest chapter] i. (Note: Ninety-eight people have been shipped back
2o kilograms each of various vegetables and spice seeds, totaling 1o taels
A roll of Brazilian tobacco purchased from a foreign company weighs 100 pounds and 30 Spanish dollars.
The total freight cost for each shipment is 3 taels.
"——The above is my financial report." Xiao Zishan finished the report in front of a group of serious-looking people in the conference room. Finally, he added a superfluous sentence: "I promise not to be greedy for a penny!"
"Whether there is any problem with the finances will be known after the financial department audits it, so don't make any guarantees." Ma Qianzhu doesn't trust such free evidence as oaths. If no one is corrupt now, it is because there is no need to be corrupt right now.
"Now let me talk about the current progress of each department, their requirements and the problems they face." Ma Qianzhu took out his notebook.
As of today: November 10, 1628, the work progress of travelers since D+71 is:
Communications: The wireless call network centered on Bairencheng has been basically completed, with a coverage area of 35km~4okm. A remote radio station was set up in Guangzhou and 15 radio stations were set up in Yanchang Village.
The next step is to complete the wired telephone installation in Bopu Port-Baicheng City, Damei Village-Baicheng City, Yanchang Village-Baicheng City, and set up a central telephone office in Bairen City.
Problem: Lack of adequate electrical wiring and insulation.
After joint consultations, the industrial department and the communication department believed that telephone lines could be produced on their own, provided that raw materials: iron wire or copper wire could be obtained. As for insulation equipment, glassware can be used instead.
Energy: The total installed electricity capacity is 63ok, including 2ok hydropower and 42ok thermal power (Bopu and Bairencheng each have a 213k Guotuo electromechanical capacity. Other energy sources are 1ok. Completed the power transmission and distribution between Bopu and Bairencheng Network. A wind power system has been set up in Yanchang Village.
The next plan is to add a 2ook unit to the second phase of Bairentan Hydropower Station.
Problems: Insufficient building materials and labor.
Construction: 1 16-hole wheel kiln, 1 lime kiln, 2 combined brick and tile machines, 1 local electric grinder. The maximum annual production capacity of bricks and tiles is 30 million pieces. It can also produce 1 ton of pozzolanic cement per day. One vertical cement kiln, the project progress is 85%, and it will be able to produce 55 tons of Portland cement per day after completion.
Problems: lack of coal and iron ore necessary for making cement. There was a shortage of cement and steel, making it impossible to use concrete for construction.
Transportation: The construction of the Bopu-Bairencheng-Lingao County simple highway has been completed.
The next step is to build the Bairentan Bridge, open a simple road from Yanchang Village to Bairencheng, and renovate the Bopu Port-Bailintan section of the Wenlan River to make it suitable for shipping.
The transportation currently owned: 12 four-wheel drive agricultural vehicles, 2 Beijing 212 jeeps, 4 75o motorcycles with buckets, 1o 125 motorcycles, and 2oo bicycles. The industrial department also renovated 17 handcarts captured during the battle and built 10 two-wheeled carriages. In addition, two small boats were unloaded from the Fengcheng ship and were used for water transportation on the Wenlan River. However, the runoff depth of this river is limited (only 1 meter during the dry season, and the traversers lack suitable shallow-draft boats, so the scale of water transportation is actually very small.
The wear and tear of large-scale construction engineering machinery is relatively serious, especially the consumption of hydraulic parts. These parts are limited to industrial standards and cannot be repaired. According to the current engineering intensity estimate, various wearing parts will be consumed within 18 months. Cars and motorcycles are in good condition. It is the fuel supply prospects that are worrying. There are still plenty of diesel reserves, but because gasoline is volatile and spoils, there is not much in stock and it is about to be used up. Alternative energy sources need to be used as soon as possible. There are large stocks of lubricants, and the development of ready-to-use products has been carried out by the agricultural sector, targeting castor. The manufacture of four-wheel carriages was stranded because of the lack of metal materials, and the steering gear and shock absorber leaf springs could not be manufactured.
Manufacturing and processing industry: The infrastructure construction and equipment installation of the machinery plant have been completed. The machinery plant is based on the Zhan Wuya machinery plant and adds some mechanical equipment. However, so far, there has been a serious lack of construction work, and we are in a state of waiting for rice to be ready.
The processing and manufacturing of wooden ware, bamboo and rattan ware is relatively prosperous. In particular, safety helmet manufacturing has developed batch capabilities. Bobu's wood processing and woodware manufacturing have formed a stable scale, with one drying kiln and one retort kiln. Not only can it produce boards, furniture, and wooden components of various sizes, but it can also produce wood tar, tannins, and charcoal. Although there was a shortage of jute, quite strong ropes were successfully made from local flax and hemp.
Chemical industry: Controlled the main salt field in Lingao: Ma Niao Salt Field. Using traditional craftsmanship, it can produce 1 ton of salt every day. The short-term goal is to improve and expand the scale, striving to produce an average of 5 tons of unrefined coarse salt and 1 ton of table salt per day.
An 800-ton synthetic ammonia and combined alkali production system and a coal coking chemical system are being installed. These complete sets of equipment are heavy, have many parts, and have many pipelines. The installation is very complicated and the progress is slow. Fortunately, Chuanzhong did not have the ability to supply coal on a large scale at that time. The chemical industry department plans to build another home-made electrolytic salt factory in Bopu to produce salt, caustic soda and bleaching powder. To this end, it has applied to expand the capacity of the motor in Bopu.
Since the synthetic ammonia industry has not been put into production, the chemical industry team can only focus on utilizing existing materials. They have successfully made ammonia wood explosives using ammonium nitrate in stock. They are currently concentrating on the gunpowder seized from Gou's house. Granulation treatment. In addition, the finished nitric acid brought in was used to trial-produce nitrocellulose and mercury fulminate. Because of the greater risk, we applied to find a safer location as an explosives factory.
Mining and Metallurgy Department: Mastered 1 quarry for construction. Mineral resources that can be fully supplied include: clay, limestone, quartz sand, and lignite.
Four small converters and supporting steel processing equipment such as forging machines, rolling mills, and cold drawing machines are installed. If pig iron can be fully supplied, 1o-15 tons of crude steel can be produced every day. However, only one 1-ton converter has been operated intermittently. The raw materials are iron cannons, weapons and iron captured in previous battles, as well as some damaged steel tools. The fuel used is charcoal, which consumes a lot of money and can only make much-needed hardware and tools. The construction of a blast furnace requires a large amount of iron ore, coke, and lime, and it is not appropriate to shut down the furnace once it is ignited. Construction will not be carried out temporarily if the supply of raw materials cannot be guaranteed.
Civil sector: One indigenous papermaking workshop has been put into operation, using rags, waste cotton and straw to produce coarse paper for daily use. It is planned to recruit some papermaking masters in the mainland to improve the paper. In addition, after the acid and alkali products are put into mass production, the construction of a modern paper mill will be started, which will not only fully supply the public's own office and daily paper needs, but also export to the mainland and overseas on a large scale.
Those that have been put into operation or are about to be put into operation include: textile factories, clothing factories, food factories, and ceramic factories.
Glass factories, sugar refineries, and cigarette factories are temporarily unable to put into production due to raw material problems. The raw material problems are being resolved.
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"In general, our industrialization is mainly stuck on three important issues: electricity, coal, and iron." Ma Qianzhu concluded, building an industrial system - even if they are targeting the industrial system of the 19th century. , it is still difficult to implement it.
Regarding the pig iron issue, if the channels for obtaining pig iron from Guangdong can be opened, a stable supply of pig iron will be obtained for a longer period of time. Coal, the Executive Committee decided to send people to Vietnam to buy coal as soon as possible. He suggested that you might as well send out a barge to buy coal, or simply buy 1,000 tons of it at once. As coal is the main chemical raw material, it is not an exaggeration to consume some diesel.
"With sufficient coal and steel, the industrial sector can imitate steam engines. With sufficient prime movers, industrial capabilities can immediately reach a higher level." Ma Qianzhu explained. Steam engines are not very efficient, but they are simple in structure and easy to manufacture, making them very suitable for traveling through the current situation. In addition to driving the motor, it can also directly drive the operation of some machinery. The executive committee is also preparing to use it as a future ship power source.
In addition to steam engines, the industrial sector also manufactures various hardware and tools in large quantities. These products are in great demand in the current infrastructure crisis, and the supply is almost in short supply.
Next, Wu De, as the supervisor of the labor department, reported, "The labor force is still relatively tight. As of 0 o'clock this morning, the human resources under direct control are as follows-"
Traveling through the crowd: 478 people
Bairen production team 1: 141 people
Bairen Production Team 2: 6o5 people (moved from the original Goujiazhuang
Prisoners: 153 people (servants, servants, members of the Gou family, etc.
Servants: 176 (bought in Guangzhou, 98 have been shipped back
The human resources indirectly controlled by Chuanzhong are:
Yanchang Village: 200 households, about 800 people
Damei Village: 50 households, about 250 people
From the perspective of population structure, there are many young and middle-aged people in the indigenous labor force, but the ratio of men to women is imbalanced. Especially in the two production teams, the male-to-female ratio in the first team is as high as 9:1; in the second team, the ratio is also 5:1. Among the two villages, except Yanchang Village, which has a relatively normal male-to-female ratio, the same problem exists in Damei Village.
The reason is that there is a large migrant population in Laigao, which has always been the main place for immigrants from the mainland. There are many single farmers from other places who come to reclaim wasteland and do part-time work, mainly from Guangdong and Fujian. However, after an inventory, now Some are as far away as Jiangxi, Lianghu and even Beizhili and Shandong.
Such a population structure is very beneficial in the short term. After all, young and middle-aged men are the main force in construction. However, in the long term, where there is a lack of women, men will not start families and start businesses there. Therefore, when introducing immigrants in the future, we need to focus on controlling the ratio of men to women.
