The weather in Tanggu in May has begun to get a bit hot, not to mention that this huge industrial zone exudes endless energy all the time.
The American Carnegie Steel Company, Lotte Bank, and the Northern Steel Group, jointly owned by many Chinese businessmen, have become the landmark buildings of the special zone.
The tall chimneys billow with black smoke every day. It would be better if the wind blows from the west, but the black smoke blows directly into the Bohai Sea. If the wind blows from the east, the city of Tanggu will be unlucky, and the black smoke will be all soot.
The Northern Steel Plant has a total of six blast furnaces. Each furnace can produce more than 40,000 tons of various types of steel every month. The production capacity is nearly 250,000 tons a month, which has surpassed the entire Qing Dynasty, with an annual output of 3 million tons. In the 19th century, it was already one of the largest steel plants in the world.
The coal and iron sent from Kailuan are simply not enough. Now coal from Shanxi has begun to be transported to Tanggu in batches via land transportation, and even North Korea's iron ore is being transported from the Bohai Bay ship after ship.
The huge steel group's walls are as high as meters, and it is as black as a monster lying on the ground. It spits out shining steel with every breath. The sales department of the factory is crowded with businessmen from the Qing Dynasty. The steel deposits paid in advance are actually Scheduled for next year.
With the steel industry as the core, more machinery manufacturing industries have emerged. Not to mention military factories, precision machinery factories have been able to mass-produce various types of gear sets, and civilian light industrial agricultural tool factories produce sickles and hoes at extremely low prices. , selling it abroad is simply dumping at a low price.
This place has become the Ruhr of the East, the Liverpool of Asia, and the Pittsburgh of China... Every breath of air you breathe here is filled with the smell of coal and iron, and the power of flames and molten steel.
Crowds of people were rubbing shoulders with each other on the street, and the police were whistling and trying desperately to maintain order. Western horse-drawn carriages had replaced all Qing Dynasty sedans. People riding sedans were the most discriminated against in this city.
The streets are full of workers, businessmen, engineers, and military police... Everyone is in such a hurry that you can't even see anyone idle. There are no beggars, no hooligans, no street warblers, no liars and thieves.
This city is full of power and order. You can’t even see a few people with pigtails on the street. Businessmen who came from other provinces of the Qing Dynasty also secretly changed into suits when they arrived here. , put the braid on the top of the head and covered it with a western hat.
This is a very well-regulated city. Xiao Letian set out a very clear management positioning for this city from the beginning, with strict rules on entry and loose ends, and high salaries to retain talents!
Yan Jinsongchu, this refers to the Special Administrative Region’s attitude towards immigrants. Xishuimen has now become the only refugee management base in the Special Administrative Region. The entire Special Administrative Region is closed by barbed wire and large willow trees. Among dozens of entrances and exits, only Xishuimen has the right to manage household registration.
In other words, refugees and disaster victims from the Qing Dynasty can only enter and exit from here. All Qing people who want to come to the Special Economic Zone to make a living have only two choices if they want to work in the Special Zone.
The first type of people have mobile household registrations that are renewed every three years. This type of people does not need to cut their hair. After entering the special zone, the government usually coordinates the work. There are many hard-working jobs in the special zone, such as carrying big bags at the dock and casting sand in the steel plant. Make molds, or simply sweep the streets and dig ditches...
As long as you are willing to work hard, you will not die of hunger and you can save seventy or eighty silver dollars a year. During the New Year, you will be envied by people from all over the country when you return to your hometown.
But we definitely don’t care for idlers. If you are in good health, go begging for food, become a scoundrel, lie on the street in the sun and catch lice, then don’t blame the military police for being stupid, they will deport you directly with a whip.
The second type of people were those who could no longer survive in the Qing Dynasty, or were bullied by the corrupt officials, bandits, and bullies of the Qing Dynasty. They chose to immigrate to the Chinese, which was to politically declare their separation from the Qing nationality and become Chinese people. The lowest first-class immigration.
The Chinese code stipulates not only six ranks and eighteen ranks, but also divides common people without titles into three ranks. The first rank belongs to immigrants. These people have migrated from other cultural circles. It takes time to understand Chinese laws and Chinese values.
Such people are immigrants. Immigrants have basic human rights and the law also provides them with protection. However, these people have no political rights, cannot participate in various elections, cannot join the army, and cannot enjoy free compulsory education. Only paid education is available.
Moreover, there are two prerequisites for immigration. One is to cut off pigtails, and the other is that female relatives in the family must put their feet up. This is an iron rule and no one can be special.
This is the very harsh immigration policy of the Special Administrative Region, and it is also the fundamental reason for the loud swearing in Xishuimen. Strict entry and loose exit means that if you want to enter the special zone, you must accept very strict rules, but loosening out is very simple. If you don't abide by it, The rules tell you to get out of here, it's so easy and simple.
It is under the influence of this policy that the immigrants who can stay in the special zone are very good at understanding the rules. It is precisely because they know the rules that they can integrate into the life of the special zone well. This is what all kinds of factories want. A worker who knows the rules.
That’s right, after the modern industrial revolution, humans have to learn to deal with machinery, but machinery is different from farmland. Machinery is cold and ruthless. You will almost scrap parts worth millions, or have a serious accident or even risk your life. .
As for those farmers in the Qing Dynasty who depended on the weather, they would do some work today if they were happy, and go to bed tomorrow if they were unhappy, or they would just drag a broken bowl to beg for food, and just go about their lives as they pleased. Such people are completely unable to deal with machinery, and they simply cannot adapt to the era of industrialization.
"Oh, it's such a waste to pour a bucket of engine oil for lubrication. It's quite tiring. Just pour half a bucket..."
"Hey... a car part is half a millimeter off. Why are you yelling at me? I can farm in my hometown and it's half a millimeter off. I'll harvest grain in the fall..."
This kind of remarks is said to have made countless engineers in the United States and Prussia vomit blood. The joke even spread to Europe. The Times once had a news section dedicated to making fun of Xiao Letian, a special zone.
The strict immigration management policy is really a last resort, but at the same time, Tanggu also implements a system of retaining talents with high salaries. As long as you understand the rules, are willing to accept management, and don't work sloppily, the rewards you will receive will definitely be overwhelming. Imagine.
Eating meat every meal is nothing, drinking two taels of good wine every meal, and sending a lot of money to my hometown during the New Year is decent.
If you are young and have a high level of understanding, and you still know how to read and are willing to learn, that would be great! If the foreign engineer takes you seriously enough to promote you to a blue-collar job and wear blue-collar work clothes, then the lowest-level salary will be fifteen silver dollars a month.
One month's income is enough to feed the whole family in my hometown for a year. What a high salary!
All in all, Tanggu has become a place of dreams for countless immigrants from the Qing Dynasty, and it is also a place of sadness... And among these sad people, there is a figure that Xiao Letian is very familiar with, Mr. Qing.
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