After visiting the computer research and development center, Zhu Jingyuan and Zhu Zhongliang returned to the Forbidden City.
However, Zhu Jingyuan still pays close attention to the research and development progress of computer technology. The development of larger tube computers and transistors will be submitted to Zhu Jingyuan every month in the future.
When Zhu Jingyuan comes up with new ideas in his daily life, he will immediately help with outreach and have people send them to the computer center.
In the days that followed, Zhu Jingyuan's life became very busy, but there were fewer things to think about.
It is now the second half of the fourth year of Ankang, and everything I need to do in Xintianfu has almost been arranged.
The situation in Xintianfu is stable and improving. Zhu Jingyuan will leave Xintianfu after the spring of next year.
Zhu Jingyuan is busy now, mainly confirming the results reports sent by various parties, attending various acceptance, production, and offline ceremonies in various factories, and issuing various special certificates and rewards.
On September 5, the fourth year of Ankang, Zhu Jingyuan went to his own textile factory outside Xintianfu City to participate in the acceptance ceremony of a new complete rayon knitting textile workshop.
Before the ceremony officially started, Hao Zhongyi, the technical manager of the textile factory, who was a Shandong cuisine apprentice, first came to Zhu Jingyuan and talked about the situation of the factory in general with a cheerful face:
"Your Highness, I dare to tell you now with a pat on my chest that the factory in Xintianfu is already the same as the factory in Mengxian County.
“Whether it is production efficiency or product quality, there is no gap with Meng County, and it may even be better.
"If the goods produced by our store are not specifically labeled with the place of origin, ordinary people will not be able to tell the place of origin."
Zhu Jingyuan was also familiar with Hao Zhongyi, so he patted the technical director on the shoulder:
"Okay, I've been very busy over the past year. I think you've... well, you don't seem to have lost any weight..."
Hao Zhongyi couldn't help but laugh:
"It's true that I haven't lost weight. I've gained weight on my belly. My family says that Xintian Mansion is indeed more nutritious than Meng County..."
Zhu Jingyuan smiled and nodded. The climate in Xintianfu is indeed better than that in East Mozhou (Africa):
"How are the workers here? Workers from the Yin people, workers from the Ming Dynasty working together, and workers from various countries in Meng County mixed together, which one is more efficient?"
Hao Zhongyi said almost instinctively:
“The workers here are better than those in Meng County. In addition to the Ming Dynasty people, here are the Yin people. There are no Japanese, Koreans, South Vietnamese, Siamese, Luzon people and other chaotic elements.
"Moreover, the living habits of the naturalized Yin people here are no different from those of the Ming people.
“Especially in factories, registration and management are based on general education examination certificates.
“When working in a factory, you only see your ID card but not your background.
"So in our factory, there are only differences between regular workers, contract workers, and apprentices. There is no direct difference between people from Ming Dynasty and people from Yin.
"Everyone's goal is to be a regular employee."
Zhu Jingyuan nodded again after hearing this, quite satisfied with the current situation.
Xintianfu's policy of integrating and naturalizing Yin people has been determined, and quarterly general education assessments have become a routine.
At the same time, in all places where general examinations are held, local Ming people will also be issued certificates in batches, using the certificates as standard documents for management, registration, and salary payment.
Especially the process of entering the factory and going to the production line.
The factory management headed by Hao Zhongyi integrated the factory's technical training with general education.
All Ming people who enter the factory are directly issued a general education examination certificate. Mixed-race Yin people and Yin people directly take a general education examination. If they pass the examination, they are also issued a general education certificate.
Then, all new workers learn and master the skills used on the production line from the old workers, and then take another exam before officially starting to work independently on the production line.
Daming people who have already obtained the general education examination certificate will only be tested on production technology and basic knowledge this time.
Yin people who did not obtain the general education examination certificate received basic Ming general education while learning production skills. In this examination, general education level and production skills were tested at the same time.
Those who fail the production skills are all apprentices, those who pass the production skills but fail the general education exam are contract workers, and those who pass both are regular workers.
Of course there are differences in wages among the three types of workers.
The gap between apprentices and the former two is larger, and the gap between contract workers and regular workers is slightly smaller, but it is still enough to make people feel distressed and enough to drive contract workers to actively learn and progress to become regular workers.
After Zhu Jingyuan saw their plan, he directly approved their implementation in the textile factory and promoted it in other factories.
Hao Zhongyi and other textile factory management just planned a management plan.
Zhu Jingyuan, on the other hand, thought further.
Industrialization, the process of farmers moving from farmland to factory, from farmers to workers, is itself a process of identity transformation.
In this process, the lifestyle of ordinary people will undergo unprecedented changes.
Cities and factories are the melting pot of society, melting people from all over the world into urban people.
This process is also a process of eliminating traditional ethnic cognition and establishing a new unified social cognition.
Whether they are Ming people, mixed descendants of Ming people and Yin people, or naturalized Yin people, they will all become workers here.
Zhu Jingyuan chatted with Hao Zhongyi for a while, and the ceremony was about to officially begin.
The two came on stage one after another, said a few words, and then started setting off firecrackers to celebrate the official launch of the new workshop.
Zhu Jingyuan stood on the stage, his eyes passing over the faces of the craftsmen, workers, and management representatives below, and he gradually discovered some people with some characteristics of Yin people.
The Yin people have their own typical characteristics, but they are not much different from the Ming people. They are more similar to the Ming people than the Nanyang people.
In the eyes of the Ming Dynasty people in this world, their skin is slightly darker, like mountain people from remote areas.
Completely different from the Tianzhu, Persia, and Dashi Hu people, and more like the local "savages" than them.
China's traditional dynasties have always worked hard to drive these savages out of the mountains.
Therefore, ordinary Ming people are not very resistant to absorbing such "savages".
What's more, the Ming people here themselves have also experienced huge changes in their identities.
The change from farmers to workers covers the changes and differences between ethnic groups.
Zhu Jingyuan felt that as long as nothing unexpected happened, when the industrialization of Xintianfu was fully completed, that would be when the mixed-blood Yin people, naturalized Yin people and Ming people were completely integrated.
After Zhu Jingyuan attended the ceremony, accompanied by senior management headed by Hao Zhongyi, he inspected the new workshop.
This ceremony was originally to celebrate the official opening of the factory, so the factory started production directly after the ceremony.
Zhu Jingyuan walked around the workshop and finally brought two boxes of new products back to the palace and distributed them to the women in his harem.
Half a month later, Zhu Jingyuan went to attend the commissioning ceremony of the diesel engine plant.
Small and medium-sized diesel engine factories for agriculture, industry, construction machinery, engineering and vehicles were officially put into operation.
Xintianfu's agricultural and basic machinery has also been locally produced simultaneously.
Agricultural and industrial equipment, including tractors and trucks, are about to reach full capacity.
The agricultural mechanization process centered on Xintianfu City has also been promoted simultaneously with the production speed of tractors and trucks.
The transfer of population from farms to factories is also proceeding simultaneously and steadily.
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North of Xintianfu, by the Petroleum Lake.
Zheng Fuguang drove a high-end car designed by Zhu Jingyuan and drove north along the lakeshore.
There is a lagoon outside the oil lake, and a bay outside the lagoon.
The three bodies of water are like balloons with three sections.
The inside of the oil lake is fresh water, the bay is of course salt water, and the lagoon is salt water.
Zheng Fuguang's car drove to the end of the oil lake exit, where it was supposed to enter the lagoon.
The outlet of the oil lake should be widened here, and the lake shores on both sides should be turned to both sides and stretched.
But now, where the lakeshore should turn, the road in front of the car continues to extend forward into the lagoon.
It was a dike more than 100 meters wide. The dike was made of sand and gravel sucked out of the lake, and an asphalt road was paved on it.
Zheng Fuguang drove onto the asphalt road on the sand dam and drove along the top of the dam for a few kilometers. He looked sideways and saw another sand dam appearing a few kilometers away.
Two sand bars extend from both sides of the outlet of the oil lake to the interior of the lagoon, leading to the bay outside.
More than a year ago, Zheng Fuguang, based on the plan of Zhu Jingyuan and Lin Zexu, asked a group of prisoners from the Boliva Kingdom captured in the northern part of Nanyinzhou to build sand dams along both sides of the channel in the lagoon.
Today is the time when these two sand bars are officially closed.
The lagoon between the oil lake and the sea is divided into three by these two sand bars.
In the middle is a narrow channel from the lake into the sea, flanked on both sides by the remaining lagoon that is divided into two parts to the north.
The annual precipitation where the lagoon is located is less than 400 millimeters, making it a semi-arid area even on the Mongolian Plateau.
What's more, the oil lake is located in the tropics, and the evaporation volume is much greater than that of the Mongolian Plateau.
The overall evaporation of the lagoon far exceeds the precipitation.
The water sources that maintain the existence of the lagoon are the fresh water of the oil lake and the salt water of the bay.
Lagoons are also where salt and fresh water are exchanged.
Now that the oil lake has an independent channel into the sea, the lagoon is completely isolated from the oil lake and the bay. It is expected that it will quickly dry up and turn into a beach salt-alkali land in the next few years.
More importantly, there is no large-scale exchange space between the fresh water of the oil lake and the salt water of the bay.
The two sides can only hedge within a relatively narrow river channel.
The channel where the lake water enters the sea becomes narrower, and the force of the outward flushing becomes stronger, which can prevent the backflow of seawater.
In the future, the salinity content of oil lakes should gradually decrease, eventually reducing it to the level of a true freshwater lake.
According to the plan, as the water volume of the lagoon continues to decrease, the engineering team will gradually strengthen the currently relatively crude sand dam.
At the same time, the water depth of the oil lake's channel into the sea has been dredged to about eight meters.
Sea-going ships of 7,000 tons can already enter directly, and offshore and inland river ships of 10,000 tons can directly reach Youhu City.
Oil Lake City is the city of Maracaibo. When the Ming Dynasty first took over, it shortened the syllables and gave it the name of Maracaibo.
Later, maybe because there were too many names starting with horse, or maybe because of local habits, it was gradually called Youhu City.
The channel will continue to be deepened, with the ideal target being 16 meters, allowing 100,000-ton ocean tankers to reach Oil Lake City directly.
When Zheng Fuguang drove to the closing position of Shaba, the scene was already very lively.
The preparations for the event have been completed, and we are just waiting for Zheng Fuguang, the director of the oil lake project, to make the announcement.
Zheng Fuguang parked his car in the temporary parking space marked out on site and quickly ran to the bustling construction site.
According to the process planned in advance, Zheng Fuguang personally picked up the shovel handed over by the worker and threw a few shovelfuls of sand into the middle of the sand dam where the partitions had been filled.
Then the real excavators and cutter suction vessels started immediately to smooth out the last remaining gap.
The surrounding firecrackers also went off immediately.
Zheng Fuguang finished attending the ceremony and drove back immediately.
The oil fields in Petroleum Lake are also busy now, and crude oil production is climbing rapidly.
On the Oil Lake side, well drilling has basically been liberalized and is not affected by the demand of Ming's local refineries.
The crude oil from the Oil Lake is basically consumed locally in Xintianfu and will not be sent to Daming for sale.
Xintianfu's oil refinery, rayon textile factory, heavy oil power station, asphalt road construction, etc. all need the crude oil here.
It is foreseeable that these demands will continue to rise in the future, so the original output will also continue to increase.
Xintianfu has enough oil reserves of its own, and it is not cost-effective to transport crude oil from the big food country.
There is no solution for coal, but we must be as self-sufficient as possible for oil.
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Panama, in the middle of the canal construction site, on a dam that has been completely closed.
Zhu Di Jin, the manager of Panama Royal Villa, and Wang Jinpeng, the great engineer of the canal project, stood on the top of the dam chatting.
In front of the dam is a busy construction site, with excavators and trucks coming and going, and trains passing through the canyon.
Countless workers were like ants, clearing and transporting earth and rock with shovels and wheelbarrows.
On the side of the dam are endless golden rice fields, and groups of old people and children are harvesting rice.
Looking at these pictures, Zhu Zhujin said with great emotion and contentment:
“According to my calculations, after this season’s rice is harvested, we will be self-sufficient in food.
“There will be no need for Xintianfu to transport food to us in the future.
“In another year, we will even be able to sell grain to others.
“This place is really good, we can grow rice three times a year.
"Precipitation in the rainy season can satisfy the natural growth of rice in two seasons, and the reservoir can be used for irrigation in the dry season..."
Wang Jinpeng admires Zhu Zhujin very much, whether it is his project management ability or his ability to save and make money:
“Now the number of workers on the construction site, plus the surrounding farmers, has exceeded one million.
“Being able to maintain order among these people and supply their needs is a huge credit to this management experience.
"Big shopkeeper, you have a bright future."
Zhu Zhujin also thought the same thing. If he really did this job well, he would have a place in the clan in the future.
But you still have to be humble verbally.
Zhu Zhujin waved her hands with a smile and said:
"I'm just providing logistics, the actual project is still the responsibility of Mr. Wang.
“Now the entire construction site, which is more than 80 kilometers long, has been excavated at the same time.
"If nothing goes wrong in the future, we can give up the original plan of 'guaranteing five' and directly 'fight for three'.
"I think it should be completed within three years."
Wang Jinpeng also nodded seriously:
“You can fight for the third position, but you can also continue to maintain the fifth position, but change the direction and ensure that the construction of the double-line canal is completed within five years.
“These one million workers are still working in a self-sufficient state. It will be a waste in just a few years.
"I'm just worried about whether these workers can handle it after working for a long time, and whether there will be trouble."
Judy Jin thought about it for a moment:
“I think it’s okay, I understand the situation of these workers.
“The vast majority of workers are actually quite satisfied with their current lives.
“They were following a few rebel leaders and were beaten by the Ming Dynasty’s troops and were scattered everywhere.
“The vast majority of ordinary people and soldiers are full and hungry.
“Now at least they can have enough to eat, and they don’t have to worry about running around all day.
“The workload we arranged is not very high in their opinion.
"However, people's hearts are always trying to get more than they want. This state should not be maintained for a long time."
Wang Jinpeng subconsciously asked:
"Then should we strive to complete the construction of the double-lane canal in five years? Or should we let them go in three years?"
Zhu Zhujin thought for a while again:
“I think it can be done, but some means must be used to stimulate their enthusiasm for work and suppress their resistance to work.
“I think after letting them work like this for two years, we should try to start paying a small amount of wages.
“At the same time, an assessment system can be set up.
“It is nominally claimed that after they reach a certain target, they can stay and become citizens of the Yinzhou vassal state of the Ming Dynasty.
“Basic wages, coupled with future prospects, should allow them to continue working stably for a few years.
“But this needs to be consulted by His Highness Prince Dashi.
"We can't ask right away. Let's plan it carefully and ask for instructions after the entire basic plan."
