Daming 1805

After visiting the computer research and development center, Zhu Jingyuan and Zhu Zhongliang's grandfather and grandson returned to the Forbidden City.

However, Zhu Jingyuan still pays close attention to the progress of the research and development of computer technology, the development of larger electronic tube computers and transistors, and will submit an explanation to Zhu Jingyuan every month in the future.

When Zhu Jingyuan had a new idea in his daily life, he would immediately cooperate with outreach and have someone send it to the computer center.

In the following days, Zhu Jingyuan's life became very busy, but there were fewer things to think about.

Now it's the second half of the fourth year of Ankang, and the things I should do in Xintianfu are almost arranged.

The situation in Xintianfu is stable and improving, and 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, going to various factories to participate in various acceptance, commissioning, and offline ceremonies, and issuing various special certificates and rewards.

On September [-]th of 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 and textile workshop.

Before the official start of the ceremony, Hao Zhongyi, the technical shopkeeper of the textile factory, the technical director of the Shandong cuisine apprentice, first came to Zhu Jingyuan, and talked about the situation of the factory with a smile on his face:

"Your Highness, I dare to tell you now that the factory in Xintianfu is already the same as the factory in Meng County.

"Whether it is production efficiency or product quality, there is no gap with Meng County, and it may even be better.

"If the products produced by our firm are not specially labeled with the place of origin, ordinary people will not be able to tell the place of origin."

Zhu Jingyuan and Hao Zhongyi were also quite familiar, so he patted the shoulder of the technical director:

"Okay, you've been too busy watching this year, I think you're... well, you don't seem to be thin..."

Hao Zhongyi couldn't help laughing too:
"It's true that I'm not thin, and my stomach is full of flesh. My family said that Xintianfu is more supportive than Mengxian County..."

Zhu Jingyuan smiled and nodded. The climate in Xintianfu is indeed better than that in East Mozhou (Africa):

"How about the workers here? Workers from the Yin people and workers from the Ming Dynasty work together, and workers from various countries in Meng County are mixed together. Which side is more efficient?"

Hao Zhongyi said almost instinctively:

"The workers here are better than those in Meng County. Except for Ming people, there are Yin people here, and there are no such messy elements as Japanese, Korean, South Vietnamese, Siamese, and Luzon people.

"Also, the living habits of the naturalized Yin people here are not significantly different from those of the Ming people.

"Especially in factories, they are all registered and managed with certificates of passing the general education exam.

"Working in the factory, you only look at the certificate but not the background.

"So in our factory, there are only differences between regular workers, contract workers, and apprentice workers, and there is no direct difference between Ming people and Yin people.

"Everyone's target is regular workers."

Zhu Jingyuan nodded again, quite satisfied with the current situation.

New Tianfu's policy of integrating and naturalizing Yin people has been determined, and the quarterly general education assessment has become a routine.

At the same time, in all the places where general education exams are held, Ming people living in the localities will also issue certificates in batches, and use the certificates as standard documents for management, registration, and salary payment.

Especially in the process of entering the factory and going on the production line.

The factory management headed by Hao Zhongyi integrated the factory's technical training with general education.

All Daming people entered the factory and were directly issued general education certificates, and mixed-race Yin people and Yin people directly took a general education exam. After passing the exam, they were also issued general education certificates.

Then, all new workers follow the old workers to learn and master the skills used on the production line, and take another test before officially working on the production line independently.

People from Daming who have already obtained a certificate of passing the general education exam will only examine production technology and basic knowledge this time.

People in Yin who have not obtained a certificate of passing the General Education Examination, while learning production skills, carry out basic general education in the Ming Dynasty. In this exam, the level of general education and production skills are 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 test are contract workers, and those who pass both are regular workers.

Of course, there is a gap in the wages of 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 it is 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.

The management of Hao Zhongyi and other textile factories only planned a management plan.

But Zhu Jingyuan thought further.

Industrialization, the process of farmers moving from farmland to factories, from farmers to workers, is itself a process of identity transformation.

In this process, the way of life of ordinary people will undergo unprecedented changes.

Cities and factories are social melting pots, melting people of different backgrounds from all over the world into urban residents.

This process is also a process of eliminating traditional ethnic group cognition and establishing a new unified social cognition.

Whether they are Ming people, mixed descendants of Ming 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 begin officially.

The two came to the stage one after another, said a simple sentence, and then started to set off firecrackers to celebrate the official start of production of the new workshop.

Standing on the stage, Zhu Jingyuan glanced over the faces of the craftsmen, workers, and management representatives below, and found some people with some traits of Yin people one after another.

The Yin people have their own typical characteristics, but they are not very different from the Ming people, and they are more similar to the Ming people than to the Nanyang people.

In the eyes of the Ming people in this world, they have slightly darker skin, like mountain people from remote areas.

They are completely different from Tianzhu, Persia, and the Hu-eating people, and more like local "savages" than them.

In the traditional dynasties of China, all dynasties will try their best to drive these savages out of the mountains.

Therefore, ordinary Daming people are not very resistant to absorbing such "savages".

What's more, the Ming people here have also experienced a huge change in identity.

Variations from farmers to workers cover variations and differences between ethnic groups.

Zhu Jingyuan felt that, as long as there were no accidents, when the industrialization of Xintianfu was fully completed, it would be the time when the mixed-race Yin people, the naturalized Yin people and the Ming people were fully integrated.

After Zhu Jingyuan attended the ceremony, accompanied by the senior management headed by Hao Zhongyi, he entered the new workshop for inspection.

This celebration 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 factory.

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 have also been produced locally.

Agricultural and industrial equipment, including tractors and trucks, is about to hit full capacity.

The process of agricultural mechanization centered on New Tianfu City has also been promoted simultaneously with the production speed of tractors and trucks.

The transfer of farm population to factories is also proceeding simultaneously and steadily.

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In the north of Xintianfu, by the oil lake.

Zheng Fuguang drove a high-end car designed by Zhu Jingyuan, and drove north along the shore of the lake.

There is a lagoon outside the oil lake, and a bay outside the lagoon.

The three waters are like a balloon with three knots.

The inside of the oil lake is fresh water, the inside of the bay is of course salt water, and the lagoon is brackish water.

Zheng Fuguang's car drove to the end of the oil lake exit, which should have entered the lagoon.

The outlet of the oil lake should widen here, and the shores of the lake on both sides should turn to the sides and stretch out.

But now, where the shore should have turned, the road in front of the car continued on, 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 laid on it.

Zheng Fuguang drove onto the asphalt road on the sand dam, drove a few kilometers along the top of the dam, and saw another sand dam 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, according to the plan of Zhu Jingyuan and Lin Zexu, Zheng Fuguang took a group of captives from the Bolivar Kingdom captured in the northern part of Nanyinzhou, and built sand dams along the sides of the waterway in the lagoon.

Today is the time for the official closure of the two sand dams.

The lagoon between the oil lake and the sea is divided into three by these two sand bars.

In the middle is a long and narrow channel for the lake to enter the sea, and on both sides are the remaining lagoons that are divided into two parts in the north.

The annual rainfall of the lagoon is less than [-] millimeters, which is a semi-arid area even in the Mongolian plateau.

What's more, the oil lake is located in the tropics, and its evaporation is much larger than that of the Mongolian plateau.

The overall evaporation of the lagoon far exceeds the precipitation.

The water source that maintains the lagoon is the fresh water of the oil lake and the salt water of the bay.

Lagoons are also places where salt water and fresh water are exchanged.

Now that the oil lake has an independent access to the sea, the lagoon is completely isolated from the oil lake and the bay.

More importantly, there is no large-scale exchange space between the fresh water of the oil lake and the salt water of the Gulf.

The two sides can only hedge in a relatively narrow river.

The river channel where the lake water enters the sea becomes narrower, and the force of the outward scouring also increases, which can prevent the backflow of sea water.

In the future, the salt content of oil lakes should gradually decrease, eventually reducing to the level of real freshwater lakes.

According to the plan, as the water volume of the lagoon continues to decrease, the engineering team will gradually reinforce the relatively crude sand dam.

At the same time, the water depth of the sea channel of Shiyou Lake has also been dredged to about eight meters.

Sea-going vessels of [-] tons can directly enter, and offshore and inland river vessels of [-] tons can directly reach Oil Lake City.

Oil Lake City is the city of Maracaibo. When Daming first received it, he shortened the syllables and took the name of Macheng.

Later, it may be because there are too many names prefixed with horses, or it may be because of the habits of the local people, it gradually became Oil Lake City.

The waterway will continue to deepen, and the ideal goal is 16 meters, so that [-]-ton ocean-going tankers can reach Oil Lake City directly.

When Zheng Fuguang drove to the location where Shaba closed, the scene was already very lively.

The preparations for the event have been completed, and we are waiting for Zheng Fuguang, the director of the Petroleum Lake Project, to make an announcement.

Zheng Fuguang parked in the temporary parking space marked out on the site, and ran quickly to the bustling construction site.

According to the pre-planned process, 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 that had been filled and partitioned.

Then the real excavator and cutter suction boat started immediately to smooth out the last remaining gap.

The surrounding firecrackers also rang immediately.

After Zheng Fuguang attended the ceremony, he drove back immediately.

The oil fields in Petroleum Lake are also busy now, and crude oil production is ramping up rapidly.

On the side of Petroleum Lake, the drilling of wells is basically released, and it is not affected by the demand of Daming's local refinery.

Crude oil from Oil Lake is basically consumed locally in Xintianfu, and will not be sent to Daming for sale.

Oil refineries, rayon textile mills, heavy oil power stations, and asphalt road construction in Xintianfu all need 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 sufficient oil reserves, so it would not be cost-effective to transport crude oil from the big food country.

There is no solution for coal, and we must be as self-sufficient as possible for oil.

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Panama, in the middle of the canal site, on a fully closed dam.

Zhu Dijin, the treasurer of Panama Huangzhuang, and Wang Jinpeng, the master worker of the canal project, stood on the top of the dam and chatted.

In front of the dam is a busy construction site, with excavators and trucks coming and going, and trains passing through the canyon.

Countless laborers are like ants, clearing and transporting earth and rocks with shovels and wheelbarrows.

On the side of the dam is an endless golden rice field, and crowds of old people and children are harvesting rice.

Looking at these pictures, Zhu Dijin said with great emotion and complacency:

"According to my calculations, after this season's rice is harvested, we will be able to achieve food self-sufficiency.

"In the future, there will be no need for the convenience of Xintianfu to deliver food to us.

"In another year, we can even sell food abroad.

"This place is really good, and rice can be grown three times a year.

"The precipitation in the rainy season can meet the natural growth of two seasons of rice, and the dry season can be irrigated with a reservoir..."

Wang Jinpeng admires Zhu Dijin, whether it is project management ability, or the ability to save money and make money:

"Now the number of workers on the construction site, plus the surrounding farmers, has exceeded one million.

"To be able to maintain the order of these people and supply the needs of these people, this management experience is a huge credit.

"Boss, you have a bright future ahead."

Zhu Dijin also thought so in her heart, she really did a good job in this job, and she will have a place in the clan in the future.

Be humble, though.

Zhu Dijin waved his hands with a smile and said:

"I'm just in charge of logistics, and the actual engineering is still the work of Mr. Wang.

"Now the entire construction site is more than 80 kilometers away, and the entire line has been excavated at the same time.

"If there are no accidents in the follow-up, we can already give up the original plan of 'keeping five' and directly 'fighting for three'.

"I now see that it should not be a problem to complete the project within three years."

Wang Jinpeng nodded seriously as he listened:
"We can fight for the third, but we can continue to protect the fifth, but change the direction and ensure that the construction of the double-line canal will be completed in five years.

"These 100 million laborers are still working in a state of self-sufficiency, and it will be too wasteful to use them for a few more years.

"It's just that I'm worried that after working for a long time, whether these workers can still bear it, and whether there will be troubles."

Zhu Dijin thinks about it for a while:
"I don't think it's a problem, I know the situation of these workers.

"The vast majority of workers are actually quite satisfied with their current lives.

"They followed a few rebel leaders before, and were beaten by the Ming army and fled around.

"The vast majority of ordinary people and soldiers are full and hungry.

"Now they can at least have enough to eat, and they don't have to worry about running around all day long.

"The workload we arranged is not very high in their opinion.

"However, people's hearts are always pushing an inch. 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 let them go in three years?"

Zhu Dijin thought about it again for a while:

"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 two years of having them work like this, 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 declared that after they reach a certain target, they can stay and become citizens of the vassal state of Yinzhou of the Ming Dynasty.

"Basic wages, together with future outlets, should allow them to continue working steadily for several years.

"However, I need to ask His Royal Highness Prince Dashi for instructions.

"You can't ask right away. Let's plan it carefully and ask for instructions after the entire basic plan."