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Chapter 252 The Rise, Starting from Cutting Off Japan (First update, please subscribe)

Sometimes everything just happens so suddenly.

A few days ago, people were still talking about when and who Chief Lee would marry?

Some even wanted to introduce their daughters to him.

But what about now?

Suddenly, Chief Li is getting married.

A wedding cannot be said to be grand.

That is...just a banquet in the governor's office.

In the cheers of the people, the little hospital nurse Lily Marlene became the mistress of Borneo, which simply shocked everyone.

I have to say, this is love!

Love can make a king choose a commoner. Of course, love can also make a princess choose to remain anonymous, at least temporarily.

After all, the wedding photos were published in the newspaper, and people could clearly see Lily Marlene's appearance.

Maybe someone will soon discover that this nurse looks exactly like a British princess. At that time, what kind of reaction will the British Empire make?

Well, what else is there to do but accept it?

Finally, at the end of October 45, the chairman of the North Borneo Company, the king of the Kingdom of Sarawak, and the liberator of Borneo ended his single life, got a wife, and had a home of his own.

Of course, what no one knew was that on that day, there was a secret wedding held in a villa outside the city. Heidi, Ava, and Hepburn also became his wives. According to Chinese custom, well, they are concubines. .

The only exception was Lautrey, who chose to refuse. She expressed that she wanted to raise the child by herself, and even said that the child would take her mother's surname in the future.

It must be said that Lautrey will always be unique. Li Yian certainly respects her decision. She will not leave here anyway, and he can still take care of her after all.

In fact, this is not just a wedding, but it means that the owner of Borneo has a family and future heirs.

On the day after the wedding, Li Yian, who had worked hard all night, once again went to work.

"The factory is put into operation!"

Li Yian did not expect that on his first day at work after marriage, a big surprise would be waiting for him.

Finally, after more than five months of construction, the first large-scale factory in Borneo was put into operation.

The first factory in Borneo was neither a military factory that produced weapons nor a machine tool factory that produced machinery and equipment, but a factory that produced textile machinery.

The factory equipment was dismantled from Italy, and the factory building was renovated from an old warehouse, so it was put into production in such a short period of time.

"At present, the company has produced the first air-jet loom,..."

Swati, an engineer at a textile machinery company, looked a little excited when he mentioned the jet loom. The company's employment two years ago not only changed his life and saved him from poverty, And with the company's funding, he worked with a number of British textile machinery engineers to perfect the air-jet loom.

Although the design has been perfected in the UK and a prototype has been built, now with the start of production by the Textile Machinery Company - the air-jet loom has finally been put into production in the true sense! For Swati, the inventor, seeing it was like seeing a child.

Similar to Swati, Li Yian, who seems calm, is also excited. Unlike traditional rapier looms, the biggest features of air-jet looms are fast speed and high labor productivity. They are suitable for plain and textured fabrics, fine and high-density fabrics and Production of large batches of fabrics. In other words, it means high output and low cost.

For Borneo, where labor costs are high, reducing production costs by using new technologies to improve work efficiency is the only option to maintain corporate profits. The air-jet loom seems to be just a loom, but it is ahead of the curve. The existence of the world.

"...According to the tests we conducted in the UK, the production efficiency of air-jet looms is much higher than that of rapier looms. It mainly uses 12 pounds of fine cloth. The speed of rapier looms is 170-190 rpm. Each unit 12 yards of 90 pounds of fine cloth are produced every day, which is equivalent to a unit output of 3.43 meters per unit per hour. The speed of the air-jet loom is 345 rpm, and the unit output is increased to 7.28 meters per unit. The production efficiency is more than doubled..."

Li Yian didn't know much about textile majors. Although the system prompted him to unlock new skills, he still chose to give up. Now, he is used to selectively learning the skills given by the system.

After all, the title of Cross-Professional Understanding Emperor is nice, but it’s just too tiring.

But even so, we can understand from these figures how efficient the air-jet loom is.

It's doubled!

Technological progress is so perverted. No matter how you work overtime, no matter how you squeeze workers. It is also impossible to directly double production efficiency.

However, through technological changes and research on new machinery, this goal can be easily achieved, and even with the deepening of technological research, production efficiency can be further improved.

This is the technological revolution.

"In this case, let's put it into production as soon as possible. The textile market in Europe and the United States is very broad now, and in the next ten or twenty years, the textile market will only get bigger and bigger, and the profits will be huge. Seize the opportunity If so, the first pot of gold for Borneo’s foreign trade may be in the textile industry.”

In the eyes of many people, the textile industry seems not worth mentioning, far less important than steel plants and automobile plants. People often selectively ignore that the British Industrial Revolution was driven by the textile industry, and Japan's post-war rise also relied on the textile industry to make its first pot of gold. Even the subsequent rise of the Four Asian Tigers also benefited. Since the relocation of Japan's textile industry and later the reform and opening up, mainland China also relied on the textile industry to achieve industrial take-off.

One billion shirts for one plane may seem very helpless, but in fact it is a necessity on the road to industrial development. The textile industry is a labor-intensive industry. It can not only provide a large number of jobs, but also stimulate chemical, mechanical With the development of the manufacturing industry, with the mass production of chemical fibers such as nylon and polyester after the war, the petrochemical industry suddenly emerged, driven by the textile industry. First it was nylon and polyester threads, and then plastics. This is the capital- and technology-intensive upstream. petrochemical industry.

Now Li Yi'an stands at the crossroads of history. The textile industry in front of him is not a light textile industry worth mentioning, but an industrial chain full of infinite possibilities. It is like a giant dragon. Once it is properly controlled, it can lead the entire country to take off. This industrial chain has the potential to provide millions of jobs. Its rise will drive industrial upgrading and inject strong vitality into the country's economy.

In another world, Japan, which was like a phoenix rising from the ashes after the war, successfully took over a large number of textile manufacturing from Western countries precisely by virtue of its low cost. At that time, Japan provided millions of employment opportunities through the production and export of textiles. This not only fundamentally solves the domestic employment problem, but also lays a solid foundation for the country's development.

At the same time, in distant West Germany, Koreans were sweating hard in coal mines in exchange for the first pot of gold to start developing the economy. However, Japan has created one economic miracle after another through the export of textiles.

Facing this historical crossroads, Li Yi'an knew how wonderful the post-war world was. It was an era full of challenges and opportunities. He must hold on tightly to this industry and bring Borneo back from poverty to economic soar.

Only in this way can he live up to the great trust of history - interrupting Japan's rise, or in other words... the rise starts from cutting off Japan!

Of course, the development of the textile industry can not only curb Japan's economic development, but also provide a large number of jobs for women. When the country was planning and constructing industrial zones in the 1950s, because heavy industrial zones were dominated by male workers, the gender ratio between men and women was seriously imbalanced. In order to balance the ratio of men to women, a large number of cotton textile factories were built, and cotton textile factories mainly had female employees. Placing these two types of enterprises together can play a role in balancing the gender ratio.

Borneo also needs to provide jobs for women. Therefore, from any perspective, the development of the textile industry is the only way for the development of Borneo.

And this started with the textile machinery company's air-jet loom. It brought not only industrial progress, but also technical enlightenment...

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