Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 2262 Pampa (36)

Hening Port was originally a quiet Spanish town named Rosario, with only a few hundred white residents. It was a colonial town developed after the founding of the East Coast.The economy is dominated by grain planting and leather processing, and some wool is exported to the east coast in exchange for income.

After the East Coast people took over here, they took a fancy to the local good natural conditions and superior geographical location, and began to invest large sums of money in construction.The first batch of Hening Port to undergo transformation is the local port.The people on the east bank dismantled the temporary pier that the Spaniards had hastily built, and requisitioned a lot of land around it—because the land along the river has owners, the people on the east bank had to spend money to buy it back. The shore government didn't spend much - it built a modern Yonggu Wharf.

The brand-new Hening Port Wharf, after uninterrupted dredging by dredgers, is now able to dock sea-going vessels below 2000 tons, and has opened routes to many cities in China. The range of products has been greatly enhanced—— er, good Well, it seems that the city doesn't have any good products yet.

But don't worry, in the plan of the Government Affairs Council, Hening Port is also positioned as the seventh type of city, that is, other manufacturing cities, and focuses on the development of the subdivisions of mechanical processing and transportation equipment manufacturing.Compared with Hening Port, its other three "sister cities" also have their own emphasis. Among them, Xinbian Port is defined as other manufacturing cities, focusing on the development of food processing industry, and Xincao Port is the sixth type of city (mining and heavy industry) City), which mainly develops the chemical industry, Mingfugang is defined as the fifth type of city (textile industry city), and mainly focuses on the cotton textile industry.

This series of four cities, lined up along the right bank of the Bian River, produced many products including grain, meat, wine, leather, chemicals, mechanical parts, cloth and clothing, and formed a relatively complete industry. chain.Although the headquarters or final assembly departments of many companies are located in the more downstream counties of Shanghai, the intermediate production departments are scattered in these counties, creating a large number of jobs with wages above the national level, and paying taxes to local governments. .

At present, more than 6000 immigrants have settled here in Hening Port, and a prototype of the urban area has been built, and various construction work is proceeding in an orderly manner.It is worth mentioning that although most of the population in Hening Port is currently engaged in agricultural production, the proportion of workers and scholars is increasing rapidly.The main reason is that the Ministry of Railways established its second company, Dahe Rolling Stock Works, here to produce transportation equipment.

The Dahe Vehicle Factory was built with assistance from the Southern Vehicle Factory located in Meilin County.In order to complete the tasks of the Ministry of Railways, the factory transferred many technicians and equipment from the factory to settle down in Hening, and then set up the shelf of the Dahe Vehicle Factory.

However, although the South Vehicle Factory is a state-owned enterprise, it is reasonable to obey the orders from above, but in the final analysis, they also have their own interests.No, after arguing with the Ministry of Railways, this large-scale factory did not hand over the production business of railway locomotives, but only divested the heavy freight carriage business and handed it over to Dahe Rolling Stock Works for production.

In this business, to be honest, there are quite a lot of companies now, most of which are run by private investors, and the models of carriages produced are also varied. Although the quality is not as good as that of the old state-owned factories, it is still passable, and the price is low enough. Sales are still very good.That is to say, after the technology of heavy-duty wagons has spread, the industry is basically a fully competitive free market industry. The South Vehicle Factory has no sincerity in handing over this business, because they themselves have begun to think that heavy-duty wagons are a food industry. It's tasteless, and it's a pity to discard it.

However, for the fledgling Dahe Vehicle Works, any business is precious.Although the heavy-duty freight carriage is a highly market-oriented product and its profits are not as good as before, it is still very important to them. For this reason, they will invest a lot of energy in research to support the company's early development.

Another piece of good news is that Dahe Vehicle Factory has obtained the patent authorization from the Engineering Technology Research Institute, allowing it to enter the urban street car market.Undoubtedly, this is a huge cake, because many cities are now planning to upgrade the horse-drawn railcars of street car companies to light rail commuter trains powered by steam locomotives to meet the needs of urban residents commuting to get off work.

The leadership of Dahe Vehicle Works has realized this.They sent people to inspect street car companies in more than 20 counties across the country, and held discussions with the management of street car companies, and learned about the many limitations of horse-drawn rail cars, such as fecal pollution, slow speed, low transportation efficiency, etc. , so they are eager to upgrade and transform the system, especially in counties with relatively good fiscal revenue.

Dahe Vehicle Factory has basically decided to rely on the production and sales of heavy freight carriages to maintain profits in the early stage, and then invest the money earned in the research and development of small urban street car heads, striving to open a bloody road in this market and let the company achieve greater development.

Of course, Dahe Rolling Stock Works also won some train parts production business from the Ministry of Railways.Although they are all ordinary parts with low profits, they are quite good, and the Southern Vehicle Factory is still unwilling to give up these things.

In short, under the key care of the Ministry of Railways, the growth of Dahe Vehicle Factory has become unstoppable, and this is actually in line with the central industrial layout plan.There are two sets of industrial production systems, one in the south and one in the north. The leading enterprises drive a large number of accompanying processing factories to compete with each other.From a social point of view, this is actually very reasonable, and monopoly is always a bad thing.

Today, Park Shitang and his party visited Hening Port on the East Korean Railway, which was actually the train parts production workshop of the factory.The workshop ordered a large number of equipment from Heishan Industrial Company, Dongan Precision Instrument Company, Haidiao Instrument and Meter Factory, Tieling Heavy Industry Consortium, etc., and began to process various parts needed on the railway, and then sold them to the South Vehicle Factory to assemble trains. Or sell to the two major railway companies to maintain trains, and even some are exported to the Far East. The business development is not bad.

Park Shitang and others walked around the workshop from beginning to end, turning round and round, and sometimes even touched the machine tools full of industrial aesthetics despite the staff's dissuasion.They turned a deaf ear to the noise that filled the workshop, and there were only those parts with metallic luster between their eyes, as if they were in a new world.

If it is said that the last time Zhao Chuyan visited the East Bank, he paid more attention to the customs and customs of the society on the East Bank, then Park Shitang’s delegation will go a step further. They have basically touched the ultimate source of the great national power of the East Bank—— Superb industrial manufacturing capacity.

They recalled the time when North Korea was not dominated by the people on the east bank—don’t be embarrassed, it’s not shameful to be ruled by the motherland—at that time it took a lot of effort to get all the weapons and armor sticks for the soldiers of the Imperial Barracks, The national finance even has to prepare for this for several years.But now?The output of iron has soared dozens of times, and the cost of making a handy knife has dropped to one-tenth of what it used to be. They used to be proud and excited about this, but now look at the craftsmen of the motherland with the help of steam machine tools Efficiently cutting and grinding iron materials, and processing them into various shapes, I don’t know how many times more efficient than Korean craftsmen!

Last year, North Korea introduced a production line for light cargo carriages, but the core components such as shock absorbing springs are still not self-produced and can only be purchased from the east coast.Why?Lack of the most basic materials, heat treatment and machining capabilities, so that in the end they can only buy parts for assembly. The gap in technology is far more than thousands of miles!

Fortunately, today the motherland has gradually lifted the export restrictions on some steam engines and low-end machine tools.If North Korea continues to follow in the footsteps of the Heavenly Motherland in terms of major policies and behaves well, it should be able to get some technology transfer in the future, right?This is crucial to the development of the Kingdom of Korea!Well, it may be necessary to transfer the shares of some enterprises to the merchants of the Heavenly Motherland, but so what?Improving your own technical level is the most important thing!

Of course, Park Shitang thinks this way, but it doesn't mean that all the kings and ministers of North Korea think so.In fact, even though it has been dominated by the East Bank for decades, the upper class in North Korea still has a bad impression of the East Bank people. Many conservatives hold a negative attitude towards the East Bank, but many of these people are still living in The high position made the modernization reform of the Kingdom of Korea extremely difficult.

But fortunately, there is a day when the motherland supervises, no matter how powerful the old-fashioned elements are in the court, they cannot turn back the wheel of history.Busan County, which was rented on the east bank, gathered a large number of sympathizers who sympathized with the reformers. In fact, their right to speak in politics and public opinion is not small at all. In addition, the Jeon family in the eastern Gangwon Province separated the three counties, and the ruler of Hanyang City If they go against the grain, then the Heavenly Motherland may have to personally exert influence and force its reforms from both political and military aspects, so that everyone's face will be bad.

Although Park Setang is a Korean, on the issue of reform, he still supports the Heavenly Motherland to put more pressure on the royal family.Although this would make it difficult for him to walk in the court, so what?No matter how active the social economy is, more and more people sympathize with the reformers, and the conservatives will only lose power. Sooner or later, they will clear out all the stubborn old people who don't know the current affairs, and empty North Korea. .

Of course, in this process, relying on the cooperation of the heaven and the motherland to gain benefits for the family one step ahead is a tacit thing.Looking at the iron smelting and coal mining industries in Ping'an, Huanghai and other roads in the north, they are basically controlled by new-school figures, and the speed at which these industries can make profits is beyond the imagination of old-school figures who live on traditional land rents.With money, you naturally have the right to speak!Under the suppression of the Heavenly Motherland, do those diehards still dare to use force?I wouldn't even dare to lend him a hundred guts!The future of North Korea is ultimately in their hands!

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