Chapter Thirty-Three: Financial Pressure

  When Liu Jinshan left, Xia Jun used a tractor to transport goods for him as usual and entrusted Liu Jinshan to purchase cotton and tobacco in large quantities.

  Seeing off Liu Jishan, Xia Jun was busy with educational undertakings.

  The primary school, middle school and university in Xixiang are all under intense construction at this time. Xia Jun is also hastily preparing teaching materials, which require careful writing of language and history.

  In terms of language, Xia Jun compiled some short stories, such as "The Captain Goes to the Countryside", which describes the life of an orphan in winter, similar to The Little Match Girl, whose parents were killed by bandits and had no one to rely on.

  After a miserable preparation, the brilliant and unparalleled Captain suddenly arrived, bringing him enough food to last the entire winter, repairing his dilapidated thatched hut, and even bringing a brand new, warm quilt...

  From this article, it can be seen that Xia Jun's shamelessness has reached a certain level.

  Other articles were found in textbooks from later generations and modified, mainly to promote vernacular Chinese and attack the Qing dynasty's rule.

  Historically, Xia Jun compiled the teaching materials very skillfully, which were divided into concise and detailed versions. The concise version mainly introduces the formation and development of the Han nationality, as well as the development of productive forces in different dynasties, and the achievements of civilization, recounting the glorious history of China.

  On the other hand, it is a historical account of the blood and tears of the Huaxia nation. The Huaxia nation has been subject to attacks by foreign tribes for a long time. Every large-scale invasion by foreign tribes was accompanied by various strange events. Xia Jun summarized that it cannot be ruled out that supernatural powers were at play, as well as the dependence on climate caused by agricultural production. Each period of large-scale invasion by foreign tribes coincided with the coldest periods of global climate, and each time there were numerous strange local climates and concentrated events.

  The evaluation of the Qing dynasty is that it was a group of shameless bandits. Taking advantage of the war between the peasant army and the Ming dynasty entering Guannei, and using barbaric means to rule China for 300 years, plunging the Chinese nation into its darkest period.

  The language and history textbooks were handed over to a temporarily established 'Teacher Training Class' after they were written, where teachers taught while being trained.

  The language and literature adopted Pinyin, mathematics had the multiplication table of 99, all were very innovative, making a group of teachers who came to Xixiang extremely amazed. The science and engineering textbooks basically copied those from later generations, including mainland China and Taiwan, all were very standardized textbooks.

  Xia Jun then established an 'Electrical Training Class', a 'Construction Training Class', one to cultivate electricians, and the other to cultivate construction technical workers.

  For road repair, workers such as steelworkers, cement workers, and carpenters are needed. Some have relatively high technical skills, while others have relatively low technical skills...

  At the same time, there is also a construction worker, and the construction worker is led by Xu Wenbo. Xu Wenbo can be said to be the most tired one, not only teaching but also directing the construction.

  For this, Xu Wenbo was so anxious that he hastily wrote a letter calling for help. As a civil engineer, he naturally knew some of his peers.

  Xia Jun saw how hard he was working and quickly gave him a raise.

  At the same time, Wen Bo's academic integrity also inspired him. Why not let other teachers and students go to pull people?

  Then Xia Junming set a clear price, introducing one middle school student to reward 5 silver dollars, introducing one college student to reward 10 silver dollars, introducing an ordinary teacher to reward 20 silver dollars, introducing a science and engineering teacher to reward 100 silver dollars, and introducing a science and engineering graduate student to reward 300 silver dollars.

  At the same time, Xia Jun selected 20 people from these students and established a recruitment training class. Xia Jun wanted to use them to recruit talents in other provinces, but he needed to make it clear what kind of talents he wanted, so he had to train them first.

  These measures combined together is three-pronged approach.

  One was recruited with the help of Liu Jinshan, one was recruited by himself, and another was recruited through letters written by already recruited students and teachers.

  Xia Jun believes that in the future, with high pay and various means, there will be no shortage of talent, but a lack of money!

  Such high treatment, having to support so many people, no money how to make a living.

  Xia Jun hastily opened another cigarette factory.

  Build a cigarette factory with an annual output of 1 million boxes (50 cigarettes per box) of Japanese tobacco, using semi-automatic production lines composed of equipment such as cigarette makers, small packers, filter tip attachment machines, vacuum humidifiers, leaf cutters, steam pasteurizers, compressors, and drying machines from the 1960s, requiring 500,000 points.

  It turned out that the paper mill needed by the cigarette factory was available, but Xia Jun still had to build an acetic acid fiber factory.

  Acetate fiber is a material for making cigarette filters, it's a high-end man-made fiber, can be made from human hair, but human hair is limited, mainly obtained by partial saponification of triacetate fiber, and triacetate fiber is made from high-quality wood.

  First, build a 'triacetate cellulose manufacturing plant', using the rich forest resources in northern Fujian as raw materials, then use triacetate cellulose to manufacture 'acetate fiber', and finally use 'acetate fiber' to manufacture filter tips.

  Triacetate cellulose is also a raw material for manufacturing liquid crystal displays, but currently it can't be produced. It's mainly used to manufacture acetate fiber. A factory that produces 10,000 tons of triacetate cellulose per year requires 50,000 points, while an acetate fiber factory costs more, with a factory producing 1,000 tons per year requiring 100,000 points.

  Xia Jun originally thought that the cigarette factory, which had low costs and huge profits, was very suitable for absorbing gold. At this time, he discovered that it wasn't so simple. Fortunately, acetic acid fiber can not only be used to make filter tips but also in textile production, a high-end textile material.

  In April, Xia Jun earned 3 million points of popularity and 2.8 million points of bandit elimination, leaving him with only 4.5 million points in total.

  Under financial pressure, Xia Jun gritted his teeth and exchanged equipment for these factories.

  At the same time, Xia Jun also spent 50,000 points to build a spinning mill with an annual processing capacity of 10,000 tons (leading level), which requires 50,000 points. Building a matching textile mill also requires 50,000 points.

  Three million points were spent just like that, and Xia Jun began to work hard for the factory and half-study.

  Xia Jun now has people in his hands, and it's much easier to start a factory. Those middle school students and college students are all cultured people, and they are all young people with strong plasticity.

  There are also several science and engineering students in hand, Xia Jun is still busy with his feet on the ground, but whether it's administrative scope or factory quantity, they're all expanding.

  "Principal, there's not enough wire, we can't set up the electrical network."

  "Captain, we're running out of fuel..."

  "Captain, the chemical materials for making paper have been used up..."

  Xia Jun needs to exchange a lot of things, fortunately, there are all kinds of raw materials and products on the exchange platform. The factory is almost built, but the raw materials have not arrived yet.

  For this reason, Xia Jun began to send people to purchase cotton and tobacco. He didn't put all the demand for raw materials on Liu Jinshan's shoulders, that guy obviously couldn't provide so many raw materials either.

  Then Xia Jun sent someone to Fuzhou to receive foreign purchases of cotton and tobacco, while asking Lin Debao to plan areas that can be planted with tobacco. Cotton was exempted, and although northern Fujian could plant cotton, there wasn't enough land to plant cotton, it's more cost-effective to plant high-yielding rice instead.

  Now that there are people on hand, it's also time to connect with the outside world.

  Connecting with the outside world has many benefits, the biggest benefit is that raw materials can be imported. Fujian lacks many resources, and even if other provinces in China have these resources, they are still in the unexploited stage, so many raw materials need to be imported from abroad.

  Xia Jun can exchange various advanced industrial equipment, and it is entirely possible to import raw materials from abroad, process them into goods, and sell them abroad, impacting the industry of foreign countries.

  However, to develop industry in northern Fujian, the roads must be unblocked first. Although it is said that tractors can drive on provincial roads to Fuzhou, the roads are still not wide enough and prone to congestion.

  Xia Jun planned to repair the road from Jian'an County to Fuzhou, at this time Xia Jun could be said to have completely ignored the existence of local officials and acted very freely.

  This is based on the armed forces, and now the security team plus the second-line troops have only 1,100 people. The administrative region is currently expanding, and Xia Jun must dispatch troops to the towns to cooperate with the administration, clear out bandits, defend against officialdom, and buy people's hearts.

  This number of troops is no longer sufficient at this time, and a new round of expansion has also been put on the agenda.

  This time, Xia Jun plans to recruit 2,500 new soldiers, forming 15 companies. Together with the existing 5 companies, there will be a total of 20 companies. In this expansion, the main force will expand into a battalion, with a configuration consisting of three infantry companies, one machine gun platoon, one reconnaissance platoon, one cooking platoon, and one communication squad, plus officers and instructors totaling 548 people.

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