Chapter Fifty-two China's Industrial Base

  Sweat...... Finally caught up with today's last update!

  "Everyone, after more than two years of development, our 'MeiHua Laboratory' and related industries have achieved tremendous growth, a speed that can be said to be rare in the world. This is thanks to all the hardworking colleagues in the laboratory who, despite having different goals, have been able to create such a large undertaking together. I think this is something that every one of us can be proud of. In the next year or so, I believe that through our efforts, we will at least double our current achievements, and may even achieve greater success. This depends on my leadership and the pioneering ability of our laboratory team."

  On this basis, we have already had a preliminary industrial foundation and economic foundation. No matter what we do, money is absolutely indispensable. We work hard day and night to establish this business kingdom in order to create a continuous source of funds. This goal will be fully established within the next year or so, and then it will only need to be maintained and operated well.

  The chips in our hands, although they are not worth much in the eyes of the United States and Western countries, have already become a decisive force domestically. So I think it's time for us to make a comeback! Today's meeting is to decide on this matter. Apart from the military occupation and development foundation work of the 'Revival Army' department, the General Staff Department and the 'Zhuque Department' will lay the groundwork for the entire grand plan. And our laboratory's second-phase plan is to replicate our brilliant achievements in the United States domestically. Next, please let Hongbo (Wang Tianyun) introduce our planning framework.

  Wang Tianyun stood up, gestured to the crowd and said: "Fellow colleagues, according to the boss's instructions, our 'Xuanwu Department' has, with the assistance of German experts, initially planned a new industrial park in the country. This new industrial park will include part of the 'MeiHua Laboratory' returning to the domestic main institution, as well as existing domestic branches and international cooperation projects with several major companies. Through this series of constructions, we will establish a complete set of heavy industry and light industry projects in the country, creating an industrial power for the true rise of our Chinese nation. After a long period of development, our country will no longer be controlled by others, and we will not be helpless in the face of fully armed Western robbers. In the near future, our 'Revival Army', armed with our thoughts and weapons, will fight bloody battles with these robbers on every battlefield to fight for the survival space of our children and grandchildren, and the independence and autonomy of our nation! Here, we 'Xuanwu Department' are duty-bound, temporarily playing the role of construction workers. Of course, all these great ideas come from the wise mind of our brilliant boss, and the specific details will be instructed by the boss himself!"

  Chen Xiaoqi smiled and said: "In a few days, you Wang Hongbo actually learned to flatter too, great, this feeling is not bad."

  Everyone burst out laughing. This kind of atmosphere that is both elegant and playful can only be created when these ordinary people in their twenties get together.

  Chen Xiaoqi stood up, in front of a newly hung map of Jinan, and with a small wooden stick used as a baton, drew two circles on the eastern and northern suburbs of Jinan. He then gestured to everyone: "Ladies and gentlemen, please take a look, I have drawn these two circles, which will be the next step for the entire 'MeiHua Group' domestic business department's base. In these two areas, we will establish two new industrial cities that are no smaller than Jinan City, including commercial districts."

  Everyone took a deep breath: Good guy, worthy of being the boss! This momentum is great, this brushstroke is too powerful! When others start a factory, they go to a certain place to measure the land, but he's good, directly drawing on a large-scale map, how big is that? Jinan City? That's not small anymore, two industrial cities bigger than Jinan City? That's many times larger than the current scale!

  Chen Xiaoqi laughed and said, "Do you think I'm bragging? Hehe, let me tell you, this is just the beginning. To establish a complete industrial system, we need to set up at least 200 large-scale factories, and even that's not enough. Just in Jinan City alone, it would be great if we could occupy one-fifth of the land. You can't compare our current factory scale, let alone the many projects we haven't started yet, or the many factories that haven't been expanded. There are even many projects that I haven't planned to set up on American soil! In the future, we will establish a large-scale industrial empire that spans the entire country. We won't just become China's largest landowner, but also its largest business conglomerate and financial group. After buying out Shandong, we'll buy out the whole country!"

  Everyone gasped at Chen Xiaoqi's grandeur, and Zhou Yunpeng said in a tone that spoiled the atmosphere: "Ah! Boss, if you do this, won't we have the final say in the whole of China? Will the Beiyang government be willing to accept that?"

  "Huang Zhen Shan scolded with a smile: 'You fool! When the time comes, we'll have money when we need it, people when we need them, and guns when we need them! Why listen to them? If we listened to these good-for-nothings, why bother building an army in the first place? Wouldn't it be easier to just become a rich family's son-in-law directly?'"

  Chen Xiaoqi smiled and said, "This is true. Our goal is just that. We can only establish the beautiful world of our ideals and deliver the happiness and rights we idealize to the people's hands when we have decisive speaking power. Let every citizen enjoy freedom and honor, and let our nation stand up thoroughly from spirit to body. We have no choice but to take a stand against the warlords. Before we succeed, we must even be a big warlord for some time. The difference is that our attitude towards the people and our contribution to the country are completely different from theirs."

  "Alright, let's get to the urgent matters. In our next plan, we will first establish two industrial cities in these two places, which must include basic heavy industries such as petroleum, chemical, steel, automobiles, coal, electronics, and machinery. What we are doing now in America will be perfectly replicated back home, and from a technical standpoint, directly skip over those backward links, advancing to the point of being synchronized with the world or at least not lagging too far behind. Our munitions, machine tools, ships, aircraft, engines, optical instruments, cement, construction, etc. will also take root there, of course, initially it must be done in secret."

  "In addition to these, we will establish a large research institute, where we will work together in a completely different way than now. The detailed work plan will be reflected in the specific process later, so I won't introduce it one by one here.

  Before the construction of these industrial facilities, a design team will go on-site to investigate and then provide design drawings for the two industrial parks based on the investigation results. This will be an industrial design second only to Germany's Ruhr region in the world, which will establish a forward-looking environmental protection system, underground water pipes, air defense, and camouflage capabilities.

  We not only want to build an industrial system that supports the development of the entire country and nation but also consider the well-being of our descendants from the beginning. We cannot let our descendants curse us, their ancestors, for leaving them with a mess of pollution and garbage to deal with after we are gone in a hundred years, all for the sake of so-called national independence."

  "The design work is expected to be completed within a year, by June 1924 at the latest. Before that, the 'Xuanwu Division' will enter ahead of time and start organizing personnel selection and training for the pre-construction phase. Based on our relatively mature vocational training system, we will cultivate the first batch of modern Chinese cultural workers who can not only read and write but also understand national and ethnic righteousness, as well as master professional construction techniques. In the near future, through a series of industrial engineering constructions, these people will become a qualified army of engineers. The development and growth of your 'Xuanwu Division' will start from these people, and at least they should be able to dig ditches, blast rocks, open mountains, and build roads and bridges."

  "Besides the training of engineering troops, after they enter actual work, a new department will move in and control and manage each link. This entire control management system we call 'project management'. Through these simplest to most troublesome projects, we will establish a world-leading management operation system within the entire 'MeiHua System', able to complete every task under conditions of shortest time, highest efficiency, lowest accidents, and optimal planning. This is a work involving great undertakings, related plans have been temporarily implemented internally in the 'ZhuQue Department', we will also extract elite forces to participate in this important work, through the implementation of the Industrial City plan, summarizing a complete set of theoretical and practical entries."

  Before the completion of the civil construction project, the training plan for new technical workers will catch up. We will carry out different levels of training work according to different industries and types of work, so that we can have a large number of industrial workers with basic technical knowledge before the start of construction. Because in the entire system, the implementation of assembly line operations will greatly reduce the workload of each person's training and learning, and our control over these people will also be greatly reduced. This is the best way to do it before a batch of systematically trained professional technical workers appear.

  "After these two tasks are completed, we will enter the stage of factory equipment installation. The trained workers will assemble and debug the entire industrial equipment under the leadership of the expert team, and then everything will go smoothly. After that, we will establish defensive fortresses around the two industrial zones, with a structural strength that can withstand an attack by 50,000 troops without heavy artillery. Before this, we will establish a new military force, which will be taken over by the training ground to carry out this task. In this way, we will have two military lines, one open and one secret. How to do it is not your concern."

  "After that, we will establish a complete education system from primary school to middle school to vocational technical school and then to university, cultivating our reserve forces. At the same time, we will also have our own military personnel training schools, not just ordinary soldiers, but also officer training schools, like Baoding Military Academy. In addition to our senior military officers' overseas study and training program, we have established a multi-level and multi-stage reserve force system. In the near future, we will have an endless stream of new members joining us, and our development and growth will increase exponentially. As long as we wait for the right moment, we can make a big leap forward and achieve great things!"