Chapter 68: Introduction to Industry
Moreover, South China is not only threatened by the Mapuche, but also has to be on guard against another ambitious guy, Argentina, who has been eyeing the Pampas and has claimed sovereignty over this unowned land.
Unlike the primitive and backward Mapuche people, Argentina is a white regime. They not only have a population of over one million, but also have modern weapons, muskets, cannons and warships.
Faced with such an opponent, the most Zhu Xianhai could do was to encourage the Mapuche people to stab them in the back.
At present, the Pampas seems to be divided into three parties. But in fact, these three parties still "claim" to be on their own side.
After all, the gap in strength is too big!
The three legs are seriously unbalanced.
They are all giants, but what are we?
It’s just a little ant!
Their strength is too weak and their living environment is too harsh.
Thinking of this, Zhu Xianhai secretly made up his mind, gritted his teeth, and clicked it.
"Try hard, and the bicycle will turn into a motorcycle—I'll beat you up!"
[Open temporary permissions. This time, 1000 experience points are required. Do you want to open it? 】
Turn on !
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【Congratulations: The user won the consolation prize of 100 Remington M1858 revolvers. 】
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【Congratulations: The user won the consolation prize. 】
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"Who said that if you try hard, a bicycle can definitely turn into a motorcycle?"
Although he won a consolation prize, Zhu Xianhai did not feel happy at all. On the contrary, he felt extremely disappointed.
What's the point of asking for that consolation prize?
If we enable new permissions, it would be ok even if it is temporary!
Isn’t this system too unreliable?
How can krypton gold users have no privileges?
Zhu Xianhai was a little confused.
"continue!"
Life is a rare opportunity. Let's try again!
【Congratulations: The user won the trial version of the Factory Owner Mall and can try it out dozens of times . 】
What?
Trial version of Factory Owner Mall?
Tried it dozens of times?
What the hell is this?
It's not a ghost, but...
"Finally I got something useful!"
Zhu Xianhai swallowed and said excitedly.
“This is really great!”
This is simply like giving a pillow to someone who is tired!
Isn't Entrepreneur Mall just a wholesaler's business? We can just buy a few thousand machine tools from them and then go straight into heavy industry, right?
With an excited heart and trembling hands, Zhu Xianhai was stunned when he clicked on the "Entrepreneur Mall" because what appeared in front of him was not the wholesale function he had imagined, but...
“Is this…is this a complete factory?”
Zhu Xianhai opened his eyes wide and couldn't believe what he saw. The so-called "Entrepreneur Mall" was actually a factory accessory.
"An ironworks with an annual output of 10,000 tons only costs 12,000 pounds... That's it!"
As soon as Zhu Xianhai made his choice, he was dumbfounded.
There is no choice.
"System prompt: Enterprise development needs to follow basic development principles. First, we should start with enterprises with lower technical difficulty. Large heavy industrial enterprises cannot meet the needs of enterprise development for the time being with the IQ and technology of users. Please be down-to-earth and don't aim too high. Start with small enterprises first."
Well……
Not smart enough?
Not good at technology?
Despised!
It was not until this time that Zhu Xianhai realized that although there were many choices among the corporate options, factories such as steel mills and shipyards were mostly gray and obviously not selectable, but small businesses such as printing and dyeing factories, leather factories, and garment factories were all lit up.
"It turns out that the factory owner's authority is to develop light industry first!"
Zhu Xianhai said to himself.
First, develop light industry. This is because compared with heavy industry, light industry requires less investment, has lower technical difficulty, and has faster capital turnover and profit returns. Therefore, when countries develop industry, light industry is the first step in their industrialization. Only after a long period of development, the development of light industry has driven the development of related machinery maintenance and manufacturing industries, improved the technical level, and concentrated corporate profits in banks. Only then did heavy industry come to the rescue, and accumulation began to gradually shift to heavy industry, creating conditions for the development of heavy industry. But this is a long process that takes decades or even hundreds of years.
From the British Industrial Revolution to Germany, France, the United States and other countries, all of them have repeated this path. Of course, there are examples in the world, such as the Soviet Union, which did not take this path. They first chose heavy industry. Because in their view, the war was approaching, without heavy industry, they could not defend the country, so they had to develop heavy industry quickly. If this was done too late, they would fail.
This situation is almost the same as what Zhu Xianhai has to face.
Of course, he had no choice now.
"This... is a bit difficult!"
Looking at the lit factory, Zhu Xianhai muttered.
"You can't open a clothing factory and let thousands of rough men operate sewing machines!"
While talking to himself, suddenly, one of the factories caught Zhu Xianhai's attention.
"Farm tool repair factory... this one, is it an option?"
With his eyes wide open, Zhu Xianhai clicked on the factory properties. His eyes lit up instantly, and with a gleam of light in his eyes, he muttered to himself.
"Yes, yes, we can do this..."
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In the power workshop, the steam engine spewed out white smoke. Inside the workshop, the transmission shaft was connected to dozens of machine tools with belts.
This is the most important production workshop of Nanhua Agricultural Machinery Factory.
The equipment here was all purchased from the system. There are not many equipment, but only eighty-nine mechanical equipment such as drilling machines, milling machines, lathes, and a blast furnace for melting iron. According to the system's factory design instructions, this is an agricultural tool repair shop mainly used for repairing and manufacturing parts including harvesters and steam tractors. Of course, it can also produce agricultural tools such as wheel plows.
Just a few dozen machine tools may not seem like a lot, but in Zhu Xianhai's view, these general-purpose machine tools are the industrial foundation of Nanhua.
It is said to be a farm tool repair shop, but these general-purpose machine tools are the legendary "industrial mother machines". In fact, there has never been any "industrial mother machines". The so-called "mother machines" are actually just general-purpose machine tools. So what does the development of heavy industry rely on?
It's machines producing machines!
"With these machine tools, we can produce new machine tools continuously..."
Although the wooden walls of the workshop still have cracks and light leaks through them, Zhu Xianhai is already looking forward to its future...
