1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 2408
For these Haihan nationals in Hainan Island, the war that took place in the east of Daming can only be understood through the public information released by the government in newspapers. Therefore, the direction of public opinion among the people naturally follows the official leadership. It is also difficult to have any positive comments on the performance of the ruling class in this anti-Qing war.

Of course, the newspaper also mentioned that Haihan is currently doing its best to rescue tens of thousands of displaced war refugees in Shandong, and some of them will be transported to some overseas colonies in Haihan for resettlement.Anyone with a little knowledge can imagine that this kind of relief measure arranged by the government will effectively alleviate the long-term demand for labor in overseas colonies, and these immigrants will also have the opportunity to join Haihan in the future.

Such relief measures are no strangers to the citizens of Haihan. In the early years, Haihan obtained a large number of people from Annan and Ming Dynasty, and a considerable part of them came to Haihan as war refugees to settle down.And these populations have also played a very important role in the construction and development of Haihan. Many people have now become the backbone of all walks of life, and there are even some people who have been appreciated by high-level officials because of their outstanding abilities. Civil and military officials at all levels with real power.

It is precisely because of this upward channel that can break the class barrier that many people realize that as long as they have real skills, they have the opportunity to make a difference in Haihan.

Even if you don’t have any skills when you come to Haihan, it doesn’t matter. The vocational education system currently implemented by Haihan provides many opportunities for the people to receive professional training. Stand out from the crowd and become technical talents enjoying the national salary.

Huang Zhichang from Zengcheng County, Guangdong and Yin Dezhi from Boluo County, Guangdong are such lucky ones.The two suffered misfortune when they were young. They lost all their family members in the Guangdong Bandit Rebellion in 1628. After surviving by chance, they were sent to Lijiazhuang, Panyu County, where a large number of refugees were received at that time, by their fellow villagers.Lijiazhuang's move to recruit refugees was naturally a cover for Haihan, so they later moved to Hainan Island.

They were only eight years old when they arrived in Hainan Island. Since they had no family members around them, they could only be resettled according to the plan specially set up by the Executive Committee for orphans among war refugees.But this is not just throwing them into the orphanage. In fact, the Haihan government also provides education opportunities for these children who have no family ties.Huang Zhichang and Yin Dezhi finished elementary school in Sanya, and then were recommended to Sanya Junior High School with excellent grades.

The experience of the two was widely reported by the propaganda department as a positive example of Haihan immigration policy, and even made the headlines of the Haihan Times.It was precisely because they were published in the newspaper that they were noticed by a nobleman, and they began to receive funding. They successfully graduated from Sanya Junior High School in 1635, and were then assigned to a machinery factory in Tiandu Industrial Zone. Work as an intern.

The two arrived at the factory early that day. Huang Zhichang was in charge of cleaning, packing tools and parts, while Yin Dezhi went to the small coal stove to light a fire and boil water for the master who would arrive later to make tea.In the past three years of working in the machinery factory, as long as it is not a day off, they have always divided the labor in this way, and everything is packed and ready before working hours.

But today they arrived earlier than usual, because there is an important craft project that will be accepted today, and it is said that some important people from the executive committee will come over by then, so they have to clean up the place as much as possible.Of course, the area they are responsible for is only the small area where they usually do project research with Master, and they don't need to clean the entire production area in the factory.

"Master said that if this project can pass the inspection and acceptance smoothly, both of us can raise our wages. How much do you think we can raise this time?" Huang Zhichang chatted with Yin Dezhi after finishing packing up the workstations.

Yin Dezhi put down the tongs holding the coal balls, patted the coal ash on his hands, and replied softly: "It depends on how much work you can do. If you can do all the work in this factory, it will not even increase you ten times." A lot!"

Huang Zhichang said with a sneer, "I'm not that talented."

Yin Dezhi said: "We just need to obey orders and do things well. As for whether we have the ability or not, the master will naturally see."

Of these two, one has an active mind and the other has a calm temperament, but they are both talented and intelligent people, so they were selected by their master as long-term training objects.When the two of them finished their work and were washing their hands, they saw a carriage slowly parked outside the factory gate. Huang Zhichang patted Yin Dezhi with his hands and said, "Master is here."

The guards on duty outside the factory gate stepped forward and saluted before reaching out to open the car door.Getting out of the car was a middle-aged man dressed in black with a slightly fat body, holding a briefcase in one hand and a tin toolbox in the other.

"Morning, Master!" After greeting Huang Zhichang and Yin Dezhi who had already arrived at the door, they hurried forward to take the briefcase and toolbox from the man.

"Morning!" The man was obviously accustomed to such scenes, nodded slightly in response, then handed the things in his hands to the two apprentices, and walked slowly towards the factory with his hands behind his back.When the workers in the factory saw him, they all bowed and said hello: "Morning, director!"

This middle-aged man is the master of Huang Yin and the others, and also the person in charge of the machinery factory.His name was Yu Feng, and his identity was naturally a time traveler. Before time travel, he had run a small machinery factory, and his business was mediocre.By chance, Yu Feng learned of the existence of the time-traveling plan. After making a few trips to Guangzhou to verify the authenticity of the plan, Yu Feng was also moved.Just at that time, he encountered some big troubles that could not be resolved, and he could no longer continue to operate his own machinery factory, so he managed to persuade his wife to take part in the time-traveling operation with his three-year-old daughter.

Of course, Yu Feng's family background is still richer than most time travelers. He packed up all the well-functioning machinery and equipment in his small factory as the capital for investment operations, and this also allowed him to open a company after time travel. The right to operate the machinery factory independently.However, in exchange, all production technology and production equipment here, and even product sales, are all subject to strict official supervision, and production capacity must be given priority to ensure the completion of official purchase orders.

Machinery and equipment can be packaged, but at the beginning the workers and technicians in the factory could not be packaged and brought here, so after this time and space, Yu Feng made personnel training the first priority of resuming production.However, it takes years to train people with little cultural foundation into industrial workers who can skillfully operate machinery and equipment. As for the training of technical backbones, it takes even more time and effort.

Yu Feng is well aware that the process of training talents is not easy, so he has put a lot of effort into selecting the training objects. In addition to hiring some craftsmen with certain skills, he will give priority to selecting young people with bright minds so that they can work as hard as possible. Learn basic knowledge and operational skills in a short period of time.

A few years ago, Yu Feng saw the official reports on the education provided to refugee teenagers in the newspaper, so he paid attention to Huang Zhichang and Yin Dezhi, two teenagers who were sent to Sanya Junior High School by recommendation.Although Sanya Junior High School is an educational institution for naturalized nationals, it is not an ordinary school that everyone can attend because of the limited number of admissions. The students admitted either have a certain family background or are too talented people.

However, among the people who came to Haihan as refugees, they often received incomplete basic education in the early stage, so there are really not many people who can be admitted to this school, let alone exempted from the exam.As far as Yu Feng knows, there may only be a dozen or so refugee students who can be exempted from exams and recommended for admission based on their academic performance.The two teenagers mentioned in the newspaper are only eleven or twelve years old. If they are really good seedlings, they have to start early, otherwise they might become someone else's apprentice a few days later.

So Yu Feng secretly asked the situation of these two children through his relationship, confirmed that they indeed had better learning ability than their peers, and immediately reported to the Executive Committee and the Ministry of Culture and Education quietly, applying for private Fund the two children's future study and life.Of course, this kind of funding is not without asking for rewards. Yu Feng also expressly hoped that these two children could work under him as an intern after graduating from junior high school, and then he would personally teach them all kinds of knowledge related to machinery.

The relevant departments will not object to such an arrangement. After all, after graduating from junior high school, the government will generally assign most of them to various production units to learn technology. Only a very small number of outstanding talents have the opportunity to enter Education is continued at higher institutions of higher learning.If someone like Yu Feng stood up to claim some of the students in advance, it would save the authorities some trouble, and the early intervention of the employer would also be conducive to the cultivation of talents.

But Yu Feng wasn't the only one who was thinking about it at the time, but he acted the fastest, and while others were still hesitating, he had already finalized the arrangement with the relevant departments.When the others went to find the Department of Culture and Education, they realized that Yu Feng had already taken the lead.

As for Huang Zhichang and Yin Dezhi who were selected, of course they can only accept the arrangement, but this is not a bad thing for them. Since junior high school, Yu Feng has borne all the expenses for food and clothing. A stable job that makes others envious.Not only did they have enough income to support themselves, but they also became apprentices directly under the traversers, learning the secret skills of Haihan that were kept secret from the outside world, and they would become respected engineers when they were young. This was something they never dared to imagine when they were young thought way of life.

Yu Feng entered his office and saw that a pot of hot tea had been placed on the table, so he ordered Huang Zhichang to call in all the foremen in the factory. They assign new production tasks.

Most of the machine-added equipment that Yu Feng brought over when he traveled back then was sealed up in the warehouse.These machine-added equipment are all invaluable treasures in this era, and maintenance is very difficult, so they were only used intermittently in the first few years to replicate the steam-powered version of machine tool equipment such as vise wash planer and mill.Although its processing ability and precision are far inferior to the original equipment, it is easy to maintain and repair, easy to operate, and its cost of use is far lower than those precious equipment brought by Yu Feng.

At present, the orders being produced by this machinery factory are mainly the [-]-type rifle barrels installed in the Haihan Army. This kind of rifled barrel has relatively high requirements for equipment and processing technology in terms of production technology, and requires technicians Operate the rifling machine to maintain a certain angle and process the barrel repeatedly about a hundred times to engrave four high-quality rifling lines in the barrel.

And these drills and boring tools used to process gun barrels are hard alloys that are very difficult to refine in the current time and space, and their value is even comparable to gold, and it is not something he can make here. The production department orders.Therefore, rifled barrels and barrels are high-value weapons with very limited production capacity, and their production costs are much higher than smoothbore weapons.

Of course, limited production capacity exceeds supply, which means higher relative profits. Just the annual barrel processing orders for the Ministry of National Defense are enough to maintain the operation of the machinery factory and feed more than a hundred workers and technicians here.

While drinking tea, Yu Feng listened to the reports of the foremen and answered some technical problems they encountered.During the period, Huang Zhichang and Yin Dezhi were asked to stand by. Although these two apprentices will not directly participate in the processing and production of gun barrels, listening to the content of these work exchanges will also help them become familiar with the production of these military products. process.As for how much they can learn from it, it depends on their personal understanding.

Yu Feng is not a person who is easy to be satisfied with the status quo. Although the official order can guarantee the operation of the machinery factory, he still hopes to make more explorations in technology and copy as much as possible the technologies he has mastered. to the present era.Although some technologies will face many difficulties to be re-implemented here, after years of hard work and exploration, more and more key technologies are now ready for breakthroughs.

The project that Yu Feng will carry out technical verification today is electric welding. He has been planning and preparing for this for several years, and spent a lot of time collecting various materials needed from various places in Haihan.Just to find the manganese soil needed to make welding rods, he took Huang and Yin to Guangxi for more than two months.

Haihan had already used up the welding electrodes brought from the old time and space a few years ago, and only Yu Feng was doing the relevant research and development work here.If Haihan wants to restart the electric welding technology in industrial production, he has to count on the welding rod produced by Yu Feng to overcome various technical difficulties to be able to use it.

(End of this chapter)