1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 3739

In the end, He Xi did not tell Shi Diwen how he predicted that Shi Diwen would come to him and seek help from him with the problems encountered in these areas.

Perhaps Shi Diwen had an informant from the Security Department close to him, who informed He Xi of his itinerary in advance; or perhaps someone in the Executive Committee informed He Xi of the news at the same time Shi Diwen received the task in Hangzhou.

Of course, it is also possible that He Xi was just being mysterious. He didn't know Shi Diwen would come, and notifying these four people to meet was just a spur of the moment decision. There weren't so many human entanglements and advance arrangements. Everything was just a coincidence.

But Shi Diwen didn't want to pursue the truth anymore at this time. As He Xi said, it didn't matter what method he used. What mattered was whether the problem was solved.

After all, the people meeting today are all travelers who came to this time and space together. Their personal interests are actually not in conflict with national interests. In the final analysis, they just want to pave a better development path for future generations.

It is not difficult for the Executive Committee to provide a few positions for their descendants, but this matter also requires proper methods and ways. Otherwise, once the news spreads, there will definitely be others who will follow suit, or even go even further to oppose the Executive Committee in exchange for better terms, which will really become a big trouble.

Shi Diwen's approach was to link the assistance they could provide with the positions provided by the Executive Committee for their descendants.

That is, the positions provided by the Executive Committee will all be located overseas, but as long as these retired old guys can make achievements in the fields they are good at and contribute to the construction of overseas territories, their children will also get corresponding positions.

From the governor of a single colony to a senior official at the overseas region level, their children can all become positions, and the specific arrangements are directly linked to their contributions. The higher the official you want to be, the more effort you have to make.

If you want to transfer these second-generation immigrants back to China to work, that is not impossible, but they must first achieve results in their overseas positions and prove their abilities before they will be given the opportunity to be transferred.

It’s not that Hai Han’s officialdom can’t support some idlers, but they can only do menial jobs, and important positions will not be occupied by idlers.

If they cannot even meet these conditions, then there is really no point in arranging for their children to become officials. Only the second generation of the rich who are born without any ability will be eliminated early due to their lack of ability even if they barely enter the officialdom.

This was the best solution Shi Diwen could think of. If someone was unwilling to accept such a solution, it would actually mean that he had lost his value to the Executive Committee. However, the people present were all smart people, and no one made such an unwise choice.

They will cooperate with the arrangements of the Executive Committee and allocate some resources, including professionals, from their own industries to the areas designated by the Executive Committee.

Of course, even if they fully cooperated, the industries they operated were far from enough to meet the resources needed for the development of overseas regions. But as long as this was the beginning, it might also play a certain leading and exemplary role in these industries, so that more practitioners would be willing to devote themselves to the development and construction of overseas territories.

Shi Diwen had many tasks to complete when he returned to Sanya this time, and meeting with the people He Xi had summoned was not actually part of his planned itinerary. This meeting had already taken up most of his day, and in order to be able to depart from Sanya as planned, he had to compress the time for other tasks.

Shi Diwen actually arranged a lot of meetings, both large and small, when he came back this time. Now that he has the identity of a member of the Executive Committee, some of the work that originally needed to be reported to the Executive Committee in person has been changed to be reported to him in Sanya.

After the Executive Committee moved to Hangzhou, many functional departments and production units were still retained in Sanya. In particular, various power facilities, research institutes, and factories related to industry have not yet moved to Hangzhou, where supporting facilities are not perfect. It is obviously far from enough to report the work results of these departments and units only through paper materials. Shi Diwen not only summoned the relevant persons in charge this time, but also conducted on-site inspections to understand the situation in the past two or three years after the relocation of the capital.

The Tiandu Industrial Zone located among the mountains is actually not much different from previous years. It is still Hai Han’s most core and most advanced industrial center.

The train to Victory Port brings workers and raw materials here every day, and then transports the weapons and equipment, steam engines, and other industrial products manufactured here to the world outside the mountains.

The generator sets at Tiandu Reservoir have been replaced with new ones with larger power generation capacity, but it is still difficult to meet the growing production needs of the industrial zone.

Fortunately, the power consumption of Shengli Fort, a major electricity consumer, has dropped significantly, and the industrial sector has been able to be allocated more electricity to ensure production.

What makes Shi Diwen feel a little sad is that the heads of many production units here have been replaced by naturalized citizens, and the time travelers who originally managed these units have often retreated to the second line and only serve as technical consultants.

Although the time travelers have tried their best to pass on their lifelong learning to their disciples, due to the limitations of their knowledge structure and teaching level, the skills mastered by these students are ultimately discounted compared to those of the time travelers.

The direct consequence of this is that the speed of technological innovation and iterative upgrading has slowed down significantly. Even with the information provided by large databases, technological progress can hardly be compared with the period when time travelers were in charge.

Fortunately, the structure built by the time travelers in the early years was relatively solid, allowing Hai Han to successfully enter a primary industrial society. The production technology they mastered was at least one or two hundred years ahead of their contemporary countries.

This provides Hai Han with ample buffer time. As long as future generations can properly digest the various technical information and research results left by the time travelers, it will only take two or three generations at most to lead the next round of industrial revolution.

While other countries had not yet figured out how Hai Han's steam engines worked, Tian Du's factory already had gasoline and diesel engines with relatively mature technology and a service life that could meet practical needs.

However, the manufacturing process of these advanced engines is relatively complex, the production capacity is limited and the cost is high, so they cannot be widely used for the time being.

Cars and motorcycles equipped with advanced engines are now official products.

Shi Diwen personally test-drove a prototype car manufactured by Tiandu Machinery Factory with great interest. Although the engine did not run smoothly, Shi Diwen still gave it a high evaluation.

He knew very well how much the advent of fuel-driven engines would change the world.

Especially for the shipping industry, which is extremely dependent on transportation capacity, if the speed of a cargo ship can be doubled with the help of the engine, it would be almost equivalent to doubling the transportation capacity, which is enough to create immeasurable wealth for Hai Han.