my magic industry

Chapter 54 Bills and the Printing Press
The initial stage of the establishment of the alliance is the best time to lay the foundation and carry out major actions. After the patent proposal was half-passed, Xia Lin struck while the iron was hot and submitted three pre-prepared proposals one after another.

First, in the name of the business alliance, five primary schools and two middle schools will be opened in the imperial capital to train talents suitable for industrial park management, production and R&D.

Xia Lin also provided members with his estimated investment cost of the school. Since paper, bricks, and cement can be produced by themselves, in fact, the investment of a primary school is only [-] gold renthes, while that of a middle school is [-]. Kim Lunt.

In order to prevent these members from opposing this proposal, Xia Lin also proposed that the funds used for technology research and development from the monthly profits of the industrial park can be used to invest in this proposal. However, in terms of teaching materials, the business alliance needs to hire some university scholars to help them write. .

According to the contract Xia Lin signed with the shareholders, this part of the funds was originally allocated to him, the executive director, and the shareholders only have the right to supervise. I won't have much opinion.

After explaining the pros and cons, this group of nobles who were not very interested in it finally passed the proposal indifferently under the strong push of Her Royal Highness and Earl Karen, who saw that this proposal was to ensure the future of the business alliance. motion.

Second, establish an alliance research and development center, funded by the alliance, integrate the technical strength of various chambers of commerce, and conduct specialized research on core technologies.

Xia Lin recommended himself as the general manager of the R&D center, on the condition that all the technology of the R&D center is conditionally shared with the members, in exchange for each chamber of commerce's annual investment in the R&D center and the right to call the craftsmen under the chamber of commerce at any time.

The so-called conditions are actually to decide which chamber of commerce will obtain the technology developed by the R&D center through discussion in the meeting, and the nobles will not object.

No matter how much you look down on Xia Lin's humble background, these elite aristocrats will not deny Xia Lin's ability to develop new technologies in front of such a large industrial park. It is important for all members of the alliance to have people who can make big cakes. All a good thing, so the bill passed quickly.

Third, establish an internal commercial bank, and determine the bank's equity by the capital contribution.

Which chamber of commerce needs funds in the future, can obtain low-interest loans directly from commercial banks after review, and at the same time, all aspects of the alliance's capital flow will also be carried out through the bank.The bank conducts account accounting every quarter and submits it to the bank's board of directors for review.

If the commercial bank is operating well, it can consider getting involved in external financial business.

This proposal is very special, and the impact it brings can hardly be fully estimated by the eyes of Princess Dorothea and Earl Cullen. After all, banks are a completely new thing in this world.

However, according to Xia Lin, the bank has many functions that can make the business alliance closer and help the queen and the alliance executives better control the alliance. Therefore, after some exchange of interests, this proposal was passed smoothly.

So far, the business alliance has become a veritable large-scale organization that is closely connected politically, economically, and technically. Compared with the original industry guild, its organizational strength can be described as vastly different.

And this kind of organization, which already has a somewhat modern meaning, also provides Xia Lin's industrialization plan with an immature but promising executor.

Naturally, these great nobles would not ignore such a major change, and many nobles were still thinking carefully about the benefits that the establishment of this novel business alliance would bring to their families and chambers of commerce until they boarded the Fulanya and embarked on their way home. coming impact.

But Xia Lin, who now holds several jobs, has started to get busy non-stop.

However, he is not busy with the alliance research and development center that still exists on paper. This thing needs to communicate with the enlightened little nobles and businessmen who are not present, and there is still some time before it is officially approved.

What's more, after the approval, a commercial bank must be established first to provide a physical institution to provide funds. Xia Lin has to wait until the bank is established to get money from there before taking action.

Xia Lin is busy with his education plan.

The first batch of five elementary schools to be established, although small in scale, seemed like sparks to Xia Lin.

With the nature of the people of the Celestial Dynasty, no matter how poor you are, you can’t be poor in education. If you want the industry to develop rapidly, the sooner you implement education, the better. That’s why Xia Lin would rather use the research and development funds of the industrial park to invest than discuss with alliance members at the meeting. They are wrangling.

However, before the establishment of the school, Xia Lin needed to settle a very difficult matter, which was the problem of the printing press.

If there is no printing, there will be no textbooks, no test papers, so what about education?

Early movable type printing with complex operations was definitely not what Xia Lin considered. With the efficiency of picking up characters manually, engraving printing is not as good as printing a book.

However, engraving and printing requires too much investment to print five-grade books in Chinese, mathematics, and science. Therefore, Xia Lin can only consider two printing methods at present.

One is the stencil ink printing that was often used to print tabloids in the previous life, and the other is the Gutenberg printing machine developed from movable type printing technology and the matching type picking machine.

The former only needs a stack of wax paper, a few typesetters with clear and neat handwriting, a stylus and high-quality ink to easily print thousands of repetitive text content.

The disadvantage is that the clarity of the writing will decrease with the increase in the number of times the stencil is used, and it is not suitable for printing jobs with too complicated text content.

Because one page of textbooks needs to be engraved on ten sheets of stencil paper, and the typesetting staff may not be able to print five grade textbooks for three subjects with at least one hundred pages each if their hands are broken.

The latter, as the originator of modern printing, is more complicated and requires the development of professional printing machines and pick-up machines.

But the printing quality is several levels higher than the former one, and it is fully capable of various printing tasks. It will not be a problem for Xia Lin to run a newspaper and periodical.

Therefore, after some weighing, Xia Lin, who now has a lot of money and a lot of technical strength at hand, simply decided to go directly to the Gutenberg printing machine and the word picker.

The structure of Gutenberg's printing press is not complicated. In fact, it is a wooden frame, a set of movable type printing plates, and the most critical threaded pressure rod.

By turning the screw, the printing plate under the screw can be in close contact with the paper, completing the printing process with high definition.

The structure of the type picking machine is also very simple, that is, through a transmission mechanism connected to the keyboard of the switch in the rear storage room to control the falling of the movable type, and then push the movable type into the typesetting plate through the spring mechanism of the pedal to complete the type picking work. It is dozens of times more efficient than manually picking up letters from the alphabet plate.

This job is the same as that of a typist. A skilled typist can arrange a printing plate with thousands of words in an hour according to the manuscript.

The most difficult thing among these things is the screw. Before there was no screw, there was only a polished rod, and a machine tool that could not perform stable feeding could only be processed by manual speed control.

The task Xia Lin assigned to Master Fine before was to upgrade the woodworking lathe and then develop the lead screw. For this reason, he also told them the principle of the vernier caliper.

However, the research and development of the lead screw is very difficult. Xia Lin gave them three months, and they don't know the progress.

If it doesn't work, Xia Lin is going to use the hand-processed screw to barely use it. Anyway, the screw of the Gutenberg printing machine does not have high requirements, as long as it can provide pressure for the printing plate.

Bringing the drawings he had drawn to the machine tool factory, Xia Lin saw Master Fine directing the dwarf masters to install a lead screw on an all-steel lathe.

With a high-temperature rune plate that can melt steel, the dwarf masters are obviously a bit ahead of the upgrade plan for the machine tool. I didn't go to the machine tool factory to take a good look at it for half a month, and I have already manufactured an all-steel machine tool. Lin didn't think of it at first.

However, this machine tool should still be in the experimental stage, otherwise the dwarf masters would not have hidden it during the shareholder visit just now.

Xia Lin didn't care much about these things. At present, what Xia Lin was most concerned about was the steel threaded rod on the lathe, which was obviously processed according to his own requirements, that is, the lead screw.

(End of this chapter)