African Nationhood

Chapter 334 Internal Affairs Meeting-Transportation and Commerce
  Xia Yi originally thought that boss Shi would verbally praise them for their department's meritorious service, but who knew that they would be treated like this in exchange.

But Boss Shi is the boss of his subordinates, so he can only follow the boss's instructions.

"Okay, Mr. Shi, we will do a toxicology test."

Shi Jintang also reacted, "You guys found out that this DDT person is very nice. Give her a medal and you can give her the bonus yourself."

Xia Yi nodded, "Okay, Mr. Shi.

Now let me talk about the work achievements of the pharmaceutical department last year. Through our cooperation with Johnson & Johnson of the United States, the typhus vaccine developed by our department has caused a craze around the world.

The company's pharmaceutical department has authorized the production of this typhus vaccine to Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals. Our department is still responsible for the production within the company's territory. Due to production capacity constraints, it is still unable to cover most immigrants.

We can only slowly expand production capacity. We still have a lot of homework to do in terms of vaccines in the near future. Our department has been able to achieve 95% immigration coverage for smallpox vaccines.

Last year, our department treated 138 million patients, consumed 46 billion yuan in output value, and created 38 billion yuan in revenue. "

"Well, okay, thank you for your hard work."

Xia Yi sat down with a smile, and James Lister stood up to speak.

“After several years of hard work, many main railway lines within the company’s territory have basically been connected. Today, the total mileage of railways within the company’s territory has exceeded 1 kilometers, totaling 1.07 kilometers.

Full coverage in all directions has been basically achieved. Next, our transportation department will focus on the planned but never built Wen (Hot Springs)-Golden (Bulawayo) line.

This line is 1310 kilometers long and is surrounded by desert. After bidding, we finally selected the South West African Railway Company to undertake the project and strive to complete this line within three years.

In addition, the 'Shuanglu Line' invested by the British in the Lunda Administrative Office was completely completed last year (from Lusa Town to Luben Town, please see Chapter 224 if you are not familiar with it). This line is mainly used to transport copper in the Lunda Administrative Office. mine.

The construction of a 50-ton copper smelting plant assisted by the British has also started smoothly and is expected to be completed in 1898.

The road construction in the East Africa Administration has been completed. Our Transportation Department plans to introduce a new type of road construction material, asphalt, to supplement the domestic secondary roads. What does Mr. Shi think? "

Shi Jintang thought for a moment. The oil refinery in Sumatra has been established for several years and has accumulated a large amount of oil refining waste.

At the Nanhua Shipyard, Shi Jintang asked Cai Jinzhang to build some roads there.

After James Lister conducted an on-site inspection, he felt that although the pollution was acceptable, it was acceptable, so he planned to bring it in to repair the roads of important trunk lines.

Even though those refining wastes will pollute the environment, there is too much rain in the rainy season in Matabeleland and the East African Agency, and the road conditions are very unsatisfactory.

Moreover, there are not many black workers under the company's control, from the perspective of saving manpower and materials.

We have to consider road construction first. As the saying goes, "choose the lesser of two evils".

"Okay, you can try to build some road sections first and evaluate the consequences. If it is not too serious, pave it first. As long as it is not paved on a large scale, the problem should not be big."

"Okay, Mr. Shi."

Anyway, it is a temporary measure. When technology and funds improve later, it will be too late to clean up or build new roads.

……

"Commissioner Shi is here."

Shi Jinyong nodded and stood up to speak.

“Let me start by saying that the total output value of the company’s light and heavy industries last year was 58 billion yuan, and the shipbuilding and military industries continued to lead the company’s industrial development.

I have talked about the company's light and heavy industry issues before, and I will talk more about it today.

Up to now, the company's heavy industry has made great progress.

Our Nanhua Shipyard has now successfully broken through the restrictions and is now able to manufacture cargo ships with a load capacity of 2000 tons.

In addition, more than ten cargo ships produced by Nanhua Shipyard have been sold. In addition to the company's own purchases by the main users, the Qing Dynasty purchased five or six cargo ships with a load of over 1,000 tons from us.

As for the battleships, they did not believe in our shipbuilding capabilities and did not order them.

But we have acquired some drawings of old warships from them.

For example, the mosquito gunships "Zhennan" and "Longxiang", the cruiser "Chaowei", etc. Although these drawings are old, our engineers stole a lot from them.

At present, we have been able to imitate mosquito cannon ships. As for the technology of cruise ironclads, we have also successfully copied them, but we lack supporting weapons. "

Shi Jinyong didn't know that Shi Jintang had ordered the military industry department to contact the Qing Dynasty, and Nanhua Company would secretly purchase a batch of ship guns from them. Although the artillery of the Qing Dynasty could not keep up with that of European countries, the casting quality was not bad.

Nanhua Company can purchase it to equip mosquito cannon ships to implement the "wolf pack tactics" in the offshore.

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"As for the reciprocating crankshaft steam engines used on freighters, our shipyard engineers have now thoroughly understood their manufacturing processes and have successfully reverse-engineered them.

Now we have the ability to replicate, and we currently have the ability to produce steam engines for small-power ships.

In addition, the diesel engine developed by Mr. Rudolf Diesel is being intensively improved on new models with the help of our engineers and technicians.

A higher-power diesel engine model will be launched in the second half of this year. "

Hearing that Rudolf Diesel had a new diesel engine, Shi Jintang couldn't help but rub his ears.

"How is the noise of the new diesel engine resolved?"

Hearing Boss Shi's question, Shi Jinyong couldn't help but laugh.

"Don't worry, someone has already told him the reason why the maiden voyage was named 'Liu Bei', and he understands that you are annoyed by the noise of his diesel engine.

This time he worked hard to improve the noise problem. According to him, the new model diesel engine this time has greatly reduced the noise problem. "

Shi Jintang nodded, "Okay, you continue."

"That's it, diesel engines. Let's talk about our arsenal. Currently, our arsenal in Harbin uses electricity and electric motors, which greatly improves efficiency and increases production capacity very quickly.

The Spanish have ordered at least 25 new rifles from us. I think the company should continue to exchange colonies from the Spanish. "

Hearing what Shi Jinyong said, everyone in the conference room looked at him.

Shi Jinyong remained calm and continued: "I am talking from the perspective of the commercial sector. Nowadays, countries around the world use colonies as dumping grounds for raw materials and industrial products. This is true for us, and so is the Qing Dynasty.

Although the company was able to produce some industrial products, most of the sales of these industrial products were sold through the immigrant trade.

Because our production capacity is very low, we don’t have to worry too much about profits and the like.

However, as the scale of immigration expands, the company's industrial product production capacity will gradually increase.

When the company's production capacity fully explodes, what should we do if we have a backlog of industrial products and no market?
  The Spanish have declined, and the colonies in their hands are just right for us.

After taking over, even if we do not extract oil and water from those colonies, it is enough to provide a dumping market for industrial products. "

After listening to Shi Jinyong's words, everyone in the conference room nodded.

However, Shi Jintang looked troubled. Two years later (2), the Americans should launch an attack against the Spaniards.

I have previously acquired the Mariana Islands and Sulu Islands, which are small places. If I acquire other places, will I be able to compete with the United States in advance?

"Then which territories do you prefer?"

"Of course, the more, the better. It would be best if they all take over."

Hearing this answer, Shi Jintang couldn't help but smile and shook his head.

I thought to myself: If I listen to your brother, I'm afraid we won't even know how we will die later.

"It is unrealistic to occupy Cuba and the Philippines. First, they are too far away. Second, the cost of occupying them is too high. We simply cannot support them."

After listening to Boss Shi's words, Shi Jinyong looked slightly lonely. He also knew that the plan he proposed was not realistic.

The company's development has been so smooth in recent years that many people have become blindly optimistic and always want to occupy more territory.

“Although we cannot occupy Cuba, we can buy Palawan Island from the Philippines.

This small island is not too close to the main island of the Philippines, and it will be convenient for us to transport immigrants in the future. The harbor there is also good. It used to be part of the Sulu Sultanate. After we bought it, it was managed together with the Sulu Sultanate. "

Shi Jinyong nodded, "Well, okay, I will do it."

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