Establishing a Textile Machine Research Institute to study steam-powered spinning machines and fabric looms was only Fang Nan's first task for Han Jia. Next, Han Jia would also accept most of the glass factories under the name of the People's Army.

Glass mirrors and transparent glass are a very profitable business in the People's Army ruled areas. Other merchants are unavailable to participate in it. Glass mirrors are almost a must-have daily necessities for ordinary people's homes.

For the people at the bottom, large glass mirrors cannot be afforded, but a glass mirror the size of a palm can always be afforded. Especially the people in Guangdong Province have owned their own land for several years and have a certain amount of savings at home. In this case, the people are willing to spend money to buy something they were reluctant to buy, and glass mirrors are one of them.

Glass mirrors are one of the essential items for newlyweds.

With the increase in glass sales in Guangdong Province, four new provinces added, the People's Army began to establish more glass factories to produce transparent glass and glass mirrors.

The division of glass factories under the name of the People's Army to the Fang Chamber of Commerce is a plan that Fang Nan has already decided. According to Fang Nan's division, all enterprises under the name of the People's Army must be divided into two categories, such as steel factories and arsenals, industries that must be controlled by the state and are state-owned enterprises, while glass factories, which are not controlled by the state, are divided into Fang Chamber of Commerce.

The emperor is the supreme ruler of the country, and everything in the country, including people, belongs to the emperor.

According to this statement, the Fang Chamber of Commerce is an alternative state-owned enterprise, but the income of real state-owned enterprises is allocated by the state. As the supreme ruler, Fang Nan can also allocate these incomes, but it is mainly used for the state and the people.

The benefits of the Fang Chamber of Commerce do not need to be transferred through the state, but are directly allocated by Fang Nan. They can be used on themselves, or on the country and the people.

In fact, glass factories are not important to the People's Army. Glass mirrors and transparent glass are indeed a very profitable business, but no matter how profitable this business is, it cannot compare to the salt and iron monopoly. People can not buy glass mirrors, but they cannot be without salt and iron.

Moreover, after the glass factory was allocated to the Fang Chamber of Commerce, the glass mirrors and transparent glass produced must be handed over to the People's Chamber of Commerce for sale. The most important thing is that even state-owned enterprises have to pay taxes.

Most glass factories under the People's Army must be assigned to the Fang Chamber of Commerce, but one of the two glass factories in Guangzhou Xincheng District is still under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry. This glass factory's main task is to manufacture telescopes and microscopes, and the other glass factory only produces ordinary transparent glass and glass mirrors.

There is no need to say much about the significance of telescopes and microscopes to the People's Army. The output of telescopes and microscopes is still relatively small, and telescopes cannot be sent to company-level officers.

In addition to manufacturing telescopes and microscopes, this glass factory also has the task of developing new glass, which is basically equivalent to a combination of glass research institute processing plants, similar to the cement factory under the name of the People's Army in Xincheng District, Guangzhou. The main task of this cement factory is also to develop new cement.

Currently, the patent rights of glass belong to the Fang Chamber of Commerce. The People's Army's glass factory does not need to pay a patent fee to produce glass. Other merchants who want to establish a glass factory to produce this kind of glass must obtain patent authorization unless the merchants come up with other glass technologies to obtain new patent rights.

Not to mention that merchants do not have new glass technology, even if there is, merchants dare not set up glass factories to produce them. In their opinion, this glass business is the same as salt and iron, and belongs to the People's Army alone. They dare not touch it. At most, they buy glass and sell it.

I am afraid that the regulations will gradually be improved after the establishment of the country, and merchants will understand the various rules.

The chamber of commerce under the name of the senior members of the People's Army is under construction. It is expected that the glass business will be the first project for Fang to make money by bringing various chambers of commerce. It will mainly wait until the People's Army General and China Land, and authorize glass technology to various chambers of commerce to establish glass factories in various places.

Compared with the development of the Fang Chamber of Commerce, Fang Nan cared more about the opening of the industrial era and the B steam engine opened the door to the industrial era. With the birth of various steam power machines such as water lifters and steam machine tools, the industry flourished.

But one thing is that it has a great impact on industrial development, and this is "people".

The "people" needed for industrial development can be divided into two categories: one is researchers who are responsible for studying various steam-powered machines, and the other is workers and technical workers.

There are workers in glass factories, cement factories, arsenals, and machinery factories, but there are several types of workers. The most ordinary workers can be called "force workers". As long as people with strength can become ordinary workers in factories. Their job is very simple, mainly all kinds of labor.

There are also technical workers above ordinary workers, and Foshan Arsenal is the place with the most technical workers.

For example, if the process of rifling the gun barrel is used, with hydraulic machine tools, ordinary workers can master this technology after a certain period of time to learn and become a technical worker. If ordinary workers do not learn, they will never be able to operate hydraulic machine tools.

However, technical workers are also different from technical workers. They can master simple techniques within a few months or even a month, complex techniques take half a year or even more than a year to master, and more complex techniques take several years to master.

This "master" refers to proficiency and the product defect rate produced by technical workers is relatively low.

Think about blacksmiths and apprentices. If you want to become a teacher, you have to study for five or even more than ten years. A technical worker in the factory can master a technology, which will shorten the time to learn technology.

Technical workers cannot be cultivated in large quantities overnight, especially "advanced" technical workers who master advanced technology, which requires more than ten years of learning and training.

The most complex process in an arsenal is to "roll" the iron sheet into iron pipes. This process cannot be completed with the help of machines for the time being, and can only be done by hand by a blacksmith with superb skills. Ordinary workers cannot master this technology after a year of careful study.

Fortunately, with the birth of the Type B steam engine, it takes less than a few years to use machines to make the barrel.

The number of craftsmen is ultimately limited, and craftsmen are more likely to be converted into skilled workers. With the advent of the industrial age, there must be enough technical workers to build more factories and put them into production. For example, factories that produce type B steam engines also require a large number of technical workers.

In order to train more technical workers, the People's Army had adopted a plan before that old craftsmen took their apprentices. In this way, an old craftsman could only bring a few apprentices, which was not efficient.

The industrial era has begun, and the People's Army needs more technical workers. Fang Nan is preparing to come up with a technician training plan.

The most important thing in the technical training plan is to establish a technical school, with highly skilled senior technical workers as teachers, teaching a large number of students to learn skills, and also arrange teachers to teach students mathematics and even literacy.

In the school’s way, large-scale training of technical workers is also one of the characteristics of the industrial era.
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