Chapter 3 The grand plan
At this time, Li Tiancheng had the intention to look at the girl in front of him. The girl was not very old, about fifteen or sixteen years old, so it was better to call her a little girl.
I saw her wearing purple jade-carved gold hairpin, wearing floral clothes, and wearing a pair of lace-shaped blue cloth shoes. The overall look was rich and elegant, not like an ordinary woman, but like a lady from a wealthy family.
Seeing her lips and teeth are red, her nose is tall and elegant, her eyebrows are stained, and her bones are intriguing and charming, no wonder the two foreigners will be magnificent about her.
During the subsequent chat, Li Tiancheng confirmed that he had traveled to the late Qing Dynasty. It was the turn of spring and summer in 1906. His place was near Zhujiazhuang, Jiang'an Township, Songjiang County, Jiangsu Province, on the north bank of the Huangpu River. Shanghai County is more than ten miles east of Songjiang County.
Just now, Zhu Xiaolian was so angry that she went out to come here alone for trivial matters. The two foreign devils who bullied Zhu Xiaolian were soldiers in the Shanghai Concession. Fortunately, Li Tiancheng arrived in time and saved her siege.
Zhu Xiaolian quickly helped Li Tiancheng change into a Qing Dynasty man's robe and wears fake braids. Then he invited him to stay in Zhujiazhuang for a while. Li Tiancheng had no one to surrender and immediately agreed.
Li Tiancheng soon entered the Zhu family courtyard. The Zhu family is a wealthy family. There are as many as hundreds of houses in the courtyard, arranged in an ancient Chinese axis and symmetrical structure. Looking around, towers, terraces, and pavilions can be seen everywhere. After entering the Zhu family courtyard, it is like entering a small city full of spring scenery.
Zhujia has a great career and has opened more than a dozen factories in the local area. The third lady is the third child at home, and she has two brothers at home. The eldest child is studying in the UK, and the second child is in charge of a Zhujia office in Shanghai.
Under the recommendation of Miss Third, Li Tiancheng met Zhu Wenshan, the head of the Zhu family. Miss Third immediately portrayed Li Tiancheng as a mighty and unyielding hero. He said that he defeated several gangsters who tried to molest her in a few seconds. Zhu Wenshan immediately expressed his gratitude to Li Tiancheng and admired him for his youthful martial arts skills. He then tried every means to keep him. Li Tiancheng naturally followed the flow and stayed at the Zhu family.
Then Li Tiancheng lived in a vacant villa in the Zhu family for half a month. On weekdays, there were two maids scouts, and their lives were enjoyable. The third lady often came to visit and the two quickly got along. Li Tiancheng also took the opportunity to learn about the local folk customs and the development of industry and commerce. Although these data can be found in super education chips, the knowledge in books is not 100% accurate, especially for historical knowledge, the things recorded in historical books are likely to be far from reality.
Whenever Li Tiancheng reads the humiliating history of China in the late Qing Dynasty in the 21st century, he is extremely indignant. He thought to himself why not start a certain foundation here. If he can take root here, rely on the powerful functions of super education chips to vigorously cultivate talents, develop industry and commerce, especially military industry, build a powerful navy, army and air force, and change the tragic history of the great powers' wanton humiliation of China.
Li Tiancheng quickly formulated a grand plan to promote China's leapfrog development.
Although Li Tiancheng has super education chips that can be used to quickly improve the quality of the population and enable them to grow into leading talents who master science and technology in the 20th century, these talents must be useful. Without money, they cannot establish their own scientific research institutions, their own modern factories and modern industrial and agricultural systems. These talents have only a lot of knowledge and cannot be put into practice.
Moreover, it takes a certain amount of time to cultivate talents. At present, there are not many young people in China who are qualified to receive university education, and most of them are illiterate, which has brought great obstacles to Li Tiancheng's plan. He knew that education is not something that can be achieved overnight, but a long-term plan that will take effect in more than ten or twenty years.
Li Tiancheng's first task now is to make his first pot of gold after the Qing Dynasty. He then had to establish a new military factory. In the early stage, he would form a group of modern army troops to develop and strengthen his strength. In such a chaotic world, it was necessary to survive, rely on strength.
Li Tiancheng learned that there are militia groups formed by many local gangs recruited by local tyrants in the Qing Dynasty, which are local armed forces of a certain scale and used to maintain local public security, which created conditions for him to create a team in the early stage.
The Zhu family is one of the top wealthy businessmen in the local area. Zhu Wenshan had contacts with many local Qing Dynasty officials, local tyrants, merchants and celebrities, and also had contacts with Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang at the time. With the relationship between Zhu Wenshan, Li Tiancheng gradually had plans.
Zhujia owns a large textile factory in the local area and some factories that make ready-made garments, shoes and socks. The output is quite large, with annual sales of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver and profits of at least tens of thousands of taels of silver. The products are mainly sold to various provinces and cities in China. The equipment they need to produce needs to be imported from abroad, mainly from Britain, France, Germany and other countries. In addition, Zhujia's textile factories also have some old-fashioned pedal-type textile machines, which have low production efficiency.
Li Tiancheng observed the old-fashioned textile factory of Zhu's family. At that time, the mechanical equipment and old-fashioned textile machines were relatively backward, with low production capacity and production efficiency, and the quality of workers was not high. So Li Tiancheng was preparing to take out a new generation of machinery production technology that was more than one generation higher than that of imported equipment in Europe, import raw materials and machine tools from abroad, and open a machinery factory in the local area to provide mechanical equipment for domestic factories, and prepare to sell the equipment abroad in the future.
Three days after Li Tiancheng came, Zhu Wenshan arranged for him to be the director of a workshop in the textile factory. Of course, Zhu Wenshan was not without taboos. Regarding Li Tiancheng's origin, he privately sent people to explore everywhere. He did not find that this person had any bad background or bad intentions, nor did he find that Li Tiancheng came from any other local forces, so he felt relieved. Li Tiancheng had the kindness of saving his daughter and immediately arranged a position.
The workers all heard about Li Tiancheng saving Miss San, and thought he had no ability. They just came here to become a supervisor after the relationship between Miss San. At first, they looked down on Li Tiancheng a little. In the following days, when Li Tiancheng showed his might, he settled several almost scrapped textile equipment in the factory, and put forward a variety of forward-looking insights on production technology like a university professor. In addition, the daily management of the workshop was orderly, and the workers' eyes changed significantly when they looked at him. They understood that this person was not the master who made a living by relying on relationships. It seemed that he had a certain origin, and his attitude towards Li Tiancheng gradually became respectful.
Since Li Tiancheng planned to start a career here, he did not waste time. After more than half a month, he went to Zhu Wenshan to discuss.
"What, are you going to open a machinery factory?" Zhu Wenshan, who was waiting for the silk-forged robe on his body, was over forty years old, with a radiant face and elegant temperament. He looked like a wealthy man who was usually pampered and generous. After hearing Li Tiancheng's thoughts, he almost sprayed out the tea that had been drunk to his throat and said loudly in surprise.
Chapter completed!