Chapter 1287 The threshold of industrial society

Liu Shang wanted to get a glimpse of the secrets of Haihan's military industry here, but he didn't know that this was just the origin of raw materials. All Haihan's real military manufacturing units were concentrated in the Tiandu Industrial Zone in Sanya. This was done for the sake of technical confidentiality and

The need for production process arrangement, on the other hand, is the security need to consolidate Haihan's rule.

The Haihan Executive Committee is very aware that the territory it controls spans a huge span, and many places are thousands of miles overseas. Just relying on political maintenance cannot ensure long-term and stable rule, and military suppression is also required.

It has a great effect. However, the garrison is not under control all year round. It also means that as time goes by, some generals in charge of the army will have other ideas, and then someone may be bold enough to launch a rebellion.

In order to put an end to this situation, the most effective way is of course to impose restrictions on the supply of weapons and equipment. This restriction does not refer to simply controlling the quantity of weapons and ammunition supply, but to comprehensively control weapons manufacturing technology and equipment so as not to allow

Places other than Sanya have the ability to manufacture high-end weapons such as guns and warships used in the military. As long as overseas colonies cannot manufacture high-end weapons and equipment on their own, even if someone wants to rebel locally, it will be difficult to achieve anything serious.

Therefore, although there are many military-related processing workshops in Changhua Industrial Zone, they are almost all arranged to produce raw materials and blanks. There are no workshops for processing key parts and assembling weapons. All raw materials and components are produced and processed here.

, are shipped back to Sanya for processing and assembly. Although this arrangement will add a lot of extra cost and time, for the purpose of maintaining stable rule, such efforts are certainly worth it.

However, for a special person like Liu Shang with ulterior motives, the gains from this trip are extremely limited. Smelting steel is both familiar and unfamiliar to him. Before he came here, he simply thought that Changhua's smelting industry was large-scale.

It is relatively large, but after visiting it, I realized that there is too much professional knowledge in this industry that I don't understand at all. If I want to understand Haihan's smelting technology, it is definitely impossible to just take a quick look at it.

Although I have seen a lot of unheard of steam processing equipment, these are only used for rough processing of metal materials. They have not yet touched upon the key links of real weapon manufacturing and assembly. I want to visit Haihan weapons manufacturing from here.

The purpose of craftsmanship is basically completely defeated.

Of course, being able to see the advanced technology and production scale of Haihan's steel smelting here is also very valuable information for Liu Shang's camp. Although the information obtained is still fragmented and one-sided, it can at least be inferred.

Chuhaihan's attainments in smelting are as good as theirs in other fields, and the metal products they can produce are by no means just the weapons and daily utensils he imagined before. Those large-scale equipment used to process metal are also

They are all made of metal, and Haihan seems to value these processing methods and equipment more than smelting steel.

Is this the industry that the Haihan people talk about all the time? Liu Shang is not sure, but he does not dare to ask Yu Xiaobao and others about this issue. The tasks he undertakes in this inspection team are not related to the industry.

It doesn't matter much. Raising this kind of question rashly will inevitably lead to the risk of attracting Zhang Qianzhi's attention.

However, in the subsequent publicity activities, Yu Xiaobao's speech finally let Liu Shang know Haihan's general definition of industry. According to Haihan, the work and process of collecting raw materials and processing them into products can be called

For industry. Liu Shang felt that if you put it this way, the Ming Dynasty actually had industry, but it might not be as developed as Haihan.

However, in Yu Xiaobao's next speech, he defined the industry currently owned by Ming Dynasty as handicraft industry, that is, activities that basically rely on manual labor for production. The path Haihan wants to take now is to let some of the domestic industries

Escape from the handicraft industry stage with low production efficiency and upgrade to a more advanced machine industry stage. That is, a new type of business that uses machines to replace manpower and mechanized labor to replace manual labor. Not only did this kind of machine industry not exist in the Ming Dynasty, it has not yet appeared in other countries in the world.

In a similar situation, only the Haihan Kingdom was unique in the world and took the lead in entering the age of machine industry.

"... What we are doing now are great achievements that have never been done before, or even thought of. The arrival of industrial society will soon change the face of Haihan. Industry will give us rich resources.

products and a strong army, and use this as a basis to strengthen national strength, so that all citizens can live a prosperous and stable life! Haihan will become a unique power in the world in the future, and you are the foundation for our country to enter an industrial society.

A great man and a great hero!"

Yu Xiaobao's inflammatory speech on the stage won warm applause from the audience. Liu Shang also pretended to applaud, but he felt very uncomfortable in his heart. He could feel that Yu Xiaobao's speech was not pure bragging.

, Haihan people are indeed proud of their achievements at this stage, and firmly believe that these goals and visions set by the executive committee will be realized.

The most powerful country in the world! What an arrogant goal. Liu Shang did not even dare to say that the Ming Dynasty, which is currently in the midst of internal and external troubles, can still enjoy this title. It was only eight years ago that Haihan appeared in the South China Sea, and the founding of the country was even more

In just over a year, such a big goal has been put forward, and there is no intention to regard Ming Dynasty as a competitor at all. This is really difficult for Liu Shang, who has regarded himself as a citizen of the Chinese Empire for the past few decades, to accept it.

But if Haihan is allowed to continue to develop according to the current momentum, Liu Shang cannot think of what kind of situation it will develop in eight or ten years, and he does not dare to think about it. The two southeastern provinces of Ming Dynasty have gradually

It has lost the courage and ability to compete with Haihan, and as Haihan's control area moves northward, the coastal areas in the east and north of Ming Dynasty seem to be in danger. It is not that no discerning person in Ming Dynasty is aware of such dangerous changes in the situation, but they want to

What should be done to change the balance of power between the two sides and strive for a proactive position in the relationship between the two countries has become beyond their capabilities.

It’s not that the national power of the Ming Dynasty is really inferior to that of Haihan, which has a population of only a few hundred thousand. It’s just that at present, there is simply no way to concentrate resources in the southeastern region to cope with Haihan’s continuous expansion. Whether it is military or financial resources, the Ming Dynasty currently has greater influence in Haihan.

Large local areas indeed do not have enough strength to fight, and they can only watch Haihan expand northward little by little on the sea.

After Liu Shang came to Hainan Island to see it for himself, he became more convinced that the Han people in Hainan had mastered many strange skills to rejuvenate the country. There were too many new things here that the Ming Dynasty did not have and he could not understand. He even didn't know how to stop the Han people.

The development has not found a clear direction. Without considering the premise of raising troops to conquer, Liu Shang has also been looking for the social contradictions in Haihan, hoping to stir up Haihan's rule with civil strife. However, this period can be said to be

I searched to no avail, and there was no suitable opportunity.

Where is the hope? While listening to Yu Xiaobao's politically charged speech on the stage, Liu Shang was thinking hard about the method of change. He had also read many historical books and knew that when society undergoes great changes, there will definitely be changes.

Many overt and covert conflicts of interest have emerged. As long as these opportunities can be taken advantage of, it may not be impossible to disrupt the situation in Haihan.

But Liu Shang had to admit that the social situation in Haihan was too stable, and most of the people lived without worries about food and clothing. Even if someone was instigated, how many people would have the heart to rebel? Not to mention Haihan.

The reputation and status of the Executive Committee in the country are astonishingly high. Liu Shangneng can feel that ordinary people have transferred their past awe of imperial power to the Executive Committee, and many people have even worshiped it as a kind of belief. The firmness of its rule

It is not so easy to be shaken by external forces. In addition, the military power of Haihan is in the hands of the Haihan people themselves, and he has no chance to contact these high-level generals, let alone how to exert force.

Although he still had little understanding of the concept of industry, Liu Shang could vaguely feel that if the Haihan people really realized the industrialization they had always advocated and advocated, then there might really be a gap in the strength comparison between the two countries.

By then, Ming's hope of reversing its disadvantage will be even slimmer. It's just that I don't know how long it will be until this time. Neither Yu Xiaobao nor other Haihan officials who have been contacted have mentioned specific figures. Liu Shang has also

He didn't dare to speculate on this kind of thing. But the more this happened, the harder it was for him to feel at ease. It was like a sharp sword hanging over Daming's head. No one knew when the sword would strike down.

Yu Xiaobao had finished his speech at this time, gave up his seat to Qiao Zhiya, and sat down in the front row. The theme of Qiao Zhiya's speech was even more explicit. He compared Haihan, who had begun to enter industrialization, to

It has become a higher-level country, and the surrounding traditional countries such as Ming Dynasty and Annan can only deliver relatively cheap items such as raw materials and manpower to Haihan in the future. After Haihan fully utilizes them, the items produced are still

It will be resold to these countries, and of course its price will have increased several times.

"Compared with gradually industrializing countries like ours, traditional agricultural countries can only play the role of raw material origin and terminal market. They will only become more and more passive in economic, cultural, military, political and other aspects, and will be overtaken by our country.

If you lead by the nose, this is an irreversible historical trend!" Qiao Zhiya on the stage unceremoniously expressed his views on the current international situation.

If it weren't for the officials from the Ministry of Security sitting next to him, Liu Shang would have wanted to give Qiao Zhiya a big eye roll, but at the moment he had to continue to pretend to applaud to show his approval. The audience present were all local grassroots officials and foremen, so naturally he wouldn't

If there was any doubt about Qiao Zhiya's words, on the contrary, everyone's face showed excitement, and they were obviously quite proud of the scene Qiao Zhiya described.

Then I heard Qiao Zhiya continue: "Director Yu also mentioned just now that our country's industrialization process is unique in the world, and it has become the most powerful country in the South China Sea relying on industry. Why can we do this, while our neighboring countries are much stronger than us?

But you can’t do it? Do you know where this threshold is?”

When Liu Shang heard this, he immediately put aside his distracting thoughts and pricked up his ears to listen to what Qiao Zhiya said next. If he could figure out the secret of Haihan's road to becoming a powerful country, it might also be able to bring some help to the development of Ming Dynasty.

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But before Qiao Zhiya could speak, some excited audience members responded loudly: "It's our executive committee!"

Qiao Zhiya was not angry at the unauthorized response from the audience, but affirmed: "That's right! It's the Executive Committee. With the development outline formulated by the Executive Committee for our country, Haihan can become a powerful country in the South China Sea in just a few years.

Only then can everyone here live a stable and prosperous life here!”

Liu Shang was immediately disappointed. He had thought that Qiao Zhiya would disclose some unknown policies here, but unexpectedly the conversation changed in the end and returned to political propaganda. The role of the Executive Committee in Haihan Kingdom is like that of the Ming Dynasty.

Like the cabinet, almost all administrative outlines and national plans are formulated and promulgated by it, and it guides and supervises the implementation. Legend has it that the big shots in the executive committee are all omnipotent gods who know everything about the world. Such people can be on the throne.

Where can I find replicas?

The rapid development of Haihan Kingdom is naturally inseparable from the good governance of the Executive Committee, but this cannot be copied to the Ming Dynasty. Should the cabinet bachelors resign and make room for these Haihan people?

Sitting? Take a step back and say that even if we can achieve this step and let Haihan move the Executive Committee to Ming Dynasty to operate, then who should listen to whom, the Executive Committee and the emperor? The cabinet is only the emperor's advisory body, and the executive committee

Hui is the one with the highest power in Haihan, so the conflict between them is definitely irreconcilable.

Liu Shang's mind was filled with such messy thoughts for a while, but in fact, after thinking about it for a moment, he realized that it was impossible to realize it. Haihan's governing model could not be imitated by the Ming Dynasty, unless the whole world was given to the Haihan people to govern.

, but in that case, wouldn’t the Ming Dynasty be destroyed?

The threshold Qiao Zhiya said sounds ridiculous at first, but when you think about it carefully, it is an irrefutable fact. The countries around Haihan all respect imperial power, and there is no governing body like the Executive Committee that can spare no effort to promote the industrialization process.

, and how can we completely imitate Haihan’s approach?

The more Liu Shang thought about it, the more frustrated he became. He knew that if the Ming Dynasty wanted to follow Haihan's development speed by imitating it, it would be difficult for him to reach the sky. If the Annan Kingdom was bent on vassaling Haihan, even a big country like Heitu Port would not be able to do so.

The coal mine was also dedicated to Haihan. Of course, they also received a lot of support from Haihan. Even the army was trained by Haihan, but they had never heard of anything like the Changhua Industrial Zone in Annan.

If the relationship between Annan and Haihan could not be achieved, it would be even more difficult for Ming Dynasty to cross this threshold.
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