Chapter 1084 Fool (Second update, please subscribe)
Even in the 13th year of Shengde, the number of engineers and technicians trained by Daming every year still could not meet the demand for engineering and technical personnel for its industrial development.
Although in the 13 years of Shengde, thanks to the rapid development of higher education, Daming has become a world science center, its science is in the leading position in the world, with a lot of scientific achievements, and major scientific discoveries exceeding 25% of the total number of scientific discoveries in the world during the same period, Daming has "only" 77,483 college students...
Although this number is the highest in the world.
But... there are too many historical debts, and the industrial scale of the Ming Dynasty has surpassed that of Britain, ranking first in the world. However, there are only less than 20,000 college graduates each year, which is far from meeting the needs of society.
For this reason, until 1882, the Ming Dynasty continued to import technicians from Europe and the United States every year, just as in the past. The Ming Dynasty still used high salaries and the most complete social welfare of the era to attract scholars and engineers from all over the world to immigrate to the Ming Dynasty.
All of this is under the responsibility of the Imperial Immigration Bureau. Many years ago, the imperial government formulated immigration policies to attract much-needed skilled immigrants. While comprehensively tightening immigration of European populations to the Ming Dynasty, it also formulated special immigration policies for high-end talents and skilled immigrants.
In fact, as early as the Nanhua era, Emperor Zhu began to formulate a detailed plan to find outstanding talents from Europe to accept as immigrants, and even set up a "talent group" to establish talent files of scientists, scholars and engineers from European countries, and introduced high-end talents in a targeted manner. In the past 20 years, more than 7,000 scientists and engineers from European countries have immigrated to the Ming Dynasty and become the backbone of the empire's higher education and industry. During this period, countless scientific talents actively immigrated to the Ming Dynasty.
This is also the fundamental reason why there is a saying in Europe that "the Ming Empire bought off the European intellectual circles with gold and yuan." The Ming Empire, wielding gold and yuan, has never been stingy in introducing talents.
Of course, Ming Dynasty also received rewards for its generosity in attracting talents. What was the biggest reward?
It took the Ming Dynasty less than 20 years to establish a developed higher education system and build the world's largest industrial system from scratch. It can be said that the empire leveraged the world's most profitable investment - the rise of the country - simply through financial investment.
It is precisely because of this that the Ming Empire has fully realized the importance of introducing talents. If it is said that only Emperor Zhu was concerned about it at the beginning, then now everyone in the Ming Empire attaches great importance to the introduction of talents, and even introduced various convenient measures to facilitate the introduction of talents from Europe and the United States.
In fact, it is not just the government that does this. Even private enterprises can recognize the importance of talent. In addition to the official talent introduction, enterprises will also introduce talents that are urgently needed for production. Unlike the official "Talent Introduction Office", they submit the types and quantities of talents to be introduced to the Talent Introduction Office of the Immigration Bureau, and then the government will uniformly introduce them through the embassy abroad. This channel is extremely important for medium-sized enterprises that do not have overseas offices, allowing them to solve problems such as insufficient technology.
For this reason, the embassy always publishes recruitment advertisements in newspapers to attract engineers. Even in the United States, even when the relationship between the Ming Dynasty and the United States is tense in Havana because of the Hawaii and current Cuba issues, recruitment information issued by the embassy can still be seen in American newspapers.
A heavy rain, which is common in Pittsburgh in the summer, almost eliminated all traces of horse-drawn carriages on the streets. However, such a miracle would not last long. After a few hours, when the carriages appeared on the streets again, the streets would soon be covered with golden horse manure again.
This is true whether in Pittsburgh or Sheffield.
The water pipes in the room resonated, and then a stream of cold water gushed out. Until now, there is still no hot water for 20 hours in the United States, except in a certain hotel. As usual, after wiping his body with cold water, Brown shaved his face with the old-fashioned razor left by his father. After washing, he walked into the room.
His clothes were spread out on the bed. Gray suit, white shirt, black belt, black tie, black hat... All these proved that he was different from ordinary workers. He was an engineer. As long as he put on these clothes, he was a respectable person.
Mrs. Brown said as she came to the dining table and prepared breakfast.
"Remember to talk to Mr. Forrest about your salary increase today."
said Mrs Brown, who is pregnant.
"I don't want our child to live here either. I hope he can live in a better environment!"
"I know, dear."
Brown nodded and picked up the newspaper. While reading the news, he also saw the recruitment advertisement on it, but he just glanced at it.
"Now, with war likely to be declared at any time, will anyone still go to Ming?"
When talking to himself, Brown believed that no fool would run from the United States to the Ming Dynasty. Why would he run there? If there was a war between the United States and the Ming Dynasty, the white people who ran there would definitely be suppressed in various ways.
Only a fool would go past that.
Brown once again muttered to himself. Of course, this had nothing to do with him, after all, he now had a decent job.
After a busy day in the factory filled with the stench of coke, Brown came to Mr. Forrest's office near the end of the shift.
"Ah, Mr. Forrest, is there something going on with the production?"
Standing next to the clothes rack, Forrest hung the clothes he had just picked up back in the closet on the wall. He was about to go to the nightclub to relax.
However, since the factory engineer had come, he certainly couldn't leave immediately. It was this metallurgical engineer from Sheffield who brought manganese steel to his factory - a very common alloy steel. Although the technical content did not seem to be high, it was not something that any steel plant could produce.
"Ah, no, the delivery went smoothly. There is one thing I want to report to Mr. Forrest."
Brown pulled a notebook from his pocket, opened it, and described his work.
"A year ago, I joined Brown Steel Works as an engineer. At that time, the steel plant needed 1.37 tons of coke to smelt one ton of iron. I adjusted the process and reduced the ton-coke ratio by 20%. At the same time, I also brought in the production process of manganese steel, which made the company's output more profitable and sales further increased,"
"Ahaha, Mr. Brown, of course I know everything you said. I am very grateful for your efforts. Believe me, I have been seeing it all the time!"
Forrest laughed and joked;
"Yes, sir. But, unfortunately, until now, you have never considered giving me a raise. You know, I immigrated here from the UK a year ago. I hope to get a higher salary and a better life here. And now my wife is pregnant. I hope my child can live in a better place, so..."
"Ah! A pay raise?"
Forrest frowned and said,
"Well, Mr. Brown, you should know that your salary is second only to Mr. James, the chief engineer. Your salary is only $15 less than his. How much do you hope to increase?"
"Mr. Forrest, I hope my salary can be increased by $50 per month!"
"What? Are you kidding me, Mr. Brown? Fifty dollars a month! If it's for a year, I can consider it!"
Forrest looked at Brown in surprise and asked back.
"Mr. Brown, you must be kidding! This way, 5 dollars a month! And I can guarantee that in two years, you will become the chief engineer of the factory, and then..."
Whether it was his surprise or the worthless promise, when Brown heard it, he only felt a kind of humiliation. He suddenly seemed to have figured it out, stood up and spoke.
"By that time, my child will have been born. Mr. Forrest, since you don't want to, I will have no choice but to resign!"
Go to Ming Dynasty!
There, engineers like him can easily get a well-paid job and live in beautiful modern houses, which is definitely better than here.
There is nothing in the United States. There are only those hateful factory owners who want to squeeze every last bit of value out of them.
Go to Ming Dynasty!
That’s right, go to Daming…
What does the war between whites and yellows have to do with him? It is true that Mr. Forrest is white, but will he be paid more because he is white?
I will never pay him a penny more!
In this case, why should he allow himself to be exploited by factory owners like Mr. Forrest? If he went to Ming, there might be only yellow people there, but at least he could be treated fairly there.
Only by getting a high income can you let your family live in a better environment.
Yes, there is no better choice.
As for this so-called war, it has nothing to do with him...
(End of this chapter)
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