Chapter 599: Ming Dynasty's Five-Year Plan (Fourth update, please subscribe)
As the train slowly pulled into Nanyuan Railway Station, Zhu Xianhai once again looked out the window at this somewhat fantastic modern industrial city. The bustling street scene had been obscured by the twilight, but the light of the electric lamps dotted the city like stars.
According to the plan, Emperor Zhu took a special train to Nanyuan, the largest heavy industrial city in the Ming Dynasty, located in the central hinterland of the Ming Dynasty. Before coming to Nanyuan, he spent half a day looking for books in the "bookstore", and then combined the information in the book and hand-painted the sketch of the production line design and the corresponding management regulations based on his memory. He was going to hand these materials to Wang Jiamin of Nanhe Locomotive Company, now Qianlima Automobile Company, which is still a subsidiary of the locomotive company.
Zhu Xianhai's request was very simple, which was to ask him to find a way to study the production line within one or two years and apply it to automobile production.
Not only cars, but also locomotives and other mechanical equipment can adopt similar technologies. With the support of production lines, the industrial production capacity of Ming Dynasty will surely take off again.
As for whether the production capacity of Qianlima Automobile Company can catch up with Ford's level by then, Emperor Zhu is not sure yet, but as long as the production line can be applied in the automobile industry, it will be just around the corner to achieve the achievements of Ford in another world.
“The future is promising!”
Staring at the city outside the window, a smile appeared on Emperor Zhu's face.
The current Ming Dynasty may still be an enterprising student, but it has left other countries far behind in many aspects!
What does the Ming Dynasty lack now?
Not technology!
But it’s production capacity!
With the support of technology in the mall, Ming Dynasty has sufficient technological capital, but its productivity is still not enough.
It's not enough, it's very insufficient.
This situation is a bit like...like that country?
None of them!
There was no powerful country rising up, with superior technology but insufficient production capacity, and the only exception was the Ming Dynasty.
What Emperor Zhu needs now is to push the industrial production capacity of the Ming Dynasty to a new level by implementing two five-year plans.
In fact, as early as 1862, for security reasons, Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang formulated the first five-year plan - a five-year industrial plan centered on heavy industries such as steel, coal and machinery.
The rise of Ming Dynasty industry began at that time. Although at the time of completion, Ming Dynasty's steel production was only 120,000 tons, coal production was only 600,000 tons, and the production of machinery and equipment and arms was only enough to meet the initial demand, it laid a good foundation.
When was the Ming Dynasty's real five-year plan implemented?
1869!
In 1868, with the return of the first batch of overseas students and the maturity of local technicians trained in the past seven years, Zhu Xianhai formulated the "First Five-Year Plan".
"We will use five years to concentrate all our efforts and strive to double our industrial output value."
The main task of the first five-year plan of the Ming Dynasty was to concentrate on industrialization. The main forces were concentrated on the fields of metallurgy, machinery manufacturing and shipbuilding to carry out breakthrough development. In the past three years, through concentrated investment, the industrial output value of the Ming Dynasty has grown by leaps and bounds.
Even if Ming Dynasty's steel output is expected to exceed 1.8 million tons, railway mileage is expected to exceed 20,000 kilometers, and ship tonnage is expected to exceed 850,000 tons this year, so what?
Compared with Britain, the Ming Dynasty is still too weak!
"In the past three years, the gap between us and the UK has not narrowed, but widened..."
Standing in front of the scorching iron-making blast furnace of Dahua Steel, the company's manager Zhao Xiangzheng said.
"Since 1870, Britain's steel production has increased by 70% in just two years. Steel investment has also driven investment and profits in the upstream coal and iron ore mining industries. Currently, Britain's steel production has exceeded 7.8 million tons, while ours is only 1.8 million tons. We are developing fast, but Britain is developing even faster!"
Zhao Xiangzheng's words made Zhu Xianhai raise his eyebrows.
"That's true. After all, they are both established industrial countries with a good foundation and technological basis. Of course, they will develop faster than us!"
In fact, in the past few years, heavy industries in countries all over the world have been developing at a rapid pace. The United States, North Germany and France have all planned large-scale railway construction, which has put forward an increasing demand for steel and energy, thereby promoting the rapid development of the metallurgical industry, coal industry and oil industry.
Even France, which had historically performed poorly in economic development, saw its heavy industry develop far faster than the same period in history because its important industrial and mining areas, Alsace and Lorraine, were not ceded to Germany. Even Russia saw rapid development, and a wave of "excessive establishment of enterprises" was set off around the establishment of industrial enterprises and the construction of railways.
but……
"This year is 1872, and next year is the closing year of the First Five-Year Plan. It doesn't matter!"
Zhu Xianhai smiled confidently.
The reason why I don’t take it seriously is because… next year will be a good time!
Anyone who has studied history knows that from the 1860s to the early 1870s, Western capitalists added a large amount of means of production to build railways and set up industrial enterprises on a large scale, which promoted the rise of the capitalist economy. At the same time, due to the large-scale expansion of fixed capital, industrial production institutions achieved huge growth, thus creating the material basis for overproduction.
And what did this lead to?
The economic crisis of 1873!
The crisis of 1873 was the most serious crisis in the history of capitalist crises in the 19th century. It was not only widespread and large-scale, but also long-lasting, from 1873 to 1879, a total of 7 years!
His crisis is my opportunity!
In another world, how did the Soviet Union rise?
Isn’t it just taking advantage of the economic crisis to roll in a wave from Europe and the United States!
During the economic crisis, the price of machinery in Europe and the United States even fell below cost. While the Soviet Union imported a large number of machinery and equipment, it even directly purchased bankrupt factories from Europe and the United States, hired unemployed workers, relocated the factories back to the Soviet Union, and then rebuilt them in the same way.
The reconstruction workers were the same workers and technicians who had demolished the factories in the United States. They also brought with them a wave of skilled personnel - hundreds of thousands of workers and technicians.
During that wave of economic crisis, when European and American countries fell into recession, the Soviet Union suffered a lot.
Since this wave of economic crisis, which is said to be second only to the one in 1929, is about to happen, if the Ming Dynasty does not take advantage of the opportunity, will it be able to live up to its advantage of foresight?
Thinking of this, Zhu Xianhai couldn't help but look forward to the arrival of next year...
(End of this chapter)
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