Jagged Warlord

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Sweden opened four firms in Shanghai.In the second year of Xuantong, the Swedish Weichang Co., Ltd. established a Shanghai branch with a capital of 4 Swedish kronor.It is the agent of 10 Swedish and Belgian manufacturers and is responsible for all the business of the head office in China.Imports are paper, pulp, paper machinery, electrical machinery, telephone equipment and steel.The export products are rapeseed, flax seeds and tobacco leaves, and concurrently engaged in shipping.

According to the statistician G* Sondberg in a weird and thought-provoking research report on the national character, the Swedes love technical work.According to this character the Swedes were associated with the lack of interest in the people, thus establishing a long tradition of shelling and smelting, and thus producing highly skilled workers.This skill is reflected in the products of Swedish machinery manufacturing.

The characteristics of the Swedish iron and steel industry are: firstly, most of them are private enterprises; secondly, each steel company has a specialized production direction; thirdly, special steel has a large proportion.Special steel such as alloy steel and high-carbon steel account for half of Sweden's total crude steel production, which is much higher than that of other producing countries. The more famous companies include Avesta Sheffield, Sandvik, Owerk, Udholm wait.

There are several reasons why Li Mohan chose to trade with Sweden. The first is because the United States is currently rushing to meet European orders. Even if Li Mohan's orders are operated by the Rockefeller Foundation, it is difficult to guarantee timely and full delivery.So Li Mohan had to find other partners.Just at this time, Sweden encountered difficulties.

Before the start of the First World War, Sweden was not completely self-sufficient. The main shortage in Sweden was food, especially wheat.In the years before 1914, 17.00% of the rye needed in Sweden, 40.00% of the wheat needed in Sweden, and 20.00% of the other grains needed in Sweden had to rely on imports.

In addition, in order to ensure normal production, Sweden's modern industry also needs many basic products, including certain raw materials required by the textile industry and the rubber industry.Finally, in order to survive, the sharp end must maintain the country's exports, especially lumber, paper, machinery and other machine-made products, iron ore, etc.Therefore, up to this time, the economic life of the entire country of Sweden relies on a stable nickname, which is far better than in the primitive economic era.Li Mohan took advantage of this opportunity to exchange a large amount of agricultural products and cotton yarn with the Swedes for the machinery and industrial products he inherited, including ball bearings, which were extremely advanced and in short supply at that time.

One ironmaking blast furnace with an annual output of 120 million tons, two 100-ton steelmaking open hearth furnaces, one set of large sintering machines, two 50-hole large-volume coke ovens, one set of blooming and steel cup continuous rolling mills, one set of rail continuous rolling mills, 200 A set of millimeter seamless steel pipe rolling mill, 4500mm two-roller plate rolling mill, and iron ore, raw material yard, power plant, road and railway transportation, water source and other blast furnaces, sintering, coking and corresponding auxiliary supporting projects, etc., according to preliminary calculations Only the first phase of the project was completed, and the total equipment of the iron and steel plant weighed 18.5 tons.

This big order drove the Swedish businessmen crazy. They were busy back and forth, just to complete the order as soon as possible.If this batch of equipment is shipped to Shanghai first, and then to Xuzhou, it will be very troublesome.If it is transported to Qingdao, it will be much more convenient to take the Jiaoji Railway to Jinpu Railway.However, Li Mohan was afraid that the Japanese would play tricks on it.Fortunately, after nearly a year of construction, Lianyungang Port has begun to take shape, and some machinery and equipment can be landed from here.

A batch of military magnet telephones arrived earlier than the steelmaking equipment. A group of English-speaking officers had already been trained by the engineers from the United States who came with the telephones, and now they began to train the SS's own operators.

"Look, this phone calls this one, so it will be connected." The officers twisted the wires of the two phones together while talking.

"If you want to make a call to this phone, that's it." As he spoke, the officer unscrewed the end of the wire that had been screwed up just now, and re-twisted it to the end of another phone. "It's a demonstration of how a telephone switchboard works and how it works."

When the magnet switch is working, the operator stands in front of the switch, sees someone calling, and after answering the call asking who he wants to call, picks up the line plug of the person who is calling and inserts it into the plug corresponding to the person receiving the call. Then use the equipment on the switch to ring, and the person answering the phone will pick up the phone after hearing the ring, and the process of making a call will be completed.The plug and cord are actually the ends of the wires that extend from each telephone set to the switch and are connected in parallel. The same is true for the plug holes. The act of twisting the ends of the thread together works the same.The switchboard is just equipped with light and sound display and ringing equipment when calling, because the main method of making a call is to use a hand-operated generator to control the magnetic force of the magnet, so that the operator knows who made the call and who finished the call, so it is called a magnet switch. .

"Do you understand?" the teaching officer shouted loudly

"Understood." The phone soldiers shouted in unison

One soldier muttered in a low voice: "It still needs to be plugged in manually, but it would be great if the phone can be plugged and switched automatically by a machine?"

Li Mohan, who was listening, happened to hear the soldier's muttering. Automatically plugging in and transferring calls, that is an automatic switchboard, which is indeed more advanced than this kind of manually operated mechanized switchboard.But is automation really better than mechanization?

Mechanization is a machine that operates according to a certain production procedure. The procedure here refers to things on the processing level such as process steps; automation is a machine that can adapt to different situations and operate automatically under the control of an electronic computer.From the perspective of technological progress, automation is more advanced than mechanization.But from the perspective of China's development, especially catching up with the big powers, it may not be a good thing.The gap in the overall scientific and technological level of industrial production capacity in the era of mechanization is not so obvious. Compared with the absolute generation difference in the information age, that is, the difference in quality, the age of mechanization is more relative, that is, in quantity. Compared with 'quality', 'quantity' is easier to catch up with the generational difference.

For example, China created the first in many industries during the Republic of China. For example, China’s first 1920-ton ship was launched in 14,750, with a displacement of 10.5 tons and a speed of 3-per hour. The first professional aircraft manufacturer in China: in 1918, the Aircraft Engineering Department of Mawei Shipping Bureau.China's first car: 1929, 65 horsepower, 1.8 tons load, Shenyang Liaoning Mortar Factory.The first standard steam locomotive in China: 1882, China Rocket, Engineering Department of Kaiping Mining Bureau.

Without exception, although these achievements all bear the title of No. [-] and seem to be "quality" breakthroughs from scratch, none of them can achieve quantitative production.For example, regardless of the cost, it should be enough to gather the strength of the whole country to build a battleship together, but what is the use of just one battleship?

Compared with the European industrial technology level represented by Germany and Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union are far behind, but they have formed large-scale production. The advantage of the United States is that the manufacturing volume of a single industrial product in a factory far exceeds that of Germany and the United Kingdom. The United States is superior in The output refers to the production link, not the advanced design of manufacturing process technology.The reason why the Soviet Union completed industrialization quickly is that it learned from the United States. Under the premise that the technological level and personnel quality did not have advantages, it completed industrialization in just ten years and formed a counter-superiority to Germany. Of course, the United States and the Soviet Union have Germany. Britain has unparalleled advantages, resources, manpower, and markets.

We all have these advantages of the United States and the Soviet Union. Compared with the United States, what we lack is the lack of primitive industrial accumulation, that is, the lack of funds and the lack of scientific and technological talents and skilled workers; The well-established heavy industry system has been able to manufacture the highest level of industrial products such as battleships and locomotives, and of course it has left a large base of technical personnel.

Therefore, the first thing China or Li Mohan needs to do now is to accumulate quantity.Thinking of this, Li Mohan suddenly became enlightened. He decided to more than double the number of schools and technical schools in order to train more technical talents for himself and the country.

At this time, Guo Side walked over lightly, leaned into Li Mohan's ear, and whispered, "Overlord, something happened in Wei County."

The cause of the incident was a man named Youmin.

You Min was originally named You Baocheng.He graduated from Jinan Army Primary School and Baoding Army Middle School.After the Revolution of 39, he served as the head coach of the 1913th Mixed Brigade. In 1915, when Sun Yat-sen initiated the first appeal against Yuan, You Min secretly recruited the old ministry in Liaocheng to respond, and then fled to Shanghai for leaking secrets. In the spring of [-], You Min led the militia in Qingdao and joined the revolutionaries in the Battle of Langjiabu.In the autumn of the same year, he went to Shanghai to participate in joint anti-Yuan activities in liaison with various provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, and went to Jiangyin to persuade a certain artillery commander Fang Gengsheng and division commander Xiao Guangli to revolt.

In 1916, he led the former Jiangyin Ministry to Zhoucun, Shandong, and served as the chief of staff of the former enemy headquarters.After Yuan Shikai's death, Sun Yat-sen withdrew the anti-Yuan Chinese Revolutionary Army. In October of the same year, Duan Qirui sent his confidant Qu Tongfeng to Shandong to reorganize the Northeast Army of the Chinese Revolutionary Army. You Min disagreed with Wu Dazhou, and his troops and militia groups also refused to accept the integration. .Qu Tongfeng shot and killed Zhao Desheng, the brigade commander of Youmin's Ministry, and his troops mutinied, and Youmin could not escape.

Qu Tongfeng immediately called Li Mohan, requesting to arrest Youmin.

"So, did you catch this Youmin?" Li Mohan and Guo Side walked outside the door

"Caught it." Guo Side said, "He was caught by the Military Intelligence Department as soon as he got off the train."

"Bastard." Li Mohan scolded, "It's just a telegram from Qu Tongfeng, without my order, who ordered the arrest?"

Guo Side quickly lowered his head, "I don't know."

"Check. The person who gave the order will be dismissed immediately." Li Mohan said angrily

Guo Side frowned, and asked, "Then ~that Youmin~?"

"You Min? Lock him up first, greet him well, don't make things difficult for him." Li Mohan said

"Yes."