Chapter 253 Rise, starting from Japan (first update, please subscribe)
Sometimes everything is so sudden.
A few days ago people were still talking about when and who Chief Li would marry?
There are even some people who want to introduce their daughters to him.
But what now?
Suddenly, Chief Li is getting married.
A wedding is far from grand.
That is... just a banquet in the governor's office.
With the cheers of the people, the little hospital nurse Lily Marlene became the mistress of Borneo, which simply shocked everyone.
I have to say, this is love!
Love can make a king choose a commoner. Of course, love can also make a princess choose to remain anonymous, at least temporarily.
After all, the photos of the wedding were published in the newspaper, and people could clearly see Lily Marlene's appearance.
Perhaps someone will soon discover that this nurse looks exactly like a British princess. At that time, what kind of reaction will the British Empire make?
Well, what else can I do besides accepting it?
Finally, at the end of October 1945, the chairman of the North Borneo Company, the king of the Kingdom of Sarawak, and the liberator of Borneo ended his single life and got a wife. A home of your own.
Of course, what no one knew was that on that day, there was a secret wedding held in a villa outside the city. Heidi, Ava, and Hepburn also became his wives. According to Chinese custom, well, they are concubines. .
The only exception was Lautrey, who chose to refuse. She expressed that she wanted to raise the child by herself, and even said that the child would take her mother's surname in the future.
It must be said that Lautrey will always be unique. Li Yian certainly respects her decision. She will not leave here anyway, and he can still take care of her after all.
In fact, this is not just a wedding, but it means that the owner of Borneo has a family and future heirs.
On the day after the wedding, Li Yian, who had worked hard all night, once again went to work.
"The factory is put into operation!"
Li Yian did not expect that on his first day of work after marriage, a big surprise would be waiting for him.
Finally, after more than five months of construction, the first large-scale factory in Borneo was put into operation.
The first factory in Borneo was neither a military factory that produced weapons nor a machine tool factory that produced machinery and equipment, but a factory that produced textile machinery.
The equipment of the factory was dismantled from Italy. As for the factory building, it was renovated from an old warehouse, so it was put into production in such a short period of time.
"At present, the company has produced the first air-jet loom..."
As an engineer of a textile machinery company, Swati looked a little excited when he mentioned the air-jet loom. The company's employment two years ago not only changed his life and saved him from poverty, but also, with the company's funding, he worked with a number of British textile machinery engineers to perfect the air-jet loom.
Although the design has been perfected and a prototype has been manufactured in the UK, now with the start of production by the Textile Machinery Company - the air-jet loom has finally been put into production in the true sense! For Swati, the inventor, seeing it was like seeing a child.
Similar to Swati, Li Yian, who seems calm, is also in an excited mood. Unlike traditional rapier looms, the biggest features of air-jet looms are fast speed and high labor productivity. It is suitable for the production of plain and textured fabrics, fine and high-density fabrics and large-volume fabrics. In other words, it means high output and low cost.
For Borneo, where labor costs are high, reducing production costs by using new technologies to improve work efficiency is the only option to maintain corporate profits. The air-jet loom seems to be just a loom, but it is ahead of the curve. The existence of the world.
“...According to the tests we conducted in the UK, the production efficiency of air-jet looms is much higher than that of rapier looms, mainly for 12-pound fine cloth, and the speed of rapier looms is 170~190 rpm, each machine can produce 90 yards of 12 pounds of fine cloth per day, which is equivalent to a unit output of 3.43 meters/unit hour. The speed of the air-jet loom is 345 rpm, and the unit output is increased to 7.28 meters/unit, and the production efficiency is more than doubled... ”
Li Yian didn’t know much about textile majors. Although the system prompted that he could unlock new skills, he still chose to give up. Now, he is used to selectively learning the skills given by the system.
After all, the title of Cross-Professional Understanding Emperor is good, but it is just too tiring.
But even so, we can understand from these numbers how efficient the air-jet loom is.
It's doubled!
Technological progress is so abnormal. No matter how you work overtime, no matter how you squeeze workers. It is also impossible to directly double production efficiency.
However, through technological changes and research on new machinery, this goal can be easily achieved. Even with the deepening of technological research, production efficiency can be further improved.
This is the revolution of technology.
"In this case, let's put it into production as soon as possible. The textile market in Europe and the United States is now very broad, and in the next ten or twenty years, the textile market will only get bigger and bigger, and profits will It’s not cheap. If you seize the opportunity, the first pot of gold for Borneo’s foreign trade may be in the textile industry.”
In the eyes of many people, the textile industry seems not worth mentioning, far less important than steel plants and automobile plants. People often selectively ignore that the British Industrial Revolution was driven by the textile industry, and Japan's post-war rise also relied on the textile industry to make its first pot of gold. Even the subsequent rise of the Four Asian Tigers also benefited. Since the relocation of Japan's textile industry and later the reform and opening up, mainland China also relied on the textile industry to achieve industrial take-off.
One billion shirts for one plane may seem very helpless, but in fact it is a necessity on the road to industrial development. The textile industry is a labor-intensive industry. It can not only provide a large number of jobs, but also It can also stimulate the development of chemical and mechanical manufacturing industries. After the war, with the mass production of nylon, polyester and other chemical fibers, the petrochemical industry suddenly emerged, driven by the textile industry. First it was nylon and polyester threads, and then plastics. This is capital. and the technology-intensive upstream petrochemical industry.
Now Li Yian stands at the crossroads of history. The textile industry in front of him is not a light textile industry worth mentioning, but an industrial chain full of infinite possibilities. It is like a giant dragon. Once it is properly controlled, it can lead the entire country to take off. This industrial chain has the potential to provide millions of jobs. Its rise will drive industrial upgrading and inject strong vitality into the country's economy.
In another world, Japan, like a phoenix rising from the ashes after the war, successfully took over a large amount of textile manufacturing from Western countries precisely by virtue of its low cost. At that time, Japan provided millions of employment opportunities through the production and export of textiles. This not only fundamentally solves the domestic employment problem, but also lays a solid foundation for the country's development.
At the same time, in distant West Germany, Koreans were sweating hard in coal mines in exchange for the first pot of gold to start developing the economy. However, Japan has created one economic miracle after another through the export of textiles.
Facing this historical crossroads, Li Yi'an knew how wonderful the post-war world was. It was an era full of challenges and opportunities. He must hold on tightly to this industry and bring Borneo back from poverty to economic soar.
Only in this way can he live up to the great trust of history - interrupting Japan's rise, or... the rise begins with cutting off Japan!
Of course, the development of the textile industry can not only curb Japan's economic development, but also provide a large number of jobs for women. When the country was planning and building industrial zones in the 1950s, because heavy industrial zones were mainly populated by male workers, There is a serious imbalance in the gender ratio between men and women. In order to balance the ratio between men and women, a large number of cotton textile factories have been built, and cotton textile factories mainly have female employees. Placing these two types of enterprises together can play a role in balancing the gender ratio.
Borneo also needs to provide jobs for women. Therefore, from any perspective, the development of the textile industry is the only way for the development of Borneo.
And this started with the air-jet loom of the Textile Machinery Company, which brought Not only industrial progress, but also technological enlightenment...
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