Chapter 146 The Magician
Today’s Russians have not learned to respect others, so Chinese immigrants should not stay in Vladivostok and go directly to Sakhalin, out of sight and out of mind.
Sakhalin, like Vladivostok, is a fiefdom of George.
Sakhalin Island covers an area of 76,400 square kilometers. The northern part is flat and mainly hilly and mountainous. The southern part is rich in forest resources. There are oil, coal, and gold underground, and it is rich in salmon.
After Mikhail registered the residents of Vladivostok in detail, he sent Chinese immigrants to Sakhalin Island in batches and built four settlements on Sakhalin Island.
By Vladivostok standards, there are actually four farms. The main tasks of the residents are to open up wasteland, fish, build houses, and survive the first winter first.
This summer, the wasteland reclaimed by Sakhalin Island last year has achieved a bumper harvest, with an average yield of 120 poods per mu, which not only meets the consumption of Sakhalin residents, but also saves money, and the prospects are promising.
With food in hand, there is no panic in mind.
When you have surplus grain, you are in the mood to do other things. Raise poultry and livestock first. The surplus grain can also be used to make wine. If there is any leftover, you can raise more poultry and livestock to make more wine. One day When you can’t finish the food no matter how much you eat, you can consider exporting it to the outside world.
Export grain?
Stop being ridiculous, Russia only exports great power chauvinism.
George currently cannot care about Sakhalin Island, and his support for Sakhalin Island is very limited.
For Korff and Mikhail, this is the most normal thing.
George is a Russian, so it is impossible for him to be so nice to the Chinese for no reason.
Now George is tantamount to throwing Chinese immigrants to Sakhalin Island and leaving them to fend for themselves. This is in line with the behavioral logic of a Russian super duke.
When Chinese immigrants make achievements in Sakhalin Island and can bring benefits to George, it will be logical for George to improve the status of Chinese immigrants.
After all, the "greedy and spendthrift" Super Duke Yurievsky will not be troubled by his own money bag.
After the New Year, the first batch of machines from the United States arrived in Vladivostok.
Also arriving at the same time was an icebreaker belonging to George.
With the icebreaker, Vladivostok’s external contacts in winter no longer completely rely on the Siberian fleet.
These machines are all industrial machine tools.
Machine tools are basic equipment for industrial production, including lathes, drilling machines, boring machines, grinders, etc. With these equipment, Vladivostok has the possibility to develop industry.
Machine tools are not enough, you also need skilled workers.
In 1884, machine tools were not numerically controlled and had to be operated manually, so experienced workers were extremely valuable. This is how the legend of "eighth-level workers" came about.
Even in St. Petersburg, experienced workers are extremely rare. If Vladivostok wants skilled workers, it must train them themselves.
George called both Kanunnikov and Igor to come together to figure out a solution.
“If you need workers, you can go to the technical schools in St. Petersburg to recruit them, or you can build your own technical schools to train them.”
“The factories in St. Petersburg use the old to lead the new, and every time they bring out a qualified worker , you will get a reward.”
The suggestions given by Kanunnikov and Igor are completely different.
This is normal. Kanunnikov and Igor are in different classes, have different living environments, and their understanding of things must be different.
It is unrealistic to build a self-owned technical school. Vladivostok has not yet established a systematic education system. Even if a school is built, there will be no students.
Although the Russian education system is a bit rough, it does exist after all.
After graduating from primary school, Russian students can go to technical schools or military schools. Those with the best grades go to university. They all have a bright future.
There is not even a primary school in Vladivostok. It is unrealistic to train skilled workers in large quantities. The only way is to take the traditional way of bringing in the old and bringing in the new.
In St. Petersburg, old workers lead new people. For every qualified worker they bring out, the old workers can receive a reward of 10-100 rubles.
Most of the time it's 10 rubles.
Although there is a standard of 100 rubles, no one has ever received it.
George will no longer play tricks. For every qualified worker he brings out, George will be rewarded 30 rubles.
George designed a complex wage calculation system. Based on the different proficiency levels of workers, as well as comprehensive considerations such as efficiency and yield rate, Vladivostok workers can theoretically receive up to 50 rubles per month.
To get this salary, you must be able to process 305 mm naval guns, and you must not make mistakes.
This salary does not include taking care of students.
So if you want to get a high salary, you can also focus more on training students.
Chinese tradition is to teach students to starve their masters to death.
This basically does not exist in Vladivostok. Theoretically, the number of skilled workers needed in Vladivostok is unlimited, the more the better.
“The condition of these machines is not very good. Some machines have not been used for a long time and are seriously rusted and corroded. Some machines are seriously insufficient in accuracy and cannot be used to process precision parts——” Yi Ge I am not very satisfied with the condition of the machine. There is nothing we can do about it. The Americans will not sell the most advanced machines to Thierry. The Americans themselves do not have enough. These machines have been eliminated by American factories.
The industry in Vladivostok has just started, and the number of skilled workers is seriously insufficient. It is also a waste to give Vladivostok the most advanced machines.
Although the performance of these machines has lagged behind, it is consistent with the level of Vladivostok workers. In the future, as the processing level of Vladivostok improves, George will also upgrade the equipment.
Igor is highly skilled and comprehensive, and can use all machines. He spent a whole morning using these machines to process a double-barreled shotgun.
After George's test firing, it was confirmed that the performance of the shotgun was good, and this shotgun became the first product of the Vladivostok Machinery Factory.
"In the future, a museum will be built to offer this shotgun. This is the first industrial product in Vladivostok, and it is of great significance." George will not miss such a momentous moment. He also has his own methods for production efficiency.
Igor spent a whole morning making a shotgun, which was too inefficient.
George popularized the concept of the assembly line to Igor.
Igor frowned. The assembly line does not require skilled workers with comprehensive skills, but only skilled workers who are proficient in a certain technology. This seems to Igor to be a waste.
“Workers don’t need to operate many machines at the same time. They only need to be proficient in one of them. Those who rub the barrel only rub the barrel, and those who make the butt only make the butt. Practice makes perfect, so that they can be in a short time. Cultivate a large number of skilled workers who are not comprehensive but proficient in a certain technology.”
George hopes that Kanunnikov and Igor can understand the significance of the assembly line for industrial production. If Vladivostok wants to have strong industrial processing capabilities in a short time, the assembly line is essential.
Kanunikov and Igor both frowned. The assembly line concept proposed by George was too novel and completely different from the industrial production they were familiar with.
“Igor, if you want to get higher income and higher social status, you have to get rid of the worker mentality and focus on how to train more workers as soon as possible and how to improve production efficiency. If you don't perform well in this position, someone will replace you." George puts forward higher demands on Igor. No matter what method, you have to give it a try to know whether it is suitable.
“The assembly line is theoretically feasible——” Kanunnikov’s acceptance of new things is obviously faster than that of Igor.
Kanunikov also has a mission.
The Vladivostok industry has begun to take off, and then it will need richer and more advanced products.
This is Kanunnikov's job.
Kanunikov and his students are rare high-tech talents in this era, and are more important than skilled technical workers.
George decided to set up an institute in Vladivostok to let Kanunnikov and his students do what they do best.
It is too wasteful for professors and students of Petersburg University to go to the field to collect samples. They are better suited to study how to make products have better performance in the laboratory.
There are so many types of industries that Kanunnikov can study for a lifetime just by making steel.
George hopes that Kanunnikov can become his horse bone and attract more high-tech talents to settle in Vladivostok. Igor decides the lower limit of Vladivostok's industry, while Kanunnikov can decide Vladivostok. Industrial ceiling.
Kanunikov is proficient in mechanical design. George introduced the principles of semi-automatic pistols to Kanunnikov and told Kanunnikov the general characteristics of semi-automatic pistols.
Half a month later, Kanunnikov handed George a design drawing.
George handed the drawing to Igor. It only took Igor three days, and George Just get a semi-automatic pistol.
This is not an outrageous thing. Heavy machine guns are now available, and there are no technical obstacles to semi-automatic pistols.
Even without George's promotion, the world's first semi-automatic pistol would have been born in Austria in 1892.
With George, this process has been greatly accelerated, and future history books will write: In 1885, the world's first semi-automatic pistol was born in Vladivostok.
Really, before I knew it, it was already 1885——
George was one year older, and he now looked no different from an adult.
Except there is no beard on the face.
After spring, George will return to St. Petersburg.
Ekaterina is also going back to France. She wants to bring new hope to France's wealthy ladies.
Last winter, Makarova and Shadelin had new technology. Makarova designed a new lipstick to make women's lips more beautiful and attractive.
Men can also use it naturally. Shadelin does not focus on beauty and attractiveness, but on preventing dryness and cracking.
So the cosmetics laboratory has a new product to prevent frostbite.
With the function of preventing frostbite, cosmetics are no longer cosmetics, but medicines.
George sent a telegram to Shadelin and asked Shadelin to go to the Qing Empire to find excellent folk prescriptions, which was another huge market.
George is not a Chinese medicine expert. Although he cannot explain the principles of Chinese medicine, compared with European medicine, Chinese medicine is definitely a Zenith star technology.
Before traditional Chinese medicine was introduced to Europe, Europeans treated patients with headaches by beheading and feet by beheading. Doctors had the same image in people's minds as magicians.
I fell asleep on the table while coding last night, and I have to go to the hospital today. I am also sick myself——
(End of this chapter)