Chapter 165 Working hard on internal strength
George was really unwell. He was driving in the car yesterday afternoon and occasionally felt cold. In order to get rid of the illness, he was eating hot pot with Ekaterina.
It's just a minor cold, so you don't need to take medicine. Just eat hot pot to get fever and sweat a little and you'll be fine.
Ekaterina likes hot pot very much.
But the smell of hot pot was too strong and would leave an unpleasant smell on the clothes, so George had someone build an exhaust flue to suck the fumes from the hot pot directly to the outside. Problem solved perfectly.
In Oak Park, George sometimes eats hot pot.
But there are no qualified condiments in St. Petersburg, so the hot pot is not authentic.
Vladivostok is so close to the Qing Empire, and George’s foodie spirit finally broke out. He sent people to the Qing Empire to purchase the most fragrant chili peppers and Sichuan peppercorns. After countless studies, he finally made the one in George’s memory. Hot pot base.
"George, if you can put your intelligence into studying, you can go to the Imperial Academy of Sciences and become the president-" Ekaterina's requirements for George are no different from ordinary mothers.
“Let’s build an Academy of Sciences in Vladivostok!” Mikhail was sweating profusely after eating. It was freezing and snowy outside, and Mikhail was only wearing single clothes.
Although Vladivostok is cold, the indoor heating is very sufficient. As long as you don’t go outdoors, the indoor temperature is almost the same as in spring.
“Don’t you think this is a good business?” George was no different from a child with poor academic performance. He was eating, so what about studying? We’ll talk about it after eating.
After the meal, he disappeared.
"What's a good business? Open a restaurant?" Mikhail looked down upon this small amount of money.
Forget it about selling wine and arms, Mikhail really doesn’t want to open a restaurant.
"What do you mean, we want to provide better services to the residents of Vladivostok." George kept in mind the lessons of Big Brother and must not be top-heavy.
Heavy industry is certainly important to Vladivostok, but light industry and service industries are equally important.
To use a cliché, even if Vladivostok develops into St. Petersburg of the East, it will have much to do with ordinary people who work nine to five to earn some hard money to support their families.
It’s a big deal.
Whether Vladivostok is strong or not is directly related to whether the people of Vladivostok read about the tragic world in newspapers or experience it personally.
From the perspective of ordinary people, George hopes that even ordinary people in Vladivostok can find their own happiness in Vladivostok. They can have a small family with a wife and children, and they can have a drink with friends after get off work, or hang out with them. Let’s listen to a play and watch a play or something together with my wife.
In the past, Vladivostok had no ability and could only give priority to the development of heavy industry.
Now that the foundation has been laid, light industry and service industries must also pay attention.
To put it bluntly, even if he does not consider those foreign workers, George must also consider the increasing number of high-quality talents in Vladivostok.
As long as George is willing to spend money, there are many people willing to work for Vladivostok.
But working in Vladivostok and settling in Vladivostok are completely different concepts.
George does not want high-quality talents in Vladivostok to make money in Vladivostok and return to Europe for consumption, which would run counter to George's original intention.
So don’t underestimate businesses like restaurants, which are less profitable than arms. This has a greater effect on improving the happiness of people in Vladivostok than arms.
“Isn’t it the businessman’s responsibility to provide services?” Mikhail is still far from being a qualified city manager.
“No, no, no, this is my responsibility as a lord——” George bravely shouldered the important task. This kind of thing can be solved by a businessman.
The key is that the starting point is different.
The purpose of George opening a restaurant is to provide better services to the citizens of Vladivostok, so it does not matter whether it makes money or not. The key is whether the food and services provided by the restaurant are of high quality and low price.
Hot pot is also different from hot pot. Rich people eat for atmosphere and taste, while ordinary people eat for affordable prices. There is a lot to be done.
"Yes, there are no decent restaurants or theaters in Vladivostok now. This is outrageous-" Ekaterina also did not realize the seriousness of the problem.
Vladivostok lacks not only restaurants and theaters, but also almost no commercial atmosphere at all.
There are hundreds of staff members at the Yuriev Palace, and no matter what kind of services George and Ekaterina want to enjoy, they don’t even need to leave the Yuriev Palace.
But what should ordinary people do?
George and Catherine are out of clothes, there is a court tailor in the Yuriev Palace.
Where do ordinary people go to make clothes?
This problem is not too serious now, because the clothes of Vladivostok workers are uniformly distributed by the factory.
But as the population of Vladivostok increases, this problem will emerge sooner or later. If you don’t prepare in advance now, you will inevitably be caught off guard.
“Clothes are easy to handle, we can open a garment factory.”
Ekaterina is not very interested in restaurants.
But when it comes to clothing, Ekaterina is as interested as cosmetics.
Where is the best clothing fabric in the world?
Not in Britain, not in Russia, but in the Qing Empire.
That's easy.
"What is Sichuan brocade? What is Yun brocade? Is linen the same as cotton?" Ekaterina had no idea that the Qing people could play with so many tricks with just clothing fabrics.
Before the Industrial Revolution, the textile industry in Europe——
Haha. Your ancestors were so prosperous, why didn’t they even have decent fabrics?
Do you really have no requirements for living standards?
If there is really no requirement, then why is the Eastern silk sold more expensive than gold after it arrives in Europe?
Oh oh oh, your European climate is not suitable for growing cotton, so you don’t even have cotton cloth, except hemp, which is leather.
“Why are they all embroidered, but there are many different types?” Ekaterina’s clothes were also carefully made by the palace tailor, and the quality was just awesome.
Anyway, there is no comparison with the embroidery workers of the Qing Empire.
"Because each has its own characteristics and specializes in different crafts." George is worried that if this continues, Vladivostok will become a thief sooner or later.
But it doesn’t matter, the Chinese have been here for eight thousand years, and too many things have been stolen. Even if Vladivostok didn’t steal, there would still be a big country in the universe.
People used to talk about it in terms of five thousand years of civilization history.
Until the Jiahu bone flute appeared, it would be inappropriate to say 5,000 years.
A race that has begun to play music. If this is not civilization, what is civilization?
"Miha, send people to the Qing Empire and bring people who know these crafts to Vladivostok. No matter what requests they make, satisfy them!" Yekaterina was domineering. Yi, having money means having confidence.
"I'm afraid it won't be easy. Some ancient families in the Qing Empire attach far more importance to inheritance than we imagined." Mikhail sighed, and there were times when the money offensive couldn't stop them.
The year before last, George asked Mikhail to go to the Qing Empire to find doctors, especially famous doctors, and ask them to open a clinic in Vladivostok or work in a hospital in Vladivostok.
Mikhail thought this task was not difficult.
Unexpectedly, Mikhail realized how difficult it was only after he came into contact with doctors from the Qing Empire.
Doctors have always been a profession with a relatively high social status, and their income is quite generous. They have a huge reputation in the local area. It is difficult to persuade such people to leave their hometown and come to Vladivostok.
Mikhail spent a lot of money and only bought some so-called prescriptions in the Qing Empire.
After verification, most of these prescriptions are not suitable for promotion.
This is normal.
Mikhail's men are all foreigners. How can those ancient families who really have something sell their family's livelihood to foreigners?
So the hospital in Vladivostok, so far, can only fix bones and cure colds.
Of course, it can only be recovered. How it can be restored depends on God’s will.
As for the cold——
Haha, this disease is a terminal illness, there is no cure, and it will heal on its own in a few days.
Unless there are complications.
"Don't always look at those ancient families that have been passed down for many years. If the imperial doctor can't hire him, doesn't he have no apprentices? If the master of Su embroidery can't hire him, isn't there anyone with less skillful skills? Are you an embroiderer?" George gave careful guidance. These ancient trades often require three years of apprenticeship and two years of service. It is difficult to learn and it takes a long time to become famous.
How much money can a young doctor who just graduated from the Qing Empire earn in a year?
Taking the capital of the Qing Dynasty as an example, it only cost a few dozen taels of silver a year, which is less than a hundred rubles.
Mikhail doesn’t need to pay too much, 500 rubles a year. There are many people willing to come to Vladivostok to work.
If the service industry that George requested can bloom all over Vladivostok, then George will be confident that as long as people come, George can keep them.
So poaching people is really a technical job.
"I think it's better to tie the person up directly." Mikhail didn't want to go to such trouble.
Vladivostok went to Europe to recruit people and used the same method as George said.
Vladivostok also cannot poach those highly skilled masters from European factories.
But you can’t poach the master, you can poach the master’s apprentices. As long as you can dance well with the hoe, there is no corner that you can’t poach.
After arriving in the Qing Empire, Mikhail was no longer willing to do this.
What's the matter, my uncle, the great Duke Yuryevsky, offered you a high salary and invited you to work in Vladivostok. Not only are you unwilling to go, but you also dare to embarrass me. How brave. !
You princes from the Qing Empire don’t dare to refuse me, who gave you the courage?
"You are the uncle of Super Duke Yurievsky, not a kidnapper!" George was stunned and began to doubt whether it was a good idea to make Mikhail the mayor of Vladivostok.
There is no doubt that Mikhail's management level is not as good as Dalia's.
Mikhail had no breakthrough, but Dalia gave George a surprise.
It’s not that the Qing Empire has no talents, but that too many talents have been buried and have no chance to succeed, so they are not known to the outside world.
After one year of study last year, nearly 150 people from the Vladivostok Machinery Factory became qualified workers this year and officially became technicians of the Vladivostok Machinery Factory.
A technician's wife was the daughter of a doctor and became the first Chinese doctor in Vladivostok.
(End of this chapter)