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Chapter 12 Red Eyes

“Why is there oil on the ground?

Because the workers didn't wipe them clean;

Why didn't the workers wipe it clean?

Because the manager didn't say anything;

Why didn't the manager say anything?

Because the workers did not report this;

Why didn't the workers report?

Because the manager didn't ask.》.[]

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Why is there oil on the ground?

Because the machine leaks oil;

Why does Gabon have a chance to leak oil?

Because the plug is broken;

Why does the plug break before it is replaced?

Because the plug is ‘too good’;

Why is the plug so 'good'?

Because I bought bargains in order to save money…”

Mao Xueren, a representative from Hunan, read the materials issued by the Industrial Conference in the Wangfu Garden. He read a paragraph and stopped for a while, thinking about it. For the same thing, different questions got different results. Management is mysterious, which made him suddenly escape from Liang Rengong's theory and enter Yang Jingcheng's world. This world is so magical that he lingers.

"The result of improving quality is a decrease in costs and increases the output..." This is another sentence that puzzled him. According to his experience in running a soap factory, the better the goods, the higher the cost, and the more troublesome production. How can this be the better the quality, the lower the cost, and the higher the output? He thought for a long time but couldn't find the reason. A few days ago, hundreds of people held the symposium together. Although the situation was lively and relaxed, it was a bit noisy, which made him not hear Yang Rui's explanation, which made him feel very regretful.

"Master Mao, Master Mao..." Mao said a voice beside him whispered while Mao Xueren was thinking, and only pulled him out of his thoughts. When he turned around, he saw that it was Zhou Xiangyu, and he immediately smiled and said, "Oh. Little kid, I am not the master, I am only nineteen years old, I am not much older than you!"

"Mr. Mao is polite." Zhou Xiangyu has a great impression of the young Mao Xueren. Although he is less than fifteen years old, his experience as a member of the Fuxing Society and Tonghua Law and Political School made him very calm in dealing with people and things. "Mr. Mao, I will submit the business plan today. Dear masters have already handed over..."

"Okay! OK! Come with me." Mao Xueren said, and got up and went back to his room to get the plan. While walking in the royal garden, he sighed at the impermanence of the world. At this time last year, he was a student of the Hunan Provincial Middle School. When he made great contributions, he excitedly cut his braids and dropped out of school. He wanted to join the Revival Army. But the revolution ended in a few months. At that time, many schools in Tanzhou were run, and one of the technical schools also taught people to make soap and provide food and accommodation and allowances. He signed up immediately. Half a year later, the first soap factory in Xiangtan opened. After another half a year, he was in the capital. Not only did he meet the emperor, but he also became a national industrial representative. It was really like a dream.

Under the butterfly effect, two great men who should have met in Guangzhou in 1925 met at Prince Chun’s mansion in Beijing thirteen years in advance. Moreover, the two met this time that they discussed the Northern Expedition Revolution, but the business plan. Their names have not yet appeared due to historical relations and may never appear.

Yang Rui didn't know that there were two great men in the Wangfu Garden. He was reading a business plan with Xu Huafeng at this time to determine the loan investment. As long as it passes the test, it will enter the next round of negotiations. If it fails, the State Industrial Bank will issue a loan of less than 50,000 taels. In fact, this money is already a lot for those who are not shortlisted, and they are usually small workshops.

"Jincheng, do you know Rong Zongjing of Maoxin Flour? Why don't so many people mention it, but you just mention his military ship flour?" Xu Huafeng said. "Don't you not value light industry? Why do you read their plans now?"

Seeing Xu Huafeng ask, Yang Rui smiled and said, "The flour is made well. What can I do? What can we do now? Isn't it just investing in these people? There is no technology that can be learned, machines that can be bought, factories that can be built, but people do not. I am not talking about workers, but company traders that do not say we. In the Qing Dynasty, the tax revenue was 300 million, and the country was full of holes. When we were in our hands, the tax revenue immediately exceeded 500 million, and the country's power also emerged. Why? Isn't it because the teams that manage this country are different? So I said what is the most expensive and talent is the most expensive in the 20th century!"

Yang Rui has been in a good mood these days. When Xu Huafeng saw him like this, he smiled, and then said, "Do you really want to start that venture capital company? Then take the stocks of these companies to the Shanghai Stock Exchange?"

"Well. That's what it means, but if you want to go public in ten years, without a sound accounting system and complete various bill systems, stocks are not to be played. In fact, it is best to solve commercial matters by commercial methods. There are still idle funds in China. With the government's tax revenue of hundreds of millions, you can only build some key industries, such as heavy industries with large investment and long return periods, textiles, silk, matches, flour, oil presses, etc., let the merchants do it. We just need to train the general office, quality management personnel, and technical school students. By the way, remember to collect taxes, and they can't be too cheap." Yang Rui said enthusiastically.

As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Huafeng laughed. He heard Yang Rui talk about quality management these days and was deeply confident that China Manufacturing defeated foreign manufacturers. He had seen those quality control personnel when he was inspecting Tianzi. After laughing, he asked, "It turns out that the book you wrote to the United States is not the current one. Are you trying to lead Americans to the wrong path?"

"If you don't lead Americans to the wrong way, it will be difficult to lead them to the right way?" Yang Rui asked back. In this world, he published a book earlier than Taylor, the father of scientific management, and earlier than Henry Fayol, and is the world-recognized father of management. "Western people's thinking, especially Americans, are very simple, and they are stubborn in doing things. For example, the minimum quota system for workers seems to improve efficiency, but in fact it is just that the weight does not focus on quality, and it doesn't matter to produce extensive things, but if you produce precision things, it will be ruined. I don't know how many deformed things will be.

In our country, low labor costs are an advantage. But cheap labor costs are easy to fall into the misunderstanding of bad goods and low prices. It is difficult for ordinary people to think of the principle that the better quality, the lower the cost. We need to instill this concept now. No matter how much the cost is, we must instill instill in. After this time, I feel that the Ministry of Works will subsidize those who are academia and quality management, and have to take exams, and pass the exam and get subsidies. By the way, we have to set up awards!"

Yang Rui suddenly stood up when he said this. He remembered that there was a Deming Award and Six Sigma had a black belt exam. This set of things must be moved here. It is very important to cultivate entrepreneurs. It is also extremely important to cultivate quality control that can continuously improve quality at the grassroots level, and to create a sport of quality in the industry. There are still few factories in China now. It is difficult to cultivate. When there are too many factories and the atmosphere is bad, it will be difficult to promote it.

Yang Rui asked Li Zilong to arrange this matter. Xu Huafeng was distracted when he said to him, or was used to doing other things. He knew that he would come back after he was busy. Yang Rui went to work hard. Zhu Baosan and Yu Qiaqing suddenly came, but they had something to ask for a meeting.

"Mr. Zhu San." Zhu Baosan led the head and bowed to Xu Huafeng as soon as he came in. Everyone was familiar with him. He did not call him the official name, but just called Xu Huafeng.

"Oh, Brother Bao, Brother Ade. Brother Ade, haha..." Xu Huafeng was funny when he thought of what happened that day. "Why are you here?"

"We are asking for the Prime Minister." Zhu Baosan and Yang Rui were not familiar with him. His eyes wandered, but he did not find Yang Rui.

"Oh, I just went out, please do it first." Xu Huafeng greeted, "You are not for the shipyard, right?" The name of the Yangtze Machine Factory is Gu Runzhang, but the boss behind it is Song Weichen. This person is an official and businessman. He has a lot of business in Hankou, Wuchang after being intimate with Zhang Zhidong. Of course, he also has a background. His backstage is actually Ye Chengzhong from Shanghai and an important member of the Ningbo Business Gang, so Xu Huafeng thought they were for the shipyard.

"It's not the shipyard business." Zhu Baosan said. He found out from the Prime Minister's Office that Yang Rui was in the Ministry of Works, but he didn't expect that he would come and go and stay away.

"That's the shipping company's business?" Xu Huafeng said again. "This is under the control of the transportation department. It's not the match factory's business, are you still missing the money?"

"Mr. Zhu San, this is not for the shipping company." Zhu Baosan could not see Yang Rui, so he had to give Xu Huafeng a briefing. He took out a ten thousand words letter from his arms and said: "In fact, it is for the money industry. There are many money houses in Shanghai, and the country has decided to make a rash decision. It is not good for the abolition of the two countries and the country, business and the people. This time, when I came to Beijing, the Shanghai Qianye Office asked me to bring a ten thousand words letter, which I wanted to hand it over to the Prime Minister."

This is actually the case. Xu Huafeng didn't quite understand the meaning of abolishing the two and changing the country. Seeing that it was Wanyanshu, it was difficult to accept it. "Brother Bao, please sit down first. I will come back later. Ade, you will also sit down. Sometimes I will be busy with whatever I think of, and ran away as I just said something." Xu Huafeng didn't understand the financial matters, but just chatted with the two about industrial matters. After waiting for half an hour, Yang Rui arranged the quality award and subsidy for the quality management personnel, but he came back.

Holding the Wanyan Book of Money in Shanghai, Yang Rui did not laugh or laughed, but put the book aside: "Mr. Baosan, I remember you didn't seem to open a money shop? Why are you involved in financial matters?"

Zhu Baosan was stunned by Yang Rui's question. He did not open a money shop, but he was familiar with the people who opened a money shop. In the past, he had guaranteed the chlor-alkali factory in Tianzi to foreigners, so that it was safeguarded. Some people in Shanghai remembered this very much, so they persuaded him to make the Ministry of Revenue's abolishment of two and change the Yuan to slow down. In the Wanyan Book that Yang Rui did not read, he believed that the time for the two and change the Yuan to change the Yuan to change the Yuan to change the Yuan to change the Yuan to change the Yuan to change the Yuan to think that if you want to abolish the two and change the Yuan to change the Yuan, one is to have enough new coins to open mint, the second is to change the Yuan to do not hinder the tax income of the imperial court, and the third is that the Yuan to change the Yuan to cause chaos in the money industry and fluctuations in the commodity trading market.

"Prime Minister, the country has thousands of money houses, and it will take thousands of years to use silver. Once the two are abolished and changed to the original market, it will cause chaos in the market." Zhu Baosan felt that Yang Rui was a little unhappy, but he had already agreed to the invitation of Xie Lunhui and others in Shanghai. Although Yu Huizu of the Ministry of Revenue was from Ningbo, he was stubborn and did not make any sense at all, so he had to ask Yang Rui to come.

Thinking of the old news about the chlor-alkali factory back then, Yang Rui said unhappily and angrily: "Mr. Baosan, the three national policies are national policies, which are unshakable! As for the chaos in the market, in the Qing Dynasty, so many chaos have come. Why can't the market be in chaos now? Let's talk about chaos. Even chaos is caused by the people of the Shanghai Money Industry Office. If the two are changed to the times, who else will not applaud? Brother Ad. Tell me, is it beneficial to you to sell matches?"

Yu Qiaqing only came with Zhu Baosan, the leader of the Ningbo Gang. Yang Rui had not been exposed to him. He knew that this person had a bad temper and would not look back if he did not hit the wall. At this time, he just wanted to say nothing, but he did not want to be brought closer by Yang Rui to the conversation. He glanced carefully at Yang Rui. Yu Qiaqing smiled and said, "This is a good thing for the industry to change the two countries, but can this be slowed down? For example, the court has been preparing to change it for a few more years. That would be foolproof."

Yu Qiaqing was very smart, generally agreed, and time delayed. But Yang Rui had a timeline for the currency change in his heart. He laughed and said, "It will be abolished two and change the Chinese Yuan to a hundred years later. The people of the Qianye Office will still object. But the Industrial side is eager to abolish two and change the Chinese Yuan. Ade, you have the support of Shanghai Money Bank, but even so, when the copper coins, copper coins and messy silver coins collected from your account were exchanged for the money bank, they had never suppressed your foreign currency and hadn't cut you a few times? The value of the currency will not change, and the industrial will not prosper. Those who open money banks should close the door with peace of mind."

When Yang Rui said this, he suddenly thought of Yu Qiaqing's identity as a comprador of the Dutch Bank, and said, "Ade, the financial industry is now rectifying. For you, is it important to industry, or comprador industry. Always think about it yourself. If you want me, your matches are sold in China. You believe that I have always been reasonable. In addition, now it is revitalizing industry. You can stand with the government and compare with foreigners..."

Zhu Baosan and Yu Qiaqing left heavily in Yang Rui's advice. Yu Qiaqing had known that this matter would not be able to be compatible. Zhu Baosan only hoped that Yang Rui could look at the chlor-alkali factory in the past and think of his old love. He didn't even express his embarrassment and directly stuck the matter to death. He had never seen such a ruthless and unrighteous Prime Minister.

Yang Ruili sent the two of them away, and sat back to Xu Huafeng's office in disappointment. When Xu Huafeng saw him pouring a glass of water with him, he said, "It's a good deal, isn't it?"

"There is nothing good or bad." Yang Rui said calmly. He picked up the sorted business plan and asked, "Where is the Wanglaoji herbal tea I just read?"

"Herbal tea?" Xu Huafeng had some differences. He found the inconspicuous Wanglaoji herbal tea from the stack of prepared business plans and handed it to Yang Rui: "It turns out, is this herbal tea... very important?"

"Of course Wanglaoji is important." Yang Rui could not explain the concept of Wanglaoji in later generations, and said: "Have you heard of Coca-Cola?"

Xu Huafeng is an old man, and he only went to the United States to drink tea and never drank this thing. Yang Rui had to say again: "Americans regard Coca-Cola as a symbol of the United States, so China will make a Wanglaoji." Yang Rui said this, but Xu Huafeng still didn't understand, so he had to say: "In the future, there will be Wanglaoji in the Revival Army."

A few days of sorting, Shanghai Ganyichang Boiler Factory, Shanghai Meichang Machinery Factory, Baodi Da Pig Iron Factory Joint Venture, Shanghai China Chemical Industry Society, Jinan Quanqitai Iron Factory, Shanghai Zhoucaidao Machine Factory, Wuxi Weixin Machinery Factory, Shanghai Shihengmao Machinery Factory, Hankou Tanhua Machinery Factory, Shanghai Yaoxingchang Machinery Factory, Wuchang Wushengchang Machinery Factory, Tianjin Iron Wire Nail Factory, Shanghai Yihe Iron Factory, Zhenjiang Paper Factory, Tianjin Xinxing Paper Factory, Shanghai Longzhang Paper Factory, Shanghai Lihua Machinery Factory, Shanghai Wanchang Machinery Factory, Yongjia Yumeng Machinery Factory, Hangzhou Huichang Machinery Factory, Nantong Pig Iron Factory, Shanghai Xieda Machinery Factory, Shanghai Hengmao Machinery Factory, Shanghai Qiao Yichang Copper and Iron Factory, Hanyang Hongshun Machinery Factory, Shanghai Dongxin Machinery Factory, Shanghai Dalong Machinery Factory, Shanghai Haochang Sand Filling Factory, Shanghai Gushunji Machinery Factory, Ningbo Shunji Machinery Factory, Shanghai Guangtaihe Machinery Factory, Shanghai Senji Manufacturing Machine Shipyard, Shanghai Zhangyuanxiang Machinery Factory, Shanghai Junchang Machinery Factory, Shanghai Yixing Sand Filling Factory, Shanghai Shunchang Sand Filling Factory, Shanghai Zhang Wanxing Machinery Factory, Shanghai Longhua Tanning Company, Tianjin Beiyang Machinery Nitrogen Seed Company, Shanghai Taifeng Canning Factory, Guangzhou Wanglaoji, a total of 30 machine factories, three paper mills, three sand turning factories, two tanning companies, one canning factory, and one herbal tea company obtained the first phase of industrial loan.

Wire reeling, soap, weaving, spinning, matches, oil pressing, tobacco, electric lamps, flour, glass, bricks, tap water, and food, are all in the next phase. As soon as this was discussed, everyone in the industry representatives were talking about it, because there was actually a list before, namely, Shanghai Qiuxin Shipyard, Hankou Yangzi Machinery Factory, Xiamen Shipyard Company, and Guangzhou Guangnan Shipyard Company. These four private shipyards were approved by the Ministry of Industry and allowed loans of millions of taels. Now, looking at the list of this phase, all of them are machine factories, I just think that the government is really going to develop heavy industry. Of course, some people are also surprised by the herbal tea shop. But when they inquired, they said that they bought Chinese medicine, so they understood it.

In fact, the previous ones are all projects that Yang Rui has seen. He has no interest in those light industries. He has only read the machine factory these days and can’t wait to find a few more, but in fact there are so many. There is no way to think about it. The tannery, canned factory, and Wanglaoji herbal tea are all military-purpose.

The government wanted to revitalize industry by Yang Rui on his first day of taking office. However, after the Ministry of Industry announced the amount of loans in the first two periods, the newspaper public opinion was in a big uproar. They did not argue for those who did not receive loans for the time being, but felt that the loan amount was too large. The loans from four shipyards in the previous period were nearly 10 million taels. The loans obtained by the forty companies in this period were not less than 10 million taels. Imagine that more than seven factories did not receive loans afterwards. Everyone estimated that the loans released were about 100 million taels after this period.

Those who advocated the saving of the country by industry but did not open a factory are now completely jealous. Others can get tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and millions of loans, but they cannot get a penny and have to pay taxes, so they even called unfair. They believed that the current cabinet easily handed over the wealth of the people to merchants of all sizes, and believed that the talents of those industrial representatives were not as good as those of them. In short, they could not stand others' better than themselves and then broke out among the gentry after the announcement of the industrial loan. Fortunately, the Ministry of Works had a draft of opinions before. The industrial representatives were also invited nationwide and there was no omission. This was why there was no reason. But even so, the urgent inquiry notice from the Congress came to Xu Huafeng's table. Because the Secretary of the Department was only responsible to the Prime Minister, the Parliament was not allowed to impeach the Secretary of the Department and could only impeach the Cabinet, so there was a similar inquiry notice on Yang Rui's table.

In addition to the Revival Society, there are also Fu Ren Wenshe, the Kuomintang, and 30 Imperial Council members. The Imperial Council members are mainly experts in various professions, as well as members of the Revival Society, military representatives, etc. They usually watch and rarely speak. Generally, the most exciting thing when questioning is Song Jiaoren's Kuomintang, and then they don't know that they and the Revival Society are members of the Fu Ren Wenshe, who are originally a member of the Fu Ren Wenshe.

In the last Mobil Oil Prospecting Rights and Shaanxi Oil Mine case, Yang Rui had been urgently questioned once. He was prepared that time. The member of the parliament had nothing to say about the information about the mining department of Shaanxi Oil Mine. It was just that some people complained about the granting of such a large exploration right to Mobil, but the matter was still over smoothly. This time, because of the urgent questioning of the Congress by industrial loans, Yang Rui was a little overwhelmed. This book had been explained in the previous government work report.

Remind yourself that you are facing shareholders. Yang Rui patiently listened to the speech of Kuomintang MP Liu Chengyu: "Prime Minister, why do you need to build so many shipyards? According to the existing industrial... plan, we already have the Shanghai Jiangnan Shipyard, the Nanjing Shipyard under construction, the Hankou Shipyard, Tianjin Shipyard, and Mawei Shipyard. Now the Ministry of Industry wants to borrow money to build four shipyards, that is, there are nine shipyards. Here, there are two shipyards in Shanghai and Hankou. This is not counted as the shipyards of various countries. Shanghai already has..."

Liu Chengyu seemed to have not memorized the information. The foreign shipyards in Shanghai could not remember it for a while, which really made Yang Rui feel worried about him. Just when he finished talking, Yang Rui looked at the MPs present and asked, "Do you have similar questions?" After no one heard a joke, he said, "There are nine existing shipyards that can only produce 350,000 tons of ships a year when they are fully operational. If they are produced normally, they will produce less than 100,000 tons of merchant ships that year, which is a drop in the bucket for the existing demand for merchant ships in China. This time, I think the MPs are not for the shipyards, but for the industrial loan. I would rather not ask for it. I will explain the industrial loan first.

Everyone agrees with the revitalization of industry, because industry is the backbone of the country. After the agricultural tax is abolished decades later, industrial and commercial tax and personal income tax will be the main item of the treasury. Now you all know that you want to regain your rights, but how can you take it away? This cannot be done by saying that it is necessary to actually do it. Foreigners import goods, and we sell raw materials, and the deficit last year was 170 million taels. Why? Because the products are valuable and the raw materials are not valuable, the industry must support it.

But no matter how you support it, you can't just shout out, you need real money and silver investment. Now the national industrial representatives are in Beijing. If they can achieve today's achievements, it means that they can have the ability to do a good job in industry. The Ministry of Industry cannot bring Ahmao and Ah Dog to him to borrow money. Each representative will go through strict procedures before issuing loans, and the loan is also monitored during use. After maturity, the principal and interest must be returned. Although there will definitely be losses in the industry, there will always be profits and losses in the business, as long as the total loan is not compensated. Today's inquiry and the newspapers outside, I think someone is jealous, right?"
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