"It is not that easy to replace steam engines. Not to mention, the huge manpower and material resources invested by our country in steam engines and related industries is a huge obstacle. Don't say that your electrical science is not mature and has no practical significance. Even if the technology is fully mature, there is a great resistance to promotion. You must know what our country's system is like, the central government deploys it completely and commands it unify, and does not wipe out the residual value of the steam engine, or even take the opportunity to mislead Europeans, how can electricity be used to replace steam power? It's impossible!" In the office of the Maolin Port Regional Administration, a thick middle-aged man was

When he spoke, he said in a slightly helpless tone: "So, Lao Pan, what's the use of selling these things to me? You don't know that our southern Chile area has always been poor, and you can't spend a penny in half, so it's absolutely wrong to come to me to get sponsorship. I don't have money! And I'm not saying you, the money is actually allocated to your electrical institute every year, and it's more than enough for you to make normal research and development. Don't always think about getting to the top one step at a time. It's great that you can follow the progress provided by the Ministry of Science and Technology. As for the current anxious and angry moment, do you want to be fully electrified in the next moment? This is unrealistic and stupid!"

The middle-aged man sitting opposite him lost such a big deal, and the guy called "Old Pan" was also a little annoyed. He blushed and raised his voice and said to the person opposite him: "Commissioner Zhao, I don't need to explain more about the quality of the motor and the steam engine, right? People at your level should have some understanding of it, which is very superior! In other words, electricity directly points to the future and represents the future. If it does not develop now, the future will be regretted."

When Zhao Ke heard this, he was a little overwhelmed. He paused the teacup on the wooden table and said in a helpless tone: "Deputy Director Pan, I said it in vain. Then I will say it again. Our country has invested so much manpower and material resources in steam engine technology. If after so many years of development, it will drive upward and downstream enterprises, countless people rely on this life and make a living, you will overturn it if you say it will be overturned? Is it realistic? Is it possible?"

"Now the East Coast Power Company has been established, and our Institute of Electrical Science has also made some progress in technology. Now it is time to carry out some more in-depth actions..." Pan Yan, deputy director of the Institute of Electrical Science, is still defending. The East Coast Power Company he mentioned just now was secretly established on the bank of Xuefeng Lake in the second half of last year. It is a state-owned wholly-owned enterprise under the Ministry of Science and Technology. It has a high level of secret. Ma Xiaopeng, son of Ma Wanpeng, a member of the Central Executive Committee, serves as the company's first general manager and is preparing to start the East Coast Power business.

"I have read the articles of establishment of Dongbo Electric Power Company, Lao Pan. It is written clearly, verifying some ideas for electrical research, integrating the production of simple electrical detection instruments, hand-crank generators and other basic power equipment, and it is not mentioned that commercial operations will be started. After all, this is still a closed enterprise serving scientific research, and it is not for you to do commercial promotion." Zhao Ke ruthlessly revealed Pan Yan's old truth, and only heard him say: "And, Dongbo Electric Power Company is not only established quietly, but the investment it receives is also limited, right? Isn't this a problem? That is, Lao Qiu of the Ministry of Science and Technology (Qiu Haiyang, formerly Yicheng Regional Administrative Office, transferred to the Minister of Science and Technology at the beginning of this year) is not very optimistic about your Electrical Institute and Dongbo Electric Power Company, otherwise it will be for you.

Is there a couple of dates? So, I suggest that Lao Pan, don’t think about it. Go back quickly and be honest and manage your own one-acre and three-point land for the country to cultivate more talents and improve more technology. This is the right way. If I heard correctly, your Institute of Electrical Science has not solved the problem of pulsating current cycles so far, and the situation of excessive heat cannot be alleviated, so let’s continue to work hard. Otherwise, just learn from your brother Pan Ren and start an electrolytic saturated salt water company to prepare chlorine. Isn’t it a good business? After the country has exclusive patents for three years, it continues to authorize your company to use them at a preferential price. It’s already very interesting. If you don’t seize this opportunity, you should quickly develop the company. What’s the point of making trouble for me? Our southern Chile area is really poor and you have no money!”

In fact, to a certain extent, Zhao Ke is right. After the establishment of East Coast Power Company, the most promising and technical equipment is probably a small power generation equipment called "self-exciting magnetic field generator". It is purely hand-made and extremely expensive.

Unlike traditional mechanical generators (those that can only be called toys and used in laboratories) this new type of generator is a masterpiece based on the principle of electromagnetic induction, that is, the current through the electromagnetic coil has already made the magnet core obtain a small amount of permanent magnetism, causing the generator to start. When the generator is running, a shunt of the current from the permanent magnet generator passes through its own electromagnet, thereby providing the required magnetic force.

This generator is undoubtedly a huge improvement compared to the past, but it is not enough to make people look different. Because the Institute of Electrical and Telco itself also know that the technology of this self-exciting magnetic field generator is far from mature, and the production of various parts is extremely troublesome and surprisingly high. Moreover, many things are barely applicable in laboratory situations, but once you multiply it and want to build a power station (even a power station of only a room size) to generate electricity, it would be ridiculous.

Therefore, probably, the Pan family and son of the Institute of Electrical Science also understood that the possibility of applying to the Ministry of Science and Technology and even the Executive Committee to build a power station was passed, so he tried his best to attract sponsorship everywhere, but it seems that there are few people to respond. After all, the country does not allow private capital to enter the power industry at present, and it is completely supported by state-owned investment. If they want to attract sponsorship, they can only go to state-owned enterprises or local governments, but this is not difficult. Nothing, the technology is immature and no one is willing to waste money. Zhao Ke, who has recently been transferred to the commissioner of the Southern Chile Regional Administrative Office, is undoubtedly a typical example!

Pan Yin slept with Zhao Ke for a while, and then he saw that there was no possibility, so he said goodbye. After he left, Zhao Ke also sighed heavily, feeling speechless: Southern Chile is now at a development node, and he still thinks that he is short of funds and almost begging for alms everywhere. How could he spend money to do whatever he wants to do with you in electronics? That is a bottomless pit, and even if he invests hundreds of thousands of yuan in cash, he may not have any output. Whoever goes to die.

"Okay, the Institute of Electrical Science is purely a big pit. The largest investor in our southern Chile area is actually the Navy. Liucheng County has almost become a Navy county now. But this is good, and it saves a lot of effort and trouble. If the Nantie Company can slow down the pace of withdrawal of investment, it would be even better. Now the economy of several counties here is supported by them, and they really can't stand the tossing." Zhao Ke took out a bag of "Nantie" brand spiced whale jerky from the drawer, and he chewed and talked to himself.

Speaking of the six counties in southern Chile, the earliest established Qingfeng, Guanhai, Qinghe and Maolin County, where the regional administration is located, is basically supported by the Nantikeng Company. For example, Qingfeng County, the pillar industries are whaling, fishing and artificial breeding of salmon, which are the result of the 20 years of deep cultivation of Nantikeng Fisheries Company, making Qingfeng a desolate county dominated by broken islands, with per capita output value and per capita income in the southern Chile region, even three points stronger than Maolin County, which is commercially developed. The reason is that it catches a large amount of horse mackerel every year and sells it to the Atlantic coast. At the same time, relying on the deep processing industry (whale skin, whale oil, whale meat, whale baleen and other commodities) developed by the whaling fleet also creates huge profits. In addition, its sparse population, the per capita income is naturally very high. Although it is indeed desolate and the climate is also relatively cold.

Watch the sea and Qinghe counties are divided into north and south of Fenggu Island (Qiloe Island). They are the granaries of southern Chile in the early development of the East Coast people. They are also one of the birthplaces of potatoes on the earth. They produce a large number of potatoes, wheat, corn and other agricultural products. At the same time, the fishing industry and the forest industry are also quite good. Especially the latter, the Nantie Company originally encircled many forest farms and established many wood processing plants and special terminals, which greatly activated the local economy. However, now I heard that Nantie Company is transforming, and these old industries have been sold one after another. Even if they are not sold, they have begun to slowly close down. The intention of withdrawing investment and leaving people is quite obvious. This undoubtedly makes the local governments of the two counties very depressed: I have not found someone to take over, so you can close the forest farm and withdraw your investment and leave? Don't bring such a trick?

Maolin County was originally a major investment place for Nantie Company. For example, Nantie Trading Company traded with the Spaniards here and made a lot of profits. However, after the 30-year trade concession of Nantie was expiring a year ago, the company lost its biggest reliance. Although it still relied on the old relationships it had saved before and the old channels occupied the largest market share, the trend of prosperity and decline was irreversible. Therefore, through a series of dazzling actions this year, the senior management of Nantie Trading Company sold some of the businesses of Nantie Trading Company (the sale of these businesses was actually negotiated before the end of 1678), and recovered considerable funds. At present, the company only retained part of the still competitive trading business, but the possibility of further selling of these assets is not ruled out in the future, because it is said that they are quite short of money now.

Maolin County also suffered a certain impact in the turmoil of Nantie Trading Company. Because some of the merchants who purchased Nantie Trading Company's business and channels did not intend to operate in Maolin County for a long time. They either went to Araucan County, the end of the Liangyang Railway, to register a business, or moved their business location directly to the Spanish Lima and other places. This suddenly caused a lot of depression in the market in Maolin County and reduced government revenue, which was also a headache for Zhao Ke.

Now that the Nanzhi Railway has not been greatly affected, only Liucheng and Boling counties remain. Among them, Liucheng has become the home port of the third navy fleet, and can receive large investment every year. The shipbuilding, ship repair industry, weapons manufacturing industry and some upstream and downstream related industries have developed rapidly, feeding a large number of workers and attracting a large number of immigrants. It is the fastest-growing county six counties in the Southern Chile region. The county government's fiscal revenue is close to the regional capital, leaving Maolin County people in the face of being bleak.

Zhao Ke calculated that the future development of the Southern Chile region should still be based on the word "trade", that is, to continue to use the advantages of geographical advantages, focus on developing trade with the Spanish, accumulate funds through this, and then develop other aspects. This is undoubtedly an excellent idea, because in terms of the location of Maolin and other counties, both in terms of emotion and reason, they should become agents of Spanish goods in the East Coast of Lima, Quito, Guayaquil, Panama, Acapulco and other places on the east coast. This is the wealth given to the more than 100,000 people of Southern Chile by the Heavenly Lord, and must be secured.

Secondly, population replenishment is also extremely critical, which involves the issue of the South Pacific route. With the current urinary nature of the Immigration Department, it is actually no longer distributed immigration to the southern Chile area. Even if there are, there are very few, which can not meet the needs of the local area. Therefore, population replenishment in the six counties in the southern Chile area still depends on immigration ships taking the South Pacific route. However, because of the unprofitable and the sea storm and waves, the ship crash rate is too high, and there have been not many ships taking the South Pacific route. This can

Naturally, there are not many immigrants, which is a headache for Zhao Ke. He wondered whether the regional administrations and county governments should take a portion of the shortage of fiscal revenue to subsidize those trading companies or captains who often take this route (of course, including ships of state-run transport fleets), and provide them with more preferential ship repair and maintenance services to reduce their risks and costs, and try every means to increase the number of immigrants in the southern Chile region.

Of course, there is actually another way, which is to increase the efforts to accept exiled prisoners. This is actually what Liu Jianguo had done before when he was in office. The establishment of the Plate House Prison Reclamation System was a clear proof. Zhao Ke is not a person with moral integrity. He has no disgust towards exiled prisoners. Anyway, he is just a cannon fodder when he comes. What's the matter?

Therefore, he had written to the relevant departments of the Ministry of Justice, asking them to send twice the exiled prisoners to the southern Chile area every year to support their local construction. Zhao Ke believes that this problem is not very big, because now, many local places are not so short of population, and are picky about exiled prisoners and are unwilling to accept them all. In addition, the central government also has a policy of exiling prisoners to the border areas, so the advantage of the southern Chile area is still very large and there is almost no competition. In this way, the regional administration can operate internally and detain the people who should have been sent to the border north of the boundary river (this is a political task and must be sent) to detain and leave them in the core area and replace them with exiled prisoners. Well, maybe in addition to the famous Slat House Prison, a new prison will be set up there.
Chapter completed!