OBS Chapter 1641 Engine of War
Chapter 1641 Engine of War
Chapter 1641 Engine of War
"Father, I have settled down in the ancient city of Dongguo. I am now working in a ship company in the development zone. We are mainly used as auxiliary equipment for warships. The Dongguo people have not hidden it from us."
One "letter home" after another was sent to the north, and wireless communications made contact between each other very frequent.
From the moment he accepted them, Lu Ping'an's duty of "comforting" had been completed. He just needed to build a network of contacts, and they would do the rest on their own.
If you really transfer a senior cadre from the Sakura Kingdom, even if he is given a high-ranking position, he will just be a decoration in the end. On the contrary, a young person who has proven his ability and "loyalty" at the grassroots level will have the opportunity to gradually move into the senior level.
Only those who truly understand the matter know the value of this acceptance.
Only those who truly understand the history of the East know how to deal with internal conflicts and talent selection for the sake of long-term national harmony.
It is not just refugees from outside who enjoy this treatment. In fact, residents from outside the country have been enjoying it for several years, especially native-born mixed-race children and naturalized foreigners.
"The East Country is so powerful. It is powerful and prosperous in all aspects. The ancient city where I live has only been promoted to a municipality three years ago. Before that, it was even a rural area of a state capital. However, simply because of its favorable geographical location, it has now become a heavy industrial base. There are at least 700 companies in the entire industrial chain, employing more than one million people. New ships are put into trial sail on the river every day."
In a sense, this kind of "blowing" is indeed necessary to facilitate the stabilization of the situation.
But what they say is also the most important reality at the moment.
In the past, countless people said that technological innovation and progress of the times would eventually make human resources and human wave tactics meaningless, and turn war into a simple economic and technological competition. But facts have proved that this is an ideal state that is always close to reality but can never be turned into reality. At least Lu Ping'an doesn't think he will see it in his lifetime.
Looking back and looking at the present, no matter how good the technology and science are, they still need an industrial chain to produce.
The industrial chain requires enterprises, production lines, and a large amount of human resources, including low-end skilled general workers, high-quality technicians, high-quality engineers, designers of various professions, and so on. These cannot be shouted out, nor can they be achieved through short-term training. They require long-term training from educational institutions, job opportunities, and delegation organizations.
The "automobile" industry has always been regarded as the industrial core of a country. In addition to the value it generates itself, what is more important is that its volume is large enough to bring about countless companies and countless employed talents. Those high-quality industrial human resources can become the cornerstone of other industries.
"Back then, the ancient city chose the Salin people to develop the automobile (land flying boat) industry. It was the right decision."
That year, the people of Salin chose this industry out of helplessness, because this industry can accommodate the largest number of employees and can try to prevent his people from becoming homeless refugees.
At first, all the development zones were packed, and the number of people employed in the entire industry increased from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, and even exceeded one million in recent years. This has also led to the current rather strange lifestyle in the ancient city, where many people live in the city, but need to go to development zones and heavy industrial areas in the suburbs to work.
Naturally, they have trained a large number of related practitioners, including assembly line designers, general workers, technicians, maintenance personnel, etc. Even peripheral vehicle vendors and maintenance parts sales have created a large number of jobs.
And these people, along with the escalation of the war in Mercury 42 and as Lu helped his hometown find a new economic growth point - arms trade, once again ushered in a period of explosive growth.
Not to mention the distant past, the shipbuilding industry is still where Mercury 42 sells the best. It is also a labor-intensive industry that requires a large number of professionals rather than slave labor. Those industrial professionals in the automotive industry can easily adapt to new environments and positions after a little training.
These things are the true embodiment of economies of scale. When you can recruit professionals, have cheap water and electricity, and rivers that can directly access the sea, then those new high-quality projects will naturally choose your city, especially since you are still a municipality and can offer the best conditions in terms of taxes and land use.
This is just soft attraction. Some industries have very strict upstream and downstream requirements. Some industrial products require clean steam produced by power plants, some battery production requires by-products of a certain electrical appliance reprocessing process, and some electrical appliance/car design requires a large number of cheap parts upstream and downstream.
The result of cluster effect and scale effect is that the winners are snowballing every day, while the losers have no one to help them no matter how much they beg.
The population of the ancient city has skyrocketed in recent years, with continuous investment in foreign projects. The ancient city managers can even choose the source of all this rise. The reason is the decisive gamble of the previous leadership team, but also because of their good luck, they drew a top SSR——Lu Ping'an.
Without Lu Ping'an, the quota for the municipality would not come so easily, and the order from Mercury 42 would not even be a possibility. The places that currently attract the most high-quality population in this city are always his Rebirth Chamber of Commerce and the "Woodland". The proportion of extraordinary people here is the highest in the country. Every day, countless people come here specifically to change jobs, and some of them stay in this increasingly developed city.
This is just the past.
"The coming war period is actually a new round of development for our ancient city."
The arms orders are about killing (opponents), and the profit is probably much higher than selling medicine.
The shipbuilding industry can build warships, and the automobile industry can be modified to build chariots. As an ancient city that has become a heavy industrial base in central China, it is natural that it will get the biggest piece of the big orders in the new era. Especially at the moment when Lu Ping'an has used the face fruit in both the military and the official, and it is quite useful.
With orders, there are jobs. Companies have the need and desire to expand. Employees' wages and benefits continue to increase, and people's happiness index goes up.
In a sense, Lu Ping'an did prosper his hometown with his own strength.
"I can only offer some help, but the city is hungry for change and willing to take a gamble."
Accepting the Phosphate-Saving People brought about countless social problems and unstable factors, and even made people wonder if it was the stupidest decision they had ever made in their lives.
But looking back now, without the several foreign development zones that were established back then as a foundation, allowing the city’s industrial workers to complete the new era technological transformation, subsequent development opportunities would naturally be missed.
Lu Ping'an implied that his help was just "fertilizer/catalyst". If there were no flower pots and people who wanted to plant flowers, no matter how hard he tried, it would be useless. He was just helping out.
But now, it is time for harvest.
Today, the rivers and lakes are filled with various warships and civilian ships. There are more than 20 shipyards here that produce ships of three-digit specifications.
And this is the foundation of future wars.
The decisive battle did not break out three years ago because under the circumstances at the time, humans who were not good at naval warfare could not win. They could only use the self-defeating "poison sea tactics" to forcibly create an isolation zone and delay the time of the decisive battle.
In the past three years, countless domestic industries have been transferred, and a series of war weapons including drones, mechanical soldiers, war puppets, ships, tanks, etc. have been initially equipped and can enter the battlefield at any time.
Not to mention the distant future, just looking at the several shipyards in the main business of the ancient city and the "big black fish" ships that are constantly being produced is enough to give foreign invaders a good beating.
The reason why the East Country dares to accept foreign refugees and ethnic minorities is that it is now confident. They openly show these things to other parties to encourage morale and establish authority.
At this moment, the East Country's war machine has been fully activated. The assembly line will continuously produce war resources, which is the lifeblood that allows this war to continue until victory.