Awakening ability

Chapter 230 Burning Money
It's the end of the year again.

Qi Ying has already paid off the Lingshi for Fang Hao's 20-year tax contract for the Taiqiu Kingdom. This time, no tax collection ambassador came to collect taxes at the end of the year.

Forty percent of the tax revenue from the national treasury was sent to the National Teacher's Office, which belonged to Fang Hao personally.

Among them are various cultivation resources worth 5000 million taels of silver.

Fang Hao didn't need those things, but he didn't refuse either.

If these things are rejected to replace taxes, it may be difficult for Taiqiu to find so much gold and silver to send to the National Teacher's Mansion.

Food and cloth are even more impossible. The National Teacher's Mansion does not have such a large warehouse for storage.

Although these things are not used by Dongfang Hao, he can exchange them for gold and silver in other countries, or bring them back to Earth.

On the other side of the earth, there are not many such materials.

In particular, some rare metals may be used as aerospace materials when they are brought to the earth.

There were no major disasters this year, so there was no such thing as a tax cut. The value of the tax sent to the National Teacher's Mansion reached about [-] million taels of silver, of which gold and silver accounted for the majority.

The gold and silver obtained by Fang Hao last year has almost been burned out. Dozens of mines are under development, more than a hundred factories have been invested in various places, and tens of thousands of workers have been recruited.

Although some commodities were sold during this period and some funds were repatriated, compared with the investment, the repatriated funds were less than one-tenth of the investment.

Tens of millions of taels of silver are spent, and the industry's plate is really much bigger.

But Fang Hao still felt that it was not enough and felt that his steps were too slow.

The main thing that hinders him is one thing-no money.

It seems unreasonable to have [-]% of the national treasury income and still feel that you have no money.

But it is understandable when you think about the start-up capital required for the industries he invested in.

Those are not industries that come in quickly, and it will take a few years to see benefits.

Some even need ten years or decades to recover the investment.

Fang Hao's priority is not whether he can make money, but whether he can promote the country's industrialization process.

If it's just for making money, he can choose some other ways.

Only by speeding up the process of industrialization of this country, will the country become richer, and the people will also be richer. In the end, he can earn more money, do greater charity, and bring himself stronger strength.

He calculated the account very well.

The receipt of treasury revenue gave Fang Hao the capital to expand again, and started a new round of money-burning plan.

Some young people who performed outstandingly in the industrial upgrading project of the industrial group were also summoned to the headquarters of the education group to receive intensive training on elementary school textbooks.

Those workers basically don't know how to read, so we have to let them know how to read at the elementary school level first, and then teach them more skills.

Now industrial groups recruit a large number of workers, but quite a few of them can read and write. There may be one or two out of 1.

Under normal circumstances, people who study will not come to work as workers.

It is obviously difficult to rely on those illiterate people to carry out industrial upgrading.

So Fang Hao's decision is to train some ingenious young people in it, let them become real skilled workers, and let them participate in the manufacture of new equipment.

Without these front-line workers, it is obviously impossible to manufacture new industrial products just relying on the people in the study to draw design drawings.

He is going to cultivate such talents now.

About 600 people were mobilized from factories all over the country to teach them literacy and let them receive primary education.

After finishing elementary school, those with excellent grades will continue their studies to instill new industrial concepts in them.

For these 600 people, a school was built on a large piece of vacant land purchased next to the education group headquarters, called an industrial school.

When the school is upgraded in the future, it will become the first industrial university in Taiqiu.

Fang Hao trains these young workers with potential in order to prepare for the age of steam and electricity.

It is necessary to train upper-level designers as well as low-level skilled workers.

These workers are studying in industrial schools, not only do they not receive their money, but they are also paid monthly wages, which are the same as their wages in factories.

And also made a promise to their future, when they succeed in their studies, they will be given higher wages.

As for whether those workers would quit after learning better techniques, Fang Hao really wasn't worried at all.

Because in these aspects, there are no competitors in this world at all. After learning those technologies, there is no place to change jobs if you want to change jobs.

Many people couldn't understand Fang Hao's operations, thinking that he was simply burning too much money and felt uncomfortable if he didn't spend it.

But Fang Hao knew it in his own mind.

Spending a little more now is nothing.

It is to attract more people to join this industry with the most favorable treatment. At the same time, it is also to set an example for workers. As long as they can think more about how to solve problems and make themselves better when they encounter problems, Gain the opportunity to study at an industrial school for a brighter future.

Steam engines cannot be built with current technology, let alone generators.

Whether it is technology or materials, it is not supported.

However, in order to promote industrialization, these things must be manufactured after all.

It is now possible to transcribe theoretical knowledge.

It will take three to five years to train this group of workers. At that time, the bottleneck of materials should be almost solved, and these things can be launched.

Only when the steam engine is built, can this era truly enter the threshold of the industrial age.

With the steam engine, it is possible to build trains and ships, shorten the distance in this world, and allow various resources to be better gathered together and play a greater role.

Only with generators can the night sky of this world be truly lit up, and more industrial products can be manufactured using electric energy.

Only then can it evolve step by step to the internal combustion engine, come out with cars, and make the world more connected.

Further upgrade the industry, produce sophisticated machine tools, and let the machines do the work of the workers to achieve standardization.

This is the real formation of an industrial system.

This process will be very long.

But with so many technical reserves brought by Fang Hao from the earth, he can always run on the right road, and it will not take hundreds of years to complete the evolution like the earth.

After all, most things do not require research, trial and error, they have already been designed, as long as they can be produced according to the requirements.

In addition, he has another advantage, that is, he is a monk and can do many things that ordinary people cannot do.

If it's just a few key parts that can't be obtained, Fang Hao doesn't mind cheating and using the monk's ability to get those key parts out.

As long as the industrial system can be formed in advance, cheating doesn't matter.

(End of this chapter)