766 Industrialization Departmen (1/2)

Chapter 766 – Industrialization Department

After he sent Xiahou Dun and his group away, Ouyang Shuo welcomed the last batch of officials for the day. This batch included Administration Director Xiao He, Financial Director Fan Li, Industry and Development Planning Director Cui Yingyu, and the person in charge of the No.7 Research Institute, Liu Mo.

Amongst them, there was also an old man.

This was the most important meeting for Ouyang Shuo today, and he had purposely left it for the end.

Ouyang Shuo drank a mouthful of tea, calming his tired senses. In just a day, he had approved the West Chu coal for equipment exchange, settled Zi Luolan and the other two sisters, set up the Outreach Division, Training Division, and the Equipment Development Hub.

Using the gaps in between, he also dealt with important intel as well as matters regarding Liangshan Mercenary Group.

Such a closely packed schedule was something that Ouyang Shuo had not met with before. First, he had been away for too long, and there were many matters that he needed to personally solve; secondly, the Battle of Yunnan was imminent, so Ouyang Shuo needed to make use of the moment of peace to quickly deal with administrative matters before rushing over to Consonance City.

This meeting involves the territory industrialization.

A month ago, the No.7 Research Institute had met expectations, creating the steam engine and the sewing machine. They had completed the process of turning technical manual to real items.

What was next was to build factories and a seamless production chain to turn the item into a product.

Apart from that, No.7 Research Institute had garnered huge progress in their research on the Atlantis flying device. If everything went well, they would be able to craft the first local mimicry flying device by the 3rd month.

Along with the P1 Type Cannon, the research of the No.7 Research Institute had been really stellar. Hence, Ouyang Shuo kept his promise and transferred 500 thousand gold over to Liu Mo.

The territory industrialization had reached a crucial point, and it looked like a huge explosion was imminent.

While Ouyang Shuo was still touring Lingnan, he ordered the Administration Bureau and Financial Bureau to see how they could remove divisions related to industrialization to make a management organization that purely focused on that.

This organization would be called the Industrialization Department.

The newly established Industrialization Department would be directly managed by the Nanjiang Governor-General House and not by the four bureaus.

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At the start of the meeting, Xiao He made a detailed report on the structure of the Industrialization Department.

At the current moment, the department in charge of industrialization was the Industry and Development Planning Department under the Financial Bureau. Apart from which, the Technology Division under the Science, Education, Culture, and Health Department was related to industrialization, so it would be moved to the Industrialization Department.

Hence, the core officials of the Industrialization Department would be from these two places.

The No.7 Research Institute would also arrange a batch of relevant experts to enter the department as technical advisors. Some of them would take on administrative roles to help the Industrialization Department run.

The research experts were not just people who focused solely on knowledge and research. Some of them were technology officials for the federation or people in charge of relevant organizations, thus their administrative experience was not lacking either.

These people were the true backbone and brains of the Industrialization Department.

The director of the department was chosen from the No.7 Research Institute; the director would be the old man - old Chen. In reality, he was in the federation scientific committee.

There would be three organizations under the Industrialization Department, including the Technology Division in charge of dealing with relevant technology, Industrialization Division in charge of planning and factory construction as well as Firearms Division in charge of firearm research and development.

The relevant warship research would also be moved under the Industrialization Department under the charge of the Industrialization Division.

One could foresee that the newly built Industrialization Department would be one of the core departments of the territory, controlling the industrialization lifeline of the territory; it would play the role of the captain of the ship.

Ouyang Shuo gave his seal of approval on the document that Xiao He passed to him, officially signaling the formation of the Industrialization Department. Ouyang Shuo directly asked, ”What plans does the department have for the sewing machine and steam engine factory construction? Have you chosen the place?”

Old Chen was naturally extremely excited as he did not expect that he could still participate in core administrative matters after entering the game. As a high-level federation officer, Old Chen saw through how the game ran.

It was already obvious that the young man in front of him would plan an important role when they arrived on planet Hope. Thinking about it now, his role had a truly deep meaning.

Hence, although the industrialization in the territory now was like that of a primitive society when compared to modern times, Old Chen did not dare to treat it lightly.

Before coming, Old Chen had deeply contemplated this question and replied, ”The Industrialization Department recommends to move all relevant factories to Zhenhai City.”

”Oh? What's the reason?”

Ouyang Shuo was truly surprised. He thought that they would have chosen Shanhai City instead. After all, Lianzhou Prefecture had been changed to a Zhili Prefecture, which meant that there was a lot of land in the basin that could be used.