The scale of the expansion of the industry is so large. There are so many material reserves for Harriers, Chuan Xiao and De Hei asked. This blast furnace is not a Great Leap Forward type of earthen blast furnace, but a real industrial blast furnace, although in terms of scale, it belongs to a small blast furnace with backward production capacity that has been limited and demolished in another time and space. But this thing is definitely high-tech in the oral century.

Not counting the refractories, the problem has been solved by the bitter brine in the salt works, and the cooling water jacket for the furnace cylinder alone has to use several tons of steel and a casting. Wen Desi knows that casting steel is the most difficult in casting, the fluidity of steel is not high, and the difficulty of large steel castings such as cooling water jackets can be imagined.

"The conditions for building these new equipment are fully ripe, and the material conditions are also in place. There is no problem with expanding to this scale. Ma Qianzhuo replied, "However, a lot of pig iron and steel stocks will be consumed to make equipment, and the quota of pig iron and steel in other aspects must be further reduced."

"What about the mining equipment, and the supporting facilities: boilers, steam quilts, these things are piled up with tons of steel." Zhan Wuya questioned, "There is also the construction of railroad tracks arranged by the Planning Commission for Tian Du. The number of gaps is forty percent. Even if there is no shortage of materials, additional production equipment will have to be added to deliver on time

"This is certainly a guarantee." Ma Qianzhu opened his notebook: "Ladies and gentlemen, since August, the Planning Commission has reduced the amount of steel used in all aspects, with the aim of breaking through the fatal bottleneck of steel and coal. The difficulty is temporary, as long as we endure this pass, steel will no longer be a first-class control material, and the expected output is also known to everyone. However, the current inventory is still tight," he immediately reported the current inventory of steel, pig iron, and wrought iron.

"It's not much." Zhan Wuya said. "The small must now stop the production of gold arms. Cast cannons and shells consume a lot of pig iron

The armament of the Crossing Group has always been carried out at a slow but uninterrupted pace. Every month, the Planning Commission allocates a certain production quota to the production of weapons, ammunition, and rations. As for the specialized arsenals required by the army and navy, they are not yet all machinery factories at the moment.

The cessation of all arms production is a rather sensitive issue. Because it was the five-year Jihua implementation work conference, there was only one Ma Qianzhuo who could be called the representative of the military. Naturally, no one jumped up and raised objections. However, it is conceivable what kind of reaction the military will have as soon as the measures are implemented. Especially the officers of the Shaozhuang faction led by Zhang Pailin and Wei Aiwen. The cannon is their heart.

Matters. All eyes were on Ma Qianzhuo: his other title was Chief of the General Staff of the Army.

"It can be, but he took out another holy ship notebook from the briefcase he carried with him with a combination lock, and the word "armament" was written on it.

"The small now Minnie rifle is a base per woman. The artillery training team has a base number of shells, and the coastal heavy artillery has half a base. The old base of the naval gun on the concave. Trinabulary patrol boats, a base, and other sail warships have insufficient reserves of shells. After the acquisition of the old remnants of Zhucai, the scale of our sailing fleet expanded rapidly, and all the old miscellaneous guns and shells on it were dismantled and reheated, but the new guns were too late to match, and the shortage was too great, let alone the shells. Ma Qianzhu said unabashedly.

"Enough of a fight

"As long as it is not a joint attack by the Ming army and the main force of the Zheng family, it is not necessary to completely destroy the opponent, and the repulsion will definitely be able to do Ma Qianzhuo has participated in several war games conducted by Xia Zhou in the General Staff.

"Is there any danger of war now?" ”

"According to the analysis report of the intelligence service, there is no one for the time being

"Stop the production of artillery and ammunition first. We are fully committed to the development of JIHUA production equipment for Tiandu

"Can you ask Guangzhou to expand the import of pig iron?"

"It's not easy to be small. The problem now is not only that the price of imported pig iron from Guangdong is getting more expensive. It's that our import volume is too large, the inventory in the market is too small, and we have encountered competitors

"Who but us would buy so much pig iron?"

"Little Daming Mansion." Ma Qianzhuo said, "The report of the Guangzhou station said that Wang Zunde, the governor of Liangguang, was casting cannons on a large scale and buying a large amount of pig iron, and the price of iron in the market rose sharply. ”

"Will the government use cash to buy iron? Aren't they always engaged in "buying and selling, and things like that, and robbing them of real money and real goods?" ”

There's nothing wrong with small words. However, since the smelter owner has suffered a loss, he has to make up for it. Besides, now Daming is also attracting investment, and it is not all about robbery

"According to the records in the historical books, Wang Zunde's skill in casting cannons is very large, and he casts 200 guns at a time." "And I'm afraid it's going to be bigger next year." There was a wealthy businessman named Li Luoyou. I don't know who has taken the road, and I have already contracted the cannon casting business in Guangdong Province. ”

"What is the background of this person?"

"Xiao hasn't started to check yet

"Immediately send a telegram to Guangzhou Erjiuqing! The female heir suddenly thought about it as she spoke, has Li Huamei's daughter figured it out? ”

"Not yet. She set sail for Goa in October. A large shipment of goods was carried away. ”

"What is she going to bring us back?"

"Mainly opium and jute Ma Qianzhuo said," and there are scattered goods

"How's the sailor doing?

"Very good, Mr. Wen, the sailors on the triangular sail patrol ship you designed were all trained by her

Xiao Zishan coughed, reminded Mr. An not to crook the building, and then said: "In this way, the price of pig iron will rise even more sharply next year." "Although after the completion of the development of some independent enterprises, as soon as the blast furnace produces iron, Lingao's pig iron can completely satisfy self-sufficiency and even have a large number of steel products exported, but this is at least at the end of next year.

I had to grit my teeth and endure it a little longer, and continue to rely on imports, Wang Luobin said, "The high price is the high price, at least we can afford to spend this money." ”

"This money is only for the smelter owner to make money temporarily." Wen Desi said, "As soon as our steel production rises, not to mention the resale of iron products to Guangdong, the price of iron will plummet just by stopping imports."

"We can take the opportunity to set up a commodity exchange system and control Guangdong's quilts through commodity trading."

"Stop, let's talk about economic issues later, otherwise we will have to play to the limitless." Xiao Zishan, the host of the meeting, stopped Yi Fan's high arguments, "Let's talk about the issue of coal and iron first." ”

"After obtaining a stable supply of coal on the island, our next step is the Tiandu Iron Mine." Wen Deji said, "Now let's talk about Ji Ge who developed Tian Du

Ma Qianzhuo stood up and came to the large display board. The curtain was drawn above.

Behind the curtain is a large-scale panorama of the Sanya neighborhood. It has been marked with flags of various colors.

"The Planning Commission is under the orders of the Executive Committee. It has been compiled and developed by Tian Du Jihua Ma Qianzhuo said, "Please review

The development of Tiandu is not simply a matter of building a mining area and expanding the Yulinbao wharf. The crossing group is ready to build Yulin as a new base. In the future, it will be a base for traveling through the navy to Southeast Asia for trade and colonization. So the whole Jihua is very ambitious, and the first and second phases of the project will be completed in the first five years, followed by the third and fourth phases

This is left for the second five years.

"The first phase of the project is to develop the Tiandu mining area," Ma Qianzhuo pointed to the map, "as well as the construction of basic supporting facilities

The first is to build a new fort on the main peak of the Luhuitou Peninsula. At the same time, piers, trestles and batteries were built on the peninsula. This place will serve as a base for the naval fleet that will go south to Southeast Asian waters in the future.

The original Yulinbao wharf will be expanded into a dedicated material export wharf, all of which will be equipped with mechanized loading and unloading equipment, and the future iron ore from Tiandu, manganese ore and phosphate rock from Damao, dried coconut and timber from Yazhou will all be transported through this wharf.

The city of Anyoule, opposite the Yulin Fortress, will be completely rebuilt in accordance with the plan of a modern city and equipped with complete infrastructure. At the same time, a large number of immigrants came to enrich it. Enterprises that process local resources will be set up on site, starting with a timber processing plant, a copra processing plant and a food factory.

The city will be a commercial port for trade with Southeast Asia. In addition to attracting merchant ships to and from Southeast Asia, he also moved the headquarters of the newly established Southeast Asian company here.

The town of Tiandu will appear at the original site three years earlier, and the Tiandu Mining Bureau of the crossing country will be established here. The Tiandu Mining Bureau will not only manage the mining of Tiandu iron ore, but will also be responsible for the development of fierce and phosphate mines in the Damao area in the future.

A railway will also be built between Tiandu Town and Yulinbao Wharf to transport ore.

"In this way, we have a lot of money in the Yulin area." Wen Deji commented...... The cost is large. The yield is also high. The development of the Yulin Port area is not just a Tiandu iron ore mine, it is actually a new support point for us in the southern part of Hainan Island. and Lingao formed a north-south echo situation, Ma Qianzhu said.

This new base is basically a blank, there are few local aborigines, and the influence of the Ming government is far away in Yazhou, dozens of kilometers away. The Crossing Group can plan, develop, and build this area at will, without spending a lot of effort on conquest and negotiation, and "coexist" with Lingao. The system is different, and the Yulin Port area will become the first area ruled by the crossing group in the true sense...... Yulinbao will be delivered as a Sanya Special Economic Zone. Wen Desi said.

The Executive Committee immediately approved Tian Du's development plan. The whole jihua will start in the spring of the year of the field. The complexity of this operation is no less than that of reproducing Day 0. Ministries and commissions began to carry out the jihua of materials and personnel.