The discovery of coal at Yanmen Pass was an accident. It was mainly discovered by chance when an armed team planted a large number of ** ambushes. A large amount of coal was blown up. This was only known after the battle. But they soon realized. They may have come across a great fortune that will satisfy their various needs to the greatest extent, and in such a situation, they will naturally be able to make a fortune.

Coal is known as "black gold" in the north. "Because of the wide range of such resources, although a few are relatively cheap, they can't stand this kind of thing, so coal can help them solve a lot of practical problems. That's some of the things they should be most likely to develop at the moment.

The media did not know what purpose they were involved in, and it was probably to see that the capture of prisoners had been turned into a exploitation of resources, the latter of which would bring greater benefits, and that they would only have to speed up the other side in the areas they knew and be able to participate in the distribution of shares, which would be much more advantageous to them than to take a great risk to fight.

The development of land resources is not only concentrated on cropping and animal husbandry, but most importantly, as long as they can be concentrated in favorable places, everything will become much more favorable to them. In such a case, the way of development is further upgraded.

There are not many attractive things about agriculture, because its source of income is not stable, but industry can, and it is unlimited to reproduce more profits. That's what the media is most concerned about.

But now, the news has attracted much wider attention.

In the economic system of the IRA, the coal extractive industry occupies a very important position, it is the energy source, and it is an important foundation on which the IRA is built. Energy stability can provide the IRA with greater strength.

The Republican Army built more iron works, but with the construction of the railroad, and the demand for iron further developed. The railroad and construction industries will further expand the demand for iron to a higher level. The scale of iron production is no longer sufficient to meet this demand. There may be a wave of increases in the price of iron in the coming period. Because the demand has increased a lot.

Peace-building will lead to greater development. Especially the development of Luoyang.

Iron is based on more coal, although coal is found in many areas, such as Handan and Luzhou. Hedong, Jinyang, some people once found coal near Yanmen. However, the industrial level of the Republican Army was still not high, and the production of iron was based on the consumption of large amounts of coal. Although it is a waste of energy. More likely to be a pollution that worries everyone. But it is undeniable that without coal as a support, the Republican Army would not have such a development as an iron plant, and the development of the entire economy may have a great stagnation.

It is also the extensive coal resources that support the rapid development of the Republican Army's economy. But while wasting a lot of resources, it also shows that the demand for coal still needs to increase a lot.

As a result, in Handan's futures trading, the price of coal has risen a lot, about 1.5 yuan per stone, which is not low. After all, there is also a large part of the civil demand, heating, fuel demand, which is a very important thing for any party.

Because everyone knows that any kind of resource demand of the Republican Army is based on a geometric number of upstream resources, and when iron production increases dramatically, it means that coal production also needs to increase significantly.

At this time, the importance of the coal resources found outside the Yanmen Pass will attract more people's attention.

Luoyang.

"We do need more coal, but we're not going to be too rough with it." Shang Wu said as he looked at the briefing. Under normal circumstances, the news reported in the newspaper will also be taken seriously as a briefing. After all, there are many situations where journalists see different perspectives.

"That's true, I know a lot of places are wasteful. However, for now, it seems that this approach can only work for us, after all, a lot of coal is needed in many places, and if we use technology, it will indeed improve a lot, but at the same time, we also have to pay attention to one thing. Jia Xu said.

In Jia Xu's view, the current production of coal, as well as the production of iron, is completely normal. If the reform is carried out rashly, there may be a great disaster, after all, this kind of enterprise management is not the best thing. This is the merit of the Republican Army, they give the management of enterprises to enterprises. And ** is just to manage the things they should manage, and in such a situation, it is naturally beneficial to their development. This situation will be much more beneficial to them at any time.

The current demand for coal is very large, and naturally the original method will have great advantages. After all, it is enough to blindly expand the numerical advantage. As for the quality advantage, this is not a factor in their reforms, the current market is very large, and they have not yet developed to an extremely saturated state.

"Hmm. We don't care about the specific business matters. Just make sure we have enough coal. Shang Wu said.

At present, the Republican Army is still following the path of extensive development. This is very detrimental to the future development of the Republican Army, but it can only be done for the time being, because the technical level has not yet reached a high level, and everything is not too favorable for them. That's how the situation slowly develops.

"Cao Cao's first batch of laborers entered Luoyang, and the treatment is quite good, but the problems still make us feel a little too much." Jia Xu moved on to the next question.

"There are too many of them. We have only provided some jobs, and many of them need to be retrained. And the number of people they provide is very large, far more than our job needs, and we have to reduce some of the salary when we have to do it. Then they were placed in other positions. Jia Xu said.

Shangwu nodded, and could only agree to do so. After all, sometimes, it's not very balanced to deal with something like this.

"That's all this can do. After all, there are many things that we can't do well ourselves. Shang Wu said.

"At the moment, we are trying to find a way, the first is to create more jobs, for example, to increase the number of factories, and the second is to divert to other areas, and the second situation does not seem to be very easy to do." Jia Xu said.

"Speaking of the factory, Cao Cao wrote that he wanted to build a more favorable ammunition factory, of course. They can open a joint venture with us. But they had to have their own ammunition factories for production. After all, their future needs will be very great. Shang Wu said.

"I've agreed to this. After all, this technique, for us, is not very difficult. Moreover, some businessmen can get a greater degree of benefit, they can directly export some raw materials to push us to upgrade our technology. Shang Wu said.

"Transferring a large number of low-tech factories may be a solution to Cao Cao's labor surplus problem." Jia Xu said.

"Yes, that's how my solution works. Not only ammunition factories, but I think that some firearms assembly factories can also be transferred, and we only need to produce parts and export them. In other words, it is also possible to export key components. Shang Wu said.

"I'm worried that if we do this, will it cause some disadvantage, after all, our situation is also a little bad, if they learn, wouldn't it be bad for us?" Jia Xu asked rhetorically.

"This situation will indeed happen, but for the time being, our situation will indeed be disadvantageous, but what we see is that this kind of competition is conducive to our technological upgrading, and besides, our intentional blockade cannot reach such a level, we need to learn from each other, communicate, and force us to progress. In this way, we can go in first, otherwise, it will be very disadvantageous to us. Jia Xu said.

"In that case, I'll understand." Jia Xu said.

Shang Wu knew that the Republican Army itself also had many problems, and as the situation stabilized and the threats faced became much less, some problems of the Republican Army were naturally exposed, for example, with the substantial increase in their productivity, they began to blindly believe that their strength had increased significantly. And this feeling of self makes them start to actively expand and expand their market. But what they themselves are not clear about is that the expansion of strength is a way, and there are still many problems with the expansion of their other forces, such as the integration of internal forces, and the reconciliation of some minor internal problems. These are things that they themselves have not noticed.

This is also the next important question that Shangwu needs to think about after he stops expanding, and this question will become very important. Importantly, this has seriously affected the next development choice of the Republican Army.

Jia Xu is also very aware of this, so they actively advocate reform, but they are not blindly carrying out reform. They are making some appropriate adjustments to set the stage for positive improvements.

The question of development is as simple as that, there are many more things that the IRA needs to do, but there are many things that need their attention.