Chapter 75 Agricultural Mechanization

During the Huaxia Army's great march into the Yak Princely State in the hinterland of Borneo, Hu Zhen did not move with the army, but stayed in the Iron and Steel Plant in Lag Town.

Hu Zhen didn't think that defeating the Jacques Army was a great achievement, and in his big plan, some primitive tribes in Borneo were never the opponents in his heart.

The European powers are the real opponents in his mind, but to compete with the European powers, it is obviously not possible to rely on a little weapons and current strength made on nuclear submarines. The steel industry and the machinery industry must be developed quickly.

This Borneo is almost a tropical wilderness, sparsely populated, overgrown with flora and fauna, plague-ridden, and the history of another time and space has long proved that there is no systematic modern large-scale industry here except for the production of mineral resources and the transfusion of blood to modern industry.

However, Hu Zhen used a supercomputer on a nuclear submarine that calculates 900 trillion times per second to make a precise calculation of the situation in Borneo and calculate a feasible path: develop agriculture and make Borneo a granary for hundreds of millions of people in China!

On the basis of Borneo's agriculture, in view of the characteristics of Borneo with more people and less land, we will vigorously develop agricultural mechanization that serves agriculture. In addition to promoting the rapid development of industry, agricultural mechanization also derived military mechanization to enhance the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army.

When it comes to agricultural mechanization, even the European and American powers that have now achieved industrialization are only farmers who use animal power to farm the land, and no country dares to boast that they have achieved agricultural mechanization. Therefore, Hu Zhen's idea is to stand at the top of the world.

The idea of the world summit is wonderful, but it is not easy to achieve.

The first obstacle is the lack of an industrial talent base.

In order to solve the problem of talent bottleneck, Hu Zhen began to lay out as early as when he was in Europe. In Europe, more than 9,000 Chinese slave laborers have been rescued and sent to factories and schools in various countries to study, and now more than 400 people led by Wang Kaitian have returned from Europe, but they are not in a hurry, not to mention the technicians of this 400 people, even if thousands of people in Europe all return from their studies, it is not enough to undertake the grand plan of agricultural mechanization envisioned by Hu Zhen.

In addition, Hu Zhen also arranged for people to search for skilled workers and technicians among the Chinese people all over the world, and now these people are concentrated in Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, New York, Los Angeles and other places, with more than 2,000 people.

Although most of Borneo was still in the hands of the tribal tribes and the Dutch colonial army, with the foundation of the Lage Iron and Steel Plant, Hu Zhen could not wait to issue an order to bring the industrial elite of more than 2,000 almost hundreds of millions of Chinese people to Borneo Town immediately to carry out mechanized industrial production and construction.

At the same time, in addition to continuing to open schools in Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tianjin, Hu Zhen also wanted to establish Huaxia University in Laga Town, use experienced technicians as teachers, train technical personnel, and recruit young people with basic knowledge of modern science and technology among the Chinese people in Borneo to study scientific knowledge.

However, this work is still not urgent, after these days of searching, only found more than 300 young people with a certain foundation, who were forcibly sent into the classroom by Hu Zhen to start studying.

These young people still want to join the Huaxia Army as a soldier and charge on the battlefield.

However, after Hu Zhen reasoned with these young people many times, explaining that in order for China to rise again in the world, it must establish its own industrial system and must have thousands of technical talents, so these young people slowly settled down, studied hard, and guided other young people to join the ranks of learning.

After arranging the first batch of young students, Hu Zhen ordered to continue to search for young people with a certain foundation or good qualifications in Nanyang and Huaxia at all costs, and send them to schools to learn modern scientific and technological knowledge as quickly as possible, so as to accumulate talents for the development of modern industries.

Compared with talent barriers, technical and technological barriers are much easier to solve for Hu Zhen, Hu Zhen has a lot of technical information in his hands, he doesn't even bother to copy it himself, and directly uses the 3D printer on the nuclear submarine to print it out with human handwriting.

As for how to digest it, it was a matter for the technicians, Hu Zhen himself only knew what it was, no matter how others asked, he had to simply make up a sentence: "I'm sorry, I'm too busy, the information has been written very clearly, you can see for yourself!" ”

However, fortunately, everyone respects Hu Zhen very much, and they all think that his knowledge is unfathomable, and he is a busy man, it would be good to be able to instruct himself for a sentence or two, and he didn't dare to delve into it or bother too much.

The annual output of the Lage Iron and Steel Plant is 30,000 tons, which is not even a copycat factory in China in the 21st century. But at the end of the nineteenth century, especially in the wild hinterland of Asian Borneo, it was a complete industrial behemoth. With the support of the process and technical data brought by Hu Zhen from the nuclear submarine, the technical team headed by Wang Kaitian did not stop when the Jacques army attacked, and soon produced the first qualified furnace of steel.

In the following time, according to the technical information and technological process provided by Hu Zhen, the Mauser K98 rifle in another time and space was made, but here it was called Zhenhua rifle according to Hu Zhen's requirements, and then Zhenhua light machine gun (imitation Czech light machine gun) and Makqin heavy machine gun were produced one after another.

However, the production of bullets and shells was greatly hindered by the lack of explosives raw materials, but fortunately, Hu Zhen had already made arrangements for this, and he ordered the five detachments of Qingyanzhai to send people to quickly escort the heavy explosives, bullets, shells, and gasoline and diesel production equipment to Lag Town.

After round-the-clock installation and commissioning, technicians and workers quickly produced enough explosives to produce copper-shelled 7.92 mm bullets, 60 mm **, and recoilless shells.

Unfortunately, due to the lack of skilled technicians and workers, it is difficult to expand the scale of production as quickly as possible.

However, Hu Zhen is not in a hurry, he has long expected this situation, even if he does not use the nuclear submarine 3D printing manufacturing system to produce ammunition, the large number of ammunition imported from Germany can still be used for a long time, and it can be maintained until enough skilled technicians and workers are trained to produce ammunition on a large scale.

After having the ability to produce weapons and ammunition with a minimum ability to protect himself, Hu Zhen concentrated his energy on the process of agricultural mechanized production that he had planned.

Although there are design drawings, process technology, steel materials and other elements, it is still difficult to produce the diesel engine of the first agricultural tractor.