"The quality of the rails is so bad now?" Du Yande asked curiously, "I usually take care of military affairs, but I didn't expect the foundation of the steel industry to be so poor." I remember that some of the railroad tracks in Wuhan were still from the Qing Dynasty before the crossing, and I heard that they were still very good to use, and they didn't even need much maintenance, so we still can't reach the level of the Qing Dynasty? ”

"That's not it," Zhang Yuan waved his hand and said, "The main thing is that we are still not good enough in terms of materials, for example, we need to add some metals to the steel to achieve the function of rust resistance, such as manganese-containing rails with manganese, copper-containing carbon steel rails, high-silicon copper-containing steel rails, of course, the best ones must be chromium-containing ones." But we have not yet found a source of chromium, and if there is, it is a priority to supply it to the military industrial sector, and it is not so rich for the time being. Manganese can also be used in small quantities by recycling copper coins, but it is basically impossible to use them to make rails. ”

"Well," Xiao Jing said, "sleepers are also a more cumbersome thing, our lumber mill now consumes quite a lot of man-hours to produce sleepers, and the most important thing is that the anti-corrosion work is more complicated, although it can be coated with wood tar, but the workload consumption is a bit terrifying." According to the requirements of the railway department, the length of ordinary sleepers is 2.5 meters, the width is 220 mm, and the thickness is 160 mm. Our timber source is quite single, and the number of sleepers that can be processed by an ordinary tree is limited, and even so, the lumber mill has to bear the timber used in the construction of the entire Oriental Port, furniture, etc., and the output is really stretched. ”

"Didn't all cement sleepers be used in the old world? Why can't we use it now? Du Yande was still very curious, Zhang Yuan glanced at him, "Do you know what the output of our cement plant is?" We now have a limited source of limestone for the production of our cement plant, mainly a limestone mine northwest of Anyun, and the production is very low, mainly through manual excavation and production by the labor camp personnel of the labor camp. The output of calcined limestone coal is not high now, and it is also necessary to compete for quotas with large coal users such as steel mills, brick factories, hardware factories and foundries. In particular, after we used cement to build some buildings that needed to be completed urgently, the local aborigines also discovered the advantages of cement and have now begun to consult us about cement procurement options, so the amount of cement will not be high for a long time. ”

"So how to break the predicament of Yancun Industrial Zone?" Du Yande was a little anxious, "It's definitely impossible to move the factory now, but the fleet of the Medeno people is hovering dozens of kilometers away at the moment, if they want to attack, it will be a few days to arrive, can we sit back and wait?" ”

"I remember that the Yancun Industrial Zone was built as a fortress when it was built," Yang Minghuan said as if he suddenly remembered something, "It seems that there is a thick wall on the periphery of the industrial zone for defense." ”

"It was for a ground attack," Du Yande shook his head, "and it was terminated near the sea, which was designed without the possibility of coming from the sea, so there were no defenses at all on the line near the beach by the sea, not even a city wall." If the enemy comes and lands in front of the enemy, I think it will be very difficult to hold this industrial area. ”

Zhang Yuan thought for a while and said, "This problem should not be big, I remember that we still have a batch of cement in our inventory, we can use this cement to build a breakwater in front of the beach by the sea, in addition to pulling up barbed wire to prevent people from landing on the beach, and horses can also be placed on the shallows to prevent ships from approaching." ”

"Alas, it's better to defend to the death," Du Yande sighed, "Our current predicament is that we have insufficient strength, although we have a population of almost 60,000 here, but the army is only a few thousand, if the Medeno really attack with all their might, we can only concentrate our limited troops in one place to defend to the death." ”

"This is still good," Sun Wenbin Ge You lay on a rattan chair beside him, "As the saying goes, a year's army, ten years of the air force, and a hundred years of navy, the enemy we are dealing with now is a nation with a naval history of hundreds of years, they were born in the sea and grew up in the sea, even if we have warships that surpass them for hundreds of years, we have no advantage at all at such a time, not to mention that there is a serious shortage of numbers." ”

"Ours is not a warship, just a fishing boat, and even the only Dongfeng that can deter them is still in Hong Kong," Zhang Yuan said. ”

After the far-fetched local war, the ship made a promise

"Jingle bell" With a burst of phone ringing, the eyes of the five people couldn't help but move to the phone on the desk in the office, Yang Minghuan walked over and picked up the earpiece to his ear and at the same time picked up the microphone to his mouth, "Hey? I'm Yang Minghuan, what's the matter? ”

"Hello to the Executive Committee! I'm from the Immigration Department of the Port Authority, my name is ......" The voice began to be a little choppy, Yang Minghuan didn't really care about what his name was, but he felt very interesting about what he said.

It turned out that this morning, the beacon radar station found that there were radar echoes on the sea surface more than 30 kilometers to the southeast, and now the navy is patrolling the sea every day, so the radar station notified the patrol team. When the two frigates arrived, they found it to be a Medeno freshwater supply ship.

At the same time as the Medeno ship was discovered, the two frigates entered a combat state, the guns were removed from the armor, the machine guns were loaded, and the sailors arrived at their respective battle positions, and when they were ready for battle, they found that the Maideno ship on the opposite side was not hostile, on the contrary, the Medeno people on the ship immediately raised the flag as soon as they saw the fleet of the Chinese Navy, and the artillery window was not opened, looking like a good baby.

After boarding and inspecting the frigate, the captain of the frigate confirmed that the Maidno ship was indeed not hostile, so he asked them about the purpose of going to Vostochny Port, and the captain of the Maidno told them that he had come to Vostochny Port to apologize for the conflict with the Chinese Navy due to a misunderstanding some time ago, and hoped to resolve the dispute through diplomatic negotiations.

Although the captains of the two frigates can be regarded as literate "intellectuals", they are limited to being able to read through ordinary words and sentences, and they dare not overstep their responsibilities in this kind of thing that directly affects the national policy, so they directly guided the freshwater supply ship to the port outside the Oriental Port, and the freshwater supply ship immediately applied to the port authority for permission to call through the pilot ship when it arrived outside the port.

Although the port authority did not know what the intention of this group of Medeno people was here, it was very clear that it was now on the verge of war with the Medeno people, and the war between the two sides was almost imminent, so during this time, the port of the Oriental Port was completely devoid of Medeno merchant ships entering and leaving the port, and at this time, they did not dare to rashly let such a Medeno ship enter the port, so they directly called the executive committee to ask for a decision.

"Medenor's ships?" Yang Minghuan was a little confused, "What are they doing at this time?" ”

The enemy science and earth science ghost ship ball catches the lonely test ghost yang

"They seem to be here for consultations, should we deny them entry?" In fact, the naturalized workers didn't know what the Medeno people meant by "bruising", but since the Medeno people said it, they said it as it was.

In front of the staff stood a naval officer in a straight naval uniform, and if Liu Yeqiang or a few members of the executive committee or Gu Qingqian were present, they would definitely be able to recognize this blonde and blue-eyed Meideno man at a glance, he was the "old friend of the Senate" Myropolis.

Since he received the order to come to the port of the East to negotiate the question of the two sides of the war, he set off non-stop, anyway, his ship was a freshwater supply ship, and the only supplies he needed to replenish were food, and the distance from Jakarta to the port of the East was fifteen hundred nautical miles, and it was now a winter headwind, but it took him a long time and energy to reach the waters outside the port of the East in about ten days. Knowing that he was going to the port of Vostok, the familiar people in the fleet stationed outside the port of Wenshan, including the commander of Mycenae, were dissuading him, telling him to rather disobey the order than approach the port of the east, the combat effectiveness of the ships in the port of the east was too terrible. After listening to the descriptions of these colleagues, the battle situation that day really surprised Miro.

He knew that the Chinese had strong combat effectiveness, but he was far from expecting that it would be so strong, and in the case of a sneak attack, the Chinese used a small three-masted destroyer to severely damage a number of sharp ships and gorgeous ships that the Maidno had been relying on to deter other countries, and also retreated, Miro could not think of how the Chinese could win such an unfavorable battle.

In the hundreds of years that the Meednos have been rampant on the sea, he has seen a lot of forces trying to rise on the sea, whether it is the small island countries of Europa, or the Muslims with their heads and robes next to Constantinople, not even a single force has ever taken advantage of the Medenor people at sea, even if there is such a huge and terrible fleet of Zheng He of the Wu Dynasty, it has not been able to seize the control of the Medenor people. But the Chinese who came out of nowhere did it, and although they did not yet have the strength to compete with the Medeno for sea supremacy, these Medeno warships captured by the Chinese had reached an invincible state.

Although he was a little suspicious that this group of colleagues was using exaggerated Chinese combat strength to cover up their defeat, the gray-headed and wounded Mycenaean commander in front of him at that time made him have to believe in the combat strength of the Chinese, which made his decision to go to Oriental Port somewhat begin to waver.

However, after thinking about it for a long time, he decided to drive his freshwater supply ship Villorpolis to the legendary port of Vostok, and the Chinese and the Medeno might eventually have a decisive battle, but not now. While the senators of the Senate were arguing over the sudden closure of the raw material import channel and the industrial product export channel during this time, the Medeno people also fell into a state of panic.

Chinese goods have hit Yaning's industrial system with unprecedented quality and cheapness, destroying almost all Yaning workshops, and while Yaning people are angry, the Maidno people have also made a lot of money that they have never had before. In just over ten days, the Port of Vostochny closed its doors to the Maidno people, and at the same time, the Maidno people did not dare to go to the Vostochny Port for fear of being implicated. Leaving the high-quality and low-cost Chinese goods, the only thing they can choose is Yaning goods - not to mention that the terminal customers do not accept such "garbage" products, and even the Meidenuo merchants who go to purchase them are completely "disgusted" to choose from the Yaning goods that were in short supply in the past, and often return empty-handed in the end.

The enemy is hateful, and the sun ball is cold

Even if there are blind Maideno people who sell Yaning freight to the terminal sales place, those local natives do not accept such products at all - compared with Chinese goods at the same price, Yaning goods are simply garbage. After the natives in the sales place "voted with their feet", they soon found that Chinese goods are irreplaceable, at least when the price of Yaning goods cannot be lowered, and the quality cannot be improved, there is no substitute for Chinese products at all.

Although the Medeno people are a large country ruled by the elite ruling class, but it is also a country built under the concept of mercantilism, at this moment all Medeno businessmen who have come into contact with Chinese goods all complain about the wrong decision of the Medeno top to decide to go to war with the Chinese, even Miro himself is obsessed with China - he misses Gu Qingqian more, at this moment he made a decision, must go to the Oriental Port, no matter what, to reopen the door of both sides, so that both sides can cooperate and do business again, He was sure it would be good for both sides.

But he was only a captain in the intelligence service of Maidno, and this was a promotion he received after several visits to the port of Vostochny and the analysis of intelligence through his knowledge of the Chinese. In his capacity, he is not qualified to negotiate with the Chinese on behalf of the Medeno at the national level, so his Villópolis also has several commercial representatives brought in Jakarta. When he was still in Jakarta, he was told that these business representatives had extremely high power and could make decisions directly on behalf of Medeno, but what made him quite puzzled was that those business representatives shrank in the cabin as soon as they got on the ship, and they didn't even come out casually to the fleet anchorage outside Wenshan Port, and they didn't even participate in the dance held by the fleet.

Miro smiled slightly self-deprecatingly, and his eyes fell on the Port Authority naturalized citizen in front of him, who was carrying a small lid over his ear and holding a small funnel to his mouth. Although he didn't know what these things were for, the naturalized person's question-and-answer speech and expression could clearly sense that this person was talking to other people through this thing. "This thing is really interesting, the Chinese can really toss some strange things." He thought to himself.