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【2nd Update】

As an important year at the turn of the century, 1900 has many historical and epochal significances, but for Far Eastern China, a regional power that has risen, it is indeed a milestone era for the entire country and economy to turn around.

With the operation of the three major technical departments of the military and government, the domestic technology research and development has been fully accelerated, coupled with the comprehensive acceleration of the construction of domestic railways to the inland and northern regions, on July 7, when the cabinet released the biennial policy address, Qin Kai was very satisfied with the report to the Chinese people, China's steel production in the first half of the year have reached an exciting news, within half a year, the four major domestic heavy industry steel production for the first time exceeded 3 million tons, 19 million tons of coal.

At the cabinet meeting two days later, Qin Kai laid out a series of facts to the cabinet officials responsible for national development planning, according to the current domestic production capacity growth rate, by the end of the year, China will surpass the British Empire to become the world's third largest steel producer, slightly lower than the German Empire, which has a steel output of 6.8 million tons this year.

Coal production is slightly lower than the third-ranked United Kingdom, reaching an annual output of 40 million tons, while the first-ranked United States, with a coal production capacity of 90 million tons and steel production of 10.5 million tons, is clearly making amazing progress in the newly industrialized countries that rely on coal-iron complexes for the second industrial revolution, but compared to the United States, which has been steadily developing. It is clear that there is still much more to be done by the new government.

July 20th. The Beijing government has made a series of new arrangements for the domestic resource industry. The chairman of the board of directors of the 12 large resource industries belonging to the state-owned system, the official chief representative attended the important meeting presided over by the cabinet, as a new business model to break the strange circle of state-owned assets operation, the operation of state-owned enterprises is now carried out in the form of official supervision and manager operation, so the real operation of huge state-owned assets is not actually the government, but the operation of nearly ten years. At present, it seems to be very successful, and the large income from the state-owned resources industry has become an important benefit for the national finance.

Xu Jianyin, the director general of the Ministry of Industry in charge of industrial planning, briefed the heads of the state-owned industry operations on the reports on mining exploration in various provinces and the situation of overseas private mining resources in the past few years, issued a new round of resource bidding notice, and at the same time, the cabinet also affirmed for the first time the expansion of state-owned industries to overseas provinces.

As a new generation of professional managers who operate state-owned industries instead of the state, these business tycoons without exception have this rich business experience and the ability to learn and research international industries, and in the past ten years, the development of state-owned resource industries such as coal, minerals, and petroleum has been almost monopolized. It also made them see the huge economic benefits...... Although the vast majority of the proceeds go to the national treasury, they are used as part of the business incentives. It's still enough to make any business family blush to death.

After two days, the Ministry of Industry and the twelve state-owned assets industry signed as many as 60 industrial development agreements, to July 25, the Ministry of Industry again issued a new round of overseas provincial resources industry support program, for the original resource industry state-owned 50% of the law, in order to encourage domestic capital to carry out a new round of overseas provincial investment, will be reduced to 40% at one time, and this directly stimulated the domestic capital market heat, Shanghai, In the following six months, the Guangzhou Stock Exchange carried out a total of 6 rounds of financing for overseas resource extraction, and prepared to establish nearly 400 overseas coal, iron and oil enterprises of all sizes.

In fact, after Qin Kai moved this proposal in the cabinet, except for listening to the opinions of the banking department on financing, he did not think of intervening in any form at all, and the nationalization of resources advocated by himself refers to the nationalization of the income of state-owned resource industries.

Qin Kai's setting of the state monopoly of these industries is entirely based on his own understanding of the historical process, although the capitalized resource industry can still promote the rapid rise of this industry, but in the end it is only a coal king, oil king, if only the state-owned income completed through the tax is a complete failure, for the era and even the next two hundred years of increasingly scarce resources, it is a complete failure.

In the following three months, on October 1, 1900, the cabinet had successively approved more than 40 armament research and development plans proposed by the three major technical departments of military and political affairs...... This is really a whimsical idea, God knows who Lu Han has found, how large caliber is this Lu Gengtang going to use to shoot at least 18-inch torpedoes in this era? It seems that the Yamato, which is impossible for the little devils to appear, can probably be test-fired......

On November 3, in the cold wind of the barracks in the eastern suburbs of Beijing, Qin Kai once again came to the newly reconstructed Dongjiao Airport, around the open airport, a large number of factories have already been built, and the periphery is a warning area controlled by the troops directly under the Beijing Military Region, where the confidential 311 real yàn room gathered the most cutting-edge power engineers and designers in China, and built the world's first real yàn wind tunnel including the aircraft research institute.

After nearly one year of refinement of two biplane prototypes, four improved aircraft were lost, and two of them even left the army forever because of serious injuries, but the world's first real fixed-wing aircraft - F1 biplane finally completed the finalization and flight test test, and soon, under Qin Kai's gaze, two black-painted biplanes were launched from the airport runway at the same time.

Two 50-horsepower aluminum-hulled water-cooled engines mounted on the wings spewed out startling black smoke as the thin aircraft accelerated along the straight concrete road, eventually reaching the ground for nearly 800 meters before leaping into the air in the billowing black fog...... This scene made Qin Kai, who had already seen the future aerospace fighters, still excited.

Behind him, hundreds of real yàn team staff and airport staff immediately burst into fierce applause, and Qin Kai's eyes were more concerned with the state of the plane after takeoff, you know, the key to whether you can fly into the sky lies in the design and aircraft power technology, but the stability after arriving in the sky comes more from the research on new aerodynamics in the design, and in this regard, there is no doubt that the world is also a blank spot.

A few minutes later, after making a big circle in the air, the two F1 biplanes roared down, swooped down from the end of the runway, and stopped after being slowly slowed down by the military officers on both sides with ropes after driving most of the runway at high speed!

"Prime Minister, according to the relevant aircraft research report forwarded by the Prime Minister's Office, Tongguò North Heavy Industry has transformed the original water-cooled six-cylinder engine, changed the original iron shell to an iron-aluminum hybrid structure, reduced the weight by 60%, increased the power by 20%, and the power of two engines is 108 horsepower, if the load is 100 kg of gasoline, it can fly for 60 minutes, and the maximum speed is 120 kilometers per hour!"

When Qin Kai came to the front of two simple planes that were almost all wooden structures, Huang Risheng, the chief engineer of Room 311, was already very excited and began to sing praises for his products, and Qin Kai naturally showed undisguised praise for this.

However, Qin Kai didn't plan to give the 311 gang of engineers who enjoyed national-level treatment a holiday, with a national-level salary, and a chance to go down in history, then they had to work hard! "Chief Engineer Huang, think about it, how long will it take to increase the power of this water-cooled engine by four or five times? Increase the load of this plane to a ton or two! ”

Qin Kai's request immediately made Huang Risheng flee as if he had been beaten with blood, and two days later, a piece of good news came from distant South Africa - the diamond city Kimberley, which had been trapped for nearly 7 months, was finally relieved, and De Beers Mining Company was very obedient to deliver the lagging half-year dividend to the Global Sources consortium - a total of 1.25 million pounds, according to the domestic industrial quotation, it was enough to build a dreadnought!

And this time, the British finally achieved the long-awaited victory at home, the Scottish Highland Brigade and four elite cavalry regiments commanded by French rushed to the Maude River south of the Kimberley, repulsing the 600 Boer cavalry guarding here. The militia under the command of Cronz was encountered, and the main force of the northern flank of the British army under Roberts, who had arrived later, surrounded the Burcronz corps.

The British army, who had won the outright in terms of armament and military strength, bombarded the Boer army in the encirclement, and finally, after nearly a month of fierce fighting, the desperate General Cronge rode to General Roberts' camp and announced his surrender, and the most courageous Boer commander and his men were immediately sent to the Bermuda prisoner of war camp in the Atlantic.

The Boers finally embarked on the road of decline, this news obviously did not surprise Qin Kai at all, modern war has long ceased to be a simple tactical confrontation, the huge increase in armament means huge military spending and irreversible balance of power, especially in the war between small countries and large countries, this unchangeable status quo has determined the fate of small countries from the beginning of the war, and the war between large countries is undoubtedly a confrontation of national strength, and the world changes that they are about to face, There is no doubt that it will determine China's final position and direction of development in the future. (The novel "Industrial China" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! (To be continued......)