Chapter 525: The World's No. 1 for a Long Time (Medium)

During the First Five-Year Plan, the population of Central Asia swelled to 20 million, twice as many as before the Three Kingdoms, and the vast majority of them were immigrants; In 1915, together with Alaska and Western Canada, the total population of Chinese North America had exceeded 40 million, of which more than 20 million were immigrants, which was the region that absorbed the most immigrants in the past five years. In addition, Siberia and Southeast Asia have also absorbed a lot of immigrants, adding up to tens of millions......

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Speaking of which, China's massive population exceeding the entire Western world has indeed derived a lot of unique national conditions, taking the issue of immigration, originally with the Chinese's consistent relocation of land, it is not easy to persuade them to immigrate thousands of miles away, but because the Chinese population is too large, even if only one-tenth of the population is persuaded, it is enough to quickly fill (by Western standards) those "empty land", so except for the period when the government was not established in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was not much difficulty on this issue after that, This is something that even Li Hui didn't expect at first......

Compared with steel production, Li Hui's long-standing emphasis on the power industry has a greater advantage over the West, and even though the Western powers have been desperately catching up in recent years, China's total power generation in 1915 exceeded two-thirds of the world's electricity (more than 60 billion kWh), and most of it was clean hydropower. Strictly speaking, power generation is only a secondary function of large-scale water conservancy projects, but with the abundance of hydropower resources in China and the limited scale of the current power industry, only a small part of the development is enough to become the main force of power generation. In fact, if it weren't for the fact that China is not currently able to build large capacity generating units, hydropower generation could have increased by a large margin.

This can only be blamed for the fact that it is too early now, and China has to build all those water conservancy projects as soon as possible because of the needs of agriculture and security, and can only waste some hydropower, anyway, the hydropower technology of the Western powers is worse than their own. In fact, many years ago, China had already reached the world's largest level of hydropower technology and power generation, and now that all cascade hydropower stations in the upper reaches of the Yellow River have been built, even the Gezhouba dam on the Yangtze River would have started construction by now, if not for the imminent world war.

To be able to accomplish such a great achievement many years earlier than in history, although it is thanks to the help of the system that has brought a higher starting point, it is also inseparable from the efforts of the vast number of scientific and technological personnel, including many foreign scientists and engineers, such as Nikola Tesla, who suffered from the anti-China wave in the United States (Note 1) and could only stay in China......

Unlike the legend of this benevolent brother in history, which leads to the chaos of the opposite, Nikola Tesla's achievements and contributions in this time and space are clear, and because of the guidance and influence of the scientific research funds allocated by the government of the People's Republic of China, he did not involve too many research fields as in history, but devoted his life to the great cause of China's electrification. But if it is more than the actual contribution, he is not inferior to himself in history, or even far surpasses......

The top 10 hydropower stations in the world today were all designed by Nikola Tesla and built by him or his disciples, which alone can be called the world's top engineers; Then, considering the incomparably vast territory of China, Nikola Tesla also specially developed long-distance transmission technology that is even more advanced than the last level of system technology, and personally presided over the construction of the "Asian Power Grid" covering all the territories and land of the Old Continent, and the "North American Power Grid" under construction was presided over by his most outstanding student, Academician Sun Zhengguo; Based on a unified power grid, Nikola Tesla also formulated a grand plan for the electrification of the country's railways, which was also the most important work of the Ministry of Railways in the First Five-Year Plan, even more than the new difficult railways, but unfortunately because of the approaching world war, this huge plan had to be temporarily suspended......

As for the radio communication that has been studied in history (in fact, the main purpose of Tesla's Wordencliffe Tower is radio communication, and the secondary purpose is to verify the concept of wireless energy transmission, which is 108,000 miles away from the real realization of wireless power transmission, and Tesla himself is also very unhappy with others understanding his idea as radio wave energy transmission. Tesla himself was very interested, but unfortunately Li Hui did not want to waste system technology, and it was not until 1914 that the relevant technology was developed and completed, so that Tesla carried out further research on this basis, but because the time was too short, no major results were achieved for the time being.

Because of the concentration of his achievements in the field of electricity, Nikola Tesla has earned the nickname "King of Electricity", and although it is not as easy to arouse children's curiosity as the historical "Frankenstein", it has only a high historical status. Of course, Nikola Tesla is still alive and kicking now, and it is still very early before the coffin is closed......

Speaking of electrification, the first five-year plan of the Huaxia Republic also achieved nationwide coverage of radio broadcasting, so that the central government's decrees can reach the grassroots level, even if Li Hui has the help of biochemical soldiers, this is still of great significance. In addition, compared with when it first appeared, the current radio programs have been greatly enriched, in addition to the news, there are also many new programs that are conducive to improving the quality of life of the people, including even many purely entertaining programs, such as the extremely popular storytelling and cross talk, which may not be worth mentioning in the eyes of later generations, but in the 1910s, it was definitely regarded as a fairly high level of cultural enjoyment, and it was naturally written by the Propaganda Department as an important landmark achievement in building a moderately prosperous society.

Note 1: Because he was still working in China during the Three Kingdoms War (in fact, Li Hui deliberately set up a bureau to trap him with a long-term contract) and was accused of being a "traitor" by the American media, the anti-China sentiment in the United States became more and more high after the war, and those scientists who had been to China to receive awards or work were excluded and persecuted, so that Tesla did not dare to return to China and could only continue to stay in China. But then again, the scientific research conditions and status treatment here are better than those of the United States, in fact, there is no regret......