Chapter Twenty-Nine: A Year's Outlook from Another World (3)
Lu Airlines was the first to raise both hands in favor of this proposal. It's really unpleasant to come to Elta and take turns doing the of "Army One".
It was imperative to establish an aviation agency to serve the top echelons of Elta. You can't always go up to the emperor to travel, the prime minister to inspect, and go down to business trips, you have to carry the plane with the August 1st logo on your behalf, right? Military aircraft are not specifically designed to carry ordinary passengers, so they are uncomfortable from the perspective of passengers, and they are unjustly spent from the perspective of providers, so why bother.
The United General Aviation Company, formed in the first phase, will purchase helicopters, regional propeller airliners and recruit pilots from the country. At this stage, Elta does not have the ability to bring in large airliners and make repairs - no one wants Doniva to die in a plane crash before the transfer of power is complete. Even after Elta's change of government, United Airlines still had to ensure a low accident rate. As a result, United would rather abandon speed and range for a while, with a little bit of comfort, and be subordinated to the current level of maintenance.
The upfront investment in airports, maintenance plants, and aircraft is advanced by the Chinese side, and the United General Aviation Company nominally controls 30% of the shares of Elta, and the Chinese side controls 70% of the enterprises established, but in fact, the capital injection of the Elta side is still a blank check, and for a long time to come, Elta will not only have to repay the infrastructure costs in proportion to the shares, but also the Chinese side will take all the visible profits in the Elta aviation business.
The aviation industry is not the only one that has stepped into commercial operation, but also railways and highways are gearing up, and even river transport has to come to get a piece of the pie. Although the only railway line currently in operation is the Mendong City-Portal double-double railway, this lifeline is absolutely impossible to use commercially. The number of trains, the carrying, and the departure and arrival times on this line are not revealed to the outside world even the slightest bit of top secret.
The Mendong City-Dun City line is still under construction, and the Mendong City-Northern Town Savachpols line (West Elta section) is also being surveyed, and it is absolutely impossible to complete it within this year. Therefore, the proud protégés sent by Mr. Tie had no choice but to continue to maintain intensively on the short Mendong City-portal double line and chat to get by.
Road transport is also not very good. In the budget, there is no plan to expand the total number of non-electric vehicles, but to completely mothball the military trucks that will be vacant after the reunification of Elta and replace them with ordinary trucks suitable for road conditions. At the same time, a large number of trained Elta automobile soldiers can be transferred on the spot to fill the vacancies in construction units or logistics enterprises.
But what kind of long-distance bus network, logistics and freight network should be played...... That's impossible. Unless Elta suddenly finds enough oil, it will be difficult to maintain the current scale of military oil, and the countrymen who are experts in business are not here to set up charities.
If oil cannot be found on Elta, then the continent will have to rely on electricity as the main source of energy in the future. The popularity of electric vehicles and battery cars in Mendong City is likely to be replicated one after another, and the result is that the domestic tram industry will make significant progress...... But even if that's the case, that's another story.
In the new year, resource exploration throughout Elta will continue to be a priority in the budget. There is always a tendency for people to be lazy, and countries around the world are reluctant to give up their ready-made and easy-to-use oil resources. But the Northern Union has Tyumen, there is Baku. The North American Federation has the Gulf of Mexico, shale gas, and wants Elta to be the motive for the Persian Gulf...... It's a pity that Elta has everything, but the hat of this oil-poor country can't be taken off for the time being......
As far as the current results are concerned, Elta, which has gold, silver, copper, iron, manganese, titanium salts, and rare earth ores, cannot be said to be rich in minerals at all, but there is no shadow of oil. A well was drilled on the plot of what was supposed to be an oil reservoir in Sielta, and there was nothing but groundwater......
In response to this dilemma, the budget also includes the cost of maintaining the current exploration team to continue to travel through the flat mountains of Elta. The deployment of an oil rig offshore Elta is unthinkable for the time being, and even if it were to be implemented, it would be extremely difficult to dismantle and transport the huge rig through the door – not to mention that reassembling it along the coast of Elta, where there is no industrial base, would be no less difficult than rebuilding a completely new platform in coastal cities such as Hirzi.
As an alternative, two remote sensing satellites for mineral exploration have been added to the budget for the coming year, which are basically the same type as the domestic remote sensing satellite No. 39. At the same time, construction has begun on a new satellite launch site in China's territory next to the portal base, which is expected to free the bilunar planet from a situation where it has been consuming China's domestic emergency rockets.
At the same time, part of the budget is also used for the expansion and rerouting of domestic railways in terms of portals. The original highway embankment has been completely removed, and the huge shunting yard is now covered with a solid roof. However, the old decontamination machinery has been overwhelmed, and it is simply not feasible to let the trains on the side of the portal enter the country's cobweb-like railway network without any decontamination - and vice versa, and no one dares to take responsibility for a possible Resident Evil by saving hundreds of millions of dollars.
As for the minerals that have already been discovered, Elta's newly formed wholly-owned "Kifetan Mining Company" (Kifetan, one of the wealthy nobles of Cierta and the owner of several large iron mines) will take over almost all of Cierta's mines, and will only be responsible for selling mineral machinery, pilots, specialists and technology to assist Kifetan in the development of several mines with the existing cheap labor (prisoners of the Western Expeditionary Army), and then the domestic and local industries of Elta will take over the production capacity of Kifetan.
The development of mining is bound to bring about the consumption of ore, and you can't dig out the ore and pile it up in the yard and then complain that other countries buy it is economic aggression, and then light a fire for yourself at the press conference and have a vivid shroud catwalk, right?
Kifetan himself was interested and financially interested in bringing in Chinese technology to build a small-scale blast furnace or converter. The budget also approved the budget for the transfer of a converter plant (two 50T top-blown converters) to Elta, but surprisingly, they do not belong to Kifetan.
In fact, the reason is very simple. In the future, it is not appropriate for Elta to have a prototype of a large monopoly consortium that continuously controls several upstream and downstream industries...... The rule that the base fetan was not allowed to interfere in steelmaking was thus unwritten. As long as the Mendong City Research Institute, which has received sufficient budget and human resources, can come up with a feasible alternative energy plan for magic powder, then there will be more iron and steel enterprises and more industrial and mining enterprises in Elta -- if there is cooperation between the two at that time, Mendong City and Elta will naturally be happy to see it. But now the industry and mining want to get involved in smelting, or the smelting wants to control the mines, and after letting the first step go, it will only make the progress of the big conglomerates run faster than the state, and it will be impossible to cut off such a group at that time......
The rest of the light industry investment will not be repeated one by one...... Among them, many of them are domestic light industry enterprises that absorb the investment of the Egyptian Investment Bank, and the Mendong City side only needs to manage the spending, and there is no need to dig money into the budget. This makes Mendong City very worry-free. The major factories in Mendong City, which are strictly implemented in accordance with the domestic labor law, have continued the advanced management experience learned from abroad after the reopening.
Another major expense after the unification of Elta was the construction and maintenance of the new order. In fact, the new Elta is not a continuation of the old Elta, it looks more like a new state built on the broken bones of the old Elta, and therefore the cost of building it is no different from building a new one.
According to the current plan, in the power system of the new Elta, Doniva will temporarily stand in the transitional "caretaker" position, until the constitution is written, the first prime minister is elected (the difference, or the whole people, but it is just a formality), the first El Ta judge (ibid.), the formation of a parliament, the upper and lower councils and other institutions - that is, when the new political system is perfected, there is still enough binding force in the hands, and there is still the emperor's authority above the head Doniva Siravia will announce the reorganization of the country in front of the people, At the same time, he was able to let go of the burden on his shoulders. Well, there's no burden in the first place. But when everyone sat down at the table and spoke well, the old shotguns and hunting knives on the stove still had a deterrent effect, and no one wanted to let the tank run into the room and force everyone to reason.
The superficial cost may seem small, but if you want to re-establish the structure of the administrative districts of Elta - sub-districts/villages, districts, cities, provinces, and regions (multi-province collection, similar to the original directly subordinate regions), administrative units (unified management, taxation, bandit police and fire, auditing, legal affairs, people's livelihood, etc.), the re-selection and appointment and even election of magistrates at all levels, the reconstruction of the monetary system (the renminbi and the credit currency of the Elta countries, which broke away from the gold and silver standard, are now inclined to the latter), and the influence of the bi-monthly church is eliminated, The propaganda and promotion of the new Elta administrative philosophy (hypocrisy), the popularization and initial implementation of the law...... Just know how huge the manpower and resource cost will be.
Now the three regions to the south of Elta, and the two regions to the west only need the cost of peaceful change for the time being. However, from a national point of view, this separate sale also includes the cost of dismantling the northern region, which is currently unable to enter the water, and investigating the dog officials who are fighting for the tiger in the enemy-occupied areas in the east.
Every step is a new attempt, and unknown difficulties await the pioneers of the other world and the innovators of the plane...... For both, however, the way back is not simply "more difficult than the road ahead", but "there is no such thing as non-existent". If the fear of hardship rises and the car piloted by Elta and China starts beeping incessantly, "Reverse please be careful", the consequences and losses of doing so will be impossible for both countries to bear.