"Old Yan, do it well. Shanxi has established a power center www.biquge.info the Pen, and then it can also develop power equipment manufacturing, produce generator sets, wires and cables, and build the entire power industry system. It is enough for Shanxi to stand at the forefront of China and even the world. ”

Yang Chao finally encouraged.

Yan Xishan seemed to hold back a mouthful of honey, and even said good things.

Yang Chao continued to burn a fire in his heart: "It's Qu Cai to put you in Shanxi, in my opinion, the president may be too difficult, but a vice president, or prime minister, you are competent enough." Work harder, and in a few years on the next level. ”

Yan Xishan was very shrewd and careful, he didn't react, he was thinking about whether Yang Chao wanted to promote him or transfer him from Shanxi, Shanxi was his foundation, and he didn't want to leave without being completely sure.

But after thinking about it seriously, he found that Yang Chao had no reason to deal with him, and he was secretly happy in his heart, why didn't he want to go up, there was a world of difference between a provincial member and the president, and after he went home as the vice president, it was enough to set up a Xiangguo archway.

After meeting with Yan Xishan, he met with Tang Jiyao.

The most famous person in Yunnan is Cai Yi, but this product is not for fame and fortune, in recent years, he has been holding the little phoenix fairy to play in the mountains and rivers so unhappy, and his teacher Liang Qi is half dead in anger, but he is unwilling to go out of the mountain to do things.

Therefore, Tang Jiyao always maintained the Yunnan provincial government.

In fact, Yang Chao is not very optimistic about Tang Jiyao, this person is more selfish, and his selfishness is comparable to Yan Xishan, but his ability is too far behind, and Yunnan has never improved in his hands.

Of course, he can't be blamed entirely, Yunnan is inland, and it is indeed too difficult to develop, and it is surrounded by mountains, and just a traffic will kill him.

Therefore, the development of Yunnan needs external support, but it must also have its own conditions, and it must be adapted to local conditions, and Yunnan happens to have this condition, that is, Yunnan's water power.

Yunnan is located on a plateau. The territory is rich in hydropower resources, and the installed capacity of economically developable hydropower stations is 97.95 million kilowatts, ranking second in the country, and the first is Sichuan. However, Sichuan has a large population and a much better foundation than Yunnan, and the development of hydropower in Sichuan is the icing on the cake, and the development of hydropower in Yunnan is related to the development plan.

Yunnan hydropower not only has huge reserves, but also is mainly distributed in the three major river basins of Jinsha River, Lancang River and Nu River. It is very convenient for centralized construction, and it is a large power plant with high efficiency.

If all the hydropower in Yunnan is developed, it will be close to 100 million kilowatts, and based on the current average daily power generation time of 12 hours, it will be more than 400 billion yuan a year, which is four times that of the United States.

Of course, under the current conditions, it is impossible to develop all of them, but as long as a quarter of them are developed, it will be larger than the annual power generation of the United States. It is enough to supply the whole of China.

Hydropower technology has also matured, the Americans can build Hoover and the Big Coulee power station, the 2 million capacity of the hydropower station technology has matured, and with the development of technology can also be upgraded, the big Coulee power station at its peak, the capacity reached 6.49 million, has been close to the Three Gorges.

There is no problem with the construction of 10 large coulee hydropower stations in Yunnan, the problem is that China has no experience in developing large-scale water conservancy projects, and the United States is the only country in the world that currently has this technology. It was still accumulated by the development of the Hoover Dam, so after reaching an agreement with Rockefeller Jr., Yang Chao put the plan to develop hydropower in Yunnan on the agenda.

Tang Jiyao was invited by Yang Chao, in terms of attitude. He is not as active as Yan Xishan, and he may also be resistant to Yang Chao, after all, they were two camps back then, and they worked in battles.

However, as soon as Yang Chao told Tang Jiyao, he agreed with his mouth. This kind of good thing is not agreed to by fools. Over the years, the cooperation with the French has made Yunnan still develop well. It has become China's second power equipment production base after Shandong, at least in the wire and cable, it can already compete with Shandong.

The French have long been tempted by the development of hydropower in Yunnan, and have encouraged Tang Jiyao many times, but where does the money come from?

The French can't come up with too much money, and Yunnan can't attract investment, and now that Yang Chao has expressed his support, how can he refuse.

It's just that the French have tackled him for many years, leaving aside the French and working alone, his face is a little unsightly, mainly because the French have given a lot of gifts, Tang Jiyao is a person who talks about rules, and he doesn't want to ruin his reputation.

So he euphemistically expressed the French interest in Yunnan hydropower.

Yang Chao agreed, saying that whether the French want to invest or use technology to participate, Yang Chao welcomes it.

The development of Yunnan hydropower, this is related to the overall efficiency of the country's overall situation, Yang Chao does not intend to be conservative, to use the world's best technology, France in recent years of power technology development is good, although not as experienced in large-scale water conservancy facilities as the United States, but power equipment, wires and cables and transformers and other equipment is still world-class, as long as they are willing to send the best technicians, Yang Chao has no reason to refuse them, let the French make some money.

As for investment, not only are they welcomed, but they can't wait to pull the French into the water, and as soon as the Second World War began, the French were just as willing to sell their butts as the British.

So it was decided, and I believe that the French would think that China had given them another big piece of cake, and they would be so happy.

In addition to Yunnan, of course, there are also Guizhou and Sichuan hydropower should also be developed, Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces have developed water power, enough to meet the power supply of the entire south of the Yangtze River, Yunnan's hydropower is mainly used to meet the power consumption of Guangdong, Guizhou and Sichuan are self-sufficient and supply the Huguang area at the same time.

In this way, China only needs to build another power center, which is enough to complete the electrification of the country through the national power grid.

Yang Chao chose this place in Wuhan.

Because Wuhan is in the middle of the Yangtze River, the construction of a power plant in Wuhan is enough to cover the north and south of the Yangtze River, the power supply of Hunan and Hubei can be met here, the power supply of Anhui and Jiangxi can be taken into account here, and it is not too difficult to repair the power grid to Shanghai along the Yangtze River, so that the supply of Jiangsu and Zhejiang can be satisfied.

The most advantageous thing is that Wuhan has the power of water transportation on the Yangtze River, and 30,000 tons of coal ships can directly enter the port, so that there are no transportation restrictions, and the cost of power generation is certainly much lower than that of the mainland.

Hubei Provincial Governor Fan Xiren is a smart person, he used to be Zhang Zhidong's protégé, and he also studied in Japan, and had a good relationship with the League, and formed the Republican Party with Zhang Binglin and Wu Tingfang, and is still the leader of the Republican Party.

This is obviously a Westernist and a revolutionary, with connections on both sides, and a single Zhang Zhidong's proud protégé is actually enough for him to gain a foothold in Hubei.

The relationship between Fan Xiren and Yang Chao is not good, probably because of the Alliance, and when Yang Chao passed through Hubei, Hubei celebrities asked Yang Chao to remove Zhao Zhanyuan, but Yang Chao said that he couldn't do it, and when he arrived in Jiangsu, he immediately brought down Zhang Xun, which made Yang Chao's reputation among the people of Hubei not very good, thinking that Yang Chao didn't care about Hubei people at all, so that the Republican Party seized the opportunity, and it has been pressing the development momentum of the Fuqiang Party in Hubei over the years.

Although Fan Xiren has a bad relationship with Yang Chao, he knows that Yang Chao is inseparable from Yang Chao to do a good job in the economy and benefit the locality.

Of course, Yang Chao wants to invest, such a big project, it is not very easy to find financing from others, but it is definitely a good project, Yang Chao is always firm, can bring benefits to the society, will be able to make a profit, because the so-called profit, has always been a part of the feedback you create value for the society, so as long as you consider creating value, profits do not need to be considered.

The construction of a power center in Wuhan can improve the power efficiency of the richest places in the Yangtze River basin, which is definitely the greatest social benefit, so that the most lucrative profits can be shared.

Similarly, Yang Chao will participate in the construction of Shanxi Electric Power Center and Yunnan Hydropower Construction.

These investments are huge, but now Yang Chao is not afraid of spending money, but afraid that the money will not be spent, his funds have been backlogged for 5 years, and they have been withdrawn from before the economic crisis, and the interest in holding bonds is too small, where can it be compared to investment.

Although it is now a period of economic crisis, rich people dare not invest, but this is not a problem, Yang Chao is not investing in the present, not during the great crisis, Yang Chao is investing in the future, it is the period of World War II, and it is the period of great prosperity after the war.

The economic efficiency of a country, power supply is only one of the factors, and there are at least three factors that can be compared with power supply, one is transportation, one is education, and the other is the level of government services.

Needless to say, government services are not the first in the world, but they are definitely above the level, at least they are much stronger than the level of Soviet Russia, at least the government system created by Yang Chao does not need Stalin's kind of connivance at official corruption to win people's hearts.

In the 21st century, China's transportation freight accounts for 17% of the total price of a commodity, more than double that of the United States, precisely because there is no efficient transportation system.

The cheapest of the transportation system is water transportation, the price of water transportation is one-tenth of that of the road and one-third of the railway, which is definitely the cheapest mode of transportation, and Yang Chao cannot let it go.

Therefore, he promoted the construction of the Guangdong-Jiangxi Canal between Jiangxi and Guangdong, which is now almost complete. It has also promoted the construction of the Bohai Sea Undersea Tunnel, which will be able to connect Northeast China and Shandong in the future, shortening the transportation distance between the two places by thousands of kilometers. It's just that the construction of this tunnel is not very satisfactory, the construction speed is called a slow, a lot of technology is groping forward, it took a year to build, and only now has a tunnel of 100 meters laid, according to this speed, to repair the whole tunnel, I am afraid it will take more than ten years.

Yang Chao is not in a hurry, this is a very cautious project in the 21st century, even if it fails in the end, Yang Chao is not surprised, so he does not urge, and hands it over to Mao Yisheng to operate.

The economic potential of these coastal areas, Yang Chao is not worried, but Sichuan, a province with the Yangtze River but difficult to use, makes Yang Chao very worried, the improvement of water transportation in Sichuan in later generations depends on the Three Gorges, but the Three Gorges is related to hundreds of millions of people in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Yang Chao does not have the courage of later generations, he does not dare to build this dam, so how to improve the transportation conditions of Sichuan? (To be continued.) )