Compared with food and clothing, Momen in meeting the needs of the people for housing and travel is not very good, this is also no way, the foundation left by the Qing Dynasty is too poor, even if China's building materials industry by Li Hui's attention, the technical threshold (or the requirements for the quality of workers) is relatively low, the speed of development has made all the past records a joke, of which the annual output of cement has jumped to the first place in the world, but even the consumption of building bridges and paving roads can not meet the needs, where is the spare capacity to build how many residences?

In addition, with the rapid development of industry in recent years, China's urban population has also surged, in 1905 it has exceeded the 50 million mark, and the age structure is extremely young, even if the factors of peasants moving to the cities are not considered, the number of unmarried young people who start a family and have children can double again in ten years, so the demand for housing is huge. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In 1905, the vast majority of Chinese citizens still lived in "custom suites" that were not even small by the standards of later generations, and because the space was too small, even the dining table could only be folded, and the per capita living area was less than 5 square meters. If the Chinese citizens of later generations were "house slaves", then they are not even "house slaves" now.

But it was thanks to their sacrifice that the government of the republic was able to concentrate more resources on the production of means of transport and the construction of transport facilities.

In just one year in 1905, China produced more than 200 locomotives, millions of tons of ships, more than 300,000 pedal tricycles, more than 7 million bicycles, and an inaccurate number of horses (oxen, donkeys, and mules) carts, which was hard to believe during the Manchu Dynasty.

As of 1905, the total mileage of China's railways has exceeded 10,000 kilometers, relying on the full mobilization of the masses, most of the roads built for free are not high, but its total mileage is close to 100,000 kilometers, more than 10 world-class deep-water ports that can accommodate 50,000-ton giant ships, the main channel of the Yangtze River has been dredged and cleaned, the Three Gorges is no longer in danger, and the advantages of the middle and lower golden waterways have begun to appear. The 10,000-ton giant ship can be traced back to Wuhan, which finally looks like a national capital, and the canal network in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River has also begun to take shape, which has greatly promoted the economic development of this land of fish and rice.

But even so, because of China's sheer size, such a scale is far from enough. However, it is rare that the infrastructure of such a scale has almost achieved 100% localization, which can give a glimpse of the amazing achievements of China's heavy industry construction in recent years. You know, just the more than 10,000 kilometers of rails laid on the railway (all are double lines, that is, 4. More than 2 million tons of steel are needed!

With the completion of the expansion of Tangshan Iron and Steel and Wuhan Iron and Steel and the further improvement of production management, China's crude steel output in 1905 has exceeded 5 million tons, ranking fourth in the world, second only to the United States, Germany and the former world hegemon British Empire, which is stronger than the industrial strength of the same period in history.

And it is worth mentioning that under the guidance of Li Hui, the use of oxygen-rich air (system technology "cryogenic air separation method" was completed in 1902, and the world's first air separation plant was completed and put into operation two years later, and cheap liquid oxygen began to be widely used. New technologies to accelerate open-hearth steelmaking have been successful. Since this technology can at least double the productivity of open-hearth steelmaking without requiring major equipment modifications, while also significantly extending the life of the furnace bricks, it is easy to double steel production as long as pig iron production can keep up.

With the development of Australia's Pilbara-rich iron ore, Tangshan Iron and Steel Plant has begun to switch to these high-grade iron-rich ores for iron smelting, and the efficiency has not been doubled. Therefore, even if no new blast furnaces are built, the pig iron output will be enough to double the steelmaking capacity!

That is to say, in 1906, China's crude steel output could break through the 10 million ton mark, surpassing Germany and Britain, the two old powers, and ranking second in the world, which is really a fantastic achievement!

Of course, this technology is very simple, and it is not easy to keep it secret for a long time, but for Western countries that adopt a capitalist market economic system, this technology can only reduce costs in the short term, and will not increase steel production like China, because under the conditions of market economy, it must first be sold to be able to increase production, and in the short term, Western countries cannot double the capacity of the steel market in any case, which does not mean that there is not so much demand. At least the current West is far from reaching the level of development where there is too much steel and no place to use it, but although there is demand, those potential customers cannot afford to buy it so much......

Well, with the promotion of new technologies, sooner or later, steel prices will fall sharply to stimulate consumption and create a larger consumer market, but that is not something that can be seen in a year or two, especially since Western steel mills use high-grade iron-rich ore, and it will take longer to build a new blast furnace to increase pig iron production......

As long as there is such a demand, it does not matter whether the customer has money to buy it, and it is possible to expand production with confidence, because the main customer is actually the government itself, which is equivalent to turning the left hand into the right hand, and naturally there is no need to consider whether to make money or lose money.

Of course, under the planned economic system, it is not possible to expand production capacity indefinitely. Because in many cases, there is not so much money to invest, but a good thing like this now, which can double the output with a simple technological transformation and does not require additional investment at all, is bound to be 100% effective, and it will take effect soon!

As a result, China, which was poor less than ten years ago, has become the world's second largest steel producer, just like a dream, just one step away from the United States, which ranks first......

With so much steel, the railway construction that has been suppressed before can finally be greatly accelerated, before because of the lack of steel, can only give priority to the construction of several of the most critical railway trunk lines, barely Tangshan, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Changsha, Kaifeng, Luoyang, Xi'an, Jinan, Qingdao, Laizhou, Yantai, Weihai, Shenyang, Dalian, Kulun, Jilin, Harbin and other more than a dozen strategically important cities connected, and an international railway extended to the territory of North Korea, most of which focus on military considerations, Now that steel production has skyrocketed, China can finally build longer and denser railway lines to serve economic development, and the slogan put forward by Momen is "work hard for the goal of connecting counties to counties", which is exciting to hear! (To be continued.) )