In the northwest, behind the Expo Center, in a large room, the name of the western development is hung, in the huge room a giant sand table that includes several provinces and cities in the west, placed here, here will be the general headquarters of the western development, every point of achievement in the development of the western region, will be displayed here, and several flags appear in the desert, this is the first batch, but also the most arduous group, most of them are British and French prisoners of war, there are almost more than 60,000 people in the early stage, There will be more than 500,000 people in the back, who will carry out the heaviest labor in the most difficult places and undertake the task of building railways in the desert and the Gobi.

The role of roads is to promote the circulation of commodities, so that things that have no value in themselves, or are of very low value, become valuable, and the follow-up plans are more and more huge, which almost turns the west from the present, poor and backward frontier, into a real area with developed transportation, industry and agriculture.

The west is a place rich in resources, for China, there are fewer mineral deposits with higher taste, especially in the Central Plains, which have been almost developed, but there are many in the west, and the road construction plan is established at the same time, that is, the plan of a large mining center, from Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai and Xinjiang, these have not all developed areas, but there are many large-scale mineral bases, all over the coal, iron, non-ferrous metals, copper, gold and silver and many other projects.

The Northwest has a strong industrial production capacity, and the demand for various raw materials is almost unlimited. You can produce more categories, more kinds of things, and reduce costs.

If you just look at the Northwest as a mining area. It is impossible to play an important role in the northwest at all, and it is necessary to develop it in multiple ways, and in addition to mineral deposits, special products, and industries with local characteristics can now be carried out.

According to the plan given by the Ministry of Agriculture, it should be carried out first. That is, the cultivation of cotton, the climatic conditions in the north are not as good as in the south, but because of the higher dimension. After the long hours of sunshine and the seedlings are raised in greenhouses, it is the place where cotton grows naturally, especially in Xinjiang. That's a great deal.

From the occupation of the northwest. The Production and Construction Corps is planting on a large scale in the entire northwest, but the western provinces and autonomous regions are too large, and many places do not have sufficient conditions, and the planting area is only a fraction of the original, but now it has enough manpower and manpower. Cotton is planted in Xinjiang and other places, now. It can also be fully rolled out, and the planting area will be expanded by 10 times compared to previous years.

Cotton, from the very beginning, Yang Yuanzhao in Baotou, after the wheat and cotton interplanting, it has become an important cash crop in the northwest, starting from cotton clothing, and then to cotton cloth, cotton is related to the clothing of the common people, now China, with the development of light industry, has been different from before, the emergence of a large number of new things, especially the development of printing and dyeing, color has become the direction pursued by the people, ready-to-wear and all kinds of cloth, enrich people's lives.

The Northwest chose to improve the technical level and the efficiency of machinery, from this aspect, to reduce the labor cost of a single commodity, in order to reduce the cost, but did not deliberately reduce the wages of workers, workers' wages, in the social distribution, has always occupied a considerable share, the entire Chinese laborers, because the Northwest commodity marketing world, and enjoy these dividends.

High wages, also under a certain circumstance, gave birth to a vigorous market, under the guidance and promotion of the northwest, a huge market of up to 400 million people, more than 160 billion yuan per year, that is, 80 billion US dollars, began to appear, commodities only circulated, in order to create additional value, the northwest guides these products, so that every corner of the social division of labor can make the best use of people, from a certain extent, it is equivalent to the huge 400 million people, are put into production and construction, Spontaneous is always more valuable than passive, creating value.

Because of this, the northwest has created remarkable and brilliant achievements, in a short period of time, beyond the achievements of other industrial countries in a hundred years, has become the world's largest industrial body, but also has become the largest market, of course, many policies to stimulate consumption in the northwest, banks, and other means, or most of the capital has flowed back into the hands of the northwest government, and the government takes the money to invest in key projects related to the national economy and people's livelihood.

Cotton is the first part of the development of the western region, the huge land area of the western region, even if it has not been reclaimed, even if the conditions are bad, can open up a large amount of land, grain production, at any time, is the foundation of a country, the northwest is no exception, there is more grain, can feed more people, in the future, under the possible war, for the northwest to lay a certain foundation, as long as there is food, at the very least, when there is no extreme situation, the military spirit will not change.

On the large sand table, each place has a different color, this is through the preliminary exploration, get the preliminary planning, some places with better climatic conditions, some places with rich water resources, some places with fertile soil, have made different arrangements, the huge land, it has become a filling grid, fill in every species, every classification, and even from these detailed layouts, you can see what the whole northwest will look like in the future.

"The speed of transporting prisoners of war should be accelerated, and if it doesn't work, some of the ships used for overseas transportation will be transferred to the Middle East!" Yang Yuanzhao decisively ordered.

Yang Yuanzhao is quite satisfied with the preliminary work, the 20 railways in the west, 9 have begun to be started, this is the most important trunk railway, in addition to the Gobi Desert, in addition to the prisoners of war who are working intensively, there are a large number of machinery, in not so difficult and bad places, to lay the railway, huge projects are rolled out, the demand for manpower is constantly increasing.

The initialed agreement with Germany, this batch of prisoners of war and laborers totaled 10 million, only a few hundred thousand people have arrived at present, the transfer within the German occupation zone, has been basically carried out, they have passed through the 3B railway in batches, transported to Basra, a total of 2.4 million tons of cargo ships were put into the northwest for transportation, a time can transport more than 800,000 people, but from Basra to Shanghai, the road is far away, the difference between the waterway and the land lies in the continuity, the railway only needs to be between two trains, Separated by a relatively safe distance, it can be transported continuously, and in terms of speed, the train is also much faster than the ship, the average speed of about 90 kilometers per hour, which is about 15 knots faster than the speed of the ocean cargo ship, I don't know how much faster, so now on the Basra side, people are still piled up, fortunately, the speed of transportation is faster, the cargo ship is about 20 days to be able to go back and forth, 10 million people, that is, 12 times can be completely transported, it will take almost 8 months.

At the beginning, there was not much experience, and the number was not calculated, but fortunately, when the Basra port accumulated more than 200,000 people, the German side got feedback and reduced the speed of transportation, and the current stranded ones are only three or four hundred thousand, but it doesn't matter, the expansion of Basra is imminent, and the German side attaches great importance to these migrant workers, and also allows the soldiers who escort them to cooperate with them as much as possible, in addition to local resettlement, is to expand the Basra port.

If some of the ships used for overseas transport were to be transferred to the Middle East, that would represent 4 million, or even 5 million tonnage, which could double the rate of migration.

Coincidentally, the northwestern side was anxious to obtain population, and the German side gradually realized the effect of the population transfer, which was not only reflected in the profits it was striving for, but also in the stability of the occupied areas, and after careful consideration, Germany decided to promote the transfer of 10 million to 20 million after the first batch of 10 million people were transferred.

This is tantamount to transferring about 60% of the population of Belgium and northern France, and when the time comes, no matter what people do in China and Europe, they will not be able to do anything, and Germany can even use the experience provided by the northwest to give up part of the land in the western part of the entire theater of operations, to fortify step by step, and to annihilate the living forces of Britain and France by means of small-scale operations behind enemy lines. They are all lonely widows who are not suitable to be soldiers, even if Britain and France want to expand.

As long as the Western Theater can stabilize the situation, and the German side will target Russia on the other side, occupying Baku, an important oil export area, and by the way, after selling Russia's population all over again, after the population export plan accidentally made by the northwest and Germany, the residents of those difficult occupation areas can actually become wealth.

This initial contact, after being known to the northwest, was immediately reported to the northwest center, and after study, followed, the pace of the large-scale development of the northwest is too large, the demand for the population is almost limitless, and even the government is considering whether to use financial means to attract some people to the west, and now these foreign laborers have greatly filled the population shortage, so that the plan for the large-scale development of the west can be carried out faster, and when the time comes, a mature and well-equipped northwest. The ability to attract a population is natural.

That's it, so that later generations of scholars are very curious, and even can't understand a large-scale migration of population, global human export, in this way, and then under the acquiescence and promotion of the Northwest and Germany, formed, tens of millions of people, will make the Northwest bear considerable pressure, but the population represents the productive forces, and the situation of bringing these productive forces together, the effect that can be produced is greater, transportation is the most important project, does not mean that these people can not do anything else, In Yang Yuanzhao's western development plan, the construction of railways and highways is only the most basic, and the most critical is actually on the sand table, dotted with green areas, starting from Xinjiang, along the entire banks of the Yellow River, all the way to the east, including most of the northwest area, and it is also the area with the largest area in all plans. (To be continued......)