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Chapter 1206: Look at the family background

When the applause quieted down, An Yi took over the conversation: "Ladies and gentlemen, what Dean Gong said just now was indeed from the bottom of his heart. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoAccording to the prediction of our intelligence department, by the end of this year at the latest, as soon as the spring flowers bloom after the New Year, *** will launch a surprise attack on our country. At present, the total strength of the army in China has increased to 350,000, and coupled with the rapid expansion of the Kwantung Army, it is expected that the total strength will rapidly swell to 600,000 to 700,000 within half a year. Moreover, since the second half of last year, the establishment of new divisions and regiments has been carried out in China, that is, the original divisions and regiments have been divided into two, such as the 101st Division and the 114th Division, which were formed on the basis of the first division and the 14th division. There are a total of seventeen divisions with the same establishment as these two divisions, that is, *** will double the total strength of the army of the entire country in half a year. It's an island country, where are so many troops pointing? It can only be China! It can only be the increasingly tense battlefield in North China! ”

"If we don't enter the wartime economic system in advance, then once the first attack comes, we are not prepared in time, the front-line soldiers lack the firepower to suppress the Japanese attack, there is not enough steel and cement to build strong fortifications, and the newly reorganized troops lack guns, ammunition and transportation, then what awaits us will be a fiasco! At present, China's industrial base is extremely weak, and the only ones are the three major industrial bases in Xiangxi, southern Sichuan, and southern Yunnan, which we have painstakingly operated over the years, and the factories and enterprises that have been evacuated from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and old Nanchang when the future war breaks out, including the Jiangnan Arsenal that we have already transferred. Regardless of whether these factories end up in Chongqing or Chengdu, they will form the fourth industrial base in the southwest. In addition, over the years, Zhu Yi's predecessors have gradually formed an industrial center based on textile, silk and smelting, and the wire factory, wire factory, small electrical appliance workshop and so on for hardware processing are complete, such as the road studs required for our railway construction, most of which are produced by Kunming. Of course, compared with our three major industrial bases, Kunming is still inferior, and it can only be counted as half.

"Relying on such a meager industrial base, we will fight a national war with the *** that has developed into an industrial country since the Meiji Restoration, without the determination of a strong man to break his wrist, without the courage to break the cauldron and sink the boat, how can we achieve the final victory in the war against Japan? Therefore, today's meeting is very necessary, I hope you can speak freely, know yourself and know that the other side can win all battles! ”

The audience applauded warmly, and when the applause stopped, Gong Qian spoke one by one.

The first to report was Hu Jiyang, general manager of Sichuan Iron and Steel Group: "Because all the machinery and equipment introduced by our steel enterprises in South Sichuan are American machinery and equipment, and many of them are new equipment dismantled directly from Pittsburgh, Chicago and other steel companies. As early as 31 years, we built seven large and medium-sized iron and steel plants in Syria and Luzhou, and now with the commissioning of three large steel plants in artesian wells, Zhaotong and southern Yunnan, our production capacity has grown from an annual output of 1.1 million tons of steel in three or three years, to 2.5 million tons now, if we enter the wartime economic system, then the production capacity will be greatly increased again, reaching a scale of 3 million tons to 3.5 million tons, although this figure is far less than the 9 million tons, but for China, which is poor and white, This is quite an achievement!

"Steel is the industrial base of a country, and there is nothing else to achieve without steel, so we must pay full attention to the production needs of steel enterprises when formulating economic plans. I would like to remind you that the primary problem facing our steel enterprises is the supply of raw materials. Prior to this, half of the raw materials required by our iron and steel enterprises are semi-finished products provided by the iron ore rough processing enterprises in southwest China supported by our mining company, and the other half is pig iron and crude steel that have been rough-processed for iron ore in South America, Australia and French Annam. ”

Hu Jiyang is a pivotal veteran figure in the economic system of An Yi Group, and he experienced the unforgettable pain of 918 with An Yi during An Yi's trip to Europe, and his heart to serve the country can be revealed, so his words have attracted enough attention from An Yi.

An Yi explained seriously: "Brother Hu's question is very good, and I want to explain the development ideas of iron and steel enterprises in the past few years. We have always adopted a combination of overseas procurement and in-house mining to solve our raw material supply problems. You may not know that the companies that provide us with raw materials are actually Chinese American consortia that share our interests. Our Jiangnan Group and South Sichuan Group have a large stake in the Chinese consortium in the United States. Over the years, the Chinese consortium has acquired a large number of mineral resources around the world, including five mines and a large smelter in the Pilbara region of western Australia, and our profit share in the Chinese group has become the rough processing products such as copper and iron and other strategic materials that we urgently need, which are continuously transported by sea to the port of Hanoi in Annam, France, and then supplied to our major steel plants by the Hanoi-Kunming double-track railway. The surplus raw materials are stored by us to cope with the possible shortage of raw materials.

"In addition, we have also stepped up the exploration and exploitation of mineral deposits in the southwest region, so far, we have discovered more than 500 iron ores, nearly 60 large deposits with mining value, and more than 10 extra-large mineral deposits, most of which have been put into production. Due to the previous supply of pig iron and crude steel from overseas, our production capacity has not been fully developed, but with the stimulation of the wartime economy, it is expected that production can be more than doubled in a short period of time, and all smelters in mines around the country will be running at high speed to meet the needs of our steel group to increase production.

"Of all the iron mines, the most surprising is the discovery of a large iron ore mine in the Yanbian Huili area. At present, it has been preliminarily proved that the reserves of the subway ore are as high as more than 6 billion tons, and once fully exploited, it can completely solve the problem of raw material supply of our South Sichuan Iron and Steel Group. However, there are several difficulties in the process, and although some of them have been overcome by our experts, the prospects are still not optimistic.

"One of the difficulties is that the iron ore in this place belongs to the vanadium titanium magnet symbiotic ore, and the smelting is extremely difficult, as early as four years ago, our geologist Professor Zhu Zizhen and his exploration team discovered the deposit, our research department has been working day and night to carry out technical research, carried out countless simulation tests, and finally formed a complete set of plans for smelting high-titanium vanadium titanium magnetite symbiotic ore in ordinary blast furnace in June last year. At present, the relevant smelting and extraction equipment has been produced in our machinery factory, and as long as the mine is fully developed, the supporting smelter will also be put into operation. This is the crystallization of the wisdom of our scientific and technological workers, and allow me to express my gratitude to them. ”

Speaking of this, An Yi clapped his hands and congratulated, and the business representatives, experts and scholars attending the meeting also responded with warm applause. In southern Sichuan, knowledge and science are always respected, and scientists are treated significantly better than government workers, which is also an atmosphere that Sichuan has tried to create.

After a pause in applause, An Yi continued to talk eloquently: "The second difficulty is that the Huili Yanbian area is located in the Panxi Rift Valley, the roads are rugged, and there are cliffs and trees everywhere. However, this is expected to be solved in the next year, since the discovery of a large number of iron ore in the Panxi area, the provincial government of Yunnan Province and Xikang Province openly invited bids to the whole country, and promised that all the mined iron ore will be purchased by our iron and steel group after rough processing, and by the two provincial governments, pre-laid Kunming to Huili railway, build a road around the entire mining area, affected by this good news, from Shanxi, Guangdong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang and other places of chaebol, has signed a letter of intent to the two provincial governments, Significant investment is pouring into the region. It can be expected that in the next two to three years, we will be able to obtain supplies of raw materials such as pig iron and crude steel from the region.

"The third difficulty is the issue of energy supply. As we all know, if we simply rely on manual mining, and then send the mined iron ore to the smelters along the railway through roads and railways, and then the smelters provide pig iron and crude steel to our iron and steel enterprises, then even if the Panxi iron ore reserves are amazing, it still cannot meet the requirements of our iron and steel enterprises for full-speed production. In my opinion, mines and smelters must be matched, and iron ore must be turned into pig iron and crude steel as soon as possible, so as to greatly reduce the burden on railways, improve the efficiency of iron ore utilization, and give investors high returns, thereby driving a greater investment and construction boom. The basis for all this is an abundant, uninterrupted power supply. I intend to solve this problem by building a sufficient number of thermal power plants in this area, using the abundant coal resources in the region, but the initial investment will be very large, and may even crowd out our special fund for the manufacture of weapons and ammunition, so it must be fully demonstrated before it can be implemented.

"Finally, once the Sino-Japanese war breaks out in full force, the strategic defense stage of our capital is likely to fall, after the central government retreats into Sichuan, because the rich coastal areas have all fallen into the hands of the Japanese invaders, the chairman of the committee is likely to nationalize this hot mining area, in order to enrich the treasury, or to use heavy taxes to desperately exploit, when the benefits we promised can not be fulfilled to investors, will seriously affect our reputation, hit the patriotic enthusiasm of national capital, and may even lead to the confrontation between the central and local governments, to *** People can take advantage of it. ”

An Yi's words caused the audience to think deeply, Hu Jiyang thought for a while and said: "No matter what, since there are iron ore resources in the Panxi area that we urgently need, and now the relevant technical problems have been overcome and the development has been carried out smoothly, then there is no turning back from the bow, and we must continue to carry it out deeply." Our steel mill is a behemoth that devours resources, and we must prioritize satisfaction, otherwise where will the soldiers get guns and ammunition to resist the Japanese invasion? As for the many difficulties we face, we can solve them one by one in the future. ”

An Yi nodded, thinking that Chiang Kai-shek would definitely have to care about the face of himself and the military leaders of Yunnan, Xikang and other military leaders, and it was not possible to tear his face directly, so he motioned to Gong Qian to continue the meeting.

The next person to be named was Shi Lejun, the general manager of the South Sichuan Military Industry Group, who stood up, nodded to his old boss An Yi, and then said:

"Our military industrial group is the backbone of the logistics supply of firearms, ammunition and other logistics in the future Sino-Japanese war, and it is also the confidence of the soldiers to resist the Japanese invasion.

"Our military industrial group has six arsenals under its jurisdiction in Luzhou, Syria, Xiangxi, Ziliujing, Zhaotong and Ning'er, among which the Xufu, Zhaotong and Ziliujing factories mainly produce Zhongzheng II and III pistols, rifles, submachine guns and general-purpose machine guns, as well as 12.7 caliber sniper rifles. The Luzhou Arsenal mainly produces cannons, howitzers, cannon howitzers, anti-aircraft guns, machine guns and mortars, and the An-36 rocket launcher that we just successfully researched last year is also produced by the Luzhou factory. The Yunnan Nanning Er'er Factory mainly produces experimental weapons, such as the An-36 and An-37 automatic rifles that we have not yet officially installed, and the armed helicopter that is being tested, which is also developed by the Simao Factory. The Xiangxi factory is the most powerful and the most integrated arsenal among all our military factories, not only all of our rifles, automatic rifles and light and heavy machine guns can be manufactured, but also most of the ammunition and grenades, grenades and mines required by our various departments are also provided by the Xiangxi factory. Of course, in the event of the outbreak of a Sino-Japanese war in the future, our various military factories can produce ammunition to ensure the needs of the front.

"As we all know, before this, the iron and steel enterprises were mainly inclined to the commercial and civilian fields, our railways, automobiles, real estate, construction machinery, electrical appliances and other related industries devoured a large amount of steel, military enterprises can use steel, less than one-third of the total amount of steel, correspondingly, our weapons production is extremely limited, the monthly output of 44,000 rifles, two-thirds of which are ordered by the central government, and the rest are equipped with our own troops, that is, every month we can arm a division of the Anjia Army. In addition, we are able to produce more than 6,000 general-purpose machine guns and more than 2,000 heavy machine guns per month. In short, in the event of a war between China and Japan in the future, we will be able to guarantee the production of equipment for two divisions per month without entering the wartime economy. However, this was obviously not enough, there were hundreds of divisions in the whole of China, and the equipment of two divisions per month was obviously not able to keep up with the rate of consumption, so it was necessary to enter the wartime economic system in order to stimulate production.

"I made a rough estimate, as long as the supply of raw materials such as steel can be fully guaranteed, the production capacity of our military-industrial group can be tripled, that is, within a month, six A divisions can be armed, although this speed is far less than the supply speed of ***, but for our squadron, it is already a great progress."

Shi Lejun's words aroused everyone's interest, and since then, representatives from Sichuan South Machinery Group, aircraft company, automobile group, electronic and electrical group and other enterprises have rushed to introduce the situation of their enterprises.

South Sichuan Machinery Group is the most important guarantee for the rise of South Sichuan, because the initial machinery processing plant introduced machine tools and production lines, all are after the outbreak of the economic crisis bankrupt enterprises are using or have not yet unpacked a new generation of equipment, its processing speed and accuracy are second to none, in the degree of mechanization and automation of product forming processing, cutting and assembly, compared with developed countries in Europe and the United States, so as long as there are original design drawings, plus the use of steel and other raw materials up to standard, Almost all production lines and equipment can be continuously produced from the production workshop of the machinery group to achieve perfect self-cloning, which is the so-called industrial machine tool. At present, the production lines and processing machine tools of all factories and enterprises in southern Sichuan can be ordered from the southern Sichuan Machinery Group, which effectively guarantees the explosive development of the military industrial system in southern Sichuan when the wartime economy starts.

As for fighters and bombers, the current South Sichuan Aircraft Company has the ability to develop and produce aircraft, due to the technical support of the American Fox Aircraft Manufacturing Company, the German Junkers Aircraft Company and the Heinkel Aircraft Company, in fact, now the South Sichuan Aircraft Company has been able to produce aircraft engines on its own, the reason why it is now vigorously introducing the engines of the American Fox Aircraft Company, on the one hand, these engines are paid by share dividends, no need to pay additional funds, and at the same time huge trade volume, Another reason is that the metallurgical technology of the South Sichuan Iron and Steel Group is not up to par, and the engines produced are not up to par with the superalloy materials, and there are many failures, but with the conclusion of the technology deal with Germany, this problem will soon be solved, and I believe that the localization of the whole machine will be realized soon. During the war, under the condition of ensuring the supply of engines, it was not a problem at all for the South Sichuan Aircraft Factory to produce 100 fighters per month.

The production lines used in the automobiles, motorcycles and tractor factories under the jurisdiction of the South Sichuan Automobile Group are basically dismantled from the major professional factories in Detroit, Chicago and other cities during the economic crisis, and the same as mechanical machine tools and steel smelting production lines, these automobile production lines are just loaded and ready to be put into production in the good years of the American economy, but I did not expect the economic crisis to hit suddenly, and the business owners went bankrupt, and then these enterprises were acquired by Zhang Xi at the price of cabbage, and the production line was disassembled and shipped to South Sichuan to settle down. Due to the strong research and development capabilities of the South Sichuan Machinery Group, auto parts factories set up by the Jiangsu and Zhejiang consortium have sprung up, and now the South Sichuan Automobile Factory has been able to achieve a monthly output of 100 cars, and if the wartime economy is started, it can reach a scale of more than 500 vehicles in a short period of time. In addition, under the wartime economy, the motorcycle factory can achieve a monthly production of a thousand two-wheeled and three-wheeled motorcycles, and the tractor factory can achieve the scale of producing a hundred combat vehicles and fifty tanks. Of course, for the current southern Sichuan, every cent of resources must be used on the cutting edge, and the combat vehicles and tanks can only temporarily play a supporting role due to their huge consumption, and there is no need for such a large production capacity.

The South Sichuan Electronics Group is an outstanding achievement of South Sichuan leading this era, not only the electrical products produced sell well all over the world, but also the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the army by various newly developed radio equipment. Thanks to Nikolai. With the joining of Tesla, South Sichuan has been at the forefront of the world in the research of electron tubes and transistors, especially in the continuous research and in-depth study of radar applications, radio technology tends to mature, electronic tube walkie-talkies, walkie-talkies, ultra-short-wave radios, short-wave radios, unilateral radios, relay machines and other communication equipment have been put into actual combat, especially the information of friends and enemies fed back to fighters by ground radars can greatly improve the survivability of fighters in air combat, and for the Southwest Air Force, it is tantamount to defeating the strong with the weak outnumbered. At present, the South Sichuan Electronics Group can achieve a monthly output of 1,000 walkie-talkies and walkie-talkies, and the output of various radio stations is also about 1,000 units, which can fully meet the communication needs of the military company and platoon level.

Based on all the information, An Yi finally had a trace of confidence in his heart for the future war. The war between countries is the war potential and enduring ability, and now in southern Sichuan, all the industrial systems required during the war are intact, and in some respects even more advantageous than the first, as long as the war is not too bad at the beginning, An Yi has the confidence to give the first person a painful blow, and let the war enter the stalemate stage in advance.