In this era, steel, which is known as the skeleton of industry, means absolute strength.

Battleships on the sea, tanks on land, and even bayonets on guns need to be made of steel. Behind the great strength of the Americans in World War II was the annual production of more than 80 million steel in the latter part of World War II.

In another time and space, it was not until the mid-nineties that China exceeded this line in terms of production. But in this time and space, the steel output of the Chinese people has jumped to the second place in the world and has challenged the United States.

Affected by the war, and even affected by the bombing of China, the United States produced only more than 70 million tons of steel in the first half of 46 years.

"How can there be so many of them?" At the Truman meeting, some people directly exclaimed, "Even if the Japanese and Soviet Russians used to produce half of the steel." In addition, all the steel in Europe is still about the same, but now even if the Chinese have occupied Europe, it is impossible to move all the steel mills in Europe to China. What's more, it will take at least several years to rebuild a steel plant, how can the Chinese people have such a high steel production, it must be fictional, fictional in order to intimidate us! ”

"Not fiction!" Stettinius said categorically, "The Chinese have produced more than 30 million tons of steel in 45 years, and it is possible to further increase it this year." Not only because they got a lot of machines and technology from the Germans, but even they themselves had new ones. They use converter technology, and they can have a furnace of molten steel in half an hour at the earliest. ”

"Converters? The steel made from that thing may only be slightly stronger than pig iron, and no amount of it is useless. Someone laughed directly after breathing a sigh of relief.

The converter was invented in the last century and started the beginning of the modern steel industry, but because it could not effectively remove impurities such as sulfur and phosphorus, it gradually became marginalized after the breakthrough in open-hearth steelmaking. Thinking that Huaxia actually used such a backward steelmaking method, the big stone of Xia Iron and Steel's rapidly rising output was suddenly removed from the hearts of many people, and some people couldn't help but relax.

Although this era of steel scarcity is based on the quantity of steel, but the quantity of steel does not mean that the strength is strong, if the quality of steel is not good. It simply cannot meet the needs of some of the military industry. Not even some civilian fields are satisfied. Just like China, which has exceeded half of the world's total steel production in later generations, it still needs to import a large amount of high-end steel.

"I said they have new technology, it seems that they need to blow oxygen, and the final steel quality is not worse than ours at all!" Stettinius blushed and shouted, "They have built a lot of these converters, and as long as the blast furnace can drip molten iron, the Huaxia people can turn them into steel." And they also built quite a few electric stoves. The quality of electric furnace steelmaking should not be bad! ”

Many people's minds quickly drifted through the benefits of the converter's technology, but then some people shook their hearts and sighed.

Even if Americans get this technology, it won't be able to spread it for a while. The steel industry, controlled by the steel predators, will never watch the large amount of open-hearth equipment they have invested in be eliminated before the full cost is made.

Realizing the reality, everyone re-faced the problem of China's huge steel production.

"There is a lot of steel production, and there are not enough machine tools and qualified workers, and it is difficult to turn it into weapons!" Some people are not convinced.

Truman immediately classified this man as a mentally handicapped person. The Chinese did not need to transfer steel to weapons production, and they could get a large number of advanced weapons from the copycat company and an umbrella company, which even the Americans had no choice but to use.

Stettinius stared at the man for a long time, until the man bowed his head in a hairy manner. Only word by word: "Huaxia people now have a lot of machine tools. ”

He took out a piece of information and raised it in his hand and said: "This information even estimates that half of the advanced machine tools in Europe have been moved to China, including the British and Germans.

Most of the German booty from all over Europe became Chinese.

Now all parties in Germany, where civil strife is raging, want to win over the Chinese. Although the Chinese have not yet entered the German mainland, they can enter the army at any time as long as the Chinese are willing, and whoever they want to support will be the new head of Germany. In order to win over China, the Germans not only sold half of the loot they could not use for the time being to Huaxia, but even gave their domestic wealth to the Chinese little by little.

And then there's the countless old machine tools in Europe. Including those that flowed out of our country. All of them were placed in the Huaxia factory. Therefore, the number and level of workers who may operate machine tools in Huaxia are still far from us. But the number of machine tools of the Chinese people may not be less than ours! ”

Such news shocked everyone again.

"Fortunately, the Chinese people do not have enough workers, they will only stay in a field and be farmers for the rest of their lives, waiting for a poor harvest!" "To be a strong industrial nation, you need not only machines, but also scientists, engineers and qualified workers." ”

"That was before. Don't forget, the total number of Chinese students who have spent time in our country alone has exceeded 100,000, and their students are all over Europe. What's more, at least 400 million people in China are now emerging from illiteracy, not only because their young people have gained new knowledge from the 10 years of compulsory education, but also because the number of Chinese workers in the night schools for civilians is no less than the number of our army.

Don't underestimate their intelligence and hard work, many of them can even outperform machines with their dexterous hands.

Anyway, I believe that operating those machines is not too difficult for the Chinese, and they have a large number of German experts to help them figure out every screw on the machine. Stettinus immediately poured cold water on him.

Although he didn't believe that Huaxia could operate so many machines so quickly, and he didn't even believe that Huaxia's strength was really as strong as he said in the information he specially collected, he and the military-industrial complex behind him needed Huaxia, a powerful enemy, to facilitate the sale of more weapons.

The British and a large group of younger brothers have fallen, and the military-industrial complex has lost the most important pillar of arms sales, and in order to appease this huge monster, it is necessary to expand domestic demand without being able to expand arms sales to foreign countries.

Only war can pull all this, and only by establishing a strong enemy, will the American people and government pay for the huge profits of arms sales.

He not only understood this, but Truman and many people here understood that otherwise, the war with China would have to be weighed more.

But politics needs to be compromised, the claims of the predators behind the military-industrial complex need to be taken care of, and now the Americans really need more advanced weapons to defend their homeland.

"Don't think that they only value industry and no food. Although their population has exceeded 600 million, their farmers have traveled all over Asia, Australia, and even parts of Africa, recultivating land abandoned by war in a short period of time, and even reclaiming a large amount of wasteland. The Chinese people already control more than 500 million hectares of arable land, and even if they use slash-and-burn farming, it is enough to feed all the Chinese people, not to mention that those Chinese farmers can do more than our tractors. ”

"Although the Vanguard Army is a young government, it quickly gathered the support of the Chinese people with all kinds of benefits that are the envy of our people. This has made many of our subversive plans fail. Even the original centrist party no longer regarded us as friends, the vanguard junta gave them more things, the honor of the rise of the country and the great benefits of plundering the world, and if they were given a chance to participate, they would soon forget about us.

Even the Russians, who were better at infiltration, lost control of the layout in China. It's hard to get them in trouble from within! ”

Stettinus continued to undermine the confidence of everyone present.

Truman coughed lightly, reminding him to stop.

So there was a silent cold field for a while, and the information was very discouraged, just Huaxia itself, as well as the mysterious copycat company and the umbrella company that turned its face with the United States. How can the Americans win such a war?

"According to our traces, we have not found any large factories in the world of copycat companies and umbrella companies. According to our inference, the base of the cottage company may be in Huaxia, and even the umbrella company has close contacts with Huaxia, and together they have promoted the rapid rise of Huaxia. Hoover seemed to understand everyone's thoughts and spoke directly.

The meaning of what he said is very clear, the reason why Huaxia has such a big achievement is already the result of the joint efforts of the copycat company and even the umbrella company and Huaxia, and there is no need to worry about the strength that the mysterious backer behind may not have exposed.

"No matter how strong our opponents are, we have nothing to fear! We have enough confidence and strength to win! Maybe all it takes is one win and everything will change. Truman also said impassionedly, "The people of the whole United States are watching us, waiting for us, waiting for our final decision, waiting for us to lead them to a great victory!" (To be continued......)