486 Resource depletion crisis
The reason why Lin Fei appointed Huang Feihong as the director of the General Administration of Sports was because Lin Fei wanted to promote the quintessence of China - martial arts.
Martial arts as the quintessence of China, in the era of Lin Fei status is extremely low, learning taekwondo, judo people than learning martial arts people are too much, Lin Fei era, the streets are full of taekwondo gyms, everywhere are people who practice taekwondo make the sound of "drink haha", middle schools and universities even teach taekwondo courses, everyone goes to learn Korean taekwondo, where is Chinese martial arts?
In this era, the status of martial arts is naturally extremely high, Lin Fei let Huang Feihong dominate the Nanyang martial arts community, vigorously promote martial arts education, Lin Fei even stipulated that primary and secondary school students across the country should learn martial arts.
The whole people learn Chinese martial arts, not only to promote the quintessence of the country, but also to improve the physical quality of the people, although modern warfare is a high-tech war, but the body is still very important.
Article 2 of the treaty with the Qing State, the trade with the Qing State was in full swing, and the Chinese Empire and the Qing State added the clause of negotiating tariffs in the subsequent trade agreement, and the goods of the Chinese Empire finally had to be exploited by corrupt officials and corrupt officials.
Article 3 of the treaty with the Qing State, the Qing State ceded Hainan Island, this article was implemented very smoothly, the Qing court officials were very obedient to give up Hainan Island, and the people of Hainan Island were also looking forward to the Chinese king, Lin Fei then arranged for people to establish a government on Hainan Island to develop Hainan Island.
Development includes the construction of military ports, timber development, agricultural development, mineral development, etc., the most important mineral on Hainan Island is titanium ore, titanium is known as aerospace metal in Lin Fei's era, because of its light weight, good mechanical properties, is widely used in the aerospace field, but unfortunately now Lin Fei does not use titanium.
As for the relinquishment of suzerainty, it has no practical effect for the time being, as Qian Yingpu, the minister of military aircraft of the Qing court, analyzed, the places that Lin Fei said were all occupied, and even if the Chinese Empire wanted suzerainty, it was useless.
In order to repay the reparations to China, Japan borrowed large sums of money from British, French, and American banks, and Lin Fei used the money directly to buy industrial equipment from Germany and the United States.
Lin Fei to Germany and the United States mainly buy two types of equipment, one category is power equipment, one category is railway construction equipment, including rail production lines, locomotive production lines, etc., after the mid-nineteenth century crazy railway construction, the United States and Germany railway construction has been close to saturation, domestic enterprises have no profit to make, now see Huaxia to buy railway construction equipment, all elated.
Japan recognized the independence of the Ryukyu Kingdom as promised, and Lin Fei, on behalf of the Chinese Empire, was the first to announce the establishment of ambassadorial-level diplomatic relations with the Ryukyu Kingdom, and proposed a package of economic, political and military support plans, and the Ryukyu Kingdom completely became a satellite state of China.
In this process, many Japanese factory owners and entrepreneurs in the Ryukyus abandoned their industries and fled back to China for fear of being killed by the Chinese.
On the British and French side, Britain paid five million pounds in compensation, Lin Fei released British prisoners of war, Britain withdrew all its troops from Sumatra, and Lin Fei officially took over Sumatra.
After the content of the treaties has been fulfilled, the crisis faced by Lin Fei has just begun, and it can even be said that this crisis is deeper than the British and French fleets approaching Dayu City, and the Chinese Empire is facing the crisis of extinction!
This crisis is post-war reconstruction!
Although Lin Fei led the Huaxia Empire to the final victory, the Huaxia Empire suffered heavy losses.
The first is the population, which has plummeted by more than 700,000 due to the extermination of the British and French after the destruction of the city, and the population of Pontianak, Borneo, and Java has plummeted.
The second is factories and other buildings, when Lin Fei was running these territories, the first thing he did was to open factories and mines, build factories, in the British and French massacres, the factory buildings were almost burned down, and the technicians sent by Lin Fei were also killed in the massacre.
Finally, there is the loss of resources, this war has consumed a lot of resources, Lin Fei's reserves of iron ore, copper ore, and saltpeter have all been used up for more than two years, and several mines have dried up.
The first two have ways to overcome, first of all, the population, the Chinese can be recruited from the Qing State, emigrate from the Chinese Empire, and the laborers can capture the Indonesians, the Nanyang World War proved that Lin Fei's assimilation policy is basically ineffective against the Indonesians, and to deal with the Indonesians, they can only use high-pressure means, and turning them into slaves is one of the best options.
Secondly, when it comes to factory buildings, these things can be built again, especially in the tropical rainforests of the Nanyang region, and the most important thing is wood.
The hardest thing to do is - resources!
On June 20, Lin Fei listened to Ling Xue's report on the industrial resources of the Chinese Empire, and Ling Xue said: "Now our resources are consumed very strictly, not to mention the rest, just iron ore, coal, saltpeter, iron ore is the basis of the steelmaking industry, coal is the only fuel, but also the source of various chemical raw materials, saltpeter is the raw material for the manufacture of nitric acid, nitric acid is the basis for the manufacture of explosives." ”
"Our existing iron ore has been mined almost, many deposits have been exposed to the rocky ground, it is estimated that in three months, the existing iron ore will be shut down, the same is true for coal mines, new iron mines and coal mines are being explored, brother, you have given a few iron mines and coal mines The approximate location, we also found those mines, but those mines are too troublesome to mine."
"The most severe shortage of saltpeter, our saltpeter mines can no longer mine saltpeter, saltpeter storage has also been exhausted, it is estimated that in another five months, the military factory that produces explosives will be completely shut down."
A Nanyang World War, consuming a lot of Lin Fei's resources, Lin Fei has been commanding the battle before, the matter of mineral resources scheduling has always been in charge of Ling Xue, Ling Xue is not only relying on various tricks to win Lin Fei's favor, Ling Xue's heart is very fine, her memory is excellent, so good that she can remember what number on any page, in Lin Fei's era, she is completely a goddess of academic hegemony, with her scheduling mineral resources and coordinating the production of various departments, Lin Fei is very relieved.
Lin Fei didn't expect that the shortage of resources would be so strict, if there was no iron ore, coal and saltpeter, what would the Chinese Empire still have? Just let the Japanese colonize it!
Lin Fei thought for a long time, and then said: "Don't worry, let's think of ways one by one, let's talk about saltpeter first, saltpeter ore doesn't need to be considered, the saltpeter mine available in the world is in Chile, too far away from us, in order to solve the problem of nitric acid, I decided to carry out research on synthetic ammonia technology." ”
Ammonia synthesis technology is the basis of modern chemical industry, using nitrogen and hydrogen to synthesize ammonia, and then use ammonia to produce nitric acid, which can solve the problem of nitric acid.
Ling Xue didn't ask in detail what the synthetic ammonia technology was, just nodded, and Lin Fei continued: "Regarding coal, on the one hand, we must continue to explore coal mines in various places, and on the other hand, we must buy coal from Qingguo, which is one of the countries with the largest coal reserves in the world, and instruct the Ministry of Commerce to find a way to buy a large amount of high-quality coal from Qingguo." ”
Ling Xue nodded, wrote this down in his notebook, and Lin Fei continued: "We are still using coal as fuel, instructing various factories to prepare to switch to fuel equipment, and we will use oil as fuel in the future." ”
The current Chinese Empire occupies the islands of Java and Sumatra, both of which are rich in oil, and it is time to use oil as fuel.
"As for iron ore, on the one hand, we will explore iron ore, and on the other hand, we will buy it from the Qing State, and the Qing State will have a large number of high-quality iron ore, and the Qing court will not develop and utilize it, so we will buy it and use it."
Ling Xue frowned and said, "It's okay to buy iron ore from Qing Kingdom, but if you transfer iron ore from Qing Country to Java Island and Sumatra Island, isn't the distance a little too far?" ”
Ling Xue was right, if the ore was transported from Qing to Java and Sumatra, it would be more than 4,000 kilometers away, Ling Xue continued: "Brother, can we consider not building steel plants on Java and Sumatra? ”
"No way!" Lin Fei said without thinking about it, "The steel factory is the foundation of the military factory, I want to build a steel factory in those two places, in fact, I want to build a military factory there, these places were quickly occupied by the British and French forces, there is no military factory, and the weapons and ammunition are quickly exhausted is an important reason." ”
"Then how can we solve the iron ore problem, do we really have to travel more than 4,000 kilometers to transit?" Ling Xue asked hesitantly.
Lin Fei was silent for a while, there are no iron ore on Java and Sumatra, which he knows very well, these two places want to develop the steel industry, and importing ore from the outside is the only choice.
Ling Xue said to herself, "Where is the iron ore? ”
Lin Fei's eyes suddenly fixed on a world map hanging on the wall, on this map, a large piece of land under the South Seas is particularly eye-catching, that is, Australia, some people call it the smallest continent, others call it the largest island.
Lin Fei's eyes lit up instantly, there are a lot of high-quality iron ore in Australia!
Australia is one of the richest regions in the world in terms of iron ore reserves, and the iron ore here is of high grade, easy to smelt, and the storage location is shallow, which is easy to mine.
Thinking of Australia's iron ore, Lin Fei's anger is not in one place, because Australia often uses iron ore to make trouble for China!