During the same period in 1925, the United States 'steel production had reached 46.122 million tons, Russia 1.873 million tons, Germany 12.195 million tons, and France 7.464 million tons. 7.504 million tons from the world overlord Ying country. Japan's steel production was 1.3 million tons. China produced 30,000 tons of steel while India produced 456,000 tons. Even India's steel production was 15 times that of China.
Of course, although Japan had just left Asia and entered Europe, in terms of industry, it was still far from being comparable to the real European and American powers. However, if the Japanese were allowed to develop, they would soon begin to grow explosively. The September 18th Incident would happen a few years later.
Ever since the Russo-Japanese War, Japan had formulated a continental policy. After occupying the southern part of Northeast China, they could use the resources of the entire southern part of Northeast China to develop their domestic industries wantonly, thus giving them the ability to swallow China.
Li Yunhao hoped to build his industrial base in Chahar so that he would not be at a disadvantage when he fought against Zhang Zuolin and the Japanese. Of course, although Japan was lagging behind, it was decades ahead of China in industrial development. The only thing they lacked was resources. China was undoubtedly a place that could provide resources for Japan's development, which was why Japan kept a close eye on China. However, China lacked a large number of technical workers, engineers, and other scientific and technological talents.
"I also need to build a chemical plant to produce the three acids and two bases needed by the industry. These are all necessary for the discovery of the industry!”
There was no doubt about the importance of the tri-acid and two-base. With these things, weapons and ammunition could be produced. If Li Yunhao wanted to achieve self-production of weapons and equipment in Duolun, these were all necessary.
"Other than that, the cement factory, machinery manufacturing factory, and so on need to be built step by step. All of this required time. Most importantly, Chahar did not have qualified workers. Even if a large number of factories were opened, there would not be qualified workers to use. The education here was too backward. Almost everyone was illiterate! Without a talented team, it was impossible to rely on the system alone. In a few years, he could steal more talents from Europe and the United States.”
The workers could go to the southeastern coastal areas to recruit after a period of time. They could also go to the United States to recruit workers. Even if they were paid more, as long as they were willing to come to China to work, it was fine! Under the extremely harsh conditions for industrial development, they could only spend more money to speed up the development. This was the only shortcut. However, this has to be done step by step!"
"Right, we can start building the Munitions Factory now. I've already bought the machines and will be building the factory soon. I'll start producing rifles and bullets first. I can buy seamless steel pipes for the raw materials I need. At present, he would gradually increase production and accumulate skills to provide a large number of qualified workers for the production of machine guns, cannons, and other weapons in the future! We can start with small batches and train more workers. The army is about to start expanding, and we need a large number of weapons.”Li Yunhao said.
"Alright, Zhao Gang, you go ahead and do your work! Make a good plan first, then hand it over to me!”Li Yunhao said.
"Sir, I understand." Zhao Gang nodded and got up to leave.
After Zhao Gang left, Li Yunhao recalled the industrial development plan that he had proposed and was full of ambition for a moment. Although the process of industrial development was very difficult, as long as the foundation was laid down. In the future, the speed of development would be much faster. With the help of the system, Duolun's industrial development would gain a pair of wings. As long as the industry developed, he was confident that he could defeat all the warlords and foreign enemies in the country!
Li Yunhao handed over the industrial development preparations to Zhao Gang. As a senior political worker, Zhao Gang had outstanding abilities in this area. Li Yunhao was very relieved to let him do this industrial plan.
Right now, the biggest problem that restricted him was the problem of talent. Just the exchange system alone could not establish an industrial power. This problem had affected Li Yunhao's industrial development plan from the very beginning. In the future, it would continue to hinder Li Yunhao's comprehensive development. Not only would it affect industrial development, but when Li Yunhao's territory became larger in the future, he would need all kinds of talents, and there would be even less people.
Administrative talents were needed to govern territory, police talents were needed to manage public security, military talents were needed to command operations, technical talents were needed to develop industries and set up factories, engineers were needed to build railroads, scientific research talents were needed to develop technology, and so on. Li Yunhao could exchange for all these, but when he thought about the exchange price, it was really shocking. He couldn't afford it. He was lacking a lot of things that he didn't have, but he had to have them. Therefore, after the Li family auction, he immediately began to cultivate his own talent reserve to prepare for future development.
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