March passed by quickly. After a long winter, the two countries faced the ferocious attacks of the German army and established a defensive line that was hundreds of kilometers long in the eastern part of France. The French army and the British army set up dense machine gun bunkers, forming a terrifying death zone. Compared to the battle of the Somme River, the casualties were even more unacceptable.
A medium-sized steel plant near Quzhou finally started construction at the end of March. It was estimated that it would start production after spring next year. In the future, the iron ore transported from the mines in northern Fujian would continue to enter Quzhou in the next few months!
Of course, Chu Tianyun had spent a lot of effort to persuade Fu Donglai to give up the mining rights of the mine. The price was 2 million silver dollars and an infantry battalion stationed in northwest Fujian to protect the safety of the mine and the coal mine!
"Boss, this is the quasi medium-sized steel factory you wanted! The annual production could reach 80,000 tons of steel and 160,000 tons of pig iron!!”
Near the middle section of the Quzhou railway, Chu Tianyun had directly demolished the original small steel plant on Madong Mountain because of the advantage of the railway. The production efficiency of the steel plant, which was almost pieced together by dozens of earthen kilns, was really low.
In the future, after the first phase of the Quzhou Steel Plant was built, the steel carriages would be able to satisfy the economic and military development of Quzhou. There was no other way. Steel was the foundation of industry. Without steel, a country would have nothing but agriculture and light industry!
Chu Tianyun recalled a piece of data. During the Anti-Japanese War, China's steel production was 1,000 times that of the Japanese, and the United States was more than 10 times that of the Japanese. In other words, China's current steel production was 10,000 times that of the United States!
When the Hanyang Steel Plant stopped production in 1925, its annual output had reached 50,000 tons of steel. This figure was already an extremely exaggerated figure for the backward China.
The Japanese's Hachiman Steel Plant produced more than 250,000 tons of steel a year. The Japanese had a large amount of iron ore, which they bought from China at a low price.
(During the early years of the Republic of China, because the foreign powers relaxed their economic aggression, the national industry and commerce had made great progress. However, this was only limited to agriculture and light industry, especially the textile industry. Similar heavy industries, especially the steel industry, had not been developed at all. Perhaps it was because the foreign powers banned it, or because the heavy industry invested too much money. Didn't the Japanese say that if they dismantled the Yamato during World War II, they could build 20,000 Type Zero fighters?）
"General, this is the news from the last month. The most important thing is that the February Revolution in Russia successfully overthrew the Tsar's rule!”
Chu Tianyun had actually forgotten about the polar bear in the north. Indeed, the current Quzhou was not in the eyes of the foreign powers at all. Even some of the major warlords in the country did not care about Chu Tianyun's Quzhou Renaissance Army.
In the eyes of many people, Chu Tianyun's claim in front of the Shen Bao reporter that there would be a war between China and Japan was undoubtedly a joke. Who was Chu Tianyun to make such a claim?
"February Revolution! The real polar bear had yet to mature. In a few months, after the October Revolution, it would become the real polar bear of the north!”
Chu Tianyun also did not have a good impression of his neighbor to the north. Polar bears were the biggest culprit in invading China's territory. If it were not for the mediation of the European and American powers, the three northeastern provinces would have long become Russian colonies.
Of course, Chu Tianyun was not concerned about these things. It was better to manage the area of influence around him well. That was more important than anything else. He needed to recuperate, develop his industry and commerce, and quickly complete the expansion of the three infantry divisions with 50,000 soldiers. This was what Qu State needed to do at the moment, and not to set his sights on the northern provinces.
As the weather turned warmer, the mountains and forests near Quzhou were once again dyed green. There were the sounds of cannons and gunshots. How far could the base of Quzhou go? This year and next year would be the time for the skyscrapers to lay the foundation.
In addition, Chu Tianyun had gathered the villagers in Quzhou and built more than ten roads with a total length of hundreds of kilometers.
If they wanted to get rich, they had to build roads. Without a good transportation environment, how could Quzhou's industrial production reach the southeast coastal port? Fortunately, the recovery of Quzhou's railway increased Quzhou's export ability.
However, Chu Tianyun still felt that it was too little. This was the Republic of China, not the Great Heaven Dynasty where every village had roads. There was only one county road between Quzhou and Jinhua. This was something that Chu Tianyun could not tolerate. Therefore, after he took over Quzhou last year, the huge road construction plan began. The township roads in Quzhou County were constantly expanded or paved.
Chu Tianyun also specially bought ten trucks with a load of five tons from the United States. Each truck was worth thousands of dollars. There was no other way. With the current industrial capacity of Quzhou, there was still a long way to go before they could produce trucks.
However, there were already blueprints for trucks in the industrial mother machine. In addition, there were also some old-fashioned tractors. If they continued to improve, the next industrial product would be the trump card of the land war, the tank!!!
In the history of World War II, many tractor factories were temporarily converted into tank manufacturing factories because in some aspects, the manufacturing process of tanks was similar to that of tractors.# Daguan Review Passed: Daguan Time:05320181:56PM
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