When Hu Rui came back with dinner, the two of them had basically walked around the site. Seeing Hu Rui come back, Li Yan and Xu Chang sat down and talked while eating.
"My plan for the steel plant we are currently investigating is to build a 10-ton blast furnace, a 5-ton blast furnace, a 5-ton furnace, and two small steel rolling equipment. One is for rolling steel plates, and the other is for rolling steel plates. What do you think?" The reason why Li Yan chose two blast furnaces instead of one was that he had to consider not only the production of pig iron here in the future, but also the ability to produce brass, which was a necessity for the production of bullets.
"But wouldn't that require too much electricity? I remember that the power of the water power station you mentioned before is about 1000Wh, but if I remember correctly, the steel factory alone needs about 500Wh of electricity. What about the cement factory and the chemical factory? These two are both big consumers of electricity, not to mention the machinery factory and the gun factory.”
Xu Chang calculated silently for a while and asked. On the way here, Li Yan told Xu Chang about his plan and the two million USD. Xu Chang originally thought that the steel plant to be built now was only a small blast furnace with a capacity of five tons and a two-ton conversion furnace. He did not expect Li Yan's plan to be so big. It was certain that the power shortage would be very large.
"Therefore, I plan to build a thermal power station that is two to three times the size of the Menghe Power Station. This thermal power station cannot be too far away from here, because I plan to place this thermal power station near Maying Village. Of course, the construction of the thermal power station will come after the cement factory. After all, the construction of the thermal power station cannot be done without a large amount of cement. The 1000Wh water power station and the two 100Wh oil-fired generators will be enough for the electricity demand in the early stage.”Li Yan's industrial capabilities could be considered top-notch. In fact, the total power of 1200 Kilowatt was not enough for the normal production of the steel plant and cement plant. However, it would not be a big problem for the early construction. Not to mention, the construction period of the cement plant was very short. If the steel plant and the cement plant started work together, the first furnace of molten iron might be produced when the thermal power plant could start generating electricity.
"By the way, what about the funds needed for the steel plant? Even if that money can build the steel plant, there probably won't be much left.”Xu Chang began to calculate the funds again. If he remembered correctly, it would cost at least 600,000 USD to build a steel plant of the same size in the United States. If he wanted to transport the same equipment to China, it would cost at least 1 million USD. After all, the shipping costs and the necessary profits were there. Even if the price increased so much, Xu Chang did not think there was anything wrong with it. In this era, it was already good enough to buy it in China. There was no need to care about so much. However, a steel plant would cost so much money. What should he do with the remaining chemical plants and cement plants?
" Hahahaha…" Li Yan suddenly started laughing after hearing Xu Chang's question. He couldn't stop laughing even if he spat out the steamed bun in his mouth.
"Are you crazy? I asked you about the money. What are you laughing at?”Xu Chang was puzzled. After all, what was so funny about him asking? That was money. What was wrong with asking about money?
Hu Rui, who was at the side, couldn't understand either. He just picked up the cold hot water and handed it to Li Yan. Just now, when he went back, Commander Zhao met him alone and told him that he didn't have to report Li Yan's detailed actions to him in the future. Of course, if there were any problems, he could still tell Commander Zhao. He didn't have to carry out the things that were being planned. He told him to follow Li Yan and Xu Chang well in the future and protect their safety no matter what happened. He even asked Director Guo to prepare his 20-shot bullets.
Hu Rui understood that even if Li Yan was officially recognized by the Shandong Military and Political Committee, he was even more important than Commander Zhao. After all, when he followed Commander Zhao, he could only carry five bullets, but now he could carry twenty bullets. After knowing this, Hu Rui returned to his previous state of silence. He was actually not a talkative person. He just needed to do something to make Li Yan and the other rest assured. In the future, he did not have to really go against his will to deal with Li Yan and the other. After all, he had seen every little bit of what they did.
"I want to laugh when you say this, you know? A few years ago, in 1936, Owen, the president of General Electric, was the CEO of the company. Yang predicted that Japan would not be satisfied with just occupying the northeast region from the allocation of materials in North Korea and China. They would launch a major war against China in a year or two at most.”
"This war should be even bigger than the previous military operation to occupy the northeast. After all, according to the next time, even the Japanese navy was preparing for the war. Once a war breaks out, it will definitely evolve into a very long war. After all, China is too big, and Japan is too small. It is impossible for Japan to completely occupy China in three years. Once it exceeds three years, Japan will definitely be defeated by its extremely long transportation line. Therefore, he was optimistic about the war between China and Japan. However, China's industrial strength was too poor. There were too few steel factories, too few production, too few chemical factories, and too few cement factories.”
"Based on the above two points, our dear Owen. President Yang made a decision, which was to borrow a large amount of funds to mass produce all war-related equipment to be shipped to China, including but not limited to power generation equipment, steel production equipment, gun production equipment, radio production equipment, and even aircraft production equipment. Of course, there was also a portion of cars. In order to allow the Chongqing government to buy this equipment, this equipment was all in the measurement size instead of the imperial system. Once the war started, the price of these equipment would inevitably rise like crazy. At that time, GM would undoubtedly make a fortune. By then, whatever Siemen, whatever Schneider, whatever Westhouse, would just be goods on the shelves.”
"This is too stupid.”
Xu Chang really couldn't think of any words to describe this president other than being stupid. There was no doubt that this president's vision was vicious. If the Chongqing government was really a modern political party, things would definitely develop as this president had expected. He would even urgently purchase these equipment at three or even four times the original price if the funds were not enough.
General Electric could even cooperate with Wall Street to produce a special national bond to sell to Chongqing. Chongqing might have no choice but to accept it. At that time, General Electric could even make money on the bonds. Without doing anything, countless people in China would transfer their income to General Electric's account.
However, the Chongqing government was not a modern political party. He seemed to have read a newspaper on his way back. The newspaper said that a steel factory that had been transferred to Sichuan had gone bankrupt because of insufficient orders.
When he heard the news, he even thought that he was crazy. After all, it was a time of war now. The steel factory would actually go bankrupt during the war. It was only after he confirmed the authenticity of the news that he was completely disappointed in Chongqing. Otherwise, a recommendation letter would actually be very simple.
" And then, and then, there's nothing else. I also learned about this news when I came here. After all, although this money looks like a lot, it's not enough to build an industrial zone. So, Minister Jensen and the other two told me about this news. We can buy this batch of equipment at an extremely low price. Speaking of which, the proposal to help China strengthen its industrial capabilities should have been partly contributed by General Electric. What do you think?"
Li Yan had only just thought of this. After all, if they did not do anything, GM would suffer a huge loss. However, if they could sell it, they might have to pay a portion of the loss even if the price was lowered. However, it was better to pay a portion than nothing.
"That's for sure. General Electric has the guts and ability to do this. I even think that this suggestion was made by General Electric to get rid of this burden.”If it was really as Li Yan said, this sum of money was completely enough. Moreover, he could imagine that there would be a few more sums of money coming in later. It was completely enough to produce an industrial zone.
"I think so too. Let's not talk about anything else. Hurry up and eat.”Li Yan hurriedly urged Xu Chang to eat. After all, Hu Rui was almost done eating. He still had a steamed bun that he had not eaten. He had to quickly finish eating and go to bed. Tomorrow, he had to make a general and specific location.
"What do you think, Xiao Xu? Do you think it's suitable to build the blast furnace here?”It was already the morning of the next day. After the two of them finished eating, they began to survey the specific location of the steel plant. Hu Rui followed beside them. After all, for Hu Rui, he could understand every word they said, but he couldn't recognize them when they were connected together.
"It's not very good. If we build it here, we'll have to make a turn in the desulphuration and mold injection below. This is not a good choice for the assembly line.”The construction of the steel plant did not require much land. After all, it required a very thick foundation. However, because Li Yan planned to save a little on cement and only planned to build a very thin foundation, Xu Chang could only use his professionalism to poke around with a wooden stick to find a good location.
"In that case, let's wait and see. The time is still relatively loose, so we're not in a hurry.”Li Yan also knew that it was a little inappropriate for him to do this. After all, he had already ruled out several suitable locations. However, he had no choice. When he was in Shanghai, he had asked around. In China, cement could be considered a luxury item. It was even more expensive than white flour. General Electric only shipped equipment, not cement, which was not suitable for shipping. However, it was a little bitter now. When the cement factory in the industrial zone of Qingtuo Town went into production, This concern would not exist.
The few of them began to repeat the process that they had done many times before. They looked for land, and if it was not suitable, they looked again.
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