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Chapter 391: The Situation in the Country


s: Asking for votes at the end of the month State Council Conference Room.

Today, Wen Desi and a group of domestic high-level officials are having a meeting here, mainly about domestic construction.

"China's raw steel production exceeded 50 million tons, ranking first in the world" should have been a sensational news, but now the world's major powers are fighting fiercely.

This news not only made the domestic people rejoice for a while, but also made the world Shangya only let everyone sigh for a few words before being overwhelmed by the news of wars everywhere.

People in various countries do not pay attention to it because they do not understand it, but high-level leaders in various countries still attach great importance to it.

After all, this is an era of steel, and steel production is equivalent to national power.

Of course, a country with high steel production is not necessarily a powerful country.

For example, Luxembourg has a higher output than Italy, but it is still a small country.

But this data is the basis for becoming a powerful country.

The top powers are also steel powers.

Well, Japan is an exception.

This hanging silk imperialism is a special case.

"It's only 52.5 million tons, which is really too little.

It's not as high as the output in one area of ​​Tangshan."

Wen Desi curled his lips disapprovingly.

This amazing number at this time was nothing in Wen Desi's eyes.

For example, in the Hebei Province of the original time and space, the steel production of this province is more than that of the whole world combined, and the production capacity that has been shut down and transferred alone exceeds 100 million tons.

No wonder a certain Yuan capital shouted "I'm coming to Hebei Province" The demand for steel in a big country like China is astronomical, especially during this period of massive infrastructure construction, the demand for steel is even more bottomless.

Think about the big picture of original time and space, which covers a land of 9.6 million square kilometers.

It can eat hundreds of millions of tons of steel a year.

As for New China in this plane, its current land area has reached 28.735 million square kilometers.

Even if the large piece of frigid land in Anton's hometown is less developed, the land that needs to be built is still large.

More than twice that.

Therefore, the 50 million tons of steel production is really nothing.

It is not enough for domestic consumption, let alone the booming foreign market in recent years.

Because the major countries in old Europe were involved in the war, their own steel was basically used in the war, resulting in insufficient steel supply in the international market and rising steel prices.

Before the war, the price of raw steel in the international market was only around US$15 per ton.

By last year, it had surged to around US$35, more than doubling.

For this reason, China and the United States, the two major steel-producing countries, are very happy.

Major steel companies are getting cramps counting money.

China's steel industry also took advantage of this spring breeze and began to develop greatly.

New steel plants are built every year, and existing steel plants are expanded to increase production every year, otherwise they will simply not be able to meet the needs of domestic and foreign markets.

When the United States entered the war last year, steel prices increased even more.

By the end of last year, China also entered the war, and the price rose even more joyfully.

Last week, the price of raw steel in the international market had risen to 37.2 US dollars per ton.

According to domestic expert estimates, if the war continues, it will exceed US$40 by the second half of the year.

Judging from the current situation, the possibility of ending the war this year is really slim.

Although the arrogance of the Allies was suppressed and Turkey jumped back, Germany and Austria and other countries were still very vigorous.

The Western Front was still in a stalemate.

The British and French plans to take back the capital met with shameful failures time and time again.

However, even if they regain the capital now, I am afraid they will still face a large number of refugee problems and reconstruction problems.

London and Paris, the two cities known as the "Pearls of Europe", have been almost ruined by the bad guys.

All the valuable things in the city were packed up and moved away by the Erdezi.

Even the Eiffel Tower, a landmark building, was dismantled by the Germans, and the steel was used to make weapons.

The most serious thing is that the continuous war has caused a large number of civilian casualties.

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Originally there were more than 6 million people in the entire Greater London area, and now there may be less than 1 million left.

Others have either become refugees or have unfortunately been involved in the war. .

The situation is similar in Paris.

Now, the two most populous cities in Europe are extremely depressed, with few people on the streets in broad daylight.

However, the Allies were not much better.

Allied bombers also frequently visited their homeland and greeted them with countless aerial bombs and incendiary bombs.

In other words, even after the war is over, European countries will face arduous reconstruction tasks.

They themselves also need a large amount of steel, so the steel flowing into the international market is unlikely to rise much.

This high price will continue for some time.

Nowadays, various steel plants in China are working hard to expand and increase production, and new steel plants are constantly being completed.

Due to the historical experience and lessons of "later generations", the expansion of the steel industry is not blind.

Small workshop-style steel plants are not allowed to appear.

All new steel plants must reach a certain scale before they are allowed to operate.

The current standard is 300,000 tons.

Anything with a production capacity lower than this is not allowed to exist.

Of course, this figure will definitely be considered inferior to that of a township-level steel plant in later generations, but it is still very good in this era.

Last year, the entire steel output in Japan was only 800,000 tons.

"Even after the war is over, our domestic construction will still require a lot of steel.

We have 28.73 million square kilometers of land to build.

Therefore, we must strive to increase raw steel production to 150 million tons during the Third Five-Year Plan period."

Wen Desi released another "Satellite of David".

As soon as Wen Desi finished speaking, there was an exclamation in the conference room.

"Is it too much?"

Senior officials with indigenous backgrounds such as Yuan Shikai and Tao Chengzhang couldn't help but gasp.

This year is the last year of the Second Five-Year Plan.

The original output of 30 million tons was broken as early as 1917.

It is expected that steel output will exceed 60 million tons this year without any problem.

The Third Five-Year Plan expired in 1924, with an increase in production of 90 million tons in five years, which seemed crazy in this era.

Even with last-place results over the years, everyone still lacks confidence.

However, none of the senior officials who were born as biochemical people were surprised, because it seemed too normal to them.

But it’s just an increase of 20 million tons per year.

In later generations, this is nothing.

In the early 21st century, the Datu Dynasty was able to achieve an increase of 50 million or even 70 million tons per year.

However, it was still subject to various restrictions. case.

Now that China's conditions are much better in all aspects, it is not difficult to increase production by 20 million tons per year.

"It's not too much," Wen Desi shook his head and said, "We can't just look at the total output, but also per capita.

Now our country has a population of 624 million.

Last year's steel output was less than 10% per capita. 100 kilograms.

As for the United States, their steel production per capita last year was more than half a ton, and ours was less than one-fifth of theirs.

Even if we increase steel production to 1 in the Third Five-Year Plan. 500 million tons, which is just over 200 kilograms per capita.”

Well, Mr.

Wen finally used the killer weapon of "per capita".

Upon hearing "per capita", everyone was embarrassed and speechless.

Boss, can you not mention per capita?

Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Industry Ban Chuanzhi smiled and said: "As long as the raw materials can keep up, I think there should be no problem.

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We are now promoting the oxygen converter smelting method.

Compared with the current mainstream open-hearth smelting method in the world, the efficiency can be improved several times. .

Therefore, as long as we replace all current open-hearth furnaces with oxygen converters, we can achieve this goal without even building a new plant."

"How much can it be improved?"

Xu Xilin couldn't help but ask.

Ban Chuanzhi said: "Let's put it this way, the top-bottom blowing oxygen converter we are promoting now only takes half an hour to smelt a furnace of molten steel.

And an open-hearth furnace with the same volume requires four to five hours to smelt a furnace of molten steel.

This is what we Using the new process, oxygen-rich air is blown into the smelting process.

If it is a traditional open-hearth furnace abroad, the smelting time will be increased to six to eight hours."

"In other words, our oxygen converter is more than ten times more efficient than foreigners," Xu Xilin was delighted.

"Minus the time for loading and unloading materials, it's almost ten times the time."

Ban Chuanzhi nodded and explained with a smile: "This is also the reason why our country can rank first in the world in steel production in just a few years, because we By adopting new processes and technologies, even for steel plants of the same size, our output is several times or even ten times higher than that of our foreign counterparts, so science and technology are the primary productive forces, hahaha.”

Transport Minister Miguchi said: "However, our iron ore imports last year reached 60 million tons.

If we want to reach the target of 150 million tons, we need at least 200 million tons of iron ore imports.

At present, our merchant ships are not enough.

Although We now have 8.52 million tons of merchant ships, but we need to transport too many things, and there are simply not enough merchant ships.

Mr.

Wen, we need to increase a lot of merchant ships, railways, trains, roads and vehicles.”

"Well, infrastructure construction needs to be strengthened, especially transportation.

If you want to get rich, you have to build roads first."

Wen Desi nodded.

This is actually a mutually reinforcing issue.

Whether it is shipbuilding or road construction, more steel is needed, and more steel requires more raw materials, and the raw materials require more ships and roads to transport.

As he spoke, he looked at Wei Sunan: "Minister Wei, does the Ministry of Construction have any questions about infrastructure construction?"

Wei Sunan thought for a while and said: "Equipment, materials and manpower are some deficiencies in these three aspects, but nothing else."

"We'll talk about equipment and supplies later.

What's the matter of manpower?"

Wen Desi turned to Yuan Shikai and asked, "Brother Weiting, how much manpower can the new management committee provide this year?"

Da Tou took out a notebook and flipped through it, stretched out a hand and said: "8 to 10 million is no problem."

But he paused and said: "But now there are fewer and fewer barbarians in the new territory.

In a few years, I'm afraid Not so much.”

"It doesn't matter.

There are 83 million people receiving labor education and labor reform in our country.

Only less than half can meet production needs.

If the other half are also trained, the number will be almost the same.

When our country's infrastructure is almost completed, it will We don't need so many.

If it's really not enough, we will find a way."

Wen Desi looked at the map on the wall and glanced at India.

There are more than 300 million people there.

That's right, China's total population is now 624 million, of which 83 million are receiving labor education and reform through labor.

These people are mainly composed of the following people: the first type are various domestic prisoners serving sentences, mainly common criminals, and various traitors and compradors, local tyrants and evil gentry, bandits and horse thieves, green forest heroes and illegal immigrants.

The second type is those who have been politically liquidated by the government.

For example, the princes and dignitaries of the Qing Dynasty, including princes, county princes, Baylors, dukes, and other Eight Banner dignitaries, as well as various old feudal upper classes, such as the family of the Confucius Mansion and the group of Shaolin Temple are all doing labor camps there.

The third type is members of disharmonious organizations, such as various cult organizations, extremist sects, and gangs, all of whom are in jail.

The remaining extremists like those Zhao Erfeng killed in the northwest, as well as their accomplices in Yunnan and other places, are basically all inside.

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The fourth type is those disobedient indigenous people in the new territories who are unwilling to immigrate and reject the national integration policy.

The first three types add up to about 25 million, and the fourth is the largest, about 58 million.

Of course, because they have not committed any crime, they are not considered criminals.

They can only be regarded as labor education.

China is a country ruled by law.

The labor education places specially prepared for them are different from those for the home country.

Such institutions in the home country are called "work-study schools" and "labor education schools", while those for the aborigines are called "civilized schools."

That's right, it's a "civilized school."

The Chinese government claims that the establishment of "civilized schools" is to improve the civilization level of the indigenous people in the new territories and to allow them to enter a civilized society as soon as possible.

We believe it is inhumane to leave any human being in the darkness of pre-civilization.

Therefore, we decided to adopt a centralized learning approach to help local people quickly enter a civilized society.

Taking into account the level of civilization of these aboriginal people, the "civilization school" has two main courses.

The first is of course Chinese.

Because the primitive language of barbarians, how can it be called a language?

How can one become a civilized person without a civilized language?

Therefore, it is of course extremely important to understand Chinese.

Even if you cannot pass CET-4 or CET-6, you must at least be able to understand a few daily expressions.

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Otherwise, how can they integrate into modern civilized society?

The second is work ability training.

If you don’t master the work skills to adapt to a civilized society, how can you contribute to the construction of a civilized society?

In addition, there are various other professional knowledge learning, including mathematics, physics, chemistry, agriculture, biology, etc. of modern knowledge.

There is also the way of teaching.

We all know that it is not good to just sit in the classroom and engage in cramming teaching.

A more effective teaching method is to combine theory with practice.

That’s why learning on the job is the best way to learn.

Therefore, students in "civilized schools" receive education through labor every day.

Mines, construction sites, farms, and plantations are all classrooms where they learn

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