When Luo Zhixue's special train arrived in Changchun, he met with a group of senior officials from Liaobei Province as usual in the morning, and in the afternoon he met with senior officials from Heishui Province.

Because the Northeast Railway is currently only built to Changchun and has not yet continued to extend north to Shuangjiang City, the provincial capital of Heishui Province, Luo Zhixue's royal special train cannot go to Shuangjiang City, nor can it inspect most areas of Heishui Province further north.

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But now that we have arrived in the Northeast region, we cannot but meet local officials and military representatives from Blackwater Province.

Therefore, senior officials and generals from Heishui Province were asked to go to Changchun to have an audience.

Similar situations also occurred in Mobei Province and Xiaobeihai Province. Because the Prairie Railway only extended to Fengzhou City in Monan Province, the royal train did not continue northward. Instead, officials and generals from the two provinces further north were sent to Fengzhou City.

State audience.

On the second day after arriving in Changchun, Luo Zhixue met with officials from northern Liaoning and Heishui provinces and listened to the local economic reports of the two provinces.

The report of Liaobei Province is pretty good. Through the focus of reclamation and development over the years, parts of the Songnen Plain have been developed, so the agricultural output value is good. Although the industrial and commercial areas are not good, several minerals near rivers have also been developed. In addition, local

The forestry and fur industries are pretty good.

In addition, the port fishery is barely adequate. The Liaobei Province of the Chu Empire is quite large, including the northeastern part of the Koryo Peninsula, all the way to the sea in the east. There are also several port cities on the east coast, which have developed to a certain extent.

Fishing and commerce industries, but the overall scale is not large.

Economically, Northern Liaoning Province is far inferior to Liaodong Province, but its potential for subsequent development is very great. After all, the Songnen Plain in the western region is excellent arable land. Once fully developed, the grain output will be very high.

There are also many mineral resources and forestry resources.

As for Heishui Province, its economy is worse than that of Liaobei Province. The main reason is that this place was developed not long ago. Although the Chu Empire continued to immigrate to this area for more than 20 years, this place is too

It is a cold place, so there are very few immigrants who voluntarily go there. Most of them are official immigrants or even exiled criminals...

At present, the total population of Heishui Province is only 700,000 to 800,000, and they basically live in the Songhua River and Nen River basins, mainly concentrated in the Shuangjiang Prefecture area where the Songjiang River and the Nen River meet.

In other places, some immigrant settlements have been established along the rivers, ranging from hundreds to thousands of people.

With a small number of people, it is difficult to carry out agricultural development or mineral resource development.

Therefore, the economic aggregate is relatively poor!

But... the per capita economy is actually pretty good. After all, there are fewer people and more land. This limited population is also concentrated in the Songhua River and Nen River basins with very good agricultural conditions. The fertile black soil gives this area great agricultural production potential.

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Therefore, horse farming and even mechanized farming are widely used in this place, and the per capita grain output is very large.

So despite the fact that Heishui Province only has a population of 700-800,000, it is a serious source of grain. The local people can earn a lot of economic income by selling grain every year. Therefore, the per capita income level is actually higher than that of many cities in the pass.

Come higher.

When meeting with officials from Heishui Province, Luo Zhixue heard about the local agricultural development, forestry resource development, fur resource development, mineral resource development, etc., and focused on the upcoming development of the Sanjiang Plain.

Luo Zhixue said that the empire's next step will be to gradually immigrate to the Sanjiang Plain and develop the local plain area to make it a new food production base in the Northeast.

The development of Northeast China mainly revolves around the three major plains, namely the Liaohe Plain, the Songnen Plain, and the Sanjiang Plain.

Therefore, whether it is Liaodong Province, Liaobei Province or Heishui Province, they are all included.

On the third day after arriving in Changchun, Luo Zhixue inspected the Liaohua Agricultural Company not far from Changchun City.

The grain planting area in this place is larger, more horses are bred, and the degree of modernization is very high. Agricultural planting is basically mechanized, and even horse plowing is less.

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After completing his inspection of Liaohua Agricultural Company, Luo Zhixue's inspection of the three northeastern provinces has basically ended.

Then Luo Zhixue's imperial special train began to return south, passing through Shenyang and continuing south to Lushun. The reason why it did not go east to the Koryo Peninsula was because the Northeast Railway only reached the mouth of the Yalu River in the east and had not yet entered the Koryo Peninsula.
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Therefore, it is not very convenient to go to the Korean Peninsula. It is impossible for Luo Zhixue not to take the royal train and then walk to the Korean Peninsula with more than 20,000 people.

So this time I will not go to Korea Peninsula, but to Lushun.

I went to Lushun not for anything else, but simply because this place is also an important naval port for the Chu Empire Navy, and it is also a new port, industrial and commercial city in the Liaodong region.

With the opening of the railway from Shenyang to Hekou, Lushun has gradually taken away part of Hekou's resources due to its superior geographical location. Especially in recent years, the new soybean processing and trading industry have developed quite well in Lushun.

In addition, Lushun was originally an important port for the navy. It was the supporting port for the Chu Empire's navy to fully control the Bohai Sea, the northern part of the Yellow Sea, and even the west coast of the Koryo Peninsula.

There are not only a large number of warships parked locally, but also a large number of naval soldiers stationed there. There are also several shipyards and corresponding supporting companies.

The combination of these has allowed Lushun to develop reasonably well with great potential, and has threatened Hekou, an old coastal processing trade city.

After the inspection in Lushun, Luo Zhixue's special train began to return south, passing through Jinzhou, Shanhaiguan, Tianjin, Jinan and back to Xuzhou again.

However, after returning to Xuzhou, he did not continue south to Jinling City, but turned west and entered the Henan area.

This time Luo Zhixue's northern tour plan is very large, and its route basically follows several main railway lines.

It used to go north, but now it goes west mainly to inspect Henan and Shaanxi provinces. Later, it will follow the Huguang railway network into Chubei and arrive at Hantianfu. By the way, it will also visit Changsha in southern Chu.

After completing the inspection of Changsha, we will actually return eastward, then go to Jiujiang, Nanchang, and finally return to Jinling City.

Starting from Xuzhou's westward march, the formation of Luo Zhixue lasted for more than a month. During this period, he also went to Funiu Mountain, the land of Longxing in the Great Chu Empire, and led a group of military and political officials into Funiu Mountain on foot.

It's just that the Funiu Mountain now is different from the Funiu Mountain in Luo Zhixue's memory.

The winding winding paths of the past have disappeared, replaced by a flat road all the way to the west in Lushan County. It is enough to accommodate four carriages running parallel at the same time. The road paved with cinders is very smooth but fast.
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Cinder road, this is also an emerging road construction plan in the Chu Empire in the past ten years. It is better than gravel road, and there are many sources of cinder, and the price is very cheap, so it is a good way to pave roads.

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Of course, there are also cities that lay waterways and roads, but cement is still relatively expensive these days, so it can only be seen in small quantities in cities. But even in big cities such as Songjiang, Guangzhou, Tianjin, and Jinling City, most of the roads are still just cinder roads.

As for boardwalks and stone pavements, there are even fewer. They are usually on commercial streets and main roads in cities with strong political connotations. The overall proportion is still very small.

Walking on this flat road paved with cinders, Luo Zhixue could no longer feel the hardship of fighting in Funiu Mountain...

The subsequent formation was similar. I saw many buildings along the way, but they were all magnificent buildings built by the local government to commemorate this place of Longxing. They did not feel like a mountainous area at all.

Not to mention remembering the bitter and remembering the sweet.

Coming here in joy and returning in failure was how Luo Zhixue felt, but he didn't say anything. After all, the local government spent great efforts to build roads in the Funiu Mountain area to support local people's livelihood and relieve the local mountain people from poverty. It didn't matter.

No matter how you say it, it’s a good thing.

Luo Zhixue will not dampen the enthusiasm of local officials.

After completing his inspection in the Funiu Mountain area, Luo Zhixue continued south to Nanyang, then Xiangyang, and finally arrived at Hantianfu.

When I was in Hantianfu, I also experienced taking a train and ferry.

The royal train drove directly onto the huge train ferry and then crossed the Yangtze River, not to mention it felt quite fresh.

After crossing the Yangtze River, the imperial special train continued south to Changsha. After staying for two days, it did not continue south. Then it turned around and returned east. After passing through Wuchang City of Han Tianfu, it went straight to Daye Industrial Zone.

This is the earliest large-scale industrial base in the Chu Empire that integrates mining, smelting, machinery, national defense, and chemical industry. Even now, the base is still ranked among the top three in the field of heavy industry, second only to Dangtu Industrial Zone.

Songjiang Industrial Zone.

Neither Tianjin nor Guangzhou can compare with Hantian Daye Industrial Zone in the field of heavy industry.

When you come to Daye Industrial Zone, you have to take a look at Daye Steel Company, which is the earliest comprehensive steel enterprise in the Dachu Empire and the first steel plant to develop mass production technology of steel.

This steel plant can be said to be the cradle of the steel industry in the Da Chu Empire. It not only supported the steel industry in the early and middle stages of the Da Chu Empire, but also trained a large number of technicians and skilled workers for the steel industry in the Da Chu Empire.

In addition to Daye Iron and Steel Company, there are many other well-known and extremely important enterprises in Daye Industrial Zone across the country.

Take the Hantian Arsenal, which is the largest arsenal in the Chu Empire and the only comprehensive arsenal left in the country. Its products range from various cold weapons to armor, to rifles, artillery, ammunition, etc.<

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Its product line is very rich, and it can produce almost all the equipment of the army, and its output is generally not small, and most of them retain the ability to increase production capacity.

The factory is also the main manufacturer of a series of main rifles in active service in the Dachu Empire, that is, the 23-year-old rifle, and the main factory of the Army's 115mm series field guns, 150 series howitzers and other artillery pieces.

The Hantian Arsenal, which has a complete product line and a large scale, can provide all kinds of weapons and ammunition for the ground forces of the Chu Empire in wars by themselves.

How can I put it, even if Guangzhou in South China, Jiangan Songjiang and Dangtu, Tianjin in North China, Northeast China and other places have all fallen, leaving only Huguang and the inland areas, the Chu Empire can still arm millions of people with just one Hantian arsenal.

The army fights the enemy.

This is the importance of Hantian Arsenal!

However, although it is large in scale and has many product lines, it is precisely because of the many product lines that the design and R&D of Hantian Arsenal is subject to certain restrictions... There are too many projects, and the R&D funds allocated to each project are not enough.

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It is also a breech-loading rifled rifle. Tianjin Firearms Factory, a subsidiary of Hebei Arms Company, has made great progress in the field of breech-loading rifled rifles by relying on more professional and concentrated R&D funds and personnel. The Type 18 breech-loading rifled rifle

The rifle has been determined to start small-scale production and is planned to be equipped with the Guards. The Army will also start small-scale procurement.

However, the research and development of breech-loading rifled rifles at Hantian Arsenal is not very good. They have not even solved the air leakage problem. However, their idea is not to rely on the gun itself to solve the air leakage problem, but to think about it.

Rely on metal bullets to solve the air leakage problem.

It’s just that the research and development of metal bullets is not easy. I have been working on all-metal bullets for these years. The progress is pretty good, but it is not practical.

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Moreover, the bolt structure of their breech-loading rifled rifle is different from that of the Tianjin Firearms Factory's rotating bolt. Their bolt adopts a self-developed lifting bolt. Compared with the rotating bolt, this type of bolt has
To be continued...