Why did the small tungsten sand become an extremely important national defense material for the Zhouhui Kingdom?

That is because the biggest characteristic of metal tungsten is: a high melting point. Its melting point is 3,400℃, so it is called a high melting point metal. Tungsten has a large hardness, a large specific gravity, tough properties, can roll into thin sheets or pull into thin filaments, and has good conductivity. The main uses of tungsten are: lead, tantalum, chromium, drill alloys, can make various cemented carbides, drill bits for geological drilling and mining, armor-piercing bombs, metal cutting tools, aircraft engines and wear-resistant parts materials, etc.

To put it simply, tungsten can be used as tools for making weapons, or cannon barrels, shells and planes. Is this kind of thing a good thing? It must be yes!

And the kingdom is very lucky that in this era, the proven tungsten sand reserves account for more than 60% of the world, which is definitely the world's number one.

In fact, in the future, as more and more tungsten ores on the earth are discovered, the kingdom still accounts for 50% of the global reserves, and one country reaches the world.

It has to be said that the ancestors of the kingdom would choose places and choose a good place for their descendants. Even if they had no money, they could dig a little stone from the ground and ask foreigners to exchange for money for money.

In contrast, the short-legged residents of the Black Hawk Empire located to the east of the Kingdom were sad. The places they chose were not anything except volcanoes. Although their ancestors were likely to float past the Kingdom continent in a boat.

Otherwise, they have been deliberately staring at the fertile land of the kingdom and drooling! This is human nature. Who makes you fight in your own nest every day, and the country is full of holes but can still dig things from the ground for money? It is really a short-legged person who is busy developing every day but still has to tighten his belt to live a life of life.

Having wealth but not having the ability to protect wealth, and falling behind will lead to be beaten. This is an unbreakable truth.

What made Liu Lang unhappy was that such a great thing as tungsten sand, both the Zhouhui Kingdom and the foreign powers, were all wanting it to be deadly, but the price was set at a very low price. One ton is only twenty throttles of tungsten sand, and the price was actually a pitiful 1,200 silver coins. You must know that in the future, the price of ordinary tungsten sand will be 160,000 yuan per ton. If it is black tungsten concentrate, the price will be even higher.

If converted according to the purchasing power of silver coins and the people's coins, the international market price of tungsten mines that have been liberalized in the future will be five times higher than it is now, not to mention that it is when countries began to desperately develop their arms before the war.

Therefore, Captain Liu, who understood all this, believes that the kingdom suffered a loss, and it is very much a loss.

Du Niang is going to fight. How could a good thing like tungsten sand be sold to these yellow hair like selling cabbage? It must be like selling Ganoderma lucidum, especially the king of the Zhouhui Kingdom who has been carrying on overthrowing all powerful countries and allowing the German nation to rise again since his youth. Liu Lang believes that no matter how expensive it is, he will have to bite the back of the rotto.

In particular, the merchant group has to start trading with foreigners with tungsten ore, and the method of turning cabbage into Ganoderma lucidum must be used.

While the tungsten mine of the Merchant Group was still on the way to Haicheng, Du Maoren, who had already soared in the domestic geological world because of the discovery of oil, was clearly known as the number one rising star in the kingdom geological world, published an article in Haicheng's most famous Haicheng Post.

The title of the article is called "War Resources Theory". The content of the article talks about the importance of some special metal minerals such as tungsten, antimony, tin, iron, etc. to war. It mainly explains a view that ambitious imperialism launched a war in order to obtain more resources, and criticized these ambitious imperialists for their own selfish interests and ignored the precious lives of ordinary people.

A discerning person could see that this geology rookie with a strong patriotic sentiment was targeting the Black Hawk Empire who was constantly invading and eroding the kingdom. Apart from them, there was no other country that now occupied the kingdom. The northern three states were all over the world, digging coal everywhere with shovels and shovels.

Many people praised geologists, and at the same time, they looked at the importance of this special metal ore of tungsten sand to national defense explained by Master Du. Only then did they realize that tungsten sand is so awesome? It can make hard alloy cutting tools and cannon barrels and shells. There are still many in our kingdom. This is a good thing left by our ancestors, and we must not let the damn Black Hawk Empire rob it.

That's right, a nation like the kingdom who has been passed down for thousands of years with Confucian culture and loyalty to the emperor and filial piety as the core idea will regard everything on the ground as the precious wealth left by his ancestors, and damage anything, that is to be sorry for the ancestors who have lived on this land. Although there are so many unfilial descendants, it cannot be denied that most Chinese people think so.

Of course, this is just a by-product. What people pay more attention to is Master Du’s theory of war resources, which once again raises the understanding of national resources.

The newspaper published Master Du's sudden remarks for three days, but it did not cause much trouble. In the eyes of most people, this is just a call from the new star of geology to attract the kingdom to pay attention to resources and to continue to increase investment in mineral resources for geologists to continue to find more mineral resources for the country.

The consuls of the arrogant foreign countries also think the same way. What if the poor kingdoms realize the preciousness of mineral resources? Their industry is backward, and a large number of industrial equipment and finished products need to be imported. But they have these, and aren’t the dominance and pricing power on their own?

But immediately afterwards, Haicheng Haicheng Poster published articles from professors in the Department of Geology of Huaqing University, once again clarifying the important role of tungsten, a heavy metal, in the national defense industry, and calling on the kingdom to increase the protection of tungsten ore resources and uniformly purchase and export, and increase efforts to crack down on smuggling.

This is not a fabrication by professors. As a scarce material in the international market, tungsten sand will pay heavy taxes to the kingdom. In order to avoid heavy taxes, tungsten sand smuggling has always been repeatedly banned, especially the two prefectures of Taicheng Jiangxin City as the hardest hit areas. The reason is very simple. The two states with vast coastlines can easily transport tungsten sand.

How arrogant is the smuggling of tungsten sand under the kingdom?

Let’s talk about the people first.

Hiding tungsten sand in the bamboo, tied it into bamboo, and rolled down the river until Ninghecheng was just a small path. What is incredible is that someone would eat the ingredients mixed with tungsten sand to chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep, and then transport them to Chirongzhou to slaughter. Anyway, various techniques are stored endlessly, which makes people unable to guard against.

Besides, the major warlords were even more armed escorts, smuggling tungsten sand naked under the name of transporting military funds. Otherwise, how could the boss Chen, who was entrenched in Jiangxin City, even equipped the planes? Tungsten sand has a lot of role in it.

Even the Duchy Army took advantage of tungsten sand. In the southern part of Landau, it is the largest producer of tungsten sand. That boss Chen is his biggest customer.

With the voice of several geological authorities in Xinicheng, several heavyweight geological leaders from the National Resources Commission have also published articles to publish the role of minerals on the country and nation.

For a time, the Haicheng Poster, which has always liked to comment on current affairs, was almost occupied by the word "minerals".
Chapter completed!