Chapter 364 Heavy Industry Is the Basics

"Foreigners' understanding of China is only a matter of poverty and ignorance. What we need to do is to establish the overall brand of China." Meng Xiang said.

Later generations have a first impression of the recognition of a country. The image of this country is like a brand, composed of many elements.

For example, when talking about Germans, machinery, German Army and other elements, they create the image of a rigorous and rigid army staff officer; Hollywood in the United States has successfully portrayed the image of a brave cowboy in people's minds; Japanese people are always described as vulgar images by Chinese people, and their size is also related to the factors of romance action movies; when foreigners think of China, they are not in their minds that the Chinese food that has changed their tastes so much to cater to their tastes, but in many Western allusions in the earliest period. As for Chinese, they are always linked to the early braids, the middle-term reds, and the later ones without any public morality.

In this era, many foreigners' impression of Chinese people is limited to braids.

"People's consumption and purchasing habits are also affected by this. If you like something in a country, you may love the house and the U.S., and even her other products will also like it." A group of haha ​​people appeared in Meng Xiang's mind. There is no reason to buy and consume. Some people have watched a few film and television works, and a lot of *** goods are bought at home as high-end products.

Although they are exaggerated, the positive establishment of a country's brand is indeed conducive to the acquisition of political and economic interests of the country. Just like the United States preparing to establish Tsinghua University, making those Chinese elites have a good impression of each other may affect their lifelong decisions towards the United States.

The national image ultimately comes from the national strength and the overall quality of the people.

At this time, the national mentality had already fallen to the bottom. The complete denial of oneself and the full acceptance of foreign countries and the full acceptance of foreign countries were all moving towards extremes. Over the years, even conservatives knew that China had declined.

Internally, a long-term development process is needed, and it is cultivated slowly. It often takes effect much faster to the outside world. A literary work or film can give people an intuitive first impression. The red sorghum in later generations gave many foreigners another standard to know Chinese people.

But how is cultural penetration so simple and fast? The mainstream Western culture rejects oriental elements. Even the fast food in family portraits attracts low-end consumer groups with low prices. The tastes of foreigners are ultimately different from those of Chinese people. So many fast foods are introduced to continuously adjust their tastes and adapt to local eating habits. This is also a new innovation in Chinese cuisine.

When food was scarce during World War II, pig food could become delicious food. People always have a nostalgic attachment to things that are deeply remembered. Meng Xiang made an early layout to take this opportunity to create Chinese diet classics.

At this time, the impression of China has taken root among adults, and at this time, China does not have enough strength to overturn the impression in their minds.

"Change the image of China from the baby!" Meng Xiang's instructions not only popularize compulsory education in China, but also began his impression of Chinese people abroad.

"Let's start with the children, so that they have a good impression of China since childhood." Meng Xiang thought of the Barbie dolls in later generations. The blonde hair and blue eyes of Barbie dolls have become the standard of beauty in the minds of many Chinese people.

Under Meng Xiang's arrangement, the Special Administrative Region established two toy factories early on, absorbing employment for many idle people. On the one hand, the toy factory developed educational toys for children to play with, and on the other hand, it was also producing Fuwa. The type at the door of the family photo is just one of them. Fuwa made of wood, celluloid and rubber material went through more than a hundred processes, and put down the assembly line and accompanied by a trendy clothing launched by Caiyun Clothing Company and Fuwa Toys. Fuwa has become the most fashionable toy today.

"Dumping at a low price, try to make every child have one. It doesn't matter if the price is low now, there will be a reward in the future." Meng Xiang instructed. Thinking of the exaggeration of a Barbie doll in later generations, he knew where their high profits came from.

Not only do you buy this kind of Fuwa at the door of the family photo, but also various Children's Foundations, and organizations that protect children's interests are also distributing these love donations for free. Meng Xiang's principle is to not lose money. However, due to the hot sales of Fuwa, although many low-end gifts will be compensated, the mid-to-high-end dolls have become gold coins one by one.

The hot sales of Fuwa toys have also caused the toy factories to continuously expand their enrollment, and contracted some of the components to those individual workshops, which has led to the rise of a number of industries. Every day, many farmers come to the city to find jobs during the slack season.

In the SAR, new factories open every day and there are a large number of jobs that require staff, which is not uncommon.

The stable environment and the financial support of the SAR government through Taiping Bank, the influx of hot money investment in other occupied areas has led to more and more industries in the SAR. Similarly, with the stability of the surrounding areas, industry and commerce in the Beijing-Tianjin area have also begun to recover.

"The taxes of industrial and commercial industries are getting higher and higher, but there is one disadvantage. Private capital invests in light industries that are effective quickly and have a large investment, while heavy industries are only concentrated in mining." Zhou Bai pointed to the statistical report at the end of the year and worried, "Without the development of heavy industry, China will always be controlled by others!"

He is a strong supporter of the development of heavy industry and has been mentioning it several times in Meng Xiang's ears.

Meng Xiang is even more clear about the concept that heavy industry is the basis of industrial foundation. Later China maintained its economic prosperity because of its solid foundation of heavy industry. Compared with India, we can see the huge role of the construction of the industrial cornerstone of China for decades.

"The inherent laws of heavy industry cannot be strong overnight. It is the foundation of the industrial system, from mining industry providing cheap high-quality minerals, to metallurgy, chemical industry, to bearings, screws, gears, to machine tools, and various industrial products. It needs to be consolidated step by step, and significant benefits cannot be seen in a short period of time. During the war, it is normal for private capital to lack interest. If you invest in it, you will be occupied by the Japanese without output in three to five years. Wouldn't you lose your confidence in us? In the final analysis, it is still a lack of confidence in us." Meng Xiang said calmly.

The basis of heavy industry is energy raw materials. Meng Xiang has already had a deep understanding of the use of materials at this time.

Many achievements have been made in various laboratories, but they have been unable to promote production for a long time. The most important thing is that China lacks various materials at this time.

With just steel, Huaxia cannot help but have a small quantity and quality. It is not easy to do some steel materials on the base products, and some tests cannot be done.

It takes a long time to develop it yourself. Without relaxing basic research, Meng Xiang also purchased the German formula.

The Germans' metallurgical level has always been at the top of the world.

At this time, the technology was not that serious. Besides, the technology purchased by Meng Xiang was not the most advanced and the bid was high, so the metallurgical technology of some Germans was obtained.

After leaving the Germans, Meng Xiang also focused on the Czechs.

As far as Meng Xiang knows, the best quality warship side armor in the world in World War II was the British 1930ca and Germany 1930ca. Among them, the 1930ca was the technology introduced from the Czech Republic. The British could introduce it, but China might not necessarily introduce it. Although the technical barriers were weaker at this time, the formula of such materials was a secret of a country and could not be obtained without certain relationships.

Meng Xiang tried it once and was fruitless. The British could provide protection to the Czechs, and it was reasonable for the Czechs to give the recipe. Although the Czech Republic is a second-rate country in Europe, it still looks down on China.

"In less than half a year, I will search all the technology or people." Meng Xiang calculated the time. The first half of 39 was the time when the Germans invaded Czechoslovakia. At this time, the Czech Republic was also an industrial power in Europe. It turned out that 70% of the industry in the Austro-Hungarian Empire was concentrated in the Czech Republic. Its machinery manufacturing was very strong and military production was also good. The excellence of Czech machine guns was a reflection of their industrial strength.

Meng Xiang has collected a list of many Czech experts in his hands. More than a dozen international students who have studied in the Czech Republic for half a year will help their mentors and more talents escape the rule of the Germans at the right time. Although they will not all come to China, if they adopt a little strategy in the middle, some of the people they focus on will be brought.

"The steel plant in Qidu and Jinan produced nearly 20,000 tons of steel last year. At this time, the Shijingshan Steel Plant was approaching its end. It is estimated that it will be put into production next year. Our steel production will exceed 100,000 tons next year." Zhou Bai was also very excited about this number. In addition to the steel plant in the hands of the Pioneer Army, the steel production of China's unoccupied areas this year is not 50,000 tons.

"The investment in heavy industry still requires the government to take the lead and guide others to invest. If it really doesn't work, the government can directly support investment and wait until it is stable before absorbing private capital. This is more conducive to management, just like the Soviet Union." Zhou Bai said.

Meng Xiang smiled. It was inevitable that the government's involvement was involved. Even Europe and the United States had large-scale government intervention after World War II, which was just a matter of grasping a certain degree.

He also felt that the weapons and equipment of the Pioneer Army did not need the support of the Special Administrative Region steel mills, and the annual output of the small steel mills that were shut down in later generations was more than 100,000 tons.

"We will launch new projects next year, and the construction of Handan Steel Plant and Xuanhua Steel Plant can be started. In addition, if the two metallurgical technologies that are under development next year are developed, we can have higher output." The two metallurgical technologies mentioned by Meng Xiang were only started after receiving the prompt from Meng Xiang.

Every innovation in material technology is an opportunity to break the old pattern. Undoubtedly, oxygen top blowing and bottom blowing converter metallurgy technology is a technology that breaks the order of steel.

At this time, the international steelmaking furnace still used the Martin puncture furnace method and Thomas' converter steelmaking method. There was also the arc furnace steelmaking method invented in 1899 that could smel out high-quality steel. It used raw materials for scrap steel. The first two were still used on a larger scale.

The oxygen top-blowing converter method that appeared in 1952 is to supply oxygen from above the converter.

Because of pure oxygen blowing, carbon reduction will be reduced at a high speed and temperature will be quickly increased, greatly shortening the smelting time. A 300-ton converter will produce a furnace in less than an hour, and the blowing time will only be 20 minutes. Moreover, because of pure oxygen blowing, the content of harmful gases such as nitrogen and hydrogen in the steel is low, and the steel produced is of many varieties and good quality.

The most important thing is that this method has low infrastructure investment and production costs. In addition to the consumption of pure oxygen, the infrastructure investment of pure oxygen top-blowing converter is equivalent to 60-70% of the open furnace workshop with the same production volume, and the production costs are also lower than that of the open furnace.

In addition, there is a bottom blowing method, but due to technical conditions, there is no double-layer blowing pipe. Yan Enqiu, Wang Zhixi, Wei Shoukun and others developed only a pure oxygen top blowing converter method. The initial test furnace was only 5 tons. But if these 5 tons were successful, they could produce more than 10,000 tons in a year.

Meng Xiang has always kept this technology strictly confidential. This technology is an innovative type that can quickly double the steel output. When China was still weak, it was not much benefit to China.

It is also accompanied by continuous cast steel technology that appeared in the 1950s. This involves many aspects, including the research on mechanical automation. Although the research was carried out at this time, the progress was not great. Meng Xiang had no choice. He just provided these words and a little simple idea, but he didn't know the specific ones.

Another technique that may be quickly breakthrough is ductile casting.

Modern ductile iron was not invented successfully by the British until 1947. Among the unearthed Western Han Dynasty cultural relics, many iron products show that ductile iron has long been obtained by softening and annealing methods of low-silicon castings. Although it is only the original ductile iron utilization and some difference from modern inventions, it cannot be said to be a miracle. It is just that the Chinese people's randomness in science and the low status of craftsmen have caused its production methods to be submerged in the long river of history.

Vermil cast iron has the properties of ductile iron and gray cast iron. It can be directly cast by cast iron method, and has the properties of steel and is also cheap. It is its excellent properties that have made it develop more and more rapidly in later generations.

This involves adding rare earths, and there is no problem in testing, but it may be a little troublesome when it is produced. But Meng Xiang knew that there were many Baiyun Obo. If it is developed, Baosteel will also be built on the new territory of the Pioneer Army.

The person who led this research was Zhou Ren and his partner Zhou Xingjian. It was Zhou Ren who developed his own ductile iron in China in about 50 years. The engineering research institute he presided over was also incorporated into several laboratories of the Pioneer Army, but Zhou Ren had more personnel under his command.

In addition to the research on ductile iron, the two also worked together to study electric furnace steelmaking. Later generations were the first electric furnace steel in China in 2019. In this era, this time was already ahead of schedule. In November, they had just succeeded. What helped them the greatest help was the stable large amount of electricity provided by the base power station.

The foundation of heavy industry is inseparable from energy. After Mengxiang's upgrade, the efficiency of the base power station has also been improved, which has been improved to the highest combustion efficiency in the contemporary era. The maximum efficiency of the base power station makes the supply of coal not as tight as Mengxiang imagined. Moreover, under the long construction cycle of the power station, the stable transmission of the base power station is more cost-effective.

The lack of oil and the backwardness of steam engine efficiency have made Meng Xiang always plan to allow China to enter the era of electrification. Future development is also an era of electrification. Electric energy can be converted through different forms of energy, and its utilization rate is more convenient than internal combustion engines.

Meng Xiang also obtained the technology of electric motors and generators from the Germans. Although it is expensive and not necessarily the latest research results, it is also worth it.

After solving the problems of metallurgy and energy, heavy industry in the war zone began to start, and the equipment introduced from the Germans has gradually entered the war zone for installation and commissioning. The purchased technology has also been slowly digested and absorbed by the learning of many technical workers in the SAR with the help of German technicians and Jewish technicians.

"The development of heavy industry is very long. We should not be impatient, lay a solid foundation, and take it slowly!" Meng Xiang smiled. Of course, he didn't have to worry. Weapons and equipment are all made from bases, and there is no pressure from heavy industry. This can just allow China to lay a solid foundation for its future take-off.

"There is another base, should it be?" He couldn't help thinking, looking at the map in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

During this period, the Japanese still did not come to attack, and even the smoke from Wuhan seemed to be light. The Japanese were busy cleaning up the resistance organizations in the occupied territory every day and plundering wealth on the territory. The protective umbrella had agreed to their reconciliation and sold them to the two Nagamon-class battleships at an old price. But another cooperation agreement was signed. One of them was to mine mines in the Japanese occupied area and transport minerals.

A few days later, an Italian-consigned umbrella company's goods arrived near Hangzhou Bay.

"What is this? Why is it so big?" Miki Shigeichi looked at the big iron guy in front of him. The steel plate on it was a little rusted, but its huge size was really daunting.

"This is our mining machine." The 88, who was holding the pass of the Japanese Chinese Expeditionary Force, explained with his head high.
Chapter completed!