Chapter 439 Layout and expansion

Many times, layout requires a broad vision. After experiencing the influence of the information age in later generations and over seventy years of precipitation, Meng Xiang's vision is much broader than others.

Take minerals as an example. Many Chinese people still think that China is vast and has everything, and small peasant-style country lockdown will develop step by step. However, Meng Xiang, who has suffered from the impact of resource crises in later generations, knew that this was nonsense.

I have to say that China is squinting with a huge and wealthy head, but it is a bit like a fancy handle.

The overall quality of domestic mineral resources is poor. Considering the comprehensive factors such as ore grade, ore type, ore separating properties, the quality of gold, lead ore and zinc ore in my country is considered medium, and the quality of iron ore, manganese ore, copper ore and bauxite is at the worst.

There are many poor ore, rich ore, and few easy to choose, which greatly increases the cost of use.

Most of the pillar minerals in China have such problems.

The average grade of iron ore in my country is only 33%, 10% lower than the average grade of iron ore in the world. The major foreign iron ore producers, such as Australia, Brazil, India, Russia, etc., can reach 62% of the commercial ore grade without the ore dressing.

The average grade of manganese ore in my country is only 22%, less than half of the world's manganese commercial ore industry standard 48%, and most of them are difficult to select manganese carbonate.

The average grade of copper ore in my country is only 0.87%, while Chile and Zambia are 1.5% and 2% respectively.

my country's bauxite is almost all durite, and the production cost is much higher than that of the United States, Canada, Australia and other countries.

This is also because China wanted to import a large amount of ore in later generations, and the cost gap is too large.

But at the same time, it also made resource oligarchs such as BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, who held mining resources, make a lot of money in a burst of price gouging under the impetus of Western countries. This also caused the price of whatever China needed in later generations. "Silly, come quickly!" This classic has often echoed in the ears of foreign resource tycoons.

In sharp contrast, what is produced in China in the later generations will become the floor price, without any slightest sense of planning and coordination. I have to admire the rapid transformation and modification.

Among them, those relatively surplus mineral resources in China that do not use production and reprocessing have been sold to bargain prices.

Manganese ore, tungsten ore, lead-zinc, titanium and vanadium ore, etc., have all forced international prices to the historical lowest point in the hands of mine owners colluded with officials and businessmen. Rare earths are no longer rare, but become dust. The Japanese are filled with a large number of mineral deposits, forming new lands. Although China was standing on the side of the winners in the previous life, it still did not block the Japanese's blood-sucking. And the builders of the blood-sucking vessels are those who have long had no emotional fluctuations in the word "country".

It is not the translator and the puppet army who are considered traitors, but the interests of the family are traitors. Those who ruin their descendants for personal interests and small groups are also traitors.

There are many bureaucrats and compradors, but they are just fifty steps to laugh at them.

It is precisely based on some adverse effects of later generations that in Meng Xiang's plan, the mining industry will never allow private contracting to be uncontrollable.

The practice of contracting to private people is simply to absorb the blood of the people's assets, making a few people rich. Therefore, in Meng Xiang's plan, in addition to balancing state shares and private shares and jointly supervising multiple shares, it also introduced the concept of strategic reserves early.

The steel mills and aluminum plants that are built need to be imported from abroad in the future. While some resources are still cheap, they will be widely used to build foreign resources in order to lay the foundation for the next century of industry. The remaining ones in the hands belong to their own. Therefore, according to this principle, the construction conditions of each steel mill and aluminum plant should also take into account the convenient transportation or close to bauxite resources, and sufficient energy supply and a good expansion environment.

Close to the resource origin, so that if there is a problem with external resources in the future, it can be used nearby. This is for strategic reserves.

At the same time, in order to expand the scale of its own strategic reserves, Meng Xiang also wanted to seize enough rich resources before nuclear balance.

For this reason, the Japanese not only had to cut the knife to Southeast Asia, but also continued to cut it. Australia and other places were also what Meng Xiang had been looking forward to for a long time.

Sometimes, there is no fairness. The Japanese once complained that their living areas were narrow, but more than one billion people in the later generations of China were as frustrated as one or two million square kilometers. Although China maintained a land of nearly 9.6 million square kilometers, most of them could not produce food and were not suitable for humans to live for a long time. Although the per capita was more abundant than the Japanese, in many cases, there was no such thing as an average.

Meng Xiang, who was carrying a snail-shelled residence in later generations, once looked at Australia more than once. There were only about 20 million people on the land of more than 7 million square kilometers. And God gave them countless resources and wealth, just as the bird feathers of angels and the crooked corners of the demons fell here.

Australia's total coal resources reserves are more than 600 billion tons. China still has a lot of coal, which is not very jealous. At most, people's coking coal accounts for more than half, and it is of good quality and easy to mine.

Meng Xiang was jealous of Australia's iron ore. The estimated total reserves at the end of the 20th century were already 35 billion tons, and it was of good quality and shallow burial. Most of them could be mined open-pit. The rich ore with an iron content rate of more than 50% exceeded 20 billion tons, while the total reserves of Hainan Shilu Iron ore in China were only 466 million tons, accounting for 71% of the total reserves of Huaxia's rich ore. Even its average iron content rate of 48.8%, it ranks first in the whole of China's iron ore.

This gap is simply incomparable. Although China's iron ore resources are among the top three in the world and have occupied the throne of the world's number one, the moisture is too great.

There is also a huge gap between bauxite. Meng Xiang closely planned four domestic aluminum plants, but the domestic bauxite with industrial development value is only more than 500 million tons. Australia's bauxite reserves are more than 6.2 billion tons of easy-to-machine rich mineral resources, one of the best in the world.

Facing the nuclear era uranium mineral resources, Australia also ranks first in the world with more than 300,000 tons of proven reserves at the end of the 20th century.

Lead, zinc, gold, diamonds, titanium and zirconium are among the top three in the world.

However, this rich continent was still riding on the back of sheep at this time, and the population was still hovering around tens of millions. Without World War II, the population moved here was mostly the golden hotspot. The mine cart I rode only had one wheel. Most of the mines were not discovered, and many people still ignored it.

Its value now is just wool.

There are 3.2 billion acres of grassland in Australia that can be grazed everywhere. At the highest point, 180 million sheep were raised.

Australia's nearly 900 million mu of arable land can export wheat.

But the British Empire did not expect its yield at this time, probably because there were too few people here and there were not many wastelands reclaimed.

If this is in China, not to mention 900 million mu of arable land, even those grasslands can be reclaimed for another 900 million mu.

Even if the rabbit, who was troubled by everyone in Australia, was a disaster, Meng Xiang felt sorry. Those people who were full and had to use various drugs to poison them. If 100 million Chinese people were moved there, they could eat up all the rabbit's hair. Where would it be the rabbit's turn to become a disaster?

Westerners despise the Yellow Peril of the Chinese, which is a fear of China's huge population base. Meng Xiang later heard rumors that Kissinger used technology to exchange for China's planned population decline. Although he didn't know whether it was true or false, the root cause of Westerners' worries should be one aspect of our pride. Of course, in a special period, it would be impossible to control it, but it would be a mistake to control it. It took more than 20 years for a generation to grow up. The population policy was not adjusted early, and it would be too late when the crisis occurred.

Meng Xiang also considered the population of China at this time. Even Ma Yinchu had proposed the population issue to Meng Xiang, but after Meng Xiang carefully considered it, it did not adjust. At this time, the population may have exceeded 400 million. Some situations need to be calculated based on 500 million people. It seems that the population is quite large, but if China takes advantage of the nuclear balance to obtain the last opportunity to occupy land, it will need a sea of ​​people to consolidate the new territory.

The white people colonized Southeast Asia at most, but China moved 100 million people to suppress most of the contradictions and completely ruled that place.

This is one of the advantages of China's large population. When the number reaches a certain level, it is a qualitative change.

As the continuation of Chinese civilization for thousands of years, the population advantage is also a very critical point, otherwise it will be assimilated by others. This is also one of the reasons why Chinese people have always emphasized the importance of population. When the feudal family atmosphere is strong, it is not just about family planning to seek abuse? At this time, whoever shouts this slogan will inevitably be abandoned by the people.

Besides, Meng Xiang is already expanding a big chess game in his heart, so he naturally needs a massive population to support it.

Just like Australia, not only the mineral resources there, but just the land there, Meng Xiang vowed to take it over and expand the living space for the Chinese people.

When the British killed more than 300,000 local natives, and only 20,000 people were left, they should know that there is retribution in this world. If they take others, they should have the awareness of being taken away by others. If Meng Xiang doesn't care about it in the future, if 100 million Chinese people are placed there, the entire Australian continent will have a completely changed faith.

What happened to Huang Peril? The enemy's fear is the best praise for oneself. Modesty cannot bring respect, strength is the key! Even without super weapons, the locust-like population can definitely overwhelm everything.

Those who play the earth's heavyweight brand limiting the population can compare the consumption of Americans and Europeans, and talk about others. Besides, with the improvement of civilization and the enrichment of entertainment, people are no longer too interested in the movement of creating humans. Society will naturally have a regulation process, which can be catalyzed, but it is used to completely replace social regulation, which is the biggest disadvantage of planning.

In order to solve the problem of living space and future development of more people, and delay social regulation gradually arrives with the improvement of civilization, China needs more land and resources. Just like increasing revenue and reducing expenditure, the destiny of always hovering at the end of the flow is just the level of the flow.

Meng Xiang's future layout is generally circled in areas where the vanguard forces are not easy to control, but those places destined to change their surnames can be packaged directly. Southeast Asia, Australia, Siberia and Central Asia will bring a good appetite to China in the future, which is enough to support China's development on the earth for a hundred years.

Although the goal is lofty, only he himself knows Meng Xiang's plan at this time, even Tang Yaoshi, Zhou Bai, Fan Zhong and others did not inform him. This blueprint is too crazy. In the eyes of others, it has deviated from the scope of normal people's thinking. At this time, part of the land in China was still under the iron hoof of the Japanese. No one knew how widespread the Second World War, so how could he believe in the unparalleled achievements of opening up the territory?

Therefore, Meng Xiang did not throw out this blueprint, but laid a solid foundation from the most basic plan and waited for the opportunity to come.

In this era, steel determines the strength of a country and is also the cornerstone of industry.

"In fact, our steel output can be doubled!" Meng Xiang thought of the Japanese steel output, and couldn't help but say another sentence that shocked Zhou Bai.

"Double it again? 4 million tons?" Zhou Bai stretched out four fingers and shook them.

"Well! Have you forgotten that our electric furnace steelmaking has been successful?" Meng Xiang smiled. "As long as there is scrap steel, the electric furnace can produce high-quality steel. Moreover, the electric furnace equipment does not need to occupy too much space or consume too much transportation system. It can be directly placed in the consumer area. One or two such steel plants are built near major cities. Isn't this another steel output?"

This has long been listed in Meng Xiang's plan. For nothing else, most of the raw materials produced by the Japanese are not from mining in China, but from scrap steel from the United States. Whether the Americans intend to support it or the excessive output caused by the excess steel surplus, their total amount will always be limited. The Japanese rely on these support. If these sources are reduced, it will inevitably make the Japanese who lack resources more trouble.

Americans will not supply their scrap steel to an infinite extent. Moreover, with the outbreak of the European war, the demand for steel increases and the price increases, and the share that the Japanese get will also decrease significantly. This is also one of the reasons why the Japanese and Americans later broke up.

Meng Xiang was just pushing for it. He had just negotiated a large contract with the Americans to acquire large amounts of scrap steel.

The contract was not signed by the Pioneer Army, but was exchanged for the Yamato-class battleships by counterfeit companies. Americans had overcapacity in factories and generally did not buy weapons from abroad. However, Americans were eager to understand the technical characteristics of the Yamato. Moreover, counterfeit companies only need to use scrap steel to pay for ships, so the deal was negotiated.

Americans have been secretly happy to exchange garbage for advanced weapons. Selling scrap steel has promoted the reproduction of the steel industry and has also boosted the economy and employment. Besides, the secret of the world's largest warship, this information cannot be exchanged for ordinary money.

The counterfeit company made it clear that the scrap steel was sold to the Pioneer Army, and American ships were just enough to take the scrap steel to the Pioneer Army's territory.

The scrap steel is not all rusty waste. The copycat company also specially named it, part of which is railway tracks.

The United States experienced a crazy history of railway construction in the 19th century. The game of later railway tycoons and some videos about railways well reflected the classic plot of that era.

By the 1920s, when the US railway network was initially formed, the railway mileage reached 420,000 kilometers in 20 years, which was definitely the world's number one.

However, after the railway defeated the mainstream position of inland water transportation, it fell only half a century after it declined due to the slowdown in land expansion and the slowdown in population growth, giving way to the automobile industry with a larger profit. With the rapid development of the automobile industry that only emerged at the beginning of this century and the 29-year economic crisis, the railway not only declined but also shrinked.

The proportion of steel consumption by railways has also dropped from 23.5% in 26 years to 9.1% in 39 years. The proportion of automobiles exceeds that of construction and railways.

Until later generations, the total mileage of railways was reduced to 220,000 kilometers, which was nearly half. By 39 years, 18,000 kilometers of railways were abandoned. Meng Xiang had the idea of ​​these railway tracks.

The Europeans' railway network has been almost built. The Japanese are small and do not need so many rails. They only need steel for rails. Other poor countries have no money to buy it. So Meng Xiang bought rails that can be laid for 5,000 kilometers at the price of scrap steel.

At this time, although this kind of high manganese steel rail can also be produced on the ground, the output is extremely low, and the number of rails produced by the base is also limited. However, Meng Xiang understood the importance of railways to mechanized troops, and mechanized troops rely heavily on railways for long distance transportation. With these railways, the Pioneer Army's territory can have several more railways to communicate between north and south, east and west, making the territory more stable.

Railways have greatly promoted economic development.

Once the train rings, it makes ten thousand taels of gold. It makes sense. If you want to be rich, build roads first. The railway has a greater driving effect.

These rails are just the beginning, and the transaction of scrap steel will continue to continue in the future. Even other scrap steel, plates, pipes and other materials can still be used for waste. This can not only reduce the total amount of scrap steel raw materials for the Japanese, but also reduce the time for the accumulation of the early stage of China's economic development.
Chapter completed!