Chapter 831: Confidence to fight (Central)

"Now our bullets are domestically produced, and there is no shortage of copper!" The pig beside him nodded and responded.

The earliest clones who followed Meng Xiang had already entered the highest level of the coalition government.

Although it is always difficult to separate military and political affairs in this era of power, Meng Xiang has also imposed restrictions in order to eliminate the hidden dangers of military personnel interfering in politics.

The battle results of Niu Yi and Hu Yi are more suitable for controlling the army, and the clones' personality cannot compete with those old foxes too much.

However, in order to control the operation of the government, many clones have been transferred to civilians since a long time ago.

They may not be good decision makers, but they are the best executors. They control all aspects of the government according to their respective talents.

Zhu Yi is the main leader in controlling the military industry and a core figure in the national industrial system. He doesn't speak easily, but as the highest-level figure in the country, they need to speak. In addition to repeating Meng Xiang's will through their mouths, and reciting the speeches of the secretary, they are also wise and also say a few words appropriately.

Clones are not robots, they also have feelings. Although the base instills them with only professional knowledge and some basic knowledge, as they accumulate over the years, especially after spending a few years in society, their emotional intelligence is gradually improving.

As the earliest clones accumulated military merits, some of their restrictions were lifted and they were given more abilities by sub-bases. Especially after those clones with one-size characters were promoted to heroes, although they could not handle interpersonal relationships like special heroes such as Tanya, they were increasingly becoming ordinary people.

"Although the output of fine copper has increased significantly, the industrial demand for copper is very large, and military consumption should not be too much!" Weng Wenhao frowned and said.

After watching the Chongqing government's industrial development and economic difficulties, Chiang Kai-shek resigned in disgrace and became a professor at Jixia Academy. He was only invited to leave the mountain before the establishment of the coalition government last year.

He said it more tactfully, cautiously.

Everyone knows the vanguard's bullet rain strategy, and the amount of bullet consumption is always calculated based on astronomical numbers. The consumption of this piece of copper is naturally indispensable, and 90,000 tons of copper looks a lot, even exceeding that of Japan, but there are too many places to use copper.

Not to mention anything else, the power transmission network built by just a village-to-town power project can exhaust the copper produced by itself. Thanks to the second-hand goods and cheap goods collected from Europe in the past two years, as well as the various copper power lines and equipment purchased from the United States, the project has been successfully implemented.

With the development of the war, even the Americans reduced the export of copper, such as strategic materials, and it became increasingly difficult to search from Europe while the chaos was in the process of robbing, resulting in a decrease in imports. However, in society, whether it is electrically conductive or thermally conductive industrial consumption, various construction lines, or the financial consumption of copper circles, all require a lot of copper metal to support it.

If the military industry disposes part of the copper resources, it is probably a famine for civilian copper supply.

Two years ago, the Pioneer Military Government announced a ban on the destruction of copper cultural relics at will, but metal copper is short, so many people probably have such an idea.

He was not worried about the problem of copper ore sand. As the first geologist in China and a series of honors, he still did not forget his old profession and often paid attention to new trends in the geological world.

Large copper mines found in Dexing, Jiangxi, Dongchuan, Xinping, Yunnan, Quheng, Shanxi and other places are enough to support China's copper mine demand, not to mention the super-large copper mine found at the junction of inner and outer Mongolia. In addition, the Wudokan copper mine near Chita, East Siberia, the largest copper mine in Russia, is also a world-class large copper mine.

A series of discoveries have also been found in the Far East and Central Asia.

If it weren't for other conditions such as electricity, the yield of refined copper would probably be higher.

"It is difficult to import the 7mm bullets of our new rifle from outside, and they need to be produced in large quantities. The consumption of this part of copper is indispensable!" Yu Dawei and Weng Wenhao, who were beside Zhu Yi, also had an old acquaintance. They understood what he meant and responded directly.

Whether it is a 9mm or 7.92mm or larger caliber 12.7mm bullet, it can be solved by base construction, but the 7*41 bullet of the TJ-37 type rifle is a new creation, and it can only be produced by itself.

Bullets of other calibers are also building and improving production lines, but only sporadic production and cost advantages have made imported goods mainstream.

After actual combat tests and improvements in harsh environments, the various guns of the TJ-37 type gun family have begun to be equipped with elite troops. If it weren't for the ammunition problem, they would have probably replaced the Somi submachine gun on a large scale.

The Wehrmacht is expanding the range of the new rifle, especially in the jungle in the south. The TJ-37 assault rifle performed better in pesomi, not inferior to the AK-47 installed by some elite troops in the south.

For the sake of the future, Meng Xiang is increasing the manufacturing scale of this rifle and corresponding ammunition. As one of the core projects of this year's military industry, the large-scale production of 741 bullets is inevitable.

"You don't have to worry about the supply of copper metal!" Meng Xiang said.

Mengxiang can transport fine copper from Chile, Zambia, Congo, Alaska and Canada through the refining workshops at the sub-base.

Before, some copper ore sand was transported back through the base's mining site, but the sub-bases arranged abroad could directly provide copper metal regardless of the surrounding energy.

Compared with the output of tens of millions of tons of copper in later generations, the energy consumption of tens of thousands of tons of copper is not large at all, and at most it slightly affects the scale of weapons production in the sub-base.

If it weren't for the purpose of building China's own industrial cornerstone, Meng Xiang could have directly used the base refining workshop to provide comprehensively refined metals, not to mention the dismantling and recycling of copper metal on many weapons.

There are twenty or thirty tons of copper on the propeller on just one battleship, and the dismantling and utilization of various lines, boilers, pipelines, etc. can be provided completely.

Everyone was accustomed to his magic. Since Meng Xiang spoke to solve it, it would definitely be solved.

Zhou Bai continued to report and listed the output scale of other strategic materials one by one.

Whether it is tungsten ore, tin ore, magnesium ore, China is surplus. In recent years, through the introduction of equipment and technology, we have mastered the smelting, processing and utilization of these metal ores.

China has used its own tungsten filament, and the military industry also has its own large-caliber armor-piercing bombs.

With continuous exploration, metals such as lead, zinc, cobalt, and nickel are enough to meet normal demand. Copper-nickel metal coins have begun to replace some copper coins.

China has always been poor in chromium ore. But since occupying Kazakhstan, the world-class chromium ore resource, the Kempersai Mining Area, has become China's own. There are also many chromium ore resources in the Far East and Ural areas, and Meng Xiangzheng plundered chromium ore resources from India through a branch base, and the concentrate sand is transported directly back to China.

With the exploitation of some resources in the northern Siberia and the Far East, and the exploration and development of various resources on the mainland of China, various metals have been strengthening the skeleton of the Chinese industrial system.

"Last year our war in the south allowed the Japanese to strengthen the blockade of Nanyang rubber. Our rubber resources were greatly affected. The less than 8,000 tons of them were obtained last year, and it needs to be resolved this year." Zhou Bai continued.

Due to the influence of natural conditions, Chinese rubber still needs to be imported. Most of the rubber gardens in Nanyang are controlled by Chinese and many shadow companies acquired by Japanese, British, American and Dutch, etc.

In the past, Chinese rubber was smuggled from these plantations, but now China and Japan have started war. Although the Japanese have not yet attacked the Chinese after providing enough rubber for the Japanese, they have strictly controlled the trading and transportation of rubber, making it difficult to smuggle.

Brazil and other South American countries have very little rubber, with a production scale of only 20,000 tonnes, which is controlled by Americans.

The rubber production in Liberia, Nigeria and Congo in Africa is only about 20,000 tons, and the nearly 10,000 tons of rubber that India was not occupied by the Japanese army, was controlled by the British.

Although the Soviets lacked it, they could trade with Japan and had support from Britain and the United States.

The Germans vigorously produced artificial rubber, looking for various rubber substitutes. In order to save rubber, they even switched to leather for many soles.

It is already good that China can obtain nearly 8,000 tons by relying on previous submarine smuggling, and this is mainly for civilian use.

Various tires and other rubber military materials can be provided by bases, and even supported Germans through counterfeit companies and other products, in exchange for synthetic rubber technology and equipment.

Now, chemical industry bases such as Lanzhou, Jilin, and Tianjin have used the surrounding oil and gas resources to build synthetic rubber factories.

However, with the increase in demand for rubber, this amount of rubber is not enough for civil use.

"Don't worry, we will solve this problem soon." Meng Xiang smiled.

Although rubber plantations in Indonesia and Sarawak cannot be solved for the time being, half of the world's rubber centers are in Malaya, and Malaya, whose output once exceeded 610,000 tons, is enough for China's consumption.

"Only by hitting south, the rubber there belongs to us!"


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