The population of the three northeastern provinces of modern society has reached 120 million, and the heavy industrial projects such as steel, energy, chemical industry, heavy machinery, automobiles, shipbuilding, aircraft, and military industry in the three northeastern provinces have laid the initial foundation for China's industrialization.

The three northeastern provinces have a vast territory and fertile land, which provide unique conditions for the development of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery. As the country's important grain production bases, the grain output of the three northeastern provinces has accounted for 13.3 percent of the country's total, and the per capita grain output is 628.8 kilograms, 1.58 times the national average.

In this era, the Far East Company will also develop the vast area of the Outer Northeast, and the Outer Northeast Coast will be the eastern coast of the Far East Company, which is of great geostrategic significance.

The Outer Northeast is very suitable for the development of agriculture and forestry. If the agricultural land resources in the outer northeast can be fully developed, it will be more than enough to feed the entire Ming Dynasty. Fishery and animal husbandry resources are also extremely abundant, and the Kuril Fishery, one of the world's four largest fishing grounds, is located on the east side of Sakhalin Island.

With this more than one million square kilometers of living space, it is equivalent to the area of eight provinces and one city in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Shandong, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, and Taiwan, and the total population of these eight provinces and one city is 486 million. Organizing large-scale migration to Liaodong and the Outer Northeast will greatly alleviate the pressure on the population of the Central Plains.

The Outer Northeast is extremely rich in resources, taking forestry resources as an example, modern China has 9.6 million square kilometers of forests, with only 1 million square kilometers of forests, while more than 1 million square kilometers of Outer Northeast China has 700,000 square kilometers of forests, and in the "forest stock" surpasses the whole of China.

In modern society, Sakhalin alone has proven reserves of 2 billion barrels of oil and 700 billion cubic meters of natural gas. The outer northeast has iron ore reserves of 4.4 billion tons and 2,000 tons of gold. In addition, the reserves of coal, copper, manganese, tin, and diamonds are staggering.

The development of eastern Liaoning and the outer northeast will be a long and arduous task, which may take several years or even decades. in order to achieve initial results. The biggest bottleneck is the population problem, although the Far East has been sparing no effort to solve the population problem, but compared with the vast territory of Liaodong and the Outer Northeast, it still seems to be a drop in the bucket.

The Far Eastern Group is about to carry out a plan to expand northward, and once the plan is successful, the vast grasslands in the north will also become natural pastures for the Far East. The whole of Siberia. It will also become the future energy base of the Far East.

It is full of empty snowy areas, which are cold all year round, and most of the land is swampy and not suitable for farming, and most of the other non-swampy places are also land hidden by ice fields, which belongs to a wild land.

But it is home to almost one of the world's most discovered mineral resources. Non-ferrous metal minerals such as iron, copper, aluminum, tin, nickel, lead, zinc, magnesium, titanium, precious metals such as gold and silver, and rare metal minerals such as tungsten, molybdenum, and potassium. Non-metallic minerals such as mica, asbestos, fluorite, graphite, talc, etc., as well as natural chemical raw material minerals such as salt, apatite, and phosphalite. Among them, iron, copper, aluminum, and tin reserves are particularly abundant.

Such a large treasure, of course, the Far East cannot sit idly by, and even if it cannot be developed now, it must be left to the future generations of the Chinese nation. To do this, you have to completely cut off the claws of the polar bear in the north.

Six Mongol cavalry brigades and six Outer Northeast cavalry brigades have been formed in the Far East, each with six battalions. A total of 3000 cavalry. The Central Military Commission has transferred a large number of backbone personnel from the War Department to serve as company and platoon cadres and non-commissioned officers of these units. He has been training in the grasslands of Liaohetao for more than a year.

The entire initial period of the Northward Expansion Plan, from preparation to implementation, took about five years. It is planned to sweep a vast area north of Lake Baikal. These cavalry units composed of Mongolian and Outer Northeast natives are the seeds of the company's northward expansion plan in the future, and they will be the sparks that will gradually grow and develop.

The company will implement an agrarian reform policy in the grasslands. Unite all the poor herdsmen to fight against Nayan on the grassland, and break the traditional organizational structure of the grassland for thousands of years. In the future, there will be no nobles or tribes on the grasslands, and ordinary herdsmen will have their own family pastures. Let the cavalry corps formed by the natives of Mongolia and the Outer Northeast become the Cossacks of the Far East. Gradually encroaching on the northwest, by that time the Mongolian iron cavalry will once again set foot in Central Asia and Europe.

Of course, in order to successfully implement the northward expansion plan, Far East Company also has to make a lot of preparations.

At present, all army units in the Far East have been trained in horseback riding for several years, and although their riding skills cannot be compared with those of the Mongols and the natives of the Outer Northeast, they all have the ability to march on horseback over long distances. The main assault cavalry that swept the steppes was still composed of the Mongol cavalry and the indigenous cavalry of the Outer Northeast, and the main task of the troops in the Far East was to provide the necessary fire support.

An important part of the northward expansion plan, that is, the company's large airship plan, has also achieved phased results. According to the current progress, it is estimated that it will be initially applied in the later stage of the implementation of the northward expansion plan.

At present, the air boat detachment of the Far East Air Force Department already has 18 Type 32 semi-rigid airships, of which eight are currently deployed in the South Seas, four are deployed along the coast of Ceylon and India, and the remaining six are deployed in Liaodong.

The four-engine semi-rigid airship newly developed by the large airship R&D center has been successfully developed, and two test airships have been produced, which are in the intense test flight stage.

The frame, beams and stringers of the new airship are all made of aluminum alloy structure. Design number: 125 meters long, 25 meters in diameter, four KAMAZ 11.76-liter 360 hp diesel engines. The maximum ceiling is 3,000 meters, and the maximum speed is 145 kilometers per hour in the windless state. Equipped with 4 drivers, it can carry 18 crew members or lift 3 tons of materials, and the maximum stay time is 25 days.

The company's large airship R&D center in the town of Biquge www.biquge.info has theoretically overcome the problem of airbags for semi-rigid airships, which is currently only limited to the bottleneck of airbag materials and has not yet been produced and developed, but from the actual number of small airbags, there is basically no problem.

Two years ago, the company established an engine research and development center in Vladivostok, and its main task is to improve and upgrade a large number of spare engines brought by modern society. With the existing resources and technology, the power of the engine will be increased to prepare for the power of larger airships in the future.

If it is expected that in three years, medium- and large-sized eight-engine semi-rigid floating airships with airbags will be able to equip the troops.

As long as they are equipped with such medium- and large-sized airships equipped with safety hydrogen airbags, a large number of airships of the Air Department's floating airship detachment will carry out various tasks such as vigilance and reconnaissance, communication relay, logistical supply, aerial bombardment, and special warfare infiltration, so as to provide strong support and support for the northward expansion plan. (To be continued......) R752