In the northwest in November, there is not much good weather, there was just a snow a few days ago, and the sun came out today, although there are snow stains on the side of the road, but the streets are unusually clean.

Compared to a few months ago, there seem to be fewer people in Baotou, since Baotou became the largest city in China, similar industrial transfers have been carried out several times, but this time, it is the largest, not only the industry will be transferred, but even more industrial-related research institutes will also move.

Baotou is currently the largest city in China, and the conditions are among the best in China, but in terms of research, except for a few disciplines, others may not be the best place.

For example, take the Naval Research Institute, although Baotou is close to the Yellow River, how can the Yellow River compare with the sea, in this wave of migration, the Naval Research Institute will also move to Dalian at the same time, and even divided into 5 research institutes, which are 901 to 905, which are stationed in Qingdao, Lushun, Dalian, Beijing and Tianjin.

After several years of development, the economic strength of the Baotou Special Economic Zone is particularly strong, after de-industrialization, a large number of factories have moved away, leaving behind the core and some large-scale, now, these have also migrated away, this is the sadness of the industrial city, because the industrial prosperity of the city, often because of the decline of industry, the history of the new China's northeast industrial base, in the labor pains of the time is so.

However, this kind of pain is unlikely to appear in China, with Yang Yuanzhao and the all-in-one machine, in the next hundred years, the northwest may be the undisputed world's first industrial power, with a hundred years to lay the foundation, China's advantages, has been unstoppable.

In the future, Baotou will truly become a political center and an economic center. The financial center, however, will not become an industrial center, but will at most house some smoke-free industries, such as pharmaceutical research and manufacturing, software industry, semiconductors, and so on. But not too much.

The overall situation of industry involves a game of chess in the country, even if it is the Ministry of Industry, it is also crossing the river by feeling the stones, Yang Yuanzhao doesn't know, just casually mention a few words, such as the source of raw materials for resources or industry, China's transportation is developed enough, and it is possible to save a little bit and take precautions. China's current machining strength, do not worry about the cost, on the cost control, is a fraction of others, so made in China can be marketed to the world, but China may not be able to maintain such an absolute advantage, once narrowed, or even after the equal. These details and systematization are the key points.

Experience in Baotou Industrial Base. In addition, the industrial concept learned from Germany, although it is the first time, under the overall planning, it is not difficult to achieve the overall layout, it is nothing more than the relationship of how much money is spent, and the current layout of China. The development of Baotou and the northwest has laid the foundation for the development of the whole of China, as long as the funds and personnel are in place. Everything will move quickly.

Industry is only the foundation, in the current industrial layout of China's efforts, the research and development of cutting-edge science and technology, and the training of the army, among the three aspects, Yang Yuanzhao did not explicitly say that the important one, in the actual order, the speed of military expansion has been significantly increased, the expansion rate of the regular field army has doubled, in other fields, semi-military training is also intensifying, countless weapons and equipment, produced from factories, have been transported to all parts of China, supplemented to field barracks and semi-military training bases.

China's huge population, to the conscription to provide great convenience, at the beginning, the soldiers are only for the strong and strong, but with the popularization of compulsory education in the northwest, when in 1913, after 4 years of compulsory education, has basically had the ability to continue to learn a group of young people, asked to join the army, not only alarmed the Department of Education, but also alarmed the Ministry of Industry and Yang Yuanzhao, in the eyes of the Ministry of Education, these knowledge mastery qualified, have a certain strength of students, should go further, Even if you can't study at a higher level, you should always enter the field of technicians, master certain skills, and become technicians or machine tool workers.

The northwest can also be regarded as paying attention to the propaganda of the military, and there is no obvious contradiction between the military and the people, but the solidified ideas that have been formed still make the military synonymous with stupidity.

The opinions of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Education were immediately refuted by the military, and all along, the military's high-quality personnel have come from military schools, have knowledge, and have been trained, and their quality is far from being comparable to that of ordinary soldiers.

However, how many graduates can be from military academies, although the Northwest Military Academy and military academies at all levels are large enough, but the scale of the Chinese army is even larger, and every year non-commissioned officers are promoted, and ordinary officers are promoted, and they also have to occupy a certain number of places.

It is a pity that most of these soldiers have only gone through the army's night school assault study, although they can write letters and write some simple reports, but it is completely incomparable with systematic learning, and suddenly there is such a group of students with 4-5 years of secondary education, even if not the top, they are also the treasures of the military.

The two sides quarreled endlessly over this matter, each with its own reason, and the lawsuit went all the way to Yang Yuanzhao, and finally, under Yang Yuanzhao's decision, he followed the requirements of the students and gave him a release.

The army is equally important, the future of China, will have a strong enough industrial base, will also have the whole world, unimaginable wealth, if this wealth is based on the country, it is definitely an astronomical amount, take the enterprise controlled by Yang Yuanzhao, the income has reached trillions, not to mention the whole of China.

If China does not have a strong enough force, it will become a child with gold in the middle of the city, in the early 20th century, in the dark forest age, quite dangerous, besides, China will join the Allies, but also participate in the world war, the army must become the first support unit.

With the support of Yang Yuanzhao, especially in the implementation of compulsory education in the past few years, the illiteracy rate in China has gradually decreased, from more than 99 percent around 1910, to less than 27 percent in the northwest, and even if it expands to the whole country, it will not exceed 39 percent, as long as there are two or three more years, with the gradual deepening of compulsory education and night literacy classes, this rate will continue to decrease, and the goal in the northwest will be reduced to less than 3%.

For soldiers, a strong body is the foundation, but the modern army, especially the use of a large number of high-tech equipment, illiterate people who can't read a word, can no longer play a role in the army, especially the air force and navy that use more technical equipment, if they are illiterate, they may be able to train to a certain extent, but it is difficult to surpass the ordinary, let alone the time spent.

The gradual popularization of cultural knowledge and the addition of more high-tech talents to the army have always been expected by the military and Yang Yuanzhao, and the recruitment attracted by various conditions, this attraction reached its peak in 1913, when the outbreak of the European War reached its peak, in addition to the industrial layout, the largest work in the whole of China was placed on conscription. According to conservative estimates, in 1916, two years later, the number of regular field armies in China will increase to 250 divisions, and according to the establishment of the northwest, a full division will be 25,000, and the total strength of the regular army will reach 6.25 million.

The number of militarily trained and semi-militarized militias, internal security forces, and even semi-militarized troops will reach 35 million, although these cannot all be conscripted, but if you want, China even has more than 40 million military mobilization capabilities, these are not like Russia, the peasants who have just put down their hoes, even the weakest of the 35 million semi-militarized personnel, the militia organizations, will conduct 7 half-day military training every month, with an average consumption of 140 bullets per person per month, This figure is much inferior to the regular armies of the great powers, but it is higher than that of the second-tier powers, Turkey, Italy, Austria-Hungary, and even Japan.

In fact, there are very few peasants in the absolute sense of the word in China at present, and the peasants of the Production and Construction Corps are, to put it bluntly, workers who manipulate machinery, and the collective nature of the workers is the best soldier in the army.

Of course, it really needs to be so much, Yang Yuanzhao knows very well that if 40 million are really mobilized, it means that China is already in the most dangerous state, and if the 35 million militia is deployed, basically more than half of the country's factories will be paralyzed, and the entire Chinese industry will be fatally hit.

But Yang Yuanzhao had to guard against the increasingly fierce European wars, including Lan Fang's actions in Southeast Asia, and the friction between the north and Russia and Japan, telling China that the pace of war was near, and the history of the past, and even the history of Chinese civilization in the past few thousand years told Yang Yuanzhao that the world's civilization, after entering the Age of Discovery, came to an obvious exchange between the East and the West and the central region, and in the exchange, the yellow race fell to the disadvantage, so the dominance of the whole world fell into the hands of the white race, and now, They have come to this world of great contention, which coincides with the overall situation that has not been given for 3,000 years, they must catch up, and if they want to make the future, the huge China can achieve good development, it must have enough living space, if China is still worried about the food problem, is still worried about the problem of whether it can eat enough, how can it establish its own position in the world? (To be continued.) )