"Isn't 2 million tons too much?" Zhou Bai also knew Meng Xiang's future plans for the Northeast, but he was still a little uncertain about the 2 million tons of steel output proposed by Meng Xiang.

"Many?" Meng Xiang didn't expect Zhou Bai to feel that there were too many words, but these plans were arranged little by little with Zhou Bai and others.

However, it is no wonder that Zhou Bai is also a little unconfident, before the domestic steel production before the war, not counting the factory occupied by himself, there was only an output of more than 50,000 tons. Now, with the occupation of the Yue army, if you don't count the steel production on the territory of the vanguard army, this figure has basically shrunk by more than half. Zhou Bai has some understanding of heavy industry and knows that it will not be possible to increase it more than ten times on this basis, which can not be done in three or five years.

He didn't know to what extent World War II would break out, and when the time came, Meng Xiang would have to continue to recruit talents and equipment from Europe, so that he would have a guarantee of 2 million tons. Otherwise, the vanguard army will be stumped only from the talent side.

But it is precisely because of the limitation of talents that Meng Xiang set a quantity of 2 million tons. Otherwise, how could Meng Xiang have to open his mouth to shout a high yield of 10 million tons.

There is a shortage of talents in China, and even skilled workers need to be cultivated little by little. Not to mention the mechanics, engineers. Five years is spent laying a good foundation and cultivating talents. Those foreigners came to China and brought out a few apprentices, but they couldn't learn it all at once. It will take time for more people to learn the relevant skills.

With the outbreak of World War II, all countries needed to increase steel production, and the relevant machinery and equipment were also strictly controlled. If it weren't for the Germans in Meng Xiang's hands, it would be impossible to easily get all kinds of machines. But even so, Meng Xiang still hopes to cultivate his own machine industry, and needs to start from scratch to produce machines with the Chinese brand. It also takes time to get started.

The five-year period was the most intense time for the outbreak of World War II, and it was also the five years when China had a solid foundation. As long as the technology is learned and the personnel are trained well, it is easy to expand production. 2 million does not seem to be much, but in just two or three years, as long as the investment is in place, it is not a problem to turn to 10 million tons. The foundation is not stable, and everything behind is empty talk.

Meng Xiang holds the base in his hands, and the steel consumed by military production can be ignored for the time being. 2 million tons of steel are mainly used for civilian use, which is almost enough. Most of the steel produced by others was used in war, and the relatively civilian steel was not as much as the production of the vanguard army.

Just like himself, millions of tons of steel are put into the navy, and the army's peeping tanks are even thinner. Steel is needed to build fortifications, steel is needed to build guns and artillery, and steel is needed for all types of vehicles. War itself is a collision of steel and flesh. Steel for military use is mainstream. But when it comes to the vanguard, all steel products are provided by the base, and even some vehicles, ships, and engines produced by the base can be used as a substitute for civilian use. Even the scrap steel of weapons can be recycled.

It will not take long for the base to produce a megaton naval fleet. This is equivalent to an additional million tons of steel production, and if you count the machinery used to produce ships and other steel consumption, I am afraid that it is even more. In addition to tanks, vehicles, guns, aircraft, military fortresses, etc., the base produces more than 10 million tons of steel products a year.

"We need to focus more on quality, not just quantity!" Meng Xiang replied. Thinking that the steel output of China in later generations reached six or seven billion tons, exceeding the total steel output of the next ten countries such as the United States, Russia, Britain, France, etc., but the quality is really heart-wrenching. What cannot be concealed under that huge amount is that most of the high-grade steel needed in China every year still needs to be imported. Even the steel used to make warships had to be imported from Soviet Russia, which had been in decline for a decade or two.

"In five years, we not only want to make a breakthrough in output, but also need to establish a scientific research team to test out Huaxia's own steel skeleton. In addition, we also need to establish a complete set of management system, cultivate a group of management talents, and instill a quality as life idea to the workers. It's not just shoddy and greedy. Time is not important, only when the foundation is laid can the development of good surnames be guaranteed in the future. Meng Xiang still did not say a word, with the increase of workers, the relationship between labor and management should be slowly straightened out, and not too hasty.

"That's a lot of investment!" Zhou Bai didn't say anything else, just sighed at the amount of investment. Iron and steel plants are not a little bit of money investment, 100,000 tons of steel plants, less than 10 million yuan of investment can not be run. Several steel factories were opened, and one or two hundred million yuan was thrown into them. Fortunately, it is divided into five years, otherwise so much capital investment will suddenly make the capital chain tense. After all, although arms make money, there are other aspects of spending.

Zhou Bai was a little worried about the fact that the steel plant would siphon up so much money in one project. The source of funds for the Vanguard Army is very clear, except for the special support fund of the Dragon Teng Organization. Although the tax revenue and other revenues from industry and commerce have increased a lot after more than a year of development, there is still a lot of money for the subsistence allowance and education, public health, scientific research, and other aspects, and the balance of income and expenditure cannot be guaranteed. If it weren't for the large amount of financial support sent by the Dragon Teng Organization, where would it be able to maintain its operation?

But relying on external financial support, he has been unable to stabilize the balance of payments, which also makes him a little embarrassed, but he also knows that if the money is invested, with the development of industry and commerce in the future, it will be able to recover the cost, but the time is relatively long, after all, at this time, Huaxia needs more supplies and warmth, and it is not yet time to feed.

"We are well funded. Don't worry too much about it. Meng Xiang also seemed to see his worries, but the funds for these arms sales were not clear or not, so he only mentioned it vaguely.

Zhou Bai was also accustomed to hearing Meng Xiang's promise, and his heart was relieved, and then he said: "The steel plant in Taiyuan was built by Yan Baichuan with an investment of eight million. How can the layout of steel production be listed separately this time? ”

This steel mill located in the Jianlawn of Taiyuan, but Yan Xishan took several years to build, in that era when each pound of flour was only four or five cents, Yan Xishan was willing to spend 8 million to build a steel plant with an annual output of 450,000 tons. It's a pity that this steel plant was just built in 37 years, and I rushed in that year and occupied this place.

When the vanguard rushed over, he said that he blew up the blast furnace and destroyed part of it, and it was being repaired at this time.

"Oh, Taiyuan Iron and Steel Plant will be listed separately in the future to focus on the production of special steel." Meng Xiang then said. The construction of steel plants needs to take into account resource issues. Although there are a lot of iron ores in Taiyuan, Gujiao and Lanxian, they are mainly poor mines, and they are too close to Taiyuan City, which restricts the expansion of the city in the future and affects the environment, so Meng Xiang plans to move the steel plant to the place near the iron ore area, and the Taiyuan Iron and Steel Plant focuses on the production of special steel and the development of high-end steel. In later generations, Taiyuan Special Steel was also famous.

Although Meng Xiang is holding the base in his hands, he always has to take into account accidents. Whether it's an accident at the base or an accident with history. In the face of foreign aggression, heavy industry along the coast and near the border is somewhat insecure. In this way, relying on one's own development, it is definitely necessary to take into account the room set aside. Therefore, Meng Xiang also began to focus on picking up the strategic intentions of the third line in later generations, and arranged the back hand as soon as possible.

As long as Shanxi's environment is properly arranged, it can still be defended. Using Shanxi's coal resources, plus several steel plants, plus a special steel plant, a military industry can be built. This is also one of the layouts of later generations of China.

Not only that, military enterprises not only need steel, but also aluminum in the future. The production of aircraft is inseparable from the production of aluminum. Even in civilian use, aluminum, known as the "metal of the 20th century", is being used more and more widely, in construction, transportation, packaging, and other fields.

In fact, when it comes to aluminum ore, domestic bauxite resources are mainly concentrated in Shanxi, Guizhou, Guangxi, Henan and other places. But in this era, China's bauxite has not been utilized. It was not developed until after the new dynasty.

However, due to the lack of bauxite exploration experience at that time, and the blind application of Soviet and Russian bauxite specifications without combining the actual situation of bauxite in China, most of the geological exploration reports were downgraded for a long time, and the reserves were reduced a lot. Later, after accumulating a large amount of experience and data, large reserves of bauxite mining areas were discovered in Zhangyaoyuan in Henan, Pingguo in Guangxi, Xiaoyi in Shanxi, Zhangpu in Fujian, Penglai in Hainan and other places.

In view of the high energy consumption characteristics of aluminum plants, Mengxiang's industrial planning does not plan to bloom everywhere, but focuses on supporting one or two large enterprises.

Later, Huaxia initially established three major aluminum plants in Shandong, Henan and Guizhou, 501, 502 and 503.

501 is on the territory of Qidu, where he used bauxite to build the Nanding factory of North China Light Metals Co., Ltd. in 43 years. It's just that it only relies on bauxite in Qidu, because of the shortage of resources, it had to import a large number of raw materials, and it is not far from the main base, so Meng Xiang does not plan to mine.

Xiuwen and other places in Guizhou Province are relatively famous for their aluminum industry, with bauxite mining areas such as Tuanxi, Linlu and Xiaoshanba in Zunyi, coupled with the abundant local hydropower and coal resources, it can also maintain a relatively large scale. The later generations of Guizhou Airlines settled there and it was also convenient to get materials nearby. But it is too early to develop there.

With the help of local aluminum mines and convenient transportation, coupled with coal resources in nearby Pingdingshan and other places, it is also suitable for the development of aluminum plants. Meng Xiang also has this plan, but now it is still the front line, and there is no trace of the eight characters.

Besides, the production capacity of the aluminum plant in one place is not enough.

And Shanxi Xiaoyi is another place demarcated by Meng Xiang.

There are also many mining areas in Shanxi Province, such as Keo, Shigong, Xiangwang, Xihedi, Taihu Stone, Guo Biliangyi, Lei Jiasu, Kuan Caoping, etc., which are super rich coal power resources near Shanxi, which can be built on a large scale. In the future, it is possible to import a large amount of bauxite by using the return of coal export transportation lines.

Later, the construction of Shanxi Aluminum Plant was relatively late, and the construction began in 72 years and started in 83 years. But Meng Xiang developed this place ahead of schedule this time.

In this way, Shanxi has steel and aluminum factories, which can solve most of the problems of military raw materials.

These are the only two aluminium plants that can be developed at the moment.

However, Mengxiang's five-year industrial planning blueprint is not only on the territory it currently occupies, but also on the entire China and even the world, so that it is easier to play a big game of chess.

In China, in addition to the development of Shanxi, Henan, and the future Guizhou, the aluminum plant arranged by Mengxiang also has a local aluminum mine, which should not be missed.

Pingguo in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has proven aluminum ore reserves of more than 290 million tons, and the grade is very high, with an aluminum oxide content of up to 60.45%, which is very suitable for large-scale construction. Coupled with the abundant aluminum ore resources in Vietnam not far away, it is very suitable for long-term development.

Vietnam alone has more than 1 billion tons of bauxite deposits in the western plateau belt, the bauxite resources of the whole Vietnam are as high as 3 or 4 billion tons, and the bauxite deposits on the Borofen Plateau in Laos are also about 2 billion tons.

Thinking of the later generations of Huaxia supporting Vietnam in resisting the United States, a large amount of materials and personnel were supplied just for the sentence "Good people!" Big Brother Huaxia is a good person! Meng Xiang made up his mind to double the debts of another time and space.

During the Han and Tang dynasties, it was already detained the title of Jiaozhou or Annan Protectorate. In other words, it used to be our territory. Although it was a French colony at this time, the French did not have many days to toss at this time. Moreover, Meng Xiang specially inquired, and it will not be protected and restricted by the base, and it can be tossed at will.

In this case, in view of Vietnam's rich resources, Meng Xiang will no longer be polite.

Not only aluminite, but also other products in Vietnam are also abundant. Not to mention the forest resources with a coverage rate of 75% and the traditional rice exporting countries, the minerals alone are eye-catching.

Iron ore and coal mines are relatively abundant in northern Vietnam. There are more than a billion tons of iron ore alone, and most of them are iron-rich ores with 55%-60% iron, and they are close to the surface and easy to mine.

Even though Hainan has the largest iron-rich ore base in China, the lack of coal also restricts the expansion of scale. Neighboring Vietnam has both iron and coal, and Vietnam's coal is mainly distributed in Quang Ninh province in the north, with reserves of about 3.6 billion tons, of which 200 million tons can be mined in the open pit. The Hong Kai Coal Mine in Quang Ninh Province is the largest coal mine in Southeast Asia and is rich in high-quality anthracite.

China has always been short of phosphorus, and although it is also importing from North Africa, it is too far away and consumes a lot of money. Vietnam's total apatite reserves reach 1.5 billion tons, mainly distributed in a 90-kilometer stretch from Lao Cai province to Yen Bai province. Phosphate ore is mainly distributed in Cao Ping, Lang Son and other provinces, with a total reserve of more than 3 million tons, which is still very close to China's border.

China is even more deficient in chromium, although other resources in China are also in short supply, but there is no extreme shortage of chromium, and most of them need to be imported. Vietnam's chromium reserves account for 15% of the world's total reserves, once ranking second in the world. The total reserves are about 19 million tons, mainly distributed in the Guding area on the outskirts of Thanh Hoa City.

In addition, Vietnam's titanium ore reserves reach 10 million tons, most of which are distributed in the coastal area from Mong Cai to Ha Tien, which is easy to mine and refine. Although there are a lot of titanium ores in Huaxia, there is never too much resources.

In later generations, Vietnam always had some disputes with China over oil and gas in the South China Sea. It itself concentrates a lot of oil reserves in the continental shelf such as the Beibu Gulf, the Mekong Delta and the Red River Delta Plain Depression, and the South Depression of Con Dao. The approximate industrial reserves are about 1 billion tons, of which 310 million tons are oil, and natural gas is equivalent to 718 million tons of oil, which can directly solve the future energy crisis in the fast-growing Pearl River Delta region.

In the next life, you will fight for me, but in this life, I will not only take back a foot. With such a rich resource, you don't need to worry about anything, just pack it up and take it while the French are about to become a declining brother.

Although Meng Xiang has been passing through the north, the south has not given up either. In addition to the rats in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, they are infiltrating, in Guangxi, Yunnan and other places, Meng Xiang also has a layout in advance. Vietnam, which is adjacent to Guangxi, also had an early arrangement.

Many soldiers of Guangxi origin in the vanguard army defected through the battles of Nanjing and Xuzhou, and after a long period of training, they can be regarded as the descendants of the vanguard army. Although Guangxi is the nest of the Gui family, Li Bai and the others are also deeply loved by the people. But killing them will not make the promise of subsistence allowance. The Gui family has always lacked funds, so that it has been pressed by Lao Jiang.

Those soldiers were all from poor families, and naturally hoped that their hometowns could also enjoy the subsistence allowance. With this goal of struggle and a generous military salary, the influence of the Gui family has been forgotten and he has become a soldier of the loyal vanguard army.

Layout Guangxi, some Guangxi soldiers were sent back. Neighboring Vietnam is also dominated by these Guangxi soldiers, and of course, there are many clones among the backbones.

Their weapons can be obtained directly from the Nanyang base, and by the way, the local overseas Chinese in Vietnam are also developing. This is how the layout of the early days of Vietnam was formed.

Of course, Meng Xiang will not attack directly, even if the French are down, they will not give up easily for this kind of thing that provokes their face. After World War II, they also spent a long time in Vietnam before retreating. Moreover, this kind of challenge to the colonies is a matter of loss, as long as Vietnam is moved, not only the French rush up, but the British will definitely have to get involved. The Americans must also take advantage of the fire behind the scenes. For the resources of Southeast Asia, the Americans have long coveted it.

Even if China withstood the attack of Britain and France, which had fallen a little, the Americans would certainly have joined in for various reasons. This is also the reason why he must knock the Americans first when he attacked Southeast Asia. If the hidden dangers of the Americans are not solved, the Americans who occupy the Philippines can easily find an excuse to get those resources in Southeast Asia into their hands.

In those years, Spain was cheated once, and the Americans played another trick in World War I, and the United States said that at the same time it was competing for hegemony in the Pacific Ocean, and one of them would inevitably fall, so how could I let the Americans go? Those who accuse them of being strategically short-sighted and should not attack the United States are, in part, thinking that Americans are too charitable.

At least Meng Xiang also knew that the Americans used Pearl Harbor to join the second half of World War II and made enough money. In the following decades, it dragged down Soviet Russia again, and the global layout squeezed China.

With these experiences, Meng Xiang did not dare to take the Americans lightly. Against Britain and France, which soon fell into the European war, the strength of the vanguard army was enough to deal with it, but against the huge war machine of the Americans, the vanguard army at this time was still somewhat weak. Therefore, Meng Xiang has been waiting for a better opportunity.

Any opportunity is created by someone, and Meng Xiang also needs a knife in his hand to continue to cut down with the trend of history. It's just that he was beaten by the vanguard army a lot, and he needs to recuperate for a period of time before he can make a move. Although he said that he was not compatible with the land and sea, if the army was too weak, he would not dare to go south easily.

It's just that when Britain and France show their fatigue, they and the Americans will show their fangs, and the vanguard army will not be left behind, it will be up to them to see who can wait patiently until the end.

Meng Xiang can wait patiently, although he has a layout now, he has no ability to develop. Just stabilizing the existing territory consumed most of his energy. Now he needs more time to develop and develop, so he can naturally wait patiently. Even if he didn't have his own knife, Meng Xiang could use the local overseas Chinese to launch a move to liberate the nation's reading power.

The Americans can wait, as long as they don't make a move, Britain and France will only lose even more. Southeast Asia is still in their pocket. It's just that they didn't expect the Vanguard Army to be a dark horse.

The only one who can't wait is himself. The vanguard army recovered most of North China, but did not get Wuhan and its surrounding areas, and the vanguard army cut off some of their resources in the northeast in the Bohai Sea. There is an urgent need to open up new resource areas. The most suitable place to be around is Southeast Asia.

In order to calm his mind, Meng Xiang did not even recover the Northeast for the time being. The vanguard army had an army of one million people at this time, and it was well-equipped, and it was not impossible to fight the northeast.

But once the northeast is attacked, it will be impossible to end it for a year and a half. He said that he was seriously damaged, and he may have lost the sharpness of attacking Southeast Asia. This is obviously not what Meng Xiang expected. Besides, Meng Xiang also needs to solve the problem of Outer Mongolia in the next step, and may directly face Soviet Russia. At this time, it is said that I am dragging Soviet Russia, which can make Meng Xiang's layout of the Sino-Soviet border more relaxed, why not?

In many cases, the layout is like this, but the dragon slaying in the south needs to fall in the north.