In addition to the most important steel data, coal is also an important basic indicator in this era, coal production as early as 1911 has been the world's first, the whole of China, with the world's largest coal reserves, most of them are not high-calorie coal, but the total reserves are extremely amazing, this era, from the steam era, into the power era, coal is also an important resource, at least he is heating, heating, power generation, has the current and irreplaceable advantages, this indicator is also important.

There are many coal projects, the whole China's coal reserves, ranking first in the world, and Shanxi is the core area of the northwest, almost living on the coal, based on the later generations, the disorderly and disorderly mining of the entire coal enterprise, Shanxi is a mess in the later generations, and even the black coal kiln such a strange scene, the workers are not only in the harsh environment, with artificial methods, a little bit of transporting coal, sometimes dead without a place to be buried.

This point does not exist in the northwest, most of the coal has not been mined, in the recovery of the country's cultivated land, the northwest adopted the method of redemption, with a large amount of money to obtain a huge amount of land, and then obtained the mining rights on these lands, since they belong to the northwest, then according to the rules, on the construction and development of large-scale mines.

Different from China in later generations, China at that time, because of the pains of the early days of reform and opening up, China at that time lacked everything, especially the lack of foreign exchange, had to let go of some relatively small, large energy consumption, and even unilaterally for the sake of output, a large number of small coal kilns, just like the fifties and sixties of the Great Steel, with the tactics of the sea of people and the amount of energy to win.

But now. Even with gold as a hard currency, China has no shortage of it. Not to mention foreign exchange or something, unless it is necessary to buy. Leave a small amount of foreign exchange, and leave the rest, China does not need it, and even with the increase in industrial exports in the northwest, it is still foreign countries to reserve China's northwest yuan.

This is equivalent to the opposite, one comes and goes, and the difference between them is huge, since China is not short of money. These non-renewable minerals, the northwest attaches great importance to them, such as the rare earths contained in the Baiyun Obo iron ore, these mineral resources that cannot be used for the time being, and the slag after smelting, are secretly sealed by Yang Yuanzhao, refined with an all-in-one machine, and stored into pure resources. Other similar resources are also disposed of accordingly. Coal will be mined in easy, shallow coal fields, and none of the mined coal will be sold to the outside world, except to meet the needs of the northwest. The rest serves as a reserve.

A series of protections have been carried out, and Shanxi's coal production has doubled that of the United States due to its huge coal resources. Stable first in the world, coal is mainly used for the consumption of trains and locomotives. Some steam engines are still in use, and there are also marine and power generation. In particular, the latter, with the progress of thermal power technology, the amount of coal used for power generation has been greatly reduced on the basis of the original, saving and low energy consumption, and has become a new generation of fashionable words.

Leaving aside the basic resources, soon came an important project, representing the industrial base of energy electricity, since the beginning of the 20th century, electricity has gradually become an important indicator, in terms of the indicators of major industrial countries, there is a huge increase every year.

Take the United States as an example, in 1902, the power generation was 5.9 billion kilowatt hours, by 1907 it became 14.1 billion, in 1912 24.2 billion, almost every year there is a huge step, strong power generation, not only brought about the vigorous development of industry, but also let electricity into thousands of households.

Northwest in electricity, has a unique advantage, power generation is inseparable from power, it is inseparable from coal-burning steam engines, steam turbines, and even turbocharging technology, Northwest in this regard, should be the existence of Yang Yuanzhao, has a natural advantage, also in 1910. In 1912, the total power generation capacity of the United States was only about 25 billion, but the northwest reached more than 80 billion, and the annual increase was much higher than that of the United States.

By 1913, the installed capacity of thermal power generation in the country reached an astonishing 50 million kilowatts, but it was not completed in a year, and only reached 70% of the production scale in a year, but the total amount of electricity has reached 16 million, and this year, there will be about 30 million kilowatts of thermal power assembly machines, plus the deep digging potential of old products, it is expected to double.

The large power plants in the northwest do not rely on the gradual accumulation of small units, but the investment of high-power thermal power units, such as a single 600,000-kilowatt large thermal power unit, their grid-connected power generation has become a new growth point, the installed capacity has exceeded the United States several times, and the output has exceeded the United States by more than 10 times.

In the 1913 report, the power generation reached 160 billion kilowatt hours, while the United States at the same time, there was less than 40 billion, a huge gap, and in 1914, as long as the predetermined targets were met, this gap will still widen.

The huge electricity, in addition to supporting the industrialization of the northwest at the same time, but also let thousands of households use electrical appliances, the emergence of countless small household appliances and white goods, has become another scenery in the northwest, the door of domestic demand, has gradually opened, the northwest has formed its own unique economic circle.

Not only the rapid development of thermal power, from 1913, water conservancy began to emerge, China's water resources are abundant, absolutely the world's first, in addition to the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, the Brahmaputra River also has huge water resources, of course, for China now, in the Yangtze River main stream to build a reservoir, that is impossible to solve the problem, even in later generations, it is almost a millennium to solve, but the Yellow River and some branches of the Yangtze River, the western water resources are more concentrated in the area, is suitable.

In the comprehensive management of the Loess Plateau and the Yellow River Basin, the construction of hydropower stations has become the mainstream. The construction of hydropower stations in the northwest is definitely not a power generation, power generation is only an incidental direction, and more importantly, it is more important to improve the water conservancy environment and control floods.

There is no shortage of electricity in the Northwest, in the world with an installed capacity of 5000-10000 kilowatts of thermal power stations or the mainstream time, the Northwest has been able to produce, such a huge unit, the total cost is good, the production efficiency is good, far from the small generator can be compared with the United States, in the era of water conservancy is far from reaching the peak, with reservoirs to solve water conservancy problems, incidental as aquatic product production, power generation, is appropriate, in this case, to avoid some small-scale, just take into account the power generation of small reservoirs, after aging, the dangers that arise,

After electricity, steel, electricity, coal, and some important resources, it is the most important cash issuance and gold reserves, to put it bluntly, it is money, money is not everything, but no money is absolutely impossible, the northwest has rolled out countless projects, relying on a strong cash base.

Northwest with world-renowned industrial production capacity, in the whole world to suck blood, in this trade war is still the initial stage, the large-scale world division of labor has not yet formed the era, the high added value of the northwest and strong industrial production capacity, brought from the absorption of wealth from various countries, countries have realized this, began to control the outflow of gold to a limited extent, in 1908 in the five years, the northwest gradually accumulated 1,100 tons of gold, this figure is very amazing.

Especially after the outbreak of the First World War, this number has risen very significantly, and so far, in the six months since the outbreak of the war, it has absorbed about 240 tons of gold, including 210 tons in Germany and 30 tons in Russia. Gold is an internationally accepted hard currency, which can be used as the basis for issuing currency, and with this money, the Northwest can issue more currency, which not only stabilizes the entire economic environment in the Northwest, avoids insufficient funds, but also further stimulates economic growth.

Compared with the gold absorbed from the outside world, the gold produced in the northwest itself is also very amazing, as high as 1,300 tons, of which more than 9 percent is produced by Yang Yuanzhao with the help of an all-in-one machine, including 300,000 tons of silver. Silver in the gold standard of the world, gradually lost its original position, 30 times the proportion, much higher than the previous 10 times, countries around the world to give up the silver standard, so that China suffered a big loss, but the northwest is different, fast 2600 tons of gold, is enough to suppress the currency, when people are accustomed to metal money, with a parallel method.

In the Northwest, where the population and industry are overwhelmingly majority, most people accept paper money as currency, and metal pens are only auxiliary coins, so the pressure is very low.

It is precisely because of the inflow of a large amount of gold, now the scale of the Northwest coinage, has been expanded by 10 times than the original, but the value of the currency has not been greatly reduced, and these funds, but smashed in including education, health and infrastructure, in 1913, the cumulative completion of industrial investment of 350 billion yuan, which is equivalent to a huge investment of 35 billion pounds, suddenly made the entire Northwest into a large construction site, and it is expected that in the full 10 years, the economic growth of the Northwest will maintain a growth of more than 30%, From the real first manufacturing country, it has become the first industrial country, crowning the whole world.

In the era of imperfect intelligence collection and imperfect industrial data records, the development of the Northwest is still unknown, and most countries have recognized the strength and industrial production capacity of the Northwest, but no one knows that the ability of the Northwest will be so strong, 350 billion, even the United States and the United Kingdom, it is impossible to come up with so much money at one time, but the Northwest is stunned.

In 1913, compared with 1912, the added value of industry reached 40%, and it was this increase that strongly promoted the overall development of the northwest. (To be continued......)