Chapter 407: Tractors and Tanks
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It has to be said that the development goals of the steel industry planned by Chen Jingyun are extremely ambitious, not to mention the Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Base that is still in the plan, even the development goals of the Southeast Iron and Steel Company are extremely large, and the development goals are also changing with the continuous expansion of the national army. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info.
For example, at the beginning, Southeast Iron and Steel planned to put the main production base in Fuzhou, and later after the Nationalist Army took southern Jiangsu, it planned to change to Shanghai, and stopped the second phase of the construction of Fuzhou Iron and Steel Plant. And now after the Nationalist Army occupies Anhui, it also controls Ma'anshan Iron and Steel, so it has changed its target to Ma'anshan. For example, when the Fuzhou Iron and Steel Plant was built, the Nationalist Army was not able to fully control Zhejiang, and when the Shanghai Iron and Steel Plant was built, Ma'anshan was still in the hands of Huang Xing and others.
However, now that he has taken control of the Ma'anshan Iron Mine, and Chen Jingyun is also very aware that the Ma'anshan Iron Mine is enough to support himself to build a super-large iron and steel enterprise, so this time he plans to put the initial steel development here. In order to facilitate the Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Plan, in addition to reducing the construction of the Shanghai Iron and Steel Plant, Chen Jingyun also plans to relocate some of the equipment of the Fuzhou Iron and Steel Plant to Ma'anshan, after all, the iron ore and coal mines of the Fuzhou Iron and Steel Plant are also extremely dependent on foreign transportation, and Fujian is unable to meet the needs of the Fuzhou Iron and Steel Plant due to the difficulty of transportation and mining.
If the vast majority of the forces are concentrated to build a steel base in Ma'anshan, in addition to the nearby Ma'anshan iron mine, the coal mines it needs can also be transported from the Yangtze River and even the railway, and the distance is not too far.
The planned total steel output of Ma'anshan is up to 1.5 million tons, enough to meet the steel needs of China's early industrialization, and if you add the Fuzhou Iron and Steel Plant, the Shanghai Iron and Steel Plant, and the Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant on the Beiyang Army site, China's pig iron production will exceed 1.5 million tons, and the steel output will reach 700,000 tons.
And this value will far exceed the contemporaneous production of this iron and steel, which is now called "about 250,000 tons of pig iron and 250,000 tons of steel." Of course, the steel industry is also developing, and after the construction of China's Maanshan Iron and Steel Base is completed, it will be at least two years later, and two years later, in 1915, the historical facts said, "Ben used the east wind of the First World War to make its own steel output reach about 700,000 tons, and at the end of the First World War it was more than 800,000 tons."
That is to say, if this Ma'anshan steel ladder base is successfully built and put into production, then China's steel output will be the same as that of the original after World War I.
In 1913, the United States produced more than 30 million tons of steel, Germany 18 million tons, Britain more than 7.7 million tons, France 4.7 million tons, Russia 4.3 million tons, 250,000 tons, China 160,000 tons (60,000 tons of Hanyang Iron Works plus 100,000 tons of Southeast Iron and Steel 100,000 tons).
As for the steel output of all countries in the world in the First World War, it will continue to soar, and after the First World War, even the steel output of the capital will reach more than 800,000 tons, and if the Maanshan steel base is successfully put into operation, then China's steel output will not be inferior to the steel output of the capital, and the output of pig iron will far exceed the production of the economy. When this pig iron production is mainly because there is not too much iron ore, steelmaking is directly imported iron ore and scrap steel, pig iron production has not been high.
Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Base is related to the overall development of China's iron and steel, and the steel industry is related to the development of the entire industrial system, so the construction of Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Base is naturally the top priority.
To this end, the Ma'anshan iron ore development plan has also become the number one project of the industrial development plan, and in order to develop the iron ore in Ma'anshan, the Southeast Iron and Steel Company has established the Ma'anshan Mining Company with the mining department as the main body, and the Ma'anshan Mining Company has been established to be responsible for the exploration and mining of minerals such as coal and iron, while Southeast Iron and Steel is focusing on steel production and development.
Such a large-scale project cannot be completed by China alone, not only lacks funds and equipment, but also lacks sufficient engineers and other technical personnel, so to complete the development of the Maanshan iron ore mine in a short period of time, then it is necessary to rely on external forces, especially capital and technical strength from the United States.
It is precisely for this reason that the Ma'anshan Iron Mine Development Plan has become the first priority planning project of the Economic Development Department, hoping to use this project to introduce a large amount of American capital and technical strength for construction.
In addition to the number one project in Ma'anshan, the Economic Development Department is also planning to build a large-scale chemical plant!
In the modern basic industrial system, iron and steel, chemical industry is the most basic two parts, the important surname of iron and steel needless to say, and why the chemical industry is important, it is very simple, in addition to the explosives used in the military industry, the chemical industry is also directly related to the output of crops, in other words, it is directly related to the output of grain.
Everyone knows the important surname of the chemical industry for the military industry, after all, there are bullets and shells with explosives, and the military chemical industry China has long had, specifically the gunpowder factories of various arsenals, in order to better integrate the production of gunpowder, the gunpowder factory under the Fuzhou Arsenal has been re-merged with the gunpowder factories of several other arsenals to form a unified chemical company and is mainly responsible for the production of explosives for the national army.
However, this is limited to the chemical industry of the military industry, and it is extremely difficult to transition to the civilian chemical industry, especially the mass production of chemical fertilizers, and chemical fertilizers have been applied on a large scale in modern agriculture, and the role of chemical fertilizers in increasing grain output is beyond doubt.
Grain production is a more important matter for China than the military industry, and for thousands of years, China's main internal problem has always been only one and that is the land problem, and further speaking, the food problem. Only after solving the problem of having enough to eat for the peasants can we talk about so-called industrialization, otherwise even half of the people will not have enough to eat.
And this is the fundamental reason why Chen Jingyun strongly demanded the construction of a large-scale chemical plant, in addition to serving the military industry, and more importantly, serving agriculture.
After the two basic industries of iron and steel and chemical industry, there is the development of some specific industrial industries, such as machinery factories used to produce various industrial equipment, such as power industries, such as tractors and automobile factories, such as oil refineries.
Among the machinery factories, China's large-scale machinery factories are actually very limited, and they are basically concentrated in a number of large arsenals, mainly for the military industry services, while there is only one private large-scale machinery factory, Nanjing Machinery Factory, which mainly manufactures machinery and equipment related to the textile industry. Now China imports the most in addition to ordnance and weapons, that is, those industrial equipment, and such a large piece of industrial equipment can not be produced by itself, how can we talk about industrialization, even if the cutting-edge machine tools can not be self-produced to import, but the basic industrial equipment must also be self-produced, otherwise industrialization is a joke.
The power industry includes conventional steam engines used in ordinary ships and trains, steam turbines used in warships and high-speed passenger ships, diesel engines used in submarines and automobiles, and even tanks, and gasoline engines used in airplanes and automobiles and tanks. Now China only has the ability to build ordinary steam engines, let alone the steam turbines used by the navies of those powers, and I have never seen them a few times. The diesel engine and gasoline engine are better, because the national army is equipped with a large number of aircraft and a large number of imported aero engines, although there is no ability to imitate it now, but this is limited to the domestic basic materials industry restrictions, but for its internal structure and design has a certain understanding, if the import of core components to imitate is also possible, but the surname can and the original version of the import is certainly not comparable.
In terms of power, Shanghai Power Company is responsible for the design and manufacture of large industrial steam engines due to their low cost and reliability, and has obtained a lot of domestic orders. The steam engines used in ships were also used in the Mawei Shipyard and the Jiangnan Shipyard, but those advanced steam turbines still could not be copied. The aero engine is progressing faster, and several prototypes have been imitated with imported core components, but the gap between the imported aero engine and the whole machine is still not small. As for ordinary gasoline engines and diesel engines, this one is mainly used with cars and tractors.
And Chen Jingyun came out and said that he wanted to introduce tractors, which made many people in the industrial sector not understand, because for them the car is fine, now China has a lot of cars, even Huaxia Bank itself has a small car factory, using imported parts and engines to assemble cars, and even the appearance is no different from the imported Ford Model T, self-produced and sold can also assemble dozens of cars in a month, mainly responsible for the supply of political axe departments. As for the private market, most of those wealthy people look down on these simple assembled cars made by Huaxia Automobile Factory, and generally choose imported cars directly.
Therefore, Chen Jingyun said that they could understand that they wanted to expand the scale of the Huaxia Automobile Factory, but when they said that they wanted to build a tractor factory, they did not understand it. Because the tractors in these years are mainly used for large-scale agricultural production, this kind of tractor is extremely suitable for farm-style places with few people and more land in North America, but now in China, agricultural production is still a very basic stage, mainly small-scale work based on family units, and those large tractors are not needed, even if they can use them, they can't afford it. Even the landlords did not cultivate their own land, but rented it out to ordinary peasants.
So realistically speaking, tractors cannot find a private market in China at this stage, but Chen Jingyun insists on introducing them, and this project is ranked in the top ten of industrial planning. The various reasons are naturally free, and Chen Jingyun himself knows it.
Get this tractor factory, and the person who does it is nothing more than a tank!
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