In many cases, the layout requires an open vision. After experiencing the influence of the information age in later generations and the precipitation of more than 70 years, Meng Xiang's horizons are much broader than others.

Take minerals as an example, many Chinese people still feel that China is vast and rich, and everything is available, and the small-scale peasant closed country will develop step by step. But Meng Xiang, who has experienced the impact of the resource crisis in later generations, knows that this is all nonsense.

I have to say that Huaxia has a lot of land and resources, but it is a little tricky.

The overall quality of domestic mineral resources is poor, considering the comprehensive factors such as ore grade, ore type, ore beneficiation and metallurgical ability, the quality of gold, lead ore and zinc ore in China is considered medium, and the quality of iron ore, manganese ore, copper ore and bauxite is in the worst position.

There are many poor ores, and there are few rich ores and easy-to-beneficiate mines, which makes the use cost greatly increased.

Most of the minerals with the surname of Huaxia have such problems.

The average grade of iron ore in China is only 33%, which is 10% lower than the average grade of iron ore in the world. The major foreign iron ore producing countries, such as Australia, Brazil, India, Russia, etc., have iron ore grades of up to 62% of commercial ore without beneficiation.

The average grade of manganese ore in China is only 22%, less than half of the 48% of the world's manganese commercial ore industry standard, and most of them are difficult-to-select manganese carbonate.

The average grade of copper ore in China is only 0.87%, while Chile and Zambia are 1.5% and 2% respectively.

China's bauxite is almost all diasporite monohydrate, and the production cost is much higher than that of diasporite monohydrate in the United States, Canada, Australia and other countries.

This is also the reason why Huaxia will import a large amount of ore in later generations, and the cost gap is too much.

But at the same time, it has also made those resource oligarchs who hold mining resources, such as BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, under the impetus of the black hands behind Western countries, make a lot of money in a period of price gouging. This also caused the price of what China needed to skyrocket in later generations. "People are stupid, come quickly!" This classic has often echoed in the ears of foreign resource predators.

In stark contrast, what Huaxia produced in later generations would become the floor price, and there was no trace of planning and co-ordination at all. I have to marvel at the speed of conversion and modification.

Among them, the relatively surplus mineral resources in China that do not need to be reprocessed by production are sold at the price of cabbage.

Manganese ore, tungsten ore, lead-zinc, titanium and vanadium ore are all in the hands of those mine owners who collude with officials and businessmen, and the international price has fallen to the lowest point in history, and rare earths are no longer rare, but have become dust. It is said that the sea has filled with a large amount of mineral deposits, forming patches of new land. Although Huaxia Zhanguang stood on the side of the victor in his previous life, he still did not block the bloodsucking of himself. And the builders of the sucking veins are those who have long since had little emotional fluctuation towards the word country.

It is not the translators and the puppet army that are considered Han annihilation, but those who betray the interests of the country are Han annihilation. Those who cut off their descendants for personal interests and the interests of a small group are also Han Annihilation.

Bureaucrats are numerous, compradors are rampant, but it is only 50 steps and 100 steps.

It is precisely based on some adverse influences of later generations that in Meng Xiang's planning, the mining industry will never be allowed to be uncontrolled by private contracting.

The practice of contracting to private individuals is simply sucking the blood of the assets of the whole people and fattening a few people. Therefore, in addition to balancing the state shares and private shares with each other, and jointly supervising the shares of multiple people, Mengxiang's plan also introduced the concept of strategic reserves early.

The steel mills and aluminum plants that are built need to be imported from abroad in the future, and some resources are still cheap at this time, so as to lay the cornerstone of the future industry for a hundred years. The rest of the ones in your hands are completely your own. Therefore, according to this principle, the construction conditions of steel mills and aluminum mills should also take into account the convenient transportation or close to bauxite resources, as well as sufficient energy supply and a good expansion environment.

The close proximity to the source of resources is to make use of the external resources in the future once there is a problem, which is for the sake of strategic reserves.

At the same time, in order to expand the scale of his strategic reserves, Meng Xiang also wants to take advantage of the nuclear balance to grab enough rich resources.

For this reason, he said that his knife not only wants to cut to Southeast Asia, but also to continue to cut it, and Australia and other places are also what Meng Xiang has been looking forward to for a long time.

Sometimes, there's just no fairness. He once complained that his living area was narrow, but more than a billion people in later generations of China were squeezed into an area of 12 million square kilometers. Although China maintained a land area of nearly 9.6 million square kilometers in later generations, most of it was unable to produce grain and was not suitable for long-term human habitation. Although the per capita is more affluent than the person, in many cases, there is no such thing as an average.

In later generations, Meng Xiang, who carried a snail-like dwelling on his back, had his eyes on Australia more than once, but there were only about 20 million people in that more than 7 million square kilometers of land. And God has given them countless resources and wealth, as if the feathers of angels and the crooked horns of demons have fallen here.

Australia's total coal reserves are more than 600 billion tons, and there are still a lot of coal in China, which is not very hot, and the coking coal accounts for more than half of the most people, and it is of good quality and easy to mine.

Meng Xiang's eyes are on Australia's iron ore, which was estimated to have total reserves of 35 billion tons at the end of the 20th century, and is of good quality, shallow burial, and most of it can be mined in open pit. The rich ore with an iron content of more than 50% exceeds 20 billion tons, and the total proven reserves of Hainan Shilu iron ore in China are only 466 million tons, accounting for 71% of the total reserves of rich ore in China. Even its average iron content of 48.8% is the first in the taste of iron ore in China.

This gap is simply incomparable, although Huaxia iron ore resources are in the top three in the world, and once occupied the world's first throne, but the water is too large.

There is also a huge gap in bauxite, Meng Xiang has planned four domestic aluminum plants, but there are only more than 500 million tons of bauxite with industrial development value in China. Australia's bauxite reserves are more than 6.2 billion tons of easily exploitable rich ore resources, one of the best in the world.

Facing the uranium resources of the nuclear age, Australia also ranks first in the world with more than 300,000 tons of proven reserves at the end of the 20th century.

Lead, zinc, gold, diamonds, titanium and zirconium are among the top three in the world.

However, this rich continent is still only riding on the back of a sheep at this time, and the population is still hovering around 10 million. The minecart is ridden with only one wheel. The vast majority of mineral deposits have not been discovered, and many people still don't care about it.

Its value now is nothing more than wool.

Australia's 3.2 billion acres of grassland can be grazed everywhere. At its peak, it raised 180 million sheep.

Australia's nearly 900 million acres of arable land allows it to export wheat.

But at this time, the British Empire did not count on its production at this time, because there were too few people here, and there was not much wasteland to be cultivated.

If this is in China, not to mention 900 million mu of arable land, even those grasslands can be reclaimed another 900 million mu.

Even the rabbit who was a headache for everyone in Australia became a disaster, Meng Xiang felt sorry. If 100 million Chinese people move over, the rabbit fur can be gnawed away, where will it be the turn of the rabbit to become a disaster?

Westerners disparatively call the Yellow Peril of the Chinese people, because they fear the huge population base of China. Although I don't know whether it's true or not, the source of Western people's worries should be our pride. Of course, in a special period, it is not possible not to control it, but it is also a kind of misconduct to control it. It takes more than 20 years for a generation to grow up, and if the population policy is not adjusted early, it will be too late when the crisis appears.

Meng Xiang also considered the population of Huaxia at this time, and even Ma Yinchu had proposed the population problem to Meng Xiang, but after Meng Xiang thought about it carefully, he did not adjust it. At this time, the estimated number of people may have exceeded 40,000. In some cases, 500 million people need to be counted. It may seem like a large population, but if China gets one last chance to occupy land before the nuclear balance, it will need a sea of people to consolidate the new territory.

At most, the white people colonized Southeast Asia, but the transfer of 100 million people in China was enough to suppress most of the contradictions and completely rule that place.

This is one of the advantages of China's large population. When the quantity is large to a certain extent, it is a qualitative change.

With the continuation of Chinese civilization for thousands of years, the numerical advantage of the population is also a very critical point, otherwise it will be assimilated by others. This is also one of the reasons why the Chinese people have always emphasized the important surname of the population. At a time when the atmosphere of the feudal family is strong, talking about family planning is not pure abuse? At this time, whoever shouts this slogan will inevitably be abandoned by the people.

Besides, Meng Xiang is already expanding a big chess game in his heart, and naturally needs a large number of people to support it.

Just like Australia, not to mention the mineral resources there, just the land there, Meng Xiang vowed in his heart to take it over and expand the living space for the Chinese people.

When the British had more than 300,000 local natives, they killed only about 20,000 people in the end, so they should know that there is retribution in this world. Those who have taken away from others should have the consciousness of being taken away by others. After Meng Xiang left it alone, if 100 million Chinese people were placed there, the entire Australian continent would have to completely change their faith.

What happened to the Yellow Peril? The fear of the enemy is the best compliment to oneself. Humility does not bring respect, strength is the key! Even without superweapons, a locust-like population can absolutely drown everything.

The kind of people who limit the population under the pretext of the overwhelming of the earth, can compare the consumption of Americans, Europeans, and then talk about others. Besides, with the improvement of civilization and the abundance of entertainment, people are no longer too interested in the movement of creating man. Society will naturally have a process of regulation, and it is okay to catalyze it, but to completely replace social regulation, that is the biggest drawback of planning.

In order to solve the problem of living space and future development of more people, and delay until social adjustment gradually arrives with the improvement of civilization, China needs more land and resources. Just like opening up sources and reducing expenditures, those who are always hovering in throttling are destined to be only at the bottom level.

Meng Xiang's future layout is in areas where the vanguard forces are not easy to control, and they are generally circled, but those places that are destined to change their surnames can be directly packaged. The four teeth of Southeast Asia, Australia, Siberia, and Central Asia will bring a good appetite to China in the future, which is enough to support China's development on the earth for a hundred years.

Although the goal is ambitious, Meng Xiang's plan is only known to ordinary people at this time, and even Tang Yaoshi, Zhou Bai, Fan Chong and others have not been informed. This blueprint is so crazy that in the eyes of others, it has deviated from the scope of normal human thinking. At this time, part of the land in China was still moaning under the iron hooves of the people, and no one understood the wide spread of World War II.

Therefore, Meng Xiang did not throw out this blueprint, but just laid a good foundation from the most basic plan and waited for the time to come.

In this era, steel determines the strength of a country and is also the cornerstone of industry.

"In fact, we can double our steel production!" Meng Xiang thought of his own steel output, and couldn't help but say another sentence, which made Zhou Bai startled.

"Double? 4 million tons? Zhou Bai stretched out four fingers and shook them.

"Hmmm! Have you forgotten that our electric furnace steelmaking has been successful? Meng Xiang said with a smile, "As long as there is scrap steel, the electric furnace can produce high-quality steel, and the electric furnace equipment does not need to occupy too much space, nor does it need to occupy too much transportation system, and can be directly placed in the consumption area." Isn't the construction of one or two such steel plants near major cities another steel production? ”

In Meng Xiang's planning, this has long been listed. For nothing else, most of the raw materials of the steel I produce do not come from Chinese mining, but from scrap steel in the United States. Whether the Americans are intent on supporting it, or the excess output caused by the excess of steel, there will always be a limit to the total amount of them. If these sources are reduced, it will inevitably make the lack of resources even more headaches.

The Americans will not supply their scrap steel indefinitely, and with the outbreak of war in Europe, the demand for steel will increase, the price will rise, and the share of steel will be greatly reduced. This is also one of the reasons why he and the Americans tore their faces later.

Meng Xiang is just pushing on this. He has just negotiated a large contract with the Americans for a large purchase of scrap steel.

The contract was not signed by the Vanguard, but by the copycat company in exchange for the Yamato-class battleships. The Americans have overcapacity in their factories and generally do not buy weapons from abroad, but the technical characteristics of this Yamato are eagerly wanted to know about it. Moreover, the copycat company only needs to use scrap steel to pay for the ship, so the deal was negotiated.

Exchanging garbage for advanced weapons, the Americans have been stealing joy. The sale of scrap steel has promoted the reproduction of the steel industry, which can be regarded as stimulating the economy and employment. Let's talk about the secret of the world's largest warship, this information can't be exchanged for ordinary money.

The copycat company made it very clear that the scrap steel was resold to the Pioneer Army, and the American ships could pull the scrap steel and send it to the territory of the Pioneer Army.

Scrap steel isn't all rusty waste. The copycat company also specially named it, part of which was the railroad tracks.

The 19th century in the United States experienced a history of crazy railroad construction. The games of later railroad tycoons and some films about railroads reflect the classic plots of that era.

By the 20s of the 20th century, when the American railway network was initially formed, the railway mileage reached 420,000 kilometers in 20 years, which was the absolute first in the world.

But after the railroad had crushed the dominant role of inland water transport, it had been in decline only half a century later due to a slowdown in land expansion and population growth, giving way to the more lucrative automobile industry. With the rapid development of the automobile industry, which only emerged at the beginning of this century, and the 29-year economic crisis, the railway has not only declined but also shrunk.

The proportion of steel consumption occupied by railways has also dropped from 23.5% in 26 years to 9.1% in 39 years. And the proportion of automobiles exceeds that of buildings and railways.

Until later generations, the total length of railways was reduced to 220,000 kilometers, which was cut by nearly half. By the time 39 years had passed, 18,000 kilometers of railways had been abandoned. Meng Xiang was the idea of hitting these rails.

The Europeans' railway network has also been almost built, and they say that they are small and don't need so many rails, they only need steel for rails, and other poor countries don't have the money to buy them. So Meng Xiang used the price of scrap steel to buy 5,000 kilometers of steel rails.

At this time, although the base can also produce this kind of high-manganese steel rails on the ground, the output is extremely low, and the number of rails produced by the base is also limited. However, Meng Xiang understands the importance of railways to mechanized troops, and mechanized troops rely heavily on railways for long-distance transportation. With these rails, there can be several more railways on the territory of the vanguard army, connecting the north and the south, east and west, making the territory more stable.

And the railway is a great promotion to the development of the economy.

As soon as the train rang, there were ten thousand taels of gold. It does make a lot of sense. If you want to get rich, build roads first. The leading role of the railway is even greater.

These rails are just the beginning, and the trade in scrap steel will continue in the future. Even other scrap steel can be recycled as well as plates, pipes, and the like. It can not only reduce the total amount of scrap steel raw materials, but also reduce the accumulation time in the early stage of China's economic development.