In the new year, the outside world is in full swing, but China is in the last busy situation before the Spring Festival.

Even the daily burst of artillery on the border has long been ignored by the domestic public.

After the New Year's Day, the hot spot that excited the Chinese people became the joint government work report announced as usual on January 1.

Huaxia's steel output doubled again on the basis of last year, and finally reached the value of 10 million tons.

This value sparked a debate that spread across the country.

Steel was far more important in this era than in later generations, and it was still on the list of strategic materials, and it was not even imported much during the war. The output value of steel in the era of great industry represents the strength of a country, representing countless warships, tanks and artillery.

If we discard the Japanese and foreign-funded industries, the years with the most steel production during the Central Party era were not enough to produce the weight of a battleship Yamato.

Even if the Pioneer Army was in power, it was only 610,000 tons in 40 years.

In '41, when the Pioneer Junta announced more than five million tons of steel production, which made the whole country rejoice, there were doubts.

But when they saw the rise of many steel mills, and even those that took over the Russians in the north, those doubts dissipated. Even the Americans and Germans wrote articles praising the miracle of China's rise of steel.

However, this time, when it has doubled again in a year to exceed 10 million tons, it is not only Japan and Soviet Russia abroad that are skeptical. Even some Chinese people can't believe it.

"The current coalition government is mixed in with the. Isn't that a bit pompous? Someone worried.

The original vanguard junta was very trusted, but after the formation of the coalition government, some of the old central party functionaries were still not very reassuring.

"This is the report read out by Premier Zhou Bai, which was counted from the central government and supervised and reviewed by the Central Council and the Citizens' Congress, can this be fake?" More people have confidence in the central data.

"The central government doesn't necessarily believe it all! How many truths do those politicians have? "It's not that there are many picks, but that many people who have experienced the years still remember the demeanor of many mouth cannons.

"President Meng has personally said more than 10 million tons, is it also false?" Someone retorted.

Immediately the opponents stopped talking, although Meng Xiang himself didn't know how many lies he had told, but in the eyes of many people. Not to mention that he led the vanguard army to drive out the Japanese devils, went north to defeat Lao Maozi, recovered the lost territory, and brought honor and confidence to China. The exemption of farmland taxes and the implementation of the subsistence welfare policy have freed the people from the shadow of starvation and death, and they have become Buddhas in all families.

Even though Meng Xiang has repeatedly ordered a cult of personality, he is already a god-like figure in the eyes of many people.

Few people dared to shout in public that what he said was a lie, and even if a celebrity refuted it in the parliament, he would never dare to shout it in the street, and the consequence of doing so was definitely to be smashed all over his head by rotten eggs by the people around him.

In this regard, Meng Xiang has also been vigilant, worried about the emergence of a situation where thousands of horses are in unison.

He didn't have a backdrop at all. These situations have arisen, although there are also people below who have made a move, but more of them are spontaneous. Even though Meng Xiangyi advocated freedom of speech, he even specially arranged for a few madmen to question him. But the effect is not great, especially in the hearts of the lower classes, Meng Xiang has become a part of their faith.

He can only be helpless, and now in many public occasions, his words are becoming more and more cautious.

However, Meng Xiang can unashamedly announce that Huaxia's steel production exceeds 10 million tons. Or even more.

"It's a good thing that the actual statistics are not reported, otherwise more people would not believe it!" Zhou Bai clapped his hands, and sighed after half a month of the economic report as of December 31 last year.

The data he read out on New Year's Day was based on the summary information as of December 15, and after a month of supplementation, there is no doubt that the one in his hand is more detailed.

However, even the data announced on New Year's Day was not the statistical data on the 15th, but it was slightly lowered. It's just over 10 million tons. On the 15th, steel production has approached 11 million tons. The accurate data obtained on the 31st was 10.98 million tons, which exceeded the value of steel production of the British.

Although the advent of the war made the urgent need for steel, so that the British steel production exceeded 13 million tons at the beginning, but then the intensification of the war, the British steel production fell back to more than 12 million tons, and even after the Germans rushed to the island of Great Britain this year, steel production fell sharply. However, the British still claim to be more than 10 million tons.

Whether or not it is the production of the entire Commonwealth, and there is a lot of political water in it, but the 10.6 million tons promulgated by the British has been overtaken by China.

Meng Xiang, who has been relying on the golden finger to cheat, is a little weak-hearted, after all, surpassing the British, who once held the head of the world, is an insurmountable dream in the hearts of many Chinese people. Crossing this hurdle easily is not conducive to the psychological growth of Chinese people. This kind of thing that is easily won with the help of external conditions is prone to give rise to the tendency of being blind and arrogant.

Moreover, he is worried that the high-profile will easily cause panic among some people, leading to an imbalance in the whole situation.

If it weren't for the unanimous agreement of everyone to use more than 10 million tons of steel production to boost the confidence of the people, maybe Meng Xiang would have suppressed it to less than 10 million tons.

"It's no wonder, after all, we used to be so poor, and all of a sudden we got rich, even we have to think it's a dream." Yan Xishan next to him said with a smile, and then pointed out, "Isn't there still someone who doesn't want to believe it, so they have to go down and see it with their own eyes?" ”

"They think we're talking empty and false?" Zhou Baiban raised his face and snorted, he knew that what Lao Yan was talking about was Lao Jiang and the others.

In the past, Lao Jiang and others knew that the vanguard army was strong, but if it was said that the steel output under the leadership of the vanguard army system exceeded 10 million tons, Lao Jiang would be a little unconvinced.

He has presided over the state affairs for so many years, so he naturally knows that it is not easy to make heavy industry, which is purely smashed with money, and the central party and government can have a few dollars on hand at the beginning, but they are not able to support it at all.

After hearing the statistics a year ago, he took advantage of the arrival of the New Year to go down to inspect and understand the situation.

Since being in charge of the coalition government by the Vanguard, his intelligence agency has been turned abroad, and due to the lack of funds and power, he has gradually lost the control of many intelligence officers, and the few remaining descendants have difficulty gathering so much intelligence.

On the contrary, the Red Party, which is mostly active at the lower levels, gathers a lot of intelligence, and is close to reality, this time it did not raise any objections and chose to remain silent.

"Didn't they take a good look around? Last year alone, we built more than 8,000 kilometers of new railways with our own steel, and more than 2 million tons of steel were spent on ancillary facilities such as bridges. Last year, the country's construction market also consumed more than 2 million tons, roads, ports and other infrastructure consumption also exceeded 2 million tons, and factories around the country also consumed at least 3 million tons. With so many projects being built in various places, could it be that the consumption of these steels fell from the sky? Zhou Bai continued to grumble.

In addition to the one million tons of military consumption, other data can be easily found by Lao Jiang and others, but Lao Jiang always has some pimples in his heart, and his mind is in the political wrestling, and it is rare to explore economic projects. Song Ziwen, who is familiar with the economy, listened to Zhou Bai's complaints and remained silent.

"Don't say anything else, but talk about the pots and pans in the people's homes. I remember the year before last, I was still buying kitchen knives everywhere. Now, pots and pans are no stranger in stainless steel. Zhou Bai complained constantly, in the past few years, he has been devoted to economic construction, watching the rapid rise of China's economy, the joy in his heart has always wanted to share with others, but others have poured a basin of distrustful cold water, which makes him very annoyed.

"It's good to take a look!" Meng Xiang said with a smile.

In any case, Lao Jiang also has merits in history, and his ability is also good, even if he retires, his influence is enough to set off a lot of big waves, and he can use the fact of great changes in China to make him more sober about reality, which is still conducive to future cooperation.

"This blast furnace can produce more than 1,000 tons of pig iron a day?" Lao Jiang opened his mouth slightly at this time, looking up at a huge blast furnace in the distance that was propped up with a steel skeleton and exuding scorching heat, and he was a little stunned.

In the past few days, he has traveled all over the iron and steel plants in Ma'anshan, Shijingshan, Chongqing, Baotou and other places, and finally realized the huge deterrent power released by the Chinese iron and steel industry.

He did not know that the 800 cubic meters of blast furnaces imported from Germany and the United States had increased to more than 30 sets, and the 1,000 cubic meters of blast furnace equipment that had increased to 12 sets had all been put in place, and most of them had already started in full operation.

He didn't know that the top blowing and low blowing converter equipment could account for half of Huaxia's steel production equipment, and the efficient process led to a sharp increase in steel production.

He didn't know that the steel mechanics and engineers that Meng Xiang had trained vigorously since 38 years had grown up and become the backbone of Huaxia's steel industry.

He didn't know how many hundreds of millions of dollars Meng Xiang had spent abroad for the Huaxia steel industry.

But looking at the vast factory area of Baotou, which covers more than ten square kilometers, and looking at the towering columns of black and yellow smoke and dust, Lao Jiang was silent for a while.