The sooner 1.5 billion francs are spent, the better, and another 10 billion or so worth of foreign exchange and silver must be spent or preserved in value within ten years. Of course, there is also money for immigration to the northwest, but no matter how you look at it, this is a difficult thing to do. Xu Huafeng went out from Yang Rui's side and ran to Wang Yongjiang, and after the two of them worked around for a few days and re-figured a general budget, he convened a meeting of the delegation and put forward some of the plans that had been removed before. The day before the peace treaty was signed on the third day of April, he gave Yang Rui a new report.

"There are 25 items of coal, with 21.65 million tons of coal mined and 9.5 million tons of coal washed every year, and the project capital is 330 million Chinese yuan.

Hegang Dongshan vertical well, coal mining 900,000 tons; Hegang Xing'an Taili well, coal mining 1.5 million tons; Liaoyuan central shaft, coal mining is 10,000 tons; Fuxin Ping'an erected well, mining 1.5 million tons of coal; Fuxin Xinqiu No. 1 vertical shaft, coal mining 600,000 tons......

There are 11 petroleum projects, with 3.3 million tons of oil production and 5 million tons of oil refining, with a project capital of 733 million yuan.

Sino-US cooperation in the Ferghana Basin, Mitchion oil mine, expansion, 600,000 tons; Duzishan Oil Mine, 350,000 tons; Ujin Oil Mine on the Mangeshrak Peninsula, 600,000 tons; Jianji oil mine on the Mangeshrak Peninsula, 550,000 tons; Dosomi oil mine on the Ural River, expansion, 600,000 tons; Sino-Japanese joint construction of Sakhalin Okha oil mine, 400,000 tons; Mangashk Peninsula Oil Refinery, two million tons; Almaty oil refinery, two million tons; Yumen Oil Refinery, expansion, 1 million tons; West-to-East Oil Pipeline Project from Mangeshrak Peninsula to Wuhan, 6,500 kilometers; West-to-East Gas Transmission Project, 8,000 km;

Forty-five items of electricity. The installed capacity is 1.8 million kilowatts, and the project capital is 513 million Chinese dollars.

Fuxin Thermal Power Station. 150,000 kilowatt Fushun Thermal Power Station; 150,000 kilowatt Dalian Thermal Power Station, 10,000 kilowatts; Tangshan Thermal Power Station. 200,000 kilowatt Datong Thermal Power Station, 10,000 kilowatts; Huainan Thermal Power Station; 50,000 kilowatts ……； State Grid Jinjingtang Project; State Grid Shanghai-Hangzhou-Nanjing-Huai Project; State Grid Wuhan Project; State Grid Shanxi Project; State Grid Pearl River Project;

There are four iron and steel projects, 3 million tons of iron, 3.5 million tons of steel, 2 million tons of steel, and the project capital is 260 million Chinese yuan.

Anshan Iron and Steel Company expansion project, one million tons of steel, one million tons of steel; Sino-Japanese cooperation Benxi steel plant expansion project, 3 million tons of iron; Baotou Iron & Steel Company. 1.5 million tons of steel; Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Company expansion project, one million tons of steel, one million tons of steel;

There are three automobiles, with an annual output of 400,000 taels of vehicles, and the project fund is 53 million Chinese yuan.

Dalian FAW Company, 200,000 cars and 50,000 trucks; Taiyuan Second Automobile Company, 100,000 three-wheeled vehicles; public-private joint venture Shanghai Sanqi Company, 50,000 vehicles of various colors;

There are 16 railways, with a railway mileage of 28,734 kilometers. The project is funded by 4,436 million Chinese dollars.

Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge Project; Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge Project; Jiujiang Yangtze River Bridge Project; Jingzhou Yangtze River Bridge Project; Northwest Frontier Railway Project; Western Regions Railway Double-track Project; Longhai Railway Project; Guangdong-Hankou Railway Project; Shanghai-Kunming Railway Continuation Project; Chengdu-Kunming Railway Project; Baoxi Railway Project; Beijing-Baozhou Railway Continuation Project; Beijing-Kowloon Railway Extension Project; Yingxia Railway Project; Xiamen-Guangdong Railway Project; Jiaoqin Railway Project;

……

There are a total of 756 state-owned, public-private and private projects, with an estimated investment of 1244 million Chinese dollars. In addition to the original foreign exchange and silver, the Ministry of Household Affairs will set aside 300 million yuan from the annual treasury as construction funds for state-run projects, and private projects will be raised by private individuals. State-owned projects and public-private joint ventures are managed by the State-owned Enterprise Committee of the Inspectorate in conjunction with various ministries. A project manager is appointed for each project. In order to achieve independent accounting, self-financing ......"

It took half an hour for Xu Huafeng to finish reading the seven hundred and fifty-six items. Because when he read it, he looked like the scene in Journey to the West when he obtained the scriptures, what Mokoche Yeanoto sang and read the scriptures. made Yang Rui think that he had arrived at the Great Leiyin Temple, and these seven hundred and fifty-six items were the true scriptures.

"Sit down." looked at Xu Huafeng, who was struggling to sing and read. Yang Rui said in a harmonious voice, and waited for him to sit down and drank tea before asking: "There is a west-to-east gas transmission project added to the oil project?" ”

"Yes. In the Turkmen desert we found gas fields. There is a lot of gas that can't be used up, and the price seems to be free of money, so why not enter the east? Don't you say that you keep saying that it's not good to burn coal? Xu Huafeng put down the teacup and said.

"Can the current technology deliver gas?" When Yang Rui used to review the west-to-east oil transmission plan handed over by the Ministry of Industry, he wrote an additional research on whether the west-to-east gas transmission was feasible, and he didn't want it to be feasible today.

"It is feasible to use low-carbon seamless steel pipes, not screws, arc welding. We do the same for oil pipelines. Xu Hua said, he saw that Yang Rui was still suspicious, and then said, "The gas burned by the gas lamps in Shanghai is transported through underground pipelines, you won't forget it, right?" ”

"Oh." Yang Rui only remembered at this time that when he was on a half-day tour in Shanghai, the chauffeur refused to go to the ground fire field, saying that there was a fire underground, but in fact, the underground was a gas pipeline, and it was estimated that there had been gas leaks and fires. "How much does it cost? What is the difference between the cost of pipelines and the cost of railway transportation, and how much more expensive will the oil and gas from there be transported to Shanghai than the ones that Mobil gave us or those that were shipped from Nanyang? ”

The cost of oil and gas determines the popularity of automobiles, and the popularization of automobiles will drive the entire machinery industry, and the reason why there are many cars in the United States is that in addition to the fact that the railroads are controlled by private companies, and the high freight rates make farmers willing to buy their own cars, another reason is that gasoline is cheap. Yang Rui was also concerned by Xu Huafeng, he said: "Even from the Mangeshrak Peninsula on the east coast of the Caspian Sea to the capital, it is only 6,000 kilometers; And from the United States to Shanghai, there are about 14,000 kilometers, and this is just by sea. How far from Texas to the seaport, from Shanghai to Wuhan, and from Chongqing to Chongqing is not counted. At present, the West-East Oil Pipeline Project only goes to Wuhan, with a pipeline length of 6,500 kilometers, which can be described as the world's first, but in terms of transportation costs, it is comparable to the cost of transporting oil from the United States to Shanghai.

The bottom line is that oil prices are still high, with gasoline, for example, being 17 cents per gallon in the United States. Now it's thirty cents, and it's in Shanghai. It sells for thirty-five cents, or one hundred and eight dollars a ton. The same goes for kerosene. Before, it was a pair of tinplate boxes, twenty gallons, a total of sixty catties, and the wholesale price was three to three dollars five, but now, it has basically doubled; Diesel is also rising, from $25 a ton to $42 a ton at seven cents a gallon.

Everyone knows the importance of oil. In the past, it was the Russian Nobel Company, and the British Asia Oil Company competed with Mobil, but now the Nobel Prize is gone, and only Asia and Mobil remain. If there is collusion between the two sides, the 200,000 tons in Nanyang and the 300,000 tons in Yumen will not be enough, and only by importing oil from the west into the east can the imported oil be re-suppressed and the oil price will be completely knocked down. Mobil has talked to us several times, all of which are about the cooperation between the oil pipeline and the Northwest Oilfield. They are anxious about it. ”

As soon as Xu Huafeng mentioned the Northwest Oilfield and the West-East Oil Pipeline, Yang Rui smiled. Rockefeller Jr. visited him in person last month. In addition to saying that he had made great efforts to mediate the Sino-US dispute and the founding of China, he also begged him for several things. One is the development of oilfields in Northwest China. In particular, it is hoped to develop the Michion oil field in Ferghana, which was discovered by the Russians in 1905, although it is not in China. But it is owned by China.

The second is to participate in the construction of the Northwest Oil Pipeline or the Western Regions Railway. Anyway, it's all about mastering the oil transportation channels; The third is the joint development of the Baku oil field -- the British hold the shares of the Russian Nobel Oil Company, which in turn controls the Baku oil field. But after the Russian Revolution, the British, or more precisely the Rothschilds, sold their shares to the Americans, and the Yankees, of course, were dumbfounded when the Bolsheviks captured Baku. In their opinion, the Revival Army, which defeated the Bolsheviks, could completely protect their own interests, and they didn't want Yang Rui to sign a contract with the Bolsheviks.

Rockefeller asked Yang Rui to do only one thing, that is, to get the Mitchion oil field, and other pipelines, railways, and the Baku oil field were not completed. Still, Rockefeller was not too disappointed, at least Mobil's power really penetrated deep into Asia from the Americas, and the Ferghana Basin was indeed an oil-rich region.

"Hmm. He attaches great importance to the oil pipeline. Yang Rui thought of Rockefeller Jr. and nodded with a smile, "But it is impossible for him to join this one, and it is impossible for him to go to the Persian oil field in the future." After saying this, he returned to the topic, "In our country, the grain of Sichuan and Lianghu will be transported to the east, the coal, grain, and meat of Shanxi, Mongolia and northeast China will be transported to the south, and then there are foreign goods to be transported to the west.

The railway is now built like this, that is, five verticals and three verticals, from west to east is Baotou to Kunming, Kulun to Qinzhou, Beijing-Guangzhou line, Beijing-Kowloon line, Beijing-Xia line; Then there are three horizontal, Shanghai-Kunming line, Longhai northwest line, and Beijing-Baobao line. In terms of river transportation, the horizontal is the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, and the Huai River, and the horizontal one is ...... "There is still no canal that runs through the whole country in the Guannei, and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is only half longitudinal, and it can only be followed along the Fuchun River to Yanzhou in the south," Mr. Huafeng, the Jiangxi-Guangdong Grand Canal does not seem to be in the project? ”

"This ......" Yang Rui of the Jiangxi-Guangdong Grand Canal has been mentioning, and the Ministry of Land is also doing work, Xu Huafeng said: "The digging of the canal is a big matter, or wait for the Ministry of Land to come up with a specific plan before deciding whether to dig it." He said and laughed: "Instead of building the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway, the Beijing-Kowloon Railway has been criticized by those Hunan people in the Kuomintang, and now you still have to dig a canal in Jiangxi, then they will say that you are using your power for personal gain and benefiting Sangzi." ”

"They know a! With the current coal price and railway freight rate, water transportation is a quarter of the railway, grain, coal, these low-priced and high-volume things are best transported by water, railway transportation is fast, but how can it be fast? Grain production is about to double, not to mention coal, how can freight rates be suppressed without building a good water transportation network? Yang Rui was angry when he heard the half-baked experts of the Kuomintang, and he unconsciously spit out foul words, "The canal must be built, only by building the canal can the water and soil be preserved, and no one cares whether there is water in the river or not when they take the railway, which is why we do not build hydropower stations except for reservoirs in mountainous areas, only thermal power stations." If you want me to say, the hydropower station is all heretical, and all of them should be shot!! ”

Xu Huafeng has never been able to understand why Yang Rui has such a deep hatred for the hydropower station, according to the hydropower station in addition to the mountainous area, the middle and lower reaches of the river can also build some flood control, but adhering to Yang Rui's will, the Ministry of Land and Water Resources Department is extremely ...... about flood control. How to put it, the specific approach is that people let the water instead of the water let the people. In order to prevent floods, barren fields were destroyed and villages were destroyed. This is the case for Dongting Lake in Hunan and Poyang Lake in Jiangxi. All the people who moved out emigrated to the northeast or northwest.

As a result of these actions, the people of Japan finally understood the position of the Tsuchibu -- that the ministry did not act from the standpoint of humanity at all, but from an anti-human standpoint. In order to restore the so-called ecological balance, the officials of the Ministry of Soil treated animals more than ten times better than people. The locals of the Lake District hated and scolded it, and there were both pros and cons next to it. However, the general backstage of this department is still Yang Rui, so the people below scold or cry, anyway, they will unswervingly restore the flood discharge area a hundred years ago.

Hearing Yang Rui mention that he wanted to shoot all hydropower stations, Xu Huafeng just stroked his beard and smiled: "If it happens, you don't want to shoot it, except for the small flood control reservoirs in the mountainous areas, there are not a few hydropower stations built at all." In fact, hydropower stations are not good at generating electricity. The power generation in the dry season is very small, and the peak regulation of thermal power stations is required. As long as it is built next to a coal mine and used high-voltage transmission technology to transmit electricity, the cost will be higher. ”

"Hydropower stations are also expensive. Water conservancy projects cannot be truly costed, and like the migrants in the reservoir area, many investments are hidden; I'd rather the Ministry of Industry do a solid job of studying the efficacy of steam turbines than save this kind of money. Yang Rui's mood calmed down a little. But I still don't like the hydropower station, "Don't you say that natural gas doesn't cost money, if it doesn't work, you can use natural gas to generate electricity, and you don't know if the freight is expensive." How much do you think the pipeline transportation costs? ”

"This ......" Xu Huafeng didn't expect him to ask this. After thinking about it, he had to say: "Natural gas has really not been calculated." The cost of pipeline construction is the same as that of oil, which is basically less than half of the ...... of the railway, which is also wrong. A pressurized station has less horsepower than oil, after all, it is gas. The cost of pipeline transportation can only refer to the transportation of oil in the United States. The cost of oil pipeline transportation in the United States is a little ...... per ton mile" Speaking of this, Xu Huafeng was also confused, he took out a notepad and found it:

"Take, for example, transporting oil. The price per ton-mile was 1.98 mils for pipelines, 10.62 mils for rail transport, and 0.63 mils for tankers [note 117:]. If you count the cost of the wellhead and the fixed return on investment of 150 million ......, ...... per cubic meter, this is really hard to calculate, I can only say that this must be cheaper than coal. ”

Transportation is calculated by tons, but sold by cubic meters, and there is 145 million pipeline laying costs and 5 million gas plant investment, Xu Huafeng does not know how to calculate depreciation. When he couldn't figure out the price, Yang Rui asked, "What is Mill and is it a unit of price?" ”

"A mil is a unit of dollars, and one cent is equal to one thousand mils. The actual cost of crude oil from the Mangeshrak Peninsula to Wuhan is eight cents per tonne, and the price of refined oil products is higher, at 4.39 mils per tonne mile or 18 cents per tonne, or three cents and six cents. A ton of oil shipped to Wuhan is about 12 Chinese yuan, and now the international oil price is 21 or 22 US dollars a ton, but it can be exported. Xu Huafeng said with a smile, and suddenly found another business.

"Is the twenty-odd dollar a real price or is it because it rose during the war?" Yang Rui also made a big move when he heard such a price difference, you must know that the Baku oil field produces 20 million tons of oil every year, although these oils will be sold to Europe and the Soviet Union for their own use, but East Asia will be completely monopolized by itself, and the profits are not small.

"Of course, it rose during the war, and it was about ten dollars before the war." Xu Hua sealed. "Our oil production is small, the exploitation is basically rich oil, the burial is shallow, the extraction cost is lower than that of the United States, and the transportation cost is lower than theirs; But when we expand production, we have to exploit expensive oil mines, and when the Americans no longer use pipelines like tank trains, their price advantage will be offset by tariffs. Then look at the cracking process, the Americans are also studying cracking, once the research is successful, then the proportion of refined oil will increase greatly, and the price of gasoline and diesel will fall......"

Oil is the top priority, excluding petrochemicals, the investment in 11 projects has reached 730 million, especially the investment in the two pipelines is very amazing, adding up to more than 400 million Chinese yuan, which is completely capital-intensive, and I really can't afford to play without money.

"Good!" Yang Rui said with satisfaction. China has an advantage in the oil industry, and the most critical advantage is that it has a deeper understanding of the cracking process than the United States, and the research is earlier, and now it has come up with some results that are considered world-leading, although the Americans quickly caught up. But they can no longer accumulate a price advantage, the only thing they can rely on is the source and quality of oil. Then there are petrochemical projects. Because it involves polymer chemistry, it is different from the cracking process. There is no systematic theoretical basis. It takes at least a few decades to figure it out, and even if they can produce something, they will only have to eat some leftovers.

"After the European war, the great powers searched the world for oil, and in the past, everyone only knew that warships had to burn oil, and they didn't want the army and air force to burn oil. If Germany had had oil this time, it would have attacked a month earlier, and it would not have sued for peace in July. "The Germans had been preparing for the offensive, but it was extremely fuel-intensive to train the tank crews. So the time of the attack was changed again and again, and when the oil Turkey brought in enough oil, the war was over, so Yang Rui was very embarrassed about this. "Oil should be as important as steel, machinery, and shipbuilding. There will be a special petroleum college and a petroleum university in the faculty. ”

"I couldn't agree more!" Xu Huafeng nodded frequently. Natural gas may be a cheap alternative to firewood and coal, but oil is a strategic national resource and should not be taken lightly. "Is it true that our oil is on the west side? If only the Russians ......"

"It's not safe to be all in the west, is it?" Yang Rui asked.

"Yes, it's all in the west now. Only Yumen, Nanyang, and Sakhalin are not there. But not only was this production insufficient, but Sakhalin had to be distributed to the Japanese. Do we only have oil in the west? Xu Huafeng asked.

"Other places...... "Yang Rui's mind flashed victory and Daqing." There are other places, but even for a long time is not enough. With the urine nature of those people in the Kuomintang, once there is oil in the east, they will definitely oppose our construction of the world's longest and most expensive oil and gas pipelines. The east side is sealed first. It's not too late to wait ten years before mining. Now how everyone looks at the Northwest, they all see it as a cornucopia, so good. There is a gravitational pull on immigrants.

To be honest, I'm extremely worried about that side. It's not that I'm worried that the Russians are coming, but I'm worried that it will be occupied by the entanglements and the survivors. In addition to immigration. I also pulled the Mongols and the Japanese, just to get a foothold with them. It's a pity that most of the arable land there was allocated to the Japanese, otherwise there would have been more than five million immigrants. ”

"The Japanese don't want that place yet." Xu Huafeng smiled. Relying on the Caspian Sea for oil and less arable land, he thinks it's worth it. How much money can be earned from farming, and the land over there is not very fertile, and it is said that three acres compared with the northeast is only one acre in the northeast.

"Hehe......" Yang Rui also smiled. The Japanese are now complaining that after the earthquake in Japan, these dogs will swim around. He didn't want to tell Xu Huafeng about this, so he just asked, "Have you implemented these projects?" Have you negotiated with Germany and France? ”

"As long as it's equipment, it's basically negotiated. During the war, everyone was inflation, and now it is an economic crisis, and it is most cost-effective to order and buy goods at this time. However, for the engineering category, we can only talk to some engineering companies about their intentions, such as oil and gas pipelines, Yangtze River bridges, railway projects, etc., which require them to go to China for specific survey and design before they can come up with a bidding plan. It will take about a year or two before the final evaluation will be conducted to determine who will win the bid. Xu Hua sealed.

"Do you still need to invite foreigners to build the railway?" Yang Rui was surprised.

"It's not that foreigners are invited to build, the workers are still ours, but that foreigners' engineers are invited to design, and then to direct and supervise the construction, etc. More than 20,000 kilometers of railways have been built, and there are many bridges and tunnels in it, which will be completed in about ten years. Xu Hua said, "Actually, we can do these things, but it is best to extend the time to fifteen or twenty years." But you also said that you have spent foreign exchange in ten years, isn't this ......?"

"Yes!" Yang Rui is also helpless, the franc is really chilling like this, the dollar depreciated as soon as Roosevelt came to power, and the British version was even earlier, it seems that he wanted to return to the gold standard in 26 years and then collapsed. "Hey, what else do you say that we build a new China, it is simply foreigners who help us build a new China."

Yang Rui said this Xu Huafeng laughed, he stroked his beard and said: "Yes, when the time comes, the people will definitely say, why are there foreign hairs everywhere?" (To be continued......)

PS: Note 117: Transport Economics, p326. This is the 1942 price, which is not adjusted to take into account the reduction of technological progress and the depreciation factor of the United States in 1933.