Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 180: Speeding up the Industrialization of Border Areas

General Shi's words were quite reliable. Two weeks later, some of Ren Zhong's important process drawings for the small factory No. 2 arrived. Also arriving on the same plane was the rotor of a 6-kilowatt thermal power plant steam turbine generator, which was exactly the core component of the thermal power plant that Ren Zhong required, and weighed several tons.

Compared to a steam turbine weighing hundreds of tons, this thing is considered small, but the technical difficulty and material requirements are high, and the lifespan of ordinary materials cannot be guaranteed, so Ren Zhong asked for one as a reference object for research. As for the stator part, the base, stator core, stator winding, end covers, etc. are considered bulky and clumsy parts, mainly castings. Now the steel plant under the Liming Research Institute has casting problems, which are not a big deal.

Therefore, after obtaining the drawings and rotor of this 6MW thermal power plant, the thermal power plant of the Liming Institute began to speed up abruptly. After fine-tuning of the generator part, the power generation capacity can be increased to match the new turbine rotor. The remaining parts are cast according to the design drawings. It is estimated that most of the equipment can be completed in more than a month.

There is no environmental protection department now, so there are naturally no large number of environmental protection facilities. Ren Zhong also has no time to improve them. After all, the first thing to consider now is whether there is a problem with survival.

The construction of the iron factory building was faster than expected. In order to strengthen the camouflage, a layer of autumn harvested wheat straw was added on the iron roof. From a distance, it looked like a relatively large thatched house and did not feel like a factory at all.

If there is no insider leaking the information, it is difficult to tell from the air unless you see smoke coming out of the chimney. However, even if Ren Zhong does not pay attention to environmental protection at this stage, he has considered filtering measures for the black smoke, and most of the smoke that comes out is white water mist that will soon disperse in the air.

After all, these technologies are already very mature in the main world, so Ren Zhong can just copy them and use them. Compared with the simplicity and crudeness of this world, technically Ren Zhong has raised this obsolete product of Rogue Eagle to a higher level.

The same is true for the thermal power plant. The rest of the steel mills, fertilizer plant, glass factory, and refinery also began construction according to the blueprints at the same time. Now is the winter idle period. Although the weather outside is cold, it is not as cold as in the frontier areas where people cannot get out. The border areas with food in hand directly mobilized thousands of people to participate in the heavy task of building the five small factories.

You have to know that these were the first batch of real factories in the border area, with proper electrical equipment, factory buildings, and standardized operating procedures. Compared with the earthen blast furnace that Ren Zhong had before, they were products of a completely different era.

Therefore, the border areas also attached great importance to it and gathered all the industrial experts they could to learn from experience while building it, because after the success of this sample, they would then take on the task of promotion.

The Liming Research Institute can produce the equipment, but the installation and operation need to be done by them. The border area now has a very tacit understanding and will spare no effort to help the Liming Research Institute with the construction. After the first set of equipment is built, the revised and improved new plan will be transferred to the border area for replication.

Ren Zhong had no intention of bargaining for these technologies and just gave them away for free.

For the military industry, there are no conditions to be negotiated. For civilian products, a 20% dividend is sought as an incentive for the management to ensure that the factory's production and operation have strong enthusiasm.

Now during the war, Ren Zhong does not have so much time to think about these things, so the cooperation with the border areas can be described as smooth. When a request is made here, the other side responds directly, and they never make any concessions when calling on civilian workers and troops.

This allows Ren Zhong to maximize production capacity!

Although there are few teams in the border area, they are all practical teams, which is completely impossible to find in the rear area. This allows the little-known Liming Research Institute to rapidly promote the industrialization process in the border area. When these five small factories are successful, the effect on the next step of the border area's industrial development will be immeasurable.

Let alone anything else, just that small fertilizer factory, even if its production capacity is not worth mentioning in the main world, but in the border area now, 3 tons of fertilizer can add 75 acres of high-yield farmland to the border area.

You should know that although the border area now has more than 1000 million mu of cultivated land and a population of more than 150 million, most of the crops are sown but the harvest is poor. The total grain output is too touching, only 137 million shi, which is equivalent to 4.11 million jin (1 shi in the border area = 300 jin), and the per capita grain is 274 jin, which is much less than the Hetao area of ​​Qiluban! Qiluban has more than 170 million mu of cultivated land in the half of Houtao, and at least 2.3 million jin of various grains are harvested in a year. The population is only 26, including less than 40 military and political personnel, and the per capita grain is more than 575 jin.

It can be seen that agricultural production in the border areas is simply difficult to describe. A lot of land has been reclaimed, with more than 100 million acres reclaimed each year at most. However, the land is not good, the irrigation and farming technology has not kept up, there is not much irrigated land, and the per-acre grain yield is completely unsatisfactory.

If Ren Zhong had not intervened and developed 10 mu of land irrigated by the Yanhe River and tens of thousands of mu of land with high yields of over kilograms of high-quality seeds, the food shortage in the border area would have continued for several more years.

If the fertilizer plant can expand the high-yield land to 75 mu after it goes into operation, even if the yield per mu does not exceed 500 jin, if it can exceed 3.75 jin, it will be equivalent to an additional 500 million jin of grain, almost doubling the grain production capacity, and the per capita grain will exceed jin, and people will basically not go hungry.

Moreover, the labor force can be released from the land, with part of it transferred to the border security forces, and part of it transferred to the border's initial industrialized factories or large-scale engineering construction projects. The main force can be further transported and expanded northward.

With the current industrialization process in Renzhong, water conservancy and road traffic construction will be launched on a large scale in the border area. At the end of 41 and the beginning of 42, water conservancy construction projects to transform millions of acres of irrigated land along the Wuding River, Yan River and Kuye River in the border area were started in full swing.

At the same time, the construction of roads to the north is given priority. The roads from the border area to Suide and from Suide to Ikh Ju League will be widened and compacted on the basis of the original large carts (horse carriages and ox carts) to meet the standard of road width of not less than 4 meters. In this way, the agricultural tricycles designed by Ren Zhong will be able to pass on such roads in the future.

The total road mileage (for large vehicles) in the border area has now reached 1851 kilometers, but most of the standards do not meet the requirements for real car driving. It is not realistic to pave the entire road with gravel at no cost. As long as the road can be widened and compacted and someone maintains it on a daily basis, it will be fine.

In 41, 967 kilometers of drayage roads were built in the border area. The primary goal in 42 was to open up a simple road of more than 420 kilometers from the border area to Ikh Ju League. The widening work of more than 200 kilometers of drayage roads within the border area had already begun in winter, and when the spring thaw comes, the more than 100 kilometers within Ikh Ju League will be completed before June.

Only in this way can a large number of steel plant and thermal power plant parts from Ren Zhong be transported to Ikh Ju League. Even if Ren Zhong decides to cast large castings locally in Ikh Ju League, equipment like rotors cannot be processed locally and need to be processed using machine tools from the affiliated factory of the Liming Research Institute. These huge engineering projects are even included in the key engineering projects in the border area.

According to the original plan, this was to be implemented throughout the year 42, but with the help of the five small factory technologies and core equipment stolen from Rogue Eagle, Ren Zhong can now push this process forward ahead of schedule.

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