Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 188 Agriculture and Industry Must Be Strong

At the end of May, the summer harvest was also very good. The experimental field known as the 5-ton grain production base had another bumper harvest, harvesting 3000 million catties of wheat and 4900 million catties of corn, solving the food problem of military and political personnel in the border area in one fell swoop.

Due to food problems, the garrison troops in the border area could not even be fed. In the original time and space, there were only 14 regiments, including eight guard regiments, four numbered regiments, and the cavalry regiment and special agent regiment of the headquarters.

However, after the autumn harvest last year, due to the heavy task of harvesting a good harvest, the need to take over Ikh Ju League was put forward, and two new guard regiments were formed in the border area. The 9th and 10th Guard Regiments went north to work with the 3rd Temporary Division to stabilize the situation in Ikh Ju League.

After spring plowing and summer harvest, the border area has formed four new security regiments to fill the gap based on the new demand for four regiments to go north. According to the information revealed by Staff Officer Ye, the troops heading north will be mainly composed of the 4th Brigade, which will integrate the Daqingshan Detachment and the guerrillas of the Ikh Ju League to form the Saibei Military Region. Their purpose is not only to annihilate the Japanese cavalry group in Jiuyuan, but also to ensure that Jiuyuan and the Ikh Ju League are firmly controlled.

To the west are the Seven and a Half Route Army whose strength is gradually growing, and to the east are the Mongolian Army and the Kwantung Army. The Saibei Military Region is isolated outside the border area across a long distance from the Ikh Ju League. It is naturally dangerous, but the heavy responsibility is to allow the border area to take this step and seize the best resources outside the Great Wall to support the next major outbreak of military industry.

While waiting for the tanks and fighter jets to come out, the resources needed for the steel torrent cannot be supported by just the blast furnaces. One T-34 requires 32 tons of various steels, and one thousand requires more than 3 tons!
After more than a year of crazy expansion, the steel production capacity of the border areas and various bases has not yet exceeded 6 tons, of which steel output is more than 2 tons. The vast majority of steel production capacity still comes from the newly built electric furnace steel plant.

After the summer harvest, the fertilizer plant in Haojiaping was finally put into production. The fertilizers produced began to be used for scientific fertilization demonstrations at the grain-producing base headed by Ren Zhong. Thanks to the popularization of rotary tillers, 150,000 acres of new land were opened up along the upper reaches of the river this year, and the 100,000 grain-producing base has been upgraded.

Although the area of ​​high-quality seeds has not increased (because of limited ability to carry so many things, the seeds of high-quality seeds are still produced in the original 500 acres of fields), the second round of screening tests have begun for the local seeds that passed last year's local hybrid breeding.

As for the two grain crops, wheat and corn, Ren Zhong predicts that this year may produce some varieties that are significantly better than the original ones.

Thanks to the use of chemical fertilizers, even if the amount is not enough this year, Ren Zhong can predict that if there are no major natural disasters, the autumn harvest will be very secure.

With this 25 mu grain-producing base that I am in charge of, I won’t go hungry next year.

Today's fertilizer production capacity is 100 tons per day. Based on the application rate of 40 kilograms per mu of land, the monthly production capacity can support 75000 mu of land, which is barely enough to support the 25 mu grain production base that Ren Zhong has developed.

Next, if we open two or three fertilizer plants and expand the intensively cultivated irrigated land in the border areas to more than one million mu, and the yield per mu can reach 400 kilograms, that would solve the big problem.

Therefore, the border area can further absorb foreign population in the future.

The shackles of food on the population will soon be broken through Ren Zhong's promotion of water conservancy projects and the use of chemical fertilizers. Ren Zhong's exploitation and use of border area resources will enter a new stage. Relying on the resources of the border area and the northern border, Ren Zhong can truly bring the border area's industry to take off.

There are the most abundant energy sources in the border area, whether it is coal, natural gas or oil, so much that people at that time could not believe it. However, in terms of energy extraction, apart from coal, Ren Zhong does not plan to develop oil on a large scale. On the one hand, his current demand for oil will not be too much.

The automobile and aviation industries cannot form a large scale in the short term, and the steel industry cannot be completed in the short term.

If too much oil is discovered, the Japanese, who are desperate because of the lack of oil, may go all out to attack the border areas.

Although the border area was very safe in history and had never been attacked by the Japanese, it was because the Japanese did not weigh the cost and benefits. In such a remote and poor place like the border area, a mouse would cry out of hunger. Now, although Ren Zhong helped the border area to quickly arm more than 100,000 troops, relying on local defense to resist the invasion of three or five divisions, and with the help of surrounding bases, it is possible to swallow the Japanese attack group at a considerable cost.

The Japanese have probably also considered this point and there is no need to exploit this barren land.

But if Ren Zhong discovers a large number of oil fields, the situation will be different.

The Japanese Kwantung Army might send its main force to grab the oil.

Therefore, when it comes to oil extraction and refining, Ren Zhong has to calculate its uses and mine it on demand without triggering the Japanese's evil ambitions.

The steel and copper resources in the border area are scattered and the quantity is not large, but Ren Zhong is in urgent need of them now, so these resources must be developed no matter how small they are. Among them, the top priority for development is bauxite. The uses of aluminum alloys are not only in aviation, but also in weapons.

Especially now that the main forces of the Eighth Route Army are engaged in guerrilla warfare in mountainous areas, reducing the weight of weapons and making heavy weapons such as mortars, mountain cannons, howitzers, and 107 rocket launchers lighter, even if only a few dozen kilograms can be reduced, will be a great improvement.

Now that we have complete sets of equipment for thermal power plants, we can get rid of our dependence on rivers for electricity. We only need to build thermal power plants in places where there is coal to get sufficient electricity supply.

According to Ren Zhong's understanding in the main world, the bauxite reserves in Dawanzi, Yanchang County have reached 4300 million tons. This place has oil, natural gas, coal, salt and other minerals. After proper development, it will become a good source of raw materials.

So Ren Zhong set a small goal, which was to first build an electrolytic aluminum plant in Yanchang with an annual output of more than 1,000 tons.

The empty weight of a Mustang fighter is about 3.4 tons, so the amount of aluminum used may be less than one ton. The empty weight of the C-47 is more than 8 tons, so even more aluminum is used. One thousand tons of aluminum may just be barely enough for early use.

Ren Zhong was digging up information about surrounding resources from the main world while calculating the various raw materials he would need on hand. It felt like it was too difficult.

To build a quasi-industrial base in this impoverished place is so hard that it is beyond the endurance of ordinary people. In the world of Bright Sword, he basically keeps his daily workload at more than 12 hours. If he could not return to the main world for rest, even the most capable people would be exhausted after years of such high-intensity work.

Fortunately, things are getting better day by day.

Compared to when he just traveled through time, Ren Zhong now has people under him, powerful people around him, and help in getting things done. Except for the fact that he cannot achieve an industrialization in one day, he should be quite satisfied.

The current achievements would be astonishing if they were placed in the main world. These things show that even if a liberal arts student is forced to become an engineering student, it is not a big deal.

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