Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 295 Industrial Expansion Plan Begins
The development of radio allowed Ren Zhong to see the opportunity of broadcasting. In fact, there was a time in the main world when radio was the real media overlord.

The booming sales of radios now made Ren Zhong see this opportunity, and he began to plan to enter this industry and promote it in conjunction with the radio business.

In accordance with the requirements of universal radio coverage across the country, the Dawn Research Institute will develop a set of short-wave radio transmission equipment for radio stations, which can effectively cover the area within a radius of 3000 kilometers to receive broadcasts. At the same time, it will also develop a set of medium-wave radio transmission equipment to be used as a small-scale regional broadcast within a radius of 300 kilometers.

In terms of short-wavelength distance transmission, it is enough for radios in most parts of Asia to receive the signals. Combined with the shortwave transistor radio developed by Ren Zhong, it can realize wide-range broadcasting services.

Medium wave broadcasting is carried out as a city broadcasting business.

For Ren Zhong, this was a new field, but he did not take it too seriously. After making a plan, he left it to his subordinates to carry out the research.

Now that his idea has been formed into a research and promotion plan, there will naturally be the right person to realize it.

During the implementation process, Ren Zhong only needs to focus on the progress.

The technical difficulty of implementing this plan is not high at present. For the radio research team of the Dawn Institute, this is a piece of cake.

Although radio makes a lot of money and can support Ren Zhong's huge research project, the radio product is estimated to last for another 10 years. After all, the core technology of transistors is now in the hands of the Dawn Research Institute, and others will find it difficult to copy it even if they want to.

The patented technology reported did not have particularly detailed process descriptions, so naturally no one could crack it so quickly. So from now on, the Dawn Research Institute would be the first to gain a taste of the field of transistor radios.

Once other companies have developed transistors, on the one hand they can limit fees through patented technology, and on the other hand they can use price advantages to crush latecomers in price wars.

Even though a radio now costs dozens of dollars, once the scale is increased and the transistor technology matures, it will not be difficult to reduce the price of a radio to less than 20 dollars.

In fact, within a few years after the transistor radio was launched, the price of Rogue Eagle's transistor radio was drastically reduced from US$49.95 to less than US$30, which led to the popularization of radios.

The current development path is similar.

However, the price of transistor production is not so cheap at present. The immaturity of transistor production lines and processes leads to relatively high production costs.

However, with continuous error correction and maturity during the mass production process, it won’t be long before the cost of transistors drops significantly.

Compared with radio, Ren Zhong was actually more concerned about the progress of transistors in radar and computers.

For him, business is of course also important. Only by walking on two legs of scientific research and business in the future can he be more stable.

However, what Ren Zhong is pursuing is to surpass the current strongest technical level in air combat.

If you don't have the hard goods, even if you make a lot of money from the radio, it will eventually become a wedding dress for others.

Jet engines and airborne radars, the two most core components of the new generation fighter jets, have yet to be developed, which makes Ren Zhong somewhat worried.

As a century-old navy, Ren Zhong can only try his best to lay a good foundation for the navy now, but the navy really cannot be rushed, and many things need to be settled.

Now we are able to fully understand steam turbines, solve the core power system of ships, and then make breakthroughs in radar to realize maritime warning radar and fire control radar, and put missiles on warships. This is the greatest achievement of the navy.

However, if these things are really to be made, even if Ren Zhong provides very detailed drawings and functional descriptions, in reality it will take at least 5 years to complete a long period of time, with a cycle of 10 years.

Therefore, as for the navy, Ren Zhong cannot be rushed no matter how anxious he is.

The Air Force is different. Once the power system of the Air Force's fighter jets is developed, they can be built according to the model information provided by Ren Zhong and fly.

There is still a lot of room for choice in the first generation of fighter jets, and the materials for many models can be purchased from the main world.

Ren Zhong also bought several designs of second-generation and third-generation fighters. After looking at the design materials, although he was not professional, he felt that he should not be too ambitious at this stage. Fighters that exceed the speed of sound are still a bit far away. For the time being, he is still working on the first-generation fighters and will complete the challenge of breaking the speed of sound first.

Even the first generation of supersonic fighter jets is not an easy task to keep up with and produce.

After all, starting from the first generation of supersonic fighter jets, titanium alloy components have gradually been used in fighter jets in large quantities.

This problem is also a headache for Ren Zhong. The largest vanadium-titanium iron ore deposit he knows is in the Panzhihua area, which is now in the rear area of ​​preserved fruits.

Fortunately, we have now occupied Chengde, where there are hundreds of millions of tons of vanadium-titanium iron ore reserves, which is basically enough in the short term. However, there are still many difficulties from mining to smelting. The extraction of titanium requires much higher technology than iron smelting.

This is only a problem with raw materials. The really tricky part is the processing of titanium alloys, which is a world-class problem. Even in the 21st century in the main world, this problem is still very cutting-edge.

The mainstream process for processing titanium alloys in the main world still relies mainly on casting and forging.

Although forging cutting has good precision, there is serious waste in parts manufacturing, and 95% of the raw materials will be cut off as waste.

Moreover, the size of forged titanium alloys is strictly limited: a 3-ton large hydraulic press can only forge parts no larger than 0.8 square meters, and even the world's largest 8-ton hydraulic press, which is a die forging press, can forge parts no larger than 4.5 square meters. Moreover, neither of these two technologies can manufacture complex titanium alloy components, and welding will encounter terrible titanium alloy corrosion.

For Ren Zhong, this is an almost impossible challenge.

The cutting-edge technology of titanium alloy processing is not something that can be easily acquired by just spending money. The advanced technologies and processes involved are all top secret information, which you cannot buy even if you spend money.

Therefore, Ren Zhong could only settle for the next best thing and just stick to the rough forging and cutting technology used by Rogue Eagle and Damao in the early days. Fortunately, this was no longer a secret to the main world, and Ren Zhong could get the relevant technology by paying money.

However, in terms of large hydraulic presses, Ren Zhong continued to move in two directions. One was to prepare to produce a 3- to 4-ton die forging press, which was to solve the most advanced large-scale structural forging processing in heavy industry. In the main world, Rogue Eagle built two of the world's largest 1955-ton die forging hydraulic presses around 4.5, which were used until the st century. They were super processing equipment that was still strong like the grandfather's generation.
In another direction, Ren Zhong is researching free forging hydraulic presses, which are very important for industrial forging processing applications. The current 10,000-ton hydraulic presses have too many limitations.

The target does not need to be too high for now. We should first build a 10000-ton free forging hydraulic press based on the current foundation. This will greatly improve the work efficiency for Renzhong Heavy Industry's development plan. As for larger ones, the main world has already built a 15000-ton free forging hydraulic press. Renzhong can refer to this and continue to work hard in this world.

With the conquest of North China, Ren Zhong's thinking began to diverge. Heavy industry must continue to advance courageously, and now we cannot relax at all. However, in terms of light industry and chemical industry, now is the time to take off.

Needless to say, the production capacity of fertilizers in the chemical industry is being planned based on the scale of high-yield fields, in order to increase crop yields and improve soil quality. In addition to the current main nitrogen fertilizers, a variety of fertilizer products such as phosphate fertilizers and potassium fertilizers are being added to improve different soils in different regions. This task will be accomplished by gaining experience and lessons from the main world and combining this world's agricultural experts to comprehensively formulate a plan to avoid mindless abuse.

You should know that improper use of fertilizers will also cause soil degradation. In this regard, the amount and usage must be scientifically planned by Ren Zhong from the beginning. Even if the farmers nowadays do not understand it, they can just strictly follow the weight ratio he provides, and there is no need for farmers to play around with it.

The second aspect of the chemical industry is the large-scale production of polymer materials, which are used in the manufacture of plastics, rubber, synthetic fibers, coatings, etc. From industrial applications to civilian products, including automobile tires, ships, industrial pipelines, construction, automobiles, luggage, furniture and other fields, they are spread across all aspects of daily life, especially clothes. The shortage of cotton has caused a large shortage of clothing.

Four hundred million people are short of food and clothing. Now we have to rely on fertilizers and hybrid seeds to solve the food problem, and the large-scale production of polymer materials will solve the problem of clothing shortage. These are livelihood issues that cannot be ignored.

In Ren Zhong's plan, its importance is second only to heavy industrial weapons manufacturing.

The third aspect of the chemical industry is petrochemicals. This is something that is necessary for industrialization, like blood. Compounds extracted from petroleum, including gasoline, diesel, lubricating oil, etc., are essential for automobiles, airplanes, ships and other machinery.

Others may not be clear about the oil situation in our country, but we are well aware of the situation and have already started planning for this area.

The occupation of North China and the launch of the conquest of Northeast China completely eliminated the last threat to our development of petrochemicals.

Under Ren Zhong's planning, Yanchang Oilfield and Shengli Oilfield began large-scale development.

This set of processes is already very mature. Now that the petrochemical industry has been freed up to develop, the progress is faster than expected. There is basically no suspense about doubling the output of Yanchang Oilfield, and the production capacity planning of Liming Petrochemical has also increased by 30 tons.

The first oil well in another new oil field, Shengli Oilfield, has already produced oil under Ren Zhong's precise guidance on the drilling location and depth!
The development plan for more than a dozen oil wells has been fully rolled out and is being carried out in an orderly manner with the imported Rogue Eagle equipment. Shengli Chemical, which is under construction, is planned to produce one million tons, with the first phase of production being 10 tons.

A new blueprint for industrialization is being drawn from North China to Northeast China!
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