Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

But these things have to be done one by one.

To achieve the smoothness of FTC2000G in today’s processing, a lot of research and breakthroughs need to be done in processing machine tools.

Although high-end machine tools such as five-axis machining centers have been developed, many modern machine tools cannot be made overnight. The current level of machine tools in the world is mainly at the level of the 70s, with a few reaching the level of the 80s.

Ren Zhong is now mainly handling early types of domestic machine tools. If he can buy the information, he buys it. If he can’t, he tries to buy second-hand machine tools, disassemble them and use a tape measure to copy them.

Under the current conditions, a lot of experience has been accumulated in reproducing a new generation of industrial mother machines from old ones, with dimensions, functional descriptions, and physical photos for reference. After the integrated circuit began to make breakthroughs, it is no longer a fantasy to achieve iterative development of CNC machine tools.

Relying on the increasingly mature integrated circuit design, China has begun to accumulate more and more circuit designs in the field of small-scale integrated circuits.

Of course, most of them were also moved over from the main world by Ren Zhong. Anyway, there is no concept of copyright when moving between the two worlds. After being moved to the world of Liang Jian, every new integrated circuit is the accumulation of intellectual property rights of Dongda in the field of integrated circuits.

The speed of development of integrated circuits seems to have no bottleneck, which makes the top electronic scientists in Rogue Eagle, a Western technology center which is still in the transistor era, feel powerless!

It even attracted a group of young white people to study at the University of Tokyo, ready to learn the latest electronic technology here.

Although the living standard of the University of Tokyo is still far behind that of the Rogue Eagle, at least in terms of the consumption capacity of electronic products such as televisions, tape recorders and microwave ovens, as well as industrial products such as cars, the two sides are still very different, with a huge gap of orders of magnitude.

Not enough. If you are willing to count the patents registered by the University of Tokyo, you will know that in the most cutting-edge technological development, the University of Tokyo is developing at a speed far exceeding the entire Western world.

Let's not talk about Big Bear. They are still working hard on vacuum tubes. Inheriting the fine tradition of "powerful and powerful", they have not given up on vacuum tube technology. It cannot be said that they have not made any efforts in transistors, but compared with Rogue Eagle, their strength and results are far behind.

The threat of a new world war forced Big Bear to keep a close eye on the development of the military industry, with the emphasis placed on the steel torrent.

在过去的五年，大熊及盟友共生产T-54/T-55坦克5万辆！战机方面，米格-15战斗机的总生产量超过18000架，米格-17战斗机的总生产量接近11000架！
According to this kind of war preparation, most of the surplus productivity growth of Big Bear and his allies was basically invested in the military.

In comparison, the total production of the Rogue Eagle M50 tanks in the 48s was 11730 units, which was the total output for ten years. Compared with the Big Bear, it is almost an order of magnitude less!

As for Dongda, the production volume of the Dragon Tank II series (including Dragon Tank 2A/2B/2C) in the past five years is less than 2500. Even so, Ren Zhong also suggested selling off the early T34 tanks. After controlling the sky, combined with the historical experience of the main world, Ren Zhong judged that the overall peace situation in the world of Bright Sword would be more stable, because now a real three-legged force has been formed in the military.

Although the University of Tokyo is not strong enough to participate in the world hegemony, its dominant position in the Asian server is unshakable. This has been fully demonstrated through the Peninsula War and the counterattack against India.

In the Asian server, the University of Tokyo is invincible and no one can stop it!
Therefore, for military development, Ren Zhong suggested that the focus should be on quality rather than quantity. A large number of troops should first be converted into organized engineering corps to specialize in the construction of roads and railways, as well as airports, power stations and other infrastructure.

From mining, metallurgy to infrastructure construction, the energy consumed in the middle has formed a low-cost internal circulation due to the abundant supply of hydropower and thermal power. In addition, with the opening up of private capital to the construction of branch lines, domestic railways are increasing rapidly at a rate of 5 kilometers per year.

The number of trunk roads (national highways) increases by more than 2 kilometers per year, and the number of provincial roads and county and township roads increases by more than 3 kilometers per year. This means that the number of roads is increasing at a rate of kilometers per year. After the completion of the two five-year plans, almost all counties have been connected by roads, and most of the eastern regions of the country have achieved road access to all townships.

In 55, the total mileage of highways exceeded 45 kilometers, which was 7 years ahead of the highway construction in the historical time and space of the main world (it took 62 years for the main world to build 46 kilometers of highways). Since the main national highways were built by engineering corps, the plains areas have standard double-lane roads (i.e. four-lane trunk lines with a design speed of 80km/h and a standard road width of 25.5 meters for first-class highways), while the southwestern mountainous areas and plateau areas have two-lane roads (i.e. two-lane trunk lines with a design speed of 60km/h and a standard road width of 7.5 to 12 meters for second-class highways).

Although the development of transportation was ahead of its time, in the early stages of construction, many people criticized the waste of construction work, as a large number of roads were built but with no cars running on them.

But facts soon proved otherwise. First, after the road was opened, the number of buses and trucks increased at a very high rate every year. The inter-county buses that originally ran once a day soon became four or even eight buses a day. In Northeast China, North China, and Jiangnan, they even became commuter buses. Some places implemented a dynamic dispatching mode of leaving when the buses are full.

It provides excellent support for the large-scale flow of people caused by industrial development, while truck transportation provides conditions for the transfer of local materials, making supply chain collaboration between cities possible.

This also provides good transportation conditions for Ren Zhong to reorganize and build the automotive industry and ultimately create a professional supply chain.

According to the current trunk transportation mode, it takes a little over 10 hours to reach the destination from Jiuyuan to the capital. It takes about 8 hours to reach the holy land or Taiyuan from Jiuyuan.

Therefore, with the vigorous development of Jiuyuan's steel industry, there is no need to worry about lack of consumption. The area that can be reached within 10 hours on the same day occupies most of the northern development area of ​​Dongda.

Not to mention that the speed of railway trunk lines has generally increased to more than 80 kilometers per hour, and the speed of railways in some plain areas has increased to 120 kilometers per hour, which has achieved large-scale improvements in railway transportation conditions.

Now, except for the plateaus, all other provincial capitals in the country are connected by railways. Combined with the construction of airports in more than 300 cities, railways, highways and aviation completely cover all cities at the prefecture level and above in the country.

It can be said that if Ren Zhong were to evaluate his contribution to the world of Bright Sword, apart from technology, what he is most proud of is the advanced development of transportation!

If compared with the traffic conditions in the main world, the mileage of roads has not exceeded that of the 80s, but the quality of the trunk lines has completely surpassed it.

Railways are completely different from the 80s, and have even surpassed the level of the early 2000s. There are now more than 7 kilometers of railways, of which more than 120 kilometers are high-speed railways with speeds reaching 100 kilometers per hour. The speeds of most sections of trunk lines such as the Beijing-Guangzhou Line, Beijing-Shanghai Line, Beijing-Harbin Line, and Longhai Line have been increased to more than kilometers per hour.

Improvements in transportation have brought about an explosive growth in the flow of people and goods, while also turning collaboration between cities into a lower-cost production chain.

It has realized one-stop collaboration in different regions including raw material production, primary processing of parts and components, subsystem equipment, finished product assembly and debugging, and sales.

Don't underestimate this step. For Dongda, the vast land and abundant resources are both advantages and disadvantages. Dongda's geographical distribution is much larger than the Western European Union. We have more than 960 million square kilometers, while the 27 EU countries in the main world only have more than 400 square kilometers, which is less than half of the land area. Therefore, domestic cooperation is quite convenient in Europe. Most of them are smaller than one of our provinces. If we borrow their development model, the transportation alone will be difficult to overcome or the cost will be too high and uneconomical.

However, Ren Zhong directly used engineering troops to build roads, which greatly reduced the cost of infrastructure. Only when there is no other choice, we will recruit some temporary workers from the public to do the work of repairing bridges and roads.

In this way, the current construction cost can be completed with less than one-tenth of that in the future.

In terms of quality, there is no such thing as shoddy work.

However, all this is not over yet. In order to completely improve the transportation conditions on the plateau, the Sichuan-Tibet Line, Qinghai-Tibet Line and Xinjiang-Tibet Line were started simultaneously during the Third Five-Year Plan period, preparing to open up the last restricted area for railway construction.

After all, the Sichuan-Tibet highway that has been built now is easily interrupted by complex geological disasters. Building three railways leading to the plateau will greatly reverse the transportation in this area of ​​the plateau and completely solve the national defense problem in the plateau area.

In the different time and space of the world of Bright Sword, even though the air transportation on the plateau far exceeds the same historical time range of the main world, air transportation is not a long-term solution. If this region wants to develop and integrate into the overall development of the mainland, it must solve the constraints of transportation on this place.

However, the challenge this time is enormous, and Ren Zhong doesn’t know whether he can successfully build these three railways.

After all, this problem has not been solved in the main world yet. Solving it 60 years ago was a bit beyond the scope. However, Ren Zhong believes that there is no difficulty that we cannot overcome. These three railways are of great strategic significance. They can not only provide a main artery for the development of the plateau, but also serve as strategic transportation routes for national defense and combat readiness.

With these three railways, plus three highways and aviation with similar directions, there are almost no natural barriers blocking our transportation on the plateau.

The construction of the railway will greatly enhance the strategic support for supporting and developing the land south of the roof of the world.

Although it is of great significance, the construction cost is huge, which is a huge burden for the University of Tokyo at that time.

So when faced with Ren Zhong, a heavyweight promoter, Staff Officer Ye, who was responsible for the formulation of the 35-Year Plan, came to him.

"Brother Ren, your three railway construction plans are really embarrassing for me," said Staff Officer Ye with a bitter smile. "According to the preliminary plan of the three lines, the Sichuan-Tibet Railway is 2000 kilometers, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway is 1800 kilometers, and the Xinjiang-Tibet Railway is 2700 kilometers, totaling 6500 kilometers. According to our current construction cost, each kilometer will cost about 50 yuan (PS: assuming the current exchange rate of East China University of Finance and Economics to the US dollar, East China University of Finance and Economics is about 3 US dollar). Most of this money is used to purchase materials such as rails and construction machinery. The construction workers are mainly engineers, and we only need to pay for food, which can be said to have reduced costs to the extreme.

But even so, our budget is as high as 32.5 billion yuan, requiring 6.5 million yuan every year.

Although our fiscal revenue exceeded 1000 billion last year, there are many places where we have to spend money, and this 6.5 million construction fee is too much of a burden on the fiscal budget. "

Staff Officer Ye was right. Even if the labor of engineers is not charged for railway construction, there is no need to pay for the demolition of the land. If the railway is requisitioned, the land can be replaced by land from other places. However, materials such as rails, reinforced concrete still need to be purchased at a cost.

"If we don't build it now, the cost of building it in the future will be even greater and more difficult to build." Ren Zhong responded. He knew that the budget for the Sichuan-Tibet Railway in the main world was almost 2 million per kilometer, and the early construction cost of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway was 330 billion yuan. The Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the main world is 1956 kilometers long, so the total cost is about 1687 million per kilometer, which is more than ten times the budget for the Sichuan-Tibet Railway!
So the later you build, the more money you will spend.

Now we can build three strategic-level railways with more than 30 billion yuan, which is worth it.

"We now have the experience of building the Baoji-Chengdu and Chengdu-Kunming railways. Technically, although the construction of railways on the plateau is more difficult, it is not much different. As long as we overcome the difficulties of building railways in the permafrost zone of the plateau, there will not be too many problems."

"As for the funding issue, I don't think it's necessary to use fiscal funds to cover it all. Nowadays, more and more young people are entering factories, and factories with good performance pay more money. These young people have accumulated a considerable amount of savings. In addition, the scale of private capital is also very large. We can issue five 5-year railway bonds specifically for the construction of these three railways. In terms of scale, we will issue bonds according to 60% of the funding needs, and consider a more favorable interest rate for the bonds, which can be one percentage point higher than the current deposit interest rate of the same period."

"In this way, we can solve the construction costs relatively quickly and reduce the financial burden a lot. 40% of the financial funds are matched, which is about 2.7 million yuan. Now our fiscal revenue will not be so difficult to support this project. Then it will be repaid in ten years, and the annual principal payment will be less than 4 million yuan. This price will be exchanged for three strategic railways, which will closely connect the three places of Sichuan, Tibet and Xinjiang. This is a local cooperation that is hard to buy with money!"

In fact, everyone is familiar with issuing bonds. Bonds are more common in this world than in the main world.

In line with the distinctive market economy, Dongda Finance now has an operational stock trading market and also provides membership cards for customers who formally trade.

However, in order to regulate the market and reduce the chances of being defrauded, it is illegal for others to spontaneously form markets other than those in formal markets.

"Issue bonds?" Staff Officer Ye fell into deep thought.

This answer is indeed one that he has not considered, because bonds have to be repaid, and no one regards bond issuance as income.

However, Ren Zhong was not wrong. If the construction funds could be postponed ten years, fiscal revenue might exceed 2000 billion or even 3000 billion.

"Yes, we can first borrow money to build it, and then use the money earned from public facilities like railways and airports to pay off the debt."

In order to raise funds for construction, Ren Zhong has put in a lot of effort.

If this wave is effective, it will solve 60% of the costs and more than half of the construction funds will be secured.

(End of this chapter)