Chapter 52: Target: Magic City! Save the Laborers of Greater Xia!
Seeing that she was about to be beaten, Zhang Shu Zhen immediately ran behind Gu Rui Yu.
“Sister Gu, help me!”
Gu Rui Yu had a wry smile on her face.
Among these people!
Yu Feng Zhi was the eldest wife, the daughter of the Northeast grain king.
Lin Hui Yin was the daughter of the wealthy Lin family in Fujian.
While herself, she was just a lowly entertainer.
Usually, Zhang Xue Ming made her lift her leg, she dared not move her buttocks!
If the wives were together, she also kept her eyes on her nose and her nose on her heart, not daring to speak.
Now it was good.
You actually asked me to save you?
What should I use to save you?
However, to Gu Rui Yu’s surprise.
Zhang Xue Ming just looked at her with deep meaning, then smiled.
Turning to his side.
“Feng Zhi, how do you like this new factory I built?”
Yu Feng Zhi, who was standing beside him, looked around curiously, her belly protruding.
“Husband, there don’t seem to be many workers here!”
As soon as she mentioned the lack of workers, Zhang Xue Ming’s expression became serious.
Lack of people!
A shackle that has been limiting his development.
Don't look at the fact that his “Far East Group” currently has 75,000 employees.
However, he built all heavy industries, which are manpower intensive!
Even the Level 2 buildings are not fully staffed!
Don't even mention the Level 3 buildings!
Because Level 3 buildings produce things that require a large amount of raw materials, they don't have enough raw materials for production!
Just using the materials rewarded by the system!
His family’s fortune will soon be depleted.
After all, a T-26 tank weighs 12.5 tons.
After adding a full set of 50mm reactive armor, the weight of the T-26 tank will exceed 14 tons.
100 tanks will require over 1,400 tons of high-carbon steel!
No wonder they say tanks are steel behemoths!
Fortunately, his base is built in Daqing, otherwise, let alone steel, even supplying diesel for the tanks would be impossible!
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“Wang Yong Jiang, how many workers can we spare now?”
Since he had Wang Yong Jiang, a capable minister with an internal affairs ability of over 90, Zhang Xue Ming had entrusted him with the entire industrial base.
Seeing Zhang Xue Ming asking.
Wang Yong Jiang looked embarrassed: "Young Marshal, at most, we can only spare 2,000 people. But this will delay this year’s spring plowing!"
Zhang Xue Ming was stunned.
“Didn’t you just get 20,000 laborers from my dad? Where are they?”
“Young Marshal, after we built the steel mill, the consumption of coal and iron ore has been too fast.”
“I built another iron mine in Zhao Zhou County according to the map you gave me to mine iron ore, but the iron ore there is all pyrite, with too many impurities!”
Zhang Xue Ming nodded.
I said I smelled a strong sulfur smell as soon as I came to this factory.
The main component of pyrite is FeS2!
It needs to undergo a desulfurization process to extract crude steel!
Its purity is far inferior to high-quality hematite.
Zhang Xue Ming sighed: "Damn it! I’ll have to capture Anshan sooner or later! Then we won’t be short of steel and coal!”
The largest steel mining area in the country is the Anshan Mining Area in Liaoning, with proven reserves of 10 billion tons of iron ore, accounting for half of the national total!
Moreover, due to its proximity to Lushun Port, convenient shipping, and surrounding supporting coal mines, it can be considered a heaven-sent location.
Otherwise!
The Japanese devils wouldn’t have schemed to build the puppet Manchukuo here.
“This factory is fully completed, but the operation rate is less than 5%, only one T26 can be churned out a month, isn’t this trying to drive me crazy!”
Industrial production is like this, if one link is missing, it’s impossible to produce the next level of product.
Manufacturing tanks!
One steel production capacity!
Can suffocate a person to death.
“Wang Yong Jiang, do you think I can squeeze out more people from my dad?”
Wang Yong Jiang felt cold when he heard this.
Young Marshal, you can’t keep plucking the same sheep!
The old marshal has sent you over 30,000 people.
And you!
You only gave him over 1,600 rifles, and they were all 10-year-old retired Japanese rifles.
Even I, an outsider, can’t stand it anymore!
“Young Marshal, Yuan Shikai just died, the various town commanders in the Beiyang army are restless, they are all waiting for an opportunity to take power. The old marshal is also busy recruiting troops to prevent any unforeseen incidents. I think it’s hard to coax anyone over!"
As Zhang Xue Ming and Wang Yong Jiang were scratching their heads.
On the side.
Lin Hui Yin seemed to have thought of something.
“Xue Ming, I know a place where we can recruit laborers!”
She paused: “This year, Jiangnan suffered a locust plague, there are tens of thousands of refugees in Magic City. And the United States and Europe have been recruiting laborers from Magic City, and they pick only strong laborers!”
“I think you can start from this aspect! Intercept some laborers!”
Laborers!
World War I laborers!
“Yes! How could I forget about this!”
Zhang Xue Ming slapped his forehead, turned around, and gave Lin Hui Yin a heavy kiss on the cheek.
As everyone knows, during World War I.
Greater Xia, as a member of the Entente Powers, provided a large number of Greater Xia laborers to the European battlefield.
These laborers!
They did the most tiring jobs on the battlefield, but they were the most unwelcome.
Sometimes, they were even driven onto the battlefield, becoming death squads.
Less than one in ten could return home.
In the end!
When World War I ended.
Greater Xia, as the victor, received the same treatment as the defeated countries.
The powers among themselves, used Jiaodong (Shandong Peninsula) as bargaining chips, and finally decided to hand it over to Japan to ‘manage’.
This also made Gu Weijun utter that famous line at the Paris Peace Conference.
“Greater Xia cannot lose Jiaodong, just as Europe cannot lose Jerusalem!”
Thinking of this, Zhang Xue Ming’s eyes sharpened.
“Why should the people of Greater Xia, bleed for those European white dogs!”
“In the end, they will be ridiculed by those white dogs as ‘yellow pigs’!”
“Damn it!”
“We have to intercept! We must intercept these laborers and keep them in our motherland!”
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Extra Chapter (2/2)
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Meaning I owe another chapter.
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