Chapter 1512: Crazy Immigrants
From China to Alaska, the islands along Sakhalin Island are not too far away, within 5,000 kilometers, just like the United States crossing the Atlantic Ocean to the United Kingdom. There is no danger along the way. With the most economical 12-day flight, it will be more than 25 kilometers per day, which is 25 days a day, and 50 days round trip. In this way, it will only be 7 times a year. It is difficult for the construction of a country with almost unlimited demand. This is not a year or two, and it can be completed. In the initial stage, the infrastructure problems must be solved. After all, Alaska has no foundation and almost no industry. Just like China when Yang Yuanzhao did not travel through time, there are countless resources, but no industry that utilizes these resources. {<[
Fortunately, there are coal and iron ore deposits in Alaska. Although the distance is not so close, as long as a temporary railway is built, the two can be connected, or a temporary road can be built. A 650,000-ton steel project does not have that high requirements for highways, just like Yang Yuanzhao in Baiyun Obo, and even the current conditions are much better than those in the past.
However, the support of such a large steel plant was far beyond Japan's expectations. You should know that before the outbreak of World War I, Japan's steel production was only about one million tons, less than one-sixth of this one. Now it has increased suddenly. Even if it has to be paid, the Japanese are very excited. If this steel plant is built, Japan may be second only to China, the United States, Germany, and Britain in terms of steel production, and even above France. In this era, the significance of steel is not just a commodity, but the potential of war.
The Japanese had long been aware of the fact that they had to withstand the attacks of the United States before they could completely take this rich land in their hands. Nothing was so simple. In this case, they had to rely on China's support in the early stage, but the construction of this steel mill means that they could establish their own military industry. As long as they resist North America's attacks in the early stage and take root in Alaska, Alaska will definitely be the case with Japan.
The large ocean-going fleet did not stay in Japan for long, and Japan was very clear that they didn't have much time and had to race against time. China's ocean-going merchant ships reported the situation before arriving in Japan, and Japan also prepared for this early. Although it did not expect that China would take out a 30,000-ton ocean-going cargo ship, which caused a lot of turmoil, but the original plan was still carried out step by step.
The transportation volume of 350,000 tons was one section higher than the Japanese had expected before. When a large number of people boarded the ship, Japan was also recruiting the remaining personnel. This time, Japan was preparing to transport 10,000 people at one time, including 10,000 troops and a full set of equipment. The rest were carefully selected, including industry elites and government officials, but more were large numbers of poor people.
o Wan, this data is too terrible. China originally thought that it might take a long time, but unexpectedly, Japan completed the preparation in a very short time. Japan's development system is very different from China. Their pressing of workers is world-famous. Before China reformed the spinning machine, the world's record of single spindle production was founded by the Japanese. A half-bag of cotton yarn was produced in one spindle a year, which is almost twice that of the United States and the United Kingdom. The reason why it can have such a high effect is not that the Japanese are very good at spinning, but because the Japanese are pressing.
The 15-hour or even 18-hour work system was founded by the Japanese. The replacement of people and the spinning day and night was also started in Japan, and even a large number of child labor and female workers were used to reduce wages. It was also started in Japan. Therefore, the gap between the rich and the poor was huge. The chaebols of the top leaders obtained a huge amount of funds and could even compete with the cotton yarn and cotton cloth powers like the UK in the world. However, the workers at the bottom could not live a good life. The remaining Western industrial products, except for military purposes or those needed by the top leaders, could not be sold in Japan because there was no market and demand.
The Japanese are too poor, working for more than ten hours a day, but not enough to support the whole family. Most of them don’t even have a decent piece of clothing, and even some clothes that can be worn on them are turned into ragged clothes during repeated high-intensity work.
But even under this premise, Japan has never competed with China. Under China's squeeze, even if China used more than 35 times Japan's labor force, the production efficiency of the whole world still made China beat Japan in terms of cost and efficiency, and it has huge advantages in the chemical industry. New printing and dyeing cloth directly defeated Britain, let alone the weaker Japan, which lost the high-end and low-end respectively, Japan's pillar industry cotton textile enterprises faced a precarious situation, with large-scale bankruptcy, and even affected Japan's industrial layout for a while. Japan lost a large amount of industry, and in the face of desperate situations, Japan's competition failed to fight, and eventually lost the opportunity, was defeated by China, and eventually surrendered to China and joined the Chinese camp.
When joining China's camp, there was no danger of being destroyed. The confiscation of a large amount of resources from the United States was considered to temporarily make up for Japan's deficit. A huge foreign account was lost, which allowed Japan to go lightly. However, its own industry had not yet recovered. On the premise of a big fight in the world, they had the evil of the Allies, and the only little orders were also done. What does this mean? It means that the unemployment rate has increased significantly. People need work and food. If they cannot create value, there are too many supplies needed in Japan. This is why Japan is willing to hand over a large amount of manpower to China. It cannot support so many people in China.
China gave very good treatment at that time. As long as millions of labor and some professional talents, each person would give a cap fee of 50 US dollars every year, and food and accommodation were managed by the Chinese. This was a powerful tool for Japan at that time. These people could solve their own problems, which accounted for almost one-tenth of their population. If they reduced these efforts, it would be easy to calm the situation down. In addition, China had set up the next goal and attacked Alaska. After Japan, it had a difficult transformation. After China set up the Alaska strategy, it focused on the war. The remaining part was stuffed into the military camp and completely solved the problem.
Japan's transformation is very simple. In China, it produces a large number of immigration-related things. On the other hand, people who have certain experience but no work are gathered together and a total of more than 10,000 people were selected. These people will work with the early staff to do basic construction projects to help at least three batches of immigrants in the next 6 months to have a good foundation.
2ooo ten thousand people, or even oo ten thousand people. Such immigration has never been a simple matter. Even if it is close to 6 places, it takes a considerable time, let alone going to the sea. China provided enough transportation capacity to help Japan transport more people. Of course, the Japanese are also quite cruel. Basically, everyone carries their own items. A small cabin, at least a dozen people squeezed in, fell from above, and they were all covered, and there were even hammocks. At that time, China had quite a complaint. According to Chinese standards, it was 10,000 tons.
For ships, if used for immigration, one person is about 3 tons, and one person is one ton, which is a bit crazy. Although for a person, the average value of up to 10,000 people will not exceed 150 kilograms, plus the items they carry with them. This is only 150 kilograms at most. Unfortunately, the space occupied by people is much larger than the space occupied by cargo. It is impossible to pile up one person by one. It is necessary to ensure that there is enough space on the ship, at least people have to move, so there will be more average space.
Japan is different. Almost all places that can be stuffed into people. Although China has warned the Japanese that cross-sea transportation has high requirements for these people, which may have adverse effects, it was rejected because Japan clearly stated that it is not a cold winter. On a series of islands, it has a variety of stops temporarily. It is not a 24-hour day to move. At worst, it is better not to come out of the room first. As long as you can get off the boat and rest, it is acceptable in such a short time.
The implicit meaning of the Japanese people, China understands it, and transport more people as much as possible in the shortest time possible. In a certain sense, it is okay to die. This is something China is trying hard to avoid. Fortunately, it is not a cognitive, and China cannot make a decision for Japan. In this way, more than 10,000 people were squeezed into the 350,000 tons of merchant fleet. When the fleet left one after another, all the places where people could stand were crowded on the deck.
However, China is still quite confident that most of them can reach Alaska. After all, there is only a voyage of less than 4ooo kilometers. There are really some problems. You can also evacuate through the Aleutian Islands. You can use relay methods to transport the personnel to Alaska bit by bit.
This is a powerful challenge for China, but after knowing that Japan has to transport so much, China has made some preparations. Even if there are some bad things, they can be controlled to a considerable extent. In this way, with the integration of both sides, more and more people are concentrated on the ship, and then, basically two or three ships are used as a group, and as long as the people are full, they are out without waiting for the group to travel together. (To be continued.)8
Chapter completed!