Chapter 538 Baghdad Railway
Baotou began to enter the stage of adjustment, and industrial and military adjustments were also underway. For Yang Yuanzhao, the road was gradually progressing and the layout began to deepen. Now, in addition to the northwest, the whole of China has formed a confrontation between two major military groups. For the time being, the northwest is not very convenient to go deeper. Only the West is the opportunity. For the northwest, various resources are the focus. As long as the northwest measures remain unchanged, the northwest business will continue to improve on the original foundation, so the northwest will return to the northwest and become a training base for basic talents. After preliminary training, you can enter the northwest and become a qualified worker. After a series of training, you will return to the west to create value. ≧
The most difficult thing about industry is always the beginning, from nothing to everything, from nothing to all categories. In the past four years, under Yang Yuanzhao's tendency and the gold finger of all-in-one machines, Baotou completed the construction of this preliminary industrial category, starting from light industry and entering heavy industry, and completing the most basic construction at a speed that others could imagine. Now, targeted arrangements have been made for the First World War. It can be said without hesitation that the speed of northwest turning to wartime production was earlier than other countries and much faster.
Opportunities are always for those who are prepared. Baotou has proved this with facts that orders have almost not been brought by Bordo, but the production of orders has been carried out in Baotou, with faster speed and better quality.
It was under such a background that Boldo came to Baotou. The situation in Baotou he saw was almost the tip of the iceberg. He had already known him when he arrived in Beijing and went from the Beijing-Zhangjiakou railway to Zhangjiakou. His arrival was received by Yang Yuanzhao himself. Boldo took out the order from the German side, with about 10, and asked Yang Yuanzhao to make a choice. Yang Yuanzhao consciously changed Baotou's industry to military industry. These are the directions of production conversion. He did not exceed the range. He smiled slightly and said, "His Excellency Boldo, some of us have underestimated our Baotou strength. We have taken all these orders and can go back with Your Excellency Boldo."
"What?" Boldo was a little shocked. He also knew that these orders might have been produced by Baotou before. But to a certain extent, it means that Baotou has the production capacity and the production capacity is quite good. The most important thing is the 100,000 sets of individual equipment. Could it be that Baotou gave out the equipment belonging to their army. But isn't Baotou facing the frontal pressure from Russia?
"President Yang, tell me the truth. What is your production capacity for 10 orders? If possible, we will order in large quantities."
"This, let's put it this way, this is probably because we have less than a week's production capacity?" Yang Yuanzhao looked at the order and said calmly. In a week, even in his feelings, it was just more than 20 million equipment. After the reform of Baotou, the seven major groups formed have a considerable in terms of policies and funds. In this case, constant production will be faster!
"What!" Boldo said in confusion and astonishment.
Yang Yuanzhao knew very well that speaking was unfounded. Baotou's development may be beyond the imagination of anyone in the world to a certain extent. He took the order and found the relative warehouse and ordered the workers to extract all the things on the order.
Boldo did not expect that such a result would be. He just came with the order and got all the orders. He went back with the orders with shock and the products he had. As a soldier, he knew very well that the technical content of this order was not high, but it occupied a lot of manpower. Such a large and small order is a relatively important order. If it could be handed over to China for production, it would be the beginning of the entire China-German relationship to a certain extent.
After receiving the telegram from Bordeaux, Xiao Moltke was a little strange. However, Baotou could produce this, to a certain extent, and it would be of great help to Germany. Since it was a weekly production capacity, it would be better to place an order of 2 months. The order of 55 million marks can save Germany two weeks of workers to work in more important places.
Since the order of 55 million marks has been accepted and verified, the funds have of course been allocated. For ordinary Germans, 55 million marks can be said to be a huge number that is completely unimaginable, but for the country, it is simply a tiny amount. One battleship in the battle preparation race against the UK is only between 50 million and 60 million marks, and four Bavarian-class were started at the same time. This is only part of the navy's shipbuilding plan.
The prices of low-end products and military essential products in the northwest are not high. Even if the shipping costs are added, they are almost the same as those of Germany. China's huge population advantage and workers' advantages have produced huge results. After confirming this, Germany began to pay.
In this way, Yang Yuanzhao joined Germany and the factory that was converted into production began to have orders and production at full capacity, not only included some military industry, but also most individual equipment, including some materials needed, such as canned food and ready-to-eat dry food in the army. With the help of later generations, Yang Yuanzhao even created individual dry food using quicklime, which allowed individual soldiers to obtain hot food when there was water in the wild. This was almost recognized by the German Army. The orders about him were almost somersaulted and moved upward.
The acquisition of orders and the increase in military benefits have made Baotou's senior management begin to realize that Yang Yuanzhao is powerful. If there is profit, there will naturally be a market. More and more families and enterprises have devoted themselves to it, and Baotou has not slowed down. Not only has it been mass-produced, but it has also accumulated some resources. These will be accumulated before the war and used in the war, which will gain considerable benefits.
Baotou also began to quietly accumulate various resources related to war, without steel, but copper, arms, explosives, etc. were all prepared one by one. Baotou began to switch to military production, and most of the factories received a large number of foreign orders, from Germany, to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and even Turkey. The production volume began to gradually increase. For the same products, Baotou not only has good quality, but also has a much lower price than their domestic production. To a certain extent, bilateral trade, etc. have gradually expanded, from 5,500.
Wanmak began to expand gradually to 200 million marks per month, or even more. With the continuous increase in orders, Germany is also testing the limit of Baotou's production capacity. However, no matter how they increase the orders, Baotou easily followed, and there was no sign of stopping at all. This ease of ease gave up the German Army and General Staff Department, more and more senior government officials began to realize Baotou's strength, and cooperation projects were not only limited to military industry, but began to expand to other aspects.
The mutual transactions were closely linked, and the initially determined cooperation project of the Baghdad Railway was also successfully implemented. Although for many domestic chaebols, all the Baghdad Railway was handed over to China, which represented a huge transfer of interests, both the General Staff and the Army were very clear about the importance of the Baghdad Railway. This almost connected Germany's allies, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Turkey into a line. The most important thing is that the strong production capacity and raw material supply capacity displayed in the northwest made Germany increasingly rely on the northwest. It not only accumulated resources before the war, but also the sources during the war. Once the war between Britain and Germany begins, the North Sea and the Mediterranean will definitely be closed by one of the Allies. Under this situation, the Basra and Baghdad Railway in the Middle East represent another supply line and lifeline to a certain extent, and the importance is highlighted.
The country, especially Germany, was eager to break the British monopoly and redistribute the existence of European and even the world's interests. To a certain extent, the interests of the chaebols could be negligible. Any interests needed to be concessions to national interests. Almost at the fastest speed, the parliament passed a resolution and began to agree to the construction of the Baghdad Railway in the northwest based on the agreement reached with the UK in 1912.
German diplomats began to become airmen again, traveling between Istanbul and Vienna. Of course, London and Paris, France were also the key points. The difference is that the alliance is showing strength, while Britain and France are trying their best to delay. Britain and France never hope that there will be a sphere of influence in the Middle East. What has been done before has proved this. The war is about to begin. Everyone knows what the emergence of a Baghdad railway represents at this moment.
The desert area of Iraq is a place with few people, which is also a major difficulty in construction. In Baotou, there are experiences from Baotou to Kulun, and the railway corps sent out. Recently, the elite first, second and fourth engineering bureaus have a total of 150,000 people. The huge construction corps were shocked. They thought that the Northwest might use the sea of people to build, but they never expected that it would be as large as 150,000 people.
150,000 people will be divided into 10 different sections, each section, about 240 kilometers, 150,000 people, riding hundreds of ships, transporting a large number of mechanical equipment. In terms of construction personnel, it is dozens of times more than in Germany, because the efficiency of machinery and equipment has been improved by almost twice. This is the only way to ensure that the construction can be completed within 18 months.
Chapter completed!