In the northwest, behind the Expo Center, a large room was hung with the name of the Western Development. In the huge room, a huge sand table covering several western provinces and cities was placed here. This will be the general command center of the Western Development. Every point of the Western Development will be displayed here. Several flags appeared in the desert. This is the first and most difficult group. Most of them were British and French prisoners of war. There were about 60,000 people in the early stage, and there were more than 500,000 people in the latter. They will carry out the heaviest labor in the most difficult places and undertake the railway construction tasks of the desert and the Gobi.

Building roads is the foundation of everything, but they cannot generate value. The function of roads is to promote the circulation of goods and make things that have no value or are extremely low value become valuable. The subsequent plans are more and more huge. This almost turns the west from the current poor and backward frontier into a truly developed region with developed transportation and developed industry and agriculture.

The west is a place with rich resources. For China, there are fewer minerals with high taste, especially the Central Plains region, which have been almost developed, but there are many in the west. The projects that were established at the same time as the road construction plan are the plans of large mining centers. From Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai and Xinjiang, these areas have not yet been developed, but there are many large mineral bases, covering many projects such as coal, iron, non-ferrous metals, copper, gold and silver.

The Northwest has strong industrial production capacity and the demand for various raw materials is almost unlimited. With these, more categories and more types of things can be produced to reduce costs.

If the northwest is just regarded as a mining area, it cannot play an important role in the northwest at all. It must be developed in multiple ways. In addition to mineral deposits, specialties and local industries can be carried out now.

According to the plan given by the Ministry of Agriculture, the first thing that should be carried out is cotton planting. The climate conditions in the north are not as good as those in the south, but because of the higher dimensions and longer sunshine, after the seedlings are cultivated in greenhouses, it is a place where cotton grows naturally, especially in Xinjiang, which is a unique condition.

Since occupying the northwest, the Production and Construction Corps has been planting on a large scale throughout the northwest. However, the western provinces and regions are too large, and many places do not have enough conditions, and the planting area is only one-third of the original one. Now, with enough manpower and manpower to plant cotton in Xinjiang and other places. Now, it can also be fully deployed, and the planting area will expand 10 times compared with previous years.

Cotton, from the beginning, when Yang Yuanzhao was in Baotou, after wheat cotton was intercropping, became an important economic crop in the northwest, starting from cotton coats and then to cotton cloths, cotton was related to the clothing of the people in food, clothing, housing and transportation. Now China, with the development of light industry, is different from before. A large number of new things emerged, especially the development of printing and dyeing, color has become the direction that the people pursue. Clothing and various cloths have enriched people's lives.

The Northwest chose to improve the technical level and mechanical efficiency, and in this regard, reduce the labor cost of a single commodity to reduce costs, but did not deliberately reduce the wages of workers. The wages of workers have always occupied a considerable share in the large social distribution. The workers in the entire Chinese have enjoyed these dividends because of the commodity marketing world in the Northwest.

The high wages also under some circumstances gave birth to a vigorous market. Under the guidance and promotion of the Northwest, a huge market of up to 400 million people, with more than 160 billion Northwest yuan, or 80 billion US dollars each year, began to appear. Only when commodities were circulated can additional value be created. The Northwest guided these products so that every corner of the social division of labor could be used for the sake of their own use. To a certain extent, it is equivalent to investing this huge 400 million people in production and construction. Spontaneously, it is always higher than that of passive and created.

Because of this, the Northwest has created impressive and brilliant achievements. In a short period of time, it surpassed other industrial countries' achievements for a century, became the world's largest industrial body, and the largest market. Of course, many policies, banks, and other means in the Northwest to stimulate consumption have returned most of the capital to the hands of the Northwest government. The government uses this money to invest in key projects related to the national economy and people's livelihood.

Cotton is the first part of the development of the western region. The vast land area of ​​the western region is, even if it has not been reclaimed or even the conditions are harsh, a large amount of land can be opened up. Grain production is the foundation of a country at any time, and the northwest is no exception. There is more food to support more people and lay a certain foundation for the northwest in the future under possible wars. As long as there is food, at least, when there is no extreme situation, the morale of the army will not change.

On the large sand table, each place has a different color. This is a preliminary plan through preliminary exploration. Some places with better climatic conditions, some places with rich water resources, and some places with fertile soil have made different arrangements. The huge land has become filling grids one by one, filling each type and each category. Even from these detailed layouts, we can see what the entire northwest will look like in the future.

"The transport speed of prisoners of war must be accelerated. If it doesn't work, some of the ships used for overseas transportation will be dispatched to the Middle East!" Yang Yuanzhao issued a decisive order.

Yang Yuanzhao was quite satisfied with the early work. Nine railways in the west have started construction, which is the most important trunk railway. In addition to prisoners of war who are working in a intensive manner in the Gobi desert, there are also a large number of machinery, which carry out railway laying work in less difficult and harsh places. The huge project has been laid, and the demand for manpower is constantly increasing.

A straw agreement with Germany was signed. This batch of prisoners of war and labor totaled 10 million, and only a few hundred thousand people arrived. The transfer within the German occupied area has been basically done. They have passed the 3b railway in batches and transported to Basra. A total of 2.4 million tons of cargo ships were invested in the northwest for transportation. It can transport about 800,000 people at one time. However, from the bus to Shanghai, the distance is long. The difference between water and land is the continuity. The railway only needs two trains.

, with relatively safe distances, it can be transported continuously. In terms of speed, trains are much faster than ships. The average speed of about 90 kilometers is about 15 knots faster than the ocean-going cargo ship. I don’t know how much faster it will be. So now, people are still piled up in Basra. Fortunately, the transportation speed is relatively fast. The cargo ship can go back and forth once in about 20 days. A population of 10 million, that is, 12 times, can be transported completely, which takes about 8 months.

At the beginning, I didn’t have much experience and no counting the number. Fortunately, after the Basra port accumulated more than 200,000 people, Germany received feedback, which slowed down the speed of transportation. The current stay was only 300,000 to 400,000. However, it doesn’t matter. The expansion of Basra is imminent. Germany’s attention to these migrant workers has also asked the soldiers escorted them to cooperate with them as much as possible. In addition to resettlement on the spot, it is to expand the Basra port.

If some ships used for overseas transportation are transferred to the Middle East, it means 4 million, or even 5 million tonnage, which can double the speed of population migration.

Coincidentally, the Northwest is eager to obtain population, and Germany has gradually realized the effect of migrant population, which is not only reflected in the profits it strives for, but also in the stability of the occupied areas. After careful consideration, Germany decided to promote the transfer of 10 million to 20 million after the first batch of 10 million people was transferred to the position.

This means that the population of Belgium and northern France will basically be transferred by about 60%. At that time, people will be in China and Europe will be beyond the reach. Germany can even use the experience provided by the Northwest to exchange space for time in the western part of the war zone, give up part of the land, set up step by step, and use small-scale combat behind enemy lines to annihilate the living forces of Britain and France. Giving up the territory in this way will not help France, because after transferring away a large number of young and middle-aged people, the rest are all lonely widows who are not suitable for military service, even if Britain and France want to expand.

As long as the Western Theater Command can stabilize the situation, Germany will focus on Russia on the other side, occupying an important oil export site, Baku. By the way, after selling Russia's population, the population export plan unexpectedly made by the northwest and Germany, the residents of those difficult-to-solve occupied areas can actually become wealth.

After being known by the Northwest, this preliminary contact was immediately reported to the Northwest Central. After research, it was followed. The Northwest Development was too big and the demand for the population was almost limitless. Even the government was considering whether to use financial means to attract some people to the west. Now these foreign workers have greatly filled the population shortage, allowing the plan for the West to develop faster. At that time, a mature and well-equipped Northwest will have a natural ability to attract population.

That is, later scholars are very curious and can't even understand a large-scale population migration and global manpower output. In this way, with the acquiescence and promotion of the Northwest and Germany, a population of tens of millions will cause the Northwest to bear considerable pressure from the tribe. However, population represents productivity. When these productivity forces are put together, the effect can be greater. Transportation is the most important project and does not mean that these people cannot do anything. In Yang Yuanzhao's western development plan, the construction of railways and highways is only the most basic, and the most important thing is actually on the sand table. The dotted green area, starting from Xinjiang, extending eastward along the entire Yellow River, covering most of the northwest areas, and also the largest area in all plans. (To be continued)
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