the world is at stake

Without the imperial court, without the government, what should the local tyrants and evil gentry do?Natural disasters and man-made disasters need relief, what should we do?What should we do if foreign enemies invade and ravage China?

Chinese people feel that Americans are naturally rebellious, so why do they think about confronting the government all day long?

Shijiazhuang Iron and Steel Works ignited the furnace, and on the day of the ceremony, the first furnace of molten iron flowed out and was sent into a [-]-ton converter for steelmaking.The furnace used the latest oxygen bottom blowing technology, the air flow was blown in, and the molten iron in the furnace rolled like boiling, releasing a huge amount of light and heat.

The bottom-blown converter has high desulfurization efficiency, high thermal efficiency of molten pool, and smooth slagging.Its disadvantage is that the spray gun is easy to burn out and has a low service life.But this revolutionary technology brings about a huge increase in productivity.

A 70-ton converter can produce [-] tons of steel per year, and can easily produce high-value alloy steel, greatly improving equipment manufacturing and weapon performance.

Shijiazhuang Iron and Steel Works is one of the pilot projects in the country. After the converter, there is a continuous casting workshop for profile manufacturing.After the successful trial, it will be rolled out to the whole country.

An official of the Ministry of Commerce happily said beside him: "We currently have more than 2000 million tons of steel production, but most of them are pig iron and wrought iron, and the steel output is small, and the high-quality alloy steel is even less.

Because of the lack of high-quality steel, many industries cannot develop.

For example, the shipbuilding industry needs high-yield steel, engine cylinders have higher and higher requirements for materials, and machine tools need high-speed steel.Not to mention the bearings, if the material is poor, the performance will be a lot worse.

Steel is needed everywhere for national construction, but there is a shortage of it everywhere.With the oxygen bottom-blown converter, many factories that can only make iron can make steel.Alloy steel is also available openly.

In another ten years, our steel output will jump to 5000 million tons or even hundreds of millions of tons.Oops... just thinking about it makes me happy! "

Oxygen bottom blowing technology can not only greatly increase the smelting speed, but also reduce energy consumption and improve quality.Steel, copper, lead, and many metal smelting can be used.

There were a lot of people in the steel factory celebrating happily, and Rockefeller Jr. stood among them and kept only the most basic smile, but his mood was very complicated.The capitalists are not lamenting the power contrast between China and the United States, but lamenting that the United States will lose a batch of commodities that can be exported to China.

Chinese imports often only buy what they cannot produce at home.For example, if the 'air separation' compressor is not well made, they only buy the compressor; if the high temperature resistant oxygen nozzle is not well made, they only buy the nozzle.

If the Chinese are forced to purchase complete sets of equipment, they often invest in research and development by themselves, or find other companies to purchase.Now that they can manufacture high-quality steel, the impact on the industrial chain is extremely far-reaching, and a large number of American products will inevitably lose their competitiveness in the future.

"Well, business is getting harder and harder. I don't know what to sell to them in the future. Could it be that one day we can only sell oil?"

Chapter 83

Rockefeller Jr. was born in 1874, less than a decade after the end of the American Civil War.He is in an era of great change, and the second industrial revolution is in full swing to change the world.

After 1910, this change was particularly drastic, and it can be said that it was suddenly turned upside down.

After the ceremony at the steel plant, Rockefeller Jr. stayed in the Provincial Party Committee Guest House in Shijiazhuang.This is currently the best hotel in Hebei Province, and it was only built two years ago.

But in the eyes of the super rich in the United States, the facilities and services in the hotel are still shabby.There are no expensive murals, no gorgeous chandeliers, the concrete floor is hard, and it lacks beauty like the lime walls.

The officials of the Ministry of Commerce had drunk foreign ink, so they apologized to Rockefeller Jr., and repeatedly said that although the decoration of the room was simple, everything was new and absolutely clean.

Indeed, in order to entertain the sole heir of the Rockefeller family, each city where he settled has specially approved funds, manpower and material resources, as if conducting a "civilized city" appraisal.

"Thank you, I think I can adapt." Rockefeller Jr. accepted the official's apology and said he wanted to be alone.He closed the door of the suite, opened the window, and overlooked the street and pedestrians outside the guest house.

The old Rockefeller sent his son to China, one is to show favor to China, so that eggs will not be put in one basket, and the other is to observe whether China has the strength to confront the United States, and decide the future strategy of the consortium.

Seven or eight years ago, Rockefeller Jr. visited Tianjin and signed a contract with the Ministry of Commerce to sell California Standard Oil Company.He also lived in the best building in Tianjin and enjoyed the treatment of the head of state.

Time passed by, and Rockefeller Jr. came to China again, and clearly felt that the Chinese government was using its national power to the extreme.

When he was in the imperial capital, he visited the State Council and the National Development and Reform Commission, and saw the meticulous involvement of the big government in social activities. He was especially shocked by the 'supercomputer' at the State Information Center.

Any era-changing technology can seem like magic when it first reveals its power.So is gunpowder, so is the compass, so is the steam engine, so is the telegraph and telephone, and so is the 'transistor computer'.

China's 'transistor computer' has been developed to the third generation, from the earliest hand-soldered components to the use of double-sided printed circuit boards.

From the 50 transistors of the prototype to the current 512, the calculation speed has evolved from 512 to [-] times per second.The capacity of the magnetic core memory is gradually expanded to [-]k from the poor [-]bit at the beginning.

The earliest magnetic cores were weaved and wound by hand by weaving women workers, but soon this work was switched to machines.Now the backup memory capacity has exceeded 1tb after several years of accumulation.

All the magnetic cores add up to fill a five-story building.The data stored in it remains powered on at all times and can be read at any time.

Input and output devices also changed from punches to a combination of keyboards, monitors, and printers.The staff of the State Information Center even wrote an operating system for this device with a magnetic core capacity of 128k.

Rockefeller Jr. didn't understand the monotonous and incomprehensible data, but he had seen the fruits of the work of the marvelous machine that took up the room.

Across a thick glass window, the 'supercomputer' was placed in a room with constant temperature and humidity.

In appearance, it is just rows of circuit boards and indicator lights on several cabinets, as well as the sound of humming current.But every province in the country will send it economic, transportation, production, inventory and other human and material data by telegram every day.

The constantly updated data, combined with the basic situation of the country as determined by the population and land censuses, can provide a solid basis for the State Council's decision-making.

For example, if the country wants to recruit soldiers, the situation of young people of the right age is stored in the data building, which can be printed out when needed, and shipped to provinces, cities and counties for recruitment.

Governance is no longer a brainstorming idea of ​​an individual or a team, but the calculation result of multiple sets of mathematical models and structural algorithms.

The State Council of China can even reversely calculate the industrial production capacity of the United States, the tonnage of ports handled, and even the state of national mobilization through the inbound logistics of American cargo ships in China.

And if you add the Fed's money printing and Wall Street's stock market data...

Premier Qin Qing of the State Council took the time to personally take Rockefeller Jr. to visit the National Data Center, and gave a very positive judgment, "The U.S. military government will definitely provoke the war and turn to a wartime economy in early October, otherwise it will be over."

Even the American consortium dare not say this, but the Chinese Premier who is across the world dares to draw this conclusion-for those in power, information is power!

The Rockefeller family also wanted this magical machine, and the larger the consortium needed it more.This can greatly improve the efficiency of capital utilization and speed up logistics.

Rockefeller Jr. even knew that China, together with Britain, Germany and France, had made great progress in semiconductors and could already manufacture transistors in batches.

The small-scale transistor computer is a "force multiplier", which is a key product of China's foreign exports, and has been fully deployed in the fields of military, scientific research, finance, and civil affairs.

The old Rockefeller liked this feeling of controlling the overall situation even more.

But the four countries joined forces to impose a technological blockade on the United States.Premier Qin Qing expressed regret that high-tech equipment would not be open to export to the United States until the Marco Shi military government stepped down.

If "supercomputing" represents the blessing of science and technology to China's national strength, then Rockefeller Jr. discovered another distinctive institutional advantage during his random travels in China.

When inspecting the Shijiazhuang Iron and Steel Plant, all the technologies of the factory workers are open to industrial and mining enterprises across the country.State-owned or private enterprises can send people to learn the latest smelting technology, and there is no private possession.

The factory guest house is full of technicians from all over the country, and its accommodation environment is far inferior to that of the provincial party committee guest house.There are double-layer iron frame beds in the house of more than ten square meters, and eight to twelve people can live there.

There are only two or three tables and luggage racks in the room, and daily necessities can only be placed on the floor or on the table. The only electrical appliances are the ten-watt lamp on the ceiling and the flashlight for power failure.

The factory manager said that this condition has been considered good.

The guest houses in other small places only have Datong shop, where seven or eight people are crowded together, and it is difficult to even turn over when sleeping, and the bedding is black and smelly, as if picked from a coal pile.

The technicians who come to study get up at [-] o'clock in the morning and go to bed at [-] o'clock at night. In addition to eating and drinking, they are attending classes, recording, and practicing.Good grades are rewarded, poor ones are eliminated.

As far as Little Rockefeller saw, most of the technicians who participated in the training were taciturn, and they did not consider any entertainment except for learning.They have one day off every week, but almost no one leaves the factory.

After receiving half a year to one year of training, all technicians return to their original factories to put what they have learned into practice.The latest smelting technology thus spread rapidly.

The technicians at the Shijiazhuang Iron and Steel Plant said that they were also trained in Tangshan, Tianjin, Shanghai, Wuhan and other places in the past.Similar training takes place all the time.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology at the central level and the Light Industry Bureau and Heavy Industry Bureau of each province will also summarize the technical situation of each enterprise at all times.Every time there is a breakthrough in products, technologies, and processes, the relevant companies must be informed.

If there is a major difficulty that gets stuck, the ministries and commissions will call on engineers from the same industry and experts from institutes to tackle the problem, striving to make progress as quickly as possible.

As for patent barriers, they don't exist at all.

If asked similar questions, the Chinese people will be very surprised-the ancestors wrote in "Book of Rites: Li Yun", "The journey of the great road is also, and the world is for the public."

Science and technology are the common wealth of the people of the whole country, how can they keep it for themselves?If the country is so impoverished, why should it be complacent?Now is the best opportunity for the development of the country. If you cherish your own broom, are you still Chinese?

Open patents for the whole society to use at will?There will never be such a thing in the United States.

The values ​​of Rockefeller Jr. were greatly impacted by this.He would like to use past experience and the current situation of the United States to prove that the patent system is conducive to national strength and technological progress, but China's development proves that there is another way.

There is a construction site near the Provincial Party Committee Guest House, and workers from No. [-] are busy day and night around the construction site.Trucks brought in building materials and hauled away waste.The red brick repaired walls are taking shape at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Probably the most seen in China is the construction site.Construction is going on everywhere, all kinds of buildings and infrastructure are being built.

Rockefeller Jr. has seen the scenes of construction in major American cities such as New York.In terms of hard work and hardship, American workers are by no means inferior to any of their counterparts in the world.

But when it comes to scale... just an unknown place like Hebei Province uses no less steel and concrete than the United States.There is a ten-fold gap in the number of construction workers.

"The United States has surpassed Europe more than 150 years after its founding, which is a miracle that shocked the world. Officials from the Ministry of Commerce of China are full of praise every time they talk about the achievements of the United States in industry, expressing their great reference and encouragement to China.

But how long has China developed its industry?Ten years, just ten years.How many Americans have seen that this ancient oriental country is rapidly closing the distance with the United States? "

How do white Europeans and Americans view East Asia today?Either contempt or curiosity, at most some 'yellow fever'.

This is not a medical condition, but spiritual arrogance.The same arrogance as the 'later generations' foreign silks who went to China to fuck 'easygirl'.

Rockefeller Jr. wanted to send a telegram to his father in New York, explaining whether it was necessary to continue to raise money in China.But he didn't want to post it.

If you say 'necessary', you have to admit that China's development model is better.If you say 'unnecessary', it is tantamount to denying everything you have seen, and it will also bring losses to the consortium and family.

Little Rockefeller felt conflicted and wondered how long he could delay.He has a vague feeling that an unknown fuse has been lit and is approaching the breaking point, and it doesn't matter whether it is fired or not.

Just when the heir to the consortium stayed at the window of the guest house for a long time, the door was knocked suddenly, and the servant sent a transoceanic telegram from New York, with the secret words written on it that only Rockefeller Jr. could decipher.

Little Rockefeller thought it was a urging from his father, but he used the Bible he carried with him to translate the message.Its content made him suddenly sluggish...

Sure enough, the fuse burned out!

Chapter 84 Abandoning America

There are many military academies in Shijiazhuang.

Including Flight Academy, Military Medical University, Army Command Academy, Mechanized Infantry Academy, etc.

Zhou Qingfeng was strolling from north to south, and happened to run into Rockefeller Jr. in Shijiazhuang.He is going to the Mechanized Infantry Academy to see the latest armored combat vehicles, and by the way invites "a good friend of the Chinese people" to visit with him.

Little Rockefeller was also very curious about Zhou Qingfeng.Because in the "country studies" conducted by Europe and the United States on China, this name that appears and disappears is always inseparable.

Western diplomats and intelligence personnel all know that Zhou Qingfeng's identity and status are extremely high, but few can explain why he is "extremely high", and most of them are confused by his weird way of acting.

How did such an incomprehensible guy become the highest echelon of a country?

Rockefeller Jr. received a telegram from New York and had a nightmare, tossing and turning in the suite of the Provincial Party Committee Guest House.When he received the invitation the next day, he subconsciously agreed to meet Zhou Qingfeng.

In some cases it's time for a showdown.

The politeness and pleasantries at the meeting were quite dull, and both sides complimented each other on the achievements and status of the other.

Zhou Qingfeng thanked the Rockefeller family for their contribution to China's economic and industrial construction, and showed the Rockefeller family's latest 'toy' to the other party on the academy training ground.

"About three years ago, we learned that your country's Detroit Arsenal had developed an epoch-making heavy tank. It has a 90-horsepower engine, a [-]mm high-velocity gun, and a [-]mm front armor. It can be called the king of land warfare."

This was said half tentatively and half jokingly, and the army armored officers and the chief designer of the tank who accompanied the visit were shaking their faces.God knows how much pressure they have had in the past three years?

Although China and the United States do not border, who can guarantee that the unscrupulous US government and financial groups will not sell the latest tanks to Russia?The National Defense Forces has been circulating a horror story on the battlefields of Central Asia and northern Xinjiang...

Russia has already been equipped with the latest tanks of the United States, or has obtained American technology and equipment, and will create land warfare weapons with overwhelming advantages.It has a sharp eye and thick armor and runs fast. Its performance crushes the 'Grey Wolf' and surpasses the 'Black Panther'.

The frontline troops of the National Defense Forces are in fear every day, and the Military Intelligence Agency of the Ministry of National Defense is always watching the movement of the United States and Russia, and fully exchanges relevant information with Britain, Germany and France.

Today, the Russian Communist Party's "cloth" is at a disadvantage on the battlefield, but its mouth is invincible. From time to time, public opinion announces that it has developed some kind of black-tech doomsday weapon, or tries to tinker with some emergency equipment.

These equipment always have some outstanding features, either extremely strong firepower or excellent maneuverability, but more of them are extremely thick armor, which cannot be pierced by ordinary artillery.

Every time new Russian equipment is discovered on the battlefield, the commanders at the grassroots level will always be terrified, thinking that the "big killer" that the United States has aided Russia has finally arrived.

But after the battle is over, if you study it carefully, you will find that Maozi's thinking always turns in strange directions-those with strong firepower often have poor mobility and no protection; those with strong mobility have no firepower.

There are also those with good protection and strong firepower, but they are often blind 'toilet heads' and have extremely poor reliability.

Every time the front line yelled that they had discovered the latest military achievements of the enemy, and when the intelligence bureau and military personnel rushed over, they would eventually send some "creative goblin technology" to the military blog.

But the National Defense Forces have never dared to take it lightly, after all, their own family is indeed not as good as Europe and the United States.

The reason why the country needs to 'concentrate efforts to do big things' and engage in joint research is that with the progress of scientific research, the pressure of the arms race has not decreased, but has increased.

Now that three years have passed, God knows if the Yankees have come up with more advanced weapons.In line with the principle of predicting the enemy leniently, the military industry department is already pondering how amazing the performance of the next generation of US land warfare weapons will be.

Showing off the latest domestically produced chariot today has the meaning of secretly testing Rockefeller Jr.Because his family is also involved in US military production, he must know a lot of the latest developments.

The tank chief from Baotou personally introduced the latest toy of the National Defense Forces next to the training ground, "This is the 'Tiger' tank that we spent three years developing after the 'Grey Wolf' and 'Black Panther' tanks.

It has a total weight of 75 tons, a 52mm main gun, a [-]-caliber diesel engine, and a [-]-horsepower diesel engine. The front armor is [-]mm high-strength alloy steel.

In order to strengthen the defense, composite armor can be attached to the base armor, which reduces the mobility and obtains a defense enhancement equivalent to [-] mm of homogeneous steel. "

Little Rockefeller couldn't understand the chief teacher's explanation at all.He just stared blankly at the tall chariot in front of him, and nodded with a 'hmm'.

In order to fight against the latest US tank, the chief engineer from the 'Holy Light' team was forced to 'boldly innovate', and the 'Tiger' had to use a lot of 'advanced future technology'.

This caused its costs to skyrocket.

At present, mainstream tanks use slanted armor to improve defense, but the "Tiger Type" developed by China is deviant. In order to expand the space inside the vehicle, the vehicle is more square.

The space inside the vehicle is large, the occupants are more comfortable, and it is also conducive to the installation of various fire control equipment and sighting devices.Such as artillery vertical stability, optical range finder, transistor gun shooting computer.

Ensure that the enemy is discovered first, the enemy is attacked first, and the enemy is destroyed first.

For the main gun with a large penetration depth, China and Germany jointly developed an electroslag remelting furnace, which obtained high-quality gun steel more than ten years in advance.In addition, precision forging, deep hole boring machine, tungsten alloy smelting, sub-caliber armor-piercing bullets, etc. were also forced to come out.

In addition, technologies such as compact high-horsepower diesel engines, high-efficiency mechanical transmissions, and multi-layer composite armor also burned a large amount of research funding.

After all, military expenditures are limited, and the National Defense Forces have to temporarily slow down the development of the navy to ensure that they have an advantage on land.

The performance of the "Tiger Type" produced is very good, and Xiujun is very satisfied, but he is all jumping when he sees its cost.This thing is five times more expensive than the current main equipment 'Black Panther', which is too much.

On the training ground of the mechanized infantry, the latest 'Tiger' chariot is an invincible armored heavy cavalry, with fast speed, good obstacle surmounting, accurate and ruthless artillery, and extremely fast response.