The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 179 Calculation
The civilian factory arranged for your province is a foundry, which specializes in casting and processing parts and supplies them exclusively to the entire group.

Guizhou Province is rich in mineral resources and is a famous province with abundant mineral resources. There are 82 proven mineral species in the province, and many of them rank among the top in the country in terms of reserves. Mercury, barite, sandstone for fertilizers, sandstone for metallurgy, diabase for facings, sandstone for bricks and tiles, etc. are all ranked first in the country. Phosphorus, bauxite, rare earths, etc. are also very abundant.

The transportation in your province is relatively limited. It is located on a plateau with an average altitude of 1100 meters. The plateau is mostly mountainous and is known as "eight mountains, one water and one field". It is also rich in resources, so it is perfect for doing some casting work.

As for Guangxi Province, the civilian factory established an electric fan factory in Qinzhou, which is convenient for sea transportation. It can be shipped to various parts of the country and can also be exported.

In both Gui Province and Guangxi Province, Liu Tao only planned to build a military factory with about 10,000 employees. The rest of the staff would be handed over to the civilian factory.

After thinking it over again and again, I changed the name of the civilian factory, and before I knew it, it was already past two in the morning.

Yawning, Liu Tao left the study and went to the bedroom to sleep.

The next day, I slept until noon and then got up to eat.

In the afternoon, Liu Tao went to the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building.

He also saw the information sent by the relevant departments.

After reading the intelligence, Liu Tao finally understood why Hadi took the initiative to come to him and make friends with him.

When the Ugandan-Tanzanian War broke out, Uganda had a force of 7. Facing a powerful enemy, Tanzania quickly mobilized all the forces of the National Defense Force. Within a few weeks, the number of troops increased from 4 before the war to 10, including police forces, prison guards, reservists and militia. By the end of the month, the Tanzanian army had completely blocked the enemy's attack and drove the Ugandan army out of Tanzania the following month.

Just last January, more than 1 Tank troops, supported by Type 1 tanks and J-59 and J-6B fighter jets, launched a counterattack. The Ugandan army was demoralized and had no fighting spirit. They were defeated at the first blow and retreated completely.

乌干达的阿明不甘失败，却找上卡扎非。卡扎非同意了阿明的请求，派遣了一支约3000人的队伍，还顺带提供了大批的T-54和T-55型坦克、BTR步兵战车、BM-21型喀秋莎火箭炮、大炮、米格-21战斗机、图-22战略轰炸机等武器。

However, in the Battle of Lukaya, the Tanzanian army won a great victory, and the Ugandan and Libyan coalition forces suffered a crushing defeat and were completely routed. The Libyan army suffered heavy losses and fell apart.

Those weapons and equipment, including the munitions provided to Amin, were naturally gone.

And just this year, Gaddafi sent troops to Chad, trying to occupy Chad.

Chad is an inland country in central Africa, bordering Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, Central Africa to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west. It has a land area of ​​128.4 million square kilometers and a population of 440 million.

Civil war broke out in Chad in 1975.

The Chadian civil war lasted for five full years, and both sides were somewhat exhausted.

Once Libya entered, it crushed Chad with ease, and at its peak it even occupied four-fifths of Chad's area.

But recently, Libya suddenly suffered a series of defeats and suffered heavy losses.

The 8000 troops who entered Chad before were equipped with 300 tanks and 60 fighter planes. Now one third of them have been lost, and the tanks and planes have also suffered heavy losses.

"Colonel Ka is worthy of his name. His army looks strong on paper, but they have never won a war." Liu Tao shook his head, but when he thought that the other party was just a colonel, he felt relieved.

Having lost so much weapons and equipment in the past two years, Libya naturally needs to replenish its weapons and equipment.

Libya does not have any military industry and can only purchase from abroad. As a younger brother of the Soviet Union, it can only purchase from the Soviet Union.

It’s just that Gaddafi has been very active recently, and West Germany and several other European countries have been very close to him, so the purchase is naturally not that easy.

It just so happened that during the Iran-Iraq War, Iraq's weapons and equipment had good performance and a good record. After Libya got the intelligence, it decided to come to China to purchase. As for why they chose Syria, it was naturally because they were in the same small circle.

Libya, Algeria, South Yemen and the PLO formed the Arab "Rejection Front" on December 1977, 12. Now Libya is the leader of the Arab "Rejection Front".

The relationship between Syria and Libya is quite good.

Even part of the weapons and equipment purchased by Syria was paid for by Libya.

After all, although Syria is also a Middle Eastern country, its oil reserves are average and not as abundant as those of neighboring countries such as Iraq and Persia. Although Syria began producing oil in the late 60s, the oil it produced was not even enough for domestic use.

"Tassania?" Liu Tao looked at the information, tapping his hands on the table, looking thoughtful. "It seems I have to go to Shijiazhuang Advanced Army College!"

Tanzania, known as one of the birthplaces of ancient humans, is located in eastern Africa, south of the equator, with a land area of ​​94.5 square kilometers and a population of nearly 2000 million.

Tanzania and China established diplomatic relations as early as 1964, and the relationship between the two sides is still quite friendly. It can even be said that they are good friends.

Tanzania is poor. Its annual foreign exchange income is about US$40 to million, but it has to spend US$ to billion every year to import production necessities from abroad. The country's GDP last year was only about US$ billion. It can be said to be a poor and weak country.

Liu Tao knew that although Tanzania was poor, it was rich in resources. The main minerals that had been identified included gold, diamonds, iron, nickel, uranium, phosphates, coal, and various gemstones.

The proven gold reserves alone amount to 1800 million ounces, or 560 tons of gold.

The diamond reserves are about 250 million tons, the iron ore reserves are 1.3 million tons, the titanium reserves are 3350 million tons, the tin and tungsten reserves are 25 tons, and the nickel reserves are 405 million tons.

It doesn’t matter if we don’t have foreign exchange such as US dollars, we can just use minerals.

The Chinese are not only good at farming, but also good at mining!

Moreover, Tasmania is a good friend of China. Libya has already purchased a batch of weapons from him, so he has to consider his friends.

As for why they didn't look for the embassy but went to the Shijiazhuang Advanced Army Academy, it was because there were more important people there.

In the past, China was very keen to help friends. This kind of help was not only free military aid, but also included training soldiers. Now, although due to some promises, free military aid is no longer provided, helping friends is not so high-profile.

But it doesn’t mean doing nothing.

For example, the Shijiazhuang Advanced Army Academy accepted some international students from good friends and taught them some Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought, as well as some guerrilla warfare tactics and military training for college students.

Naturally, many of those who can come here to study have extraordinary identities and backgrounds.

The weight of these international students is even beyond imagination.

Liu Tao not only wants to discuss the arms business, but also the cooperative development after obtaining the mine.

A strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake. After all, the long-term solution is to find the local snake to cooperate in development.

Win-win has always been one of his principles.

(End of this chapter)