Heavy Industry Empire

Now that the territory is large, there are a lot of government affairs. Liu Tianling mainly focuses on military affairs, and handles less government affairs. Therefore, Duan Xuewen has a very heavy burden.

"Northeast is very rich in mineral deposits, but the initial investment in mining deposits is huge, and the results are slow. The problem of money should be solved as much as possible. If it can't be solved, I will find another way." Duan Xue didn't want to put too much pressure on Liu Tianling.

"It's okay, you can go back to Peiping quickly, I'll figure out the money matter," Liu Tianling sent Duan Xuewen away, and drank tea in the room by himself. Lack of money is a problem that has long been thought of. The three northeastern provinces plus the eastern part of the Mongolian grassland There are rich mines, but according to conventional mining methods, the environmental pollution is serious, the initial investment is large, and the effect is slow, which is not practical for the current situation. However, Liu Tianling has the anti-sky artifact of the red alarm system, and the weapons and equipment are very important, but that Autonomous mining vehicles, which look as inconspicuous as ordinary trucks, are even more important.

Open the mineral division map prepared earlier, the entire Northeast is almost a large mine, there are many iron ore, oil, natural gas, etc., Benxi, Anshan has rich iron ore resources, although steel is also very profitable, but At present, the domestic economy is sluggish, and steel is mostly processed into daily necessities. It is relatively slow to use iron ore to make money. These iron ores are used to produce high-quality tanks and chariots.

But Jilin has a lot of high-quality copper mines. A place called Daheishan has high-quality copper mines and huge reserves of hundreds of thousands of tons. Copper is cheaper than silver in this era, and the coins made of it are circulated at the same time as the ocean. The purchasing power is incomparable, but it is quite stable. One copper coin can buy about one catty of eggs, which is quite impressive.

"Ye Feng, call Lei Hu here immediately," Liu Tianling said.

"Yes," Ye Feng immediately informed Lei Hu, the commander of the mountain brigade.

Lei Hu arrived ten minutes later and asked, "Commander-in-Chief, is there a battle about to be fought? Finally, it's our brigade's turn to fight."

"Look at the map, do you know where this is?" Liu Tianling said, pointing to the Daheishan area.

"I know, Daheishan, the map also shows a mountainous area," Lei Hu said.

"According to the latest information, there are several bandits in this mountain. The scale is not large. There are hundreds of people in one place. Take your brigade and deal with it for me. Is there any problem?" Liu Tianling said.

Lei Hu said: "Guaranteed to complete the task, guaranteed to complete the task in a week, the culprit must be investigated, and the threat will be lenient,"

"It's not just about suppressing the bandits. The area within a radius of several tens of miles has almost been tortured by the bandits. After clearing out the bandits, I will build a small road here and build a flat place. It will be useful to me," Liu Tianling said.

"Suppressing bandits is fine, but we are not as good as engineers and soldiers in building roads," Lei Hu said.

Liu Tianling shook his head: "The task of engineers is very heavy, not to mention that the roads there are rugged, and large equipment cannot enter the mountains at all. They are not much more advanced than you. Besides, don't you have engineers in your brigade?"

"Yes," Lei Hu immediately led his people away, not to mention building a flat land and building some small roads, even the most difficult tasks should not be delayed. The army is not a vegetable market, and there is no room for bargaining with orders.

Leihu's mountain brigade has more than 300 people, mainly infantry, with a small number of armored vehicles, mainly trucks for troop transport, more than 1000 vehicles, and the team marched to Daheishan in a mighty manner. There were only more than [-] people in total. When Lei Hu led the mountain brigade to the Dahei Mountain to suppress the bandits, Liu Tianling also started other things. He mobilized [-] mining vehicles from the Longya Mountain headquarters, and another [-] engineering vehicles It carried a series of materials and accessories for the construction of the mine. The convoy of materials was escorted by [-] armored vehicles. The road conditions were not good. It would take five or six days to reach Jilin all the way north, just in time for Leihu to complete the project in advance.

Five days later, Liu Tianling headed straight for Daheishan with the guard battalion. When he arrived, Lei Hu was leading people to build the road. In addition to seven thousand soldiers, there were more civilians. The mountain was dozens of miles away. The easy way for minecarts to enter is not so easy either.

Liu Tianling watched the people sweating profusely with hoes and shovels one by one to build the road, and asked Lei Hu, "What's the matter with them, you can't be forced to come here by your kid, right?"

"How dare I do this. I led people to work day and night. The nearby people volunteered to help. I told them that the troops came out without wages. They said they didn't want money, and they even brought dry food. Come, but I paid for all their food, "

At this time, a middle-aged man who was repairing the road said: "It's really not that Brigadier Lei forced us to do this. The nearby villages are all voluntary. It turns out that the commander has a backbone, but he didn't drive the Japanese away. The whole Northeast is either a big nose or The little nose bullied us, the national defense army came, and the Kwantung Army of the little nose drove away. Our life has become more honest. I heard that we still have schools and hospitals, so that the children of ordinary people can go to school. We’ve heard all the good things, and we’ve been looking forward to this day for a long time.”

"That's right, Brigadier Lei led his troops over and shot the bandit leaders who had been entrenched for so many years, but none of the ordinary little bandits were killed, and they were all arrested. These things alone will give us a lot of trouble." For such a great contribution, Brigadier Lei did not distribute any military pay and rations to the villages and towns near us, so we should help build roads," all the people said one after another.

Liu Tianling said happily: "Okay, let's hurry up, we are going to build a mine here, let the captive bandits reform in it, and release them after reforming, so as not to harm the villagers, and the wages will not be paid, but There will be meat to eat every day,"

With the participation of the people, the construction period was very fast, and a rugged mountain road, which was barely passed by a self-propelled mining vehicle, was finally repaired. On the day of the road construction, Liu Tianling dismissed the people and told them that the school and health center in their village would be built.

In the depths of Dahei Mountain, a flat land has been repaired long ago. Liu Tianling arranged for Leihu to take all irrelevant soldiers and personnel back. There are only [-] soldiers left here to guard. The automatic mining plant took only half a day to set up, and then the self-propelled mining vehicle started to mine minerals like a hard seal. The mines in Daheishan are mainly copper mines, and there are other associated mines, which are of high mining value. Moreover, the demand for coal in mines is not large, so in-situ smelting is a very good choice.

At the end of the day, Liu Tianling came to the warehouse of the mining factory and found that more than 100 tons of copper had been mined. On average, a mining truck can mine more than four tons of copper a day, and more than 3000 tons of copper a month. This is a huge fortune.