Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry

#145 - Heart-beating!

"First, before the heavy snow seals the mountains, we need to excavate at least 100 cave dwellings here as accommodation and workspaces for our research and development personnel. Each room should be 10 meters deep, 3.5 meters wide, and 4 meters high. This workload alone is enough for a battalion to handle."

"At the same time, I hope to start the construction of kilns and smelting facilities simultaneously. Given the current situation, we need to start building 2 earthen kilns, 4 iron-smelting blast furnaces, and 2 steel-smelting open-hearth furnaces, as well as 2 sets of sulfuric acid production lines, as soon as possible, to provide production capacity for the border region's iron and steel industry and chemical industry. This will also provide us with sufficient steel and chemical raw materials for our upcoming research. I'm afraid the manpower of one battalion is not enough for these construction tasks."

"Next, we also need to build a dam. We will build a dam of about 10 meters high at the narrowest point we just passed on the Nan Gou River. On the one hand, it will solve our drinking water problem, and on the other hand, we need to build a hydropower station before the end of the year to provide electricity here."

"These are just the initial constructions here. We also need to open mines in and around Haojiaping. If our preliminary exploration work here is correct, we will find iron and manganese mines in this area, as well as coal mines. These early mine constructions and initial ore mining also require a lot of labor. After our blast furnaces are successfully built, one furnace will consume dozens of tons of ore, and four furnaces will consume hundreds of tons. The number of laborers needed here is also considerable. If we want to see results within the year, I estimate that the manpower of a regiment may not be enough."

Ren Zhong didn't stand on ceremony with Jiang Chongjing. In fact, this manpower is only what is needed at this stage. As the entire Dawn Project unfolds, thousands of R\u0026D and production personnel will gather here. Adding their families, there will be at least three to four thousand people. Just building the cave dwellings will require more than two thousand!

Ren Zhong hasn't mentioned these things to Jiang Chongjing yet, but even so, Jiang Chongjing was already stunned and completely unprepared.

He had thought that Ren Zhong's operation would be large, after all, Zhang Wanhe had communicated with Jiang Chongjing that at most, the entire Independent Regiment in Yangcun was serving Ren Zhong's factory construction.

But Jiang Chongjing didn't expect Ren Zhong to have such a grand plan right from the start.

"This is a bit beyond my authority," Jiang Chongjing said with a wry smile. "Boss Ren, I will convey your needs to the higher-ups, and I believe there will be a reasonable solution."

Ren Zhong nodded. After acquiring the villagers' cave dwellings in the early stage, there are temporary places to live. After all, not too many people came in the early stage. Now, more than a hundred people from Peidu have been confirmed.

According to the number of family members reported now, among the more than one hundred people from Peidu, more than 40 professors are married, and the remaining one hundred are students or single men. Therefore, to ensure everyone's quality of life, one cave dwelling for each single man, and three cave dwellings for a family of five, isn't that too much?

The professor's family will have to prepare more than 200, plus the cave dwelling needs of single men, these 400 are only the first phase of the project.

Not only for living, but also for engineering research laboratories and production factories.

In order to ensure confidentiality and the safety of everyone, Ren Zhong plans to build all the existing machine tool processing factories in the cave dwellings.

These cave dwellings have relatively higher requirements, with a depth of more than 15 meters and a width of seven or eight meters. Therefore, the construction difficulty and workload will also increase greatly.

Ren Zhong is not just doing research for the sake of research in the border area, but research to serve production. The most important thing is to build a complete military-industrial system!

To form the largest production base outside the base area in the border area, not only to arm the troops in the border area, but also to continuously provide equipment support to other base areas.

Even after the production capacity comes up, it is possible to sell it to the Guofu troops to strengthen their strength to facilitate the victory of the War of Resistance.

So Ren Zhong estimates that, starting next month, the first batch of professors he poached, with their families, should arrive in the border area.

In order to give them confidence, Ren Zhong must prepare these essential needs in advance.

But Jiang Chongjing had already listened to Ren Zhong's plan in a daze, completely unexpected that Ren Zhong's plan would have so much work just as it started.

However, Jiang Chongjing couldn't find any problems with these things after listening to them. They were indeed very needed.

"Boss Ren, the iron and manganese mines near Haojiaping that you mentioned are something we didn't know about, but it is obviously a great thing. I think the leaders will be very pleased to hear about this. However, Boss Ren, do you have a way to smelt manganese steel?"

Jiang Chongjing asked somewhat urgently.

Jiang Chongjing certainly knew the importance of iron and manganese mines to the border area. These can produce extremely short-term manganese steel alloys, and these alloys are the basic alloys for manufacturing too many tools.

For the border area, it is too important.

Many tools will have their performance greatly enhanced with manganese steel, which is much stronger than the steel rails that were pried off.

"Of course, we have already completed the process flow design and formula research. After collecting a batch of the composition ratio of the iron ore and manganese ore here and sending it to a qualified testing institution, after completing the composition analysis, we can recruit some people in advance according to the process flow to carry out business," Ren Zhong said confidently.

"What, you have already completed the production process design and trial production of manganese steel?" Jiang Chongjing was shocked numb.

When Jiang Chongjing heard about Ren Zhong's magic from Zhang Wanhe's mouth, he didn't listen to it as much as he does now.

The latest novels are at 69shu.com!

At this moment, when he heard that Ren Zhong was planning to mass-produce such high-end alloys as manganese steel here, Jiang Chongjing was excited just by this one thing.

This is an excellent material that can upgrade the processing capabilities of the border area, and it must be produced as soon as possible.

"If there are no accidents, we can achieve formal mass production in at most three months. Before that, we can try to produce it on a trial basis," Ren Zhong said confidently with the advanced knowledge of the main world as his backing.

"Great, Boss Ren, I will solve the manpower problem. In addition to the 3rd Battalion arriving tomorrow, I will go back and coordinate with the chiefs. I think the remaining manpower you require will be in place within 3 days," Jiang Chongjing said without hesitation.

Just kidding, the things Ren Zhong is preparing to do here, the border area will support even if they sell everything!

Third update! Asking for votes!