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Volume 2 Setting the Sail, Chapter 38 to 39 Chapter 1135 Just One Victory

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    In this era, steel, known as the backbone of industry, means absolute strength.

    The warships that ply the sea, the tanks that gallop on land, and even the bayonets on guns all require steel to be made.  Behind the great strength of the Americans that was praised by the world during World War II was the annual steel output of more than 80 million in the latter part of World War II.

    In another time and space, China¡¯s output did not exceed this line until the mid-1990s.  But in this time and space, the Chinese steel production has jumped to the second place in the world and has launched a challenge to the United States.

    Affected by the war and even the damage caused by bombing in China, the steel production of the United States in the first half of 1946 was only more than 70 million tons.

    "How can they be so numerous?" someone directly exclaimed and questioned at Truman's meeting. "Even if the steel production of the Japanese and Soviets were not half of this amount before, the steel production in Europe is almost the same.  But now even if the Chinese have occupied Europe, it is impossible to move all the European steel plants to China. What's more, it will take at least several years to rebuild a steel plant. How can the Chinese have such a high steel output? It must be a fiction.  , made up to scare us!¡±

    "It's not fiction!" Stettinius said decisively, "The Chinese have produced more than 30 million tons of steel in 1945, and it is possible to further increase this year. Not only because they have received a lot of machines from the Germans  And technology, they even have new technology themselves. They use converter technology, and at the fastest time, they can have a furnace of molten steel in half an hour."

    "Converter? The steel produced by that thing may only be slightly stronger than pig iron, and it's useless no matter how much it is." Someone laughed directly after heaving a sigh of relief.

    The converter was invented in the last century and ushered in the beginning of the modern steel industry. However, it was gradually marginalized after the breakthrough in open-hearth steelmaking because it could not effectively remove sulfur and phosphorus impurities.  When I think of China using such a backward steel-making method.  The big problem of Xia Iron and Steel's rapidly rising production was suddenly removed from many people's minds, and some people couldn't help but relax.

    Although in this era of steel shortage, the quantity of steel speaks for itself, but the quantity of steel does not mean strong strength. If the quality of steel is not good, it will not be able to meet the needs of some military industries, and even some civilian fields.  Just like China, which has already accounted for more than half of the world's total steel production in later generations, it still needs to import a large amount of high-end steel.

    "I said they have new technology, which seems to require blowing oxygen. The quality of the final steel is no worse than ours!" Stettinius shouted with a livid face.  "They have built many such converters. As long as molten iron can drip from the blast furnaces, the Chinese can turn them into steel. And they have also built many electric furnaces. The quality of steelmaking in electric furnaces should be good!"

    Many people¡¯s minds quickly passed over the benefits contained in the converter technology, but then some people shook their heads and sighed.

    Even if Americans get this technology.  It cannot be popularized even for a while.  The steel industry controlled by the steel giants will never watch the large number of open-hearth equipment they invested in be eliminated before they have made enough achievements.

    Everyone who has recognized the reality is faced with the problem of China's huge steel production again.

    ¡°There is a lot of steel production, but without enough machine tools and qualified workers, it will be difficult to turn it into weapons!¡± someone said unconvinced.

    When Truman heard this, he immediately classified this man as a mentally retarded person.  The Chinese do not need to transfer steel into weapons production to obtain a large number of advanced weapons from copycat companies and an umbrella company that even Americans are helpless.

    Stettinius also stared at the man for a long time. It was not until the man lowered his head that he said word by word: "The Chinese have many machine tools now."

    He pulled out a piece of information, held it in his hand and said: "This information even estimates that half of Europe's advanced machine tools have been moved to China, including those from the British and Germans.

    Most of the German spoils from all over Europe became the Chinese.

    Now that the civil strife in Germany continues, all parties in Germany want to win over the Chinese.  Although the Chinese have not yet entered German soil, as long as the Chinese are willing.  They can enter in large numbers at any time, and whoever they want to support will be the new head of state of Germany.  In order to win over China, the Germans not only half-sold and half-gifted their trophies that they could not use for the time being to China.  Even their domestic wealth is being given to the Chinese people bit by bit.

    There are also countless old machine tools in Europe, including those flowing out of our country, which have been placed in Chinese factories.  Therefore, the number and level of workers who may operate machine tools in China are still far from ours.  But the number of machine tools of the Chinese people may not be less than ours!  "

    Such news shocked everyone again.

    "Fortunately"The Xia people do not have enough workers. They will only stay in a piece of farmland and be farmers for the rest of their lives.  A pitiful harvest awaits!  "Someone said happily, "If you want to become a strong industrial country, you can't just have machines, you must have scientists, engineers and qualified workers.  "

    "That was before. Don't forget, the total number of international students in China who have stayed in our country alone has exceeded 100,000, and their international students are all over Europe. What's more important is that at least 400 million people in China are now getting rid of blindness.  Hats off, not only their young people have gained new knowledge from the ten years of compulsory education, but even the number of Chinese workers in those night schools for civilians is not less than the number of our army.

    Don¡¯t underestimate their intelligence and diligence. Many of them can even beat machines with their dexterous hands.

    ¡°Anyway, I believe that operating those machines is not too difficult for the Chinese, and they also have a large number of German experts helping them figure out every screw on the machine.  Stettinius immediately poured cold water on him.

    Although he does not believe that China can operate so many machines so quickly, or that China is really as strong as the information he specially collected says, he and the military-industrial complex behind him need a powerful enemy like China.  To facilitate the sale of more weapons.

    The British and a bunch of younger brothers have fallen, and the military-industrial complex has lost the most important pillar of export arms sales. To appease this huge monster, it is necessary to expand domestic demand when it is unable to expand arms sales to the outside world.

    Only war can bring about all this, and only by establishing a powerful enemy will the American people and government pay for the hugely profitable arms sales one after another.

    ¡°Not only did he understand this, Truman and many people here also understood it, otherwise the war with China would have required more careful consideration.

    But politics requires compromise, and the opinions of the predators behind the military-industrial complex need to be taken into account. Moreover, Americans really need more advanced weapons to defend their homeland.

    "Don't think that they only focus on industry and not on food. Although their population has exceeded 600 million, their farmers' footprints have spread throughout Asia, Australia, and even parts of Africa. In a short period of time, they have  The land abandoned by the war has been cultivated again, and even a large amount of wasteland has been reclaimed. The cultivated land controlled by the Chinese people has exceeded 500 million hectares. Even if they adopt the slash-and-burn method, it is enough to feed all the Chinese people, not to mention the Chinese people.  Farmers can do better than our tractors.¡±

    "Although the Pioneer Army is a young government, it quickly gathered the support of the Chinese people with various benefits that our people are envious of. This caused many of our subversive plans to fail. Even the original Central Party did not  Treat us as friends again. The vanguard military government has given them more things, the honor of the country's rise and the huge benefits gained from plundering the world. As long as they are given a chance to participate, they will soon forget us.

    Even the Soviet Russians, who are better at infiltration, have lost control of China's internal layout.  It¡¯s difficult to cause trouble for them from within!  "

    Stettinius continued to undermine the confidence of everyone present.

    Truman couldn¡¯t help but cough a few times, reminding him to stop.

    So there was a moment of silence, and each piece of information was very damaging to confidence, not only for China itself, but also for the mysterious copycat company and the umbrella company that fell out with the United States.  How can Americans win such a war?

    "According to our tracing, we have not found large-scale factories of copycat companies and umbrella companies around the world. According to our inference, the base of copycat companies may be in China, and even umbrella companies have close contacts with China, and together they promote China's rapid development  Rise up." Hoover seemed to understand everyone's thoughts and spoke directly.

    What he meant was very clear. The reason why Huaxia has achieved such great achievements is already the result of the alliance between the copycat company and even the umbrella company and Huaxia. There is no need to worry about the strength of the mysterious backer who may not be exposed anymore.  .

    "No matter how powerful our opponents are, we have nothing to fear! We have enough confidence and strength to win! Perhaps with just one victory, everything will change." Truman also said impassionedly, "The people of the entire United States are paying attention.  Waiting for us, waiting for us, waiting for our final decision, waiting for us to lead them to win a great victory!"
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