The most lacking thing for these gadgets right now is raw materials.
Nan Beichen sent people to the Aoshan Iron Mine and directly paid for the entire mine.
It was then purchased at a wage of one ocean per ton of iron ore.
As soon as the news came out, people from all over the country went to work mining.
Who the hell is going to farm when you can earn thirty or forty yuan a month?
In Nan Beichen's opinion, one ton of iron ore cost only 1 piece of ocean, which was too cheap.
The mining area pays wages every ten days, which can be accumulated. At the same time, the mining area also provides a meal at noon. You can eat whatever you want, with a dish, but there is broth to drink.
Those who consume less than 500 kilograms of ore per day will be directly kicked out and will not be hired.
After all, a woman can collect 500 kilograms of ore with all her efforts.
The mining area produces hammers, drills, and dump trucks.
Basically, teams of two or three dig together, and sometimes families dig together.
They are all strong laborers. At this time, the advantage of having a large labor force in the family is reflected.
There are also fathers who bring their sons and three daughters together.
Although girls lack strength, they can pull the stroller without any problem.
A family of five can mine more than 6 tons of ore in one day.
These raw ores will be loaded onto trucks and then taken to the train station and transported into the carriages to Shanghai. All this is currently conceived by Bei Nanchen.
It doesn’t take a day or two to take action.
However, the troops on the front line are also constantly advancing, constantly crushing the little Japs and squeezing the Japs' living space.
As for the headquarters of the Hongkou Japanese, it was directly destroyed by the bombing of 12 150mm howitzers and 8 150mm heavy infantry guns.
But I guess the Japanese never dreamed of it.
There were so many heavy artillery mobilized that the Japanese major general was killed before he could run away.
After the entire Hongkou fell, the Japanese Marine Corps and the remnants of the Army Brigade withdrew from the Hongkou base.
Seeing that Shanghai was no longer effective, the Japanese base camp chose to prepare to retreat.
There is no point in continuing to invest troops in Shanghai.
First of all, there are a lot of concessions in Shanghai. An inadvertent artillery shell flying into the concession will cause unnecessary trouble. At the same time, it will be difficult to launch large-scale operations in Shanghai.
So the Japanese decided to fight from north to south.
At least occupy the area north of the Yangtze River before plotting the area south.
All the troops on the front line also made great gains. This sudden attack caused more than 10,000 Japanese casualties.
The Japanese's comprehensive retreat gave Nan Beichen a great opportunity.
The original plan to build it at Dianshan Lake was changed and it was built directly at Baoshan Wharf.
But first we need to build a fortress cannon, at least not to allow the little devils to attack easily again.
The Shanghai Government left three divisions of troops on the side to provide assistance.
The rest of the troops will be transferred north to garrison on the edge of the Yellow River.
Try to keep little devils out of the Central Plains area.
Looking at the plan in his hand, Nan Beichen handed down the task.
Recruit 10,000 new soldiers and recruit 30,000 migrant workers for work.
The railway needs to be built, and it will take thirty minutes for the entire Shanghai-Coast Defense Zone to receive personnel, material and equipment support.
A railway station was built directly outside the Dazhuang Fortress. Two locomotives were purchased directly for the construction of train guns. At the same time, they were also negotiating with the German Empire to purchase two locomotives. These big guys would be shipped over by ship. .
While Germania still has some time to break up, it’s time to purchase what you can.
At the same time, we are preparing to use the steel factory to cast the artillery. All parts only need to be produced according to the size.
This is the power of System Factory.
There are really too few virtual materials at level 1, and even a 3x copy is not enough.
Therefore, a large amount of raw resources must be purchased.
But those rare materials don’t need to be sought all over the world.
A level 1 oil field producing 2,000 barrels per day is still very good for Beichen.
One barrel of gasoline is 158 liters, and 2,000 barrels are equivalent to 316,000 liters.
According to Nanbeichen's triple copy attribute, an additional 6,000 barrels will be added, and 8,000 barrels of crude oil will be recorded in the account a day.
A barrel of crude oil can refine 60% gasoline, 15% diesel, 15% kerosene, and 10% asphalt.
Crude oil is replicated to 8,000 barrels per day. After it is refined, it can be replicated again, which is another three-fold increase.
Just like iron ore, the output of level 1 iron ore is 10 tons, and 40 tons of iron ore can be obtained in one day.
One ton of iron ore can extract 600 kilograms of iron.
After replication, that is 2,400 kilograms, 2.4 tons of iron.
One thousand kilograms of molten iron can produce 1.1 to 1.47 tons of steel.
In other words, one ton of iron ore can produce 2.2 tons of steel, and when copied, the 2.2 becomes 8.8 tons of steel.
It can refine 88 tons of steel a day without iron ore.
Ten days is 888 tons of steel, and the steel production in the Kuomintang-controlled areas in 1938 was about 900 tons.
In 1939, it barely reached 1,944 tons of steel production.
In fact, this kind of output is very good, but based on the tonnage of tanks or ships, it is not enough to collect the steel for a destroyer in ten days.
However, with the establishment of Aoshan Iron Mine, I believe the output will be able to make a qualitative leap.
A machinery factory, a parts factory, and two factories were also set up.
All the fields near the Dazhuang Fortress were covered.
The entire park has expanded to an area of 10,000 acres. Almost 6.6 square kilometers.
It took tens of thousands of people just two weeks to build the ground and walls of the park.
Then iron ore began to come in a steady stream.
One thousand tons of iron ore are transported every day.
The equivalent of 3,000 tons of iron ore was transported, and 26,400 tons of steel were produced.
It seems like a lot, but in fact it is really not enough if it is used open.
You must know that just to build three triple 305mm fortress cannons requires many tons of steel bars, and there is also a steel plate in the middle, which all requires steel.
A 305mm gun uses about ten tons of steel alone.
The only advantage is that there are no burrs in the finished product, which is what Nan Beichen is most satisfied with.
To build a destroyer capable of carrying 2,000 tons, at least 500 tons of steel will be required.
This does not take into account its defense power, but is based on the tonnage of the transport ship.
If armor is added, at least about 800 tons of steel will be needed.
Larger warships will consume an even greater amount of steel.
For example, that kind of battleship, the thickness of its armor alone is terrifying.
The armor is usually about 350 mm thick and has a large area.
And not only these are consumed, but there are also a large number of weapons and equipment, vehicles and tanks, including the current railway tracks.
These are large-scale projects, but it is necessary to prepare submarines.
Destroyers or cruisers are of little use at the moment, and sending them out is not enough to fill the gap.
