Chapter 287
"A large population is not a bad thing, but the lack of organizational large population undoubtedly causes great unstable factors to a collective!" Wu Yu, who has not spoken much this time, questioned the 1 million people in Wang Mingyang's plan.
He has a profound study of local politics and history and has always served as Li Xiang's local consultant and a part-time invisible political counselor. He absolutely does not believe that the system is omnipotent.
"No matter how good the system is, it needs to be implemented. Society is a collection of people, and talent is the main factor." Wu Yu, who also does not understand Li Xiang's trump card, is also very worried about how to digest these populations. "If there is not enough control, as long as someone incites it, it is easy to cause chaos. With the rapid expansion of the team, even the army cannot guarantee effective control."
He was once a senior official at the vice-provincial level and was very familiar with various penetration capabilities. For him, the Taiping Kingdom that was first established was full of loopholes, especially in the face of the old foxes in China.
He did not oppose Taiping Kingdom's closeness to China, but opposed being too close to others to be picked by others. He was very unwilling to be stopped at the vice-provincial level. Taiping Kingdom's platform, especially after having Taiping Island, had a blank piece of paper, and the thought of depicting the blueprint in his heart was surging in his heart with a passion for pursuing ideals back then. He didn't want too many internal intrigues to ruin the platform where the Chinese people expanded outward and pursued the world's footsteps.
In his opinion, stability overwhelms everything. Although he is 57 years old, he doesn't have much time to consume it, and he also hopes to roam among major countries to accelerate the development of Taiping, even if there is a trick that can make a big move, it requires a certain foundation. The foundation of Taiping itself is still too weak, especially the political structure and mass foundation.
If the people are satisfied with the benefits and satisfaction, even if the mass foundation is solid, once the political structure is out of shape, it may only be necessary to be mixed with sand and distorted some information. I am afraid that this foundation maintained by interests will easily collapse.
"You still lack an effective political group or a solid interest alliance to control it to all levels. Your personal charm may affect tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of people now. But without the time to settle down, these people cannot further affect millions of people." Wu Yu was very grateful to Li Xiang for his help and also taught Li Xiang step by step. "Even the army expanded too quickly before.
Perhaps your high-level control in the army is OK, and various welfare policies can also be supported by the lower levels, but lack reliable middle-level control. As time goes by and the temptation of interests, once a crisis occurs in the upper levels, it will definitely affect a large number of middle-level and lower-level."
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"Itchy, isn't it expanding like this too fast?" Even the fat man reminded Li Xiang privately.
Although Li Xiang became a king, Fatty was very familiar with his temper and personality. Fatty was also worried about whether he could control so many people. Everything changed too quickly, Fatty was worried that Li Xiang could not control the entire country, which led to turmoil and even turmoil. Only when he reached a high position can he experience the various threats around him.
The threats from Japanese and even Americans can be seen. But threats from other places are not easy to be discovered. As the intelligence leader Li Xiang trusted the most, after contacting a lot of news that shocked him, the fat man was more worried.
"Does our industry need so many workers and technicians?" Fat man asked for other reasons.
"Required!" Li Xiang said solemnly, "We may face greater threats in the future and cannot count on anyone. Although we do not need to build a complete industrial system as exaggerated, we need to build a series of complete industrial chains to avoid being controlled by others. This requires a lot of industries and a large number of personnel."
If you guard the entire earth's resources, it would be a waste if you do not use them. With equipment and technology, there is space on Taiping Island, and you can completely create a complete industrial system. However, because of the innate lack of the area of Taiping Island itself, some industries could not be established. In the end, Li Xiang could only build a relatively complete but self-reliant industrial system.
Especially in the military aspect, Li Xiang needs to have a cover-up.
"We can also buy various weapons from the international market without paying attention to others. But as we become more and more attracted to others' ideas, especially under the suppression of the United States, it will become more and more difficult to purchase weapons in the future. If we can produce, even if we can produce some weapons and ammunition, our backs will be harder.
The arms industry needs a series of industrial support, such as steel and other materials industries. Even when we build super cities, we need steel support. Even if we will not build on Taiping Island on a large scale, we can at least maintain our own application." Li Xiang continued.
Steel is the industrial bone of a country. Even though the area on Taiping Island is limited, Li Xiang still set up two steel plants.
A beach located outside the mountains around the island, the scale of the first phase of the three-year plan will reach 10 million tons after completion and production. It mainly uses imported iron ore to develop a series of complete production systems.
The Pacific Kingdom is located in the central area of the Pacific Ocean, closer to South American countries such as Brazil than Japan and China. Even if it is not far from Australia, the source of iron ore is guaranteed. The most important thing is that Li Xiang can use this to cover it and directly send a large amount of iron ore in the earth to the blast furnace in one step.
The minerals that humans detect when the earth still stay in the shallow layer of the earth's crust. Deeper mineral resources are also abandoned due to the cost of mining.
However, these problems such as mining costs are nothing to Li Xiang. The most important thing to consider from the space earth is the issue of spatial rules. For Li Xiang, the energy of superimposing ten thousand times of eternal solid is more troublesome than moving minerals from the depths of the earth to reality.
Moreover, after tens of thousands of times, a large iron ore of hundreds of millions of tons may have shrunk by ten thousand times, which is less than the transportation capacity of an iron ore ship. The iron ore basic reserves detected by humans on the entire earth are only 370 billion tons, and once it shrinks, it becomes an inconspicuous ordinary iron ore.
"You don't need to keep them forever!" Zhutou once mocked Li Xiang, "Oxidation will keep those steels disappearing. How many years can they be preserved? A thousand years later, even if most steel does not completely rust, no one will use these items again. Just superimpose a thousand times, and you will increase the resources you have ten times."
"But these steels will be constantly recycled. Once used in key locations, such tofu and slag steel may pose a fatal threat to future generations." Li Xiang always lacks a sense of security for those spatial materials that will slowly disappear.
"Are you sure that humans will still use such steel in a thousand years?" Zhutou said disdainful for Li Xiang's imagination, "Even if you will use such steel in the future, in the continuous recycling, will those ordinary steel be so fragile after slowly merging with these space items? A few chopsticks with a few chopsticks will not have much impact, and may not even be more harmful than rust."
"In fact, the iron ore reserves on the earth are not just the 370 billion tons, they are just iron ore with cost advantages and shallow crust. If the amount of iron elements in the depths of the earth's crust or even the mantle or core may be increased by hundreds of times." Although Li Xiang said this, he was already moved by the pig head.
Perhaps there are more mineral resources on the earth, but without exact target guidance and related coordinates, it is still very troublesome for Li Xiang to search the space of the earth.
The information being developed and explored on the earth gave Li Xiang the best guidance. The superposition of a thousand times can meet the needs of Taiping Kingdom, and even the superposition of a few hundred times can be further reduced.
Corrosion will return space products to nature, and Li Xiang can also obtain the most important starting point at the moment. Even after a thousand times shrinkage, Taiping Kingdom can fully utilize these iron ores for more than ten years, or even decades. By then, Taiping Kingdom will have long laid a solid foundation for its rise. Moreover, Taiping Kingdom can also continuously import iron ore.
While Li Xiang was constantly locking in the depths of the earth's underground, he also discovered some ore deposits that humans had not detected. There was no need to spend huge amounts of money to explore. Just a scan of Li Xiang's thoughts can determine which ones are worth developing, so that they can quickly enclose land in reality and will not be subject to this.
Moreover, the space is not only related to those ores, but also various finished products. Li Xiang is also planning to use those ready-made products. Some can be directly combined into real-life equipment and materials, while others can be directly recycled.
To this end, Li Xiang also built another steel plant, which is also close to the seaside, but half of it is embedded in the mountains around the island, with a construction scale of 8 million tons. It no longer imports iron ore, but directly imports crude steel and scrap steel.
The two steel mills have a common feature, which is that they will not produce crude steel with local advantages with thin profits, but use the material technology of various countries in the space to produce high-value-added alloy steel and conduct deep processing to make up for the shortcomings of China.
Borrowing the most advanced equipment in the space earth, the steel plant after completion does not cover a large area. There are not many related operators, but with a series of affiliated industries, the two steel plants also require nearly 10,000 people. If we include the entire metallurgical industry, and extend to the entire material industry, and then rise to the entire industrial system, even if Taiping Kingdom pursues more quality rather than quantity, the number of people will be needed.
Chapter completed!