PFC Chapter 180 Rare Earth Minerals
Chapter 180 Rare Earth Minerals
Yan'an.
Zhao Tianyang was holding the design drawings of the Quanyanshan Hydropower Station and was about to go to the leader to ask for the remaining professionals when he was stopped by the guards at the door.
"I'm sorry, Minister Zhao, the leaders are in a meeting inside, so I may have to trouble you to wait for a while."
"alright."
Zhao Tianyang shrugged, took out a pack of Zhonghua cigarettes, took out two and handed them to the two guards: "Do you want to smoke?"
"Thank you, Minister Zhao!"
The two men took the cigarettes with a smile, put them carefully in their pockets and continued to stand guard seriously.
Seeing this, Zhao Tianyang said nothing. He took out a match, lit it, and took a deep breath: "Hu~~~"
With a "click", just after Zhao Tianyang finished smoking a cigarette, the door opened and two foreigners with high noses walked out.
The two men seemed very unhappy. They had a sullen face, glanced at Zhao Tianyang, and left.
"Minister Zhao is here!"
At this time, the elegant man came out and greeted him with a smile: "Come in, let's talk inside."
"Row."
Zhao Tianyang nodded and walked in with the drawings.
"Commander, who were those two people just now? Why do they look so unhappy?"
Hearing this, the elegant man thought about it and felt that Zhao Tianyang would be able to know the truth at his current level, so he began to preach.
"Those two are Soviets. They fought with the Japanese Kwantung Army at Nomonhan."
"This time, they came in the hope that we could launch an attack on the Japanese troops in the direction of Baotou, so as to assist them in attacking the Japanese troops from the side."
Zhao Tianyang didn't care about the conflict between the Soviet Union and the Kwantung Army, but he was very interested in Baotou.
"So we didn't agree?"
"Yes."
The elegant man said: "Our main task now is to deal with the battle between the Kuomintang, the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army, and the Japanese Army."
"We have to devote our energy to handling Xinjiang affairs, so we have no time to care about them."
"No!"
Zhao Tianyang shook his head repeatedly: "The Soviet Union has helped us a lot, we can't be ungrateful!"
"?"
The elegant man looked at Zhao Tianyang in surprise: "What do you mean?"
"Hey, I mean you have to pay more!"
Zhao Tianyang explained cunningly: "In this battle between the Soviet Union and the Japanese Kwantung Army, I think the Soviets will definitely win."
"By then, the Kwantung Army will be severely damaged, and we can take the opportunity to recapture Baotou."
"And when the Soviets signed an armistice agreement with the Japanese army, they included the Baotou area in the agreement, requiring the Japanese army not to attack and retake Baotou."
"By then, the Japanese army will be weak and with the Soviets taking the blame, we can completely take Baotou into our pockets!"
"What on earth is there in Baotou that makes you so concerned?"
"ore?"
The elegant man asked as he pushed open the door.
You know, since they occupied Ningxia, the problem that has been limiting their resources has been preliminarily solved.
There's no need to go to Baotou and provoke the Japanese army just for some ore?
"Does the chief know Ding Daoheng?"
Zhao Tianyang asked.
The elegant man thought for a moment and replied, "Are you talking about Ding Daoheng who published the "Report on the Baiyune Iron Mine in Suiyuan" in the "Geological Report"?
"The commander knows him?"
Zhao Tianyang was a little surprised.
"of course."
The elegant man smiled and said, "The so-called 'China-Sweden Northwest Scientific Expedition' came to our place before!"
"Since the chief knows, I won't keep you in suspense!"
Zhao Tianyang said with a little excitement: "The most important thing there is not the iron ore, but a magical rare earth ore."
"It can enable our steel technology to quickly catch up with the pace of foreign countries."
"real or fake?"
The elegant man was a little skeptical. He was considered to be well-educated, but he had never heard of any mineral that was so powerful.
"I can guarantee it with my life."
Zhao Tianyang pointed at his head and said seriously.
"this....."
Looking at the serious Zhao Tianyang, the elegant man put away his contemptuous thoughts.
"How about this, I'll discuss what you said with the other leaders and try to give you an answer within three days."
"Row."
Zhao Tianyang had no objection. This matter was not a trivial matter.
Then Zhao Tianyang handed the blueprint to the elegant man, talked about the hydropower station, and got up and left.
...............
The next day, Zhao Tianyang dispatched a tractor and took several experts to Quanyan Mountain.
At this time, a large area of land had been cleared and rows of shacks had been built.
"Here, here, everything needs to be cleaned up."
Zhao Tianyang brought his men and found Zhou Shifu who was busy.
"What are you busy with, Vice Minister Zhou?"
"The Minister is here!"
Zhou Shifu pointed to the empty space and explained, "I plan to have them build a warehouse to store cement, steel bars and other building materials."
"Ah."
Zhao Tianyang nodded, pulled a few people around him over, and introduced them one by one.
"Let me introduce them to you. These are the experts the commander found for us."
"Mechanical technician Zhou Liang, technical cadre Liang Ying, water conservancy expert Lu Chengming, power expert Zhang Zilin."
"They will be the first batch of employees of the Water Conservancy Engineering Department in the future."
"Hello, the conditions here are a bit simple, please bear with me in the future."
Zhou Shifu looked at these people enthusiastically.
Finally someone came. These days he had to do everything by himself and was so busy that he didn't even have time to rest.
"Hello, Vice Minister Zhou."
The four of them greeted each other shyly.
"They are all young people, please take better care of them."
Zhao Tianyang glanced at the sky and said to Zhou Shifu, "Then I'll leave this place to you. If you have any problems, just ask someone to come to me."
After saying that, he got on the tractor and left.
"Hey...."
Looking at Zhao Tianyang who was running very fast, Zhou Shifu was a little speechless. Who on earth is the Minister of the Ministry of Water Conservancy Engineering?
Engine factory.
"How is it? Is it difficult to assemble it?"
Looking at the airship in front of him with its skeleton already built, Zhao Tianyang asked Yu Xiaping who had just been transferred over.
"No."
Yu Xiaping shook his head: "It's much easier than making a transport plane."
As mentioned earlier, Zhao Tianyang, Liu Ding and others designed a large airship.
However, due to reasons such as immature conditions, there has been no chance to manufacture it.
Now that the Soviets had sent over aluminum ore and rubber, Zhao Tianyang modified the drawings and redesigned a small airship to transport goods in Ningxia.
“Are rubber and aluminum alloys enough?”
Zhao Tianyang continued to ask.
"It's enough, but there are not enough workers."
Yu Xiaping said with embarrassment: "The employees of this engine factory were transferred here from Huangyadong."
"Now we have to manufacture engines, transport aircraft, and delta-wing gliders."
"As a result, there is an additional job of manufacturing airships, and I really can't split the manpower."
"Ah this..."
Zhao Tianyang scratched his head awkwardly. This means that the engine factory is indeed the busiest factory.
"Well, you hold on for a while. I'm building an aircraft factory and an airship factory."
"Put the transport planes, gliders and airships in these two factories. From now on, the engine factory will specialize in the production and development of engines."
"That's great."
Yu Xiaping said happily.
God knows how he got through these few months.
He was the director of an engine factory, but in the end, he did more work than all the other factory directors in Huangyadong combined.
Some of my hair has turned white.