From Propulsion City To Multiverse

Wang Zhong took 200 marines and used rifles to probation three small tribes nearby.

When more than a thousand aborigines were relocated to Dingnan Port, Song Lu had already built a wooden stockade with nearby trees.

Chang Guyu, who had completed the construction of the telegraph room, looked at the aborigines who were naked or suddenly had some physical defects, and quickly asked the Gaoshan people who accompanied the army to communicate with these people.

Wang Zhong shook his head and said, "These three tribes are still relatively more civilized tribes. Three days ago, I met a headhunting tribe, and I annihilated them directly."

Chang Guyu has no doubts about this. The so-called headhunting tribe is actually a cannibal, and there is no need for assimilation of this tribe.

The consequence of eating the same kind for a long time is that they are prone to prions, and the tribe is usually very savage.

Two days later, Chang Guyu got a document showing the household registration and physical census of the three small tribes.

"It's not optimistic. 17.6% of the aborigines have genetic diseases, and 26.4% may be carriers of genetic diseases. These must be isolated."

Wang Zhong, who is training the aborigines, quickly divided the population of the three tribes into three parts according to the survey report, namely freedom, restriction and isolation, which represent the management level of their marriage.

With the addition of this batch of labor, the construction progress of the fleet is much faster.

At the same time, they also discovered several gold-copper complex mines in the mountains near the south side of the port, which are the characteristics of copper mines in the Luzon Islands.

In fact, the characteristics of the mines in the Luzon Islands are similar to those of the Eastern Ying Islands and the Nanyang Islands, because these areas are all located in the Pacific Rim volcanic seismic belt, which is a typical cause of plate extrusion.

Minerals such as gold, silver and copper are easily formed under such geological conditions. .

Wang Zhong led people to explore and found that this was an intermittent bornite vein, and there were a total of 6 mineable points in the part exposed to the ground.

In this relatively primitive area, the ore veins that are generally discovered are open-pit or semi-open-pit mines, because they have not been developed on a large scale.

In the Central Plains, open-pit rich mines have already been mined, which naturally gives the illusion that there are no copper-rich mines in the Central Plains.

Wang Zhong preliminarily estimated that the reserves of this gold and copper mine can probably smelt 2,000 to 3,000 tons of copper and 3 to 5 tons of gold.

Since it is an open-pit mine, mining is not difficult.

However, Wang Zhong, Lin Sandao and others have no idea of ​​mining. Although the industrial value of copper is not small, the gold-silver-copper composite ore in Keelung is currently enough for the industrial consumption of the People's Revolutionary Alliance, and it can only be used as a reserve here.

In fact, compared with gold, silver and copper, the People's Revolutionary Federation lacks tin ore.

This is also one of the tasks of the Liuqiu Squadron, which is to complete the development of the Malay Peninsula in the next few years.

Because the Malay Peninsula is the core production area of ​​tin mines in Southeast Asia, there are a series of tin mines on both the east coast and the west coast.

The tin mines in this area are actually part of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau-Indochina Peninsula-Malay Peninsula-Nanyang Islands Great Tin Belt, which is a series of ore veins.

Among them, the tin mines in the Malay Peninsula and the Nanyang Islands are the easiest to mine, because many mining areas are located by the sea, and there are many rich mines that can be mined in open pits.

Tin is very important to the metallurgical industry, especially in the manufacture of copper alloys.

The possession of copper and tin mines is also a unique innate condition in East Asia. The bronze smelting process of Xia, Shang and Zhou is closely related to the mineral resources of East Asia.

In other so-called ancient civilizations, there were no open-pit tin mines and rich mines near ancient Egypt and ancient Greece. This is a very "weird" situation.

The vast majority of the earth's tin mines are distributed in East Asia, Southeast Asia, Central America and South America.

There are several small mines in Western Europe, but none of them are open pit mines.

From the materialist view of history, for an ancient civilization to develop bronze smelting technology, it must have some preconditions.

Including the surrounding areas, there must be open-air rich mines, copper mines and tin mines are both indispensable; relatively mature pottery making technology, because pottery making must have kilns above 700 degrees Celsius, and copper smelting must have kilns above 800 degrees Celsius. Furnace, preferably can reach 1000 degrees Celsius.

However, in the Mediterranean region, except for some small open-pit tin mines in the Asian peninsula, the tin mines in other regions are poor ore buried deep underground.

This is a very "weird" contradiction. There is no open-pit bonanza, and there is "developed bronze technology". Could it be that in the ancient Greek era, all tin mines were imported from the Asian Peninsula?

As an Asian who has mastered bronze smelting technology, and is a hostile force with the Greek city-state, anyone with a little IQ will not allow such strategic materials to be exported to hostile forces on a large scale.

The Central Plains Dynasty is a living example. In order to maintain its advantage over the northern grasslands, copper and iron are strictly controlled strategic materials and will not be easily sold to the northern grasslands.

It is basically impossible to import tin ore, and there are no minerals in itself. Is it possible to conjure a large number of bronzes out of thin air?

In fact, East Asia is the birthplace of bronze smelting technology in the world, and West Asia should have obtained bronze technology from the Huns and Da Yuezhi.

After all, tin deposits in Asia are concentrated in East Asia and Southeast Asia, and the American tin ore belt was only discovered after the 16th century.

How did ancient Greece and ancient Egypt without tin mines and ancient Babylon with only a few open pit tin mines develop bronze smelting technology?

Some people may retort, how do you know that there were no tin mines in the ancient Mediterranean? What if the open-pit mines in the area were exhausted by the ancient Greeks?

Anyone with a certain knowledge of geology and minerals knows that mineral veins rarely have isolated events, but are generally a series of veins.

However, the ancient mining technology was not developed, so that only part of the open-pit rich ore could be mined, the underground ore veins, and the surface poor ore, which were difficult to be fully developed.

If a place has mined minerals in ancient times, there is a 99.99% chance that there are residual undeveloped veins around the mine.

For example, today's Daye is one of the ancient iron ore mining sites, and there is still mining.

Many ancient mines that were thought to be exhausted will be re-explored and mined due to the improvement of modern technology.

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If there are traces of tin mines along the ancient Mediterranean coast, they will now be re-explored and exploited, not at all.

Just like the gold-copper complex ore discovered by Wang Zhong on the Big Island of Luzon, it is still being mined in modern times.

When a lot of things are taken seriously, you will find that there are many loopholes. Zheng Sen and others have always regarded the historical data of the modern West as myths and legends.

After all, the "historical achievements" of a group of liberal arts students are simply unbearable for engineering students to look at.

In addition, it is difficult for Western historians to develop across disciplines, because their language has a fatal flaw. In order to adapt to the development of science, they have to create a large number of new terms, which are often only learned by professionals in this field.

This is why the official language of the People's Revolutionary Federation will be Chinese.

At least Chinese can even be guessed, and things written in Western alphabets, let alone guessed, even if you compare the translation with a dictionary, it may be difficult to understand the meaning of those professional terms.

Zheng Sen came out in the pirate universe. Why is the text of the historical text so few people can understand? Not because of the natural shortcomings of this alphabet.

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The latest report from the Luzon Islands was reported back to Yangzhou City as the temporary capital through telegrams.

Zheng Sen marked the Luzon Islands as "Luzon State" and became the eighth state of the People's Revolutionary Federation. The immigration work in this state is best carried out in winter, just in time to take advantage of the northwest wind to quickly travel south from the mouth of the Yangtze River.

At the same time, it also received a work report from Guangzhou.

Under the management of Song Zhi, Guangnan Prefecture has begun to return to normal, and the importance of Guangnan Prefecture is even higher than that of Lingnan Prefecture.

Because Guangzhou has the Yuanjiang Delta Plain, an agricultural area, as well as coal and iron mines.

Tang Feilin has already traveled to the Jiaozhi House in Guangnan Prefecture to prepare for the establishment of the Jiaozhi Industrial Zone.

In the territory of Jiaozhi Prefecture, the Yuanjiang River flows down from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the northwest and alluvializes to form the vast Yuanjiang delta plain, which is an agricultural area very suitable for growing rice and tropical crops.

At the same time, in Jiaozhi Prefecture, on the north side of the estuary of the Yuanjiang Delta, there is a large area of ​​high-quality anthracite coal. This is the famous Quang Ninh-Hongji coal field, with a total reserves of about 3 billion tons, of which 200 million tons can be mined open-pit.

Anthracite is a high-quality thermal coal and is the best fuel for steam engines and thermal power plants.

In addition, there are two iron ore mines in Huanglian Mountain in the middle reaches of Yuanjiang River, one of which has a reserve of about 112 million tons and can be mined in open pit with a grade of about 56-57%.

In Rinanfu, the southernmost part of Guangzhou, there is also a large iron ore with a reserve of 660 million tons, which can be mined open-pit at about 300 million tons, with an average grade of about 58%.

If you add Qiongzhou Island in Lingnan Prefecture, there is also a Shilu iron ore with a reserve of 466 million tons, but the average grade is only 48%; another Tiandu iron ore is only about 5 million tons, but this mine is by the sea, and It is an open pit mine, and the grade is as high as 63%.

Compared with the pyrite with an average grade of 13-18% in Liuqiuzhou, Danshui Steel Plant could not wait to move to Jiaozhifu immediately.

After all, the difference in mineral grades is too large, which will not only cause production costs to rise, but also affect production efficiency.

Similarly, smelting one ton of iron ore requires 1.8 tons of coke.

The pyrite produced by Liuqiu can only produce 130-180 kg of iron, while Yutian Sole Mine can produce 630 kg of iron, Shilu Mine is 480 kg, Jiaozhi Mine is 570-580 kg, and Rinan Mine is 580 kg.

This is the difference, the production efficiency and energy utilization, resulting in a gap of several times.

Therefore, Zheng Sen asked Tang Feilin to go south, preparing to build the Jiaozhi Industrial Zone, a steel plant with an annual output of 50,000 tons, a coking plant with an annual output of 100,000 tons of coke, and a cement plant with an annual output of 100,000 tons of cement.

Anthracite coal was also mined to supply the ever-increasing steam engines.

Of course, Zheng Sen is also rapidly preparing for industrial zones and mining in the newly controlled Jiaodong Prefecture in the north.

There are three coal mining areas in Jiaodong Prefecture, namely Beihai Coal Mine in Beihai Prefecture, Longkou Coal Mine in Donglai Prefecture, and Lanling Coal Mine in Langya Prefecture.

These coal mines can be initially developed to supply thermal coal, fuel coal, coking coal and chemical coal to the northern states of the People's Revolutionary League.

As for the iron ore in Jiaodong, there is no rich ore, and the mining cost is too high. It is better to transport high-grade iron ore from Guangnan and Lingnan.

Zheng Sen sent a telegram to Longsha in Liuqiu Prefecture, asking her to prepare to go north to preside over the industrial layout of Jiaodong Prefecture.

After all, the demand for coal by the People's Revolutionary Federation is rising steadily.

As of September 3 of the new calendar year, there are Keelung Coking Plants with an annual output of 150,000 tons of coke, and freshwater thermal power plants with an annual consumption of about 8,000 tons of coal.

There are 18 Roaring-class steamships and 14 inland tugboats~www.readwn.com~ various steam engines put into use, a total of 87 sets.

By the end of the year, this figure may have to increase by another 50%.

And in order to break through the problem of blocked rivers in various places, Zheng Sen is going to launch several steam excavators to quickly clean up the shipwrecks and rocks in the river.

With the arrival of September, the autumn harvest in the territory is also rapidly unfolding. It is estimated that the autumn harvest can harvest 4.1-4.2 million tons of paddy.

As for the early rice in summer, Strategic Grain Company has acquired 1.32 million tons of inventory.

Such a huge grain stockpile is the basis for the People's Revolutionary Federation to continuously increase the scale of its troops. At present, the standing force of the People's Revolutionary Federation has reached 260,000, which has almost doubled.

So many troops are to complete the liberation of the Jiangnan and Huaihe fronts before the end of the year.

The People's Revolutionary Alliance is making every effort to prepare, while other princes are also uniting vertically and horizontally.

It's just that the initiative in the war has already been joined by the Human Revolution, and Zheng Sen has the strength to sweep Jiangnan.