Chapter 3583 Reasons for Struggle
The Han Dynasty cannot produce 400,000 tons of steel at present. To be precise, no country can produce it at present. Even in the next 1,700 years, countries that can produce such a large scale of steel at one time are extremely successful countries of the same era.
But Zhou Yu can really take out 400,000 tons of steel. Although it takes a certain amount of time, as long as Zhou Yu is willing, he will definitely take out so much within three years.
Zhou Yu has the technology of making steel in the country, and there are also technical personnel. From the beginning, the scale of iron ore was suppressed. The level of Zhongyuan iron ore was not worthy of being taken out. Coupled with the difficulty of mining and the cost of screening, Zhongyuan steel output has been limited.
But after seeing the kind of iron ore that is good at picking up and does not need to screen ore at all, Zhou Yu realized that world resources are really unbalanced.
However, imbalance is unbalanced. Now that Selian has been killed, Zhou Yu, who holds the Four Seas certificates, is qualified to manually balance this kind of thing.
Four hundred thousand tons of steel are a desperate scale for any force, but for Zhou Yu, it just requires hundreds of warships to transport back and forth several times.
As for smelting, there is no process of screening, and only the blast furnace is needed to be continuously built. The 400,000 tons of steel demand is just a constraint on manpower and time for Zhou Yu.
Defeated Selyan, and took everything from the Pacific.
He once knew that there was a huge open-pit iron ore in the south, but Zhou Yu could not see it and eat it. Now he has finally successfully deleted the blocker manually.
"Four...400,000 tons?" Lu Jun was so shocked that he didn't know what to say. It was thanks to Zhou Yu saying such words. If it were someone else, Lu Jun turned his head and left without looking at them.
"Well, 400,000 tons, I only need two ships. You can build and sell the others, or explain them to Chang'an." Zhou Yu said calmly, "As for the excess steel, it is considered as wages and technical expenses."
Lu Jun looked at Zhou Yu deeply. He knew that when Zhou Yu said this, he was definitely not joking, but the other party had really prepared so much steel, but 400,000 tons of steel, which was not joking.
However, Lu Jun has seen the world in the end. Gan Ning also brought back a lot of iron ore with the ship and blew through Australia's experience. As a brother who worships a man, Lu Jun naturally did not forget this. It was just that after several years, Lu Jun devoted himself to the shipbuilding and could not remember it.
"It's an Australian iron ore, right?" Lu Jun dug out the boast that Gan Ning gave him from the depths of his memory. Although Gan Ning's brags were too in line with Lu Jun's understanding of iron ore, Lu Jun did not listen carefully, he had a rough impression.
"Yes, once Selian died, there would be no obstacles in the entire channel. As for some pirates," Zhou Yu said with a sneer.
The Java Sea and the Sunda Islands south of Sumatra have been areas where pirates have been entrenched since ancient times due to the complex hydrological environment, numerous islands and reefs. But for Zhou Yu, I killed Selyan. Do you pirates dare to compete with me for food?
Try one finger and kill them all, and you will catch them in Australia and dig iron ore.
As for Australia's group of people and some ethnic kangaroos, it is even more of a problem for Zhou Yu, because Zhou Yu is free to kill these local marsupials in Australia. If he dares to make trouble while Zhou Yu is mining, Zhou Yu can let them ascend to heaven collectively.
"Iron ore mining over there is really as simple as Xingba said?" Lu Jun looked at Zhou Yu suspiciously and asked.
"It's probably simpler than what he told you." Zhou Yu said casually. Zhou Yu was ready to use the Wudang Legion to start mines, explode one by one, then load the ore with a cart, transport it to the cargo ship, and then transfer it to the Qingzhou Smelting Department.
As for the smelting costs, of course, it is made of ore. To be honest, Zhou Yu even wanted to use the funds invested by major families to lie iron ore. After all, iron ore is very valuable these days, and it is a real hard currency.
However, after thinking about it, Zhou Yu still felt that he should not do it so well. It took a year, various arrangements and calculations, and even many preparations, so Selian was killed by himself, and then Zhou Yu felt that the air was fresh.
There is no way, Selian lost and Ceyu was full. This is really not a joke. A lot of money is not enough to describe the scale of the profits that Zhou Yu has recovered at present.
Zhou Yu calculated the profit of five times or ten times, at least one hundred thousand times. Therefore, after fighting this battle, Zhou Yu felt that his life was complete and he didn't want to work hard.
Because there are too many, the number is beyond Zhou Yu's imagination. Compared with the territory that other families can obtain, just after cutting Salian to death, Zhou Yu estimated that he had already taken over the entire Central Plains.
This feeling of being too crazy made Zhou Yu look back on the past and suddenly feel that life is too boring. Think about it, he was born in the family of the Three Dukes, born with a good skin, both civil and military, and now he has created such a super territory before he was thirty years old.
To be honest, if you don’t mention Australia, just counting the large islands is millions of square kilometers, and this place is a place where you can farm. As for the problem of floods in the rainy season, the country’s water conservancy facilities cannot be solved by failing garbage. It can be replaced by a country like the Central Plains, which is impossible to deal with. As long as you want to do it, you will definitely be able to do it well.
Infrastructure and farming are the instincts of the people of the Central Plains since ancient times.
Zhou Yu now feels that the ban is really outrageous. I used to be very bitter and grudges, and racked my brains to think about how to kill Sellian. As a result, after killing Sellian some time ago, I suddenly realized that the benefits made me feel a little dizzy.
It’s a ghost to fight. After the battle of Ryukyu, Zhou Yu felt that he had reached the peak of his life. He had an island after struggle or not. In the case of Southeast Asia, his island was at least hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, and he felt like he was lost on the road of life in an instant.
What are you fighting for? What are you fighting for? The purpose of the struggle in the past was to go back and inherit the family of the Three Dukes and become an ordinary wealthy family. But now, the combined size of their whole family is not as good as Zhou Yu.
So much so that Zhou Yu even became confused. After all, the education of aristocratic families would not educate you what to do after suddenly doing a foundation of hundreds of times higher than your parents. In addition, Zhou Yu is not ready to fight in internal affairs, so he has no conflict with Chen Xi, and the direction is gone.
If someone else is here, I'm afraid I'll be confused for a long time, but Zhou Yu's amazing place is here. Since he has no goal, then think about what he once longed for.
The figure of the giant ship appeared in Zhou Yu's mind. Zhou Yu said that he needed such a warship that belonged entirely to him. The country belonged to the country and his own. Since he had such capital now, if he didn't say anything, he would give you ten times overflow, so he would give me two ships.
As for Kushan, Zhou Yu was no longer worried. After entering the Indian Ocean, victory or defeat was no longer so important to Zhou Yu, because every victory in the Indian Ocean was a blow to the fate of the Kushan country.
Even if you just spend it like this, you will use the most ordinary tactics to hold up the Kushan fleet, and then fight with the Kushan in the Indian Ocean. When time comes, the Kushan will be done.
In Zhou Yu's opinion, the best sword to Guan Yu's headquarters was given to him. He broke the Kushan blockade on the Indian Ocean, so that the Han army no longer worried about the coastal blockade and no longer worried about the opponent's sneak attacks from the sea. This is enough. He has already obtained too much, too much, and it is not appropriate to have more.
In fact, Zhou Yu even felt that he and Sun Ce's forces had taken too much. It was fine before he killed Selian. After killing Selian, the original ban on Qukou suddenly expanded to the point where the Yuan family could compete in the territory.
More importantly, although these places have disasters such as rainy season and floods, they have great advantages for agriculture as the locations of several major grain exporters in later generations.
Zhou Yu is not the kind of guy who doesn’t know how to farm. He does not know much about soil quality and fertility, but he also has these professional talents under his command.
Chen Xi’s greatest influence on science in this era is probably the division of disciplines and specializations. Although the division of disciplines and specializations were already demonstrated when Emperor Ling of Han started Hongdu Gate studies, Chen Xi subdivided it more in-depth.
Of course, the most important thing is that Chen Xi allows such professionals who have been subdivided to stop thinking about the basic aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation after reaching a certain level, and instead conduct more professional explorations. This is the meaning of subject specialization.
After all, the issue of eating is a big problem that has always been the big problem. The major families can make messy things during this period. To put it bluntly, it means eating and drinking enough. If you have free and rich, you can do things. If you can't even eat enough, who has time to do this?
Therefore, Zhou Yu got geological explorations on islands such as Sumatra, Luzon, Malay Islands, etc. in the morning. These places can be overwhelmed by the Jiangdong forces. As for the problem of no one now, when the land is not problematic, people can grow out quickly like grass.
Zhou Yu is only less than 30 years old now. After twenty years, his situation is still in his heyday, and his brain power will never decline at all. However, after twenty years of development, for Zhou Yu, it is enough to build a city that is no less than the capital of the Central Plains.
Chapter completed!