What Xu Rui said is correct. The good times have indeed just begun, both for Xu Rui personally and for the Chahar Independent Group as a group.
Baotou and even Suiyuan as a whole have suffered a once-in-a-century snowstorm. This is indeed very unfortunate, but if handled properly, bad things can turn into good things. It is precisely because of the heavy snowstorm that hundreds of thousands of people in Baotou have no food and clothing.
Therefore, the Chahar Independent Group lost no time in launching a work-for-relief program at this time.
As long as you work on the construction site in the industrial zone, you can have food to eat, but there is no wages.
In good times, the people would definitely not be willing to do this, but now that they can't even eat, they can't take care of so much. They need to feed the whole family first and then talk about other things! So except for a few who still have surplus food, the remaining two
More than 100,000 people poured into the construction site of the industrial zone.
Before this, the construction of the industrial zone had stalled because wages could not be paid, but now more than 200,000 free laborers have poured in. Not only has the infrastructure of the industrial zone been restored, but the speed has also been greatly accelerated. Compared with before,
In comparison, it can be said to be extremely fast.
Standing high in the center of the construction site, Wang Husheng was quite high-spirited.
Pointing to the busy construction sites around him, Wang Husheng said: "Old Xu, at this rate, if all kinds of building materials such as wood and cement can be received in time, the industrial zone can be completed in at most two months, and the budget is more than
I saved a big chunk before, which is really unexpected.”
After a pause, Wang Husheng said cheerfully: "I won't hide it from you. When the situation was the most difficult, I even thought that the Baotou Industrial Zone had gone bankrupt, but I didn't expect that it would turn around."
Xu Rui said: "So, crisis, crisis, crisis often means a turning point."
Wang Husheng said sincerely: "I must admit that what our ancestors said makes sense."
Xu Rui said: "The words of our ancestors were summed up with blood and tears. How could it be unreasonable? Only those beasts who are short-sighted and forget their ancestors will despise their ancestors."
Wang Husheng nodded and said: "But Lao Xu, with so many more laborers in the industrial zone, the construction progress has indeed been greatly accelerated, but there are also hidden worries, that is, confidentiality work is not easy to do, and there are many people, so it is difficult to talk.
It would be very difficult for more than 200,000 people to keep silent, so the little devil would have known the specific location of the Hui Industrial Zone."
"You don't have to worry about this." Xu Rui said, "Things are different now. The wealth of our Chahar Independent Group is completely different from what it used to be. So what if the little devil knows the location of the industrial zone? Because the devil's
Bombers simply can’t invade Baotou’s airspace!”
Xu Rui can indeed afford to speak hard words now.
Because Zhukov just sent a telegram, the 100 Il-Fifteen fighter jets that the Soviet government assisted the Chahar Independence Regiment, driven by 100 pilots who aided China, have all been transferred to Cullen Airport and filled up at Cullen Airport.
After refueling, these one hundred fighter jets will fly directly to Baotou.
Then, the fighters of this regiment will be integrated into the Chahar Independent Regiment.
With this regiment of Il-Fifteen fighter jets, they are not powerful enough to compete with the North China Front Army's Third Flight Regiment, but they are more than enough to protect Baotou's airspace. After all, whether the Little Devil's fighter jets fly from Baotou or from Baotou,
To get to Zhangjiakou Airport, you need to fly at least more than 300 kilometers.
Three hundred kilometers one way and six hundred kilometers round trip.
The total range of the Japanese fighter jets is more than a thousand kilometers.
In other words, if the Little Japanese fighter jets invade Baotou, less than half of their fuel can be used for air combat, which greatly limits combat effectiveness. What's more, the Baotou Industrial Zone is not completely undefended, and there are a large number of anti-aircraft machine guns.
, so now Xu Rui is not afraid of Japanese air force bombing at all.
It's fine if the Japanese bombers don't come. If they dare to come, they'll die.
While the two were talking, Wang Husheng's guard suddenly ran over panting and shouted loudly: "Political Commissar, the refinery is about to start trial production. Soviet experts have asked you to come over and witness the production of the first barrel of diesel."
"Oh, really?" Wang Husheng perked up after hearing this. The refinery was actually the first to be built.
At that moment, Wang Husheng turned to Xu Rui and said: "Old Xu, it's better to come early than to come by chance. Let's take a look together?"
"Aren't you talking nonsense?" Xu Rui said in amusement, "The refinery has been put into trial production, can I not go?"
The two of them hurried straight to the refinery, which is located at the northernmost end of the entire industrial zone.
From the very beginning, Zhukov agreed to cooperate with Xu Rui in the hope of building a refinery in Baotou to transport gasoline and diesel from Baotou to the Far East battlefield and relieve the transportation pressure on the Trans-Siberian Railway. Therefore, the Soviet Union
A great deal of effort was invested in the construction of the refinery.
The construction of the refinery was not only the first to start, but also the Soviet Union's most enthusiastic one.
For this purpose, Zhukov even specially transferred a Soviet engineering team from Irkutsk.
Frankly speaking, the Soviet engineering team was responsible for the construction of the refinery from beginning to end.
Even when the construction of the industrial zone came to a standstill due to lack of funds, the construction of the refinery did not stop. Instead, construction was continued with funds advanced by the Soviet Union, so the refinery could precede arsenals, power plants, steel plants, and
It is not surprising at all that factories such as fur factories have been built and put into trial production.
Because when the industrial zone was first constructed, the Chahar Independent Regiment did not have an air force. For safety reasons, the production workshop of the refinery was hidden deep under the ground, and a layer of concrete was poured between it and the ground for special reinforcement.
, especially the fractionation tower, which is the core production equipment, is poured with multiple layers of concrete.
Because the power plant had not been completed and the elevators in the refinery were not yet operational, Wang Husheng and Xu Rui could only take the stairs, spiraling down one level at a time, going around more than twenty times, and going down to the ground for at least fifty
After several meters, I finally entered a huge underground space, and then I looked up and saw a huge fractionating tower standing there.
Seeing this huge space and the huge fractionating tower standing there, even Xu Rui couldn't help but be speechless. Even in the 21st century, such an underground project would not be possible casually. Without large-scale projects,
In this age of machinery, it is even more difficult, which is enough to show that the Soviet Union's engineering infrastructure capabilities are already very strong.
Of course, this is also related to the unique soil environment of the Mongolian Plateau. Although the Mongolian Plateau is not an alluvial soil zone like the Loess Plateau, the soil layer is also very thick. It is relatively easy to dig underground space. If this is replaced by the permeable soil zone along the coast of China,
, the difficulty of the project will increase as time goes by!
Seeing Xu Rui and Wang Husheng arriving hand in hand, the Soviet experts present immediately came forward to greet them.
Wang Husheng quickly introduced Xu Rui to the Soviet experts present. Xu Rui shook hands with these experts one by one. He was really ashamed to say that as the leader of the Chahar Independent Group, he was the de facto head of Baotou.
, it has been nearly half a year since the construction of the industrial zone began, and this was the first time he met with experts.
As Xu Rui's full-time translator, Diana has been translating on the side.
Diana looked a little haggard, even a little distracted, and was translated incorrectly several times.
Xu Rui knew why Diana was like this, but what could he do? He could only pretend not to know.
After a few brief exchanges of greetings, Wang Husheng and Xu Rui, led by a group of Soviet experts, went up the spiral staircases one after another to an oil outlet on the upper level of the fractionation tower.
In fact, before Xu Rui and the others arrived, the fractionating tower had already started igniting and running.
So after Xu Rui and the Soviet experts went up to the oil outlet, and then the Soviet experts opened the oil pipe valve, a light yellow liquid column immediately flowed out slowly from the pipe mouth and flowed into the oil placed below the pipe mouth.
In the barrel and in the air, a pungent smell immediately filled the air, the authentic smell of diesel!
As soon as he saw the color and smelled the smell, Xu Rui knew that the quality of diesel was very good!
A Soviet expert bent down and scooped a small cup of diesel from the oil drum, and then ignited it very carefully. The small cup of diesel immediately burst into flames, bursting into an orange flame. The Soviet experts present
They all applauded, and Wang Husheng couldn't help but clap along, and even shed tears.
Xu Rui was not as excited as Wang Husheng because he could not understand Wang Husheng's mood.
People who were not born in this era are completely unable to understand Wang Husheng's mood at this moment.
In modern China, there was almost no heavy industry. Except for the Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant, which could barely be regarded as heavy industry, there was nothing else. However, even the Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant, a lone seedling, was crippled by the Kuomintang after entering the Republic of China.
The 1900s was the so-called golden decade boasted by Chinese fans. China's heavy industry was not even as good as that of the late Qing Dynasty.
At that time, almost all industrial products sold in China had the word "foreign" in front of them, such as "match", "foreign oil", "foreign cars" and even "foreign nails". But now, Baotou Industrial Zone has finally produced the first drop of domestically produced diesel.
As a Chinese, and as the political commissar of the Chahar Independent Regiment, how could Wang Husheng not be excited?
Several Soviet experts came over and said to Xu Rui and Wang Husheng: "Davari, the refinery has been successfully trial-produced and our task has been successfully completed. The standard annual refining capacity of this set of refining equipment is 50,000.
tons, if operated at full capacity, the annual refining capacity can reach up to 80,000 tons. The next step is up to you, Chinese comrades."
After listening to the translation, Wang Husheng immediately said: "Davarisi, don't worry, we have set up a huge camel and horse transportation team, and the Baotou Refinery will be operating at full capacity soon."
