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Merging the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region with the original Mongolia to form the largest provincial administrative region in China, Mo Nan Province. Developing Mo Nan was an urgent matter.
Mongolia used to have an area of 1,566,500 square kilometers, and all the rare minerals in the world could be found here. Most of the minerals in the depths of Mongolia were still undeveloped, and the future was bright. The mineral resources here were rich, and there were more than 80 types and more than 3,000 mines. The main ones were copper, iron, coal, manganese, chromium, tungsten, molybdenum, aluminum, lead, zinc, mercury, bismuth, tin, placer gold, rock gold, phosphate, fluorite, asbestos, graphite, mica, crystal, emerald, purple crystal, turquoise, petroleum, oil shale, etc. Most of them had yet to be developed.
Most of the minerals were of high quality, and the iron ore grade could reach 50% to 60%, while the international average was only 20% to 30%. China Jiuquan Steel Company's coal in Mongolia had an average calorific value of 8,200cal, and in China, 5,000cal was considered good coal.
Mo Nan Province also had rich mineral resources. Other than iron and coal, copper, gold, lead, and zinc reserves were also rich, and it could be said to be sitting on a "gold pile". The gold reserves had already been found to be 3,400 tons.
In the development of Mongolia's mineral resources, Russia played the most important role. For example, the Mongolian-Russian joint venture copper mine, Erdent Copper Mine, was built in 1978, and it was a joint venture between Mongolia and Russia. Its annual ore processing capacity was 25 million tons, and it produced 450,000 tons of copper powder and 4,000 tons of molybdenum powder. Its export earnings accounted for 1/3 of Mongolia's total export earnings.
China Non-Ferrous Metals Company was the one that blew the horn. After the 2024 Chinese New Year, a few companies that were previously in production returned to normal. This time, China did not contract out to the whole world. Instead, they prepared to mine all the raw materials themselves. They had the manpower, the equipment, and the backing of the Longshan Bank. They found out from the development of Nanding steel products in Shin Myung Province. Instead of selling the cheapest raw materials, it was better to make them the most sought-after items and sell them for money.
During the Lunar New Year, the honest Wang Xian told his father-in-law, Liu Dehou, "Although the secret of Nanding Steel cannot be revealed, the management philosophy of Shin Myung Province can be shared. The Metallurgical Department of Shin Myung Province intends to build a smelting plant in Mo Nan to refine the steel here into the same material as Nanding Steel, or even better than Nanding Steel. This material is not going to be exported. Instead, it is going to be supplied to a few major manufacturers in China and Shin Myung Province to produce standard parts and wear parts that are needed all over the world. In 2023, Shin Myung Province's financial harvest was huge, and Nanding Steel played an important role." Due to the lack of raw materials in Shin Myung Province, they could not expand the production. If they moved the production base to Mo Nan, they could expand the production and fully supply the market.
In April 2024, the laboratory director of Nanding Steel Plant, Gao Jianling, led a team of soldiers to Mo Nan. The Mo Nan Special Steel Smelting Plant was fully invested by the Longshan Bank.
Ten million mining workers from all walks of life marched into Mo Nan. Following them were highways and freight railways. Mo Nan had become a huge factory. Every day, the sky was filled with sand and dust, and it was suffocating.
In the past few months, Li Yuanzhi hadn't been idle. After throwing out a Longwei 22 missile, he let the Russians know that they weren't the only ones with missiles. Others also had missiles. The Russians no longer dared to throw bombs at the North Sea Republic's territory. The story of the 30 homeless men spread around the world. In the ice and snow, Li Yuanzhi dug out all the remaining Russians in Tulun, Bratsk, Ust-Kut, and Ust-Ilimsk in Irkutsk. He killed them all. Then, he announced that the entire Irkutsk belonged to the North Sea Republic. He really fulfilled his previous promise of turning Lake Baikal into his own internal lake.
The problem was that there were too few people! There were less than three hundred thousand people in Chita, and there were no more than two hundred and fifty thousand people in Buryat, including the nomads in the mountains. Irkutsk had a large population of about three million, but more than six hundred thousand people had been killed in Irkutsk. Then, more than a million people had fled to Europe. After that, another five hundred to six hundred thousand people were killed. Now, there were no more than five hundred thousand people alive.
Irkutsk was 760,000 square kilometers, Chita was 430,000 square kilometers, and Buryat was 350,000 square kilometers. In total, there were only a million people. It was indeed a little small. Li Yuanzhi felt that in terms of land, he was a king, but in terms of population, he was just a county magistrate.
Did they move some people from Japan to Japan? He asked Chen Weizheng, and Chen Weizheng said that he would go as long as he was asked. Now, it was not decided whether to move them or not. He asked Ren Sui to ask if Taiwan was too crowded and if they wanted to move some people.
The Taiwanese were really a part of China, and they were not willing to go. Ma Zhishan also asked Ren Sui if Shin Myung Province could take MLL Island. If MLL Island was taken, they would consider sending some people over. As for Mobei, forget about it!
The Taiwanese did not want to go, and the Chinese even felt that Mobei was too far away, let alone Mobei. As for the Japanese, they were really worried. After a few decades, the scattered Japanese would gather together and form an unstoppable force. It would be too late to regret.
Xiao Yu told Li Yuanzhi that now was not the time to build. No matter how many people there were, just focus on nibbling away at them. The next stop was Tang Nuwu Lianghai, which was also the Republic of Tuva.
Moscow's Red Square was bombed beyond recognition by a missile. All the Muscovites were crying, and more people blamed the government. They should not have fought a missile war with the North Sea bandits. You fired a missile, and 30 people died. They fired a missile, and although not many people died, all the precious products and cultural relics were destroyed.
More Russians felt that the other side only had 10,000 people, and the total population of the entire region was only about a million people. If they sent the army over and fought a conventional war, the chances of winning would be much higher. If they were still worried that the other side would cut open their tents and freeze to death, then it was not too late to go over when the weather was hot.
The Russians were ashamed that their army did not dare to fight the Siberian bandits. They felt that since the army was using the taxpayers' money, they should fight for the taxpayers. In peacetime, you can't be a soldier and receive rewards, but when the war starts, you can't hide.
Just when the Russians were arguing, another disaster happened in the Gulf.
On April 5, 2024, the Qingming Festival, a large oil tanker from the United States, the Consus, was carrying 350,000 tons of crude oil through the Strait of Hormuz. Suddenly, it was hit by a missile from Iran. The left side of the Consus was hit, and oil leaked out. The Consus escaped in a sorry state. When it was about to leave the Strait of Hormuz and dock at Suhar in Oman, it capsized and sank.
After inspection, the missile that hit the Consus was a China made Qinglong 18 missile. This batch of missiles was purchased by Iran from China in October 2022 and was equipped with the Revolutionary Guards. The missile belonged to a "Hudong" class missile speedboat of the Maritime Guards. When the missile was fired, the speedboat was on vacation and docked at Bandar Abbas.
According to the Iranians, when the missile was fired, there was no one on the speedboat, and the guards were patrolling below the speedboat. The Americans did not believe the excuses of the Iranians. Could it be that all the actions against the Americans in the world were supernatural events? Even if the Statue of Liberty yearned for freedom and jumped up to smash the CIA, it was impossible that Iran's Qinglong 18 missile would also shoot at the American oil tanker. They hoped that the Iranians could give them a more reasonable reason. Otherwise, Iran would be the target of the Americans' retaliation.
The Iranians were wronged. The missile was not fired by him. It was difficult to find another person who could sneak into the speedboat and fire a missile without anyone noticing, other than Chen Weizheng. Maybe there was, but no one was as boring as him.
When the Americans drove the Seventh Fleet out of Yokosuka, Japan, to pay the toll of the Isthmus of Kala in Shin Myung Province, Chen Weizheng smiled. They did not go through Singapore, the supply base of the Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific, but directly through the Isthmus of Kala in Shin Myung Province. It could be seen how desperate the Americans were. The flames of war in the Gulf were about to ignite.
Although Tang Wei did not know how the missile was fired, he knew that it was done by Chen Weizheng. He could not be wrong. This brother-in-law of his dared to do things that no one else in the world dared to do.
Tang Wei gathered a group of people in the military and had a meeting to discuss what the Americans would do next. The people who attended the meeting were Wu Ke, Wu Tisa, Luo Zhanghong, Zheng Jianyi, Chen Weixin, Shen Zhong, Yan Jun, He Jie, Shi Xiong, Luo Luo, Han Chuangguo, and Liu Songzhao.
As soon as they entered the room, they heard Luo Luo's laughter. "The Iranian missile actually misfired! Commander Wei Xin, your Second Artillery can't do such a thing, right? "
"Only you would believe such nonsense!" Chen Weixin said, "Do you know how many procedures are needed to fire a missile? Misfire! It's hard to even misfire! "
"So it was done on purpose?" Luo Luo said.
"I don't know. Maybe the Iranians are crazy!" Xiao Song took over the conversation. "China's Qinglong 18 is a full size bigger than our Qinglong 22. Its attack power and attack range are more than double. I've never seen the Qinglong 18 in actual combat, but I've seen it this time. It made a big hole in the side of a large oil tanker and it didn't explode. It probably used a solid bullet. "He did not have many good things to say about the domestic military.
"That's not bad!" The one who spoke was Zheng Jianyi. "Although the Qinglong 18's warhead is a bit bigger, its diameter is only 100 millimeters. To be able to make a hole of about one meter in diameter on such a thick steel plate is already very impressive." The Qinglong 18 was a product developed by Zheng Jianyi when he was in power. He had the right to speak about this product and was a little protective of it.
"It doesn't matter if it's a one-meter hole or a three-meter hole. In any case, it overturned a ten-thousand-ton ship." Wu Tisa said, "A hundred-thousand-ton ship can't even handle a small cannon that's only a dozen kilograms. Jianyi, you guys are still the best!"
Zheng Jianyi smiled and said, "An adult that's more than a hundred kilograms can't handle a stone bullet that's only a few grams. It's the same principle."
"Yes, as long as the location is right, a bullet or a cannon can start a war and cause a change," Luo Zhanghong said.
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