stonecrandall Chapter 1069
Chapter 1069
After Zhaohe Tianhuang made the decision, he raised his hand to signal everyone to stop arguing.
Everyone present immediately quieted down and looked at their Tianhuang, waiting for Zhaohe Tianhuang’s statement.
Everyone knew that Zhaohe Tianhuang’s next words would likely have a profound impact on the foot basin and even the world, so everyone pricked up their ears and listened attentively, fearing that they would miss anything! Zhaohe Tianhuang was very satisfied with everyone’s performance. So many people were looking at him eagerly, which gave him a great sense of satisfaction!
The taste of power is indeed endless, no wonder so many people throughout the ages like the position of emperor!
“If we don’t take Australia, others will! Rather than miss the opportunity and let others take advantage of it, we might as well take the initiative and control it. After all, this place is crucial to our industrial development!”As soon as
Zhaohe Tianhuang opened his mouth, everyone understood what he meant!
Controlling Australia, controlling Australia’s iron ore and other resources, this is very important for the foot���It is indeed very important for the people of Jiaoben!
Before the discovery of iron ore in Australia, Jiaoben was at best only a little interested in the land of Australia, but the interest was not particularly great, because Australia was still a little far away from them, and although Australia has a large land area, there are large areas of deserts and Gobi that are not suitable for human habitation.
The utilization value of such land will be very low, and it is far less attractive to them than the land of the Celestial Empire next to it!
However, all this became different after the discovery of iron ore in Australia!
After seeing the quality and super-large reserves of Australian iron ore, the Jiaoben people were completely uneasy. They estimated in their hearts that the reserves of iron ore in Australia were at least hundreds of millions of tons, and there might be tens of billions of tons or even tens of billions of tons!
Tens of billions of tons of iron ore, what a terrible number!
Because of the war in Jiaoben in recent years, the demand for steel has increased day by day, and the orders of steel mills are full, but even so, their steel production last year was only more than one million tons, less than 1.5 million tons!
This scale is too far away from the mainstream countries in the world. The amount of steel production is proportional to a country’s war potential. After all, war is fought with steel and oil!
Whoever has more steel and oil has a greater chance of winning!
Moreover, even if it is not necessary for war, industrialization itself requires a large amount of iron ore!
Most of the buildings in Jiaoben are mainly wooden buildings!
On the one hand, this can be explained as the traditional culture of Jiaoben, but on the other hand, it is actually a helpless move, because their steel production is extremely scarce, resulting in limited steel can only be invested in the most critical industrial and military fields, and very little can be allocated to the civilian field.
Building houses and high-rise buildings is very steel-consuming.
Without steel to lay the foundation and cast, the solidity of these buildings will be greatly reduced!
So, in a sense, the current wooden buildings in Jiaoben are actually affected by the lack of steel production.
In peacetime, some wooden buildings do not actually have a big impact, but it is completely different during wartime!
Not long ago, the Celestial Empire, which had received military assistance from the Third Reich, actually planned an air strike against the homeland of Jiaoben. Although the damage caused to them this time was not great, the fire caused by the air strike on the homeland burned down a large number of houses, and then the fire made the residents in the city panic!
Although the casualties were not large, the impact was still very huge.
At this time, the shortcomings of wooden buildings were exposed!
Fortunately, the military equipment of the Celestial Empire was relatively backward, and they still used ordinary bombs, not napalm bombs that had already appeared on the European battlefield!
When the German army bombed the capital of the Never-Setting Fog City, thousands of fighter planes were used, and a large number of napalm bombs were used. They bombed in turns and turned the Fog City into a sea of fire! Tianhuang didn’t know whether there were wooden buildings in the Fog City that were nuclearized, but there were wooden buildings everywhere in his own capital, Dongjing City!
If one day their enemies used the method they used against the capital of the Never-Setting Sun to deal with them, I’m afraid that the fire in Dongjing would burn for a month or two and it wouldn’t stop!
Therefore, improving their own strength, expanding steel production capacity as soon as possible, reorganizing the navy, and equipping the army with more powerful weapons, especially heavy weapons such as tanks and armored vehicles that are now being developed by countries around the world, as well as changing the architectural characteristics of civilian wooden buildings, are all urgent tasks for Zhaohe Tianhuang!
To achieve these, the first problem to be solved is the production capacity of steel!
There is no shortage of beauty in the foot basin. Whether it is the mainland or the colonies, there are a lot of coal, so as long as the amount of iron ore is sufficient, then their steel production will definitely increase rapidly!
Therefore, seizing Australia, controlling Australia’s iron ore, and strengthening the country’s industrial strength as soon as possible, there is almost no possibility of any change!
For Zhaohe Tianhuang’s choice, the young and strong faction immediately cheered, and shouted long live Zhaohe Tianhuang one by one, shouting Zhaohe Tianhuang’s face red and proud!
When the old-fashioned people saw this scene, they sighed one by one, but did not say anything else, because they knew that there was no point in continuing to insist, and what Zhaohe Tianhuang had decided could not be changed!
As a result, the disagreements within the Foot Basin disappeared, and everyone determined a goal, which was to turn against the British Empire, march towards Australia, control Australia’s iron ore as soon as possible, and transport more and better quality iron ore back to the country as soon as possible!
The difficulty of this plan is mainly reflected in the sea crossing operations!
After the disastrous defeat in the Battle of Bermuda, the Foot Basin’s navy was severely damaged, and there were not many warships available at this time.
However, when fighting at sea, especially when sending landing troops to attack across the sea, if there is no strong navy to protect them, then the landing ships floating on the sea will all be live targets of the enemy, and the army idiots on them will only die as many as they come, and the possibility of a successful landing will be greatly reduced, and casualties will increase exponentially!