The industry in the Hei Shui area is no longer small in terms of scale.

Compared with the rare and relatively scientific industries in New China, which are mainly concentrated in shipbuilding, coal mining, construction, wood and sugar making, the industry in this remote and cold area is much larger than that in New China, in terms of scale and complete categories. There is no other reason. The only factor is that this very basic industrial base needs to bear the tens of thousands of east coast troops stationed in the Jiaodong Peninsula, North Korea, the Northeast, Ningbo and other places. At the same time, it is necessary to repair firearms, armor, vehicles and other things for the Shun Army as much as possible. Without a certain industrial production scale, it is impossible to be competent for this job.

In fact, the industrial scale of the Heishui area has been expanding year by year in recent years. First of all, the coal mining industry and iron smelting industry located in HS County. Coal has always been the top priority of the industry in Heishui area. The large number of naval inland gunboat fleets, the large tonnage maritime immigrant transport fleet, and the third fleet Okhotsk Sea Squadron, which is also growing slowly, are all large coal-consuming farmers. So after the Heishui Development Team increased the efforts to explore the Heishui coal mine, it opened a second coal mine in Du'er Township. There was the same coal storage belt as Heishui Town. The coal reserves and texture were similar, but it was easier to mine. Therefore, it began to try mining during the time of Liang Xiangjian's administration. After Liao Xiaoyao took over, he used a large number of immigrants from Huai'an Prefecture as miners to stabilize the production capacity of Du'er Coal Mine. At present, its output can be as good as Heishui Coal Mine.

In addition, by-products related to coal, such as honeycomb coal, coal pulverized bricks, etc., also have considerable output. After all, the weather in Heishui area is cold, and there is a great demand for fuel and building materials, both military and civilian. Therefore, the production capacity of these things is indispensable. The above industries are mostly concentrated around Heishui Port, with a large number of people employed, and most of them are plundered immigrants from Huaian Prefecture, the total number is more than 3,000, which is also scary.

In order to preserve these two labor-intensive industries in the Heishui area - after all, it is not easy to work here in winter, so a certain amount of labor needs to be maintained, otherwise the production capacity may be insufficient after the spring - Liao Xiaoyao, who has always been following the central government's pace, had to write a special report, requesting the central government to allow these industrial workers in Huai'an Prefecture in the Heishui area to maintain the germination of the industry here.

It is reported that Liang Xiangjian, the captain of the Denglai Development Team, also agreed with this and has confirmed that he would step down at the end of this year (1668) and return to his local office. It is said that he would directly enter the executive committee to replace a member of the executive committee who is over 70 years old and has poor health. Perhaps out of his feelings for the Hei Shui area, he finally agreed to Liao Xiaoyao's view and wrote a letter with him. Finally, he obtained the approval of the central government, allowing the Hei Shui area to retain a certain number of industrial workers. In fact, the local government also specially approved the crucible steelmaking technology to be used in the Hei Shui area, but it must be strictly confidential. Such technologies are absolutely prohibited from flowing into North Korea, RB Russia and even mainland China to maintain the technological monopoly advantage of the East Coast people on this land.

The role of crucible steelmaking technology in promoting the development of the Blackwater area is undoubtedly extremely critical. Although these are all so-called outdated technologies developed by the East Coast people more than 30 years ago, in the Blackwater area, which is a technical desert, this crucible steelmaking still surpasses the times. The only pity is that it seems difficult to collect enough graphite in the Blackwater area, which undoubtedly greatly limits the output of crucible steel. Moreover, they do not have enough experienced technicians, which has a greater impact on the yield and quality of steel. Of course, before this, they may need to build a standard smelting room, otherwise the temperature of crucible steelmaking will be difficult to meet the requirements. In short, it is still a lot of trouble to develop this technology in the Blackwater area, which cannot be done in a short period of time. After all, it is because of too few talents!

However, no matter how short the talents are, the technical obstacles are, and the funds are difficult, this smelting chamber must be built for the Heishui area, otherwise the future development will definitely be limited, especially for the mechanical processing industry downstream of metallurgy.

At present, the Heishui area - more precisely, the entire Far East Sanfan, the main mechanical processing industry is located in HS County. During the two leaders of Wei Boqiu and Liang Xiangjian, they both changed from local governments to some precious hydraulic or pedal machine tools to process some parts and tools in Heishui, making some knives, armor and other equipment, and even later they could process the barrel.

After using hydraulic and pedaling machinery for some years and initially cultivating a group of industrial workers, the Heishui area was able to manufacture simple machinery and equipment according to its own needs, which undoubtedly marked a great progress in their industrial level. Although it seemed to be still at a relatively low handicraft stage. After some of the locally eliminated steam engines were specially transported to Heishui Port, and the locally built several industrial windmills with the help of local technical engineers supported by local support, HS County's mechanical processing, grinding surfaces, wood cutting, etc. had relatively stable sources of power. In addition to producing armor and boring gun barrels, they could also process small parts such as bolts. Although they could not completely get rid of their dependence on local weapons, at least it was much simpler to repair and could also produce guns at a speed lower than the local efficiency but far higher than the surrounding forces. This is undoubtedly a great progress and is extremely critical to further strengthening the self-sustaining power of the Far East.

Of course, compared with the advances in the mechanical processing industry, the development of the Blackwater Shipyard in recent years is even more gratifying. The team trained by Lola's chief designer can now independently design high-performance ships such as the "Jacsa" class, and have been recognized by local shipbuilding industry insiders. Modern special shipyards have specially purchased patent authorization from the Blackwater Shipyard, intending to produce such new design and high-tech ships on a large scale, and convert them into steam-powered versions of fishing boats, anti-smuggling boats, whaling boats and patrol boats, intending to obtain orders from the government with this - with this, we may be able to give a little bit of the strength of the Blackwater Shipyard, which is indeed much better than the Kushiro Shipyard, which can only imitate the 650-ton flute-type ship.

Now the "Baikal" armed transport ship Liao Xiaoyao is riding is this ship. Under the command of the old captain with superb skills, he carefully avoided the broken ice slowly floating on the river, and then quietly approached the Hailanpao Port Pier, and successfully landed with the help of the dock workers on the shore. At this point, all the passengers on the ship breathed a sigh of relief.

"The last batch of immigrants, a total of 200 people, were sent to Shibao Township upstream to settle and reclaim the land. They are safe and secure, right? You know what I mean, Lieutenant." Liao Xiaoyao, wearing a school uniform, jumped onto the dock, then pointed to the large group of men, women, and young men on the ship who were confused by Huai'an Mansion, and said, "I remember that Shibao Township (located near the inner city of Svobold in later generations) had dozens of soldiers stationed in Shibao Township, with good defense. I hope that a winter passed and they were not torn apart by the barbarians. Of course, this possibility seems to be small."

"Emperor An's infantry platoon is still alive. They only lost three soldiers in the past winter, and it was because of illness, not because of cold or barbarian attacks." The young officer who was receiving the pier smiled awkwardly with Liao Xiaoyao, and then said: "Have the immigrants in Huai'an Mansion not been transported yet? It's been many years, and I didn't expect there were still those who were not transported."

"This is the last batch." Liao Xiaoyao passed the young officer. Liao Xiaoyao carefully looked at the city covered with snow on the shore. The already warmer weather suddenly turned sharply. Snowflakes fell in the nearby areas, which caught people off guard. Fortunately, the spring sowing has not officially started yet. Otherwise, the late spring cold would cause the crops in the fields to suffer a catastrophe. Feeling the popularity of this small town with nearly 2,000 permanent residents, after a while, he shook his head and said, "You are still too slow. Why are you so rich in Hailan soaking such a good place? Even food cannot guarantee self-sufficiency every year. What are you doing? Although the climate fluctuations in the past two years have affected agricultural production, it will not reach the level you are now?"

In recent years, people from the East Coast have established settlements in the middle and upper reaches of the Amur River - such as Shibao, Hailanpao, Huma Fort, Yongsheng Township (located near the city of New Breiskisky in later generations), Yonghe Township (located near the city of Skiuwar in later generations), Jieya Township (located near the city of Jieya in later generations) and Jieya Township (located near the city of Jieya in later generations) - due to the bad weather, they have to transfer food from Dabo County, where grain production is relatively stable in Heishui area, and come here to help local residents (not only the people of the East Coast, but also naturalized natives of all ethnic groups) overcome the difficulties.

In addition to rye, oats and barley, these foods also have various canned foods such as salted fish, sea vegetables, cured meat, fruits, etc. produced by Dabo Seafood Processing Plant. The number of canned foods is quite considerable, which is very helpful for residents to survive the difficult years. The reason why Dabo County has so many foods is not only suitable for its own climate and rich products, and Dabo Botanical Garden constantly provides breeding varieties, but the more important reason is probably because the local food industry is developing rapidly - seafood processing plants, canned food plants, flour plants, cured meat workshops, and winemaking workshops gathered there, making Dabo County gradually the center of the food industry in the Hei Shui area. The energy of this center is so powerful that everyone hunts sea beasts in the northern part of Sakhalin Island, sea fish caught in the Kuril Islands, and whales killed everywhere must be transported here for deep processing, and then sold to various places to obtain profits. This shows the strength of Dabo County's food industry.

It can be said that as long as the collective farm in Dabo County and Nanku County in the hinterland can still maintain operation and large areas of arable land are still managed, then the rye, oats and other grains sent to the settlements in the Amur River Basin through Dabo Port will not be cut off. Liao Xiaoyao also knows this very clearly. Therefore, when the immigrants living in the collective farm in Huai'an Prefecture who have been transported away in recent years (this year is the last batch), he continued to fill in the drought victims of the Western Si Prefecture here so that the grain production here will not be cut off. Even he was considering whether to discuss with his superiors to deduct 20,000 to 30,000 people from the SD victims who will live in this collective farm, so that they can officially settle down in the Heishui area, and some people in the fertile fields in Dabo and Nanku counties have been cultivated, and the second land has since become one of the barns in the Heishui area.

"Commander Liao, it has been too difficult in recent years. Not only does it mean that the annual harvest is bad, the epidemic has been inexplicably popular several times. In addition, some conflicts broke out between us and the natives, resulting in some casualties. The above all involves our energy, making it impossible for us to plant and grazing boldly, and eventually lead to food being unable to be self-sufficient and can only rely on external transportation." The second lieutenant spread his hands helplessly and said, "In order to support the development of the Yalu River area, many of our good players have been transferred to the south, and there is no more manpower to suppress it. Naturalize those proud and unruly natives, and the Russian Cossack activities have also taken the opportunity to frequently start, so we can only try our best to maintain..."

"It's all for yourself to find reasons for yourself. It's clear that you are not capable and do things in a bad way!" Liao Xiaoyao shook his head and criticized unwillingly: "The vast and beautiful rivers and mountains east of the Jieya River, there are more than 100,000 natives living in this vast and beautiful rivers and mountains! It's been a few years since this time, not only have you not naturalized enough natives for me, but even grain production has been regressed. This job is really bad. I don't care what you have. From this year on, in addition to completing the normal agricultural and animal husbandry production tasks, you will also naturalize no less than 1,000 indigenous people every year, and select at least 200 strong people from them to Miaojiegang to conduct training in a concentrated manner. I will be of great use in the next stage. Remember, this is a military order and cannot be violated. I don't care what you use. Anyway, I only look at the results."
Chapter completed!