Chapter 500: Industrialization
"Costari Plain where huge bear tribe lacks major steel and coal resources which are necessary for industrialization . There's no major coal mine and iron mine across Ice and Snow Wilderness except for the coal mine and the iron mine near Eschyle City!"
Elder Gouras who was responsible for civil affairs in Ice and Snow Wilderness opened his mouth after being silent for a while .
"There's no major coal mine and iron mine in other places of Ice and Snow Wilderness?" Zhang Tie felt unbelievable about this . From the map, Ice and Snow Wilderness occupied more than 20 million square kilometers . Previously he only thought that the weather here was worse . Unexpectedly, it also lacked natural resources .
"There are resources . However, we cannot exploit them . Due to the very severe climate and living conditions, many resources could not be exploited in a large scale . Take the Fire Dragon Coal Mine outside Eschyle City as an instance . We need at least 70,000 miners to exploit such a coal mine . It's easy to feed such a great number of people near Eschyle City; however, if they were dispatched to the wilderness in the north of Eschyle City, a bear tribe might be dragged down . This is equal to supplying an guerrilla of 70,000 soldiers all the year round . It requires a very terrifying daily expenditure which is far more than the value created by these workers . " Elder Gouras added .
"Large-scale industrial development has to depend on sufficient population . However, people have to survive on enough grains and suitable living conditions . Workers need to get married and live . It's impossible for them to exploit ores constantly . What's more, Ice and Snow Wilderness severely lacks grains and suitable living conditions . When each tribe chooses their living territory, they have to solve the food problem firstly, instead of directly choosing a place with ores . Only when everyone is full could tribes attempt to find and exploit some ores so as to meet their basic demand . However, they dare not exploit too much ores considering the cost . "
"Whether it was experience from the development of human society before the Catastrophe or the objective conclusion in this age, over 40 million population is the priority for a country or region to complete industrialization . However, even though huge bear tribe has the most population among all the tribes in Ice and Snow Wilderness, we only have less than 20 million people . Such population could hardly complete industrialization in Ice and Snow Wilderness . "
Zhang Tie rubbed his forehead as he had to face the reality, "You mean we could only depend on the coal mine and the iron mine near Eschyle City based on the current condition?"
"That's true . Before these fundamental living conditions in Ice and Snow wilderness are improved and enough grains could be produced to meet the basic demand of people, we have to maximize the use of the current resources!" Elder Rodolfo answered .
After thinking for a short while, Zhang Tie said, "However, less than 300,000 tons of irons a year is too low for Eschyle Iron Plant . What's the highest capacity of Eschyle Steel Plant?"
"Its highest capacity could reached above 2 million tons . Previously, as there was no such a market and demand in Ice and Snow Wilderness, each tribe could almost solve their own demand about steel . Therefore, we didn't expand our capacity . Additionally, it requires a lot of money for expansion of capacity . If we want to expand the capacity of Eschyle Steel Plant, we have to expand the mining scale of the coal mine and the iron mine outside the city! Besides money, we also need a lot of workers and technicians to ensure the smooth operation of the steel plant!"
"Don't worry about money . Get people to make the plan first . We will make further plan after knowing the demand!" Zhang Tie glanced at the elders, "My principle is that I would not spend any cent of the 7 million gold coins per year in Eschyle City, neither would I spend them in other places outside Ice and Snow Wilderness . We will spend all these money in the preparing for the coming holy war . We will use them to lay the foundation of huge bear tribe and wild bear tribe!"
All the elders nodded inside .
"Now that, we will soon start to expand and optimize the capacity of Eschyle Steel Plant . This might take us about 2 years and over 10 million gold coins . . . "
"Even if it's completed a bit late, it's always better than the current situation! This is just the prior program . I will spend my money in such a place at first . However, if we want to play the role of steel and steam, it's not enough to just increase the steel capacity . What's more, we need to turn steel into something and put them in certain places so as to enhance our strength to the utmost . Now I want to ask you about a key question . where about do you think the demons would arrive here, if possible, sky, sea, above ground or underground? I heard about some answers about this, but I still want to confirm . "
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