This meant building a coal briquette factory and a coal briquette stove factory. Once people had coal briquette stoves, they would need kettles and iron woks to boil water and cook meals. After that, they would need to build a farm tool factory. His original intention had been to build a coal-washing plant, a coking plant, a steel-making plant, and even a thermal power plant.
The iron ore would also need to be pushed forward urgently; building factories required fired bricks and cement. Once you got into this kind of domino effect, it simply wouldn't work without a complete industrial system.
Wang Diren felt like a kite, always wanting to fly higher, yet constantly being pulled back to the ground by an invisible string. Who could blame them for starting from scratch? It was rare to have Li Yunlong's heavy combat corps to guarantee regional security, and with plenty of refugees available, there was no shortage of manpower. Oh well, it was more practical to just settle down and build some factories.
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