Greece’s Roman Road

How difficult is it for a country to complete its industrialization?

Before 1914, there were only a few countries qualified to talk about industrialization, Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, and Italy.

Even in the 21st century, there are still a few familiar faces who have the confidence to say that they have completed industrialization.

The order of their strengths may be changed. Sometimes everyone will fight for power, but after dividing the level, strength, and sphere of influence, everyone still has to play together.

So in the 21st century, those who have the confidence to say that they have completed industrialization are still a few familiar faces.

The United States, Britain, Germany, Japan, Russia, and Italy don't seem to have changed much, except for some countries' seats.

The difficulty of industrialization can be seen in general.

At this moment, Constantine had a deep understanding of this.

Constantine and Tesla are discussing the construction of a thermal power plant. How much basic industry is needed?

Alternating current technology has made a breakthrough in the laboratory, but it is still far away to put it into practice in reality.

Tesla held a notebook in his left hand, pointed a pen in his right hand at the thoughts recorded in the notebook, lowered his head and analyzed to Constantine: "Since the application of electricity is to be realized, there must be a wire production factory, and wires are needed to transmit electricity. If you want to build a wire production plant, you need to build a copper smelter (the wire uses copper), and a rubber vulcanization factory (the wire uses vulcanized rubber to wrap the copper wire)”

"These are only factories related to electric wires. Alternating current generators should also be produced. In the process of power generation, the key step in converting heat energy into electricity is the use of steam turbines. Therefore, a steam turbine factory needs to be built."

"Precision instruments such as steam turbines need to ensure a certain energy conversion rate, and must use advanced machine tools and complex alloy materials. In this case, it is best to have machine tool production plants and alloy smelting plants."

"Steel plants must use steel, and may also need measuring instruments for electricity. After all, there is no measuring instrument for electricity, so there is no way to measure how much electricity users use."

"In addition, Greece does not have high-quality coal, so it is possible to use lignite to generate electricity, but the usage will be very large. It is necessary to develop lignite mines and excavate coal to burn electricity for power generation."

"Because of the large amount of lignite, it is better to build railroad tracks between coal mines and power plants, which can save transportation costs."

"Of course, these are all preparations for AC power plants. If AC power is used, as you said, the textile industry powered by electricity also needs to use electric motors, and the textile equipment also needs to be transformed, because the previous textile equipment almost are powered by steam engines.”

"Even if you want to build lights on the streets of Athens, you need light bulb factories"

"The entire system of alternating current must be completed, from power generation to use, to create a closed loop, so that alternating current can continuously create wealth for Greece."

"If you just build a power plant and the use of alternating current cannot be widely promoted, you don't know what year and month you will be able to recover the cost"

Constantine wiped the sweat from his head, calculating in his heart how much money he could invest in industrialization.

According to Tesla's plan, the construction of a thermal AC power plant has almost completed the construction of all the basic industries of a country.

This is why industrialization is so difficult. Individuals in the industrial system are all related to each other.

If you can't form a system, it doesn't make much sense.

For example, iron and steel plants are the mainstay of modern industry, the cornerstone of the industry. Is it easy to build a steel plant?

Just to build the factory itself, as long as the funds are sufficient, it is certainly not difficult.

But the question is, what happens after the steel plant is built?

Where is the steel you trained for?

If there is no use for steel, what's the point of spending huge sums of money to build a steel plant?

car? shipbuilding? Gunfire cannons? These are big consumers of steel.

Then it also depends on the quality of the steel you train? Whether it can meet the seamless steel pipe for forging guns and cannons, shipbuilding steel, and automobile steel plate rolling technology.

If all these are all right, we will build a shipyard, a gun factory, and a car factory next.

And the cost of building these factories is still far above that of steel plants.

Even if these factories are completed, can they survive?

The upstream and downstream of the steel industry are all interrelated. Once a problem occurs in a certain link, other links in the cycle will also be affected.

Even if all the difficulties are overcome, and these factories are completed, can you just sit back and make money?

Think beautifully!

For example, the sales of car factories that use steel dropped, the captains could not receive orders, they were in trouble, and the steel factories were immediately unlucky.

This is why all countries know the importance of heavy industry, but they still fail to develop.

The amount of capital required is large, the cost recovery cycle is long, and the risk is high.

Therefore, the industrialization of a country is definitely a choice made by the whole country. It cannot be accomplished by a single person or even the will of a certain class.

Because it is far beyond the ability of the individual.

Even if he is Constantine.

That's why Constantine was happy when Trikupis introduced Cantoriotis to him.

The willingness of these wealthy Greek billionaires to invest in the construction of textile factories in Greece~www.wuxiax.com~ means that Greece has taken an important step on the road of industrialization, and the industrialization of Greece has a little more hope of success.

"Come on, come on, Tesla, don't say it anymore, we don't need it, and we don't have the financial resources to do it all in one step. Take your time, the establishment of the entire industrial system is not something that can be achieved overnight."

Constantine hurriedly interrupted Tesla, who was still unfinished, and let him continue. Even Constantine had no confidence, and the workload was too huge.

"Like the steam turbine you mentioned, please purchase it from the UK first. As for the electric wire meter you mentioned, please purchase it from Western Europe first."

If nothing else, just a steam turbine factory may be more troublesome than building an AC power plant.

This thing is like an aircraft engine in the 21st century, the jewel in the crown of industry, the real frontier of technology.

"We have only one goal now, which is to give priority to building a simple AC application system to verify its feasibility"

"Come on step by step, this is not something that can be rushed." Constantine comforted Tesla.

Tesla did not argue when he heard the words, but turned the book in his hand and continued: "If this is the case, regarding the steam turbine, I heard that the Parsons steam turbine in the United Kingdom is not bad, and you can purchase a few. Alternating current equipment and transformers cannot be produced in Greece, so it is necessary to ask Siemens in Germany for help, and the wires probably also need to be imported.”

"A lot of initial startup capital is needed." Tesla gently closed the notebook in his hand.

"Your team will go to Western Europe first to see what the strength of each electrical company is and what equipment is needed. As for the money, I will find a way to raise it."

The alternating current technology has made breakthroughs, how could it be possible to retreat because of the cost?

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