My Italian Chapter 291

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With the small Balkan flames subdued, Italy was finally able to start enjoying the rich fruits of the war in full force.

In Albania and Kosovo, tens of thousands of railway builders are stepping up construction on the Durrës-Pristina line. As the main transportation line in Kosovo, it is also a mountain heavy-duty railway. This railway also adopts the latest construction technology, reinforced concrete pouring technology.

The piers and bridges poured with reinforced concrete have greater bearing capacity, higher strength, and sturdiness. It can carry heavier trains, so the emergence of this technology has brought great development to the engineering community.

However, although reinforced concrete has various advantages, it is not widely used in the world at present.

In fact, the technology of reinforced concrete has been around for more than 20 years. In 1868, a French gardener watered the first practical object, a reinforced concrete planter.

Yes, it's a flower pot.

It wasn't until 1872 that the first reinforced concrete buildings appeared in New York.

As for now, the use of reinforced concrete is not too much, because the reason that restricts the development of reinforced concrete technology is still the cost issue. This technology requires a large amount of steel bars and cement, and the price of steel and cement is not cheap at present. If the technology is adopted on a large scale, it will push up the cost.

This is also the main reason why reinforced concrete was not used on a large scale before 1900.

As for why Italy is adopting this technology on this railway, it is still for transportation. Compared with pushing up the cost of construction, the benefits it brings will benefit the development of Italian industry more. The government can still settle this account.

Moreover, the development of minerals in Kosovo has made railway construction even more urgent. There are currently three large coal mines under construction in Kosovo, as well as a neutral lead mine, two neutral zinc mines, a large chrome mine, and two silver mines. The development of so many mines is due to the hard work of a large number of geological exploration teams in Kosovo.

After the construction of these mines is completed, in addition to rough screening and processing in the local area, they all need to be shipped to the mainland.

Without this railroad, transportation would be a big problem.

Therefore, this railway connecting Durrës and Pristina is currently the most important project of the Italian Ministry of Transport. To this end, tens of thousands of road construction workers are busy here. They used all kinds of tools and machinery to build bridges in these waters and open roads in the mountains. Finally, at the end of 1892, they spent a year and a half to repair this major artery related to the development of Italian industry.

Of course, the railway from Durrës to Pristina is not the only railway currently under construction in Italy, other railways are also under construction.

For example, the SofiPristina railway that has just completed line exploration, but this railway is mostly built by Bulgarians, and Italy only needs to build a small section in Kosovo.

Of course, there is another railway, which the Italian government has also not forgotten, that is, the railway from Sabha to the Libyan port of Sirte. Although the railway does not need to cross the valley river, it is more difficult to build than the Durrës-Pristina railway because it passes through the Sahara.

The line surveyors also have a headache for this railway. They need to avoid the desert terrain and try to choose the railway in the Gobi, otherwise the railway maintenance workers will cry after a sandstorm.

In addition, the choice of site is also a problem. You must know that in the world, the tractor head is still driven by a steam engine, which will mean that the train needs to add coal and water, and what is the situation in the Sahara. Therefore, in order to arrange the site reasonably and the maintenance work on weekdays, the line exploration is extremely difficult. But fortunately, this year's hard work on sand has not been in vain, and the line exploration has finally been completed.

In November 1892, the railway line for iron ore transportation was finally opened from the port of Sirte.

Of course, the construction of this railway is not as interesting as the Balkan railway, and it has a lot of time. A five-year construction period is more than enough for an 800-kilometer railway, even if the railway needs to be built on the desert Gobi.

There was no railway construction in Italy in 1892. The three steel plants in the south planned by the government also started construction work at the sites that had been selected. Thousands of people worked hard for these three steel plants.

As an important pillar for the development of the South, the Italian government also paid a lot of effort to these three steel plants. Italy has invested a lot of money and technology purchased from abroad as the foundation for the three steel plants.

Strive to make Italian steel production reach 1.2 million tons of pig iron and 450,000 tons of crude steel in 1895.

Don't look at this fact that the output of steel is not as good as that of a small steel mill now, but it only needs to be compared with neighboring countries to know that the current production of pig iron in France is 2 million tons and crude steel is 870,000 tons. Even Germany, which is currently the most productive in Europe, produces only 4.35 million tons of pig iron and 2.65 million tons of crude steel each year, adding up to only 7 million tons of steel output.

Italy is unlikely to reach Germany's current output for at least a decade. On the one hand, it is due to raw materials, and on the other hand, it is a market problem. It is necessary to produce so much steel. At present, Italy can't eat that much steel at all, and even the shipbuilding industry, which uses the most materials, can't share much.

Therefore, Italy's current layout in the steel industry is to try to let the steel industry drive out the steel of other countries.

Of course, the light industry in Italy has not been forgotten at present, but compared with the heavy industry that can better reflect the national strength, the government spends less energy on light industry. After all, there is too little capital on hand, and good steel needs to be used on the blade.

Of course, large-scale construction has also brought another benefit to Italy, that is, Italian foreign immigration has fallen below the 100,000 mark, an unprecedented drop to 40,000 (excluding immigration to the colonies). This is truly an unprecedented achievement.

You must know that Italy used to emigrate more than 100,000 to 200,000 people every year. If it encounters a year of catastrophe, it would not be a problem to hit 300,000 or 400,000 people.

The reason for such a large migration is that Italy cannot keep so many people, or that there is no land to support so many people.

At present, the native population of Italy is 31.78 million. Due to Italy's emphasis on family, the annual birth rate is as high as about 3.34%. After deducting the mortality rate of about 2.2%, the natural growth rate is about 1.14%. This means that Italy has an additional population of more than 300,000 people every year. So without immigration, the barren land in Italy (which is really poor compared to Germany and France) will not be able to feed so many people.

The reason why the number of immigrants will be reduced this time, in addition to the fact that industrial development can accommodate more people, is that Carlo's behavior of expelling new territories~www.mtlnovel.com~ allows people to have more places to go.

Traveling across the ocean to seek life, how can it be cool to settle down in a nearby home. The unattended lands of the new territories were so wasteful that they naturally attracted a large number of Italians to flock across the sea.

In just over a year, more than 500,000 Italians went to the new territory, immediately occupying the original Albanian territory.

As for why there are more than 100,000 more than the Albanians, the production and construction of various minerals and the construction of road facilities also require manpower.

Of course, the development of Italy in 1892 was far more than the above.

And as the bell rang in 1893, a new situation emerged.

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