Chapter 1278
Sugarcane Industry
Chapter 1278 Sugarcane Industry
The people in charge of the counties on Hainan Island are basically traversers, so Yu Xiaobao naturally didn't dare to act as a special envoy in front of these people, so this inspection work mainly needs local cooperation.However, Yu Xiaobao himself joined Haihan early, and he knew most of the traversers, and after living together for so many years, many people did not treat him as an aborigine at all. One of the reasons for appointing such a young official as him.
Zhang Guang is well aware of the importance attached to the two young people, Yu Xiaobao and Zhang Qianzhi, by the executive committee, so of course he would not embarrass them, and offered cooperation on his own initiative, ordering people to take out all the government affairs records from last year to this year, Let them check it out.
The government record of Yacheng County is undoubtedly quite good. It can be said that the government is well-organized and the people are harmonious. It is close to Sanya, and it was the first city to be brought under the rule of Haihan, and the degree of social transformation was relatively thorough.Earlier, the local landlords and official families either moved back to the mainland, or they wholeheartedly joined Haihan and gave up their identity as Ming people. As for the few people who disobeyed Haihan’s rule, the grass on their graves is already two meters high .
Today, only about [-]% of the population in Yacheng County are native-born locals, and the vast majority of the population are immigrants who have moved in successively over the years after Haihan took over here.These new immigrants do not have any deep-rooted clan ties in the local area, and it is much less difficult for the government to manage, and most of them have no family property when they come here, and they have to rely on the government for a long period of time. They are much more dependent on the state than traditional agrarian societies that are self-sufficient.
Almost all of these immigrants were rescued by Haihan in distress, and their loyalty to this new regime is also quite high. In addition, there are not as many foreigners here as in Sanya, and the social atmosphere is more simple than in Sanya. Just working in the Cliff Office, I am familiar with the local situation, so I can manage local government affairs with ease.Bridges and roads were built, agricultural production was guided, and various government orders were implemented in an orderly manner. Although the achievements were not particularly outstanding, they were at least quite satisfactory, and there was not much to criticize.
Yu Xiaobao communicated with Zhang Guang while checking government affairs records.But other people who have nothing to do are a little bored, they can only wait by the side, and they can't make any noise.Fortunately, the cutscene didn't last too long, and it ended in less than an hour.
Seeing that there was still some time before noon, Zhang Guang arranged for Yu Xiaobao and others to visit the operation of the local sugarcane farm.Seeing that Zhang Guang was making a gesture to lead the way himself, Yu Xiaobao rushed to the front and said: "If the journey is far away, the chief will send someone to lead the way, so there is no need to go there personally."
Zhang Guang waved his hand and said, "It's not far, it's not far. There are thousands of acres of sugarcane fields outside the east gate, and the processing plant is also outside the east gate. It only takes a few minutes to walk there."
When Liu Shang heard the word "processing factory", he immediately recovered from his distracted state. He remembered that on the way to Yacheng just now, Yu Xiaobao mentioned that Haihan had also used steam in the process of sugarcane processing. Machinery.Liu Shang is not interested in sugar cane, but he really wants to see how this steam engine is used to extract juice from sugar cane.
A group of people walked out of the east gate, and there was indeed a large sugarcane field in front of them. Hundreds of laborers were loading the harvested sugarcane away, and the large bundles of sugarcane were piled up like a hill on the truck, pulled by oxen. Go slowly on the road.
Zhang Guang introduced: "In previous years, the harvest season was generally concentrated in May, but in the past two years we have implemented a year-round planting rotation, so basically fresh sugarcane will be produced throughout the year. I plan to wait for this winter to be less busy. When the time comes, we will organize manpower to build a freight track here to improve the transportation efficiency between the sugarcane planting area and the processing plant.”
The road from the sugarcane planting area to the processing plant is actually very short, so the cost of road construction will not be too high, and the track construction plan required for short-distance hauling has accumulated a lot of experience through practice in the mining process in the past few years. , It can be said that the whole set of operations from road construction to later equipment commissioning and maintenance is very mature, and one winter is enough to complete this kind of infrastructure project with a small amount of work.
While walking, Zhang Guang briefly introduced the local sugarcane production status to everyone. The sugarcane planted in Yacheng County is mainly sugar cane, that is, the sugar content is relatively high, and the main purpose is to make sugar raw materials.Different from the edible fruit cane, the hard fiber of the sugar cane skin is thick and the taste is relatively poor, so it is generally not eaten as a fruit.The sugarcane planting area in Yacheng County has reached more than 4000 mu, and the planting scale is still expanding at a rate of 20.00% every year. But even so, the current sugarcane production in Yacheng is still far from meeting the needs of Haihan winemaking and brewing. Therefore, in the northern part of Hainan Island, many sugarcane planting areas have been newly developed in recent years. However, this area started earlier, and the planting varieties and supporting industries are more mature. It can be regarded as the main sugarcane producing area under the current Haihan rule. .
The sugarcane processing factory is located on the bank of the Ningyuan River. Zhang Guang said that the processing factory first used water-driven machinery, and the operating cost was very low. However, the flow of the Ningyuan River is not so stable. It is also a very troublesome thing to constantly adjust these hydraulic machines.After the steam engine started to be popularized, Zhang Guang went back to Sanya to pray to gods and worship Buddha everywhere, and finally got a quota for two steam-powered presses from the executive committee, and assembled them in this processing plant.
With the blessing of the steam engine, the production capacity of the processing factory has naturally increased a lot. Currently, the highest daily processing capacity here is about [-] catties of sugarcane, and the juice extraction rate is far better than the human, animal power and water power methods in the past.Of course, because of the use of the steam engine, the processing factory also specially built a conspicuous chimney, and you can see whether it is in operation from a distance from the city wall of Yacheng.
Before entering the factory building, Liu Shang had already heard the familiar sound of the steam engine running. When he walked in, he saw a few shirtless men standing on a shelf, feeding sugar cane one by one into a thigh-thin In the iron cylinder, the other end of the cylinder is connected to the black juice extractor. After the sugarcane goes in, the juice flows into a large wooden barrel from the outlet below the juice extractor. Go put in a new empty bucket.The bagasse is spit out from the other side of the juicer and dropped into a tin bagasse box for storage.These bagasses are not useless, they can be used to make paper after simple treatment, and can also be used for composting.
The subsequent processing of sugarcane juice does not involve a steam engine, and Liu Shang is not interested in finding out how the Haihan people's wine is brewed. Understand how the coal-fired water boiler creates such a large amount of energy, and how it is transferred to the juicer to function.Liu Shang thought that if he could fully understand the principle of this steam engine, and then return to Daming to imitate it, wouldn't that be a great achievement?
Although Liu Shang is smarter than ordinary people, if no one explains the mystery of this new thing to him in detail, it is impossible to replicate such a sophisticated technology with the naked eye.After he came to Haihan, he had observed trains, motor sailing boats, and the steam power device of this juicer at close range. Apart from lamenting that Haihan's people were able to build this kind of machinery with their ingenuity, he had not gained much.Even if he already knew the operating principle of the steam engine from others, there was still a huge gap between turning the principle into a practical machine.
Haihan's ability in industrial manufacturing is not comparable to Daming.If this kind of machine is transported back to Daming for dismantling, and it will take one or two years for research by skilled craftsmen from all over the country, it will definitely be able to reproduce seven or eight percent of the prototype, but the manufacturing cost is not easy to calculate, let alone a machine like Haihan also formed a large-scale production and applied it to the grassroots level of social production.
It is indeed difficult for Liu Shang to accomplish anything by himself. He turned around and looked at it for a long time, wishing to dismantle all the iron shells on the outside of the juicer, and take a good look at the structure inside.But this is obviously impossible. Liu Shang secretly planned in his heart that when he returned to Sanya in the future, if he had the opportunity, he would go to the municipal library to check whether there were any drawings related to steam engines that he could read.If this kind of sharp weapon is only controlled by Hai Han, it will only take a few years, and Daming may really have no chance to come back.
When Liu Shang was distracted, he heard someone next to him ask: "Why don't you go with the team? It seems that you are very interested in this steam engine?"
The hairs on Liu Shang's back stood up immediately, because he could hear that the voice was the most feared person in the team, that Zhang Qianzhi who worked in the security department.Liu Shang was consciously tested by Zhang Qianzhi once on the boat yesterday, and his fear of this person increased greatly, and he has been careful not to contact him alone since then, but unexpectedly he was placed in the processing plant and was paid attention by the other party Arrived.Liu Shang couldn't help feeling regretful, why did he rush to study this steam engine at this moment, if the other party saw the flaw because of this, it would be really not worthwhile.
However, Liu Shang's professional quality is not bad. Although his heart was blown, his reaction was quite calm. He turned his head and bowed to Zhang Qianzhi and said, "I just feel that this juicer is exquisitely designed and quite ingenious, and I am addicted to it immediately." Going in, it made Director Zhang laugh."
Zhang Qianzhi said with a smile: "Since Mr. Liu likes studying steam engines so much, I will arrange for you to study this major after returning to Sanya."
Liu Shang said in amazement: "This...this skill can still be taught publicly?"
"Of course!" Zhang Qianzhi said: "Steam engine principle, design, manufacture, maintenance and repair, after learning all the courses, three or four years is enough. I just don't know if Mr. Liu has the patience to study for such a long time. "
Liu Shang almost agreed. If he could really learn a full set of relevant knowledge as Zhang Qianzhi said in three or four years, then he would think it was worth it.However, he also understands that the purpose of his lurking in Haihan is not to learn these strange skills and obscene things. Even if there is such a task, it must not be entrusted to him to complete.And most importantly, he wasn't sure if the other party was using this as bait to lure him into the bait, so he could only push his thoughts back to the bottom of his heart and waved his hands repeatedly: "The villain has passed his thirties, how can he learn?" You have to get something in, Director Zhang joked."
In fact, Zhang Qianzhi is not entirely joking. Haihan does offer related courses, but the enrollment is extremely strict. If there is no common knowledge of mathematics and physics in the relevant basic subject education of Chinese, it will be difficult to study and understand these relatively advanced mechanical principles in depth.Even for a smart person like Liu Shang, if he was really asked to look at the parts diagram and assembly diagram of the steam engine, he still couldn't understand it.
Zhang Qianzhi didn't answer immediately, but his eyes swept Liu Shang's face back and forth, staring at Liu Shang's heart secretly.It took him a long time before he said again: "I have heard the chief once said that eagerness to learn has no age. If you are really interested in steam engines, it is not impossible to change careers. Director Yu or I will write you a letter of introduction. , you can transfer the working relationship from the Propaganda Department, you may wish to consider it."
Hearing what he said seriously, Liu Shang felt a little uneasy at the moment. His interest is indeed more inclined to the study of machinery, but he also knows that the level of information that this kind of craftsman can get in touch with is very narrow, and it is likely to require latent data. It takes a few years to learn some useful things, and it may not be immediately useful after returning to Daming.But the propaganda department is different. They can get a lot of first-hand news, and they will be more sensitive to Haihan's political trends. It is far easier to collect information than craftsmen.
Thoughts swirled in Liu Shang's mind, but he hesitated for a moment before he made a decision. He bowed to Zhang Qianzhi again and said, "Thank you, Director Zhang, for your kindness. The villain is still good at talking and talking. The villain thinks it's a matter of cross-bank transfer. It’s hard to adapt, and it’s more comfortable to stay in the Propaganda Department to do things.”
Zhang Qianzhi nodded, and didn't continue to follow the topic. He just said "keep up with the team" and walked away on his own.Naturally, Liu Shang didn't dare to stay in front of the juicer any longer, so he quickly followed the large army.
However, after visiting the sugar and wine workshops, Liu Shang was obviously a little absent-minded. The brief conversation with Zhang Qianzhi obviously had a big impact on him, and it could even be said that he had shaken his original firm plan.Until the end of the visit, Liu Shang did not have any conversations with anyone, and was silently thinking about his own thoughts.
(End of this chapter)
The people in charge of the counties on Hainan Island are basically traversers, so Yu Xiaobao naturally didn't dare to act as a special envoy in front of these people, so this inspection work mainly needs local cooperation.However, Yu Xiaobao himself joined Haihan early, and he knew most of the traversers, and after living together for so many years, many people did not treat him as an aborigine at all. One of the reasons for appointing such a young official as him.
Zhang Guang is well aware of the importance attached to the two young people, Yu Xiaobao and Zhang Qianzhi, by the executive committee, so of course he would not embarrass them, and offered cooperation on his own initiative, ordering people to take out all the government affairs records from last year to this year, Let them check it out.
The government record of Yacheng County is undoubtedly quite good. It can be said that the government is well-organized and the people are harmonious. It is close to Sanya, and it was the first city to be brought under the rule of Haihan, and the degree of social transformation was relatively thorough.Earlier, the local landlords and official families either moved back to the mainland, or they wholeheartedly joined Haihan and gave up their identity as Ming people. As for the few people who disobeyed Haihan’s rule, the grass on their graves is already two meters high .
Today, only about [-]% of the population in Yacheng County are native-born locals, and the vast majority of the population are immigrants who have moved in successively over the years after Haihan took over here.These new immigrants do not have any deep-rooted clan ties in the local area, and it is much less difficult for the government to manage, and most of them have no family property when they come here, and they have to rely on the government for a long period of time. They are much more dependent on the state than traditional agrarian societies that are self-sufficient.
Almost all of these immigrants were rescued by Haihan in distress, and their loyalty to this new regime is also quite high. In addition, there are not as many foreigners here as in Sanya, and the social atmosphere is more simple than in Sanya. Just working in the Cliff Office, I am familiar with the local situation, so I can manage local government affairs with ease.Bridges and roads were built, agricultural production was guided, and various government orders were implemented in an orderly manner. Although the achievements were not particularly outstanding, they were at least quite satisfactory, and there was not much to criticize.
Yu Xiaobao communicated with Zhang Guang while checking government affairs records.But other people who have nothing to do are a little bored, they can only wait by the side, and they can't make any noise.Fortunately, the cutscene didn't last too long, and it ended in less than an hour.
Seeing that there was still some time before noon, Zhang Guang arranged for Yu Xiaobao and others to visit the operation of the local sugarcane farm.Seeing that Zhang Guang was making a gesture to lead the way himself, Yu Xiaobao rushed to the front and said: "If the journey is far away, the chief will send someone to lead the way, so there is no need to go there personally."
Zhang Guang waved his hand and said, "It's not far, it's not far. There are thousands of acres of sugarcane fields outside the east gate, and the processing plant is also outside the east gate. It only takes a few minutes to walk there."
When Liu Shang heard the word "processing factory", he immediately recovered from his distracted state. He remembered that on the way to Yacheng just now, Yu Xiaobao mentioned that Haihan had also used steam in the process of sugarcane processing. Machinery.Liu Shang is not interested in sugar cane, but he really wants to see how this steam engine is used to extract juice from sugar cane.
A group of people walked out of the east gate, and there was indeed a large sugarcane field in front of them. Hundreds of laborers were loading the harvested sugarcane away, and the large bundles of sugarcane were piled up like a hill on the truck, pulled by oxen. Go slowly on the road.
Zhang Guang introduced: "In previous years, the harvest season was generally concentrated in May, but in the past two years we have implemented a year-round planting rotation, so basically fresh sugarcane will be produced throughout the year. I plan to wait for this winter to be less busy. When the time comes, we will organize manpower to build a freight track here to improve the transportation efficiency between the sugarcane planting area and the processing plant.”
The road from the sugarcane planting area to the processing plant is actually very short, so the cost of road construction will not be too high, and the track construction plan required for short-distance hauling has accumulated a lot of experience through practice in the mining process in the past few years. , It can be said that the whole set of operations from road construction to later equipment commissioning and maintenance is very mature, and one winter is enough to complete this kind of infrastructure project with a small amount of work.
While walking, Zhang Guang briefly introduced the local sugarcane production status to everyone. The sugarcane planted in Yacheng County is mainly sugar cane, that is, the sugar content is relatively high, and the main purpose is to make sugar raw materials.Different from the edible fruit cane, the hard fiber of the sugar cane skin is thick and the taste is relatively poor, so it is generally not eaten as a fruit.The sugarcane planting area in Yacheng County has reached more than 4000 mu, and the planting scale is still expanding at a rate of 20.00% every year. But even so, the current sugarcane production in Yacheng is still far from meeting the needs of Haihan winemaking and brewing. Therefore, in the northern part of Hainan Island, many sugarcane planting areas have been newly developed in recent years. However, this area started earlier, and the planting varieties and supporting industries are more mature. It can be regarded as the main sugarcane producing area under the current Haihan rule. .
The sugarcane processing factory is located on the bank of the Ningyuan River. Zhang Guang said that the processing factory first used water-driven machinery, and the operating cost was very low. However, the flow of the Ningyuan River is not so stable. It is also a very troublesome thing to constantly adjust these hydraulic machines.After the steam engine started to be popularized, Zhang Guang went back to Sanya to pray to gods and worship Buddha everywhere, and finally got a quota for two steam-powered presses from the executive committee, and assembled them in this processing plant.
With the blessing of the steam engine, the production capacity of the processing factory has naturally increased a lot. Currently, the highest daily processing capacity here is about [-] catties of sugarcane, and the juice extraction rate is far better than the human, animal power and water power methods in the past.Of course, because of the use of the steam engine, the processing factory also specially built a conspicuous chimney, and you can see whether it is in operation from a distance from the city wall of Yacheng.
Before entering the factory building, Liu Shang had already heard the familiar sound of the steam engine running. When he walked in, he saw a few shirtless men standing on a shelf, feeding sugar cane one by one into a thigh-thin In the iron cylinder, the other end of the cylinder is connected to the black juice extractor. After the sugarcane goes in, the juice flows into a large wooden barrel from the outlet below the juice extractor. Go put in a new empty bucket.The bagasse is spit out from the other side of the juicer and dropped into a tin bagasse box for storage.These bagasses are not useless, they can be used to make paper after simple treatment, and can also be used for composting.
The subsequent processing of sugarcane juice does not involve a steam engine, and Liu Shang is not interested in finding out how the Haihan people's wine is brewed. Understand how the coal-fired water boiler creates such a large amount of energy, and how it is transferred to the juicer to function.Liu Shang thought that if he could fully understand the principle of this steam engine, and then return to Daming to imitate it, wouldn't that be a great achievement?
Although Liu Shang is smarter than ordinary people, if no one explains the mystery of this new thing to him in detail, it is impossible to replicate such a sophisticated technology with the naked eye.After he came to Haihan, he had observed trains, motor sailing boats, and the steam power device of this juicer at close range. Apart from lamenting that Haihan's people were able to build this kind of machinery with their ingenuity, he had not gained much.Even if he already knew the operating principle of the steam engine from others, there was still a huge gap between turning the principle into a practical machine.
Haihan's ability in industrial manufacturing is not comparable to Daming.If this kind of machine is transported back to Daming for dismantling, and it will take one or two years for research by skilled craftsmen from all over the country, it will definitely be able to reproduce seven or eight percent of the prototype, but the manufacturing cost is not easy to calculate, let alone a machine like Haihan also formed a large-scale production and applied it to the grassroots level of social production.
It is indeed difficult for Liu Shang to accomplish anything by himself. He turned around and looked at it for a long time, wishing to dismantle all the iron shells on the outside of the juicer, and take a good look at the structure inside.But this is obviously impossible. Liu Shang secretly planned in his heart that when he returned to Sanya in the future, if he had the opportunity, he would go to the municipal library to check whether there were any drawings related to steam engines that he could read.If this kind of sharp weapon is only controlled by Hai Han, it will only take a few years, and Daming may really have no chance to come back.
When Liu Shang was distracted, he heard someone next to him ask: "Why don't you go with the team? It seems that you are very interested in this steam engine?"
The hairs on Liu Shang's back stood up immediately, because he could hear that the voice was the most feared person in the team, that Zhang Qianzhi who worked in the security department.Liu Shang was consciously tested by Zhang Qianzhi once on the boat yesterday, and his fear of this person increased greatly, and he has been careful not to contact him alone since then, but unexpectedly he was placed in the processing plant and was paid attention by the other party Arrived.Liu Shang couldn't help feeling regretful, why did he rush to study this steam engine at this moment, if the other party saw the flaw because of this, it would be really not worthwhile.
However, Liu Shang's professional quality is not bad. Although his heart was blown, his reaction was quite calm. He turned his head and bowed to Zhang Qianzhi and said, "I just feel that this juicer is exquisitely designed and quite ingenious, and I am addicted to it immediately." Going in, it made Director Zhang laugh."
Zhang Qianzhi said with a smile: "Since Mr. Liu likes studying steam engines so much, I will arrange for you to study this major after returning to Sanya."
Liu Shang said in amazement: "This...this skill can still be taught publicly?"
"Of course!" Zhang Qianzhi said: "Steam engine principle, design, manufacture, maintenance and repair, after learning all the courses, three or four years is enough. I just don't know if Mr. Liu has the patience to study for such a long time. "
Liu Shang almost agreed. If he could really learn a full set of relevant knowledge as Zhang Qianzhi said in three or four years, then he would think it was worth it.However, he also understands that the purpose of his lurking in Haihan is not to learn these strange skills and obscene things. Even if there is such a task, it must not be entrusted to him to complete.And most importantly, he wasn't sure if the other party was using this as bait to lure him into the bait, so he could only push his thoughts back to the bottom of his heart and waved his hands repeatedly: "The villain has passed his thirties, how can he learn?" You have to get something in, Director Zhang joked."
In fact, Zhang Qianzhi is not entirely joking. Haihan does offer related courses, but the enrollment is extremely strict. If there is no common knowledge of mathematics and physics in the relevant basic subject education of Chinese, it will be difficult to study and understand these relatively advanced mechanical principles in depth.Even for a smart person like Liu Shang, if he was really asked to look at the parts diagram and assembly diagram of the steam engine, he still couldn't understand it.
Zhang Qianzhi didn't answer immediately, but his eyes swept Liu Shang's face back and forth, staring at Liu Shang's heart secretly.It took him a long time before he said again: "I have heard the chief once said that eagerness to learn has no age. If you are really interested in steam engines, it is not impossible to change careers. Director Yu or I will write you a letter of introduction. , you can transfer the working relationship from the Propaganda Department, you may wish to consider it."
Hearing what he said seriously, Liu Shang felt a little uneasy at the moment. His interest is indeed more inclined to the study of machinery, but he also knows that the level of information that this kind of craftsman can get in touch with is very narrow, and it is likely to require latent data. It takes a few years to learn some useful things, and it may not be immediately useful after returning to Daming.But the propaganda department is different. They can get a lot of first-hand news, and they will be more sensitive to Haihan's political trends. It is far easier to collect information than craftsmen.
Thoughts swirled in Liu Shang's mind, but he hesitated for a moment before he made a decision. He bowed to Zhang Qianzhi again and said, "Thank you, Director Zhang, for your kindness. The villain is still good at talking and talking. The villain thinks it's a matter of cross-bank transfer. It’s hard to adapt, and it’s more comfortable to stay in the Propaganda Department to do things.”
Zhang Qianzhi nodded, and didn't continue to follow the topic. He just said "keep up with the team" and walked away on his own.Naturally, Liu Shang didn't dare to stay in front of the juicer any longer, so he quickly followed the large army.
However, after visiting the sugar and wine workshops, Liu Shang was obviously a little absent-minded. The brief conversation with Zhang Qianzhi obviously had a big impact on him, and it could even be said that he had shaken his original firm plan.Until the end of the visit, Liu Shang did not have any conversations with anyone, and was silently thinking about his own thoughts.
(End of this chapter)