Chapter 1284
Visit Shilu Iron Mine
Chapter 1284 Visit Shilu Iron Mine
Liu Shang was so terrified by Zhang Qianzhi's smile. Just when he didn't know how to deal with it, a few whistles came from the distant forest, and then the locomotive of the train they were on also started rhythmically. Sirens answered.A moment later, everyone felt the ground tremble under their feet. A train loaded with ore and logs galloped from the west, passed the train stopped at the side road, and roared towards Changhua Port.
The two cars used the siren signal as a communication method to avoid any failure of the train leaving Changhua during its journey, and did not drive into the branch road in time to give way to the main track.If the situation is abnormal, the train leaving from Shilu will stop in time to eliminate possible hidden dangers ahead.Although the method is simple, the effect is very satisfactory. Since the opening of this railway line for several years, although there have been unexpected situations where the train was lying down due to a breakdown during the journey, there has never been an accident in the link of diverting and wrong trains on the way.Every morning and evening, the trains miss the train halfway, and they operate in this way day after day, year after year.
However, after the siren blew, Liu Shang's embarrassing situation was relieved. After the train passing by, someone called everyone to get on the train and set off, so that Liu Shang could finally get rid of Zhang Qianzhi's "entanglement" naturally.
Along the way, Liu Shang felt that the food, lodging, and transportation were all good. It was the existence of Zhang Qianzhi that kept him on pins and needles. Will suddenly bite myself.But he is in the current position and environment, and there is no way to actively avoid the existence of the other party, which is really very uncomfortable.
However, after Zhang Qianzhi returned to the car again, he seemed to have ignored his existence, sat back beside Yu Xiaobao calmly, and continued to chat and laugh with Qiao Zhiya.Liu Shang heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that Zhang Qianzhi's attention was no longer on himself.
At this time, the train had only reached half of the journey, and for the next hour, the train continued to pass through the vast forest.Just seeing the dense virgin forest outside the car window, Liu Shang can roughly imagine how difficult it was for the Haihan people to build a railway here for trains. The Shilu Iron Mine, which is located in the deep mountains, is said to have a population of several thousand. The supplies are basically maintained by this railway, and only Haihan can make such a seemingly crazy arrangement.
Among Yu Xiaobao and his group, many of them, like Liu Shang, came to Shilu for the first time. They were also amazed at the natural scenes along the way. Only when you come to this place in the world can you enjoy such adventures.The Sanya Railway was also opened up in the forest at the beginning, but now the forests on both sides of the road have been cut down and used to build various industrial facilities along the railway, and various farms have been opened up in farther places, which have long been invisible This is such a natural scenery.
"The front is the first and only cross-river railway bridge built in our country, Changjiang Bridge." Following Qiao Zhiya's introduction, the train has already driven on the Changjiang Bridge quickly.However, the span of this railway bridge is not large, including the approach bridge, it is only about [-] meters. The piers in the middle are all built on the rocky beach in the center of the river, and the height from the bridge deck to the water surface is only four or five meters. The difficulty of construction is actually not that great.But in the current era, building a bridge capable of carrying rail transport in such an environment is already a feat of bridge engineering.
However, at the speed of the train, it only passed the railway bridge in a short moment. Before Liu Shang even had time to stand up and look around, he saw the Changjiang River passing by under his feet. I didn't see clearly what the railway bridge that I was showing off looked like.Liu Shang secretly sighed, and sat back on the chair with his raised buttocks.
After crossing the railway bridge, the train began to slow down slowly. After traveling for four or five miles, the station ahead could be seen from the window.A tall iron frame straddles the railway, and there are two big characters of "Shilu" on the frame, which indicate that this is the destination of everyone's trip.
After Liu Shang got off the bus, he noticed that the platform here seemed to be larger than that of Changhua Railway Station. The area where the ore and logs were piled up almost occupied [-]% of the entire platform, leaving only a three-foot-wide road. For the entry and exit of a small number of passengers.And outside the platform, you can see a small freight train that is only one-third the size of the train you are on, and it is transporting a carload of ore from a distant hillside.
This scene made Liu Shang refresh his concept of steam locomotives again. Only then did he realize that this thing can not only be used for long-distance transportation, but also can be used for short-distance transportation to improve transportation efficiency.The railway needed to be built for this one-size-smaller freight train is obviously much narrower, and the rails are also much thinner. Naturally, its construction cost and construction period will be much shorter than this regular railway.Even if Liu Shang regards Haihan as an opponent in his heart, he still has to admire his ingenuity in improving production capacity, which is indeed beyond Da Ming's.
After everyone got out of the car, they headed towards the west mine on the nearby hillside under the leadership of Qiao Zhiya.Although it looked close, it took a long time to get there.
Presented in front of everyone is an oval mine pit about one mile long and half a mile wide. A channel more than one foot wide extends downward in a zigzag pattern along the wall of the pit, and it is at least ten feet deep at the bottom.Hundreds of miners work at various mining points in this large pit, using hammers, shovels, chisels, shovels and other tools to mine the ore, put it into the car bucket laid on the pit wall, and then go to the pit outside the mine to mine the ore. The steam hoist at the center rolls the steel cable and pulls the ore up from the pit.
Liu Shang understood from a high place that this ore transport system is a three-dimensional version of a miniature train, but this small train has no front, and uses a high-level steam winch to control the ore-loading car body by pulling a steel cable Move back and forth on the track.In fact, there are similar devices like this in some mines in Daming, but they usually use animal power or even human power to push the winch to pull the ore loading car body. The efficiency is definitely not as good as the tireless steam engine of the Haihan people.
"It can still be used like this!" Liu Shang suddenly felt a little enlightened. It seems that as long as the work needs to be done with great effort, he can use this steam engine to complete it. It is nothing more than outputting the huge force generated by it in different ways. That's all.Of course, this matter is easy to say, but it requires very professional knowledge and skills to implement it. At least Liu Shang is unable to design a machine that can run smoothly and achieve these goals.It's also frustrating to think about it, because even if you understand how it works, it's still hard to replicate it.
There are as many as ten steam hoists like this deployed around the mine pit, and next to each one there are hills of coal, a water truck to replenish water for the boiler, and several operators.The truck body is constantly going up and down the pit wall, and it is not known how much ore will be transported out of the pit in a day.Liu Shang only looked at it for a moment, and he knew that the mining efficiency here was difficult to catch up with the Daming Mine.
Liu Shang secretly sighed, knowing that this gap is not limited to this place, the mine is the source of smelting steel, and Haihan leads step by step, with the amazing mining speed of this place, presumably the many people in Changhua County The smelting workshop will not be idle either.No wonder Haihan spared no effort to transport coal across the sea, and built dozens of kilometers of railways to transport ore out of the mountain, all in order to increase steel production.These links are closely intertwined, and each link is running at high speed and developing continuously. It is no wonder that Haihanneng has risen rapidly in the South China Sea in just a few years.
As for why Haihan needs so much steel, Liu Shang thinks he already knows a thing or two. Haihan promotes the application of this steam engine, and his army is equipped with a large number of sharp guns. Legend has it that Haihan also has the secret technique of building giant steel ships. The amount of steel needed must be astronomical. Only by building a town like Changhua that specializes in smelting can we concentrate resources to produce enough steel.
Although Liu Shang's thoughts are somewhat one-sided, they are basically true.However, Haihan's application of steel is not limited to the manufacture of steam engines and various weapons. In the process of promoting industrialization, there are too many places that need to use steel and other metals.It's just that most of these applications are concentrated in the Tiandu Industrial Zone, which is not open to the outside world. Liu Shang has not been in Sanya for a long time, so with his current status, he naturally has no access to the actual situation in the industrial zone.
Qiao Zhiya gave everyone a general introduction to the production arrangement of the West Mine and the production status this year. Liu Shang is not so sensitive to the concept of numbers. Already attracted by the sound coming from the other side of the pit.
The sound coming from the distant slope was louder than the steam engine. Liu Shang couldn't help but wonder what kind of mechanical monster was hidden there that could make such a loud noise.
His curiosity was quickly satisfied, and Qiao Zhiya brought them there while introducing the local production situation.Only then did Liu Shang see that the loud noise turned out to be a large machine for crushing ore.After the ore mined from the mine is pulled up by the bucket, it is directly dumped into this machine, and then the large ore is crushed into smaller pieces by the steel cam in it for subsequent loading.After the ore is crushed, it is directly poured from the discharge port into the conveying trough laid on the hillside, and it is naturally slid down to the storage yard at the foot of the mountain by gravity, where it is loaded on a small train and transported to Shilu Railway Station.
In the entire processing process, there are only two or three workers operating the steam engine, and this efficiency is probably better than the labor of dozens of people.Rao Liu Shang is not surprised by the use of steam engines, but after understanding the principle and function of this thing, he can't help but be impressed by the ingenuity of the Haihan people again.Haihan can always use the steam engine in the most appropriate place to replace manpower to do clumsy work, which has become another reason why Liu Shang is amazed.
"There are four ore crushers like this in the West Mine, and six in the East Mine..." Qiao Zhiya's introduction made Liu Shang secretly swallow his saliva. He thought there was only one such thing, but he still underestimated it greatly. Haihan's strength.As for Qiao Zhiya's next introduction of how many tons of ore this thing can process every day, Liu Shang couldn't have a definite idea about it, so he automatically ignored it.
According to what Liu Shang saw during his visit here, the mining efficiency of the mines operated by thousands of miners and various steam machines is at least equivalent to that of three to four thousand people working by hand.Haihan's way of operating here is completely beyond ordinary people's imagination, and it's no wonder they don't want to open this area to the outside world.
However, Liu Shang suddenly thought of a question, since Haihan is so good at using steam machinery, why not simply build a few machines capable of mining to replace the relatively inefficient manual mining?
As soon as he thought of this, someone had already asked the question for him.Then Yu Xiaobao asked Qiao Zhiya: "I heard that the Ministry of Industry has been developing steam-powered excavators for several years. I wonder how it is going?"
Qiao Zhiya replied with a smile: "This thing is actually not very technically difficult. The Ministry of Industry has issued blueprints a long time ago, but Tian Du's manufacturing progress can't keep up. The things have been shipped over a while ago, and they are assembled and debugged here. It’s been working for more than half a month, and it’s been put into trial use now, and I’ll take you to see it later.”
Yu Xiaobao comprehended and asked: "Did you try it in the mine over there in the labor camp?"
Qiao Zhiya nodded and said: "It's a new thing, there are still many unstable places, and the operator is not particularly skilled, so it will affect the normal mining work if used here. Besides, for safety reasons, it is also put there for trial use. Relatively safe."
With the technology mastered by Haihan, it is not difficult to design an excavator using steam power, but after the prototype is built, it must be tested in the mine, and then improved and adjusted according to the actual use effect, in order to finalize the final product. Production version.In order to avoid injuring other people by making mistakes in the operation of this thing, Qiao Zhiya decided to put it into operation in the East Mine where the convicts served as labor.Moreover, the local hard labor prisoners are all serious criminals with long sentences, so there is no need to worry about this thing leaking out in a short period of time.
Liu Shang was also very curious after hearing this conversation, and wanted to see how the steam excavator works.However, it was almost noon at this time, Qiao Zhiya suggested to have lunch first, and then visit the East Mine in the afternoon.Yu Xiaobao and the others were not in a hurry, so they naturally followed Qiao Zhiya's arrangement.So a group of people went back down the mountain first, accompanied by several cadres from the mine, and went to the staff cafeteria of the nearby mine for dinner.
(End of this chapter)
Liu Shang was so terrified by Zhang Qianzhi's smile. Just when he didn't know how to deal with it, a few whistles came from the distant forest, and then the locomotive of the train they were on also started rhythmically. Sirens answered.A moment later, everyone felt the ground tremble under their feet. A train loaded with ore and logs galloped from the west, passed the train stopped at the side road, and roared towards Changhua Port.
The two cars used the siren signal as a communication method to avoid any failure of the train leaving Changhua during its journey, and did not drive into the branch road in time to give way to the main track.If the situation is abnormal, the train leaving from Shilu will stop in time to eliminate possible hidden dangers ahead.Although the method is simple, the effect is very satisfactory. Since the opening of this railway line for several years, although there have been unexpected situations where the train was lying down due to a breakdown during the journey, there has never been an accident in the link of diverting and wrong trains on the way.Every morning and evening, the trains miss the train halfway, and they operate in this way day after day, year after year.
However, after the siren blew, Liu Shang's embarrassing situation was relieved. After the train passing by, someone called everyone to get on the train and set off, so that Liu Shang could finally get rid of Zhang Qianzhi's "entanglement" naturally.
Along the way, Liu Shang felt that the food, lodging, and transportation were all good. It was the existence of Zhang Qianzhi that kept him on pins and needles. Will suddenly bite myself.But he is in the current position and environment, and there is no way to actively avoid the existence of the other party, which is really very uncomfortable.
However, after Zhang Qianzhi returned to the car again, he seemed to have ignored his existence, sat back beside Yu Xiaobao calmly, and continued to chat and laugh with Qiao Zhiya.Liu Shang heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that Zhang Qianzhi's attention was no longer on himself.
At this time, the train had only reached half of the journey, and for the next hour, the train continued to pass through the vast forest.Just seeing the dense virgin forest outside the car window, Liu Shang can roughly imagine how difficult it was for the Haihan people to build a railway here for trains. The Shilu Iron Mine, which is located in the deep mountains, is said to have a population of several thousand. The supplies are basically maintained by this railway, and only Haihan can make such a seemingly crazy arrangement.
Among Yu Xiaobao and his group, many of them, like Liu Shang, came to Shilu for the first time. They were also amazed at the natural scenes along the way. Only when you come to this place in the world can you enjoy such adventures.The Sanya Railway was also opened up in the forest at the beginning, but now the forests on both sides of the road have been cut down and used to build various industrial facilities along the railway, and various farms have been opened up in farther places, which have long been invisible This is such a natural scenery.
"The front is the first and only cross-river railway bridge built in our country, Changjiang Bridge." Following Qiao Zhiya's introduction, the train has already driven on the Changjiang Bridge quickly.However, the span of this railway bridge is not large, including the approach bridge, it is only about [-] meters. The piers in the middle are all built on the rocky beach in the center of the river, and the height from the bridge deck to the water surface is only four or five meters. The difficulty of construction is actually not that great.But in the current era, building a bridge capable of carrying rail transport in such an environment is already a feat of bridge engineering.
However, at the speed of the train, it only passed the railway bridge in a short moment. Before Liu Shang even had time to stand up and look around, he saw the Changjiang River passing by under his feet. I didn't see clearly what the railway bridge that I was showing off looked like.Liu Shang secretly sighed, and sat back on the chair with his raised buttocks.
After crossing the railway bridge, the train began to slow down slowly. After traveling for four or five miles, the station ahead could be seen from the window.A tall iron frame straddles the railway, and there are two big characters of "Shilu" on the frame, which indicate that this is the destination of everyone's trip.
After Liu Shang got off the bus, he noticed that the platform here seemed to be larger than that of Changhua Railway Station. The area where the ore and logs were piled up almost occupied [-]% of the entire platform, leaving only a three-foot-wide road. For the entry and exit of a small number of passengers.And outside the platform, you can see a small freight train that is only one-third the size of the train you are on, and it is transporting a carload of ore from a distant hillside.
This scene made Liu Shang refresh his concept of steam locomotives again. Only then did he realize that this thing can not only be used for long-distance transportation, but also can be used for short-distance transportation to improve transportation efficiency.The railway needed to be built for this one-size-smaller freight train is obviously much narrower, and the rails are also much thinner. Naturally, its construction cost and construction period will be much shorter than this regular railway.Even if Liu Shang regards Haihan as an opponent in his heart, he still has to admire his ingenuity in improving production capacity, which is indeed beyond Da Ming's.
After everyone got out of the car, they headed towards the west mine on the nearby hillside under the leadership of Qiao Zhiya.Although it looked close, it took a long time to get there.
Presented in front of everyone is an oval mine pit about one mile long and half a mile wide. A channel more than one foot wide extends downward in a zigzag pattern along the wall of the pit, and it is at least ten feet deep at the bottom.Hundreds of miners work at various mining points in this large pit, using hammers, shovels, chisels, shovels and other tools to mine the ore, put it into the car bucket laid on the pit wall, and then go to the pit outside the mine to mine the ore. The steam hoist at the center rolls the steel cable and pulls the ore up from the pit.
Liu Shang understood from a high place that this ore transport system is a three-dimensional version of a miniature train, but this small train has no front, and uses a high-level steam winch to control the ore-loading car body by pulling a steel cable Move back and forth on the track.In fact, there are similar devices like this in some mines in Daming, but they usually use animal power or even human power to push the winch to pull the ore loading car body. The efficiency is definitely not as good as the tireless steam engine of the Haihan people.
"It can still be used like this!" Liu Shang suddenly felt a little enlightened. It seems that as long as the work needs to be done with great effort, he can use this steam engine to complete it. It is nothing more than outputting the huge force generated by it in different ways. That's all.Of course, this matter is easy to say, but it requires very professional knowledge and skills to implement it. At least Liu Shang is unable to design a machine that can run smoothly and achieve these goals.It's also frustrating to think about it, because even if you understand how it works, it's still hard to replicate it.
There are as many as ten steam hoists like this deployed around the mine pit, and next to each one there are hills of coal, a water truck to replenish water for the boiler, and several operators.The truck body is constantly going up and down the pit wall, and it is not known how much ore will be transported out of the pit in a day.Liu Shang only looked at it for a moment, and he knew that the mining efficiency here was difficult to catch up with the Daming Mine.
Liu Shang secretly sighed, knowing that this gap is not limited to this place, the mine is the source of smelting steel, and Haihan leads step by step, with the amazing mining speed of this place, presumably the many people in Changhua County The smelting workshop will not be idle either.No wonder Haihan spared no effort to transport coal across the sea, and built dozens of kilometers of railways to transport ore out of the mountain, all in order to increase steel production.These links are closely intertwined, and each link is running at high speed and developing continuously. It is no wonder that Haihanneng has risen rapidly in the South China Sea in just a few years.
As for why Haihan needs so much steel, Liu Shang thinks he already knows a thing or two. Haihan promotes the application of this steam engine, and his army is equipped with a large number of sharp guns. Legend has it that Haihan also has the secret technique of building giant steel ships. The amount of steel needed must be astronomical. Only by building a town like Changhua that specializes in smelting can we concentrate resources to produce enough steel.
Although Liu Shang's thoughts are somewhat one-sided, they are basically true.However, Haihan's application of steel is not limited to the manufacture of steam engines and various weapons. In the process of promoting industrialization, there are too many places that need to use steel and other metals.It's just that most of these applications are concentrated in the Tiandu Industrial Zone, which is not open to the outside world. Liu Shang has not been in Sanya for a long time, so with his current status, he naturally has no access to the actual situation in the industrial zone.
Qiao Zhiya gave everyone a general introduction to the production arrangement of the West Mine and the production status this year. Liu Shang is not so sensitive to the concept of numbers. Already attracted by the sound coming from the other side of the pit.
The sound coming from the distant slope was louder than the steam engine. Liu Shang couldn't help but wonder what kind of mechanical monster was hidden there that could make such a loud noise.
His curiosity was quickly satisfied, and Qiao Zhiya brought them there while introducing the local production situation.Only then did Liu Shang see that the loud noise turned out to be a large machine for crushing ore.After the ore mined from the mine is pulled up by the bucket, it is directly dumped into this machine, and then the large ore is crushed into smaller pieces by the steel cam in it for subsequent loading.After the ore is crushed, it is directly poured from the discharge port into the conveying trough laid on the hillside, and it is naturally slid down to the storage yard at the foot of the mountain by gravity, where it is loaded on a small train and transported to Shilu Railway Station.
In the entire processing process, there are only two or three workers operating the steam engine, and this efficiency is probably better than the labor of dozens of people.Rao Liu Shang is not surprised by the use of steam engines, but after understanding the principle and function of this thing, he can't help but be impressed by the ingenuity of the Haihan people again.Haihan can always use the steam engine in the most appropriate place to replace manpower to do clumsy work, which has become another reason why Liu Shang is amazed.
"There are four ore crushers like this in the West Mine, and six in the East Mine..." Qiao Zhiya's introduction made Liu Shang secretly swallow his saliva. He thought there was only one such thing, but he still underestimated it greatly. Haihan's strength.As for Qiao Zhiya's next introduction of how many tons of ore this thing can process every day, Liu Shang couldn't have a definite idea about it, so he automatically ignored it.
According to what Liu Shang saw during his visit here, the mining efficiency of the mines operated by thousands of miners and various steam machines is at least equivalent to that of three to four thousand people working by hand.Haihan's way of operating here is completely beyond ordinary people's imagination, and it's no wonder they don't want to open this area to the outside world.
However, Liu Shang suddenly thought of a question, since Haihan is so good at using steam machinery, why not simply build a few machines capable of mining to replace the relatively inefficient manual mining?
As soon as he thought of this, someone had already asked the question for him.Then Yu Xiaobao asked Qiao Zhiya: "I heard that the Ministry of Industry has been developing steam-powered excavators for several years. I wonder how it is going?"
Qiao Zhiya replied with a smile: "This thing is actually not very technically difficult. The Ministry of Industry has issued blueprints a long time ago, but Tian Du's manufacturing progress can't keep up. The things have been shipped over a while ago, and they are assembled and debugged here. It’s been working for more than half a month, and it’s been put into trial use now, and I’ll take you to see it later.”
Yu Xiaobao comprehended and asked: "Did you try it in the mine over there in the labor camp?"
Qiao Zhiya nodded and said: "It's a new thing, there are still many unstable places, and the operator is not particularly skilled, so it will affect the normal mining work if used here. Besides, for safety reasons, it is also put there for trial use. Relatively safe."
With the technology mastered by Haihan, it is not difficult to design an excavator using steam power, but after the prototype is built, it must be tested in the mine, and then improved and adjusted according to the actual use effect, in order to finalize the final product. Production version.In order to avoid injuring other people by making mistakes in the operation of this thing, Qiao Zhiya decided to put it into operation in the East Mine where the convicts served as labor.Moreover, the local hard labor prisoners are all serious criminals with long sentences, so there is no need to worry about this thing leaking out in a short period of time.
Liu Shang was also very curious after hearing this conversation, and wanted to see how the steam excavator works.However, it was almost noon at this time, Qiao Zhiya suggested to have lunch first, and then visit the East Mine in the afternoon.Yu Xiaobao and the others were not in a hurry, so they naturally followed Qiao Zhiya's arrangement.So a group of people went back down the mountain first, accompanied by several cadres from the mine, and went to the staff cafeteria of the nearby mine for dinner.
(End of this chapter)