Chapter 1286
Changhua Industrial Zone
Chapter 1286 Changhua Industrial Zone
The purpose of Yu Xiaobao and his party to come to Shilu Mine is to inspect the operation status here and understand the current production level, but they did not arrange any publicity activities here. After all, the audience in this place is quite special, and the significance of holding publicity activities not big.So after seeing the mine, even if the task is completed, you can just take the train that leaves the mountain in the afternoon and return to Changhua.Qiao Zhiya didn't plan to keep them overnight at the mine, the accommodation conditions in this mountain were relatively simple, so it was better to go back to Changhua to rest.
So everyone went back to the train station outside the mountain, taking the same train as when they came.But when they arrived at the station, the train was completing a U-turn on the curved track laid at the west end of the station, and they waited on the platform for about a cup of tea before getting on the train.
Needless to say on the return journey, everyone in the inspection team had completed another task, and they were all in a relaxed and happy mood. Only Liu Shang had been secretly thinking about the steam excavator that he hadn't been able to observe up close.Although he was far away, after watching the bustle for so long, he also roughly understood the process of its operation, but he still lacked detailed observations.
If this kind of excavator is really widely used by Haihan, the speed of mining mineral deposits will inevitably increase by leaps and bounds on the basis of today, and then Haihan's steel production will probably be further improved.What does more steel resources mean?That means that Haihan can build more steam engines, arm more troops, and even build the legendary iron-clad giant ship.This is definitely not good news for Daming, who is adjacent to Haihan and has complicated interests.
Liu Shang has stayed in Haihan for more than a month, and has been exposed to so much information that is considered confidential to the outside world. Naturally, his vision is much higher than before coming to Haihan. He has realized that the influence of this thing is not only It will be limited to the mine here. If it is allowed to develop, then perhaps in the near future, the scale of steel smelting in Changhua will continue to increase, and the power balance between Haihan and Daming will continue to change in a direction that is unfavorable to Daming. .
The most ideal solution is probably to try to destroy the only steam excavator in the world, so as to slow down Haihan's development in the mining field.But the mine in Haihan is located in an inland mountainous area, and it is heavily guarded by military police. It is undoubtedly a dream to break into this place by personal force and destroy it.Unless there is a way to pull an armed force to attack here, but doing so is tantamount to a formal war with Haihan, and that is not Liu Shang's original intention to infiltrate Haihan incognito.
The more Liu Shang thought about it, the more he felt that this hidden danger had a far-reaching impact, and he was not in the mood to chat with the people next to him. He just kept looking out the window, pretending to look at the scenery to cover up his state of contemplation.However, everyone was a little tired after walking around for a whole day, and no one noticed anything unusual about his state. An old scholar next to him, who was in charge of being a clerk in the inspection team, was already lying on his seat He fell asleep on the small table in the middle.
All the way without a word, everyone returned to Changhua County smoothly by car, and it was already time for dinner.Qiao Zhiya naturally wanted to show his kindness as a landlord, and set up several banquet tables for everyone.Liu Shang didn't bother to worry about things that he couldn't change, so he simply let go of his burden and ate and drank with everyone.
According to the schedule, the work arrangement of the inspection team on the second day is to visit the local smelting industry.Although Qiao Zhiya said before that there is nothing to see in Changhua, but this Changhua is originally an important industrial city in Haihan, so there is no reason to skip here.Yu Xiaobao and others not only need to understand the local production situation, but also have to convene local grassroots officials in Changhua to conduct publicity activities according to the plan.However, Liu Shang is responsible for the presentation of business and trade, and there is no audience in Changhua, so there is no longer his presentation task at this station, but he can rest assured.
The next day, everyone gathered in the guest house early.Although Liu Shang has no mission, he will never miss this opportunity to have a glimpse of Haihan's industrial strength.Although he doesn't know exactly what the concept of industry is, but these days Yu Xiaobao and others always hear this word on their lips, and Qiao Zhiya also calls the place "Changhua Industrial Zone", so he naturally wants to change it. A comprehensive understanding of what is the "industry" that Haihan Population Center is thinking about.
The first place Qiao Zhiya took them to visit was the largest iron-making blast furnace in the area, but Liu Shang felt a little frustrated that because of safety reasons, everyone could only stand about ten feet away from the blast furnace to watch the operation. Other than being able to see the workers filling the furnace with ore and coke under the command of the furnace head, there were no more details for him to understand the structure principle and smelting process of the Haihan Blast Furnace.
Qiao Zhiya has been introducing the operation of the blast furnace to Yu Xiaobao and others, but what he said is like a bible to Liu Shang, and he can't understand the content at all.For a while, Liu Shang even wondered if the books he had read in the past were all in vain. Why he could not understand the explanation of the Haihan people even though he was proficient in the Four Books and Five Classics and had no language barriers. Can't keep up with the rhythm of the Shanghai Han people?
This is indeed a bit of a breakthrough for Liu Shang's own cognition. He thinks that he is also proficient in astronomy and geography. What does it mean to be together, but I don't understand at all.
After listening carefully for a long time with his ears upright, Liu Shang finally understood that the several numbers that Qiao Zhiya repeatedly emphasized should be a unit of measurement for temperature, and the internal structure and operation method of this blast furnace seem to be all based on the temperature measurement. Based on precise control.But how the Haihan people did this, Liu Shang couldn't figure it out.
For the concept of temperature, Liu Shang only knows the range of temperature difference expressed by words such as cold, cold, cool, warm, hot, and hot. This kind of description is extremely subjective, and there is no definite standard. Most of the time Body temperature is used as a standard to measure the temperature of the surrounding environment.Even a skilled blacksmith engaged in the smelting industry can only judge the approximate temperature by observing the color of the flame based on experience. There is no such exact measurement unit as a catty or a size. It seems that this is one of the exclusive inventions of the Haihan people.If the Haihan people can really control the temperature accurately, then they must have surpassed Daming by a large margin in terms of smelting technology.
In fact, the first gas thermometer was made by the Italian scientist Galileo in the West at the end of the 16th century. It was not until 1641 that the first thermometer using alcohol as a working substance appeared. In the following decades, Scientists continue to perfect the thermometer and try to mark the scale to measure the temperature change.By 1742, the mercury thermometer made by the astronomer Celsius took the temperature difference between the boiling point of water and the melting point of ice as a reference standard, and defined the unit of measurement of temperature. It was not until 1750 that there was a formal Celsius temperature scale.The present is only 1635, and the only people in the world who can formulate an accurate measurement unit for temperature at this time are the Haihan people who have traveled back from the future.
Of course, Liu Shang didn't understand the twists and turns in the middle, he only knew that this invention of the Haihan people was enough to throw Daming some distance away.He could hear the data Qiao Zhiya said clearly, but even remembering these numbers was useless, because he didn't know how the temperature was measured, so naturally he couldn't apply and copy this iron-making method to the go elsewhere.
Liu Shang felt dissatisfied with this, but at this moment he heard Qiao Zhiya calling for everyone to back off again, it turned out that the furnace was about to be opened to pour molten iron.The golden molten iron is poured into a huge crucible, which is controlled by workers using iron chains and winches, slowly moving it to a row of molds arranged, and then tilting the crucible to let the molten iron pour into it.Liu Shang knew that this was casting pig iron ingots, and this was nothing new, but the capacity of Haihan's blast furnace was frighteningly large, and the large crucible had to be divided several times before it was filled. It is as much as several thousand catties.
After the casting operation, the furnace head instructed the workers to start filling the blast furnace again, mainly coke, iron ore and limestone as a flux.After the furnace is built and ignited, it will run around the clock, and the furnace will only be shut down when the furnace needs to be repaired.
Although it was already far away from the furnace, the temperature in the smelting plant made everyone soak their clothes already.At this time, it has entered summer, and the temperature is already relatively high. One can imagine the feeling of baking such a big stove here.Probably only Liu Shang wanted to stay here for a while longer, and everyone else was eager to go out earlier to get some fresh air.
Qiao Zhiya thought that everyone might not be used to the hot environment here, so he had specially prepared herbal tea to cool off the heat, and everyone could drink it when they felt thirsty.After finally seeing the production situation here, everyone had to respectfully wait for Qiao Zhiya and Yu Zhang to leave here first, and then followed behind to the next stop.
Walking out of the workshop, Liu Shang noticed a mountain of pig iron ingots piled up next to him. Qiao Zhiya introduced to everyone that some of these pig iron would be transported to make various iron castings, and the other part would be transported to the steelmaking workshop for further processing .
Liu Shang's understanding of steel smelting is very limited, and it is even more difficult to understand Haihan's various professional operations in this steelmaking workshop.As for Qiao Zhiya's explanation, it seems that it will only make him feel dizzy more and more. What kind of decarburization, dephosphorization, deoxidation, desulfurization, he can't understand what kind of smelting method this is, so he can only act as a spectator and stand by. It's fun to watch.
Compared with yesterday's visit in Shilu, Liu Shang only felt that what he saw today was not much interesting.Of course, there is actually no shortage of steam engine applications here. For example, the transport of various materials and iron lumps between factories is all small trains driven by steam locomotives. to operate.But this kind of relatively superficial application of steam engines is a little out of Liu Shang's eyes now, and he hopes to see new things such as pulverizers and excavators that are unheard of and have more ingenuity.
However, he saw such new equipment that afternoon, a rolling mill for rolling steel, a steam hammer for forging steel, and a machine tool that can cut metal parts.Liu Shang was completely dumbfounded by these various types of steam machines with different functions.The ability to knead and cut hard steel like kneading dough is probably only possible for Haihan people. This method of making steel objects, like the machinery here, is a new thing that he has never even thought of before. .
When Qiao Zhiya led the crowd to visit the steel rail processing process, Liu Shang's mind couldn't keep up with the flood of information.He saw the red-hot steel billets repeatedly passing through the rollers, but what he thought was that he had foolishly thought that Haihan relied on countless blacksmiths to slowly build the tracks for the passing trains. The method can manufacture this long and straight track with a method hundreds of times faster than manual work.From this point of view, the railway that the Haihan people took several years to build would take several times as long as it would have taken the Ming Dynasty to complete.
After visiting the steel rolling production process, Liu Shang finally found a new focus, because Qiao Zhiya then took everyone to visit gun steel—steel specially used for making artillery.
It is a well-known fact that Haihan's weapons are sharp. Of course, Liu Shang really wanted to see how the Haihan people made the invincible artillery on the battlefield.But when he got there, he was very disappointed, because Qiao Zhiya only showed them the inventory of gun steel-a large pile of cylindrical steel products of various thicknesses.After Qiao Zhiya explained the situation, Liu Shang realized that the Haihan people's artillery was not produced here, but from the Tiandu Industrial Zone in Sanya, which is just the place where the raw materials are produced.
In fact, because of the cost, artillery made of steel is rarely equipped in the Haihan Army. The Executive Committee also believes that there is no need to spend a lot of resources to update it when the current weapon level is ahead of the times. A generation of weapons.In this era when cast iron guns were not yet popular, Haihan's existing heavy weapons were enough to gain a clear advantage on the battlefield, and this advantage would continue to be maintained for a foreseeable period of time.
These cannon steels are more used for military scientific research. On the one hand, they are used to improve steelmaking technology. On the other hand, the military industry department will continue to trial-produce new weapons to ensure that Haihan's weapon research and development and manufacturing level will continue to be ahead of this era.Liu Shang wanted to get a glimpse of the secrets of Haihan military industry from Paogang, but this calculation was completely empty.
(End of this chapter)
The purpose of Yu Xiaobao and his party to come to Shilu Mine is to inspect the operation status here and understand the current production level, but they did not arrange any publicity activities here. After all, the audience in this place is quite special, and the significance of holding publicity activities not big.So after seeing the mine, even if the task is completed, you can just take the train that leaves the mountain in the afternoon and return to Changhua.Qiao Zhiya didn't plan to keep them overnight at the mine, the accommodation conditions in this mountain were relatively simple, so it was better to go back to Changhua to rest.
So everyone went back to the train station outside the mountain, taking the same train as when they came.But when they arrived at the station, the train was completing a U-turn on the curved track laid at the west end of the station, and they waited on the platform for about a cup of tea before getting on the train.
Needless to say on the return journey, everyone in the inspection team had completed another task, and they were all in a relaxed and happy mood. Only Liu Shang had been secretly thinking about the steam excavator that he hadn't been able to observe up close.Although he was far away, after watching the bustle for so long, he also roughly understood the process of its operation, but he still lacked detailed observations.
If this kind of excavator is really widely used by Haihan, the speed of mining mineral deposits will inevitably increase by leaps and bounds on the basis of today, and then Haihan's steel production will probably be further improved.What does more steel resources mean?That means that Haihan can build more steam engines, arm more troops, and even build the legendary iron-clad giant ship.This is definitely not good news for Daming, who is adjacent to Haihan and has complicated interests.
Liu Shang has stayed in Haihan for more than a month, and has been exposed to so much information that is considered confidential to the outside world. Naturally, his vision is much higher than before coming to Haihan. He has realized that the influence of this thing is not only It will be limited to the mine here. If it is allowed to develop, then perhaps in the near future, the scale of steel smelting in Changhua will continue to increase, and the power balance between Haihan and Daming will continue to change in a direction that is unfavorable to Daming. .
The most ideal solution is probably to try to destroy the only steam excavator in the world, so as to slow down Haihan's development in the mining field.But the mine in Haihan is located in an inland mountainous area, and it is heavily guarded by military police. It is undoubtedly a dream to break into this place by personal force and destroy it.Unless there is a way to pull an armed force to attack here, but doing so is tantamount to a formal war with Haihan, and that is not Liu Shang's original intention to infiltrate Haihan incognito.
The more Liu Shang thought about it, the more he felt that this hidden danger had a far-reaching impact, and he was not in the mood to chat with the people next to him. He just kept looking out the window, pretending to look at the scenery to cover up his state of contemplation.However, everyone was a little tired after walking around for a whole day, and no one noticed anything unusual about his state. An old scholar next to him, who was in charge of being a clerk in the inspection team, was already lying on his seat He fell asleep on the small table in the middle.
All the way without a word, everyone returned to Changhua County smoothly by car, and it was already time for dinner.Qiao Zhiya naturally wanted to show his kindness as a landlord, and set up several banquet tables for everyone.Liu Shang didn't bother to worry about things that he couldn't change, so he simply let go of his burden and ate and drank with everyone.
According to the schedule, the work arrangement of the inspection team on the second day is to visit the local smelting industry.Although Qiao Zhiya said before that there is nothing to see in Changhua, but this Changhua is originally an important industrial city in Haihan, so there is no reason to skip here.Yu Xiaobao and others not only need to understand the local production situation, but also have to convene local grassroots officials in Changhua to conduct publicity activities according to the plan.However, Liu Shang is responsible for the presentation of business and trade, and there is no audience in Changhua, so there is no longer his presentation task at this station, but he can rest assured.
The next day, everyone gathered in the guest house early.Although Liu Shang has no mission, he will never miss this opportunity to have a glimpse of Haihan's industrial strength.Although he doesn't know exactly what the concept of industry is, but these days Yu Xiaobao and others always hear this word on their lips, and Qiao Zhiya also calls the place "Changhua Industrial Zone", so he naturally wants to change it. A comprehensive understanding of what is the "industry" that Haihan Population Center is thinking about.
The first place Qiao Zhiya took them to visit was the largest iron-making blast furnace in the area, but Liu Shang felt a little frustrated that because of safety reasons, everyone could only stand about ten feet away from the blast furnace to watch the operation. Other than being able to see the workers filling the furnace with ore and coke under the command of the furnace head, there were no more details for him to understand the structure principle and smelting process of the Haihan Blast Furnace.
Qiao Zhiya has been introducing the operation of the blast furnace to Yu Xiaobao and others, but what he said is like a bible to Liu Shang, and he can't understand the content at all.For a while, Liu Shang even wondered if the books he had read in the past were all in vain. Why he could not understand the explanation of the Haihan people even though he was proficient in the Four Books and Five Classics and had no language barriers. Can't keep up with the rhythm of the Shanghai Han people?
This is indeed a bit of a breakthrough for Liu Shang's own cognition. He thinks that he is also proficient in astronomy and geography. What does it mean to be together, but I don't understand at all.
After listening carefully for a long time with his ears upright, Liu Shang finally understood that the several numbers that Qiao Zhiya repeatedly emphasized should be a unit of measurement for temperature, and the internal structure and operation method of this blast furnace seem to be all based on the temperature measurement. Based on precise control.But how the Haihan people did this, Liu Shang couldn't figure it out.
For the concept of temperature, Liu Shang only knows the range of temperature difference expressed by words such as cold, cold, cool, warm, hot, and hot. This kind of description is extremely subjective, and there is no definite standard. Most of the time Body temperature is used as a standard to measure the temperature of the surrounding environment.Even a skilled blacksmith engaged in the smelting industry can only judge the approximate temperature by observing the color of the flame based on experience. There is no such exact measurement unit as a catty or a size. It seems that this is one of the exclusive inventions of the Haihan people.If the Haihan people can really control the temperature accurately, then they must have surpassed Daming by a large margin in terms of smelting technology.
In fact, the first gas thermometer was made by the Italian scientist Galileo in the West at the end of the 16th century. It was not until 1641 that the first thermometer using alcohol as a working substance appeared. In the following decades, Scientists continue to perfect the thermometer and try to mark the scale to measure the temperature change.By 1742, the mercury thermometer made by the astronomer Celsius took the temperature difference between the boiling point of water and the melting point of ice as a reference standard, and defined the unit of measurement of temperature. It was not until 1750 that there was a formal Celsius temperature scale.The present is only 1635, and the only people in the world who can formulate an accurate measurement unit for temperature at this time are the Haihan people who have traveled back from the future.
Of course, Liu Shang didn't understand the twists and turns in the middle, he only knew that this invention of the Haihan people was enough to throw Daming some distance away.He could hear the data Qiao Zhiya said clearly, but even remembering these numbers was useless, because he didn't know how the temperature was measured, so naturally he couldn't apply and copy this iron-making method to the go elsewhere.
Liu Shang felt dissatisfied with this, but at this moment he heard Qiao Zhiya calling for everyone to back off again, it turned out that the furnace was about to be opened to pour molten iron.The golden molten iron is poured into a huge crucible, which is controlled by workers using iron chains and winches, slowly moving it to a row of molds arranged, and then tilting the crucible to let the molten iron pour into it.Liu Shang knew that this was casting pig iron ingots, and this was nothing new, but the capacity of Haihan's blast furnace was frighteningly large, and the large crucible had to be divided several times before it was filled. It is as much as several thousand catties.
After the casting operation, the furnace head instructed the workers to start filling the blast furnace again, mainly coke, iron ore and limestone as a flux.After the furnace is built and ignited, it will run around the clock, and the furnace will only be shut down when the furnace needs to be repaired.
Although it was already far away from the furnace, the temperature in the smelting plant made everyone soak their clothes already.At this time, it has entered summer, and the temperature is already relatively high. One can imagine the feeling of baking such a big stove here.Probably only Liu Shang wanted to stay here for a while longer, and everyone else was eager to go out earlier to get some fresh air.
Qiao Zhiya thought that everyone might not be used to the hot environment here, so he had specially prepared herbal tea to cool off the heat, and everyone could drink it when they felt thirsty.After finally seeing the production situation here, everyone had to respectfully wait for Qiao Zhiya and Yu Zhang to leave here first, and then followed behind to the next stop.
Walking out of the workshop, Liu Shang noticed a mountain of pig iron ingots piled up next to him. Qiao Zhiya introduced to everyone that some of these pig iron would be transported to make various iron castings, and the other part would be transported to the steelmaking workshop for further processing .
Liu Shang's understanding of steel smelting is very limited, and it is even more difficult to understand Haihan's various professional operations in this steelmaking workshop.As for Qiao Zhiya's explanation, it seems that it will only make him feel dizzy more and more. What kind of decarburization, dephosphorization, deoxidation, desulfurization, he can't understand what kind of smelting method this is, so he can only act as a spectator and stand by. It's fun to watch.
Compared with yesterday's visit in Shilu, Liu Shang only felt that what he saw today was not much interesting.Of course, there is actually no shortage of steam engine applications here. For example, the transport of various materials and iron lumps between factories is all small trains driven by steam locomotives. to operate.But this kind of relatively superficial application of steam engines is a little out of Liu Shang's eyes now, and he hopes to see new things such as pulverizers and excavators that are unheard of and have more ingenuity.
However, he saw such new equipment that afternoon, a rolling mill for rolling steel, a steam hammer for forging steel, and a machine tool that can cut metal parts.Liu Shang was completely dumbfounded by these various types of steam machines with different functions.The ability to knead and cut hard steel like kneading dough is probably only possible for Haihan people. This method of making steel objects, like the machinery here, is a new thing that he has never even thought of before. .
When Qiao Zhiya led the crowd to visit the steel rail processing process, Liu Shang's mind couldn't keep up with the flood of information.He saw the red-hot steel billets repeatedly passing through the rollers, but what he thought was that he had foolishly thought that Haihan relied on countless blacksmiths to slowly build the tracks for the passing trains. The method can manufacture this long and straight track with a method hundreds of times faster than manual work.From this point of view, the railway that the Haihan people took several years to build would take several times as long as it would have taken the Ming Dynasty to complete.
After visiting the steel rolling production process, Liu Shang finally found a new focus, because Qiao Zhiya then took everyone to visit gun steel—steel specially used for making artillery.
It is a well-known fact that Haihan's weapons are sharp. Of course, Liu Shang really wanted to see how the Haihan people made the invincible artillery on the battlefield.But when he got there, he was very disappointed, because Qiao Zhiya only showed them the inventory of gun steel-a large pile of cylindrical steel products of various thicknesses.After Qiao Zhiya explained the situation, Liu Shang realized that the Haihan people's artillery was not produced here, but from the Tiandu Industrial Zone in Sanya, which is just the place where the raw materials are produced.
In fact, because of the cost, artillery made of steel is rarely equipped in the Haihan Army. The Executive Committee also believes that there is no need to spend a lot of resources to update it when the current weapon level is ahead of the times. A generation of weapons.In this era when cast iron guns were not yet popular, Haihan's existing heavy weapons were enough to gain a clear advantage on the battlefield, and this advantage would continue to be maintained for a foreseeable period of time.
These cannon steels are more used for military scientific research. On the one hand, they are used to improve steelmaking technology. On the other hand, the military industry department will continue to trial-produce new weapons to ensure that Haihan's weapon research and development and manufacturing level will continue to be ahead of this era.Liu Shang wanted to get a glimpse of the secrets of Haihan military industry from Paogang, but this calculation was completely empty.
(End of this chapter)