Chapter 206: Stand Up! (Update 27)
However, simple plans are no longer sufficient to support the development of Changshan County.
After Changshan County had the environment and capital to develop industries, Lin Wen decided to implement his long-planned transportation plan.
It is also known as the plagiarism plan, the twisted dough plan, the plan where I can copy but you can't copy me, the Changshan County Industrial Plan, etc.
Moreover, he has a trump card.
Seeking answers to the universe
Asking the Heaven
Science and technology are the primary productive forces.
Using magic to obtain technology is his attack route!
Of course, the restriction on this route is still the soul.
Only sleep and meditation can restore the spirit.
Only with a soul can you use magic.
You can only obtain technology if you have spells.
so.
Sleeping is the primary productive force.
However, steelmaking is not among them.
High costs, thin profits, and low technological content.
However, since Changshan County already exists, let's try to save it with the attitude of waste utilization.
So, Lin Wen brought Fang Weiwei with him, and the four of them soon arrived at a mountain in the central part of Changshan County.
Changshan Iron and Steel Plant is built on this mountain.
It was built here because this was the original Changshan Iron Mine.
The grade of Changshan Iron Mine is acceptable, but due to transportation difficulties and high logistics costs, coupled with the excessive supply of iron ore in the western part of the empire, no one is interested in it due to the internal competition in the industry.
The former County Magistrate Zhao took a gamble in anger and spent all his savings to build a steel plant on it.
Unfortunately, gamblers always lose everything.
The Changshan Iron and Steel Plant looks very clean on the outside and covers an area of about 180 hectares, which is not small.
At the front of the factory is the warehouse, followed by the rolling mill, steel mill, iron mill, and at the innermost part is the iron mine.
There are also office buildings, power plants, machine repair shops and maintenance plants on both sides.
The facilities are ok.
Zhang Xiaoda led them into the steel plant. In the large factory building, most of the facilities were cold gray, and only a small part emitted heat. The workers were all concentrated there.
The workers shouted, and a hot ladle turned over. The red molten steel formed a solidified light ribbon and flowed into the steel trough, sparks flying, and the workers operated nervously.
Steel mills are the places where production accidents are most likely to occur. If you are not careful, the molten steel at thousands of degrees can cause scalding and either death or injury.
Lin Wen said to Fang Weiwei, "Wash off your makeup, put on your safety helmet and work clothes, and go find out what the workers are up to."
Fang Weiwei nodded and turned to go to the bathroom.
Lin Wen said to Zhao Pengyuan and Zhang Xiaoda, "Take me to see the scrapped steel furnace."
The group came to a cold device, and Zhang Xiaoda pointed to a steel furnace about three stories high embedded in countless complex steel pipeline facilities.
"This is the most advanced composite oxygen-blowing converter in the Empire State, with a capacity of 70 tons."
Lin Wen climbed up the scaffolding next to the furnace and saw that the entire furnace was filled with blue-gray steel, which had been bonded to the furnace wall.
From a human perspective, it is no longer worth repairing.
Lin Wen jumped into the steelmaking furnace, walked around inside, carefully looked at the junction of the solidified molten steel and the equipment, and an idea came to his mind.
Climbing down, he asked, "Do you have all the necessary facilities now? Will there be another stupid mistake like a power outage?"
Zhang Xiaoda replied, "It's basically complete, but the scrapped steel furnace is still a little short."
Zhao Pengyuan hurriedly said, "Chief Lin, are you ready to change the furnace?"
Lin Wen said, "I know a top-notch steel furnace repair team that specializes in repairing situations like yours where molten steel has condensed in the furnace. I'll have them come and fix the furnace."
Zhao Pengyuan and Zhang Xiaoda looked at each other in disbelief.
Zhao Pengyuan asked cautiously, "Chief Lin, I've never heard of anyone repairing a furnace that has molten steel solidified into lumps. Aren't they using destructive cutting? That furnace would be scrapped, too."
Lin Wen shook his head. “They’ll get the solidified steel out without damaging the furnace walls.”
Zhao Pengyuan and Zhang Xiaoda looked at each other and saw disbelief in each other's eyes.
Zhang Xiaoda said, "Chief Lin, theoretically it should be possible, but the cost of doing so would be even higher than buying a new steelmaking furnace."
Lin Wen said, "Don't worry, it's free."
"Zhao Pengyuan, quickly make a list of all the missing equipment, especially the safety and protective equipment, and submit it to the Finance Department for procurement. Purchase them as quickly as possible, deliver them as soon as possible, debug them safely, and resume production as soon as possible. I don't want to see any more losses."
Zhao Pengyuan was stunned and quickly said, "Yes! County Magistrate Lin!"
Zhang Xiaoda still found it hard to believe and asked, "Chief Lin, which engineering team is this? What's their name?"
Lin Wen answered casually, "Maria's Java Engineering Team."
Zhang Xiaoda was surprised: "Outside the empire? Why don't they want money?"
"The boss is my close brother."
Lin Wen called Fang Weiwei, left Zhang Xiaoda and Zhao Pengyuan standing there in a daze, and quickly returned to the car.
Fang Weiwei was still wearing her work clothes. She was about to change, but Lin Wen held her hand.
"Don't undress in front of me."
Fang Weiwei's face quickly turned red, and she whispered softly, "But, I'm so ugly."
Lin Wen said, "What's so ugly about workers' clothes? I quite liked them when I was in the physics world."
Although Fang Weiwei didn't understand what the physical world meant, she still put her hand down.
“Have you understood the workers’ wages, benefits, and working conditions?”
Fang Weiwei nodded gently. "750 a month, with basic benefits and room and board, but the factory is losing money and only pays 150. It's three shifts, with one day off a month. The working environment isn't great, especially for the furnace workers, who work directly with the molten steel, which is very dangerous."
Lin Wen said, "Please remember this. I'll inform the factory manager later that the salary will be increased to 800 yuan, and will be paid in full starting tomorrow. They will also receive four days off per month, full labor protection clothing and safety measures, and subsidies for furnace workers."
"The engineering team will be here tonight to repair the furnace. This top international engineering team doesn't like to be disturbed. We've told the night shift workers to stay at their posts and not to come and watch. Otherwise, you'll bear the consequences."
"Tell the factory manager to prepare for full resumption of production tomorrow."
"Also, when you return, investigate the economy, residents, and business conditions of Changshan County and write me a 'Changshan County Survey'."
Seeing Fang Weiwei's embarrassment, he added, "You can find someone to help you. This is my order. If anyone doesn't help you, you can kill him. If he can't help you, ask me to do it."
"With me, your grandfather, backing you up, if you don't take advantage of this opportunity to act a little more cool, I won't even look down on you. Do you understand?"
"Um."
Fang Weiwei almost shrank into the ground after answering in a very quiet voice.
In the middle of the night, Lin Wen rented a bus and drove to the steel plant.
Since Lin Wen's driving skills were very poor, he carried the car to the factory gate, put it down, and then got back in.
When the guard saw that it was County Chief Lin who had brought the engineering team, he hurriedly opened the door.
Lin Wen stepped on the accelerator and the bus rushed into the factory area. Then it flew into the parking lot behind the building like a dragon and crashed into the wall with a bang.
While the guard was still closing the door, Lin Wen manually pushed the bus into the parking space and carefully adjusted the position to ensure it was accurate.
Just as I parked the car, the guard came over and said, "Ah, County Chief Lin, what was that noise just now? Why did I hear something bang?"
Lin Wen said, "You heard wrong. Go back to your post."
Although the guard wanted to see with his own eyes the engineering team that came to solve the nightmare that had plagued them for a year, he could not disobey County Chief Lin's order and had to turn around and leave.
Lin Wen glanced around to make sure no one was nearby and out of the surveillance camera's view, then returned to the car and unloaded 22 scarecrows dressed in work clothes and covered tightly.
Then he took out a stack of paper figures from his pocket.
【Paper puppet】
A green spell from the Qi Refining Period, consuming 10% of the spirit, giving spirituality to the paper figurine, able to control the puppet, lasting for 16 hours in this world's time, and the puppet's existence can be interrupted.
The puppet can understand simple commands and perform simple tasks.
Higher work intensity and larger and heavier puppets will significantly speed up the consumption time.
The number of paper figures endowed with spirituality is related to the total number of spirits.
——
This is a simple spell for the Qi Refining Stage. It has very low consumption and its duration can be saved, so it can be said to be very cheap.
But at the same time, its effect is also very poor. Even the Tin Man is a relatively strong puppet which will accelerate the consumption of time. Moving bricks is an extremely high intensity work and half an hour will be gone.
It is just a spell to create servants who serve tea and sweep the floor. It is one of the prerequisites for the [Avatar] and [Incarnation] of the Yuanshen period.
Lin Wen just used this magic to cover up his tracks so as to avoid having to explain himself.
Take out 22 sheets of paper.
As soon as the thought comes, the spell is activated.
A ball of green light sank from his hand and instantly soaked 22 pieces of paper. His current total amount of soul power was 112.71%. Every 5% of the soul limit could soak one piece of paper, which was just over 22 pieces.
Lin Wen stuck the paper man talisman on the puppet. A green light flashed and the puppet came to life. It stood up and bowed slightly to Lin Wen.
The time for each paper figure is calculated separately, and the effect of the paper figure talisman can be terminated at any time to preserve the time.
Lin Wen attached 22 paper figures to 22 scarecrows and gave the first order: "Follow me."
He picked up the toolbox that had been prepared long ago and walked towards the steel plant first.
Although the factory director Zhang Xiaoda had issued a strict order prohibiting onlookers, how could people's curiosity be suppressed so easily?
Especially making it so mysterious.
Besides, this was a matter of concern for the future of the factory; who wouldn't care? Even many people who had been supposed to be on vacation came in to work the night shift.
So, when Lin Wen walked into the steel plant, although he didn't meet anyone, he was secretly seen by countless pairs of eyes.
In their eyes, this was an extremely strange scene. More than 20 people, with the leading County Chief Lin, walked into the gate silently with exactly the same pace.
“Is this a robot?”
Xiao Liu couldn't help but ask a question, and was immediately hit on the head by the old squad leader.
"I told you to just watch and not make a sound! You didn't listen! You didn't listen! You didn't listen!"
"Yes, that's right. Xiao Liu always speaks first, and he's so ignorant."
"What do you mean by ignorant?" Xiao Liu retorted, blushing as he blocked the old squad leader's finger knot. "Who walks like that? I always say robots are good, but the ones I see look like monster puppets!"
The old squad leader slammed him down and yelled, "Can't they be strict? Can't they have strict discipline like soldiers? They're a world-class engineering team. Do you think they're just some lazy street urchin like you?"
"Yes, what Xu Ban said is very right."
Factory Director Zhang Xiaoda suddenly emerged from the darkness and nodded.
"I agree. You can tell at a glance that he's not an ordinary person."
Zhao Pengyuan, head of the Imperial Capital Office, followed suit and echoed.
Everyone fell silent, and the old squad leader was tongue-tied: "Zhang, Director Zhang, why are you here?"
Zhang Xiaoda said, "I'm just concerned. The future of the steel mill depends on tonight. I couldn't sleep, so I just came to take a look."
"But, didn't County Chief Lin give an order..."
"They told us not to watch. We weren't watching, so how could they ask us to watch?"
"We just watched from afar."
"Yes, yes!"
The old squad leader suddenly came to his senses and nodded repeatedly.
"Let's go in and take a look from a distance."
Lin Wen ignored the people peeping in the dark. He led the scarecrow to the steel furnace. The steel furnace, which had not been used for a year, looked as bright and clean as new from the outside, without a speck of dust or a single speck of rust. They must have cleaned it urgently.
Lin Wen climbed up the scaffolding with the scarecrow, jumped into the furnace, threw the empty toolbox into the corner, and activated the spell he had prepared long ago.
【Qi Ban Divine Power】
【Civet's Swiftness】
Adding the [Strength of All] and [Paper Puppet] used before, a total of 60% of the soul is consumed.
But Dao Fa Zi Ran had recovered to its highest state as early as nightfall, which took a total of 4 days and 3 hours.
Therefore, the spell consumption was reduced by half, and Lin Wen actually consumed only 30% of his soul.
There is still 18% of the soul left.
That's enough.
Lin Wen squatted down and gently stroked the molten steel condensed in the steel furnace with his five fingers.
This type of oxygen-blown converter mainly relies on chemical reactions for heating. When the hot molten iron is poured into the steel furnace, pure oxygen is blown into the molten iron, causing it to directly undergo an oxidation reaction with the high-temperature molten iron, removing impurities and achieving the effect of steelmaking.
If the molten steel solidifies in the furnace, it cannot be heated and melted again. The only way is to cut and clean it, but it was later discovered that the cost was even higher than buying a new steel furnace, so it had to be scrapped.
Therefore, steel mills must not be subject to power outages. Even if there is a power outage, the backup power supply must be activated to pour out the molten steel first.
This kind of low-level mistake at Changshan Iron and Steel Plant actually rarely happens.
Crack.
Lin Wen rubbed his five fingers directly into the steel surface and dug out a piece.
In the states of [Qi Ban Divine Power] and [Nine Oxen and Two Tigers Strength], he could insert his fingers into ordinary carbon steel, and digging it out was not difficult at all.
However, the walls of the steel furnace are made of fireproof materials. Although they are heat-resistant, they are not that strong. Therefore, you need to activate [Cat's Swiftness] to control the force to avoid damaging the fireproof materials on the wall.
Since the spell duration was limited, Lin Wen quickly increased his speed after initial adaptation.
Suddenly, there was the maddening sound of steel twisting. Large pieces of steel were thrown out by Lin Wen, and the scarecrow picked up the small pieces of debris and threw them out.
This is a 70-ton furnace with about 50 tons of molten steel inside. Lin Wen hollowed it out in 20 minutes, leaving only about half a finger thick steel attached to the furnace wall.
But that didn't matter anymore, there was enough space inside for new molten iron to come in and melt them.
Time was running out, so Lin Wen immediately went to the second steel furnace.
This steel furnace is more complicated. It is in the state before steel is produced. The molten steel has been smelted and has a higher hardness.
It took Lin Wen 40 minutes to clear it all. The one-hour spell time was over, so he had to cast another [Qi Ban Divine Power].
Soul remaining: 10%
Fortunately, the three converters at the back had just been filled with molten iron, and Lin Wen finished cleaning them all in an hour.
A total of 5 steel furnaces were completed, saving at least 100 million yuan.
Lin Wen only consumed 38% of his spiritual energy and spent only 2 hours, which was a hundred times better than the robbery in Longzhou where he spent 120% of his spiritual energy for 5 days to get 60 million.
Moreover, after Changshan Iron and Steel Plant resumes normal operation, according to the original budget, it will produce 275,000 tons of hot-rolled strip steel every month, with a price of 1,800 yuan per ton and a net profit of 120 yuan, achieving a turnover of 495 million yuan and a net profit of 33 million yuan.
From a monthly loss of 1 million to a monthly profit of 33 million.
All this was accomplished in just 2 hours and 38% of the Soul!!
Even robbing gold is not as efficient as this!
Damn!
Lin Wen, who had just calculated the result in his head, wanted to kill himself.
Why didn’t I find out sooner!
My soul is totally wasted.
Industry is king, robbery can only make quick money.
Too short-lived.
Sure enough, being big and hard is useless, persistence is the key.
good!
Lin Wen made up his mind.
From today on, I will come to replenish your yang every night.
You must get stronger quickly.
(End of this chapter)
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