Chapter 1024: Layout of Heavy Industry in the South
After dinner, Luo Chong, She Xin, You Fu and others came to the government office of Liuyang County. Then Luo Chong personally wrote some information about the characteristics of metal molybdenum, the method of refining, and the use of molybdenum steel alloy. Finally, he attached an order to let the chemical group of the Comprehensive Research Institute and the steel mill of Xingang County jointly develop a new type of molybdenum steel.
After writing, he immediately asked the guards to send it to the institute. Then he discussed the industrial layout in the south with You Fu and She Xin, as well as the arrangement of the cannibal captives next year.
Several people came to the meeting room in the government office. You Fu immediately asked someone to bring the map they surveyed in the south, as well as several thick map annotations to explain the characteristics of each place.
However, Luo Chong did not say this first, but said, "Let's talk about the cannibal slaves first. This is simple and easy to distribute."
"Yes."
"Please speak, leader." She Xin and You Fu responded quickly.
"According to the battle report sent back by Qu Bing, they have captured more than 14,000 men, women, old and weak, of which there are about 2,500 women, and the rest are men who can work, about 11,000 people, all of which have been recorded.
"But there are still three months before the beginning of spring, and the battle is still going on. I don't know how many people they can capture. Let's use 15,000 young and strong slaves.
"Of these 15,000 people, 5,000 will be used in the mines of Xingang County, but they will only use these slaves until the end of August, and they can be redistributed after September. The other 5,000 will be sent to the capital. The progress of the capital's construction is seriously slow because of the lack of manpower. There are still 5,000 left. How do you plan to arrange them?"
Luo Chong explained the total number of people and his own arrangements, and then asked You Fu and the other two about the rest.
She Xin didn't need any people here, so he didn't speak. You Fu thought about it and said.
"Chief, how long will it take for these 15,000 people to arrive? Can the North send all of them at once? It shouldn't be possible."
Luo Chong also nodded, and said after some mental calculation, "There are more than 60 ships in the North now. At the beginning, You Ye brought six small boats over, and later a group of supplies and officials were mobilized from the headquarters, more than a dozen ships, and the ships that the Shen Ce Guards took on this expedition, troop transport ships and grain transport ships, totaling more than 40 ships, adding up to about 60 large ships.
"The three-masted sailing ship can carry at least 500 people at a time, including the supplies they need. Two ships can carry 1,000 people, and 20 ships can carry 10,000 people. They have at least 40 large ships, so there will be no problem transporting them all at once."
You Fu nodded when he heard this, and then said, "In this way, there will be at least 5,000 slaves available for deployment in March next year. If the chief has no other arrangements, I think we should just let them go to the south to build a city.
"We in the south will definitely have to mine and build factories in the future. When these people go there, the land can't just be a wasteland. We should build the city first, and when the leader migrates the population there in the future, they can settle down immediately. What do you think, leader?"
"This." Luo Chong thought for a while and said, "Let those slaves build the city? I think it's difficult. These cannibal slaves don't speak the same language. Besides, building a house is a technical job. It's a bit of a hassle to ask them to build a house right after they are captured."
"What does the leader mean?" You Fu frowned when he heard this. He hadn't thought of this problem just now, but now it's true after listening to Luo Chong. These slaves don't know how to build houses at all, so they can only do some heavy physical labor that doesn't require any brains.
"It's not impossible to build a city. Of course, it will be difficult to let them build houses, but we can let them do some basic preparations first. The migration of population will definitely require land, so we can prepare for land reclamation and irrigation in advance, as well as leveling the land in the city and digging a sewer system.
"In addition, there is earthwork for the foundation, as well as burning bricks, felling trees, and repairing roads. These preparatory works do not require any technology. They should be able to be done by sending some people to command. Let them do this. After they are done with this, they can be transferred to build railways or mine." Luo Chong thought for a while and said.
"Well, this is definitely possible." You Fu nodded in agreement, indicating that there was no problem.
"Well, the arrangement of the slaves is settled. Next, let's talk about mining in the south and the layout of those factories. How have you scouted the surrounding terrain and roads? "Seeing that no one objected to this question, Luo Chong made the decision directly, and then began to inquire about the various mineral deposits in the south and the surrounding terrain, and prepared to arrange the factories.
Now it is known that there is a coal mine that needs to be developed, the manganese iron mine in Taigang County of the Tang tribe, and now there is a molybdenum mine, and a hematite mine near the Baiwu tribe, and a lime mine in the territory of the Tang tribe. Lime is indispensable for iron smelting. It is used to make slag for molten iron in blast furnaces. Lime is also needed for flame retardant when making coke, so lime is also very important. So there are a total of five mines.
The supporting factories required are a coal washing plant, a coking plant, two iron ore pre-grinding plants, a large steel mill, and a supporting rolling mill. , adding up to a total of six large factories.
Of course, these are only for preliminary layout. After these factories are in normal operation, other factories will definitely be built as the population increases.
Apart from other things, within three years after this batch of factories are built, the South must build a mechanical processing plant, at least to ensure that the South has the ability to produce trains. In addition, the repair and maintenance of trains in the entire South also requires such a factory, otherwise they have to be pulled to the north for repair when they break down? This is not realistic at all, and it is too expensive and time-consuming.
Luo Chong first talked about the first batch of factories that need to be built in the South's industry, and then began to ask the two to help analyze the site selection of those factories, but You Fu suddenly reminded him.
"Chief, don't we need to add another cement plant? The South needs to build so many factories, as well as roads, bridges, houses, cities, and water conservancy facilities. It must need a lot of cement. The transportation from the north is firstly slow, and secondly, the transportation cost is not low. Do you think we should build the cement plant before building these factories?" "
"Cement," Luo Chong frowned, and then said, "Refining cement requires a large amount of gypsum, iron powder, coal, lime, and clay. The latter few are no problem, but are there gypsum mines in the south?"
"Yes, there are gypsum mines in Panshi County of Tang Tribe, which was written in the previous mineral report." You Fu reminded again.
"It's easy if there are. Let's build one, a bigger one, so that it can be used for building bridges and roads in the future." Luo Chong nodded when he heard it. The south really needs a cement plant, but he forgot about it before.
You Fu also nodded and said, "Then including the cement plant, there will be a total of seven factories in the initial stage. Based on the principle of proximity to resources, I think it's better to build this cement plant in Panshi County of Tang Tribe."
"If that's the case, then the coal washing plant and the coking plant should be built around the coal mine?" She Xin also interrupted.
"Well, that's right, but it must rely on water, preferably a tributary river or something like that, and the transportation between this place and the Tang tribe must be convenient. Making cement requires calcined lime, and calcination requires a lot of coal. The coking plant on the other side is also the same. Coking requires a lot of lime for flame retardant, so the two plants must exchange raw materials, and the scale of transportation will definitely be large." Luo Chong also added. "
Not only that, steelmaking also requires lime to make slag. Tsk, the role of lime is really too great. Fortunately, there are more lime mines, and it's not a rare thing." She Xin took over again.
"Then according to the leader, where should the steel mill be built, and the steel rolling mill, this should be the most important." You Fu nodded, and finally asked about the location of the steel mill and the steel rolling mill.
Luo Chong frowned as he looked at the map and thought, "It would be best if all these factories were connected by roads, and there should be habitable areas suitable for survival around them. Even if there isn't any, it has to be a place that is convenient for transformation. We must first ensure the survival of the population, and then the factories. Without people, no factories can be built."
Hearing this, She Xin and You Fu also looked at the map. In fact, You Fu knew the matter best. After all, the transportation and water sources there, as well as the terrain and soil quality, were all surveyed by him and his team. After thinking about it, You Fu spoke again.
“Chief, how about this? We will first plan to build two new cities. One city will be placed next to this molybdenum mine, and the molybdenum ore here can be mined directly and can be transported away without any processing. In other words, there is no need to build a factory here.
“Moreover, this place near the molybdenum mine is only about 40 kilometers away from the main waterway of the Liuyang River. It only takes one hour to reach the river by horseback. There is also a large tributary here, so there is no shortage of water. In terms of terrain, there is also a large river alluvial plain with flat land and fertile soil, which is suitable for farming and irrigation. There are also mountains, forests, and minerals nearby, which is very suitable for immigration and city building.
"Then there is the coal mine which is more than 100 kilometers southeast of here. If we want to mine the coal, we must relocate people and build a city around the coal mine. This place must have residential areas, industrial areas, water sources, and farmland. My suggestion is to place the industrial area around the coal mine and the living area a little to the east, which is where the Baiwu tribe we discovered is.
"One advantage of building a city here is that it is convenient for us to directly absorb the Baiwu tribe. When the time comes, we can repeat the operation of building the city here in Liuyang County and hire them to work for us, or use goods to buy their food. We can also grow other food to attract them to join. In this way, we can kill two birds with one stone, building a city and increasing the population.
"The two new cities are more than 100 kilometers apart. It's about 160 kilometers from the Baiwu tribe to the Liuyang River. We can build a railway here directly, and the amount of work is not very large. It's about the same length as the Xinwei Line, but it needs to cross a tributary of the Liuyang River twice. Two small railway bridges should be built, otherwise it will be far if we take a detour.
"In addition, there is the railway from the Baiwu tribe in the coal mine to the Taigang County of the Tang tribe. The straight-line distance is less than 400 kilometers, but there is a mountain range in the middle. If you want to go there, you have to take a detour and may have to build a bridge. The actual construction may be more than 600 kilometers.
"As long as this railway is opened, it can be extended from Taigang County to Panshi County to obtain various stone minerals there, especially lime. Then the railway will turn south from Panshi County and connect with the railway transportation of the Tang tribe, opening up this southeast railway transportation network."
You Fu was there, gesturing at the map and introducing the local situation to Luo Chong and others.
"The shape of the road you built is a lowercase '7'. It runs horizontally from the molybdenum mine to the coal mine, and then turns south to the Tang tribe." She Xin said as he looked at the route You Fu pointed out.
"Well, it's about right. This is the most suitable route. It not only connects the traffic in the southeast, but also leads to the main waterway in the middle and lower reaches of the Liuyang River. It is very convenient whether it is by water or land." You Fu also nodded.
"But the road from the coal mine to the Tang tribe Taigang County is not easy to build. According to what you said, there are mountains in the middle. You have to build a bridge and take a detour. The road of more than 300 kilometers has doubled to more than 600 kilometers. This job is not easy and the cost is expensive." She Xin pointed to the map in the south again and said.
"Then what do you think we should do? Otherwise, we won't build this road. We can load the coal directly from the coal mine, transport it to the middle and lower reaches of the Liuyang River via a railway of more than 100 kilometers, then load it onto a ship, and transport it to the Tang tribe by water. Then we can go ashore there, load it onto a car again
, and take the railway to Taigang County and Panshi County in the Tang tribe? Don't you think this is more troublesome?" You Fu said speechlessly. She Xin shut up when he heard it. He got on the car and then on the ship. Not long after getting on the ship, he went ashore to load the car again. Not to mention the actual operation, it just sounds very troublesome. Forget it, let's find a way to build the road.
The two looked at each other and suddenly found that the leader had not expressed his opinion for a long time. He didn't know what Luo Chong was thinking, so they looked at Luo Chong together.
Luo Chong was still looking at the map. He noticed that the two were looking at him, and he knew that they wanted to ask for his opinion, so he said.
"I agree with You Fu's opinion. We can connect these strategic places by building only two cities. The route planning is also good. The key is that if we only build two cities, we can use the least population and lower costs to improve our industrial layout in the south.
"Regarding the railway from the molybdenum mine to the coal mine, I agree very much. It doesn't matter if we build two railway bridges. These are all tributaries of the Liuyang River. The river is not wide, so it is easy to build two small bridges.
"But I have a different opinion on the railway from the coal mine to the Tang tribe. We will build it according to the basic straight line. The straight line is about 370 kilometers. We will try to control the total length of this railway within 450 kilometers." Luo Chong immediately expressed his opinion.
You Fu frowned immediately after hearing this and said quickly, "Chief, this is impossible. We have actually investigated and there is no place to build a railway there. There are so many mountains blocking it. We can only find a way to take a detour."
"Who said we can only take a detour? We can also dig a tunnel and blow up the mountain." Luo Chong said slowly, pointing to the mountain range on the map.
You Fu and She Xin, who were standing nearby, stared in disbelief.
What, what the hell?
A tunnel? ! ! !
Blowing up a mountain? ! ! !
(End of this chapter)
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