Chapter 1092 Luo Chong's Family Migration to the South
With Luo Chong in charge in the north, allocating various resources in the middle, all work progressed in an orderly and rapid manner.
The first construction task to be completed was the new stainless steel blast furnace of the Xingang County Steel Plant. This big guy started production as soon as it was built, and it can produce a large amount of stainless steel every day. At the same time, the molybdenum steel that had just been developed was also continuing to be produced.
With the continuous supply of these basic materials, other corresponding production tasks can also be faster.
Lin Fei's Power Research Institute took the lead in completing the task of weapon production. The first batch of products produced was 5,000 copycat version of the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle, which was the standard Type 3 rifle named by the Han tribe.
These 5,000 semi-automatic rifles were specially equipped for the Shen Ce Guard and the Jinwu Guard around Luo Chong. They were all Luo Chong's direct guards. 5,000 were only equipped for the first batch. After careful calculation, it might not be enough, because the Shen Ce Guard will be expanded soon, and more firearms will definitely be needed at that time.
In addition, there are 250 general-purpose machine guns in the first batch, which are also equipped for the Shen Ce Guards. Other troops cannot get them for the time being.
However, the machine guns are still being produced. After all, they are the weapons that will be equipped to the entire army of the Han tribe in the future. It is impossible to produce only 250.
In addition, there are 3,000 standard type II rifles in the first batch, which are improved bolt-action rifles with shortened barrels and calibers. These 3,000 rifles are prepared by Luo Chong to equip other troops. He has not yet decided which one to equip. As for the firearms, they can be stored first. It is also a good choice to replace them with various troops when Luo Chong and his family go south.
With enough special steel, the production project of weapons is progressing quickly. After all, the Han tribe has produced similar weapons before, and there are a large number of engineers and workers with mature experience. Now it is just a change of materials, and the other differences are not big.
On the other hand, the renovation and expansion work of the Huxindao Glass Factory was also progressing very quickly. The beer bottle production line was not a high-tech thing. It was nothing more than cutting a certain amount of semi-molten glass liquid by weight, then putting it into a mold for blowing and forming, and finally cooling it to shape. The relevant technical reserves of the Han tribe were already very mature, and there was no difficulty in designing and manufacturing.
Besides, there is now better stainless steel for making molds, and the quality of the product can be taken to a higher level.
Finally, there is the production line on the brewery side. The speed of building a factory building with reinforced concrete is fast enough and extremely strong. It can be said to be the strongest building in the world at present, and the production line inside is not particularly difficult.
The main reason is that beer brewing itself does not have much technical content. Luo Chong used to make it at home with some simple cooking utensils. Now all he needs to do is to turn manual work into industrial production.
A set of malt crushers, a set of malt extraction tanks, and a kettle for boiling wine, and finally it is transferred to the fermentation tank. When the fermentation reaches a certain degree, it is filled into the wine bottle with a glass bottle filling line, and then sealed with a capping machine.
This is the main process of beer production. In addition, there are some auxiliary equipment, such as beer bottle washing machines and wine bottle high-temperature sterilizers, which are also indispensable.
After all, the Han tribe is not so extravagant as to throw away glass bottles directly. They must be recycled and reused. In this case, disinfection and cleaning work is definitely indispensable.
The drawings of the full set of equipment have long been drawn up at the research institute, and some model experiments have been carried out. Now that the steel plant has a steady supply of stainless steel, the equipment was quickly manufactured.
However, since there is no train to Liuyang County, these large equipment and production lines are also difficult to transport. In the end, they can only be disassembled into parts and then transported to the factory one by one by tractors for assembly. Some equipment, such as fermentation tanks, which are very large in size, can only be transported to the brewery first, and then processed and manufactured in the factory.
After months of hard work on the brewery, it was finally completed in early August. The glass factory can now provide a steady supply of glass bottles, and the research institute on the lake island can also provide enough rubber gaskets. The bottle caps in Xingang County are even less of a problem. This thing is originally just a layer of stamped iron sheet, and Xingang County is not short of steel materials, not to mention how much iron can be used for a small beer bottle cap?
So far, the entire supporting industrial chain of the brewery has been completed, and then Luo Chong transferred a person from the machinery factory in Xingang County to be the factory director, responsible for mechanical technology, and transferred a deputy factory director in charge of brewing technology from the white wine factory in Weishan County.
She Xin selected several experienced clerks from the county governor's office in Liuyang County to do financial work, and then recruited workers and trained them. After the training was over and they had similar experience, they bought barley from the granary as raw material for beer production.
The entire Snow Beer Factory has entered a rapid preparation mode and can start production at any time. Moreover, this is a government-run enterprise. In addition to paying wages to workers, the rest of the company's income and profits will all go into the fiscal revenue of the Han tribe, which is a considerable income.
In the foreseeable future, when there are more similar enterprises in the Han tribe, at least Luo Chong's court will no longer worry about money.
In August, the development of the brewery has been on the right track. By mid-August, the factory had decided to conduct trial production. It would take about ten days to produce the first batch of beer. If the quality and effect are good, it will be officially put into production.
At the same time, the time for Luo Chong to move south is also getting closer. Luo Chong originally planned to wait until autumn, and would set off around September. Now it is mid-August, and there is only about half a month left.
Fortunately, he has settled all the matters in the beer industry chain, otherwise he would have to worry about things here after leaving.
At home, Zhan Ying’s relationship with her family is not very good, and Luo Chong doesn’t like the Zhan clan very much. You have to know that Luo Chong and Zhan Ying met because the Zhan clan regarded Zhan Ying as some kind of saint, and wanted to throw her into the river to drown her as a sacrifice to the river god. If Luo Chong hadn’t saved her, Zhan Ying would have died long ago.
So Luo Chong didn’t have a good impression of the Zhan clan, and Zhan Ying also didn’t have a good impression of her family, so there was no need to take them with him on this migration to the south.
But Xiaodie’s side is different. Xiaodie has a very good relationship with her mother Shang, and Shang has made great contributions to the textile industry of the Han tribe. Shang has no husband, and she is not young anymore. What she cares about most is her daughter Xiaodie, and the two children born to Xiaodie and Luo Chong.
Although Shang was unwilling to move south and cause trouble to Luo Chong, she finally decided to go with him after Xiaodie's persuasion.
So the moving matter had to involve one more person. Fortunately, Shang had no other relatives except Xiaodie, so she only brought a few old people from the family who had a good relationship with her to help take care of her in the future.
In fact, if it was just to take care of Shang's life, there was no need to bring these people. As Luo Chong was the leader of the Han tribe and the emperor of the Han Empire in the future, would there be no one to take care of his mother-in-law?
In fact, it was just that Shang had been with those old guys for a long time and was reluctant to leave them. Besides, she was unfamiliar with the south. If Shang went there alone, no one would talk to her, and her life would be really boring.
The preparations were carried out quickly. Luo Chong had basically nothing important to bring, except for the industrial collection in his own study, some clothes and other things, and the children's toys. Even Xiao Luocheng's train had been dismantled, and it could not be completed in a short time. If Luo Chong hadn't promised him to lay a longer track for him when he arrived at his new home in the south, it is estimated that the child would not allow it to be dismantled.
There was no need to move other furniture and other things. The big tree in the house in Takumi County had already prepared new ones, and the standard was no worse than the current one.
As September approached, Luo Chong was still sitting at home and handling official business in various places. Xiaodie, Zhan Ying and Shang were busier. They took turns to look after the four children. The rest of the people began to lead the maids to pack up things, and then with the help of the guards, they began to move things to the dock of Liuyang County.
At this time, there were more than a dozen sailing ships gathered at the dock of Liuyang County, including six large flying fish boats, and the remaining seven or eight three-masted sailing ships.
Among them, Luo Chong and his party would occupy two flying fish boats. In addition to carrying Luo Chong's family, they would also load the luggage of Luo Chong's family, plus some guards to take care of security issues. The remaining guards would take another flying fish boat and follow Luo Chong's boat.
In addition, the Shen Ce Guards who are going to cure the disease will also send a battalion of troops to accompany them. They have two main tasks this time. One is to escort Luo Chong to Tuohai County safely. In addition, after arriving in the south, Luo Chong will assign them to other local garrison troops to let them be responsible for training the firearms training of the local troops and help the Han tribe to realize the full firearms reform of the army as soon as possible.
In addition to the two security teams, the remaining ships will also be loaded with a group of engineering and technical personnel, that is, the talents used to build the southern industry as Luo Chong said.
Among them, there are those responsible for mining, coking, machinery, and steel mills. These people are the first batch. After they go there to build factories and stabilize things, they will move their families there in the future. The tribe has reallocated land and houses to these people so that they can work with peace of mind after they go there in the future.
Luo Chong is preparing here, and those who will follow Luo Chong to migrate south are also preparing. In addition to these accompanying personnel and a small number of family members, there are also a large number of mechanical equipment that will be loaded on ships and go south together. After all, to prepare for various factories, the preliminary equipment and materials also need to be transported from the north.
The current situation of the Han tribe is different from before. In order to develop a complete industrial system, the entire Han tribe spent a lot of resources and time to build it. Now it is different. The industrial system in the north is mature. If the south wants to build similar factories, it can get strong support from the north.
Although it requires long-distance transportation, it is better than starting research and development from scratch with nothing in hand, right?
The fleet heading south began to prepare actively. It was divided into two parts. The fleet docked at the Liuyang County wharf was mainly responsible for transporting personnel. Because there was a railway line and a roll-on/roll-off berth above the port in Weishan County, a fleet was specially docked here to transport large equipment.
Finally, a few days before Luo Chong was about to set off, good news came from the brewery. After a week of fermentation, the malt juice had turned into mellow beer, but it was still stored in the fermentation tank. After hearing the news, She Xin immediately came to inform Luo Chong and wanted to invite Luo Chong to visit the canning production line in person.
After all the beer in this batch is poured into glass bottles, Luo Chong can also take some of it to the south.
Luo Chong was so excited about this idea. You know, the industry in the south is still in its infancy. It is still unknown when the south can produce its own beer. In the foreseeable future, the main source of beer in the next two or three years will definitely rely on the supply from the north.
The next morning, Luo Chong brought people to the brewery early. He first inspected the various workshops and equipment in the factory, asked about the management situation here, and the workers' feelings, and then came to the canning workshop that was about to start work.
Next to the canning workshop, there is another workshop that has already started work. This is the wine bottle washing and disinfection workshop. Even if it is a newly made glass bottle that has never been filled with beer, or a recycled bottle, it must also go through the cleaning and disinfection process before it can be used.
Luo Chong has asked someone to write the production slogan in large characters on the wall of the workshop. The food industry focuses on hygiene and safety. People should eat and drink with confidence, and their workers should dare to eat and drink before they can sell it.
If the production environment is unsanitary, the operating procedures do not comply with the rules and regulations, and even the workers in the factory dare not eat their own products, then there is no point in doing this food industry.
After cleaning and disinfection, the bottles are inverted to drain the water, hung on a small cart made of an iron frame, and then manually pushed to the filling line. The cart is stuck in the bottle conveying position, and the conveying link of the production line is started. The bottles will be automatically transferred to the production line. This was designed specifically for convenience.
After all aspects were prepared, as Luo Chong shouted the command "start the machine", someone immediately moved the wrench, opened the valve of the beer and liquor delivery pipeline, and started the entire production line.
(End of this chapter)
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