Chapter 1143 The Industrial Cornerstone of the South
After the arrangement of the military reform was decided, orders were immediately issued from Luo Chong. The soldiers of the Shen Ce Guard battalion who had followed Luo Chong to the south were also assigned to various guards to serve as instructors, responsible for training the soldiers of each guard to use new firearms.
At the same time, with the arrival of the third year of Da Ming, the industrialization process of the Han tribe was gradually accelerating. Nowadays, in addition to the construction projects in various parts of the south, the biggest thing is the industrial layout of the south.
If the south wants to develop industry, it must have coal and steel. Coal has been found in Chengkang County and Qi'an County in the middle and lower reaches of the Liuyang River. There is also a hematite mine in the original Baiwu tribe.
After there are coal mines and iron mines in the same place, are you still afraid of not having steel?
Luo Chong has been urging the construction of the railway from Qi'an County to Taigang County because the iron ore in Taigang County is manganese iron ore. If this iron mine can be developed, the Han tribe can produce heavy-duty rails made of manganese steel.
But if you just need ordinary carbon steel, then the resources in Qi'an County are enough.
Last year, Gu Ji and Tian Hong of the Baiwu tribe, under the instruction of Luo Chong, went to the south of the Han tribe. They visited all the way, broadened their horizons, and knew the strength of the Han tribe. Therefore, before they returned, they had already decided on the way to lead the whole tribe to join the Han tribe. Now this matter has been implemented.
So, at the end of last autumn, the two thousand members of the Baiwu tribe had all moved to Qi'an County with their families. The original old residence of the Baiwu tribe had long been flattened by bulldozers. Now a new steel mill is being built there, which is also the largest steel mill in the south.
There are many blast furnaces and converters in this steel mill, but the most eye-catching one is the largest iron-making blast furnace.
This is the largest single blast furnace designed and manufactured by the Han tribe at present, with a design volume of 500 cubic meters. According to the utilization coefficient of three times per cubic meter, this blast furnace alone can produce more than 1,500 tons of molten iron every day.
Of course, this is just the most basic molten iron. If you want to turn this molten iron into steel or special alloy steel, you need to do secondary processing.
In Luo Chong's previous life, a single 500 cubic meter blast furnace was already a backward production capacity that needed to be eliminated, but in the era of the Han tribe, it is an absolute killer. Just the daily iron production of this furnace is envied by many tribes.
The shell of this blast furnace is made of curled and riveted steel plates, and the interior is built with refractory bricks. Next to it is a large steam-powered blasting equipment, and next to it is a three-story observation room and command desk, which is responsible for the various dispatches in the entire workshop. Whether in terms of hardware or software of the operation and management system, this blast furnace can be said to be the best in the world.
However, since the Han tribe has no experience in building such a large blast furnace, the construction speed is relatively slow.
The steel mill has not been completed, but the rolling mill next to it has been built.
Although this largest rolling mill in the south has not started construction yet, it has the ability to roll heavy-duty rails, narrow-gauge rails, national standard steel bars, seamless steel pipes, I-shaped steel, U-shaped steel, wire pulling, steel cables, iron sheets, steel plates, iron chains, springs, bearing steel balls, etc., etc., dozens of different profiles.
The entire steel mill and the rolling mill were built together, and the factory area almost enclosed the entire plain near the original Baiwu tribe, covering an area of thousands of acres! ! !
Comparing the entire steel mill with Qi'an County not far away, it feels like Qi'an County has become a rural area under the jurisdiction of the steel mill.
In addition to this rolling mill and steel mill, there is also the task of building a factory next to the coal mine.
Near the coal mine west of Qi'an County, a large coking plant has been built. Dozens of twin-tower coking towers have been erected in the entire plant area. The coking tower is divided into four parts: upper, lower, left and right. One tower burns coal at the bottom and dry distills coke at the top. The other tower burns coal at the bottom and dry distills lime at the top. In this way, the lime tower will release a large amount of carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide is introduced into the coking tower through a pipeline to prevent the coke in the dry distillation kettle from being ignited.
Next to this huge coking plant, there is also a chemical plant, which is mainly responsible for deep processing of coal tar, refining phenol, the synthetic raw material of picric acid, and asphalt in coal tar, as well as secondary processing of lime, turning lime into calcium carbide for thousands of households, for the people to use for lighting, so that the South can also produce its own calcium carbide.
With coke, coal mines, and steel, the heavy industry in the South can be said to have a firm foothold.
When these heavy industrial projects have output, Luo Chong can use these raw materials to open more factories, such as bicycle factories.
The steel rolling mill in Qi'an County has the ability to produce seamless steel pipes, which can be used to weld bicycle frames. Rubber is produced in abundance in the south, so if we open a tire factory and assemble the parts together, we can produce bicycles and tricycles continuously.
There are also iron sheets produced by steel mills. With a large amount of iron sheets, they can be rolled twice and rolled into color steel plates to build the roof of the factory or the fence of the construction site.
Another use of iron sheets is to produce canned food. The iron sheets are stamped into the required shape, and finally folded and sealed and rolled to become canned food. They can be used to hold fish, various meats, biscuit boxes, pencil cases, and so on.
Not to mention other things, they are all heavy equipment for a country. Steel bars can be used for construction, and steel cables can be used to make lifting equipment or large machinery in ports, such as gantry cranes.
There are also I-beams and U-shaped steels. This kind of steel can be used to quickly build steel structure factories or to make steel structure bridges, etc., which are all very important things.
Other steel plates and springs can be used to make important parts such as trains, carriages and frames. Steel plates can also be rolled into large water tankers or steam boilers.
As for iron chains, this thing is the most commonly used thing in the shipbuilding industry, especially the anchors of large ships.
Why is heavy industry the cornerstone of industry? Because of these many basic materials, human beings can use these produced materials to make more things.
For example, with thin steel plates, we can stamp out advanced cameras with steel shells. Isn't this grade immediately improved?
With so much steel, if we want to run other light industrial factories in the future, can we produce those assembly line equipment ourselves?
If our country does not have this heavy industrial foundation, we can only buy those assembly line equipment from other countries at a high price, and use the price of buying high-tech to buy a pile of ordinary steel. In fact, the equipment we bought is just to change the shape of steel and reassemble it.
Everyone knows the good of heavy industry, but why can't so many countries do it?
First, it developed late. Under the premise of the world economy, the steel produced by itself has no market advantage.
Second, heavy industry is an industry with large investment and slow return. It cannot be done without concentrating the strength of one country. It must have strong policy support and strong capital willing to inject blood. It must not be anxious to see the return, but to spend money and time to grind, so that it can be done slowly.
Why can the southern industry of the Han tribe develop so quickly?
That's because Luo Chong has built a very complete primary industrial system in the north. As long as there is the industrial base in the north, this industrial system can continuously replicate and upgrade itself in places where resources are suitable.
This is the correct way to play industrial civilization! ! !
Of course, there is another most important reason, that is the disorder of capital.
The current Han tribe has no complete system and no perfect laws. The people don't know what industry is. Luo Chong's power is infinite and huge. As long as the Han tribe has the ability to develop, he can take all the resources in the world for himself.
Resources have no price, so they are naturally willing to invest.
In the world of the previous life, Western civilization relied on colonial plunder to accumulate initial capital investment and completed its own industrialization.
China itself tightened its belt and sacrificed hundreds of millions of farmers to get the original capital to open the door to industrialization and complete industrialization.
But Luo Chong's era is different. The resources in the Han tribe don't cost money. What Luo Chong wants is just a matter of words.
This is a barbaric era, but also a magnificent era. Because there are no complicated shackles and restrictions in the previous life, in this world, in the Han tribe, Luo Chong is the supreme heaven. What he wants to do, does he still need to consider the cost?
All the minerals in this world are originally the private property of the emperor.
(End of this chapter)
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