Chapter 914 Dad is going to propose marriage to you?
Manganese steel is the most suitable alloy steel for making railroad tracks, but the Han tribe does not have it. There are magnetite in Xingang County. There are also some iron ores in Babaoshan, but they are all pyrite, which is iron sulfide, which is not suitable for ironmaking.
The only one found so far is the Tang tribe, which has manganese iron ore, which has caused a huge problem.
Let's not talk about whether the Tang tribe is willing or not. Even if they agree, the Han tribe still can't operate.
It takes two months to ship the iron ore from the Tang tribe to Xingang County in the north for smelting. Even if there are flying fish speedboats in the future, it will take about 20 days. In this way, the cost is high.
If you want to reduce costs, the best way is to build a steel mill and a rolling mill locally and produce on the spot. However, in this way, there is no coal in the Tang tribe, so there is no coke for steelmaking. Therefore, if you want to set up a factory in the south, you have to transport coke from the north.
So no matter how you calculate it, the Han tribe must carry out a transportation from north to south to meet the production needs of heavy-duty rails.
This is too difficult!
So Luo Chong was planning to give up the original heavy-duty railway construction plan. It was not that he really wanted to give up, but the current plan was not cost-effective. Another thing was that the Han tribe did not particularly need heavy-duty trains, and small trains could be used just as well.
The worst that could happen was to make two more trips and divide the heavy-duty items into four transportations? !
Luo Chong was thinking about it secretly, and Lin Fei also heard the problem. This sample with super hardness was actually obtained from the Tang tribe? Doesn't this mean that if the Han tribe wants to use it, it will be very troublesome? !
"Chief? Look, we, this..." Lin Fei didn't know what to say.
Luo Chong glanced at them and could naturally see the expectations in their eyes. These people paid so much for the railway and trains, and they certainly didn't want to give up halfway, but the current conditions did not allow it.
After thinking for a while, Luo Chong said, "Let's suspend the heavy-duty railway project first and make the small train a success. What we are facing now is not the issue of whether the Tang tribe is willing or not, but the issue of our own transportation costs. Whether it is transporting iron ore from the south to the north or transporting coke from the north to the south, the cost is very high and it takes too long. The blast furnace cannot be stopped casually. If something goes wrong, we can't make up for it.
So let's wait for a while. Anyway, we have a small train to use now, which is enough for the time being."
Lin Fei and several researchers and interns in this group were a little bit unacceptable when they heard that Luo Chong wanted to suspend the heavy-duty railway plan. They had spent so much time on this research, but now they just stopped it.
Lin Fei was better. He could understand Luo Chong. The two problems Luo Chong mentioned just now were actually one aspect of the cost increase, and the main reason was that the transportation cycle was too long. Once the blast furnace was started, it could not be stopped. Too long a transportation cycle meant that it would be stopped at any time, which was indeed a bit of a loss.
After a pause, Lin Fei asked again, "Chief, when can we restart this project?"
"Restart, that's easy. Either you can find the same ferromanganese ore as in the Tang tribe here in Xingang County, or you can find coal mines around the Tang tribe. In this way, we can solve the problem of high transportation costs and long transportation cycles. At that time, whether it is produced in the north or in the south, it will be the same." Luo Chong directly gave his conditions.
Lin Fei couldn't help but sigh after hearing this. Can he find this thing just by looking for it? In the end, it depends on fate.
"Okay, don't lose heart, let's get the Endeavour model done first. At least we still have some use for it now, right?
If you really don't want to give up, then ask someone to look around to see if there is any iron mine similar to the Tangbulu Iron Mine, but I think the possibility is very low. "
Luo Chong patted Lin Fei's shoulder and comforted him, then turned and left the yard.
The current situation is not necessarily a bad thing for the Han tribe, because even if there are heavy-duty steel rails, it is very difficult for the Han tribe to build a heavy-duty railway. The railway roadbed must be made of reinforced concrete with piles at least ten meters deep, and they must be arranged one by one. How much engineering work is required? At least for the current Han tribe, this is a super-large project.
Even if there are steel rails now, it will probably take several years for the Han tribe to complete such a railway. Of course, this also depends on the terrain. If it is the line from Xingang County to Weishan County Wharf, because there is industrial support from Xingang County behind it, and the terrain is relatively simple, it will of course be built faster.
Instead of wasting a lot of manpower on building railways, it is better to do something else and develop other aspects of the tribe first.
After seeing the accident site and the solution of the institute, Luo Chong went home. Lin Fei had to adjust the application of some projects and manpower according to Luo Chong's orders, and withdraw the people wasted on the heavy-duty railway first. Come, join the development of the Endeavour model, and speed up the service of the Endeavour model.
In early March of the first year of Da Ming, all counties and prefectures of the Han tribe were in the process of intense construction. Drilling wells and building warehouses had become the primary tasks of all counties and prefectures. The large platform scales produced by the Comprehensive Research Institute were also distributed to official warehouses in various places.
At this time, the Tuohai County and the six counties of Qiongzhou in the south were also applying for ID cards with photos from house to house. Photography technology also officially appeared in the south, but due to the lack of manpower, it has not yet been popularized. Only a new photo studio was opened in Tuohai County, and Jiahai County also had a set of photographic equipment. In addition to opening photography services to the public, it was mainly used to photograph the construction of the bridge and report the progress of the project to Luo Chong.
In Shanghe Village, Xinhua County, the villagers had just completed the production of ID cards. This time, the production was all free. Coupled with the magic of photography, the villagers seemed very cooperative. Holding the free ID card, it seemed that they had taken advantage of the tribe.
Guan Tao held his brand new ID card, looked at his black and white headshot on it, and couldn't help but say with emotion.
"Oh, the Han tribe is really amazing. They have such a magical technique that can imprint a person's shadow on this gold sheet."
"What's the big deal? I've seen their photo album at Ren Zuo's house. The photos there are clearer than this one, and much bigger. They are all taken on paper, with everything on them. The counties in the north of the Han tribe are all so beautiful." Guan Tao's little daughter suddenly said.
However, Guan Tao didn't care about the photo album. His first focus was on his own daughter.
"Oh? So, you often visit the Ren family? Which of the two brothers did you see? Ren Zuo or Ren You? Do you want your father to find a match for you? "
When Guan Tao's daughter heard this, her cheeks immediately turned red. She called out "Daddy" coquettishly, then turned around and ran out of the bamboo building. No one knew where she ran to.
Guan Tao stood in front of the window of the bamboo building and looked at his daughter's back. In his heart, he was actually very willing to promote this marriage. Now that he could marry someone from the Han tribe, it would definitely be a sure win.
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