Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 1003

[Chapter 1003 Soaring Steel]

Yancheng.

When the Qinglong Army and the Marine Corps approached Hanoi.

Zhao Xu is also not idle, and is inspecting the construction situation in Dasong, including agriculture, industry, education and other industries, in order to grasp the real national conditions.

For him, the most taboo thing about being in a high position is that, like the previous emperors, he stayed in the palace for many years and only relied on memorials to understand the situation of the country.

Because the memorial is often the most unreliable thing.

This is why many emperors are fooled by powerful officials.

Even until the mountains and rivers were broken, these otaku who grew up in the greenhouse didn’t know what happened and why.

It was with these considerations in mind that he brought the Propaganda Department directly under the direct jurisdiction.

In this way, he can learn about the misdeeds suppressed by some officials through the newspaper.

At the same time, Tsui Hark’s Fourth Supervisory Court can also provide him with some real folk situations.

But even with these two means of understanding people’s sentiments, he can’t replace seeing and hearing with his own eyes.

Trinity, he can try to be omniscient and omnipotent.

And the first stop of his inspection was naturally the Yancheng area.

After all, Yancheng currently represents the highest level in various industries.   ”Currently, our iron and steel workshop has achieved oxygen blowing smelting for high-quality steel, which can not only meet the steel

demand of Yanzhou, but also realize sales to other states.”

The new workshop house after the workshop moved.

Compared with the cramped space of the previous Iron and Steel Workshop, Yancheng Iron and Steel Workshop covers an area of more than 100 mu, with a length of 380 meters and a width of about 260 meters.

It occupies about the same area as a contemporary primary school.

In this wide square area, there are nine workshops with a length of more than 100 meters.

Each workshop is responsible for the production of different steel products.

For example, some workshops smelt molten steel that is directly used to manufacture steel bars for construction, steel wire for binding, and steel plates, steel pipes, and steel ingots.

Of course, there are also workshops dedicated to the manufacture of special steel required by the military.

After the establishment of the canning factory, the steel mill established a hot rolling workshop for the production of thinner steel plates.

After tinning, these steel sheets can be used to make cans.

Now, Zhao Xu is in the hot rolling workshop.

The bright red molten steel is poured out of the converter, shaped in a long mold, and after a little cooling, the craftsmen in the workshop pinch both ends with clips and stuff them into a hot rolling mill.

The main structure of this hot rolling mill is the upper and lower rollers and the transmission device.

A one-centimeter-thick red-hot steel plate passed through the gap of the roller, and was pressed into a half-centimeter steel plate.

Next, the steel plate will continue to pass through rollers with smaller gaps until it is pressed to about half a millimeter.

Eventually, these thin steel plates are rolled up and sent to other workshops.

“What’s the production capacity per month?” Zhao Xu asked while nodding.

Yanzhou Iron and Steel Works and some important workshops have their own small power plants.

After transformation, many equipment in the steel workshop were replaced with electric motors, and traditional steam engines were no longer used.

Because the efficiency of the electric motor is much higher than that of the steam engine, the efficiency is naturally higher than before.

“Returning to Your Highness, 15,000 tons per month is no problem, and at least 200,000 tons a year can be guaranteed.” The master of the iron and steel workshop showed a proud look.

“Not bad.” Zhao Xu spat out two words and smiled.

During the contemporary Ming Dynasty, the country’s annual steel output was only 160,000 tons.

He surpassed it with a steel workshop.

But even so, Yanzhou Iron and Steel Workshop is actually just a small iron and steel factory in Zhao Xu’s eyes.

Isn’t the contemporary large iron and steel factory covering an area of 6,000 mu or more?

Even a contemporary small steel mill can produce one million tons of steel a year.

Compared with it, Yancheng Iron and Steel Works is nothing more than a small witch after all.

However, he is already very satisfied with this. Dasong has just entered the industrial age, and its technology is still backward compared to the present.

Moreover, there is no coal or iron near Yancheng, so it needs to be transported from other counties.

He also had no idea of building a large steel workshop in Yancheng.

One of the real large steel workshops is concentrated in Shanggu County, and the other is concentrated in Liao County.

These two places are originally steel bases in contemporary times.

Right now, the iron and steel workshops in the two counties were put into production last year.

Otherwise, the Yancheng Iron and Steel Works alone would not be able to supply the rails on the railway.

After observing the hot rolling workshop for a while, Zhao Xu went to the Beifang District of the Iron and Steel Workshop.

There is an electrolysis workshop here.

Naturally, the oxygen needed by the iron and steel workshop cannot be transported from other places, so the iron and steel workshop is also an oxygen production workshop.

Oxygen production is piped from the electrolysis workshop to the various workshops.

When Zhao Xu arrived, some craftsmen were loading steel cylinders one by one into donkey carts and pulling them away.

These cylinders contain oxygen and hydrogen, and these cylinders will be used for oxyhydrogen welding.

Before there was no electricity, the main connection method of steel parts was riveting.

Now, although the traditional riveting method still needs to be preserved.

But they were able to use more advanced oxyhydrogen welding to stitch steel components.

In this way, different steel parts can be combined to build more complex machinery.

And this is the subtle sublimation brought to the industry after the emergence of electricity.

(end of this chapter)