Fang Xiaoyue and others spent a lot of effort to pull the locomotive onto the rails. After some debugging, Fang Xiaoyue shoveled a pile of coal into the combustion chamber, poured some kerosene and ignited it.
With a bang, the coal immediately burned, and the raging flames licked the bottom of the boiler, continuously evaporating the water into steam.
As three rapid whistles sounded in succession, the locomotive began to move slowly on the rails, and then continued to accelerate and accelerate.
The coolies who were working nearby and the civilians who were supervising them all looked at the huge locomotive moving on the rails. They felt as if they were seeing gods or monsters. They were so shocked that they knelt on the ground and knelt down toward the locomotive.
Fang Xiaoyue did not see the foolish behavior of those coolies at this time. He and several technicians were observing the operation of the locomotive.
Since the entire railway track was only three kilometers in total, it didn't take long for the track to reach the end and the locomotive began to slowly stop.
"Not bad, this test was very successful, then the locomotive type 1 can be officially finalized."
Fang Xiaoyue signed her name on the acceptance report.
The working process of the working group is no longer as chaotic as it was at the beginning, and is gradually transitioning to the corresponding system of later generations.
After all, if you want to develop industry, the working system of private factories and small workshops will definitely not work.
If it is not determined right from the beginning, it will be very troublesome to correct it when there are more factories.
Of course, passing the inspection does not mean that Fang Xiaoyue and others are done.
They also need to collect some data and prepare to improve the locomotive.
In short, until now, unless you want to be lazy, you can't finish the things you have to do.
Another half month passed, and the railway track was finally built between Jinniuling and Shiluling.
In particular, the construction of the Jinniuling section of railway track was extremely difficult. Just crossing a mountain ridge consumed more than two tons of railway track, and there were even accidents during the process.
No way, the yellow drug was so sensitive that more than a dozen coolies were blown to pieces.
They were so frightened that when they drilled holes to load the medicine for the second time, the coolies did not dare to step forward.
In the end, Sun Xuebin had to force them to pass with a gun.
With the track repaired in place, the work of the coolie camp is not over. They still need to build another track next to the track to form a double track. In this way, when the construction of the second locomotive is completed, the two sections can start at the same time, increasing the freight volume.
Double or even more.
After all, if the railway track is a double-track mode, more locomotives can be used to transport goods back and forth.
In addition, most of the coolies were directly dragged into mining.
At this time, Sun Xuebin felt that the coolies in his hands were not enough.
But even so, as the Shilu Iron Mine went into production, the thousand-ton cargo ship and several fishing boats took on the task of transporting iron ore.
This is also a helpless matter. Compared with the more than 5,000 tons of high-quality coal that has been reserved, the dock area is now in greater need of iron ore.
Whether it is locomotives, artillery or even various machinery required for new factories, they all need steel after smelting iron ore!
Besides, Shilu Iron Mine not only produces steel, but also cobalt, copper, nickel, sulfur, aluminum, gold, etc.
These are urgently needed industrial raw materials in the dock area.
For example, cobalt has a wide range of uses in industry. It can be used to make heat-resistant alloys, cemented carbide, magnetic alloys, etc.
Like rocket engines, various power combustion chambers need to be made of heat-resistant alloys. If you want to make a fuel engine in the future, cobalt will definitely be essential.
Of course, what is urgent now is to use cobalt-containing cemented carbide to manufacture various wear-resistant tools.
Not to mention magnetic alloys containing cobalt. Generators require this type of magnetic alloy to manufacture.
As for nickel, with it, stainless steel materials come out.
There is also aluminum, which is more widely used.
In short, in Zhang Feifei’s words, once the Shilu Iron Mine is developed, industrial development will be given wings.
A large amount of iron ore is transported by sea to the dock area, and then sent to the grinding workshop to be ground into ore powder.
The ore powder will be separated once by strong magnetic separation, and then the corresponding concentrate powder will be finally sorted through mixing flotation, separation flotation, etc.
The concentrated ore powder will be sent to the smelting workshop for smelting, and ultimately higher purity steel, cobalt, copper, nickel, aluminum, and gold will be smelted.
As for sulfur, sulfur powder is recovered in the exhaust gas link.
Thanks to the availability of metal nickel and metal aluminum, the dock area quickly revised the currency system.
New metal coins stainless steel coins started to be launched.
Its currency value is divided into ten yuan, five yuan, one yuan, five cents, one dime, five cents and one cent.
When it was first discussed at the Interim Management Committee, some people were worried that someone would resmelt stainless steel coins of one dime, five cents, and one cent and process them into ten yuan, five yuan, and one yuan coins.
After all, the weight ratio between them is far less than the difference between the above values.
But Zhang Feifei laughed immediately.
With the technological level of this era, it is simply impossible to resmelt and process the stainless steel coins they produced.
Because the melting point of this stainless steel coin is around 1400 degrees Celsius!
It is simply impossible for primitive furnaces to reach such high temperatures.
The previously issued gold coins, silver coins and copper coins will cease circulation after one year.
The initial trial run of 10,000 stainless steel coins was unexpectedly well received by businessmen and the public after entering the market.
The reason is very simple. This kind of metal coin is not afraid of high temperatures, has high hardness, will not rust, and has strong wear resistance. In addition, its front and back are as exquisite as carvings, making it impossible for counterfeiters to make it.
Get started.
Well, even if you can ask a master to carve out an identical coin, not to mention its hardness and other factors, the cost alone will be more than ten yuan.
Of course, the reason why the Provisional Committee issued stainless steel coins was to issue credit currency.
After all, it is much easier to change the face value of credit currency than gold and silver coins.
Just make a larger stainless steel coin and set its face value to 100 yuan or 50 yuan.
Of course, for now, stainless steel coins with a face value of ten yuan are enough.
But just when the industry in the dock area was booming and becoming more prosperous, trouble came.
Nanhai Guard's Wei You Qian Hu Station near Lingao, Wei Zuo Qian Hu Station located in Anding, and Wei Qian Qian Hu Station in Chengmai are preparing to send troops to attack the dock area.
Chen Liuxiang got this news from a Zhanzhou businessman.
Although the authenticity of the news could not be determined, the interim committee still held an emergency meeting after receiving the news.
The meeting soon came to the conclusion that professional things should be done by professionals.