Wei Bancheng and his family had just settled in the hotel in the industrial zone when they received news that Wu Zimian was visiting.
This hotel is the tallest building in Zunhua, with three floors underground and eight floors above ground. It is a reinforced concrete twin tower building. Between the two towers is a five-story hollow hall.
Such a high tower must be equipped with an elevator. Otherwise, it will be impossible to climb. Letting guests climb the stairs by themselves will cost their lives. Therefore, there is no elevator, so an up and down vertical ladder system driven by a steam engine is installed. It is similar to those in the 19th century.
The effect of old-fashioned elevators is almost the same.
The Northern Steel Alliance is composed of the eleven largest steel companies in Zunhua. They are all upstream and downstream partners of Xinghe Steel. Some of them operate iron mines, some operate coal mines, and some operate coking plants. Others are involved in downstream industries.
, after they obtained the steel materials from Xinghe Iron and Steel, they conducted deep processing to produce tools, agricultural tools, and daily necessities.
These big businessmen also followed Chairman Wei Bancheng and moved their families into the industrial zone. They stayed in the largest hotel in Zunhua. In a short time, all the high-end suites were booked by them.
This industrial zone occupies one-fifth of the area of Zunhua Old Town. It is separated into a separate area by a river and is located in the northeast corner of the city.
Before this land was renovated, it was a wasteland and a smelly pond. The iron factory that Yang Fan first took over was here.
After Yang Fan took over, he bought the entire northeast corner, drained out the sewage, leveled the land, and built an industrial zone on it.
Outside the industrial area is a circle of ten-meter-deep trenches filled with water.
Steelmaking requires a large amount of water, and these trenches also serve as water storage. They are also convenient for obtaining water in the event of a fire. At the same time, the trenches that are twenty meters wide and ten meters deep are also defensive measures.
Behind the trench is a stone concrete wall two meters thick and ten meters high. The trench and stone wall surround the entire industrial area. Close to the city wall, there is a road inside the wall in the northeast corner.
Behind the road is a trench, and behind the trench is the wall of the industrial area.
On these walls, there is a circular turret every fifty meters. It is fifteen meters high and is higher than the city wall. If the city wall is lost, you can shoot at the city wall from a high position.
Inside the wall is another trench that is twenty meters wide and ten meters deep. The inner and outer trenches are connected by underground pipes. They are also filled with water. These trenches are dams built with masonry and are the main source of water for the industrial area.
The interior of the industrial zone is filled with factories and streets, and the residential buildings are all six-story board buildings.
Now, the workers of the Northern Steel Alliance have fled into the industrial zone and the streets outside the industrial zone. Because the industrial zone cannot accommodate so many people. There are a full 200,000 workers and their families.
These peripheral streets are not protected by walls. The security teams in the industrial zone can only pile up barricades and pull up barbed wire fences on the streets. However, these peripheral streets are inhabited by people who work in the industrial zone, and most of them are small brick and stone structures.
The building is very solid.
Song Yingxing completed the construction of the dam and came here personally to direct the defense.
Based on his previous experience, he built the doors and windows with bricks and sealed them, leaving only the firing ports for firearms and crossbows.
Dig underground passages in the basements of each building, and leave a one-and-a-half-foot round hole at the entrance and exit to facilitate blocking and defense at any time. Connect different buildings. It also facilitates the movement of defensive personnel.
Now those who can enter the industrial park are skilled workers and technical researchers. A large number of workers are stranded in the outer neighborhoods of the industrial park.
Despite Wei Bancheng's repeated notices and warnings, there are still many people who do not believe in evil and refuse to stop work, shut down equipment, bury inventory products, etc.
Because the blast furnace could not be stopped easily, otherwise the losses would be huge if it was restarted. And they did not believe that the slaves could enter the Great Wall.
After all, in the 270th year of the Ming Dynasty, only Ye Xian and Ada Khan reached the capital twice. The last time was during the Jiajing period, when Yan Song was still in charge of Yan Pavilion. It had been a very long time.
Our nation is a forgetful nation.
Ten years after Chongzhen hanged himself, a North Korean delegation came to the imperial capital. By this time, the people in the capital had already shaved their heads and changed into Manchu clothes.
They laughed when they saw the strange clothes worn by the Koreans. Countless people watched, pointed, and laughed at why these Koreans were dressed so strangely.
Although the Koreans surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, they always had a clear mind to move forward.
In this situation, we were in the streets of the old capital of the Ming Dynasty. The carved railings and jade buildings were still there, but the people were no longer familiar. They communicated with each other through tears and cried: "We are wearing the clothes of the Ming Dynasty. This is
It’s only been ten years, why have you all forgotten?”
The people of this era are accustomed to marking the year with the emperor's reign name. The last reign name was a long time ago. What's more, so many years have passed.
For them, the Jiajing Dynasty has passed several years now and is a very distant memory.
There are many of these people, and they are also competitors of the Northern Steel Alliance.
After all, the business in Zunhua was profitable, and all the bigwigs in the imperial court would send people to open businesses to try to get a share of the pie. Therefore, many people still ignored Wei Bancheng.
Behind you is Marquis Dingyuan. Our background is stronger than yours, so who do you think you are?
Wei Bancheng was so angry that he didn't care. He did everything Fang Zheng and Yang Fan told him. As for these people, let them fend for themselves. Anyway, they were all finished, and he still had fewer competitors.
Wu Zimian, as the most senior commander-in-chief of the Beijing camp, rode horseback and led his entourage to the entrance of the industrial zone, in front of a two-way bridge with ten lanes.
He has never seen such a wide bridge. There are steel rails buried in slots in the middle four lanes of the bridge. The rails lead to the riverside dock. A large amount of coal, iron ore, coke, pig iron, lime and other raw materials depend on it.
The rail mine cars are transported in. The product steel ingots are also transported out from here.
The trenches are reserved in the middle of these cement roads and the method of installing steel rails is similar to the tracks used by steam engine-powered buses on the roads in Beijing. Rail cars can be used without affecting the movement of horse-drawn carriages.
There is a tall and majestic gate opposite, which slides open from left to right. Under the pure steel gate are train wheels and rails. There are watchtowers on both sides of the bridge, which are made of stone and cement. They look very solid.
He knew that this was the property of Marquis Dingyuan. It was the largest steel production area in Zunhua City. The old store of Xinghe Bank was also here, and it was said that Marquis Dingyuan's treasury was also here.
There are 30,000 workers inside the wall, and the number of people including their families is no less than 150,000.
He looked up and saw a tall building standing within a high wall. He knew that that was where the president of the Northern Steel Alliance, Wei Bancheng, whom he was going to visit, was staying.
