The changes in Jinchuan are not only reflected in the dock, but also in other places.
It has been more than two years since Jin Feng came to this world. In these two years, various factories have opened one after another with Xihewan as the center.
Today, more than half of the people in Jinchuan County work in Zhenyuan Escort Bureau or in factories run by Jin Feng.
The remaining work is also related to Jin Feng.
For example, the handling industry and service industry around the terminal.
When Jin Feng opened his first textile factory, people from all over the county flocked to Xihewan, hoping that Jin Feng could hire them to work, but Jin Feng could not hire so many people at that time.
Now as there are more and more factories, many factories have experienced labor shortages and have to send people to the surrounding counties and counties of Guangyuan to recruit workers.
The main purpose of Jin Feng's original work-for-relief program was to combat the cold disaster and to provide the common people with a bite of food through work-for-relief methods.
Now that the cold disaster has passed, the food Jin Feng robbed from the powerful is almost exhausted, and Jinchuan needs labor, the Ninth Princess has stopped most of the work-for-relief projects around Guangyuan.
Once the project was stopped, many people became unemployed again.
I heard that Jinfeng's factory needed manpower, so many people came with their families, but they still couldn't fill the labor gap.m.
Later, the Zhongming Group and the Jinchuan Chamber of Commerce continued to bring people over from Qin, and finally the problem of labor shortage was completely solved.
Nowadays, Jinchuan has become the county with the largest population in Guangyuan and even Sichuan, and it is also the county with the strongest economic strength.
With the support of a huge population, there are more and more factories, and the industry is becoming more and more complete.
When passing by Heishui ditch, Jin Feng saw tall chimneys from a distance, and after walking around the foot of the mountain, he saw clusters of factory buildings.
"Heishuigou has developed like this now?" Jin Feng was a little surprised.
This was once the lair of the Heishuigou bandits. After Jin Feng wiped out the bandits, he transformed it into a labor camp and imprisoned the captured bandits here to undergo labor reform.
Later, Mancang told him that the scale of coal mining needed to be expanded, and Jin Feng approved it.
Because he had too many things to do, Jin Feng didn't pay too much attention to it, and he didn't expect it to have grown to such a scale.
"The steel plant is developing rapidly and the amount of coal it needs is increasing sharply, so Mancang attaches great importance to Heishuigou. Last year, he spent almost half of the year here to supervise the construction."
Princess Ninth explained: "Husband, you also said that coal is the cornerstone of industrial development, so I have given the greatest support to Mancang's work. I remember what I told you."
"I remembered," Jin Feng nodded slightly: "At that time, Mancang said that he wanted to move the steel plant here. There is an iron smelting workshop under those chimneys, right?"
When Jin Feng first came to this world, blacksmithing still took Mancang and a group of female apprentices to smelt iron ore into pig iron first, and then carry out subsequent processing. The operation mode was still the same as that of a family workshop in the feudal era.
But now there are more than a dozen large and small workshops in Jinchuan Iron and Steel Plant, and assembly line operations have been formed.
There is a special prospecting team to prospect for minerals. If the distance is close, the ore will be transported back. If the distance is far, a furnace will be built locally to perform preliminary processing of the ore locally, and then transport it back to produce various iron products as needed.
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Heishuigou is close to the coal mine and closer to the dock than Xihewan, so Mancang built the furnace here.
"Yes, under those chimneys is the first workshop of the steel plant. The iron ore is initially processed in the first workshop, and then sent to different workshops for further processing based on the quality of the ore."
The Ninth Princess was obviously very concerned about the steel plant, and she fluently explained the development of the steel plant to Jin Feng.
"Very good," Jin Feng nodded, feeling very pleased: "Mancang is a capable person."
Although Mancang is a bit naive, he is still very reliable in doing things. He quietly completed all the things Jin Feng told him, and he did it better than Jin Feng expected.
For example, here in Heishui Gou, Jin Feng only asked Mancang to move the iron smelting workshop, but Mancang turned Heishui Gou into a small industrial park.
"Mancang can indeed get things done, but the main thing is that my husband has taught me well. If you hadn't taught him, Mancang might still be chopping firewood in the mountains."
Princess Ninth smiled and said: "The coal industry has developed so fast in the past two years, and my husband is the biggest contributor!"
"How can I teach my disciples? I don't have the time."
Jin Feng waved his hands repeatedly.
Since he took in several disciples, he has basically been just letting them go. Especially in the recent period, he has no time to teach his disciples at all.
"Husband, you are too modest to say that," the Ninth Princess said: "Ah Chun is too young and is still in school. Let's not talk about it. The remaining few disciples have all become the pillars.
Mancang is now in charge of the steel plant and coal mine, Wan Heming is currently studying how to install the steam engine on the car, and the military medical team under Xiao Jin also made great achievements this time. Without them, I am afraid there would be more casualties."
"Yes, the children have grown up."
Jin Feng sighed and suddenly came back to his senses: "What did you just say? What is Wan Heming doing recently?"
"I'm studying how to install a steam engine on a car," said Ninth Princess: "He said that since a steam engine can be installed on a ship or an airship, it can definitely be installed on a car."
"When did he start researching it?" Jin Feng asked.
In fact, Jin Feng has long thought about installing steam engines on vehicles, so that ground combat capabilities and transportation capabilities can be greatly improved.
Even if there is no airship, Dang Xiang's southern expeditionary army can still be pressed to the ground and rubbed.
Unfortunately, the steam engine is too big.
No matter how streamlined it is, a car built with a steam engine will inevitably be very large and have very high requirements on the road surface.
If you install steam engines on airships and ships, one can fly in the air and the other can run in the water, without having to build separate roads.
Qin's land is very mountainous, making it difficult for horse-drawn carriages to travel, let alone a huge steam locomotive.
In fact, the best way to use a steam engine to drive a car is a train.
However, laying railroad tracks was a very large project that could not be completed in a day or two. Jin Feng gave up this plan and planned to skip the steam engine and develop an internal combustion engine directly after the war. After the internal combustion engine was completed, he would then study automobiles.
Who knew that Wan Heming would take the initiative to study this project.
"It's been a few months," Ninth Princess finally realized something was wrong: "Husband, didn't you ask him to study it?"
"No, but it's not important anymore." Jin Feng asked with a smile: "How is his research going?"
Jin Feng had long discovered that Wan Heming was very talented in the mechanical field.
He was not surprised to think of putting a steam engine on a car, but rather looked forward to it.