However, what really interests the repair shop are the two remaining sets of power generation equipment. Because the ironworks is too remote, there is no power plant to supply power to it.
Although the ironworks has a set of power generation equipment, it is just a boiler and a generator set, which can only meet the lighting needs of the ironworks. The processing equipment before the ironworks were all driven by internal combustion engines, but the cost of burning oil was too high, so Huang Shixin also
A set of power generation equipment was specially purchased.
Moreover, this set of power generation equipment is very interesting. If it is fully activated, the normal output power will be several times that required by the ironworks and Huang Shixin to purchase all the equipment. Obviously, Huang Shixin's ambitions were not small at that time, and he reserved enough resources to supply redundant power for the development of the ironworks.
Yu, what a pity...
Among the second-hand equipment that the British-funded foreign company forced Huang Shixin to buy, there was also a set of power generation equipment. It was obvious that the other party had prepared it based on Huang Shixin's order and was just waiting to plot against Huang Shixin. Although the technology of this set was very backward, the power generation capacity was not small and was enough for Huang Shixin.
It is assumed that the power generation capacity will increase after the completion of the China Railway Plant and the renovation and upgrade.
The repair shop chose Huang's Iron Works mainly because of these two sets of power generation equipment. Firstly, if the new purchase of equipment with this power generation capacity is not necessarily lower than the price of these items from the Huang's, secondly, the delivery time of the new purchase
I can't say how long it will be, whether it will be a few months, or how long it will be.
As for why the base needs so much electricity, firstly, it is used to drive processing equipment; secondly, the base is planning to install some electric arc furnaces to produce trial-produced high-performance steel, which is a prerequisite for self-produced gun barrels.
Although at the end of the Qing Dynasty, we were able to produce mountain artillery and heavy artillery that could catch up with foreign standards, most of them used carbon steel at that time. Basically, when the domestic Jiangnan Manufacturing Administration Steelmaking Plant produced qualified carbon steel, the West explored new technologies.
A generation of steelmaking technology made a breakthrough and the alloy steel revolution took place.
Alloy steel, called special steel during the Republic of China, was the core material in gun manufacturing. The performance of alloy steel in making guns was due to the existence of rolled carbon steel. After the outbreak of World War I, it was widely developed and China's self-produced
Weapons are once again behind the world.
At this time, China has reached the Beiyang and Warlord Period. During this period, the regime's control over the country was not as good as that of the Qing Dynasty! It was unable and unwilling to invest in new steel plants. Domestic arsenals were reduced to processing factories for supplied materials, and the warlords were short-sighted.
, officials are corrupt, and in order to obtain kickbacks, even domestically produced steel and even wooden buttstocks for rifles have to be purchased from foreigners, basically giving complete independence to military production.
During the period of the Nationalist Government in Nanjing, the situation improved somewhat. It was not as extreme as in the Beiyang period. It also intended to gain independence in military production. In 1932, it planned to build a new steel plant in Pukou. However, after calculation, it would require an investment of eight
Ten million yuan, which is 10% of the National Government's annual fiscal revenue, has not yet been resolved.
Of course, the repair shop does not have that much money to build a steel-making plant. At present and even in the future, it will mainly process incoming materials. However, this is not a long-term solution. Others will not be able to sell it and will not be lucky.
It will affect normal production in the future, so we still need to prepare in advance to avoid being controlled by others for a long time.
What the repair shop plans to do is to configure several small electric arc furnaces to be set up at this base. On the one hand, they will be used to research and explore the production and smelting process of alloy steel. On the other hand, they will trial-produce alloy steel in small batches to test the process and improve production.
The process can also be used to replace imported alloy steel to produce some important parts of guns and test the actual performance effects.
Currently, the Repair Institute is about to receive two German-made multi-ton electric arc furnaces. Among those military equipment, the Repair Institute plans to use them for small batch trial production of alloy steel to produce some important parts of guns.
It is estimated that the original owner's idea was similar to that of a repair shop, except that there was no special power generation equipment inside. After all, those equipment originally belonged to a country. If there was power available for deployment, there would be no need to build new power generation facilities.
Of course, this does not mean that the base of the repair shop cannot allocate electricity. There are power plants in both Nanjing and Ma'anshan, where factories and mines gather. However, the demand here at the base is a bit high, and there may be problems with the outsourced supply and cost. Moreover, the Intelligence Department and Repair
There are many enemies and competitors in the Machinery Institute, and there is no guarantee that no one will cause trouble in this, so it is better to produce it for your own use.
Of course, the base is preparing to install more than these two units. The repair shop has also ordered a number of ton-level electric arc furnaces, which are about one ton in size. They are mainly used for research and testing. After all, research and exploration of steel smelting processes require a
Trial and error in smelting furnaces, small furnaces can reduce a lot of research and development costs.
Li Dingqiao took a passenger ferry from Nanjing to Dangtu, and then took a chartered awning boat along the waterway to the iron factory.
Although the location of the iron plant is relatively remote, compared to the location of the factory, the iron plant still has good water and land transportation conditions. If the transportation conditions for transporting raw materials in and products out are not available, then building a factory is not nonsense.
Well!
There is a waterway not far from the mouth of the valley where the factory is located. It is a waterway that flows down from the mountain and converges in a flat place outside the mountain. It eventually flows through Dangtu and merges into the Yangtze River. Because there are many good paddy fields on both sides, it has been repaired and managed through generations.
A navigable waterway with gentle flow.
However, the waterway is not very deep, and can only be used by small boats with a draft of less than two meters. But it is no longer possible. In the past few decades, there has been domestic turmoil, and no one has organized and repaired it properly. The Huang family, which relies on this waterway for transportation, has simply organized people.
However, in recent years, the ironworks has been running out of business, and the Huang family has lost their focus. Now some parts of the waterway have become seriously silted up.
There is a very wide road on the embankment on one side of the waterway. It was also widened and maintained by the iron factory on the original foundation. The road is paved with a layer of ash and slag from the iron factory. It has become a thick layer over the years. In addition to the grass, it has grown much longer.
The roads are in pretty good condition and can lead directly to the ironworks. Currently, workers and goods in the ironworks enter and exit via roads.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Because it relies on manpower to support the boat, the boat does not go very fast. After about half an hour, the boat turned a bend in the water, and Li Ding Bridge was not far away.
Go to the pier in the waterway. According to the boatman, it is the pier built by the iron factory.
After boarding the dock, there is a semicircular unloading yard in front of you, and beyond that is a circle of warehouses. There is a gap in the middle right of the semicircular warehouse. It is a spacious road that leads directly to the factory. There is still a section away from the iron factory, but there are two sides of the road.
It is not desolate, but is long enough for two residential houses.
There are residents here now. Of course, there were not before the factory was built. They were all built with the factory. Some people made a living around the iron factory and this residential area gradually appeared. After all, the iron factory is not a small one. There were hundreds of workers at its peak, let alone
Talk about those people who make a living by transporting goods around the ironworks.
Of course, most of the residents here were iron factory workers and their families in the past. When the iron factory was built, there were no residential areas around it, so accommodation was naturally provided, but most people could only live in multi-person dormitories.
It's just that the workers are all adults and have a need for personal privacy. And many of them have families and homes, and have stable jobs, so they naturally want to take care of their families.
At first, they just rented houses in surrounding villages and towns, but the iron factory had always avoided these places. It would be very inconvenient to commute to and from get off work. After some consideration, the iron factory finally decided to set aside some areas along the roads outside the valley to provide The workers built their own houses to live in.
There is a large piece of land from the mouth of the valley to the waterway. In order to avoid disputes after the factory was built, it was purchased before the factory was built.
Although workers are allowed to build houses, the foundations provided to everyone are not large, and the foundations still belong to the iron factory. If workers buy and sell, the iron factory will not interfere if they sell to workers who have not built houses. If the houses are already built or people outside the factory
, then the ironworks’ consent is required.
However, ironworks generally don't care much about it. Over the past few decades, there are not only private houses here, but also stalls and shops for workers' business. Unfortunately, most places are closed, and there are not many pedestrians on the road.
Naturally, there are not many people here. The residents here basically rely on the iron factory to make a living, and most of the ordinary workers are proletarians who came to the factory to find a way to survive. Many of them are not from the surrounding area. They have no land and no property in the local area, and they don't even own the foundation of their houses.
, even if some family members run shops here, the shop business still depends on the iron factory.
We were born and mourned by the factory. When the iron factory declined, these people had no choice but to leave and seek life elsewhere.
At present, there are still about a hundred or so master workers in the iron factory. Huang Shixin is not willing to accept the result of the iron factory under his own management, so the only ones left behind are experienced and skilled masters and old technicians in the factory.
It has been decided to receive them together with the iron factory, and everyone should be in the factory now.
A few hundred meters further along the road is the confluence of Pier Road and Hedi Road. A few dozen meters further ahead is the valley entrance, which is the main entrance of the iron factory.
On the inner side of Hedi Road, that is, on the mountain side, there is a row of workers' dormitories and two-story brick and wood structure houses. On the outer side of the road, there are also residential buildings, with slightly more pedestrians than on Pier Road.
Directly on the right hand side of the gate, that is, go straight along the river embankment road. There are also buildings on both sides, but they are not residential buildings. They are considered part of the factory area and are processing plants built at the back.
Li Dingqiao did not enter the factory immediately, but walked along Hedi Road. However, he asked one of his men to negotiate with the guard because he did not notify the iron factory in advance of his arrival.
Firstly, he wanted to come over privately to see the daily conditions here. Secondly, there was currently no convenient way to contact Nanjing at the ironworks. The ironworks and Nanjing could not be connected by telephone. The wireless ironworks had also been set up, so he did not want to cause trouble.
The residential area on the Hedi Road is much wider than that on Pier Road, with many forked streets and alleys extending out. This is because the residential areas on Pier Road were built earlier and there was no planning to reserve these at that time.
The condition of Hedi Road was improved by the ironworks paving the road with ash and slag over the years. The ironworks' initial transportation relied on waterways, so workers initially chose to build houses on Pier Road.
However, because there was not much planning, the houses were crowded one after another. The area behind the private houses was not easy to use, and no business or commerce was considered. Therefore, after the road condition of Hedi Road improved and access became smoother, the residential areas on the side of Hedi Road were opened.
On the contrary, it develops better.
However, no matter how good the development is, it is useless. After all, this place is prosperous because of the factory. If it were not for the arrival of the repair shop, when the Huang family could no longer insist on giving up the iron factory, this place would also be empty of people and buildings, and eventually submerged in the long river of history.
Li Dingqiao visited all the lanes and alleys until he turned back at the end of the residential area. At the gate of the factory, he met Huang Shixin and a group of people coming out to welcome him.
Without saying anything else, Li Dingqiao greeted these people for a while and asked Huang Shixin to follow. The others were sent back to the workshop, and Huang Shixin took him to continue to inspect the workshop on the right and the main factory area in the valley.
Huang Shixin has also been introduced by the repair shop. He is currently acting as the director of the second base. He should be corrected when the base is officially established. Of course, this director is not the type of director who has great power.
The repair shop is centered around research, technology, craftsmanship and other aspects of personnel, and important departments such as finance and auditing are controlled by personnel dispatched from the intelligence office. The real power of the factory management unit has been greatly weakened, and its positioning has basically been reduced to
The base provides various service work units.
On the one hand, the reason for retaining Huang Shixin is to give the Huang family reassurance. It may be that the Huang family was cheated and bullied before, and the government turned a blind eye and was even afraid of foreigners. Although the Huang family agreed to cooperate, they had many concerns and left the Huang family
The heirs were recruited and carried out to make them feel at ease.
As for why you care so much about this cooperation with the Huang family, even though the Huang family is so poor, the connections accumulated by countless generations still have great power. Moreover, after running the iron factory business for decades, the connections in this industry are definitely good.
, in the future, the repair shop will still need to rely on the other party’s connections to promote some important work.
On the other hand, there is Huang Shixin’s personal reason. It is not that easy to find someone with relevant professional knowledge and relatively good management and operation experience.
Although he has made many mistakes and mistakes in his previous business management, from another perspective, these are also lessons learned! What is more important is his character. Such a bottom-line and perseverance person is in charge of the base, which can ensure to a great extent the success of the base.
The intelligence office can rest assured that there won't be any major problems in the base.
Going to the right, there are four long manufacturing plants on both sides of the road, three of which are more old and dilapidated. The road further ahead is still extending, and it seems that it has been repaired recently.
Both sides of the road are also clearing weeds and leveling the ground, because the preliminary plan for the second base has been released, and the workshops for weapons manufacturing and production will be located on both sides of the road.
The power plant is located next to the waterway a little further from the dock. Because both sets of power generation equipment are coal-fired and no coal is produced here, coal transportation is convenient along the waterside.
A little further ahead, there is a valley similar to the one where the iron factory is located, which has also been taken over by the repair shop and is intended to be used for ammunition production, storage, explosives R&D and production, etc. These things cannot be squeezed into the main base, otherwise they will cause trouble.
The consequences of any problem would be unimaginable.
The Gannai Iron Works is just like that, distributed along both sides of the stream, with buildings extending two to three hundred meters in. However, most of the buildings are used to stack raw materials, cool, and store pig iron and crude steel. The buildings mainly used for production are only on the left side of the stream and behind.
A section of a large factory building in a wider area has been suspended.
The valley farther inside is actually wider, and Huang Shixin has already found someone to clean it up. It will be a shooting range for future testing and inspection of guns, used to test the performance of weapons and check and calibrate guns.
Although there is a mine further inside, the mine is not buried deep underground. It is just a covered gentle slope. Although the cover is a bit thick, if you spend more money and explosives to clean it up, you can quickly clear out an open air.
Mine.
The base is not a steel factory and does not require much iron ore. Once more manpower is organized to mine it, it will probably be used for a long time. The mining and testing work will not have much impact on each other.