Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 510 300-ton Steel Plant
The Raytheon arrived at the ocean between Son Tra Peninsula and Da Cham Island in the afternoon, which is more than 20 kilometers away from Hoi An Port.Because it was winter and it was raining again, there were no fishermen going out to sea around.

At dusk, as the rain weakened, Ye Chengxiang and two of his men quietly boarded Dazhan Island in a rubber speedboat under the escort of several Bei Haijun who had changed into Qing clothes.When he got here, the rest was simple. He went directly to the fishing village on the island and hired a fast boat at a high price.

Although the hired fishermen couldn't help being surprised, Ye Chengxiang and his two subordinates were all natives of Hoi An, and he himself was the young master of the "Lianchang Ji" in the city.

Ye Chengxiang was in a hurry to return to Hoi An, and several fishermen also risked it under the heavy reward. The 20-meter-long fishing boat shuttled through the wind and rain on the dark sea, and it took just over two hours to pass the Dazhanxun checkpoint at the mouth of the Qiupan River.At midnight, the group arrived at the pier south of Datang Street.

It is not far from "Lianchangji", just cross two streets.When Ye Zhanrong was woken up by his family and learned that his son had suddenly returned with a few Qing people, knowing something was wrong, he hurriedly got up and dressed and went to the shop in the front yard.

"Chengxiang, why are you back? Who are these?"

"Father, my son came back from Dazhan Island by boat overnight, and I need your help to come up with a business idea."

"Oh! You've come all the way, are you hungry?" Ye Zhanrong nodded. He asked the servants who followed him to arrange tea and rice. After the servants left, he carefully looked at the guests in Qing costumes with the help of oil lamps.

There are five members of the Northern Navy accompanying Ye Chengxiang back this time. Except for a young man who looks like a southerner, the others are all strong, with a broad face and sharp edges and corners, which are obviously similar to Annan people or Fujian and Guangdong people. different.Although they all had smiles on their faces at the moment, Ye Zhanrong was secretly startled by the bloodiness and fierceness in their sharp eyes.

Ye Chengxiang saw it, and quickly introduced it to his father in a low voice, saying that the five who accompanied him back were all elite soldiers from the Beihai Navy, and all of them had the courage to stand up to ten.

After hearing this, Ye Zhanrong hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "I don't know what to call you?"

The young man who looked like a southerner said in Cantonese: "Daosheng in Xialin, from Chaozhou. These are my companions. They are all from outside the northern customs, and they don't understand southern dialect very well."

"Oh!" Ye Zhanrong thought it was no wonder.

Wen Dai, Rapini and others who were sitting on the side with expressionless faces watched Lin Daosheng talking and laughing with the Ye family father and son, their hearts were completely at a loss and they couldn't understand at all.Although Wang Yuanfang also asked Lin Daosheng and other southerners to teach Cantonese during the trip to the south, but this thing is really like a bible for those Sauron soldiers who can only speak Mandarin fluently.

Since the Battle of Jiangping, the most slippery Annan dialects spoken by the northerners in the Northern Navy are "Nuosongkongye" (hand in your guns and not kill), "Zongdui Kuanhong Bingbing" (we treat prisoners leniently) and " Naturalist deliberately frost" (put down weapons).

After more than half an hour, Ye Zhanrong was overjoyed after listening to his son and Lin Daosheng's narration.So he got up and cupped his hands and said: "Everyone, please rest assured, the matter of the boat is on the old man's shoulders. The twenty boats will be completed at noon tomorrow, and the two black boat boats of my Ye family will also be delivered together."

Lin Daosheng cupped his hands and said with a smile: "Then I will leave it to the old man. Before leaving, our officer told me that in order to ensure the safety of the Ye family, your whole family can board the Thunder God. Our ship is very big, and it is no problem to accommodate your family." .”

Early the next morning, Ye Zhanrong and his son went to the port to build a ship.Now that he is relying on Bei Haijun, Ye Zhanrong is even more eager to avenge his eldest son's family.He also worked so hard that he didn't even care about the business of the shop. It took the father and son a day, even buying and renting, at a high price of more than 600 taels of silver to get the required number of ships.

Fortunately, all the boats that Deng Fei wanted were fishing boats, so it was easy to deal with official inquiries when they left the port.If there were more than [-] big black antlers, things would be a big deal.And with the unexpected appearance of He Xiwen, the sailors who drive the boat are no longer a problem, as long as they hire local people to drive the boat to the vicinity of Dazhan Island.

The unexpected move of the Ye family father and son soon alarmed all the merchants on Great Tang Street.In the evening, each family was talking about it, and even business partners and neighbors who had been with them for many years came to ask to show their concern.

After a night of tidying up and preparations, in the early morning of the third day, the hired sailors drove [-] fishing boats, led by the Ye family's two black boats, and sailed out of Hoi An Port.

While Deng Fei and the others were busy preparing, Zhao Xin, who was far away in Yeniseysk, quietly returned to Beihai Town.Zhao Liang, who had just rushed back from Khabarovsk, was very surprised to see Zhao Xin who suddenly appeared.

"Why did you come back in such a cold day?"

"Something unexpected happened. Deng Fei and his team have changed their plans. I have to go to the south to deliver arms and supplies."

Zhao Xin then briefly talked to Zhao Liang, and Zhao Liang became very indignant after hearing this.He immediately checked the inventory accounts of the arsenal, and then frowned: "The '1790 rifle' produced before was shipped to Yaxa for 500 rods, and now there are only more than [-] rods in the warehouse."

"Okay, I'll take five hundred. How many more 84 revolvers?"

"Well, this is a bit more. Counting the return from the Green Leaf Battalion and the Ainu Battalion, the total is 2357."

Zhao Xin was startled when he heard this, and said immediately, "Then I'll take a thousand."

After finishing his work, Zhao Liang hurriedly spent half a day plus one night to discuss with Zhao Xin the progress of the construction of the Khabarovsk Iron and Steel Plant.Now Zhao Liang is running between Beihai Town and Boli, and he is extremely busy.

This time, Beihai Town set up a steel plant in Khabarovsk with a scale of 300 million tons. In another time and space, it was just a small private enterprise, but in this time and space, it is the world's number one.

However, since the level of knowledge and mastery of skills of the peasants in the 20th century was far lower than that of another time and space, the construction period of the entire project is tentatively set at four years, and the production and operation period is 100 years.If it is conservatively estimated, the output can reach 30 million tons in the first year of operation, and then it can maintain an annual increase rate of [-]%.

The whole iron and steel plant is divided into eight major projects, including comprehensive material plant, coke plant, sintering workshop, pelletizing workshop, ironmaking workshop, steelmaking and continuous casting workshop, bar engineering and furnace coil engineering.In addition, there are gas pipeline networks, oxygen stations, power plants, water supply and drainage systems, communication systems, and so on.

Among them, the sintering workshop is for the production of sinter, the pellet workshop is for supplying acidic oxidation pellets to the ironmaking workshop, the continuous casting workshop is for the production of billets and slabs, the bar project is for the production of round steel and steel bars, and the furnace coil project It produces hot-rolled steel sheets.

The production equipment in the steelmaking workshop includes two 80-ton converters, which adopt the top-bottom combined blowing technology, with an annual output of up to 171 million tons of billets.The steel that can be produced in the future includes plain carbon steel, low alloy steel and alloy steel, welding wire steel, cold pier steel, and spring steel.

要是等工人的知识和技术水平上去了，以后像是40、45、40Gr、20MnSi Q235、16Mn、Q345、 Q235、15Mn等等标准的合金钢也都可以生产。

According to Zhao Liang's estimation, the 40-alloy steel Shenma should not be considered within at least five years, and it would be good to be able to produce low-alloy steel in the first five years.In short, the early products are mainly related to railway and shipbuilding related equipment, including steel and steel plates needed for rails and bridges.

In terms of the demand for the number of workers in the steel mill, it is expected that the total number will reach 8000.This time is in another time and space, more than 3000 people are enough!
Finally, let’s talk about investment. This is what worries Zhao Xin the most.The construction planning and investment plan of the whole project were made by several invited old engineers, so it can be said that there is no moisture.Of course, since the eighteenth century has come, even if you want to get a kickback, you can't get it.

The equipment investment of the whole project is 21 billion, the engineering investment is 8 million, and the supporting power plant construction is 3 million, a total of 32 billion.Based on the base price of gold in another time and space, these alone would require eight tons of gold.

In addition, more than 100 engineers and old workers who were over [-] years old were invited (abducted) from another time and space, which is [-] million.Yes, Zhao Xin has reduced the cost of employment.With more and more "beating workers" under him, Zhao Xin's financial pressure is also increasing.

The eighteenth century was the era of silver, but silver in another time and space was worthless, so he could only dump gold.

Fortunately, he has now controlled Lingjiao, the highest-grade gold mine in the world.It is said that with the support of countless advanced mining equipment in another time and space, the annual output of the Lingjia Gold Mine is as high as 7-10 tons, but don't dream about it in this time and space.

With the current production capacity of Beihai Town plus the Konomai Mine in Ezodi and other small gold mines, Zhao Xin can now maintain an annual gold income of 2 to 3 tons.

In addition, he has no land use costs, ordinary construction personnel are paid in silver coins, and the investment does not need to be in place at one time; other equipment manufacturers also have a time schedule for production.Therefore, Zhao Xin does not need to cash out several tons of gold at a time, otherwise not only will the international gold price be smashed by him, but the risk of attracting attention will also increase to a level that will never go back.

In order to build an industrialized country in the [-]th century, today's Zhao Xin has long since broken away from the vulgar taste of "be rich and secure, embrace left and right", and become a pure person, a moral man. Forget it, I really can't make it up anymore.

Zhao Xin searched in Beihai Town, then yawned and left quietly. At this time, the Thunder God had returned to the waters of Hue with more than 20 wooden boats.The first thing Deng Fei and the others had to do was to meet that He Xiwen.

Standing on the black boat, Mr. He looked up at the Thunder God like a hill with his neck up. He couldn't help gasping, thinking that today was really a knife piercing his ass, and he opened his eyes.

The moment he boarded the boat, He Xiwen changed his mind to go to Beihai Town.

Look at Guo Xuexian, who has become a high-ranking official in his 20s and is in charge of a huge sailing ship in Western style.If you bring someone to vote for it yourself, how can you manage two of them?If the Beihai Navy takes down the entire Manchu Qing Dynasty, can he also become a founding prince?Not to mention An Nanguo's third grade, it's not as good as a king with a single word!

So after seeing Deng Fei and Wang Yuanfang, He Xiwen's first words after exchanging greetings were: "Dare to ask when Prince Zhao will ascend the throne and become emperor? He is willing to do the same work!"

Deng Fei and Wang Yuanfang looked at each other, thinking that this guy is fierce enough, what's the matter!
"I heard from Guo Xuexian that Mr. He has already become a military officer of the third rank in Jiuruan's place?"

He Xiwen blushed when he heard Deng Fei's words, and said in a low voice: "There is a way that a good bird chooses a tree to live in, and a good minister chooses a master, this and this"

"Master He wants to say that a good minister chooses the master and serves him."

"That's right! Mr. Deng is very knowledgeable, and He is ashamed to be inferior! Alas, He was poor when he was young, and he only went to private schools for a few years, which makes adults laugh."

Deng Fei and Wang Yuanfang had already learned about He Xiwen from Zheng Lianchang.As a family of pirates who have been entrenched in the Pearl River Estuary for many years, Zheng Lianchang may not seem to have much enterprising spirit, but he is very familiar with the pirates along the coast of Guangdong.

At this moment, the two heard He Xiwen say again: "On the way back from Guangdong, He had a fight with the Tartar navy and killed a general of the other side with his own hands. It's okay to come to meet the two generals this time. He gave the two of them the waist knife and yellow jacket that he had seized as presents."

After finishing speaking, He Xiwen asked Huang Zhongtong, who was holding a satin leather bundle, to present the things over.

As soon as the package was opened, the yellow mandarin jacket was fine, but the wild goose feather knife with a green sharkskin sheath attracted everyone's attention.I saw that the handle, guard, and various parts of the scabbard of this knife are all made of gold-plated copper, with beautiful lines and exquisite workmanship.When Wang Yuanfang got up and slowly pulled out the knife, he saw that the wide and thick knife was covered with fine patterns, which could only be obtained after hundreds of years of practice and hammering, and he couldn't help but exclaimed: "Good knife!"

The Yanling Dao in the early Qing Dynasty was more practical, with a wider and thicker blade, more blood grooves and deeper grooves, and a relatively small number of lines, generally less than three, often with little decoration, and the overall layout is sparse.In the middle and late period, as the role of cold weapons on the battlefield weakened, the ceremonial use of the military officer's saber was greater than the actual combat function, and the blade of the Yanling sword became narrower and thinner.

However, Wang Yuanfang just praised it, then inserted the knife back, and said to He Xiwen, "Master He should keep such a good thing for himself."

He Xiwen's complexion changed, thinking that the other party wanted to reject him, and was about to explain, when Wang Yuanfang continued: "We have a lot of these things, and I will give you one when I have a chance."

The Beihai Navy has also seized many weapons of the Qing army over the years. Among them, there are many generals' waist knives, including those of the co-leader, commander-in-chief, and deputy commander. The most valuable one has to be Fukang'an's waist knife. It was bestowed by Emperor Qianlong.These things were thrown in the warehouse before, and after everyone's new house was built, led by Zhao Xin, others also took them home as decorations.

He Xiwen saw that Wang Yuanfang's expression did not seem to be fake, so he let go of his hanging heart.

"Okay, we all understand what Master He means. What's the matter, we'll talk about it after the capture of Hue."

After Deng Fei finished speaking, he asked Jiang Fan to spread out the map on the table.This is a picture of the inside and outside of Hue City drawn by the entourage of the General Staff through several days of drone reconnaissance, depicting the layout of the city and the surrounding mountains, lakes, and waterways.It's not necessarily accurate, but it's good enough.

The expression in He Xiwen's eyes became more and more surprised, he had never seen such a detailed map.In his heart at this moment, the Beihai Navy has become more and more mysterious.

Wang Yuanfang pointed to the Xinxunkou leading to the Xiangjiang River and said: "Our plan is to take eight large open-stern boats equipped with artillery as the vanguard, all the way straight into Hue City, the Marine Corps, the Special Operations Battalion, oh, and Master He's men formed other flat-bottomed boats to follow. All the ships marched in double columns. If they encountered Xishan soldiers and horses blocking along the way, the small group of people would ignore it and shoot directly; Artillery attacks, try to avoid landing operations. According to our reconnaissance, the Xishan Army may have laid iron chains or sunken ships on the Xiangjiang River to block them, and I hope Master He's troops will cooperate to clean them up."

He Xiwen was stunned when he heard this, thinking that's all?He hesitated and asked: "Although He has never been to Hue, he also heard that the waterway of Xiangjiang River is very wide. Besides, the wide open stern boat is only fifteen feet wide, how can it put down the cannon?"

Wang Yuanfang smiled and said: "Please rest assured, the artillery of our army is completely different from what Mr. He has seen."

He Xiwen looked down for a long time, thought for a while, and said, "I'm afraid, I'm afraid it's not right. If the Xishan bandits take away all the grain and grass in the city, and hide their soldiers and horses in Haiyunling and the west of the city at the same time, once we enter the city, they may It will cut off the waterway and surround our army, and it will be difficult to think of it at that time."

Huang Zhongtong, who was looking at the map with his head on the side, also interjected: "Yes. Thousands of horses have no food and grass, and it is useless even if they fight in!"

Hearing the worries of He Xiwen and Huang Zhongtong, Deng Fei, Wang Yuanfang, Jiang Fan and others were all happy.

Deng Fei said: "Hehe, Mr. He, we have considered what you said in advance. Don't worry about food and grass, you and your people take your heart back! The way of fighting in the Beihai Navy is different from all the troops you have seen before. It's different, this time we're just trying a small trick, and you'll be shocked when the time comes."

"Different?" He Xiwen and Huang Zhong looked at the three of Deng Fei with a confused look on their faces, and wondered what was different about fighting.

(End of this chapter)