my magic industry

Chapter 237 Investigation and Confirmation

The establishment of the Imperial Capital Coal and Iron Company means that Xialin's industrialization plan has taken another big step forward.

In fact, Xia Lin proposed to Queen Dorothea that the establishment of this alliance on the grounds of the expansion of the new army is simply untenable, because it is impossible to complete the site selection and construction around the remote Blue Lake Mountains. The process will take at least one or two months, and this is based on the mobilization of the Royal Magic Guard as construction workers.

After all, in Xia Lin's design drawings, the three factories this time are not trivial things. The dressing and washing plant, coking plant and ironmaking plant are all large factories covering an area of ​​more than [-] square meters. Among the factories under the name of the Ye Chamber of Commerce, only the newly established gun factory located near the R&D center has such a large scale.

Moreover, after the construction of the plant is completed, there will be construction of various furnaces and supporting facilities. Among them, the blast furnace of the ironworks and the coke oven of the coking plant still need to be baked for a period of time. It takes at least two to officially put into production. months later.

However, after the establishment of these factories, the steelmaking factories in the industrial park can add electric arc furnaces, expand production, and meet the needs of the Second Guards Division and several other divisions that obey the Queen's will. It is not considered to have deceived Her Majesty Queen Dorothea. Anyway, if you want to engage in heavy industry to strengthen your own strength, this is a threshold that you will have to pass sooner or later.

According to the mine shares and human resources provided by these participants, after a day of intense discussions, the specific form of the Imperial Capital Coal and Iron United Company was soon determined.

Among the total 22% of the shares, Xia Lin holds [-]% of the shares with technology and management, the royal family takes [-]% of the shares with land, funds, policy support, and a total of [-] iron mines and coal mines of various sizes under their names, and the remaining [-]%. Among the shares, the Brook family, which contributed the most, accounted for [-]%, and the last [-]% was allocated according to the various mines and resources provided by the participants.

The company's board of directors has 37 members in total. The chairman is a representative appointed by Her Majesty Queen Dorothea, and the general manager is naturally Xia Lin. When the company is on the right track in the future, Xia Lin plans to dispatch someone from the New Leaf Chamber of Commerce. Take charge of this job.

Coordinated in detail the quantity and location of the coal and iron mines provided by the directors of the company. In the report received by Xia Lin, the unanimously elected general manager, the newly established Imperial Capital Coal and Iron Co., Ltd. has a total of seven large mines. , 25 medium-sized mines, 45 small mines.

The classification is based on large mines with a daily iron ore output of more than four tons, coal mines with a daily output of more than ten tons, medium-sized mines with an iron ore output of more than two tons, and coal mines with a daily output of more than six tons. Small mines are all mines with an output below these two standards.

The production of four tons of iron ore a day seems a bit bleak, but it is considered good in this era. The Blue Lake Mountains are covered with vegetation and the roads are winding and complicated. It is not favored by the mine owners of the imperial capital at all.

In this kind of terrain, a mine that can accommodate 200 people working at the same time is regarded as a large scale. There are some small mines because the conditions are too poor, and the mine owners set up a few mines near the mines near the water veins. In the tent, there are miners or miners and security managers stationed inside. There are only seven or eight people, and a dozen or so people dig in small groups.

The transportation work relies entirely on a flat and slender small shuttle boat. This kind of shuttle boat is more common on the Seine River. It has a simple sail and can run at a fairly high speed in the case of downwind, so it is very popular among some fishermen. Favored by shippers and shippers, this kind of shuttle boat is also widely used in the Blue Lake Mountains where lakes and rivers are scattered.

Due to inconvenient transportation, mine owners often give priority to developing mines near convenient rivers. Some mines that are far away from rivers, even if they have abundant reserves and easy excavation, will not be included in their list of consideration for development.

As the general manager of the coal and iron joint company, Xia Lin also needs to consider the order in which these coal and iron mines are developed.

After careful study on the only accurate map of this era provided by Her Majesty the Queen, Xia Lin divided these minerals into three mineral development areas, each of which has similar water conservancy and transportation conditions. For development, it is entirely possible to carry out preliminary development along the river.

Xia Lin then organized an investigation team of 15 people, preparing to go to the Blue Lake Mountains to conduct a field investigation to see which mineral development zone has better conditions. The most important thing is that there must be a suitable one nearby. The site is used for the construction of a coal-iron complex.

In this inspection group, besides Xia Lin, there are also Sharp, the general manager of No. [-] Construction Company, and two technicians.

During the construction of the project during this period, these two technicians who were born as masons and carpenters showed outstanding architectural talents and were able to complete the construction of the project according to local conditions. Therefore, they were quickly promoted to project managers along the way. Responsible for the reconstruction of six blocks, now Xia Lin feels that the two of them should also be worthy of the title of "engineer".

In addition, there are some managers and security personnel from the New Leaf Chamber of Commerce, as well as the accompanying Viscount Pound who is in charge of leading the way.

These managers were not sent by Xia Lin to inspect the two coal mines and iron mines previously purchased through the alliance under the name of the New Leaf Chamber of Commerce, but planned to use them as the backbone to implement new management methods in each mining area.

Viscount Pound still attached great importance to the Imperial Coal and Iron United Company, which seemed to have a bright future. For this reason, he personally accompanied Xia Lin and his party to lead the way in the complex Blue Lake Mountains.

The name of the Blue Lake Mountains comes from a lake in the mountains called Blue Lake, where the surrounding scenery is very beautiful.

Under Viscount Pound's introduction, Xia Lin learned that this land was bestowed by the royal family to Brooke and several other families who had made great contributions in the war 130 years ago.

The Brook family originally planned to build a summer resort in the mountains, but when excavating the soil layer, they discovered a huge reserve of iron ore of fairly good quality. The Brook family then focused their attention on the mining industry.

After running around in the mountains and rivers for three days, the huge Blue Lake Mountains still couldn't be completely traversed, and even just saw a corner of it, but Xia Lin had already completed the first purpose of this trip.

Among the three mining areas he divided, although the two mining areas located in the northeast corner and north of the Blue Lake Mountains are in good condition, there is no suitable site around them to accommodate the construction of the coal-iron complex, so they were included in the No. Phase [-] and Phase [-] development plans.

Only in the mining area located in the northwest corner of the Blue Lake Mountains, within a straight line distance of less than [-] kilometers, there is a flat terrain beside the river. On the open plain, there are three dense forests and Bamboo forest, however, does not affect the initial construction work.

Xia Lin inspected for a period of time but couldn't find a better place nearby than here, so he quickly decided on this valley plain as the construction site for the coal-iron complex, and by the way named this originally uninhabited valley the Steel Ridge Valley. It is expected that this place will become the backbone of steel in his industrial plan, and the originally nameless river flowing through the valley will be named Steel Ridge River.

After deciding on the location of the coal and iron complex, Xia Lin immediately arranged for the leveling of the site and the construction of the workers' camp. The originally calm Steel Ridge River soon showed a scene of thousands of sails racing across the river.

The ships hired by the coal and iron company transported all kinds of equipment, appliances and personnel from Helgana to support the establishment of the coal and iron complex around the clock. labor camp.

The workers in these camps were urgently dispatched by Xia Lin who suspended the reconstruction of three blocks. He spared no effort to support this coal-iron complex. Branch roads lead here to realize the smooth flow of land traffic.

(End of this chapter)