Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 245: The Rebirth of North China Heavy Industry's First City
Taiyuan core industrial zone.

The Northwest Steel Plant was crowded with people who came to sign up to be workers.

The new factory director Ma Dahai and security chief Li Shan did not expect to encounter such a situation.

Ma Dahai was transferred from the position of deputy director of the border area steel plant, while Li Shan had just been transferred from the position of company commander in the army to lead a platoon to the security department.

As important production units, they now need protection from troops with actual combat capabilities to prevent sabotage by enemy agents.

The Northwest Steel Plant now has a daily production capacity of about 50 tons of steel, but it mainly produces iron, and the steel output is less than 10 tons.

However, the notice for recruiting workers issued by the superiors stated a huge recruitment plan of 3000 people in advance.

With the current production capacity, there is no need for so many workers.

However, Ma Dahai has seen the overall plan and believes that the Northwest Steel Plant will become the largest steel consortium in Shanxi and even in North China, and will soon achieve a steel production capacity of one million tons!

If this plan hadn't come from Ren Zhong, Ma Dahai wouldn't have believed it.

The current recruitment is just the beginning. He needs to take over the steel plant quickly and start production immediately.

The first phase of the Northwest Steel Plant's mission is to rapidly expand its production scale, from 50 tons per day to more than 500 tons.

To this end, the first phase of the steel plant is to cooperate with Taiyuan Heavy Machinery Plant to give priority to the production of new steelmaking furnaces and related steelmaking equipment, complete the construction of the new steelmaking production line on site, and then continue to expand the scale.

The newly born Northwest Steel Plant will only further refine crude iron and crude steel into high-grade carbon steel and various alloy steels, supporting the development of multiple industries such as heavy machinery and equipment, automobiles, engines, and machine tools.

It can be said to be one of the upstream source industries of heavy industry.

The good news is that they no longer need to study the production processes and formulas of various alloy steels. There is a mysterious team to provide corresponding technical support in this regard to ensure that after the production capacity is built, there will be perfect production processes and proportioning information to be put into production.

Therefore, Ma Dahai is not worried about these things with higher technical content. What he is most worried about is the number and quality of workers, and whether they can be competent for the new production management system and the correct operation of various equipment on the production line.

However, these problems did not mean that they would be solved immediately. After all, Ma Dahai did not come alone. He directly brought a skilled engineer who was fully capable of handling all the technical links from a steel mill in the border area to serve as a seed technician for the start-up of the Northwest Steel Mill.

Now these people are busy recruiting and interviewing the employees they want.

The crowded job market made Ma Dahai realize the difference between Taiyuan and the border areas.

The population and number of workers here are almost an order of magnitude higher than those in the border areas. During the Japanese occupation, many factories were closed and a large number of people were fired, so a large number of unemployed people were formed in society.

Even though the Japanese did some bad things during the occupation, there were still many people who flocked to the city to make a living. The current urban population of Taiyuan is less than 20.

With the great development plans that were being pushed forward after the restoration, there was a greater demand for manpower. The more people recruited, the faster the population would pour in. After all, it was very difficult to make a living in the countryside, so there was always enough manpower to sign up for jobs that could provide enough food.

There are still hundreds of people coming into the city from the surrounding areas of Taiyuan every day.

The number of workers in several major factories planned by Ren Zhong was quickly filled.

Of course, not all of these workers are skilled. Some are old workers, and most are newcomers who have not learned anything yet. Ren Zhong is not worried about this. As long as they are willing to work hard, are not too old, and can easily accept new things, they will be fine.

The factory he set up had no precedent in this time and space, and required training.

That's why he asked Ma Dahai and engineers in various positions to bring a copy of the set from the border area. These are the masters, and they should pass on the new technologies and processes to the new team of workers here through a combination of words and deeds and classroom teaching.

The current rapid recruitment of workers was completely within Ren Zhong's expectations.

With this good start, several major industries that Ren Zhong had planned were quickly launched.

The restructured Northwest Iron and Steel Plant was the first to be affected. According to Ren Zhong's technical transformation plan, the original production line was first partially transformed and optimized. Then, based on the process formula provided by the main world analysis and the mature new steelmaking control technology in the border area, the first batch of cast steel was produced. In this way, the machinery and steelmaking equipment needed for the new production line of the steel plant can be mass-produced.

For example, steel-making furnaces, rolling mills, gantry cranes, motors and other equipment are linked together. The whole work rhythm is very fast and tight, which is simply dazzling. New equipment is produced one after another like an assembly line, and a new production line is gradually taking shape.

Everything is fast-paced now, and we adopt a 24-hour three-shift operation mode.

The old steel factory workers who had been working listlessly and according to routine under the management of the Japanese devils have now had their potential activated after the new reform. They are like chickens with blood injected, and are working hard with the new workers.

Now it is truly a factory of the people. After simple ideological propaganda, everyone understands that if they work hard to produce one more pound of steel today, they will have dozens more bullets to fire at the Japanese tomorrow.

Everything was different from the old days when they just made a living. All the workers in Taiyuan were like being reborn, and they threw themselves into unlimited production.

For a 4*6MW thermal power station, most of the precision equipment was transported from the border area. As a mature power generation facility now controlled by the border area, the 6MW thermal power equipment has been operating at full capacity. As for the large-scale casting production workshop required by the power plant, it is now directly installed in the Northwest Steel Plant, using the cast steel produced by the steel plant for seamless casting.

Thousands of workers are working day and night.

The current construction speed would make even the infrastructure fanatics in the main world cry.

Renzhong’s “first” work Gantt chart was introduced, and the construction schedule was seamlessly arranged according to parallel and serial work, combined with a 24-hour work system without labor laws. No country’s infrastructure construction speed can catch up with Taiyuan’s current speed!

The several generations of construction models that were originally honed in Yangcun, the border area, and the Liming Research Institute are now more skilled in each work link and there are more experienced workers to guide the construction, so the construction speed is faster than before, because now there is almost no need to cross the river by feeling the stones, everything is a mature process.

There is no way not to hurry. The Japanese are not idle now. According to the communication information deciphered by the telecommunications deciphering team between the headquarters and the North China Front Army and the Kwantung Army, the Japanese are expanding their forces on a large scale. The Kwantung Army plans to expand more than 20 new divisions, and the North China Front Army will also add 6 new divisions. Although they are expanded on the basis of the garrison and independent brigade, the combat effectiveness of the garrison division is relatively weak.

However, the combat effectiveness of these troops is generally higher than that of the Eighth Route Army's Type C Regiment, and they are even more overwhelming when facing the Preserved Fruit Army.

The production capacity of the bases built by the Japanese on the main island and in the Northeast is much larger than what Ren Zhong is currently planning.

The more battles they fought, the clearer it became to Ren Zhong that the final battle to decide the fate of the country would still be decided by the torrent of steel!

Without artillery fire coverage and the impact of the tank's steel torrent, everything else is empty talk.

According to the data obtained by Ren Zhong, the million-strong Kwantung Army was quickly disintegrated because they were facing an extremely powerful steel torrent from the Big Bear: 5500 tanks, more than 26000 cannons, and 3800 aircraft!
This was a hearty release and demonstration of the Big Bear's force after sweeping across Europe!

Now the time left to the end of the Japanese devils is very limited.

With no hope for the Peace Egg, Ren Zhong could not rely on the Peace Egg to deliver a fatal blow to the Japanese.

Then you must rely on the Iron Torrent to complete the final battle instead of waiting for charity from the bandits.

The million-strong army is not only a powerful combat force, but also a swarm of transiting locusts. After plundering the entire Northeast, it has regressed to a level worse than that of the 1920s.

According to statistics in 1943, the iron production in Northeast China was 170 million tons and the steel production was 87 tons.

Take Anshan Iron and Steel as an example. During the period of Xiaori's rule, it was called Showa Steel Works. After several expansions by the Japanese puppet regime, it has formed an annual steel production capacity of 100 million tons, and its equipment is relatively complete. At that time, it was not only the largest steel enterprise in China, but also one of the largest steel enterprises in the Far East. In August 1945, Daxiong sent troops to the northeast and arrived in Anshan. He immediately dismantled 8/2 of the equipment of Showa Steel Works, together with other materials totaling more than 3 tons, including important equipment of the Second Steelmaking Plant, the Second Primary Rolling Plant, the Large Rolling Plant and the Seamless Steel Pipe Plant, which caused the Showa Steel Works to suffer extremely serious damage. The production capacity of the whole plant dropped significantly and became a fragmented mess. After Daxiong withdrew on April 7, 1946, the Guojian government took over Showa Steel Works and reorganized it to establish Anshan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. Because the Kuomintang government was busy fighting the civil war and had no intention of resuming production, the entire enterprise was in a state of suspension and semi-suspension. During the entire period of acceptance and management of preserved fruits, the huge Anshan Iron and Steel Company was only able to operate for 4 months and produced a total of 15 tons of steel!

Factories throughout Northeast China are filled with broken tiles, dilapidated buildings, cold furnaces and incomplete machines, creating a desolate scene.

It is like turning an entire industrial base into a wasteland, and it all needs to be rebuilt from scratch.

Having seen history, Ren Zhong will not sit idly by, because a complete Northeast can at least reduce the development time of the new Dragon Country by 10 years.

By combining the technology of the Dawn Research Institute and the industrial base of the Northeast, Ren Zhong believed that he would be able to regenerate the devastated Dragon Country in ten years!

Today's Taiyuan is just Ren Zhong's first experiment.

Now it seems that everything is fine.

In less than a month, this heavily industrialized city came back to life.

Steel mills, arsenals, etc. have all resumed production and are continuously expanding their production capacity.

Relying on the industrial mother machines transported over, the machine tool factory also started large-scale machine tool production.

The crude iron smelted in the blast furnaces in the original base areas around Taiyuan was continuously transported to the Northwest Steel Plant, where it was turned into cast steel, special steel and more mechanical equipment, becoming the source of factories and military industries.

It took one month to increase the daily output from 50 tons to 200 tons, and less than a month to increase from 200 tons to 500 tons. This was due to the temporary halt in the expansion of production capacity due to power supply, but the production line equipment and workshops are still in production.

After the successful construction of the new 4*6MW power plant, Northwest Steel Plant will usher in a more violent wave of production capacity explosion.

At present, Ren Zhong's strategy of smelting crude iron in local blast furnaces at mining sites and transporting the crude iron to northwestern steel mills for refining has initially shown its effectiveness.

The production capacity of crude iron blast furnaces is doubling almost every month. After all, the construction period is short and it can be effective in one month. In addition, it is close to the mining area, so transportation is convenient. It does not require electricity and there is no need to worry about Japanese bombing. The production capacity of the blast furnaces is only limited by local manpower.

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