Open an aircraft carrier to fight against Japan

Dwight went on to say: "You also know what we have done to study the reaction of various parts in the blast furnace! We stopped the blast furnace forcibly while it was running, and then poured cold water into it to see the status of each part. There is also a lot of money! We do this because we want to thoroughly study the process of blast furnace smelting, so that we can produce better molten iron, and steelmaking will be guaranteed!"

Dwight said: "In this document from Lin Yuan, the response of each part of the blast furnace at each time is very clearly described. These require us to do hundreds of shutdown experiments! Are these not worth buying?"

Jenningson was moved. They walked into the tent, handed the deposit slip to Lin Yuan with a smile, and said, "General Lin, your information is very useful. I hope we can continue to cooperate in the future."

Seeing the backs of the two leaving contentedly, Lin Yuan sneered in his heart: "It seems that I guessed correctly, what they want is the reaction process of the blast furnace, Dwight's last request revealed their true intentions, but what did they want?" can't get it."

This is exactly Lin Yuan's strategy. He asked Liu Jinqiu to describe the reaction process of the blast furnace in great detail in the technical documents he gave him, which really moved them. However, Lin Yuan also asked Liu Jinqiu to leave mistakes in the technical documents. , the British will not be of much use with it.

The investigation lasted for three days and ended. Dunan said to Lin Yuan: "I will announce to the world what I saw and heard in the prisoner-of-war camp. I have never seen a commander who can treat prisoners of war like you. Honestly, I admire you very much."

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Aren't you worried that I'm cheating?"

Dunan laughed and said, "I'm almost 70 years old and have seen countless wars. If you are really lying to me, then I admire you even more, because I haven't seen through your deception."

The two looked at each other with a smile, and Dunan said again: "I am very grateful to those two arms dealers. If they hadn't contributed, our investigation would not have happened. I hope they will go bankrupt forever, and there will be no more wars for mankind."

Lin Yuan thought: "It seems that this investigation is indeed the idea of ​​the arms dealer."

Dunan and others bid farewell to Lin Yuan. As soon as they left, Lin Yuan took his people back to Sanxing City. On the way, he began to think about the next plan, thinking: "We need to produce more advanced weapons. A large-scale steelmaking plant needs to develop the chemical industry and mines..." But he always felt that one of the most basic things was missing. What was this thing? Clothed in rags, leaning on a cane, he tremblingly stopped in front of the horse.

Lin Yuan didn't understand what he meant, so he dismounted quickly, and the old man at the head stepped forward and bowed down. Lin Yuan hurriedly stretched out his hand to join in, and the old man cried, "Please, my lord, make the decision!"

As soon as the words fell, more than [-] old men behind him knelt down one after another, pleading endlessly, Lin Yuan hurriedly asked, "What happened?"

The old man who was the leader said: "A while ago, the military men went to war and collected cloth from house to house. I hope that you will give us some back. There is not much cloth at home. The whole family can only wear a pair of trousers..."

Lin Yuan hurriedly asked the left and right: "Is there such a thing?"

A staff officer beside him quickly replied: "That's right. We don't have bags to store sand and earth to repair fortifications. We only have people's homes expropriate. Cloth, straw mats, door curtains, basically everything that can cover the soil is expropriated. They said they would return it as soon as the good battle was over, but the cloth covering the sand was worn out and could no longer be used.”

As a modern person, it was difficult for Lin Yuan to imagine what it would be like without bags at first. In modern society, there are countless plastic bags and cloth bags. Later, Lin Yuan realized that in this era, not only bags are scarce, but even cloth is very important to ordinary people. All are rare.

The raw materials of cloth can be roughly divided into two types, one is chemical fiber, such as acrylic fiber, polyester, etc., which need not be considered in this era; the other is natural fiber, such as cotton, silk, linen, wool, etc., although The production structure in ancient China was men farming and women weaving, and many people engaged in weaving, but the output of these things was very low, and the technology of weaving was also backward, so the per capita possession of cloth was pitifully small.

The old man cried again: "I beg your lord to be merciful, the eldest girl of fifteen or sixteen years old in the family has her buttocks naked all day long, how can she get married?"

Lin Yuan asked his subordinates: "Is there no shipment from the rear?"

The staff officer quickly replied: "It's a batch, but it's been raining for the past two days and the roads are muddy. After getting off the train, the fabric has been spent in the carriage, and the fabric at the rear is also out of stock. Now it's being dispatched in the Jiangnan area." .”

Lin Yuan nodded. He had no choice but to produce chemical fibers now. Lin Yuan comforted the old men and ensured that the fabric would be delivered to the common people soon, and then the old men left.

Looking at the backs of them leaving, Lin Yuan suddenly understood what those missing things were, and that was - the road!

There used to be a slogan in modern China: If you want to get rich, build roads first. This sentence is simply true for Lin Yuan now. The load-bearing capacity of dirt roads in this era is really poor. Luo Chaoying once wanted to manufacture a batch of 105 The millimeter caliber cannon howitzer, the artillery of this caliber is enough to make every commander of this era excited, but after calculating the weight of the gun body and looking at the load-bearing capacity of the road, this idea was completely abandoned.

Lin Yuan wanted to build a large-scale steel plant in the Northeast. The raw materials and equipment could only be transported from Ryukyu. The general trend of steel smelting is the large-scale blast furnace, so the quality of the things that need to be transported must be very high. At that time, the roads could not bear it. It took a few steps to lift the car out of the mud pit.

More importantly, the material exchange in modern industrial production is extremely frequent. Taking the iron and steel industry as an example, the coking process can produce a large amount of chemical raw materials. Of course, this is just one of thousands of examples. The transportation of these materials cannot rely solely on railways. You cannot repair the railway to the gate of the factory. If the railway is compared to the main artery of material transportation , Highways are the branches of the aorta, and through them, nutrients can be sent to where they are needed.

What makes Lin Yuan even more delighted is that in this era, it is entirely possible to build roads with strong load-bearing capacity. He has already decided to use cement and gravel as the paving material. Cement is made of limestone and clay. Things are very common, and there are also firing methods.

Because there are no advanced mixers and paving machines, the paving of the road will not be fast, so the limited cement needs to be used in key places, that is, next to the steel plants and mines. Drawing on the experience of the development and construction of New China, Lin Yuan It was decided to build a steel plant in Anshan, not far from Benxi Iron Mine, and to mine coal in Fushun.

Therefore, Lin Yuan initially planned to build a road from Liaohekou, so that the equipment transported by sea can be directly unloaded at Yingkou Port near Liaohekou, and then transported by road to railway transportation, transporting the equipment to the station on the railway line, and then converting to Road transport to factories and mines.

Road construction requires a lot of manpower and material resources, which requires a lot of money. If the money sent by the Russians and the British cannot be obtained for a while, the silver from the Jilin Silver Dollar Factory will be used first for road construction.

At this moment, the Qing court sent a confidential telegram.