I want to be emperor

Chapter 771 The High-tech Hunjiang Hotel

When Luo Zhixue entered the Hunjiang Hotel, he carefully looked at the decorations in the hotel.

This is a completely different decoration style from traditional Chinese architecture. The hall on the first floor is very tall and wide. You can tell that the building is built with reinforced concrete just by looking at the open and tall structure and the fact that the top is not arched. .

It is difficult to build such a large and spacious hall without using reinforced concrete as the main structure, and without using the traditional arch structure or wooden beam structure.

From this aspect, it can also be said that the emergence of reinforced concrete has greatly improved the architectural technology of the Great Chu Empire, and can better explore architectural art, allowing architectural designers to better display their talents and combine art and Better integration of advanced technology and practicality.

The entire lobby on the first floor, in Luo Zhixue's opinion, already has the taste of modern architecture in later generations, but the interior decoration still has a strong traditional Chinese style.

But traces of modern industry can still be seen everywhere in the strong Chinese style!
For example, the floor, the floor of the lobby on the first floor of the Hunjiang Hotel is made of large tiles that are as smooth as a mirror!

China, as a country of traditional porcelain, naturally has ceramic tiles for laying floors, but in the era of manual production, ceramic tiles are basically handmade works of art, with high prices and small areas. The scale has entered the construction industry, and at most it is used in very few special buildings.

However, with the continuous progress of industrialization and various mechanical processing equipment, especially steam engines, entering various industries, the traditional porcelain industry also began to use machinery and equipment on a large scale, and began industrialized large-scale production.

The output of some large professional porcelain factories is very large.

At the same time, in the production and research and development process of porcelain, a more scientific and reasonable method has been adopted, and the porcelain produced is diverse and has better performance.

The only disadvantage is that the porcelain produced by modern porcelain factories is basically the same... The same type of porcelain produces tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of pieces, all of which are exactly the same... No matter how good the design is, it is not artistic!
Art, in the first place, is all about personalization. When there is no personalization, there is no art.

However, the porcelain developed and produced by modern technology in the factory is of good quality, with highly uniform dimensions, high precision, standard coloring, and no color difference.

So today's porcelain in the Great Chu Empire, regardless of whether it is for the domestic consumer market or for export, is all factory porcelain, and the cost is very low...the price is not high.

After the Great Chu Empire started industrialization, porcelain, a traditional handicraft with artistic characteristics, was forcibly played into a mass-produced cheap industrial product.

And in this process, in order to further develop the market, and at the same time, the domestic construction industry also has a strong demand for floor materials, those porcelain manufacturers have also specially produced ceramic tiles for laying the floor.

Now these tiles have been used in various buildings, especially in some high-priced buildings.

This is the case in the Hunjiang Hotel, where large pieces of polished tiles are used, so that it looks as smooth as a mirror, and Nima is even reflecting light...

After a glance, what the contemporary Dachu people see is not art, but high-tech attributes!
Without sufficiently advanced technology, it is impossible to produce such large-area and smooth ceramic tiles, which are also strong and wear-resistant.

After all, you want to be smooth, and the glass is smooth enough, but it is not strong or wear-resistant.

The smooth mirror tile floor alone is enough to make a deep impression on this hotel.

And many other aspects of the lobby on the first floor of Hunjiang Hotel also reveal the attributes of a combination of tradition, luxury and high technology.

For example, Luo Zhixue saw a kind of their plated bank gift trolley.

There's nothing special about the salute cart, but the smooth, polished silver finish is worth mentioning.

Don't think that silver plating is simple. In fact, this thing did not exist before. It was a chemical silver plating process that was invented by chemists of the Great Chu Empire in the 16th year of Chengshun.

As a result, silver-plated products began to appear in large numbers, mainly for decoration and tableware, and of course for tools and luxury appliances.

You said why not use pure silver or silver alloy... On the one hand, it is a matter of price, and on the other hand, the material properties of pure silver or silver alloy are not very good.

Silver-plated products are different. The interior is still made of other materials such as steel, but there is only a layer of silver on the surface.

Therefore, it has the hardness and toughness of the inner steel material product, and at the same time, the silver on the outer layer is suitable for polishing, and its chemical stability is also very good.

It is also cheaper than gold plating and has a wider range of applications.

From the perspective of technology and application, silver plating technology is much more important than gold plating technology.

Speaking of gold-plating and silver-plating, the scientists of the Great Chu Empire have been in the laboratory for the past two years and have come up with an electroplating process. Apart from gold-plating and copper-plating, they are still groping for electroplating other metals. However, there is still a very important distance from large-scale application, because this thing needs electricity, and the electricity in the Great Chu Empire currently only exists in a few top-level laboratories. They are also chemical batteries to obtain electricity.

The five-storey reinforced concrete in the Hunjiang Hotel, the tiles used for laying the floor, and the plated luggage carts all look simple on the surface, and seem even less worth mentioning in the eyes of future generations. Behind the same thing is the 30-year industrialization efforts of the Great Chu Empire!

Without the industrialization efforts of the Great Chu Empire in the past 30 years, the Hunjiang Hotel would not have been built at all!

Not to mention the entire hotel, even a small luggage trolley can't be made out.

Not to mention the silver plating process, but only the simplest, but also the most core wheel structure in the salute trolley.

This wheel uses solid rubber tires. Although the source of rubber is still natural rubber, the production industry of rubber is not so simple, which involves the vulcanization process of rubber.

There are bearings in the tires!

Bearings are even more difficult to deal with. The small wheels used in the small luggage carts, the rolling bearings inside seem small, but actually represent the top metallurgy and processing technology of the Great Chu Empire.

Because the bearings are made of high-hardness and wear-resistant manganese steel!
Not to mention the mechanical equipment used to process manganese steel.

The bearings produced by this high-performance material and processing technology will have such wheels with strong load-bearing capacity and low friction coefficient, so that the hotel staff can be very light when pushing the luggage cart.

Otherwise, it's better to carry the luggage directly...

And such a small luggage cart cannot be produced in those indigenous countries, let alone the indigenous countries, even if the Great Chu Empire wanted to produce a luggage cart with the same performance level ten years ago, That is also impossible.

This thing seems simple, but in fact it is a combination of metallurgy, finishing, rubber chemical industry and other industrial fields of the Great Chu Empire.

And similar situations spread across every corner of the Hunjiang Hotel...not just the Hunjiang Hotel, but even every corner of the Great Chu Empire!
Even in remote rural areas, you can see the changes brought about by the rapid industrial development of the Great Chu Empire!
For example, the clothes worn by farmers, although most of the clothes they wear are still sewn by themselves, but quite a few farmers no longer weave their own cloth, but buy cloth.

This is the case for weaving, and few people do spinning.

Because it's not worth it.

Those damn textile factories are too inwardly rolled, and the price of cloth is extremely low. Individual hand spinning and weaving cannot compare with these factories in terms of cost.

If you have time to do odd jobs, or simply cultivate more food or non-staple food, you can earn more from cash crops or even go to the mountains to cut firewood and sell them.

Of course, if you don’t have other sources of income, you don’t even have to do odd jobs, and you don’t have extra mountainous wasteland for you to reclaim, and you insist on growing cotton, spinning, and weaving without spending a dime, then that’s okay. people can say you...

For example, the dishes used by farmers... are basically porcelain produced on a large scale by the porcelain industry. After all, you can’t let farmers buy handcrafted porcelain crafts, how expensive it is!

In the past, if a child in a peasant family accidentally dropped a bowl, his parents would sigh and even play doubles.

But now, if you fall, you will fall... A porcelain bowl mass-produced in a porcelain factory is not worth a lot of money!

Many couples in ordinary families quarrel and are willing to smash all kinds of exquisite vases and dishes... In the past, many people got angry after quarreling. expensive!
The iron pans and shovels used by farmers are basically cheap and easy-to-use iron pans and shovels produced by those machinery factories with modern technology.

This is especially true for all kinds of knives, agricultural tools and other iron products used by farmers.

It looks like an ordinary hoe, but its raw materials basically come from major steel factories, even the top domestic steel factories, using the latest production technology to produce steel materials, and then processed by various agricultural machinery factories out after production.

This kind of hoe produced by modern industrialization is low in cost, and its performance far exceeds that of traditional handmade iron hoe.

Even... some mechanized production, horse plow production farms, in order to improve efficiency, they have already started to use steel farm tools!

As for hardware tools, there are more steel products.

And how did a lot of cheap steel come from?This is inseparable from decades of continuous research and progress in the iron and steel smelting industry in the Great Chu Empire.

Therefore, regardless of the peasants in some remote and backward areas, who still face the loess and their backs to the sky, it seems that it has nothing to do with the rapid industrial development of the Great Chu Empire, but in fact they are still actively or forced to integrate into the era of industrialization.

The wave of industrialization of the Great Chu Empire has been sweeping for 30 years, and no one can stay out of it!
Because all kinds of industrialized products have penetrated into every corner of society, affecting all aspects of people's food, clothing, housing and transportation.

The industrialization of the Great Chu Empire is not only trains and ships, but also food, clothing, housing and transportation, and all aspects of life.

Trains and ships are just things that have obvious characteristics and are easy for people to notice. In fact, every corner of people's lives is full of industrial products.

But people rarely notice them!
Even Luo Zhixue himself was the same. After entering the Hunjiang Hotel, what he paid attention to was not the details, but rather the decoration style. In the end, it was the steam engine in the Hunjiang Hotel that attracted his attention. lifts.

When he saw this thing, Luo Zhixue thought at first that the elevator had been made, but after thinking about it carefully, he never heard of any elevators made by any research institute or enterprise under the empire, let alone elevators, Da Chu A series of electromagnetic research of the Empire is actually still in the theoretical and experimental stage.

Although Chengshun's DC generator appeared in 23 years, it was only a laboratory product, and it was still far from practical application.

Not to mention the application of electricity to actual production and life.

Even without the foundation of electric power application, it is naturally impossible for elevators to appear.

And after the accompanying people's explanation, I realized that this thing is not powered by electricity, but by a steam engine, and it lifts up and down through a belt drive.

"Steam-powered elevators have been used a lot in the field of industrial transportation before, but because of safety, they were generally used for cargo transportation before, and passenger elevators only started to appear last year!"

"There is a private company in Songjiang, which invented a safety buckle for the elevator. Even if the power suddenly disappears, the belt breaks, etc., the elevator will not fall suddenly, but will be locked directly, ensuring the lifting process. With this kind of safety buckle, the elevator began to enter the field of medium and high-rise buildings as passenger transportation!"

While listening, Luo Zhixue looked at the steam engine elevator in front of him. From the appearance, it was similar to the modern elevators he had seen in some film and television dramas before, and there were personnel operating the elevator inside.

Immediately, I walked in with a few officials who accompanied me, and experienced the passenger elevator... It felt quite good, ignoring the manual operation of the elevator operator, the experience of being a passenger is no different from that of taking an elevator in later generations... You don't need to press the elevator button yourself, just tell me which floor you are on.

After a group of people went directly to the fifth floor of the top floor, Luo Zhixue briefly washed up and then squinted for an hour before going to the conference room on the second floor to summon important officials of Liaodong Province, and briefly listened to the local governor and other officials. our local development reports.

However, Luo Zhixue already knew about these economic figures before, and what he heard now was mostly symbolic.

But even so, Luo Zhixue listened carefully, and asked in detail about the local industrial development and food production.

Liaodong is the core province in the entire Northeast region. Whether it is population, industrial output value or even food production, it is very good. Naturally, Luo Zhixue needs a lot of attention.

After briefly listening to the report, Luo Zhixue visited and inspected several important factories in Shenyang City in the next few days, and then headed towards a large government-run farm in the northern suburbs of Shenyang.

Luo Zhixue is going there to see the mechanized farming model in the northeast region.

To be honest, in his two lifetimes, he has never seen a mechanized farming model powered by a steam engine.

(End of this chapter)