The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Chapter 323 Ye Xixian Facing a Strong Industry
Shaanxi Xingdu Division, China Heavy Industry explorers originally discovered a gold mine in the process of looking for coal and iron ore.

It is the Yangshan gold mine of later generations, with a reserve of [-] tons.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang decreed that one tael of gold is equal to four taels of silver, this violation of market regulations cannot be recognized by the market, just like precious banknotes.

What Zhu Gaochi valued was not this gold mine.

Even if the mining technology of later generations is achieved, it is only a few million taels of silver per year. What Zhu Gaochi values ​​is value.

If this gold mine is controlled, the market's confidence in food stamps will be doubled, and the credit system of food stamps will be stabilized.

How to control this gold mine in his own hands gave Zhu Gaochi a headache.

If a few years later.

He has successfully become the prince of Jian Guo, and everything is easy to talk about.

But not now.

This matter is not handled well, but it will hit the market's confidence in food stamps, which is the same as the stock market.

If you don't do it, it will have no impact on China Heavy Industry.

But now the pace is getting bigger and bigger, and more food stamps are being issued. Now we need these favorable information to stimulate the market and ensure the maintenance of the value system of food stamps.

So if China Heavy Industry starts to implement this big project, if it is not successful, it will hit market confidence and eventually affect the value system of food stamps.

"In the name of the palace." Jin Zhong suggested.

"The idea of ​​Jin Youshi, the subordinates agree with it."

The president of the food stamp bank supports Jin Zhong.

"Father Wang came forward to this matter. If the matter is successful, the benefits will belong to the China Heavy Industry system. If the matter fails, it will also affect the palace, avoiding a blow to the food stamp system."

Zhu Gaochi made up his mind.

Jin Zhong personally went to Shaanxi.

"I only have one request, whether it is jointly developed with the Qin Palace or the local government, in short, the nominal rights of the gold mine must be in hand."

What Zhu Gaochi values ​​is not the gold mine itself, but the name of the gold mine.

All the big shopkeepers here understand this truth, including Jin Zhong, who is familiar with China Heavy Industries and can be regarded as half of the promoter, and understands the meaning of the little prince.

"Send Yuan Rong there."

Zhu Gaochi finally said that he appointed the prince's son-in-law of the palace.

"The reform of the military system in Beiping cannot do without you." Zhu Gaochi patted Jin Zhong on the shoulder.

Jin Zhong nodded and didn't say much.

Everyone thinks so.

Jin Zhong is not only the right Changshi of Changshifu, but also the spokesperson between China Heavy Industry and Wangfu, and has an invisible role.

China Heavy Industry has gradually mastered the "protector god" in the army process.

It is the No.1 of the China Heavy Industry system in the official face of Beiping Prefecture, and it "escorts" the extension of China Heavy Industry's tentacles in all aspects.

When [-] professional soldiers rely on the reform of the railway system to complete the battalion system, China Heavy Industry will truly grasp a powerful "gun barrel".

Neither the new army of Shixiaying nor the new army of Lushunkou can be considered as China Heavy Industry's complete control.

The former relies on the Miyun two guards, and the latter relies on the Jinzhou guards.

Miyun.

Since Ye Xixian's impeachment, he has stopped taking unnecessary actions, waiting for Ying Tianfu's order, and no one in Miyun District welcomes him.

But because of his high status, no one dared to offend him.

Taking advantage of this gap, he began to observe Miyun.

Miyun is the iron ore center of Peiping.

Countless iron ore was shipped out from here, and after smelting and other processes, it became the utensils of various families, entered various factories, and flowed into the hands of soldiers.

In the largest mining area in the area, Ye Xixian was dumbfounded.

The simple railways one by one spread across the entire area like a spider web, and all kinds of vehicles are everywhere in sight.

Mules, donkeys, horses, countless large livestock, one site after another.

If Zhu Gaochi is here, he knows that this is the Shouyun Mine of later generations, an open-pit mine that has been mined for half a century by later generations.

The depth after digging is more than 300 meters deep!
"Please look, sir, the rocks outside are all red, with a very high iron content." The staff of the mining area accompanied them.

Picking up a stone at random, said proudly.

"The iron ore reserves in this area have not yet been proven. In my opinion, it is enough for the entire Ming Dynasty to use for a hundred years."

The proven iron ore reserves of this mining area are as high as [-] million tons, which is calculated based on the current annual iron production of Daming.

More than enough for 100 years, 1000 years will not be used up, and it will take more than [-] years to be used up.

But the development of industry in Peiping was different.

Under the large-scale infrastructure and large-scale scheduling project, the amount of iron used in Beiping has reached the current astronomical figure, and the annual planned iron output is as high as [-] tons.

This goal is incredible, but in Zhu Gaochi's view, it is nothing.

In the mid-nineteenth century, it was not even a fraction of the two million tons of British iron production.

But the gap is not scary.

In the 1900th century, Japan's iron production in 1940 was only 700 tons, and by [-] it had reached nearly [-] million tons.

It is precisely to stimulate pig iron production next year that Zhu Gaochi launched a large infrastructure plan to stimulate the economy.

Japan's iron production has increased by an average of 3.5 times per year. Zhu Gaochi did not say that it exceeded this figure. He used the Chinese model in Daming. He did not think it was a big problem to reach this level of development.

This year plans to produce 30 tons, and next year plans to produce [-] million tons. Zhu Gaochi has this confidence.

Even though many high-level personnel of China Heavy Industry are worried and feel that the goal is too big, no one can change the little prince's plan.

"How many mines like this are there in Miyun?" Ye Xixian asked in shock.

"Xiaomin doesn't know about this issue."

The staff said embarrassedly.

Trucks on the simple railway carry iron ore and pull it to various stations.

Each carriage is fixed, and the weight of the iron ore shipped is about the same, and it is transported to the mining area next door.

There are machines that use steam engines, as well as traditional equipment that still uses animal power.

The huge ore crusher powered by the steam engine, like a giant beast, made a terrifying sound, shaking the ground.

There are also those that use the original bull-pulled mill to crush ore.

The efficiency is much lower than that of a machine.

Some cattle were bought from the grasslands, and some used donkeys.

Two stones are ground into a disc composite stone mill.

A pair of oxen, a piece of miscellaneous wood, a grinding frame, and a head of oxen.

Granite for stone milling.

Because the hardness is too small, it is easy to wear, and if it is too hard, it is not easy to repair the grinding surface, and the original equipment is still functioning.

The scale of the factory is boundless.

One shed after another.

This does not count as the direct management of China Heavy Industry. Although the system of China Heavy Industry is adopted, it belongs to the projects of many investors.

It is well-adjusted in many aspects. It not only belongs to the management system of China Heavy Industry, but also does not completely belong to China Heavy Industry. It is a relatively complicated management model.

It is full of disorder, advanced and backward production technology coexist, but in fact, if you look carefully, there is orderly production.

There are too many workers here.

No one cared who Ye Xixian was, the workers were doing their own work, Ye Xixian felt his insignificance.

This is the industrial world.

All kinds of machines are in motion.

As a result, the dust on the ground has accumulated layer after layer, and it has reached the point where it needs to be cleaned by a special person.

When used by livestock, manure pockets must be brought according to regulations.

So although there are many livestock, there is no feces and urine on the ground, only the smell from the industry.

Ye Xixian's mind went blank.

suddenly.

As if his train of thought had been short-circuited, he stopped completely.

For a moment, he was so confused that he didn't know where he was, what he was doing here, and where he was going to wait.

"Sir, sir."

Ye Xixian's attention was drawn back by the cry next to his ear.

The young staff looked at Ye Xixian worriedly, and the manager explained and explained again, telling him to take good care of this gentleman.

Ye Xixian smiled gently, calming down the young man's worries.

He felt that he should have a new understanding of Peiping.

He was busy investigating cases before, and didn't understand many things seriously. He found that he was too unfamiliar with Beiping, and there were too many differences here.

Where did the inexplicable depression in my heart come from?

Ye Xixian needs to find the answer.

Miyun Iron Works.

There are only 830 workers in the iron smelting workshop in each branch factory.

The tall chimneys here are an eye-catching symbol.

Coking coal from Peiping was continuously transported here.

Both sides of the railway dedicated to transporting coking coal were dyed black, and special warehouses and transfer stations had to be set up for this purpose.

A shed made of steel and concrete for warehouses.

Very tall.

The coking coal piled up here is as high as a hill.

On a platform with wheels, people push against the coal mountain, and then use the slide equipment, and the workers go up to shovel the coal.

Using the coking coal's own gravity, slide down the slide.

Simple railway tracks were also built below, and the carriages were parked. When the coking coal filled the carriages, the workers above would stop shoveling coal before.

In this way, when the car loaded with coking coal is pulled away, and the next car is pulled over to set up its position, the workers on it will continue to shovel coal.

The carriage loaded with coking coal was finally pulled by the front of the car to various iron smelting workshops.

Obviously, it would be great if the coking coal could be pulled directly to the iron smelter, but there was an additional process of changing hands in such an operation.

Because the scale of iron smelting in Miyun District is too large.

Each blast furnace uses two blowers.

One is used to blast the iron furnace to burn the coking coal violently and melt the iron. The horsepower of this blower is three horses.

If there is a measurement method of later generations, it can be concluded that 25 cubic meters of air are input into the blast furnace per minute.

The other one is used to blow air into the converter.

To burn silicon-manganese in molten iron, this blower is ten times larger than the other one, driven by a new type of steam engine.

Although there was no knowledge of silico-manganese in ancient times, they knew how to smelt iron from experience. This is how iron and steel such as five iron smelting and nine iron smelting were produced.

Now ironworks need bigger blast furnaces with higher output.

Naturally, it is necessary to develop in this direction.

Use larger equipment.

While the workers were working, some people pushed carts with tea buckets to deliver cooled herbal tea to each workshop.

The workers first wiped the sweat off their faces with towels, and then drank a bit of sweet herbal tea, finally feeling a little refreshed.

At last.

High-quality and cheap iron materials flowed out continuously.

(End of this chapter)