The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Chapter 370 The final transportation of 2000 catties of raw materials

The Golden State is rich in stone minerals.

At the junction of Jinzhouwei and Lushunkou, that is, in the Qingniwa area, the limestone mines mined meet [-]% of the needs of Beiping.

This is also the largest limestone mining area in Asia in later generations. The main ores are limestone and silica, which are the best in terms of output and quality.

Seventeen thousand eunuchs work here day and night, and a steady stream of ore is transported to the washing plant not far away by simple railway.

Due to the shortage of workers in Jinzhou and the limitation of production technology, the quarry that has passed through the washing plant has not been produced locally.

Through the transaction method of raw material trade, it is transported by ships from Lushun Wharf to Tianjin Wharf.

The Jinzhou model is like a bottomless pit. No matter how many eunuchs are sent to Jinzhou, it cannot meet the employment gap of Jinzhou's exponential industrial development.

"The number of eunuchs in Golden State has exceeded 32, and Golden State has paid [-] yuan for the slave trade."

The forest farm is also making year-end reports.

Wang Zhen met with several chief executives to sort out the reporting matters of various ministries.

"The price of slaves today has risen to six yuan. From the first one or two, it has increased sixfold in a few years."

One of the stewards said with a smile: "Those pirate chiefs are satisfied."

"There is no other way, the shortage of labor is so large, and the foundation of Jinzhou is weak. In order to reduce the burden on the people and improve production efficiency, we cannot do without the use of eunuchs, so we can only go to the market as we go."

"The results are still gratifying. The population of Golden State has exceeded 12."

"Let me see, absorbing the inland population so quickly, the biggest temptation for the inland people is mainly to send women."

"Hahaha."

Several stewards couldn't help laughing.

Jinzhou had already learned about the complaint from the Japanese envoy two months ago, but no one cared.

five years.

Jinzhou has changed from more than 12 people to [-], and [-] eunuchs.

This is the Golden State model.

However, it is also inseparable from four years ago, because of Zhu Gaochi's changes during the Lanyu case, more than [-] people in Jinzhou were exiled, and the imperial court dispatched [-] military households to build a solid foundation for Jinzhou.

Around these 4 military households and more than [-] exiled people, a total of nearly [-] people have a basic base of nearly [-] people, which has the current stability of Jinzhou.

In the early stage, Peiping needed blood transfusions to maintain it. Two years ago, it began to feed back Peiping, and eventually became the Golden State of Peiping's "steam engine".

Of course, it is inseparable from the rich population resources in the Mainland.

Without the support of the rich population in the mainland, where did Jinzhou migrate so many people, and now there is a labor shortage in Beiping.

But when the sky fell, there was a tall man holding it up.

They trust the young prince and don't think this problem is a problem. As long as the young prince doesn't care, the development of Jinzhou will not be affected.

After reading the report, Wang Zhen felt that there was no problem and it was a successful report. He signed his name on it, stamped it, and pressed his fingerprint.

"Golden State is a great place."

Wang Zhen stood up and couldn't help stretching.

He, a martial artist who came out of the battlefield, since he came to Jinzhou, has dealt more and more with the pen, and his temperament has changed a lot.

However, the development of the forestry farm today is inseparable from Wang Zhen's tenacity.

Even with him in charge, Golden State has never had any accidents regarding the safety of eunuchs.

This experienced warrior thought of all the hidden dangers in advance, and any hidden dangers of eunuchs gathering crowds to make troubles were eliminated by his arrangements in advance.

Jinzhou is surrounded by the sea on three sides, and connected to the boundless Changbai Mountains to the east. Only Fuzhou, which is two to three hundred miles to the northeast, has more than [-] military households.

Luangu Pass, Pangu Fort and other military fort passes built in the south of Fuzhou have become insurmountable passes.

Only through these fortresses can one enter the plains of Liaodong, otherwise the boundless Changbai Mountains will be the biggest obstacle.

This is the unique geographical advantage of the Golden State, which prevents the eunuchs from escaping.

Because a single person leaves the social environment and enters the Changbai Mountains unarmed, only to end up in the belly of a wild beast in the end.

Jinzhou City has become the bridgehead of Jinzhou in the east, making the hinterland of Jinzhou a closed area, connected to the outside world through Lushunkou.

The geographical environment and military fortifications in Jinzhou made the eunuchs desperate, and the heavy labor and vicious eunuch supervisors made the eunuchs lose all hope, just like numb puppets.

Coupled with the strong social atmosphere of Japanese clothing, eunuchs have become the most cost-effective group of production workers in Jinzhou.

Now Wang Zhen no longer feels that he can't afford the heroic stories in the new Peking opera.

His perfect answers in Jinzhou in the past few years, and his generous credits made him straighten his back. He can say with certainty that he is worthy of the people, and even more worthy of the people's admiration for him because of the promotion of the new play.

Golden State success.

It is the source of his confidence.

"Have you finished sorting out the year-end report of the Shipping Department?"

The steward shook his head.

"Let someone remind you. We need to set off for Peiping as soon as possible. We can't delay any longer." Although Wang Zhen is not in charge of the shipping department, he has a lot of prestige.

Secretary of Shipping.

A warehouse specially set up to store "big bones".

Two 30 meters, three 40 meters, and even longer trees are placed neatly.

The branches and leaves of the trees have been cut off, and there are wooden supports underneath to keep them out of contact with the ground and avoid moisture.

The wooden mountains that have been painted with various colors of grease, bathed in the sun, and maintained for two years look shocking.

For those big trees over 80 meters, one less is one less, and it takes decades or even nearly a hundred years to grow to such a height.

This kind of big tree is a scarce and precious resource in forest farms. There are no such big trees in the mainland, and there may be some, but in places where people are inaccessible, and there are not many, they are resources that must not be wasted.

Several technicians lead the apprentices to check the storage of these timbers to see if there are any accidents, which is their work all year round.

No eunuchs are used here.

Eunuchs have special management rules and regulations, which are mainly used and managed in intensive raw material industries, and at the same time avoid the spread of technology.

Eunuchs are employed for the most tiring work, not for training them as artisans.

One skilled worker is not very valuable, but [-] skilled workers are very important.

So [-] eunuchs, they don't know anything, they only work in the coolie industry, and they don't know how to use eunuchs in any technology-related industries.

The steward of the warehouse, according to the list sent by the shipping department, handed over the qualified timber that needs to be delivered to the transportation team.

The transport team sent these heavy and huge timbers into the shipyard.

On the simple track built, there are dozens of wheels under the long trailer, and the timber is loaded onto the railway trailer through the pulley crane tool.

It is transported to the shipyard by a railway trailer and becomes the "keel" of the ship produced by the shipyard.

Because of the abundant "keel" aniseed resources, the most important limitation of the ship is solved, and the shipyard can go all out to produce ships of various colors.

Dock One.

A Fuchuan with a length of 50 meters and a width of 13 meters at its widest point has a jib at the bow and a stern, and the main mast at the front of the hull is [-] meters long.

Behind the main mast, that is, in the middle of the hull, is a tall chimney, and on both sides of the chimney are three rows of large wheels outside the ship.

The rear of the ship is raised, each with a row of eight gun ports.

The deck has not yet been laid, and there are quite a few shipwrights on the frame, engaged in the installation and fabrication of various components.

On the ground next to the dock, countless tools were placed, and two wide wooden boards of more than ten meters were placed on the side of the ship from the ground.

There are also various pulley cranes to transport the materials on the ground to the ship.

This huge warship has taken shape.

More than a dozen technicians were on the ground, forming a circle and pointing at the pictures on the drawings, discussing the content of countless lines drawn in the pictures.

vessel.

It represents the comprehensive level of technology of a civilization.

Before the mid-Ming Dynasty, the shipbuilding industry of the Ming Dynasty was the most developed in the world.

Later, because the officials burned the blueprints of Fuchuan, and the restrictions on the masts of ships in the Ming Dynasty, the development of Daming's shipbuilding industry stagnated.

However, the central government of the Ming Dynasty did not have deep dominance over the local area. In the 70s, after the opening of Longqing, the ship industry ushered in rapid development again.

The Portuguese like to use Fuchuan for maritime trade.

In Fujian, the ships jointly built by Zheng Zhilong and the local government surpassed the West in comprehensive level and became one of the most advanced ships at that time. However, in the Spanish raid, they were destroyed in the flames of war before leaving the port. Not long after the Ming Dynasty perished, it also It has completely disappeared in the long river of history.

Numerous shipyards are in full production, and more than [-] large Fuchuan ships have been loaded outside the wharf at Lushunkou.

These wood, limestone, marble and other raw materials with a load of up to 2000 million catties will be the largest and last transportation from Jinzhou to Beiping in the 29th year of Hongwu.

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Tianjin Cement Plant.

"Continue to increase."

said a technician.

Hearing the technicians, several workers added stone piers on the frame structure.

The built rectangular steel frame is firmly nailed to the concrete floor, and there are several square stone piers above the pallet.

At the bottom of the tray was a steel drill the size of a fingernail. As the weight increased, cracks finally appeared on the cement board pressing the ground.

The technician quickly recorded it.

"The cement that has been cured for 28 days is tested with a pressure measuring device. Under the pressure of one thousand catties, the square of the weight is three square cents."

With the market's demand for cement, cement production plants need more new technologies to improve production efficiency.

With the different uses of cement, the construction of low-rise buildings, high-rise buildings, bridges, etc. also requires cement strengths under different pressures.

"Finally a breakthrough." Hearing what the technicians said, the workers were relieved, with joy on their faces.

The technicians are also a pleasure.

The earliest [-]-grade cement has long been eliminated, and more [-]-grade cement is produced and put into use in two or three-story buildings.

However, with the development of the project, the engineering department and the railway engineering department need stronger cement, so the cement production plant also began to test stronger cement.

The cement technology of No. [-] was only broken through the year before last, but it didn't take long for higher strength cement to be required.

The largest party A had a request, and the cement factory could only go all out for research, and finally the thousand-strength cement was born.

From the perspective of the measuring technicians, No. [-] cement is only needed for special projects, and No. [-] cement is enough for most projects.

However, even the factory director couldn't refuse Party A's request, let alone a small measurement technician.

Tianjin Cement Plant is located in Beitangkou.

The piers in Tianjin mainly include Dagukou and Beitangkou, as well as several affiliated piers.

The Beitangkou area is also a production base of cement building materials.

The big chimneys here are thick and thick.

The distance from the kiln grate to the bottom of the charging door is five meters, the overall height is 13 meters, and the inner diameter of the kiln is ten inches.

The grate is composed of iron bars made of two wrought iron materials with different thicknesses. The thick one is fixed on the kiln wall, and the thin one can be pulled down when unloading.

It is a technology extended from burning lime in the Song Dynasty. It is adopted in the process of making cement and provides ideas for cement factory technicians.

Grinding and calcining with limestone, sandstone, iron powder, fly ash, etc., then adding slag and fly ash to mix, retarding to form gypsum, and then grinding out the product, that is, cement.

These powders are put into sacks, transported to the construction site, mixed with an appropriate amount of water, and finally become cement used on the construction site.

Sacks are reusable materials that need to be recycled.

Saibei Development Zone will become a new big player in the cement market.

Twelve small military forts are to be built there.

(End of this chapter)