Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 2362 Float Parade ([-])

On January 1699, 1, light rain.Shao Yaoguang, the leader of the Executive Committee of the East Coast Republic of China, and his party went to the countryside on the outskirts of the city to inspect in the rain.

The air in the country was relatively clean, but that was only relative.Due to the rapid development of the metallurgical and chemical energy industries, the air in Ping'an County and its suburbs is really not very good.There are long dragons of smoke billowing into the sky everywhere, coupled with the faint smell emitted by the chemical plant, the whole city is shrouded in an unhealthy atmosphere.But it is such a city that still attracts countless people to flock to it. They leave their beautiful hometown and plunge into this turbid industrial city, where they spend their sweat and youth, and create a better future for themselves—if they succeed. .

Because Jushu Township is a little far away from the industrial center, the environment is maintained fairly well.In the early days of the East Bank, the traversers planted many fruit trees here, which gave birth to the food industry in Ping'an County.Subsequently, this small sprout began to thrive, and grew with the development of the northern metropolis, and once became a well-known canned food processing base.

But all this is a thing of the past.The rapid deterioration of the environment has directly affected the quality of fruit trees. Whether it is psychological factors or other reasons, people living in cities seem to be more willing to purchase fruits and their deep-processed products shipped from afar.Especially after the orchard industry in the synthetic oases in the Southern Cone region slowly developed, the canned food industry in Ping'an County began to slowly die out, going bankrupt one by one, and now there is almost nothing left.

After the company closed down, the factory was quickly taken over.A large group of smug businessmen rushed over, slightly remodeled the factory building, added machines, trained personnel, and produced various mechanical equipment.Today, the pillar industry of Jushu Township has turned into the manufacture of coal machinery, which made Shao Yaoguang, who came to inspect it, full of emotion.

But this is also impossible.Even without environmental pollution, agriculture in industrial cities would continue to shrink.Although they are close to the final consumer market, the high cost of production can stifle their competitiveness.Their only means of survival is to develop special breeding and nursery gardening businesses. At the same time, they must strictly control pollution, otherwise they will eventually fail.

In Ping'an County, a conflict broke out last year.The Northern Chemical Factory entrusted a batch of waste to a private company for processing, but they secretly poured it into the river at night, causing serious pollution.The villagers were furious and demanded an explanation from the Northern Chemical Plant, causing a big disturbance.

Pollution has indeed become a chronic problem in some industrial cities, but there is no good solution.The British don't care about pollution at all, and discharge sewage at will. Even though similar companies on the east coast have advanced technology, they are separated by the vast Atlantic Ocean, and the cost of transportation and insurance remains high. If they invest huge sums of money in pollution, their competitiveness will naturally decline rapidly. .

The only solution is probably to speed up the development and progress of technology, hoping to reduce costs through technological progress and smooth out the extra expenditure incurred after investing in pollution prevention and control. There seems to be no other way.

On January 1, Shao Yaoguang returned to Ping'an County, and then took a carriage to Baode County in the north.There are several processing companies here that support Ping'an County, the most famous of which is a processing plant affiliated to the East Coast Electric Power Company.The factory was jointly established by TEPCO, the Academy of Engineering, and Dong'an Precision Instrument Co., Ltd., specializing in the production of various types of electric motors, and tried to sell them to enterprises in need in Ping'an County.

A machine tool driven by an electric motor is much stronger than a machine tool driven by a steam engine, both in terms of speed and stability.The speed and stability are related to the precision of parts processing.With the increasing development of the East Coast economy, people's requirements for the machining accuracy of parts must be increasing day by day. At this time, the advantages of electric motors are more prominent.

Of course, a motor alone is not enough, there must be electricity.The scarcity of power stations severely restricts the promotion of electric motors.On the current east coast, only a very small number of enterprises have a pitiful power supply, and can use electric motors to drive machine tools to do some high-precision processing, or to conduct some experiments.

The East Coast Electric Power Company is very dissatisfied with this situation. It has always wanted to quickly promote the construction of domestic power stations. Very unfavorable, not many units were sold at all.

In today's Ping'an County, there is also a micro-experimental power station in the area of ​​the Ping'an Coal and Steel Complex, which was jointly established with Tepco Corporation to provide electricity for a few machine tools.There is no doubt that this will definitely not satisfy the appetite of the ambitious East Coast Power Company.No, they kept writing reports to the State Council and even the Executive Committee, requesting that the state formulate a power development plan and invest huge sums of money in building power stations, including firepower and hydraulic power.

The bosses of the Executive Committee were "harassed" by Ma Xiaopeng, the boss of TEPCO. Under the annoyance, Shao Yaoguang finally approved the revised East Coast Power Development Plan in the second half of last year.However, considering that the entire country on the east coast is about to be involved in the European war, it is impossible to transfer precious funds to other places. Therefore, the funds required for this power development plan are not provided by the government. In fact, the East Coast Power Company The issuance of 20-year 5% interest rate construction bonds, guaranteed by the state finance, is tantamount to temporarily borrowing funds from the society to develop the cutting-edge power industry.

The bond financing obtained by East Coast Power Company was 60 yuan in French currency, which also set a record for the financing of a single domestic enterprise on the East Coast.And Ma Xiaopeng, the boss of TEPCO, is also very courageous, and he is not under the pressure of huge debts at all-judging from TEPCO's operating conditions last year, they have to spend almost half of their profits every year to repay the debt interest-he plans to cooperate with some domestic companies. Cooperate with large companies that use electric motors, absorb part of their funds, select ten cities across the country, and build ten new power stations.

Each of these ten power stations is an independent corporate legal person with a registered capital of [-] yuan, and the form of power generation is thermal power.Take the Ping’an Power Station under construction in Ping’an County as an example. Most of the fuel used is the low-quality coal discarded at the coal mine site under the jurisdiction of the Ping’an Mining Bureau, and the gas that cannot be fully used in the ironworks and coking plants, which can greatly save costs. .

The core boiler required by Ping'an Power Station has been produced by Ping'an Coal and Steel Complex and has been delivered to the construction site.The boiler is vertical, 750 horsepower, manufactured using the latest East Coast technology, and has very high thermal efficiency.In other cities, the boilers required for power generation are already being manufactured, and they are processed and manufactured by the old Tieling Heavy Industry Consortium and Heishan Industrial Company. Or send people to other enterprises with processing and manufacturing capabilities to entrust production. In short, everything is under intensive preparation.

Seeing that the East Coast Power Company moved so fast, the Government Affairs Council couldn't sit still.Considering that there is currently no department in charge of the development of electric power in the East Coast, they hastily established the National Electric Power Administration (which may be further upgraded to the Ministry of Electric Power in the future), and began to gather experts in related fields to formulate standards and regulations.However, because the time is still short, they have only come up with a few regulations:

First, the power industry must be managed in a unified manner. The State Electricity Administration formulates plans for electricity production, transmission, distribution, and sales, and entrusts the newly established electric power bureaus in ten cities to supervise them.The Electric Power Bureau has one director and two deputy directors. It has three departments of inspection, statistics and investigation, and four departments of general affairs, finance, business and technology. It is fully responsible for the operation and development of the electric power industry in various places.

Second, related upstream and downstream equipment manufacturers, such as generators, cables, motors, lamps and other manufacturers, need to apply to the State Electricity Administration for business licenses, and companies that already have related product business need to reapply for licenses.

Third, the frequency of electricity is uniformly set at 50 (a unit that has not yet established a frequency on the east coast), and equipment with non-standard frequency is not allowed to be produced, so as to avoid unnecessary losses caused by different frequencies of various power stations.

第四、输电线路标准电压为6000伏（防止因感应作用干扰通讯线路），配电线路标准电压为200伏和100伏，电动机额定电压为200伏和100伏。

Fourth, because it is found in the test that the three-phase four-wire system fails due to the rise of the neutral point voltage, or the communication line is induced due to leakage, so the return line method adopts the three-phase three-wire system.

Fifth, the DC voltage standard is set at 250 volts, 500 volts, 750 volts and 1000 volts.

Fifth, in order to avoid adverse effects and save costs, equipment and labor, the existing equipment should be updated and transformed as much as possible. For example, the cable telegraph system should try to transform the old facilities to reduce the impact on the related business of the telegraph room and reduce investment.

It can be seen from here that the formulation of these standards is very hasty.After all, the State Electricity Administration itself was established in a hurry, and domestic power-related talents in the east coast are also very scarce, and most of them are concentrated in the east coast power company. It is not easy for the country to find some teachers from the Electrical Engineering Institute of the Engineering Technology Research Institute to study standards. .But no matter what, after years of frustration, the power industry has finally ushered in an important turning point, showing signs of entering the fast lane of development.

Regarding this point, Shao Yaoguang also gave an affirmative answer when he visited the construction of Ping An Power Station.He said that it is an undoubted fact that the electric power industry represents the future.The reason why it has not developed rapidly today is just the time and opportunity for transformation.He believes that after the war, the electric power industry will usher in a period of explosive development. In time, it will not be a problem to replace the steam engine as the main driving force of the East China Republic.

"I and the next government will spare no effort to promote all of this." Shao Yaoguang finally emphasized.

(End of this chapter)