Material Empire

In fact, the conspiracy of the old janitor is just routine business. The steel mill has been closed formally, but it still exists in name, because no leader in the county is willing to take responsibility for shutting down an enterprise. Under such circumstances, the steel plant must be guarded. As a result, several old workers, including Wang Wang, were left as a symbol of the steel plant's existence. For this symbol, the county must ensure that they are paid their salaries every month. One payment is more than ten years.

These old guards are paid and naturally need to do something. For young people like Ningmo who come in and hang out, they must step forward to question a few words to show their seriousness and responsibility. In fact, the surrounding wall of the iron and steel plant has collapsed several times. There really are thieves who come into the plant to steal things. There is no need to enter or exit the gate.

Xu sent away the old janitor, Qin Hai and his party walked into the steel plant and began to visit this industrial site.

This is a factory covering an area of ​​more than 1,000 acres. When the factory was built, there was no family area because of the emphasis on "production first and life". In addition to the workshop, there is only a solitary two-story office building in the entire factory. All doors and windows of the office building have been demolished, leaving only black holes. According to Ning Mo and their introduction, all the furniture in the offices of this office building has also been removed. Now its only function is to serve as a habitat for wild cats and wild dogs. Let's see if we can hit a wild dog to go back and open the gap.

Wu Qinhai was not interested in wild dogs, so he walked straight through the office building with Ning Mo and others to the production area at the back.

The core of the production area is an iron-making blast furnace, with chimneys, hot blast stoves, and feeding belt carts nearby, forming an open-air blast furnace workshop. As a result of years of sun and rain, thick iron rust has grown on all exposed iron, and bricks have been eroded by rain.

Qi Qinhai walked to the blast furnace, looked up and looked up, and then tapped the hot air pipe beside the blast furnace with his hand, sighed, and said, "Oh, unfortunately, such a blast furnace is scrapped."

"Is it good to be scrapped?" Ning Mo said heartlessly, "Listen to my dad, when the steel plant was still producing, the county was full of coal ash, and all the units in the county were forced to Using steel plant products. The steel they produce can't be forged at all, and it cracks when you hit the forging machine. It's almost the same as pig iron. "

"This is a technical problem." Qin Hai said, "In fact, if we improve the process, at least it will not be like this. Of course, it is also a good thing to shut down such a low-efficiency small steel plant. Air pollution."

"Originally, we have iron and steel plants in almost every county in the city, and now they are almost closed. Only the iron and steel plant in Beixi remains. The steel used in our plant is mainly produced by them. By the way, Qin Hai, Did n’t you say that the quality of their steel is not good yesterday? ”Miao Lei said.

"Yes, their production process must also have problems, so the quality of steel does not meet the standards. We use such steel to produce agricultural tools, and the quality will definitely be affected." Qin Hai said.

A few people talked and walked, and came to the steelmaking workshop again. The situation in the steelmaking workshop is better than that in the blast furnace workshop. Perhaps it is because there are some valuable equipment in the workshop. Iron railings are welded on all the doors and windows of the entire workshop. Only the gates can be opened, but children's arms are also used on the doors. The same large iron chain was locked, and the top of the lock was as large as a slap, so it couldn't be broken easily.

"Is there a steelmaking furnace in this workshop?" Qin Hai asked Ning Mo and others. These people all grew up in this factory area, and they knew everything about the factories around them. At least, Ning Mo even knew the old man named Wang.

Ning Mo said, "I haven't been in this workshop. When I was in elementary school, the factory was closed. Since then, this workshop has been locked like this. However, I heard people say that there seems to be some inside. For some equipment, someone once wanted to open the lock to steal money and other things. "

"..." Qin Hai was speechless.

There is still a machine repair workshop and the like. Since there are machine tools in the workshop, they are also iron generals. Qin Hai and others can only lie on the window and look inside. That device was coated with thick butter, but it has not yet rusted, but the dust that has accumulated over the years has covered the true colors of the device.

"There is nothing in front, there are only these two hills." Ning Mo pointed to the two large mounds in front of him and said to Qin Hai.

"How can there be two hills?" Qin Hai asked strangely. The two mounds were quite large, and indeed they could be described as hills. The mound was covered with weeds and several small trees.

Miao Lei explained: "The two mounds were left behind during the production of the iron and steel plant. This pile is iron ore, which was pulled from the mountain in the past. The pile over there is slag, which will remain for more than ten years Come down. Because it has been piled up for a long time, it is covered with grass. "

"Oh?" Qin Hai thought, "Let's go and see."

Qin Hai said that if I wanted to look over, a few friends naturally had no opinion. In fact, they go around every day after work. Of course, if there were no Qin Hai here, they would not be interested in seeing a lot of slag, that is where they played hide and seek when they were young, and now they are so big people, who would come to this place to play.

Qin Hai walked quickly to the pile of slag, picked a piece from the ground, and looked carefully.

The **** left by the blast furnace ironmaking is a kind of porous block, which is still a bit shaggy when held in the hand, and may even scratch the palm if you are not careful. Qin Hai took a serious look at the setting sun, nodded thoughtfully, and asked Ning Mo and others, "Is this **** piled here for many years?"

"No, it has been piled up since there was a steel plant. When the steel plant is closed, these slags will stay here." Ning answered.

Wu Qinhai asked again: "No one has thought about cleaning up these slags for so many years?"

Miao Lei said: "Who is willing to pay to clean them? I remember one year when there seemed to be a unit that wanted to pull the **** to pave the way, but later found that the **** was too hard to smash, and then it was not needed anymore. Now steel The plant was closed and the **** was thrown away like this. "

She Ningmo saw something from Qin Hai's expression. He asked tentatively, "How, Qin Hai, do you think this **** is useful?"

Qin Hai smiled and said, "I'm not sure yet, but as far as the distribution of mineral resources in Beixi City is concerned, iron ore is not our most important resource, but the rare metals associated with iron ore are more Valuable. The Pingyuan Iron and Steel Plant only makes iron and does not extract rare metals, so those associated mines should remain in these slags. "

"You mean, these slags can extract the rare metals you said?" Ning Mo asked, and the word "valuable" that Qin Hai said attracted him.

Qin Haidao: "I said, I can't be convinced now. If my judgment is correct, the value of these slags is worth hundreds of times more than the steel made by steel mills. Don't say this, UU reading www www .uukanshu.com In addition, you should keep more dim sum. If anyone wants to dispose of these slags, you must tell me, we will find a way to keep them. "

The three little friends exchanged a look with each other, and they all had an inexplicable excitement. Ning Mo asked: "Qin Hai, you mean, do you have a way to distill the valuable things in this **** into money?"

Wu Qinhaidao: "Not yet. To extract these rare metals, you need a blast furnace and a high-power electric furnace. This is almost the equipment requirements of a medium-sized smelting enterprise. With four of us, it is not yet possible."

"What's the use of that?" Ning Mo was a little discouraged. He thought that Qin Hai could smelt out rare metals just like making a small coal stove just like quenching. What do individuals have to do?

Wu Qinhai patted Ning Mo's shoulder and said, "Fat man, the forge who doesn't want to be the factory director is not a fat man, have you ever thought about waiting for the money to open a factory, and become the factory director yourself?"

"I don't see any hope," Ning said arrogantly. "However, Qin Hai, I think you might be a boss. You have such a great ability, and you also have a business mind. By the way, if you are a boss We all go to your factory to be middle-level cadres, okay? "

"Yes, it is enough for us to be a workshop director." Miao Lei and Yu Haitao also said with amusement.

"Believe me, everything is possible." Qin Hai said, seeing that the sky was turning dark, and it didn't make much sense to turn in this barren factory, he said, "Go, let's go back. After returning, We have some things to do. "