The most striking thing is that there are three blast furnaces lined up nearby, and there is another typical "Hou-style" double-mountain type greenhouse, connected to a branch railway, and the human-powered rail cars travel back and forth on the railway, and at the end of the railway there are mechanical conveyor belts and various mineral processing machinery.

The noise from the whole factory area made the old bus a few hundred meters away can feel a little deafening, he quickly took out a pair of earplugs from his trouser pocket to cover his ears, this thing is one of the labor protection appliances they are engaged in, everyone in the factory has it, because the old bus often comes, so there is also a pair, of course, other labor protection supplies such as cowhide big-headed high-top leather shoes, burlap thick gloves, burlap thickened overalls and rattan helmets or something is gone.

Lao Ba put on the earmuffs and rode slowly, and after riding for long, he saw Huali in front of a blast furnace, and at this moment he was fully protected, and was standing on the steps of the blast furnace with seven or eight teenagers.

Hua Li stood there pointing at something, obviously explaining, the teenagers were all fully armed with labor protection supplies, with serious expressions, some of them held steel drills and steel hooks in their hands, and some held shovels in their hands, and from time to time peeked at the red fire from outside a small open furnace door.

Lao Ba leaned his bicycle against a stack of iron ingots and walked up the cement road, in fact, these so-called blast furnaces are not very high, because the smelter is built on the high embankment on the south bank, and the cement base makes these miniature cupolas grow a lot taller, if you only look at the furnace itself, the height is not even the height of a one-story bungalow - Anna said that these are miniature smelting equipment, yes, according to the standards of the old world, they are indeed miniature.

Originally, there were only two original cupola furnaces in the iron-smelting plant, but now there is a third one, which is a replica of the same cupola, which is the result of the recent replication of the Shuguang Machinery Factory.

The Bundesrat Science and Technology Committee on how to increase the production capacity and self-development of industrial equipment lasted for two years, and these discussions gradually gained momentum as various industrial equipment in the cave was put into operation, especially after experimental production and mastery of the equipment's performance.

In the end, all the members of the professional group of the committee reached a consensus - first of all, to achieve localization as much as possible through simple copying, and then to continuously repeat these equipment to expand production capacity, through this way to continuously accumulate experience and conditions, and then gradually develop larger and more economical industrial equipment, as for the quality of the product for the time being, the quality is not lower than this era.

Judging from the current implementation, this strategy is very practical, for the steel industry, now in addition to the cupola, other equipment is also being copied, has been copied a set of beneficiation series, Luo Zhengyi they are still copying the relatively complex continuous rolling production line, and the steelmaking furnace will not be copied until the end---- there is no problem in technology, but there are various constraints on materials, one of the main factors is the production of oxygen and refractory materials, which depend on the development progress of the chemical industry.

Lao Ba walked into the cupola where Huali was, the latter also saw Lao Ba from afar, waved his hand to say hello, and then continued to take the teenagers to work on the stove, and then a whistle sounded, the operators near the stove suddenly looked nervous, Lao Ba knew that this was about to open the furnace to produce molten iron.

Lao Ba felt that it was inconvenient to get close to disturb him, so he stood in the distance and visited with great interest.

The second shrill whistle sounded, and a small rail car came on a track next to the cupola, and the car was led by a winch to slowly approach the furnace mouth, and there was a small ladle on the car that could be manually tilted, only after the third rapid whistle, a furnace door on the base of the cupola furnace was opened by the teenagers with steel hooks, and the red molten iron suddenly gushed out along an iron trough, just poured into the small ladle that stopped at the next one.

After a while, the furnace door was pulled shut, and the winch dragged the ladle trolley slowly up a ramp to another blast furnace, and Lao Ba knew that this was a top-blown steel furnace, an original load from the old world, and at this time a steam pulley set was hoisted and the hook was hung on the ladle's ears.

Huali, an order, a teenager skillfully manipulated the crane to lift the ladle, slowly placed into a movable trough above the blast furnace, and there was a whistle, the ladle was slowly tilted, the molten iron inside was poured into the furnace, the ladle was immediately hoisted away, at this time the fuel conveyor belt under the furnace started, a large amount of coke and some ore materials were poured into the furnace, once the fiery red molten iron and coke and ore contacted, immediately produced a large amount of gas, there are three steel pipe-like objects were inserted and pulled out in turn into the gradually boiling molten iron, A large amount of air was blown down these pipes into the furnace to mix with the molten iron, and the furnace finally boiled violently.

Although Lao Ba could only see the steel flowers coming out of the furnace, he suddenly became excited, and in the face of this boiling, he felt that there should be a majestic song as the soundtrack for this scene - "Conquest of Heaven", which was the tune that Lao Ba sounded in his head.

Mr. Ba! Mr. Ba! With a crisp voice, a hand was touching Lao Ba's arm, Lao Ba turned his head, and saw a young man standing next to him with a steel hook in his hand and talking to him with a smile.

The teenager's face had a few places of coal black, and he laughed funny.

Oh? What's the matter?

Sir, Mr. Hua called you!

Well! I'm fascinated......

Lao Ba smiled at the boy and nodded, and patted the boy on the shoulder very casually.

Over there!

The boy pointed to the container not far away, and ran back to the stove.

Lao Ba followed the young man's hope and found that Holley was talking with Huang Hai of Shuguang Machinery Factory in front of the container house, and Holley also turned his head and waved at Lao Ba.

Lao Ba waved his hand in response, and walked over quickly, Hua Huang and the two let Lao Ba into the room, everyone took off their hard hats, and sat down on the chairs, Huang Hai held a pair of gloves in his hand and fanned him twice, then he remembered to turn on the electric fan, Hua Li poured tea and put it in front of Lao Ba and asked:

"What is the wind that blows you all the time?"

"North Wind!"

Lao Ba took a sip of tea, took out a telegram and handed it to him as he spoke, saying:

"It just so happens that the Yellow Sea is also there, let's watch it together."

"It is estimated that it is a telegram from Brother Li Renke and them asking for something!"

Huang Hai turned on the fan, adjusted the angle again, walked to the side of Holley, glanced at the telegram with his eyes, and exclaimed:

"Damn! Not how! There is a lion opening his mouth on Zixia Island! Forty-five kilometers of railroad tracks! Twenty human-powered rail cars, and give them as soon as possible! ”

Holley took the telegraph and replied with a frown:

"Brother Li, they have been running outside for a long time, and they have forgotten our difficulties!"

Lao Ba sat on the chair and wiped his sweat, and said with a smile:

"I can't say that, in fact, it's quite hard there in Zixia Island - they have ideas and ambitions, and when the plenary meeting discussed his appointment to exile, wasn't that what everyone said about him!?"

"Uh...... That's right, it's just that at this juncture, their brothers can't endure it for half a year!? ”

"They're hard? Do we have a hard time at home? In addition to Brother Li, as soon as they went out, they got a little wife, not to mention, Ren Ke also married three yellow flower girls! I knew that this was the case, so I went out and worked hard! ”