Unlike the first workshop where apprentices are everywhere, the second workshop has a traversal here. Where "precision instruments" are produced, there must be industrialists who know how to use computers. Correspondingly, almost all the "intermediate" mechanics work in this factory.

The division of the technical hierarchy of workers is not as complicated as that of later generations, that is, the simple three-order primary, intermediate, and advanced. Each of these three levels is divided into two levels, that is, the sixth level of work is at the end.

Even so, there is no one who can be promoted to a senior worker at the moment. The factory's requirements for senior workers are actually very simple, they can be programmed simply, and then according to the requirements of the drawings, the parameters of the cutter head can be set on the control screen.

However, this is the moat.

What even a secondary school student can easily do in the future is tantamount to a book from heaven in the eyes of these illiterate craftsmen.

At present, the most senior fourth-level workers in the workshop can only use two-finger Zen to enter the set fixed program on the keyboard, just like they did in the Ming Dynasty, first memorize a set of tào data, and then make a product.

Knowledge determines a person's upper limit. These craftsmen, who lack basic theoretical knowledge, will be exposed as soon as they encounter Zenith technology.

Of course, they can't be blamed for this, the Ming Dynasty is such an environment. Besides, young people in later generations have been playing with mobile phones since childhood, going to Internet cafes outside of class to open the black, and eating chicken every day; It is not difficult for them to modify some simple data according to the needs of the drawings on the keyboard.

But these craftsmen can't. First of all, this generation has not been to junior high school, so most of them cannot read drawings that require simple geometry knowledge. Secondly, they haven't played O, so when faced with an industrial control screen as big as an IAD, these guys suddenly became numb and couldn't understand.

So the current situation is that once there is a new workpiece, it is necessary to set all the parameters before handing over to these workers to execute.

As for the high-level craftsmen who can handle all the procedures on their own, there is not a single one now. The so-called intermediate technicians must have a few years to make up for the basics.

The third workshop is the core workshop that crosses the exclusive public. Several (sets of tào) imported from later generations of Gitmai CNC machining centers are the most valuable assets of the industrial party. This 5-axis C machining center can handle complex curved surfaces, and can theoretically process propellers and BMW car engines, which is a real industrial machine tool.

Of course, the current propellers of a certain silk force are all cast in pig iron, and they can't make BMW cars, so they can only use machining centers to produce some low-level car (bed chuáng) accessories, which is overkill.

It seems that the bright (hot) production activities are still empty underneath. In the case of the most important steel, in addition to the quality of crude steel, the kiln mill can neither roll the special sheet required for the car shell, nor the steel grade required for high-end engines.

So high-end goods like BMW cars will always be just legends; The clumsy, inefficient old-fashioned gas engine is what the Industrial Party is currently striving for.

Industries are interlinked.

The easiest place is also the hardest. Starting from a steel ingot and a screw, if any link is not in place, the system will eventually magnify the problem and show it.

This is the situation in the kiln area now. In addition to the relatively strong machining capacity, other links, including raw materials, can only be described as weak. In fact, even in the field of machining, Ming Ren still can't play without traversing, and it's a lame field.

After inspecting the machinery factory, Yao Zhesheng and Zou Guoqing, who were not very satisfied with the current situation, took the electric three-wheeled car to the steel mill next door.

The development of steel mills to this day is no longer the shabby situation of only 2 small electric furnaces. In addition to importing two 5-ton electric furnaces in the later period, the steel mill also self-reliant through DIY to save a number of metallurgical equipment such as chemical iron furnaces and reverse (shooting) furnaces.

With the Haidong chain of commercial banks stationed in the major wharves along the coast of Fujian, the majority of Fujian mine owners suddenly found that (Riri) Zi was actually booming.

In the beginning, whether it was raw and cooked iron or ore, as long as it was transported to the wharf, it would be purchased by the trading house. These new businessmen were rich and powerful, backed by the prestige (Riri) guerrilla general's mansion, and slowly raised the iron price of Fujian half a year ago.

To the excitement of the majority of the sticks, the Haidong chain firm not only openly purchased iron materials, but also sprinkled a lot of silver to set up a mine with others. In traditional iron smelting locations such as Youxi County and Jian'an County, Haidong Commercial Bank has sent special personnel to negotiate business.

The conditions for running a mine are extremely favorable, and all the mountain owners, mine owners, local veterans, squires, and local sticks near the mines can come to the door empty-handed to discuss cooperation with Haidong Commercial Bank.

Powerful landlords can get a large amount of silver from the white wolf in the trading house empty-handed (set tào). These people often recruited a large number of miners in partnership with several companies under the organization of the comptoir, and greatly expanded the original pits and furnaces to increase iron production.

The benefits of Haidong Commercial Bank are far more than these mining tools made of stainless steel, transport trolleys, rails, masters who hold "secret maps" to explore ore belts, rechargeable thermometers, and "master craftsmen" who can build new ironmaking furnaces, which can improve the efficiency of ironmaking, and the soft conditions that can be obtained by the collaborators can all be obtained from Haidong Commercial Bank.

All the snakes had to do was to keep transporting iron and excess ore to the docks, and then exchange them for fine salt, grain, and tools from the storehouses of the merchants. As for silver, this is the last option, and salt and grain will always be of greater use in the mountains than silver.

With the passage of time, the metallurgical industry of the whole Fujian is undergoing profound changes under the control of the invisible hand of the passing forces.

One of the most important changes is the rapid growth of pig iron production.

Capital is profit-seeking. When the shareholders of the iron yard found that the purchase price of pig iron of Haidong Commercial Bank had increased significantly, they naturally asked the furnace to smelt more pig iron and produce less wrought iron.

There are many traditional steelmaking methods in ancient times, such as block refining method, carburizing and forging 100 steelmaking, steel filling method, Suzhou steel method, steel frying method, low-temperature crucible method, Damascus steel and so on.

These methods are always the same, and they are essentially low-temperature ironmaking. The above so-called "steel" are all iron products with unqualified impurity content. You must know that the melting point of pure iron is 1538 degrees, and before the advent of Huntsmann crucible steel in 1740, there was no way for humans to melt iron into liquid, let alone control the phosphorus and sulfur content in it.

The steel mills far away in the kiln area naturally do not need the so-called wrought iron that the furnace workers in the Middle Ages worked hard to smelt. Because in the eyes of the Industrial Party, any product refined by the Ming people is a waste product with unqualified quality control.

So according to this principle, the pig iron with short time, less material consumption, and saving the process suddenly became a fragrant glutton, and the purchase price of pig iron was deliberately increased.

The Ming mine owners naturally would not refuse this change, which was originally able to produce 800 catties of wrought iron a day, but now it can produce more than 2,000 catties of pig iron, so why not

However, this was not the end of the story, and the mine owners soon felt the stronger appetite of the industrial society. It didn't take long for the "masters" sent to various places to guide production to put forward more "relaxed" requirements for Mingren's products, and we wanted inferior pig iron.

This so-called "pig iron", which has only been hastily smelted and saves time to the greatest extent and saves manpower and fuel, is actually no different from the strip steel of later generations, and is garbage that can be broken when thrown on the ground.

However, it was this kind of garbage that was bought by Haidong Commercial Bank at the promised price.

Since then, it has been out of control. After hearing the news, the Ming mine owners began to switch to this kind of iron material that is not like iron and ore is not like ore; The steel mills in the kiln area are happy to begin to take over this "high-grade ore" in large quantities.

Yes, in the eyes of the Industrial Party, these iron materials are equal to high-grade ores. Essentially, they are high-grade ores that the Ming people jigged up; It's just that the tools of jigging are not machines, but flames and earthen ovens.

Nowadays, after the integration, Fujian's iron smelting industry has become more and more in line with the appetite of the crossing forces, just like the early colonies, the left hand exports population and raw materials, and the right hand obtains industrial goods.

In the course of the tireless siege of the commercial system, the number of sailing voyages (daily ri) from the other side of the sea to Dayuan has increased. Nowadays, every 15 days or so, there will be a fleet of cross-sea ships departing from the ports of Fuzhou, Quanzhou, and Zhangzhou.

The fleet consisted not only of iron and coal ships, but also passenger ships full of people and merchant ships loaded with sugar, indigo, and porcelain. Under the guidance of the pilot ship that emitted a white pillar of light, these Ming ships traveled all night, and in a day or two they could cross the strait and reach Dayuan.

With the increase in the throughput of "high-grade ore" and the successful operation of the iron sand mines in Taipei, the kiln mills now finally dared to set the target of 1628 steel production at "1,000 tons".

Of course, the "steel production" here refers to the total amount of all metallurgical products, including refined iron, and in fact, the current steel production in the kiln area is not high. For a power in the 17th century, it was the cast iron that society needed most, not steel.

Among the products in the steel mills in the kiln area, the largest shipment is the round steel bar, followed by some crude steel ingots used for machining. In fact, these two products have maintained a share of less than 30% of the total products of steel mills, and the rest are various cast iron products.

This scheme of allocation of quantities is reasonable. You know, in this plane, the wood gas engine produced from cast iron plates and ductile iron is already Zenith technology. And the crossing forces don't need higher technology to sweep away the enemies with bows and arrows and arquebuses, and they have the resources to develop five pairs of wheels, and the wood gas wagons have already wiped out all the enemies.

Therefore, all kinds of cast iron products are the mainstream of steel mills today.