The development plan of the metallurgical group was carefully thought out by several young professionals.

First of all, they plan to move out the micro casting line in the cave and install it in place within a year, and then use the iron they smelt to cast the required equipment and materials.

Finally, with the cooperation of the mechanical group, the second generation of casting production line was copied.

This plan was unanimously applauded by the mechanical group and the chemical group, because once the casting production line is put into operation, most of the equipment of the mechanical group and the chemical group can be copied in this way, and it is believed that this is a decisive and multi-successful basic project.

The metallurgical group also intends to move the miniature hot-rolled steel production line out of the karst cave and put into production after two years at the latest, and the engineer Wang Xue, who strongly agrees with this move, also requires the metallurgical group not to stick to the model of three generations of replication, considering the durability of the metallurgical industry equipment, Wang Gong solemnly suggested that the metallurgical industry should copy while producing various metal materials, and finally complete the localization of the metallurgical industry in a step-by-step way.

Because her shipyard needs steel from the metallurgical industry, it is expected that in three years, Wang Xue plans to use the steel produced by the metallurgical group to build a new generation of steel-hulled armed merchant ships.

Wang Gong confidently told everyone that the seven proud-class armed merchant ships in the cave can be assembled in three years at most, after all, as long as there is labor and slipway, DIY the seven ships are very fast.

So at that time, Wang Gong hoped to obtain the steel produced by his own family to build a lightweight, armed merchant ship of his own design.

To this end, Engineer Wang Xue strongly appealed to the metallurgical group to start a hot-rolled steel production line as soon as possible.

The metallurgical group responded that as long as there is labor, these are not a problem.

In fact, there is another industrial project that has developed the fastest during this period: the textile factory presided over by Wang Nabin and Zhou Yuye.

At the end of October, after Han Lotian's department store, "Federal Huasheng Textile Co., Ltd." became the second entity to receive financial support from the "Beishang Fund" chaired by Xia Xiaoou and Yu Hewei, and the initial working capital of "Huasheng Textile" was 16,000 taels of silver, excluding the valuation of fixed assets for the time being.

The plan of the two is to install the cotton textile machinery in place by the end of the year, because the cotton in the fields will soon enter the picking period, and if Mr. Zhao's coal coking plant or the fleet of ships going to sea can provide them with dyes, they will have the ambition to compete with the world-famous Indian calico of this era.

During this period of time, following the mechanical group, chemical group and metallurgical group put forward their own development plans, professionals in other industries have also put forward their own plans.

However, because the content was too large and complicated, Sun Lao finally announced on behalf of the Supreme Executive Committee that he asked the plenary meeting to discuss the establishment of an organization called the "Industrial Construction and Scientific Research Committee", referred to as the "Engineering Science and Technology Committee", which was subordinate to the Supreme Executive Committee of the Plenary Assembly of the Traverser.

Sun Lao's opinion is that let the professionals discuss these plans, these development plans in the "Industrial Science and Technology Committee" after the discussion and formation, will be submitted to the Supreme Executive Committee for coordination, and then submitted to the plenary meeting for discussion, and finally voted, as for whether more than half of the vote or more than two-thirds of the vote, is currently being discussed, Sun Lao's proposal for this ten: more than 10,000 taels of silver investment projects are major investment behavior, according to the "Property Charter", must be more than two-thirds to pass.

In the end, a series of proposals by Sun Lao were approved by the plenary meeting, and everyone first elected Zhao Xihe as the chairman of the first "Industrial Construction and Scientific Research Committee", and then elected Wang Xue as the vice chairman, and all the people in science and engineering and industry are members of the committee.

According to the requirements of the Supreme Executive Committee, before the end of the year, the "Engineering Science and Technology Committee" should come up with a systematic written report, and this systematic package of documents will be submitted to the plenary meeting in the form of short-term, medium-term and long-term "Development Outline" for discussion and adoption, and the next step is to supervise the implementation.

This was the first medium- and long-term programme for the development of industry and science and technology for the next five to ten years, issued by the Supreme Executive Council.

In addition to minerals, machinery, metallurgy, chemicals, textiles, medicine, telecommunications, energy, and other industries, the "Outline" also makes special mention of scientific research and personnel training programs, which suggest that the introduction of immigrants in various ways should be encouraged and that all minors in the immigrants should be admitted to schools for training.

The most striking of these Compendiums is the plan for the development of firearms.

The Metallurgical Group, the Chemical Industry Group, and the Machinery Group jointly proposed to submit a specific plan for the development of firearms to the plenary session before the end of this year, and their initial plan was to first make full use of the existing industrial conditions, starting with paper-shelled fixed-loading bullets and rear-loading flintlock rifled rifles, and strive to develop a rear-loading single-shot rifled rifle using metal-shelled bullets within five years.

At the same time, they also had to start with the Montini machine gun and eventually develop the Gatling gun within five years, and their ultimate goal was to mass-produce the Maxim machine gun within ten years.

As for artillery, this "Outline" has clearly defined two directions -- the mortar artillery that throws the ** package and the light field artillery based on the 92 infantry gun, including the naval artillery of the same type based on this and with an increased doubling ratio.

It is said that this firearms development project has the deep involvement of people from the Fire Pond Club......

By the beginning of November 1657, about 30 tons of glassware and glass mirrors of various specifications had been stacked in the Nicole Cargo Hold, and the total number had reached nearly 20,000 pieces.

The glassware was packed in bamboo baskets, then tightly tied with sisal rope and packed tightly and neatly in the cabin.

The bamboo baskets and sisal ropes were made by Lao Wang and the Han women, and now the labor force on the farm is relatively abundant, and the production of these low-value consumable packaging materials has long been done without the need for the traversers to do it themselves.

Since November 5, the sugarcane and sugar beet in the fields have entered the harvest period, and by now, almost all the Han Chinese labor force has participated in this harvesting operation, except for the glass factory and the machine factory.

The Han Chinese were amazed to see how the legendary sugarcane harvester harvested the sugarcane, and how the tractor turned the beetroot out of the soil with a birch plow.

Later, some Han Chinese quickly learned how to operate a sugarcane harvester, and a few years later, they would also use a simple small walk-behind tractor to plough the land, which was a product of the Shuguang Machinery Factory, at that time, Boss Luo and they not only built a Stirling engine, but also a small-horsepower diesel engine, so that Australia entered the era of agricultural mechanization.

In mid-November, after all the sugarcane and sugar beets in the fields were harvested, the sugar factory finally had raw materials to produce, and this time the production was much smoother than the last time, because the acid and alkali chemicals provided by the chemical team were more pure than in the past, and the quality of the white sugar produced this time was also better than the last time.

A major breakthrough in the improvement of sugar production levels is that the chemical group finally obtained sulfuric acid, although there are a few impurities and the concentration is not too high, but the main ingredient in this turbid liquid is undoubtedly sulfuric acid.

This liquid comes from the pyrite boiling furnace that has just been put into operation by the metallurgical group.

Previously, with the strong assistance of the crew, the installation and trial production of pyrite boiling furnace was very smooth, at eight o'clock in the morning of October 20, the boiling furnace was very lively, according to the tradition of the metallurgical industry, the eldest Sun Lao was elected to put a torch coated with fire oil into the furnace, and then everyone began to get busy, six hours later, three professionals of the metallurgical group: Huali, Quan Zhenhai and An Hengtong, all disgraced to announce to everyone that the first furnace of molten iron was finally baked, And also got a couple of cans of mixed liquid.

The brothers said that the clay pot "should be sulfuric acid, or rather, the main ingredient is sulfuric acid."

Therefore, under the skeptical eyes of everyone, Ms. Cao Limei, who insisted on guiding the business on the front line of production despite fatigue, told the people in the chemical team that this batch of pyrite was selected, the composition is very pure, and the grade is very high, so these liquids are trustworthy.

So the chemical team boldly used these liquids in the sugar making process, and the effect was actually very good! The white sugar produced seems to be whiter than in the past, and the most gratifying thing is that the sugar yield has also increased.

In the end, this 100 acres of sugarcane land produced a total of 40 tons of sugar, plus the sugar beet yield is also good, and now a total of 70 tons of sugar is packed into fine sacks made by the textile factory.

By November 12, 1,400 sacks full of sugar and 500 baskets of bamboo baskets filled with glass were tied up and loaded into Nicole's warehouse.

At this point, everyone knows that the goal is that the voyage to Macao is about to begin, and this voyage will have a significant impact on the future of this crossing collective.