Speaking from his heart, Yao Zhesheng was unwilling to let Hong Xu's chemical dogs go like this. However, as Zou Guoqing said, it is already like this, can it still be dismantled those chemical pipelines?

So Yao Zhesheng was a little depressed. He studied mechanics and was not very proficient in chemical equipment, and this time he let the bastards take advantage of the loopholes. In the end, when he figured out that this matter could only be avenged by a gentleman, he could only shake his head helplessly and admit it.

After memorizing the small account book in his heart, Yao Zhesheng gathered his spirit and began to follow Lao Zou to inspect the machinery factory.

The General Machinery Factory is one of the core departments of the kiln base. It is home to all the imported and non-imported machine tools that have been imported so far, and a wide variety of mechanical products are produced every month.

Like the old state-owned factories of later generations, the general machinery factories opened by the people in the kiln area are also complete.

In addition to various workshops and warehouses, administrative buildings, canteens, bathhouses, dormitory buildings, first aid rooms, and cultural classrooms are indispensable for large factories with more than 1,000 employees.

Yao Zhesheng walked on the cement paved factory road, and from time to time there would be workers wearing blue linen canvas uniforms, rattan helmets, pushing simple slide scooters.

The formal workshop of the machinery factory is also very complete. There are not only machining workshops graded according to equipment, but also auxiliary workshops such as heat treatment and forging hammers.

Most of the "home-made" equipment is in the first workshop, so this is an apprentice's paradise. Like many rabbit products in later generations, the so-called "self-produced" is actually the core components are still imported.

The most critical screw rod and stepper motor of the machine tool cannot be built at present. In other words, the quality of those that are forcibly made can only be hehe. Fortunately, the volume of these two key items is not large, otherwise the machinery factory in the kiln area would not be able to open.

Part of the machine tools in the first workshop are this kind of "fully self-produced machine tools" used to train apprentices. These modest machines are piled up with all sorts of metal scraps, all of which are self-produced and are subjected to the ravages of apprentices every day.

The apprentices are old and young. In such a frenzied immigration environment, everything is in a state of savage growth, so there are many middle-aged and elderly apprentices with shaved scalps and wrinkled faces in any factory.

These people have a wide variety of occupations. Carpenters, blacksmiths, stonemasons, locksmiths, smiths, in short, all craftsmen who came here from the Ming Dynasty will get an opportunity to enter the factory for internship and selection.

Traditional craftsmen have never seen all kinds of machinery and equipment, so no one knows which position they are suitable for until they leave the apprenticeship. Like interns, these apprentices first rotate through multiple roles. After that, they are assigned work according to their own interests and abilities that they have demonstrated in their studies.

This is the scene that Yao Zhesheng saw after they entered a workshop, three generations of apprentices from the old, middle and young generations were practicing around a few simple lathes, wearing yellow lacquered helmets, and the indigenous "master" who was not very old was teaching them.

The rest of the lathes in the first workshop are general goods. These home-grown goods made by the industrial party are ugly in appearance, complete in variety, all kinds of boring, milling, planing, and grinding, lying there like two rows of black bears, and from time to time making all kinds of strange screams.

These two rows of machine tools are the "agricultural machinery in charge" of the vigorous development of the crossing forces. Almost all machinery that does not require precision parts, including all kinds of agricultural machinery and small equipment such as brick making machines, is now produced by these lathes.

These machines have a uniform characteristic: the most material-intensive beds are made of marble.

Marble structure precision uniform texture, good stability, high strength, high hardness, no rust, acid and alkali resistance, no magnetization, no deformation, good wear resistance, is an excellent machine tool bed material.

As long as it is not a type of machine that requires a strong impact, in fact, it can be made of marble as a bed. The marbles were all artificially lifted from the central mountains.

After surveying, logging, blasting, quarrying, and transporting the South Seas, the slaves paid the price of continuous death, and the huge marble pieces were carried out of the mountains by slave laborers in groups of dozens of people with wooden poles and hemp ropes.

The marbles arrive in the kiln area, where they are sanded and trimmed, and then fitted with other accessories to become a standard machine tool capable of producing parts.

The operators of the machine tools are all indigenous to the Ming people. These men were all apprentices brought out by the Industrialists in their early pioneering days, and now they are the backbone of their respective factories.

But then again, it's much easier to train a machine operator than a chemical dog.

The machining industry does not have high requirements for the quality of personnel. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, many people from all over the world had already set up factories in Shanghai, and most of the workers in them were actually illiterate.

After that, during the founding of the People's Republic of China, a large number of young workers recruited from the countryside into the factory were actually illiterate and semi-literate, and all the technical and cultural knowledge of these people was slowly supplemented after entering the factory.

Traversal is no exception, and most of the newcomers who arrive are also illiterate, even if these people originally relied on their craft to eat. The only difference here is that the machining industry is intuitive. After the initial "surprise", the newcomer can quickly understand the principle of cutting the workpiece with the cutter head.

The chemical industry is different. Without basic theoretical knowledge to get them to the bottom, it is simply impossible for these people to imagine the various chemical reactions in an autoclave out of thin air.

That's why machine shops are thriving now, and the shortage of skilled workers isn't as big as that of chemical plants.

Under the guidance of the master, an ordinary apprentice can usually cut simple workpieces alone in about half a month. And those who have been learning knowledge behind the crossing of the ass since more than 1 year ago, some of them have been able to operate the CNC machine tools in the second workshop and input some processing programs into the main machine.

This is the threshold of the industry, those who have played chemical industry for one year have not graduated from primary school.

The second workshop is the CNC workshop. Here are some imported C-data lathes. The "localization rate" of this lathe is quite low, except for some cast iron and marble bases, most of the accessories including guide rails, spindles, lead screws, motors, computer operating systems, etc. are imported.

And some of the "precision instruments" used in the crossing country today are produced by them. For example, most of the industrial gears, for example, rumble every day, stupid as oxen, and carry two iron stoves as a power source for the old wood gas engine.