May 1o, 1647, Sunny, Tieling Fort.

Today, the Tieling Fort is lit up with lights and looks very lively, and Mr. Pierre, a former senior technician at Ping An Iron and Steel Plant and a French immigrant from Switzerland, is holding a wedding for his son. As one of the first immigrants from Europe, Mr. Pierre, a blacksmith by training, worked diligently in Ping An Iron and Steel Plant for 10 years, and his business skills were excellent. Mr. Pierre was transferred to the local area along with many colleagues from Ping An Iron and Steel Plant and became the first batch of founders of the Northwest Special Steel Plant.

As the technical supervisor of the special steel mill department, Mr. Pierre was given a set of houses with front and rear yards in Tieling Fort. At a time when more than 9o% of the local population still lived in small cabins and thatched huts, this brick and stone house was undoubtedly a symbol of status and status, meaning that they were now among the upper echelons of the Eastern Republic of China.

Pierre's son, Pi Zhigao, was named after Gao Xiaogang, the former director of the Ping'an Iron and Steel Plant, and took the meaning of lofty ambition, and came to the East Coast with Pierre from Switzerland many years ago, and is just 21 years old this year. He just graduated from Bingtuan Fort last year, majoring in agronomy, and at the beginning of this year, he was assigned to Tieling Fort to promote the three-crop rotation system, and he is considered an official.

Today's wedding is naturally Pi Zhigao himself, his new wife is the daughter of Hu Laosan, who is also a manager of the Northwest Special Steel Plant. Hu Laosan's daughter just turned 17 this year, and now works as a teacher at the soon-to-be-opened Tieling Township Primary School, which is also a decent person in the East Coast.

As a cadet cadre from the Corps Fort, Pi Zhigao's knowledge and aesthetics are naturally different from those mud-legged people from Livonia, those people only like women with European faces, and they will not marry an Oriental woman if they are killed. However, Pi Zhigao was deeply educated by the traversal for ten years, and was marked with a strong oriental brand in the most important three views and personality shaping stages, coupled with his own admiration for the instructors of the traversal, so he looked more at the Ming women, and regarded those Polish and Greek female slaves who could not read a single big word as nothing.

Moreover, marrying Hu Laosan's daughter is a good match. The other can also ensure that he has a smoother career in his career. As a young man with strong blood, who is not motivated? Who doesn't want to be a high-ranking official in the future and be revered by others? And if you want to be motivated, then it is inevitable to respond to the government's call to intermarry with different races. As people in the system, Pierre and Pi Zhigao father and son are naturally well aware of some things that can only be understood and cannot be spoken, if there is no glass ceiling in their careers, then don't let themselves and their family descendants be different from others, and do everything possible to integrate into the East Coast society. This is what people like Pi Zhigao should do.

With the increasing number of mixed-race groups in China, smart people know how to choose for the sake of the future of their own family. As of early May this year, with the last wave of immigrants from the East from South Africa to the mainland, the population of the East Coast Republic of China has officially exceeded 110,000; If you add in the Spaniards east of the Uruguay River, the more than 7,000 European immigrants who are drifting on the sea and have not yet returned to their homeland, the natural growth of the country's population, and the smuggling of people from Brazil, there is little doubt that the total population of the country will exceed 125,000 this year.

In the midst of this. The proportion of Ming people has climbed from 39% last year to nearly 4o, mestizos have also climbed from 9% to 1o%, and the rest of the population has no single ethnic group of more than 4% except for the French, who still make up 6% (7.4% last year). This was during the war with Spain, when the white population poured into the East Coast, and the proportion of the pure white population was bound to fall further in the future. So, if you don't want your offspring to be in danger, try to make their appearance tend to be oriental. Of course, this requires you to marry an Oriental first.

Moreover, Hu's daughter received a full six-year education from elementary school to junior high school in the East Coast Republic, and they also had a more common language than those ignorant Eastern European women. Combining all these factors, the marriage of the Pi and Hu families became inevitable. However, Pierre almost exhausted his family fortune for his son's wife, because his son faced fierce competition from a Polish officer of the 6th Army and an Italian naval officer, and in the end, it was his old son who was able to make him happy thanks to his many years of colleague relations and high bride price.

Today, Pierre's family invited many guests to the scene, in addition to colleagues from the special steel factory. There are also many local military and political officials (township chiefs, armed forces ministers, etc.). Of course, their family's face doesn't seem to be small, and Ma Jia, director of the Northwest Reclamation Bureau, also rushed over with gifts at noon. Pierre was a little surprised by the arrival of the Horse Armor, and although he sent the Horse Armor an invitation, God knows if the high-ranking Director would deign to come to his house. And now that the answer has been revealed, the vest personally came to the scene to bless the newlyweds, and also gave many valuable gifts.

However, the time for the vest is tighter. In the afternoon, he will also take a car to Chengshan Fort to the east to inspect the progress of local agriculture. So, after a few bites of wine and food, he took his leave, before leaving. He also called Shen Gang, the director of the Northwest Special Steel Plant, the former deputy director of the Ping'an Iron and Steel Plant, and Shen Gang and Pierre aside, and told them to start the construction of the special steel plant immediately after he left.

Northwest Special Steel Plant is the most important project of Tielingbao, or the only meaning of Tielingbao is to provide services for Northwest Special Steel Plant. Relying on the abundant manganese ore resources near Tielingbao, Northwest Special Steel Plant will vigorously produce manganese steel of various proportions, and provide high-quality raw materials for important industries such as domestic machining industry (machine tool cutter heads, important parts), steam engine industry (cylinders, boilers), and military industry (gun barrels).

As the only two or three of the five hundred people who understand steel and the only one who understands non-ferrous metal smelting, Ma Jia naturally attaches great importance to the smelting of manganese steel. Even in the face of the country's special steel and non-ferrous metal smelting industries, it is difficult to arouse his interest in the past, and this is actually an important reason why he agreed to take up the post of director of the Northwest Reclamation Bureau -- he still remembers his beloved metallurgical industry after all.

The mineral resources in the Tielingbao area have been explored by Wang Dali and others for many times, and 5 large and medium-sized manganese mines, 2 coal burial sites (poor quality), and 1 small iron ore have been basically identified, and they basically have the foundation for building a complete set of industries such as mining, smelting, and processing. The local manganese ore resources are abundant, the taste is higher, although the reserves of iron ore are extremely general, but the taste has reached more than 55%, only the quality of coal is poor, basically can not coke and reduce ferromanganese, or need to import a large amount of coal from Tacheng, Xinhua Island.

To be honest, although there are certain differences between smelting ferromanganese and pig iron, there are still quite commonalities. For example, the Northwest Special Steel Plant is preparing to build a blast furnace (about 1oo cubic meters) here, which is specially used to smelt ferromanganese, and still uses coke as a reducing agent. After the completion of this blast furnace, the Northwest Special Steel Plant will be based on a large number of technicians and workers transferred from the Ping An Iron and Steel Plant, supplemented by a large number of newly recruited apprentices and technical school graduates, to start the smelting of ferromanganese.

After the ferromanganese has some eyebrows and the official continuous production, the Northwest Special Steel Plant will start to build a new open-hearth furnace and start the smelting of manganese steel -- this is the most important thing. As long as the smelting technology of manganese steel is effectively mastered, the industry on the east coast will enter a new realm, for example, artillery and muskets can be drawn by large-scale industrialization, for example, the machining accuracy of parts and components has been greatly improved, for example, the strength of steam engine boilers and cylinders has been further improved, and the wear resistance of instruments has been greatly improved. In short, the benefits are simply inexhaustible, and it is almost a revolutionary boost for the metallurgical and machining industries on the East Coast.

"The construction of the plant had to start immediately." Ma Jia carefully told the two, "At the end of this month, there will be a group of immigrants who mix old and new to come here, I will allocate all these people to you, and the building materials will also try to give priority to you, and I will also transfer the transportation priority of materials and equipment to the special steel plant to the highest, in short, build the factory and blast furnace first." It is unforgivable that the call for ferromanganese and manganese steel has been shouted in China for so many years, but it has not yet entered the substantive production stage. Therefore, we must unify our thinking, pay close attention to hard work, and strive to complete the construction of the plant and blast furnace by the end of this year, and officially start commissioning and production next year. ”

"If the commissioning and production is smooth next year, the manganese steel project will start at the end of next year at the latest, and then a series of downstream industries such as machining, casting, and forging will also be built here. When these industries are officially put into operation and scaled, I believe that Tieling will become another heavy industry center city in our East Coast Republic. Ma Jia continued to talk to the two about the importance of the matter and the future prospects, "And you, as the founder and founder of the Northwest Special Steel Plant, will inevitably leave a strong mark in history." Don't worry, as long as you work hard and work hard, the country will not treat you badly. Light lintel, grace for future generations, in one fell swoop! ”

Listening to Ma Jia's words, Pierre, whose fortune and fate have been firmly tied to the East Coast Republic, immediately patted his chest and expressed his determination, saying that he would definitely eliminate all difficulties and cooperate with Director Shen to build the shelves of the Northwest Special Steel Plant, and at the same time continuously improve the quality of employees, and strive to successfully commission and produce ferromanganese before the first half of next year, laying a good foundation for the commissioning of manganese steel at the end of the year.

Although Shen Gang, as a traverser, did not care about any "light lintel and grace for future generations", he also said in a timely manner that he would formulate a detailed plan after he returned, and then quickly start preparations for the new factory.

After hearing this, Ma Jia smiled and patted the two on the shoulder, then turned around and quietly left the wedding scene.

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