The blast furnace of Weishanhu Iron and Steel Plant seems to be a gluttonous beast, and it will never be full.

Qin Mu stockpiled a large amount of raw materials before the steelmaking plant was put into operation, but when the blast furnace was put into operation, the raw material inventory has been decreasing - the new ones every day cannot keep up with the consumption.

People can go hungry for a meal or two, but the blast furnace cannot. Although this thing can produce a huge amount of steel, it needs to be carefully attended to by humans.

He lost his temper when he didn't eat enough. And the blast furnace has a bad temper, it is not to stop crying twice, but to commit suicide directly.

The main reason why Qin Mu can't sit in Jiangnan is that the raw material problem of the steel plant is getting more and more serious, so serious that it can't be solved, so he has to let his own officials come back and deal with it personally.

Back at Weishan Lake, Qin Mu immediately changed his style, from a general galloping across the field to the president of a large enterprise.

This president is not the president of later generations, sitting in an air-conditioned luxury office, drinking coffee and making phone calls is a day's work.

Qin Mu actually wears many hats. He is the chairman, general manager, and chief engineer. Administrative science and technology production is grasped.

At present, the most bottlenecked problem is capacity.

Zhe Meiluan can organize a large number of people to dig coal mines - now the main thing is the shortage of coal, but it is not good luck to dig it out. The road is not infinitely wide, the road is finite.

It's like a highway, if there are more cars, it will be blocked, and if there are too many people, it will be the same.

Zhe Meiluan will not solve the problem of increasing capacity on existing roads – this is not something that can be fundamentally improved by putting more workers.

It's like the highway is clogged with private cars, is it useful to add private cars at this time? Apparently useless. In this case, only by canceling private cars and replacing them with heavy-duty trucks can the road be freed up and the capacity needs can be met.

Qin Mu knew that the only way to solve the problem was to increase the capacity per unit of time. And this one relies on a horse's back, not even a car.

To radically increase capacity, the only way to do this is to get on the train.

This is also the reason why Qin Mu wants to plan a railway engineering army - without railways and trains, industry will be congenitally half-paralyzed.

Since it is forced to this point, let's put everything aside and completely solve the transportation problem.

In fact, Qin Mu has railway transportation in the planning of Weishan Lake, but he has not had so much time to do this.

At that time, any work was imminent, machinery, textiles, and chemicals, which required immediate products, so Qin Mu had no time to build trains.

Now that everything has finally come to an end for the time being, it seems that the imperial court and the Heavenly Master Army will have to fight for a while. During this time, neither Zhao Ji nor Zhang Guo was likely to come to trouble him.

Weishan Lake rarely has an undisturbed period, so let's build a train.

Qin Mu returned to the afterlife and retrieved a full set of drawings from Director Jiang's technical team.

Steam locomotives have largely retired from the stage of history in the 21st century, and even Director Jiang has no technical reserves for steam locomotives - if diesel locomotives are okay.

However, with the current scientific and technological level of Weishan Lake, it is impossible to make a large-scale internal combustion engine.

Being able to achieve a large-scale steam engine is already the current technological apex of Weishan Lake.

After some discussion, the science and technology team chose a steam locomotive suitable for alien technology - a forward freight locomotive.

This car is the main freight locomotive in China in later generations, the leather is durable, has been tested for a long time, can withstand all kinds of environments, and the cargo capacity is still large.

Qin Mu got the drawings, but he couldn't start building it right away. This is because large machinery products such as locomotives require large-scale manufacturing equipment.

For example, hydraulic presses.

China's first 10,000-ton hydraulic press was officially completed and put into operation in 62 years. At 16.7 meters tall, this device is nothing short of a steel giant.

Weishanhu can now produce enamel basins, but the press for the production of enamel blanks is a small piece of equipment. The steel plate of the enamel cup enamel basin is very thin, so a small stamping machine is enough.

However, the parts on the steam locomotive are all large, which requires a forging press.

Small stamping machines are generally hydraulic presses, and large forging presses are basically hydraulic presses, the design and manufacture of 10,000 tons of hydraulic presses, in New China have to go through more than ten years of development before the construction is successful, Qin Mu does not feel that he can make a 10,000-ton hydraulic press in a short period of time.

Fortunately, he didn't need such a high-end giant machine to make a locomotive, so he could build a small hydraulic press according to the drawings of the science and technology team.

The front technology of the locomotive has a lot of supporting factories. Under the refining and integration of the science and technology team, Qin Mu was provided with a feasible overall solution.

According to the plan, it will take at least half a year for Qin Mu to build the first steam locomotive.

However, Qin Mu has an advantage, that is, what he owns is not a single factory, but an industrial empire. When the locomotive is produced, the railway is built, the carriages are available, and the operating system of the railway is ready to be completed, and rail transportation can begin immediately.

In the seventh year of Xuanhe, Weishan Lake will have its own railway system.

The future is infinitely bright, but it takes a lot of effort to make it happen.

Qin Mu set up a railway system research team, he is the team leader, and there are five team members. Fold can be saved, Ma Qing, Wu Xiaomei, Li Ren.

The fifth person was more unexpected. This person is not the old man of Weishan Lake, but the newcomer brought back from Jiangnan by Qin Mu - Shen Junyi.

Although Shen Junyi came to learn shipbuilding, there is no ship for him to build for the time being. Everything about industrialization, he needed to learn from scratch, so Qin Mu pulled him into the group.

This former Taihu bandit was shocked as soon as he arrived at Weishan Lake.

The iconic blast furnace, as well as the towering chimneys, the continuous factory buildings, the monster-like excavators, and the dense but orderly crowd, all brought a huge visual impact to Shen Junyi from the Jiangnan water town.

It's like a countryman who has never walked out of a ravine in his life, and suddenly comes to Shanghai in the 21st century, and that contrast almost knocks down Shen Junyi.

Under the same blue sky, Shen Junyi never expected that there would be another world thousands of miles away.

The world was completely foreign to him, but everything was so intoxicating.

After a brief period of adaptation, the former bandit quickly transformed into the most ardent of students. He began to learn everything systematically and eagerly.

This made Zhe Meiluan a little worried. Shen Junyi's background made her feel uneasy.

After all, Shen Junyi was a bandit before, and he is not a young man, so the three views can still be shaped.

What if he learns all this and starts anew?

Facing Meiluan's worries, Qin Mu smiled and said, "Meiluan, all our scientific knowledge can only be effective if it relies on this industrial system. Anyone who learns our knowledge and does not serve our industrial system is of little use. Learn to slay the dragon, goods and the emperor's family. Our industrial system is the emperor. ”

"But official, you are the one who created this industrial system." Zhe Meiluan's worries were only somewhat alleviated, but not completely dispelled.

At present, the people who have mastered the core technology, except for Chief Engineer Ma, the rest are all Qin Mu's lineage. For example, Wu Xiaomei, and then the Guards Regiment.

And Shen Junyi is an outsider, he didn't follow Qin Mu to start a business, so it's hard to say this loyalty.

"No, Meiluan, you're not right. Without the support of China, I would not have been able to build this industrial system alone. ”

Qin Mu is telling the truth, from the second year of Xuanhe to the sixth year of Xuanhe, he has created a small and complete industrial system, which can not be done at all except for opening and hanging.

This is less than five years, and the time for a five-year plan in New China has not yet passed, so how can anyone make such a big mess.

It can be said that in the first two hundred years of the industrial revolution, Qin Mu only took four years to complete.

If it weren't for a hanging against the sky, no one would be able to do this.

It's just that Zhi Meiluan doesn't know her true identity and background at all, after all, since she saw herself, she has never left this world in her eyes for a day, so although she saw the products from Huaguo, she didn't realize that it was from the future, from the accumulation of thousands of years.

She is very worried that others will learn the skills of officials and will start a new one.

The railway team is not a single production position, this is already the core of technology.

"Meiluan, I can assure you that the core of industry will always be in our hands. No one but me can create all of this. It's not human. ”

Qin Mu's last sentence was a small joke, so that Meiluan could relax.

Zhe Meiluan really relaxed. Since the official said so, then he must be sure.

So she's down-to-earth. Zhe Meiluan believes that what Qin Mu said must be the truth. He said that if no one can copy it, there must be no one who can copy it. In this way, Zhe Meiluan is completely convinced that his family will always stand on the top of the world, and this is enough.

But the world is so big, there are always people who don't believe in evil.

The fourth prince of Jin Guo didn't feel that he couldn't make artillery.

He made a deal with Zhao Gou privately. Zhao Gou provided him with the technology to manufacture firearms. Including the manufacture of artillery sky thunder and **. In exchange, the Jin Congress put Zhao Gou on the throne.

Of course, at that time, the territory of the Great Song Dynasty was seriously shrinking. North of the Yangtze River, it will belong to the Jin State.

Zhao Gou is only eighteen years old, which is the age when he dares to think and do.

Under the temptation of the throne, the Nine Emperor Princes decisively betrayed the highest military technology of the Great Song Dynasty.

This is not Zhao Gou's hot head, but the result of his careful consideration.

If the Jin State did not have firearms technology, they would probably not be able to defeat the current Song State. If Jin Guo can't get in, then Song Guo will continue like this.

Zhao Ji is Zhao Huan, and Zhao Huan is Zhao Chen - Zhao Huan's eldest son, so Zhao Gou will not be able to ascend to the throne until he dies.

However, if the Jin State had firearms technology, they would have no military gap with the Song State, and the bravery of the Jin soldiers was incomparable to that of the Song Army. In this way, the Jin State can enter the Central Plains and hit the capital.

At that time, there will definitely be changes in the world. Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan, Zhao Chen, this chain is likely to be broken.

If the Song army can't hold Bianliang, then no city in the world can hold it.

Bianliang is now the largest city in the world, with the highest city, the thickest wall, and the most artillery and thunder. If they can't hold it like this, which city can still stop the Jin country's troops?

Zhao Gou believed that no city could stop the Jin army, which was armed with firearms.

But in this world, there are not only cities built after tomorrow, but also innate moats - such as the Yangtze River.

If there was no Yangtze River, Zhao Gouzhen would not dare to do this - to give firearms to the Jin State.

In that case, the people of the Jin Kingdom have powerful firearms, why not annex the world and leave half of the country for themselves?

Zhao Gou didn't pin his hopes on the conscience of the Jin people.

How much is conscience worth? Can this thing be believed?

He believes in the real thing, which can be seen and touched. For example, copper coins, such as artillery, and then the Yangtze River.

The Yangtze River moat is a hurdle that the Jin Kingdom cannot cross, unless they have a boat.

However, Zhao Gou knew that the people of the Jin Kingdom did not have the ability to build and drive ships.

Don't look at Zhao Gou's youth, but he has always wanted to be an emperor, so he cares about the world's major affairs, and he is not a foolish prince.

He knew that water warfare was different from land warfare. In land operations, heavy cavalry is the main force. But in water warfare, the only thing you can rely on is the warship.

And the manufacture and use of warships is by no means something that can be mastered in one or two generations. This is not the same as firearms.

The cannon can be seen as a large god arm. It's just a far point and a big arrow.

Fighting on ships, artillery does not bring much military boost.

It's like shooting an arrow on a boat, and you don't have the right head at all.

The level of the warship and the skill of the ship in the water battle competition. This is impossible for several generations of people in the Jin Kingdom to grasp. As for a few generations later, then I am gone, why do I still have so much to worry about.

After I die, the flood will be terrible. The philosophy of the Nine Emperors' life is so realistic and simple.

Not to mention, Zhao Gou is simply a genius in this regard.

Until the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Jin people did not fight the Yangtze River. In fact, the Jin State died before the Southern Song Dynasty.

The Jin Kingdom fell at the hands of the Mongols, and the Southern Song Dynasty was eventually destroyed by the Mongols.

It is precisely because Zhao Gou has this genius-like overall plan that he actually relies not on the Jin Kingdom, but on the Yangtze River, so now he has no scruples about leaking firearms technology to Jin Wushu.

You're welcome to take it.

If the Jin Kingdom is not strong, it will not have a chance.

In order to be the emperor, Zhao Gou didn't mind that the Jin State was strong, and he didn't mind that the Great Song Dynasty lost half of the rivers and mountains.

And he also needs the Great Song Dynasty to lose half of the country. If the north bank of the Yangtze River is not lost, the Yangtze River will only be an inland river of the Great Song Dynasty, not the border between the two countries. For him, the Yangtze River has lost its role.

Only with the Yangtze River as the boundary is the biggest variable in the world, and you can find the greatest opportunity in it.

Zhao Gou and Jin Wushu were very satisfied with this agreement.

Zhao built the world, and Jin Wushu returned to Jin to make the Jin people's own firearms.

As a smart person in the Jin Kingdom, Jin Wushu is very conceited.

Since the Song people can make firearms, so can we, the Jin people.

He was very afraid of the blow that Qin Mu had brought him, so the Golden Vulture had to have his own firearms.

Now, the Golden Vulture is ready to start the industrial revolution of the Golden Kingdom!