Feng Yunshan, who was born in science and engineering, knows in his heart that the trend of future world development is the second industrial revolution. The salient feature of this second industrial revolution is the widespread use of electricity. Now that the age of electricity has not yet fully arrived, its own Chinese empire has to prepare for it. And the biggest preparation for this is the steel and oil industries, just like the United States in later generations.

Although the United States is not the birthplace of the steel industry, nor is it the birthplace of technological innovation in this industry, through steel giants like Carnegie, these technologies have been best absorbed and applied, so as to be one step ahead and quickly control the dominance of the steel industry.

The future trend is to bid farewell to the era of cotton textile in light industry and enter the era of heavy industry led by steel, petroleum and power applications. In addition to the application of advanced production technology, that is, the Bessemer steelmaking method and the Siemens-Martin open-hearth steelmaking method, the United States has also established a set of modern advanced production management systems, which has greatly promoted the industrial development of heavy industry.

For this production system, Feng Yunshan has long wanted to apply it to the industry of the Chinese Empire, and now, the time is ripe for the application of this production system. At the same time, in order to promote the development of the iron and steel industry in the Chinese Empire, Feng Yunshan also prepared to apply this production system on a large scale: the production products are characterized by common standard components and assembly lines, and the design and mass production of standardized goods are carried out, the most important of which is the standardization, interchangeability and high efficiency of mass production of mechanical parts.

In this way, we will further design machines that can produce such standardized parts, which will greatly improve the production efficiency of the entire industrial system, develop various types of machines suitable for various parts, realize the replacement of craftsmen with high manual skills, and realize the division of labor and cooperation and assembly line operations in the industrial production process.

Standardized production realizes the quality controllability and interchangeability of products, the most important thing is the scale effect, and also provides a guarantee for the implementation of the assembly line operation system. The assembly line operation has played a great role in the large-scale application of machinery and equipment, reducing the dependence of craftsmen, and most importantly, greatly improving production efficiency, and only in this way can it be said that it has truly opened the era of industrialization.

Once the Chinese Empire officially opens this industrial model, it will surely usher in a leap forward like the United States in later generations, and whoever first proposes and applies this advanced industrial system on a large scale and has an impact on the world will seize the opportunity, and the entire world in the future will apply or rely on this standard and model.

And the first start and entry point is the steel industry. According to the industrial development trend of the previous life, it is precisely because of the improvement of steel production technology that the output of steel has soared, which has led to a sharp drop in its price, and the low price has led to the rapid replacement of pig iron by steel in many sectors and fields, and the scope of application has been widely expanded, thus further promoting the production of various industries, especially in terms of equipment and equipment.

The progress of iron and steel technology has not only led to the rapid development of the original heavy industries such as coal mining, machine manufacturing, railway transportation, etc., but also promoted the development of other new industries with steel as raw materials, such as the electric power industry, electrical appliance manufacturing, chemical and petroleum industry, automobile industry, steamship, aircraft industry, and so on.

In this case, Feng Yunshan thought of letting his Chinese empire lead the transformation of the steel industry!

As early as when it was still the Taiping Holy Kingdom, Feng Yunshan asked Song Tiesheng to set up the Zhenghe Iron and Steel Plant, although it was a very small steel plant, but it was also divided into an iron mill and a steel mill, of which the steel mill used the improved alkaline converter steelmaking method on the basis of the acid converter steelmaking method invented by Bessemer, and the Krupp Iron and Steel Company later established in Shaozhou Mansion directly used the more advanced open-hearth steelmaking method invented by the Frenchman Martin and the German Siemens, and it was also an improved alkaline open-hearth steelmaking method. But because Feng Yunshan at that time, in order to maintain absolute secrecy, only a few steel companies such as Krupp Iron and Steel Company and the first iron and steel plant of Nanyang Iron and Steel Company adopted this technology, and also sent troops to strictly seal off these steel plants inside and outside, and all the workers in the steel mills were strictly forbidden to go out, and even their families were directly connected to live in the steel plant area, so although the secrecy was done well, the output of steel did not increase. On the contrary, the output of pig iron has increased a lot.

However, even if there is a shortage of steel, Feng Yunshan does not use the alkaline open-hearth steelmaking method in other places, but only the acid converter steelmaking method, which has long been available in Europe. Because Feng Yunshan knew that the industry of the Chinese Empire had just started, and today's steel production was already developing rapidly, and if it suddenly jumped sharply, it would definitely arouse the covetousness of foreigners. In fact, since the Krupp cannon produced by the Krupp Steel Company showed its might in the naval battle, many foreigners disguised themselves as priests to come to Shaozhou to investigate everywhere, and even many foreigners bought some overseas Chinese or businessmen in Guangzhou and Shanghai to help them act as spies to go to the Krupp Iron and Steel Company in Shaozhou Mansion to investigate, fortunately, the Krupp Steel Company had already been ordered by Feng Yunshan personally, and the troops of the outer guards strictly ordered to block all news leaks, so that the Krupp artillery has not leaked many secrets. Especially the secret of tank steel. After the British captured the two Krupp cannons, they only had a general understanding of the structure, but when they imitated them, they found that the steel material was always poor, and the power of the imitation guns was still much worse.

Feng Yunshan didn't want this big killer of steel production - the improved alkaline open-hearth steelmaking method to be learned by foreigners! He will not show his bottom until the Chinese Empire has the ability to protect itself.

Moreover, Feng Yunshan slowly stopped taking care of these specific affairs, and handed everything over to Zeng Guanlan of the Cabinet and Zeng Yuheng, Minister of Public Works, but he did not expect that after the Chinese Empire has become strong in recent years, there is no longer to expand the promotion of this advanced steelmaking method in steel mills. Even, after the defeat of the British Expeditionary Force for the second time, the Chinese Empire had established itself as a world power, and it was completely capable of putting this new steelmaking technology into use without fear of any country, as long as it did a good job of secrecy.

It's just that he was negligent for a while, and Zeng Yuheng of the Ministry of Public Works is a little lacking in courage, and he will definitely not take the initiative to directly use this new type of steelmaking technology, causing the empire to face a shortage of steel now.

But now, I realize that the Chinese Empire, with its new steelmaking technology, will definitely make a great leap forward in steelmaking, which will stun the whole world.