Smoke during the day, fire at night, this is the appearance of Nanjing Iron and Steel Plant, although the Nanjing Iron and Steel Plant is far from being comparable with Daye Iron and Steel Company in terms of scale, and it is also a subordinate branch of Daye Iron and Steel Company, but compared with Daye, it has its own advantages - close to the coal mines, and closer to the sea, which means that his production costs, transportation is lower, and Qian'an, Daye and Guangzhou together as the empire's four major steel bases, Nanjing Iron and Steel Plant, has been supplying to meet the supply of steel in many places, In the past year, in response to the changing situation, especially the surge in demand for steel after the outbreak of war, it has also expanded several blast furnaces and steelmaking converters. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

What has been the most advanced industry in the past year? I'm afraid that the first is the steel industry, after all, steel is the foundation of all industries, without enough steel can not produce enough weapons, can not produce enough merchant ships, not enough machines, in short, without steel, there is no everything, there is no possibility of victory, at least in this steel age, steel is the foundation of everything, the guarantee of victory.

It is precisely for this reason that after the outbreak of the war, the development of the iron and steel industry has become the most important task facing the high command, and it is precisely for this reason that special funds have been allocated for the construction of the four major iron and steel bases, thus achieving the original goal set this year -- the goal of doubling steel production.

Thanks to the allocation of special funds, the scale of each steel plant has been greatly expanded, and it has many priorities in the procurement of equipment that cannot be compared with other plants, and the reason why it has obtained these priorities is to ensure that its output can be increased in the shortest possible time.

After years of development, in fact, even Nanjing Iron and Steel, a subsidiary of Hanyang Iron and Steel Company, has developed into a large conglomerate, with a series of affiliated factories, and most of these factories have been fully developed after the outbreak of the war, of course, except for a few factories are exceptions, such as the glass factory, the war did not promote the development of the factory, but affected its production, not only because the glass factory does not have the priority of fuel, but more importantly, the war does not need glass, At least not that much glass.

Poor sales naturally affected the salaries of factory employees, who were not even as earning as they were before the war, compared to the skyrocketing wages of other factory workers after the outbreak of the war.

If you are poor, you will think about change!

At a time when employees were distressed by declining incomes, Xu Mobai, as a factory manager, pondered how to lead the factory out of trouble, he was not only a manager, he was also an engineer. This is a common occurrence in Hanyang companies, but only some engineers are likely to become managers, most of them are still doing their own jobs, and only some engineers who are trying to break through the engineering field will try to learn factory management and become management supervisors. And this type of people are often people who feel that they can't make too many breakthroughs in the field of engineering, in other words, people who feel that their professional level is limited.

And it is precisely for this reason that Xu Mobai will take the initiative to give up his job as an engineer and become a manager of an enterprise. It is he who understands the market, but also the technology.

"The reason why our products are unsalable is because of the war, which led to a large amount of steel being used in military supplies, which made it impossible for the construction industry to obtain enough steel to construct it, which directly led to the unsalable glass...... The war has affected us, and if the factory wants to get out of the situation now, it must seek a breakthrough in products! ”

How to seek breakthroughs in products?

Production of optical glass?

This is obviously unrealistic, because the Siemens furnaces in the glass factory are simply not suitable for the production of optical glass. This means that the factory simply cannot gain much market in its original field.

What to do?

As an engineer who is not very good, Xu Mobai knows very well that if he wants to get out of the current predicament, he must jump out of the original field, just like he changed from an engineer to a manager of an enterprise, precisely because he realized that he could never become an excellent engineer, if he didn't jump out, I am afraid that now he will always be just an assistant engineer.

Come out of the woodwork!

"Common glass starts to soften at 550°C, becomes easy to form at 900°C, i.e. ravageable, and can flow out of the hole at 1100°C...... The temperature of 1500 degrees Celsius is required to melt the glass, because the raw material needs such a high temperature to melt, and the temperature of the bubbles in it is also very high...... The actual furnace temperature exceeds 2,000 degrees Celsius......"

As the manager of the glass factory and also an engineer, Xu Mobai knows far more about the equipment in the factory than ordinary people, and at the same time, he also knows steel very well! Learn about steelmaking, because before that, he was an assistant engineer in a steel plant.

That's why, after much research, he made the decision to make steel from the Siemens furnace, which melts glass in the factory.

This is simply wishful thinking!

Although Xu Mobai didn't know what others thought, he was sure that as long as the news spread, the outside world would definitely say this about him at that time, and there would even be cynicism from others. It is precisely because of this that he has chosen to keep this news a secret for the past few months.

Not only to the outside world, even to most of the employees in the factory, also choose to keep secret, and when the Siemens furnace is renovated, the outside world is just "to reduce energy consumption", in short, until the Siemens furnace is renovated, pig iron and scrap iron are put in, except for a few technicians in the factory, no one knows that the purpose of the manager is to make steel!

At first, everyone thought he was delusional, but when the first furnace of steel came out, everyone was stunned, who would have thought that the Siemens furnace for making glass could actually make steel after being improved!

"So, just because of the temperature, you thought of making steel with a Siemens furnace?"

Looking at his old classmates in surprise, Li Chenyi's expression looked a little strange, and he looked at the "steel-making furnace" in the workshop that had been working for more than ten hours...... I guess it's a steelmaking furnace!

As an engineer in a steelmaking plant, Li Chenyi couldn't believe that his old classmate had actually found another way to successfully develop a new type of steelmaking furnace body outside the converter. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed it was true at all.

"That's right, and compared with converter steelmaking, with open-hearth, is the improved Siemens furnace, I call it "open-hearth", with open-hearth steelmaking has some advantages that converter can not compare, such as it is not strict with the composition of molten iron, and can even use high-phosphorus molten iron, unlike converter steelmaking so pick raw materials, and its smelting process is easy to operate and control, can produce a variety of high-quality steel grades, but due to the large furnace body, long smelting time, usually more than 16 hours, or even longer, and heat dissipation loss is large, energy consumption is high, But ......"

After talking about the shortcomings of open-hearth steelmaking, Xu Mobai pointed to the Siemens furnace in front of him, which took three months to complete the design and improvement, and then said seriously.

"I have two Siemens furnaces in my glass factory, and if I renovate them, I can transform them into a 20-ton furnace, which is now this furnace, a 30-ton furnace, so that I can make 20,000 tons of steel a year without any problems!"

When he said this, Xu Mobai looked at his old classmate with a smile on his face, although the old classmate did not answer him immediately, but he knew very well that 20,000 tons of steel a year was something that no one could refuse.

"20,000 tons ......"

Talking about this number on his lips, he suddenly heard that 20,000 tons did not seem to be much, after all, according to the plan, this year's steel output will exceed one million tons, 20,000 tons, but it is only a fraction, but Li Chenyi thought of more, he thought of other glass factories in China.

There are also glass factories in Daye, Tianjin, and Guangzhou, and at least 10 Siemens furnaces can be retrofitted to make steel. According to an average of 10,000 tons of a furnace, then this year's output can be increased by 10%, which can naturally alleviate the current dilemma of insufficient steel, after all, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is also meat, 100,000 tons! Say too much, say no less! With these 100,000 tons of steel, not only can more warships be built, but even the current situation of competition for steel between domestic machine production and weapons production can be alleviated.

"How much does it cost to improve? How long does it take? Is it difficult? ”

After asking a few questions one after another, just as Li Chenyi was weighing the cost of the converter and the open-hearth, there was a whistle over there, which was to remind everyone that the molten steel was out of the oven!

A fiery steel furnace flows out along the taphole, and under the cooling of the cooling water, it becomes a piece of steel ingots in the steam diffuse, which causes the steel ingots to be sent to other factories for rolling, and become steel plates on warships, rifle barrels or barrels, or parts on machine tools.

A report sent from Nanjing was quickly sent to the imperial capital, and then forwarded from the imperial capital to the north, and finally this report was sent to the train and delivered to Zhu Yifeng.

"Open-hearth ......"

The new steelmaking furnace mentioned in the report made Zhu Yifeng feel surprised, the invention of the converter is not so much an invention, but he plagiarized the invention of others, but the steelmaking open hearth, which ruled the steel industry for nearly a hundred years after the 19th century, was quietly invented by the Chinese, and even the reason why it was invented was because of the promotion of the war.

"It seems that war is really the propeller of the development of human civilization!"

With such a sigh in his heart, Zhu Yifeng immediately thought of the "alkaline converter" that now occupies a dominant position in China, and the limitation of steel production has always been limited by investment, but rather limited by the natural shortage of air converter, and its provocation of raw materials has been limiting the expansion of the scale of steelmaking of enterprises, and it is precisely because of this that on the way back from Tianjin, Zhu Yifeng will consider the laboratory to study industrial oxygen technology, in another time and space, industrial oxygen technology matured in the 20s, It was not until the 50s that with the reduction of the cost of oxygen production, it was possible to use it in steelmaking, and thus the oxygen top blowing converter steelmaking was born. However, the technical difficulty of industrial oxygen production is very high, and at the current technical level, even with the help of "external forces", I am afraid that it will be impossible to achieve a breakthrough for a while and a half.

"Now it's okay, the focus can be turned to the open-hearth in the future......"

Saying this, Zhu Yifeng's mind immediately appeared in Anshan and other large and medium-sized iron mines, and now with the breakthrough in steelmaking technology, it is time to mine them.

"And North Korea's iron mines!"

Thinking so in the bottom of his heart, Zhu Yifeng even thought of Africa, and also thought of Australia, but now the iron ore of the two places is shipped back to China, which is obviously not realistic, after all, the price of iron ore is very low now, only 1 yuan per ton, maybe Australian iron ore is a high-quality rich ore, but it is still not enough for freight, besides, now China does not need to transport iron ore from overseas, should first consider the development of local minerals.

"Australia should be left to future generations as a reserve for the future!"

Thinking that China in later generations would need to import large quantities of iron ore from Australia to meet domestic demand, Zhu Yifeng immediately made this decision. As the founder of this empire, he is proud of everything now, although he knows that victory is still very far away, but one thing is for sure, what China has achieved now is difficult to achieve in any era, and when the war is over, even if it is only to retain the fruits of victory at present, then one thing is certain, in the future, no country will be able to challenge this empire, And this empire will be the most powerful nation in the history of mankind!

For he had Britain, Russia, Rome, and the richest human resources in the world, which they did not have, and not only that, but he also had the most extensive colonies in the South Seas, Africa, and Australia, and islands in the Pacific, and he even held the throat of the world - Hawaii, the Cape of Good Hope, and Panama!

"Perhaps, you can also meddle in Suez and control the canal, after all, now that the Ottomans have declared war on Russia, it is natural for China to play the role of an ally......"

But when he thought that the Suez Canal was now being excavated under the control of the French, Zhu Yifeng immediately gave up this idea, after all, for China now, before pulling France into the water, it must not take the liberty of offending them.

"Or would you lobby the French and support their complete occupation of Suez?"

When this thought came to him, he immediately laughed at himself.

"If you have the opportunity, do you still need to lobby? The French themselves will pounce, and for now, there are more important things......"

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