Iron and steel is known as the food of industry, it is the most used metal material by human beings, its high strength, good mechanical properties, abundant resources, low cost, suitable for large-scale production, in all fields of social production and life have a wide range of applications, is an indispensable strategic basic industrial products. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The industrial process of almost all industrialized countries is from the beginning of the steelmaking, there is no steel and no other industrial products, there are no high-rise buildings, there are no guns, vehicles and ships, in the national economy, the steel industry as the mother of all industries directly determines the industrialization base of the whole country, even in the developed countries that have experienced the industrialization process is developing towards a new type of industrialization, the steel industry, especially the high-end steel industry, is still an irreplaceable important industry in its industry.

Yan Xueyi can't wait to build his own steel mill because of the importance of steel to industrial development.

Even if there are no conditions for smelting steel, Yan Xueyi will find a way to smelt steel, as long as there is steel, everything will be easy to do.

Soil blast furnace ironmaking came into being, the simple steel plant is faster than the match factory, soap factory construction, as long as the construction of a large number of earth blast furnace is finished, and then the iron ore is poured into it, you can add coal to burn, and finally the molten iron flows out of the outlet, but unfortunately the production process is too simple, and the iron produced contains more impurities.

On August 15, 1874, this is a memorable day, the first molten iron furnace of Yuanhe Iron and Steel Plant was born, and Yan Xueyi came to the scene to witness this historical moment.

"Finally there is iron, in the future I will build the most powerful country in the world, and all those humiliating histories will get out of my way!" Looking at the molten iron that slowly flowed out, Yan Xueyi's eyes were resolute and his fists were clenched.

Before, Yan Xueyi had a lot of trouble collecting some iron through Yan's firm, but now he can finally produce iron himself, although this iron contains a lot of impurities, but this is also iron, with iron, everything is easy to do.

With iron, Yan Xueyi can manufacture all kinds of machinery and equipment to improve the production efficiency of various factories, with iron, Yan Xueyi can rebuild an advanced steel plant, and then refine steel with better performance, with steel, Yuanhe Industrial Zone can become a real industrial zone, an industrial city with a population of up to one million.

Of course, with steel Yan Xueyi can open an arsenal, manufacture guns and cannons, and establish an armed force belonging to Yan Xueyi, and have a certain ability to resist in the face of the entire Manchu Dynasty, unlike now, once discovered, the Yan clan will be wiped out and have no power to fight back.

Yan Xueyi is building a huge empire in his heart, a powerful empire with an annual output of tens of millions of tons of steel that has entered industrialization, tens of millions of well-equipped troops defending their homeland while expanding their territory, and thousands of steel warships sailing on the sea, invincible......

However, now Yan Xueyi only owns a small steel mill with a daily output of only a few tons of iron, and the iron smelted also contains various impurities.

For the sake of the huge empire built in his heart, Yan Xueyi decided to continue to increase investment in steel mills, give silver if there is not enough silver, continue to recruit people if there are not enough people, and must build a huge industrialized city as soon as possible.

Yan Xueyi will not worry about the lack of silver, now the Yuanhe Industrial Zone is constantly generating income, especially the construction of steel plants, with all kinds of machinery and equipment manufactured by steel, the production efficiency of other factories in the Yuanhe Industrial Zone will be greatly improved, and the income will be higher.

In the near future, there will be a steel mill with an annual output of more than 1 million tons of steel in the Yuanhe Industrial Zone, and the huge empire that Yan Xueyi has built in his heart will have dozens of such steel mills, which will support the industry of this huge empire and provide a steady stream of power for the empire to advance.

Whether a country's industrial manufacturing capacity is strong or not is mainly based on the country's steel production, which can be seen from the obvious example of the United States.

Before World War II, the United States was already the world's largest industrial country, in other words, the strongest industrial manufacturing capacity, when the United States had an annual crude steel output of more than 60 million tons, six times that of RB and three times that of Germany.

Before the United States entered the war, the military force was very weak, except for the navy, which was a little more impressive, and the army only had a pitiful 100,000 men.

After the United States entered the war, the United States' powerful industrial manufacturing capacity quickly armed millions of troops, and aircraft carriers and warships were like dumplings.

According to post-war statistics, the United States produced 26 large aircraft carriers, 9 light aircraft carriers, 115 escort aircraft carriers, 10 battleships, 48 cruisers, 349 destroyers, 498 frigates, 203 submarines, tens of thousands of landing ships of various types, and tens of millions of tons of civilian ships during the war, far exceeding the total number of other countries in the world.

What a scary set of data, but all of this is caused by the strong industrial manufacturing capacity of the United States, if the United States does not have an annual crude steel output of 60 or 70 million, can still have such a strong industrial manufacturing capacity? Even the outcome of World War II will change.

The fundamental reason for all this is steel, industrial development needs steel, and steel is also needed to manufacture weapons and warships, and without steel, it means that the country's industrial manufacturing capacity is weak, and it represents the country's fragility.

In 1874, the second industrial revolution had been carried out in Western countries, and the social productivity was greatly improved, at this time the world's most powerful country, the empire of the sun never set, the British steel output has been as high as 640,000 tons, Germany 350,000 tons, the United States 220,000 tons, France 210,000 tons, and so on ten years later, the steel output of these countries has more than doubled.

The huge steel production shows the country's strong industrial manufacturing capacity, it can also be said that the development of industry drives the output of steel, steel output and industry are closely related, of course, they can better represent the strength of a country, compared with it, the Manchu Dynasty steel production is zero, until the establishment of the Hanyang Iron Works, to break this "zero", before the Manchu Qing Dynasty has initially developed the military industry actually needs to completely need to import production materials to foreign countries, this is not to hold their weaknesses in the hands of others?

Who could have known that the young patriarch of the Yan family would have a "steel ambition", Yan Xueyi was not in a hurry to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but calmed down to develop his own industry and lay a solid foundation.

Even if he can't decide the world in one war, Yan Xueyi must quickly overthrow the Manchu Dynasty after laying a solid foundation, and will not let the Chinese descendants fall into misery again, what awaits our Chinese nation is a vast land and a vast ocean!