?“ You guy - the factory is a partnership between you and our Eighth Route Army, you can't have the final say alone, right? Thundering, Han Xiaolei suddenly became angry.

"There are other discussions, but this matter is related to production safety, this is not negotiable!"

Lu Yuan snorted coldly: "I still have to say anything about this matter, you have to do it if you want, if you don't want to, you have to do it!" ”

"Lao Tzu is too lazy to tell you - don't think that the amount of money you have paid by the Sichuan Army Independent Regiment is great!"

Lei Mingqi's eyes bulged and turned around and left, Han Xiaolei also tried to discuss it with Lu Yuan, who knew that Lu Yuan was not moved at all, and he also left angrily, and the previous cheerful atmosphere was destroyed in an instant.

But Lu Yuan was still not at ease, and directly instructed Luo Youcai: "You keep an eye on this matter for me, and resolutely implement my orders, whoever dares not to listen, don't want to come here to work in the future - money is important, but life is even more important!" ”

"I understand the head of the regiment, you can rest assured!"

Luo Youcai said loudly, he is now one of the old men who have followed Lu Yuan the longest, and he will meticulously carry out Lu Yuan's orders, whether they are right or wrong.

Seeing Lu Yuan's serious appearance, Pan Haodi didn't say much, so he could only appease those workers, and continued to take Lu Yuan forward to inspect the work, and said while going to the steel plant: "Although the steel plant has failed several times in experimental production, I am still confident that these problems can be solved...... However, according to our current production method, even if steel is finally produced, it is estimated that the production capacity will not be too high, and the quality will be difficult to control......"

"Why?" Lu Yuan frowned and asked.

"Electricity!"

Pan Haodi said succinctly: "The reason why the level of mechanization in Europe and the United States is far higher than ours is that the popularization of electricity, the production of many industries has replaced the manual mode with electric machinery, and we still mainly rely on local methods...... Although it is barely able to maintain production, it is difficult to improve the output and quality! ”

"At present, the power of the cement plant is completely dependent on generators, and the consumption of oil is too great, and the Eighth Route Army has even dispatched a professional team to go out to buy oil, although it can barely be maintained, but with the start of the steel plant, the power consumption of the steel plant is much larger than the current power consumption of the cement plant, and it may be difficult to avoid the situation that the work has to be stopped because of the lack of electricity......," Pan Haodi said worriedly.

In his opinion, this is simply a dead knot that cannot be resolved.

After all, there are no large-scale oil fields explored in China at present, and the supply of oil is almost entirely dependent on foreign imports. The military side of the tanks and the like are often facing a shortage of fuel, not to mention the Trojan County?

Lu Yuan thought for a while and said, "I don't know how about water and electricity?" I think the flow of water in the river is not small, and if we build a dam and use hydroelectric power, we may be able to solve the power problem of the two factories smoothly! ”

"I've also thought about hydroelectric power, but the key is that there are no channels in China to buy relevant equipment and technicians!" Pan Haodi spread his hands.

Hydropower generation is not unusual, as early as 1880 there has been the first hydroelectric power production, the earliest hydropower station in China, is the Shilongba hydropower station in Kunming, Yunnan Province, is the domestic people of insight to build independently.

It can be said that the technology of hydropower has fully matured in this era.

But just like Pan Haodi said, the key is the hydroelectric generator and related technical personnel, not to mention that there is no Trojan County, and there are few in the country.

Lu Yuan suddenly thought of a question, and his eyes suddenly lit up - at this stage, the country. The military side has been unable to stop the all-out attack of the Japanese army, and has begun to withdraw from Wuhan to Chongqing, and a large part of the power supply in the Wuhan area is solved by hydropower!

If you can get these hydropower equipment, everything can be solved!

"Don't worry, I'll do all this, and you'll be fully committed to solving the problem of steel production!"

Lu Yuan smiled, he already had a rough plan in mind, it was difficult for ordinary people to get their hands on those power equipment, but in the hands of Trojan County, there was Chen Liang, who was wonderful, with the powerful position of the Chen family, it was not difficult to get these things at all - it might not even cost much!

As he spoke, the group had already walked into the steel factory.

The structure of the steel plant is much stronger than that of the cement plant, and the walls are directly poured with high-strength cement and steel bars, even if the Japanese army finds out about this side, as long as they do not use large killing weapons such as solidification ******, it is estimated that even if they are bombed in turn, they will not cause much damage to the steel plant.

In the factory, four or five blast furnaces are built in rows in the factory.

The mined iron ore is crushed and filled into the blast furnace, and melted into molten iron after calcination, and the tap hole and forming groove are below the blast furnace, and the molten iron flows into the forming groove along the discharge port, and after cooling, it is the formed iron, that is, the iron-carbon alloy, in fact, pure iron, never exists.

After these molten iron are formed, they are just some cast iron with extremely high carbon content, which is very brittle and cannot be used immediately, and must be forged twice in a blast furnace before it can become alloy iron or steel.

Most of the high-quality steel needed by steel mills now is used to build houses and fortifications, to cast knives and even guns and cannons.

Ordinary steel is easy to produce, but these steels are not strong and tough enough, so they can only be used as some agricultural tools, and these steels can be forged by skilled blacksmiths to become high-quality steel, but such high-quality steel is impossible to achieve mass production.

And the purpose of Lu Yuan's construction of the steel mill is to one day be able to produce steel for making weapons, and now the problem is stuck here - ordinary steel can be forged, but high-quality weapon-grade steel cannot be forged at all.

"The quality of our iron ore and coke is very good, and it can be said that we have a unique advantage in establishing a steel plant - but the temperature in the blast furnace cannot reach the ideal temperature, the impurities in the molten iron cannot be removed cleanly, and the quality has not been able to pass the ......."

Several of the technicians brought back by the Eight Roads said with embarrassed expressions, obviously feeling a little guilty that they couldn't solve this problem after so long.

Lu Yuan carefully recalled some of the things about steel refining that he saw in his mind in the later life, but he didn't understand these things on the one hand, and he didn't pay much attention to them at the beginning, so there was nothing useful left, so he said, "Can you open the furnace now?" You refine it, I'll take a look around - brainstorming, maybe I can get some inspiration......"