The official's unique sense of authority and superiority arose, and Wu San, who was clever over there, hurriedly ran in front of him in three steps and two steps, called a thousand, and said: "Wang Xieban, in Xia Wu San, is working in the Logistics Department!" ”

"Wu San?" Wang Xieban looked up and down, seemed to recognize it, and his expression dropped a little, and said, "Why are you running around in the iron factory, who are they?" ”

"They are the guests of Director Zhao, and they are interested in the steel mill, and I was ordered by Director Zhao to take a few guests to visit the Hanyang plant!" Wu San said.

Yang Shixun has some understanding of the Hanyang Iron Works, co-organized, should be directly under the Hanyang Factory, look at his complement, is also a seven-grade appearance, in terms of his age, he is already young and promising, thirty old Ming Jing, fifty young Jinshi, feudal society, the middle lift is almost thousands of troops across the single-plank bridge, the late Qing Dynasty abolished the imperial examination, but in a certain sense, to be able to do seven products at the age of 30, is also a young and promising official, such a person, no wonder so arrogant.

"Visit the Hanyang factory, you guys?"

"Hello Wang Xieban, I am the shopkeeper of the Yang Family Chamber of Commerce, this is our Young Master Yang, who came back from studying abroad and is interested in Hanyang Iron Works, so I came to visit." Yang Shixun greeted him and said.

Wang Xieban saw and heard that it was the shopkeeper of the Yang Family Chamber of Commerce, he had heard of the name of the Yang Family Chamber of Commerce, and he heard that it was a big family of Jin merchants, the expression on his face was slightly relaxed, and he looked at Yang Yuanzhao and found that it was a young man dressed in a foreign style, and asked casually in a friendly manner: "You are a foreign student, come back from studying there." ”

"My young master has returned from England!" Yang Yuanzhao was about to stop it, but the shopkeeper had already said it, he smiled bitterly in his heart, but he was not too afraid, how many coincidences it took to be able to meet classmates from Oxford University here, besides, foreign universities do not have so many classmates in China, even if they are from the same university, it is a very normal thing not to know each other, and his mood has settled down slightly.

"You're from England!" The questioner was a foreigner, with an authentic British accent, fortunately, when Yang Yuanzhao was learning English, he did not learn the easier American English, and chose the more classical British, sports motorcycle, the most developed place, or in Europe, several large-scale events, basically near Europe, in order to facilitate the competition abroad, and in order to get in touch with the world's most advanced motorcycle knowledge, he taught himself English and German as early as when he was in college, and later, he minored in French.

"I am, I graduated from Oxford University with a major in mechanical engineering, and I heard that Hanyang is the No. 1 heavy industry enterprise in China, so I wanted to come and visit." Yang Yuanzhao said, proficient English, British attitude, let the other party's eyes shine.

In the hinterland of China, it is not easy to meet a person who has lived in England, this high-nosed and big-eyed Englishman, named Robt Kahn, from Manterst, England, which is an industrial city, he was sent to China by the steel mills, it has been more than ten years, and he has already been able to speak Chinese, but no matter what, he has not spoken English so smoothly.

"Do you know Manchester? Youngster! Robt asked amicably.

"I know, it's a great industrial city!" Yang Yuanzhao said idealistically that he knows Manchester, I am afraid it is more because Manchester has a great team, Manchester United, and then he will understand that Manchester is an industrial city, as for the rest, he also knows a little.

"Oh, have you been?" Robt asked with interest.

Yang Yuanzhao shook his head and said, "I haven't been there, but there are classmates there?" ”

The officials next to him are standing here bored, and some of the officials next to him can still understand English, but Robt and Yang Yuanzhao are talking faster and faster, and they can understand some at first, but then, they are a little at a loss, and those who don't understand English are even more like listening to heavenly books.

Robt seemed to be very interested in Yang Yuanzhao, and talked to Yang Yuanzhao, most of what he said was the scenery of England, Yang Yuanzhao listened a lot, said little, and in the silent compliment, Robt was a little pleased, and gradually the topic began to expand.

Robt and Yang Yuanzhao are talking more and more speculatively, coming to China for so long, it is rare to meet one, talking so happily, in the conversation, almost inevitably involved Hanyang Iron Works, as the chief engineer of the steel mill, Robt's evaluation of Hanyang Iron Works is really not high.

Robt was born into an industrial family, his father was an engineer, but a machine builder, his father's era was the era of the rise of the British textile industry, machinery was very popular. Robt was exposed to machinery since he was a child, and he also became an engineer and entered the Manchester Steelworks, where he spent 10 years and finally became a mid-level engineer, who could be in charge of a workshop, and could be regarded as a blue-collar worker to the middle class.

It's a pity that the arrival of the industrial depression, Britain's steel has been hit, and Manchester is the same, facing the clean-up **, just China in the Far East, came to the UK to order a batch of steelmaking equipment, and recruited engineers by the way, he decided to come to China, but he didn't expect to stay for more than ten years.

At that time, the momentum of the Hanyang Iron Works was very strong, although Robt did not want to leave his homeland, but he had no choice, maybe after arriving in China, he would achieve a brilliant achievement, but he never thought that this was a quagmire, a quagmire that had entangled him for more than ten years.

Come to China, almost 12 years, by the time, the steel mill has been established for 8 years, but there is no complete furnace of steel smelting, just some iron, I am afraid that in the UK, an ordinary handicraft workshop, the efficiency is higher than the Hanyang Iron Works, the most important thing is that its quality is also very poor, can only barely play some farm tools, the quality is not good.

Even if it is coming, Robt has never been a complaining person, and began to renovate the Hanyang Iron Works, to be honest, he is a capable person, under his leadership, the Hanyang Iron Works smoothed out some things, the first furnace steel, the rail factory, and even the steel bar and other branches, are under his leadership, established, it can be said that the Hanyang Iron Works can have the current situation, really has a lot to do with him.

But 12 years, but let him more and more depressed, officialdom with Chinese characteristics, double guidance, anyone can express their opinions and stretch out their hands, which may be necessary for officialdom, but in a manufacturing industry, especially in a heavy industry enterprise such as steel, ordering a long head, is definitely a disaster, the past 12 years, just because of this reason, caused countless losses.

Furnace after furnace of molten steel, drained in vain, one by one excellent skilled workers, were expelled from the door, and for greed, actually took half of the sediment coal to make steel, they don't know, steelmaking is a technical job, you fool him, the reality will ruthlessly fool you.

It just so happened that I met a student from the United Kingdom, who was still studying machinery, had a lot of common language, and inevitably talked about the problems of the Hanyang Iron Works, and Robt was also complaining that the situation of the Hanyang Iron Works itself, the Hanyang Iron Works, a certain process, was already difficult to return, and there were many words that directly criticized the steel mill officials including Sheng Huaixuan.

Yang Yuanzhao smiled bitterly in his heart, but he couldn't speak, Robt spoke, like a machine gun, squinted at several other officials, they didn't seem to understand too much, in Robt's complaints, Yang Yuanzhao began to understand, it turned out that the biggest problem of Hanyang Iron Works has been discovered, that is, the ore is not suitable for steelmaking furnaces, the iron ore used in Hanyang Iron Works, the sulfur content is relatively high, not suitable for the production of this equipment, and the solution, he has also summed up, in Robt's view, there are only two, That is to replace the iron ore, or reinvest in the construction of a new iron plant.

I have to say that Robt is a very old engineer, he devoted himself to research, and he can be regarded as finding the fundamental problem of the Hanyang Iron Works, and after studying the situation of the Hanyang Iron Works, later researchers finally came to the conclusion that like him, a British intermediate engineer, can do this step, which is very good, but such an opinion, in Yang Yuanzhao's view, is destined to be vetoed.

Replacing ore, easy to say, but unrealistic, for Europe, to do this, is nothing more than to increase the cost of a little, this cost, for a large-scale steel mill, can bear, as long as the taste of the ore is good enough, the future of global production, China's steel production ranks first in the world The root of the root lies in the world's imports of iron ore.

Later generations are future generations, that is built in the global village, and under the global integration of the traffic situation, for the transportation is underdeveloped, even if it is a railway is only a light rail, just built in China, how easy it is to say, you know, most of China's iron ore, are poor ore, even if there is a suitable one, it is also thousands of miles away, in Yang Yuanzhao's impression, China's only rich ore, but also the only ore suitable for Hanyang Iron Works, should be far away on Hainan Island, this distance, enough to make the cost of steelmaking increase the road can not bear Cheng dù, so, It is impossible to replace the ore.

This road has reached a dead end, then I have to choose another way, but another way, that is, the replacement of steelmaking equipment, but this is a bigger dead end, the replacement of ore, but it represents the rise in costs, but the replacement of materials, etc., but represents the overthrow of all the previous investment, Hanyang Iron Works from the construction to the present, the overall investment to at least more than 20 million vehicles, which is not only a huge waste, but also represents the veto of the merits of the previous officials.

China is an official-based society, even in later generations, the achievements that officials have made cannot be overturned, not to mention that in this era, Zhang Zhidong, as one of the leaders of the Westernization Movement, entered the military aircraft and ranked in the middle hall, even now, he can't casually veto his political achievements, which is no less than forming a life-and-death feud.

This is the current situation in China, and it is also the sadness of this era, perhaps in Europe, or in the Americas, according to the type and characteristics of the ore, the design and construction of steel-making furnaces is necessary, even if the design work, the cost is astronomical, for any steel-making plant, it is also a necessary investment, which can greatly avoid this waste. In China, this barren and backward place, this kind of thinking is simply impossible, not to mention whether anyone sees the importance of this money, even if someone sees it, his choice is to be greedy for this money, rather than putting this money on design and investigation and argumentation.