Looking at Luo Bu, who wanted to solve the problem of Hanyang Iron Works in one fell swoop, Yang Yuanzhao couldn't bear to hit him, thought for a long time, and still asked: "Luo But, has this problem of Hanyang Iron Works been solved?" ”

"I have already told Master Shan, and I believe that he will give me a quick answer on which solution to choose!"

Looking at the ambitious Robt, Yang Yuanzhao smiled bitterly, after all, he is a foreigner, and he is very unfamiliar with the current situation in China, even if he has been in China for 12 years, if he does not concentrate on entering China's officialdom, to understand, to observe, I am afraid that he will never understand the essence of China, according to what he said just now, Sheng Huaixuan is afraid that he just answered him casually, research and research, this is Chinese language and culture, research and research, in the officials, basically, it means that there is no understanding of guò, It's rare that he's still so elated, I don't know what will happen when he hears the news that he can't understand guò.

Yang Yuanzhao thought about coming to Hanyang Iron Works to reap the benefits, whether it was the employees or the drawings of various machinery, he coveted, but this steel plant was the only one he was unwilling to take over, this is definitely a hot potato, no matter how much investment is made, it cannot be recovered.

I don't know how long we talked, Yang Yuanzhao squinted and saw that the officials next to him had impatient expressions on their faces, obviously, they had reached the limit of patience.

Robt noticed Yang Yuanzhao's gaze, it has been 12 years since he came to China, and he knows a little bit about China's sophistication, and realizes that his chatter has put the officials next to him into an embarrassing situation, and he took the initiative to say goodbye to Yang Yuanzhao and say goodbye.

Robert returned to the officials, his task is to transform the existing steelmaking furnace, improve efficiency, improve quality, he designed a plan, can make the efficiency of the steelmaking furnace better, the most important thing is to improve the quality, it is a huge innovation this year, so, the entire Hanyang Iron Works, very concerned, invested almost 50,000 taels, for technical transformation, at this time is in the stage of commissioning and transformation, so, most of the officials of the entire Hanyang Iron Department, have come here.

Yang Shixun watched Yang Yuanzhao come back, and said helplessly: "Yuanzhao, do you know who was among the officials just now?" ”

"Who? Could it be Sheng Huaixuan? ”

"That's right, it's him!" Yang Shixun said with emotion, at the beginning, he didn't notice that Sheng Huaixuan was among that group of officials, but Yang Shixun knew the complement of officials, as the person in charge of a big city, dealing with officials, and being a shopkeeper, what must be done, feudal era, breaking the county order, destroying the door Lingyi, the role of officials, it can be said that it is very huge, every family with huge influence and wealth, behind them, faintly, there are people.

When Robt was chatting with Yang Yuanzhao, he carefully observed these officials, and actually saw a golden chicken complement on the complement, a civil official of the Qing Dynasty, a first-grade crane, a second-grade golden chicken, a third-grade peacock, in the Hanyang Iron Works, saw a second-grade complement, what else could it be, isn't it Sheng Huaixuan, I heard that several years ago, he was the left waiter of the Ministry of Works, and he had never seen Sheng Huaixuan, but he knew many things about Sheng Huaixuan, whether it was Hanyang Iron Works or Wuhan, offended Sheng Huaixuan's Sheng family, I'm afraid it will be difficult to move an inch in Wuhan, so just now Yang Yuanzhao had a very happy conversation with foreigners, he pinched a sweat in his heart, and quietly observed Sheng Huaixuan's expression, but unfortunately he couldn't see any expression.

"Let's go, let's go on, Wu San, how many factories are left!"

"There are not many factories left, there are probably three more!" Wu San said respectfully, after coming down in the early afternoon, it is almost the turn of the Hanyang Iron Works, and there are still two or three branches, almost one or two hours, and the transfer is almost done.

Bidding farewell to Robt, Yang Yuanzhao continued to wander around the factory, 14 branches, it looks huge, and it is also very powerful, but in this era, a large factory is just a small workshop, not to mention a small factory, but a rolling and cold rolling workshop, as well as a rail production workshop, the machine used is relatively new, you know, the rails of the Hanyang Iron Works, not all of them are garbage, later generations of China have found the rails of the Hanyang Iron Works, they are still intact, after more than a century of wind and rain, they are still playing a role.

Out of the last workshop, Yang Yuanzhao looked into the distance, but saw a few high hills, he was stunned for a moment, it didn't look like a natural formation, and turned around and asked, "Wu San, what kind of place is there!" ”

"Master Yang, that's the scum mountain!"

"Scum Mountain?" Yang Yuanzhao's eyes lit up and said, "Let's go over and have a look!" ”

Yang Yuanzhao stepped forward, Wu San smiled bitterly, this Yang Ye, give money generously, but this interest is really weird, that one by one is full of rust machines, he doesn't want to touch one, looking at him like a baby one by one, it can be said that it is a baby, soon, after reading it, he abandoned it, this is interested in the slag mountain, what kind of place is the slag mountain, it is completely a garbage heap, the entire Hanyang Iron Works, in 18 years, gradually piled up, it can be said to be piled up.

The slag mountain is not far from his last branch, and it takes more than ten minutes to walk, and they arrived near the slag mountain, because of the accumulation time for a long time, and after the rain washing, the whole slag mountain is black, revealing a sense of dirt.

Wandering, most of the afternoon, it can be regarded as the completion of the transfer of Hanyang Iron Works, what makes Yang Yuanzhao most excited is that there are huge mountains of slag, these things, in the eyes of others, are waste, but in his opinion, they are precious things.

Any iron and steel plant, the waste slag produced by ironmaking, is a difficult problem to solve, because it is too large, whether it is pulled out, or cleaned up, it is more difficult, generally speaking, it is piled up in one place, later generations have had, the slag mountain as a park, or smelted into building materials, but today eighty or ninety years ago, this is still a worldwide problem.

In the past 18 years of Hanyang Iron Works, the remaining things are waste and waste materials in the eyes of people in this era, but for Yang Yuanzhao, they are rare and good things. You know, there are a lot of trace elements in the slag, the reason why the slag is formed, is because the grade of iron ore is not high, this taste, maybe it contains more impurities, such as phosphorus, sulfur and the like, but more, in this era, there are no trace elements on the use, for example, rare earth elements, and then nickel cadmium and other precious and important elements in alloy steel, these are a treasure for Yang Yuanzhao.

When leaving Baotou, Yang Yuanzhao had replenished the full gold ore, but in the days on the road, to the railway, has been consumed, yesterday, Yang Yuanzhao just casually collected a batch of rocks, granite, but unfortunately the metal materials contained in it, especially the precious metal materials are very few, the grade is not high, and there are not many things left.

For the upgrade of the all-in-one machine, and for the mysterious gift of Ding Dong, Yang Yuanzhao must insist on decomposing, but the things he finds casually have no value, but fortunately, he encountered these slags.

Scanning, Yang Yuanzhao silently gave the order.

The sound of clanging sounded, and sure enough, in the scanning of the all-in-one machine, these slag began to appear in the composition, the main component is iron, about 5%, which is the most among all the elements, and a part of aluminum, nickel, etc., these are common metal elements, in any kind of stone, are a lot, these Yang Yuanzhao doesn't care, he pays attention to the back, just like gold ore, just the last little bit, his value, but very huge.

Sure enough, below, among the smallest trace elements, Yang Yuanzhao saw niobium, tantalum and other elements, as well as some other rare earth elements, China's rare earth elements are huge, many ores contain rare earth elements, in the past these are used as waste materials for refining minerals, not only difficult to remove, but also will make the taste of steel decline, but when later generations, the development of new elements continues to rise, people realize that it contains a lot of treasures.

The content of rare earth elements, added together, will not exceed one percent, but it is much higher than the ore in the north, Yang Yuanzhao excitedly checked all the precious elements he knew, and continued to go down, in the bottom row of relatively small amounts, Yang Yuanzhao saw a familiar name, tungsten.

Yang Yuanzhao said with annoyance for a while: "Why did you forget this thing!" ”