According to the regulations, wear protective clothing and wear helmets, which is a strong requirement of Baotou, Williams and experts in Baotou, jointly researched, protective clothing can be a certain range, isolated from temperature and molten steel, helmets and special eyepieces, can reduce the damage of molten steel and other damage, which is all that Yang Yuanzhao can do in the case of no automatic operation.

At this time, the great powers have strong strength and extremely strong industrial capacity, but as it is said in Capital, every pore of the capitalists is greedily absorbing surplus value, wages, benefits, rest, and overtime pay, which are too far away for the workers, and not even the workers themselves will pay much attention.

After all, the red** that swept Europe has not yet appeared, and on this premise, no one realizes that workers are also a relatively important asset. Yang Yuanzhao, who has the vision of later generations, is very aware of the importance of a skilled worker and a complete team to a factory and an industry, and from the very beginning, he has raised the wages of workers, especially some dangerous types of work, set up strict discipline, and even tried his best to ensure the safety of workers.

After all, the steel mill and hot rolling workshop with extremely high temperatures, and then put on thick protective clothing, which is equivalent to a kind of torment, but Zhang Zhaozhong forcibly promoted this regulation at the insistence of Yang Yuanzhao, and in an accident last month, protective clothing played a vital role, itself was splashed by a large area of molten steel, which may cause more than 10 casualties. Only one person was seriously injured and four people were slightly injured, the role of protective clothing was highlighted, and a lot of publicity was obtained, and the iron-like example made everyone's resistance to protective clothing slowly disappear, and once they went to work, the entire factory was red protective clothing.

At this time, most of the workers are in the tense operation, the steel mill can definitely be called the strength of the work, especially now, with the improvement of the performance of the steelmaking blast furnace, the opening time of a furnace of molten steel, from the original 7 hours, reduced to 2 hours, which means that the working time of the workers in the hot rolling workshop has been shortened from the original 7 hours to 2 hours, of course, it is different from before. The 2 hours is to guide the molten steel into the mold, and rough processing, followed by finishing and quenching and other technical processes, and then carry out.

This kind of work is busy enough, after several months of running-in, the whole workshop is like a clockwork, orderly and fast.

Specialized personnel are responsible for the preliminary processing of the cooled steel in the mold, and special machinery transports the processed rails from here to the next workshop.

Yang Yuanzhao and Zhan Tianyou did not go to the center of the workshop, but just took a cursory look, when they saw that most of the workers had completed their work and the mold workers had placed the molds neatly, Zhang Zhaozhong looked at his watch and said, "It seems that the steel is going to be produced!" ”

"Tapping?" Himself, Zhan Tianyou, who was about to watch the next link, stopped, Yang Yuanzhao, who had seen the steel mill steel, also stopped, the red light in the workshop kept flashing, and the special bell also rang, everyone was nervous, in the distance, in the blast furnace, the gate slowly opened, and the liquefied molten steel, with the hot gas coming to the face, passed through various pipelines, began to come to different workshops, this hot rolling workshop and rail workshop, is the most.

The workers below, calmly, with firmness, when the molten steel is in place, the order is not chaotic, step by step work, so that the whole is orderly, the fastest speed, let the molten steel into the mold, has not been completely hardened liquid steel, slowly condensed, red color, has been with him, until a period of time, will slowly condense.

"Very efficient!" Zhan Tianyou said approvingly, before, when he saw the huge steel plant, he would still have doubts in his heart, in the end, that section of the steel rail was a product of the real yàn room, or a small batch production of the elite team, but the workshop of thousands of people, the complete work, let him understand, not a single qiē is not accidental.

Next, it took a whole morning for Zhan Tianyou to go through all the workshops under the first blast furnace, including not only the rail workshop, but also the steel bar and rebar, steel plate and other workshops, and really saw the production capacity of the northwest, especially the lower casting workshop, one by one, and the quality of the rails is higher than the rail he saw, Zhan Tianyou's footsteps are inseparable, you know, what attracted Zhan Tianyou before was the formula a month ago, Yang Yuanzhao for rail steel, After absorbing many advanced things in the world, it finally formed its own style, which can be regarded as the main product of the first two months.

However, in the past 2 months, the research of the steel mill itself, as well as the real yàn room, and even Yang Yuanzhao's all-in-one machine, began to try to cast higher quality heavy rails in the smallest rail workshop, which concentrated all the strength of the entire Baotou and Williams real yàn rooms, plus the higher-level formula provided by the all-in-one machine, most of which were absorbed from the rails brought by later generations, and finally, let the quality of the heavy rails, on the original basis, go to a higher level, and the current weight of rail steel is fixed at about 42 kilograms per meter. Compared with the previous increase of 5 kilograms, the weight of the heavy rail has always been the key performance of the heavy rail, in the same specification and weight of the track, every increase of about 500 grams of weight, on behalf of the heavy rail in its own texture and performance, a step up.

The same is true of the new heavy rail, not only in terms of wear resistance, lubrication, stability, corrosion resistance, etc., it is greatly improved compared with the previous heavy rail, but also has an excellent table in terms of key passage weight and smoothness, etc., these properties are combined, so that this heavy rail exceeds most of the current mainstream heavy rails, and it is the world's first-class steel rail.

Only with good steel rails can we build qualified railways, which Zhan Tianyou is very clear about, if it is said that before the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, there is such a just now, he will not hesitate to choose.

"I don't know, what is the price!" Zhan Tianyou asked with a little doubt, Zhan Tianyou is not only a railway engineer, but also a general director, on the railway, the price of the largest amount of steel rail is always the most important factor in determining a railway investment, the reason why he chose 12 kg of light rail before, the reason is that the price is cheap, one meter will not exceed 10 yuan.

The quality of the rail is good, but the price is too high, it is not very suitable, after all, a railway, unless it is an important transportation channel for national investment, other railways, need to consider his economy, no matter how good the quality is, the economy is not good, and the construction of the railway is meaningless. 0

"Steel prices!" Yang Yuanzhao thought for a while, looked at Zhang Zhaozhong, Zhang Zhaozhong understood what Yang Yuanzhao meant, and quietly reported a number in his ear, the current Baotou steel, except for a small part of the sale, the rest, almost all of them are digested internally, so Yang Yuanzhao knows more, often only one production cost is needed, Yang Yuanzhao will give a certain amount according to the proportion.

Baotou steelmaking plant is all new products, and is oxygen blowing top steelmaking, saving time at the same time, but also saving considerable costs, although because of the higher wages of workers, pay a relatively high labor cost, but the price of the rail is not expensive, especially this new product, than the price of the previous product increased not much, more is the price of the steel itself.

Zhang Zhaozhong just reported the figure, the previous steel, the production cost of a rail, about 39 yuan, the cost per meter, no more than 3.5 yuan, and now, there are 5 kilograms more, but the cost per meter will not exceed 4 yuan.

Rails are different from steel bars and rebars, they just show the price of their own steel, it will reflect more technical costs, take 12 kg of light rail, or second-hand, but Zhan Tianyou started with the price of more than 10 yuan per meter, as for the heavy rail, not according to the simple superposition of weight, take the more mainstream United States 30 kg per meter of heavy rail supply price, the supplier is still the National Railroad, But his price per meter is as high as 27.5 US dollars, that is, 55 silver dollars, plus freight, the price will at least climb to about 100 when it arrives in China.

Construction near Baotou, all investment shareholders are shareholders, even if it is a prepaid price, it can't be too high, it can't be too low, otherwise it will cause chaos, after thinking about it, Yang Yuanzhao quoted a number, 500 taels each.

"What 500 taels?" Zhan Tianyou almost sat up violently, for him, the price of the rail, he knows very well, even if it is Hanyang Iron Works, the price of newly produced steel, the price per meter is as high as 32 taels, this is still 15 kilograms of light rail, not to mention the weight, even if it is the quality, it is far inferior to the current this, converted, with 12 meters of one, it is also close to 500 taels, a weight gap of about three times, but the price is almost only 500 taels with Hanyang Iron Works, you know, in this world, heavy rail steel from other countriesEither the broom is self-cherished and not exported to the outside, or, simply, it is a high price, thousands of dollars a piece, abounding, and the cost will be a little smaller if you produce it yourself, but it should not come to such a point.

"500 taels, Mr. Yang, are you mistaken, this is not the price of one, it is the price of one meter!" In Zhan Tianyou's view, such a large steel mill, just the investment of the steel mill, has reached 30 million US dollars, equipment, personnel, wages, and many technologies, what is needed is simply an astronomical amount, 500 taels can make zuò what, 500 taels and one meter is about the same, although it is more expensive than most of the world's steel rails, China is absolutely unique, besides, the quality is also completely explosive The so-called steel rails in the world.

Zhan Tianyou's face was full of disbelief, but Yang Yuanzhao said firmly: "That's right, 500 taels is the internal supply price of Baotou Railway construction!" ”R1152