Baiyun Obo, which in Mongolian, is known as the rich sacred mountain, as early as in ancient times, nomadic times, there is this title, facts have proved that this title is well deserved, Baiyun Obo not only has a large number of steel resources, but also one of the world's richest rare earth resources, when the 21st century, in the era of the gradual application of computers and new materials, rare earth has become the spoiler of the times, Baiyun Obo is truly worthy of the name.

At this moment, with Baiyun Obo more than half a year ago, it is completely different, a frame type of workshop, as well as a permanent building specially built, the amount of work, the large construction period, have created a record of the entire Baotou, especially the construction of the blast furnace, from the very beginning of the foundation, until the completion of the construction, not to mention the earthwork, many things with a lot of scientific and technological content, also in it, a lot of design, are in scientific calculations, under the guidance of experts, completed.

Among them, James and Jeffrey two experts played a great role, Williams real yàn room for the construction of this new steel plant, more attention, James and Jeffrey two, even in Williams real yàn room, are also top talents, experienced, in a number of steel plants and harsh conditions have construction experience, of course, Baotou excellent construction machinery and well-trained construction team, is also one of the key.

The construction team of Baotou, after last year, most of this year's run-in and construction, has formed its own set of production methods, based on the machinery used in the construction, almost the old is new, from bulldozers, road rollers, to the back of the crane, crane, the emergence of these machinery, greatly improved the production efficiency.

James knows that if it is just them, or a professional construction team invited from the United States, to complete the construction of the first blast furnace within 2 years, it can be regarded as very lucky, the steel plant is a very related, and a lot of construction of the building, Baiyun Obo here, although it is not a poor mountain and bad water, but it is also a desolate place, these engineers, lived in tents for a few months, until half a year ago, they lived in a simple house, those American engineering team morality, absolutely can not bear this hardship.

Facts have proved that in the past almost a year, Baotou gave him a great surprise, if it is just a blast furnace construction, they can complete the construction half a year ago, no matter how thousands, tens of thousands of people, as well as a large number of construction machinery, it is easy to go all out.

Yang Yuanzhao asked for not a single solution, but a series of systematic solutions, during the construction, the progress of the project was constantly adjusted on the basis of the original, from the initial fine-tuning, to the later large-scale adjustment, and finally became what it is now.

The first blast furnace will be completed within a few days, half a year slower than expected, not because they do not work hard, the efficiency is not high, but it is very efficient, and then, in more than half a year, there will be a climax of blast furnace construction, fast half a month, slow a month, half a year, there will be 8 blast furnaces completed one after another, for trial operation.

Such a miracle is unimaginable to James, for a year ago he took 10 steelmaking furnaces as an example, 10-15 years of time, completely completed, which is already good in the United States, the normal construction speed, 20 months, completed 9, the next year to complete 7 more one after another, such a speed, is simply like a miracle of God.

150 tons of blast furnace, according to the current furnace of about 100 minutes order, under full load operation, a day, is 12-13 times, according to the 12 times of the daily output of 1800 tons, 9 is close to 16000 tons, in this way, an annual output of 4 million tons of steelmaking plant quietly completed in more than a year or two years, if you add the follow-up 8, it is close to 10 million tons.

10 million tons, in this era in 1909, is absolutely terrible, Britain, sitting on the world's largest navy, with a huge colony and industry, his steel output is only about seven or eight million tons, more than 10 million tons only one United States, of course, Britain and Germany are ordinary civilian production, not transferred to the track of wartime production, with their industrial base, once converted, steel production will increase several times, which is also proved by the First World War.

But whether it is the United Kingdom, Germany, or even the United States, there is more than one steel-making plant, more than a dozen blast furnace steel-making plants, one-time completion of tens of millions of tons, this is definitely a myth, which shows the excellent performance of high technology.

Generous remuneration, as well as a more comfortable environment in Baotou, although the wild life, Baiyun Obo is only more than 100 kilometers away from Baotou, when the highway is repaired, at most three or four hours, you can reach Baotou, more than a year of development, so that Baotou is completely different from before, all kinds of consumption and pastime, can be found in Baotou, as dispatched personnel, they take the top salary in Baotou, and about 30 field subsidies, dollars and silver dollars in the United States not to say, in Baotou, in China's purchasing power is too strong, All of their dispatches thought that this project could be sustained, that they could stay here for a few more years and make a few more years of money.

I think so, but they did not delay the construction period, Baotou urgently needs steel, they also want to realize their own value, a lot of things summed up in the construction, plus this is probably the world's most high-tech steelmaking furnace, than the fastest steelmaking furnace at present, the time is reduced by two-thirds, but at this point, can greatly reduce the investment.

Steelmaking plant, the largest investment, the most cost, I am afraid is the steelmaking furnace, to expand the production capacity, the original method is just to keep increasing, from 200 tons to start, to 300 tons, or even 400 tons, increasing the steelmaking furnace, in fact, for the cost reduction, is not too obvious, only after mass production, the cost will be slowly reduced.

The method proposed by Baotou is another way, in the case of the total capacity is not expanded, with the help of oxygen blowing top, greatly reducing the time of the completion of molten steel, oxygen can even reduce the content of sulfur, phosphorus, etc., and greatly reduce the time, improve the quality of steel, this point, is simply a multiple, genius idea, so that the same volume of blast furnace, the production efficiency is getting higher and higher, in a sense, greatly reducing the cost, according to James and Jeffrey's estimates, with the help of oxygen blowing top, in the fixed input, It will rise, specializing in the production of oxygen and blowing equipment will make the operating cost rise a little bit, this proportion is about 10 of the overall investment, but it does bring high output and coke consumption reduction, so down, on the contrary, it saves a lot of costs, it is estimated that the new type of steel, a ton of doubling is close to the original sixty percent, the quality is better, it is estimated that after the launch, there will be a strong competitiveness.

The steel mill itself is a double-intensive industry of science and technology and labor, and the acquisition is the quantity, the price of a ton of steel is not high, but in the case of one million tons, this is a massive number, as long as it is put into the market, with the current shipbuilding industry and the arms business is hot, there is no market at all, when the time comes, the profitability of this steel mill is very amazing, millions and millions are not to say, accumulate for a few years, when the cumulative strength is enough, it can even be further expanded, to reach Williams, Steel mills with an annual production capacity of more than 20 million, or even 30 million, are not unavoidable.

As long as it is on the side of Baiyun Obo, it is okay to copy the previous measures, after their exploration, the iron ore reserves on the side of Baiyun Obo are extremely large, even if the taste is not high, after their design, it is very suitable for production here, and it is absolutely no problem to support an annual output of 20 million, or even 30 million.

Get off the carriage, the construction site in the distance, as if it is boiling, the completion of a blast furnace, just represents a phased achievement, represents a beginning, next, there are 8 high-rise buildings, and even the next 8, when the 17 blast furnaces are completely completed, it can be regarded as the overall work to an end, that is the whole of this super large steel mill.

Even so, this huge steel mill has begun to show its grandeur, the huge steel blast furnace, as if it is a giant, dozens of meters high blast furnace, wide and shocking, not far away, more than half of his size iron-making furnace is also set up where, two blast furnaces, forming a structure similar to twin towers, next to it, densely distributed with a variety of workshops, and Hanyang Iron Works is completely different, here is not so empty, all kinds of supporting equipment is also very reasonably distributed around the steel mill.

Steelmaking in this era is mainly based on molten steel, directly out, injected into a variety of abrasives, used to process large steel castings, the maximum processing capacity will reach 30 tons, of course, in the case of insufficient equipment such as cranes, 3 tons and 5 tons is already the limit, no matter how big, it can not be lifted at all, under the premise that hydraulic and material technology has not been improved, the load-bearing capacity of steel cables is limited.

Large steel mills, in fact, are almost the same, Yang Yuanzhao in the impression, it has been transformed, the crane is one of them, this with the help of the power of Truss, with the help of the electric motor he invented, the crane can be under the traction of the wire, in the huge, thousands of square meters of the plant, free operation, the following lifting equipment, can be 5 tons of equipment, transport to the entire plant of various locations, in the production is very convenient, greatly reducing manpower.

Looking at the factories one after another, Yang Yuanzhao sighed slightly, but also had a sense of pride, once upon a time, more than a year, here is still a barren land, and now, rising from the ground a blast furnace and plant, unconsciously, in this barren land, formed a huge industrial base, relying on the million-ton steel production capacity, will form a large number of steel-based deep processing enterprises, these together, will become the foundation of China's take-off in the future, a strong backbone. R1152