Hearing the good news, Yang Yuanzhao was excited for a while, Yang Shixun next to him shook his head, this young man looked frizzy, not as good as the third brother said, the old and sophisticated Yang Shixun didn't say anything, and followed out quietly.

Before leaving, I happened to meet Yang Yue who came back from eating, and when I saw Yang Shixun and Yang Yuanzhao going out, I asked them where they were going, and after hearing that they went to Hanyang Iron Works, he showed a disappointed expression on his face, he didn't like the breath in the steel factory, it was a piece of cold steel, there was no life, and he excused himself to go back to rest, and he didn't follow, Yang Shixun took Yang Yuanzhao and took a carriage to Hanyang Iron Works.

Hanyang Iron Works, located in the suburbs of the current Hanyang City, the city of this era, and the county seat of later generations, there are only a few lively streets, Hanyang is a little larger than those county seats, at most a few more streets, the carriage is more than half an hour, it passed through the entire Hankou, arrived at the Hanyang Iron Works.

Hanyang Iron Works, just under the Turtle Mountain in Hankou, stretches for ten miles, there are more than a dozen huge chimneys, now there are 6 steel-making furnaces, 3 iron-making furnaces, the design output is very high, but from the time it was put into operation to the present, even the basic output has not been reached, let alone exceeded, now it seems that the factory is not enough, at least, among the more than a dozen huge chimneys, only half of the smoke, which means that only half of the starts.

Yang Yuanzhao's purpose is only the steel-making furnace and iron-making furnace, which is also the most important thing in the steel mill, he looks down on the blast furnace of the Hanyang factory decades ago, and really opened the Baiyun Obo large-scale steel enterprises, I am afraid that it will be transformed on this basis.

As a mechanical engineer, Yang Yuanzhao has never been exposed to steelmaking, but the 21st century is the era of great development of consulting. The open-hearth investment is huge, the production volume is low, suitable for refining large-scale castings and hydraulic press rolling steel, the converter investment is small, the efficiency is high, suitable for relatively small batches, or high-quality steel production, to the 21st century, with the deepening of electronic and technological reform, most of the steel mills, are converters.

Yang Yuanzhao is very clear, for the time being, he has no way to make a converter, the conditions can not keep up, that is the technology developed after World War II, maybe now to start research, more than ten years, there will be a result, for the urgent need of a variety of steel, and the amount of energy is very huge for China, open-hearth furnace is the best choice, besides, even in later generations, open-hearth furnace has not been completely eliminated, with oxygen blowing open-hearth, the production of steel, can improve a lot of efficiency, in dust removal and environmental treatment, compared with the converter, It is already his best choice, and when the time comes, the steel output will be greatly improved.

After getting off the carriage, looking at this huge Hanyang Iron Works, Yang Yuanzhao had a burst of thoughts in his heart, this is the most famous and representative heavy industry base established in the late Qing Dynasty.

On the one hand, he is the first heavy industry enterprise in modern China, from the beginning, it has long attracted the attention of the Chinese people, since the establishment of Zhang Zhidong, it has always been a symbol of China's heavy industry, but on the other hand, it is China's wound, from the emergence is the first in Asia, but there is not much development, and even began to shrink, so many years, bumps and bumps have passed, almost 20 years, has reached the end of the time of life.

Yang Yuanzhao has never been to the steel plant, in his impression, the steel plant should be a monster of steel, everywhere there are high-rise buildings, chimneys, and all kinds of iron things, before crossing, I watched a TV series Steel Piano, which seems to be the epitome of China's heavy industry in the future, that large workshops can be seen everywhere, the integration of steel and fire, steel and people, iron and fire, represents the pulse of heavy industry, and the qiē in front of you, very different.

It's a heavy industrial enterprise, more like a workshop, and if it weren't for the huge chimneys that still spewed black smoke, proving that there was a new type of industry here, he would even think that it was a shack area.

The huge factory area, with an extremely wide and soft area, is mostly wasteland, and even in the factory area, there are many vegetable fields, apparently, opened up by the workers or the surrounding farmers, with green vegetables, rather than landscapes to decorate the steel plant, which is probably also unique to old China.

On top of the dilapidated gate of the factory, there is a label carved out of white stone, with a hint of British atmosphere, the top is HANYANG two English, the center is IRON &STEEL, the bottom is FACTORY, and there is a graphic logo, two crossed hammers in the center, a pliers-like thing, and the bottom is 1890.

20 years, so that the factory logo is a little dilapidated, but the blend of history and reality, seems to have a special meaning, this thing, if stayed, maybe a few decades later, will become an antique.

The factory was not open enough, only 3 of the dozen or so chimneys were smoking, which was completely different from the beginning, when the factory was empty, and there were few traces of workers, and occasionally a person was seen as a farmer working in the field, who was watering the vegetable patch.

At the gate of the Hanyang Iron Works, just below the sign of the Hanyang Iron Works, an official in an official uniform was waiting there, and when he saw Yang Shixun coming, he hurriedly greeted him and said, "Boss Yang, it's been a long time!" ”

When he was on the road, Yang Yuanzhao had already heard Yang Shixun say that the reason why he was able to visit the Hanyang Iron Works was because Zhao Erxiang, the director of the Logistics Department of the Hanyang Iron Works, had dealt with him, and the Logistics Department was a place with relatively fat oil and water at any time.

Thinness is Zhao Erxiang's appearance, when chatting, when Zhao Erxiang was mentioned, Yang Shixun pretended to talk about him, under the pull, Yang Yuanzhao clearly saw that Yang Shixun stuffed something, and in Zhao Erxiang's hands, after Zhao Erxiang took it, he had a wrinkled smile on his face, which made people feel very fake.

Zhao Erxiang didn't stay too long, and after a few words of greeting with Yang Shixun, he excused himself and left, leaving a helper and taking them to visit the entire Hanyang Iron Works.

The helper is called Wu San, a native of Hankou, who entered the Hanyang Iron Works 5 years ago, and his aunt and cousin were the officials of the political secretary, so he stuffed him into the logistics department with money, and he was also a delicate figure.

"Yang Ye, I'm Wu San, I'll take you to see the Hanyang Factory today!" Wu San had a pair of small eyes, squinting at the feeling of looking at people, extremely obscene, Yang Yuanzhao took out two pieces of Yingyang from his arms and handed them to Wu San, Wu San's small eyes immediately narrowed into a slit, and said with a dry smile: "Thank you Yang Ye reward!" ”

"Take a good look!"

"Yes!"

With the help of Wu San, the two walked into the Hanyang Iron Works, on the surface, the Hanyang Iron Works was still heavily guarded, but when they really walked in, there were more wastelands than buildings, and there were no defenses everywhere, and they really didn't find Zhao Erxiang, and they were also able to enter the Hanyang Iron Works from all sides.

"Yang Ye, what do you want to see!"

"Anything, I like all kinds of mechanical things!"

Wu San's little eyes rolled, but he still obediently led them forward, and soon walked from a wasteland to the front of a bunch of houses, Wu San said: "This is the No. 7 iron-making furnace, with cold rolling equipment, do you want to go and see!" ”

"Let's go check it out!" Yang Yuanzhao nodded, followed behind Wu San, and entered this iron-making furnace, a pair of houses, surrounded by a dilapidated iron-making furnace, Yang Yuanzhao could barely identify it, it was an open hearth, but obviously, it had not been used for a long time, the mottled rust on it, and the overgrown weeds, and even among the grass, there were still some animals, it seemed to be disturbed by them, and he fanned and left.