Baotou, into the beginning of September, the climate has obviously changed, even in a sunny day, when the sun rises, shining on the body, extremely warm, it seems unusually comfortable, but once it is in a cool place, the temperature will be significantly reduced, the temperature difference between day and night is also larger, especially in the second half of the night, if there is no quilt, it is easy to freeze, and the hot kang is burned early.

In this era, on the clothing, the warmth performance is very poor, the temperature is slightly reduced, people's clothing suddenly becomes thicker, especially in winter, there is no cotton jacket family, not even casually come out, thousands of mountains and birds fly away, the wild people disappear, it is about this scene.

Yang Yuanzhao has invested in various industries in Baotou, most of which have been in continuous operation for about half a year, and few have also experienced a few months, and all aspects have entered the formalization, whether it is a flour mill, a brick factory, or a cement factory, the daily output is stable in a relatively high quantity, in addition to the workers' relative familiarity with the work, it is also reflected in another aspect of warmth.

That's right, keeping warm not only represents the care for workers, but also represents the efficiency of production. At this time, whether it is a cement factory, a brick factory, or even a flour mill, they have already put on uniform clothing, which looks thin, very beautiful, and very warm.

Cotton has not been picked, is about to come to the season of picking and harvesting, even if it is picked, it also needs to be invested in the future textile industry, this era of China, the most profitable, not the later generations of profits and taxes of tobacco and alcohol, and the most ordinary cotton cloth, there are records show that from 1840, Britain opened the door of China, began to set up a commercial port, China's imports began to increase rapidly, began to import the most, is opium, but gradually, there is a product, gradually replaced the position of opium, became the main force of Britain to earn China's wealth, which is cotton.

According to historical records, around 1900, the cotton cloth exported by Britain to China was almost 300 million horses a year, worth hundreds or even tens of millions of pounds, almost representing about 400 million Chinese people, almost three-quarters, all chose to buy imported foreign cloth, plus the original homespun cloth, as well as the local textile industry, China's cotton cloth consumption is extremely amazing, this is a huge market.

Since the beginning of the Westernization Movement, China has set up a variety of factories, in which there are many types, from ordinary handicraft workshops to relatively modern steel mills, almost across most of the industries, but really to calculate carefully, in a sense, among so many industries in China, there are only a handful of money-making, in addition to the resource-based export-oriented industry, there is only this textile industry.

Decades of time, ups and downs, the textile industry has also ushered in several major stages, from the earliest government, to the official supervision and business, and then to the last private sector, China's textile industry has gone through a long time, but also become a wealth of the creation of zào, the future has a huge impact on China's rich people, most of them have such and such connections with textile factories.

Compared with cement, steel, and brick factories, the textile industry is the real money printing machine, which can allow more people and more forces to devote their eyes to Baotou and the construction of a great industrial zone, so cotton must not be moved.

Fortunately, Yang Yuanzhao brought back a duck down jacket from later generations, compared to cotton, fur and linen, duck down has a natural advantage, the ancient poem of the Spring River plumbing duck prophet, is the true portrayal of this, in the time when everything is frozen, ice and snow, the duck is the first to enter the water, feel the freedom of water.

In China, ducks are traditionally farmed, especially in the south, where ducks are abundant and roam freely in rivers and ponds, enjoying the natural surface of the water. Eating duck eggs, eating duck meat, is the tradition of the south, duck feathers, except for a small part as a handicraft of the storage zài, the rest, most of them are discarded, from a few months ago, Yang Yuanzhao has considered this problem, of course, this industry, he did not intervene but found the Yang family and the Wei family to cooperate, from the south of the large-scale purchase of duck down and duck feathers, and then unified to get Baotou, with the help of Yang Yuanzhao to provide special materials, to make zuò duck down jacket.

The cloth of this era can not be used as the inner lining and outer lining of the eiderdown jacket, even if it is a fine cotton cloth, the interface between the fibers is relatively sparse, and the duck down is easy to run away from which gaps.

Yang Yuanzhao brought a duck down jacket from later generations, the duck down component is a biological material, there is no way to pass the guò all-in-one machine for the time being, besides, the number is too large, to those lining and lining materials, are all from the petrochemical industry to take the fibers, these fibers, have been stored in the all-in-one machine, directly produced a batch, used as the basic material of the eiderdown jacket.

It didn't take much effort, and a large number of duck down was collected from the south, many of which are natural duck down, which is definitely a first-class product, in the incomprehensible eyes of Wei Ming and Yang Yue, they personally tried the effect of the eiderdown jacket, which is much thinner than the cotton coat, but warmer than many cotton clothes, and even leather clothes, especially the latter, in winter, everyone must wear a big leather coat to be able to move in the field Baotou, if you want to come out in winter, you must endure the strong smell of the leather coat, now, A qiē is no longer a zài.

In this way, the eiderdown jacket quickly became popular in Baotou, even if it was not winter, but the night in Baotou already had signs of winter, if it was not for Yang Yuanzhao's words first, even the workers' eiderdown jackets could not be guaranteed.

The eiderdown jacket is a move of Yang Yuanzhao unintentionally inserted willows, but once again let everyone establish Yang Yuanzhao's point of stone into a golden hand, now Baotou, and more than a month ago, there is a huge difference, the cement plant, three huge workshops, once again erected, has not been completely completed, but the calciner has been in place, the huge calciner, can complete 800 tons per day, but the cement plant can not be run at full capacity, divided into three groups of workers, and a large number of newly recruited workers, running in with each other, When it has not reached the most tacit understanding, it can only play about 60 output at most.

In this way, it has been shocking, the total output exceeded 6,000 barrels, of which the two furnaces built behind contributed 3,600 barrels, which can only be said to be unsatisfactory, but the earliest class, even if most of the backbone workers were withdrawn, the production efficiency remained above 2,500 barrels.

The production of the cement plant was slightly stable, but the two roads started at the same time, and a large amount of cement began to be used immediately, with a width of 14 kilometers, considering the problem of upgrading, the thickness of the cement was fixed to about 32 centimeters, just these two points, Let the cement consumption per kilometer be more than 1.5 tons, which makes the output of cement not converted into products to be sold, fortunately, in the expanding surrounding market, absorbing a lot of output, more and more people realize the benefits of cement and buildings, after weighing the price, many landlords around will choose to rebuild the residence, of course, Yang Yuanzhao made all kinds of changes suitable for living, have also been applied to these residences, with Baotou as the center, this new style of buildings, began to radiate to the periphery.

From Germany one after another, in Germany for more than a month, has sent several 10,000-ton freighters, before and after, the earliest batch, has arrived in Shanghai, and then along Shanghai, transferred to Taiyuan, water train transportation, this is no problem, can arrive in Taiyuan after more than 300 kilometers, it has become the biggest bottleneck.

These machines and equipment purchased from Germany, whether second-hand or newly bought, are steel-based construction machinery and equipment, this thing, it doesn't look big, but it is extremely heavy, one is almost a few hundred kilograms, with the cargo capacity of a two-wheeled carriage, it can pull up to one at a time, when unloading from Shanghai, it is a 10,000-ton giant ship, although it is not fully loaded, the final approved load capacity is 10,840 tons, this number is not much different, after arriving in Taiyuan, Yang Yuanzhao arranged the Wei family and the Yang family early, Before arriving in Taiyuan began to unload, more than 10,000 tons of things, from Shanghai is also divided into 12 times, and then near Taiyuan after the turnover, began to go to Baotou, more than 100 vehicles of the fleet, can only transport about 60 tons at a time, such a number, how can Yang Yuanzhao be satisfied, more than 10,000 tons, to the year of the monkey, not to mention, there are more equipment, a ship, will be transported from Germany, according to the previous Harpy telegram in the news, in Germany is already 6 10,000-ton giant ships, It is estimated that the number of the United States will not be less, almost 100,000 tons, to be transported by guò carriage, don't look at more than 300 kilometers, this is definitely an astronomical number, Yang Yuanzhao is more urgent than before to repair this road, not to mention, repair this road, replace two-wheeled carriages with four-wheeled carriages, not to mention the increase in speed, even if it is the load capacity, it is more than three or four times that of two-wheeled carriages, which can quickly transport these machines and equipment to Baotou, instead of putting them in the warehouse. Watch it rust.

More urgent than before, Yang Yuanzhao almost put his mind on the road repair, almost free to come over to star, fortunately, those road repair workers, after more than a month of assault training, whether it is spiritual, or discipline, have been significantly improved, divided into dozens of groups, joint construction, the progress has been significantly accelerated, now, the iron shell has reached seven or eight into it, cement filling is also about forty percent, according to Qian Hu's estimate, at most one month, this road can be basically through.

This road, but more than 600 kilometers of road repair plan one of the one, even just a road from Baotou to Suiyuan, but after the completion, at least from Baotou to Taiyuan one-third of the distance, has been able to be reloaded to the four-wheeled carriage, which can be doubled the efficiency, the two-wheeled carriage can first transport the goods to Suiyuan, which is almost equal to saving one-third of the distance, and then to the three-car two-wheeled carriage, changed to the four-wheeled carriage, not only doubled the speed, even the transportation volume has been greatly improved, the future, As the highway is extended, this capacity will increase dramatically.

It was in this situation that Yang Yuanzhao received a telegram from Harpy, because he was on the highway from Baotou to Suiyuan, and the messenger did not find him in Baotou, and sent the telegram directly to the construction site.

Among the all-in-one machines, there is still a continuous production of various mechanical tools, now, Qian Hu's engineering team of motor vehicles has reached 180, including 100 bulldozers and 80 road rollers, these construction machinery, galloping on the road, the original first through, should be Baotou to Zhangjiakou highway, because the importance of this highway is greater, but a large number of machine equipment, from Germany back, related to the construction of the future factory, and the amount is particularly huge, tens of thousands of tons of things, can be imaginedFor a long time to come, this newly built highway will be occupied by horse-drawn carriages and these machines.

Therefore, Yang Yuanzhao ignored the opposition of others, insisted on first penetrating this road to Taiyuan, Hou Jinsheng and Jiang Wenhou initially strongly opposed, but the Yang family and others supported Yang Yuanzhao in the back, occupying an absolute advantage among the shareholders, in the end, this matter did not go through the confrontation of the shareholders' meeting, I don't know how, Hou Jinsheng They retreated, supported Yang Yuanzhao's opinion, the first twist and turn of Baotou Highway Company, so mysteriously subsided, but in Yang Yuanzhao's heart was extremely vigilant, even to maintain the relationship, can't pay the price of controlling stake, and directly let many of the next shares, Yang Yuanzhao did not retreat so much, and directly got the controlling stake.

The telegram was long, detailing his experience in the United States, with a special mention of Williams and Smith, not only about their backgrounds, but also about the terms of cooperation.

Williams and Smith, these two people, Yang Yuanzhao does not know, and is not familiar with them, but Carnegie is familiar, as one of the richest people in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, and Rockefeller, Morgan is the control of a large group, Carnegie is extremely famous, and he has something to do with United Iron and Steel Company, obviously, not an ordinary person.

After reading the message, Yang Yuanzhao was silent, 100 million US dollars, this Yang Yuanzhao absolutely not, except at the national level, in the whole world, there are only a handful of people who can come up with 100 million US dollars to build a large-scale steel complex, Rockefeller counts one, Morgan counts one, Rothschild counts one, but next, there should be none, although there is an all-in-one machine, which can greatly excavate the recent situation and replace cash with gold, but in this era, the investment of 100 million US dollars is too big, Big enough to attract most of the eyes of the whole world, including Britain and the United States and other powers, the temptation to complete the laying of an industrial zone at one time, and the choice to put himself in the spotlight, Yang Yuanzhao obviously chose the latter, first stabilize Baotou down, this Williams is destined to miss, when Smith, but you can contact it, the annual investment of 2 million US dollars, and the field of vulcanized rubber, seems to be worth investing. RS