In the north of Xi'an, on a gentle plain, it has become a huge construction site, where tens of thousands of people are working intensively, hundreds of machines of different sizes are constantly busy here, and the geomorphological characteristics are changing every second.

Here is a transportation hub, three railways pass through here, at a point in front of the crossing, this is the intersection of Longhai Railway and Xibao Railway, but also in the future planning, Xi'an to Chengdu, Xi'an to Lanzhou railway intersection point, is the most important railway hub in addition to Baotou.

Weighing the pros and cons, especially in the Baotou Special Zone, its industrial density has risen to an extremely high level, industrial land has become scarce, every inch of land is valuable, and must be transferred outward, and the industrial land needed for a heavy industrial base is an astronomical amount, which is not suitable for being placed in the Baotou Special Economic Zone.

Shaanxi, has always been an important part of the whole China, one of the two birthplaces of the Yanhuang civilization, the first of the geographical advantages, one of the third-line cores of China in later generations, compared to Baotou, its natural conditions are a little better, the water is sufficient, the climate is good, is the best development direction.

The ancient capital of 13 dynasties in history, in the long history of China, there is a history of 1,100 years of capital building, which proves the strength of Xi'an from the side, and now, as the most important heavy industry base in the northwest in the future, the base of heavy machinery manufacturing plants, large thermal power units and steam turbines, etc., are placed here.

Long before going to Germany, Yang Yuanzhao made a series of preparations here. In this area of Xi'an, an urban belt covering an area of more than 1,000 square kilometers has been demarcated. Some railway lines were even modified so that three railways met here. In the future, it will increase to 6, which will rely on the railway, and travel a huge railway marshalling station, but Xi'an itself, while retaining the passenger station, stripping off the freight station, just has the basic functions of the city.

The Longhai Railway has been completely completed, and a large railway belt has been added to the central part of China. Driven by the seaside Lianyungang, and to the route of the various cities, Xi'an, Zhengzhou, Xuzhou, have achieved great development, from Shanxi to some products, can not choose to go to the north, from Beijing and Tianjin to the sea. It is from the middle to Lianyungang, but the construction of Lianyungang is only under the approval of Germany. The current pace of construction is not fast.

Of course, this is just a cover-up, and Lianyungang is also an important development place in the northwest. The construction of fortresses and forts has already begun. The railway is only temporarily connected, after Xuzhou. There is a straight line, going to Qingdao, which can be regarded as a hidden development.

Qingdao's work has come to an end, next, is to focus on the development of Xi'an, 10,000 tons of hydraulic presses and free forging presses, will be officially settled in Xi'an, the future will revolve around these, and now, through the Yangtze River water transport and railway relay transportation, these things have arrived as early as half a month ago, is being installed with the help of engineering personnel.

There is no 10,000-ton hydraulic press and free forging press in the northwest, but the long-term use of 1,000 tons has allowed the northwest to train a group of relevant engineering personnel, 10,000 tons is only an improvement in terms of magnitude, the main principle and control zhì aspects, similar to 1,000 tons, Yang Yuanzhao not only provided the physical object of the 10,000-ton hydraulic press, but also provided a large number of drawings, which helped them, after Yang Yuanzhao arrived, the two machines have been installed.

Before Yang Yuanzhao went to Europe, the northwest was thinking about how to use these two huge machines, in fact, in the field of heavy industry, many of these machines were used, mainly some large forgings, the most of which was the future fantasy keel, only the keel that had been treated by the 10,000-ton hydraulic press, in all aspects of metal performance, can withstand the fantasy class, more than 45,000 tons of huge weight.

Huge roaring sound, this hydraulic press is driven by electric energy, the electric energy consumed by each start is astronomical, the current operators and engineers are not skilled, the efficiency is low, at most play the effect of about 2 percent of this 10,000-ton hydraulic press, and even can not process the main keel, just process some auxiliary supports, Rao is so, it only took 7 days to complete the processing of these things, the staff has accumulated a lot of experience, the speed is constantly accelerating, The keel of the battleship has been basically completed, including not only the 2 Fantasy classes, but also those to be built in the future, and even the processing of the ship's guns has begun.

Yang Yuanzhao through the guò all-in-one machine to get the materials, is directly synthetic, these materials if through the guò 10,000 tons of hydraulic press beating, the performance will be more outstanding, although only a slight improvement, but for these top materials, a slight improvement is already considerable, especially for naval guns, a little improvement, maybe you can make the life and performance of naval guns, there is a certain improvement.

The settlement of two large machinery, next, there are 5, 4 hydraulic presses and 3 free forging presses, by the way, some of the heavy industrial machines obtained from the Ruhr and the United Kingdom, including 12 categories, 783 machines with different functions, with a total weight of more than 300,000 tons, these parts were brought to the ship before the pass, but more, but they were placed in the all-in-one machine, these days, Yang Yuanzhao was busy during the day, and the all-in-one machine was not idle, and he has been constantly producing these equipment. The production has been packed into this area, the plant has been built, and even the workers have been mobilized in advance, as long as the machine is in place, it can be produced at any time.

However, when Yang Yuanzhao arrived, after a little look at the progress, he began to make a big adjustment to the entire industrial zone, and even demolished some buildings and industrial zones that had been built.

According to the experience gained by the Ruhr side, Yang Yuanzhao has an idea for the layout of heavy industry, the heavy chemical industry with coal as the main body will also be placed in Shanxi, which is the largest in China, the most abundant coal reserves, mechanical processing and heavy machinery factories are placed here, especially artillery, the northwest has the ability to produce 155 heavy guns, but the efficiency is not high, the key is the lack of large drilling machines and boring machines for artillery production, and got a full set of drawings from Germany, especially the giant drilling machines and boring machines used for the production of naval guns, This thing can definitely be called an important weapon of the country, and Germany also spent a lot of time and cost, and the results that were finally obtained were suddenly earned by Yang Yuanzhao.

Because of the materials of the 21st century, Yang Yuanzhao applied the powder smelting materials to these machine tools, replacing the previous German cutter heads, and there has been a huge leap in performance, it can be said unceremoniously that before the era of CNC machine tools came, the performance and processing effect of this machine tool is definitely the strongest, it can be said unceremoniously, unless it is the future, the northwest catches up with the level of the 21st century in materials science, and there is a greater breakthrough, or turn to the CNC machine tool, otherwise, In terms of large-scale machine tools in the northwest, there will be no obvious improvement, at most, it will only be optimized with the increase of experience.

At present, this side is temporarily divided into 4 parts, the artillery factory, which specializes in the production of artillery over 155 mm, and the limit can even produce 15-inch guns; Heavy machinery factory, with the help of large machinery, supporting the production of industrial machine tools, can produce almost all the world's large machinery; The third, of course, is the heavy engine factory, the construction of Qingdao Shipyard, the expansion of Jiangnan Shipyard, the requirements for large marine engines, to improve the grade, not one or two, is a mass production, just 600,000 tons of shipbuilding plan, it needs various types of marine engines, just this from the engine factory single-list, specialized production; The last one is the power generation equipment manufacturing plant, although with the help of Truss, for the northwest to popularize power plants and large units, but the continuous in-depth study of steam turbines, especially the power of generators is getting bigger and bigger, the original factory is a little unsuitable, specially set up a special one, for the production of generator sets, it is also a large balance of the entire China's demand for electricity, more and more factories, more and more electrical equipment, electricity represents productivity, more and more important.

The completion of the four major enterprises, the construction of Xi'an's industrial zone, even if it comes to an end, in just half a year, the cumulative completion of capital investment of more than 200 million, not counting the cost of those equipment, if counted, I am afraid it is 1 billion, the cumulative mobilization of more than 3 level technicians 120,000 people, various management personnel and engineers, scientists, and even a part of the relevant research institutes of the Baotou Research Institute have been transferred to Xi'an, and a new heavy industry research institute has been established in Xi'an.

In this way, Xi'an has become an important industrial center in the northwest, and began the growth of heavy industry, a large number of machines, especially those of the country's heavy weapons, amazingly enhance the heritage of the northwest, from ordinary artillery and light weapons, to the production of all weapons, especially the development of naval artillery, with a full set of materials from Germany and Britain, plus Linus absorption and digestion, Proposed a 14.5-inch naval gun, Northwest after getting a large number of machinery, tried to produce it, currently only 4, is in intensive testing, for the future to accumulate experience.

These naval guns will be improved after the guò real yàn, and strive to gradually produce 15-inch guns, they will have a year, this time is relatively sufficient, the appearance of 14.5 inches, gave them great confidence.

The landing of heavy industry, so that the environment of Xi'an has changed, although Yang Yuanzhao as much as possible to reduce, but a large number of heavy industry concentrated together, thick smoke billowing, Yang Yuanzhao is also a little helpless, this may be the process of industrialization must accept the pains, he stayed in Xi'an for almost half a month, and finally in early January 1913, returned to Baotou, from it left, no more, no less, exactly 7 months. (To be continued......)