The dilapidated courtyard looks full of the vicissitudes of history, in the iron-making furnace, there are still some scrap iron, the iron-making furnace is completely sealed, under the effect of rust, combined into a whole, can no longer be separated, no wonder this place is abandoned, this thing, there is no longer any salvage value, so this steel-making furnace is placed here.

Yang Yuanzhao stepped forward and gently touched the steel-making furnace, the uneven metallic texture, the stinging of the rusty opponent, and in an instant, the jingling sound sounded: "Found 15 tons of iron-making furnace, whether to draw drawings!" ”

Yang Yuanzhao was excited for a while, suppressed his mood, and said, "Draw!" ”

One by one, the light flickered, the drawings of the entire iron-making furnace were drawn, and after the drawing was completed, it went to other machines, iron-making furnaces, not only the iron-making furnace itself, but also some other machines, Hanyang Iron Works In a sense, the machines used are not bad, and even a little better than some old steel-making and iron-making plants in the United Kingdom and the United States, but there is no maintenance and poor use, and now they are all scrap iron.

This factory didn't stay long, there were seven or eight machines in total, almost less than a minute, Yang Yuanzhao turned around, and said to Wu San: "Okay, let's go!" ”

Wu San was stunned for a while, so fast, didn't he say that he liked it very much, the reason why he brought Yang Yuanzhao here was because recently, in his opinion, Yang Yuanzhao was just a young man who was curious about everything, just go around a few times, the area of the Hanyang factory is not small, it really turns down, but it will be old.

Yang Yuanzhao had already walked out, Wu San hurriedly caught up, led Yang Yuanzhao to the next factory, and walked into the Hanyang Iron Works, Yang Yuanzhao seemed to be a curious child, walking in the factory, almost every branch, every room with a machine, did not let go.

In the entire Hanyang Iron Works, there are a total of 14 branches, with a lot of different workshops, but now, most of the workshops are sealed, many lathes, are more than ten years ago, almost 20 years of old machine tools, Hanyang Iron Works continues to invest little, there have been difficulties in the back of the operation, there are few new machine tools, however, the Hanyang factory of that year, is Zhang Zhidong led by one hand, and it is also a state-led heavy industry enterprise, a foothold, not a small handicraft workshop, a lot of eagerness is a big guy, more than ten meters, Even large machinery twenty meters wide.

Yang Yuanzhao was excited, but the others were offended, especially Yang Shixun, he looked strong, but he was also in his 40s, under the chaos, he was tired and a little out of breath, after Yang Yuanzhao saw it, he hurriedly asked Yang Shixun to sit down and rest first, and he followed Wu San to go around.

Yang Shixun was not hypocritical, he directly found a shade to sit down, watching Wu San and Yang Yuanzhao running around like a rabbit, thinking about it for a while, what is this Yang Yuanzhao doing in Hanyang Factory.

Anyone who sees Yang Yuanzhao's current expression will be strange, saying that he is interested in machinery, but he has a glimpse of it, and in front of each machine, it can't be kept for a long time, as if he is looking for something.

Yang Yuanzhao's mood was no one who thought that the Hanyang factory, which was indeed a model of the Westernization movement, cost tens of millions of dollars and took 20 years to build, although there has not been much profit, although the annual output is not high, but the machine is very perfect.

Yang Yuanzhao has not known much about heavy industry, and in later generations of China, industry has been extremely subdivided, in such a subdivision, although he is an engineer, he does not know a lot of things with the engine system, not to mention the heavy industry that is very different from the engine, although the Hanyang Iron Works is not high-tech, it is also an old factory decades ago. From Yang Yuanzhao's industrialization vision, we can see clearly which of these things can be used and which ones cannot be used.

The reason why I came to Shanghai and passed through Hanyang, Hanyang Iron Works was the first purpose, and now it seems that this choice is absolutely correct.

Wu San was bought by Yang Yuanzhao's two silver dollars, and followed Yang Yuanzhao to run around, but his attitude became more and more respectful, and he didn't feel impatient at all because Yang Yuanzhao walked around, 2 yuan, in terms of purchasing power at the end of the Qing Dynasty, is a big number, just take a rich young master to visit the Hanyang factory, such a thing, if you encounter it every day, how good it would be.

Finally, after a big circle, the entire northwest was transferred, which passed through 5 branches, as well as various types of workshops, Yang Yuanzhao returned to the front of the big tree where Yang Shixun rested, and rested for a while, Yang Shixun had been watching Yang Yuanzhao's actions, he wandered around, more or less confused, and when he saw Yang Yuanzhao coming, he couldn't help but say: "Young Master Yang, there is a saying about the old decay, I don't know if to say it or not?" ”

Yang Yuanzhao had a huge harvest today, and he was in a good mood, and said: "Uncle Wutang, you say!" ”

"I heard that the Sheng family is raising shares for the Hanyang Iron Works, why don't you join in."

Sheng family, IPO, Yang Yuanzhao was stunned for a moment, he thought of the history of Hanyang Iron Works, in 1908, Hanyang Iron Works was restructured, from the original official supervision and commercial office, officially changed to private, and the Sheng family also began the history of control in Hanyang Iron Works. Feelings, his expression just now, let Yang Shixun misunderstand that he is somewhat interested in Hanyang Iron Works, if there is no all-in-one machine, it is also a good choice to join this field, the 20 million shares, until the third year of Xuantong, that is, in 1911, it is only 8 million shares, and the financial resources he has are enough to get involved in it, but Yang Yuanzhao changed his mind and said: "I am not interested in this steel plant!" ”。

"Not interested?" Yang Shixun looked at Yang Yuanzhao in amazement, he couldn't understand Yang Yuanzhao at all, he was not interested, looking at it so seriously, is it possible, is there really any treasure in Hanyang Factory?

Yang Yuanzhao smiled slightly, didn't say much, continued to move forward, many things, he couldn't explain or explain, so he had to maintain a sense of mystery.

14 branches, in addition to less important equipment or duplicate equipment, Yang Yuanzhao sees the most, or steelmaking blast furnace and iron-making equipment, these are about 10 tons of small blast furnaces, and later generations often 100 tons, even 300 tons of large blast furnace comparison, there is a huge difference, the comparison is very strong, Yang Yuanzhao can use these, a certain amount of expansion, but the premise, must find a person who understands steel, or even understands steel, such people, there are very few in China, many abroad, In today's world, with long-term economic development, steel has been saturated in some countries, just like the United States, when a large number of railways were built, the demand for steel was strong, and a large number of steel mills were profitable.

But the situation has changed, and at the beginning of the 20th century, with the rise of highways and the transfer of industries, those railways no longer have much effect, and the steel mills have shrunk, and most of the railways that have been built have been demolished.

Iron and steel talents, it is not easy in China, Europe is also difficult to find because of the Anglo-German confrontation, but in some small countries, even the United States, to find him, it should be relatively easy, although it is said that there will be many problems in hiring foreigners, such as the biggest problem is the problem of leakage, non-my race, its heart must be different, this is the universal truth, not to mention that the world, more and more attention to science and technology, in this case, any technology far higher than this is easy to attract the attention of foreign forces.

Fortunately, in the steel industry, for the time being, Yang Yuanzhao will not invest in the future generation of science and technology, at most, on the basis of the existing foundation, reform, steel is the backbone of a country, is a country's comprehensive national strength and the foundation of the war heritage, this kind of heavy industry, in fact, can not be any opportunistic, many times, need to accumulate, and Hanyang Iron Works 20 years, although the development is slow, but because of the vision or the relationship of the leader, did not create zào out of his glory, but he trained the workers and technicians, It is definitely a lot of wealth, he must get it to them, so that with the help of other people's strength, he has achieved his own glory, which is the ultimate in borrowing chickens and laying eggs.