Li Mingsheng has been considering the expansion project of the cement plant recently, and all kinds of plans have been passed through in his heart, and after hearing Yang Yuanzhao's inquiry, he carefully thought about every link of the cement plant, and said confidently: "Since this month, there are still a lot of workers recruited from all over the country, although it is not the cement industry, but steelmaking, ironmaking, and even coke, compared to ordinary people, they have a good foundation, and they are natural workers in the calcination workshop!" ”

Although the cement plant was built, this is not all that Yang Yuanzhao expects, for the construction of the future industrial zone, the recruitment work for the whole country, has not stopped, after the Yang family and the Wei family, the Liu family also joined in, facing more workers, the efficiency of recruitment is also higher, during this time there are really a lot of workers, were recruited, although a small number of people will leave Baotou because Baotou is too barren, most of them are still supported by wages and treatment, stayed, including what Li Mingsheng said, even steelmaking, ironmaking, coke and other skilled workers.

Yang Yuanzhao pondered for a moment, Li Mingsheng seemed to be very reasonable, scanned the report again, and continued to ask: "What is the scale of your expansion, and how much machinery do you need?" ”

Li Mingsheng was overjoyed, he knew that he had passed Yang Yuanzhao's level, and said excitedly: "Four blast furnaces, this is the limit of our expansion, and the crushing workshop and mixing room need to be adjusted slightly!" ”

All of a sudden, it is a limit expansion, four blast furnaces, plus the current one, is five, which means that once this expansion project is completed, the production capacity of the entire cement plant will be expanded by five times. From the current daily production of about 800 tons, the expansion is more than 4,000 tons. Such a production capacity is comparable to a large cement plant in later generations. With an annual production capacity of more than one million tons, the number of workers will also increase on the basis of the original one, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a blowout.

Cement is an important building material, not to mention the large-scale industrial area that Yang Yuanzhao is going to build, just say that the current cement road, the consumption of one kilometer, is more than 1,000 tons. This is almost a day's production of the cement plant, Baotou to develop, the road to contact the outside world in the future, must be the top priority, Taiyuan, Zhangjiakou, and even the road directly to Shijiazhuang, are in his plan, so. The amount of cement consumed is an astronomical amount.

The expansion of the cement plant, 4,000 tons of cement, was enough to support his plan. Yang Yuanzhao nodded, agreed with Li Mingsheng's report, and let him follow. Start preparing for this, by the way. handed over the matter of concrete to Li Mingsheng.

Li Mingsheng recently. Under the guidance of Yang Yuanzhao, I read some information about cement and concrete, and on the basis of Yang Yuanzhao's mention and the characteristics of concrete in this era, I have a little experience in reinforced concrete and ordinary concrete, and after a little thought, I said to Yang Yuanzhao: "Boss, there is a problem with this plan of yours!" ”

Yang Yuanzhao stared at Li Mingsheng and asked eagerly, "What's the problem?" ”

"What a waste!" Li Mingsheng said calmly.

"Waste?"

"Since it is a road, the biggest index, not its load-bearing capacity, to know that the strength of the cement itself is not low, when building a building, you can see his load-bearing capacity, this cement road is based on the roadbed, unless there is a force to break him at one time, otherwise, the consideration is the bending capacity, this ability, is not based on the thickness of the cement as the standard, that is to say, thick cement, and thin cement, the bending capacity is not much different, but the ratio between cement and sand, stone is more important!"

"What do you mean?" Yang Yuanzhao asked suspiciously.

"Reduce the thickness of the cement pavement, from the 60 centimeters you set before, directly reduce about 25 centimeters, some special road sections, you can slightly increase the thickness, which needs to be investigated on the spot!" Li Mingsheng said affirmatively.

Yang Yuanzhao is not a professional, Li Mingsheng's profession may not be reliable, but it is stronger than him as a foreigner, I don't know how, in the road that Li Mingsheng said, he suddenly thought of the village pass of the later generations, carefully recall, it seems to be 20 centimeters, the most important thing is that it seems to have heard someone mention a four-level highway standard, the average speed is about 20 kilometers per hour, and 2000 cars can pass, cars or buses, some better roads through villages and villages, basically reached this standard.

Such a standard, in later generations, of course, is the village road, and even some powerful villages and towns, directly build provincial highways and national highways, the most is also the city road, in this era, I am afraid that the general large trucks, are not necessarily the later generations of passenger cars to pull more, 60 centimeters thickness is indeed wasted, but Li Mingsheng said more reasonable, the thickness is reduced, which is equivalent to the reduction of the entire workload, the cement road can be completed and opened to traffic faster, laying a good foundation for the development of Baotou.

"Mingsheng, I know, I will make certain modifications to these, then the matter of concrete will be handed over to you!"

"No problem!" Li Mingsheng said confidently, came to Baotou, saw the new cement machine, and even under the guidance of Yang Yuanzhao, read some literature on cement, it can be said that in the field of cement, he thinks that he is relatively strong, whether it is a former worker, or some other foreign experts, he thinks he can pass a few tricks, highway concrete, among all concrete, belongs to the simplest, there are generally only 3 kinds of raw materials, in-depth understanding of the situation of three raw materials, and then according to the formula, calculate the results, regardless of load-bearing, Just consider the problem of proportioning and mixing, almost in a few hours, Li Mingsheng was able to make more than a dozen relatively excellent formulas, from the cement plant, take out the raw materials, in the real yàn is inside, make a real yàn, three or five days, you can get the result, this does not take much of his time, after doing the real yàn, waiting for the results, he has already begun to do the expansion plan of the cement plant.

Yang Yuanzhao approved his expansion plan, and will provide him with enough equipment, the biggest problem is solved, and the next thing is the problem of people.

The problem of people cannot be solved, no matter how much equipment and investment there is, it is useless. A month ago, under his attention, the workers recruited from major coking plants, steel plants, and smelters were basically stuffed in the calcination workshop by him, and they are still in the learning stage, but to implement this plan, they must be gradually started, Li Mingsheng made adjustments, removed the skilled workers, and trained them as future team leaders, and then took these new workers, as well as the workers who had been trained for almost 2 months, and were slightly worse, began to strengthen the internship.

The number of cement produced per day has gradually dropped from more than 2,700 barrels at the peak to 2,200 barrels, a full 500 barrels a day, and the scrap rate has begun to increase, which represents an increase in production costs.

The change was fed back to Liu Shu, Liu Shu was slightly surprised, the cement plant was almost Yang Yuanzhao's word, he thought about it, or fed back this problem to Yang Yuanzhao here, Yang Yuanzhao took a look at the report, especially the attendance of the workers, and knew that it was a qiē, obviously, Li Mingsheng was preparing for the expansion, not only the calcination workshop, but the other two workshops, also drew elite forces, and prepared for the expansion, but because of the other two workshops, the technical level and difficulty, Far from being compared with the calcination workshop, bumps and bumps, or completed the task, in the calcining workshop, but more obvious, a slight adjustment, the technical level and tacit understanding process dù declined, the success rate and production scale suddenly greatly affected.

Knowing Li Mingsheng's purpose and understanding that expansion was imperative, Yang Yuanzhao casually prevaricated Liu Shu, just saying that this was a normal situation.

Fortunately, such a reduction, when it reached 2200 barrels, began to be stable, and at a relatively slow rate, such as a few more barrels per day, or the number of dozens of barrels rose, which more or less reassured Liu Shu, maybe it really happened to Yang Yuanzhao, this is just an example, and it will be fine after that.

For almost a week, Qian Hu was following Yang Yuanzhao to learn the construction of cement roads, and on the first day, there was good news, the original design was 7 meters wide. It has been expanded to about 7.5 meters, almost half a meter wide, but the thickness has been significantly reduced, the average thickness will not exceed 25 cm, some thinner places, even only 20 cm, which can make Qian Hu overjoyed, the cement road this thing, is a measurement work, the thickness of the reduction, almost less than the previous half, which is equivalent to saying, the workload has been reduced by half.

After a few days of understanding and mastering, Qian Hu and others, for the road repair, have a preliminary understanding, Qian Hu's construction team also all on the field, began to do the preparatory work before the road repair, around Baotou, most of them are relatively smooth, occasionally there will be one or two small rivers, under the action of cement, it should be easy to solve.

After surveying on the spot, some relatively wide ditches were specifically listed, and the basic form of this road has been planned, and the construction of the entire road has also entered the substantive stage.

All kinds of iron plates for road repair, with the help of the all-in-one machine, have been in place, by skilled workers, from the yard, pulled down the construction site, many workers have begun to level the land, because there is no road roller, can only use a tractor to do this, the tractor pushed back and forth several times, kept filling some uneven places, the new soil, also pressed by the tractor, so that the land as flat as possible, but the efficiency is extremely low, a day's time, but barely completed the length of 300 meters, Again, this is the result of the use of 4 tractors. (To be continued......)