The Tang Army's complete pacification of the Central Valley not only added tens of thousands of people and tens of thousands of square kilometers of fertile land to the Tang Republic, but also added nearly 2,000 horses to the army militarily. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Indian horses are not very good, with Andalusian horse blood of the flower horses in the majority, the Tang people like to call these horses more literary and artistic called five-flowered horses, even if many people have complained that this kind of horse has nothing to do with pork belly.

The horse breeds of the five-flowered horse are naturally not as good as the Akhal-Teke horses and Arabian horses brought by Zheng He, but they are much better than the Mongolian horse breeds native to China. With the acquisition of a large number of five-flowered horses, the more expensive sweaty and Arabian horses were replaced by the active service sequence, and most of the horse breeds were to be used for mating and breeding, except for a small number of officers who still rode these "noble horses".

A large number of selected horses are used as horses, after all, there is a lack of mechanical power in Datang, and animal power is a very important source of power.

It has been nearly ten months since the Travelers traveled to Los Angeles at the beginning of the year, and during these ten months, the Travelers have established a bustling city in Los Angeles and built several colonies in the California area. The smooth development of agriculture has basically solved the problem of eating, and it is still up to industry to make Datang truly stand at the top of all countries in this plane.

Yingshan Iron and Steel has been established for a period of time, during this time, a number of blast furnaces have been established, these blast furnaces are from the fleet of the Republic of China, Chang Kaishen dismantled from the mainland factory to prepare for the establishment of Taiwan industrial equipment, but relatively speaking, the equipment of the Republic of China was not advanced at that time, and many of them were even backward equipment eliminated by Western countries.

Of course, in the current era of the traversal, it is already at the level of black technology.

The iron ore transported from the Yingshan Iron Mine has been transformed into molten iron through the reduction reaction of the blast furnace, and then cast into molds or formed into iron billets, and a large number of iron products have begun to enter the market of Datang.

In particular, in terms of agricultural tools, iron agricultural tools were distributed to farms in large quantities, which also solved the shortage of agricultural tools in farms and promoted the continued development of agriculture. As for small household tools such as hammers and iron scissors, not to mention iron water tanks and iron bodies, they also began to supply the market. Even, coated tin cans can be bought in supermarkets.

The output of iron products of Eagle Mountain Iron and Steel is very considerable, and the emergence of a large number of iron products makes ordinary people feel that they are no longer living in a cramped and backward era.

However, it is steel that is really expected to be high. Steelmaking is more technically difficult than ironmaking, and the steelmaking equipment technology in the fleet of the Republic of China is relatively old, and some of them are even in the late 19th century, which is naturally unacceptable to Liang Zhenhai, Minister of Industry. Therefore, Minister Liang collected all the information that could be found in the hands of the traversers, mobilized professionals and non-professionals who knew the relevant knowledge, and determined to make more and better steel.

Liang Zhenhai chose the oxygen top blowing converter method, which was also the main steelmaking method in the 20th century, and the raw material of oxygen top blowing converter steelmaking was mainly molten iron, and also used some scrap steel (or iron ore). In order to remove sulfur and phosphorus from molten iron, an appropriate amount of slag-making material (such as quicklime, etc.) needs to be added. When making steel, oxygen is blown directly from the top of the furnace to oxidize it with the hot molten iron to remove impurities.

It is precisely because Yingshan Iron and Steel chose such a difficult project at the beginning, so it is expected that the process of steel production will be delayed within half a year, this performance makes a series of enterprises waiting to use steel very gnashing their teeth, as a last resort, after Zhao Daling put pressure on Liang Zhenhai on behalf of the cabinet, Liang Zhenhai had to divide out some people, and engaged in the production of small crucible steelmaking method, and finally brought the first pot of molten steel to the colony.

In fact, the crucible steelmaking method has been invented by the Englishman Henzman in 1742, and it is also the first time in human history to obtain liquid steel, but it is limited by the small output and high cost of crucible steelmaking, so it is unrealistic to expect the steel produced by this method to be used in large quantities.

But at least some companies have been able to use steel to make the equipment they need. For example, Datang Petroleum directly used political resources, and the Ministry of Defense directly intervened to intercept the first batch of steel to Datang Petroleum Company, and Tang Petroleum used this batch of steel and other well-prepared materials to build its first atmospheric distillation column at an astonishing speed.

California is an oil producer, and even a few months ago, Datang Petroleum discovered a large oil field in the northeast of Fengyuan Farm, and in another plane this field is called the Cohen River Field, which is now named Fengyuan Oil Field by Datang Petroleum. Thanks to data from another Yankee, the abundant oil field produced 2 billion barrels in the 100 years since its discovery. The professional drilling team of PetroChina, the predecessor, did not drill wells in Africa, but drilled oil in California. They drilled only a 400-meter well, and then the oil began to splatter out on its own.

However, crude oil alone is not enough, the warships of the navy and the combat vehicles of the army cannot burn crude oil, and the crude oil must be chemically turned into usable diesel and gasoline. This required atmospheric distillation, and as for the previous pretreatment, which was mainly an electrochemical step, Datang Petroleum's experts quickly achieved it. The trouble is to build a scale atmospheric distillation column, which obviously requires a lot of steel and other related materials.

PetroChina's team went to Africa to explore wells and did not plan to refine oil, so they did not have the relevant equipment, so they could only count on building one themselves after they had steel. The Ministry of Defense's thirst for oil has reached its peak, so the first batch of steel was all granted to Datang Petroleum.

In mid-October, Datang finally built its first oil refinery, and the oil they produced was sent to the Navy and Army depots. In the afternoon of the same day, the Ministry of Communications also received a batch of asphalt from Datang Petroleum, which will be used as raw materials for paving roads. Datang Petroleum also released a series of development strategies and goals, including cracking a series of chemical raw materials such as ethylene, propylene, butadiene, toluene, xylene, etc., and producing chemical fibers, plastics, and synthetic rubber; Even Datang Petroleum has targeted the market of Anhua Chemical, planning to use natural gas, light gasoline and heavy oil as raw materials to synthesize ammonia, urea, and even nitric acid.

The great success of Datang Petroleum has put great pressure on Yingshan Iron and Steel and also given them great stimulation. Among the three major heavy industry enterprises under the Ministry of Industry of Datang, Anhua Chemical is the first to produce products, and its fertilizer products and daily chemical products are indispensable industrial outputs of Datang at this stage. Now Datang Petroleum has also completed the most important task entrusted by the Ministry of Industry and the Cabinet, producing fuel oil, and Yingshan Iron and Steel has become the only lame heavy industry enterprise at this stage.

All the employees of Yingshan Iron and Steel, who have been facing a dilemma, have worked hard, and after overcoming many technical problems and overcoming many difficulties, their oxygen top blowing converter has finally produced steel!

The voice of Xu Xin, who has gradually become the head of the radio station, said tactfully: "...... According to the estimation of the deputy general manager of Yingshan Iron and Steel Company, Yingshan Iron and Steel can achieve an annual steel output of 100,000 tons to meet the needs of the industrial development of the Tang Republic, and at the same time, Yingshan Iron and Steel has plans to expand production in 1775, and it is expected that the steel output of Yingshan Iron and Steel can be doubled at that time......"

Bai Nan sat in Zhao Daling's house, Zhao Daling is the president, and his official residence is actually just an apartment of less than 100 square meters, but considering that President Zhao, a middle-aged man, was "single" because of the crossing, his own residence is also considered to be an extremely advantageous condition in Los Angeles.

Bai Nan sat on the sofa and said, "Yingshan Steel has also been pressed hard, this time it can be regarded as raising eyebrows." ”

Zhao Daling smiled kindly: "If you don't force it, how can you produce steel within the year?" Now that we have finally done so, the output of steel has stabilized, and we can move forward with all kinds of industrial work. ”

Bai Nandao: "But think about it, there are still a lot of things to do, machinery factories need to be built, military factories need to focus even more, our farmland needs agricultural machinery, the navy needs new shipyards, power needs to produce steam engines and internal combustion engines, and we want to get locomotives and internal combustion passenger cars in transportation, we can't finish these things at all." ”

Zhao Daling nodded and said: "130,000 people, it is a bit wishful thinking to basically build a relatively complete industrial system, our plane, the only countries with a complete industrial system are China, the United States and Russia, and the EU may add up to a set, and we can only grasp the big and prevent the small, and make a limited order." ”

Zhao Daling wrenched his fingers and said to Bai Nan: "The three industrial giants are our core industrial enterprises, and we will also hold military factories in the hands of the Ministry of Industry. ”

Bai Nan couldn't help but be a little stunned: "Is this going to liberalize the private economy?" ”

Zhao Daling said: "We have opened up the market, and there is no reason not to let go of the private economy." In fact, we Datang do not have programmatic things to determine what kind of system our country is economically, I also think there is no need to be too up-and-line to apply what economic theories, let's be pragmatic, everything is for the prosperity and development of the Datang Republic, the people live and work in peace and contentment, didn't Taizong say, the cat that catches the mouse is a good cat, it is too early to consider the capitalists to control the country, what we want is social progress, the improvement of people's living standards. Therefore, the Cabinet is already working on a resolution to provide interest-free loans and any necessary support to those who are interested in starting their own businesses, so that they can work on their own. ”