Chapter 276: Rubber and Stainless Steel
On the side of the Yang family's firm, Yang Shixun was worried, as the person in charge of the Yang family in Wuhan, Yang Shixun had a very high status in the family, but it did not mean that he could ignore an official, especially the governor of Huguang like Chen Kuilong.
Destroying the door Lingyi, destroying the county order, not to mention the governor of Huguang, who is a member of the first grade, if he wants to deal with the Yang family, Huguang is absolutely no problem, even in the northwest, or even in other parts of China, the protégé's old colleagues and friends are enough to make the Yang family unable to eat and go around.
Talking about the conditions with such a first-class master, and it is still such a vague and unkind condition, from a certain Cheng dù above, it is really walking on a tightrope, once there is a change, it is a disaster.
The telegram from Taiyuan was simple and straightforward, but it took him a lot of effort, and now, after hearing Fuquan's reply, the result was very good, and Chen Kuilong accepted all the conditions.
Yang Shixun was very pleased, and directly sealed a silver ticket for Fuquan, the cash silver coupon of the Weijia ticket number, among many merchants in Wuhan, can be directly used as cash money, and there is no need to use it after redeeming it, which is extremely convenient.
Fuquan left with great gratitude, and Yang Shixun immediately sent a telegram to Taiyuan.
Baotou, after receiving the telegram sent by Yang Shixun from Wuhan, immediately began to take action, now it is only more than 9 months, the machine is in full swing, a large number of machines are produced, not complete, the efficiency of production is not high, but some samples and the introduction of the foundation, has been, this era, large complete sets of machinery, who is not an order business. From placing an order to producing it, it takes time, otherwise tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of equipment. Once it is produced, no one wants it, waiting for its end, or selling it cheaply, or it can only be used as scrap metal.
Between the whole set of machine qì and scrap iron, it can be said that it is a heaven and an earth, and the current mainstream method. They are all produced after obtaining orders, where is Yang Yuanzhao so wealthy, and he starts production directly.
Under Yang Yuanzhao's personal attention, a large-scale delegation was sent from Baotou. The total number of people has reached more than 700 people, and the components are also extremely mixed, some of the old shopkeepers of the Jin merchants, the person in charge, they occupy more than 100 people, they are mainly responsible for contacting merchants, as well as official affairs, there are 300 technicians. Among them, there are also 20 engineers, who are the few Chinese engineers in Baotou, most of them. They are all recruited from the United States, and they will be responsible for the overall situation, explaining to customers the design concept of Baotou's machine, as well as the final production capacity.
In the delegation, there are even more than 50 international students, who are studying in the UK. USA, France. Germany, and even Italy. Spain, understand the languages of various countries, in this delegation, they are mainly responsible for the contact and translation of foreigners, Baotou out of the products, most of them are mainstream machine qì products, added more suitable for the Chinese side of the modification, these in the eyes of foreigners, there will be no one fancies, only a small part of the color cloth and brocade cloth, will attract the attention of foreigners.
For this reason, after careful consideration, Yang Yuanzhao still put in a small number of advanced things, such as rubber products based on vulcanized rubber.
Vulcanized rubber, is the research theme of Smith and Shanghai cooperation, after a year or so, Smith real room really lived up to expectations, the research of preliminary vulcanized rubber, this vulcanized rubber only solves the problem of rubber production and processing, basically in terms of performance, far from being comparable with later generations.
In this case, Yang Yuanzhao of course took this technical achievement over, and took out some of the physical objects of rubber in later generations, and used different additives and processing methods as a point to promote the rubber of Baotou Research Laboratory.
Rubber, as the most important invention since the 20th century, has made rubber an important industrial raw material, even military materials, vulcanized rubber this aspect is absolutely historical, Yang Yuanzhao can not solve the problem of vulcanized rubber before, he can only rely on the all-in-one machine, rubber products, copy, which has many unpredictable things, after all, rubber is also a biological material, its level is much higher than fertilizer and urea, in this case, There is uncertainty in copying.
There are many rubber products in later generations, from large to giant rubber houses, small to a small xx set, rubber is perfectly applied to most areas of life, different rubber, even raw rubber, cooked rubber, will have different properties, and the methods used are completely different, Yang Yuanzhao pays attention to the field of rubber, more attention to tires, in the 20th century, electricity represents the change of power and energy, based on the revolution of rubber wheels, It directly led to the birth of the automobile, an invention that influenced the entire twentieth century.
Before, whether it is iron, or wooden tires, there is a problem of use time, especially for long-distance travel, tires often appear this and that problem, the emergence of rubber tires, completely solve this problem, pneumatic tires perfectly solve the problem of bumps, but also solve the problem of wear, no matter how hard materials, driving on bumpy and uneven ground, there will be such and such problems, tires can perfectly solve this point.
As an engineer of the team, as a motorcycle enthusiast, power engineer, Yang Yuanzhao's understanding of power and motor vehicles is far above other things. He can even complete the production of a motor vehicle independently.
Baotou is in Wuhan this time, there will be 12 different kinds of rubber, these have not been able to carry out industrial production, barely complete the production of the real room, improve his basic characteristics, as well as all aspects of the index use, it is already a great thing, these things are shown, because Yang Yuanzhao knows very well that at most 5-10 years, the whole world, will become a world on wheels because of rubber, he does not take it out, and he can't stop such a rolling tide.
Since it can't be stopped, why not take it out, that is, refresh the reputation of Baotou, and you can also exchange it for some things that you are more interested in, Baotou lacks a lot of things, and at the worst of all, you can also exchange for a large number of precious raw materials.
In addition to rubber, Yang Yuanzhao took out some ordinary alloys, such as stainless steel, which was a very common metal in later generations, in this era, it is still more sought-after, especially the technology of electric welding, which has not yet been applied to metal processing, especially stainless steel, he came up with the electric welding method for stainless steel, plus stainless steel, which should be able to get a lot of attention.
With the help of many assistants, especially the analysis of the form at home and abroad, as well as the invited exhibitors from Wuhan, Yang Yuanzhao initially completed an exhibition plan, the main focus is a variety of supporting technology and a package of solutions for light industrial production, the only place that is a little too much is on the rubber and stainless steel, after careful comparison, there are no obvious loopholes, Yang Yuanzhao signed and released.
A team of 700 people, more than 200 tons of items, as well as cement, paint and other things, these are so fine that even the materials for construction and decoration have to be brought with their own era, I have to be careful, some things, I really forgot about it, I didn't have to buy it, and after I was ready, the delegation set off on September 4 in advance, and at this time there was still more than a month before the release of the Wuhan Industry Association, although it was in a hurry, it was enough.
Seeing the departure of the delegation, Yang Yuanzhao knew that in this era, especially the people are still very rich, and the era of industrial salvation is not an empty word, it can attract the attention of many people, especially textile machinery, in this era, the textile industry has become a well-known money-making industry, and the Westernization Movement has set up so many factories, and what can really make money, in addition to the Textile Bureau, is the Steamship China Merchants Bureau, of course, the telegraph bureau can also be, but most of them are controlled by foreigners, and the railway is the same.
There is still more than a month to go, Yang Yuanzhao has no time to sigh, and he doesn't even think much about how many grades of orders will be signed this time, there is good news from Baiyun Obo, after several months of continuous fighting, Baiyun Obo's steel plant plan, the first 150-ton open-hearth furnace, has finally completed the main project, is in the midst of intense internal construction, a large number of refractories and necessary equipment, have been connected, and the steel blast furnace supporting iron-making furnace and coke plant, oxygen plant, are also completed, will be put into use.
That is to say, the steel mill is about to produce the first furnace of steel, steel, if it is only the steel itself, it has little effect, only the processing of steel into different categories, it has its role as steel. For products made of steel as raw materials, Yang Yuanzhao's main promotion is of course steel rails, even at this time, there is no next home, just the rails from the Baiyun Obo mining area to the steel plant, which requires a lot of money, and there is a railway that runs through Baiyun Obo to Baotou, as for the rest, we have to wait for later.
The rail factory is the first to be built, as long as the quality of the steel is reached, it is nothing more than a problem of abrasive making and indoctrination, at most, it is a perfect quenching process, the emergence of the railway, in China has been for decades, in foreign countries it is longer, the technology of the rail, is not the focus of foreign blockade, Hanyang Iron Works can make rails, but the quality is not good.
In addition to steel rails, it is rebar, ordinary steel bars, steel plates, etc., seamless steel pipes and other things, with the strength of Baotou now, they cannot be produced at all. The commissioning of the steelmaking blast furnace is a big event for Baotou and Yang Yuanzhao, so he put down a big mess of things and rushed to Baiyun Obo as soon as possible. (To be continued) R580