After listening to Li Fuan's report, it was found that the design that the Americans demanded to change was mainly focused on the structure of the dam. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

As for the location of the dam, the Americans agreed with the Chinese team's design, because it was fixed, and the river was just that, and it was obvious where to build a dam that would be easier to hold back water for electricity.

But the question was how big the turbines to install, and the Americans decided that the French did not have enough reserved space for the turbines to make effective use of the river's hydraulic power, and ignored the possibility of expanding and increasing capacity.

To put it mildly, the Americans are bullying the French for not having experience in the manufacture of large hydraulic equipment, while the United States is carrying out regional management of the Tennessee River, which is much more experienced than the French.

But the French don't think so, emphasizing how experienced French hydropower is, and the world's first hydropower station was built by the French.

One talks about new technology, the other talks about the old yellow calendar, and no one recognizes anyone.

To put it bluntly, it's not about profit, the Americans want to sell their equipment, and the French are not willing to withdraw from this market.

"Who do you think is right?"

Yang Chao asked Li Fu'an's opinion.

Li Fuan said: "I think what the Americans say should be more reliable. They proposed a complete cascade power generation scheme that would take into account irrigation, flood control, and shipping, with Sichuan Province preferring the American plan and Yunnan Province hoping to adopt the French plan. ”

The Americans copied their Tennessee theory, in which flood control and irrigation made Zhang Lan in Sichuan attach great importance to it, and as for Yunnan, it can only be said that the French gave Tang Jiyao a very generous gift.

Hydropower development in the southwest, Sichuan and Yunnan are the most important, of which the development of the three rivers is the focus, the Yalong River and the Dadu River in the three rivers are in Sichuan, 21 cascade power stations are planned on the Yalong River, 22 cascade power stations are planned on the Dadu River, and there are also cascade development plans for the Jialing River and the Minjiang River, which have not yet completed the design; There are 24 power stations on the Jinsha River, and the combined capacity of these more than 60 power stations is almost equivalent to 10 Three Gorges, which basically meets the electricity consumption of the Southern ******** for ten years.

Yunnan is also the three rivers of hydropower, but the Jinsha River, the Nu River and the Lancang River, these three rivers are currently designed to have an installed capacity of 70 million kilowatts and the Three Gorges of five and a half generations, but the impact of the population is much smaller, of which the Nu River plans 13 power stations, the Lancang River plans 15 power stations.

Guizhou is also a three-river hydropower, Wujiang River, Nanpan River and Beipan River, of which 8 hydropower stations are built on the Wujiang River, and two hydropower stations are built on the Nanpan River and Beipan River, and the planned installed capacity is equivalent to a Three Gorges.

Of course, these are only theoretical figures, with the current technology, can only use about a quarter of the electric energy, for example, the United States after the first phase of the big coulee project is only 2.66 million, decades later the second phase of the project reached 6.4 million installed capacity, but even a quarter, the southwest hydropower capacity is more than four Three Gorges, enough to meet most of China's electricity consumption.

"Who do you think should produce those hydropower equipment? Is it all in Shandong? ”

Li Fuan suddenly asked about the equipment.

Yang Chao did not consider this, he only asked that at least half of the equipment be placed in China, and the United States must unconditionally transfer technology, and if necessary, send a technical team to participate in production.

Originally, it was the most reasonable to put it in Shandong, where there is the most complete heavy industry system, but Shanghai's heavy industry is also developing, such as Shanghai's new machine manufacturing shipyard, which is completely an enterprise that has grown up in a wild state, but it is definitely not a grassroots enterprise in the ordinary sense, because the founder of the enterprise, Zhu Zhiyao, is not an ordinary person, with a deep background, the famous founding president of Fudan University, Ma Xiangbo, is his uncle, the diplomat **** Zhong is also his uncle, and the Jesuit priest Zhu Kaimin is his younger brother, Zhu Binhou, the captain of the aviation group of the Chinese aircraft carrier fleet, is his son.

It can be described as a talent, an elite who combines Chinese and Western.

There is a background and a background, the problem is that his business is really good, at the beginning only to machine repair started, to undertake some public works and other projects, this must rely on the relationship, but the money is all invested in the field of machine manufacturing, at that time Yang Chao's industrial system in Shandong has not been established.

By 1910, Qiuxin Machinery Factory had developed a market segment machine such as a water mower knife machine, which was very convenient to install on a ship to clean up the river, and during the First World War, they were already able to manufacture 3000 and 5000-ton ships, and undertook two 3000-ton steamers in the United States, but because the price of steel skyrocketed during the war, the Americans paid 1 million taels of silver, and as a result, they lost 500,000 yuan, and the shipyard was almost taken away by the French. Xie Guanhui stepped in to support him at that time and saved him with a loan from Yangzi Bank.

After the great prosperity of the European War, they relieved their spirits, and now the main business is still the development of new products, rice transplanters, pretending to be used in small boats, selling quite well in the south of the Yangtze River, with an annual income of 1 million taels and a profit of 300,000 taels.

It's just that this scale is obviously not a grade compared with Shandong shipyards, arsenals and Siemens factories, but China can't always rely on Siemens, even if Yang Chao now holds more than half of Siemens' shares, and Yang Chao is very happy to see one or two Chinese companies compete with Siemens.

As the second largest heavy industry base, Shanghai not only has enterprises such as the Qiuxin Machinery Factory, but also enterprises inherited from the era of the Westernization Movement such as Jinling Machinery Bureau and Jiangnan Shipyard, and the industrial base is relatively perfect, but the scale is relatively small.

"Look, which companies in Shanghai can undertake large-scale equipment manufacturing, even if they don't have the ability, ask them if they are willing to undertake, if they have the courage, we can give them loans, let them buy more machines, improve production capacity and processing level. When necessary, there are also professional Americans who teach them by hand. ”

Yang Chao paved the road for them, and it was up to them whether they dared to go or not.

Yang Chao still underestimated the courage of these national capitalists in Shanghai, such as Xintong Trading Co., Ltd., they are specialized in the installation of power station equipment, but the manufacturing side only manufactures some auxiliary equipment, there is no ability to produce large-scale equipment, it used to rely on imports, and now it is mainly purchased from Shandong, this is not surprising, because his founder is courageous, the chairman is Zhang Jian's guy, and there are Liang Qichao, Wang Daxie and others.

Yizhong Machinery Co., Ltd., founded by Yang Jingshi, is the earliest company to produce asynchronous motors in China, and is very willing to undertake the manufacture of water turbines. There are also Watson Electric Appliance Manufacturing Factory and Qian Yongji Electric Appliance Factory, which produce generators; Xinxiang Machinery Factory, which produces internal combustion engines and diesel engines, etc.

Anyway, the factories that can stick to the top are willing to participate in this project, even if they are not touched, they are willing to squeeze in, such as Yapur Electric Appliances, which produces light bulbs, are willing to undertake the production of wires and cables, but the Peicheng Electric Factory, which specializes in the production of cables, is not happy.

As for the issue of taking out a loan to purchase equipment to improve production capacity, as long as you dare to lend, he will dare to borrow, this is indeed a group of wild wolves, nothing else, very bold.

In the end, there are more than 100 enterprises with a strong will, compared with thousands of large-scale enterprises in Shanghai's machinery manufacturing industry, the proportion is not high, but for the production of electrical enterprises, almost all of them are involved, most of them are manufacturers with no experience in the production of electrical equipment, a large number of machine factories, shipyards, and even electroplating factories want a piece of the pie.

Yang Chao asked Li Fuan to pick out ten, he does not plan to cultivate more than 100 power equipment factories, because there are more than 100 such factories, which means that none of them can compete with Siemens, can compete with General Electric, Westinghouse, power equipment industry, the output is not large, the value of a single product is very high, and the profit is also very high, but the market is so big, can not support more than 100 enterprises, hard to support in, can only cause everyone to not eat, can not develop.

Of course, Siemens will not be able to get a piece of the pie by cultivating colleagues from these companies, otherwise they should talk like the French, emphasizing that they are the inventors of the first practical electromagnetic generator, and what their experience is.

Yang Chao decided to take out half of China's share of power equipment, that is, a quarter of the total equipment, and hand it over to Siemens, which will not produce all of its own products, they will subcontract them, and the entire industrial system in Shandong can benefit.

And these companies in Shanghai, they are willing to produce their own production, they are willing to distribute it, anyway, they are responsible, and they bear the responsibility for unqualified acceptance. I believe that these wild wolves are shrewd, and they will find a way to maximize their profits.

In fact, in the end, they also chose the way of cooperation, because many of these national capitalists have various relationships, what fellow villagers, what relatives, they are people in a circle.

In this way, the original production of small motors, single machines, power auxiliaries, and even the production of electric fans, wires and cables, and light bulbs have all received large orders from Southwest Hydropower, and finally formed a wild wolf group in the power industry, which shook the whole world more than ten years later.

It's just that Yang Chao feels a little weird, because Li Fuan is unusually positive about handing over orders to these enterprises in Shanghai, you must know that Shanghai is not his ticket warehouse, his main supporters are in Shandong and Northeast China, and they are large industrial giants such as Shandong shipbuilding industry and steel mills, not the wolves of Shanghai's small and medium-sized electrical industry.

It can only be said that Li Fuan is using the power in his hands to seek new support for himself.

Yang Chao does not intend to interfere in this, this is politics, the exchange of interests, the game of power, when the water is clear, there is no fish, when you want to make the water completely clear, all you get is a pool of stagnant water, as if Stalin was suspicious, but no one dared to tell the truth in front of him, and said what he liked to hear. (To be continued.) )