In mid-April, the planting of cotton, in Baotou is in full swing began, 8 million acres of huge area, unified overall planning, so that the cotton planting momentum, from last year began to prepare, the reclamation company personnel, is very complete, before almost the expansion of the recruitment of personnel, at this time all out, even used in the winter, recruited two farm teams, a total of more than 126,000 people.

There are 10,000 people, not to mention almost 130,000 people, but when it is sprinkled on 200,000 acres of land, when there is less than one person in an acre of land, it is immediately like a handful of sand sprinkled in the sea, and there is no trace of it.

The cultivation of cotton plants can only be used manually, there are greenhouses in storage, the planting period can start from early April, and last until the end of April, a total of about 20 days, close to 200,000 acres of cotton seedling cultivation area, will be planted belongs to the reclamation company of 8 million acres of land cotton seedlings, as for others, has been ordered, cultivated by another seedling area, for the time being, can only rely on thousands of people to slowly plant.

Fortunately, when this group of personnel belongs to the reclamation company of cotton seedlings planted, you can extract most of them, for emergency planting in the seedling cultivation area, this area, even if it is 600,000 acres, each acre of seedlings planted, is far less than the previous 200,000 acres of planting, calculated, plus the vacated greenhouse, about 18 million acres of cotton, only a little more than twice the current of the reclamation company.

The workers of the farm, under the leadership of the team leader, take a group of 10 people to work in an acre of land, and the dense nutrient bowl needs to be planted according to a certain process, which is a fine work.

Baiyun Obo, more than 100 kilometers away from Baotou, has become a busy construction site, the construction company has mobilized at least 3,000 personnel, even Weiming has built a large-scale brick kiln here, and built 12 at the same time, with a monthly production capacity of more than 4 million, this is the largest brick factory built by Wei Ming outside Baotou, under the joint construction, a large number of manpower has been transferred over, less than 15 days, the brick kiln has been built, with the help of the brick burner and the brick machine, 4 million bricks, Almost a week is injected into the kiln, and then, by this time next month, the kiln will be able to supply the site with 4 million bricks.

Generally speaking, no brick factory will do this, which is equivalent to the second half of the month, all the brick masters will be idle for more than half a month, Yang Yuanzhao has been urging the construction period, under the rich benefits, Wei Ming can not take care of so much, according to the blueprint of the entire steel complex, at least 700,000 square meters of buildings will be built, there is no shortage of high-rise buildings, especially some high-grade blast furnace bricks, it is a huge demand, for Wei Ming, just the current scale, enough for him to do it for a year.

James stood beside Yang Yuanzhao, in Yang Yuanzhao to introduce the progress of the entire steel mill, came to Baotou, only less than a month and a half, James really felt the magical power of Baotou, more than 300 machines, looks inconspicuous, but each performs its own duties, take land leveling, in the United States is under the simple machinery and a large number of labor, slowly completed, to 1000 acres of land leveling, in other places, it takes at least 4 months to half a year, in Baotou, With the help of more than 300 large and small machinery, bulldozers, bulldozers, bulldozers, brought in triple soil, and used rollers to squeeze, soon, the leveling work was completed, a small part of the steelmaking blast furnace location, with high-strength cement, carried out complete hardening, saw a full 10 meters deep reinforced concrete cement, James did not know, in this world, there is anything else that can make him break, plus molten steel and steelmaking furnace, coal, more than 600 tons, or even higher ironmaking furnace, It will not exceed 800 tons, and they are all piled on top of it, and they will not be able to affect the concrete at a depth of 10 meters.

The work of land leveling has saved almost 5 months, and the plan of the entire steel plant has entered the substance, Yang Yuanzhao has been urging efficiency, and the engineers are the same, they have crossed the ocean and come to the Qing Kingdom, if it is not for the rich remuneration, there are a few, they will be willing to stay here, the prepaid remuneration, and the target amount has been determined, and every time saved, it means that they can return to the United States as soon as possible.

When they were in the United States, they expected that such a 4 million ton steel mill would take a year and a half to two years, which is relatively fast, and they have this confidence, they are the fastest in the whole United States, but looking at the efficiency of Baotou, they found that it seems that this time can be advanced.

In this era, only mathematicians will study, and the concept of systems engineering has just appeared, but in later generations, it is engraved in the bones, in the previous construction of Baotou, in many aspects, Yang Yuanzhao unnaturally brought it out, and also applied it to the steelmaking plant.

In the plan entrusted to Williams, the order of each stage was listed in detail, those are the most important, those are not important, Yang Yuanzhao does not understand steelmaking, some experts have listed all of these, and will convene a group of people to calculate, from the most basic labor, to the efficiency of machinery, carefully calculated, put some time-consuming projects, put them behind, compress the spare time as much as possible, almost every worker, will receive a task list before going to work, in this task list, Elaborate on what he needs to do today and he will finish this as requested.

In this era, only Yang Yuanzhao is alone, it is impossible to do perfectly, as much as possible to reduce repetitive work and idle, it can be done, this is also the most surprising point of James, in addition to a variety of machines, there is no sense of how high the efficiency of the workers here is, in the centralized use of the machine in the leveling process, saving about 5 months of time, and then began to really lay the foundation of a month, the use of the machine is much less, James was surprised to find that the progress of the project has advanced again, Completed the amount of work that would normally take 3 months or more to complete.

"Magical East!" It can be said that this steelmaking plant in Baotou is the most comfortable and smoothest project they have done, and they have not seen high-intensity construction, fixed locations every day, and sometimes, even divided into two shifts, but the amount of work can not deceive people, with a speed that can be seen by the naked eye, it is constantly being completed, and unconsciously, it saves two or three months of time.

"Mr. Yang, at this rate, the combination of the first iron-making furnace and steel-making furnace will be set up in a month!"

"A month!" Yang Yuanzhao pondered for a moment, this is not a relatively slow speed, on the contrary, it is relatively fast, from the arrival of the James, to now, even if you add this month's time, it is only two and a half months, two and a half months, erecting a 300-ton iron-making furnace and a 150-ton steel-making furnace, in a sense, it is already extremely fast, in addition to them, there are also coking, transportation, and control systems that are matched with each other, of course, the cold rolling and hot rolling after steelmaking are not on. The reason why steelmaking and ironmaking are independent is the effect of using oxygen blowing on large steelmaking furnaces.

Williams's research is only on the steelmaking furnace that is reduced according to the proportion, at most one or two tons, after all, the bigger it is, the higher the cost, and if it is a real yàn, there will be hundreds of tons of iron or steel, and Williams, who has deep pockets, can't bear it, but in the real yàn, the overall design was completed, and according to the scientific method, this design was perfected to the design of the steelmaking and ironmaking furnace.

With Williams' major, there will be no problems, and he is cautious, but he still asks James to first put on the first one, and the rest is not in a hurry to install it, and after making an overall implementation of this, he will consider the problem of adjustment.

The construction of large-scale heavy industry is not achieved overnight, and must be slowly adjusted in the following production, which is the norm in later generations, and even in this era, but unfortunately in China, there is no such soil, and it must be done well before.

"Can it be faster?" Yang Yuanzhao said.

"This!" James hesitated, he thought for a while, and then listed the order and process, came to Baotou, under the influence of his ears and eyes, he knew very well that the speed of Baotou came from Yang Yuanzhao, but Yang Yuanzhao did not understand steel production, this James is professional, he only used to put some sequences, as well as the time and amount of work that may be spent in each process, simply described, and the rest of the work was handed over to Yang Yuanzhao.

Got the number, Yang Yuanzhao nodded, turned around and returned to the room, this new room made of steel, at this time, was already full of people, at least more than 100 people, in the tense calculation, he sat down in his position, took out the pen, divided the whole project into different small items, and then listed the equation and divided.

Several teams received the task at the same time, and in their hands, there was an extra square thing, if the people of later generations saw it, they would definitely be surprised, this is not an ordinary calculator, it is this calculator that will simplify the complex calculation work, and save a lot of time.

The sound of crackling calculations, a little bit of computing knowledge, and after special teaching, you can master the use of computers, more than 100 computers, which is beyond the sharp weapon of this era, cumbersome engineering, thousands, or even tens of thousands of projects, will be in the simplest calculation, forming a complete quantity.

They are already very familiar with similar calculation work, and with the help of the calculator, they can quickly calculate the results, and after cross-calculation by several groups, the final numbers are summarized to Yang Yuanzhao.

It seems that the ordinary number represents a more advanced overall planning and system engineering, Yang Yuanzhao brought in a few formulas, and in the end, a relatively preliminary thing was formed, 22 days, which is a preliminary result, which is at least 8 days less than James estimated, but according to previous experience, this number should still be able to pull down four or five days, half a month, it should be possible. R1152