From Baiyun Obo to Baotou, this cement road is not only wide and thick, although it does not meet the standards of the highway in later generations, but it is not bad, more than 35 cm of cement pavement, more than twice the thick roadbed, coupled with the high-grade cement that surpasses this era, so that this is currently the most important road in Baiyun Obo, even now, the carrying capacity has received a very severe test, the iron ore from Baiyun Obo down, can be transported with rails and trolleys, but the coal from the coal mine not far away, But this road is needed.

The capacity of the four-wheeled carriage of 2 tons is somewhat disproportionate to the strong demand of the steel plant, and the closer to the factory, the more horse-drawn carriages are transporting coal, and there is even a horse-drawn carriage drawn by more than 10 groups of horses, similar to a train carriage.

"Mr. Zhan, do you see it? Baotou needs a railway! Yang Yuanzhao helplessly looked at the slow-moving carriage train, the road only solved part of the problem, but the next thing that needs to be solved is the volume of transportation, the railway has a natural advantage over the road, unless, Yang Yuanzhao has been doing research all the time, and even the high-horsepower diesel engine that has not been taken out of the all-in-one machine is taken out, although it has not reached the Cheng dù of later generations, but it can also be equivalent to the agricultural vehicle of the 21st century.

As an engine engineer, do not advocate overloading, but in this era, to improve the capacity of overloading is inevitable, the stability and simple structure of the later generation of agricultural vehicles, but can reach more than 10 tons of capacity, for the excavation of this road, absolutely amazing.

Zhan Tianyou nodded, but did not speak, but his eyes have been staring at the factory in the distance, the car is gradually approaching, Baiyun Obo Steel Plant, so displayed in front of Zhan Tianyou's eyes, a huge, construction site, this seems to be a miracle, showing in front of everyone, everywhere is dense crowds and machinery, the most powerful manufacturing capacity that manpower can achieve in the mainland is undoubtedly here, a huge mine under development, In the eyes of this genius railway expert, this is the real iron ore, the real heavy industry.

Before, Yang Yuanzhao said casually, let him understand that this is a huge steel plant, Hanyang Iron Works, it took 20 years, and there was no breakthrough, so easily, it was broken through by the border town of Baotou, which has an illusory, fantastical feeling, but the facts are in front of you, if those chimneys that are not smoking, it can be said to be an ornament, then it is emitting black smoke, and there are dense factories and workers' factories around, then it can't deceive people, Zhan Tianyou has already prepared, Seeing such a majestic scene, he couldn't help but be speechless, and he asked with some hesitation: "I don't know how much President Yang, how much have you invested!" ”

30 million! A simple number, just spit out in Yang Yuanzhao's mouth, seems to be inconspicuous at all, but this number, but suddenly Zhan Tianyou down, you know, the emergence of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, is simply twists and turns, with the help of the railway to the northeast of the substantial profits, so that the Qing government decided to promote the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, continuous twists and turns, many times, he is not a railway engineer, become a collector to raise railway funds, after a long period of pulling and pulling, these funds, Difficult in place, but in the end, did not exceed 7 million, or relying on 4 years of time, a little bit in place, otherwise the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway will definitely be able to complete ahead of schedule, and even reduce the investment, sometimes the huge construction site, a day of delay, the losses brought are amazing, this huge steel mill, the amount of investment is 4 times the amount of all his inputs, from this point of view, this northwest, whether it is strength, or courage is extraordinary.

But the next moment, Yang Yuanzhao's unit made him unable to say all his words, the dollar, the original unit of 30 million, is not the silver dollar that Zhan Tianyou thought of, but the dollar, the contrast between the silver dollar and the dollar, has maintained a 1 to 2 situation for a long time, and even the dollar is worth a little more than the silver dollar, 30 million silver dollars, which has made Zhan Tianyou a little unable to breathe, and the dollar is like a mountain, weighing heavily on Zhan Tianyou's heart, and the whole of China can take out one million yuan at one time. It is already a super businessman, not only in their respective fields, they have a long reputation, but also have this great influence in many aspects, such as channels and markets, and even among the officialdom and elites, but in the northwest border, in a corner that no one noticed, this young man who looked a little thin actually invested in such a huge industry all of a sudden, what is this for, why has he never heard of the northwest?

It is also such a bold huge investment, to be able to make this wasteland in the northwest border, into a hot spot for investment, Yang Yuanzhao looked at the eyes, almost starry Zhan Tianyou, swallowed some words back, not to mention the investment, the latest technology, money can not buy, if all from foreign foreign companies to buy, not only buy backward old equipment, even the quality can not be guaranteed, Hanyang Iron Works is a clear example, when designed, Hanyang Iron Works is not an annual output of 80,000 tons of iron, 40,000 tons of steel, Zhang Zhidong is ambitious, to build Asia's first-class steel plant, even a qiē requirements are good, unfortunately, he is full of enthusiasm and funds, but there is no international relationship and vision, not all of them are second-hand, but it is not very suitable, but also let the quality of steel in Hanyang Iron Works be criticized.

For Baiyun Obo Steel Plant, Yang Yuanzhao has poured too much effort, if it is not an all-in-one machine, if it is not a breakthrough in oxygen blowing top, this steelmaking plant, even if all 16 blast furnaces are successful, the daily output will not exceed 8,000 tons, and the annual output will support more than 20 million tons, it is precisely because with the help of the all-in-one machine, with the basic support of Williams's real yàn room, a large number of newer and more powerful technologies have been applied to the production of steelmaking, the limit capacity of this steelmaking blast furnace, A staggering 10 million tons, which is about four times the previous technology of even the world's largest steel mills.

This is the advantage of technological leadership, of course, if Yang Yuanzhao can continue to break through, with converters instead of open hearth, not only the quality of steelmaking will be greatly improved, and the speed, is doubled, a furnace of steel from entry to out, at most it will only take more than 40 minutes, a day of full load running down the efficiency is higher, but unfortunately that is beyond the technology of this era, even many developed countries are able to master it after a few decades, perhaps aiming at this direction, keep working hard, decades later, there will be results, but before, unlikely.

The car slowly drove into the Baotou Iron and Steel Plant, Zhang Zhaozhong, who had already been notified by Yang Yuanzhao, waited at the gate of the factory, after a little introduction, especially to Zhang Zhaozhong, let him know Zhan Tianyou, Zhang Zhaozhong's gaze at Zhan Tianyou, has undergone great changes, from the original calm gaze, suddenly became eager, Zhan Tianyou in Zhang Zhaozhong's eyes, is no longer a railway engineer, but a golden man who exudes golden light.

For more than two months, in terms of the vigorous production capacity of the steel plant, the production capacity of the steel plant is extremely amazing, half of the production capacity every day, a large number of steel rails will be produced, and these steel rails will only play a role after they become railways, and now, the person who solves this problem has finally appeared.

Hearing is false, seeing is believing, Yang Yuanzhao led Zhan Tianyou into the rail workshop of the steelmaking plant, to be exact, it is the largest of the five rail workshops at present.

A steelmaking plant, in fact, is not only a steelmaking workshop, although the steelmaking workshop is the largest, but the supporting ironmaking workshop, crushing workshop, coke workshop and many other factories, combined, provide the raw materials needed for steelmaking, the current open-hearth steelmaking, can use a lot of materials as raw materials, even scrap steel can be, but in order to control the quality, Yang Yuanzhao is not just refining a large number of low-level steel, the whole world, the popular steel, most of them are low-grade, is the best steel, but with this body machine, coupled with his forward-looking vision, he is not able to refine the world, and the relatively high-end steel is sorry for his crossing.

Basically, are carefully selected ores, and then there is a special process, not only fast, but also the production of steel, sulfur and other impurities are also very few, plus the addition of some trace elements, they are in strength, far more than ordinary just now, and therefore, formed a series of steel branches, rebar, steel plates, steel bars, plates, ordinary steel, and the most important track steel.

Because of Yang Yuanzhao's attention, in the input of all steel mills, the output of rail steel accounts for almost more than half of the entire steel, and the annual output is almost more than 500,000 tons.

This largest rail workshop, of course, is relying on the first blast furnace, the first steelmaking blast furnace of Baiyun Obo Iron and Steel Plant, of course, is the most important, but also the highest level of technology, under the continuous strengthening, especially after the run-in training personnel, as early as more than a month ago, it reached 2 shifts, and now, it has reached 3 shifts, that is to say, it can barely carry out the limit of operation, the number of shifts per day has been increased from the original 2 to three, the two day shifts have reached 8 hours, and the night shift is 4 hours, It is rotated every other week, so that the amount of steel produced per day reaches a staggering 10 furnaces, or 1,500 tons.

This number is extremely amazing for a single furnace, and because of the huge output, there are more and more ancillary facilities of this steelmaking blast furnace, and the rail workshop is also the largest. R1152