Chapter 166: Songzi Blooms Revival Flower 2
86_86695 "To carry out industrialization is to implement benevolent government. Industrialization is not a hypocritical benevolent government engaged in by the feudal ruling class, but a fundamental, revolutionary, and truly benevolent government that can benefit all the people of the world! ”
"The mission of our Revival Society is to lead and promote industrialization in every piece of land in China, and to implement this true benevolent government!"
-- 1622, Wang Shuhui, "The Revival Society is the Main Force in the Construction of New China"
Whether industrialization is really benevolent or not, Niu Haochong, a cadre of the Mineral Resources Division of the Industrial Department of the Revival Association, does not have an objective understanding. However, industrialization is definitely a magnificent process, and Niu Haochong's understanding of this is very profound.
As a full-time training teacher of the mineral resources class, every time he taught the technicians how to use the high-explosive mountain opener (fertilizer cartridge), led batches of trainees, and blew up the mountains into big pits and leaked out the minerals in the mountain soil, Niu Haochong could feel the huge power of industrialization.
Niu Hao was born in a well-known family in Henan. Their housekeeping skills are to know feng shui and distinguish the terrain. Although because of the famine, he was the only one left in the family. However, he has always been very proud of his skills. It wasn't until he was absorbed into the Revival Society that he realized how insignificant his family heirloom skills were.
It is the most basic prospecting knowledge taught by the Fuxing Society Industrial School, which makes Niu Haochong feel very surprised. Not to mention those "profound" prospecting theories in the library. He genuinely admired the revival society's indifferent knowledge of what others would treasure as its secret to so many people, and how openly and universally it was taught.
Because of certain practical experience and theoretical foundation, and special enthusiasm and hard work, Niu Haochong has become the person with the highest level of mastery of prospecting and mining technology in the entire industrial department.
For more than two years, the Mining Division of the Industrial Department of the Renaissance Association has been practicing Wang Shuhui's mining ideas. That is, the mining industry of the Renaissance Society does not carry out tunneling operations. All minerals mined in qiē must be mined in the open pit.
Specifically, if the minerals are buried too deeply, the Fuxing Society will not develop them. As long as the minerals meet the development standards of the Fuxing Association, even if it requires a lot of manpower and material resources, it must be fully blasted and open-pit mining must be realized.
Wang Shuhui knows, let alone in the backward environment of productive forces in ancient society. Even in modern society, all kinds of mining disasters are still common. Although Wang Shuhui is relatively indifferent to human life. However, he would never allow Revival workers to work in avoidable high-risk conditions.
In fact, this is the reason why the Renaissance Society's mining industry is so costly. In the Revival system, miners are the highest-paid jobs. The Renaissance Association has set the highest level of wages and benefits for the miners, and has provided them with the most comprehensive security protection.
In the entire industrial system of the Renaissance, the industrialization of the mining industry is the highest. A large number of large machines are used in the mines. Steam tractors, steam bulldozers, steam excavators, these machines that Wang Shuhui spent a lot of money on in modern factories are used in large quantities in mines.
Niu Haochong looked at the trembling expressions of these Songzi disaster victims who had just completed the basic training who were assigned to the Songzi Mining Department, and felt that these guys were lucky.
For Niu Haochong, who is accustomed to industrialization and really likes his job, it is a beautiful job to be able to use steam machinery to mine minerals. However, for the Songzi refugees, who have just completed a month-long training of production and construction troops, the earth-shattering task of blowing up a mountain like an earth dragon (earthquake) and driving those fearsome iron monsters that eat coal and spit fire to dig and transport those useless stones and useful ores is not enviable.
Industrialization is not a very pleasant and comfortable thing. The fruits of industrialization can make human life more comfortable and pleasant, but the process of industrialization requires a long time for people in agricultural societies to adapt.
Fortunately, between being starved to death and enjoying the treatment of the landlord's old wealth after working in fear. The victims of the disaster in Songzi County all chose to enjoy the treatment of the landlord's old wealth after working in fear. The threat of death became a powerful and effective impetus for the peasants to become workers.
Wang Shuhui's current focus is not on mining. After the use of a large number of machinery, the mining industry of the Revival itself did not develop quickly. The main reason is that the cost of Fuxing's own ore cannot be reduced.
Wang Shuhui led the cadres of the Industrial Department to compare the Zhijiang Business Alliance with his own mining industry. In fact, in the two main parts of ore mining and transportation, Fuxing will invest too much in ore mining. In terms of transportation, the Revival Society itself has certain advantages. However, the gap between the transportation efficiency of the four-wheeled carriage and the traditional carriage of the Zhijiang Business Alliance is not huge enough to balance the investment in ore mining.
Wang Shuhui and the Renaissance Association would never exploit the workers more than the new capitalists of the Zhijiang Business Alliance. However, Wang Shuhui will not allow the revival to lose to the emerging capitalists in any industrial sector. Therefore, Wang Shuhui decided to make a larger investment. He wants to completely open the geometric gap with the Zhijiang Business Alliance in the transportation of minerals.
He wanted to build a railway in Songzi County, the main source of ore in Zhijiang County, to transport ore.
After a thorough investigation of the mining industry of the Zhijiang Business Alliance and the Fuxing Society, Wang Shuhui found that the Fuxing Society, which used various "advanced" machinery, was ahead of the Zhijiang Business Alliance in terms of ore mining efficiency. However, it was the "high" wages and "high" benefits for the mining workers (which in the eyes of modern people really did not be high) that kept the cost of ore for the Renaissance Society high.
However, once the Fuxing Society established a railway in Songzi County, with the joint efforts of steam locomotives and steamships, the great efficiency of the Fuxing Society's mining industry will exert its due power. The cost of all kinds of ores, prompted by the infinite increase in labor efficiency under the conditions of full mechanization, will fall to a level that is difficult for the mining enterprises of the Zhijiang Business Alliance to bear.
Although Wang Shuhui was not prepared to completely defeat the two mining enterprises of the Zhijiang Business Alliance. However, he wanted to constantly wave the whip of industrialization and urge the new capitalists of the Zhijiang Business Alliance to constantly improve the industrialization process of their enterprises.
On the other hand, the forced use of more steam machinery by the enterprises of the Zhijiang Business Alliance also has a direct benefit to the Fuxing Society. After all, they can only buy the corresponding equipment in the factories of the Revival Society.
When it comes to railways, the first reaction of modern people is to use high-tech means to build railways and locomotives, and to use advanced electronic technology command systems to operate high-speed railways at a speed of two to three hundred kilometers per hour. However, for the railways of the era of the First Industrial Revolution, it was nothing more than the rough stuff of using simple rails and using a steam engine to drive the carriages forward.
A rudimentary steam locomotive, whose horsepower is not necessarily higher than that of the concentrated use of animal power, and whose speed is not necessarily faster than that of a fast horse, pulls several carriages and moves on improvised rails. In fact, in the era of the first industrial revolution, the desirability of trains was that the total amount of goods they carried had an absolute advantage over animal road transport.
In order to successfully build the first railway of the Fuxing Association, Wang Shuhui specially dispatched personnel to form an industrial construction command center. The construction of this railway is to be completed in stages and steps by the industrial construction command center, in strict accordance with the plan drawn up by Wang Shuhui's modern think tank, to train and direct a part of the victims of the disaster in Songzi County.
The basic premise of this plan is that the entire construction process of the railway, except for a small part of the necessary equipment and materials, which must be purchased by Wang Shuhui from the modern Tongguò time and space gate, the entire project will use local equipment and materials.
The first step of the project is to start all three projects together. The three projects are: iron ore mine and coal mine construction; construction of Songzi Iron and Steel Plant; Construction of an improvised railway between the mine and the steel mill.
At present, the only industrial base of the Fuxing Society, the Jiangbei Industrial Base, can only provide two-thirds of the machinery for the construction of the mine. Steam tractors, steam bulldozers and steam excavators, because of their high requirements for the level of the machining industry, are currently not able to produce the machinery processing plant of the Fuxing Society.
It's not that the equipment level of the Fuxing Machinery Processing Plant is not enough, but that the workers in the Machinery Processing Factory are not up to standard.
At present, Jiangbei Machinery Factory has been able to produce some relatively simple and rough mining equipment, such as roadheaders, gangue scrapers, crushers, conveyor belts (no surprise, no rubber is used, it is similar to a track-type steel conveyor belt), grinding machines, sifting machines, sorting machines, pumping machines (of course, these machines often have problems, and parts have to be replaced) and so on.
At present, most of the components of the blast furnace and Martin furnace required for the construction of Songzi Iron and Steel Plant have also been self-produced. Renaissance's industry already has the initial ability to replicate itself.
The mine, the steel mill and the improvised storage railway will be built at the same time.
In addition to training and using tens of thousands of local disaster victims in Songzi, Wang Shuhui will also transfer about 20,000 construction personnel from Zhijiang County. Among them, 3,000 are professionals in the corresponding industries (after all, they have worked in the Jiangbei Industrial Zone for two or three years, which can be regarded as professionals) and more than 10,000 production and construction soldiers who have completed training and have participated in many related construction work.
After receiving primary training, all the disaster victims from all over the country who have been recruited by the Reconstruction Society will be selected from the best of the best to be absorbed into the Reconstruction Army (including combat units, logistics units, and engineering troops), and the rest will be organized and trained into production and construction troops. In addition to military training and cultural study, production and construction troops will also learn corresponding production skills according to the different requirements of each factory. Some of them will be absorbed directly into the factories.
For directing tens of thousands of people to start three projects at the same time, not only Wang Shuhui has no bottom in his heart, but even the cadres of the Fuxing Association of the newly established industrial construction command center also feel a lot of pressure.
Wang Shuhui knew that the main purpose of the think tank's plan was to build a steel plant in Songzi County first, and then the Songzi Iron and Steel Plant would produce rails and build a regular railway.
However, Wang Shuhui really didn't know if he could control this wartime rapid construction model of the Soviet Union