Bang!

I saw a flash of strong light, and then a cloud of white smoke rose, and the group photo of the dignitaries who participated in the steelmaking ceremony of the first steel plant of the New Tang Empire in the United States and the emperor's family was completed.

If you want to talk about this photographic technology, this is a magnesium lamp, and this is still proposed by Li Mengyang, of course, he is not an inventor, but in his consciousness, it seems that photography should have such a scary look, but I didn't expect that this magnesium lamp does not exist in this era.

That's right, he Li Mengyang said that he was out of his mouth at the beginning......

However, our steel plant is also officially operational, and this production, supply and marketing, what kind of battleship, these ......

Right? Isn't this steel plant too obtrusive? Why did it come out all of a sudden? How long has the New Tang Empire been established?

Actually, it's not abrupt at all, because this steel plant was originally under construction!

Yes, this is something that was originally going to be built in California, but now it is cheaper Li Mengyang.

Californians, who are not fools themselves, have actually seen the problem in California, which is that the gold rush has prospered, so Californians have been thinking about how to make the prosperity last, that is, sustainable development in the 19th century.

You know, gold mines are still used to pan for gold, that is, to wash away the sediment with water, and then find 3 natural gold grains, which does not have any technical content at all, oh no, there is also technical content, when we Chinese came to California, we used a very good method, the set of farmland and water conservancy in our hometown was used in gold panning. Thereupon......

"A place that has been scooped up by the Chinese. You won't find even a piece of gold between your teeth. These are the words that have been handed down at the time. It is also the earliest anti-Chinese motive.

Our compatriots are really good at working......

However, it is definitely not possible to dig so much, and it cannot last long, so it is necessary to further improve the technology, such as smelting.

That's right, you can't dig it, then we can smelt the sands. Moreover, this place in California is very rich in minerals, coal, iron, magnesium...... In fact, generally places with gold mines have this characteristic, and there are abundant minerals.

Then it is natural to develop the smelting industry, and steelmaking and ironmaking are also among them.

In the past, they were all small workshops, so California has to do big ones!

The first steel plant of the New Tang Empire in the United States has actually been built for several years. But you know, it's not easy to build a steel mill this year. Choosing a site is very difficult, but fortunately, California is blessed with a unique geographical advantage, a little north between San Francisco and Sacramento, there are lakes, and there are also coal mines and iron mines, which are necessary conditions for building steel plants at this time.

Most of the steel mills in this era are blast furnaces, this technology is actually very old, but it has been improved to be very modern, of course, this is modernization in Li Mengyang's eyes, but in his eyes, this is not enough!

Of course it's not enough, he's a person from an old industrial base, even if it's a liberal arts student, he's seen too much.

It's not good to make steel like this!

We're going to do this and that......

Anyway, Li Mengyang told everything he had seen, and as a result, Thomson, who was in charge of the reconstruction of the steel plant, looked at him as if he was looking at an alien.

In fact, during this time period, the steel industry has developed a lot, but this is from a world perspective. First of all, the best in the world, the best in the world, has to be the United Kingdom, Thomson is very proud to say.

"Our British Empire produces 3.8 million tons of steel a year! Twice as many as the United States, Germany, France combined! ”

Don't say it, the old imperialist countries are really powerful, and they are indeed enough for Thomson, even though he is an Irishman.

But after hearing these things that Li Mengyang said, Thomson was still shocked.

Lime is added to steelmaking, oxygenated ...... Thomson knows all these things, Thomson knows everything, but.

"We're going to set up a separate lime plant!"

"Separate oxygen plant!"

"Separate ......"

These things, Thomson swears to God, he really hasn't heard of them!

Of course, Thomson could not have heard of it, because Li Mengyang was talking about the industrial division of labor in later generations, and the reason why industry progressed was that its expression was the division of labor, and the more detailed the division of labor, the higher the productivity.

To put it bluntly, Li Mengyang didn't know the specific requirements of these divisions of labor at all, but he had seen these things, and in his understanding, it was right to do so!

In other words, in the whole world now, technology has not yet developed to that level, but this appearance, let's figure it out first, so what will be the result?

Forcing technological progress!

Yes, this is the result, although Thomson has not seen the things described by Li Mengyang, but he deeply understands that it is right to do it, and it will definitely improve the output and quality of steel!

So why don't we get that way out?

Our great scientists, then naturally go and work hard!

So, half a year after the establishment of the New Tang Empire in the United States, finally, the first furnace of pig iron was produced at the First Iron and Steel Plant!

It can be said that this speed is very fast, and everyone twists into a rope, because our Emperor Majesty Xià said.

"Industry is the future of our empire!"

Why is Li Mengyang so persistent in developing industry?

Isn't California's empire blocked right now? Should agriculture be vigorously developed?

In fact, in the United States, one of the most advantageous conditions in this new world is that agriculture is too fucking easy to develop!

There is uncultivated land everywhere, and most of it is very fat, and basically you are not a particularly special lazy person, then you can't starve to death.

So how did California have such a shortage of supplies before?

This is really Li Mengyang's luck!

In fact, just before that, California had already begun its transformation. That is, they also saw that the gold rush could not last. Some of them went to develop the smelting industry. As for the others, that is, to develop agriculture, otherwise how could there be people from the city fleeing to the countryside in the first place, but it is only ......

To be honest, if it were a year or two later, Li Mengyang would never have used the previous method to bring down California, because it would be impossible for them to be short of food at that time!

Li Mengyang really doesn't know, in the afterlife. California is one of the most developed agricultural states in the United States, but the California that Li Mengyang knows, that is, the era in which he lives, California's agriculture is very bad, but it has not yet risen, and even because of excessive hunting, North American bison have gone around California!

This may really be the will of God, and this guy Li Mengyang should be the emperor!

In this way, agriculture is very easy to get started. The difficulty lies in dealing with those bandits, but now it is the Production and Construction Corps. Moreover, it is mainly the soldiers of Chinese workers, on the one hand, to adapt them to the battlefield, to train soldiers, and on the other hand, to develop agriculture.

Grab it with both hands, and be hard with both hands!

Of course, although agriculture seems to be relatively easy, we still propose some scientific fertilization and scientific farming...... Well, these are all slogans made up by Li Mengyang, as for what kind of scientific method...... He really didn't know that the liberal arts students who had never farmed were disliked when they were in Kansas, hey~

So what are all these steels for? An annual output of 100,000 tons!

The current annual steel output of the United States is 840,000 tons, and 100,000 tons is not a small number, and what kind of battleship did Li Mengyang propose, I don't know when it will be made.

Actually, Li Mengyang thought about it early in the morning!

Make guns and cannons!

As for where to sell, the first customer was already there, and that was Cespedes, the Cuban people were now in a desperate struggle with the Spanish rulers!

Well, these independent guys are Spaniards, but they need at least guns.

Moreover, Li Mengyang also heard that that Cespedes is amazing, didn't he prepare a sum of money to fund the current opposition in New Granada, but as a result, this Cespedes himself intercepted a lot!

He is a man who does great things!

Although he was more annoyed by this matter, Li Mengyang was still relatively calm, and the Cuban independence fighters said that they would give interest, so ...... Let's sell them weapons!

Don't underestimate this economic action, this is equivalent to lending them to buy weapons, and they are still buying weapons of their own production, so as to stimulate the economic development of their own country, which is ...... Isn't this the trick being used in China in later generations?

Huge benefits are in front of you, Li Mengyang said...... This Cuba is not enough to stuff your teeth between your teeth!

Yes, it's too small, for now, the guns eliminated by the revolutionary army meet the needs of Cuban independence fighters......

Eliminate? Secondhand?!

That's right, it's naturally second-hand, this thing is indeed a bit inauthentic, but Li Mengyang knows very well that the United States will do this in the future, and other people's planes, fighter planes, etc., are sold abroad are second-hand!

We sell nothing more than guns, a small business, much more disciplined than in the United States......

Well, let's not talk about the pit of the Cuban people, it's just outrageous, but what about the other markets? Are there any big buyers for guns?

In fact, Li Mengyang is already arranging this matter, and one of his envoys is already on the ship, now......

"Majesty!"

After taking the photo, after Liszt looked at Li Mengyang's paintings very carefully, this guy had tears in his eyes again!

"...... "What's going on here?"

"I said, you guy don't keep slapping on the back! I can't stand it anymore! "Yelena can't stand it anymore, she really hates this Liszt.

However, Liszt didn't care so much at all, just listened to him say: "Your Majesty, your paintings are really amazing!" Better than many of today's famous ......"

Li Mengyang can see that this Liszt has the feeling of 'laughing and scolding from you, and I will do it for myself as a good official'.

However, Yelena over there was more energetic, "What is this painting!" Who ...... to paint like this" she wanted to say, 'Who can't draw it?' But in total, this is her husband's painting, and she really can't draw this painting, this battleship, right, so Yelena wittily said: "How abstract this painting is!" ”

"Abstract?" Li Mengyang's face is red!

"......" Huang Rong and Fiona were both holding back their laughter, but!

"Abstract?! What's so bad about abstraction? Abstraction is also like! 陛xià is a master of abstract painting! Comrades! ”

“all-hail-lee！”

“all-hail-lee！”

"......" Li Mengyang never dreamed that the 'abstract school' would be born...... (To be continued......)

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