Chapter 42: The Difficult Road to Steel

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After Cheng Pan's sensational speech, the morale of the territory was raised. The people of the territory, after the frenzy, began to question what this orthodox avenue was. Cheng Pan's explanation for this is: "To understand the world, to understand the basic laws of the world, after thoroughly mastering these basic laws, can we create complex tools to help people live better in this world, and don't be confused when encountering unknown phenomena, it's just that I don't know enough about the world."

After Cheng Pan promised this big cake, he also put himself in. Historically, the West was the first to develop capital, using money to drive people to use their lives to grab territory, and then to plunder and conquer the territory to carry out the industrial revolution to improve productivity. This model in the West is to use people as animals, and even scurvy has not been solved, and they are lured by gold coins to drive sailboats on the sea. It is with the rope life that is fighting.

After the beginning of spring this year, Cheng Pan was busy and forgot to participate in the local children's test. Now the people in the territory are outsiders, the original main force of the local imperial examination in the agrarian revolution tragedy, the local people by Cheng Pan trained up the workers and peasants intellectuals to Cheng Pan to the ditch, can only write simplified characters, want to change to write traditional Chinese characters The habit is pure dreaming, in the territory is full of simplified Chinese characters, Xiucai, who has lived here for a long time, will often write other words in the eyes of the examiner after participating in the imperial examination, so most of the locals participate in the junior high school, junior high school, high school triple graduation examination set up by Cheng Pan.

As for Cheng Pan himself, when he came to this era, he only learned to write some traditional Chinese characters, as for the imperial examination. Forget it, anyway, it's the examiner asking me to get a high score. For Cheng Pan, who was once a dog under the pressure of the college entrance examination, he has no love for the examination room in this life. In this way, Cheng Pan was absent from the exam, but his talent was famous. Some examiners were very indignant at this blatant malpractice. But when they heard that it was an order from above, they kept their mouths shut, and after a period of inquiry, the officials calmed down. In order to drive away this anti-thief soldier without blood, it is expedient to cheat and give him a reputation. The high-level officials of the province are doing their best to operate Cheng Pan's official position, but Cheng Pan's identity is a Mongolian nobleman, just a southerner, and he must always have a name for being an official, and he can't openly say that he should be given an official by letting this anti-thief give him an official. In this way, the face of the entire Chaotang Henan and Jiangbei provinces will be lost, and when the time comes, a group of political enemies will pull this pigtail and hold on to it. Therefore, the Tongguò imperial examination gave him a meritorious name step by step, and in the network of some powerful ministers in the Tongguò court, he threw the position of county order to him. God is pitiful, who these officials have asked for officials so dedicatedly, and others have asked for officials in big boxes and small boxes with yellow and white things hunched over their waists and laughed together. Cheng Pan hasn't said a fart until now, and a large group of people in the officialdom are helping him move around.

Don't mention Cheng Pan's fierce official experience, Cheng Pan is indeed very busy now. He stayed alone in the steel mill. Cheng Pan's current steel technology level in the territory is at most a little more than farm tools to make waterwheels, gears and other parts that are not too demanding. As for thinking about things like steam engines, Cheng Pan didn't play out of the cost. The cylinder of the steam engine alone, which cost Cheng Pan the best steel that he could now refine, was still nine out of ten under the processing of skilled workers. Take the type of artillery built by Cheng Pan as an example, after the five cannons, it must be stopped and cooled, and although modern artillery also has a barrel life, I haven't heard that it will be cooled down after a few hits. And the walls of the tubes of modern artillery are no thicker than those of old cannons. You can see the rapid improvement of steel technology during the Industrial Revolution.

That is to say, although Cheng Pan is now making picric acid explosives in the real room, there is no qualified steel weapon that can withstand its explosion, and the flowering bomb is made of picric acid, in case it explodes in the cannon chamber, the fragile iron cannon chamber can not stop the explosion of yellow explosives dozens of times more powerful than black powder. Now picric acid can only be used as a warhead to propel rockets with black powder, and there are also blast holes to blow up mountains and mines.

In the iron and steel factory, Zeng Lao, who was already the director of the Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Plant, said to Cheng Pan in a hesitant tone: "Mr. Cheng, now I know, I have been playing iron all my life, but now I don't know more and more about iron. When Cheng Pan heard this, he seemed to feel that he had encountered the biggest technical barrier of this era. It is true that due to the lack of basic theoretical science and material science, the iron and steel industry, the cornerstone industry of the industrial revolution, has reached its production limit. Cheng Pan had seen historians say that the Song Dynasty's economy reached agriculture, and the steel production was massive, and in 1o78 AD, the annual output had reached 127 million kilograms. It has reached the coal and iron production of Britain at the end of the 18th century, but Cheng Pan was proud to see this information for a while, but Cheng Pan's mind gradually became clear after crossing, maybe the Song Dynasty really reached the early stage of the industrial revolution in terms of output, but it was far from the level of the industrial revolution in terms of material science. At that time, there was no specific standard number of smelting processes left, and production was completely commanded by the experience of old workers. With the passage of time and the destruction of war, these advanced production experiences have not been recorded in writing, even if a small number of records are not counted, they still have to rely on later generations to explore.

Without the accumulation of the wisdom of generations of craftsmen, the technical level of steelmaking has been at a low stage, and it is impossible to step into the industrial revolution in terms of technology.

Cheng Pan thought about these and said to Director Zeng: "The differences caused by different processes should be recorded one by one, and in order to produce better steel, I will keep doing it." Write it down with the number jù and then execute it according to strict standards. A difficulty to solve the administrative group, now steel is the core of the industry, if necessary other industrial production departments try to meet. If one method doesn't work, try the second one, don't worry about failure" Director Zeng said: "The effort and cost of this is not too great, such a continuous trial, each process step will cost nearly 1,000 tons of iron" Hearing 1,000 tons of iron and process steps, Cheng Pan gasped and then made up his mind and said: "Give me a try, try everything, we are opening the way for future generations, no matter how big the price is."

With Cheng Pan's decision, the steel plant was busy. But the cost of improving steel craftsmanship is not just money, but also lives. A month after the steel process at the No. 1 steel plant, there was a serious accident, and several steelworkers were in the process of exploring the process of mixing molten steel, and the iron bridge they observed collapsed, and three people fell into the molten iron and their bones were gone. One of the three has just graduated from junior high school and is in short supply in the territory. After getting the news, Cheng Pan was silent for a long time, and then said: "These three people are treated according to the highest standard of soldier death, and those who die in industrial accidents in the future will be treated according to this standard. At this time, the director of the factory said: "Mr. Cheng, but what happened, the hearts of the people in the iron factory were fluctuating, and they questioned the steel industry test you said, they thought that it was enough to produce iron according to the current safe production method, and there was no need to risk such a big risk to test the steel production method." Cheng Pan stared at Blacksmith Zeng and said seriously: "Old Zeng, we are walking on the orthodox avenue, none of the roads are naturally formed, they are all walked out by the pioneers, in ancient times, the human race took out the fire from the vicinity of the lightning volcano, and it was also burned to death that many people learned to use fire." Everything we do now is a legacy of posterity. The three people who died this time will enjoy the incense of the human race under the care of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors. Now the treatment of the iron factory is already very high, and those who are afraid of death and don't want to do it will let them go."

With Cheng Pan's persuasion and the wish that those who died for industrial progress would be cared for by their ancestors and enjoy the eternal worship of the entire human race, the industrial experiments of the steel mill continued. Cheng Pan also put all his spare time into participating in the process of process testing of the steel mill. Because Cheng Pan's leading steel plant workers have no complaints about the dangerous steel industry test, some of the most dangerous dangers have Cheng Pan's figure, because of the strong sense of Cheng Pan can often be one step ahead of the present danger, industrial accidents can not be avoided but the number and strict zhòng Cheng dù greatly reduced, in Cheng Pan's timely show of urgency in the accident before the death of the workers with Cheng Pan to do a good job of safety measures, at most some people are slightly injured, engaged in dangerous processes Iron and steel workers hope to work with Cheng Pan, because there is too much security, Cheng Pantong's inspection of the entire iron plant often gives priority to potential safety hazards, and the number of fatal accidents in this backward steel plant is miraculously reduced to an incredible number.

Not only in terms of safety production, but also in the process of process exploration, he felt that he played an important role, because the changes of steel under a series of processing can be understood more clearly than the naked eye, the exploration of steel technology has increased rapidly, and the time and iron material spent on exploring a process have been shortened by one-tenth. But the industrial system is a very large discipline, although Cheng Pan has the ability to cheat. The leap forward in the steel industry will take at least a decade.

At the same time, Cheng Pan's time in the steel mill has become very long, so Cheng Pan is very busy now.