The dawn of the 299 engine

Fengtian's original name was Shengjing, where the emperors of the Qing Dynasty Taizu Taizong were buried, and soon after the Manchurians entered the customs, they changed their name to Fengtian, which was taken from the meaning of Fengtian carrier, of course, in Li Mo's heart, he also had another name, Shenyang. (Vertex Hand Hit)

But on the question of whether to change the name, Li Mo has always had his own ideas, every city name, every road name has its historical heritage, personally, he does not like to be like later generations, there is a scene of liberation road in the whole country, Nanjing Road.

No matter what happened to the Manchu Dynasty, it was an indelible history on the land of China, and as for whether to change the name, he handed over the power to the Government Council for his own consideration, and he didn't want to ask too much about such things.

The land of the dragon of the Great Qing Dynasty, the Northeast heavy industry base of later generations, is changing little by little in the hands of Master Li at this moment, extending outward to the railway station, and everywhere are all kinds of newly built facilities, a row of wooden telephone poles have radiated outward, which is not only the telephone line, but also connected to one of the most important facilities outside the city, the power plant.

Whether it is telephone and telegraph, or electricity, are the treasure of Master Li's heart, the newly established Northeast Telephone and Telegraph Company at the beginning of its establishment, released a bold statement to set up telephone lines in every village, that kind of rhetoric did not provoke Li Enfu's praise, but was kicked in the mud.

It's not that Li Enfu doesn't support it, but it's impossible for the Government Council to invest so much money on the phone at the moment, you must know that in order to connect Taiwan, Luzon, Ryukyu and even Lushun, before its own cable factory started, the Government Council has purchased a large number of submarine cables from the United States, and through two years of hard work, a lot of money was spent, and it was only recently that the final laying of the submarine cable from Taiwan to Luzon was completed, connecting this telephone line connecting the north and the south.

Moreover, in the case of the military and confidential government departments using independent radios, such a large number of telephone and telegraph is also suspected of being wasteful, if it were not for the fact that there are no wires that have not been declassified, Li Mo insisted on not allowing them to be put into civilian use for the time being, and he would not even be willing to set up telephone lines, and finally considering that the finances are not rich, Li Enfu only approved the telephone and telegraph lines to be pulled to the most important cities and factories, and rejected the idea of moving into every farm.

I didn't expect that the young people of the telephone and telegraph company would have such a far-reaching idea of the times, so they also took the initiative to write a letter to the telegraph office to comfort the disappointed young man.

However, Li Enfu's headache on the telephone and telegram was not over, and he was almost stunned by Master Li's huge power development plan, according to Master Li's plan, the major cities and roads in the three northeastern regions will be electrified, and in ten years, electricity will be spread to every town and village in the northeast.

With Honolulu and Ryukyu all lit up, the three northeastern provinces also need to build five large-scale thermal power plants and ten hydroelectric power plants.

In fact, Li Mo was also mistaken, his plan was completely built according to the power needs of later generations, but at this moment the Northeast power has just started, and it is impossible to lay it to every household, so he finally agreed to slow down, but he must ensure the construction of three large power plants, because he knows better than anyone that no electricity is equal to no high-precision machine tools, and there is no way to improve production efficiency.

However, after Li Mo said that he would subsidize the patent fees collected by his global power service company for the next ten years to the Government Council due to financial pressures, Li Enfu left with a smile.

Ten years of royalties

Young Master Li also hurts to think about it, European countries led by the United States are desperately developing electricity, it is not enough to order an alternator in Honolulu, and they have also purchased patents to imitate themselves, the germ of electrification has initially appeared in various countries, and the annual patent fee is growing explosively, not to mention that with Tesla, a super cow in the era of electrification, how can Master Li lag behind in the initial stage.

The flesh hurts and must be dry, too

In this state of mind, coupled with Tesla muttering behind him that he did not support his career, Master Li gritted his teeth and went to the power plant, and stomped his foot to drive Tesla back to the laboratory, so that he could continue to research what was urgently needed, and even threw the high-precision machine tool project with electric drive to him, saving the guy from having nothing to do to annoy himself.

Free coolies and skilled technicians have promoted the rapid construction of power plants, and consumption promotes innovation, this wise saying Li Mo is still very clear, only when everyone begins to accept electricity, and electricity consumption begins to explode, then all kinds of electrical appliances will emerge in an endless stream, so that Master Li will hide in the laboratory for the rest of his life and continue to invent small household appliances.

Outside the car window, the two Daqing ticket numbers and the Northeast Bank under the Government Council fought against each other across the road, and when Li Mo hooked the corners of his mouth, he also had to accept the test of the pain of bumps.

The cavalry battalion and the guard battalion temporarily transferred around to protect formed two solid lines of defense, and even in order to ensure that the last incident would not happen again, Chen Ping also specially transferred a night cat, but at this time, the machine gun and important parts on it were covered with canvas, which made it difficult to see.

After half an hour of driving, the chimneys of the three huge power plants appeared in front of him, and the rows of neat factory sheds also came into view.

The industrial area in this year is different from later generations, most of them are spacious semi-open factory sheds, bricks and mud tiles, loess as walls, just to block the wind and rain, and the materials are also much simpler, far from being wrapped in cement and steel bars as many people imagine, so they can be built so quickly.

Li Mo is not looking at the power plant today, although a steam turbine generator in the Mukden power plant is already in operation, but his target is a factory in the distance that is not particularly conspicuous.

The factory is composed of three large conjoined sheds of more than 200 meters and several small houses, which are surrounded by earthen walls outside, and a plaque is hung at the gate.

When passing by the factory gate, Liang Qichao also deliberately glanced at the plaque. "The third smelter in the Northeast? What is this for? Is it steelmaking? But it doesn't look like the Hanyang factory? ”

Liang Qichao was puzzled, the convoy had already driven into the factory, and several young technicians and factory directors who were waiting greeted them with red faces excitedly.

When Li Mo got out of the car, the guards who protected it had already dispersed, except for a few technicians and factory directors who came to greet them, the factory shed was crowded with people, these after several months of training, although the workers who had just entered the factory did not know who was coming, but so many cars appeared in front of them, and they also knew that there must be a big man.

After receiving the steel helmet and mask handed by Du Dazhuang, Li Mo quickly put on, and walked towards the first factory shed with Yan Fu, Mr. Sun and Liang Qichao, who were also dressed in the same costume.

Seeing Li Mo coming this way, the workers in the big factory shed hurriedly returned to their respective posts and stood quietly in their seats, like soldiers waiting for review, as Li Mo nodded, a loud shout spread throughout the entire factory.

"Open the furnace"

With this loud sound, the furnace workers began to add coal to the preheated furnace, and a cart of ore that Liang Qichao and Mr. Sun did not know much about was poured into the smelting furnace, and at the same time, various large and small bales were poured into the furnace, and finally the workers controlled a steam-driven stirring rod to constantly stir the furnace.

Both of them looked a little inexplicable, but Li Mo knew very well that the Bayer method used by the workers was a special method for refining alumina, by adding crystal seeds and constantly stirring, the alumina in the solution could be slowly precipitated as aluminium hydroxide, until the molar ratio of sodium oxide to alumina increased to six, and most of the alumina solution had been precipitated, and when heated, the alumina water and matter in the bauxite could be dissolved, which was the process of dissolving bauxite by using the denominator solution. The alternating use of these two processes enables the processing of bauxite in batches, from which a pure aluminium hydroxide product is derived, forming the Bayer cycle.

Yan Fu next to him nodded while watching, it was not the first time he had seen this kind of scene, after the construction of the Ryukyu Island Power Plant, there was also a refinery of this kind, but the output was very small, the annual output was only a few tons, as long as it was used to train workers and provide aluminum for the laboratory.

aluminium

Looking at the red solution, Young Master Li's heart was surging.

Aluminum is the second most abundant metal in the world, and there are abundant bauxite resources all over the world, including in the Northeast, Luzon, Australia, the United States, and even the island of Guinea opposite Micronesia.

And the reason why he cares about aluminum, and also regards the aluminum plant as the first stop of his three-province inspection and comes to see the first start of construction, is entirely because of the engine problems that have been bothering him more and more recently.

The golden finger can be brought, but the industrial foundation and technical capabilities are here, even if it is assumed that Young Master Li can make an electron tube against the sky, but in the face of complex integrated circuits, he is also helpless.

In fact, the engine field is the same, although the engine technology of the republic in the previous life is not advanced, but bring back to this era, that is, against the sky, starting from the sky, the future will be even more against the sky?

Are you sure?

At least the difficulty of the internal combustion engine made Master Li a little suspicious, the automobile engine is still stuck at 25 horsepower, and the diesel engine is about the same, as for the engine needed for the aircraft?

Well, Master Li really couldn't imagine what it would be like to put an engine weighing hundreds of kilograms of all-nickel steel with a pitiful power of only a few dozen horsepower on that small wooden shelf

Weight and craftsmanship have become the biggest problems plaguing the engine.

The process can be slowly reformed, as long as the workers are more skilled, as long as there are more and more high-level skilled workers, then sooner or later they can break through this hurdle, from twin-stroke to four-stroke, and even more sophisticated and complex.

The weight makes Master Li worry to death, take the car he is sitting in now, for example, it uses a two-cylinder two-stroke gasoline engine, which is much more advanced than the single-cylinder car on sale, but the problem is that the all-nickel steel engine weighs more than 200 kilograms, and the whole is an iron lump

How to lose weight became a pimple in the heart of Master Li, until Chang Lin came to tell him that the physical-grade materials laboratory led by the Curies completed the experiment he explained to enhance the hardness and strength of aluminum, and finally made an alloy based on aluminum by adding iron, manganese, nickel and other elements, that he suddenly thought of the aluminum engine of later generations

Originally, Master Li asked the laboratory to concentrate on studying aluminum in order to prepare for future aircraft, but he didn't expect that it would make the engine weight reduction hopeful. The same aluminum alloy material is half as light as nickel steel of the same volume, and if the engine is suddenly lightened by more than 100 kilograms, it means that it can load more fuel, run more roads, or carry more cargo.

When the technology matures, the horsepower is a little stronger, and even after breaking through the post-V-shaped technology, then Young Master Li will be able to officially get rid of the nightmarish heart problem, and this also involves one of the most critical army equipment.

tank

The famous T34 is an aluminum engine

In fact, aluminum is not a new thing in these years, the mining of bauxite began in France in 1873, and the production of alumina from bauxite began in 1894, also using the Bayer method, but the production scale is only more than 1,000 tons per year.

In addition to the engine troubles, the reason why the aluminum industry needs to consume energy is also forced out by the rapidly soaring demand for steel, in fact, Li Mo has no shortage of good iron ore in his hands, one in Canada, two in Australia, two in Luzon, and has been proven and positioned, and even sent engineers with explosives to accelerate the mining of Maoshan super-large iron ore, plus the two iron mines in Hainan that have just arrived, and the direct purchase of steel from the United States one after another, he has no shortage of ore sources in his hands, if the total amount of resources is calculated, That's more than Carnegie and Morgan combined

But the problem is that this is not the 21st century, there is no advanced mining equipment that can easily be tens or hundreds of tons, and it is completely necessary to rely on explosives, iron picks, and people and horses to carry them, and the total amount of resources cannot be quickly transformed into existing materials.

Before the land was small, Master Li only built a few small steelmaking plants one after another, and after winning the Northeast, Huludao and Anshan are also building two large steel plants, which can be said to be ready in terms of production capacity, but it is an indisputable fact that the ore transportation is slow.

The best 10,000-ton ocean carrier in this year, the fastest speed is only about ten knots, it takes a month to come from Australia one way, and it takes more than ten days to Canada, so unless several iron mines in Maoshan and Northeast China immediately increase production, I am afraid it will not be able to alleviate the sharp increase in steel consumption.

So Li Mo hit the idea on aluminum, aluminum is much softer than steel, strong plasticity, but it also means that it cannot replace the most beloved steel in various countries, so it has not yet entered the eyes of decision-makers, if it is not for aluminum alloy to be developed in advance, it is estimated that Master Li will not invest too much attention, but it is more than enough to replace iron products such as canned food, and the reason why aluminum became the main material after World War I is also because after the First World War consumed too many steel resources, everyone finally had to focus on aluminum.

Of course, in addition to the fact that aluminum alloys with harder and better heat resistance have not been developed, there is a more thorny problem that countries do not pay attention to aluminum, that is, electricity

Refining aluminum requires electricity

Although electrolytic aluminium technology is not new, it has been around since 1894, but it has not been widely available because electricity is still a luxury.

Even now countries have begun to build power plants, but after being stripped of the patent fee by Master Li, he is not willing to use the power plant with high construction cost for electrolytic aluminum consumption, you must know that even in the later era of power development, the aluminum industry is also a high energy consumption and a restricted industry.

Only the young master Li, who is full of interest in electric investment, and the combination of electric maniac Tesla, will not hesitate to use electricity for industrial consumption, especially young master Li, the obsession with electrification has reached the point of disgusting the Government Council, according to his order, the machine tool driven by the steam engine belt should be changed to electric, and the machine tool driven by the internal combustion engine should also be changed to electric, and electric tools such as chainsaws and electric hammers have also been thrown to the mechanical laboratory.

No one knows why Young Master Li is so obsessed with electricity, only he knows that the second industrial ** represented by electrification has already sprouted, and the opportunity for the first industrial ** has been lost, making the country a slave to opium, so it is necessary to seize the second time no matter what, and even have to take the lead

Young Master Li's thoughts, a handful of white powdery alumina powder was refined, loaded into a trolley and pushed to the second factory shed in the distance, Li Mo and everyone hurriedly followed.

After entering the factory shed, Mr. Sun and Liang Qichao were even more surprised, only to see that there was no refining furnace in this factory shed at all, only a few strange huge troughs, and Yan Fu immediately introduced them to them.

In the explanation, the workers poured a truckload of alumina, also commonly known as bauxite, into the electrolytic cell, and then added a certain proportion of cryolite powder, and the technician immediately beckoned everyone to leave, and at the same time checked the surroundings again.

As a technician pulls down the electric switch, a strong direct current pours into the electrolytic cell, using high-quality anthracite base carbon body as the anode, molten aluminum as the cathode, after passing a strong direct current, the chemical reaction begins in the electrolyzer at high temperature, the anode product is mainly carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide gas, which contains a certain amount of harmful gases such as hydrogen fluoride and solid dust, and the product of the cathode is molten aluminum.

After the molten aluminum was extracted, it was purified and clarified in the holding furnace, and finally it was cast into a large piece of silver aluminum billet, and after seeing all the processes, Sun Liang and the two couldn't help but take a deep breath, the two of them saw this complete industrial process for the first time, from ore to decomposition, and then to turn into pieces of aluminum ingots through electrolysis, only to dazzle them, and asked the technician who led them to visit.

According to the director and technician, the current first step of alca refining is mainly used to train workers, and in the future, this step will be directly taken by the workers to various bauxite fields, and even Australia and Guinea will be built, and this will become a complete electrolytic aluminum plant.

According to the original plan, as long as the raw materials can keep up, the smelter can refine 500,000 tons of finished aluminum billets per year, and this is the first phase, followed by the second phase, the third phase, and in the future, a super-large smelter with an annual output of more than 2 million tons will be built here.

Squatting down, touching these aluminum billets that were still slightly hot, looking at the complex process in the eyes of those people behind him, and Yin Cancan was like a pile of silver aluminum billets, everyone blushed with excitement, but only Li Mo knew that these were only semi-finished products, and some other metal materials needed to be added to change their texture and become real industrial materials.

Soon, these ingots will turn into engines, and at that time, the Cossack cavalry?

Hmph, the young master cut you to death