Shaanxi Xingdu Division, China Heavy Industry Explorers originally found gold ore in the process of looking for coal and iron ore.

It was the Yangshan gold mine of later generations, with a reserve of up to 308 tons.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang decreed that one tael of gold is equal to four taels of silver, this violation of the rules of the market cannot be recognized by the market, just like treasure money.

Zhu Gaochi does not value this gold mine.

Even if the mining technology of later generations is reached, it is only a few million taels of silver per year, and what Zhu Gaochi values is the value significance.

If this gold mine is controlled, the market's confidence in food stamps will increase exponentially, and the credibility system of food stamps will be stabilized.

How to control this gold mine in his own hands, Zhu Gaochi has a headache.

If a few years later.

He successfully became the prince of the prison country, everything is easy to say.

Not now.

If this is not done well, it will hit the market's confidence in food stamps, which is the same as the stock market.

If you don't do it, then it will have no impact on China Heavy Industry.

But now the steps are getting bigger and bigger, and the more food stamps are issued, these favorable information are needed to stimulate the market and ensure the maintenance of the food stamp value system.

So if China Heavy Industries starts to implement this big project, if it does not succeed, it will hit market confidence and eventually affect the value system of food stamps.

"In the name of the palace." Jin Zhong proposed.

"The idea of the right envoy of Jin is approved by his subordinates."

The president of the Grain Stamp Bank supported Kim Chung.

"The father of this matter came forward, if it succeeded, the benefits would be attributed to the China Heavy Industry System, and if the matter failed, it would also affect the royal government and avoid the blow to the food stamp system."

Zhu Gaochi made up his mind.

Jin Zhong personally went to Shaanxi.

"I only have one request, whether it is jointly developed with the Qin Wangfu or the local government, in short, the nominal rights of the gold mine must be held in my hands."

What Zhu Gaochi values is not the gold mine itself, but the name of the gold mine.

Several big shopkeepers here understand this truth, including Jin Zhong, who is familiar with China Heavy Industry and is considered half a promoter, and also understands the meaning of the little prince.

"Send Yuan Rong."

Zhu Gaochi finally said and designated the big horse of the palace.

"Now the reform of the military system in Beiping is inseparable from you." Zhu Gaochi patted Jin Zhong on the shoulder.

Jin Zhong nodded and didn't say much.

And so it should be.

Jin Zhong is not only the right Changshi of the Changshi Mansion, but also the spokesperson between China Heavy Industry and the palace, and has an invisible role.

China Heavy Industry gradually mastered the "protector" in the process of the army.

He is the first person in the official face of China Heavy Industry System in Beiping Prefecture, and "escorts" the extension tentacles of China Heavy Industry in all aspects.

When 30,000 professional soldiers rely on the railway system to complete the battalion system, China Heavy Industry will truly master a powerful "gun".

Neither the Shiqiao Battalion New Army nor the Lushunkou New Army can be regarded as fully controlled by China Heavy Industry.

The former relies on Miyun Liangwei, and the latter relies on Jinzhou Wei.

Dense clouds.

Since Ye Xixian was impeached, he no longer made superfluous moves, waiting for the will of Tianfu, and no one in Miyun District was waiting to see him.

But his status is high, and no one dares to offend him.

Taking advantage of this gap, he began to observe the dense clouds.

Miyun is the iron ore center of Beiping.

Countless iron ores were transported from here, smelted and other processes, and became the tools of each family, entered the factories, and also entered the hands of the soldiers.

In one of the largest local mines, Ye Xixian was dumbfounded.

One by one, the simple railroad spreads like a spider's web across the area, and all kinds of vehicles are available as far as the eye can see.

Mules, donkeys, horses, countless large livestock, one site after another.

If Zhu Gaochi was here, he would know that this was the Shouyun Mine in later generations, an open-pit mine that had been mined for half a century in later generations.

After digging, the depth is more than 300 meters!

"Sir, look, the rocks on the outside are all reddish, and the iron content is very high." Accompanied by staff from the mining area.

Pick up a stone at random and say proudly.

"The iron ore reserves in this area have not yet been proven, and I think it is enough for the whole Ming Dynasty for a hundred years."

The proven iron ore reserves in this mining area in later generations are as high as 1400 million tons, which is calculated by the annual iron production of the current Ming Dynasty.

Not only is it enough for a hundred years, but it will not be used up in a thousand years, and it will take more than 1,800 years to be used up.

But the development of industry in Peiping is different.

Under the project of large-scale infrastructure construction and large-scale dispatch, the iron consumption of Beiping has reached the current astronomical figure, and the annual planned iron output is as high as 70,000 tons.

This goal is incredible, but in Zhu's eyes, it is nothing.

In the middle of the nineteenth century, there was not yet a fraction of the two million tons of iron produced in Britain.

But the gap is not afraid.

In the twentieth century, Japan's iron production in 1900 was only 50,000 tons, and by 1940 it had reached nearly 7 million tons.

It was precisely in order to stimulate next year's pig iron production that Zhu Gaochi launched a large-scale infrastructure package to stimulate the economy.

Japan's iron production has increased by an average of 3.5 times per year, and Zhu Gaochi does not say that it exceeds this figure, but uses the Chinese model in Daming, and he does not think it is a big problem to reach this level of development.

It is planned to produce 70,000 tons this year and 200,000 tons next year.

Even if many high-level personnel of China Heavy Industry are worried and feel that the goal is too big, no one can change the plan of the little prince.

"How many mines like this are there in Miyun?" Ye Xixian asked in shock.

"Xiaomin doesn't know about this problem."

The staff said embarrassedly.

On the improvised railway, iron ore is carried by wagons and hauled to stations in various places.

Each wagon was fixed, and the iron ore shipped was about the same weight, and it was transported to the ore picking area next door.

There are machines that use steam engines, as well as traditional equipment that still uses animal power.

The huge steam engine powered by the giant ore crusher, like a giant beast, made a terrifying sound, and the ground shook for it.

There are also those that use the original ox-drawn mill to crush ore.

The efficiency is much lower than that of a machine.

There are cattle bought from the grassland, and there are donkey ones.

Two pieces of stone are polished into a disc to synthesize a stone mill.

A cow is paid, a horizontal wood, a grinding frame, and a cow.

Granite for stone grinding.

Because the hardness is too small, it is easy to wear out, too hard, and the grinding surface is smoothed and not easy to repair, and the original equipment is still in play.

The scale of the factory is boundless.

One shed after another.

This is not the direct management of China Heavy Industries, although it adopts the system of China Heavy Industries, but it belongs to the projects of many investors.

It is a good run-in in many aspects, which not only belongs to the management system of China Heavy Industry, but also does not completely belong to China Heavy Industry, and is a more complex management model.

It is full of disorder, and advanced and backward production processes coexist, but in fact, if you look closely, there is an orderly production.

There are too many workers here.

No one cares who Ye Xixian is, the workers are doing their own work, and Ye Xixian feels his insignificance.

This is the industrial world.

All kinds of machines are in operation.

As a result, the dust on the ground has accumulated layer after layer, and it has reached the point where it needs to be cleaned by a special person.

For the use of livestock, it is necessary to bring a dung bag according to the regulations.

So although there are a lot of livestock, there is no manure and urine on the ground, only the smell of industry.

Ye Xixian's brain went blank.

All of a sudden.

His train of thought came to a complete halt as if it had been short-circuited.

For a moment, he didn't even know where he was, what he was doing here, and where he was waiting.

"Sir, sir."

The screams in his ears drew Ye Xixian's attention back.

The young staff looked at Ye Xixian worriedly, and the steward explained and explained, so that he must take care of this gentleman.

Ye Xixian smiled gently, calming the young man's worries.

He felt that he should reacquaint himself with Beiping.

He was busy investigating the case before, and he didn't understand many things seriously, and he found that he was too unfamiliar with Beiping, and there were too many differences here.

Where did the inexplicable depression that rose in my heart come from.

Ye Xixian needs to find the answer.

Miyun Iron Works.

Each branch plant only has workers in the iron-smelting workshop, totaling 3,835 people.

The tall chimney here is a sign that attracts attention.

A steady stream of coking coal from Peking is being shipped here.

The railways used to transport coking coal were dyed black on both sides, and special warehouses and transit stations were required for this purpose.

The warehouse is made of iron-reinforced concrete.

Tall and tiable.

The coking coal piled up here is as high as a hill.

People are pushed to the coal hill on a platform equipped with wheels, and then using the slipway equipment, workers shovel coal on it.

Using the coking coal's own gravity, slide down the slide.

Improvised railroad tracks were also built below, and the wagons were parked, and when the coking coal filled the wagons, the workers on top would stop shoveling coal.

In this way, when the coking coal is pulled away and the next car is pulled in position, the workers on it will continue to shovel coal.

The wagons loaded with coking coal were finally pulled by the front of the locomotive to various iron-smelting workshops.

Obviously, it is good to directly pull the coking coal down the iron-smelting plant, but there is an additional process for such an operation.

Because the scale of iron smelting in Miyun District is too large.

Two blowers are used for each blast furnace.

One is used for the blast of the iron furnace, which makes the coking coal burn violently and melts the iron, and the horsepower of this blower is three horses.

If there had been a later measurement method, it would have been possible to feed 25 cubic meters of air into the blast furnace every minute.

The other is used for blasting air into the converter.

To make the silosmanganese in the molten iron burn, this blower is ten times larger than the other, and it is driven by a new steam engine.

Although there was no knowledge of silicon-manganese in ancient times, they knew how to smelt iron empirically, and this is how steel such as five iron smelting and nine iron smelting was practiced.

Now the iron mill needs a bigger blast furnace, a higher output.

Naturally, we need to move in this direction.

Adopt a larger device.

While the workers were working, there were also people pushing carts with tea buckets to deliver cooled herbal tea to each workshop.

The workers first wiped the sweat on their faces with towels, and then drank a little sweet herbal tea, and finally felt a little refreshed.

At last.

The high-quality and inexpensive iron material flowed out in a steady stream.

(End of chapter)