Chapter 690

The rolling heat waves roared in the steel workshop. Although the weather turned cold, the craftsmen were still working with bare arms.

Sweat and rust make them look dirty, but each of them seems to be full of energy.

Since the steam locomotive was made, Xiao Ming ordered the production of railway tracks to be upgraded. There are no other reasons. One is to speed up the transportation of mineral resources, the other is to improve the efficiency of the mining industry.

Because in addition to the steam locomotive, the mine also needs the tramcar rail to provide the running track for the tramcar.

Now that the king of Zhao has been defeated, it is only a matter of time before the state of Zhao is conquered. In a short period of more than a month, in a long period of several months, the state of Chongqing will basically be unified.

Although the king of Chu in the South actually disobeyed Yin and Yang, he had no reason to use his army at this time. After all, the king of Chu oppressed his sons in Qingzhou, and he became a minister to him.

But the most helpless thing is that he is powerless now. The Northern War almost beat the capital he had accumulated in five years, and now he has to face the threat of barbarians. Under the measure, he decided to maintain the status quo and plunder the wealth of the king of Chu with commercial trade.

Therefore, the most important thing for him now is to establish an industrial system. Only when the industrial system is complete, can the powerful industrial capacity create a more powerful war machine to help him conquer cities and seize resources from Western powers.

This time, he proposed to implement the reform on the basis of the six states. The purpose is to quickly establish a commercial and industrial system. After all, in the past five years, the people in the six states have been propagandized by newspapers day after day, and their thoughts are no longer comparable to those in other places.

Moreover, the six states are under his nose. Once the six states develop, it will not be too late for him to promote them to other places.

”See the emperor. "

seeing Xiao Ming coming over, a middle-aged man in a blue robe came over. His blue gown was embroidered with the words" instrument department ". This is the craftsman who came to guide the production of railway tracks from the instrument department.

Xiao Ming is also familiar with this craftsman. He is a veteran of the instrument department. Later, after entering Bowen college, he and Lin Wentao specialized in mechanical production.

"No gift."

Xiao Ming waved his hand. Now every time he goes out, he will be protected by a large number of bodyguards. It's impossible not to be noticed.

Looking at the busy craftsman, Xiao Ming asked, "Lan Li, how is the production line of this rail being built?"

Lanli said, "emperor, at present, the rail production line for mining has been set up, and the rail production line for steam locomotive has been put behind according to the emperor's orders. "

Xiao Ming nodded. Although he wanted to build the railway in Chongqing, ore is still a big problem.

So in order to mass produce steam locomotive tracks, the problem he has to solve now is the mining and metallurgical industry.

Only when the output of these two industries rises, can he not worry about raw materials.

”Let me have a look. "

Xiao Ming said that he had to take part in the reform now, otherwise it would be a lot of detours for these guys to do it by themselves.

Lin Wentao and others have acquired certain knowledge and practical ability after five years of autonomy. Under his guidance, he believes that it is not a problem to establish an industrial system step by step.

After lanli entered the workshop, lanli directly took Xiao Ming to the next door of the original production workshop. After the expansion of production, a converter was added to the steel workshop. The steel produced by the converter was specially used for the production of rails.

When he arrived at the rail production workshop, Xiao Ming saw the converter that was producing steel. Under the converter, there were grooves for conveying molten steel. Through these grooves, the molten steel directly entered the "I" shaped iron mold.

In fact, the essence of rail is I-shaped steel, which is assisted by the iron mold forging technology for the production of artillery, which constitutes the current rail production line.

"Emperor, now we have produced six kilometers of railway tracks and one tramcar." Lan Li reports to Xiao Ming truthfully.

Qian Dafu used to be responsible for finding and building mines, but now even the eunuchs around Xiao Ming have not completely abandoned the mine.

He said excitedly, "emperor, these railway tracks and trams can be sent to Laiwu county. The prospecting team found a large open-pit iron mine 130 miles southwest of Qingzhou. If a mine is built here, Qingzhou will not be short of iron ore."

Xiao Ming nodded. The prospecting team has not stopped exploring the minerals in Liuzhou, but the long-awaited Laiwu County finally discovered the iron ore.

Laiwu is known as a steel city in modern times, and it is definitely a treasure land. According to the records of scientific and technological crystal, there are 55 kinds of minerals in Laiwu area, mainly including iron, coal, copper, gold, granite, limestone, dolomite, rare earth, diabase, basalt, building stone, natural quartz sand, mineral water and other minerals.

Among them, the proven reserves of coal is 431136000 tons, which is an important coal base in contemporary Shandong Province, while the proven reserves of iron ore is 463931900 tons, ranking first in East China.

Laiwu county is a very humble place in the state of Dayu. It is sparsely populated. Qian Dafu has been to this place for many times, but nothing has been found. Now this treasure land has been excavated.For Xiao Ming, there are both coal mines and iron ores in this area, and the reserves are very large, which can fully support his establishment of a modern mine.

The mine will lay rails, use tramcars to transport ore, use steam engines to extract groundwater and tow tramcars.

"I think so too. Your nephew, Qian GUI, is better than LAN. "Xiao Ming is smiling.

Qian Dafu laughed and said, "emperor, Qian GUI is brave and can endure hardships. He has never been afraid of the place where the old slave dare not go. At this point, the old slave is not as good as himself."

For Qian Dafu, now the money is his only sustenance. After all, he has only one family member, Qian GUI.

Xiao Ming said: "the money is very expensive. It's worth promoting. Let him continue to work hard. I'll give him your seat in a few years."

Qian Dafu laughs at Yan Kai. Naturally, what Xiao Ming says is not the eunuch's position, but let Qian GUI lead the mining and prospecting.

Lan Li laughs, "if there is so much coal and iron in Laiwu County, it's better to build a railway."

"Well, it's not only Laiwu. The railway will go from Qingzhou to Dengzhou and Youzhou, connecting the mines and businesses of the six states with the city."

In Xiao Ming's eyes, there is already a blueprint. As the saying goes, if we want to be rich, we should build roads first. As long as we do this, we will surpass western countries as a whole.

After inspecting the production process of railway tracks, Xiao Ming felt a little uneasy. The presence of franceans in the land of Dayu made him feel a little uneasy, because it meant that the West began to intervene in Dayu's affairs. This is not good news, and it is also the reason why his sense of crisis is increasing.

There are a lot of external enemies, but his industry and commerce are just beginning to falter.

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