However, what really interested the repair shop was the remaining two sets of power generation equipment. The iron plant was too perverse to build and did not supply electricity to it.

Although the iron plant has a set of power generation equipment, it is just a boiler and generator set, which can only meet the lighting needs of the iron plant. The processing equipment before the iron plant was driven by internal combustion engines, but the cost of burning oil was too high, so Huang Shixin also specially purchased a set of power generation equipment.

Moreover, this power generation equipment is very interesting. If all the power output is started, it is several times the required amount of electricity required by the iron plant and Huang Shixinxin to purchase all the equipment. Obviously, Huang Shixin had a great ambition back then, and reserved enough resources for the development of the iron plant to supply redundancy. Unfortunately...

Among the second-hand equipment that British foreign companies forced Huang Shixin to buy, there was also a set of power generation equipment. Obviously, the other party prepared according to Huang Shixin's new order, and was waiting to calculate Huang Shixin. Although this set of technology is already very backward, the power generation is not small, which is enough for Huang Shixin's new vision to complete China Railway Plant, and the power generation will be increased after the transformation and upgrading.

The repair institute selected Huangjia Iron Factory mainly for these two sets of power generation equipment. First, if the newly purchased equipment reaches this power generation capacity, it may not be lower than the price of taking over the Huangjia things. Second, the new purchase delivery time is longer, as long as a few months or years, it is hard to say.

As for why the base needs so much electricity, one is used to drive processing equipment; the other is, some electric arc furnaces are installed here to produce trial high-performance steel, which is the prerequisite for self-producing gun barrels.

Although it was possible to produce mountain guns and heavy artillery that had been able to catch up with foreign levels in the late Qing Dynasty, most of the carbon steel was used at that time. Basically, when the steelmaking plant of the China Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau made qualified carbon steel, the West made breakthroughs in exploring a new generation of steelmaking technology and an alloy steel revolution occurred.

Alloy steel was called special steel during the Republic of China period. The steel material was the core thing in gun manufacturing. The performance of guns and cannons made by alloy steel was the existence of rolled carbon steel. After the outbreak of World War I and its widespread development, China's self-produced weapons once again lag behind the world.

At this time, China had reached the Beiyang and warlord periods. During this period, the regime had less control over the country than the Qing Dynasty! It was impossible to produce and was unwilling to invest in new steel plants. Domestic arsenals became incoming materials processing plants. Moreover, warlords were short-sighted and officials were corrupt. In order to purchase kickbacks, even domestic steel and even wooden stocks of rifles had to be purchased by foreigners, which were basically independent of military production.

During the Nanjing National Government period, the situation improved, not as excessive as in Beiyang. I also wanted to pick up military production independence. In 1932, I planned to build a new steel plant in Pukou, but after accounting, it required an investment of 80 million oceans, which was 10% of the annual fiscal revenue of the National Government. There is no further information on this matter yet.

Of course, the machinery repair shop does not have so much money to build any steel mill. At present and even in the future, it will mainly process incoming materials. However, this is not a long-term solution. Whether others sell or not or not, whether they are shipped will affect normal production. You should prepare in advance to avoid being controlled by others for a long time.

What the repair shop is preparing to do is to install several small arc furnaces in this base, which is used to study and explore the production and smelting process of alloy steel; on the other hand, it is to produce alloy steel in small batches, which not only test the process to improve the production process, but also can be used to replace imported alloy steel to produce some important components of guns and cannons, and to test the actual performance and effect.

At present, the repair shop is about to obtain two electric arc furnaces made in several tons. Among the batch of military equipment, the repair shop is preparing to use it for small batch trial production of alloy steel to produce some important parts of guns and cannons.

It is estimated that the original owner's idea is similar to the repair shop, but there are no special power generation equipment inside. After all, those equipment originally belonged to the same country. If there is electricity for allocation, there is no need to rebuild power generation facilities.

Of course, it is not that the base of the repair facilities cannot allocate electricity. Whether it is Nanjing or Ma'anshan factory and mine gatherings, there are power plants, but the demand for the base is a bit high, and the supply and cost of purchases may be problematic. Moreover, there are many competitors and competitors of the Intelligence Department and the repair facilities. It is difficult to ensure that no one will make trouble on this, so it is better to produce and use it yourself.

Of course, there are more than these two parts to be installed at the base. The repair shop has also ordered multiple ton-grade electric arc furnaces, which are about one ton in size, and are mainly used for research and experiments. After all, if you study and explore the steel smelting process, you have to smel the furnace and try and error. Small furnaces can reduce the cost of research and development.

Li Dingqiao took his men from Nanjing to Dangtu on a passenger ferry, and then took a black-sailed boat he had booked and went to the iron plant along the waterway.

Although the iron plant is relatively remote, it is only compared to the location of the factory. The iron plant still has good water and land transportation conditions. If the transportation conditions for raw materials to be transported into products are not met, then building a factory is nonsense!

There is a waterway not far from the entrance of the valley where the factory is located. Some streams flowing down from the mountain gather in a flat and flat place outside the mountain, and eventually flows through Dangtu and flow into the Yangtze River. Because there are many paddy fields on both sides, they have been repaired and managed from generation to generation to form a navigable waterway with gentle water flow.

However, the waterway is not very deep, and it can only be navigated with a boat within two meters of draft. But now it is not possible. In recent decades, domestic turmoil has not been organized and repaired. It is just that the Huang family, who relies on the waterway transportation, has been able to maintain it simply. However, in recent years, the iron plant is almost unable to continue operating, and the Huang family has lost the intention. Now some parts of the waterway have accumulated severely.

There is a very wide road on the river embankment on one side of the waterway, which was also made by the iron plant's original foundation widening and maintenance. The road surface is paved with a layer of iron plant's ash slag. It has been a thick layer over the years. Except for the grass growing a little, the road conditions are quite good and can lead to the iron plant directly. Currently, the workers and goods from the iron plant are all passing through the highway.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Because the boat is supported by manpower, the boat is not unhappy. After about half an hour, the boat turned a water bend and Li Dingqiao saw the dock that extends not far into the waterway. According to the boatman, it is the dock built by the iron plant.

When you climb to the dock, you will see a semicircular unloading yard in front of you. A circle of warehouses is located on the right side of the warehouse. There is a gap in the middle of the warehouse. It is a spacious road leading directly to the factory. There is still a section from the iron plant, but the road is not desolate on both sides, but there are two long houses.

There are residents here now, of course, there were no one before the factory was built. They were all built with the factory. Some people gradually appeared around the iron factory to make a living. After all, the iron factory is not small, with hundreds of workers at its peak, let alone those who transport goods to make a living around the iron factory.

Of course, most of the residents here were iron factory workers and their families in the past. When the iron factory was built, there were no residential areas around, so they naturally provided accommodation, but most of them could only live in dormitories for multiple people.

However, workers are all adults and have a need for personal private space. Many people have homes and rooms. With stable jobs, they naturally want to bring their families to take care of.

At first, they only rented houses in the surrounding villages and towns, but the iron plant had far avoided these places. If it was inconvenient to get to get off work, the iron plant finally decided to set aside some areas on the road outside the valley to provide them with the workers to build houses and live in.

Outside the valley entrance to the waterway, there is a large piece of land. In order to avoid disputes after the factory was built, I have already bought it before the factory was built.

Although workers are asked to build houses, the foundation provided to each person is not large, and the foundation is still owned by the iron plant. If workers buy and sell it to workers who have not built houses, the iron plant will not interfere. If it is someone who has built houses or outside the factory, the iron plant needs to agree.

However, iron plants generally don’t care much. Over the past few decades, not only have private houses, but also stalls and shops for workers’ business. Unfortunately, most places are closed and there are no pedestrians on the road.

Of course, there are no people. The residents here basically live on iron plants, and most ordinary workers go to the factory to seek a way out. Many are not around. They have no land and propriety in the local area and even the foundation of the house is not their own. Even if some families run shops here, the store business has to rely on iron plants.

Born by the factory and mourned by the factory. When the iron factory declined, these people had to leave and go to other places to make a living.

At present, there are still more than a hundred workers and masters in the iron factory. Huang Shixin is not willing to let the iron factory run this way, so all the masters and technicians who are experienced and skilled in the factory are left. The repair shop has decided to accept them together with the iron factory. At present, everyone should be in the factory.

A few hundred meters ahead of the road is the intersection of the wharf road and the river embankment road, and a few dozen meters ahead is the entrance of the valley, which is the main entrance of the iron plant.

On the inside of Hedi Road, that is, on the side of the mountain, there is a row of workers' dormitories, two-story brick and tile structure houses, and on the outside of the road there is also a residential area, with more pedestrians than docks.

On the right side of the gate, walking straight along the river embankment road, there are also buildings on both sides, but they are not residential buildings. They are part of the factory area and are added to the processing factory buildings later.

Li Dingqiao did not enter the factory immediately, but walked along the river embankment road, but asked a man to negotiate with the guard, because he did not inform the iron factory in advance when he arrived.

First, he wanted to come over privately to see the daily situation here, and second, the iron plant has no convenient contact information to Nanjing yet. The iron plant cannot connect to Nanjing. The radio plant is still established, so he doesn't want to trouble.

The residential areas on Hedi Road are much wider than those on Wharf Road. There are many streets and alleys that expand outward because Wharf Road was built early, and there were no plans to reserve these at that time.

Hebei Road is an iron plant that can improve after years of preparation of furnace ash and slag road conditions. The initial traffic of the iron plant relies on waterways in and out, so workers initially chose to build houses on wharf roads.

However, because there are not many plans, the houses are crowded with houses, and the area behind the houses is difficult to use, and there is no consideration for business or business. Therefore, after the road conditions of the river embankment road become better and the entrance and exit are smooth, the residential areas on the river embankment roadside will develop better.

However, no matter how good the development is, it is useless. This place is finally developed because of the factory. If the machinery repair shop had not arrived, when the Huang family could not hold back and gave up the iron factory, the building would be empty here and eventually submerged in the long river of history.

Li Dingqiao completely visited the alleys and alleys, and did not turn back until the end of the residential area. He met Huang Shixin at the entrance of the factory and brought a bunch of people out to welcome him.

Without saying anything, Li Dingqiao politely followed these people for a while, and sent the others back to the workshop, asking Huang Shixin to take him to continue to check the workshop on the right and the main factory area in the valley.

Huang Shixin was also introduced by the Machinery Repair Institute. He is currently temporarily acting as the factory director of the second base. He should be promoted after the base is officially established. Of course, this factory director will not be the kind of factory director who is in power.

The repair and repair institute is centered on personnel in research, technology, skills, etc., and important departments such as finance and audit are also controlled by personnel dispatched by the Intelligence Department. The actual power of the factory management unit has been greatly weakened, and its positioning has basically become a unit that provides various services to the base.

The reason for leaving Huang Shixin is to give the Huang family a reassurance. It may be that the Huang family was cheated and bullied before, and the government turned a blind eye to foreigners and even feared that foreigners would stumble. Although the Huang family agreed to cooperate, they were full of concerns and took charge of the Huang family's heirs in order to make them feel at ease.

As for why I care so much about this cooperation with the Huang family, although the Huang family is so down-and-out, the connections accumulated by countless generations still have huge energy. Moreover, I have been operating the iron plant business for decades, and my connections in this industry are definitely good. In the future, the repair shop will need to use the other party’s connections to promote some important work.

On the other hand, it is Huang Shixin’s personal reason. A person with corresponding professional knowledge and relatively good management and operation experience is not that easy to find.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content below! Although he made many mistakes in his previous management, from another perspective, these are also lessons! What’s more important is his character. Such a person with a bottom line and persistence can ensure that there will be no major problems in the base, and the Intelligence Department can rest assured.

Going to the right, there are four long manufacturing buildings on both sides of the road, three of which look older and more dilapidated. The road ahead is still extending, depending on the situation, it has only been repaired recently.

Weeds are also being cleaned up on both sides of the road and leveled the ground. Because the preliminary plan for the second base has been released, the factory workshop for weapons manufacturing and production will be located on both sides of the road in the future.

The power plant is located on the waterway at a little further into the dock. Because the two sets of power generation equipment are coal-fired and power generation, there is no coal production here, so it is convenient for coal transportation on the side of the water road.

A little later, there is another valley similar to the iron plant located, which was also taken down by the repair shop, and is ready for ammunition production, storage, explosives research and development and production. These things cannot be squeezed into the main base, otherwise there will be some problems and the consequences of them being unimaginable.

The Gunei Iron Factory is just like that, distributed along both sides of the stream, and the buildings extend two or three hundred meters in. However, most buildings are used to stack raw materials, cool, and store pig iron and crude steel. The main part used for production is a large factory building with a wider place on the left side of the stream, which has been suspended.

The valley further inside is actually wider. Huang Shixin has already asked someone to clean up and clean up. It is a shooting range for testing guns and cannons in the future, which will be used to test weapon performance and to verify guns and cannons.

Although there is a mine inside, the mine is not buried deep underground, but is just a gentle slope with covering. Although the coverage is a little thicker, it takes a little more money to clean the explosives and quickly clear an open-pit mine.
Chapter completed!