Chapter 120 The Highest Point (Third update!)

I don’t know when it was, but night had enveloped the earth, but a crescent moon like a silver hook had risen in the sky.

It was already late at night, and Lianyungang, which was empty and only dotted with some scattered buildings, was extremely quiet after dark. However, from time to time, the sound of whirring air hammers from the forging workshop in the industrial area could be faintly heard in the air.

I could faintly hear the roar of the lathe turning in the metalworking workshop.

The sound came from the heavy industrial area. Although the factory was far from being built, most of the workshops were just marked out with foundations or just outlines of the terrain with lime lines. But this time, in those workshops that had already been built,

The roar of machines can already be heard. In the past few months, yarn machines and flour machinery have been continuously manufactured here.

At this time, in the foundry workshop that had been built in the locomotive manufacturing plant, choking metal smoke was filling the workshop. A brand-new 5-ton electric arc furnace produced by Siemens in Germany was spitting out blazing flames, and the dazzling flames reflected it.

The whole workshop turned red, and shouts in German and Chinese echoed in the foundry workshop.

Although it looks like ice and snow outside, in the foundry workshop, although there is no heating, under the high temperature of the electric arc furnace smelting steel, the inside of the workshop is like warm spring. Workers and technicians wearing asbestos overalls are surrounded by German technicians sent by Siemens.

Operating this latest electric arc furnace under the guidance of

Finally, near midnight, as a furnace of red-hot molten steel flowed out of the taphole, the roiling water waves and loud sounds caused by the water explosion of the steel parts echoed in the foundry workshop.

"The basic raw materials for each furnace of steel are added in proportion, 2 tons of Swedish low-phosphorus iron high-grade steel scraps, 100 kilograms of nickel and chromium..."

During Cheng Zhiqin's explanation, Li Zicheng just nodded while enduring the choking smoke. The alloy steel refined by the electric arc furnace in the foundry workshop is now used to produce generators and the alloy steel produced for the steam turbine spindles. The roaring fire, the galloping

The molten steel is a symbol of this steel age.

Looking at the faces red by the fire, looking at the sweat on the foreheads of the workers, and looking at the smiles on those simple faces when the molten steel flows out and is cast into the generator shaft blank,

In a daze, Li Zicheng felt as if he was in an era that he had never been exposed to before.

"Is this the first furnace of steel?"

When he asked this question, Li Zicheng couldn't help but feel excited as he looked at the blanks slowly cooling in the cooling pool. These blanks would eventually be made into steam turbines and main shafts of generators.

In the future, various high-quality alloy steels will also be continuously smelted here to meet the needs of Liuhe's development and factory production.

This is definitely an exciting era. History is being created here every day. A month ago, I shouted "Create a Chinese people's opportunity to compete", and now, Liuhe Textile Machinery Factory, Lianyungang Locomotive Manufacturing Factory,

However, the motor factory is working together, using incomplete equipment and domestically produced and imported industrial raw materials. Under the guidance of more than a dozen technicians from Germany and the United States, they are manufacturing China's first power generation equipment.

.

The first generator, the first steam turbine, the first power plant boiler, the first set of transformer equipment... Too many firsts, one after another has just been built in this heavy industrial park that will still be put into use in the future.

Created in the factory.

"The first furnace of steel and the first furnace of alloy steel"

Looking at the chairman whose face was reddened by the molten steel, Cheng Zhiqin nodded and responded. He looked at the steel billets used to produce the spindle. He was "digged" here from the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau Ironmaking Plant with the same trace of emotion on his face.

pride.

"Chairman, the forging workshop will be able to complete the production tasks of these spindles tonight. Tomorrow, our ambition machine will definitely be able to start work tomorrow."

Competitiveness

When he uttered these three words, Cheng Zhiqin felt a little lumpy in his throat. Now the eyes of all China are staring eagerly at Lianyungang, and in Lianyungang, everyone is staring at the three factories responsible for trial production. As a month

Half a month ago, when he came to Lianyungang for the first time, he sighed at the hugeness of the motorcycle factory as soon as he entered it.

"The No. 1 Factory in East Asia"

But after entering the factory, he discovered that this so-called No. 1 factory in East Asia was just showing off the "No. 1" shelf. 60% of the mechanical processing equipment was either on the road or in the production plans of factories in the United States and Germany.

, of the 138 industrial cranes required by each factory building, only 32 have been installed. Two-thirds of the factory buildings have only set up calibration lines or dug foundations. Half of the one-third of the factory buildings have been put into use.

Half of it is being installed and capped.

But even so, this factory with 486 pieces of machinery must manufacture "steam engines" at all costs. In order to produce steam turbine parts, the machine shop there stopped producing textile machinery parts and concentrated on the entire company.

All the best workers participated in the trial production of steam turbines.

"Is the next step to send these blanks to the forging shop?"

"Well, Chairman, when the blank is forged, the foundry shop just injects molten steel into the blank mold. The workpiece formed in this way has a large grain size inside the material and insufficient toughness. So it still needs to be forged.

, place the blank under a steam hammer or hydraulic press, and forge it into the desired shape with a forging hammer. In this way, the internal grains of the steel material are refined and the density is increased, making it tougher. Only in this way can the spindle withstand high speed and long lengths.

The torque generated by the rotation of time..."

In Cheng Zhiqin's view, there are no technical difficulties in the production of generators or steam turbine main shafts. This is no different from the past production of artillery and ship moving shafts at the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau.

"Chairman, if it weren't for the company's requirement to be "made for Liuhe," spindle blanks like this could be entrusted to the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau. They have more experience than us..."

"Step by step, this is our test"

Cheng Zhiqin's complaint only made Li Zicheng laugh.

"You have to try to manufacture it yourself, right? The company over there has already placed an order with Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau. It's just for the power shaft of the locomotive. Although we have a lot of large hydraulic presses and other equipment, from installation to debugging, there are only three or four

We will definitely not be able to start construction in the next month. Once this batch of power equipment is completed, we will start building locomotives."

"locomotive"

Cheng Zhiqin's brows jumped. Is the company going to build motorcycles so soon?

"Yes, that's right. This locomotive is the mainstay of this factory. Equipment such as generators will be used to build a factory later. This time Longhai Railway Company needs six locomotives and more than a hundred freight cars.

Rather than letting others earn our money, we should do it ourselves and try it no matter what."

After chatting with Cheng Zhiqin for a while, I looked at the time and found that the blank had been sent to the forging workshop for a while.

"Mingtai, let's go, let's go to the forging workshop to see Director Cheng. Once this fighting machine is built, I'll treat you all to a drink."

Calling his little follower, Li Zicheng smiled and walked out of the smoky foundry workshop. Following the gravel road, he only needed to follow the sound to find the forging workshop. The cold wind in the middle of the night was blowing, but at this time the forging workshop

It was also in full swing.

"Dong, dong..."

Before entering the forging workshop, you can hear the deafening sound of forging hammers. After entering the workshop, you only see the forging hammers rising and falling in front of you, the red forgings turning over on the huge steel hanging chains, and the huge 20-ton hydraulic press.

The spindle is being forged all the time, and every time the hammer rises and falls, sparks will always burst out of the fiery forging.

Looking at the gradually rounded main shaft, Li Zicheng leaned his elbows on his palms and fell into deep thought. The rough work of the main shaft seemed to be almost completed. Maybe during the Chinese New Year, the generator could be tested.

"It's a chance to win..."

Sighing these three words, Li Zicheng felt as if he had returned to that prosperous era.

Yes... in that era, how did you mobilize the enthusiasm of workers? Not bonuses, no... but honors, yes, that's right, honors

I can definitely take this opportunity to create a "competition opportunity" and find a way to arouse the workers' sense of honor.

Honor, sense of honor...

"Yes, this is an opportunity, an opportunity to build team spirit and collective honor. You must plan it carefully. You must..."

While thinking about this idea, Li Zicheng realized that Lianyungang still has a shortcoming. Lianyungang does not have its own newspaper or its own propaganda tools. Without all of these, how can it carry forward the so-called collective honor?

"Well, we need to get this publicity work started first."

Propaganda work, running a newspaper? This is a must, but it seems that not many people in Lianyungang are literate now. The audience of the newspaper is too small. When most people are illiterate, it can only play a supporting role at most.

,that...sound

broadcast

The moment these two words flashed through Li Zicheng's mind, the big speakers hanging in the streets when he was a child and the broadcasts twice every morning and evening came to mind.

right

Lianyungang can first build a radio station and then use this radio station to promote the construction of Lianyungang and the heroic models that emerged during the construction of the Longhai Railway. In the future, the company can also use this radio station to publish product advertisements and even seize the public opinion position.

In this era, whoever can control public opinion can seize the right to speak. As a company, if it can control the position of public opinion, it may gain unexpected benefits.

Public opinion, what can be more important than public opinion? At this time when everyone is talking about the so-called electrification, whoever can control the peak of public opinion will undoubtedly have the most fundamental right to speak.

I'll ask them to translate the radio broadcast information later.

Thinking of the scene in the future where he would seize the highest point of public opinion, Li Zicheng raised the corner of his lips. This was a good idea. If he could make preparations early, maybe this "opportunity" would be able to...
Chapter completed!