"I only have one answer, it's impossible!"

A voice suddenly rang in the room, and Paul Radford, sitting on the sofa, said in an almost decisive voice, and then he put out a few more forms, which were their construction schedules over the past few days.

"This is the progress table we have formulated! This is the progress table of railway construction! Mr. Siltis"

After unfolding the tables, Paul Radford looked up at Siltis next to him. He planned the railway construction schedule.

"Are you sure it will take us a year and eight months to fix those railways?"

"certainly!"

Nodding, Siltis continued.

"One year and eight months are already the fastest speed, and considering various favorable factors, based on the information about the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway we obtained, I believe that if the actual construction is carried out, it may even take two years or even more!"

When answering, Siltis seemed a little helpless. He also hoped to repair the railway in the shortest time. After all, Li Zicheng had promised that in order to speed up the construction progress, he could even provide a reward of 5,000 US dollars for every day of completion ahead of schedule.

But what about it in fact?

It is impossible, one year and six months, it is impossible to build that railway. Year and eight months, this time is a timetable that he can only obtain after he has made a full calculation based on topographic data and putting aside all factors to optimize the construction. In fact, he understood that even one year and eight months is impossible. Taking into account other factors, it may even take three years, and this is obviously impossible to satisfy Mr. Li in front of him.

"According to the topographic information we obtained, it is expected that more than 10 kilometers of railway tunnels will be needed, and we will cross mountains and ridges along the way. Mr. Li, it can be said that it is not complicated to build a railway there, but there is no possibility of building a railway within one year and six months!"

Listening to Siltis' words, Li Zicheng's brows frowned and looked carefully at the preliminary construction plan. He did think too easily about many problems.

"According to the plan you have formulated, the construction projects of the first phase project include: building an iron-making blast furnace with an annual output of 1.2 million tons, two 100 tons steelmaking open furnaces, a set of large-scale sintering machines, two 50-hole large-volume coke ovens, a set of initial rolling and steel cup continuous rolling mills, a set of rail continuous rolling mills, a set of 200 mm seamless steel pipe rolling mills, 4500 mm two-roll medium-thick plate rolling mills, as well as iron ore, raw material yards, power plants, coal mines, energy centers, lime roasting, highways and

According to preliminary estimates, only the first phase of the project has been completed. The total equipment of the steel plant is 185,000 tons, 25,000 tons of iron ore and 32,000 tons of coal mines, and nearly 240,000 tons of equipment, of which the total weight of the early transportation equipment is 156,000 tons. Mr. Li, this is by no means possible to transport by dirt roads, and the transportation of large equipment is not something that can be met by road transportation!"

Looking through the information in his hand, Taylor, who was in charge of the management of the entire company, raised his own questions from the perspective of factory equipment, and his voice was a little heavy.

"70% of the equipment transportation can only rely on railways. Without railways, the actual construction of the factory and mines will not be possible. If you adhere to the original plan and consider the railway construction factors, the first phase of the steel plant is expected to be completed in 1916, that is, four years later, and..."

Looking at Siltis, Taylor gave him the rest of the problem.

"According to our field investigation, we found that when China built the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, the investment chosen was relatively low, but it affected the route that capacity!"

Siltis opened the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway map on the table.

"The railway between Beijing and Zhangjiakou is built on the Badaling area, so the transportation capacity is limited by the weight load of the train, which is also an insurmountable flaw. The maximum annual transportation capacity is 1.5 million tons. If the first phase of the project is completed, the company will transport up to 1.2 million tons of steel products from the company every year. At the boundary time, the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway transportation capacity will become a bottleneck restricting the company's development!"

Another new question!

Listening to Siltis' report, Li Zicheng frowned again into a small group. Today seemed to be a summary of problems, and they kept telling themselves one question after another.

"...The original plan was to use the Yellow River water as cooling water, but according to the analysis of the Yellow River cement and sand content, if the Yellow River water is used, a new large sedimentation reservoir is needed..."

"From the information we have now, the gangsters and bandits also pose a threat to future investigations and exploration..."

Over the whole few hours, questions were constantly spit out from the mouths of those foreign experts, and occasionally there were disputes over some differences, but in the end, all the problems were concentrated on one issue.

"railway……"

After the meeting, Li Zicheng sighed and leaned his head up on the sofa, his face full of helplessness. All the problems were on the railway, but in fact they were traffic issues.

Transportation restricts the construction of factories. If the railway is not built, large equipment cannot be transported into Baotou, and large equipment cannot be transported into the factory. It is impossible for the factory to be constructed normally. Even if the factory is put into production after all difficulties, if the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway is not renovated, the transportation capacity will not meet the export of the factory's products.

Ultimately, traffic issues are the most fundamental issues.

"Zhiyuan, the railway can be slowly built, and the factory can be slowly built. If the railway problem is not solved, everything is empty talk..."

Seeing Li Zicheng's sad face, Mu Xiangyue quickly persuaded, as a businessman, naturally hoped that the factory would be put into production and take effect early, but that was just an idea.

Repair slowly?

Listening to this, Li Zicheng smiled and shook his head.

Why do we need to put the steel plant into production within two and a half years?

It’s not that I don’t want to miss the “golden period” of World War I. Now I produce one million tons of steel a year, and the profit is probably only a few million yuan. However, after the outbreak of World War I, the profit per year is as high as hundreds of millions of dollars. The huge profits brought by the war can support the expansion of factories, and the profits made in just a few years may even exceed the profits in the next few decades.

But if you cannot seize this opportunity, you are afraid that after the war is over, the factory will be unable to support operations due to the "cold winter period" of the steel industry, and then everything will be in vain!

"if……"

I felt that I couldn't convince the boss about the issue of building a cycle, and Mu Xiangyue hesitated to make a suggestion.

"If there is really no way, can you consider finding another place to build a factory? For example, in Beijing! In this way, the railway of the steel plant can be started at the same time."

Build a steel factory in Beijing?

Frowning, Li Zicheng shook his head. Capital is definitely not a good place. Even if we do not consider political and future factors, just water resources cannot meet the needs of future steel plants.

"It's hard to do things under the emperor's feet!"

After finding an excuse to reply to Mu Xiangyue's suggestion, Li Zicheng's face was full of helplessness. If there was no way, maybe he might be able to consider changing places.

"I really can't help but change the location to find ore!"

Well, maybe I should think about it myself. Since we need to face so many constraints now, we should change our location to find iron ore and set up a factory.

(Haha, I think everyone should understand now that Baotou is just a preliminary plan choice, and there are actually other options, huh. I will update it today, and I hope you can encourage it with recommendation votes! Thank you! Please collect it, please recommend it!)
Chapter completed!