Chapter 604?When Luo Yaoguo met his ancestor Moore (please vote, please book)
On October 19, 2018, the seventh year of Tianli, on a brand new train platform on the eastern foot of the Liguoyi Iron Mine in Xuzhou.
Wen Xianjue put down the silver-plated monocular. The last afterimage in the lens was a large machine that had just been unloaded from the train. He vaguely remembered seeing the same machine at last year's Paris Expo.
It is called "steam water press", which seems to be used to press pure steel rails.::::.I didn't expect that the Xuzhou Iron and Steel Plant in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had an exact same equipment so soon!
He took out the notebook with the cover of the crocodile leather and wrote in the "Industrial Equipment" column: "I found that there is at least one steam press!"
After writing, Wen Xian did not close the notebook immediately. He just stood there and stared at the records on the notebook. Bai Siwen, who was standing beside him, glanced over his notebook and found that the column "Industrial Equipment" was already written in a dense manner. He had just arrived at the Liguo Iron Mine Railway Station and had not yet arrived at the factory area of ​​Xuzhou Steel Plant!
Xuzhou is only one of the two major industrial centers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom today (the other is Shanghai). If the entire investigation is completed, Wen Xian will probably have to fill a whole notebook.
Luo Yaoguo’s investment in industry is simply amazing!
"It's time to eat, it's time to eat!" A station porter foreman shouted while pounding the gong. The porters who were unloading goods from a train from Haizhou Bay Wharf stopped their work and walked towards the temporary restaurant built with wooden boards on the side.
In the wooden barrels carried by a few chubby chefs, the freshly steamed buns were steaming, and the pork stewed vermicelli exuded an attractive oily fragrance. The young men who had just come out of Shandong or Huaibei had been doing physical work all morning, and they had already hungry to put their chests on their backs. They swayed their cheeks and ate so delicious!
The foreman looked loudly: "I'll eat tightly. After eating, there are still ten refractory bricks to be moved.:::
A worker responded happily: "Boss, there are ten cars of bricks...\n. You have to add more money!"
The foreman smiled and said, "When did we lose money for you? Do it well. ::::. The house in Gangcheng, Xuzhou is about to be sold. You can pay in installments. You can quickly like the down payment, buy a two-bedroom apartment, and then you can marry a wife!"
Speaking of praise for money, buying a house, marrying a wife, the station was filled with cheerful laughter.
It turns out that you can be very happy to move bricks.::::
Moore sat on the bench on the platform, holding a notebook in his hand, quickly recording: "The workers here do not have the whip of the supervisor, but have enough food and relatively generous wages. There is no fatigue or numbness in their tone, but full of hope." He turned to Friedrich and whispered: "This may be another possibility of industrialization. Without the organization and capital of capitalists, workers can still create huge productivity. Obviously, labor is the main factor that constitutes productivity!"
Friedrich nodded and wrote in his notebook with a pen: "Although the workers here are only one-third of their wages for their London colleagues, the low prices in China allow them to enjoy more living materials than those of London workers... This may be the industrial code of the latecomer country!"
Bai Siwen stood aside and said coldly: "That big factory, there are mines and railways:...How can I drive without millions of taels of silver?" He shook his head and whispered: "Where does Silla come from so much silver? It must have been snatched from Beijing! What's the use of making so much steel? It's not just making guns, cannons and warships? In the final analysis,... it's still necessary to snatch!"
The glass window on the second floor of the waiting hall of the Liguoyi Station in Xuzhou was quarreled by the vibration of the steam locomotive. Beisemai, a master of metallurgy from Europe, opened the production log of the cast iron cover with his fingers stained with graphite powder: "Your Highness, the No. 1 converter has produced 120 steel furnaces in this tenth month, with a single furnace capacity of eight tons, and a total output of 960 tons, a sulfur content has dropped to 0.08%, and a phosphorus content of 0.12%... Your prediction about alkaline furnace lining is really accurate!"
Luo Yaoguo was rubbing the newly quenched steel sample, and the sunlight refracted fine lines at the fracture of the sample: "What is the life of the furnace lining?"
"The loss of alkaline furnace lining is 30% faster than expected." Beisemai took out a honeycomb refractory brick fragment from the workplace pocket. "The inner lining must be replaced for every forty furnaces smelting... But the newly discovered magnesite mine in Jiawang Mine solved the big problem!" He placed a piece of off-white ore in front of Luo Yaoguo, "in cooperation with the limestone slag-making method proposed by His Highness,
We finally overcome the problem of dephosphorization...:::.I estimate that next year our No. 1 converter will achieve a design production capacity of 50,000 tons of steel per year! If the construction process of No. 2 and No. 3 converter will go smoothly, the steel output of Xuzhou Steel Plant will reach 150,000 tons in 1860!"
150,000 tons...\n. So few! For Luo Yaoguo, who is used to the steel output of more than one billion tons, the steel output of 150,000 tons is really not enough!
"Mr. Beisemai, my country is very big, very large..... It takes a lot of steel to build it well!" Luo Yaoguo said to the steel experts around him.
"How much do you need?" Bei Semai helped his monocle glasses. He knew that this "angel" often said something shocking, so he had to hold his glasses.
Luo Yaoguo thought for a while: "I hope...::. The annual output of 20 million tons can be reached in the 1890s!
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"What? 20 million tons...\n:..:" Bei Semai shook his head repeatedly, "This goal is 100 years, no, it will never be achieved in one hundred and fifty years!"
Luo Yaoguo glanced at him: "You are conservative! One hundred and fifty years later, a county in China can produce more than 20 million tons of steel!"
"A county...\n.\n" Beisemaixin said: "Fortunately, I held my glasses, otherwise I would have to break them.
At this time, the sound of Maria's calfskin shoes hitting the floor tiles came: "Carl and Friedrich's Heavenly Master have arrived at the railway station. They are now on Platform 3."
Luo Yaoguo stopped talking to Bei Semai, walked quickly to a window, raised his telescope and looked out. Through the lens, he saw two figures with thick beards on the platform, one by one, familiar and unfamiliar!
But one thing is certain, they are really two ancestors!
"Are they your teacher in heaven?" Maria's voice sounded a little excited.
The teacher in heaven...:::. Luo Yaoguoxin said: "That would be great! It would be better for their students to be selected, right? Is it not difficult for them to be selected? I can also go to Peking University to study that kind of ideology...\n.\n.\n
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"The King of Northern has already remembered it," Maria said at this time, "Carl Tianshi teaches him to study with King Hong Tian, ​​King Feng Nan, and King Yang Dong in the study room in the sky!"
This "Veuda" is really nonsense!
He, Hong Xiuquan, Feng Yunshan, and Yang Xiuqing had to learn ideology from the two ancestors. How could the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in history still fail?
Just as he thought of this, Wei Changhui's loud voice came: "Ninth brother, Ninth brother...::::. Our teacher in heaven is here! Why don't you go downstairs to greet him?"
The cast iron gate in the waiting hall opened, and Wei Changhui took the lead and rushed out quickly. The northern king "Wei Judas" was blushing at this moment, as if he had returned to the study room in the heavenly court to listen to the lecture. While walking, he said: "Ninth brother! Two heavenly masters are coming, but you can't greet you quickly!"
Luo Yaoguo's leather boots were nailed to the bluestone ground, and his eyes were brightly watched the two "Heavenly Masters". Ten steps away,
Moore was using the water press that was ordered from the UK at a high price. Friedrich's notebook was spread on his knees, and the sketch of the water press was marked with German: "The Chinese exchanged their hard work for the best machines in Europe, no capitalists."
"Student Luo Yaoguo, I have seen him..." Luo Yaoguo rolled and swallowed the three words "Master Master": "I have seen him...Mr., yes...Mr.."
No matter what, Luo Yaoguo just worships this teacher!
Moore and Friedrich were shocked by Luo Yaoguo's words. They used pseudonyms!
How did Luo Yaoguo know?
"We...\n." Friedrich was interrupted by Luo Yaoguo as soon as he spoke.
"I remembered that it was your name in heaven," Luo Yaoguo knew that he had let it go, so he quickly corrected, "Mr. Moore, Mr. Friedrich, welcome you to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom."
Suspect.
Moore and Friedrich were suspicious in their hearts!
"Mr. Moore and Mr. Friedrich have something to ask His Highness the King of Wu!" Bai Siwen suddenly spoke up at this time and broke the embarrassment.
Luo Yaoguo glanced at this former Qing Dynasty ambassador to Europe, of course he knew Bai Siwen's true identity.
But he is now a member of the Wenxian mission and is a guest of honor for Prince Albert and Queen Victoria.
So Luo Yaoguo couldn't let someone do him.::::. This is not very suitable! Moreover, the harm of this product is limited.
"Mr. Bai, please ask." Luo Yaoguo said with a smile.
"May I ask...How do 500 million people in the world fill their stomachs?" Bai Siwen looked at Luo Yaoguo, "The land in the world is just that. You can't eat enough. After you run an industry, you have to deposit a portion of it to plant cotton and mulberry trees...... Moreover, workers have high incomes and eat good food. If they eat more chickens, ducks, fish and meat, they will consume more food. Once the land is average, poor households who should have lost their children will have the opportunity to marry and have children, and the population will grow faster. May I ask, how should these tens of millions of people fill their stomachs in the future?"
"What are you talking nonsense about the Qing Dynasty?" Maria also knew Bai Siwen (she had seen him in London), and she shouted on the spot.
Luo Yaoguo also raised his hand and pressed the handle of the knife: "There are Siamese rice, Java sugar, and Luzon bananas in the South China Sea. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has more than a dozen steam grain ships running the Nanyang route, each carrying one or two thousand tons of grain. In the future, the Nanyang will have to grow more grain. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will build more steam ships, and the immigrants from the Heavenly Kingdom will also go south in large quantities."
Friedrich suddenly interrupted: "This is colonization!"
Chapter completed!