Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1271 The First Fertilizer Factory

"My lord is right."

"You go back and get ready first, I might be late tonight, so save Jasmine's room first, I want to talk to someone about something."

"I can save it." Chu Qing nodded.

"Chief, I'll help you!" Fu Buer blushed, turned around hastily after getting off the train, and helped Wan Lihuang, who was a little drunk.

"It's okay, I... I'm okay!" Wan Lihuang waved his hand, but he couldn't lift his drooping head. At noon, several over-excited landlords rushed to toast, and the wine was easy-to-drink fruit wine, so it was inevitable. I drank a few more glasses, but now I am not as dizzy as usual.

Wu Nanhai, who was behind the scene, was secretly unhappy. Although Wan Lihuang was a young man, he was still a veteran, the "head". Besides, today was a working day, and he was unconscious after drinking at noon, which was a bit ugly.Especially in today's ceremony, many elders from other departments were present, and the members of the Council of Agriculture looked drunk at noon.

He whispered to the secretary who was following him, and ordered Wan Lihuang to be sent to the station to rest quickly, so that he would not participate in today's groundbreaking ceremony.

The stop sign behind it says Ma Niao Industrial Zone Station, but this group of people who drank too much spirits at noon and their brains are still not clear, looking at the completely different scenery in front of them, it does not match the Ma Niao in their impression, and they are suddenly excited stand up.

In the center of the straight cinder-hardened road, four steel rails go straight into the sea, and there are neat open spaces on both sides, which are divided by lime. The cloud, a thick gourd-shaped "chimney", is spouting billowing smoke, and the roar of steam engines keeps coming and going.

"It is said that it is the iron factory of the chiefs!"

"I've also heard that the big furnace inside can produce hundreds of thousands of catties of iron at a time!"

"Really? No wonder it is said that the chiefs have the power of ghosts and gods!"

Immediately, a group of people chatted happily, as if they were proud of themselves.

This group of happy people standing at the end of the road, looking at the miracle of modern industry, except for some veterans of the agricultural port and naturalized agricultural technicians, most of them are active members of the Tiandihui, that is, those who have experience in large-scale land intensification. Among the new landlords, there are also middle peasants and rich peasants who are well-known in sideline business.

This time the autumn harvest was very fruitful, Tiandihui organized a thank-you banquet, Ye Yuming invited them here at the commercial restaurant at noon, and said that there is a big project officially started today, please Let's take a look.

Although a group of people have heard of this Ma Niao Industrial Zone, ordinary people at the station behind them are usually not allowed to enter.Only those who work in the Maniao industrial area can freely enter and exit here.

The blast furnace in the distance is really eye-catching. Compared with them, the newly built houses on the slope beside them are not so conspicuous. Thin chimneys of more than ten meters are seen a lot in Bairen City.

Boom! ...Boom! ...Boom! ...

A loud bang suddenly sounded, breaking everyone's excitement, and scared a few landlords who had drunk too much at noon and almost collapsed on the ground.

"Hehe, everyone, don't worry, don't worry, that's because the forging hammer of the steel factory has started, so it's okay." Wu Nanhai smiled and waved his hands, and walked to a row of bamboo fences with a few veterans, who were in charge of reception The naturalized people quickly led everyone to follow.

Today is the opening day of the Lingao No. [-] chemical fertilizer plant. After three months of infrastructure construction and one month of installation and commissioning, the largest chemical project in this time and space, and the first purely civilian chemical project of the veterans, will officially start construction soon.

With the increasing number of immigrants from Lingao, although the trade department has been working hard to import grain from outside the island and expand grain reserves, and the price of grain on the market is still normal, it is not economical to use imported grain, which not only consumes a lot of money, but also affects the transport capacity. The occupation is also very large, and the shipping capacity of Lingao has been in a state of extreme tension.

Therefore, the internal potential of agriculture has also been put on the agenda. In the 43rd year of Wanli (1615), there were 383.5 million mu of fields in Hainan's official fish scale book.After a comprehensive land survey in the Qiongbei region, the hidden fields in the Qiongbei region have been roughly clarified. In addition to the Qiongnan region that has not yet been fully measured, there are at least 600 million mu of wet and dry fields in Hainan.If the average yield increases by 10 kilograms per mu, then there will be 6 tons of grain, enough to feed 20 people. Even if the hundreds of thousands of mu of land directly controlled by the Council of Agriculture is used, the increase in yield is not a small number.

Although new agricultural machinery, new seeds, new water conservancy, and new agricultural technology are being gradually promoted, chemical fertilizers are undoubtedly the most direct and effective technical means, and the previous small-scale projects are naturally not enough.

Therefore, as the overall person in charge of this agricultural production increase plan, Wu Nanhai, with the enthusiastic cooperation of Luo Duo and other people in the large library, and after repeated consultations with the planning institute and the industrial department, came up with this truly modern fertilizer plant plan: The first phase of the project is 1 tons of ordinary calcium superphosphate and a supporting sulfuric acid plant 4 tons of sulfuric acid production increase project.

Calculated based on the amount of 30 kilograms per mu of grain planted, a total of 600 tons is needed for the 18 million acres of Hainan. The 1 tons of output is naturally just a small test.

The planning institute and the chemical port are quite supportive of the call bill project, but the planning institute and the chemical port originally tended to expand the production capacity of synthetic ammonia or bicarbonate nitrogen fertilizer.In addition to being used in agriculture, it is also of great value in chemical and military explosives.

At present, the chemical port has expanded the production capacity of synthetic ammonia to an annual output of 800 tons by duplicating and improving equipment on the original 2000-ton synthetic ammonia project.

However, Lingao's equipment manufacturing and material shortcomings make further expansion of the production capacity of the synthetic ammonia industry an unattainable goal.The synthetic ammonia industry involves a variety of alloy steels, and these materials are currently difficult to supply stably—both in terms of quantity and quality.In particular, a considerable part of alloy steel is involved in the mining and smelting of nickel ore and chrome ore.The small amount of alloy steel, special steel and non-ferrous metals they currently use are basically from the inventory brought by the holy ship, except for some types that can be produced by themselves. This part of the inventory is very limited and must be used very carefully.

The planning institute had many discussions with the main technical veterans of the machinery port and the chemical port, and finally came to the conclusion that the current larger-scale synthetic ammonia project cannot be supported by Lingao's current industrial system and industrial chain.

In the end, the Planning Institute determined the technical route of "using phosphorus to promote nitrogen" proposed by the Council of Agriculture to first go to the phosphate fertilizer plant.

Phosphorus fertilizer is the earliest fertilizer applied industrially in history, and phosphorus is an important soil element.Phosphorus fertilizer not only has a yield-increasing effect on common gramineous forage grasses, but also has a very good yield-increasing effect on leguminous forage crops such as milk vetch.Plant leguminous green manures in winter to increase soil organic matter and fertility - leguminous crops have a nitrogen fixation effect, which acts as a natural nitrogen fertilizer.This is the so-called "promoting nitrogen with phosphorus".

Leguminous crops can not only be used to extract oil, but more widely used as feed. The Senate must attach great importance to animal husbandry, which requires a huge amount of feed. Widely planting leguminous green manure in winter will serve multiple purposes.

The fields in southern China are generally deficient in phosphorus.Lingao is no exception.In order to increase phosphorus fertilizers, the Council of Agriculture, in addition to applying phosphorus-containing slag, also uses a large amount of leftovers after processing seafood.But these fertilizers are just a drop in the bucket for the vast world, far from enough.As for the struvite mined from Dongsha Island, it is very slow to be applied directly to the field and can only be used as a base fertilizer.

The phosphate fertilizer production line of Lingao No. 2 Fertilizer Factory uses struvite as the raw material and treats it with sulfuric acid to produce ordinary calcium superphosphate, the main active ingredient of which is Ca(H4PO2)[-].Superphosphate is a quick-acting phosphate fertilizer, which is easy to use and can be used in conjunction with modern agricultural technology.Once the phosphate fertilizer plant is put into operation, the effect of increasing production is immediate.

根据现代化肥的技术材料，按25%利用率计算，每公斤磷肥可以增产粮食4-8公斤，这1万吨磷肥就等于增产4-8万吨粮食。而这只需要占用几百人力。

"This is the magic of industrialized agriculture." Wu Nanhai raised his head and looked at the gate of Lingao No. [-] Fertilizer Factory with a smile. Compared with the simple bamboo fence, the gate of the factory is quite extravagant, and it is a stone archway.This stone archway was originally chiseled by a local landowner to be used on his ancestral grave by a mason.Later, because the landlord "colluded with the bandits", the whole family was forced to flee to the mainland, and all the property was confiscated. The archway became the property of the Planning Institute.The plaque on it was inscribed by Liu Dalin. Although this Jinshi didn't know what chemical fertilizers were, let alone phosphate fertilizers, he still understood that they could increase production.

Since it can increase food production, it is a great good governance, so Liu Jinshi wrote these big characters without hesitation.

"Liu Jinshi's handwriting is really good. Hmm...flying and phoenix dancing..." Wu Nanhai was quite complacent - he was the one who asked for calligraphy at the beginning.Although he basically knows nothing about calligraphy.

The factory area was crowded with people, colorful flags were flying, and everything was ready, just waiting for them.

A group of veterans headed by Ma Qianju was already standing in front of the groundbreaking ceremony of the rostrum, while Ji Tuisi was smoking a cigarette under the rostrum, watching Wu Nanhai approaching with a smile, and apologizing to him for being late. He waved his hands indifferently.

"Old Wu, you look good." Ji Tuisi patted Wu Nanhai's shoulder.

"It's okay, it's okay." Wu Nanhai knew about the fertilizer factory this time, and Ji Tuisi was of great help. Of course, the fertilizer factory and the sulfuric acid supporting project are still chemical engineering projects, and helping him is also helping himself.But this favor is still heavy.He cupped his hands again and again, and said half-jokingly, "Thank you for your kindness."

"Where, where," Ji Tuisi felt a little high-spirited because of the recent constant chemical port projects, "We are helping each other, and we will cooperate better in the future."

(End of this chapter)