Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 584 Northwest Reclamation Bureau ([-])

May 1647, 5, sunny, Tieling Fort.

Today's Tieling Fort is decorated with lights and festoons, making it extremely lively. Mr. Pierre, a former senior technician of Ping'an Iron and Steel Works and a French immigrant from Switzerland, is holding a wedding ceremony for his son.As the first batch of immigrants from Europe, Mr. Pierre, who was born as a blacksmith, has worked hard in Ping'an Iron and Steel Plant for more than ten years, and his business ability is very good.The new Northwest Special Steel Plant in Tieling Fort, Mr. Pierre was transferred to the local area together with many colleagues from Pingan Iron and Steel Plant, and became the first batch of founders of the Northwest Special Steel Plant.

As the technical director of the special steel plant department enjoying high-level treatment, Mr. Pierre was allocated a house with front and rear yards in Tieling Fort.In the era when more than 90% of the local residents still lived in log cabins and thatched huts, this set of brick and stone houses is undoubtedly a symbol of status and status, which means that they have now entered the upper class of the East Coast Republic.

Pierre's son, Pi Zhigao, was named by Gao Xiaogang, the former director of Pingan Iron and Steel Works, in the meaning of lofty aspirations. He came to the east coast with Pierre many years ago from Switzerland. He is just 21 years old this year.He just graduated from Bingtuanbao last year, majoring in agronomy, and was assigned to Tielingbao to promote the three-crop crop rotation system at the beginning of this year. He can be regarded as an official.

Naturally, Pi Zhigao himself is the one who got married today, and his new wife is the daughter of Hu Laosan, who is also a manager of the Northwest Special Steel Plant.Hu Laosan's daughter just turned 17 this year, and now she is a teacher in the soon-to-be-opened Tieling Township Quanquan Primary School, and she is considered a respectable figure in the East Coast.

As a student cadre from the Bingtuanbao, Pi Zhigao's knowledge and aesthetics are naturally different from those mud-legged people from Livonia. Those people only like women with European faces, and they would not marry an oriental woman if they were killed.However, Pi Zhigao was deeply educated by time-travelers for ten years, and he was imprinted with a strong oriental brand in the most important stage of three views and personality shaping. Coupled with his own admiration for the instructors of time-travelers, he turned his attention to Ming Human women are more attractive, and they regard those Polish and Greek slave girls who do not know a single word as nothing.

Moreover, marrying Hu Laosan's daughter is a well-matched family, and the other can ensure that his career will develop more smoothly in the future.As a vigorous young man, who doesn't have the desire to make progress?Who doesn't want to be a high-ranking official in the future and be respected by others?And if you want to make progress, it is inevitable to respond to the government's call to intermarry.As people inside the system, Pierre, Pi Zhigao and his son are naturally well aware of some things that can only be understood and cannot be expressed in words. If there is no glass ceiling in the official career, then don't let yourself and your family descendants be different from others. Similarly, to do everything possible to integrate into the society of the East Bank, this is what people like Pi Zhigao should do.

With the increasing number of mixed-race groups in China, smart people know how to choose for the future of their own family's next generation.As of the beginning of May this year, with the last group of oriental immigrants coming to the mainland from South Africa, the population of the East Coast Republic of China has officially exceeded 5; With more than 11 European immigrants returning home, the natural increase of the domestic population, and the population smuggled from Brazil, it is almost no suspense that the total domestic population will exceed 12.5 this year.

Among them, the proportion of Ming people has climbed from 39% last year to nearly 40%, and mixed-race people have also climbed from 9% to 10%. The rest of the ethnic groups except French still account for 6% (7.4% last year). No single ethnicity accounts for more than 4% of the population.This was still the period when the war with Spain broke out and the white population poured into the east coast, and the proportion of pure white population will further decline in the future.Therefore, if you don't want your offspring to be in danger, then try to make their appearance tend to be oriental, which of course requires you to marry an oriental person first.

Moreover, Hu Laosan's daughter has received a six-year education from primary school to junior high school in the East Coast Republic. Compared with those ignorant Eastern European women, they also have more common language.Combining all these factors, the marriage between the Pi and Hu families became inevitable.However, Pierre almost exhausted his family's wealth for his son to marry a wife, because his son faced fierce competition from a Polish army officer and an Italian naval officer. The exorbitant gift money was able to make him return home with beauty.

Pierre’s family invited many guests to the scene today. In addition to colleagues from the special steel factory, there were also many local military and political officials (the head of the township, the minister of armed forces, etc.).Of course, their family's face seems to be not small, and the vest of the director of the Northwest Reclamation Bureau also rushed over with gifts at noon.Pierre was a little surprised by the arrival of the vest. Although he sent an invitation to the vest, God knows whether the high-ranking director will condescend to visit his house.But now that the answer was revealed, the vest personally came to bless the couple and gave many valuable gifts at the same time.

However, the time for the waistcoat is relatively tight. In the afternoon, he will go to Chengshan Fort in the east by car to inspect the progress of local agricultural development.Therefore, after a few sips of food and wine, he bid farewell and left. Before leaving, he also called Shen Gang, the director of the Northwest Special Steel Plant, the former deputy director of the Pingan Iron and Steel Plant, and Pierre to the side. He told them to start the construction of the special steel plant immediately after he left.

The Northwest Special Steel Works is the most important project of Tieling Fort, or the only reason for the existence of Tieling Fort is to provide services for the Northwest Special Steel Works.Relying on the abundant manganese ore resources near Tieling Fort, Northwest Special Steel Works will vigorously produce manganese steel with various ratios, which will serve the domestic machining industry (machine tool heads, important parts), steam engine industry (cylinders, boilers), and military industries. Industry (barrel) and other important industries to provide high-quality raw materials.

As one of the only two or three technicians among the [-] people who knew steel and the only one who knew how to smelt non-ferrous metals, Majia naturally attached great importance to the smelting of manganese steel.Even in front of the country's special steel and non-ferrous metal smelting industries, it is difficult to arouse his interest in everything in the past, and this is actually an important reason why he agreed to be the director of the Northwest Reclamation Bureau-after all, he still misses his beloved metallurgical industry.

The mineral resources in the Tielingbao area have been surveyed many times by Wang Dali and others. At present, 5 large and medium-sized manganese mines, 2 coal burial sites (of poor quality), and 1 small iron mine have been basically identified. It is basically possible to build a centralized mining mine. , smelting, processing and a whole set of industries.The local manganese ore resources are abundant and the grade is high. Although the iron ore reserves are extremely general, the grade has reached over 55%. Only the quality of the coal is poor, and it is basically impossible to coke and restore ferromanganese. It still needs to import a large amount from Xinhuaxia Island. Coal in Tacheng.

To be honest, although there are some differences between smelting ferromanganese and pig iron, they still have quite a lot in common.For example, Northwest Special Steel Works plans to build a blast furnace (about 100 cubic meters) here, which is specially used to smelt ferromanganese, and still uses coke as a reducing agent.After the completion of this blast furnace, the Northwest Special Steel Works will start the smelting of ferromanganese based on a large number of technicians and workers transferred from the Pingan Iron and Steel Works, supplemented by a large number of newly recruited apprentice workers and technical school graduates.

After the ferromanganese research has some clues and the official continuous production, the Northwest Special Steel Works will start to build a new open hearth furnace and start smelting manganese steel-this is the highlight.As long as the smelting technology of manganese steel is mastered, the East Coast industry will enter a new realm. For example, cannons and muskets can be drawn industrially on a large scale. For example, the processing accuracy of parts has been greatly improved, such as steam engine boilers and cylinders. The strength of the machine is further improved, such as the degree of wear resistance of the equipment is greatly improved and so on.In short, the benefits are inexhaustible, and it is almost a revolutionary promotion for the metallurgical and machining industries on the east coast.

"The construction of the factory building must start immediately." The vest told the two of them carefully, "There will be a group of new and old immigrants coming here at the end of this month. I will allocate all these people to you, and give priority to building materials as much as possible. , I will also give you the highest priority for the transportation of materials and equipment for special steel plants. In short, build the factory buildings and blast furnaces first. Time does not wait for everyone, the voice of ferromanganese and manganese steel has been shouted in China for so many years, but it is now It is unforgivable that we have not yet entered the stage of substantive production. Therefore, everyone must unify their thinking and work hard, and strive to complete the construction of the plant and blast furnace before the end of this year, and officially start commissioning and production next year."

"If the commissioning and production goes well next year, the manganese steel project will start at the end of next year at the latest, and then a series of downstream industries such as machining, casting, and forging will also be built here one after another. When these industries are officially put into production and launched After the scale, I believe that Tieling will become another heavy industry center city in the East Coast Republic." The vest continued to talk to the two about the importance of the matter and the future prospects, "As the founders and founders of the Northwest Special Steel Plant, you must It will leave a strong mark in history. Don’t worry, as long as you work hard and work hard, the country will not treat you badly. To honor the lintel and benefit future generations is all in one fell swoop!”

After hearing what the vest said, Pierre, whose wealth and fate had been firmly tied to the East Coast Republic, immediately patted his chest and expressed his determination, saying that he would overcome all difficulties and cooperate with Director Shen to set up the Northwest Special Steel Works as soon as possible. At the same time, we will continue to improve the quality of employees, and strive to successfully commission and produce ferromanganese before the first half of next year, laying a good foundation for the commissioning of manganese steel that will start at the end of the year.

Although Shen Gang, as a traveler, doesn't care about "blessing the lintel and benefiting future generations", he also said in a timely manner that he will formulate a detailed plan node after returning, and then quickly start the preparations for the new factory.

After listening, the vest smiled and patted the shoulders of the two, then turned around and quietly left the wedding scene.

(End of this chapter)