novelraw #245 - The rebirth of North China's first heavy industry city
#245 - The rebirth of North China's first heavy industry city
Taiyuan Core Industrial Zone.
The Northwest Steel Plant was crowded with people who came to sign up as workers.
The newly appointed factory director, Ma Dahai, and the security chief, Li Shan, did not expect to encounter such a situation.
Ma Dahai was transferred from the position of deputy director of the Border Region Steel Plant, while Li Shan had just been demobilized from the army as a company commander, leading a platoon to transform into the security section.
As an important production unit, it now needs protection from combat-capable troops to prevent sabotage by enemy agents.
The Northwest Steel Plant currently has a daily production capacity of about 50 tons of steel, but it is mainly iron, and steel production is less than 10 tons.
However, in the recruitment notice issued by the higher authorities, it was stated that a massive recruitment plan of 3,000 people would be carried out in the initial stage.
With the current production capacity, so many workers are not needed at all.
However, Ma Dahai had seen the overall plan. The Northwest Steel Plant will become the largest steel conglomerate in Jin Province and even North China, and the goal to be achieved soon is a million-ton steel production capacity!
If this plan hadn't come from Ren Zhong, Ma Dahai wouldn't have dared to believe it.
The current recruitment is only the beginning. He needs to quickly take over this steel plant and then immediately start production.
The first phase of the Northwest Steel Plant's mission is to rapidly expand its own production scale, from 50 tons per day to more than 500 tons.
To this end, the first phase of the steel plant is to cooperate with the Taiyuan Heavy Machinery Plant to give priority to producing new steelmaking furnaces and related steelmaking equipment, complete the construction of new steelmaking production lines on the spot, and then continue to expand the scale.
The reborn Northwest Steel Plant will only do further refining of crude iron and crude steel, turning them into high-grade carbon steel and various alloy steels, supporting the development of multiple industries such as heavy machinery equipment, automobiles, engines, and machine tools.
It can be said to be one of the upstream source industries of heavy industry.
The good news is that they don't need to study the production process and formula of various alloy steels anymore. There is a mysterious team providing corresponding technical support in this regard, ensuring that there is a complete production process and ratio data to put into production after the production capacity is built.
Therefore, Ma Dahai is not worried about these more technically demanding things. What he is most worried about is the number and quality of workers, and whether they can be competent for the correct operation of the new production management system and various equipment on the production line.
However, these are not things that need to be solved immediately. After all, Ma Dahai did not come alone. He directly brought a complete set of technically skilled engineers covering all process links from the steel plant in the Border Region as the seed technical personnel for the start-up of the Northwest Steel Plant.
Now these people are busy recruiting and interviewing the employees they want.
The dark mass of the recruitment market made Ma Dahai see the difference between Taiyuan and the Border Region.
Here, the concentration of population and the number of workers are almost an order of magnitude greater than in the Border Region. The Japanese occupation led to the closure of many factories, and a large number of people were laid off, so a large number of unemployed people were formed in society.
Even if the Japanese didn't do good things during the occupation, there were still many people who poured in to find a way to make a living in the city. Taiyuan now has a urban population of nearly 200,000.
With the large-scale development plan promoted by Ren Zhong after the liberation, the demand for manpower is even greater. The more people recruited, the faster the population pours in. After all, it is also very difficult to eat in the countryside, so there is always a sufficient supply of people signing up for jobs that can provide enough to eat.
Now people are still coming into the city from the surrounding areas of Taiyuan, with several hundred people every day.
The number of workers in the several major factories planned by Ren Zhong was quickly filled.
Of course, these workers are not all skilled workers. Some are old workers, and more are newcomers who have not learned anything yet. Ren Zhong is not worried about this. As long as they are willing to work hard, are not too old, and are easy to accept new things, that's fine.
The factories he runs have no precedent in this time and space, and they need training in themselves.
Therefore, the reason why he asked Ma Dahai and engineers in various positions to bring a set from the Border Region to replicate is this: these are the masters, who will pass on the new technologies and new processes to the new workforce here through a combination of verbal instruction and classroom teaching.
The current booming recruitment of workers is completely within Ren Zhong's expectations.
With this good start, the major industries planned by Ren Zhong will soon be launched.
The restructured Northwest Steel Plant took the lead. According to Ren Zhong's technical transformation plan, after carrying out local transformation and optimization of the original production line, and based on the process formula re-provided by the main world's analysis, coupled with the mature new steelmaking control technology in the Border Region, the first batch of cast steel was now produced, so as to develop large-scale production of mechanical equipment and steelmaking equipment needed for the steel plant's new production line.
For example, steelmaking furnaces, rolling mills, gantry cranes, motors, and other equipment are linked one after another. The entire work rhythm is very fast and compact, which is simply dazzling. New equipment is produced like an assembly line, and a new production line gradually takes shape as you watch.
Now everything is fast-paced, and a 24-hour three-shift operation mode is fully adopted.
Everything is different from the original way of just trying to make a living.
The entire Taiyuan's workers are now like newborns, throwing themselves into unlimited production.
A 4 * 6MW thermal power plant, with most of its sophisticated equipment transported from the border region, serves as a mature power generation facility mastered by the border region. Currently, the 6MW thermal power equipment is operating at full capacity. As for the large casting production workshop needed by the power plant, it is now directly located in the Northwest Steel Plant, utilizing the steel produced by the steel plant for seamless casting.
Tens of thousands of workers are working day and night.
The current construction speed would make even the infrastructure maniacs of the main world cry.
With the introduction of Ren Zhong's "original" work Gantt chart, construction is scheduled according to parallel and serial work arrangements, combined with a 24-hour work system without labor laws. No country's infrastructure construction speed can match Taiyuan's current speed!
Several generations of construction models, originally honed in Yang Village, the border region, and the Dawn Research Institute, are now more skilled in every work process. There are more experienced instructors guiding the construction, so the construction speed is faster than before, because now there is almost no need to feel around for stones to cross the river. Everything is mature technology.
There's no way not to rush. The Japanese devils are not idle either. According to the communication information between the headquarters and the North China Front Army and the Kwantung Army deciphered by the telecommunications decryption team, the Japanese devils are expanding their troops on a large scale. The Kwantung Army plans to expand by more than 20 new divisions, and the North China Front Army will also add 6 new divisions. Although they are expanded on the basis of the garrison and independent brigades, the combat effectiveness is relatively poor compared to the garrison divisions.
However, the combat effectiveness of these troops is generally higher than that of the Eighth Route Army's Class C regiments, and they are even more overwhelming against the Nationalist army.
The base production capacity built by the Japanese devils in the mainland and Northeast China is much larger than Ren Zhong's current plan.
The more battles fought, the clearer Ren Zhong becomes that the final decisive battle determining the fate of the country still depends on the steel torrent to determine the final victory!
Without the coverage of artillery fire and the impact of tank steel torrents, everything else is empty talk.
According to the data Ren Zhong found, the million-strong Kwantung Army was quickly disintegrated because they faced the Great Bear's incredibly powerful steel torrent: 5,500 tanks, more than 26,000 artillery pieces, and 3,800 aircraft!
This is a thorough release and demonstration of force by the Great Bear after sweeping across Europe!
Now the time to the end of the Japanese devils' doomsday is very limited.
In the situation where there is no hope for a peace egg, Ren Zhong cannot rely on the peace egg to deliver a fatal blow to the Japanese devils.
Then we must rely on the steel torrent to complete the final battle, instead of waiting for the charity of robbers.
A million-strong army is not only a powerful combat force, but also locusts passing through the border, plundering the entire Northeast and setting it back to even worse than the 1920s.
According to statistics in 1943, the iron production in Northeast China was 1.7 million tons, and the steel production was 870,000 tons.
Taking Anshan Iron and Steel as an example, it was called Showa Steel Works during the Japanese occupation period. After several expansions by the Japanese puppet regime, it formed a scale of 1 million tons of steel and iron per year, and the equipment was relatively complete. At that time, it was not only the first in China, but also one of the largest steel companies in the Far East. In August 1945, the Great Bear sent troops to Anshan in Northeast China, and then dismantled 2/3 of the equipment of Showa Steel Works, along with more than 70,000 tons of other materials, including the important equipment of the Second Steelmaking Plant, the Second Primary Rolling Plant, the Large Rolling Mill, and the Seamless Steel Pipe Plant, which caused extremely serious damage to Showa Steel Works, and the production capacity of the entire plant was greatly reduced, becoming a fragmented mess. After the Great Bear withdrew on April 15, 1946, the Nationalist government took over Showa Steel Works and reorganized it to establish Anshan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. Due to the Nationalist government's preoccupation with fighting the civil war and lack of interest in restoring production, the entire enterprise was in a state of shutdown and semi-shutdown. During the entire period of Nationalist government's takeover and management, the huge Anshan Iron and Steel only barely operated for 22 months, producing a total of 9,500 tons of steel!
The entire Northeast is full of broken tiles and ruined walls in factories, cold furnaces and broken machines, a desolate scene.
It is equivalent to turning a complete industrial base into a blank slate, which needs to be rebuilt from scratch.
Having read history, Ren Zhong will not let it go, because a complete Northeast can at least reduce the development time of the new Dragon Kingdom by 10 years.
In this way, with the technology of the Dawn Research Institute and the industrial foundation of the Northeast, Ren Zhong believes that the scarred Dragon Kingdom can be reborn in ten years!
Today's Taiyuan is just Ren Zhong's first experiment.
Now it seems that everything is still good.
In less than a month, this kind of heavy industrial city has recovered its vitality.
Steel plants, armories, etc. have all begun to resume production and are constantly expanding production capacity.
Relying on the industrial mother machines transported over, the machine tool factory has also launched large-scale machine tool production work.
The crude iron smelted from the local blast furnaces in the original base areas around Taiyuan is continuously transported to the Northwest Steel Plant, and then turned into cast steel and special steel, becoming more mechanical equipment, becoming the source of factories and military industries.
From 50 tons per day to 200 tons per day, it only took a month. Then from 200 tons to 500 tons, it was completed in less than a month. This was only temporarily stopped the pace of expanding production capacity due to the electricity supply, but the production line equipment and workshops are still constantly in production.
After the 4 * 6MW new power plant is successfully built, the Northwest Steel Plant will usher in a more violent wave of production capacity explosion.
At present, Ren Zhong's strategy of realizing the local blast furnace smelting of crude iron in the mineral area and transporting the crude iron to the Northwest Steel Plant for refining has initially shown its power.
The crude iron's blast furnace production capacity is almost doubling every month. After all, the construction cycle is short and can be effective in one month. In addition, it is close to the mineral area, transportation is also convenient, and it does not require electricity. Now it is not afraid of Japanese devils bombing. The crude iron production capacity is only limited by the local manpower.
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