Chapter 262 Donghai Metallurgy (Third update, please subscribe)
In the early morning, Li Yi'an woke up in Heidi's room. The sun shone into the room through the window screen. After sitting up, he felt the new year. The sunshine brought a smile to his face.
The new year is here - there will be great gains this year.
With the continuous acceleration of construction, Borneo will enter the harvest season this year, and the factories under construction will soon be put into operation.
The era of industrialization is about to come to this land.
Industrialization!
Just thinking about it makes the smile on his face grow stronger.
The mattress moved at this time, and Heidi turned over.
Looking at Heidi who was still sleeping, Li Yian said to himself.
“She must have been exhausted last night.”
After a fierce battle all night, although Heidi got her wish, she was still defeated in the end.
Since Margaret, Hepburn, and Lautrey became pregnant, Heidi has been working hard, and she has been pulling Ava to work hard together.
Last month, Ava became pregnant, and now she is the only one who is not pregnant. You can imagine how heartbroken she is.
Li Yian couldn't help but caressed this beautiful face with his hands and thought to himself.
This is also a good thing, it can’t make me completely idle.
However, thinking about her disappointment after knowing that Ava was pregnant, Li Yian actually hoped that she would get pregnant as soon as possible, and her wish was granted.
Heidi felt the touch on her face while she was sleeping, and gently pressed her face against his palm like a pug. Although she seemed to be enjoying it, she was muttering.
"Don't make trouble, I'm holding the baby..."
Suddenly, Heidi opened her eyes, saw Li Yian in front of her, and subconsciously touched her chest.
No?
"Which child are you holding?"
Li Yian laughed out loud, this little goblin is always breastfeeding in his dreams!
Facing Li Yian’s laughter, Heidi said boldly.
“Hold our child, I dreamed about her!”
She had a dream just now. In the dream, she gave birth to a daughter for Li Yi’an, and she was holding the child and teasing her. The child was playing, but Li Yian kept touching her face, making her feel itchy all over.
Unexpectedly, the person woke up as soon as he spoke.
Seeing Heidi's longing eyes, Li Yian kissed her directly and said.
"Don't worry, you will be a mother soon..."
After saying that, he lifted the quilt...
After getting up again, it was already morning It's ten o'clock.
"It's a bit indulgent. I have to change it in the future!"
The king will not go to court early from now on. Now we don't have the capital. An occasional indulgence is enough. Business is more important.
Because of the poverty in Borneo, Li Yi'an, who was afraid of going astray, participated in almost every detail of the planning.
Not to mention the construction of factories, he is also involved in the construction of some landmarks in the city center. However, in the final analysis, his energy is still in industrial construction.
Just after the New Year's Day holiday, Li Yi'an left Sandakan and went to Lahad Datu, located on the southeast coast, for inspection. Lahad Datu, located on the north shore of David Bay in the Sulawesi Sea, was once isolated by a large inland jungle. , but with the reclamation of hundreds of thousands of reclamation workers, the virgin forests of Sandakan and Lahad Datu have now been reclaimed into a strip of reclamation area centered on the road.
Even so, the roads in the reclamation area are very simple, just compacted dirt roads. In fact, it is already very good to have a dirt road in Borneo after leaving the city. When the convoy bumped along the muddy road, Li Yian didn't have any off-road excitement at all. He only had one thought in his mind - to quickly build a real road network.
“Asphalt roads must be built quickly...”
In fact, the road network in Borneo is already progressing steadily, but it is mainly concentrated in Sandakan, Urban areas and industrial areas such as Kota Kinabalu and Kuching are, after all, the most important industrial construction at the moment. As for the need for roads between cities, they are not so urgent - they are all coastal cities, and boats are enough.
In fact, as several refineries have been repaired and put into operation, there is no longer any problem in the supply of asphalt, and even mechanical equipment - thanks to the gift of the US military, Borneo got its abandoned in the Pacific Ocean There are hundreds of road construction machinery and a large amount of materials on the island, and there are more than 100,000 wooden barracks alone. Those dormitories were shipped to Borneo as workers' dormitories, enough to house millions of people.
Don't abandon second-hand goods, and the most important thing is not to spend money. Of course, you have to send someone to transport the things back by boat. The reason why the US military abandoned it was because of the high transportation costs, so Marshal Mai gave it to Borneo with a wave of his hand.
“The road network between several key cities should be built as soon as possible...”
While thinking about the idea of promoting the construction of the road network, the convoy drove over a wooden bridge. This wooden bridge is the only bridge on the Kinabatangan River, albeit a temporary one.
The Kinabatangan River is the largest river in North Borneo. It originates from the Witi Ridge in the west, runs across the central part of the state, and flows eastward into the Sulu Sea. It is 560 kilometers long, with a drainage area of 10,400 square kilometers, an estuary 960 meters wide and a depth of 6-10 meters. Although the river is not long, it is rich in water energy resources because of the heavy rainfall and river runoff in the tropical rainforest. The upper reaches are mainly mountainous, with large terrain differences. In the early industrial planning for North Borneo, a large hydropower station will be built in the mountains upstream of the river.
As the convoy passed the bridge, Li Yian asked when he saw five small boats going upstream, two of which were small gunboats converted from landing craft.
"Is it the fleet of the hydropower station inspection team?"
Gao Changrong, who was sitting in the back seat of the jeep, looked at the fleet and said.
"Calculating the time and size, it should be the fleet of the inspection team, and the two small gunboats should be the escort force."
The secretary's answer made Li Yian nodded and said.
“Hydropower stations must be built. Industrial construction cannot be separated from electricity, and among all the electricity, hydropower is the cheapest. Not only that, in the future, whether it is the steel plant in Lahad Datu or the mountain The urban water supply in Dagen is inseparable from this river. The purpose of building hydropower stations is to store river water to meet the needs of industry and cities. ”
The establishment of hydropower stations is not only to meet the demand for electricity, but also to meet the demand for fresh water. Not only is industrial development inseparable from fresh water, but residents' lives are also inseparable from water sources. Even though Sandakan is located in the tropics, with an annual rainfall of more than 1.5 meters, if the population increases and the industry develops, it will still be short of water.
This is the case in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia in another world. On one hand, there are frequent floods and on the other hand, water resources are depleted. Because of over-exploitation of groundwater, not only the depletion of groundwater resources has led to large-scale sinking of the city, for this reason, In the new century, they even had to choose to move their capital.
Will tropical rainforest areas lack fresh water?
This question may seem funny, but this is reality.
It is also an inevitable thing in Sandakan. Therefore, it is extremely necessary to build hydropower stations, which can avoid flooding, generate electricity, regulate water resources, supply agriculture during the dry season, and supply water for daily life and industry in urban areas.
The convoy traveled a hundred kilometers of dirt road for a full day. On the way, Li Yian also visited several reclamation sites to understand the needs of the reclamation workers. It was not until the evening that they arrived in Lahad Datu. However, the convoy did not enter Lahad Datu. Instead, he drove straight along the highway to the steel company in the southeast. When he was still a few kilometers away, he saw a mountain that had been cut in half.
As long as he saw the mountain, Li Yian knew that he had arrived at the steel company. He pointed at the mountain and said to Gao Changrong proudly.
“1,000 tons!”
Seeing Gao Changrong’s confused look, Li Yian smiled.
“In order to flatten this mountain, we used a full 1,000 tons of explosives to flatten a mountain, and then blew up half of the mountain, just to establish a steel company,”
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Even though half of the mountain was blown up, it was actually worth it, because the factories are basically built on solid rock foundations. Iron-making blast furnaces, steel-making furnaces and steel rolling equipment are all large-tonnage industrial equipment, which are very harmful to the foundation. The conditions are very demanding and the rock foundation saves a lot of things.
In another world, in order to build Baosteel by the Yangtze River, many geological difficulties had to be overcome. In the process of reinforcing the foundation, almost the entire factory area was poured with concrete. At the same time, every effort was made to avoid Li Yian didn't know whether the land subsidence caused by excessive weight and a series of geological difficulties were completely solved in the end, but the Donghai Steel Company in front of him would definitely not have such problems. After all, the entire factory is located on a solid mountain range. superior.
“In the future, this half of the mountain and several nearby hills will also be blown to the ground. In the future, the area around... almost forty square kilometers will be our steel industrial zone. In the future, this will be Asia’s largest metallurgical center”
It is not only a metallurgical center, but also the cement industry center of Borneo. In addition to being used to build factories and plants, the stones produced by blasting are also used to produce cement and bake. Lime, this can be regarded as some kind of recycling.
But more importantly, steel is the mother of all industries. Without steel, it would be impossible to build machines, let alone manufacturing machines. It would even be impossible to build factories.
For this reason, Donghai Steel Company, which plans to produce 1.5 million tons of steel per year, has always been the top priority in the first phase of the construction plan. After all, the construction of this steel company is related to the future industrial construction of the entire Borneo. and production.
Without steel companies, the so-called large-scale industrial construction is simply empty talk.
“After it is put into production, we will no longer need to import steel.”
With emotion, the convoy drove into the factory in the dusk. Like other industrial parks in Borneo, the Two shifts are under construction 24 hours a day and night. Even in the dusk, the place is still brightly lit. Under the illumination of thousands of electric lights, tens of thousands of workers are still working day and night, repairing equipment. Installation, those metallurgical equipment dismantled and transported back from Italy will soon stand on this land...
(End of this chapter)