Bright Sword: I took Li Yunlong to work in military industry

Chapter 152: The First Hot Metal in Liaoyuan Arsenal

Liaoyuan Arsenal.

Yu Ye touched the various machines that were carried out of the cave and dug out of the soil, and felt somewhat moved.

These things, viewed from the perspective of future generations, are extremely crude, but now they are all the belongings of the Liaoyuan Arsenal.

"Shoujue, take the guys to build the hydroelectric power station first. This time the headquarters sold everything they had to buy us five high-power electric motors. This time we have much more electricity than before."

While Yu Ye was maintaining the bearings with butter, he was also arranging various production tasks with everyone at the Liaoyuan Arsenal.

"Okay, director."

Guo Shoujue, along with two classmates and four or five comrades from the Liaoyuan Arsenal, began to redesign the layout of the Liaoyuan Arsenal Water Conservancy and Power Station. With Yu Ye's previous demonstrations and examples, they no longer had to start from scratch.

In the past, Yu Ye solved the problem of creating something from nothing, but now Guo Shoujue and his team are solving the problem of improving something from something.

"Director, what should we start producing first after we resume production?" Zhao Xikui, the person in charge of the assembly workshop, came up to the director and asked.

"Kuizi, let's start with the batch of thermite bullets from the 358th Regiment."

"Director, is it because the 358th Regiment is pressing us?"

"That's not the case. It's because everyone hasn't touched the machine for nearly a month. I'm worried that everyone is unfamiliar with it. I want everyone to produce a batch of objects first to get a feel for it.

Anyway, it is for Chu Yunfei, not for us, so a higher error rate doesn’t matter.”

Yu Ye put down the butter plate in his hand, wiped the sweat off his face with the back of his hand, and said casually.

"Director, you..." Zhao Xikui was choked and didn't know what to say.

"What am I?"

"Director, you really are a scholar."

There was another half sentence that Zhao Xikui swallowed and didn't dare to say, which was that the factory director was too insidious as a scholar.

Watching Zhao Xikui's leaving back, Yu Ye felt a little emotional. Zhao Xikui was just an ordinary soldier following Lao Fang from the Quartermaster Department at that time. After being brought to the Liaoyuan Arsenal by Yu Ye, he made rapid progress. Not only did he learn one or two thousand words in a very short period of time, but he could already manage more than a dozen comrades as the person in charge of the assembly workshop. It was really not easy.

Fortunately, I let the college students and my comrades at the Liaoyuan Arsenal learn from each other, so when the Liaoyuan Arsenal was moving forward rapidly, no one was left behind.

Just as Yu Ye finished his work and was about to drink a sip of water, he saw Li Zhengang rushing into Yu Ye's office carrying a bucket of black object.

"Director, look, what have I done?"

"Oh? So fast?"

Yu Ye used a pair of tongs to pick up a piece of black "coal" that was still warm, put it in front of his eyes and looked at it: "You did a good job, kid.

I didn't expect that you'd already managed to make coke after only three or four days back?"

"Yes, Director."

Li Zhengang's face was filled with an uncontrollable smile.

"Well, your method of making coke is still a bit crude, and the grayness is still a bit high. But without a coke oven, it is not easy to achieve this level.

Although the amount of coke used will be much larger if the ash content is high, is this still a problem for us in Jindi?"

Yu Ye put the coke on the ground with a pair of tongs and crushed it: "Not bad, the sulfur content is basically within the standard, it can be used."

"yeah!"

Hearing Yu Ye's affirmation, Li Zhengang, with a dark face, almost jumped up. He was the first one to receive the affirmation from the factory director after taking charge of the project. This was definitely a very gratifying thing.

"Zhengang, how is your earthen blast furnace going?"

"Director, I was just about to tell you that we are almost done with the construction.

I have to say that the skills of our comrades in the arsenal who used to work as bricklayers are beyond reproach. This furnace is built in a very good condition. "

Li Zhengang grinned as he spoke. Apart from his dark face and his white teeth, how could he look like a top student? He was no different from a coal burner.

Yu Ye felt a little distressed when seeing this. Li Zhengang was working so hard. He was almost always running between the coking pit and the traditional blast furnace construction site. He only slept for 5 hours a day. Yet he was able to produce results so quickly.

"Zheng'ang, you've worked hard." Yu Ye said with genuine concern.

"That's nothing. Compared to those comrades who died on the battlefield, we are already very lucky. I often dream about those comrades who died in front of me, so I don't want to think about anything else now. I just want to refine our steel as soon as possible and make more guns and cannons."

Li Zhengang's eyes were full of determination, which formed a very strong contrast with the clear stupidity in his eyes when he first came to the Independent Regiment a few months ago.

This guy has grown up.

"By the way, Director, we previously conducted a small experiment using the iron slag from producing sulfuric acid from pyrite as raw material, and found that the iron content of the sample was still not good enough, and the sulfur content was too high."

Li Zhengang talked eloquently, and it was obvious that he had already mastered the basics of smelting.

"Don't worry, there are still a lot of iron ore nearby. I have arranged for the soldiers of the independent regiment to go and look for them. Let's first find some small iron ore for emergency use. After we completely control Changye, we will have sufficient raw materials."

"it is good!"

"By the way, Director, we plan to produce the first batch of molten iron at our Liaoyuan Arsenal in three days. You must come then."

"Affirmative, put your heart back in your stomach."

Three days later, Yu Ye was a little silent as he looked at the earthen blast furnace which was more than 5 meters high.

After all, I have seen too many spectacular blast furnaces in my previous life, so this earthen blast furnace is still a little lacking. However, this thing can be regarded as the starting point of the metallurgical industry of the Liaoyuan Arsenal.

Yu Ye looked at the earthen blast furnace in front of him in a daze, thinking of the scene in the future where a province's underreported steel production surpassed the entire world.

"Open the gate!"

As Li Zhengang roared loudly, a stream of fiery red iron spring poured out from the bottom of the earthen blast furnace where the molten iron came out of the furnace, and entered the liquid pool according to the pre-planned diversion channel.

Looking at the boiling molten iron, Yu Ye was also infected.

Yu Ye had made so many powerful weapons before, and the raw materials he used were either the dismantled Japanese railway tracks or the wool taken from the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army. Only this batch of molten iron was truly smelted at the Liaoyuan Arsenal.

This is the cornerstone of the entire Liaoyuan Arsenal, a cornerstone that is harder than steel plates.

With this solid foundation, Yu Ye will have more confidence to rebuild China's industrial system.