Chapter 375: Annual Development Report

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At the Chang'an Palace, before the army and navy generals arrived, Li Mingyuan was seriously listening to the annual development reports of various central departments in the Zhongji Hall.
"In 1880, the domestic crude steel output was 36,000 tons. Compared with the annual output of tons, the production capacity increased by more than 5 times. The crude steel output can make such great progress, which depends on the hard work and efforts of local steel workers. Due diligence. "
Li Mingyuan looked at the 1880 annual steel industry development report data presented by the Ministry of Industry. After a few words of appreciation, he continued to encourage "In recent years, the technology and steel production capacity of heavy industries in European power countries has made rapid progress. Comparing the data from other countries two years ago,
At the end of 1878, the annual crude steel output in the UK was 998,000 tons, the US output was 744,000 tons, the German output was 489,000 tons, the French 313,000 tons, and the Russian Russian steel 95,000 tons. The domestic crude steel output is 7060 tons, and the Japanese crude steel output is 2,000 tons.
And just two years later, the end of 1880, the world's major industrial countries crude steel output reached 4.4 million tons.
The UK continues to rank first in the world with data on 1.316 million tons of crude steel output. The crude steel output of the United States exceeded one million tons, ranking second in the world with 1.267 million tons, and Germany ranked third with an output of 624,000 tons. Although France ranks fourth in the world with 389,000 tons, the gap between Russia and Tsarist Russia has gradually narrowed. Russia ’s crude steel output has reached 308,000 tons, ranking fifth in the world. As the only country in the Far East that has learned from the West, The East Laos may be stimulated by the development speed of the imperial industry. The crude steel output has increased by about 800 tons, reaching an annual crude steel output of 2800 tons. "
Li Mingyuan paused for a while, waiting for the heads of the various departments in the palace to digest the previous information, and continued, "We need to see the gap with the European powers. The local crude steel output has increased from 7,000 tons to 36,000 tons, and the annual capacity has increased by 2.9 10,000 tons, while the increase in crude steel production capacity in the United Kingdom, Germany, and France is calculated in units of 100,000 tons. If you count the increase in crude steel production capacity by more than 500,000 tons in the United States within two years, local steel Industry, there is still a long way to go. "
"From the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, since the founding of the People's Republic of China, only the Iron and Steel United Group is a comprehensive iron and steel company in the country. If it is required to continue to increase steel production capacity, there are only two ways to go. One is to choose a suitable location and build a coal and steel complex; the second is to continue to purchase smelting and forging machinery and equipment to expand the scale of the steel and iron group and increase production capacity. . "
Chen Shen, the chief of the Ministry of Industry, explained a step forward.
Hanguo Iron and Steel United Group is located in Xing'an County (Pasu Fengdu), Yangzhou (Rio Grande do Sul). The entire industrial park of the group includes smelting plants, forging plants, pig iron plants, Bose linen steel plants, Ximenshi steel plants, and rail plants , Iron goods factory, wrought iron factory, machine factory, cast iron factory, ironworks, fish fillet nail factory, arsenal, gunpowder factory, needle nail factory, gun factory, shell factory, a total of 17 large-scale iron and steel, military industry The factory area and the related supporting hundreds of large and small factories are the core of Han Guo's heavy industry and the only industrial complex covering the entire production process.
Building such a heavy industry complex is not a simple matter for a country that develops industry from scratch.
The time was pushed back by ten years. In 1895, the Meiji government of the East Rugao established the Hachiman Iron Works with Manchong compensation. By 1901, production started. The Mancheong Lake-Governor Governor Zhang Zhidong established the Hanyang Iron Works in 1890. Hanguo Iron and Steel Group, since the establishment of the first small-scale steelmaking plant at the end of 1869, has gradually ordered medium-sized and large-scale smelting equipment, as well as forging, cutting and other supporting facilities after twelve years. Three times the salary, hired steel and military experts, and tasted the pains of many failures before developing Han Guo United Steel Group into a heavy industry complex with more than 300 supporting factories.
If the Han government's current financial resources are used to rebuild a steel complex, it would be better to invest funds in the Han Guo Iron and Steel United Group, purchase more and more advanced equipment, introduce more mature industrial technology, and build it as much as possible. As an incubator for the development of the local heavy industry, consolidate the local heavy industry technology accumulation and reserves, and then, when conditions permit, extract skilled technicians and experts from the Iron and Steel United Group, based on the planning of the Iron and Steel United Group, and copy a new heavy industry compound body.
Li Mingyuan was more inclined to another solution, so he agreed, "Then choose the second solution, which will be led by your Ministry of Industry, and discuss with the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and list the machinery and equipment to be purchased first. Checklist and bring it up for my review and confirmation. "
"Your Majesty, what is the amount of funds allocated? Iron and Steel United Group has a lot of money to pay for foreign experts, technicians, training of local employees, and purchase of new smelting equipment.
"Within three years, a special grant of 4 million won (equivalent to 2 million silver) was granted to the Iron and Steel United Group. There is no more, and the Iron and Steel United Group has the Mannister steel pipe rolling method and Harfield's discovery. Of manganese steel, (Chapter 265 above),
Although the government exchanged thirteen technologies involving steel production with the Germans using the Mannister steel pipe rolling method and new manganese steel technology, during the local ten-year development plan, railway and infrastructure construction industries urgently needed the supply of steel raw materials. The crude steel, pig iron produced by the Iron and Steel United Group, and steel tubes, rails, and nails manufactured by deep processing are not in short supply. The funds used for selling steel products are used in the Iron and Steel United Group itself, which can also fill a lot of capital vacancies.
Therefore, the amount of money allocated by the government is only 4 million won for the time being, and the purchase of unplanned machinery and equipment is up to you. "
Manganese has always been used as an additive for steelmaking. When the dosage is not enough, the brittleness of the steel cannot be changed, but it increases to 12 to 13%. The embrittlement effect disappears. Then it is heated at 1000 degrees and quenched in water. Hardened, the crude steel made by this method is used to make rails. The life of the rails is twice that of wrought iron. Due to cost saving reasons, after the discovery of the production method of manganese steel in the month, it went through two years of trial production and related smelting technology. After the matching and improvement, the construction of railways using manganese steel as a raw material instead of wrought iron as rails was popularized on a large scale in early 1881.
Following the end of the annual work report by the chief of the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Finance and other departments also reported the work results of last year.
In the whole year of 1880, 6 counties and 52 townships were newly established in the local area, and an Yizhou Islands administrative district was newly established in the South Pacific. In late July this year, the French Polynesian Islands also exchanged from the French. It was included in the administrative jurisdiction of the Yizhou Islands, and the administrative level of the Yizhou Islands was raised to the state level accordingly.
At the same time, after adding more than 5,000 square kilometers of territory in the South Pacific, the former French Polynesian capital, Pahiti, will serve as a South Pacific base that is equal to Apia, the capital of Samoa. From a long-term strategic perspective, Pahiti The status of the island is more important than Apia, and Hawaii, which is called Han, cannot be overstated.
In addition to the joy brought to Li Mingyuan by the increase in local steel production, the Ministry of Households and the Department of Immigration Management specializing in immigration affairs also brought good news ~ EbookFREE.me ~ The expenditures and income of the immigration operation have reached a balance, and For the first time in the month, profitability appeared.
The cost of immigration transportation mainly comes from bribes, the purchase of officials from the coastal areas of the mainland, the transportation to and from the Far East-South America route, the consumption of medical supplies, the funds for the purchase of transportation vessels, the salary of crew members, and other preliminary transportation costs. Long-term costs such as food, livestock, log cabins, and education for newborns.
Two important expenditures have caused annual losses in immigration transportation operations, and the government needs to provide financial subsidies to maintain normal transportation operations every year. However, with the accumulation of time, a little bit of the effect has emerged. The potential economics brought by two-year voluntary labor of new residents Benefits, and the immigration of the immigrants quickly settled in the local area. By engaging in farming, animal husbandry, industry, marine fishery and other labor, they gradually accumulated a certain amount of funds and had the ability to repay the arrears that they had borrowed from the government to purchase agricultural tools and land.
As a result, the amount of borrowed funds recovered by the government has gradually increased since 1876. By 1880, the immigration transportation operation had continued for more than ten years, and the potential economic effects of it have finally been visualized in the summary of the income and expenditure of immigration affairs. Show.
The immigration transportation operation has reached a balance, which has thrown off a financial burden for the government, while the local infrastructure and the army and navy armament plan have become the other two major major government consumers.
Infrastructure projects such as railways, water conservancy, and canal excavation are costly and protracted. However, because some foreign funds and private capital are allowed to participate, coupled with the long time span of the project, the government is crowded from other places and can always find a solution. However, the army building related to national security does not want to save expenses, and it cannot.