784 Chapter 784: Coal
Many people know little about the national debt, but when they heard that His Majesty, the most respected emperor, bought five billion new Merlot coins for this reason, many people were very excited.
"Your Majesty has bought them all, can we not buy them?" Someone made a voice.
Early the next morning, all Merlot banks were crowded with people.
They only want to be able to buy national debt early and contribute to the construction of the empire.
This also caused many nobles who heard about the opportunity of wealth to line up early, but they didn't expect that there would be someone earlier than them.
Seeing the people scrambling to buy it, but most of the people only bought one or two gold coins, the nobles scoffed at this.
How much can this little money buy.
Duke Fierlo was one of them, but he couldn't help showing a shocked expression when he saw that the bank in front of him was sold tens of millions of new Merlot national debt in just one hour.
Are the people of Mellow City so rich?
If the civilians in his territory were so rich in the past, he would definitely find ways to dig out their money instead of giving them such a big deal to pick it up.
Duke Fierlo miscalculated one thing. The 20 billion national debt seems to be a lot, but it is actually insignificant in the entire Melox Empire.
Especially now that the people's wealth is also under the protection of the Melo charter. After the nobles can no longer steal their wealth by stealing names, people with a little savings have also emerged one after another.
In just three days, all the national debts were sold out, of which nearly 7 billion was bought by the people, plus the 5 billion purchased by Aslan, only 8 billion was really left for the nobles and officials.
Many aristocrats were annoyed by this, and Wilson, who got the money, began to calculate carefully, and the Population Committee's appropriation could not be less.
With regard to the recovery of economic development in various regions, according to Shirkin's proposal, the speed began to slow down, and the focus was on the construction of various raw material factories, such as mines, or power station reservoirs, and priority was given to connecting the main cities of the provinces with electricity. .
Because of the magic power engine, the coal produced in coal mines is rarely used in industrial production, and is mainly used in the field of industrial chemistry.
Among them, coking has become the main industry.
Coking is to put coal in a carbonization furnace and heat it in isolation from the air. The organic matter in the coal is gradually decomposed as the temperature rises, and the volatile substances escape in a gaseous or vapor state and become coke oven gas and coal tar instead of volatile solids. The remainder is coke.
Coke oven gas is a fuel and an important chemical raw material. Coal tar can be used to produce chemical fertilizers, pesticides, synthetic fibers, synthetic rubber, paints, dyes, medicines, explosives, etc.
Coke is mainly used in blast furnace ironmaking and casting, and can also be used to make nitrogen fertilizer and calcium carbide.
Calcium carbide is a synthetic chemical product such as plastics, synthetic fibers, and synthetic rubber.
Another part is used for gasification, low-temperature dry distillation, and hydrogenation liquefaction.
Gasification refers to the transformation into coal gas that can be used as industrial or civil fuel and chemical synthesis raw material.
Low-temperature dry distillation is to place coal or oil shale at a temperature of about 550°C to produce low-temperature tar and low-temperature coke oven gas. Low-temperature tar can be used to produce high-grade liquid fuels and as chemical raw materials.
Hydrogenation liquefaction is to mix coal, catalyst and heavy oil together, destroy the organic matter in the coal under high temperature and high pressure, and convert it into low molecular liquid and gaseous products by the action of hydrogen, and further process liquid fuels such as gasoline and diesel.
The raw coal for hydrogenation liquefaction is mainly lignite, long-flame coal and gas coal.
For the former two, Melox Empire can still produce independently, while the latter two are still under planning. The gasification and hydrogenation liquefaction equipment has just been purchased from Blue Star, and it will take at least half a year to start production as soon as possible.
This is the difference between the Melox Empire and the Maxim Empire.
The Maxim Empire only used coal as fuel, but the Melox Empire had already begun to use coal to produce this derivative resource.
The only difference between the two is that the industrial development of the Maxim Empire is more than 20 years longer than that of the Merox Empire, and the infrastructure is more than that of the Merox Empire, which is suppressed by quantity.
So Aslan can only win by quality.
A large number of advanced equipment and technologies from Blue Star were imported, and then the imperial magic researchers thoroughly understood them, and then independently developed new equipment.
For example, it purchased the latest blast furnace from the Bremen Federation. It is the latest blast furnace jointly developed with the Holy Bretta Empire. It is the largest and most advanced blast furnace in the world, named Yalei Blast Furnace.
The volume of the Yalei blast furnace is more than 6,000 cubic meters, and the annual output has reached more than 5 million tons of steel. This kind of furnace not only has an astonishing output, but also is very environmentally friendly and efficient. Take the production of one ton of steel as an example, it only consumes two-fifths of the resources, which is far lower than other blast furnaces.
Its advantage is mainly due to the fact that it has the largest blower in the world, and the weight of this blower reaches 123 tons, the output power is 60,000 kilowatts, and its wind pressure is astonishing to 520,000 Pa, which is comparable to the 12th grade. Hurricanes are a thousand times larger.
Such a Big Mac is also of high quality and low price, the price is only 1.8 billion new Merlot coins, and the products of Blue Star and even the same Yalei blast furnace of the Holy Bretta Empire are twice the price.
This is also Mu Kailun buying for Aslan in the name of Kate, just to get a bottle of Douba potion.
According to reliable information, the current annual steel output of the Maxim Empire is about 70 million tons, that of the Magic City is 20 million tons, and that of the East God Sect is the least, at less than 6 million tons.
This is due to the fact that Eastern Shintoism pays too much attention to religious development, resulting in very slow development of folk science and technology, and very backward steelmaking technology.
Although the East God Sect has a very high-end technical team, it can quickly imitate various advanced weapons, but the overall industrial technology cannot rely solely on the imitation of certain weapons.
When the Melox Empire was the lord of Aslan, it focused on industrial development. In particular, the annual output of the steelmaking plants in Le Mans City had reached one million tons. The steel output of the Sri Lanka Empire is about 6 million tons. After the Yalei blast furnace is put into operation and the large-scale steelmaking plants in several other provinces are put into operation, the steel output of the Merox Empire should exceed 20 million tons.
From this point, it is enough to prove that Aslan attaches great importance to the steel industry,
The iron and steel industry refers to the industry that produces pig iron, steel, steel products, industrial pure iron and ferroalloys, and is one of the basic industries in all industrialized countries in the world.
Economists usually use steel production or per capita steel production as an important indicator to measure the economic strength of countries.
The iron and steel industry is an important basic industrial sector of a country and the material basis for the development of the national economy and national defense. The level of the metallurgical industry is also a sign to measure a country's industrialization.
The steel industry is a huge heavy industrial sector. Its raw materials, fuels and auxiliary material resources affect the iron and steel industry scale, product quality, economic benefits and layout direction.
This is the direction that Aslan has always advocated. With the current level of technology in the mainland and the existence of BUG professions such as magic, a small amount of special steel can be produced with magicians, so increasing the production of steel is the current stage. main mission.
PS: It’s embarrassing. I’ve been stuck recently. Do you have any lord texts that you can introduce and look for inspiration?