Chapter 1020 Comprehensive Development

"Are these all sent to Jinghai Shipyard?"

Zhao Xu asked as a donkey cart full of gas bottles passed by. ReadМ

After the emergence of hydrogen-oxygen welding technology, various workshops have great demand for it.

In the past, riveting was troublesome, the process took a long time, and the air tightness was poor. Hydroxygen welding solves these disadvantages.

At present, in addition to various machinery workshops, shipbuilding workshops naturally have the greatest demand for hydrogen-oxygen welding.

Let hydrogen-oxygen welding replace the riveting of battleship armor, and the construction speed of armored ships will be greatly accelerated.

"Your Highness, that's right." The head of the steel shop smiled, "Besides, there are steam engine workshops, agricultural machinery workshops, etc. They have also trained some gas welding craftsmen."

Zhao Xu nodded slightly.

When Dasong made the leap to the electric power industry, he did not simply abolish the steam industry.

Rather, let the steam industry and the electric power industry have me in each other, and you in me.

When the electric power industry is fully developed in Dasong, it will not be too late to gradually abandon the backward steam industry.

The scale of Dasong's industry is not large to begin with. Cutting off the steam industry established in the past few years would be equivalent to cutting off an arm.

After leaving the electrolytic workshop, Zhao Xu, accompanied by everyone, went to other workshops and inspected with his own eyes the preparation of steel plates, steel bars, steel wires and special steel materials.

Generally speaking, the level of Dasong's steel industry has basically reached that of the mid-to-late 19th century.

"As the first steel workshop in Yancheng, although the progress you have made is obvious to all, you cannot be complacent and must continue to conquer more complex steel manufacturing technologies." After a tour.

Zhao Xu left the steel workshop. When he was at the door, he turned around and said to the head of the steel workshop.

For steel smelting, the steel mill now has its own research and development team and no longer just relies on the research and development institute.

After all, the arrival of the electric power industry era means a technological explosion.

R&D institutes can only solve key key technologies.

Instead of being like a housekeeper who has a hand in everything.

So, drawing on contemporary experience, he asked the workshop to set up its own research room in-house.

One of the researchers in the laboratory is a skilled craftsman from the workshop, and the other is from Yanzhou University.

The R&D Institute provides them with technical parameters and drawings, and they are responsible for research.

In order to promote self-research within the workshop, he also asked the workshop to establish an internal night school to teach the craftsmen reading, literacy and basic knowledge such as mathematics, physics and chemistry.

"Yes, Your Highness, we will definitely not lose the reputation of Yancheng Steel Workshop." said the head of the Steel Workshop.

The steel mills in Shanggu County and Liao County were put into production, forming internal competition with them.

The Department of Industry often summons these principals to assess their political performance.

In this regard, they are also holding back their energy among themselves, competing to see who has better development.

After giving some instructions to the head of the steel workshop, Zhao Xu and the officials from the Industry Department went to the copper workshop opposite.

This Xingongfang area in the west of Yancheng is full of heavy industry.

In addition to steel, there are workshops for copper, tin, lead, and aluminum.

In the copper industry workshop, Zhao Xu inspected the production of copper wire, copper sheets, copper sleeves and other parts, and then went to the aluminum industry, tin industry, and lead industry workshops to observe, and before noon, he went to the rare metal smelting workshop to visit Refining tungsten, manganese, lithium, etc.

The rapid development of industries involving metals made Zhao Xu feel comfortable.

The metal industry is clearly one of the most important technologies for military technology.

After spending the morning in the west of the city, Zhao Xu went to the chemical factory area in the north of the city in the afternoon.

After the birth of electricity, chemical technology may have ushered in a period of explosion.

Qu Sheng and his students synthesized many previously unmanufacturable compounds in a short period of time.

Now, he is cooperating with the Department of Industry to prepare for the industrial production of these compounds.

Such as ammonia.

A large number of industrial methods for making ammonia use hydrogen and nitrogen to synthesize at high temperatures and pressures.

Since pure hydrogen has not been produced before, this was naturally impossible to achieve.

With the advent of electricity, it became possible to industrially produce ammonia.

Ammonia has a wide range of applications and can spawn more chemical industries.

For example, in the past, saltpeter was needed to make nitric acid, but now it can be produced directly through ammonia. The cost has come down and the scale has gone up.

After being able to industrially prepare ammonia, the Hou's alkali production method invented by the Chinese in the early 20th century could also be realized.

Ammonia and salt plus carbon dioxide can be used to produce soda ash. There is no need to use alkali ores to obtain soda ash.

At the same time, ammonium chloride, a by-product of soda ash, is also a raw material for fertilizers.

This is equivalent to establishing a fertilizer industry by the way.

It can be said that as long as one breakthrough is made in the chemical industry, a series of related chemicals can be broken through.

In the chemical workshop area, he inspected the workshops under construction. Zhao Xu focused on inspecting various rubber products in the rubber workshop.

He was busy until evening before returning to the palace.

The next day, he went to the light industry area in Dongcheng.

Light industry is naturally textiles and food.

After turning on the electricity and replacing the steam engine in the workshop with an electric motor, Zhao Xu's most intuitive feeling was that the output of the textile industry had been greatly improved.

As for the steam engine equipment of the textile mills in the past, they were sold to private merchants, and the backward production capacity was also the production capacity.

Dasong is too big to be fully developed at once. We can only focus on areas with convenient transportation.

So these obsolete steam engines could be moved farther west inland.

In the light industry area, Zhao Xu inspected the traditional weaving workshops and spinning workshops, and then went to the emerging service trade factories, such as the hat workshop, shoe workshop, and clothing workshop.

With the cooperation of the Research Institute and the Mechanical Workshop, the pedal sewing machine was developed last year.

This kind of machinery, which was born in the middle of the 19th century, has a simple structure and can be manufactured with the industrial level of Yancheng.

After that, he came to the two key workshops of this inspection.

One is the canning workshop and the other is the battery workshop.

Canned food is related to military supplies. Fried noodles are convenient to carry, but they lack nutrition. It is a method adopted when there are no conditions.

If there are conditions, naturally, the soldiers cannot just eat fried noodles.

Fighting is a time-consuming and laborious job, so the soldiers should eat better.

"Your Highness, we are adjusting the equipment and it will be officially put into production in half a month." When he came to the canning workshop, the person in charge of the canning workshop came up.

The canning workshop consists of two workshops, half of which is used to make cans.

That is, the thin steel plates provided by the steel workshop are tinned, and then the steel plates are directly shaped using stamping equipment.

Since the steel plates are highly flexible, you only need to put the steel plates on the mold, and the cylindrical tool of the stamping machine presses down, and the cans are born.

As for the food, you only need to cook it, heat it and sterilize it, and seal the cans while it is hot, and a canned food will appear.