In Baotou in March, the wind was biting, the weather was not completely warm, and the permafrost had already shown signs of melting. Two huge highway construction projects were established almost at the same time. One was a highway plan from Baotou to Zhangjiakou. At that time, goods from overseas did not have to pass through Shanghai, and directly disembarked from Tianjin Port, and then went to Zhangjiakou through the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway to transfer the highway. With the design speed of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, the efficiency would be much higher than that of the Pinghan Railway to the Zhengtai Line, and the traffic capacity would be much higher.

The Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway was built under the design of Zhan Tianyou, the most outstanding railway engineer in China, and no longer has dogmatic construction in accordance with the past railway construction. In order to save money and cut corners, it uses the existing conditions as much as possible to take care of the technology of this era and create the fastest railway.

The designed speed of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway can be said to be the highest in the country. Most sections of the road can reach 50 kilometers per hour, and the average speed can exceed 30 kilometers per hour. In this case, from the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, from Beijing to Zhangjiakou, it is at least 50% higher than the Zhengtai Line. The speed represents efficiency. It is directly from Beijing to Zhangjiakou, and then through Zhangjiakou to Baotou, and directly through the highway. Compared with the water transportation from Shanghai, transfer to Pinghan Railway, and then transfer to the Zhengtai Line, there will be a lot of time left.

The two highways began to be built almost at the same time. From the beginning of the thawing of the frozen soil, Qian Hu and others all got on the construction site. Hundreds of various construction machinery were also on the road one by one, and the intense road construction movement began.

It is a little different from before. Some engineering machinery has undergone certain modifications. For Baotou, the strength of mechanical processing is much stronger than that of a few months ago. A large number of engineers have been introduced from Germany and the United States. These mechanical engineers will not be much stronger than Yang Yuanzhao's in terms of the overall industry and machinery vision, but in terms of small details, especially in professionalism, it is still easy to check for omissions and fill in the gaps.

In the past few months, a series of modifications have been carried out for tractors, bulldozers, road rollers, and even cranes, which have basically achieved modernization. In terms of efficiency, it is at least 30% higher than before. Machinery represents efficiency and represents faster processing speed, starting from thawing. It is divided into two parts. Among them, the road from Baotou to Zhangjiakou is to a certain extent.

At the end of last year, the Zhangjiakou highway was proposed to be completed before leading to Taiyuan. Unfortunately, this road is the most popular to some extent and has not been built. Tens of thousands of tons of goods have accumulated in Taiyuan, which is related to the industrial upgrading of Baotou.

The east entrance of Zhangjiakou is closer to Beijing, and the connection between them from Mongolia is closer to Zhangjiakou. The connection between this highway will not only make it easier to reach industrial products from Baotou, but also to Hebei, Zhili, and even the Northeast. The fur and other products of Zhangjiakou will also be easier to transport to nearby Zhangjiakou through the highway and various ports.

The massive project officially started in March. Baotou, which had been resting for a winter, ushered in a vibrant life again. Most of the population was recruited, either in Baoken Company or in the highway company. The rest were basically all on the weaving network. Last year, a rich year scene made most people know that as long as they work hard, follow Young Master Yang and Baoken Company, they will get enough profits. The hard-working people are working hard for a higher income.

Countless machinery began to be busy between Baotou and Zhangjiakou, and Baotou and Baiyun Ebo. The Zhangjiakou road fell behind again to a certain extent. Although it was built at the same time, both the machinery and manpower invested were incomparable to those from Baotou to Baiyun Ebo.

It cannot be said that this highway is not important. The key is that the road in Baiyun Ebo is even more important. The investment of 30 million yuan is a very huge investment even with the increasing investment in Baotou. Several shareholders took out 12 million yuan and Yang Yuanzhao took out 15 million yuan. Others did not have enough shares, so they were mortgaged by each company. Yang Yuanzhao took out 30 million yuan. The 30 million yuan was completely in place in one or two months. Such a fast speed is also thanks to the booming business in Baotou during this period.

Cash is king. In the era of 1908, 30 million yuan of cash was not invested in Baotou in one fell swoop, but 10 million of them were directly invested, but the effect was obvious. Wei Ming directly took out hundreds of thousands of funds to expand the brick and tile factory. In the past year, Wei Ming's brick and tile factory has expanded by more than 4 times. The monthly production capacity has been increased from the initial hundreds of thousands to nearly 3 million yuan now. The funds accumulated over a long time have been completely burst out. More than 200,000 yuan of funds have suddenly made the monthly brick production number jump from 3 million to 12 million, greatly supporting the use of the Baotou factory and the newly built Baiyun Obo Industrial Base.

The steel plant has only 20 blast furnaces of different sizes, but the supporting facilities, various processing workshops, cold rolling and hot rolling are not high requirements for the factory buildings. However, on nearly a thousand acres of land, so many factories have been built, and the brick figures consumed can be calculated in tens of millions or even tens of millions.

Not only brick and tile factories, but even cement factories have been stimulated. In itself, the cement factories are the first enterprises built by Yang Yuanzhao in Baotou. The cement factories at the beginning only focus on quantity, increase investment, and build higher lime kilns and cement kilns. With the help of a not-so-difficult technical level, more and larger quantities of cement have always been the construction direction of cement factories. When the cement production reaches a daily production capacity of 10,000 barrels, that is, 3,000 tons, the annual production capacity exceeds one million. This is undisputed first in China, and in the whole world, it is also a huge cement factory with a large number.

By this time, the production and production of cement plants began to stagnate. Some people may think that cement plants naturally reached some limit or bottleneck, which is normal in most industries in China. For Yang Yuanzhao, this is not normal. You should know that pure stacking capacity is not a very difficult task for Yang Yuanzhao, who has an all-in-one machine, for Baotou, which has a lot of labor costs. As long as Yang Yuanzhao thinks, when a large amount of production capacity and equipment are expanded to a cement plant, it is impossible to exceed 5 million to a certain extent.

Yang Yuanzhao did not do this, but instead tapped his potential inside. Li Mingsheng is a good researcher. Over the years, the qualities he has cultivated have given him a deeper understanding of many industries in cement. He even started research on cement formulas under Yang Yuanzhao's guidance, using more new products to replace backward products.

Cement formula is nothing more than looking at the strength after condensation, in special environments, such as acidic and alkaline environments, adaptation to the natural environment, the speed of condensation, the characteristics under special operating conditions, and so on. Of course, Yang Yuanzhao could not directly produce the fine cement from later generations. Even in later generations, it was only done by a few large enterprises or even global enterprises. He only knew that adding a certain amount of iron ore powder and other minerals to cement will have a considerable impact on cement.

When the cement production capacity exceeded one million tons, under the suggestion of Yang Yuanzhao, Li Mingsheng devoted most of his energy and time to the development of new products. At the beginning, he took a detour for a period of time and almost scrapped dozens of kilns continuously. Li Mingsheng was absolutely incredibly frightened. You should know that at the current price of cement, the cement produced by a kiln can definitely be regarded as extremely valuable. Hundreds of yuan are required, and dozens of kilns are almost thousands, or even tens of thousands.

Li Mingsheng's heart, to a certain extent, was still the old Chinese thought, and he stayed in the era of workshops. Not to mention deliberately wasting dozens of kilns of the owner, even a kiln was a bit amazing.

At that time, Yang Yuanzhao was doing his best to the steel project. When he was just reading the report casually, he knew that Li Mingsheng stopped to study and called him aside. After asking about some situations, he immediately allocated 50,000 yuan to do whatever he wanted. If he didn't succeed at one time, he would have ten times, and if he didn't succeed ten times, he would have a hundred times. In short, don't be afraid of wasting it, this is a necessary technical investment.

Such support made Li Mingsheng burst into a passion. Within a month of continuous development, he conducted 210 experiments, and countless waste kilns were used. However, he still found two good products. One was that the condensation speed was faster, which could be as fast as the condensation speed of ordinary cement at least twice as fast as the ordinary cement. The other was high-strength, with a strength of at least three times higher than that of ordinary cement.

Both of these products have relatively complex processes, but the effect is very good. From the beginning of winter last year to the present, Li Mingsheng has modified the existing machines with the support of Yang Yuanzhao, increasing the degree of automation, and reducing the proportion of ordinary cement from the original level to about 30%. The reason why it is not reduced to the lowest is that ordinary cement is easy to produce and easy to scale. To a certain extent, it is essential for ordinary levels. As for quick-condensing cement and high-strength cement, to a certain extent, the price is slightly higher, but the effect is better and the profit margin is also higher. This will become a flagship product for cement to create value.

Similar things not only happen in cement and brick factories, two industries that are very close to infrastructure, but many industries in Baotou have been affected. The entire Baotou, due to this huge investment, has become excited. New factories or stores open every day. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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