Siheyuan: Craftsmen of a Great Country

Open-hearth steelmaking takes a long eight hours.

The moment the steel-making furnace started running, Jiang Chen took some time off and squatted aside to smoke.

Lu Yuehua sometimes kept circling the steel-making furnace a little anxiously.

Sometimes I squat down, take out my notebook and pen, and start calculating.

Only work can make him pay attention.

Su Changming came over and squatted next to Jiang Chen: "Director Jiang, I just heard that we have to compete with others for time, right?"

Jiang Chen nodded: "Yes, there is another group of people who are also studying this alloy steel."

Su Changming said: "We just discussed it. Since we are competing for time, it is better to work in two shifts, with people turning off the furnace and making steel 24 hours a day."

"Although this will affect the life of the furnace, this is a test furnace and we do not consider this issue at all."

Jiang Chen waved his hand: "No, it's too hard for brothers."

Su Changming said: "It doesn't matter, the hard work is only for this period of time. Compared with the glory that everyone will get later, this hard work is nothing at all."

Jiang Chen said: "If we work in two shifts, do you have enough manpower?"

Su Changming nodded: "That's enough. Your stove is small and easy to operate. It can be divided into two teams and has enough manpower."

"The reason why we planned so many people in the beginning was to build the furnace quickly."

Jiang Chen said: "You can work in two shifts, but Teacher Lu and I can't do it. I have other things to deal with during the day, and I can't let Teacher Lu stay up all night every day."

Lu Yuehua might be willing to stay up all night, but after all, he was here to help, so it wasn't appropriate.

Su Changming nodded: "That's true. Otherwise, there will be two shifts a day and two steelmaking experiments."

"In the next shift, you will prepare the auxiliary ingredients and then go and do your work. After we complete the refining, we will leave it here for you to wait for cooling. Just wait until you come and send it for testing the next day."

Jiang Chen thought for a while: "Okay, let's do it like this. It's just a big thank you to everyone."

"I'll go find the leaders to say hello to the cafeteria later and ask them to have dinner for you in the afternoon."

Before Su Changming and others came over, they must have been given task targets by the steelmaking plant, and they also hoped to achieve results as soon as possible.

Naturally, they want to be honored.

Now someone wants to rob them, but they naturally refuse to agree.

Su Changming nodded: "Yes. Director Jiang, if this alloy steel is successfully developed, can our Shijingshan Steelmaking Plant be the first to produce it?"

Jiang Chen said: "I am in charge of the research, but the allocation of subsequent tasks is decided by the Ministry of Industry."

"The most I can do is make suggestions to the Ministry of Industry, because we are also involved in research and development. Production can start immediately after the research and development is successful."

Su Changming said: "That's it. We just hope that the first batch of alloy steel can be produced by our factory."

Shijingshan Steelworks is the predecessor of Shougang.

Although he is located in Forty-Nine City, in the area of ​​steelmaking, he has been suppressed by the Steel City Steel Plant, and the gap is still very big.

Therefore, they urgently need results to clear their name and prove that they are worthy of being in the heart of a flower gardener.

The Steel City Steelmaking Plant occupies the right time, place and people. They are destined to be difficult to match in terms of output, so the best way to break the situation is to overwhelm their opponents in terms of quality.

The production of alloy steel is a good opportunity.

At around four o'clock in the afternoon, red molten steel flowed out of the experimental steelmaking furnace, and workers skillfully loaded it into molds.

The third steel rolling mill produced the first batch of steel with tungsten added.

After waiting for cooling, it is immediately sent for testing.

Material testing has always been the responsibility of the logistics department responsible for procurement. They have professional instruments and tools.

In order to reduce interference, both Jiang Chen and Lu Yuehua felt that natural cooling was better and did not use faster water cooling.

Su Changming said: "Let's make the second furnace of steel immediately. While the furnace has not yet cooled down, the refining will be faster."

Jiang Chen nodded: "Okay, Teacher Lu, go ahead and make the ingredients."

Lu Yuehua nodded: "Okay, let's start with it. As long as it doesn't lead to death, we will do it to death! I still don't believe it. With so many people united as one, we can't defeat those idiots."

He was even more anxious than Su Changming and others, eager to work around the clock.

At the same time, Chen Tongshan, who had already arrived at Jiang Chen's hometown, was also preparing to start a steelmaking experiment.

Before he arrived, he followed Lu Tianyi's instructions and asked the personnel of the Industrial Shuchuan Office to mobilize the local police and blockade the steel-making furnace and water source, and no other people were allowed to approach.

He also emphasized that the future of flower planting is of great importance.

Coupled with Lu Tianyi's instructions, the local office did not dare to neglect.

As a result, the steelmaking work stopped at that time.

The patrol team patrols the water source and its surroundings 24 hours a day. There are three posts, one post, five steps and one sentry near the steel-making furnace. No one is allowed to approach.

The names of all the villages were unclear, so they watched from a distance when they had nothing to do.

Everyone has no objections to stopping steelmaking.

It was just forbidden to go near the water source. Everyone had to walk several miles to get water from the ditch to feed their livestock. They complained privately:

"I accept guarding the stove, but what are they doing guarding the ditch? If the water is not used, it won't flow away in vain, really."

"Then Jiang Chen went to see the steel-making for half an afternoon, and it turned out like this. Did he find a treasure there?"

"This is too overbearing."

After Chen Tongshan arrived, he immediately asked people to take water from different sections of the ditch and send it to Chengdu for testing.

I also went to the Sichuan Steel Rolling Mill to inquire about the situation and obtain specific steel testing data.

At the same time, people were also sent to search for water sources and mineral deposits along the ditch network.

Not to mention, a mineral deposit suspected of being tungsten ore was actually discovered near the water source.

Combined with the test results he got, he also knew that tungsten and chromium in the water exceeded the standard.

So the whole team started writing and calculating.

As expected of being brothers with Lu Yuehua, they both think the same way.

But after all, he specializes in steelmaking, so he still knows how to roughly estimate the adhesion rate based on the shape of the steel.

On the basis of the original proportion. They calculated a rough ratio, and then prepared to conduct steel smelting experiments with this ratio as the center and fluctuating up and down.

This is similar to the method originally proposed by Lu Yuehua, that is, there is an additional process of estimating the adhesion rate.

Seeing that the preliminary preparations were almost complete, Chen Tongshan said to the clerk of the Ministry of Industry: "Immediately summon the previous steel-making workers to start the steel-making experiment."

The clerk looked at the setting sun and said, "Mr. Chen, it's getting late now. Should we notify the village party secretary first and ask him to gather people, and then start steelmaking tomorrow?"

Chen Tongshan said angrily: "What tomorrow, tomorrow after tomorrow, there are so many tomorrows. This is so urgent, and there is still tomorrow, what are you thinking?"

The clerk said: "Recently we have occupied the water source of the war force, which has brought inconvenience to the villagers' lives. Everyone has complained before, but now we are suddenly asked to make steel overnight. I'm afraid."

Chen Tongshan frowned and said: "Complaints, it is the responsibility of every flower grower to contribute to the construction of a flower grower. Why should they complain? We came all the way from Sijiu City to this deep mountain and old forest to conduct research. What did we say?"

"Go find the village party secretary. I want to ask him how he educates everyone and why his political consciousness is so low."

The clerk whispered: "Their essential job is farming, and they are engaged in steelmaking, which can be regarded as a response to the call."

Chen Tongshan said: "Forget it, don't say any nonsense, just go and call the village party secretary."

"No matter what, refining must start tonight. We must come up with the material ratio and alloy steel data before others study it."