Siheyuan: Craftsmen of a Great Country

After half a year of intensive construction, a total of 62 steel-making converters have been completed across the country, including 100 26-ton converters, 150 15-ton converters, 200 16-ton converters, and 200 converters above 5 tons.

If all these steel furnaces were put into operation, and 5 furnaces of steel were produced per day, the steel production in just one day would reach nearly 5 tons.

The annual steel output will reach 1.3 million tons. Although there is still a big gap from the nearly 21 billion tons in the 58st century, it is already 16 times the steel output in .

Such steel production was even a bit excessive for the demand at that time.

With the current industrial system of the Flower Growers, it cannot consume so much steel in a year.

It's a bit like blindly pursuing scale.

However, this is also one of the characteristics and cannot be changed by personal wishes.

Its greatest significance is that, at this output, it will completely surpass the United States' output of 60 tons in 9000 years, achieving the originally impossible five-year goal of surpassing.

More importantly, the converter steelmaking method saves a lot of manpower and allows the people who had entered the steelmaking industry during the previous large-scale steelmaking phase to return to their own land.

At the same time, many countries and companies have expressed their willingness to purchase the patent for this steelmaking method and have entered into substantive negotiations with the Pyramid Countries.

This will provide flower growers with a large amount of foreign exchange reserves.

With the sale of Sangang Machine Tools, the country no longer needs to rely on selling grain in exchange for foreign exchange reserves.

This provides an additional layer of protection for facing the upcoming three years of difficulties.

Shangguan Wan'er, who had been busy outside for more than half a year, finally returned to the old city and would not have to go out again for a short time.

Routine inspections and maintenance work are done by their own team members, so she doesn't need to show up in person.

When she came back, Jiang Chen went to the train station to pick her up.

Seeing Jiang Chen, Shangguan Wan'er ignored the gazes of the people around her and jumped directly into Jiang Chen's arms. She leaned on his shoulder and said aggrievedly, "Master, I miss you so much."

Jiang Chen held her with one hand and gently stroked her back with the other: "Now that you're back, you don't have to leave. We'll be together every day. Don't be annoyed by then."

Shangguan Wan'er said, "No way! Master, do you miss me?"

Jiang Chen nodded: "Of course I do, every day."

Shangguan Wan'er snorted, "I don't believe it. Sister Yue and the others are with you every day. You must have forgotten me."

Jiang Chen said: "How is that possible? If you don't believe me, go back and ask Xiaoyue. I really miss you coming back soon every day."

"Thank you for your hard work in the past six months."

Shangguan Wan'er said: "It's not hard, but I'm outside every day exposed to the wind and sun, and my face is tanned. My skin has become better, but my face is also tanned."

Jiang Chen reached out and touched Wan'er's face. It was indeed a little rougher than its original delicate and smooth appearance, and its skin color was a little darker.

Indeed, even the most beautiful person would be affected in such an environment.

But it's not a big problem. He will recover after a little rest in Sijiu City.

Jiang Chen said: "It has changed a little bit, but it doesn't have a big impact. My Wan'er is still as beautiful as ever."

"Come on, go home!"

"Yes!" Shangguan Wan'er got on the passenger seat.

Jiang Chen put her luggage away and started the car.

Shangguan Wan'er asked, "I heard that your sister also entered the Seed Farming Institute?"

Jiang Chen nodded: "Yes, she knows Kung Fu, and we just happen to need someone strong enough to help the Institute of Seed Engineering escort important documents."

This escort is not limited to the city of Sijiu.

As long as there is a need, we will go all over the country.

In the future, as the Institute of Seed Engineering produces more research results and many projects need to be implemented, someone will be needed to escort the relevant information.

As long as it involves escort, it will basically be done by Shangguan Yuer.

Of course, if it is extremely important and it rises to the level of national significance, the troops will be dispatched and even special planes will be used to escort it.

Shangguan Wan'er sighed, "Look, just because I'm your apprentice, you arranged for Yu'er to work in the Seed Farm. There must be people gossiping about this behind my back, right?"

The outside world is not clear about the relationship between the two, only because Shangguan Wan'er is Jiang Chen's apprentice.

Jiang Chen smiled faintly: "Why do you care so much about what others think! Back when I was in Sangang Group, Liang Yue's report letter almost killed me."

"But I was not afraid, nor did I lose heart. I responded to the rumors with the most effective results."

"For example, right now, do you think the higher-ups don't know anything about what we did? But my value is great enough, and my contribution is great enough, so they can turn a blind eye to it to a certain extent."

"But I always believe that when you are strong enough, the whole world will make way for you."

The Sangang Group report letter incident ended with Liang Yue's escape.

But the workers could not be silenced, and rumors spread everywhere, with all kinds of rumors emerging one after another.

All the names mentioned in the report letter are deeply troubled.

But as Jiang Chen accomplished one great thing after another, such rumors gradually disappeared.

After Sangang Machine Tool published the article in the newspaper, most of the rumors basically disappeared.

Even though there are people gossiping in private occasionally, there is basically no malice in it.

At most, it's envy and jealousy.

Shangguan Wan'er said, "Ah, yes, yes, you are the only one who makes sense."

"I just said something casually, why are you giving me so much advice, huh!"

Jiang Chen was a little embarrassed.

In fact, this is not about preaching to Shangguan Wan'er, but about preaching to oneself.

Everyone around him can see what Yuer is thinking.

Although nothing happened between him and Yu'er, he still felt a little guilty subconsciously.

So, it's a bit sensitive.

Looking at Wan'er who was pouting beside him, Jiang Chen smiled and said, "I'm not trying to reason with you, I'm just chatting casually."

"Since you don't like this topic, how about we talk about something sensitive?"

Shangguan Wan'er blushed, and was shocked. She whispered, "What sensitive topic?"

Jiang Chen smiled and said, "What do you think of the current world situation?"

Shangguan Wan'er opened her eyes wide: "So, this is the sensitive topic you mentioned?"

Jiang Chen nodded: "Ah, what sensitive topic do you think it is?"

Shangguan Wan'er turned her head away, too lazy to speak.

Jiang Chen smiled and said, "If you want to talk about sensitive topics, we can talk about it in bed tonight."

"Not only do I want to talk, I also want to feel your changes with my own hands."

Shangguan Wan'er's face turned even redder: "Master, I haven't seen you for half a year, and I find that you are becoming more and more rogue."

Jiang Chen nodded: "For a wife I haven't seen for a long time, I have to act like a hooligan and eat her rottenness by the way."

After saying that, he reached out and quickly stroked Shangguan Wan'er's thigh.

"Ah~" Shangguan Wan'er trembled all over, and then looked around nervously.

I noticed that everyone was looking at the vehicle strangely, and immediately wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

In fact, everyone was just looking at the car and couldn't see Jiang Chen's extremely fast movements at all.

After all, in this era, sedans are very rare.