At the beginning of the Western New Year, a heavy snowfall dyed Lianyungang white. At the intersection of the First Avenue and the Second Avenue in Lianyungang, there was a building with an exterior wall made of granite stones and a crenellated parapet on top of the central tower, which blended many Western styles.

It is a European-style building with an architectural art style. It has both Greek and Roman styles and Gothic architectural features. It is a four-story building with five floors in some parts. The whole building has the thick and rough characteristics of German architecture. This is Longhai

The railway company headquarters is also one of the first modern permanent buildings completed in Lianyungang.

Although there is ice and snow outside the city of Lianyungang, it is like warm spring inside the Longhai Railway Company building. This building, like the first batch of permanent buildings built in Lianyungang, uses collective heating. This is not the case except in the Northeast.

It is undoubtedly the first of its kind among Chinese cities.

"Railway is the most important sector in industry, which is the summary of the coal industry and the steel industry."

Standing in the line room of the newly built Longhai Railway Company, Li Zicheng said solemnly. He was quoting the words of a certain mentor. While speaking, he glanced at Guan Zhenming. Guan Zhenming had arrived at the right time.

As soon as the Longhai Railway Company building was put into use, he ran over.

My "director of the Beijing Office" has no thoughts on the capital.

"For us, the railway, the Longhai Railway, is the foundation of ** Company,"

After a pause, Li Zicheng continued.

"It is also the most important pioneer in China's industrialization process in the future."

A high hat was pinned from Li Zicheng's mouth to the Longhai Railway Company. In fact, this is also true. In the process of industrialization in the United States, railway transportation played a pioneering role. The rise and development of the American railway kingdom in the second half of the 19th century

It played an extremely important role in the rapid development of the United States as an economic power, the completion of American modernization and the rise of a new capital organizational structure.

The United States had 30,000 kilometers of railway lines in 1860, 85,169 kilometers in 1870, 269,000 kilometers in 1890, and 320,000 kilometers in 1900, accounting for half of the world's railway lines.

It was the railroad age in the United States that promoted the westward expansion movement, the coordinated and rapid development of the steel industry, coal industry, machine manufacturing industry, various light industries, food industry, industrial and agricultural production, and transportation industry, and accelerated the establishment of a national market.

Railways drove the steel industry, and eventually became the driving force for the United States to become the world's largest industrial power. Perhaps more than 2,000 kilometers of railways cannot drive the development of the steel industry like the 320,000 kilometers of railways in the United States, but this is just the beginning.

Didn't the railway only have a few hundred kilometers of railways at the beginning? But thirty years later, it has developed into a super trust with nearly 10,000 kilometers of railway mileage and hundreds of thousands of employees.

But now, my own road has just begun. I lean over and hold the large sand map with my hands, staring at the railway that runs through China from east to west. Maybe now I only have one Longhai Railway, but in the future, there may be

Baocheng Railway will have...

In a daze, before my eyes, railways began to stretch across the land of China. As the railways stretched, companies, factories and mines attached to the lines appeared one after another on the land of China. China would be transformed by its own

The railway has changed, and the future course of China has also been changed by myself. By then, will I be the king of railways, or... No, maybe history will describe myself as "difficult to assess" by then. Because of my efforts, I have changed

It has changed so much that it may change the history of China, even Asia, and the world.

"Chairman, in the past five months, the company has completed the construction of a total of 72 kilometers of roadbed, including double tracks at stations, of which road stones and rails have been laid. As the railway stretches inland, it only relies on the current two

It is difficult for one old locomotive to meet the company's needs in the future, so I think that in order to ensure the progress of the project, no less than six locomotives must be introduced immediately."

A series of English words interrupted Li Zicheng's thoughts. He looked up and saw that it was Sirtis. He was the chief engineer of the Longhai Railway. He originally intended to hire Zhan Tianyou as the chief engineer, but unfortunately he was not appointed as the chief engineer of the Han-Guangdong-Sichuan Railway Committee.

He took charge of the construction of the Longhai Railway without having time to do anything.

"No less than six?"

Li Zicheng asked with confusion.

"By the end of next year, the company will need 12 more locomotives to transport road construction equipment and raw materials, but before April, more than six locomotives and 130 truck carriages must be delivered, 30 of which are flatbed carriages for transporting equipment, and

By September in the second half of the year, the company will need..."

Siltis opened his notebook and carefully put forward his requirements one by one. To be precise, they were the needs to ensure the progress of the project.

Six cars, twelve cars

Listening to this number, Li Zicheng couldn't help but mutter in his heart.

"What a joke"

A motorcycle costs U.S. dollars, and the two second-hand ones bought from the United States cost another $70,000. Plus the freight cars, freight and spare parts to China, the two motorcycles cost $180,000. Based on this ratio

Go ahead, six motorcycles will cost you at least 2 million US dollars. If you buy 12 more motorcycles in the second half of the year, that will be 4 million US dollars.

"We can't wait any longer. We must build our own motorcycle first."

Listening to Sirtis's words, Li Zicheng knew that the motorcycle factory could no longer wait any longer and that it must be put into operation as soon as possible no matter what.

"Ouchu, how long will it take for the hydraulic forging machine we ordered from the United States to arrive in Lianyungang? That's right."

Li Zicheng asked casually without raising his head.

"The 100-ton and 400-ton hydraulic presses and the 4-foot medium-thin plate rolling mill are the equipment of the steel pipe company. They will arrive on January 15th, that is, 10 days later. They will arrive in four ships in the morning, afternoon and evening respectively. They will arrive with the ship.

The goods also include 1,632 pieces of machinery and equipment, 103 pieces of road casting equipment, and 43 pieces of construction machinery..."

While Mu was answering in detail, Li Zicheng was completely lost in his thoughts.

Whether it is the production of locomotives or freight cars, axles are required, and the production of axles requires a hydraulic forging machine. In the forging shop for axle forging, a 100-ton hydraulic forging machine is the most basic equipment. As a

The 400-ton hydraulic forging attached to the annealing furnace is forged, and the production of motor vehicle axles requires a 1,000-ton hydraulic forging machine. It can be said that without enough hydraulic forging machines, it is impossible to make axles, and if you cannot make an axle, you cannot

Create...

What else is needed besides hydraulic forging machines from 100 tons to 1,000 tons?

Then Li Zicheng's mind came to mind that Anton Heinrich, the locomotive design engineer hired from Qingdao Locomotive Maintenance Factory, had mentioned some equipment.

The casting workshop is used to cast axle blanks and castings. It seems that the motorcycle factory already has a 3-ton electric arc furnace. Well, this should be enough.

Boiler steel plate, this can... Suddenly, Li Zicheng's eyes lit up, he can buy it, he can buy multiple pairs. Some models of steam locomotives produced in Germany must have continued to be produced until World War II. If that is the case, it must be inside the steel cylinder.

There will be corresponding drawings. For equipment that the company cannot produce now, it can be purchased directly from the original factory in Germany. It is always cheaper to buy parts than to buy a complete vehicle.

Yes, let's do that. I'll go to the research institute in the afternoon and ask them to immediately organize manual translation and copy the drawings of the steam locomotive. Well, let Anton write a model information of the German locomotive.

"...In addition, we ordered 10 sets of 10,000ker from the American ge company>
Chapter completed!