Chapter 16 Chasing Dreams (Second update! Please vote for me!)

It’s dark!

There is not a single star in the sky, and the whole earth is deathly silent. A few insects chirp occasionally, which looks so sad and desolate!

"beep……"

With the whistle blowing, the train "clang, clang" walked towards the darkness with heavy footsteps. A few months ago, when the screaming black monster of the train rumbled across the land of the Northern Jiangsu Plain, those ancestors almost

The local old farmers, who had not been out for dozens of miles, almost looked at the monster with horror and surprise. Now, they have become accustomed to the existence of trains.

The train at night is like a huge music box, clanging, clanging. The train dragging thousands of tons of road construction materials is not going very fast. In the passenger compartment behind the coal car of the locomotive, most of the hundreds of passengers are watching with great interest.

You can't see anything inside or outside at all.

In accordance with the company's requirement of "building one section and operating another section", although the railway has only been built for more than 100 kilometers, it has been put into operation. Although the passenger and freight transportation volume is not large, the profit is considerable.

"Phosphate rock"

Yu Hongyu, who was sitting on the train, was playing with the blue-gray stones in his hands, looking a little excited.

After graduating from the Department of Chemistry at Tokyo Imperial University two years ago, like others, he originally just found a job in a foreign trade company. It was not until the Spring Festival that he was hired by the "Chinese Institute of Chemistry" in Lianyungang to engage in his favorite industry.

On the weekend half a month ago, some stones were unexpectedly discovered on a road construction site. Although the gravels looked no different from other stones, Yu Hongyu still felt that they were different from ordinary stones.

After taking several kilograms of gravel and analyzing the stones at the Chemistry Institute, the initial speculation was confirmed. The blue-gray gravel was phosphate rock, and the type of phosphorus rock is metamorphic silica-calcium.

This discovery made him so excited that he couldn't sleep all night. Whether it was Lianyungang or Longhai Railway, the stones used for road construction were mined along the line. This meant that the company's quarry along the Longhai Railway was not an ordinary quarry.

It's not a quarry, but a phosphate mine.

What is phosphate rock? Yu Hongyu, who graduated from the Department of Chemistry of Imperial University, and whose graduation thesis was titled "European Fertilizer Industry and Agriculture", knows very well that phosphorus removal is not only an important chemical raw material, but also an important factor in crop growth.

The necessary elements, phosphate fertilizer based on phosphate rock, is an extremely important agricultural fertilizer. It can be said that the development of European and American agriculture relies on phosphate fertilizer and nitrate fertilizer.

But now, a phosphate mine has been discovered along the Longhai Railway. Since the discovery of the phosphate rock, Yu Hongyu has applied for a collar from the research institute to inspect every quarry along the line, including several quarries near Lianyungang.

After inspecting several quarries, he turned to the last quarry along the route, the Jinpingshan Quarry in the southern suburbs of Haizhou City.

"I hope..."

Yu Hongyu's heart also walked towards Haizhou County with the rhythmic sound of the train!

Will there be phosphate rock there?

After carefully inspecting the quarries, he had no confidence at all. The Jinpingshan quarry was not close to Lianyungang. Lianyungang should have stoned nearby. Why did it come from the Jinpingshan quarry?

What about transporting rocks?

The negotiations between the passengers in the carriage seemed so annoying at this time. Why do they have so much to say? Is one train ride worth so much joy?...

Yu Hongyu, who was a little upset, thought so in his heart.

The sky outside the car window is getting darker, and the train is passing by quickly, making it difficult to see the night clearly. Sometimes a light in the distance looks so bleak, but it also flies past and disappears into the darkness. However, Yu Hongyu's heart is difficult to calm down. It should be

We are almost to Haizhou, if we are there...

At this time, a burst of noise interrupted his thoughts. The train had arrived at Haizhou Station, and the passengers were hurriedly looking for their luggage and getting off. The people who got on the train hurriedly looked for seats. They looked so happy when they found the seats. They couldn't find them.

Those in the seats are still looking around, always wanting to sit down and take a breather

Standing on the simple platform of the station, watching the train rumbling along once again, and thinking of the possible phosphate mine, Yu Hongyu's heart sometimes boiled with excitement, and sometimes she became frightened, as if she had fallen thousands of feet.

General in the abyss.

The road ahead became clearer in the morning fog that gradually dissipated, and the sun seemed to be struggling like an egg yolk hanging in the fog; birds were sobbing in the woods on the roadside, as if in response to the lingering fog.

Yun protested, and at this moment, Jinping Mountain, like a screen, appeared in Hongyu's sight.

"Jinping Mountain"

Yu Hongyu took a deep breath of morning mist and walked forward firmly...

"boom……"

When we were still kilometers away from Jinping Mountain, bursts of explosions came over. It was the sound of the quarry opening the mountain and firing off gunpowder. Unlike most domestic quarries that use black powder, the quarries along the Longhai Railway use black powder.

It is Dynamai special explosive. When Yu Hongyu was at the Chemical Engineering Research Institute, he tried to produce Dynamai special explosive. Lianyungang Industrial Explosives Factory was put into production a month ago. Now Lianyungang can produce 100 tons of Dynamai special explosive every month.

Maite explosives are completely used for Longhai Railway quarrying, tunnel operations and future mining along the line.

"Hello, I am a researcher at the company's chemical research institute."

Outside the large iron gate of the quarry, Yu Hongyu handed his ID to the guard.

"I'm here to study the practical use of explosives..."

This was Yu Hongyu's excuse for himself. After explaining his intention, the old guard received him kindly.

"Ah, it's the gentleman from the company. Quick, quick, please come in."

If you want to hide your purpose of coming, the best way is to find a suitable excuse for yourself, but Yu Hongyu found an excuse for himself to "study the use of explosives to find a more scientific method of using explosives." Even, Yu Hongyu

Hongyu also applied for himself a grant of 100 yuan and proof of free train rides. Of course, he was not just looking for excuses. He had invested a lot of energy in studying the use of explosives in various mines and collected a large amount of data.

In contrast, searching for phosphate rock has become an "amateur thing."

"This is……"

After entering the quarry, Yu Hongyu stopped and opened his eyes wide. He did not expect that the scale of this quarry was much larger than he imagined. What appeared in front of him was a pile of stone walls.

In front, there is still a land as wide as a football field, with tracks for transporting stones lined up.

I didn't expect the Jinpingshan quarry to be so big.

"Mr. Yu, the Jinping Mountain Quarry is the last quarry until Xuzhou. If we don't build it to Lieshan Mountain, there will be no stone mountain for us to quarry. Even though Jinping Mountain is not far from Lianyungang, if we build it to Lieshan Mountain, it will be

That little bit of road can save a quarry for all the freight saved."

Director Liang Mu of the quarry said this.

"So it is larger than other quarries and has more equipment."

"Business" is probably the best description of it. There is the roar of stone crushers in the distance, and there are workers pushing wheelbarrows to transport stones everywhere. In the distance, the cannon fire has obviously stopped.

"When is the next cannon blast?"

"Well, we have to transport these stones before we can fire the cannon, but now we have to start drilling the holes."

“Go and have a look”

Under the guidance of Liang Mu, the two walked through the rocky land and headed towards the quarrying surface. At this time, there were already workers on the working surface hanging ropes and sliding to the working surface.

The blast hole.

The two began to walk around the section of the mountain. As they walked, Yu Hongyu looked at the section of the mountain. From time to time, he would pluck a stone from the section, and then take a closer look. Most of the stones were ordinary stones.

, not the phosphate rock he wanted to find.

As he walked along the section, Yu Hongyu became more and more disappointed.

"Maybe, maybe it's just a piece of mine..."

Yu Hongyu, who couldn't find the mineral vein, began to smile bitterly at his "delusion" and shook his head at the same time.

"Mr. Yu, what's going on? The amount of explosives we use here is..."

Seeing Yu Hongyu like this, Liang Mu asked nervously, the amount of explosives used in the quarry did not exceed the company's regulations, so why did Mr. Yu...

"Mr. Liang, it's none of your business. I..."

Yu Hongyu, who had his head lowered, suddenly stopped talking. He stopped and stared at the stone ground under his feet. He blinked first, and then took a closer look.

That's right

It's phosphate rock

Looking along the phosphate rock under his feet toward where the veins extend, Yu Hongyu's heartbeat became faster and faster. At this time, he noticed that there was some white phosphate rock mixed in. This was high-quality and high-grade phosphate rock.

Maybe…….

It's a phosphate mine. It's definitely a phosphate mine, and the reserves may be very considerable, and the quality is also quite impressive.

The train started slowly with two whistles. After the piercing whistle, Yu Hongyu, who was sitting in the carriage, couldn't help but open his backpack. At that time, he dug out several pieces of higher-grade phosphate rock and looked at them.

Yu Hongyu's entire body was immersed in thoughts about this phosphate rock.

Although this phosphate mine is located outside the railway annex, it is railway land because it is a railway quarry. This means that the company has ownership of the phosphate mine, but those people do not know it at all.

It was a phosphate-rich mine, but it was used as a quarry.

At this time, the village of Liangxian on the railway moved backwards, and Yu Hongyu, who discovered this phosphate mine but was unable to obtain and mine it, seemed a little depressed.

"We are almost arriving at Lianyungang"

The voices of the passengers' conversations reached Hongyu's ears. His fingers tapped on the table. At this time, one thought after another flashed through his mind. Buy that quarry? There is not so much money, and

The company may not sell it. Tell the company that there is a quarry in Jinping? Then the company will give itself a bonus?

At this moment, the explanation of "dream" in the "Longhai Times" flashed in his mind.

"Don't rely on connections, don't go through the back door, and rely entirely on personal struggle to achieve personal success..."

(Thank you to Hong Yuda, otherwise I would have really ignored this phosphate mine)...
Chapter completed!