Chapter 1278 Sugarcane Industry

Most of the people in power in the counties on Hainan Island are time travellers. Naturally, Yu Xiaobao does not dare to act like a special envoy in front of these people. Therefore, this inspection work mainly requires local cooperation. However, Xiaobao himself must join in.

Haihan has been around for a long time and has known most of the travelers, and they have lived together for so many years. Many people no longer regard him as an aborigine. This is why the executive committee appointed him as a young official.

One of the reasons for taking on this important responsibility.

Zhang Guang knew very well how much Yu Xiaobao and Zhang Qianzhi, two young people, were valued by the Executive Committee, so of course he would not embarrass them. He proactively provided cooperation and ordered people to take out all the government affairs records from last year to this year.

Let them look through it.

The government record of Yacheng County is undoubtedly quite good. It can be said that the government is well-connected and the people are well-connected. It is close to Sanya and was the first city to be brought under the rule of Haihan. The degree of social transformation was also relatively thorough. In the early days, the local landowners and official families were very important.

After moving back to the mainland, they either surrendered to Haihan wholeheartedly and gave up their identity as Mingren. As for the few people who did not obey Haihan's rule, the grass on their graves was already two meters high.

Today, only about 20% of the population in Yacheng County is native-born. The vast majority of the population are immigrants who have moved in over the years after Haihan took over the place. These new immigrants have no deep-rooted roots in the local area.

Clan relations are much less difficult for the government to manage, and most people came here without much property and had to rely on jobs and subsidies provided by the government to survive for a long period of time.

The dependence of the country is much greater than that of a traditional agricultural society that is self-sufficient.

Almost all of these immigrants were rescued by Haihan in distress, and their loyalty to this new regime was also quite high. In addition, there were not as many foreigners here as there were in Sanya, and the social atmosphere was simpler than in Sanya. Zhang Guang's early years

I work in the Cliff Office and I am familiar with the local situation, so I am very good at managing local government affairs. I am building bridges and paving roads, guiding agricultural production, and carrying out foreign trade activities. Various government orders are being implemented in an orderly manner, although the results are not counted.

It's particularly outstanding, but at least it's quite satisfactory, with not much to fault.

Yu Xiaobao was checking government affairs records while communicating with Zhang Guang. However, the other people who had nothing to do were a little bored and could only wait nearby and couldn't make any noise. Fortunately, the duration of this scene was not long.

It's not too long, it's over in less than an hour.

Zhang Guang saw that there was still some time before noon, so he arranged for Yu Xiaobao and others to visit the local sugarcane farm operations. Seeing Zhang Guang's intention to personally lead the way, Yu Xiaobao quickly jumped in front and said: "If the journey is far, the chief will send

Just let someone lead the way, you don’t have to go there yourself.”

Zhang Guang waved his hand and said: "It's not far, not far. There are thousands of acres of sugar cane fields just outside the east gate. The processing factory is also outside the east gate. It only takes a few minutes to walk there."

When Liu Shang heard the words "processing plant", he immediately came out of his distracted state. He remembered that on the way to Yacheng just now, Yu Xiaobao had mentioned that Haihan had also used steam in sugar cane processing.

Mechanical device. Liu Shang is not interested in sugar cane, but he really wants to see with his own eyes how this steam engine is used to squeeze sugar cane juice.

The group of people walked out of the east gate and saw large tracts of sugar cane fields in front of them. Hundreds of laborers were loading the harvested sugar cane into trucks and transporting them away. The large bundles of sugar cane were piled like hills on the trucks and were pulled by oxen.

Move slowly on the road.

Zhang Guang said: "In previous years, the harvest season is usually concentrated in May, but in the past two years, we have begun to implement year-round planting rotation, so basically there will be fresh sugar cane produced throughout the year. I am going to wait until this winter is not so busy.

When the time came, we organized manpower to build a freight track here to improve the transportation efficiency between the sugarcane growing areas and the processing plants."

The road from the sugarcane planting area to the processing plant is actually very short, so the cost of road construction will not be too high. The track construction plan required for short-distance hauling has accumulated a lot of experience through practice in the mining process in the past few years.

, it can be said that the entire set of operations from road construction to later equipment debugging and maintenance has been very mature, and one winter is enough to complete this kind of infrastructure project, which is not too large.

As he walked, Zhang Guang gave everyone a general introduction to the local sugar cane production situation. The sugar cane grown in Yacheng County is mainly sugar cane, which means it has a high sugar content and is mainly used as raw material for sugar production. It is different from fruit cane specially used for food.

The difference is that sugar cane skin has thick hard fiber and poor taste, so it is generally not eaten as a fruit. The sugar cane planting area in Yacheng County has reached more than 14,000 acres, and it is still increasing by 100% every year.

To expand the planting scale at a ratio of 20 to 20, but even so, Yacheng’s current sugarcane output is far from meeting Haihan’s needs for winemaking and sugar production. Therefore, many sugarcane planting areas have been newly developed in the northern part of Hainan Island in recent years.

, but it started earlier, and its planting varieties and supporting industries are more mature. It can be regarded as the main sugarcane producing area under Haihan's rule.

The sugarcane processing plant is located on the bank of the Ningyuan River. Zhang Guang said that this processing plant first used water-driven machinery, and the operating cost was very low. However, the flow of the Ningyuan River is not so stable. Between the dry season and the wet season

It is also a very troublesome thing to constantly adjust these hydraulic machines. After steam engines began to be promoted, Zhang Guang returned to Sanya to pray to gods and Buddhas everywhere, and finally got two steam-powered presses from the Executive Committee

The quota of machines was assembled in this processing plant.

With the blessing of steam engines, the production capacity of the processing plant has naturally increased a lot. Currently, the maximum daily processing capacity here is about 20,000 kilograms of sugar cane, and the juice extraction rate is far better than the previous human, animal and hydraulic methods. Of course

, because of the use of steam engines, the processing plant also specially built conspicuous chimneys. From a distance from the Yacheng city wall, you can see whether the work there is in progress.

Before entering the factory, Liu Shang heard the familiar sound of the steam engine running. When he walked in, he saw several shirtless men standing on a shelf, feeding sugar cane one by one into a thigh-thick machine.

In the iron cylinder, the other end of the cylinder is connected to the black juicer. After the sugar cane enters, the juice flows into a large wooden barrel from the outlet below the juicer. Every time a barrel is full, someone will replace it.

A new empty bucket is put in. The bagasse is spit out from the other side of the juicer and dropped into an iron baggage box for storage. These bagasse are not useless. After simple processing, they can be used to make paper.

, can also be used for composting.

The subsequent processing of sugarcane juice did not involve a steam engine, and Liu Shang had no interest in finding out how the Haihan people brewed their wine. He was just curious about the steam engine and walked around to check its mechanical structure, trying to figure it out.

Understand how the coal-fired water-burning boiler creates such a large amount of energy, and how it is transferred to the juicer to function. Liu Shang believes that if he can fully understand the principle of this steam engine, he will return to the Ming Dynasty in the future.

Isn't it a great achievement to imitate it?

Although Liu Shang has a smarter mind than ordinary people, if no one explains the secrets of this new thing in detail to him, it is impossible to replicate such high-tech technology by naked eye observation. He came to the sea

After the Han Dynasty, he had already observed the train, the motor boat and the steam power device of the juicer at close range. Apart from sighing that the Haihan people were so sophisticated that they could build such a machine, in fact, the gain was not too great. Even if he had learned from others,

We know the operating principle of the steam engine, but there is still a huge gap in turning the principle into a practical and usable machine.

Haihan's industrial manufacturing capabilities are not comparable to those of the Ming Dynasty. If this kind of machinery is transported back to the Ming Dynasty for dismantling, and it takes a year or two to gather all the skilled craftsmen to research, it will definitely be possible to replicate seven to eight points of the prototype.

, but the manufacturing cost is not easy to calculate, let alone forming large-scale production like Haihan and applying it to the grassroots level of social production.

It was indeed difficult for Liu Shang to do it alone. He looked around for a long time, wishing he could take apart all the iron casings on the outside of the juicer to take a closer look at what the structure was like inside. But

This is obviously impossible. Liu Shang secretly planned in his heart that when he returns to Sanya in the future, if he has the opportunity, he will go to the municipal library to check if there are drawings related to steam engines that can be read. If such a sharp weapon could only be mastered by Haihan

, it only takes a few years, and Ming Dynasty may not even have a chance to make a comeback.

When Liu Shang was distracted, he heard someone next to him ask: "Why don't you go with the team? It seems that you are particularly interested in this steam engine?"

The hair on Liu Shang's back suddenly stood up, because he could tell that the voice was the most feared person in the team, Zhang Qianzhi, who worked in the Security Department. Liu Shang had been consciously tested by Zhang Qianzhi on the ship yesterday.

Once, his fear of this person increased greatly, and he has been careful not to come into contact with him alone. Unexpectedly, he was alone in this processing factory and was noticed by the other party. Liu Shang couldn't help but regret, why did he need to be in such a hurry?

It would be really uneconomical to study this steam engine at this time, if the other party discovers its flaws.

However, Liu Shang's professional quality was pretty good. Although his heart was already fried, his reaction was quite calm. He turned to Zhang Qianzhi and bowed his head and said: "I just feel that this juicer is exquisitely designed and quite ingenious, and I am instantly addicted to it."

Going in made Director Zhang laugh."

Zhang Qianzhi said with a smile: "Since Mr. Liu likes to study steam engines so much, I will arrange for you to learn this major after returning to Sanya."

Liu Shang said in astonishment: "This... this skill can still be taught publicly?"

"Of course!" Zhang Qianzhi said: "Three or four years are enough to learn all the courses on steam engine principles, design, manufacturing, and maintenance. I just don't know if Mr. Liu has the patience to study for such a long time.

"

Liu Shang almost agreed. If he could really learn a complete set of relevant knowledge in three or four years as Zhang Qianzhi said, then he would think it was worth it. But he also understood that the purpose of lurking in Haihan was not to learn these strange things.

Even if there is such a task, it is definitely not entrusted to him to complete this skillful side game. And the most important thing is that he is not sure whether the other party is using this as a bait to lure him into the bait. At the moment, he can only

He pushed his thoughts back to the bottom of his heart, waved his hands and said, "I am already thirty years old, how can I learn anything? Director Zhang is joking."

Zhang Qianzhi is not entirely joking. Haihan does offer relevant courses, but the enrollment is extremely strict. Not only does it have many requirements for residence time, family environment, social relations and other conditions, but the most important thing is that he has already received overseas education.

Without the common sense of mathematics, physics, etc., it would be difficult to further study and understand these relatively advanced knowledge of mechanical principles. Even a smart man like Liu Shang would really have to ask him to look at the parts of a steam engine.

He still couldn't understand the diagrams and assembly diagrams.

Zhang Qianzhi did not answer immediately, but his eyes swept around Liu Shang's face, staring at Liu Shang's heart secretly. After a long time, he spoke again: "I once heard the chief say that eagerness to learn is regardless of age.

.If you are really interested in steam engines, it is not impossible to change careers. Director Yu or I can write you a letter of introduction and you can transfer the working relationship from the Propaganda Department. You may wish to consider it."

Liu Shang heard what he said seriously, and felt a little uneasy at the moment. His interest was indeed more inclined to study machinery, but he also knew that the level of information that this kind of craftsmanship could access was very narrow, and it was likely to require lurking for a number of times.

It takes years to learn some useful things, but they may not be put to use immediately after returning to Ming Dynasty. The propaganda department is different. It has access to a lot of first-hand information, and will be more aware of Haihan's political trends.

Sensitive, it is far easier to collect information than a craftsman.

Thoughts were circulating in Liu Shang's mind, but he made a decision after just a moment's hesitation. He bowed to Zhang Qianzhi again and said, "Thank you, Director Zhang, for your kindness. I am still good at speaking skills. This inter-department transfer is something I think I will do."

It’s difficult to adapt, so it’s more comfortable to stay in the Propaganda Department.”

Zhang Qianzhi nodded and did not follow the topic further. He just said lightly "Follow the team" and walked away. Liu Shang naturally did not dare to stay in front of the juicer any longer.

, and quickly followed the large army.

However, after visiting the sugar and wine making workshops, Liu Shang was obviously a little absent-minded. The brief conversation with Zhang Qianzhi obviously had a big impact on him, and could even be said to have shaken his original firm plan. Until the end of the visit,

Liu Shang didn't have any more conversations with anyone, and kept silently thinking about his own thoughts.
Chapter completed!