Chapter 304 Mingsheng Steel Plant!
The industrial park is planned to be very large, with all kinds of factories standing inside. Without looking at the signs, Gu Chengyuan has no idea what they are doing, because no matter what kind of factory it is, it almost always has several large chimneys.
As a liberal arts student, it was his first time to enter such a place. Everything felt very new. A group of people followed him, just like joining a tour group, and the tour guide was Lei Jun, who was famous before the apocalypse.
Along the way, Lei Jun introduced the distribution of factories in the park to Gu Chengyuan like he knew them all.
They are all factories in the upstream and midstream industrial chains related to metallurgy and chemical industry, all of which are heavily polluting industries.
While walking on the road, Gu Chengyuan noticed that in many factories, there were already workers in work clothes and safety helmets moving around, moving equipment, sweeping the factory area, and even organizing training. It was obvious that they were preparing to resume production.
Along the way, seeing these factories gradually recovering and about to be started up, Gu Chengyuan couldn't help but sigh.
I remember when I was in high school, after watching a few episodes of the documentary hosted by Chai Nao, the whole class expressed deep disgust for such heavily polluting enterprises.
He even went to the only chemical plant in the city under the guise of a visit, conducting secret investigations and collecting evidence in order to report it.
At that time, Gu Chengyuan did not understand why the workers looked disgusted when they heard that they came to protect the environment, for their health, and to close down this evil factory.
Don’t they know the harm this factory does to the human body and the environment?
Later, Gu Chengyuan realized that there is no such thing as having the best of both worlds. There is only the lesser of two evils.
Faced with the choice between environment and survival, they chose survival, just like they are now restarting these factories!
I can't even survive, and you want to talk to me about environmental protection?
Gu Chengyuan couldn't help laughing when he thought about how he was once a petty bourgeois who was detached from the masses.
To be honest, those people who talk about environmental protection in vain can be considered traitors, because when it comes to the issue of environment and people, and protecting the big and the small, they choose to protect the environment, betraying their position as human beings and betraying the vast majority of grassroots people.
...
"Commander, we've arrived at the steel plant!"
Lei Jun's reminder interrupted Gu Chengyuan's wandering thoughts and brought him back to this cruel end of the world.
"Mingsheng Steel Plant"
Standing in front of the factory gate with exposed steel frame structure, Gu Chengyuan looked at the big factory sign above his head.
The view extends beyond the gate to the factory area, with almost no end in sight. Everywhere there are huge factory buildings, exposed thick pipes, unknown equipment, piles of red waste slag, and mountains of ore.
In addition to the vast factory area filled with equipment, the steel plant also extends high into the sky!
The towering chimney stands between heaven and earth with an imposing manner, and like a pipe, it continuously spews out white smoke.
Seeing this scene, Gu Chengyuan felt a little excited.
"See, I told you that clouds are produced by humans!"
There were already people waiting at the factory gate, with more than a dozen clean, new safety helmets prepared.
"Commander, for your safety, you need to wear a helmet when you go inside!"
Taking the white hat handed over by Lei Jun, Gu Chengyuan couldn't wait to walk into the factory.
The chimney began to smoke, indicating that the steel plant has initially resumed production!
Under the leadership of Lei Jun, Gu Chengyuan soon arrived at the only operated production workshop in the steel plant.
As soon as I stepped through the workshop door, before I could put my other foot in, the heat wave hit me in the face!
The air was distorted and squeezed, filled with a pungent smell of sulfur, making it difficult to breathe. The body's instinctive rejection of the environment made the heart anxious.
Entering the factory is like entering Gu Chengyuan's blind spot
Looking at the huge equipment that exudes the rugged industrial beauty, Gu Chengyuan's only adjective is "awesome"!
Industrial is a great word!
Only by watching it up close can you experience the deep and heartfelt shock!
Just like Gu Chengyuan at this moment, he only recognized the blast furnace in the entire production workshop, but he felt that there was an inexplicable magnificence everywhere!
Iron and fire blend here, forging the pillars of the throne of human civilization!
Seeing Gu Chengyuan's curious look, Lei Jun explained
"Report to the chief, the Mingsheng Steel Plant you are seeing now is the second largest steel plant in Ye Province! It covers an area of about 4.5 square kilometers. Before the end of the world, the number of employees reached more than 2500. It is a large steel plant with all the processes of blast furnace ironmaking, converter steelmaking, and gate rolling steel."
The second largest steel plant in Ye Province?
Hearing this, Gu Chengyuan was a little surprised. He just felt that it was big when he first came in, but he didn't expect it to be so big. The second largest in Ye Province?
Is this destiny that he can easily recover an industrial zone and then have the second largest steel plant in Night Province, or is it because the heavy industry in Night Province is backward that a steel plant can be ranked?
"Under the production concept of serving the military industry, Mingsheng Steel Plant's first goal is to produce stainless steel alloys for bullet shells and low-carbon steel for bullet steel cores!"
"The specific production process from ore to bullet raw materials is: the steel mill uses iron ore to smelt ingots and billets of these two materials, and then processes them into production raw materials suitable for the specifications of the bullet production line through a rolling process!"
"In addition to its use in the military industry, it can also be used in the field of engineering construction as other production workshops gradually resume production and increase production capacity in the future."
"The semi-finished products such as plates, profiles, pipes, and wires produced by the steel plant are transported to the steel structure plant next door for further processing."
"The steel structure factory can carry out in-depth design of steel components, cut and assemble, weld, straighten, remove rust, paint, etc. according to the design drawings, and process various plates, steel sections, etc. into steel components that meet the requirements of the project."
"This way, future projects in our settlement can be tailor-made, without having to search the world for construction sites and pick up building materials!"
“It is convenient and adaptable! It can build more complex projects!”
Listening to Lei Jun's talk about the application prospects of the steel plant, Gu Chengyuan nodded with satisfaction. The other party must have put in a lot of effort during this period of time.
“What about the source and output of iron ore?”
With ready-made equipment and surviving workers from the original steel plant, as well as technical support from graduate students and doctoral students from the Night University's School of Metallurgy, it is not surprising that the factory could be started.
So what Gu Chengyuan is more concerned about now is production capacity and sustainability!
The steel plant that we took over with great difficulty cannot be like the previous military factory, which used up the raw materials and then had no follow-up, right?
"Reporting to the chief, if the entire steel plant is running at full capacity, the annual output is 100 million tons!"
"As for the iron ore, it's even more surprising. By asking the surviving workers of this steel plant, I learned that the reason why this steel plant with an annual output of one million tons exists is because a large iron mine was discovered in Chiping Mountain in Qinghe Town, with proven reserves reaching an astonishing 1.5 million tons!"
“This also explains why the Ye Province government still invested in this steel plant when the steel industry was clearly declining!”
As he spoke, Lei Jun's tone was filled with visible excitement!
This is simply like divine help!
What steel means is self-evident! Especially in the end times!
Our leader just casually captured an unknown town, and found such a huge treasure hidden there! !
All the raw materials for the industrial chain are ready!
Just do it!
