On July 30, 1683, the sky was clear.

Outside the Heishan Township Railway Station, the cold wind was dry and cold. The leaf plates of several industrial windmills were blown whirring, which made people worry about something bad. This huge and heavy solid wooden board would fall off and smash the pedestrians who accidentally passed by.

"In the southern Patagonia region where wind speeds often reach dozens of kilometers per hour, industrial windmills are the best and cheapest helpers for people. This kind of thing that is developed in the hands of the Dutch is really good. It has brought us at least Patagonia." Li Li's hair was blown by the strong wind, and Sheng Dehong from the Syphilis Patient Statistics Bureau said with emotion.

Where he saw it, there were industrial windmills of varying power, providing an important source of power for this slightly barren land. It can be seen that the Tianzun was not stingy. As the saying goes, there are gains and losses. Although the barren land makes everyone's life very uncomfortable, it is also suitable for grazing. Moreover, there is not much coal in the ground, and the wind energy in the open fields also brings them cheap enough energy.

In recent years, the East Coast has also begun to export some parts of industrial windmills to Europe. The main users are the English and the Dutch. In addition, the Black Colony has also imported a lot. Compared with the works of the Dutch, the industrial windmills produced on the East Coast are reasonable in design, high wind energy utilization efficiency, excellent parts materials, and high processing level, so they have a long service life, which has basically formed a crushing trend for the Dutch products and has also earned some money back for the country.

Sheng Dehong and his entourage took the train to Qingniwa Township, and then waited for a full day here. Then he took another relatively old train north and arrived at Heishan Township via the Liangyang Railway branch line. This is one of the most important coal production areas in the East Coast Republic of China. 60% of the country's best industrial coal is produced here (the other 30% are produced from Heijin Island, and 10% are produced from Yicheng area. The small coal mines in Xinhuaxia Island are basically in the state of self-producing and self-sales). It is not an exaggeration to increase their status. Not to mention, the machinery manufacturing industry here is also quite good.

Yes, that's right! This township affiliated to Araukan County cannot be said to be strong in its industrial foundation, but it is definitely high-end and sophisticated. Because the mysterious second heavy machinery factory is located here, it also brings a series of downstream enterprises to support it, pushing the industrial atmosphere of the entire town to the top.

Nowadays, many enterprises in Heishan Township have also been slowly merged into a large-scale joint manufacturing enterprise under the stimulation of various scientific research tasks to improve production efficiency. This enterprise was officially established at the beginning of this year with the approval of the Government Council. Its main core assets are the Second Heavy Machinery Factory, the Montenegro Coal Mine, and the Montenegro Steel Plant (a small factory that supports the second helicopter).

Moreover, I heard that the newly established Heishan Industrial Company is also planning to eat the small boat yard (Xuefeng Lake Shipyard) located on the shore of Xuefeng Lake, which specializes in the development of iron-ribbed wooden hulled ships, and has obtained preliminary approval from the State Council. At the end of this year, Heishan Industrial Company will issue about 20% of its shares to the East Coast Company. In addition to expanding production scale, updating machinery and equipment, and hiring talents with high salaries, some of the funds raised are naturally prepared to acquire Xuefeng Lake Shipyard. It can be said that this matter is a foregone conclusion.

There is a large factory near Heishan Township Railway Station, which is also a supporting enterprise for local industrial and agricultural production: Heishan Water Plant. This enterprise was originally jointly built by the Nan Railway Company and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, each accounting for half of the shares. In addition to water supply pipelines and sewage treatment facilities, the plant also has a large reservoir.

The reservoir is built in the western mountainous area far away from Heishan Township. It uses several small lakes that were originally connected during the flood season. In spring and summer, the Andes ice and snow melt, and merge into streams to fill the lakes under the mountain. After the lake is filled, it overflows to other places, connecting multiple lakes into one. This is not uncommon in the Patagonia-Taiwan area, and the project costs a lot. However, in order to complete the construction of the Heishan Township Future Science and Technology Base as soon as possible, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and the Nantie Company invested huge amounts of money year after year to complete it.

Now, Nan Railway Company has withdrawn its shares (the shares were sold to the government in exchange for funds to build the Denglai Gum Smoke Line Railway). The Ministry of Industry and Commerce has injected 60,000 yuan into the factory, allowing the factory to improve its processes and apply a lot of new water treatment processes in the East Coast Republic in recent years (this is all after the large-scale production of bleach and chlorine), making the Heishan Water Plant's technology the first in China.

If you look at it from a distance, the most eye-catching building of Heishan Water Plant is probably several super-large steam units. These steam engines are the Tieling Boiler Factory under the Tieling Heavy Industry Consortium. This is the second model of the "Southern Giant" series produced by the East Coast Republic of China ten years ago. It is mainly used for water pumping and diversion of water in mines, reservoirs and canals, and is not inefficient.

The cylinder diameter of the "Southern Giant-2" type steam engine reaches 2.2 meters and has a stroke of 3.5 meters. When completing 8 reciprocating strokes per minute, the maximum power generated is 220 horsepower. The most typical appearance of the pump is the two parallel beams fixed together, which are about ten meters long. When pumping water stably (currently on average, each device pumps about 2,500 liters of water per minute), it looks like a kowtower machine, which is impressive.

The two cross beams that are important equipment are all steel cross beams made of repeated forging with a water press. They are extremely strong and have a long service life. In fact, as early as the beginning, these cross beams were cast of iron, but in order to ensure their structural strength, they often have to be cast very thick, heavy, and have a large amount of iron, which is very uneconomical. Later, with the continuous popularity of large hydraulic presses, it became possible to forge such cross beams at low cost. Therefore, the current "Southern Giant" series of steam pumps use steel cross beams, at least forged iron cross beams.

The construction and installation of the "Southern Giant" series is also a major project for the East Coast, which is developing rapidly with each passing day. The amount of steel consumed by a steam pump may be larger in some European cities in a year, and the size is relatively large. There are many things to consider when installing it. In short, it reflects the current level of engineering construction and installation on the East Coast. Without the many engineers and skilled workers trained in the 50 years since the founding of the country, such a project is impossible to complete. Even if you have the so-called technology or drawings, no one can do it. Everything is empty talk. The cultivation of people is precisely what requires the most cycle. It is not rare to have small successes in two generations.

For work this year, Sheng Dehong has focused on studying many new technologies and applications on the East Coast, and is very concerned about this large steam engine. He vaguely heard that the "Southern Giant" series is now favored by many large urban water plants, including Dongfang County, Ping'an County, Qingdao County, and Zhenhai County. The drainage facilities of these factories were built earlier, and the steam engine used in the pump station was relatively small, and it was gradually unable to catch up with the needs of urban development, so it continued to replace large equipment.

Qingdao County, the largest city on the east coast with a population of more than 100,000, has begun negotiations with the Tieling Heavy Industry Consortium, intending to introduce two "Southern Giant" series to provide the most core source of power for the second phase expansion project of Qingdao Water Plant. It is reported that the Qingdao Water Plant ordered is even larger and advanced. The diameter of its cylinder has reached 2.85 meters (the stroke is also 3.5 meters). Eight boilers provide steam to it, which can solve the current problems of insufficient industrial, agricultural and civil water supply in Qingdao County. Moreover, this "Southern Giant" steam water pump of Qingdao Water Plant also reserves room for upgrading, that is, if the pressure in the cylinder is too high in the future, the second or even the third cylinder, namely the re-swelling and three-swelling cylinder, is still relatively advanced in general.

Of course, the East Coast people have achieved much more than this in steam engines. In fact, thanks to the continuous improvement of material technology and processing levels, the East Coast people have begun to manufacture many small high-speed steam engines, such as the high-speed steam engine used by Dongdian Company to generate electricity for small experimental generators.

In the past, in order to provide power to small power generators, Dongban people used belt transmission to draw power from the transmission shaft of a large low-speed steam engine and then drive high-speed generators. However, this method is more dangerous, and because the speed regulation accuracy is not high enough, the generated voltage is very unstable, which greatly affects subsequent research and debugging work. Now, with a high-speed steam engine, its transmission shaft is directly connected to the generator, and the speed of the two are the same. The two machines are installed on the same base, forming a relatively compact and safe system (when belt transmission was originally needed, it occupied a lot of space and was unsafe, and many accidents occurred, which was a bloody lesson). This has greatly helped the research of Dongban Electric Power Company.

In addition to this high-speed steam engine used in power generation devices, Dongban people have also made great progress in the use of high-speed steam engines for machine tools. Over the years, more than ten derivative models have been developed, laying a solid foundation for the improvement of the machining industry. In these complicated models, there is a "very interesting" steam engine that is the most eye-catching. It is a steam engine with three cylinders fixed in a vertical plane in a radial shape. The angle between each cylinder is 120 degrees, and the power is generally from a few horsepower to dozens of horsepower, and the speed is always 500 revolutions per minute, which is very amazing.

It can be said that this high-speed steam engine is the core thing on the East Coast, and it is also the most reflective of technical strength. It is much more powerful when it comes to boring steam engines that some people shout out. The so-called thousands of horsepower is not unnecessary for the East Coast, but its importance is not as critical as the high-speed steam engine in front of us. This kind of thing that can greatly reflect the strength of basic industrial power is, and blindly go to the horse for political achievements or face is a new equipment that has been severely criticized on the East Coast, and has the incredible ability to turn stones into gold. Like a scribbled machine and other precision scientific instruments, it has been ignored or forgotten by many people, but if not, nothing can be done.

"The desolate Patagonia hides many high-tech technologies." Sheng Dehong walked into the far door of the Mei Municipal Courtyard not far away, shook his head and laughed: "I don't know how many spies from foreign countries are confused by the endless wind and the wind and sand in the sky. He wandered in the lonely and quiet Patagonia wasteland, and was confused. He didn't know how to go next and how to get close to the town full of treasures. Patagonia, one day, became our natural barrier. The Executive Committee's officials had really put a lot of thought into setting the scientific research base that was related to the future. Well, the investment is also quite huge, which shows that the retired old men are really determined!"

With Xingnan Port, which is relatively complex, the environment in Heishan Township is actually not that complicated. This is a town that is completely new because of various factories and research institutions. The relationship between the residents of the town is very simple, which is the relationship between subordinates, the relationship between factory managers and workers, the relationship between scientific research project team leaders and team members, etc. An outsider who has no foundation needs to get close to this inland town in the deep barren area, and needs to have a suitable identity without being exposed. This is really too difficult, let alone stealing relevant secrets in front of many agents of the Statistical and Investigation Bureau of Syphilis Patients with very sensitive "dog noses". This is really unrealistic. For many years, only a few spy infiltration incidents have occurred. People on the east coast view this place too tightly, making it difficult for all "underground heroes" to have a place to use it.

However, even if the work here is relatively simple, the new Director Shengde Hongsheng dare not take it lightly. He has seen too many officials who have been in negligence over the years. He does not want his bright future to be ruined by an inexplicable leak. Therefore, he plans to formulate a feasible confidentiality and anti-espionage plan in the next few days, involving the cooperation and coordination between the local Mei agency, the Public Security Bureau and the security departments of various factories. Using this relatively strict three-level network to block all suspicious elements or even if it cannot be stopped, the system should be reduced.
Chapter completed!