May 10, 1647, Qing, Tieling Fort.

Today, the Tieling Fort is decorated with lights and colors, which is extremely lively. Mr. Pierre, a former senior technician of Ping'an Iron and Steel Factory, is holding a wedding for his son. As the first group of immigrants from Europe, Mr. Pierre, who was a blacksmith, worked diligently at Ping'an Iron and Steel Factory for more than ten years, and his business capabilities are excellent. This time, the new Northwest Special Steel Factory was built by Tieling Fort, and Mr. Pierre was transferred to the local area with many colleagues of Ping'an Iron and Steel Factory, becoming the first founder of the Northwest Special Steel Factory.

As the technical director of the special steel mill department who enjoys high-end treatment, Mr. Pierre was given a house with front and back yards in Tieling Fort. In the era when more than 90% of local residents still lived in small wooden houses and thatched sheds, this house made of bricks and stone is undoubtedly a symbol of status and status, which means that they have now entered the upper class of the East Coast Republic.

Pierre's son Pi Zhigao - named by Gao Xiaogang, the former director of Ping'an Iron and Steel Factory, with lofty ambitions. He came from Switzerland to the east coast with Pierre many years ago. He was just 21 years old this year. He just graduated from Corps Fort last year and studied agronomy. At the beginning of this year, he was assigned to Tieling Fort to promote the three-crops rotation system. He is considered an official.

The wedding today is naturally Pi Zhigao himself. His newlywed wife is the daughter of Hu Laosan, who is also a manager of the Northwest Special Steel Factory. Hu Laosan's daughter just turned 17 this year and is now a teacher at the Tieling Township Complete Primary School, which will be opened. She is also a decent figure in the East Coast.

As a scholar-school cadre from the Corps, Pi Zhigao's knowledge and aesthetics are naturally different from those from those from Livonia. Those women who only like European faces will not marry an oriental woman even if they are beaten to death. However, Pi Zhigao was deeply educated by the travelers for ten years, and was marked with a strong oriental mark in the most important three views and personality shaping stage. In addition, he admired the instructors of travelers, so he was more attracted to the Ming women, and looked at those Polish and Greek female slaves who could not read a single word.

Moreover, marrying Hu Laosan's daughter is a match for a good match. The other can also ensure that he develops more smoothly in his career. As a young man with a strong spirit, who does not have the intention to be a noble official? Who doesn't want to become a noble official in the future and be respected by others? If you want to be motivated, then responding to the government's call to intermarry with aliens will become inevitable. As an insider of the system, Pierre and Pi Zhigao and his son are naturally aware of some things that can only be understood but not expressed. If you want to have no glass ceiling in your career, then don't let yourself and your family descendants be different from others. You must try every means to integrate into the East Coast society. This is what a person like Pi Zhigao should do.

With the increasing number of mixed-blood groups in China, smart people know how to choose for the future of their family's next generation. As of early May this year, with the last group of Eastern immigrants coming from South Africa to their hometown, the population of the East Coast Republic of China has officially exceeded 110,000; if we include the Spaniards east of the Uruguay River, more than 7,000 European immigrants who have not returned to their hometowns are floating on the sea. The domestic population naturally grew and the population smuggled from Brazil, the total number of domestic population exceeded 125,000 this year.

Among them, the proportion of Ming people has risen from 39% last year to nearly 40%, and the mixed-race people have also risen from 9% to 10%. Except for the French still accounting for 6% (7.4% last year), the population of no single ethnic group has exceeded 4%. This is still a period when a large number of white people poured into the East Coast in war with Spain. The proportion of pure white people will definitely fall further in the future. Therefore, if you don’t want your descendants to be in danger, try to make their appearance tend toward oriental characteristics. Of course, this requires you to marry the Eastern people first.

Moreover, Hu Laosan's daughter received a six-year complete education from elementary school to junior high school in the East Coast Republic. Compared with those foolish Eastern European women, they also have a more common language. Combined with all these factors, the marriage between Pi and Hu became inevitable. However, Pierre almost exhausted his family's wealth for his son to marry, because his son was facing fierce competition from a Polish army officer and an Italian naval officer. In the end, he was able to return with years of colleagues and high bride price.

Today, Pierre's family invited many guests to the venue. In addition to colleagues from the special steel mill, there were also many local military and political officials (country chiefs, armed ministers, etc.). Of course, their family seemed to have a good face. Ma Vest, the director of the Northwest Reclamation Bureau, also came over with gifts at noon. Pierre was a little surprised by Ma Vest's arrival. Although he sent an invitation to Ma Vest, God knew whether the high-ranking director would condescend to his house. Now the answer was revealed, Ma Vest personally came to bless the couple and also gave many valuable gifts.

However, the time for the vest was tight. He had to take a bus to Chengshanbao east to inspect the local agricultural development progress. Therefore, after a few bites of wine and food, he said goodbye and left. Before leaving, he also called Shen Gang, the director of the Northwest Special Steel Factory, the former deputy director of Ping'an Iron and Steel Factory, and told them to start the construction of the special steel factory building immediately after he left.

The Northwest Special Steel Plant is the most important project of Tieling Fort, or the only meaning of its existence is to provide services to the Northwest Special Steel Plant. The Northwest Special Steel Plant will rely on the rich manganese ore resources near Tieling Fort to vigorously produce manganese steel of various ratios, and provide high-quality raw materials for important industries such as the domestic machining industry (machine tool cutter heads, important parts), steam engine industry (cylinders, boilers), military industry (air tubes), and other important industries.

As the only two or three of the five hundred travelers who know steel and the only technical talent who knows non-ferrous metal smelting, Ma Vest naturally attaches great importance to the smelting of manganese steel. Even in the face of the country's special steel and non-ferrous metal smelting industries, everything in the past is no longer difficult to arouse his interest, and this is actually an important reason why he agreed to take office as the director of the Northwest Reclamation Bureau - he still cares about his beloved metallurgy industry.

After Wang Dali and others surveyed the mineral resources in the Tielingbao area, five large and medium-sized manganese ores have been basically identified, two coal burial points (poor quality), and one small iron ore, which basically has the foundation for building a complete set of industries such as centralized mining, smelting, and processing. The local manganese ore resources are rich and tastes are high. Although the iron ore reserves are extremely average, the taste has reached more than 55%. Only the quality of coal is poor and it is basically impossible to coke and reduce manganese iron. It is still necessary to import a large amount of coal from Tacheng, New Huaxia Island from the outside world.

To be honest, although there are certain differences between smelting manganese and pig iron, there are still quite common features. For example, the Northwest Special Steel Plant is preparing to build a blast furnace (about 100 cubic meters) here, which is specially used to smelting manganese and iron, and coke is used as a reducing agent. After the blast furnace is completed, the Northwest Special Steel Plant will be based on a large number of technicians and workers drawn from Ping'an Steel Plant, supplemented by a large number of newly recruited apprentice workers and technical school graduates to start the smelting of manganese.

After some problems in the research on manganese and iron and iron production were formally carried out, the Northwest Special Steel Plant will start building a new furnace and start smelting manganese steel - this is the highlight. As long as you have mastered the smelting technology of manganese steel, the East Coast industry will enter a new realm, such as artillery and muskets can be used to industrialize rifles on a large scale, such as greatly improving the processing accuracy of parts, further improving the strength of steam engine boilers and cylinders, and greatly increasing the wear resistance of equipment. In short, the benefits are simply endless, and it is almost a revolutionary promotion for the East Coast metallurgy and machining industries.

"The factory building must start construction immediately." Ma Vest carefully reminded the two of them, "At the end of this month, there will be a group of new and old immigrants here. I will allocate these people to you, and try to meet you as first as possible. I will also transfer the transportation priority of special steel mill materials and equipment. In short, the factory and blast furnace will be built first. Time is no longer waiting. Everyone, the call for manganese iron and manganese steel has been shouting in China for so many years, but it has not yet entered the substantive production stage, which is unforgivable. Therefore, everyone must unify their thinking, work hard, and strive to complete the construction of the factory and blast furnace before the end of this year, and officially start commissioning and production next year."

"If the commissioning and production go smoothly next year, the manganese steel project will be started at the end of next year, and a series of downstream industries such as machining, casting, and forging will be built here one after another. When these industries are officially put into production and scale, I believe that Tieling will become another heavy industry center in our East Coast Republic." Ma Vest continued to talk to the two about the importance of the matter and future prospects, "And as the founders and founders of the Northwest Special Steel Factory, you will inevitably leave a brilliant mark in history. Don't worry, as long as you work hard and work hard, the country will not treat you badly. Broaden the door and benevolence to future generations, and this will be the first to do it!"

After hearing Ma Vest's words, Pierre, whose wealth and destiny were firmly tied to the Eastern Coast Republic, immediately made up his mind and said that he would overcome all difficulties and cooperate with Director Shen to set up the frame of the Northwest Special Steel Factory as soon as possible, and at the same time continuously improve the quality of employees, striving to successfully debug and produce ferromanganese before the first half of next year, laying a good foundation for manganese steel debugging to begin the end of the year.

Although Shen Gang, as a time traveler, didn't care about "loving the door and giving kindness to future generations", he also said at the right time that he would formulate a detailed planning node after returning, and then quickly start the preparations for the new factory.
Chapter completed!