"The master is right. [Read the latest chapter]"
"You go back and prepare first. I may arrive late tonight. Leave Jasmine aside for now. I want to talk to someone about something."
"I can spare it." Chu Qing nodded.
"Chief, let me help you!" Fu Buer's face was red. After getting off the train, he turned around hurriedly and helped Wan Lihuang, who was slightly drunk.
"It's okay, I...I'm okay!" Wan Lihuang waved his hand, but couldn't lift his drooped head. At noon, several over-excited landlords rushed to toast. The wine was a catchy fruit wine, which was unavoidable. I drank a few more drinks, but now I'm not feeling dizzy.
Wu Nanhai, who was working behind him, was secretly unhappy. Although Wan Lihuang was a young man, he was still a veteran and "chief". Besides, it was still a working day, and it was a bit ugly to drink so much at noon that he was unconscious. Especially at today's ceremony, many elders from other departments were present, and the people from the Agricultural Committee looked like they were drunk at noon.
He whispered to the secretary who was following him, and asked Wan Lihuang to be sent to the station building to rest. He would not attend today's opening ceremony.
The stop sign behind them said Ma Niao Industrial Zone Station, but these people, who had drunk too much liquor at noon and were not very clear-headed, looked at the completely different scenery in front of them, and it was completely different from the Ma Niao in their impressions, and they suddenly became excited. stand up.
In the center of the straight cinder-hardened road, four steel rails plunge straight into the sea. Regular open spaces on both sides are demarcated with lime. On the shore in the distance, several huge square box buildings stand tall, one towering into the other. Clouds, thick gourd-shaped "chimneys" are blowing out thick smoke, and the roar of steam engines keeps rising and falling.
"It's said to be the iron factory of the chiefs!"
"I've also heard that the big furnace there can produce hundreds of thousands of kilograms of iron at a time!"
"Really? No wonder they say the leaders have the power of ghosts and gods!"
Suddenly, a group of people were talking happily. It seems that he is also proud of himself.
This group of people standing at the end of the road, looking at the miracles of modern industry, with great excitement, except for some agricultural elders and naturalized peasant technicians, most of them are active members of the Tiandi Society, that is, people with experience in large-scale land intensification. Among the new landlords, there are also middle peasants and rich peasants who are engaged in sideline business and are very successful.
The autumn harvest was so fruitful this time that Tiandihui held a thank you banquet. Ye Yuming entertained them at the merchant restaurant at noon. So I invited everyone here, saying that there is a big project that will officially start today, and everyone is invited to come and take a look.
Although a group of people have heard of this Ma Niao Industrial Zone, the station behind them is usually not accessible to ordinary people. Only people working in Ma Niao Industrial Zone can enter and leave freely.
The blast furnace in the distance is really eye-catching. In comparison, the several newly built houses beside them and under the slope were not so eye-catching. The thin chimneys of more than ten meters were seen a lot in Bairen City.
Boom! ...Boom! ...Boom! …
Loud noises suddenly sounded, breaking everyone's excitement and frightening some landowners who had drunk too much at noon and almost collapsed on the ground.
"Haha. Don't worry, don't worry. It's just the steel mill's forging hammer that's running. It's not in the way." Wu Nanhai waved his hand with a smile. He and several elders walked to a row of bamboo fences first, and several naturalized citizens in charge of reception quickly led everyone to follow.
Today is the day when the Lingao No. 1 Fertilizer Plant starts construction. After three months of infrastructure construction and one month of installation and commissioning. This is the largest chemical project in time and space, and it is also the first purely civilian chemical project of the elders. Construction will officially start soon.
With the increasing number of immigrants from Lingao, although the trade department has been working hard to import grain from outside the island and expand grain reserves, and the price of grain on the market is still normal, it is uneconomical to use imported grain. It not only consumes a lot of money, but also affects the transportation capacity. The occupation is also very large, and Lingao's shipping capacity has been in an extremely tight state.
Therefore, tapping the internal potential of agriculture has also been put on the agenda. In the forty-third year of Wanli (1615), there were 38.35 million acres of farmland in the official fish scale register of Hainan. After a comprehensive land survey of Qiongbei area, we have roughly clarified the area of Qiongbei area. The hidden fields, plus the Qiongnan area that has not yet been fully measured, mean that there are at least 6 million acres of paddy and dry land in Hainan. If the average yield per mu is 10 kilograms, there will be 60,000 tons of grain, enough to feed 200,000 people. Even if we consider the hundreds of thousands of acres of land directly controlled by the Agricultural Committee, the increase in production is not a small number.
Although new agricultural machinery, new seeds, new water conservancy, and new agricultural technologies are being gradually advanced, chemical fertilizers are undoubtedly the most direct and effective technical means. The previous small-scale projects are naturally not enough.
Therefore, as the general person in charge of this agricultural production increase plan, Wu Nanhai, with the enthusiastic cooperation of Luo Duo and other people from the Great Library, and after repeated consultations with the Planning Institute and the Industrial Portal, came up with this truly modern fertilizer plant plan: The first phase of the project is a 10,000-ton ordinary calcium phosphate and supporting sulfuric acid plant with a 4,000-ton sulfuric acid production increase project.
Based on the calculation of 30 kilograms of grain per mu, Hainan's 6 million acres require a total of 180,000 tons. The output of this 10,000 tons is naturally just a small test.
The Planning Institute and the Chemical Industry Institute are quite supportive of the telephone project, but both the Planning Institute and the Chemical Industry Institute prefer to expand the production capacity of synthetic ammonia or bicarbonate nitrogen fertilizer. In addition to being used in agriculture, it is also of great value in chemical industry and military explosives.
Chemical Industry Port has currently expanded its synthetic ammonia production capacity to 2,000 tons per year by replicating and improving equipment on the original 800-ton synthetic ammonia project.
However, Lingao's shortcomings in equipment manufacturing and materials make further expansion of synthetic ammonia industrial production capacity an elusive goal. The ammonia industry involves a variety of alloy steels, and these materials are currently difficult for them to supply stably - both in terms of quantity and quality. In particular, a considerable part of alloy steel involves the mining and smelting of nickel ore and chromium ore. The small amount of alloy steel, special steel and non-ferrous metals they currently use, except for some types that can be produced by themselves, are based on the inventory brought by the Holy Ship. This part of the inventory is very limited and must be used with great caution.
The Planning Institute held many discussions with the main technical veterans of the machinery industry and chemical industry, and finally concluded that the larger-scale synthetic ammonia project currently being launched cannot be supported by Lingao's current industrial system and industry chain.
In the end, the Planning Institute determined the technical route of “promoting nitrogen with phosphorus” proposed by the Committee of Agriculture, first going to phosphate fertilizer plants.
Phosphorus fertilizer was the earliest industrially applied fertilizer in history. Phosphorus is an important soil element. Phosphate fertilizer not only has a yield-increasing effect on common grass forage, but also has a very good yield-increasing effect on leguminous forage crops such as milkvetch. Planting leguminous green manure in winter can increase soil organic matter and fertility - leguminous crops have a nitrogen-fixing effect and act as a natural nitrogen fertilizer. This is the so-called "using phosphorus to promote nitrogen".
Leguminous crops can not only be used to extract oil, but are also widely used as feed. The Senate must attach great importance to animal husbandry and require a huge amount of feed. Widely planting leguminous green manure in winter is a multi-purpose thing.
Fields in southern China are generally deficient in phosphorus. Lingao is no exception. In order to increase phosphorus fertilizer, in addition to applying phosphorus-containing slag, the Council of Agriculture also uses a large amount of leftovers after seafood processing. But these fertilizers are just a drop in the bucket in the vast world and are far from enough. As for the struvite mined from Dongsha Island, it is very slow to apply directly to the fields and can only be used as base fertilizer.
The phosphate fertilizer production line of Lingao No. 1 Fertilizer Factory uses struvite as raw material and treats it with sulfuric acid to obtain ordinary calcium phosphate. The main active ingredient is ca(h2po4)2. Superphosphate is a quick-acting phosphate fertilizer that is easy to use and can be used in conjunction with modern agricultural technology. Once the phosphate fertilizer plant is put into operation, the effect of increasing production will be immediate.
According to the technical materials of modern fertilizers, based on a utilization rate of 25%, each kilogram of phosphate fertilizer can increase grain production by 4-8 kilograms. This 10,000 tons of phosphate fertilizer is equivalent to an increase in grain production of 40,000-80,000 tons. And it only requires a few hundred manpower.
"This is the magic of industrialized agriculture." Wu Nanhai looked up and smiled at the gate of Lingao No. 1 Fertilizer Factory. Compared with the simple bamboo fence, the factory gate is quite luxurious and is a stone archway. This stone archway was chiseled by a local landowner to be used on his ancestral tomb. Later, because of "colluding with bandits," the landlord's family was forced to flee to the mainland, and all their property was confiscated. The archway became the property of the Planning Institute. The plaque above was inscribed by Liu Dalin. Although this Jinshi didn't know what chemical fertilizer was, let alone phosphate fertilizer, he still understood that it could increase production.
Since it can increase grain production, it is a great good governance, so Liu Jinshi wrote these words without hesitation.
"Liu Jinshi's calligraphy is really good. Well... dragons and phoenixes are dancing..." Wu Nanhai was quite proud - he was the one who asked for the calligraphy in the first place. Although he basically knows nothing about calligraphy.
The factory area was crowded with people, colorful flags were flying, and everything was ready, just waiting for them.
A group of veterans headed by Ma Qianzhu were already standing in front of the rostrum for the groundbreaking ceremony, but Ji Tuisi was smoking under the rostrum, smiling as he watched the increasingly broad Wu Nanhai walk over, and apologized to him for being late, saying that he was late. He waved his hand indifferently.
"Old Wu, you look good." Ji Tuisi patted Wu Nanhai on the shoulder.
"It's okay, it's okay." Wu Nanhai knew about the fertilizer plant this time, and Ji Tuisi was a big help. Of course, the fertilizer plant and the sulfuric acid supporting project were still projects of the Chemical Industry Port, so helping him was also helping himself. But this favor is still heavy. He repeatedly handed over his hand and said half-jokingly: "Thank you for your kindness."
"Where, where?" Ji Tuisi felt quite high-spirited because of the recent chemical industry projects. "We help each other, and we will cooperate better in the future."
