Chapter 194 Steel is the foundation of chemical industry

Style: Historical Author: Baichuan ZizhuWords: 4900Update Time: 24/01/12 12:17:00
A series of recent events in Puerto Blanca have exposed many problems of the Falcon Service, especially the speed of response to dangerous emergency management.

Let the main leaders of the entire Falcon Bureau do a serious review. The Falcon Bureau has been developing very slowly in the past year, and its intelligence acquisition capabilities are also very poor. It urgently needs improvement, a more efficient system, and new blood. If it is still If that doesn't work, replace a group of people.

San Jose contacted the United States and brought back Falcon Bureau Director Guerrero, and also brought back a group of elites who could easily compete with the CIA.

Most of these people are graduates from Argentine universities. They have done a good job in U.S. intelligence, and they have been of great help to Sequoia, Blackstone, and Enco Electric.

Argentina is now like a powder keg. You don’t know when it will explode. You can’t spread too much power. Moreover, the situation of several branches is not very good now. It’s time to rectify it and carry out a rectification and structure of the Falcon Bureau. renew.

Nowadays, the world's high technology is developing rapidly and changing with each passing day. To update a batch of new working equipment, such as micro cameras, bugs, and micro guns, it is also necessary to establish some secret tool laboratories of our own and recruit some mathematics experts. Cryptozoologists develop new intelligence delivery systems.

The intelligence code cracking agency is developing into higher talent. The Falcon Bureau is very lacking in this aspect. The processing of some telephone calls and telegrams is also very important. It is urgent to form a national information intelligence network and accurately process intelligence.

This is necessary for technological change. Enco Electric of the United States can be of great help to St. Hesse. After all, technological innovation is happening every day. Since the establishment of NATO in 1947, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union has become completely irreversible. With Warsaw treaty.

Develop the Falcon Bureau into a modern and efficient intelligence agency, otherwise Saint Jose will not know what is happening in the capital, and it will be too late to respond.

He patted Buston on the shoulder and encouraged him a few words. He also knew that he was a little frustrated, but Buston was doing pretty well. After all, Puerto Blanca was only a few months old, and St. Jose was not there either. Bringing too many people.

Judging from the situation hidden in the Port of Blanca this time, there are not many problems with the superficial intelligence. Looking at the deeper digging, things are not very optimistic. If San Jose did not take action against the Director of the Police Department, it would be very big. The probability is that it will be eaten to death.

Don't underestimate anyone, even a small reptile may bite you.

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With the complete fall of the Guy family, the situation in Port Blanca is slowly getting better, which has shocked quite a few people.

The construction of a new international free trade port is about to begin. Saint-Jesse owns one-third of the port terminal. The Lingang Industrial Zone can continue to expand in size. The original 15 square kilometers are a bit petty. This time, the city hall has once again allocated 20 square kilometers. Square kilometers in.

Saint Jose plans to invest in and build more factories here. In addition to the depreciation of the peso, the establishment of the factory itself is also increasing the national strength of Saint Jose and Argentina.

The income of the Andes Eagle Cigarette Factory is about to arrive again. It is estimated to be 18 million US dollars, which is much more than last year. The expenditure of this huge amount of funds is a problem.

In addition to some necessary expenditures to expand reproduction, continue to expand tobacco field cultivation and improve cigarette factory technology, there is also 8 million allocated to the city of Oran and the town of Morado for the expansion of minerals in the potassium triangle area and the expansion of some factories. 8 million was used to invest in the Port of Blanca, enough to build several large factories.

Oran City began to invest in some primary processing plants, especially the production of some chemical raw materials. The most indispensable thing in the Potassium Triangle is various salt mines. These mining processing plants are affiliated to Thunder Mining, providing raw materials to Maya Chemical, and also generating a lot of profits. .

Because Morado Town is located on a plateau, its population is actually limited. After almost two years of development, it only has only over 10,000 people, most of whom are workers in a few factories.

In addition to various salt minerals, there are many non-ferrous metal minerals in the Andes that need to be explored, especially copper ore and manganese ore. These are very important for the subsequent expansion of special steel production. There is also a particularly large demand for bullet exports and the construction of copper smelting plants. There is no need to delay, importing everything is still too expensive.

Eva Bilon City (La Plata City),

Fernando Lopez is an ordinary worker at the La Plata Steel Plant. He is 25 years old and lives in the Ensenada District, the corner of the checkerboard-like neighborhood. He has been working in Ensenia since he was 16 years old. He works as a porter in the port and is very strong.

The urban construction of La Plata is quite interesting. Every street is horizontal and vertical.

In recent years, Argentina's international trade imports and exports have declined. The main port in La Plata, the Port of Enseniada, has lost many jobs. Fernando has become a self-employed worker, relying on relief funds from the National Charitable Foundation. Barely surviving.

There are still five children to feed at home. His wife Ana Lopez has no job and focuses on raising her children. She also has to find some home crafts to supplement the family income. Life is quite difficult.

The unloading terminal of the La Plata Steel Plant is located in a new port far outside the city. It is a two-in-one passenger and freight terminal. It is currently mainly used by steel plants and coal power plants. It operates a large-scale storage warehouse. From Brazil The imported iron ore was piled up into mountains and placed directly in the open air.

In contrast, the storage requirements for coal are much higher. The coal is piled in super-large coal storage bunkers that have been built for a long time. It is environmentally friendly and can reduce the speed of coal oxidation and has better ventilation conditions.

Most of the 1.25 square kilometers originally planned by Xingang have been used up. It is currently planning to continue to expand to the east and build more coal and steel storage warehouses to meet demand. After all, prices are now cheap, and Prali International's transportation capacity has not been fully developed. Fully loaded.

At first, Fernando planned to try his luck at the new terminal. He himself only had a lot of physical strength. However, the loading and unloading of this new port all used large port machines and giant construction machinery. Unlike the original cargo terminal, which required a large number of manpower to carry the goods. .

It happened that the La Plata Steel Factory was recruiting workers, so he went to try it out. Unexpectedly, he had to do some math problems and simple practical operations before entering the factory. Fortunately, these did not trouble him. He dropped out of school just because his family was poor. , I still have a good idea, but I haven’t had much chance.

So he somehow became a member of the La Plata Steel Plant, and the salary was almost twice that of a porter, including food and accommodation!

He doesn't go shopping in alleys with his co-workers, doesn't buy new clothes, and doesn't drink or gamble. He can save a lot of money in a month. He is satisfied with looking at the Barron bank passbook issued by the factory. The numbers are going up every month. The happiest thing every month is to withdraw my salary and do some bank management, etc. Even the work is quite hard, but it is also very happy.

When his beloved Anna and his five children were eating well and living warmly, he felt that everything was worth it. Moreover, the treatment at the steel plant was already very good. He had one holiday every week. He cherished this job very much. .

Fernando became a die-hard member of the steel plant. He was a person who was very thorough in his work, and he knew the safety regulations thoroughly. He soon became a squad leader, and his salary continued to increase. He also did a lot of things, and the team he led never failed to do so. There are no production accidents and they often rank among the best in production rankings.

When Isai, the director of the steel plant, requested from San Jose to hire some internal personnel to protect the plant, Fernando immediately signed up to participate in training, patrol the plant area, and protect the plant, and he also received additional subsidies.

The Valley Iron and Steel Factory is very large. To facilitate patrolling, the factory is equipped with A1953 motorcycles newly produced by the Layton Motorcycle Factory. These security guards wear customized factory security department uniforms and are equipped with various weapons.

It looks very good. For a factory with more than 10,000 people, 500 security personnel are arranged in three shifts, equipped with guns and ammunition, and there are 1,500 backup training personnel.

This situation happened in almost all the large factories in San Jose. In just over ten days, this large-scale civilian military force appeared in Argentina and was hidden inside the factory.

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After the second blast furnace of the La Plata Steel Plant was successfully ignited, the number of employees in the plant directly exceeded 15,000, and the supporting facilities are becoming more and more complete.

This 1,580-cubic-meter giant blast furnace is one of the largest blast furnaces in the world completed in 2053, and is also the largest iron-making blast furnace in South America. It was successfully ignited at the end of the year, and even St. Jose was excited for a long time.

The first furnace of molten iron was smelted. This landmark event was covered by some scandalous news and church chaos. In the eyes of other countries, this was very important.

In La Plata City, with the increase in production of steel plants, the number of worker employment has increased rapidly, and a series of factories have been established around the steel plants. A large number of small factories such as rolling mills, rebars, stamping plants, and hardware factories have been established around the city. Due to the steel production of the steel plant, the original steel rolling plant has long been unable to meet such a huge amount of steel output, especially the No. 3 blast furnace is also under intense construction.

The La Plata Steel Plant is the first large-scale steel complex built in Argentina more than 100 years ago. The entire plant covers an area of ​​17 square kilometers. It is a very large plant. This does not include the terminals and warehouses in the New Port District. Almost 2 square kilometers.

This good thing of establishing a large-scale coal and steel complex from scratch also includes a lot of advanced technologies, which is rare in history. As a result, Argentina has mastered a complete set of coal and steel combined smelting technology and solved a big problem. Next You just have to rely on yourself.

Since the construction of this giant steel plant in San Jose, Argentina's small and medium-sized steel plants have also been put into operation quickly. In more than two years, relying mainly on private investment, Argentina's steel output has rapidly increased from less than 400,000 tons to nearly 3 million tons. When the third blast furnace of the Plata Steel Plant is put into operation, the number will be close to 4.5 million tons, which can be regarded as attracting global attention.

San Jose got a big deal. After all, the global economy is developing and the demand for steel is very large. Now the profits of the steel plant are very considerable. It can also be exported to Uruguay and Paraguay, such as construction steel, or turned into various industries. Products, such as tractors, motorcycles, fishing boats, etc., and cars can also be built in the future.

Some people also went bankrupt because of steel plants. Several small steel plants in the north of Buenos Aires were unfinished. Some were due to funding issues and some were cooperation issues.

In the new year, San Jose is ready to continue investing in expanding the steel industry and building more blast furnaces and converters, but whether to set it up in the city of La Plata is a question. The location of the new steel plant must also be considered, Port Blanca, It's possible to go to Rosario, the transportation needs to be convenient, mainly because Argentina is short of coal and iron, just like the Japanese.

With high-quality and low-priced domestic steel, Argentina's domestic economic decline has been miraculously contained, but most areas are still half-dead, and only a few cities continue to develop.

With these basic steel materials, even if they are not that good at first, with the establishment of the metal laboratory, it is logical to establish a special steel factory. Special steel is different from traditional steel. It is mainly composed of alloy forms and is generally It has good anti-oxidation, corrosion resistance, high temperature resistance and other properties. It can be used in extremely harsh environments and is mostly used in special industries.

At present, the most advanced metal production process in Argentina is actually in the hands of Rennes Military Industry. The purpose was to save costs at the beginning. In the early production of assault rifles, because these firearms were more expensive than ordinary steel, alloy steel was very expensive. , even if you have money, you can't buy it. It's forbidden to export and can only be smuggled.

However, the profits of arms production are very high. Ordinary steel can be bought everywhere, even in Brazil. Steel can also be made from scrap iron. It just requires constant experimentation, just like cooking.

So St. Hesse invested a sum of money to build a small metal laboratory for the Rennes Military Industry for the research of metal materials. Later, when cooperating with the Austrian United Steel Works, he simply built several for the Rennes Artillery Factory. Small electric converters are used for secondary processing of ordinary steel to produce special alloy steel.

So a strange combination came into being. In addition to various military factories, a small special steel factory, and a second-hand metal recycling plant under Rennes Military Industry, of course it will be shut down now. The La Plata Steel Plant can already produce enough of ordinary steel.

The output of these small converters is not particularly large. It can produce 100,000 tons of alloy steel in a full year, which is enough to meet the needs of Rennes military industry. It can produce various munitions, experimental tank materials, and various specifications after the seamless steel pipe technology is obtained. Cannon barrels can now be copied, but the quality seems not as good as the original.

For example, 304 stainless steel, which is very common in New China in later generations, is an extremely important special steel. The reason why Saint Hesse is familiar with this 304 stainless steel can be traced back to a mobile phone. This mobile phone uses austenitic 304 stainless steel frame.

It made him particularly curious, so he conducted more in-depth research. He may have forgotten the details, but he still remembers most of the ratios, because this is really common. The two figures of 18% chromium and 8% nickel are still vivid in his memory.

The alloy factory of Rennes Military Industry is not enough. The next step is to establish a real special steel factory. In the future, the first production of La Plata Special Steel Factory will be 304 stainless steel, and other metal material smelting plants will also need to be established.

The Rennes Military Factory in Saint-Jesse imports large quantities of Brazilian steel to produce submachine guns and assault rifles, and now it can also use its own alloy steel.

The next step is to develop Maya Chemical Industry. It is difficult to localize this kind of heavy investment basic industry. Originally, Germany was not very willing to export complete sets of technology to Argentina, and it could not support the commissioning of the La Plata Steel Plant, which made some Germans Chemical companies have also changed their thinking and are doing business with Argentina secretly without giving Americans too many excuses. Germans themselves are more profit-seeking when doing business.

The most important factory of Maya Chemical Company at present is the Maya Fertilizer Factory in St. Martin, which invested nearly 10 million US dollars. This investment can be said to be a considerable loss, or it can be said to be a profit. Before it had its own technology, it was ripped off by others. It's also normal.

The most important equipment of the Maya Fertilizer Plant is the three sets of ammonia synthesis equipment imported from Germany, which are also the most advanced ammonia synthesis equipment in the world.

Fertilizer is a standard heavy industry product, and the complete tri-acid and di-alkali is also the goal pursued by Maya Chemical.

Prali International not only has cooperation with countries such as Spain and Germany, but has recently contacted chemical companies in the Netherlands. The Netherlands' urea production technology is very advanced, no less than that of Germany. The Germans originally wanted to cause trouble and also lowered the sales price. And it is willing to provide more technology exports, and a more advanced ammonia plant can also be built at a cheaper price than the original St. Martin Fertilizer Plant.

The production line of concentrated sulfuric acid and the production line of ammonia are actually not too difficult. However, the key components are all consumables. There are not many countries in the world that can make metal pipes that are highly airtight and can withstand high temperatures and pressures. Only the United States and the Soviet Union can make them. Several countries, including the Netherlands and West Germany, have a long way to go before they have special steel plants.

With basic heavy industries such as steel and chemicals, it will also make it easier for Argentina to develop many industries in the future. San Jose is asking Southern Energy, which is composed of coal power plants, to apply for a petroleum license. It will go to the south to mine oil and make too much money for the Americans. It’s just funding the enemy. It’s a pity that the Presidential Office is determined to open up the oil industry.

Construction of the Uruguay iron mine, which is extremely important to the La Plata Steel Plant, has also begun. A large number of second-hand construction machinery purchased from Western Europe are continuously transported to Uruguay. The construction of mining ports, upgrading of heavy-haul railways, and ore blasting have all begun to progress steadily. Remove the layer of soil above the ore, and then you can collect iron ore first.