Wind Valley Railroad Town.
The Feng Gu Colorful project that the big guys in Red Rock City are tinkering with has just started, and the big furnace hasn't been built yet, so they hired a few failed two-star alchemists to burn some small crucibles.
Nothing good was produced, but recently a group of people from the iron factory came to the town, and the situation has changed.
When everyone inquired about it, good guys, the Lord of Wind Valley directly donated his territory and was able to become a shareholder in the iron factory. They came here to build a branch factory!
The big players were jealous when they heard the news.
Iron is not a rare thing, and the Phoenix Iron Factory sells it cheaply, but you can't do the math. Once you do the math, you will know that the daily income and expenditure of the Phoenix Iron Factory exceeds 100,000 yuan.
The listing price of gold coins has recently dropped, only 18 yuan each, and 100,000 yuan is more than 5,500 gold coins. Not to mention ordinary people, even if they can be called wealthy, many people will never see so many gold coins together in their lifetime.
But I can only envy this matter. Whoever makes the lord so powerful can donate the entire territory together.
The Fenggu Branch of Phoenix Iron Works is not polite. Once it is enclosed, it covers an area of 0.8 square kilometers. It is said to be a branch. This area is much larger, and it does not include the railway access points.
The ironworks were owned by the public, and so was the land. Everyone couldn't figure out why they didn't just get the whole thing together. Anyway, once the land was designated, they started spending money frantically for construction.
The railway town, including people already employed by various companies and immigrants who have not yet found jobs, totals more than 10,000 people in total. Production units such as machinery factories do not need that many people.
The construction of the branch of the iron factory was completed immediately, and even that was not enough. After hearing the news, many people in the city came to work.
Under the rule of the Phoenix King, the Iron Works had a very special status. Its entire factory area was surrounded by walls. On the outside side, that is, the westernmost part of the entire Wind Valley District, guard posts were set up near the river for peripheral protection. .
A wall project of more than three kilometers, according to the thin city wall standard above that can accommodate two people at a time, would take more than a month to complete with nearly 10,000 people, and the workshop rooms and staff rooms inside are still busy.
Some people were assigned to manage the project, and the remaining people who were transferred to the branch factory were currently helping other enterprises in the railway town.
Of course, it’s not to go in and do the work, but to give everyone advice.
It's a bit strange, but the people in charge of the big family are very shrewd. Someone immediately discovered that some of them were not from the iron factory at all. Judging from the attitude of other people in the iron factory, they were most likely from the inner court.
Since the big businessmen changed their jobs to businessmen and now to the stage of building factories and entrepreneurs, they have never had the opportunity to receive guidance from the elders of the inner court. After receiving the news, the big businessmen handed over the matters at hand to their deputies and came to cooperate with the work.
There are only two positions in the inner court, the inner court guard and the civil servant of the internal affairs. The position level is not high. In theory, it is not even possible to directly mobilize the manpower and material resources of any department on its own.
But if you really think they are all petty officials, then you have a problem with your brain.
At least through the internal affairs documents, they will know earlier what type of affairs the Phoenix King wants to promote. I don’t know how many people will rush to lick this bit of information, but it is a pity that they can’t find the opportunity on weekdays.
Bribery is risky, and it's okay to treat them to food and drinks, but he is too strict and won't give any information related to the Phoenix King except for the iron factory-related business.
But for the big players, it’s not without gain.
In fact, these people are here to help the railway town. They can talk about the development routes of various types of manufacturers and the specific raw materials that the iron factory will need in the future.
Taking Fenggu Nonferrous Metals as an example, they were relatively clueless. During the construction of the factory, they communicated with Phoenix Iron Works several times to no avail.
Copper and iron factories have made it clear that they will not be involved in it and will not purchase it. The same goes for silver.
Tin and iron factories can purchase it, but the purchase quantity cannot be determined.
Lead is basically not needed, and even according to Phoenix King's requirements, when conditions are mature, all steel products must have zero chemical detection of lead.
This put Fenggu Colorful in a dilemma. He didn't know what else he could refine, so he hired a few down-and-out two-star alchemists to mess around, mainly researching ways to mass-produce sulfuric acid from pyrite.
The iron factory itself doesn't know what it needs.
But the people in the inner court knew.
Manganese, chromium, aluminum.
Not to mention that the big players don't know it, even the wave of four-star and five-star alchemists on the Wangting tree can't do much.
The difficulty of smelting chromium is similar to that of aluminum. It requires electrolysis or direct replacement with finished aluminum powder.
The local content of manganese is unknown, but from the law of stellar material development, hydrogen, helium, carbon, and iron then explode to form others. The farther apart they are in the periodic table, the smaller the content. Manganese and iron are neighbors and should be more common than chromium. There is a high probability that the world cannot eliminate this commonness. Although it can be prepared by the thermite method, it mainly requires electrolysis to achieve high enough purity.
These three will be the main auxiliary materials purchased by iron plants in the future. Their common feature is that they must be charged for mass production!
This requires the town of Wind Valley to have power generation capabilities.
To generate electricity, supporting chemical industry and copper smelting capabilities for manufacturing coils are also required.
If you encounter any technical difficulties during the whole process, you can come to the iron factory for help and coordination.
Obtaining electrolytic materials is not something that can be solved in a short time. In addition to the three major electrolytic materials, there are also projects that do not require electrolysis, that is, projects that can reach cooperation with ironworks faster.
Both tungsten and nickel can be produced through the carbon reduction method. Because this method is simple and easy to understand, there is the possibility of naturally forming a small amount of ore when put into fire, and relevant applications can be found locally.
These are the only ones that big players need to understand. There are also some that you can’t understand even if you explain them. They are all methods of extracting associated minerals. Just leave the brochure to the alchemists to figure it out on their own. uuread a book
After the inner court people disguised as iron factory workers explained the development direction of the railway town, the big families felt a little worried.
Why are you so poor!
Seeing so many ways to make a fortune, I can't find the capital.
However, everyone decided to pool some money and find the Red Stone Magic Equipment Factory to get electricity out first and build a power plant. I heard that in addition to production, it can also be used for lighting, which is not bad.
Everyone has some knowledge about electricity, but how to produce electricity that can be stably used for production is a bit confusing. This kind of thing still needs to be achieved by the three-level profession.
Although it has been agreed that if there are technical difficulties, we can contact the iron factory for coordination. The problem is that we all want to make money. If we ask for too much, can we still continue to negotiate business in the future?
After sending the commission, this group of people began to prepare the copper smelting plant.
Unlike the other materials discussed, the production process of copper is very mature. It may not be as efficient as the iron factory, but at least it can be mass-produced by adding manpower like Heishui City. This is just because copper is a part of currency. At this stage, it is easy to get into trouble if you smelt by yourself. Most of them are controlled by the lords. Most of the mined copper ores are sold to the orcs, and a small amount is used to cast luxury appliances.
Since the high officials have said that copper should be operated by the private sector, there is nothing to worry about. In terms of security, the city defense army and the garrison will take care of it. Everyone only needs to be careful about strangers sneaking into the factory and causing damage.
By the way, there is a small copper mine in the back of the small mountain city. However, the lord was afraid of being beaten before and did not dare to mine it after sealing it off. Now he hastily used it.
The total investment in copper smelting is not as much as the power generation equipment commissioned by the Red Stone Magic Equipment Factory. This small amount of money is nothing to a big owner. If you make one or two more long-distance sales, you can sell some iron ingots.
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