Chapter 86 Zunhua Industrial Zone
Another reason is that although He Xi comes from later generations, he knows that it is only a scientific framework. Now that he has contributed all his knowledge about steam engines, it can be said that the research idea is absolutely correct.
But what is the gap between correct research thinking and implementation? He Xi doesn’t know either.
He really misses the ability of later generations of Chinese engineers to build things at a glance. Now he realizes how awesome they are.
He Xi could only leave the matter to time.
wait.
King Yan just thought He Xi was being humble and didn't say anything more. It's the width of the carriage. The entire carriage is about one meter. Said: "How long can these two pack horses maintain this speed?"
He Xi said: "Fifteen miles, we can usually maintain this speed for about half an hour. Calculated, it is between ten and fifteen miles. In fact, it can be farther, but even pack horses are precious and cannot be too much." Tired, of course, and this is not far from Zunhua itself. There may not be many war horses in Beijing, but there are many pack horses. They can be arranged more densely. It can also increase the speed."
King Yan calculated silently and said, "In this way, we can reach Zunhua in about two hours?"
He Xi said: "Your Highness is well aware of the geography of Beijing. However, it is indeed the same when it comes to Zunhua, but it is faster to see Zunhua."
King Yan said: "How do you say this?"
He Xi stood up holding the car door, put up an awning with his hands, looked at it for a while, and said to King Yan: "Your Highness, take a closer look. The place where those smoke pillars are is Zunhua."
King Yan also stood up, holding the car door with one hand and looking over carefully. King Yan was very good at archery. The key to archery lies not only in the strength of the arms, but also in having a pair of good eyes. His eyes were much better than those of He Xi. He could see the smoke column with just one glance.
Not one, but many. Although they are far apart, they look like a forest of smoke pillars.
King Yan said: "It seems that the beacon fire will no longer be used in the future."
He Xi couldn't help but smile after hearing this. This sentence gave He Xi a feeling almost as good as that of a certain general who thought a coffee shop was good because it was convenient for mounting a machine gun.
Indeed, beacon towers are usually thirty miles apart, because within thirty miles, if there is no cover, you can clearly see the beacon smoke thirty miles away, but it is different now. One winter, He Xi vigorously promoted the use of steam engines. The current steam engines were also introduced. It was basically a large boiler workshop. It's even less possible to do anything about the smoke.
Therefore, it is normal for pillars of smoke to rise into the sky. In the past, although there were many blast furnaces for steelmaking, the number was limited. But it was different now. Steel-making furnaces, iron furnaces, steam engines, brick kilns, etc., the sum of these smoking things easily exceeded two or three hundred. Not like this.
Don't say that smoke pollution hinders the beacon fire. In fact, He Xi herself has some worries. That is, Zunhua is located in the north of New Beijing City, and the north wind is dominant in the north, that is, in winter, the smoke from Zunhua is likely to be blown into Beijing City, which is difficult to handle.
Fortunately, generally speaking, northwest winds prevail in the north, and the Zunhua Industrial Zone has just begun construction, so there is still room for recovery.
He Xi has decided that the future Zunhua Industrial Zone will develop in the northeast.
After about an hour, He Xi and King Yan had arrived outside Zunhua Industrial Zone.
This Zunhua Industrial Zone is not included in the official statement. After He Xi planned to complete the construction of Beijing, he would establish the Beijing Government Office with the Planning Department as the core, and then turn the Zunhua area into a district of Beijing. Implement the urban system. Only then will Zunhua District be truly established.
Now, it's just He Xi's plan on paper.
After King Yan got out of the car, he was silent for a while and said, "Is this Zunhua?"
To be precise, the core of Zunhua District is not Zunhua City, but Zunhua Iron Works, which is expanding in circles around the Zunhua Iron Works. Fortunately, Zunhua has a vast area and is sparsely populated, with fewer people than in Beijing, so land acquisition is not too difficult.
But the previous Zunhua Iron Factory was just a camp for the imperial court. The largest number of people was only three thousand to five thousand people, and the smallest number was only a few hundred people. Not as good as a big village.
But today's Zunhua Industrial Zone is no small matter.
As mentioned before, the use of steam engines was limited, which resulted in one thing. In later generations, if a machine could be used to do something that could be done in several houses, a large area would be required. Fortunately, in this era, land is worthless. Not to mention the vast and sparsely populated north.
Nothing more.
But today, with dozens of factories gathered together, King Yan was a little surprised. What reminded him most of all was the Taiping Iron Factory and Yingkou City, but there was a huge difference between this place and those two places.
Taiping Iron Works is a large factory, mainly engaged in water transportation. The planning in Yingkou is very chaotic. This is also the disorderly expansion of Yingkou. He Xi was also inexperienced. Although he made some plans, the plans could not keep up with the changes and ended up in a mess.
But it’s different now. The Zunhua Industrial Zone itself is part of Beijing’s construction plan and has been planned from the beginning.
The most northwest location is the Zunhua Iron Works, the core of the Zunhua Industrial Zone, and there are two roads paved with cinders in the northwest. I don’t know how far they stretch, deep into the mountains. These two roads lead to the coal mines and the iron industry. The place where the mine is located.
Within the entire industrial zone, there are horizontal and vertical roads. Some factories have walls, some have no walls, but the land owned by each factory has been divided. There is no more clutter like Yingkou. Not to mention, there is a railway that goes deep into it, directly to the Zunhua Iron Works.
It's just that there is no city wall, which seems to make King Yan a little uncomfortable.
In comparison, every prosperous place has city walls. There are already more than 30,000 workers gathered here, plus their families, the number will only be more, not less.
In this situation, there are many more people than in many counties in the north. Not to mention that Zunhua is also an important place in the north, a strategic location, and there is no city wall, which makes King Yan very uncomfortable.
King Yan said: "This is good, but when will the city wall be built?"
He Xi has never thought about building a city wall for Zunhua City, because He Xi knows very well that in the future, it is very likely that everything from here to the outside of Beijing will become an industrial zone, with large factories connected. What kind of city wall should be built? How big does it take to repair it? However, He Xi did not say anything to King Yan, but smiled and said: "I will definitely cultivate it in the future."
King Yan didn't care and said, "There are so many people?"
He Xi said: "There are not many people left, it is already considered a small number."
King Yan heard that there was something in He Xi's words and said, "Why are there not enough people?"
He Xi nodded and said, "Yes, there are not enough people."
There are not enough people. Not enough anymore.
Even though He Xi has improved the technical content in many aspects, it means that it can do more things with fewer people. But the problem is that even so, the technical content that He Xi can improve is not high, not to mention that the amount of new Beijing City projects promoted by He Xi is much larger than that of King Yan when he built Beijing City.
Not to mention He Xi's high standards for the city of Beijing, nor the supporting projects for city construction outside the city. To put it simply, the industrial plans attached to Beijing are quite large in terms of project volume, almost equivalent to rebuilding an industrial city.
He Xi used many means to gather hundreds of thousands of people in Zunhua, Beijing. But it's still not enough.
After all, He Xi planned to build the main body of the project, the city wall of Beijing, and the water conservancy project outside the city within one year. You must know that the construction of Beijing City in the Ming Dynasty took four dynasties and took several decades. From Yongle, Hongxi, Xuande, and Zhengtong, the four dynasties have finally come to an end.
At least one million workers were employed.
This cannot be replaced by improving He Xi's technology.
It requires a lot of manpower and material resources. There is no need to mention material resources here. With the industrial capabilities of Liaodong and Beijing, most of them can still be supplied. The only problem is manpower. If it can't be solved, He Xi will discuss with Shen Guogong whether some of the dozens of health clinics in Beijing can be selected and put into the project.
But this is not what He Xi wants.
Thinking of this, He Xi sighed slightly, but this sigh seemed to make King Yan misunderstood.
