Chapter 563 Liuqiu (4)

Nothing to say all night.

The next morning, Bai Yulou got up early.

After brushing his teeth with a pig hair brush and snowflake salt, Bai Yulou ate warm boiled steamed buns and canned fish.

Considering that it is not easy to light a fire on board, the chemical company launched a quicklime heating package, which produced a piece of quicklime and packed it in a wooden barrel. The inside of the wooden barrel was plastered with cement to prevent the entry of humid air.

When it’s time to use it, use a large spoon to scoop it up and put it into a specific heating pot to quickly heat canned food and hard frozen steamed buns.

For naval soldiers who have been performing missions at sea for a long time, the quicklime heating package brings them a lot of convenience.

I ate breakfast wholeheartedly.

The expedition team began to land, and the soldiers set foot on Keelung with weapons and tools.

The terrain of Keelung is very peculiar, just like a chicken coop, which is also the origin of the name of the place. Keelung is a natural and excellent deep-water port. .

After landing, Baiyulou quickly found an area suitable for building a port, and began to cut trees and build a village.

In the current wooden ship era, the port can be near the coast with a water depth of 10 meters. If it is the iron ship age of later generations, the water depth of 10 meters is not enough.

With saws, axes and other tools, together with the efforts of more than 160 people, they quickly cleared an open space with an area of ​​nearly 30,000 square meters.

Cut out some large logs and roughly grill them, especially the part that is going to be inserted into the soil, directly carbonizing the surface layer.

Then a ditch was dug, log sticks were inserted into the ditch, and earth and rocks were filled in to form a simple wooden stockade.

In order to avoid being ignited, clay and hay were mixed and pasted on the outer layer of the wooden wall.

At the same time, several wooden watchtowers with a height of more than ten meters were built, which were used as watchtowers and temporary lighthouses.

It has been four days since the completion of these tasks.

With a relatively solid stronghold, Bai Yulou finally led 50 soldiers to explore the south inland of Keelung Village.

According to Zheng Sen's information, the Keelung Coal Mine is near the inland south of Keelung Port, about 5 to 6 kilometers away from the coastline.

In fact, if you take the northern tributary of the Danshui River, you can also go directly to the Keelung Coal Mine. However, the Danshui River at this time has not been combed through the river channel, and ships cannot enter the northern tributary at all, even flat-bottomed sand boats.

Therefore, Baiyulou can only land from Keelung, and then explore inland.

Along the way, Bai Yulou used his martial arts to forcibly open a way.

The electric current pushes and controls the iron sand, like a high-speed jet of emery water jet, and in an instant, more than a dozen big trees in front of it are cut off by the middle.

Shan Meixian, who followed, couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat when she saw this scene.

Bai Yulou cut down the trees, but still did not give up. The iron sand spun again, as if turning into a pulverizer, and the trees along the way were completely crushed into small particles.

The soldier with the shovel quickly scooped up the sawdust and leveled the ground.

With a distance of six to seven kilometers, it took them three days to reach their destination, but behind them was a forest road with a width of 15 meters.

After clearing a piece of trees, Bai Yulou stopped. He bent down and grabbed a handful of soil on the ground. There was a lot of black slime in the soil.

"We're here, let's rest in place."

The Keelung Coal Mine began to be mined in the Ming Dynasty. Obviously, there were open-pit mines in this coal mine at the beginning.

According to the data of later generations, when the coal mine was sealed up around 2000 AD, there were still geological reserves of hundreds of millions of tons.

In fact, at its peak, the Keelung Coal Mine could mine about 500 tons per day.

At present, the reserves of this coal mine have not undergone crazy mining. The total reserves should be about 180 million tons, and the part of the surface that is easy to mine is about 30 million tons.

However, the quality of the Keelung coal mine is not good enough to be used as thermal coal, but it is more than enough for coking and fuel.

Bai Yulou sat on a log, writing and drawing on the map.

He is preparing for the Keelung Industrial Base. Considering that there is no iron ore near the Keelung Coal Mine and the iron and steel plant is located in Danshui City, it is very necessary to develop the Danshui River Canal.

Then set up a coking plant near the Keelung coal mine.

In the early stage, coke can be transported by sea.

In the Keelung Industrial Base, in addition to coal coking, copper smelting can also be started.

Because there is also a large copper mine near Keelung, which is the famous Jinguashi gold-silver-copper composite mine. Jinguashi is located in the coastal mountains east of Keelung, only a dozen kilometers away.

Jinguashi has about 620 tons of gold reserves, about 1,200 tons of silver, and about 300,000 tons of copper. This is not an ore, but a simple substance that can be mined and smelted.

Gold and silver can be used as hard currency, and copper is a metal raw material with a large demand no less than iron and aluminum for industrialization.

Especially in Zhoushan Industrial Zone, which is preparing to produce shells and bullets, copper is the best material.

As for why there are copper-clad steel bullets in later generations, it is not because of the lack of copper ore resources. If there are several large copper mines in the house, who wants to use copper-clad steel.

This large-scale gold-silver-copper composite mine can build a smelter to smelt copper.

As for the steel plant in Tamsui City, although the iron ore in the Tamsui River will soon be exhausted.

However, in the mountainous area north of Tamsui City, there is also the Sanzhi Iron Mine, which is a pyrite mine with a reserve of about 8 to 12 million tons and a mineral content of about 14 to 18%.

On the west coast of Liuqiu, south of Tamsui City, there are three other iron mines, namely Xinfeng Iron Mine, Kansai Iron Mine, and Gaoyi Iron Mine. They are also mainly pyrite, with a grade comparable to Sanzhi Iron Mine Almost, the total reserves are around 45-57 million tons.

This kind of low-grade small iron ore with reserves of several million tons in later generations is not worth mining at all.

After all, the mining cost is very high, and the CIF price is much higher than the high-quality iron ore from Western Australia and Vale. Steel companies are not willing to use this kind of small iron ore at all, and at most they use it as a strategic reserve.

But it's different in this day and age.

Zheng Sen wants to use high-quality ore, but there is no such thing now. These small iron mines can barely be used as the foundation for industrialization in the early stage.

In any case, now that the Human Revolutionary Alliance has the technological advantage, it can deal with the high sulfur problem of pyrite, and the whole world has no other competitors in industrialization.

Facing the forces of the feudal era and the slave era, Zheng Sen did not look down on them. Even if these forces had high-quality iron ore, they would not be able to explode their steel production capacity.

The gap in technology is a huge problem.

The method of smelting sponge iron with charcoal and pouring steel can only increase production by using crowd tactics. Even the population of the Sui Dynasty at its peak was only about 52 million (the official statistics are about 48 million, and there are several million hidden households).

The general environment of the feudal agricultural country destined them to have no way to industrialize quickly, unless they had the courage to sink the boat, or the blast furnace and crucible technology of the Han Dynasty, as well as powerful government-run factories.

That's right, the Han Dynasty had blast furnace ironmaking technology, crucible steel technology, and ductile iron technology.

Only after the warlords of the Three Kingdoms and the catastrophe of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, many technologies of the Han Dynasty were lost.

In this era, those aristocratic families and aristocratic families are enough to kill the germination of industrialization, and those aristocratic families eat extremely greedily.

For example, the well-known argument of "struggling with the people for profit" began to appear in the Sui and Tang dynasties.

The people mentioned by those scholars are not the heads of Guizhou who face the loess and their backs to the sky, but the landlords.

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