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Volume 1: The Arms Dealer¡¯s Feast Chapter 289: New Australia

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    For the Lushan, what this naval battle gained was not only millions of taels of silver, but more importantly, the Prince itself.  Australia's shipbuilding capacity is now basically zero.

    With such a thousand-ton Prince, Qingnian City will be very convenient for fishing and offshore transportation.

    The more than fifty iron-bronze naval guns on the Prince's ship also have a new purpose, that is, they are recycled.

    Of course, before boarding the ship to tidy up the property of the Kingdom of Spain, it is right to clean it all with high-efficiency pesticides. From the perspective of the people on the Lushan, the ship was too dirty and there was nothing they could do about it. For a seventeenth-century ship,  Fresh water is the source of life during the journey. The already spoiled drinking water is in limited supply, let alone the 24-hour hot water supply on the Lushan.

    After the Prince was towed to the port of Youth City and repainted, the ship became the property of the Republic of Australia.  The Prince was launched only four years ago, and it was still considered a new ship in this era. When the ship was emptied in the Port of Youth, everyone understood why robbery and privateering in this era was so highly regarded, and was even regarded as a national act.  When the silver was moved out in boxes, many people were blinded by the titanium gold.

    For those who were blinded by the titanium dog eyes and rolled on the ground, naturally they didn¡¯t need to pay attention. They would be safe in two days.  Jin Sanduo returned to Youth City for the second time and was very interested in the black asphalt road that had been paved here.

    "Have we found a natural asphalt lake? I haven't heard of such a good thing in Australia."

    "Although it is not a natural asphalt lake, it is almost the same. The coal mine has been found and is being mined. This is the kerogen shale dug out from the coal mine. More than 100 liters of oil can be extracted from each ton of kerogen shale ore. With diesel, our lifeboats do not need to  Save it." Zhang Nan, a little sister of A Ying, was the guide this time.  Zhang Tiejun went to train his child soldiers. After all, the first batch of trained Ming military households did not become formal soldiers. Instead, each was given a wooden stick to do some work that was supposed to be patrolling.

    "That's good news. How is the progress of the steel plant?" Jin Sanduo also knows something about the kerogen shale.  Originally, the coal fields in Fushun, Liaoning, dug up these and threw them away as stones. Later, after people extracted oil from these fossils, many small refineries appeared in Fushun overnight. In order to ensure the ownership of these stones,  People from nearby villages also fought fiercely for several times.

    Oil-poor countries can't afford to suffer, right? In fact, the big companies that control oil deliberately control the price of oil to prevent oil from being wasted. In the Middle East, which has the largest oil reserves, sectarian and ethnic issues have not subsided in the decades after World War II.  However, not many people dare to go there to develop oil resources. The Sino-German United Empire uses most oil from the Caspian Sea and oil from Mexico or South America. As for domestic and colonial oil.  After exploration, leave it to future generations. An unavoidable problem in oil extraction is cost. How useful is the oil that is mined if it costs more than the oil that was purchased?

    "It's still under construction" Zhang Nan said: "I heard that refractory bricks for the small blast furnace are being trial-produced. Also, it is said that building a small blast furnace is also a technical job. At least no one on the Lushan can do it, although we have the drawings.  "

    Well, there is a lot of information and technical personnel on the Lushan, but when it comes to related industry personnel, there is a shortage.  In ancient times, this kind of thing was definitely passed down from son to daughter. Even building a house and laying tiles was considered a technical job.

    Jin Sanduo also nodded: "Building something like a small blast furnace. Safety comes first, maybe it will explode. However, as long as we can make steel, we can also burn glass. As long as that day comes. Our  The industrialization process has been greatly accelerated."

    Zhang Nan asked back: "As long as you can make steel, can you burn glass?"

    Jin Sanduo nodded: "Yes, they all require a high temperature of 1,600 degrees in the kiln. There is no difference, just the raw materials used are different. My father said a few words casually when I was young."

    Jin Sanduo remembered passing a steel factory with his father when he was a child.  Saw something black from outside.  Asked my father what it was, he said.  That is fiberglass, which can be regarded as the residue of iron-making.  Because it is vitrified at high temperatures, the FRP residue is black because of the high iron content.

    The last thing my father said to himself was, remember, if the temperature can make steel, it can also burn glass.

    ??Looking at it this way, did my father know that he would travel through time to make steel and burn glass?  This is too evil.  Jin Sanduo shook his head and drove this thought out of his mind.

    "Wow, is your father the king of steel or the king of glass?" Zhang Nan's eyes were filled with little stars.

    Jin Sanduo thought for a while and said: "He is a peace lover who is committed to world peace."

    "Wow, so great."

    Jin Sanduo said in his heart: "This is itThat's right.  He sells thermal weapons to neighboring countries and peoples who hate each other, and uses ultimate violence to reduce disputes between humans.  Let people get used to solving problems with guns instead of going to lawyers who are called vampires.  Of course, if there are checks and balances between people and countries, the problem will still be solved peacefully.  "

    "What has the industrial group been busy with lately?"

    "Although the road to the coal mine is only less than 100 kilometers long, it can be repaired using only manpower. More coking plants are being built at the coal mine. Ore dressing plants are also being built at the iron ore mine.  "

    "How can I put it, everyone is really enthusiastic about steelmaking. It is both coking and mineral processing."

    Zhang Nan said mysteriously: "Let me tell you some good news. Now Australia can produce iron. It was the craftsmen from Guangdong who made the open-hearth furnace for iron-making. It is said that one furnace can produce tens of thousands of kilograms of iron."

    "Just in time to go take a look."

    "I'll take you there."

    This iron smelting plant is also built on the riverside.  It can be seen that this open-hearth furnace for iron-making has been modified by the people. The animal-powered blower and the tall chimney can greatly increase the furnace temperature.  I didn¡¯t see a single traveler working on site here, perhaps because no one knows the job. Those who know a little bit about metallurgy are also doing metal processing on the Lushan.

    Because the timing is unlucky, it will take another 2 hours for the furnace to be opened, but there are already many achievements in open-hearth ironmaking outside.  Just look at the strips of iron.

    The disadvantage of this open-hearth furnace is that it cannot continuously feed material and produce iron like a blast furnace steelmaking, even a small blast furnace, once the blast furnace is ignited.  It is rare for a blast furnace to shut down even once unless something serious happens.

    For those who are determined to make large-scale steel smelting, the open-hearth iron-making furnace here is better than nothing.  In addition to producing some iron and iron products, the most important thing is to cultivate the first batch of skilled steel workers in the Australian Republic.

    After looking at some iron bars, Jin Sanduo asked an old master: "Master, what kind of iron is this?"

    This sentence made the old master angry: "Look, look, where is the iron? This is the steel bar formed by mixing the molten iron with the slag and the pig iron. Although the filled steel is fake steel, it can be fake steel.  It¡¯s also steel, not iron.¡±

    Jin Sanduo took a closer look at these steel bars. They were worse than the crude steel that cost one hundred yuan a meal in later generations.  Perhaps it was because the Hundred Refining Method or other methods were not used to remove all the impurities.

    Jin Sanduo asked: "Master, are you a blacksmith from Guangdong?"

    The old master nodded and said, "Old man, I am in my forties. I have been eating this bowl of rice for more than thirty years."

    "I really can't tell. But why does Guangdong only produce iron and not steel? There should be many people who know this method." Jin Sanduo meant that he thought this was a senior expert in his sixties or seventies.

    The old master said: "There are too many reasons. It's hard to explain. Just say that we craftsmen who don't have enough to eat will still have the energy to make steel. You just make filling steel, and the government just makes pig iron."  If the price is charged, why bother to do it? The official servants and servants of the imperial court, as well as taxes and grains, must not be less. Besides, the furnace temperature is also required to fill the steel. The government is deducting money and grain at all levels, which is refining.  The price of iron and coal requires us, the craftsmen, to save food from our mouths to make up for it, and anyone who wants to make steel is asking for death."

    Jin Sanduo asked: "Isn't anyone here deducting money and food for iron smelting?"

    "It's not like nothing. At the beginning, two foremen were appointed and they wanted to work in the Ming Dynasty. After the Australians found out, they were sent to the iron ore to mine. They also appointed an old man as the foreman. Although the old man I am illiterate.  But I still understand the principle of repaying a favor. The Australians provide us with food, clothing and housing, but if we can't make some achievements, then our daily white rice will really be in vain. That means living longer and returning home.  "

    The process of opening the furnace is still dangerous for those who are not familiar with it, so Jin Sanduo and the others left here before starting the furnace and went to a further oil refining workshop. Why do we say a workshop?  Because no petrochemical company has such a small factory, it looks like the kind of indigenous oil refining workshop that will need to be renovated in future generations.

    But it was from here that the Australians got the much-needed gasoline, kerosene, diesel and asphalt, as well as the lubricating oil that even the Lushan was indispensable for. If the Lushan really couldn¡¯t get lubricants, the Lushan could only go whaling. Whale oil was industrialized.  It is a very important source of lubricant in the early days.

    Because the lifeboats and equipment carried on the Lushan only have diesel engines, the gasoline and kerosene produced in Australia are only used for lighting. Kerosene can be used by civilians, but gasoline is still somewhat dangerous, so it is only used for street lights every day before dark.  Some people filled gasoline lamps with gasoline and lit them and hung them on the prepared telephone poles on the roadside. The immigrants finally understood that these lamps were erected on the road when the road was first built.The purpose of the wooden poles on the side is just not complete yet. Youth City and the Australians have finally ended their original and purely ecological lifestyle of working from sunrise to sunset.

    This time, the Lushan No. 1 did not build a large number of steel daily necessities for Youth City, because according to Youth City, those fake steels have become great daily necessities after being carburized.  The Lushan's alloy output should be reserved for making guns and cannons. After all, thermal weapons require higher strength.

    Youth City started from scratch and has shown vitality after more than half a year of construction.  Although last year we only planted one season of potatoes, rice and some green vegetables because it was already past the farming season when we arrived here, this year's winter wheat has sprouted and the off-season vegetables grown in native greenhouses make the winter table here not monotonous.

    Because the climate is suitable, although we are in the Little Ice Age, the coldest winter here does not reach zero. For Australia, snow is basically a once-in-a-thousand-year wait. It is foreseeable that rice is grown here at least once a year.  There are also two seasons of production.  It is expected that next summer, the food here will be basically self-sufficient. This is without the arrival of a large number of immigrants, but this is basically impossible.  If Australia wants to develop, it needs more immigrants.

    Based on the lunar calendar.  It¡¯s almost the New Year this year.  Therefore, after unloading the supplies, the Lushan No. was in no hurry to leave, and it would only take a day or two to transport the immigrants.  Everyone unanimously decided to spend the New Year on board the Lushan before setting off.

    Because I got the news, everyone who was working on it also stopped working before the end of the year.  On New Year's Eve, 500 people gathered on the Lushan Ship to eat dumplings to celebrate the New Year. Non-stop movies were shown in the large classroom. Everyone drank wine and ate pork dumplings, talking about the various places in the past six months.  The change.  Maybe this is the atmosphere of the New Year.

    For the people in Youth City, this time the traveling public is also on an eighteen-day long holiday. Although they don¡¯t go to work after the first month of the year, they can go to work after the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the year.  As for the year before, it was natural that one month's worth of money and food were reissued.  According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, the Chuanchuang people who were paid thirteen months a year also followed the local customs here.

    Today¡¯s Australian Youth City is no longer a place where you can¡¯t spend money. It was born in the newly built hypermarket commonly known as a supermarket a few years ago.

    Because it is too cumbersome to give everyone firewood, rice, grains, oils, soy sauce, vinegar and tea every time, and if Chuanzhong did not do it and supervise it personally, it would be incomplete and someone would take advantage of it. This is a real headache for Chuanzhong.  We are compatriots, and we have already thrown a few of them into the sea to feed the sharks.  But the Ming Dynasty's habits have always been like this. Whenever there is an opportunity, they will harm the public, enrich themselves, or benefit themselves at the expense of others. Changing does not happen overnight.  Therefore, it is reasonable for the supermarket to be formed through Zhongzhong Holdings.  Just give the workers the basic rice.  Just let them go to the supermarket to buy things by themselves. In the later period, when there is enough food and money and credit, each unit will only pay wages.

    In the past, because there was no coinage technology, everyone still issued discounted silver according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, and the price was discounted according to the fineness of the silver.  This is too cumbersome in trading.  Later, after the hydraulic stamping machine was developed in Youth City, the currency problem was finally solved.  There is no essential difference between the currency used by Australians and the current currency, except for the flag of Australia's sickle and axe.  On the other side is a large iron ship, which is naturally the Lushan. The grandfather of the former Prime Minister Mr. Sun was not born yet in this era.  Everyone felt that there was no point in printing his face.

    Silver coins range from one dime to one yuan, and have serrations on the outside to prevent someone from scratching the silver. There are also copper auxiliary coins ranging from one cent to five cents, judging from the auxiliary coins used in the Ming Dynasty.  The copper coins of Australians are naturally not worth much, but this does not affect the use of copper coins, because copper coins can be exchanged for silver coins for just a dime. Besides, there are bad coins in the market that drive out good coins. This is also  To prepare for entering the Ming Dynasty market in the future.  It is said that ten-yuan and twenty-yuan gold coins will be developed in the future, but even the molds have not been developed yet, because the price of gold in Europe at this time is much higher than that of the Ming Dynasty. Once the gold coins are produced, they will most likely be used by Westerners as silver coins once they enter the market.  Changed away.  But if we follow the Western exchange rate for gold, we are afraid that the people of the Ming Dynasty will not recognize it.

    Many people are talking excitedly that people in the economic team are planning to establish a state-owned bank after the year, which is the existence of the Reserve Bank of Australia. It is a bit unclear to issue currency like this now.  In the future, the minting institution will naturally be transferred to the Australian Central Bank.

    One of the functions of the Australian Bank is naturally to withdraw currency. Australians are prepared to pay high wages to front-line workers, but they do not want them to bury or take their silver coins to graves like rich locals. It is of course the best way to pass it on to future generations.  .  Many people like the effect of bank money in generating money, and modern banks can be said to be business incubators. Through the role of credit, people who immigrate to Australia will eventually build their own industries.

    This time we left on the Lushan cruise on the third day of the lunar new year.At that time, everyone brought Australian currency.  Looking at the Lushan number and the sickle and ax on the silver coin, everyone realized for the first time that Australia finally looked like a country.  And all of this was achieved by everyone in just over half a year, and a sense of pride could not help but arise.  Yes, we came and we did it.

    "There has never been any savior, nor ghosts or gods"

    This forbidden song that everyone sang before going to sea has also become the national anthem of Australians.

    The Lushan went to sea again, this time to the Pearl River Estuary in Guangdong to see if anyone had placed an order here.  Because Mao Wenlong's Pi Island needed some food, the Lushan took a few orders and left from the Pearl River Estuary and went straight to Vietnam to collect food. Because of the war, there was a huge demand for arms here, but the war did not affect Vietnam.  Agricultural production and these things in the farmland have been done by women for thousands of years.

    Speaking of Vietnamese women, they are actually quite good. At least they are as hard-working as the child brides of the Ming Dynasty. After the French and other colonial rule in later generations, the mixed-race offspring produced are not as dark as the aborigines, mainly due to sunburn.  After all, this is a tropical and subtropical climate, and we often have to do farm work in the fields.  If it weren't for the language barrier, everyone wouldn't mind buying a batch of the ancient satiety and warmth xx. It's inevitable for people.  After all, it can be said that there are more men than women on board the Lushan.  Jin Sanduo took one immediately, but there were still many bachelors with eyes above their heads who were very hungry.

    But everyone has a solution, because with currency, the establishment of banks is not far away.  In the Ming Dynasty, there were Yangzhou thin horses who were professionally trained to serve men. They were specially trained to serve men. They were also good stewards and accountants. From now on, Australia would share the annual dividends and buy some back with the Lushan number.  (To be continued.)
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