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From Shanghai to Daye, the railway is replaced by a waterway, and then the waterway is replaced by a land route. When disembarking from the Yangtze River Wharf next to Daye, there is neither a train nor a car, but only horseback riding.

Tang Hua and Lu Da, deputy director of the Bureau of Iron and Steel Industry, walked alone on the hilly path leading to Iron Mountain with several cadres from the Bureau of Iron and Steel Industry and the Ministry of Heavy Industry behind them.

Fortunately, Laozi learned to ride a horse in Wuliangsuhai.

Next to Xiaoshan Road is the Daye Railway. From time to time, you can see the roadbed being hollowed out or collapsed by flash floods, or large sections of rails and sleepers are missing.Even where there are remnants of railways, the railroad tracks are out of line due to the decay of sleepers.One can imagine what it is like inside the Daye Iron Mine...

In the Hanyeping Iron and Steel Consortium at that time, the ore of Daye Iron Mine was transported from the mine to the Yangtze River Wharf by this [-]-kilometer regional railway, and then transported to Hanyang Iron Works.

Unlike Hanyang Iron Works, which declined in the 20s and was abandoned in the 30s, the Daye Iron Mine and Daye Railway were busy until 1945, because Japan had been buying Daye’s iron ore since 1904, and the Beiyang government completed the construction of Daye China's capital control, direct occupation and plunder since 1938, scraped a total of 40 million tons of ore from Daye in 1500 years. The Japanese left in 1945, and the government spent 4 years dismantling the Daye Railway and the iron mines.

Tang Hua was called by the prime minister to decide on the Wuhan Iron and Steel project, but before deciding on the iron and steel plant, he had to determine whether the iron ore would work.

The grade of Daye iron ore is relatively high among the mines in China. Most of the ore grades are above 50%, and some are even close to 60%. It is low in phosphorus and high in sulfur.But Daye has an advantage: it has a lot of open pit mines.

As for the reserves, a total of 50 million tons of reserves were surveyed in the 1.1s, and some new ore veins were discovered later. The final total reserves were 3.5 million tons, and the reserves with mining value were 1.5 million tons.According to WISCO's construction plan, it should be available for 20 to 30 years, and after 30 years... Vale's 65% ore should be able to supply it.

"Director Lu, it seems that the Iron and Steel Industry Bureau's idea is reasonable," Tang Hua said, "Daye Railway and the wharf are both in an abandoned state, and the restoration to a usable state is similar to the new construction. And now the throughput of this wharf area Relatively limited. The Wuhan Railway should be built."

Lu Da: "Yes, Daye Iron Mine shipped 100 million tons of iron ore a year at its peak, and WISCO will consume 200 million tons of iron ore a year after it is completed and put into operation. After the completion of the second and third phases With 400-500 million tons/year, instead of repairing the old wharf, expanding two wharves and purchasing ore barges, it is better to build a railway from Wuchang to Daye.”

Tang Hua: "After the Wuhan University Railway reported to the Ministry of Railways, the Ministry of Railways expressed some difficulties?"

Lu Da: "The Ministry of Railways is not saying that it cannot be repaired, but that it is difficult to allocate manpower and material resources. After all, all over the country are repairing old railways and building new ones. Minister Teng said that if the construction can be started one year later, there will be no problem gone."

Tang Hua: "Vice Premier Chen and I spent a lot of time to start the construction of WISCO 1950 months earlier than the initial plan in 18. If everything goes well, WISCO will start trial operation in early 1956. It seems that we will still work on the railway when we go back. The ministry should present the facts and make sense... The iron ore and the steel plant must be put into use at the same time, and one cannot wait for the other."

Tang Hua pondered, if the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea is over, half of the Volunteer Railway Corps Engineers can be transferred back to China at once (the remaining half will be in North Korea to help build bridges and pave roads for two years), and there will be a lot more manpower for railway construction... But it is not over yet .But 1953 will definitely end, that is, it is a question of whether it is one month or two months earlier than the original history.At that time, there will be unexpected reinforcements from the Ministry of Railways to join the battlefield... But it is best to start construction on the Wuhan University Railway earlier, and postpone it by at most 6 months.

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Walking to the open-pit mine in Daye, this kind of landscape that artificially changes the natural geography is really jaw-dropping.

The iron ore mining in Daye can be traced back to 226 AD, which was dug by Sun Quan.It is written in history books that Sun Quan "Daxing Furnace" in Ezhou, and that's how Daye and its name came from.However, the mines dug out with a pickaxe in ancient times are incomparable with the large industrialized iron ore relics in front of us.

Open-pit mines may be flat ground or small hills. After iron ore is discovered underground, the soil layer with a radius of one kilometer is first shoveled away, and the iron ore exposed to the ground is dug out and transported away by large trucks.When the bottom of the mine was dug, a huge pit with a diameter of nearly 1 kilometer was formed. The side of the pit was a spiral road, which looked like a small white line on the side of the pit from a distance.These little white lines are actually wide enough for two cars to pass side by side.

"Minister Tang, Director Lu," the leader of the 429 Exploration Team sent to Daye met Tang Hua, "We have already explored 60% of the mining area in Daye, approved and revised the old mine map from the Republic of China period, and newly explored An area of ​​20 square kilometers, and two veins were discovered in the new exploration area.”

Tang Hua: "I heard that there are many copper-iron composite mines in Daye, and there are also some independent copper mines."

Exploration leader: "Scale-scale mineral deposits have been found in copper-iron composite ore and copper mine. The individual copper deposits are not particularly large, but they have reached the mining specification and the grade is very high. You see, this is what we have obtained from the copper mine. For the natural copper found, I found more than a dozen pieces after searching casually for half an hour."

Tang Hua took the small piece of natural copper handed over by the exploration team leader.Yellow-red copper metal, very irregular in shape, even a bit like a small piece of coral.

The current exploration team must have not explored completely enough.It's not that they are not careful enough, but that the exploration methods are still relatively backward.

Daye has the fourth largest copper mine in the country, with reserves of 650 million tons.Huangshi next door to Daye also has a large-scale copper mine. Among the top 21 copper mines in China in the 10st century, Daye is the fourth and Huangshi is the fifth.

Speaking of which, this time, we should also bring a few people from the Bureau of Nonferrous Metals Industry together...

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Riding from the Yangtze River Wharf to Daye Iron Mountain, and then riding to Huangshi County next door, there are jeeps here.I can no longer play on horseback. Uncle Lu Da of the Iron and Steel Bureau is almost unable to hold on.

"The iron and steel equipment imported from the Soviet Union will arrive between 1953 and 1954," Tang Hua said. "We have about two years to make the necessary preparations."

Lu Da: "For the factory site, the experts from the Bureau of Iron and Steel Industry and the experts from the Soviet Union mostly agreed with the plan to build a new steel factory in Qingshan, Wuhan, out of the three candidate locations finally selected from 23 exploration locations."

Tang Hua: "My opinion is the same as that of the experts. Then take the new steel plant in Qingshan as the first plan and report it to the Prime Minister and Vice Premier Chen for approval. Now let's discuss what preparations can be made to start construction immediately with Qingshan as the site."

Gao Yunshen, manager of Huazhong Iron and Steel Company and director of the preparatory office of Factory 315, said: "The first preparation is demolition and relocation."

Tang Hua: ...

Lu Da: "From the information I have read, there are four natural villages in Qingshan District. In the next one to two years, all these villages and their farmland will be occupied. We will try our best to absorb the villagers into the employees of WISCO, but we will leave room for relocation. The time for building a new house and the time for building a new house. After the abbreviation, the factory recruits workers from their villages. Different types of work mean different compensation. The area, grade, population, composition, labor force, young crops, trees, and cesspit of the villagers’ original land must be counted. .But I guess the most difficult thing is the tombs of the four villages."

Gao Yunshen: "Yes, the issue of tombs is the most difficult. Some commune members may not be able to figure it out for a while to relocate tombs that have existed for thousands of years and leave the homeland where they have lived for generations. This requires especially relying on the party and the masses. Correctly implement the party's policies and explain the truth to the masses."

It seems that this is not a big deal. Gao Yunshen said this, which means that there will be no problem with the economic compensation for the villagers - all the labor force has been promoted from farmers to workers, which is a good thing that fell from the sky.On the contrary, the relocation of the ancestral graves has to do work.

After discussing the issue of relocation, it is the supporting projects for the preliminary construction.The first thing to be repaired must be the Yangtze River Wharf, and the steel equipment must be transported by ship.Then a lot of brick and tile factories need to be built—workshops and workshops need to be built.The land of the factory area is flat and roads are built.

"After Minister Holebnikov left, which Soviet steel experts are now in Wuhan?" Ruda asked.

Gao Yunshen: "Now the expert team led by Badulov is here. I just talked with Maloshev Shashkov, Klyvornosov, Krotki, and Pilekatz yesterday. We had a short meeting. They assisted the 429 exploration team before, and they discovered the huge iron ore body between Daye Xiangbi Mountain and Longdong."

Tang Hua: "Since Badulov is here, why don't we invite them over tomorrow and plan together what construction we should do before the Soviet steel equipment is shipped to Wuhan."

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So Tang Hua first announced that today's meeting will be held here, and other matters will be discussed after the Soviet experts come over.

Before the end of the Korean War and the launch of the First Five-Year Plan, there were not too many resources available for industrial construction.In addition to supporting factories related to military industry, pure industrial enterprises mainly focus on three aspects: steel, coal and transportation.

And WISCO is a very subtle one among the early iron and steel enterprises.

The chairman said "steel must cross the river", and WISCO is indeed in the south of the Yangtze River.And this is the first large-scale steel enterprise in the Yangtze River Basin.

After the completion of WISCO, the smelted steel was mainly rolled into steel plates.These steel plates will travel down the Yangtze River to the Shanghai area by water.

These steel plates are for shipbuilding...

That is to say, if WISCO goes into production one day earlier, the shipbuilding enterprises at the mouth of the Yangtze River can be revived one day earlier.

In addition to rolling steel, Wuhan Iron and Steel can also supply many steel products.If you want to build the Yangtze River Basin into an industrial system parallel to that of the Northeast, the coal-iron complex in Wuhan is the strong support point for industrial enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta, and the steel in Wuhan can support Chongqing to Shanghai and maintain it for at least 10 years.When the demand for steel in the Yangtze River Basin breaks through the sky, a new steel company will be established.

And... the shipbuilding industry is not limited to the Yangtze Estuary.This time when Tang Hua came to Wuhan, while deciding on WISCO, he was actually waiting for a group of people to come to Wuhan to discuss how to build a shipyard in Wuhan.

Chapter 206, The Rise of the South Korean Army

"Chief Su, Chief Xu, long time no see."

Five T52 computers with communication modules (network cards) were transported into the combat situation center. Tang Hua took several staff officers from the Communication Department of the General Staff to remove the original T51s, pushed the T52s to their positions, and connected the monitors to the host without any hassle. Get up and connect the power and communication cables.

This is the birthplace of the world's first computer local area network. In June 1951 last year, five online ancestor-level local area networks appeared in the combat situation center.In this 6-machine local area network, there is also a computer modem that connects to the outside world through cable telegraph, forming an "iron triangle" structure with 5 Center and Zhisi.It is now the end of March 5, and the replacement of T50 by T1952 is just an upgrade of the LAN computer, not a milestone technological breakthrough.If anything, the monitors will enable faster staff operations and faster communications in the combat situation center.

Tang Hua: "Chief of Staff Su, don't you want to look at the monitor of the new computer? You don't need to turn the page, you can directly see the data on a screen..."

"Now Zhisi and Commander Su are both angry with the 67th Army." Xu Shuai said, "We just finished the counterattack at the 430 and 437 highlands in Daming Valley yesterday, and we lost money."

Tang Hua: ...

Xu Shuai: "The 67th Army is in the hands of the South Korean Army, so Boss Peng has been scolding her for three days."

Tang Hua: ...

1952年1月，19兵团轮换回国，20兵团67军接替64军的防御阵地，也就是从华岳山、镰人山、大名溪谷一直到华川以西的这段防线。