1novels #149 - Full bloom
#149 - Full bloom
After employing a massive workforce, the construction of the Dawn Research Institute expanded at a visible pace.
On November 8th, four earthen blast furnaces and two open-hearth furnaces were completed, successfully producing the first batch of molten iron and steel.
On November 15th, the first batch of manganese steel was produced. Simultaneously, the Metallurgical Research Center was established to conduct research on the process ratios and experiments for 45 steel and aluminum alloys.
On November 16th, the Nangou River Hydropower Station was completed, bringing electricity to the residential area.
On November 20th, the first machine tool castings were completed and assembled. The Dawn Research Institute produced the first Hongxing C6410 lathe and the first Hongxing T380 lathe. Based on this, the Machine Tool Research Center was established, initiating the reproduction and improved model research of lathes, boring machines, and punching machines from the *Bright Sword* world, all with complete independent intellectual property rights. Research on milling machines and planers, two new types of machine tools, was also initiated.
By December 25th, the Dawn Research Institute had absorbed over 300 researchers (nearly 200 of whom were students that the professors had coaxed and tricked into joining). The Dawn Research Institute had fully constructed twelve brand new research centers. In addition to the aforementioned four research centers, the Chemical Research Center, Physics Research Center, Aviation Research Center, Weapon Design Research Center, Wireless Communication Research Center, Electrical Engineering Research Center, Electronic Engineering Research Center, and Engine Research Center were successively established.
According to Ren Zhong's instructions, the research projects to be launched in the first batch were explosive! The researchers' initial reactions were rejection and disbelief. Many things were unheard of to them, and they had no confidence in completing the high-difficulty products designated by Ren Zhong.
However, after Ren Zhong provided reference materials, they all exclaimed, "It smells so good!"
The Chemical Research Center concentrated its efforts on overcoming the manufacturing of ammonium nitrate and RDX, and immediately launched research on petroleum refining processes. It also cooperated with the Hydraulic Machinery Equipment Research Center to carry out research on key equipment for the first-generation oil refinery.
The Physics Research Center launched theoretical research on peaceful applications of nuclear energy and, based on the uranium extraction process and reactor design provided by Ren Zhong.
The Aviation Research Center focused on researching the pre-existing technologies of the P51D Mustang fighter and rocket technology, but the first research product was the Type 107 rocket.
The Weapon Design Research Center began the imitation of the Type 41 75mm mountain gun and the ZiS-3 tank gun from the T34, and initiated the imitation research of the T34 tank.
The Wireless Communication Research Center fully launched research on the successor models of the Type 71 radio and the Hongxing brand radio station, and initiated research on vehicle-mounted wireless communication and airborne wireless communication.
The Electrical Engineering Research Center fully launched the development of power transmission and distribution equipment. The first phase target was to overcome the manufacturing and production of 35KV box-type substations and air circuit breakers.
The Electronic Engineering Research Center carried out research on the production processes of basic components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, capacitors, and resistors, as well as electrical automation. The goal was to achieve independent production of electrical automation control systems. Currently, they had obtained a nearly complete set of production data, but the entire laboratory had to be built from scratch.
The Engine Research Center focused on digesting, absorbing, and imitating the Merlin 1650 V12 liquid-cooled fighter engine and the Ford GAA V8 gasoline engine. Ren Zhong had already spent a lot of money to acquire a complete set of design data. The research center not only needed to thoroughly understand the design, but also, most importantly, to complete the research and development of supporting machine tool production equipment.
Almost every item here was at the advanced or even top level of the 1940s. Every task was a tough nut to crack, but every task had detailed scientific and technological data for reference, which made the participating scientists unable to stop.
Due to the heavy workload and extreme shortage of manpower, they kept calling friends and relatives to join this research team.
Looking at the scientists currently involved, Ren Zhong saw that almost 80% of the professors were familiar faces he had found in the main world. The great talents who would become academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1955 in the original timeline were entering his research institute, filling his heart with unparalleled pride. In this timeline, with his help, the achievements of these great talents would be even greater than in the original timeline!
Another super good news was that Professor Wu Jianxiong replied that she was on her way back to China. She would detour through Hong Kong and travel north from the southwest rear area. It seemed that half of Fermi's theory had indeed aroused Professor Wu's strong interest, and all of this was just an appetizer that Ren Zhong brought to her!
Professor Wu's mission was to lead some of the professors from the Physics Research Center to pursue the things that ignite the sun!
Compared to the team in the original historical timeline, most of them had not yet returned after completing their studies, and from the current point of view, some of them had already arrived here as student assistants.
However, with Ren Zhong's large-scale military industrial construction, the military strength of the base area would be greatly improved, and the day of occupying a uranium-producing area was not far away.
Ren Zhong was very clear that although the border area looked dangerous, the Japanese devils could not actually invade it. Therefore, for the military industrial construction work in the border area, Ren Zhong opened up the supply this time to first build the machine tool production line. In the early stage, almost all of the steel production capacity was used in the production and manufacturing of machine tools, supplying the new machine tools to the military industry department of the border area for military expansion.
Jiang Chongjing was naturally ecstatic about all of this. He never expected that the Dawn Research Institute had not yet been completed, but it had already begun to continuously supply advanced machine tool products and power generation products that could not be bought in this era.
In addition to enriching the existing arsenal in the location of the border area government, Jiang Chongjing, according to the 50-kilowatt water turbine generator supply capacity and the mineral resource distribution map provided by Ren Zhong, the military industry department had fully blossomed and built arsenal branch factories in more than a dozen places in the border area.
Ren Zhong's fully unleashed machine tool production capacity, in addition to meeting the needs of the Dawn Research Institute, the machine tools sent to Jiang Chongjing had already sent out more than thirty lathes, boring machines, and punching machines by the end of the year. The number of manual punching machines was in the hundreds. The combination of these equipments was no less than completing the construction of a large arsenal.
At the same time, Ren Zhong's indigenous iron-smelting blast furnaces began to be fully promoted. In addition to building four earthen blast furnaces in the Dawn Research Institute to meet the rigid needs of research and machine tool manufacturing, etc.
Taking advantage of the opportunity to build earthen blast furnaces, Ren Zhong trained a group of earthen blast furnace construction talents for the military industry department on the spot, helping the border area to fully blossom and build more than 40 earthen blast furnaces and open-hearth furnaces near the iron ore producing areas circled by Ren Zhong. After the full production in the year, the monthly production capacity of gray cast iron in the border area was suddenly increased to 1,000 tons, and the monthly production capacity of carbon steel was increased to a new record of more than 200 tons!
In addition to the construction and commissioning of more than 20 sets of sulfuric acid and nitric acid production lines in the same period, the monthly production capacity of explosives and explosives in the border area also reached the 10-ton level.
The upstream raw materials for weapons and ammunition suddenly became rich.
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