Chapter 784： 784: Coal

Regarding the national debt, many people have heard a little understanding, but when they heard that the most respected Emperor, His Majesty, also bought 5 billion new Merlot coins, many people were excited.

"Your Majesty bought it, can we not buy it?" someone made a voice.

Early the next morning, all the doors of the Merlot Bank were crowded with people.

They only want to be able to buy national debt early and contribute to the building of the empire.

This also made many nobles who smelled the opportunity of wealth come to line up early, but they did not expect that there would be someone earlier than them.

Seeing people scrambling to buy, but after most people only bought one or two gold coins, those nobles sneered at this.

How much can I buy with this little money.

Duke Phillo was one of them, but when he saw the bank in front of him being sold tens of millions of new Merlot bonds in just an hour, he couldn't help showing a shocked expression.

Are the people of Merlot so rich?

If it was before, the civilians in his territory were so rich, he would definitely find ways to dig out their money instead of giving them such a bargain to pick it up.

Duke Phillo miscalculated one thing. The 20 billion national debt seems to be a lot, but in fact it is insignificant for the entire Melox Empire.

Especially now that the wealth of the people is under the protection of the Merlot Charter, after the nobles can no longer seize their wealth by cleverly, some people with some savings have also emerged.

In just three days, the national debt was sold out, of which nearly 7 billion were purchased by the people, plus the 5 billion purchased by Aslan, only 8 billion was really left to the nobles and officials.

To the chagrin of many nobles, Wilson, who got the money, began to calculate carefully, and the population committee’s appropriation must not be small.

Regarding the recovery of economic development in various regions, according to Shirkin’s proposal, the speed has begun to slow down, and the focus is still on the construction of various raw material factories, such as mines, or power station reservoirs, and give priority to the main cities of all provinces to be connected to electricity. .

Because of the magic power engine, the coal produced in coal mines is rarely used in industrial production, and is mainly used in the field of industrial chemistry.

Among them, coking has become the main industry.

Coking is the process of putting coal in a dry distillation furnace, isolating the air and heating. The organic matter in the coal is gradually decomposed as the temperature rises. Among them, volatile substances escape in a gaseous or vapor state and become coke oven gas and coal tar instead of volatile solids. The leftover is coke.

Coke oven gas is a fuel and an important chemical raw material. Coal tar can be used to produce fertilizers, pesticides, synthetic fibers, synthetic rubber, paints, dyes, medicines, explosives, etc.

Coke is mainly used in blast furnace ironmaking and casting, and can also be used to make nitrogen fertilizer and calcium carbide.

Calcium carbide is a synthetic chemical product such as plastic, synthetic fiber, and synthetic rubber.

Another part is used for gasification, low-temperature dry distillation, and hydroliquefaction.

Gasification refers to the transformation into coal gas that can be used as industrial or civil fuel and as a raw material for chemical synthesis.

Low-temperature dry distillation is the low-temperature dry distillation of coal or oil shale at a temperature of about 550°C to produce low-temperature tar and low-temperature coke oven gas. Low-temperature tar can be used to produce advanced liquid fuels and as chemical raw materials.

Hydrogenation liquefaction is to mix coal, catalyst and heavy oil together, destroy the organic matter in coal under high temperature and high pressure, and transform it into low molecular liquid and gaseous products by the reaction of hydrogen, and further process to obtain liquid fuel such as gasoline and diesel.

The raw coal for hydroliquefaction is mainly lignite, long-flame coal, and gas coal.

The first two can be produced independently by the Melox Empire, while the latter two are still under planning. The equipment for gasification and hydroliquefaction has just been purchased from Bluestar. It will take at least half a year to start production as soon as possible.

This is the difference between the Melox Empire and the Maxim Empire.

The Maxim empire only used coal as fuel, but the Melox empire had begun to use coal to produce this derived resource.

The only difference between the two is that the industrial development of the Maxim Empire is more than 20 years more than that of the Melox Empire, and the infrastructure is more than that of the Melox Empire, and it is suppressed by quantity.

So Aslan can only win by quality.

A large number of advanced bluestar equipment and technology were introduced, and then the Imperial Magician researchers thoroughly understood it, and then independently developed new equipment.

For example, the purchase of the latest blast furnace from the Bremen Federation is the latest blast furnace jointly developed with the Holy Breta Empire. It is the largest and most advanced blast furnace in the world, named Yalei blast furnace.

The volume of the Yalei blast furnace is more than 6000 cubic meters, and the annual output reaches more than 5 million tons of steel. This kind of furnace is not only amazing in output, but also extremely environmentally friendly and highly efficient. For example, the production of one ton of steel consumes only two-fifths of the resources, which is far lower than other blast furnaces.

This advantage is mainly due to the fact that it has the largest blower in the world, and this blower weighs 123 tons, has an output power of 60,000 kilowatts, and its wind pressure is also astonishing to 520,000 Pa, with a level of twelve. Compared with the hurricane, it is a thousand times.

Such a Big Mac is also good quality and cheap, the price is only 1.8 billion New Merlot, and Blue Star, and even the same Yalei blast furnace of the Holy Bretta Empire, its products are twice his price.

This is also Mu Kailun using Kate's name to help Aslan purchase, just to get a bottle of bucket-breaking potion.

According to reliable information, the current annual steel output of the Maxim Empire is about 70 million tons, the magic has 20 million tons, and the Eastern religion has the least amount of less than 6 million tons.

This is attributable to the fact that Eastern Gods pay too much attention to the development of religions, resulting in very slow development of folk science and technology, and very backward steelmaking technology.

Although the Eastern Church has a very high-end technical team, it quickly imitates various advanced weapons, but the overall industrial technology does not rely solely on the imitation of certain weapons.

When the Mellock Empire was the lord of Aslan, it focused on industrial development. In particular, the annual output of the steel mills in Le Mans City had reached one million tons. Together with the reintegrated steel mills in various places, Mellock nowadays The steel output of the Sri Lanka Empire is about 6 million tons. When the Yalei blast furnace and the large-scale steel production in several other provinces are put into operation, the steel output of the Merox Empire should exceed 20 million tons.

From this point, it is enough to prove that Aslan attaches great importance to the steel industry.

The iron and steel industry refers to the industry that produces pig iron, steel, steel, industrial pure iron and ferroalloys, and is one of the basic industries in all industrialized countries in the world.

Economists usually regard steel output or per capita steel output as an important indicator of the economic strength of various countries.

The iron and steel industry is an important basic industrial sector of a country, and it is the material basis for the development of the national economy and national defense. The level of the metallurgical industry is also a sign of the industrialization of a country.

The steel industry is a huge heavy industry sector. The status of its raw materials, fuels and auxiliary materials resources affects the scale, product quality, economic benefits and layout direction of the steel industry.

This is the direction that Aslan has always advocated. With the current level of science and technology in the mainland and the existence of the bug profession of magic, a small amount of special steel can be produced with magicians, so increasing the output of steel is at this stage. main mission.