Volume 1: Hidden Dragon in the Abyss Chapter 16: Special Refining Without Worries

  Special smelting

  After accumulating for several days, the alloy steel ingots piled up by Duan Yue in the laboratory had exceeded two tons. As the reinforced concrete pouring of the foundation part of the "Diamond Building" was proceeding smoothly, Duan Yue planned to pull these ingots to the smelting company for refining.

  Early in the morning, a medium-sized truck from Hai Da Jian Gong was already parked at the gate of the laboratory, waiting to pull the superalloy steel ingots to the smelting company, where they would be melted into the steel pipes that would serve as the framework for the 'Diamond Building'.

  "Lao Jin, do you have a driver's license?" Duan Lei asked, standing aside and watching the security guards loading steel bars onto the truck.

  Recently, the company has been purchasing more and more things, and relying solely on suppliers to deliver goods or logistics companies to distribute them is still a bit inconvenient. So Duan Rui thought of buying a small truck.

  "When I was in the army, I practiced driving a field vehicle, but I didn't get a driver's license." Jin Xin shook his head and said: "Zhang Guozhong and Lao Zuo seem to have a driver's license, and it's even a B license."

  "The company plans to buy a small truck, it's also more convenient for procurement. Duanyue paused and said: 'Later you find a driving school to sign up and get your driver's license, the cost will be covered by the company.'"

  Jin Xin has performed well since joining the company, and the comrades he brought with him are also of good quality. Duan Lei is very satisfied, so the cost of getting a driver's license can be considered as a reward from the company to Jin Xin.

  "Got it," Jin Xin nodded and didn't say anything more.

  The company provides food and accommodation, and Jin Xin can save 1,500 yuan per month to send back home. The family's economic situation, which was originally somewhat tense, has been greatly alleviated. At "Makabi Biology", Jin Xin is now the head of security, and looking at the company's prospects, it's possible that there will be even greater development in the future. Jin Xin is naturally very satisfied with his current life. Now, Duan Lei has also agreed to fund Jin Xin to get a driver's license, how can he not be moved?

  When it comes to driving licenses, Duan Yue also finds that he should take the exam for a driver's license. In the future when the company has more funds, he can buy a car for convenient travel. Otherwise, from school to the base here, taking public transportation is inconvenient and riding a bike wastes time, which greatly affects work efficiency.

  The elective courses of Haida include driving theory and practical operation courses. Duanyan can choose to take the second elective course in the middle of the semester, which not only earns credits for the elective course but also gets a driver's license, which is a win-win situation.

  Each steel ingot weighs 20 kilograms, and it's just a matter of 100 two-ton steel ingots. The strong and vigorous retired soldiers took less than ten minutes to load all the steel onto the truck, neatly stacked.

  Jin Xin and Lao Zuo sat in the driver's cab with the driver, leading the way forward. Duan Lei and Han Shi Yuan followed behind in a Great Wall pickup truck. The two vehicles sped towards the Haigang Group's special smelting company located on the banks of the Hai River.

  Hai Gang Group, as one of the largest steel groups in China, its subsidiary special smelting company is also a rare and exceptional case. Generally, it does not provide smelting services to external companies or individuals. However, Duan Lei was still able to use Gu Yu Liang's connection to borrow Hai Gang's 200-ton special smelting furnace to smelt the steel pipes needed for the "Diamond Building".

  "Director Duan, what's the use of those steel ingots in front?" Han Shi-yuan asked curiously while driving behind Fok Ting.

  Two days ago, Han Shi Yuan had just asked Duan Lei about the steel frame of the 'Diamond Building', and today Duan Lei contacted Hai Gang Group to smelt the steel, which still made Han Shi Yuan feel a little surprised. Looking at these steel ingots moved out from the laboratory, and then looking at the situation inside the laboratory, Han Shi Yuan was almost certain that these steel ingots were all Duan Lei's masterpieces.

  However, Han Shi Yuan couldn't figure out what role these steel ingots could play. Could it be that with the addition of these steel ingots, the smelted steel would meet the construction requirements of the 'Diamond Building'?

  If so, these steel ingots are not ordinary.

  Han Shi-yuan, who had carefully studied the design and construction plan of the 'Diamond Building', understood that in order to meet the design requirements of the 'Diamond Building', the performance of those column steel frames must be against the sky.

  "In his spare time, apart from being interested in biology, he was also quite interested in metal smelting. By coincidence, he had created something that happened to meet the design requirements of 'Diamond Tower'. Otherwise, the plan for 'Diamond Tower' would have been just a fleeting illusion." Duan Lei knew that he couldn't hide these things from Han Shi Yuan, so he frankly admitted it.

  "Duan Zong, you really are..." Han Shi Yuan couldn't think of any adjectives for a moment and could only let out a sigh.

  Han Shi Yuan had been an excellent student since he was young, and his academic journey from primary school to university had been smooth sailing. After graduating with a PhD, he easily became the youngest engineer at Hai Da Jian Gong, responsible for their top-notch construction team. He could be considered a highly intelligent elite talent. However, after getting to know Duan Lei better, Han Shi Yuan realized that compared to him, he was just a small potato.

  Other people's Duanyang just turned 20, during his junior year he had the invention of "pollution-absorbing fungus", founded the lucrative "Maca Biotech", such achievements are already enviable. Now, hearing that he has researched special alloys, makes Han Shi Yuan sigh, these days there is no most abnormal, only more abnormal.

  At this time, a shocking idea emerged in Han Shi Yuan's mind again. The design plan of 'Diamond Building' might still be Duan Lei's masterpiece.

  Maybe this world really has geniuses existing

  Hai Gang's special smelting plant is not far from Cai Village, and it only takes 10 kilometers to drive along the ring expressway to see the high furnaces standing upright at the mouth of the Haihe River.

  As a national key laboratory and research unit, the Special Smelting Institute is a key protected unit registered with the Ministry of Public Security and the State Security Department. The armed police officers standing guard at the entrance are a testament to this. After going through the complicated security check procedures, Duan Lei and his entourage were finally allowed to enter the interior of the Special Smelting Institute, but they still had an armed soldier closely following them.

  Before, Duan Yue never thought that this smeltery would be so hard to get into and naively believed that as long as he paid the money, he could get all the services he wanted.

  Fortunately, Gu Yu Liang's face was big enough, and the proof provided by Hai Da Chuang Xie had some effect. Today, they finally enjoyed a high-end treatment with security personnel accompanying them all the way.

  Except for Duan Lei and Han Shi Yuan, who were allowed to put on work uniforms, labor insurance shoes, safety helmets, goggles and other protective equipment to follow the workers into the work area, everyone else was blocked outside.

  As Duan Lei entered the workshop, he couldn't help but look around curiously at the various machines emitting a cold mechanical glow, with deafening noises ringing in his ears, silently telling himself that this was the source of a country's industry.

  In the past when reading books, I always saw a sentence saying: "Iron makes the nation".

  Even now, Duane still believes that only industry, to be precise, only manufacturing is the foundation of a country. No matter how developed your finance and service industries are, without a solid industrial base constantly creating wealth, everything else is just an empty shell.

  "These steel ingots and high-carbon steels are melted according to the proportion, and then cast into seamless steel pipes of different specifications, right?" An engineer with a big beard handed over a single sheet to Duan Lei, shouting loudly.

  "Just like that" Duanyan glanced through it hastily and found that it was exactly the same as his own proposal, so he nodded and shouted.

  In the workshop, ordinary voices are usually inaudible, so workers and engineers in the workshop have developed a loud voice. In recent days, while contacting the blast furnace, Duan Lei has had a lot of exchanges with this engineer named Guo Wei in front of him, confirming the technical plan.

  Alloy steel ingots are added with high carbon steel during the smelting process, and special processes need to be adopted, which can only be completed by special smelting.

  Duan Yue confirmed it, and Guo Wei didn't say much either. He nodded and turned around to start arranging things.

  Guo Wei initially felt a bit resistant to the task imposed by his leadership, after all, as a semi-secret smelting plant, helping outside companies smelt materials was somewhat degrading. However, in his communication with Duan Lei, Guo Wei suddenly discovered that this smelting task had considerable technical content, which immediately piqued his interest.

  Now Guo Wei is single-mindedly trying to smelt the alloy steel of Duan Yue, and see if it can reach the technical indicators that Duan Yue said. Who still has time to chat with Duan Yue?

  Looking at Guo Wei, who had already fully entered the working state, Duan Lei and Han Shi Yuan shook their heads helplessly, stood in the area where they usually stood when inspecting the metallurgy department, and quietly watched as Guo Wei directed the workers to start operating.

  Duan Yue brought two tons of steel ingots which were thrown into the huge blast furnace. After a while, high-carbon steel was also continuously added in, but neither Duan Yue nor Han Shi Yuan could see much of a difference.

  At most, it was just watching the excitement. After a long time, maybe an hour, or perhaps a century, in a loud roar, the molten steel burst out of the blast furnace and flowed into the casting workshop through the set pipeline, and then was sent to the cooling workshop by the conveyor belt.

  At that moment, the temperature in the workshop soared, and the steam was steaming, making Duan Lei feel a great power of the great industrial era, and suddenly felt a little hot-blooded.

  "After a great success", Guo Wei shouted loudly at Duan Pui

  Although Duan Lei had always been very confident, but after hearing Guo Wei's words, he was still a little excited, and the stone in his heart finally fell.

  As they gathered at the exit of the production line, watching the seamless steel pipes that were still emitting heat pouring out one after another, their moods were vastly different.

  Guo Wei wanted to find a way to keep a few steel pipes and go back to the institute for performance testing to see what was special about these alloy steels.

  Han Shi-yuan is one of the most important building materials for the 'Diamond Tower' and has been settled, so construction will not be affected.

  As for Duan Wei, he began to ponder that after the "Diamond Building" was completed in the future, he would expand the production scale of alloy steel ingots and then cooperate with an enterprise to produce various special steels, which is also a good source of income.

  In any case, the smooth production of alloy steel means that the 'Diamond Tower' will not just be a design on paper, but a beautiful blueprint that can be realized.

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