Great Power Industry: You're a private company building an aircraft carrier?

Night fell over Zhaojiagou Village, and in the east room of the three dilapidated houses, a dim 15-watt light bulb was lit.

Zhao Deyi lay on the bed, covered with a quilt that was patched in countless places. He had woken up, his empty eyes staring at the ceiling.

His wife, who was next to him, was still unconscious, but the village doctor said she should be fine and would recover in about six months.

"Father, Mother, I'm going to avenge you!"

Beside the bed, his son, Zhao Fugui, in his early twenties, gripped a double-barreled shotgun tightly, his eyes filled with murderous intent.

He went hunting in the mountains today and missed the fight, otherwise... he could have blown the other man's head off with a single shot!

"Revenge? They're foreigners!" Zhao Delong lay half-reclined on a chair nearby, mumbling incoherently, "If you kill foreigners, there's nowhere in the world you'll find refuge!"

"So we're just going to stand by and watch?" Zhao Fugui gritted his teeth.

"These two...foreigners have unknown origins..."

On the bed, Zhao Deyi made indistinct sounds, so much so that Zhao Fugui had to lean close to his mouth to hear him: "Go... report them in the county... no, the county has been bribed by them, you have to go to the city, go to the city to report them..."

"Dad, it's too shameful to report him!"

In the underworld, the worst thing you can do is report to the authorities. Robbing and plundering is considered heroic, and daring to rob a bank is even more talked about. But if you can't beat someone and you go to the cops... how will you survive in the future?

"Take...this money, go to the city, and...look for..."

There was a wad of cash by the bedside, two thousand yuan. This was the medical fee Qin Chuan had thrown to them before he left. If he couldn't be cured, they could use it as their coffin money.

Now, Zhao Deyi only has this one option: to use money to bribe people and get revenge for them!

That person arrived in a car, so he must have connections. It won't be easy to bring him down!

"Okay!" Zhao Fugui took the money, picked up the double-barreled shotgun, and strode out.

"Come back, put down the hunting rifle..."

However, Zhao Fugui did not turn back. He slung his hunting rifle over his shoulder and rode his bicycle.

Find someone?

If you can fight, don't just talk. No matter how good your martial arts are, you're still afraid of a kitchen knife. What's there to be afraid of when there are foreigners? A shotgun has two barrels, one barrel can take down a foreigner, and in the end, it's that boss. We'll take them all down!

The night breeze brushed against Zhao Fugui's face. At this moment, his mind was very calm. He rode his bicycle while thinking about what he would do next.

Unbeknownst to him, as the motorcycle passed a fork in the road, a sinister face appeared on the other side. He pedaled a few times, and the motorcycle slid down the mountain road, following Zhao Fugui in a blur.

Hearing the sound behind him, Zhao Fugui turned his head, and then the headlights blinded him.

Disengage the clutch, shift gears, release the clutch!

With the vehicle's thrust, the motorcycle engine started instantly, the headlights shone on the man carrying the hunting rifle, and then, the throttle was twisted...

Boom!

Zhao Fugui's bicycle couldn't withstand the impact of the motorcycle and overturned, right next to a cliff!

Zhao Fugui's screams rang out in the air.

The motorcycle twisted the throttle and continued driving forward, quickly disappearing without a trace.

……

Laiyang Steel Plant.

"Third Uncle, Fourth Uncle, we live in the age of mechanization. We need to purchase mining equipment for mechanized production. As for the electricity we need, we have a power plant here. We just need to run the transmission lines over." Qin Chuan began to plan.

"Yes, if we had mining equipment, we could have mechanized production, but we don't know how!"

"I'll coordinate it. Get the excavators and stuff up first, and make sure the blowers and other equipment are properly deployed. We can't afford any production accidents. Oh, and our steel plant can produce a batch of support rods. We don't want the front to be dug and the back to collapse..."

Most small coal mines are built on blood and lives, with nothing inside. They just dig after finding a coal seam, and there are always dangers: collapses, gas, water seepage... Qin Chuan is a man of action and doesn't want such accidents to happen.

"Okay, it's all up to you."

"Send Ivan and Antonina to your side first, and we'll talk about it after things stabilize... By the way, where are they?"

“Ivan just arrived and is very curious about this place. He went out for a ride on his motorcycle and will probably be back soon,” Antonina’s voice rang out.

Qin Chuan nodded: "It's time to familiarize ourselves with the environment."

Having finished discussing the coal mine, it's time to move on to the steel mill.

"Dad, we have a sufficient power supply now, so it's time to set up a new steel production line."

Qin Jianguo nodded: "That's right, it's time to install a new production line. Our existing equipment can no longer meet the demand. You mentioned last time that you needed an electric furnace with a capacity of several hundred tons, didn't you?"

“We’ve inquired about the 300-ton high-frequency electric furnace. It costs about five million yuan to produce one of these furnaces by China First Heavy Machinery. We’ve already prepared the money and can purchase it at any time,” Li Runping said.

Even Shougang Group probably doesn't have as much money in its accounts as their small Laiyang Steel Plant!

Qin Chuan smiled and said, "That's right, we need a 300-ton electric furnace, but that's not enough."

"What else do you want?"

"Two 260-ton top-and-bottom combined blowing converters, one RH-TB vacuum refining unit, one LF ladle refining furnace, and one ANS-OB molten steel refining unit, with a designed annual production capacity of two million tons."

Two hundred, and ten thousand tons? Everyone was stunned.

Moreover, apart from the top and bottom combined blowing converter mentioned earlier, they had never heard of the others. They guessed that they would have to purchase them from abroad. How much would that cost?

"Following this production line, we will install a 5500 mm four-roll double-stand heavy plate rolling mill. We will roll all two million tons of steel into medium-thick plates with a width of 5500 mm."

5500 millimeters?

Qin Chuan's words were somewhat subtle, and everyone was stunned for a while before suddenly realizing, "Five and a half meters wide? My goodness, what do you need such a wide steel plate for?"

"Yes, such wide steel plates are inconvenient to transport!"

The lanes on the highway are only three meters wide. If it's five and a half meters wide, it will take up two lanes. And it might not be able to make a turn. What's the use of such a wide steel plate?

“Shougang doesn’t have a rolling mill that’s four meters wide either. We’ve never heard of one that’s five and a half meters wide.”

Qin Chuan smiled and said, "There's none in the whole world, so with this rolling mill, we can export to the world. As for transportation... we're right by the sea, are we worried about transportation?"

The larger the steel plate, the smaller the gaps that need to be welded. This applies not only to shipbuilding, but also to bridge construction, factory construction, and many other projects that require large areas of steel plates.

There has always been a gap in this area in China.

The first rolling mill with a width exceeding four meters was from Wuyang Iron and Steel Plant in Henan Province, which went into operation in 1978. The second one was a second-hand piece of equipment imported from Germany by Shanghai Pudong Iron and Steel in the early 1990s, with a width of 4250 mm. This year, Ansteel imported a second-hand rolling mill with a width of 4300 mm from Japan, which is already the largest in China.

This situation continued until after the new millennium, when China began to build rolling mills of more than five meters to meet the needs of shipbuilding. The five-and-a-half-meter rolling mill was in preparation for building aircraft carriers.

Number one in the world, known as the king of rolling mills!

Qin Chuan has become rich, and he's started to get arrogant, wanting to install the world's largest rolling mill!