Now Zhao Shouhong can say bluntly that it is enough for him to form an academy of sciences.Moreover, this Academy of Sciences is not an empty shell academy, and the scientists in it will definitely be glorious figures in history as long as they take time. It can be said that he has a lot of talents under him now.

"My lord, the principal." Zhao Shouhong couldn't help being surprised that the three Zhou Shuren brothers had returned. This time, the three of them also brought three classmates.

Seeing Zhao Shouhong, the elder brother Zhou Shuren smiled and said: "Master Zhao, these few are our good friends. They heard that he is coming, and they are still strictly queuing in the cafeteria. They all want to see him, so we will take the liberty of sending They brought it."

"Oh? What are their names?" Zhao Shouhong is very interested in the other three people, and he is not an ordinary person to be a good friend with the famous Lu Xun.

Sure enough, birds of a feather flock together, Zhou Shuren introduced him and he knew all of them: "My lord, the three of them are Qian Xuantong, Liu Yazi and Xiao Chunu."

Qian Xuantong, formerly known as Qian Xia, styled Deqian, was a famous thinker in Hualan Kingdom, an activist in language reform, and an advocate of phonology, and more importantly, he was the father of Professor Qian Sanqiang, a famous future physicist. He could be called a father and son. They are all famous people.According to historical trends, Qian Xuantong should have studied abroad at Waseda University in [-] as a teacher, met Lu Xun there, and joined the Gongxinghui in the second year, but at this time he gave up his studies in Japan and entered Zhongchuan University instead. , It really gave him a sense of unexpected surprise.

Chapter 236 Meeting Stella By Chance

Liu Yazi's original name was Wei Gao. He once founded and presided over the Nanshe, and later served as the secretary of Sun Wenhai's presidential palace and a lieutenant general supervisory member of the Hualan National Congress. He was also a great politician.In history, he should also have joined the Gongxinghui, and later, under the introduction of Cai Yuanpei, he joined the Guangfuhui, but at this time he went to Zhongchuan to study in peace and stability.

Xiao Chunv once worked as an apprentice in a lumber trade, and later worked as a waiter in a teahouse, and as a cook on a riverboat.But now that there is a school that provides free board and lodging, he even entered Zhongchuan University and became an excellent student.

Due to the lack of Hualan's basic education system, these students of different ages have become classmates. After they have been educated by well-known professors from various countries and those biochemical teachers at Zhongchuan University, they will become more outstanding than in history. Talents.

Zhao Shouhong tried his best to several people, and promised to visit them next time, so he persuaded several students to leave.Just as Zhao Shouhong wanted to leave with the elders and Huang Yanpei, he saw an acquaintance again.

"Oh, dear Hong, you are actually here." A familiar voice came suddenly, Zhao Shouhong looked back and found Stella running over.

"Mr. Stella, why did you come to the school instead of doing research in the institute?" Zhao Shouhong asked in surprise. He always thought that this taciturn scientist would not come to such a noisy place like the school.

Stella smiled wryly after hearing the words: "You can't blame me. Since you put the scientific research funds in the hands of Mrs. Zun, she requires all scientists who conduct research to have apprentices. In addition, they have to give lectures at Zhongchuan University part-time. There is no way, otherwise, we will not be able to get research funding.”

Zhao Shouhong couldn't help smiling when he heard that a person who could become rich all over the world just by registering his own patent was forced to give lectures in a university for mere research funding.Shen Ruoxue was really able to grasp the fate of these people, not only let them do research for themselves, but also cultivate local talents, so as to achieve sustainable development, and Zhao Shouhong became more confident about his bright future.

"I can't help it. Now that my wife is in charge of my finances, I can't help you with this matter." Zhao Shouhong raised his shoulders and said, "Anyway, teaching a few classes won't kill anyone, so you can do it yourself."

"That's right. These Hualan students work very hard, and their minds are very flexible. They can always ask questions that I haven't noticed. Now I find that getting along with the students can inspire creativity, which is very beneficial to research work. It’s also good.” Stella remembered something, and immediately said to Zhao Shouhong: “I haven’t thanked your friend yet, but you registered the sound film under my name, which made Edison stumble. I'm happy. Now I can see clearly who my real friends are, if I can, I really want to join Hualan nationality, of course, if you have nationality."

"There will be in the future, but you should have studied the recent high-voltage transmission system." Zhao Shouhong asked.

"I've finished researching it a long time ago, and now I'm helping Feng Ru's factory modify the motor so that their parts production can use electric conveyor belts." Stella laughed.

Zhao Shouhong's eyes widened: "What? Don't tell me when you're done. I'll wait for your scientific research results to build a long-distance transmission line. Brother, do you want to play with me?"

"Some things are not interesting as long as they are researched, so I put them aside and started researching wireless high-voltage power transmission, which is a bit challenging." Stella didn't take it seriously, still immersed in her own world.

"I'm convinced of you." Only then did Zhao Shouhong understand that real scientists only do research to explore the truth, and they don't care about whether the results can make money. Once the research is completed, it will be thrown aside. It seems that in the future, people will be sent Keep an eye on Stella so you don't miss the results.

Although it has been delayed for a while, Zhao Shouhong is still happy. When the high-voltage transmission line network is completed, the whole of Zhongchuan Province will be able to use hydropower.It seems that the power problem of the factory can be solved in the future, no matter how far away from the river, this clean energy can be used.

"Hurry up and get someone to send all your results over, I'm waiting to use them. And you'd better start researching large-scale generator sets. My hydropower station's power is too small, and the power generated is less wasted. It's up to you." Zhao Shouhong said that it was very easy for him to study by himself, no matter where he has time to study and learn at ease.

"That's no problem. I'll give you the results within three months." Stella nodded. He didn't find such research challenging at all.

The three people next to them were almost dumbfounded. Huang Yanpei and Zhao Shouhong got along better after a long time, but Yu Qiaqing and Zhu Baosan were completely dumbfounded.They never thought that Zhao Shouhong's Saar language was so fluent, and it was effortless to communicate with Stella, as if he was speaking his mother tongue fluently.Although Yu Qiaqing worked as a comprador, Salvin was just so-so.Only now did he know that there were people from the Houjin Empire who could speak Saar so fluently, but he didn't understand a single word.

"I feel that we are too old and have no future. We are far behind these young people." Yu Qiaqing couldn't help sighing, and Zhu Baosan nodded in sympathy.

The two sides finalized the cooperation intention, Yu Qiaqing and Zhu Baosan decided to return to Guanghai as soon as possible, and mobilize personnel and funds to invest in Zhongchuan as soon as possible.Now they are full of confidence in Zhongchuan's development, fearing that Zhao Shouhong will change his mind, the sooner the factory will be built, the better.Zhao Shouhong personally sent the two elders to the train to Chongshan City, where they will take the ferry back to Guanghai.

Sending away the second old Zhao Shouhong to bury his head in the construction of the air force again. After all, this is the only development direction that Hualan can start at the same time as the world powers, and it must not fall behind.At the air show, Feng Ru had a lot of new inspirations. With the addition of Sikorsky and Ai Ruiqi, the scientific research strength of the aircraft factory increased greatly, and they began to develop better aircraft.

Zhao Shouhong also put forward new requirements for them, increasing the range and speed of the aircraft, and at the same time considering the issue of machine guns on the aircraft.Zhao Shouhong, a large-caliber machine gun, has set up a research project at the Zhongchuan Machinery Bureau and the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau at the same time. With so many blueprints obtained from the Western Continent, it is estimated that it is only a matter of time before the research is done.

Once this kind of aircraft starts mass production, the construction of the air force will be put on the agenda. With the unclear indicators and research directions given to Feng Ru by Zhao Shouhong, the development of the aircraft has avoided many detours, so according to the advanced level of the aircraft , Hualan has reached the forefront of the world.

Chapter 237 Diesel's Diesel Engine

The aviation school has been established, and the first batch of students are excellent students drawn from various middle schools. There are a total of hundreds of people. They are all learning flying skills under the leadership of Li Ruyan.These people will be the cornerstone of the Hualan Air Force. Zhao Shouhong is not in a hurry about this. The construction of the Air Force has a long way to go. It is not something that can be completed in a short time. Fortunately, Hualan started early, and I believe that it will definitely become an aviation power in the future.

The development of aircraft still takes time, but the speed of development of airships is indeed visible to the naked eye. After Xie Zantai's unremitting efforts, the militarization of airships finally appeared.In order to prevent the problem of being hit and falling, the airship is composed of fifteen airbags. The new airbag material is changed to nylon, which makes the airbags more airtight and more durable.With so many airbags, the safety has also been greatly improved. As long as one-third of the airbags are still full of gas, the airship can land smoothly.

Originally, according to Zhao Shouhong's idea, these airbags should be filled with non-combustible helium to facilitate actual combat.However, helium has only just been successfully produced in Zhongchuan. Not only is the process cumbersome and expensive, but the production speed is extremely slow, which cannot meet the needs of combat at all.

The non-combustible property of helium makes the airship safer, but the cost is too high. If it needs to be inflated and deflated every time it goes up and down, the price is simply unaffordable.Hydrogen is easy to produce and cheap, but it is too easy to explode and too dangerous in actual combat.

In view of such problems, Xie Zantai had a whim, and he made the airbag into two layers, the outer fourteen divided airbags were all filled with helium, while the middle large airbag was filled with hydrogen.In this way, even if the hydrogen airbag is blown, because the surrounding bags are painted with fireproof paint, it will not be involved too much, and the buoyancy of other helium airbags is enough to make the airship fall smoothly.

As for the usual take-off and landing, you only need to fill and discharge the hydrogen airbags, which avoids the waste of helium.With such an idea, the Air Force's security airship was quickly built.This kind of airship weighs about [-] tons and has a load of [-] tons. It uses two horizontal wings and one vertical wing to control its direction.Because it adopts four [-]-horsepower gasoline engines, the airship can reach a speed of [-] kilometers per hour.In addition to the six crew members driving the airship, the airship can still carry fifteen tons, which is enough to carry a large amount of materials or personnel.

Because there is no shielding problem of the propeller, it is very convenient to place weapons on the airship. Xie Zantai placed a Mark machine gun in each of the four directions.In order to prevent the shooter from shooting his own airbag in a panic, these machine guns are fixed on the base on the edge of the pod, and the firing range is kept very low, making it difficult to raise the muzzle.

It can be said that this huge airship already possessed the earliest air combat capabilities. Zhao Shouhong liked it very much at first sight. He immediately decided to train the pilots of the airship, and at the same time requested that ten airships of this type named Airship [-] be built. , ready to join the military service.

There are also many things about Chevrolet. After returning from Europe, Zhao Shouhong gave him an indicator to develop a truck with a large load and a car with off-road capabilities.Such an index seems to be too high, Chevrolet has tried several solutions, but the main reason is that the horsepower of the gasoline engine is too small, it is difficult to undertake the load and off-road tasks, unless the car body is made very light.But in that case, the load capacity will be small, and because of the light body, the risk of poor stability will be high.

This problem was quickly solved by a new scientist, Mr. Diesel, who was invited to work on the Eastern Continent after Germany went bankrupt.

Although Rudolf Diesel's parents were Teutonic, he was born in Paris and educated there.After the outbreak of the Tiaogao War, the Teutons in Gaul were persecuted due to the hostility between the two countries. They had to flee to London with their families, and he was sent to live with his uncle in Augsburg when he was young.

The childhood experience seemed to indicate that Diesel's life was not smooth, and soon he entered the Technical University of Munich with honors, and became an engineer and salesman of an international refrigeration company after graduation.Originally, he already had a job with a high salary and enjoyed the affluence and leisure of the middle class, but his obsession with machines made him take another path.

At work, Diesel felt deeply that the efficiency of the steam engine was low, so he had the idea of ​​designing a new type of engine. In fact, he even applied for a patent a year in advance.He quickly found a partner and spent several years perfecting the performance of the new engine. In 1897, he successfully produced a Diesel diesel engine with a power of 14 watts, far exceeding that of the steam engine at the time.

The new invention made him a millionaire, but due to lack of business acumen, he lost a lot of money in stocks, and the economy gradually fell into trouble.He later suffered from severe mental weakness and spent a long time resting in a sanatorium near Munich.His company also gradually had problems. Due to some defects of diesel engines, many users began to return the products, and his company was facing the crisis of bankruptcy.At this time, Shen Ruoxue reached out to help him pay off all the debts, and promised Hou Jin Guo to treat his mental weakness.

In this way, Diesel embarked on the road to the Kingdom of Jin, and he was not disappointed when he arrived. The space hospital quickly cured his illness, and he was able to work vigorously again.Thanks to the cooperation of various research institutes in western Sichuan and the cooperation of the two large-scale mechanical processing plants under construction, the research capacity of diesel engines has doubled, and he can finally start researching with peace of mind.The research and development of the diesel engine is rapidly underway, and Zhao Shouhong hopes to see the truly perfect finished engine as soon as possible.

The various manufacturers and research institutes under Zhao Shouhong cooperated with each other, and the industry began to grow bigger and bigger.With the continuous advancement of various railways, the sales network is also gradually increasing, and the sales problem has begun to improve, especially after the hidden reefs and dangerous shoals at the bottom of the river have been blown up. The merchant fleet under the cover of the new gunboats completed the trade route between Chongshan and Gwanghae, and river ships under [-] tons even went to Ningyuan Hall to load directly.The speed at which Zhao Shouhong makes money has increased dramatically, and his investment in education and railways has also increased.

For Zhao Shouhong's idea, Zhao Erxun, the governor of Zhongchuan, fully supported it.With such a guarantee, Zhao Shouhong began to drastically reform the administration of officials in Zhongchuan.He issued an order in the name of a scholar envoy, requiring all officials in Zhongchuan to take an examination. Heavy punishment.

Chapter 238 Civil Service Examination

In the officialdom of the Hou Jin Dynasty, officials were appointed by the imperial court, while officials were temporary workers, and the treatment that was recruited by officials from all over the country could not be guaranteed at all.This kind of employment system has loopholes that can be exploited. As long as Zhao Shouhong uses the excuse of insufficient qualifications, he can replace all the officials in the province with his cronies, which is tantamount to indirectly controlling the entire Zhongchuan officialdom.

After receiving the support of Zhao Erxun, this regulation was quickly implemented.All officials took part in the so-called civil service examination presided over by Zhao Shouhong.Those university official students who have studied systematically are naturally more advantageous in the exam, while those teachers from Yeluzi are not so optimistic.The test scores came down quickly, and those who came from official departments were ranked high, while those former officials were unlucky.

The staff vacancies in Zhongchuan officialdom were quickly filled by students from Zhongchuan University's official department. These people had modern management experience and were extremely good at governing the local area.Originally, officials from all over the country had some complaints about the above approach, but after seeing that their work efficiency has been greatly improved while their workload has gradually decreased, these people are very satisfied.It's a pity that they don't know that Zhongchuan's regime has begun to be in the hands of those officials without knowing it, and most of these people are members of the Vanguard Party, and the rest are also activists.

The salaries of the imperial court are only provided to officials, and the officials working under the officials are all temporary workers, which means that their wages are all paid by the officials themselves.In response to this, Zhao Shouhong introduced a new policy. The chief minister's office began to provide financial subsidies to officials who passed the examination to reduce the burden on officials.Because the chief envoy's yamen only recognizes officials who have passed the examination, as long as they are hired, they can pay a lot less wages. This time, the officials completely support Zhao Shouhong's policy.The use of financial subsidies benefits everyone, and Zhao Shouhong also blocked the loopholes that officials might sue, avoiding his plan from being exposed in advance.

Zhao Shouhong is very satisfied with his arrangement. Now he has gradually mastered the new army of the [-]th town and the officers and soldiers of the six patrol battalions, and his military strength has greatly increased.Coupled with the control of the regime, it can be said that he rebels at any time, and the whole of Sichuan will follow him.But Zhao Shouhong was not satisfied, because his eyes were never limited to domestic.

Soon the size of the Patrol Bureau was greatly increased, and all local government servants were abolished because of this, and he also wrote to the imperial court as a chief envoy, believing that Zhongchuan's economy was gradually improving, and he could support the new army in the three towns that had been planned at the beginning. He hoped that the imperial court would Can be given a designation and appointed officers.

Zaifeng had just knocked Yuan Wei down, and it was the time when the spring breeze was in full swing. He did not expect Zhao Shouhong to do such a trick, which really shocked him.Later, he not only severely reprimanded Zhao Shouhong in his will, expressing that he would not allow Zhongchuan to add new troops, but also deployed his own people in Zhongchuan's officialdom, wanting to closely monitor this "constitutional faction" who was closely related to Yuan Kai.

Zhao Shouhong's move was just to test Zaifeng's thoughts. Seeing that the other party valued him so much, he decided to lie down and wait for the opportunity before taking control of the Northwest in one fell swoop.

Time has entered 1909 in a blink of an eye. Just after the Spring Festival, the Qing government issued a decree, requiring all provinces to formally establish consultation bureaus to prepare for the local autonomy of states and counties, and to establish self-government research institutes.This decree can appease the people of the imperial court and make a gesture of preparing for a constitution. Zhao Shouhong responded positively to this. He immediately established the Zhongchuan Consultation Bureau, and gathered all the famous gentry in Sichuan as participants in politics.Among them, Pu Dianjun, a Jinshi during the Guangran period, who had studied in Japan, became the well-deserved chairman of the Advisory Council, while Luo Lun, a protégé of Qu Hongxu who was at odds with the constitutionalists headed by Yuan Kai, unexpectedly became the deputy chairman.

These people seem to be against Yuan Kai, that is, against Zhao Shouhong's lineage, and instead of suppressing them, Zhao Shouhong has done the opposite, making him the head of the Advisory Council, which everyone can't understand up.In fact, Zhao Shouhong's plan is very clear. The Provincial Consultative Council only has the power to discuss power but has no decision-making power.

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