super god warlord

What Zhao Shouhong did was also a helpless move. Although those biochemists have university chemistry knowledge, they are only limited to theory, and it is absolutely impossible to practice them.As for his own level, he is roughly the same. He only has a general introduction to the practical application of those products. After all, what he holds in his hand is a history book, not a chemistry professional book.How to make these general knowledge into reality is something that only professionals can do.

Zhao Shouhong chatted along the way, and once again successfully fooled a group of students who had returned from the Western Continent, plus a big chemistry expert.As a result, these people were determined to stay here, and decided to establish the first chemical research institute in Hualan State for Zhao Shouhong.At this time, Sun Wenhai, who was far away in Tokyo, received a strange letter.

"Sir, a letter from you." Sun Wenhai was sitting in a daze because of the shortage of funds for the Minbao, but Zhang Ji found him.

"Sir, it's a letter from China. It looks very thick. I don't know what's inside." Zhang Ji handed the letter over.

"Oh? Is there a letter for me in China?" Sun Wenhai felt very strange. At this time, the only people in China who could write to him were those members of the Gongxing Society who had returned to China to work secretly.But if these people write letters to themselves, they shouldn't be so mysterious. They don't even write the sender's address on the envelope.

After taking the heavy envelope, Sun Wenhai opened it directly. Just as he pulled out the letter, a neat stack of paper fell to the ground.Huang Bin, who came over out of curiosity, lowered his head and picked up the piece of paper, unfolded it to look at it, and immediately exclaimed in surprise: "This is actually a check from Waguo Zhengjin Bank, a total of [-] Japanese dollars."

"What?" Everyone was taken aback. They didn't expect that someone would send such a huge sum of money in a letter. At this time, Sun Wenhai was even more curious about the identity of the person who wrote the letter.

"Mr. Zhongshan, hello, I am a person who also has the ideal of rejuvenating the Hualan nation, and has been looking for a way to save the country. From my understanding, in Hualan today, there are only two most influential ideas. Yours The democratic revolution theory of Yuan Wei, and the constitutional monarchy theory of Yuan Wei. These two ideas represent the goals of the people of insight in the country, and represent the two major political directions of Hualan in the future, but I am not optimistic about these two paths.” Sun Wen Hai found it interesting and couldn't help but read the contents of the letter.

"The so-called constitution must first be a country with a main nation, and secondly, the monarch is the king of the main nation. Looking at the Jin court today, the emperor is not from Hualan, so naturally he cannot win the support of the majority of the people. Such a constitution has only two outcomes. , or the monarch is overthrown, so Yuan Kai is doomed to fail. As for Mr., the so-called republic is to imitate the confederacy of the White Eagle Kingdom, but this method has advantages and disadvantages. At least in my opinion, it is still impossible with the consciousness of the people today. Effectively defending one's own rights. Given Hualan's national conditions, the final result of the provincial confederations is the formation of a large number of warlords, causing domestic warlords to fight among themselves and the people living in dire straits. As for my thoughts, I don't dare to defile the ears of Mr. Mister. I am willing to experiment on my own Well, it will be announced to the world when it becomes effective. Recently, I learned that my husband is short of funds, so I offer a mere [-] Japanese dollars to express my heart, and finally express my heart with a famous quote from Voltaire, although I disagree with you point of view, but I swear to the death to defend your right to speak." After Sun Wenhai finished reading the letter, the whole room fell silent.

Zhang Taiyan was the first to shout: "Arrogance, it's really arrogance, to say that the final outcome of our republic is a melee between warlords. What is the basis for this?"

"Perhaps what he said is reasonable. According to our current thinking, using the provincial capitals and the new army to revolt, the military power will easily be in the hands of people with ulterior motives." Huang Bin sighed: "If this really causes warlords to fight, Aren't we historical sinners?"

"You are simply shaking the ideal of the revolution. You are a criminal of the revolution." Zhang Taiyan was not called "Crazy Zhang" for nothing. He always speaks directly and never saves face.Seeing that the two high-level members of the Gongxing Association were about to quarrel, Zhang Ji said quickly: "Okay, how we revolutionize is a matter for the future, at least we have solved the funding problem now, and Minbao can continue to run. "

Sun Wenhai said: "I really don't know who Mr. Zhao who signed the money is. He seems to be quite an interesting person. I really want to meet him. If we can get him to join the revolution, it will be a great help to us."

"Who knows, I don't even have an address, and this letter was sent from the post office in Guanghai City. There is nowhere to find someone." Zhang Ji shook his head.

"Hmph, I'm going to write an article right away to severely refute this fallacy." Zhang Taiyan angrily ran to his editor-in-chief position.

"Isn't that good? You curse at people as soon as they give you money." Huang Bin wanted to stop him, but was stopped by Sun Wenhai: "Forget it, maybe an article by Mr. Taiyan can make this mysterious Bring it out, Mr. Zhao." It's a pity that the bigwigs of the Gongxinghui don't know that Ankang, which is currently closed, said goodbye to the Minbao, and even the imperial palace newspaper is difficult to deliver.

Chapter 59 The Importance of Maine

Zhao Shouhong, who returned to Ankang Road, sent Haber and others to Sun Yuting's chemical plant, where they will build a chemical laboratory. The first goal is to realize the industrial production of synthetic ammonia. I believe that when they succeed, the fertilizer plant will You can start to build, as well as the explosives production workshop.

Of course, it is impossible for so many people to study only one project. With the establishment of the sealed coke oven in the iron and steel plant, the coke oven gas is directly passed to the blast furnace for steelmaking, and the coal tar is carefully collected as the raw material for the experiment. According to the fuzzy information Zhao Shouhong gave them, research and extract various products to synthesize more important plastics, medicines and other things.

Zhao Shouhong's plan is very simple, and now the entire Hualan Kingdom lacks everything.There is no technology, no equipment, no technical personnel, not even skilled workers.If you want to process a precision part, everyone knows that the more precise the better, but to achieve precision machining requires advanced processing equipment, skilled workers, and technical support from scientific and technical personnel. Unrealistic.

Under such circumstances, various industrial systems need to develop slowly a little bit.If you want to let the heavy industry rise as quickly as possible, the chemical industry that relies less on technical equipment is definitely the best choice.

Chemistry relies more on experiments and discoveries. As long as you master the industrial production formula and chemical formula of a product, you can earn a lot of money without fear of being copied.Moreover, even if the chemical production equipment is very primitive, it does not hinder production. At least relying on those crude equipment, Zhao Shouhong can make China's chemical industry 50 years ahead of the world.

In addition to growing the chemical industry to earn funds, Zhao Shouhong also hopes to facilitate the establishment of an antibiotic pharmaceutical factory through the establishment of the chemical industry.For a person with a space hospital in his hand, the biggest advantage is naturally medicine. As long as he can mass-produce Western medicine that has not yet been really developed, it is absolutely very easy to make money.

The economy of Ankang Road is slowly getting on the right track, and the concrete road has also begun to gradually extend. This road will run through the entire Ankang Road, and then go all the way to Shudu.In addition, due to Shen Ruoxue's scientific management, the funds are more abundant, so Zhao Shouhong turned his attention to the territory of Ganzi County and Kangding County.

There are small gold and silver mines in Kangding County, which are rich in precious Chinese medicinal materials such as Cordyceps, pilose antler, Fritillaria, Gastrodia elata, musk, etc. It is a good place to establish a medicinal material planting base.However, Ganzi County has gold mines, limestone and coal resources, which can not only become the source of coke, but also establish cement plants.In the current situation where the supply of cement is in short supply, the products are not worrying about selling.In addition to these, Ganzi County is also rich in manganese, nickel, iron, chromium and other metals, which is enough for Zhao Shouhong to open another steel factory, and can also smelt non-ferrous metals. Of course, Shen Ruoxue is counting on the equipment.

In addition to industrial production, attention to the surrounding areas of Hualan Kingdom should not be underestimated. After Zhao Shouhong returned to Batang County, he immediately asked Shen Ruoxue to send intelligence agents to contact Yang Chunrong, the Kokang chieftain in Maine, and his uncle Yang Guozheng, who was assisting the government. , intending to support them in the struggle against Saar in order to contain the power of Saar.

In the early years of the Later Jin Dynasty, a large number of soldiers and civilians of the former dynasty moved south to this place under the leadership of Emperor Yongli, Li Dingguo, Bai Wenxuan and others.Later, when the former dynasty failed, many Hualan people lived here in fear of persecution by the Qing government. Therefore, the Hualan community in the east of the Salween River was formed. In order to avoid persecution by the Qing Dynasty, those Hualan people changed to the Kokang nationality. This is the origin of the name of the Kokang area.

The Kokang area belonged to Ailao Baipu in the pre-Qin period, and it belonged to Ailao during the reign of Emperor Shenwu of the Eastern Ming Dynasty.It belonged to Nanzhao in the Xia Dynasty, and later it was Mengchandian, Yongchang Prefecture of Dali Kingdom. Dali was destroyed in the Yuan Dynasty, and Mengdiandian, Mengding Road, Jiaozhi Province was located. In the previous generation, it was part of Zhenkang Tuzhou and Mengding Tufu respectively. Around the 18th century, Yang Xiancai, a native of the Hualan nationality, became the hereditary chieftain of the area. In 1840, his fourth generation, Yang Guohua, was named the hereditary magistrate of Kokang County by Emperor Chenguang.

From the Eastern Ming Dynasty to the Later Jin Dynasty, although it was under the title of Hualan State in name, and there were various local organizational systems, they were all "Tujun County", but they only had titles, and they were always in the situation of chieftain dictatorship.

In 1886, the State of Saar annexed Maine, and took advantage of the weakness of the Hualan Kingdom to expand to the northeast. In 1897, China and Britain signed the "Continuation of the Treaty of Maine". .However, in fact, no matter it is called Hualan County or Zhaini Tusi, it is always an independent kingdom of Yang Tusi.

Since the separation time was not long, the people here still have a heart for Hualan Kingdom.After the Kokang area was assigned to Maine, the Saar people brutally oppressed them, making the life of the local people miserable.Although Yang Guozheng wanted to resist, his own strength was too weak and he had no hope of winning.In this case, Zhao Shouhong sent a liaison officer and sent a thousand Xiakou made rifles.

According to Zhao Shouhong's idea, first use the strength of Kokang chieftain to contain the Sa'er army, then let his own bravery go to the rounds to increase actual combat experience, and finally see the opportunity of the riots in Zhaini now, and stab the Sa'er army One blow from Erren can be regarded as revenge for the invasion of Western Xinjiang.

Zhao Shouhong has been thinking about how to rein in the Sa'er army so as to gain the maximum benefit, and at the same time let the Sa'er people retreat in the face of difficulties.In order to create a favorable strategic situation, Maine's control is necessary. For this reason, Zhao Shouhong was always looking for a breakthrough, and his brain did not stop thinking even while eating breakfast.

Zhang Liewu walked in quickly. "My lord, the first rifle has been produced. Do you want to go and see it?" Zhang Liewu said excitedly as soon as they met. These days, Zhao Shouhong has been muttering about the production of rifles. Naturally, he has worked hard to supervise the production. When the finished product came out, he came to report immediately.

"Really? It's time to see and see." Zhao Shouhong was so excited that he stopped eating, and immediately asked the guards to prepare their horses. Under the escort of the guards, the two rode towards the direction of the Machinery Bureau.Naturally, Zhao Shouhong doesn't just focus on strategic matters every day, he needs to be hardworking himself, and what he pays most attention to these days is the machine bureau.During this period of time, various factories have started work one after another, but the Machinery Bureau is still at a standstill due to equipment debugging problems.

In the past, Zhongchuan Machinery Bureau could only manufacture the relatively backward Martini-Henry rifles. Now that they have the drawings of the Phil rifles, it is natural to reproduce the debugging equipment.In addition, Shen Ruoxue secretly imported several large boring machines, milling machines and drilling machines from the United States, which all needed to be reinstalled and then connected to the steam engine and water turbine as power.

Chapter 60 Three Shifts

Not far from Batang County, the factory building of the Machinery Bureau by the Yalong River is here, and they soon entered the factory area of ​​the Machinery Bureau.Obviously, the machine bureau had known the news for a long time, and many people were waiting outside. When they saw Zhao Shouhong coming in, they immediately greeted him. "My lord, these are all craftsmen from the Machine Bureau. They worked hard for two days and two nights to make the first rifle." Zhang Liewu introduced it to Zhao Shouhong with a smile.

"Everyone has worked hard. You must be tired after fighting all night. Go back and rest." Zhao Shouhong looked quite approachable to a group of craftsmen, which was rare in Houjin official circles.He heard that there were more than 1000 people in the Machinery Bureau, which really excited Zhao Shouhong for a while, but he later found out that most of the 1000 people were redundant.Among the remaining craftsmen, there are bricklayers, bamboo craftsmen and other personnel who have nothing to do with the Machinery Bureau.Zhao Shouhong had to make a lot of cuts, and in the end there were only more than [-] real craftsmen left, and these people were even more cherished by Zhao Shouhong.

Seeing how Zhao Shouhong treated them so well, a group of craftsmen seemed quite excited. One of the oldest ones cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty Daotai is polite. The little old man and others are already used to it. It doesn't matter if you haven't slept for two nights."

"What is the name of this old man?" Seeing that the old man seemed to be the leader of the craftsmen, Zhao Shouhong asked with a smile.

"Don't dare, the little old man's surname is Zhao, with a single name of nine characters. He was an apprentice in a workshop when he was a teenager, and he has been working until today." The old man laughed.

"It turns out that your surname is also Zhao. We were still a family 500 years ago." Zhao Shouhong laughed.

"How dare you climb up on your lord." Zhao Jiu was a little apprehensive.

"It's nothing to climb. I have always respected capable people the most. You are all leaders in the Bureau of Machinery, so I naturally respect you. You all deserve my credit for creating a new gun this time. I announce that all craftsmen in the Bureau of Machinery will be awarded ten silver dollars as a bonus. , the apprentices will be given five silver dollars, and there will be a celebration banquet tonight, including twice-cooked pork, sweet and sour pork ribs, spicy fish, boiled pork slices, and bamboo leaf green wine." Zhao Shouhong is generous with rewards, and the new gun can be made so quickly. Naturally, some benefits should be given to the craftsmen.

"Thank you, my lord." Many craftsmen knelt down and thanked him when they heard that the reward was so generous.

"Get up quickly, get up quickly, I don't like this kind of thing here, and when you see me in the future, you just need to surrender." Zhao Shouhong smiled and helped the craftsmen up one by one: "Let's go and see the new guns first."

"It's my lord." Several stewards and craftsmen led Zhao Shouhong into the workshop quickly.It is quite noisy here, many people are busy with their heads down, as if they are manufacturing various parts.Zhao Shouhong asked strangely: "The new gun has not been decided to go into production yet, what are these people producing?"

Zhao Jiu said from the side: "Your Excellency, there are not many products in the Machinery Bureau. In addition to manufacturing shells and bullets, there are also artillery that is being trial-produced, and grenades that are put into production."

"Great, our machine bureau will be busy in the future, there will be more and more products, and our factory will be bigger and bigger." Zhao Shouhong said excitedly: "I don't know if Zhao Jiu would like to How many apprentices do you take?"

"Accepting apprentices?" Zhao Jiuyi said in a daze, "I have three apprentices under my command now, which is quite a lot."

"Too little, too little. Recently, we are producing in small batches. The important thing is to train manpower. I think everyone with superb skills should bring [-] apprentices." Zhao Shouhong is in urgent need of skilled workers, especially There is even a shortage of military workers, so he hopes to cultivate a group of young people, especially educated young technicians, so as to promote the development of machining.

What Zhao Shouhong said made many craftsmen look uncomfortable. In fact, it is nothing to have more apprentices. These people are mainly worried that the master will starve to death after teaching the apprentices.

Zhao Shouhong was naturally able to see through the thinking of these old craftsmen. He said with a smile: "Our factory will expand a hundred times in the future. No matter how many apprentices you teach, there will be insufficient manpower. When all your apprentices leave the teacher, I will hire you As a technical consultant, when the time comes, you only need to check the apprentices or bring in new apprentices, and the salary will be double that of being a craftsman."

Seeing the skeptical expressions of the craftsmen, Zhao Shouhong continued: "How about this? I will give you ten silver dollars as a bounty for every apprentice you bring out as a master. In addition, from today onwards, all craftsmen will be paid eight silver dollars a month. , four silver dollars for apprentices, in addition to red envelopes during festivals and festivals, craftsmen who participate in the development of new products also have rewards, just like today.” Hearing that there is such a high bounty for apprentices, the craftsmen were all moved, But Zhao Jiu still had some doubts and said, "Sir, we only have so many machines, even if we bring more apprentices, there is no place to work."

"This is easy to handle. From now on, everyone will be divided into four shifts and three shifts a day. In this way, everyone will have enough rest time and can concentrate more on work. The equipment is enough." Zhao Shouhong threw it out with a big wave of his hand. The method of three shifts and four shifts, everyone nodded repeatedly to express their acceptance. In this way, everyone worked eight hours a day and had a day off every four days, which was much easier than the previous work.

"Okay, let's take a look at the new gun first, and talk about the rest later." Zhao Shouhong said with a smile.

"My lord, please." Zhang Liewu accompanied Zhao Shouhong through the workshop and headed towards the shooting range.Walking on the road, Zhang Lie said: "My lord, this way of working seems too leisurely. It requires a lot of workers."

Zhao Shouhong smiled and said, "You, why don't you have any sense of revolutionaries after joining the Vanguard Party? We are a party that seeks the welfare of the hardworking people. How can we think about exploiting them all day long. I think it's only enough for a person to work eight hours a day. It is the most reasonable, so that workers can get enough rest, not only work more efficiently, but also reduce accidents.”

Zhang Liewu blushed a little when he was told: "Peijue didn't mean that. I just thought that money was used everywhere in the early stage of entrepreneurship. We would increase costs by doing this, which is not conducive to our rapid growth."