Live broadcast: Ancient people accompany me to make up lessons

[When Wynn drove the car for the first time in 1924, the soda ash that came out turned out to be red, which scared everyone.

Seeing that all these years of hard work and investment had only yielded red and black alkali, someone on the board of directors demanded that Hou Debang be replaced and another foreign technician be hired.

Although Fan Xudong was deeply in debt and faced internal and external difficulties, he still supported Hou Debang despite all opinions.

Hou Debang once said with emotion: "Today, I can only fight to the death to seek solutions to technical problems in order to repay Fan Gong's sincerity."

He analyzed calmly and found that rust was at fault. So he added a little impurity to the raw materials, and snow-white soda ash came out.

Faced with constant pressure from internal high-level officials and deliberate sabotage by monopoly companies, after six years of hard work, he finally broke through the Solvay alkali production method in 1927. In August of the same year, the soda produced by Wynn Soda Plant was named Red Triangle brand soda ash won a gold medal at the World Exposition held in Philadelphia, USA.

This is hailed as 'a symbol of the progress of Chinese industry'. ]

New chemistry students: What is this impurity?

After seeing the story of Mr. Hou and Mr. Fan, some people sighed: "A thousand-mile horse is hard to find, and a bole is even harder to find."

Mr. Hou is a great talent, but it is even more rare for Mr. Fan to discover that this great talent is so overwhelmed that he can still support him under pressure.

A businessman thought for a while. If he had no time to take care of himself, had no working capital, and was in debt, he probably wouldn't be able to run this factory. He would have to sell it quickly to reduce his negative assets.

The operation of the factory and the various tests for making alkali also cost a lot of money. Thinking about it from his perspective, he really couldn't do the same as Fan Xudong.

There was also the World Exposition. They remembered that the British Crystal Palace also held this event. Among all kinds of people, the dress of the Qing Dynasty officials was particularly eye-catching.

They didn’t know what the Qing Dynasty had brought with them. Wynn’s Red Triangle Soda Ash was included in this World Expo. I guess there was no such industrial product at that time.

So, do they just go there to participate in this grand gathering of all nations and see others?

Just thinking about it this way, Kangxi felt his heart was filled with panic.

Kangxi, who had become the young emperor since childhood, could also be regarded as the founding emperor of the Qing Dynasty in a sense. He still had some feelings for this land and was proud of the Qing Dynasty under his rule.

But it hadn't been long since he had read Hou Debang's story, and it had already made him extremely worried.

People with this name should have studied hard and gone to the Beijing Imperial Examination High School, but instead they went to a foreign missionary school since they were young and learned courses similar to what the anchor is doing now.

Those are the knowledge and important products that the Qing Dynasty does not have. They can only learn and buy them from outside...

Looking at the candlelit palace in front of him, his eyes flashed past the dilapidated and collapsed garden.

Everything is so earth-shaking, but in more than two hundred years, his Qing Dynasty has changed beyond recognition...

[In 1933, based on summarizing previous experience in soda ash production, Hou Debang wrote the book "Soda Ash Manufacturing" in English, which truly broke the monopoly of soda ash.

On February 1937, 2, with the efforts of Hou Debang, ammonium sulfate was produced and nitric acid was successfully put into production.

This indicates that Chinese engineering and technical personnel can fully control the overall projects of sulfuric acid plants, ammonia plants, ammonium sulfate plants, and nitric acid plants.

The workers he trained are also our first batch of professional chemical workers. ]

Jiajing, who was flipping through the chemistry book, couldn't help but nod.

Yes, yes, it is very important. These are basic chemical elements. What is important is to extract them all.

But thinking about those factories with tall chimneys, he also began to think about how to build a chemical plant.

[In the same year, the "July 3th Incident" broke out, and the Japanese invading troops gradually pushed towards Nanjing. They threatened "factory safety" three times and asked for "cooperation" in the management of the Nanjing Iron Factory.

Hou Debang and his colleagues refused to "cooperate", and the Japanese army began to retaliate.

在1937年8月21日至10月21日，在永利厂区进行了三次猛烈轰炸，一共87枚炸弹，氧化部厂房和设备被炸毁。

But Hou Debang did not compromise.

"We have an alkali, we can make explosives! Tooth for tooth!"

So he used the factory facilities to produce ammonium nitrate explosives, mine shells and other materials to support the front line. ]

It was different from the naval battles of previous European countries, and also different from the military training of later generations.

The people on the sky screen are all familiar Chinese faces, wearing new military uniforms and fighting with each other under the city wall with guns in hand.

The fire lit up, and the gunpowder smoke filled the air after the explosives exploded. The once glorious factory building was reduced to nothing.

This just bombed the factory. If it bombed directly on the city, how many casualties would there be?

The fire and smoke that exploded one after another frightened the ancients who were still in the cold weapon age.

During the Hongwu Dynasty when Nanjing was the capital, Zhu Yuanzhang gritted his teeth and looked at the map.

Like him, no one who saw the location of the east island could remain calm.

How miserable will you be after this, to let the people on this island be oppressed like this!

Cao Pi thought about it, and it seemed that someone came from there two years ago, and he even rewarded him with the gold seal of the "King of the Han Wen slaves".

How could such an uncivilized person from a poor place still bully him after a thousand years?

He was thinking about how bad the Republic of China would be in later generations.

Li Shimin remembered that in the past, an envoy from the Sui Dynasty was sent there. A letter of credence from the Emperor of the Sunrise Kingdom to the Emperor of the Sunset Kingdom made Yang Guang so angry that he almost killed him.

"Guanyin Maid, why didn't he actually chop her at that time?"

Empress Changsun said nothing. Li Shimin himself knew the answer to this question.

Because Yang Guang wanted to attack Goguryeo, the relationship between Japan and one of the three Koreas under Goguryeo was still on good terms at that time. Yang Guang did not want the three Koreas to change when he attacked Goguryeo.

Thinking of the group of Japanese people who came to study in the Tang Dynasty, Li Zhi and Wu Zetian had similar thoughts.

Tubo, Turks, Goguryeo, although none of the surrounding neighbors are easy to get along with, but so far, none of them can be so rampant in the land of the Tang Dynasty.

People in the Song Dynasty also remember that there were Japanese people who came to Song Dynasty to learn tea art. Even they found it incredible that they were bullied by a small island after the summer of China.

Liao has always been powerful, and Xixia is no less willing to give way, but why is such a small island isolated overseas?

They had those artillery pieces, but later generations didn’t have them at that time. How could they be bullied?

There were Japanese dynasties in the country, and the word "wolf ambition" flashed in the minds of almost the rulers.

[In 1938, Wynn Company prepared to build Wynn Western Sichuan Chemical Plant in Wutongqiao, western Sichuan, and Fan Xudong appointed Hou Debang as the factory director and chief engineer.

Under very difficult conditions, Hou Debang led his employees to produce independently and maintain the livelihood of the company's employees; at the same time, he started to prepare for the establishment of the Sichuan Alkali Plant.

Since the conditions in Sichuan are not suitable for the traditional Solvay alkali production method, production cannot be maintained. In order to find an alkali production process suitable for the mainland, Hou Debunt led a team to Germany for inspection in 1939, preparing to purchase the patent of the Cha'an method.

When the other party proposed humiliating the country, Hou Debang suspended the negotiations and determined to research new methods of making alkali on his own.

After returning to China, Hou Debang and Wynn workers carefully analyzed the ammonia-alkali process. After more than 500 tests and more than 200 sample analyses, the new process was finally determined.

The utilization rate of raw materials by the new technology's traditional alkali production method has increased from 70% to 96%, and it also solves the problem of environmental pollution by waste residue and liquid.

In 1940, Fan Xudong named it "Hou's method of making alkali." ]

Germany, if you look at it on the map, it is another small country in Europe.

Just looking at the territorial area, a country that is not big at all actually has this kind of alkali production technology. This shows that national strength and science and technology are also important indicators for future generations.

Also, what humiliating conditions did it impose that would make even Hou Debang, who bought technology, return home in anger?

[Pour ammonia and carbon dioxide into saturated salt water to precipitate sodium bicarbonate...]

After telling the story of Hou Debang and his new method of making alkali, we finally started to talk about the process and principles of making alkali.

Chemistry enthusiasts picked up their pens and took notes quickly, while non-chemistry enthusiasts kept thinking about the chaos of future generations.

When it came time to draw the lucky spectators in the first round, the Qing Dynasty and Nanjing people had never been more anxious than now.

[1. Qin: Zhang Liang 2. Han: Tong Song 3. Han: Ding Miao 4. Tang: Zu Yan 5. Zhou: Zhou Panyin 6. Song: Qiao Yan 7. Song: Liu Songze 8. Ming: Sheep Qu Wen 9. Ming: Deng Dai 10. Qing: Nahata Abu]

Zhang Liang naturally cannot have any sense of belonging to the imperial court of later generations, but he also admires those people of later generations.

He frowned and asked: "Anchor, what conditions were proposed by Germany that Mr. Hou found difficult to accept?"

[This video doesn’t say it, but Xiaoxiao knows it.

Taking a long breath, she explained: "Germany said that the alkali produced is not allowed to be sold in the three northeastern provinces.

Because at this time, they did not recognize that the three northeastern provinces occupied by the Japanese army were Chinese territory. ”]

Kangxi was really angry this time and his body tilted and he almost fell down.

In addition to the second child, several adult princes and the eunuchs waiting around came up one after another. Those who helped people, those who called doctors, and those who pinched the old man's middle child, everyone was busy.

Inside and outside the palace, I was still thinking about how ugly the people in my hometown looked.

The three eastern provinces!

Before Nanjing, my hometown in Northeast China had already been occupied by others!

Unfilial descendants!

Zhang Liang took it in himself and his face darkened. This was indeed an insult to the country.

Shame, shame and humiliation!

If something like this happened to him, he would want to stab anyone who said such things.

A country that can do such a thing is actually based on virtue?

Tong Song of the Han Dynasty asked: "Anchor, what countries are those great powers, and who are they?"

[Xiao Xiao: “There are two meanings. One is the various imperialist powers that carve up the world and have colonies around the world at the same time; the other is the various powerful countries in the world at the same time.

The United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and Belgium are the colonial empires of the old era.

The above are all Western powers, and there is only one Eastern power. ”]

When I looked up the map, I saw that they were all from Europe, except for Japan and the United States. They were all from the developed countries that had been on the list before.

More importantly, there was no Qing Dynasty among these great powers, nor was there the Republic of China.

Thinking about the future British use of this place as a tea garden, it is obvious that the later imperial courts neither had any colonies nor were they considered a powerful country. Instead, they became their own colonies.

Otherwise, Hou Debang would not have seen so many powerful people bullying dock workers when he was young.

Ding Miao of the Eastern Han Dynasty was thinking, what exactly is colonization?

[“Colonization is the process by which a great power seeks and obtains possession of economically, politically, and culturally underdeveloped areas abroad.”

The meaning of colonization may still be difficult to understand, so she searched out the encyclopedia entries and showed them what colonization, colonialism, colonialism, and the main influences are. 】

“Strong capitalist countries carry out policies of oppression, domination, enslavement and exploitation of weak countries or regions.

The main manifestations are overseas immigration, piracy-style robbery, slave trading, capital export, commodity dumping, and raw material plundering..."

While reading this passage, everyone suddenly remembered the sealed memories in their minds.

Isn’t this what Britain is doing to Africa?

The countries they knew well often robbed each other at sea, sold Africans as slaves to the Americas, and transported American ores and cheap raw materials back to Britain.

What was said at the time, the most cruel and bloody triangular trade in human history...

In later generations, many people from the great powers came to China. They had already immigrated overseas. Monopolizing soda ash was considered commodity dumping. They should have done other things as well.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, people who were involved in maritime trade thought about the pirates on the seas in Southeast Asia, and their skin trembled. Is this when they were targeted by others?

Lucky viewer No. 4, Zu Bo, is from the Tang Dynasty. Although it is no longer the Zhenguan period, the Tang Dynasty's magnanimity was also established during the Taizong period.

He didn't expect that future generations would encounter something more embarrassing than Song Dynasty.

"Will future generations also become colonies of foreign powers?"

[“It’s not a colony, it’s a semi-colony.

That is, the country is under the rule of a traitorous government and allows foreign invaders to plunder the country's human, material and financial resources.

Semi-colonies refer to countries that are formally independent but are actually dependent on imperialism in terms of economy, politics, diplomacy and national defense.

Semi-colonial countries are ruled and exploited by one or several imperialist countries, but imperialism does not directly rule such countries, but indirectly rules through the original political power of such countries. "

At this point, the little eyes drooped.

No matter how many times I think about this period of history, it is painful, humiliating and infuriating.

“In 1842, the Qing government, which lost the Opium War, signed the first unequal treaty in modern history with Britain—the Treaty of Nanjing.

The Treaty of Nanjing marked the beginning of the country's decline into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. The signing of the Xinchou Treaty in 1901 marked its complete decline into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society until the founding of the new country in 49. ”]

This means that during the 60 years of transition between these two treaties, the Qing government was a traitorous government in the definition of later generations, and it will be even more so in the future.

The emperors of the Ming Dynasty, who were closest to the Qing Dynasty, all had surprisingly ugly faces.

Foreigners are indeed foreigners. After entering the customs and conquering the Central Plains, they have no scruples in conquering the Han family!