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And now that he had met the person in person, he naturally wanted to get to the bottom of it.

"Boss, actually, the microbial sugar production method was discovered by me by accident..."

Although Zhou Tian felt strange about the arrival of Vice Minister Wang and Huang Wei, he could also see from this how much importance the higher-ups attached to this sugar factory. Upon hearing this, he did not hide anything and directly explained the method of making sugar with microorganisms one by one.

Listening to Zhou Tian's words, Deputy Minister Wang was confused. Although he knew every word Zhou Tian said and understood every sentence, when they were put together it sounded like a mystery to him.

Extracting microorganisms from starch and cultivating bacteria through high temperatures, all of these things seemed so strange and far-fetched to him.

Huang Wei, on the other hand, listened with great interest. Not only did he occasionally ask some targeted and incisive questions, he also continued to discuss the cultivation and reproduction of bacterial strains with Zhou Tian.

Just when Vice Minister Wang was getting a little sleepy, Zhou Tian and Huang Wei finally finished their discussion and agreed to work together to study the method of producing sugar using microorganisms.

After seeing Zhou Tian off, Deputy Minister Wang couldn't wait to look at Huang Wei.

"How about Lao Huang? Is Zhou Tian's method feasible?"

"feasible!"

Huang Wei nodded excitedly and said, "Dean Zhou's method of producing sugar with microorganisms has opened up a new field of chemical biology. If we continue to develop along this line of thought, not to mention millions of tons, even tens of millions of tons is not a dream!"

"What do you mean tens of millions of tons? Old Huang, are you telling the truth?"

Now Vice Minister Wang lost his composure and asked anxiously.

"Of course it's true, Minister Wang, don't underestimate the microbial sugar production method. As long as the bacteria reproduce quickly, it will be no problem to solve the problem of sugar consumption for all our citizens! What's more, the current international sugar production is insufficient. If we can export our sugar, we can get a huge amount of foreign exchange, which is much more profitable than exporting agricultural products!"

Huang Wei said with a serious expression.

"Okay, since you are sure, Old Huang, let's start building a sugar factory in Heihe tomorrow!"

Deputy Minister Wang clenched his fist excitedly.

The next day, Deputy Minister Wang took Zhou Tian and Huang Wei to survey the terrain in Heihe. Finally, the three of them chose a piece of wasteland not far from the boiler factory.

A total of thousands of acres. It can be said that when Zhou Tian chose Vice Minister Wang, even though he had anticipated that the scale of the sugar factory would be very large, he did not expect that the investment would be so huge.

Such a huge factory would not be able to operate if it did not have 20,000 workers.

Soon after the decision was made, Vice Minister Wang contacted the Heihe government in the afternoon and began to level the wasteland. At the same time, in order to start construction as soon as possible, several people also contacted the local garrison engineering corps to move in and began large-scale development.

The total number of manpower invested in the wasteland alone reached 20,000.

After finishing this matter, Vice Minister Wang returned to Sijiu City, leaving only Zhou Tian and Huang Wei to continue discussing the issue of optimizing the strain extraction. At the same time, for the purpose of experiment, after the boiler factory built the microbial culture furnace, the two set up a simple laboratory in Director Xu's boiler factory. The boiler factory provided crops such as straw and potatoes, and began the strain extraction operation.

Under Zhou Tian's deliberate guidance, in less than five days, the two extracted the bacteria from the starch.

Now all that’s left is the reproduction and cultivation of the bacteria.

"Dean Zhou, what should we do next?"

Huang Wei looked at the slightly whitish bacteria in front of him and asked happily. He never expected that the two of them would be able to extract the bacteria so smoothly and without failure even once.

He had originally prepared for a long battle, but who would have thought that the extraction of the bacteria would be unexpectedly successful!

"Professor Huang, next we should put the bacteria into the incubator and observe the changes of the bacteria at various temperatures, so as to select the temperature that is most conducive to the reproduction of the bacteria!"

Zhou Tian had already conducted several experiments in his brain space, so he was naturally very clear about the next steps.

"Let's start the cultivation furnace now!"

When Huang Wei heard that the next experiment was so simple, he immediately urged.

"Okay! Let's go!"

Seeing Huang Wei so anxious, Zhou Tian smiled, and took Huang Wei to the cultivation furnace, then added some culture solution he had prepared, and put the bacteria in.

The two of them then began to heat up the incubation furnace.

However, when the experiment reaches this stage, the microbial sugar production method actually relies on recording temperature changes and observing the reproduction rate of the bacteria.

At this time, Zhou Tian actually had the idea of ​​leaving. After all, he had been in Heihe for quite a long time. Originally, he came to Heihe just to build a fungus culture furnace.

But who could have known that such a big disturbance would be caused by a moment of weakness. Now that Huang Wei is here, based on the other party's knowledge and his detailed explanation of Huang Wei, in fact, with or without him, the cultivation of the bacteria will not change at all.

Seeing that it was almost July, it was time for him to go back to the fertilizer factory, complete his task as soon as possible, and return to the old city as soon as possible.

Thinking about his five children, his younger brothers and sisters, and his beautiful wife, he suddenly had no intention of staying in Heihe anymore.

Huang Wei was naturally aware of Zhou Tian's actions. When he saw Zhou Tian fidgeting, Huang Wei could no longer hold back and asked curiously, "President Zhou, what's wrong with you?"

Facing Huang Wei's question, Zhou Tian told Huang Wei his thoughts without hiding anything, and finally said with a wry smile: "In fact, I have been out for such a long time, which has already exceeded the time I set for myself. To be honest, I also know that my behavior is a bit inappropriate, but I can't control it!"

"Hahahaha, Dean Zhou, when I was in the Mechanical Department, I heard many colleagues say that you are a homebody, but I didn't expect you to be so homebody. But it's good this way. After all, only homebody can love their country more. Besides, you are still young, so it's normal for you to be so homebody. How about this, since we have reached the stage of strain cultivation, why don't you just do your thing first! I'll be watching here, as long as you believe in me!"

Huang Wei couldn't help laughing after hearing Zhou Tian's words. In fact, the rumor about Zhou Tian's homesickness was not only spread in the scientific research community, but also among the upper echelons. Otherwise, the higher-ups would not have allowed him to stay in Sijiu City just to take care of his emotions.

But now, in his opinion, Zhou Tian is no longer a scientist. If his achievements are ignored, he is obviously still a child. It is just his contribution to the country that makes everyone sometimes forget that he is only 21 years old this year!