Romanian Eagle

While Eder was waiting for the Balkan countries to pass on his ideas, a message from Germany made Eder unable to wait for the news. In Harz, Germany, they finally solved the problem of industrialization of synthetic ammonia, and now His Royal Highness is holding a telegram from Germany.

Is the Carrust news confirmed? Even if Edel received the telegram, he still confirmed to the chief of the guards.

Yes, Your Highness, this news was sent by our people around Professor Haber. It is absolutely certain.

The head guard knew why the crown prince had such an attitude. Before he saw that the crown prince attached great importance to this technology, he also studied the materials specially.

Ammonia is one of the important inorganic chemical products and occupies an important position in the national economy. Ammonia can be used to produce chemical fertilizers and can also be used as raw materials for other chemical products. Ammonia is mainly used in the manufacture of nitrogen fertilizers and compound fertilizers, such as urea, ammonium nitrate, ammonium phosphate, ammonium chloride and various nitrogen-containing compound fertilizers, which are all made from ammonia. Ammonia as industrial raw material and ammoniated feed. The main raw materials for synthetic ammonia are natural gas, naphtha, heavy oil and coal.

Now ammonia can also be used as a raw material for explosives, which is the most critical now. After watching the head of the bodyguard who has seen the effect of ammonia, it is also understandable that the crown prince takes a fancy to this technology.

How is the professor we sent studying? Edel asked.

I heard that he and Professor Haber chatted very speculatively, and he was quite popular with the Germans. The captain of the guard said the answer he knew.

The professor in the two groups was a chemist in his thirties and forties named Bolvin, who was born in Constanta, in the family of a grain merchant. He has been exceptionally smart since he was a child, and was fascinated by chemistry when he was a student, and he did many absurd things for it. For example, when I was 3 years old, I was a little obsessed with alchemy and wanted to convert gold. Later, under the strict discipline of Gabia, his chemistry teacher when he was in middle school, he gave up the evil path of alchemy and started the road of chemistry again. The chemistry teacher thought it was a pity for Bolvin to take a wrong path, so he pulled him out of his dream of being an alchemist.

In later Bolvin's own efforts, he was admitted to the University of Bucharest as a chemistry student, and four years later he went to the University of Berlin for further studies. During his seven years at the University of Berlin, he obtained a master's degree and a doctorate.

After his studies he returned to Romania and became Deputy Head of the Department of Chemistry in Bucharest. I usually teach students when I have time, and I study experiments that I am interested in at other times, and I live a leisurely life. However, when he was teaching, he often wore the lab coat to class, and he had to endure the pungent smell of chemical medicines in class, and the messy hair that had not been taken care of for a long time, the whole is a Frankenstein image.

Later, he was recommended by the headmaster Biggskeler to the chief guard who was looking for a chemist. At that time, the chief guard saw him as a lunatic at first sight. Later, the two sides talked to overthrow his idea, and he was considered a genius. Of course, when meeting Edel, how could the crown prince be so ignorant. In fact, I was mainly confused by the image of this Bolvin, the classic white coat and messy hairstyle, except that the hair and beard are not white, it is the classic shape of later Einstein, of course, the face is not similar, but still give He was impressed. After enduring the pungent smell of conversation, Eder also felt that Bolvin was a buried chemical genius, so he was sent to Germany to study, now the most important chemical synthesis of ammonia in Romania.

After escorting the fake Einstein to Professor Hartz's lab, the two men were impressed by each other's whimsical ideas and profound knowledge. The Bolvin professor in Hartz's laboratory is like a duck to water, and his life is quite moist.

However, the main contributor to the industrialization of synthetic ammonia this time is not the two of them, but the solution of Bosch, an engineer from BASF in Germany.

Before BASF saw the prospect of the synthetic ammonia industry,

Intend to purchase Professor Haber's ammonia synthesis technology for industrial improvement. During the negotiation, it was discovered that the Romanians had already taken the lead and could not leave them. This disgusted BASF, and almost failed to negotiate. However, in the face of the prospects described by the company's consultant Engel, BASF finally purchased Haber's synthetic ammonia technology and studied it together with Romania.

In terms of expenses, Romania will provide 20% of the funds, and the rest will be solved by investing in BASF. However, Romania can only use ammonia synthesis technology in its own country, and technology transfer is prohibited. After receiving the news in China, Edel immediately agreed to BASF's request. Being able to obtain the technology of synthetic ammonia before World War I is already the biggest gain. You must know that this was a top secret in Germany during World War I, and Eder was not so kind to remind the Allies. You must know that the British now monopolize the world's export of nitrate ore, and he does not want to change to live Lei Feng.

In the end, huge sums of money were invested in research and improvement on both sides. Under the suggestion of German chemist A. Mitas, BASF conducted 6,500 tests with 2,500 different catalysts last year and this year, and finally successfully developed a cheap and easily available iron containing potassium and aluminum oxides as cocatalysts. catalyst. And some problems encountered in the process of industrialization, such as the corrosion of hydrogen to steel at high temperature, the life of carbon steel ammonia synthesis reactor is only 80h, and the manufacturing method of nitrogen-hydrogen mixture for ammonia synthesis, all of which have been discussed by the company's engineers. Solved by Shi. The man named Bosch proved with facts that scientists are far less useful than engineers in the industrialization of technological products.

After getting the news that synthetic ammonia can be industrialized, Edel plans to wait for Bolvin and his party, who studied technology in Germany, to return to China and immediately start the construction of the synthetic ammonia plant. According to Eder's own estimation, the synthetic ammonia plant cannot be built with high production capacity without 20 million lei, so he intends to invest all the remaining funds of the royal family into this plant that is very important to Romania.

Now the Romanian royal family still has 43 million lei, which is more than 16 million lei left over from the previous rubber crisis, plus the balance of the Romanian royal family in the past two years. Part of the money earned by the royal family now pays off Rockefeller and Morgan's loans, part is used for daily expenses, and only a small part is saved. It needs to be specially explained here that Eder's wedding cost 8.7 million lei, which is still relatively small.

A week later, Professor Bolvin and his entourage returned to Romania, and Eder summoned the buried Romanian chemist alone.

Hello Professor Bolvin.

Edel knew that these scientists were generally not very polite, and this Professor Bolvin was one of the best, so Edel greeted the chemist first to avoid embarrassment.

Hello, His Royal Highness.

Facing the crown prince's greetings, Professor Bolvin was as casual as greeting a friend, but fortunately he remembered to add a title of His Royal Highness.

How was your trip to Germany this time?

Edel knew the professor's habits, so he couldn't help but start chatting.

Professor Bolvin, who was asked by Doudel, shared his experience in Germany. I felt very good during my time in Germany. Harper and I were very speculative. I didn't expect him and I to be alumni. We discussed various chemical problems every day, and we all proposed our own solutions. After debate, we came up with the most reasonable I feel that I have learned a lot of useful things in the past two years with Hubble, and I plan to go back to my laboratory to test my ideas.”

Hearing Professor Bolvin gushing about his achievements in Germany, Eder could only interrupt him with a question.

So what are you going to study recently?

I'm going to study pesticides. Professor Bolvin stated his goal with a serious face, and he also explained to Edel the purpose of doing so. When I was a child, I watched my father sort the grains he bought, and the grains with less pests and diseases got the first-class price, and some grains were not accepted by my father at all. Later I asked him, and my father told me that these were all grains. The pests and diseases are very serious, and if you buy them, you can't sell them. From this moment on, I want to do something for these farmers, and now I plan to develop a medicine that can kill these pests and save the food.

After listening to Professor Bolvin's thoughts, Edel certainly supported it. He saw in the report that many areas have reduced production due to pests and diseases, and a good pesticide is absolutely necessary for Romania.

Professor Bolvin, I admire your idea very much. I plan to fund you 1 million lei to realize your wish first.

Thank you to the Crown Prince for his generosity.

From the beginning, Bolvin planned to ask the crown prince for some funds to do his favorite projects, but he knew that the crown prince was generous in funding science. Before, he just had no way to do it. Now that he knows this big sponsor, he can't bear it.

After Professor Bolvin, who was funded by the crown prince, began to feel restless, Edel knew why these scientists were, and soon ended the summons, so that the professor could devote himself to his research as soon as possible.

In the following days Eder received news that Serbia and Bulgaria had signed an alliance. This lets him know that the Balkan alliance is slowly forming, and Romania's opportunity to fish in troubled waters is slowly coming, and Eder is also waiting.

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