I went around the arsenal at night, and when I got up the next day to look at it again, I said that Zhang Huanrong was here, and this guy didn't know how to change his name at this time, and removed the Huan in the middle of the name, and said that he would be called Zhang Rong from now on.

"Sir!" Zhang Rong shouted when he saw Yang Rui from a distance, a little bowing his head. From the previous admiration to the current sincere convincing, Zhang Rong has completely become Yang Rui's diehard.

"Haha, Yin Hua." Yang Rui smiled like a big man, "No, I should call you Lord Zhang." ”

Zhang Rong is now a martial arts hall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, what is it called, anyway, the official has reached the fourth grade, and the cow is very. The original official was not so big, and later Zengqi helped him say not to say good things before the end of the Russo-Japanese Mukden War was dismissed by the imperial court General Sheng Jing, and Prince Qing bought a staff leader according to the marked price, and finally Li Lianying found an opportunity to tell Cixi about the "merits" of this "own child" in Liaodong, so the three-pronged Zhang Rong's official was immediately promoted, and Qi Qingyuan only got a broken pipe, but this is nothing, and the official of the Manchu Qing Dynasty will not be long in office.

Zhang Rong saw Yang Rui calling him an adult, and he was so anxious that he immediately knelt down and swore an oath, Yang Rui hurriedly stepped forward to help him up, and said with a smile: "Yin Hua don't want to be like this, I'm talking about playing, don't take it seriously." ”

Zhang Rong was relieved to see that Yang Rui was serious, he was still a little excited when he first became an official of the imperial court, but as soon as he entered the officialdom, the edges and corners of young people may not be used to the old habits of officialdom. In fact, in Yang Rui's view, an innocent boy like him is still very reliable after being attracted by the revolution, at least his family background makes him not confused by fame and fortune, and at the same time, he entered the Qing camp, and his revolutionary will will not change within a few years, of course. If there is a decade or eight years, once the will wears off, then the situation is different.

"What is the situation in the official situation now? Zeng Qi was dismissed, how about the new Tingjie? Yang Rui asked.

"Tingjie is just a nodding man, whatever Jingnei says, he will say anything, and he can't resist the Japanese at all. Listening to the palace said, it seems that Zhao Erxun, the head of the household department, is going to be transferred to be the general of Shengjing. "Zhang Rong's Han Qi was born, and the family relationship is mostly in Beijing, so he is very well-informed when he enters the officialdom.

"Zhao Erxun? What kind of person is this? Yang Rui asked.

"This person is a blue flag of the Han army. is from the imperial history, and he has impeached Zuo Zongtang before, and his style is quite good. Before serving as the head of the household department, he was the governor of Hunan. Although he is an old-fashioned character, he advocates new learning. And it is reported that the official voice is also very good. Zhang Rong inquired about the general situation of this person.

"Imperial history, that's the Qingliu lineage. I also learned a new way. I'm afraid it's not easy to deal with. "Clear streams are not easy to deal with. Yang Rui couldn't help but worry, if Zengqi hadn't been demolished by the Russians and Japanese, he wouldn't have been able to get down, no matter how good this straw bag is, just give money. "Let's wait until someone else comes." Yang Rui said, "How are you doing that now?" And the Japanese, I heard that they have been getting a little fierce lately? ”

"The group exercises are already being held. Liaodong is doing well, but there are already many insurance teams in Liaoning, and the progress is not good. Zhang Rong picked up the most important and said, "The coal mine is also being cleaned up." The Russians destroyed all the machines before they retreated, and the mine was filled with water, and it took us days to pump it out. ”

"The Russians are virtuous, and that's how they retreated when Napoleon attacked Russia before." Yang Rui didn't take the Fushun coal mine seriously, especially now that the Japanese occupy the railway, and the coal can't be transported. "Tell me what the Japanese have been doing lately."

"The Japanese are exploring all over Liaodong, roads, rivers, forests, minerals, and people are all under investigation, and the mountains and forests of Liaodong are all on the list, and every village in Liaoyang and other places has a village card, which records a number of household registrations in the village, a number of soldiers who can live in the village, whether there are infectious diseases, and the quality of water sources, all kinds of things, extremely fine." When Zhang Rong said this, he was still a little frightened and asked, "Sir, this Japanese won't bring Fengtian to Japan, right?" ”

Hearing him say this, Yang Rui was strange and asked, "Is this your guess or did someone say so?" ”

"Some people say this, I see that the Japanese are investigating so carefully, and their intentions are extremely ill."

"No, it won't. North Korea is like that, he hasn't swallowed it yet, let alone Mukden. However," Yang Rui turned back to Chen Guangshou and said, "Write down this rumor, go back and make it up and send it out." Chen Guangshou was busy writing it down.

"But the Japanese ......" didn't say that the Japanese were okay before, but now Zhang Rong is indignant." At present, in order to prevent people from going to Dalian instead of Yingkou, the Japanese restrict the Chinese from taking cars, and only 100 invoices are issued every day in Yingkou, which can be ...... But the Japanese threw all the tickets on the ground and watched the Chinese scramble for fun, which was extremely insulting. It's really ......" (Note 1)

Zhang Rong said indignantly, Yang Rui's mind could immediately imagine the scene of the wolf bèi watching the Chinese lying on the ground to grab tickets, but he just breathed a sigh of relief, and then said: "Yin Hua, this is China." The 550,000 pieces of wood in Dadonggou were also collected by the Japanese as Russians. More than two million taels said that there was no none, and in the end, after several negotiations, Japan gave less than one percent of the money, and the businessmen begged again, and what did Japan say, they said, 'You are all the people of the dead country, and it is already a great gift to be alive', but the businessmen can't, so they have to do so. China under the Manchus was like this, the Russians were gone, the Japanese were coming, and none of them were good. (Note 2)

After Yang Rui finished speaking, he looked at Zhang Rong and still had an atmosphere, and said, "Our anti-Qing Dynasty is not to let Chinese dogs lie on the ground to grab tickets, and not to let the goods of Chinese people be confiscated inexplicably. To achieve this, we must first overthrow the Manchu Qing, our task is very heavy, you must not relax on the side of the Qing camp, you must always be vigilant. In the future, when the revolution is made and the whole country responds, the Northeast can take the opportunity to start an incident. ”

Yang Rui's timely ideological education made Zhang Rong's revolutionary will stronger, and he nodded heavily, "Sir, don't worry, I will definitely protect myself well, and leave a useful body to wait for the success of the revolution." ”

Seeing him like this, Yang Rui nodded with relief at the moment, and then asked someone to send him out, but as soon as he closed the door and turned around, he kicked the table where the tea cup was placed and scolded: "Little Japan with grass and mud horses!" He grabbed the chair with one hand, threw it into the corner, and scolded: "Fuck your little Japan!" Then he pulled out the Japanese sword captured in the previous fierce battle and began to chop indiscriminately. Every split is a curse. Chen Guangshou was about to send someone back to see Yang Rui going crazy, and he was not surprised, and he was busy standing at the door on guard.

In the next few days, Yang Rui was in a state of excitement, he had been in the barracks before, seeing more and more teams, his expression was excited, and after coming to Tonghua, he saw that the factory was basically completed, and the arsenal also had a spectrum. I can't help but feel proud. But now when he heard what Zhang Rong said, he felt that what he had done was insignificant to a country, so he couldn't help but work hard, thinking only about how to succeed in the revolution as soon as possible and let New China stand up as soon as possible. The Russo-Japanese naval battle, which had been of great concern earlier, was also ignored. India's gold rush and London's earnings were only a few figures and thrown aside, and he was now wondering if the revolution would have been launched sooner. On a blank piece of paper, write down the various numbers of the Revival Society itself. But after writing and then calculating, I had to draw all the plans and think again.

Although the revival will look infinite now, its strength is very weak, and it is good to occupy one or two provinces, with enough guns, enough money, and enough people and dogs. But once it is rolled out, it will be a drop in the bucket, especially for military officers, civilian officials and technical personnel. Ten years of trees, a hundred years of people, anything can be bought, but talents can't buy it. After a few days of thinking, Yang Rui only came to such a conclusion. Once he had this figured out, he began to draft a plan for the expansion of the Education Association.

When Yang Rui was crazy in the house, Du Yaquan didn't come, but he came in the afternoon of this day, seeing that the door was still closed, Du Yaquan said: "Is it still not good?" ”

"Hmm." Chen Guangshou shook his head helplessly, he only felt that Mr. seemed to be more and more emotional, more and more easily angry, he had never seen this situation when he was in Shanghai before, very few in South Africa, only Taiyan and Wei Dan were angry when they were arrested, but when they arrived in the Northeast, they had to get angry from time to time, but the danger was not big, they were all stuffy in the house and smashed things.

"Hey!" Du Yaquan patted his thigh, he really didn't know what to do, "When you look back and wait until you don't get angry, tell him that Mr. Huafeng is back, and now it's ......"

Before Du Yaquan finished speaking, Yang Rui's average voice came from the room, "Is it Brother Qiufan?" Is Mr. Huafeng back? ”

Du Yaquan was very stunned, he glanced at Chen Guangshou inquiringly, and saw him nodding, before pushing the door into the house, and said: "Yes, Mr. Huafeng arrived in the morning, he heard that you are in Erdaojiang, he is very happy, he is going to say to see you, I am afraid of ......."

Du Yaquan said that only then did he find that the house was in a mess, an unsheathed Japanese sword was placed in Yang Rui's hand, and the ground was full of some broken wood and broken porcelain, he had never seen Yang Rui's abnormal appearance, and he was very surprised.

Yang Rui saw that he was surprised, but he first put the Japanese knife into the sheath, then got up and said with a smile: "There are too many injustices in the world, and after hearing about it, the atmosphere has nowhere to vent, so I have to take some furniture and porcelain bowls to vent my anger." Hey, it's not easy to be a home, it's not easy to build! ”

Du Yaquan was stunned when he heard this, but he instantly understood what Yang Rui meant, and immediately dressed up and said: "It has become a model for my generation." "It's a salute.

Yang Rui saw that he didn't think of himself as a psychopath, but solemnly, and just as he was about to speak, he shook his head, "Hey." Don't say it, don't say it. It's not just worrying, it's also sad, so let's do what we can first. ”

Xu Huafeng since last April to go to the United States, then to Germany, and then back to China, it is the whole world has gone around the circle, when he arrived in Germany and Rheinmetall to sign a contract, he is busy, the most important thing is to choose equipment for synthetic ammonia, open a factory - German industrial development, advanced smelting technology, put synthetic ammonia in Germany to buy what parts, what equipment, a few days, ten days at most a month can be done, if in China, even if you buy a part in Shanghai, it will take a few months or even longer. In addition to synthetic ammonia, sulfonamides, diesel engines (or hot ball machines), as well as smelting technology, machine qì processing technology is also the focus of the investigation, this time Xu Huafeng came back, the first three have already achieved results, as for the others, it is left Zhong Guanguan and his nephew, Xu Jianyin's youngest son Xu Shangwu two people presided, one is responsible for chemistry, one is responsible for Gewu.

As soon as Yang Rui saw Xu Huafeng, he felt that he was a lot older, and couldn't help but make a big gesture: "Mr. Huafeng has worked hard!" ”

Xu Huafeng is not accustomed to the water and soil in Germany, and at the same time is responsible for the research and development follow-up of various projects, which is really tiring. However, everything has been done, and it is worth it. He saw that Yang Rui's spirit was still very uplifted, and he laughed loudly: "Hey." I eat well and sleep well in the West every day, just like you work hard in the ravines. He raised his hand and said, "This Tonghua New City was a tidal flat before, and it can have the scale it has today." You've done a lot of work. ”

Xu Huafeng's words praised everyone, and everyone laughed. Only after a few people sat down, Yang Rui said, "Is it okay to be constitutional?" ”

Zhong Guanguan's illness Du Yaquan also knew, and when he heard this, he also looked at Xu Huafeng, Xu Huafeng smiled: "Okay, very good!" When the factory was first built, the Germans saw that we refused to recruit German workers, and only used the students they brought with them, so they made trouble at the factory gate every day. At this time, his illness began to attack, and then after the installation of the machine, the operation was very unstable, and the ammonia came out very little, and he was bleeding rapidly. "Speaking of which. Xu Huafeng sighed, "Xian Hu's temperament is too anxious and meticulous. I think a lot. Sometimes he pulls the students to work in the middle of the night, and he will get sick if he doesn't get sick. ”

Xu Huafeng just sighed, and Du Yaquan was puzzled: "Then is it okay now?" ”

"Alright. In the future, as long as he is not in a hurry, he will be fine. On that day, he escaped from the foreigner medical hall as soon as he heard that the trial operation was successful. Haha......" Speaking of this, Xu Huafeng stroked his beard and laughed, as if remembering the situation when he was successful that day.

What Xu Huafeng said made Yang Rui breathe a sigh of relief, but he was still not at ease, at the beginning when he was developing MSG in the scientific instrument tube. He knew that Zhong Guanguan was a lifeless person, and he was not in a hurry to do things, but his temperament was too urgent, and doing research and development was more difficult than doing revolution, and he would have an accident sooner or later, thinking of this, Yang Rui said: "I will write to him!" Someone has to take care of him over there, otherwise his body will still collapse. ”

Xu Huafeng nodded, he also knew that Zhong Guanguan's temperament was like that, but now the projects carried out in Germany are all Gewu, Zhong Guanguan is studying at the University of Berlin every day, I am afraid that he can recuperate for a while.

"Yesterday, Brother Xianting said that even if the synthesis of ammonia is completed, it is difficult to regenerate nitric acid from ammonia, but without nitric acid, the gunpowder is afraid of ......" After talking about personnel, after everyone walked away, Yang Rui couldn't help but talk about the worries of that day, the chemistry book did not say how to get this, he was very worried that there was no ammonia synthesis nitric acid technology in this era.

"Don't worry. The method of synthesizing nitric acid from ammonia has been solved by the German Ostwald. Patents have been applied for a few years earlier. Xu Huafeng said. It's just that...... This patent has always been in the hands of the German people, and I am not good to go and negotiate the purchase, but I have done it according to the method he said. This method can produce dilute nitric acid, and then dehydration can be concentrated nitric acid. ”

Xu Huafeng solved Yang Rui's worries with a word, and he smiled: "Okay! We produce in the mountains, we don't need any patents, if you want to buy them......" Yang Rui couldn't help but think of Germany's defeat in World War I, since it was defeated, don't buy it, just use it. "I don't buy it, we make it ourselves."

The commercial value of the synthetic ammonia project is huge, if it is combined with the Hou's alkali method mentioned by Yang Rui before, it will have a subversive impact on the world's soda market, even if it does not produce caustic soda, only nitric acid, then it is much cheaper than using saltpeter sulfuric acid method. In addition to R&D and equipment investment, the only raw materials needed for ammonia synthesis are coke, water and air, which are extremely cheap.

Yang Rui's meaning Xu Huafeng understood, that is, this technology will not be commercialized first. He thought for a while and said, "If that's the case, then we have to buy a large amount of platinum first, and ......" Speaking of this, Xu Huafeng stopped, he was doing the research and development of synthetic ammonia, but he didn't understand what to do after the research and development was completed, and now I heard Yang Rui say that it is not used for commerce, and it should be produced secretly, but it can be produced secretly, then, "dilute nitric acid can be synthesized with ammonia, but it must be dehydrated into concentrated nitric acid, I am afraid that I will see a sulfuric acid plant again, or ......"

After thinking for a moment, Xu Huafeng still shook his head and said, "Let's build a sulfuric acid plant." However, the procurement of raw materials is afraid that it will be known to outsiders. "The iron ore in Qidaogou is not pyrite, and the raw material for sulfuric acid can only be sulfur.

Xu Huafeng said, Yang Rui also pondered, "There is no need to buy, Changbai Mountain is a volcano, there is a lot of sulfur, and the sulfur used in black powder is local." All we need to do is build a sulfuric acid plant. ”

The matter seems to have been settled, and all that is needed is to build an additional sulfuric acid plant. Yang Rui was very satisfied with this, but Xu Huafeng had been thinking about something, and after a while he said: "Actually, this synthetic ammonia may not only be used in the military industry, now our equipment conversion rate can reach one percent, such cheap ammonia can actually be used for farming?" The current production of ammonia in the West is made by electric shock, and the price of ammonia is too expensive, and the people cannot afford it. ”

The significance of synthetic ammonia for agriculture Yang Rui knows that it is normal for rice to yield 1,000 catties per mu in later generations, but in this era. The yield of paddy fields per mu is four or five hundred catties, and the yield of two or three hundred catties per mu of dry fields is the limit, in addition to the relationship between seeds and pesticides, the nitrogen in nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium is the most important, if it is a large-scale production of nitrogen fertilizer, then the growth of China's agricultural output value will be extremely terrifying, however, this thing Yang Rui is used for another purpose.

"Mr. Huafeng, there is a way that the husband is not guilty and guilty. Once synthetic ammonia is known to the outside world, then don't say that we can't keep it, even the Manchu court can't keep it. Now the best way is to produce gunpowder first, and at the same time improve the process, and when the revolution succeeds, we will build hundreds of ammonia plants, what do you think? "Yang Rui couldn't explain to him the use of this thing. That's all I can say.

Xu Huafeng didn't dare to ask Ostwald to buy a patent for ammonia synthesis of nitric acid before, because he was afraid that Ostwald would infer that he already had a mature ammonia synthesis process based on this. Of course. Ordinary foreigners will not believe that Chinese can develop such sophisticated technology, but what if? Xu Huafeng has a lot of experience and is very sophisticated, so he only dares to secretly study according to public information.

"What about sulfonamides?" Xu Huafeng asked another militaristic weapon, he knew the meaning of this thing completely.

"Sulfonamides?" Yang Rui frowned and said, "At this time, let's also seal it for your own use." ”

Hearing that Yang Rui was sealed again, Xu Hua was in a hurry. "Actually, this is a life-saving thing, once it is sealed, it will be ......" Xu Huafeng really couldn't say any words, and finally only said: "But there is a dry heaven and a peace!" ”

"Mr. Hua Feng. By sealing, I mean not to be used for the time being, not to say that it will never be used in the future. Yang Rui knows that intellectuals in this era have a benevolent heart, especially people like Xu Huafeng, who have been focusing on technology, and they are even more simple.

"So why can't it be used externally now? Even if it is to make money, then the price can be raised, if the foreigners threaten us, then we can not sell to the country, even, we secretly make it in the mountains and forests, transport it to Shanghai and then sell it, is this not okay? Xu Huafeng was still puzzled.

Xu Huafeng was right, but Yang Rui still shook his head, "Mr. Huafeng, once sulfonamide is sold, will the foreigners copy it?" ”

Xu Huafeng didn't think of this, but he said: "Then even if it is sold in the future, foreigners will copy it?" ”

"Yes. I know that foreigners will imitate good things as long as they see them. The production process of sulfonamide is not complicated, as long as you understand its composition, it is not difficult to make it. Yang Rui has been thinking about this matter for a long time, and he doesn't want to elaborate on the reason if he doesn't talk about it, "But, what if we choose a foreigner who can't imitate it?" For example, when the war in Europe began, we built factories on a large scale before the war, and we began to sell them when the war reached a certain point, so that even if the foreigners wanted to imitate it, it was too late, and at that time the battlefield was waiting to save lives, and only we had a large number of goods, so even if the foreigners imitated it was not afraid. After the war, when we have earned the money, we can lower its price, so that the money we can earn can be used by the country and benefit all sentient beings. ”

Yang Rui said loudly, but although Xu Huafeng understood the European war in Europe, he still shook his head, modern business ideas and Confucianism are incompatible with moral concepts, especially Yang Rui's practice of making war money is taking advantage of the fire in his opinion. He said, "How much money are you going to make in the war in Europe?" ”

Yang Rui didn't feel his disappointment, he was only thinking about how much money he could make in the first war, remembering that Japan earned one billion at that time, "If China does well, it can have two billion." ”

"What?" Xu Huafeng didn't understand the unit Yang Rui was talking about.

"Two hundred thousand." Yang Rui said according to the current unit, and added, "This is a qiē all shun lì case, I think there must be at least 150,000." ”

Xu Huafeng was taken aback by this number, and his beard was pinched off twice, "How can there be so many?" ”

"There will be. Pig iron, merchant ships, explosives, sulfonamides, as well as bristles, tung oil, and mineral sands. It adds up to what it will be. Yang Rui counted with his fingers, "The money lost in the past depends on this recovery, as well as the future construction of railways, schools, factories, water conservancy, etc., etc., all the money is here, so synthetic ammonia and sulfonamides must not be leaked before the war in Europe." ”

"But what if there was no war in Europe?" Xu Huafeng was excited just now, but now he calmed down and found that Yang Rui's 200,000 was built on the basis of the European war.

"There will be. Mr. Huafeng, there will be. Yang Rui looked at him and couldn't help laughing. (To be continued......)

PS: Note 1: The truth of the matter is zài, which comes from the conversation of Zhao Erxun, the general of Shengjing

Note 2: The truth of the matter is zài, and the original sentence of the Japanese official is: You and others are all the people of the country, and you have to protect your life, so why not measure it yourself.