As Zhong had predicted, the negotiations in the following days went very smoothly, and Zeppelin was at the lowest point in his life, and it was only two years later that the airship numbered LZ4 was burned down in front of hundreds of thousands of spectators, when people were shocked by the tragedy, and uninvited citizens enthusiastically donated about six million marks, which brought his business back to life.

The contract stipulates that Zhong Guanguan, as Party A, will fund the construction of six airships, and Zeppelin, as Party B, will be responsible for providing technology and command construction, and Party A will be responsible for the cost of materials, and as for the remuneration, each airship will pay Party B between 100,000 and 200,000 marks, and the key to the remuneration is whether the next airship is an improvement over the previous one. From a fair point of view, this move is more beneficial to Zeppelin, because he can borrow Chinese money to realize his dream, once these six airships are finished, then when he makes zuò airships, the mature technology will make him invincible. At this o'clock, sightseeing actually understands, but this is also the best way for him to reduce costs, and at this time, the airship is the same as the airplane, the technology is not fully mature, if you want to have a better airship, you have to invest in research, he wants goods, and Zeppelin wants experience, it can be said that it is a hit.

When everything was decided, Zhong Guanguan and Xu Shangwu left Lake Constance under the Earl's warm farewell, and what he wanted most now was to return to the research laboratory in Berlin as soon as possible to see the progress of aluminum alloy research. Yang Rui's attention to chemistry and metallurgy is higher than other majors, chemistry can make money, and metallurgy is the basis for the realization of many weapons, or rather. Materials are the foundation of science and technology, and many times it is not ideas that restrict technology, but materials that restrict technology. As an aluminium alloy for aviation, it is the focus of attention of Zhong Kankan in Germany. However, he searched all the metallurgists in Germany and did not find anyone with the surname Dura--Yang Rui saw Dura-aluminum in the novel, and thought that Dura-aluminum was invented by a person named Dura--In the end, he had to search for papers in European scientific journals to find people who were studying aluminum alloys.

The effort paid off, and Zhong Guanguan found a number of metallurgists who were working on aluminum, and among them, he was most interested in Wilm of the Neu-Babelsberg Research Center. Alfred. He discovered the problem of increasing the hardness of aluminum-copper alloy at room temperature three years ago, although this was not the aluminum-magnesium alloy that Yang Rui wanted, but he saw that the HB hardness mentioned in the paper reached 90. So he contacted this person named Wilm, but Wilm was now engaged in a research commissioned by the German military, and did not accept Zhong's funding, so he had to do his own research.

Zeppelin's airship base on Lake Constance is near Zurich. It is eight or nine hundred kilometers from here to Berlin. By the time Zhong Guan had returned to Berlin, a week later, as soon as he arrived in the real room, Knabey, a former arms broker, approached him. He didn't make any more deals after that arms business, and in the end he became a complete supernumerary member of the Reconstruction Society in Germany, and he was involved in many things that Zhong Guanguan was not easy to handle, and of course, the trouble of using him was nothing more than bargaining every time. You just can't let him touch the money.

"Bell, bell. Good news! Kebena shouted as soon as he saw Zhong Guanguan, and laughed more than a fox.

"What's the matter?" Zhong Guanguan was about to enter the real yàn room, and he didn't have time to pay attention to him.

"Remember the Wilm you said earlier, he's changed his mind now. He was willing to persuade the center to transfer the results of the aluminum alloy. Kebena was very pleased to see Zhong Guan's rapid footsteps stop, only to hear Zhong Guanguan look at him and say, "Is this true?" ”

"It's totally true." "His research failed, no, I mean the military's research failed," he laughed. The kind of thing that was researched could not withstand the high temperatures when the bullet was fired, so ...... He plans to patent the research and then sell it. ”

Wilm's research was actually commissioned by the military to find a bullet raw material that could replace copper, although the hardness of aluminum-copper alloy can meet the requirements, but the melting point of the alloy is only more than 600 degrees, and it cannot be used in bullets at all, and the materials that cannot be used on bullets are completely suitable for airships. How much is he going to sell? ”

"Yes, he meant that, because this alloy was destined to be unusable for bullets, so the research center was ready to abandon this research direction, and Mr. Wilm's originally wanted to continue research, but it required an investment of his own time and money, so he was ready to sell it." Kebena hadn't made a lot of money for a long time, and when he saw Zhong Guanguan's appearance, his eyes couldn't help but flash Mark's shadow again.

And Zhong Guanguan didn't care about these, the research of alloys can not be solved in a year or two, even if you can use the exhaustive to synthesize alloys, but the smelting steps and fusion processes can not be studied immediately, basic research is time and money, it is completely a way to find a needle in a haystack, only a very few lucky people can deserve it, and now people have studied the results, and the airship is about to be built, why not pay for it? This aluminum-copper alloy, which is harder than steel and has a density of only one-third of steel, will make the structure of the airship stronger and lighter, and it is conceivable that the airship made of this material will be faster and lighter.

"Go! Buy it. Zhong Guanguan said, seeing that Knabey wanted to mention the honorarium, he immediately said: "I will pay the honorarium according to the highest standard, the key is that you have to get all the research materials." It would even be better to let Mr. Wilm continue this research, and we can cover the cost of the research. ”

"As you wish, sir." Kebena immediately laughed when he heard that it was the highest honorarium, and hurried away after saying that.

After Zhong Guanguan watched him go away, he turned around a few times in a daze before he remembered that he was going to enter the real yàn room. When he went inside, Xu Jiayu was smelting the alloy of a new formula in the alloy room, and he didn't want to disturb, just watched from the side.

Although it was already winter, the temperature next to the smelting furnace was still extremely high, and Xu Baoyu, who was wearing asbestos gloves for full body protection, was standing far away by the crucible, carefully pressing a section of magnesium into the molten metal that had melted with a bell jar. The temperature of the metal solution exceeds 1,000 degrees, and as soon as the magnesium comes into contact with the molten metal, it will burst into flames. It burned violently, but Xu Baoyu's movements were quite fast, and as soon as the magnesium block caught fire, he pressed it into the bottom end of the metal solution, and then under the stirring of the refining spoon, the magnesium block also fused into a liquid and mixed with the molten metal.

Zhong Guanguan saw this and knew that he couldn't finish it for a while, so he went out. Half an hour later, Xu Baoyu came over and asked, "Mr. Xianfeng, are you looking for me?" "Xu Baoyu is actually the eldest son of Xu Jiabao, who is in charge of the Tonghua Arsenal. Xu Jianyin's grandson, since Xu Huafeng joined the revival association, a large group of the Xu family has come over.

"Yes. I didn't bother you when I saw you busy just now. Why, how's that alloy researched now? "Zhong Guanguan liked this young man very much. Said kindly.

"It's going to take a lot of time." Xu Baoyu has a beautiful face. But there was a bit of a mu in his speech, which couldn't help but make Zhong Guanguan think of what Xu Huafeng said before: "You can't be smart in learning things." ’

"Now there is news from the Germans, because what has been researched is not suitable, and they are ready to sell what has been researched with it." Zhong Guanguan said with a smile.

But Xu Baoyu was not happy at all, scientific research is like an exam, and now buying the information of the Germans is equivalent to cheating, he opened his mouth and wanted to speak. Suddenly, another thing came to mind, and he said, "Xian is now." This aluminum-copper alloy still has a problem, that is, it is not corrosion-resistant, I went to see the alloy made last year, and found that it is oxidized badly, and this formula is afraid that it still needs to be improved, especially with copper added to it, although the hardness is increased, but it is not corrosion-resistant. ”

Things seem to have taken a turn for the worse, and the things I thought about before can finally be obtained, but I can't think of it being easy to use at all, Zhong Guanguan said urgently, "Really? Why didn't you find it before? ”

"Mr. Xian, everyone didn't pay attention to it before, generally just measure the hardness and density of the alloy after fusion, and then do some other real products, because it is not iron, although there is a corrosive real energy, but it is not naturally oxidized in the air, so I only found it now." Corrosion takes a lot of time, and the basic focus is on the hardness, strength, tensile and other parameters of the alloy before the real room, and there is less attention to the natural oxidation of the alloy.

"What then?" Thinking of this clock sightseeing is a little boring, it is difficult to find a suitable material, but it is not used. Fortunately, it was discovered early, and if such an airship was built, it would fall from the sky.

Some people are afraid of falling from the sky, but Lin Wenqian, the acting governor of the military government in the silver mine cave in Chun'an County, Yanzhou, can't wait to fly into the sky. After that morning in Hangzhou, the Zhejiang Front Army was divided into three parts, one was the large army that fled to Yanzhou according to the plan after the collapse, the other was the remnants of the main force that fled to Taihu Lake after the main force was encircled and suppressed, and finally the Shaoxing militia of several hundred people led by Tao Chengzhang. Although Yang Rui issued an order for them to assemble in Yanzhou, the troops from both places did not come. On the other side of Taihu Lake, because this place was originally the nest of a group of soldiers, they had a sense of security in Taihu Lake, and after the troops were encircled and suppressed, the establishment had been chaotic, and a small number of officers and soldiers who were loyal to the Fuxing Society did not have an advantage and could not influence the actions of the large army, so they did not come. At first, Tao Chengzhang was because there were many locals in Shaoxing and didn't want to come over, but the Qing soldiers chased after him so much that it was too late to come.

The two troops are Lin Wenqian's heart, but they haven't come, and now it's winter, the grass and trees everywhere are withering, it is a good time to encircle and suppress, Taihu Lake has been chased can't do it, judging from yesterday's telegram, it is difficult to say whether this army can survive today.

"This unit still needs to be reorganized!" After Lin Wenqian was anxious in his heart, he couldn't help but spit out such a sentence. "If you don't do it, you have to lose the battle!"

"Huh. Have you changed your temper too? Zhang Chengyue looked at him and laughed, the headquarters issued twenty-two documents for all members and soldiers to study, Lin Wenqian didn't take it seriously, what he wanted most now was salt, cotton, medicine, and bullets...... I can't get enough of what I want. After all, now there are more than 6,000 troops in the army, but the conditions are extremely difficult.

"Hey! I used to think that raising the flag would be the opposite of the world, but now I finally know what it's like to kill elephants with ants. Lin Wenqian patted his thigh, regretting his original appearance. Those Qing soldiers are not as good as our militia. It's that the fourth town is harder, but it's also unsuitable, if you fight one by one. We have already been to Hangzhou. ”

Hearing that Lin Wenqian was going to Hangzhou, Zhang Chengyue smiled and said: "Fighting a war is not a momentary bravery. Unless we take down the capital and serve the tartars in one pot. Otherwise, that's the situation. Now they are using the power of the whole country to attack Yanzhou, even if they don't fight, they will trap you to death. Beiyang wants to have the same heart with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and this Yanzhou will really not be able to hold it. ”

In the entire army, Zhang Chengyue only dared to say this to Lin Wenqian, and after he finished speaking, he said: "You also have to write a study summary here, if you don't take the lead in handing it in, others will not be motivated." ”

"Okay. I'll deliver! Lin Wenqian said neatly, "I will also let everyone else hand it over when we have a meeting tomorrow." ”

The purge began in Shanghai, and in addition to the scientific research system. Members of all systems are studying the texts issued by the headquarters. Yang Rui still retains some leeway for the scientific research system, knowing that the purge is a kind of brainwashing process, and if the scientific researchers wash their brains, then what kind of research and development will patriotism engage in every day in the future.

In the plan of the Ministry of Politics. It will take a year or even two years for the whole purge campaign to end. Although Zhang Chengyue knew what the purge meant and supported this large-scale purge and supported this large-scale purge , the situation in Yanzhou was not optimistic, especially although a tacit agreement was reached with the fourth town, but once the winter passed, the Manchus drove them in and suppressed it, and the situation would be dangerous, so I wanted to simplify the purge and end it in about three to four months.

In order to achieve the effect of purging. He wanted Lin Wenqian's cooperation. Lin Wenqian is a standard soldier, and he doesn't fully understand the set of meetings, summaries, and exams. All he thinks about is supplies. In particular, those bastards in the fourth town said that cotton was also a strategic material and could not be brought in, so everyone had to hide in the mine, and now he thought that Taihu Lake and Shengxian did not listen to the command, and the revolutionary will was weak, so he finally put this matter in the first place.

At the next day's meeting of the company commander and above, Lin Wenqian was the first to speak, "The most important thing in today's meeting is to study the headquarters texts, I thought it was useless to study them before, but when I saw Taihu Lake and Shengxian County, I found it very useful." If our revolutionary army does not have a firm conviction, there is no way for the revolution to succeed. This is my book of introspection, which I handed over to the commissar. You all have to hand it over, and if you don't want it, you will be dismissed, there is nothing to discuss, I don't want to have that even if you don't obey the order. ”

As soon as Lin Wenqian said that he was dismissed, the officers below were all exclaimed, these people were the backbone of the fight, and it was unbelievable that they would be removed from their posts because they did not write a letter of reflection.

"Don't look at me. No matter how good you are, if you don't listen to the command, it will be a scourge, not only to the whole army, but also to the revolution, the country and the nation, and it is good for such a person to be a company commander, but if you become an army commander and commander, then what is it worth? My words are here. Let's talk about the political commissar. Lin Wenqian glanced at the dozens of officers in the venue again before sitting down.

"All of you here are veterans, some of them joined the revolution from the northeast, some of them came from Hangzhou to be paid as soldiers, and some of them joined in Yanzhou, and they have fought a lot of battles with the new army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the past few months, and their combat skills have improved a lot, but their ideological consciousness is becoming more and more backward and less and less likely. When I was in Hangzhou, it was okay, I knew that the whole of China and the whole world were watching, and I wanted to show face, but now that I am in the mountains, I only think that I am a bandit, and I am doing all kinds of evil. At no time can we forget that we are revolutionary fighters. Do you really think that if we fall in the mountains, in this mine, we will be the expression of failure, I tell you that this is the beginning of the success of our revolution!

Several years ago, the headquarters instructed to mobilize 40,000,000 people to join the revolution, but the time was not ripe to launch it, and now is a good time to mobilize the people. Look at the militia organizations we have established in every village and township, and look at the basic political power we have established, aren't these all things that need to be done for the success of the revolution? If it weren't for this, just a few thousand remnants of our army would be able to beat the new army in three towns? Can they send someone to sue for peace? This is entirely due to the fact that with the revolution of the people, the force is irresistible, and it is the truth that the revolution will win and the Manchus will be defeated!

Many soldiers, including officers and cadres, thought that we were fighting alone in the mountains. Now the third town of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is encircling and suppressing our revolutionary army in Dongmeng, where there are tens of thousands of people, and Wen Gongda, who led the team, is a comrade who fought with us against Russian Maozi a few years ago. They are now united with the Mongol people to fight against the new Manchu army, and the news a few days ago is that they have eaten several Manchu patrol battalions, and the forward troops are approaching Mukden. Shengjing City was frightened for several days and did not dare to open the city gate. In addition to the Northeast, we will also set up bases like Yanzhou in Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, and neighboring Anhui, Jiangxi, and Fujian. The more these base areas, the more troops the Manchus had to transfer to encircle and suppress, the more they would oppress the people, the more they would squeeze the people, and in the end, the more people would participate in the revolution.

In the eyes of many, the fall of the revolution in the mountains is a sign that the gang is about to disperse. But in the eyes of the gentlemen at the headquarters, encircling the cities with the countryside was a grand strategy for the success of the revolution. Why are they all people. Everyone sees different things, because everyone's thinking is different, and many people are revolutionaries who look at the chaos of the world and want to take advantage of the opportunity. Achievements of the marquis and the glory of the ancestors; If you lose, you will occupy the mountain as the king, and the grass will be the king. This kind of thinking is very rampant. In those romances, plays, and departments, this is the kind of thinking they are talking about. But the more this happens, the weaker the combat effectiveness of the troops becomes. Everyone thinks about it, it's all for the glory of the ancestors, the more the official gets to the back, the bigger it gets, why do you want me to sacrifice? Why don't you sacrifice? If the revolution is for the sake of becoming an official, then one day the Manchus will come to surrender, will they have to rely on the past? Do you want to kneel down and be a slave again?

We are Han Chinese. Comrades, remember that we are Han Chinese! Since the Yellow Emperor, we have been pressing the barbarians, although there have been unsuccessful for thousands of years, but none of them are more useless than us. At that time, the Mongols were so strong that they swept the whole of Europa, and in less than a hundred years, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, also drove the Tartars back to their hometown, and rushed to the current side of Omaozi. But we, two hundred and sixty years old, are still dreaming, still being slaves! Comrades, don't you feel distressed when you think of this? Don't you think you don't have the face to see your ancestors when you go to Huangquan? ”

At the moment of life and death, Yang Rui no longer has any talk about the unity of the Chinese nation, only the saying of the Han people, Zhang Chengyue's cruel words, an officer present suddenly stood up and shouted: "The revolution is not successful, and I have no face to see my ancestors!" As soon as he said this, everyone else cried out in unison, "Yes! The revolution is not successful, and there is no face to see the ancestors! ”

Zhang Chengyue was not surprised to see everyone shouting, although the officer's slogan was beyond his expectations, he waved his hand to let everyone sit down, and then said: "'The revolution is not successful, and there is no face to see the ancestors!'" That's a good point, but only us know it, we have to let the whole army know. The text of the headquarters is used to do this, why revolution? How can a revolution succeed? What will the new China look like in the future? It's all about this truth, with it, it's very simple to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it's also very simple to defeat Yangmaozi. But the key is for everyone to learn, to summarize and communicate after learning, and to reflect on what they did not do well in the past, and what they didn't think right. Only in this way can we be reborn as a true revolutionary fighter......"

Zhang Chengyue's mobilization was very successful, but after he dismissed the meeting, he only felt a burst of collapse, which was more tiring than running a 10-kilometer cross-country. Lin Wenqian looked at his appearance and said with a smile: "I said Yin Ge, why did you choose to be the political commissar in the first place, how tiring this work is to grind your mouth." ”

Zhang Chengyue looked at him heartlessly, and said angrily: "Without a political commissar, can your soldiers be exchanged with Beiyang one-to-one?" Can you kill and wound three percent without retreating? These are the merits of the military political commissars. Only when all the soldiers understand what they are fighting for, why the revolution can be won, will they see death as if they were at home. If I take all the commissars out one day, I'm afraid your soldiers will be worse than the patrol team. ”

Lin Wenqian actually knew the meaning of the political commissar for a long time, he was just joking. When he heard this, he hurriedly said, "Okay, I won't laugh anymore." In this purge, I will support you as much as you want me, as long as these soldiers are better able to fight than Beiyang. ”

"As long as you take the lead, there is nothing else to support or not support. Also, if someone arrests you in the future, don't come to intercede. After drinking a few big sips of water, Zhang Chengyue was relieved.

"What, do you want to arrest someone?" Lin Wenqian was surprised.

"You think my gendarmes are fake." This time it was Zhang Chengyue's turn to smile. "Those who are not resolute in the revolution have been caught better than not. The troops must be pure in their thinking, otherwise the army will be in chaos. Some people's thinking cannot be changed in any way, and for these people, 'rectification' is useless, and can only be used to 'suppress'. (To be continued......)

PS: PS: Fanatical movements include Marxist movements, national independence movements, religious movements, etc., to take the most common example, the non-violent non-cooperation movement led by Gandhi, which is a pure fanatical movement. The point of view of this book is that a person who is not self-righteous or personal, but who sacrifices for faith and righteousness, is a fanatic.

The methods used do not reflect the nature of the movement, and the methods used for rectification are similar to religious prayers, sermons, and confessions, as well as the Confucian principles of self-denial and self-denial. The key is to open the hearts of the believers to the ideas that the preacher wants to preach, so that they become part of something sacred. This sacred object is described differently in different movements.

Moreover, the revolution itself is incomparably cruel, cruel to the enemy, and even more cruel to itself. The revolution of gentle wind and drizzle and concubine is more difficult to survive in this book. It was undoubtedly an illusion to observe certain universal morals and universal laws that now seem incomparably sacred. Between the Manchus and Yuan Shikai was the Lower Field and the abdication, between Yuan Shikai and Sun Wen was war and assassination, and then there was ....... History always bottoms out and then rebounds, and when it doesn't go to the end, it's actually hard to be cruel. Before the end, the revolution is still somewhat restrained, this is the general trend, but some people always like to magnify the details incomparably, and infer that the dog jumps over the wall in a hurry, and the dog likes to jump over the wall the most, which is really whimpering! If a dog doesn't jump over the wall, it will become a dead dog, and it is better to be a mad dog than to be a dead dog.