Shanxi and Shaanxi are only separated by a Yellow River, but even if they are so close, when Yang Rui and Xu Huafeng arrive in Shaanxi, they can only attend a funeral!

The airship landed in the heavy snow at the Shaanxi Yanchang Oilfield Base, and Xu Jingxin, the governor of Shaanxi, and Ren Hongjun and Sun Xuewu, the general directors of the oilfield, came to greet them in 6 sessions. △ ↗ After Yang Rui got off the airship, he split his head and said: "What the hell is going on?!" Wasn't the condition already suppressed in the first two days? Why did you suddenly ...... last night? To whom do I give this medal? ”

"Prime Minister, he was yesterday...... Committed suicide. Ren Hongjun, who looked grief-stricken, struggled to say the word suicide, and his body bowed lower and lower, as a classmate, he was extremely sad for such a passing.

The word suicide made Yang Rui stunned, and he suddenly sighed when he was holding his breath, and asked, "Why does he want to be like this?" Then he could probably guess what was going on, and he went straight ahead without waiting for Ren Hongjun to answer.

The person who committed suicide was called Zhang Fuzhong, a native of Yuhang, Hangzhou, who was poor when he was young, and only completed his university studies in Tongji University Hall with the support of the Chinese Education Association, and then went to Germany to study because of his excellent grades. Two years ago, because of his expertise in organic chemistry and his experience in industrializing Freon, Yang Rui was directly named to be in charge of the large-scale production project of tetraethyl lead industry.

The research of the aircraft engine is difficult, even if the motor refrigeration problem is solved, but the power of the aircraft is still difficult to obtain a substantial increase, especially the ignition point of gasoline is too low, once the cylinder compression ratio is close to four, then it will detonate, and the strict zhòng will also lead to the damage of the motor. From this, Yang Rui thought of the description of tetraethyl lead in the section of the chemistry textbook prohibiting gasoline with lead, which said that the earliest anti-knock agent used in gasoline was tetraethyl lead, but it was polluted by leaded gasoline. Finally, methyl tert-butyl ether was used.

Both antiknock agents give chemical formulas, but methyl tert-butyl ether is a polymer compound after all. There is no trace of it now, only tetraethyl lead was discovered by the Germans fifty years ago. It's just that no one knows it's explosion-resistant. After the real yàn room, a very small amount of tetraethyl lead is added to the gasoline, the octane number of the gasoline can be greatly improved, the compression ratio of the cylinder can be increased from 3.5 to 5.2, and the gasoline with tetraethyl lead is used in the same motor, and the motor power can be increased by 35 percent.

Tetraethyl lead, a gasoline antiknock agent, is a strategic resource for the Air Force. However, chemistry textbooks only say that lead will pollute the environment, only say that lead will damage many systems of the human body, and do not mention that the toxicity of tetraethyl lead is 100 times that of lead, and contact or inhalation of volatils will be poisoned, so more than a dozen researchers who specialize in how tetraethyl lead is mass-produced tragedy.

"Prime Minister, Wu Wu just couldn't think about it for a while, so he ......" On the way to Yanchang Petrochemical Research Institute, Governor Xu Jingxin deliberately shared the car with Yang Rui, "but he left a suicide note." It says ......"

"What do you say?" Yang Rui was a little silent, chemistry, especially organic chemistry is the focus of his attention, and Zhang Fuzhong is extraordinary, and his performance in organic chemistry is something that everyone can see. Especially since he is only twenty-four years old, it is a pity that such a young scientist died young!

It says that he died for his country. There are no regrets in this life. It's just at the end......" Xu Jingxin suddenly paused, and saw Yang Rui's gaze pressing. I had to say: "At the end of his suicide note, he said that although chemistry can make a lot of things. These things can also be used to meet people's needs, but they will one day destroy the whole world. He also said...... Mr. Tai Yan is right, if we speak in terms of morality, good is progressing, evil is also progressing, and if we are talking about livelihood, then happiness will also evolve, and suffering will also evolve. This so-called spear must have a shield, and now with the help of science, let it get out of the predicament, but science helps people at the same time, and at the same time, it is harmful, because both have evolved separately, and it is ...... in this way."

Xu Jingxin's words stopped here, but Yang Rui knew that what he didn't say must be anti-scientism. Now the whole country is advocating the concept of industrialization, Zhang Fuzhong said, especially in the role of technical leader in the Petrochemical Research Institute, and his words are very weighty; In addition, tetraethyl lead poisoning mostly harms the nervous system and respiratory system, and the workers who assisted in the development of the drug die from respiratory diseases, while the chemists mostly have headaches and nervous disorders, and all kinds of tragedies are born in front of the researchers of the petrochemical institute, which will only make other chemists who are still alive and who have been painstakingly cultivated by the country lose their value, which is absolutely unacceptable.

"When is the funeral of Wu Wu?" Yang Rui thought about these things in his heart and felt that it was necessary to talk to the chemists, but before talking, he still had to pay tribute to the deceased.

"Just today." Xu Jingxin said. "In the suicide note, I told my family to bury myself as much as possible, and I would also bury it in the cemetery behind the research institute."

"Are the other people who died there?" Yang Rui asked, and after seeing Xu Jingxin nodding, he said, "Then let's go there directly." Zilong, call the escort to lead the way, and turn directly to the cemetery! ”

With Yang Rui's instructions, the convoy began to move forward again after a pause, and at the rear of the convoy, Ren Hongjun and Sun Xuewu, who were in the same car with Xu Huafeng, also knew the news that the prime minister was going to the cemetery, but the two were not too surprised, they were both thinking about the words in Zhang Fuzhong's suicide note. In the past, they thought that science was saving the country, but while science was saving the country, it was harming people. Science is not warm and inhumane, a bullet does not turn because it is a person in front of it and not a log, and a train will move forward as long as it is moving, regardless of whether it carries people or not. After all, science is just a powerful tool, and it needs to be used by people to really benefit, but what if someone uses it wrong? Or is its potential effect like the poison of tetraethyl lead, which is not detected for a while and cannot be prevented?

The convoy moved silently in the wind and snow, Xu Huafeng wanted to speak, but seeing that the two of them were in great pain, he didn't know what to say. After waiting for a while, Sun Xuewu asked, "Mr. Huafeng, what is the function of tetraethyl lead?" ”

Because tetraethyl lead is too important and has a strategic value in Yang Rui's view, research and production are completely separated from actual use, and the petrochemical research institute and the chemical laboratory do not know that this is a gasoline antiknock agent. Xu Huafeng thought about the secret level of this matter. After pondering for a while, he said: "Yingchuan, I can only tell you that this thing is used in the military field." It is extremely important, and it is even related to the victory or defeat of a war. ”

"Is it to make poison gas?" Sun Xuewu instantly thought of poison gas because Xu Huafeng talked about war. But he himself immediately vetoed this possibility, and he asked instead: "Mr. Hua Feng, will there be many people who want to come into contact with this thing in the future?" ”

"Maybe a lot." Xu Huafeng said with difficulty, American newspapers are already imagining that every car is added to gasoline, so as long as families with cars have to come into contact, and according to the economic exhibition, there will be more and more people with cars. After he finished speaking, he comforted again. "If methyl tert-butyl ether can be made, then it can replace tetraethyl lead."

"Is methyl tert-butyl ether non-toxic?" Sun Xuewu asked bluntly.

Shaking his head helplessly, Xu Huafeng said frankly: "I don't know either." ”

And so the conversation ended.

Half an hour's drive, Yang Rui rushed to the cemetery behind the Petrochemical Research Institute.

Mobil took advantage of the two good news of Yanchang Oilfield and China's exploration rights, and after the U.S. stock market made a big profit, Yanchang Oilfield did not go, but only ran to the new Nanyang Oilfield. After the signing of the agreement for the cooperation of the Nanyang Oilfield, the previous industrial plan was followed. The construction of China's first petrochemical base and petrochemical research institute began, and in order to cultivate talents for the petrochemical field, the country's first petrochemical school was also opened: Yanchang Petrochemical Hall.

The research institute and the school are one, and when Yang Rui arrives at the cemetery. About hundreds of people from the research institute and the Petrochemistry Hall were already there. More than a dozen carriages came in unison, which was very eye-catching, and especially sharp-eyed people saw that the front car had the mark of the Prime Minister's Office, and then saw that the Prime Minister actually came. There was a sudden commotion in the crowd. And when Yang Rui got out of the car and walked into the cemetery, the family members who wore linen and filial piety had already greeted him. It was a woman. It should be Zhang Fuzhong's wife, and she bowed to Yang Rui from a distance. I really can't cry when I want to speak.

When Yang Rui was stepping forward to help him up, he was pulled by Xu Huafeng, just when Yang Rui wondered if he had broken the rules, Xu Huafeng had already helped people up, and he said gently: "The world is impermanent, life is uncertain, or please mourn!" Your Excellency Prime Minister has just arrived today, and he has heard the bad news and is very sad, so he has come here in person, one is to pay tribute to the dead, and the other is to commend his merits, so don't be too sad. ”

"The people's daughters remember the teachings of adults, the people's daughters, the people's daughters......" The woman choked and couldn't continue, and Yang Rui also stepped forward at this time and said: "Please mourn." There is no other ...... Ay! ”

With Yang Rui's sigh, the woman's choking suddenly turned into crying, people are always like this, even if she complained before, but when she saw the prime minister in person, she couldn't complain. Yang Rui has always been taboo about women's crying, and he had no choice but to step forward when he saw this.

After Yang Rui stepped forward to burn incense, tea and wine, the researchers of the research institute and the students of the Petrochemical Hall surrounded them, and they all wanted to hear what Yang Rui would say.

"Comrades, yesterday evening I was shocked and saddened by the sudden lack of bad news. I am not just saddened by the loss of a good chemist in the country, but also lamented that his life was only 24 years. I had come here to praise him for his outstanding contributions to the field of chemistry, but now any accolades are worthless; Now, I have brought the National Contribution Medal with me, which I am ready to sell to Wu Wu and those who died with him, but no amount of the medal has been eclipsed by this time.

I don't really want to talk about the sacrifice of nothing, because each of us is willing to contribute to the country and the nation; I don't really want to say how important the petrochemical industry is, although the petrochemical industry, like the mechanical and electrical industry, is the foundation of my Chinese industry; I just want to say that there are a few questions that remain in the end, that is, what can science bring us? Is the qiē we do really valuable, and will it be reviled in future generations?

I understand why he feels this way, he does not pity his own life, he only pities the lives of other people and future generations, for fear that more people will be like him, because of science and misfortune, this is his preciousness. But if science is really measured by life, then the people it has helped are tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of times more people it has harmed, and the reason why we are living better than before is due to the progress of science and the abundance of materials. It's all about science.

Comrades, I'm not saying that we should worship science. I just want to ask you if you chose science because you wanted to explore the truth of all things. Is it to figure out guò science to build a strong country? If so, then let us move on, sacrifice is inevitable, but sacrifice should never be what hinders us. ”

After a brief speech, Yang Rui was silent. Only when he returned to his residence on the evening of the funeral did he talk to Xu Huafeng: "Has the research of the production process been completed?" ”

"Hmm." Xu Huafeng nodded, "I've read the entire report written by Wu Wu, and he has changed everything well." Although a large amount of sodium metal is used, it is not unsolvable. Before the evening. I've already had people order equipment and buy raw materials. ”

"That's good." Yang Rui said. Now that the diplomatic situation is getting tighter, maybe the Japanese will go to war one day.

"Actually, will the direction of the future industrial exhibition be petrochemical and electromechanical?" Thinking about Yang Rui's speech in the afternoon, Xu Huafeng suddenly asked this question.

"It's true, now in the past few years we can build whatever we can make money; What is needed to fight a war, then build it. But as soon as the war is over, the Ministry of Industry will turn around, and the direction will be petrochemical and electromechanical. Yang Rui said and lit another cigarette, he smoked a lot today. In the past 100 years, if a country wants to dominate the world, it needs coal and iron, but now it is different. If you want not to be bullied in the world, you must have not only coal and iron, but also oil and electricity. The former is realized by the whole world. That's why Mobil is willing to lend us money for prospecting rights in several provinces. No matter how much you look for it, you can find an oil field. ”

Yang Rui suddenly laughed, the places he gave Americans were all places with no oil or little oil. Daqing and victory he kept. After taking a heavy puff of cigarette, he said again: "The latter may not be able to be understood, after all, there are many problems with electric motors now, and they are expensive, and most factories still use steam engines, but when high-voltage transmission and permanent magnet motors appear, there will be more and more factories using motors instead of steam engines." We can occupy this market first, at least half of the market share, which is a big head.

But the motor is just a device, and it will always be imitated when it is sold, and petrochemical is different, and others may not understand how it came from, even if it is understood, it may not be able to be made, and even if it is made, the cost may not be our enemy. Plastic, nylon, rayon, elastomber, these new materials are extremely useful, once they come out, they can make billions of dollars by buying stockings. ”

Today's day is very depressing, the snow starts to fall from morning to night, it only makes people upset, Yang Rui can only tell a joke in the future to laugh at himself, but Xu Huafeng can't understand it, he is curious: "What are stockings, can that thing really make billions of dollars?" ”

He was so serious Yang Rui just wanted to laugh, but when he thought of the dozens of tombstones on the cemetery, his heart sank again, "Let's talk about it, but petrochemical must be vigorously developed, this is a strategic industry." ”

"But what about the oil?" Xu Huafeng understands Yang Rui's determination, but now the country's largest oil field has been handed over to Mobil, although it is a joint investment by both parties, but the oil field is managed by the Americans, and the petrochemical base cannot be built there.

"Oil? Don't worry, there will be. Yang Rui said, and then walked to the map hanging in the house, and said: "There are also oil fields in the west, although it is far away, but the quality is excellent." If we take Central Asia, then we can border Iran, and the oil pipeline can be pulled directly from there. ”

There are times when Yang Rui seems to know everything, and other times he seems to know nothing. China has a lot of coal, and if oil is transported from the Western Regions, more than 3,000 kilometers away, I am afraid that the freight will be unaffordable. Xu Hua sealed: "That's too far. ”

"There are also those that are close, and there are those in Shandong." Yang Rui said, "It's just that it can't be opened now, let's talk about it after the war." ”

"But when will the war start?" Xu Huafeng asked.

But Yang Rui did not answer this question, whether it is diplomacy or Japan's domestic affairs, all kinds of forms are complicated, although the negotiations are continuing, but Japan has raised its saber, and when it will be chopped down, it is completely unknown.

In fact, any country, especially an emerging country, has a complex internal structure, so Japan's domestic politics are much more complex than China's. After several decades, the strength of the Japanese chaebol has been extremely strong, and the chaebols such as Mitsui Mitsubishi Sumitomo have the tendency and ability to implicitly control the Japanese situation, and they were miserable by the Russo-Japanese War, and they spent more than a billion yuan and did not get a penny in compensation, and finally only occupied half of China's provinces and a railway, although there was a Kanto Prefecture and Port Arthur, but after more than ten years, it was to be returned to China according to the agreement. Such a painful experience, coupled with the emptiness of the treasury, made them never want to fight again.

The chaebol is like this, but the 6th Army, which suffered losses two years ago, did not do it, and Russia, which was so powerful eight years ago, was defeated by Japan, and now Japan is stronger than Japan eight years ago, and China is in a national war again, and the First World War completely defeated China, and it is most beneficial for Japan to make it a semi-divided state like the Manchu Qing Dynasty. In particular, Japan's occupation of Manchuria is legally only a continuation of the treaty signed between Russia and the former Qing Dynasty, and once the 25-year period stipulated in the treaty expires, then China will certainly take advantage of this to take back a single part of Manchuria, and even the Chinese market that is now open will be closed by Yang Jingcheng, and all Japanese goods will be driven out of China at that time.

It was demagogic for the bigwigs of the Choshu Domain of the Japanese 6th Army to ask these thorny and deadly questions, but Saionji Gongwang did not see it that way. This person is one of the elders of the Meiji era, and is also the first nobleman in Japan, the Fujiwara family, and is a relative of the emperor - the Fujiwara family has always been the queen, in the past 1,000 years, more than 70 emperors have 54 emperors who have established the daughter of the Fujiwara family, and the current Taisho Empress is the daughter of the Fujiwara family.

Saionji believes that war between China and Japan cannot solve the problem, and as long as appropriate concessions are made to China, war with China can be avoided. Ten years from now, regardless of whether Yang Jingcheng is in power at that time, China will be entangled in internal contradictions and will not be able to deal with Japan with all its might. He believed that the decision to go to war against China at this time was wrong, and that in the short term, what Japan really needed to deal with was the Revival Society, Yang Jingcheng. In particular, because China's political system is a parliamentary model, as long as it supports the opposition parties of the Renaissance Society, it can restrain the Renaissance Society. And the land of Manchuria, which is half a province, is lost and lost, and there is not much pity; If the Revival were to ban Japanese goods, it would be challenging the Beijing Protocol, and Japan would be able to put pressure on its allies, Britain and other powers.

Saionji is worthy of being Ito Hirobumi's apprentice, and he has a very thorough view of the forms of East Asia, and he is also very aware that the Chinese rulers, like him, are fully aware that it is not only Japan that is pressing on China's back, but the series of unequal treaties signed by Westerners and China since the Opium War, of which the Beijing Protocol is the heaviest. In the process of China's departure from these treaties, Japan would have huge gains as long as it appropriately ceded some of its vested interests in order to maintain Sino-Japanese friendship, and then shifted China's spearhead from Japan to other countries, such as Russia, France, and even Britain.

In all fairness, Saionji's strategy is completely infallible, as the spokesperson of the chaebol he values the market more than the territory, as long as the Sino-Japanese friendship is maintained, and at the same time China and Japan are united, one out of the navy, the other out of the 6th army, and finally to compete with the Westerners for colonies and markets, then Japan's future will not be bad because of the rise of China, but will be better because of the rise of China.

Although the Choshu Domain had a deep base in the 6th Army, its influence in Japan was not as great as that of the chaebol, but the newly enthroned Taisho Emperor was not as sophisticated as Meiji, arrogant, arrogant, and irritable, and did not understand that he was just a god set up by the feudal lords, and he was bent on stirring up the political situation. After the Battle of the East China Sea, the Japanese Navy lost four large warships, and public opinion boiled over and tried to urge Japan to go to war immediately. However, at this time, Britain and the United States came forward to mediate, and Xiyuan Temple temporarily suppressed the war in the name of the allies, and figured out that the negotiations were delayed, urging China to make concessions, and the public opinion cooled down, and the situation was temporarily stabilized. (To be continued!)

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