To do a good job in these tasks, we need at least two conditions, one is a relatively stable environment, and the other is relatively abundant funds. In the former, due to the strength of the Red 15th Army, the national army in Henan did not dare to come to look for death, and the national army in other places could not come or did not have that mind, and the bandits were gradually pacified, and western Henan finally ushered in a rare period of peaceful development; As for the latter, the Red Eighth Army is also not lacking now, in addition to the money and materials collected in the previous battles, Hu Weidong also gave full play to the innate advantages of his traversers, and "invented" some new commodities with huge potential market value in advance, and the Soviet area now has the conditions to develop and produce new commodities, among which the most important item for Hu Weidong is penicillin, which will not be missed in almost every modern and modern travel novel

Because Hu Weidong set the research direction, even though there were no professional medicinal chemists in the Soviet Union, Li Shouheng and other cameo chemical experts quickly explored the separation and purification of penicillin and salinization and drying (that is, the commonly used penicillin sodium and penicillin potassium powder injections, penicillin in its natural state is very easy to decompose and fail, and its sodium and potassium salts are much more stable as long as they are kept dry. At this time, Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin, was still at a loss for how to isolate and purify, and compared with Fleming's backward strain natural selection method, Hu Weidong asked biologist Pei Shizhang to use the ultraviolet mutagenesis breeding method, which was undoubtedly thousands of times more efficient, and the selection of the original strain was also directly screened from the penicillium strains on the skin of melons, which took a lot of detours, and the research efficiency was naturally not the same.

In addition, because Hu Weidong is very familiar with the pharmacological characteristics of penicillin, a series of tests such as animal experiments are all skipped, and they are directly used in clinical practice, which undoubtedly saves a lot of time.

However, penicillin is an absolute profiteering commodity, but if Jishu leaks secrets, even once, it will lose at least a billion dollars in long-term profits, which is more than the total fiscal revenue of all regimes in Chinese mainland for three years. In order to prevent this uneventuality, Hu Weidong formulated extremely strict secrecy regulations, and if he violated it, he would be placed under surveillance, deprived of his freedom, or even shot, whether intentionally or not, even by scientists. Although Hu Weidong's extreme approach has caused many experts to secretly call him a "cool official", it may not be necessary to do so for the serious disease of Chinese people with extremely poor sense of secrecy. Later, some of China's more important scientific research projects have been kept secret, and regrets such as the leakage of cloisonne technology in history have been avoided, which cannot but be said to be the credit of Hu Weidong's "hot hand".

After discovering that the secrecy regulations had worked well, Hu Weidong decided not to apply for patents for penicillin production processes and strain breeding methods, etc., but to keep them strictly secret like the legendary Coca-Cola formula, knowing that even in the United States, which claims to attach the most importance to intellectual property rights, patent law can also exploit loopholes, especially when the patent holders are small companies and foreigners, and the misappropriaters are large American conglomerates. And the profit of penicillin is too big, Hu Weidong naturally does not dare to take even a little risk that can not be taken, but alkaline batteries, ballpoint pens and other goods that are easy to imitate, Hu Weidong still decided to go abroad to apply for patents in the future, since it is useless to keep secret, Hu Weidong can only hope that Western countries really respect intellectual property rights, no matter how bad it is, he can always get back a little money, right? It's better than being copied in vain and not getting back any benefits

In addition to penicillin, the first profiteering commodity in the late stage of World War II in history (the total profit of arms is definitely greater, but there are also many types, and there should be no single variety that can be compared with penicillin. The potential profits of other commodities chosen by Hu Weidong are also terrifying, even if it is a small gadget like a ballpoint pen, think about the terrifying amount of later generations, it is also very considerable, plus the huge amount of seizures obtained before, especially in Hangzhou, and the territory in western Henan is not too large, Hu Weidong can now confidently say "We are not bad for money"...,

Hu Weidong now has a strong army and sufficient financial resources, and if he wants to manage this small territory in western Henan, he only needs to meet one more condition, that is, a sufficient number of qualified local cadres. If it is an ordinary base area, where there is basically only an agricultural economy, then the situation is fine, even if the ability is mediocre, as long as you are obedient and willing to work, honest and fair, it is no problem to be a leader at the village level or even at the county level, but Hu Weidong plans to build the western Henan Soviet region into a new industrial zone, and the requirements for cadres are much higher, and even those cadres who are born in the labor movement in the cities may not be able to do the job. Managing the cities itself is much more complicated than the rural areas, not to mention Hu Weidong's plan, in the next five years, more than one million peasants in the western Henan Soviet region will be turned into industrial workers, and at the same time, they will selectively absorb immigrants, and this drastic change in the proportion of the population will further increase the difficulty of management.

By the end of 35 years, the newly born Soviet area of western Henan finally overcame many difficulties and basically controlled the bandits in the territory, although there were still more than 10,000 remnants of bandits hiding in the mountains or fleeing to the white area in an attempt to make a comeback, but it was no longer too much of a threat to the production and construction of western Henan, and the industrialization process of the Soviet area began to accelerate rapidly. What made Hu Weidong even happier was that the uranium, cadmium, and beryl mines (i.e., emeralds, which have great industrial value because they are the main minerals for refining beryllium) in Lushi County in the southwest of the Soviet region, are very expensive. All of them were found in his memory by his specially trained explorers of scattered minerals, which laid the most basic material foundation for China's nuclear industry in the future, namely uranium for nuclear fuel, cadmium for absorbing neutrons and beryllium for reflecting neutrons, plus neutron moderators from a wide range of sources (high-purity graphite, heavy water, etc.). ), which can form the basic model of a nuclear reactor.

But China's uranium ore grades are generally very low, coupled with poor refining conditions, and Hu Weidong's anti-pollution precautions are too strict (taking up already limited talent, adding operational steps, and diverting a considerable part of the budget). Hu Weidong further strengthened his determination to go abroad, "It is still good to have uranium mines abroad, and the grade is hundreds of times higher than ours (the highest reaches 40%, while the average grade of uranium ore in China is a few ten-thousandths), and now nuclear physics is still in the laboratory stage, the ore should not be expensive, and ready-made cadmium ingots should also be directly bought abroad, even if it is more expensive, it can save a lot of time. In addition, the purification of graphite and heavy water is best to introduce equipment from abroad, and it is not easy to start from scratch."

For the relevant research of the nuclear industry, Hu Weidong is still focusing on the refining of uranium, if asked above, he can explain that it is to develop a super strong armor-piercing projectile (that is, depleted uranium armor-piercing projectile), and after the self-splitting phenomenon of uranium-235 is discovered abroad, Hu Weidong will logically start nuclear energy research, which is more in line with Hu Weidong's positioning as an ammunition expert than the current abrupt proposal of the concept of nuclear weapons, and also saves him from the suspicion of "multi-intelligent demons".