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    Chapter 231 Chemical Industry and Money Digging

    The noisy Xinyang Railway Station was filled with soldiers and gentry waiting to be evacuated. The entire booth was filled with densely packed heads as far as the eye could see.  As the whistle sounded, the crowd suddenly became restless. Before the train stopped, everyone was already rushing into the canned carriage.

    "Get out of the way, I'm from the 2nd Division."

    "Fuck you, I'm still in the 5th Division."

    In such an environment, quarrels are inevitable, and many people even beat each other due to crowding and stampeding. The squire, who had no money and no power, could only hide far away and wait for the soldiers to finish loading before checking if there were any empty seats.

    Facing this scene, Chen Huan and Xu Shuzheng, who came to check on the retreat situation, both sighed.

    "Commander, where is Commander Wu?"

    The news that Wu Peifu led the Eighth Division to Tongguan on his own initiative also caught the First Beiyang Army off guard. His departure meant that there was a huge gap on the right wing of the First Army, forcing the troops to evacuate early.  But from a strategic point of view, his move was also a last resort to save himself. Only by blocking Tongguan and blocking the National Defense Forces moving south from Shaanxi, and after the First Army withdrew to Luohe, could they rely on numerical superiority to regain the disadvantage. If Tongguan could not be blocked, everything would be over.  .

    "If it were me, he wouldn't have a choice. Only by protecting Tongguan can we have hope of counterattack, but" Chen Huan frowned and did not continue. The gap on the right wing was really too big, and the left wing  I don¡¯t know when the Ni Army at the junction of Henan and Anhui will be reintegrated. There is a guard brigade there that is said to be more powerful than the main division and is advancing towards Fuyang. Although at least four divisions can be regrouped after returning to Luohe, the Sixth Division  The division began to move south again, but if it was broken through it would be unthinkable.

    Will it be breached?

    Chen Huan was unsure. Judging from the battles during this period, the National Defense Force had almost changed its troops from a year and a half ago. Both equipment and morale exceeded those of Beiyang. A brigade may not be able to complete the task of cutting across the border, but  If both wings are inserted at the same time

    Before he had finished thinking, there was a buzzing sound above his head. Two Curtiss racing planes visited the sky above Xinyang as scheduled. These planes taking off from Wusheng Pass come for reconnaissance almost every day. It can be seen from this  Yang Qiu's grasp of military technology has been much better than that of Beiyang.

    As soon as the plane arrived, the shells started falling.

    ¡°Boom, boom, boom¡­.¡±

    The rumble of the explosion was like a reminder, and the station suddenly became more chaotic. The train driver was probably frightened by the retreat of the fire line. He pulled the whistle and started the train before it was full of people. Amidst the sound of the wheels,  Hundreds of soldiers and squires ran after the train, wishing they could get wings and fly up.

    Chen Huan sighed. Beiyang had just learned how to use heavy machine guns, and Yang Qiu was equipped with Madsen light machine guns. When Beiyang finally raised money and bought hundreds of them, they replaced them with airplanes and ten-sheng five-heavy cannons, which increased their firepower.  The huge gap caused a huge gap among the soldiers below. How can they fight after morale is low?  Can I recover after going to Luohe to recuperate?

    "Commander." Xu Shuzheng glanced at the grain and baggage piled throughout the county, and scratched his head: "Do you want"

    "Forget it, they all belong to us Chinese. It's not good to do everything right." Chen Huan shook his head, left a large amount of food and baggage, and then quietly got into the car and evacuated to Luohe with Xu Shuzheng and the remaining troops.

    Shaanxi, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu!

    When the attention of all China and even the world was attracted by a war in the Far East involving half a million participants, and countless people were worried about evacuating their homes, the Northern Front of the National Defense Forces took the lead in regaining the important town of Xinyang in Henan after ten days of fierce fighting.  In total, more than 6,000 people of the Beiyang First Army were killed and captured, and in one fell swoop, they pulled out the nail that had been driven north of Wusheng Pass for a year and a half.

    The news of the return of the letter to the Yangtze River undoubtedly gave the anxious South a shot in the arm, but only a few people remained calm. The war was far from the time to cheer, and a mere 6,000 people could not hurt the Beiyang Army, which had more than 100,000 soldiers in Henan.  First Army, and the 8th Beiyang Division suddenly turned around and seized Tongguan, which cast a haze over whether the Shaanxi National Defense Force could move south to join forces as promised.

    While the northern front was victorious in the first battle, the southern front was extremely anxious. After the 2nd Brigade and the 101st Brigade of the National Defense Force left Bengbu and Huai'an respectively, they could barely block the attacks of the 3rd and 4th Beiyang Divisions. Finally, the troops who had just completed their formation and had combat effectiveness  The humble southeastern army breathed a sigh of relief.

    Cai E and the southern command were obviously not ready to go north, and only a few brigades out of the 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th divisions joined the battle.

    The first country to enter the track of the National Defense Force was Guangdong. The National Defense Force stationed in Wuzhou, which was already preparing for the coup, marched into Guangdong on the third day after learning about the coup. In order to increase its firepower, the Chongqing Arsenal also urgently sent 2,000 grenades and 40,000 fragmentation grenades.  , and sent technicians to teach while fighting.Under the heavy attack, Long Jiguang wanted to stop him, but he was not strong enough and could only choose to harass from the outside and defend Guangzhou City to the death.

    Therefore, when the Jiangxi incident ended and the 27th Fujian Brigade of the 7th and 8th Divisions of the National Defense Forces advanced towards Guangdong from Fujian and southern Jiangxi respectively, the third battlefield became an area where everyone unanimously recognized that the war would end by the end of April at the latest.  .

    When half of China was drowned in explosions and shouts of death, Yang Qiu had quietly left Nanchang and came to the Anyuan Coal Mine in Pingxiang.

    In the second phase of the coking plant under the sun, workers are transporting a large desulfurization equipment imported from the United States under the command of American technicians. The temporary factory shed in the distance is filled with unpacked equipment transferred from Zhuzhou.

    This is one of the supporting projects of Dangtu Steel Plant. Because Dangtu lacks suitable coal mines and the output of Anyuan Coking Plant is insufficient, according to the plan, Anyuan Coking Plant will be expanded several times, and the design requirements must meet the annual output of at least two million  tons of coke required for steel.  Of course, the by-products of coking, sulfur, gas and coal tar, cannot be wasted. In the past, most of the coal tar was sold as fuel, and the gas was also wasted due to the difficulty of storage. It is different now. There is a row of large gas lines next to the coking plant.  After the storage tank is constructed, the gas will be supplied to chemical plants several kilometers away through pipelines.

    Many people still don't understand that coal gas can be used in chemical industry besides burning fires, but Yang Qiu knows very well that benzene can be extracted from coal gas and coal tar, and benzene can be hydrogenated to produce cyclohexane, then cyclohexanol and adipic acid.  etc.

    This is the coal chemical industry, petrochemical industry and three acids and two alkalis, which together are called one foot of a powerful country in the twentieth century. The other foot is the large-scale metal heavy industry using steel as raw materials. Only when these two feet stand firm together,  Only then can it be called a truly world-class power.

    Acrylic, butadiene rubber, and nylon, which influenced the twentieth century, are all masterpieces in the chemical industry.

    The best chemical industry in this era is undoubtedly in Germany, followed by the United States and France. On the contrary, the world leader Britain has begun to lag behind in the field of chemical industry. Seeing that it is the last good time before World War I, how to develop its own chemical industry as soon as possible?  At least setting up the shelf first was really annoying to Yang Qiu.

    Zhang Xiaozhun did not accompany him because he had to reorganize the Gan army. In addition to Murong Han, Xu Xiujun, who had just taken over as the president of Southwest Bank, and Cai Gongshi, director of the Vice President's Office, accompanied him.  Seeing him blankly watching the workers installing equipment, Xu Xiujun turned to Murong Han and asked: "Hao Yu, why did the vice president drag us here to be in a daze when he left the war alone?"

    Murong Han took out two small paper bags from his bag. When he opened them, there were two balls of caustic soda with very different colors. He pointed at the brown and yellow caustic soda balls and sighed: "This is made by the Xiangtan Chemical Plant that was newly put into operation in Hunan last month.  , the Vice President is a little anxious."

    After Murong Han¡¯s explanation, the two learned that Xiangtan, Chongqing and Pingxiang were the first domestic chemical bases selected by Yang Qiu. However, it was currently difficult to purchase coal chemical equipment, so alkali production plants, sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid plants were built first.

    Fortunately for the latter three, there is no shortage of domestic raw materials, and the old Hanyang plant produced sulfuric acid. Therefore, after completion, not only did the old workers be removed to provide guidance, but a group of chemical engineers who had studied abroad were also recruited from China, plus the Austrian-Hungarian factory.  More than two dozen chemical experts from the empire have already started preliminary production. For this reason, Hunan Chemical Group has also ordered twelve large marine storage tanks specifically for transportation.

    But there is a problem with caustic soda.

    The "Solvay Alkali Process" was invented by the Belgian Solvay. When Britain, France, the United States and other countries started large-scale industrialization one after another, they also organized the Solvay Association to keep the blockade secret from other countries in the world. Therefore, even the always generous United States  I was shaking my head on this item. There was no alkali-making equipment and process formulas available on the market. In the end, I purchased a set of equipment from Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire through other channels and handed them over to Xiangtan and Chongqing respectively.  But because I did not process the process, and the dozens of chemical engineers in the Austrian-Hungarian and Russian batches had never been involved in the caustic soda industry, they only developed this yellow pimple in two months.

    ¡°Compared with the snow-white foreign caustic soda, this burnt yellow thing is really too dazzling.

    In fact, this is not the biggest worry, because caustic soda can at least be purchased, not to mention the famous "Hou's Alkali Making Method" is a required subject in chemistry classes. I still remember some more complicated coal chemical and petroleum industries that I can slowly explore.  The chemical process flow is more confidential abroad. Germany is not even willing to sell any equipment at all. The United States is willing to sell equipment, but says it will not provide any technical guidance and will only help you install the machine.  It means that I can sell the machine, and you can study how to operate it yourself. As for the process formula, you can even think about it.

    In the parallel world, Yang Qiu, who has received higher education, has enough chemical knowledge in his mind, and his data machine also contains some chemical information related to military industry. But the problem is that chemistry is not just formulas. Industrialization relies on equipment and machines. TodayMany people understand chemical equations, but few understand how production equipment works.  What's more serious is that even if the United States agrees to purchase equipment, the price quoted is extremely shocking. Taking oil refining as an example, an annual output of 50,000 tons would cost US$10 million!

    Not to mention 10 million, even if it is doubled or tripled, it is worth it as long as you can buy back the equipment!  Although Hubei Industrial Company can currently manufacture some small equipment, such as chemical containers, separation equipment, heat exchangers, steamers, dryers, etc., technicians from Austria-Hungary can also manufacture some small machine tools and stamping machines, but in terms of output and quality  They are not large in size and scale, let alone these big guys. It is impossible for these big guys to produce their own products within ten years. Therefore, if you want to make a great leap forward, you must rely on foreign countries, but at this time, there is a problem with your money bag.

    Sometimes when he has free time, Yang Qiu really wishes he could learn magic to move all the American machines back, but after the absurdity, he becomes helpless and bitter.  There is enough capital in the data machine to dominate the world, but if you want to turn the drawings into physical objects, you need machine tools, factories, chemical equipment, formulas, and metal processing capabilities, and China currently does not have these, or only  Just getting started.

    A piece of white paper is indeed easy to draw on, but if you don¡¯t have money to buy a brush and an inkstone, it¡¯s hard for a skilled woman to make a living without rice.

    He was really in a hurry. During the First World War, the industry was basically finalized, lacking knowledge, design and inspiration.  To put it simply, if you sell the T34 drawings to Germany, with the current industrial capabilities of Germany, you can completely achieve mass production and sweep across Europe.  But if you want to build it yourself, you must first wait for the tractor factory to be proficient in manufacturing crawler tractors, then have large-scale metal cutting capabilities, and then come up with armored steel and suitable cannons. Finally, the chassis and transmission require very sophisticated technical capabilities.

    In the parallel world, he was very curious about the miracle of how those novels who had never even designed a car chassis and were not even proficient in assembling tractors from loose parts suddenly had the ability to manufacture tanks overnight.

    He does still have a chance. When Germany loses the war, the tearful sale will begin. As long as the country can be unified, he can make a fortune just by selling raw materials to Britain, France and other countries during World War I. By then, he will definitely hope to purchase ten or even  Equipment needed by dozens of large factories.  The problem is that some things cannot wait, and four years of precious time cannot be wasted. Therefore, we must purchase several sets of equipment to experiment with and train workers. In this way, we can quickly establish preliminary and complete industrial capabilities when the goods are collected. Otherwise, even if we purchase  It will take a few years to get back in shape, and there will be no time left.

    There is no news about the US loan so far, Britain and France are still waiting and watching, Germany is hesitant to even sell arms due to the increasingly tense situation in Europe, and Japan is impossible.  The Austro-Hungarian Empire and Russia themselves couldn't care less. Even Lu Bicheng had no news, and they didn't know whether the registration and sale of the cracking method patent could be completed.

    After listening to Murong Han¡¯s explanation, Xu Xiujun understood why Yang Qiu was in a daze.  To put it bluntly, technology can be slowly researched and talents can be slowly gathered, but equipment and funds cannot wait, because without equipment, workers cannot be trained at all, and without money, even experimental equipment cannot be purchased.

    Xu Xiujun walked quickly to the front and said with a smile: "The vice president actually still has some money left."

    "oh?"

    Yang Qiu raised his eyebrows. He had heard what Murong Han said to them just now, but he had not interrupted. Now he heard that there was money and he immediately jumped up: "What money? Zihong, please tell me."

    Xu Xiujun chuckled: "Actually, this money is with you. It depends on your determination. If you are determined, you can get tens of millions without any problem. If you are determined, one or two hundred million may not be impossible."

    "One or two hundred million!"

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