Lu Ming

Chapter 182 The Three Big Fats

The main battle gun of the crossing forces, the "Er Ba Da Gai", was finalized on the morning of the fourth day.

On the surface of the Taijiang River, Qin Ming was sitting on a beautiful streamlined soft-sail traffic boat, and was hurrying to Dayuan Island.

Qin Ming is from Shaanxi.This gentleman first worked as a technician in a reagent factory, and later opened a reagent chemical glass shop in the county privately. Later, Brother Qin’s relatives contracted to the mine, so Qin Ming began to work as a blaster part-time to produce mine explosives.

How to produce it?Of course, I bought the fertilizer and made it myself.At that time, Qin Ming was producing, frying ore, and selling to other bosses at the same time, and the business was quite good.

Then there was a tragedy—earth explosives blasted a mafia mine boss, BMW, Xiaosan, and 5 miners into the sky.Seeing that the situation was not good, Qin Ming ran away decisively. He had offended the Baidao quarry headquarters and the police, but now he also offended the underworld, so he had to run away.

It was said that he continued to work in an African mine that was not strictly supervised, but Qin Ming has now become the vice president of the Dayuan Arms Corporation and the manager of the explosives branch.

Two days ago, when the group was arguing about the guns, Qin Ming didn't show his face at all.It's none of your business. No matter what weapon you use, it's still up to him to produce black powder first.He is still busy supervising workers to build factories, and he has no time to talk to those fanciers at all.

Needless to say, the location of the workshop assigned to the explosives company is the most remote, and the requirements are relatively high, so Qin Ming has been nesting in the valley in the north of the kiln area until last night when he was notified that there will be a meeting early this morning.

"It's time for our men to make requests, hehe!" Qin Ming sat on the traffic boat at the moment, enjoying the cool sea breeze on the surface of the Taijiang River, and thought smugly.

According to the program, it must be like this.Now that the model of gun and cannon has been selected, the next step will definitely be to discuss the issue of ammunition.And when it comes to ammunition, whether it's military caps, black powder, or future mine explosives in the kiln area, all of them are inseparable from his old man's explosives company.

"So, how about some requests at today's meeting?" Qin Ming looked at the approaching Dayuan Wharf, and began to plan: "First come 10 for the eldest daughter, and 10 for the younger daughter-in-law, um, another 10." A middle-aged woman with stable hands and feet does odd jobs, and it's almost the same in the early stage."

Women are more suitable for the production of explosive products that require patience, everyone knows this.Qin Ming intends to take advantage of this today, and first give his factory a vote of female workers who are currently in short supply.

When he came to the business hall and pushed open the door of the small office, Qin Ming was slightly taken aback: the room was already full of people, and it seemed that he was the only protagonist who was missing.

"I didn't expect, I didn't expect that there are so many departments attending the meeting today. It seems that the comrades still have some understanding of the importance of explosives, um, not bad." Qin Ming nodded to greet everyone, and took his seat. I am very happy.

After sitting down and taking a look at the rim, Qin Ming was even more satisfied: not only Xia Zhongtang came, but also Mr. Feng Jun and Feng Ge who was in charge of the internal affairs. Needless to say, his immediate boss Ma Zekai, Professor Luo from the Port Authority was also present. Victory, Liu Zhe and Han Xiaobo are a lot of military bigwigs.

At this moment, Qin Ming became more and more satisfied, um, very good, Zou Guoqing and Yao Zhesheng, the chief and deputy managers of the kiln area, are also here, and they will solve the equipment problem by the way, which is good, good, good, good. Well, Liang Letian and Mi Shuo, the mud legs of the two agricultural companies, are also here. I guess they came here to mix up the subsidies for the meeting, huh?Liang Letian and Mi Shuo?

Just when Qin Ming noticed something was wrong, Xia Xianze, who was sitting at the top of the long table in the small meeting room, coughed and began to speak: "Well, everyone is here, so let's start the meeting formally. Today's meeting, the main topic, It is to discuss and solve the problem of the three major fertilizers in agriculture, and discuss other topics by the way."

"Everyone knows that agriculture is the foundation of a political power. The so-called lack of agriculture is not stable." When Xia was sitting at the head and talking, he found that he was Qin Ming who was classified as "other topics" , which is now stagnant.

The so-called three major fertilizers are nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.

The most important of these is nitrogen fertilizer.Nitrogen fertilizer is the type of fertilizer with the largest amount of fertilizer production and use. In later generations, nitrogen fertilizer usually exists in the form of urea, diamine, and ammonium bicarbonate.

The main purpose of today's meeting is to determine the channels for obtaining nitrogen fertilizer in agriculture in the future, and to solve the problem of explosives together.

Nitrogen can be turned into urea or nitric acid.And nitric acid is the mother of the arms industry. From the original saltpeter to the sophisticated "nitration" process, from black powder to RDX, "nitration" is the pre-process of all explosives.

Although nitrogen is the most abundant element in the atmosphere, early humans were unable to produce nitrogen compounds.Before the middle of the 18th century, the only way for humans to obtain nitrogen was to collect nitrogen compounds naturally precipitated from the corners of toilets and pigpens: saltpeter.

In the middle of the 18th century, after the discovery of saltpeter mines in Chile, the great powers finally had a stable supply channel for saltpeter.

It was not until the beginning of the 20th century that human beings freely produced ammonia for the first time, regardless of location and time, through the ammonia synthesis process invented by the Germans.

All in all, how to choose the three routes from easy to difficult, from poor to tall, to heap manure, dig saltpeter mines, and start horses to synthesize ammonia is the problem that the traversing people need to solve today.

"Let's talk about synthetic ammonia first. Is there any drama? Can the industrial sector express its opinion?" After talking about the importance of urea to agriculture, Xia Xianze quickly turned his attention to Zou Guoqing and Yao Zhesheng, the chief and deputy directors of the kiln area. .

Probably because he has been in power for a long time, Lao Zou is no longer as sharp as before.Hearing the boss's question, Zou Guoqing raised his eyebrows, then turned his head to signal Comrade Yao Zhesheng to go out.

Comrade Yao Zhesheng didn't have so many worries. He opened his mouth and said, "Synthetic ammonia, it's not impossible, it's impossible."

Speaking of this, he stretched out his hand and made a special hand gesture: "8-10 years, this is the most optimistic estimate. Without such a long period of development, synthetic ammonia is out of the question."

"A synthetic ammonia plant is a high-temperature, high-pressure steel tower that is filled with various flammable, explosive, and toxic gases and liquids." After a few sentences, Yao Zhesheng began to explain: "Don't talk about those high-pressure pressure vessels, pipelines, Even the most common valves cannot be manufactured in the kiln area right now. If all equipment has to be 'imported', even a small synthetic ammonia plant will not be able to save the necessary equipment within half a year."

"In addition, we cannot produce all the supplies including catalysts, reagents, lubricating oil, methanol, rubber, valves, hydrogen, oxygen, and other raw materials and spare parts, so the subsequent supplies will be returned every month To occupy most of the import quota."

After "Che" heard this, everyone present booed in unison. Everyone knew that based on Yao Zhesheng's last sentence, synthetic ammonia must be dead.

Yao Zhesheng laughed at this moment, and added: "Even if all the equipment is assembled, a small synthetic ammonia factory does not have hundreds of workers with a junior high school diploma or above, plus 20 chemical traversers. Get on the horse and wait for two poison gas bombs in three days."

In the end, Yao Zhesheng concluded: "Synthetic ammonia is an industrial pearl, just like a car engine. Without the support of a huge basic industry, even if a factory falls from the sky, it will not be able to operate, and it can only be abandoned there."

"Okay, okay, I think everyone understands." Xia Xianze stepped forward in time to stop this guy from further damaging everyone's confidence.

After knocking on the table with his hand, Xia Xianze turned his head and asked, "The factory seems to be hopeless, so what about the mine, is there any possibility of buying in large quantities?"

"Cough this is impossible." Professor Luo, the director of the Port Authority sitting on the side, began to speak at this time: "Don't think about Chile for the time being, we want to go across the Pacific Ocean. The Indian saltpeter mine closest to us is not reliable right now. , can only rely on the Dutch to take some from time to time. The Ming Dynasty is also the same, and can buy part from time to time, but it can only be used as a supplement, not as a stable, large source of saltpeter."

"Well, then there is no other way. It seems that we can only build up the nitrate field." Having said this, Xia Xianze turned to Liang Letian and Mi Shuo, the representatives of the two agricultural companies, and said kindly: "For the time being, we can only do this. , let’s make it right first?”

Liang Letian and Mi Shuo nodded at the same time, their conditions were limited, and the two farmers couldn't force others to do what they wanted.

"Well, now that we've decided, let's act quickly." Xia Xianze said to a gentle transmigrator wearing gold-rimmed glasses on his right: "Hurry up and post the recruitment notice on the Internet to see who is willing." Come and be the head of the nitrate field."

This person is Deng Xin, the director of the big office, responsible for managing the network, sending and receiving daily documents and other trivial matters.

After seeing Deng Xin nodding, Xia Xianze added: "The construction of the nitrate field is given priority in all respects, and all equipment, personnel and supplies are given priority. The incumbent must quickly produce a construction report."

"Well, for Nitian, I will send people to control some of them here." Comrade Qin Ming, who was as fierce as a dog before entering the door and as cowardly as a dog after entering, finally ended the silent posture he had kept after entering the door, and interjected softly. said a word.

"Ok?"

"That... I need a part of the nitrate field to regularly sow plant ash. In this way, potassium nitrate can be harvested directly, and after purification, it will be used to make explosives."

"Oh, that's it. I think it's okay. Explosives are also necessary. I can allocate part of the nitrate field to you, and then you can communicate with the person in charge yourself." After thinking about it, Xia Xianze nodded in agreement.

Comrade Qin Ming's great cause was finally settled with one sentence.As for the additional items of the big girl and the little daughter-in-law, Comrade Qin Ming wisely didn't open his mouth at the meeting-all fools know that in this situation, it is inappropriate to mention this!

(End of this chapter)