Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 49 Chapter 48

Yongdingmen Station, built outside Beijing City, is the earliest terminal station on the Jingfeng Railway.

Because the Qing Dynasty was the same old argument, saying that the construction of the railway would destroy Fengshui, and that the railway construction would never be allowed to enter the city of Beijing.

It wasn't until Lafayette took the emperor to Naian and the Eight-Nation Allied Forces entered Beijing that the Western devils tore down a gap in the city wall and made the railway track go all the way to Zhengyangmen.

Yongdingmen Station has been used until later generations, but it was renamed Beijingnan on the way.

At 26:49 in the morning, Chen Muwu boarded the seven slow trains from Beijing to Shanhaiguan at Yongdingmen Station. It was not until [-]:[-] in the morning that he finally arrived at Tanggu Station.

It only takes a little over half an hour to take the intercity high-speed rail, but it took him four and a half minutes.

The bumps on the track for such a long time made Chen Muwu sober again. When he went to Europe in the future, he must not choose to go north to Harbin and take a train across Siberia in order to save time. Confess in the train carriage.

Not far from Tanggu Station is the ship terminal of China Merchants Group located in Tanggu Port. Tanggu Port should be the busiest port in the whole north.

Every day, countless grains, tea, silk and opium from the south are unloaded and landed from here, and shipped to Tiandu, Beijing and other places in North China.

There are also countless wagons of coal, which are transported here from two coal mining companies in Kaiping and Luanzhou in Qishan, where they are abandoned and loaded on ships, and shipped to various places in the south.

In this port with thousands of sails, Chen Muwu found that among the goods up and down, one of the ships was pulled down, not the above-mentioned things related to people's livelihood issues such as food, clothing, housing and transportation, but curled and welded into cylindrical pieces. The iron sheet seems to be a part of some equipment in the factory.

Is this a blast furnace?Or a reactor?

Things related to science immediately attracted Chen Muwu's curiosity,

So he hurriedly stepped forward, and while helping to help, he asked the dock workers who were yelling to carry the luggage: "Excuse me, where are these goods going?"

The dock worker who had nothing to spare raised his chin and pointed to the front: "Sir, these are the goods from the Yongli Alkali Factory in front, and they have just been shipped from abroad. Don't touch these, just leave them alone and let me come."

He was afraid that the oil stains on the goods would stain Chen Muwu's clothes, and the suit material seemed to be expensive.

"It's okay, I'll help you."

After helping the dock worker to carry the goods to the designated location, Chen Muwu declined the worker's thanks, and he left the dock, carefully recalling the name Yongli Alkali Factory.

Wynn...alkali...

Wynn...

alkali...

Fan Xudong who broke the monopoly of foreign companies in the soda ash market!
The father of Chinese national chemical industry!

Oh my god, Chen Muwu originally thought of going home on a temporary basis, but he didn't expect to meet a big boss in Tanggu.

Anyway, the ship doesn't leave until tomorrow, so since we've arrived at someone's house, why not visit them?
Yongli Soda Manufacturing Co., Ltd. was established as early as 1918, and started to build a factory in Tanggu, Tianyi in 1921.

Calculating the time, it was not until this year that the mechanical equipment imported from abroad by Yongli Alkali Plant began to be gradually installed and ready for stand-alone test runs one after another.

Next year, the equipment will start to produce alkali for the first time, but the first batch of products are not soda ash as white as snow, but red and black, which cannot be sold.It was later found out that these red and black impurities were rust in the reactor, which had stained the soda ash.

After Wynn Soda Manufacturing Co., Ltd. fully adjusted the equipment, the Red Triangle brand of soda ash produced by it became an instant hit, grabbing a large area of ​​the local market from the British Bo Neimen Company, and it would have to wait until 1926, three years later.

Chen Muwu is happy to see that people in the country can make money from devils, and he thinks that making money should start as early as possible, and the more money you can make, the better.

Calculating the time, the current soda production process of Yongli Soda Plant should be the Solvay soda production process bought from abroad at a high price, which is commonly known as the ammonia soda process.

That's right, that Solvay, who made a huge windfall through monopoly soda making, so he has the money to fund the conference of physicists.

Every high school student has dreamed of walking around the venue with a pack of dynamite. In that case, their physics textbooks will be thinned by at least half.

Are you considering revealing a little secret in advance to help Yongli Alkali Factory understand the ultimate mystery of alkali production in advance?

Thinking of this, Chen Muwu walked in the direction pointed by the worker.

Because soda production requires a large amount of salt and water, the location of the upper soda plant cannot be too far from the shore.

After walking less than a mile, he saw the gate of Yongli Alkali Factory.

Although it is called an alkali factory, there is a scene of a construction site in full swing in the gate of the courtyard.

The workers were digging the soil, piling the piles, and some people were transporting the steel materials that Chen Muwu saw just now to the warehouse.

Chen Muwu learned to be smart this time, and he was no longer as rash as he was when he was yarding. He stopped a worker who was not holding anything in his hand, and asked him where the factory manager was.

"You want to find the factory director? Here, there it is!"

Following the direction of the workers' fingers, Chen Muwu saw a middle-aged man in overalls sweating profusely on the construction site.

If everyone hadn't told him, he might not have recognized him. The man who was dressed exactly like the other workers was the factory manager.

Chen Muwu stepped forward, cupped his hands and said, "Junior Yuyu Chen Muwu, Director Fan, please be polite."

The middle-aged man was taken aback for a moment, then put down the work in his hand, and said with a smile: "Sir, you have mistaken the person. He was the director of the Yongli Soda Factory in Hou Debang, the Marquis of Minmin, and he is not the Mr. Fan you are looking for." manager."

Hou Debang!Another boss.

The Hou's alkali-making method he researched has appeared in history and chemistry textbooks.

Chen Muwu's idea of ​​revealing the secret just now refers to the famous Hou's soda making method.

In the face of these national heroes in history, Chen Muwu never hesitated his admiration and respect: "It turned out to be Dr. Ge Dahou, who has admired his name for a long time, and I am disrespectful and disrespectful."

Hou Debang also graduated from Columbia University, the same school as Dr. Hu, but unlike Dr. Hu, he has successfully graduated and obtained his doctorate certificate.

"You know me?"

Chen Muwu nodded: "I read about Mr.'s name in the newspaper."

"Coincidentally, I also saw Brother Hanchen's name in the newspaper. I just never thought that Chen Hanchen, who talked with Einstein in Gehai and gave lectures on the theory of relativity at Beijing University, turned out to be so Young, a boy born from a hero since ancient times!"

"Mr. Hou is absurd."

"Hanchen is on this trip, do you need to talk to General Manager Fan for anything?"

"It's nothing to do. I just went back to my hometown and passed Tanggu by boat. I accidentally learned that the Yongli Factory is next to the pier. The younger generation happened to be interested in this advanced chemical industry. I wanted to learn more about it, so I came to visit and ask for advice. .”

Hou Debang put down his work, explained a few things to be aware of with others, and welcomed Chen Muwu to an office building next to the construction site.

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