The representative of the first industrial revolution is the social production change caused by the development of the steam engine, and the representative of the second industrial revolution is the new social production change caused by the invention and development of the internal combustion engine and electric motor.

In 1880, Uncle Ma was interviewed by The Times in the large flat duplex room opposite the British Library in London, and the reporter asked the famous European university scholar why China was able to achieve such great development in the second industrial revolution. Is it true that socialism has such an advantage over capitalism?

Uncle Ma said with a very subtle mocking smile: "I have not studied much on the superiority of the socialist system, so I have no way to evaluate how big the advantage is." If what you really want to ask about is the outcome between China and the UK, I can comment a little. When the ruler of China, Wescher, took the initiative to take dialectical materialism as the ideological basis of the ruling class, and consistently implemented and promoted it, the defeat of Britain was inevitable. ”

Dialectical materialism is a doctrine founded by Uncle Ma, and at this time a theory had emerged in Europe, and Weeser fully accepted Uncle Ma's theory. So Uncle Ma's attitude of selling melons and boasting made the Times reporter couldn't help laughing, which was a kind of laughter with a bit of mockery. Uncle Ma also laughed immediately, his smile was the kind of pity that when he saw the guy who was still carefree and frolicking under the clear sky before the thunderclouds were approaching.

Materialist dialectics holds that there are two basic characteristics of the existence of the world: one is that the world is universally connected, and the other is that the world is eternally developed.

Uncle Ma's best friend Uncle En, once said that the ultimate cause of social and political change should not be found in people's minds, in people's growing understanding of eternal truth and justice, but in changes in the mode of production and exchange; It should not be found in the philosophy of the relevant era, but in the economics of the relevant era. The irrationality and unfairness of the existing system, the growing awareness that 'rationality has become nonsense, and happiness has become misery', is only a symbol of the quiet change that has taken place in the methods of production and the forms of exchange.

Uncle Ma, who founded materialist dialectics, was of course able to see through Wei Ze, and the Chinese emperor at the eastern end of the world island undoubtedly believed in these things, and he not only theoretically proposed two parts, "Theory of Practice" and "Theory of Contradiction", which made materialist dialectics more operable, but also came up with a set of road maps for solutions. In 1880, Uncle Ma summed up Wei Ze's roadmap into four Chinese words, "Strive for world domination".

Wei Ze in 1870 didn't know what Uncle Ma said about him in 1880, and even if he knew, he wouldn't care. From the end of 1869, Wei Ze's main job was to lead the SASAC and the science and technology department to promote China's second industrial revolution. In order to seize the raw material production area of the entire western Pacific and turn the entire western Pacific into Chinese territory, Weeser began to strengthen China's national strength with the support of a group of relatively reliable comrades.

As for China's future, Wei Ze had an exchange with this group of core members, "There are two ways to solve internal problems, one is to solve internal problems, and the other is to solve internal problems externally. The only way to really solve internal problems is to solve them internally, but that time was too long, and when there was an opportunity to alleviate the external problem, I still decided to use an external solution to relieve the internal pressure first. ”

When Wei Ze said this, in March 1870, the Northern Command had already ordered 1,000 tractors from the Nanjing Tractor Factory, and ordered 500 Jiefang brand trucks from the Nanjing Automobile Factory, which had been loaded onto the oil tanker and arrived at Yingkou Port. With demand for oil skyrocketing across the country, both the SASAC and the military are well aware of what Wei Ze means by "external solutions."

It is not uncommon for those who oppose external solutions, and the Ministry of Commerce is not very supportive of external solutions. China's tea and silk exports are good, and with China's steady development, the domestic demand for tea and raw silk continues to rise. No matter how much the production of silk and tea increased in the south, the products were well digested. If China and Britain go to war in an all-out way, foreign trade will undoubtedly be greatly affected.

As for the position of the comrades of the Ministry of Commerce, Wei Ze can fully agree with it. So instead of criticizing the Ministry of Education, he excluded the Ministry of Commerce from the core members.

"Governor, the investment in the hydraulic press project is too large, is it really necessary to continue to invest like this? Now many units say that the hydraulic press project occupies too many excellent personnel. Pang Congcong has found her position, she is a liaison. Effectively allocate all kinds of manpower and resources.

"Several hydraulic press projects cannot be reduced, whether it is crankshaft or cannon steel, there will be problems without large-tonnage hydraulic presses. You haven't seen a diesel engine with a broken crankshaft. Wei Ze replied with a cold face. China has always been inferior to foreign countries in materials science, and Wei Ze is engaged in propeller processing, and he understands the importance of materials science very well. In terms of the current steelmaking capacity, a large amount of investment is still needed for high-temperature and high-pressure resistant cannon steel. The new rifling and the corresponding texture on the conical shells have been improved, and the accuracy of the shelling has been greatly improved. But that kind of delicate rifling faced a new problem, that is, it was worn too hard.

At present, the level of artillery steel in the world is slightly stronger than that of boiler steel, and the artillery steel in many countries is even inferior to boiler steel. The vast number of engineers and technicians in China's steelmaking industry finally completed the steelmaking theory examination with great difficulty last year, and as long as the iron ore and auxiliary materials described in the manual were thrown into the ironmaking furnace and burned, the whole concept of ironmaking and steelmaking was finally reversed. Senior technicians barely have the idea of metal crystallization. If you want to improve the level of artillery steel in the short term, in addition to the developed chromium-nickel-manganese alloy medium carbon steel, you need to use a hydraulic press to improve the internal structure of the alloy.

After the completion of the 1,500-ton hydraulic press, the withdrawal device of the 305 gun was finally accepted. Wei Ze didn't dare to count on the 10,000-ton hydraulic press, so he would get the 3,000-ton hydraulic press out first. Even if the 3000-ton hydraulic press cannot increase the mass of the 305 gun a lot, the crankshaft and other important components of the diesel engine and gasoline engine can always be solved at this stage.

Seeing Wei Ze's firm attitude, Pang Congcong also wisely stopped making requests. The development of things was indeed beyond Pang Congcong's expectations, she originally thought that after the breakthrough in industry, the return on investment would become faster. But in reality, the rapid growth of returns is preceded by huge investments.

Because of the frenzied exploitation of oil from the Dutch East Indies, the kerosene produced by the refinery sold quite well in the countryside as lamp oil. But this income is only a small income that can be seen immediately, and the scale of the refinery has expanded again and again, and the money for lamp oil at this stage is only a drop in the bucket compared to the investment in the refinery, and it is not enough to make up for these investments. The only thing that can be counted on is the order for tractors from the Northern Military Region, and the Military Region has begun large-scale military cantonment in the area south of Shenyang, and if the tractors can play a role, the Northern Military Region will ensure that it will be able to make profits that year. Pang Congcong could only "forgo" to believe it.

Nguyen Hee Ho, commander of the Northern Military District, was very confident in his assurances, and Liaoning Province was basically cleaned up. The vast black soil is waiting for the Han people, who have been separated for hundreds of years, to come and continue farming. In January 1870, Ruan Xihao and the transport troops drove from Beijing to Shenyang in a truck in heavy snow. There are a lot of accidents where vehicles break down on the road, stall, and the water tank freezes. At least 30 percent of the trucks could not be repaired at all, and were dragged to Shenyang with other trucks and horses.

Sitting in the cab and freezing half to death, and the cold wind almost freezing people when commanding the transport troops, these encounters did not reduce Nguyen Xihao's evaluation of the truck. In Ruan Xihao's view, trucks and tractors are really a gift from the sky. More than 200 people and horses were able to cross thousands of miles in the ice and snow in less than ten days, transporting hundreds of tons of supplies. At least he had never seen such a reliable land transport in his life. So Ruan Xihao did not hesitate to believe the evaluation of the tractor by the technicians.

However, in March, Nguyen Hee Ho was more worried not about the spring ploughing that was about to begin, but about whether the northbound fleet could take Vladivostok and control the entire Sakhalin Island. Not long after the army had just established itself in Changchun at this time, in terms of transportation, it was smoother to go to Vladivostok by sea through Guò.

At this time, the two warships of the same class as the Qingdao, the Ningbo and the Wuzhou, had already joined the North Sea Fleet, and with these three elite warships in charge, Ruan Xihao was relieved and worried.

"Send a telegram to the Qingdao and ask where they are?" Nguyen Hee Ho said to the communications staff officer.

"Commander, there are still two hours before the agreed communication time." The communications staff reminded. The stable working life of the tube is not long after more than 100 hours, and 100 hours is not enough to support the long-term work of the radio station. 24 days a day disappears, 100 hours is just a little more than 4 days. If the radio station had worked continuously for more than 1,000 hours, the Liberation Army would not have been able to accept such attrition in a relatively peaceful period. At least until now, the radio station has not been on duty 24 hours a day.

Of course, Ruan Xihao knew that the staff officer was also tactfully advising not to be so composed, so he no longer insisted on it, but said to the staff officer: "Give me the news as soon as the communication is over." ”

Three Chinese cruisers, Qingdao, Ningbo and Wuzhou, were moored outside the strait at the eastern end of the Tsugaru Strait, which was controlled by the Republic of Ezo. The captain of the Qingdao finally understood why the cabin, which was very well located at that time, was empty and not allowed to be occupied for any reason. It was the telegraph room.

Because of the fear of leaks, the troops stationed in the Republic of Ezo are not equipped with radio stations, and they don't even know the storage of radio stations. There were no radios on the old warships, so the captains began to discuss whether to have the navy travel thousands of miles to transmit the news to the country, or to transmit the news directly to the country through the guò radio.