This Bayer is not Friedrich Bayer, the founder of Bayer Pharmaceuticals, but the Bayer from Austria. His greatest contribution to the history of metallurgy was the invention of the industrial method of producing alumina, which was later called the Bayer method.

What is the name of this method, in fact, Suning doesn't care. It is mainly the industrial products made by this method, which really shocked Suning.

The chemical properties of aluminum are extremely active, so it is almost impossible to prepare elemental aluminum, so alumina has become an important storage method for it, no matter what kind of aluminum alloy is manufactured, he is indispensable.

The advantages of light weight and high hardness of aluminum alloy make it an indispensable part in many fields. Titanium has been an indispensable part of the aerospace industry since before it was widely used.

At the same time, its content in the earth's crust is also considerable, which lays a solid foundation for its wide application.

In the life of the 21st century, many applications, including aluminum alloy doors and windows, are commonplace. But the residents of the late Eastern Han Dynasty did not know the power of this metal.

Suning Baby suddenly had a new idea, maybe he could use it to hit light armor to protect against medium and long-range arrows. Due to the relatively high hardness of aluminum alloy, it is easier to defend against weapons with strong penetration. And this armor is simply a blessing for the cavalry. After all, overly heavy armor will limit their speed, while lightweight, yet highly defensive aluminum armor will undoubtedly save most of them.

With such an idea, Suning began to mobilize, but unfortunately the aluminum ore resources in Wuwei County are not particularly rich, and it is quite difficult to mine.

However, these difficult factors were nothing in front of several metallurgical maniacs, and after they received the support of the Soviet Union, they immediately began to work overtime and frantically, and at the same time, hydraulic forging hammers gradually appeared on several rivers in the territory of Wuweijun. They have been able to achieve their basic goal of hitting the plates.

At the same time, the production of silver coins was also on the agenda of two economists, Alley and Arrow. Although not yet fully technologically mature, the right to issue money means huge profits, which is why the two economists attach great importance to this matter.

They had even prepared the corresponding molds, stared at them and said that the technology was passed, and then began to cast the Su Datou they had been planning for a long time.

The so-called Su Datou is a kind of silver coin made by imitating the silver dollar of Yuan Datou in ancient times. What kind of purchasing power this silver coin should have, and what kind of exchange rate it should use with copper coins, has not yet been planned in detail, but many of the projects that have been set up within Weishui require sufficient funds to promote development, so a currency that can bring huge profits is what they need most now.

However, due to the lack of resources such as metal chromium, the liquid crystal port has been unable to make a silver coin effect that can buzz in the ear for a long time. Under the premise that the anti-counterfeiting technology cannot be guaranteed to be safe, reliable and easy to implement, if a large number of silver coins are rashly put into the market. Then it will not only bring the bad effect of inflation, but also the safety risk of bad money driving out good money.

So Suning did not rashly agree with the opinions of the two economists, but thought of a compromise plan. Years of economic history research have given him some knowledge of the history of Western currency minting, and he at least remembers such a thing as a screw coin press. So he asked several summoners from ancient Greece and Rome to restore it.

It wasn't long before Suning recruited a trusty group of Unyielding from the Black Tower tribe and secretly hid them on the edge of the desert in Wuwei County. One of the tasks of this gang is to use a screw coin press to mint coins. In this way, the Eastern Han Dynasty opened a central bank in Liangzhou, but this large central bank did not file with the imperial court and would not obey any instructions from the imperial court. He will only provide sufficient financial support for Suning's raw material procurement.

So many of the benefits are actually obvious. Although metal silver can be regarded as a precious metal in ancient times, the currency of silver is still relatively unfamiliar to people in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, so the promotion cost of silver coins in the late Eastern Han Dynasty is still very high. You must know that if the currency is trusted by the people, even if it is a piece of paper, it will be able to pass the world, and the future generations of paper money such as RMB are also the same truth.

Another point is that the large issuance of silver coins is bound to attract the attention of the imperial court. At that time, Suning's idea of trying to hide his strength as much as possible will be difficult to realize.

Therefore, it is a very good choice to quietly issue copper coins. What's more, the silver coin program will not be able to be carried out in a short time.

After solving the problem of returning home and currency, Suning has made great progress in terms of military equipment and financial resources, but he still needs to face several tests, one of which is the expansion of trade volume.

The important problem that Suning is facing now is that many local wealthy families in Liangzhou have begun to prepare to jointly suppress him, and many of his goods are in oversupply in Liangzhou, especially after several wealthy families have hired a few experienced employees, they have pushed their products to the market, so that they no longer need to buy Weishui company's products.

Ordinary people, who had just come out of a hard life, did not have enough savings to buy industrial products, and although they made a lot of money from Suning's company, most of them saved their income in case of famine and disease that could come at any time.

Therefore, the rural form in Liangzhou is now such that the consumption power has not increased commensurate with the rapid increase in industrial productivity. And the pace of industrial development can not be stopped, otherwise, the whole Liangzhou Junshan and Xinjiang will not have enough industrial products to support. Therefore, how to fully release the consumption potential without affecting the rapid increase of industrial production capacity has become a major problem for Suning and others.

This question made Suning worry for half a month, and it wasn't until the arrival of a person that he saw a glimmer of light.

This man's name is Ma Yi!

Ma Yi, like Ma Chao's father Ma Teng, is a descendant of General Fubo Ma Yuan. But I'm afraid that you are so busy that the road doesn't seem to be as close as you think, in history, his son Ma Dai followed Ma Chao to fight in the south and north for half a lifetime. But he himself, with the rest of his sons, always went to the Western Regions to escape the years of war in Liangzhou.

This is the reason why he came to meet Suning, because he heard that Suning has encountered the problem of unsalable. In this regard, his solution is also very simple, that is, let these goods set foot on the Silk Road.

As soon as he picked his words, countless thunderbolts flashed through the Soviet Union's mind. Wuwei County is located on the Hexi Corridor, an important area of communication between Eastern and Western civilizations. How could he, Suning, not take advantage of this natural advantage?

So three days later, Suning gathered all his subordinates and held a huge meeting, under his arrangement, the development direction of Weishui Company in the next two years is not to expand its business tentacles to the east, but to dislike to transport its products to the west.

There, they can get more bizarre products, and then sell them to the Central Plains, and the profits will be unimaginably rich.

There are two main reasons why I want to go to Xinyu to go to the Central Plains to sell goods, instead of directly selling myself as commodities to the Central Plains.

First, it is because the recognition of reputable goods in the Central Plains is relatively high, after all, the road of revenge has been opened for hundreds of years, and the business exchanges between the two sides have a completely reliable foundation. The Central Plains has a relatively low awareness of Liangzhou goods, which invisibly increases the publicity cost of Liangzhou goods. As for whether the residents of the Western Regions would recognize something from Liangzhou, Suning didn't worry too much, he just needed to tell those Hu merchants in the Western Regions that this was a rare item that the Central Plains had not sold to them before. Originally, these were all secret treasures, but now, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty wants to gather more wealth in order to deal with a rebellion that may break out at any time, so he let these treasures come to the Western Regions region in exchange for enough money and treasures.

In this way, the three parties can get what they want, but the Liangzhou side needs to pay more manpower and time to waste on transportation.

However, if you want to create a career, you must open your hard-working legs and move your hard-working hands, which is an inevitable choice that cannot be bypassed no matter what.

In addition, another consideration of Suning has also attracted everyone's attention. That is Liangzhou, if a large number of industrial products are sold to the Central Plains, it is bound to arouse the curiosity and exploration of the Central Plains, when the time comes, the Central Plains will be very likely to set off a wave of follow-up, once the industrial base of that area reaches a certain level, it will give the warlords who dominate that area in the future, provide better industrial support, and at that time, the power of the Central Plains warlords will likely threaten the security of the Liangzhou region.

The people of Liangzhou don't sell practical and good things there. This is clearly not in line with Suning's interests. As for the new technologies they have explored through the newspaper, Suning is happy to see it, because all the technologies published in the newspaper have been strictly reviewed, otherwise they would not appear in broad daylight, and those technologies are all low-level technologies that have been extremely mature in Liangzhou, and have even been phased out. Even if it spreads, it will not pose much of a threat to Liangzhou, not to mention that the clans in the Central Plains control the spread of knowledge, and they do not allow the revival of Mojia learning on their territory. Therefore, even if someone is willing to learn the emerging technology published in the newspapers, it will be suppressed by the family, and it will not spread quickly.

As a result, a new market layout was gradually formed, and Suning's attention was gradually liberated from the strategic choice level and began to pay attention to the development and improvement of details.

He knew that the next two years would be extremely important for them, because two years later, the Yellow Turban Rebellion would sweep the world, and at that time, there would also be a huge rebellion in Liangzhou, and the main leaders of the rebellion would be Han and Bian, who had seen them before. But the main force of the rebellion was an Qiang army called Huangzhong Yicong.

Suning knew that he had placed too many important industries in Liangzhou, and almost every one of these industries could make huge profits, and they would become the target of the rebels' key attacks during ovulation, so the planning and arrangement for the past two years must be carried out seamlessly.