The business of Sanyi Pharmaceutical Factory is booming, the eyes of the peers are dripping blood, the factory gate is full of trucks pulling goods, boxes of finished drugs are loaded, and they are sent to Xiaogushan Wharf to be loaded on ships and shipped to all over the world. Three steel structure workshops have been temporarily built in the factory area, and the door of the workshop has not yet been installed, and the machines on the assembly line have begun to roar.

The monthly production of amicanesulfonamide has increased to 3.5 million bottles, with domestic sales of 1.5 million and export sales of 2 million, but there is still a gap of 10 million miles from the strong demand of the pharmaceutical industry. The task given to Li Daotou and Wei Ming by Chai Dongliang is to manufacture a large number of dafenesulfamides within one or two years, taking advantage of the fact that the current technology has not been cracked by foreigners, and to get a fat vote in the shortest possible time. Chai Dongliang is very dissatisfied with the current output, and he has given the Industrial Bureau a task of producing 10 million bottles per month, of which 6 million bottles are exported, and the monthly output will reach 20 million bottles and 14 million bottles after half a year. With the cooperation of the Industrial Bureau, Sanyi Pharmaceutical Factory quickly bought several pharmaceutical factories that were on the verge of bankruptcy, and put the production line into full swing with a slight transformation.

This is the first broad-spectrum powerful antibacterial drug in human history, which is regarded as a miracle drug by doctors, and in the past, a small throat infection could kill a patient, but for sulfonamides, this is just the most common minor ailment. Aminosulfonamide is even more good news for soldiers, many soldiers were injured in training in the past, and it is likely that a small wound infection can make those fierce men give their lives, and now soldiers no longer have this worry, and they are more fierce during training.

Artemisinin is also sold out of stock in Southeast Asia, Liangguang and Yunnan, and its low price and miraculous efficacy have quickly replaced the indiscriminate cinchona cream and become the best-selling antimalarial drug.

The Sanyi Pharmaceutical Factory, whose original investment was only tens of thousands of taels of silver, now has profits even exceeding those of the Guanghua Group's machinery factory and steel company, becoming one of the most profitable businesses under Chai Dongliang, second only to the Guanghua Shipyard and the Guanghua Arsenal. Li Darttou of the Sanyi Dart Bureau, originally because of the development of railways, steamships, and the financial industry, impacted the trading of the Dart Bureau, and wanted to close the door of the Dart Bureau and return to his hometown to farm, but he did not expect that in just one year's effort, he has been among the ranks of several wealthy people in Anhui, and his wealth has chased the Wu family father and son, who are the leaders of the Jianghuai industry, and threw the most rich salt merchants and pawn merchants out of Anhui a few streets.

In the area controlled by the Jianghuai Army, all the traders understand an ironclad fact, and they can make a fortune by following Chai Dongliang!

For the traders, everything is fake, the silver of the white flowers is real, Yu Qiaqing, the Wu family father and son were the first to follow Chai Dongliang, less than two years of work have been full of money, all the waists are thicker than the grinding plate, it is absolutely nonsense to say that others are not red-eyed. Their story has become a legend in the business world, not only the merchants of Anhui, Jiangxi, and Shanghai, but also the merchants of Mongolia and Mukden who are far away. Gu Nanshan was in Mukden, Cheng Dequan was in Jiangsu, and Tang Hualong was in Hubei to carry out land reform, and things went extremely smoothly, and the degree of cooperation between the landlords and officials was beyond imagination. The land reform in Anhui and Jiangxi was to exchange industrial stocks and land bonds for the land of the landlords, and the land reform was initially started by the members of the Council and the officials of the political axe, and the original issue price of the shares they bought in the industrial park was one silver dollar per share, but now it has risen to 170 silver dollars a share.

The power of example is endless, with the example of the landlords in Anhui and Jiangxi, the landlords in Fengtian, Jiangsu, and Hubei handed over the land like crazy, and many people did not even want every ten acres of the statutory reservation, and finally the government posted a notice, making it clear that the part of the statutory reservation shall not be exchanged for bonds and stocks, and once it is found that the violation will be severely punished, which stops the madness of the landlords.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, each province set up a large number of government-run enterprises, and these factories were more like yamen, and almost none of them made money, but it has to be said that the machinery of these enterprises was still quite advanced, and the reason for losing money was the corrupt system and the style of people who were superficial.

In China at the beginning of the twentieth century, setting up factories was originally a very profitable business, and the most common ones had half of the profits, compared with the pitiful income of the manufacturing industry in later generations, it was simply a money grab, but the ability of the Manchu bureaucrats was too great, and even the monopoly industry could make them lose money. The management of enterprises has become a bottomless pit, and there is no other use except for supporting the façade of the provincial governors.

Once these loss-making enterprises can be used as pants, once they fall into the hands of private individuals, they will immediately be different, where can the capitalists allow the existence of redundant people who only take money and do not work? In addition, Chai Dongliang promoted assembly line production, and there were professionals from industrial management companies to help capitalists manage enterprises, and the production efficiency was greatly improved, the output was rising, and the unit cost plummeted.

Enterprises that used to be financially burdened have now become large taxpayers, and shareholders are smiling and counting their money until their hands cramp.

The concept of hard work and prosperity has been deeply rooted in the marrow of Chinese for thousands of years, and what they lack is only a system that allows them to work more and get more and an environment for free development??? Chai Dongliang gave them this system, and they will naturally create all miracles. Chai Dongliang created this environment, and they gave him a surprise in return.

The bigger surprise came from the aircraft R&D center, Feng Ru's voice was a little hoarse with excitement when he called Chai Dongliang.

After Chai Dongliang heard the good news, he immediately drove to the aircraft management center. When I arrived at the door, I found that the alert level here had been strengthened, three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, the guards led the wolf dogs to patrol with nervous expressions, the guards on the watchtower were loaded with live ammunition, and the Makqin heavy machine gun was also hung with a bullet chain.

As soon as Chai Dongliang walked in, he saw a silver biplane shining on the tarmac.

Metal planes? Chai Dongliang was overjoyed, you must know that the planes of this era are basically toys with a flight altitude of no more than thirty or forty meters and a flight distance of only two kilometers, and Feng Ru has actually developed a semi-metal aircraft with the first half of the skin.

Judging by that familiar luster, Chai Dongliang can conclude that the plane is made of aluminum.

Feng Ru saw Chai Dongliang coming, and the oil sludge on his hand didn't have time to wipe it off, so he ran over excitedly, grabbed Chai Dongliang's hand, and said excitedly: "Governor, look, our new plane." ”

Chai Dongliang suppressed the excitement in his heart and asked, "Is it an aluminum alloy?" ”

Feng Ru nodded: "Yes, this aircraft is used according to the material table you provided, the test was successful, the strength is close to steel, and the weight is only one-third of steel, it is simply a god!" ”

Chai Dongliang circled around the plane a few times and found that not only the front half of the skin, but also the siding, stringers, wings and other components were made of aluminum alloy, and the rear was still wooden.

When he walked to the front of the plane, Chai Dongliang was pleasantly surprised to find that there was also an air-cooled light Maxim machine gun behind the propeller.

Seeing Chai Dongliang paying attention to the machine gun, Feng Ru said happily: "Dudu, we have installed an intermittent on the machine gun, and now we can complete the shooting in flight!" The development of aerial bombs has also made rapid progress, but there is still no major breakthrough in torpedoes, but we have already sent more manpower to tackle key problems. ”

Feng Ru's hands were full of cracks, his face was black and yellow, and the bags under his eyes were even deeper, but a person who was just thirty years old looked like a middle-aged man in his forties, and he really worked hard for the research and development of the aircraft.

Chai Dongliang's heart was sour, this person who grew up in the United States and received an American-style education, but his heart is redder and hotter than anyone else, although he wears a dress, his heart is still Chinese.

The plane's propellers spun and the powerful V-12 Eagle engine produced powerful kinetic energy. The silver eagle gradually accelerated on the concrete runway, faster and faster, pulled up the nose at the end of the runway, and the silver warhawk let out a deafening roar, and then took off into the air, the speed of which was not comparable to that of the previous wooden plane.

"Dudu, the front half of the skin of this aircraft is made of aluminum alloy, the wooden propeller is covered with aluminum alloy, the flight speed can reach a maximum of 315 kilometers, the maximum ceiling is 2,500 meters, the endurance is 550 kilometers, the maximum engine output is 1,280 horsepower, the sealed cockpit canopy slides back to open, which is convenient for the pilot to break away when parachuting, the maximum take-off weight is 1,300 kilograms, there are four pylons under the wings, which can be loaded with bombs or auxiliary fuel tanks of up to 500 kilograms." Feng Ru pointed to the silver eagle soaring in the blue sky with great interest: "The power of the Eagle V12 engine used now is really powerful, there is still a lot of room for improvement, and the engine's ability is still very rich. ”

Chai Dongliang smiled and refused, the Eagle V 12 engine was the top aircraft engine until World War II, 30 years ahead of this era, of course, there is huge potential to be tapped.

Chai Dongliang pretended to be careless and said casually: "Why don't you use a monoplane?" Monoplane maneuvering will be better, and the landing gear of the aircraft should be retractable, so that the air resistance will be less, and the aircraft can be streamlined, and the speed may be greatly improved. In addition, the all-metal aircraft protection and speed will be better, and the machine gun is better to replace it with a large-caliber one, which can be two machine guns in the wing and two under the wing, or two aircraft guns in the wing and two large-caliber machine guns under the wing??? In the future, there will inevitably be more brutal battles in the sky than on the ground! ”

Feng Ru was shocked, he didn't expect that this kind of cross-era aircraft still hadn't entered Chai Dongliang's eyes, what kind of technical standards would have to be reached to satisfy this extremely expert governor.

In fact, Chai Dongliang is already very satisfied, this is the first aircraft with actual combat capability in human history, I believe that after this kind of biplane arrives on the battlefield, it will cause an extremely huge shock to the enemy, and will cause unimaginable panic among the well-trained enemy troops??? The shock of the battlefield would be unprecedented for those who had never experienced an aerial strike to discover an iron bird in the sky dropping bombs and swooping down from the sky with a deafening roar to attack soldiers on the march or in a straggler array.

Chai Dongliang quietly reminded Feng Ru and told him the direction of future aircraft development, there is no need to repeat the drum, how to improve, Feng Ru and the engineers and technicians around him will come up with a way.

Chai Dongliang's computer has drawings of famous aircraft such as the Hurricane and Spitfire, and the engines used in these aircraft are the V model twelve-cylinder Eagle engines of Rolls-Royce??? But Chai Dongliang was unwilling to do so, and the result of the substitution was to exhaust the creativity of his subordinates.

The silver warhawk sometimes pulled up and climbed in the air, sometimes swooped down with a loud sound, and a string of 7.92 mm caliber machine gun bullets slammed into the wooden targets on the ground like whips spewing out of the mouths of poisonous snakes, smashing the targets to smash them and aggravating the impression of the spectators.

The more Chai Dongliang looked at it, the happier he became, with the help of this fighter with a flight distance of more than 500 kilometers, the difficulty of the unification war would be greatly reduced, and Beiyang, which had no intention of fighting, would collapse in an instant, and he could defeat Yuan Shikai at a smaller price and push him off the throne of the president.

Time is running out, Yuan Shikai is rebuilding the parliament according to his wishes, and is formulating a constitution that he has instructed to codify, once this work is completed and the people of the world have accepted this fait accompli, then Chai Dongliang will not be able to complete the unification of the country before the outbreak of the First World War. If you have to rely on force for reunification, it is not impossible, but the price is to be spurned by the people of the world, after all, the Republic of China has just been established for less than three years, and the second revolution has just ended a few months, and the people's hearts are still settled!

Now to raise troops, there is still plenty of excuses, Yuan Shikai used force to coerce the Congress, his legal surname is not recognized by the world, once time passes, Lao Yuan's ass sits firmly, and the illegal one becomes legal, if Chai Dongliang raises troops again, he will be like Sun Wen and Huang Xing of the Second Revolution, and will be regarded by the people as a chaotic minister and thief who undermines the stability of the country, so the enlightened image he has worked hard for many years will be ruined!

Shoot when it's time to make a move, and if you do the same thing at different times, the effect will be completely different!

Chai Dongliang understands this truth, and Yuan Shikai also knows it!

Today is the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, and in a few days it will be the Spring Festival??? Chai Dongliang secretly said in his heart, let Lao Yuan spend the last Spring Festival in the presidential palace, after the fifteenth day of the first month, even if the year is over, it will be time for him and Yuan Shikai to share their superiority!

Beiyang and Jianghuai Army, Yuan Shikai and Chai Dongliang, are destined to have only one left!

(To be continued)