The Shanghai Public Concession is the earliest and largest of all the concessions in China. In the second year of Tongzhi, part of the British Concession merged with the American Concession to form the Public Concession.

At the southern end of the Tibetan Provincial Road is the dividing line between the Public Concession and the French Concession, on one side is the Indian patrol with a red turban and the smell of curry, and on the other side is the thin and withered Annan patrol with yellow teeth. Moskva Hotel is located at the southernmost end of the Public Concession, with a strong Russian style of architecture, thick and exquisite.

Two rows of Indian patrols at the door decorate the façade, and the real vigilance task is surrounded by groups of Anhui New Army in civilian clothes, women's Northern Expeditionary Army dressed as female students, Lu Kai and Shu Yexuan personally led people to be responsible for the security work, although the people of the New Army and the Women's Army were in civilian clothes, but their waists were bulging, and they knew that they were hiding short guns at a glance. Passers-by who have been in Shanghai, a place full of luxuries, have naturally seen a lot of things, and consciously bypassed the entrance of the Grand Moscow Hotel.

There is only one table in the huge restaurant, and there are only three guests, and young Russian waiters shuttle to and fro to serve famous Russian dishes such as salt-baked snails, black caviar, and butter chicken rolls. A curly-haired brown pianist plays Rubinstein's Piano Concerto No. 4.

Chai Dongliang looked out through the floor-to-ceiling glass window, the soldiers of the new army experienced the two battles of Anqing and Yangzhou, obviously a little more heroic, a little less immature, the members of the women's army are mainly female students who have studied in the new-style school, they have experienced a bloody battle in Nanjing Shogunate Mountain, and their youthful faces are heroic.

Especially Shu Yexuan, with a strong three-dimensional face and two long dazzling legs, it is really eye-catching!

I like this girl! Chai Dongliang's eyes lit up!

A Russian woman in a low-cut evening dress came up with a bottle of wine and asked with a smile: "Mr. Papalovich, is today's dish still to your liking?" ”

Yu Qiaqing is an Orthodox Christian, and Papalovich is his Christian name.

Yu Qiaqing, who had a huge cross on his chest, pointed at Chai Dongliang, and then said with a smile: "You should ask this gentleman, he is the master today!" ”

The White Russian woman smiled at Chai Dongliang and said, "Dear Lord Dudu, I hope today's dish will satisfy you!" ”

Chai Dongliang replied with a standard smile that showed eight teeth: "Very good!" ”

The woman carefully opened the cork with a sterling silver corkscrew, and a rich aroma of wine wafted out. Chai Dongliang looked at the style of the wine bottle and knew that this wine must be old, this kind of fine wine that has been cellared for a long time, the oak cork is often weathered and decayed, and if the force is a little greater, it will be scattered like dust. The woman's technique was skilful and light, and the cork was unwound intact without a trace of sawdust.

"This is the vodka that Tsar Alexander I specially brewed to celebrate his victory over Napoleon, and this year is exactly 100 years old! We hope to satisfy our esteemed guests! ”

Yu Qiaqing smiled playfully: "It's still the governor's face, how many times have I been here, I haven't drunk such a good wine, and I'm gone!" ”

Chai Dongliang thanked the shopkeeper for his kindness, picked up the wine glass, and watched the colorless and transparent liquid gently stirring in the light blue crystal cup.

The hundred-year-old royal wine, even for people like Chai Dongliang who have little literacy in wine tasting, also feels very wonderful, and the price of the wine in the cup is almost the same as that of the same weight of gold!

Enjoying the top wine and the food carefully prepared by the famous chef, Chai Dongliang really felt the benefits of power! If he was not the governor of Anhui, Yu Qiaqing, Li Xie and this kind of person would sit at the same table with him to eat? This kind of top-notch famous wine is to pay a lot of money, if the customer's identity is not prominent, the owner will not take it out!

"Chai Dudu, you are the third brother's sworn brother, and you must know my friendship with the third brother!" Li Xiehe took out an envelope covered with the seal of the Wusong Military and Government Branch from his arms, took out an official letter from it, handed it to Chai Dongliang and said: "I submitted a letter to President Sunda, can Chai Dudu play with me?" ”

Chai Dongliang took it and looked at it, and the official letter was neatly written: President Shangsun Da's letter

"The Yuan family is cunning, the first two ends of the cast, the Tartars are rampant and die without stiffness... If the public hesitates, keeps taking the opportunity, or mishears the Yuan family's move to seek peace again, then the general will not be able to take the blame for the overall situation of Shenzhou and the descendants of Yan and Huangzhou! Chai Dongliang said softly.

What a tough wording! is another guy who doesn't understand power change like Tao Chengzhang!

Chai Dongliang learned from the information that Li Xiehe advocated the Northern Expedition to sweep the Manchu Tartar plough court and oppose peace with Yuan Shikai... It's just that with the strength of the Southern People's Party, if you really put your horse and fight the Beiyang Army, it will really not be enough to see! Although the Guangfu Army is also considered brave, after all, the number is too small, but there are only 4,000 people, and just one blood can destroy Yuan Shikai's hundreds of thousands of elites who have been trained for many years?

However, Li Xiehe's character is unquestionable, and the information shows that after the abdication of the Manchu Dynasty, he immediately released Nanshan to relieve himself of military power, and he was bent on industry, and he had no love for power, which was really commendable in the early years of the Republic of China! If every warlord is like him, how can China engage in the withering of people's livelihood and the destruction of the country?

It's just that in his later years, Li Xiehe was tired of state affairs and did not resolutely oppose Yuan Shikai's claim to be emperor, but was put into the list of those who supported Yuan Shikai to become emperor by Yang Du and others!

A lifetime of fame, ruined!

Since then, Li Xiehe was mentally depressed, and his heart could not be dissected to the world, so he wrote a couplet to himself under grief and indignation: Bei Gu Xiao Sanhu, crossing the river to kill thieves made a false wish; Nanlai owes a death, and Liejan is indignant in his old age!

During the Northern Expedition, only one death was owed!

When Li Xiehe was dying, he still remembered the Northern Expedition that he gave up halfway!

Chai Dongliang admired Li Xiehe's character very much, but he didn't say that he praised him for sending troops to the Northern Expedition, and pushed the official letter to Li Xiehe with a faint smile: "Commander Li is the third brother's best friend, so I will ask you to be bigger and call you Brother Tiexian!" Brother Tie Xian, the third brother died in vain, and the younger brother was burned inside, and he was extremely tired of state affairs! If it weren't for the fact that there were still thousands of brothers under my command to rely on me to eat, the younger brother would really want to quit this nominal governor of Anhui and take a boat ride in the mountains and rivers! I came to Shanghai to mourn the third brother, and second, I wanted to talk to Boss Yu about a deal! ”

Li Xiehe was surprised: "Brother Guanghua, you are only in your twenties now, and you are a good age to be heroic!" How can you say that you are retiring from Lin Quan? Brother, this Northern Expedition is about to rely on your sailor, if you have no intention of enterprising, this Northern Expedition will not succeed! ”

Chai Dongliang smiled without saying a word, beckoned behind him, and the soldiers sent a cardboard tube wrapped in blue ayazi. Chai Dongliang opened it, poured out a drawing, handed it to Yu Qiaqing and said, "Boss Yu, look at this thing!" ”

Yu Qiaqing spread out on a table next to her, her eyes shining.

This is a panorama of the vertical kiln cement plant, which records in detail the distribution of machinery and equipment with extremely advanced technology such as vertical crusher and vertical kiln. Moreover, in the design description, there are also technical parameters such as design output and energy consumption.

Although Yu Qiaqing is not very proficient in machinery, he is also a figure who is engaged in business and trade, and he is very shrewd!

The production capacity is 1,000 tons per day, and after deducting the time for overhauling the machine, the annual output can still reach 300,000 tons! The diameter of the vertical kiln is an astonishing 3.8 meters or more!

The output is almost five times that of a cement plant with the same energy consumption, and the investment has only increased by two or three percent. In the technical description, Yu Qiaqing has never even heard of the terms pre-sintering, pre-grinding, and micromedia grinding.

Although he still can't figure out how advanced this technology is, Yu Qiaqing can still understand that the larger the output of cement, the lower the unit cost, and the stronger the competitiveness.

It is surprising that a cement plant with an annual output of 50,000 tons can reach an annual output of 300,000 tons with a little transformation! And the input cost is also very low, if this production line is newly built, including the site and plant and other inputs, it is only 100,000 taels of silver!

Generally, the annual output of 50,000 tons of cement plants also needs to be about 70,000 or 80,000 taels!

If this production line can really achieve the energy consumption and output specified in the design, the opening of one such machine kiln cement plant means that all cement plants will be closed down within the limit of the surrounding 300 kilometers of cement sales radius!

Once this technology is promoted, cement plants all over the world, if they don't use this new technology, will immediately be crushed by others!

And not only that, the emergence of micromedia grinding and vertical crusher will reshuffle all industries that need grinding technology, such as mining and metallurgy!

This is a revolution for the foundation of industry - the materials industry!

Machinery is different from general products, even if competitors buy one, it is not so easy to disassemble and imitate, the material and processing technology of each part, the surface finish of the parts, the tolerance of the assembly... and so on, the slightest mistake will be a thousand miles away!

Yu Qiaqing once saw that the parts imported from foreigners could not be assembled by Chinese workers according to the drawings, let alone imitated! Machine assembly, even if there is one less special fixture, it is likely that it will not be installed properly!

Industry, especially heavy industry, is really not such a simple thing!

Advanced technology, as long as there is no internal ghost leakage, at least within ten or eight years can form a de facto monopoly! In these years, it is unrealistic to monopolize technology by patent rights, and only the formation of technical barriers that make it difficult for others to steal learning is the king!

"Governor, can this really be done?" Yu Qiaqing's excited voice trembled a little.

Chai Dongliang smiled: "The first production line will be put into operation in two months!" When the time comes, please ask Boss Yu to visit in person, seeing is believing! I am here this time, and I hope to discuss the promotion of this project with Boss Yu! ”

Yu Qiaqing said without hesitation: "What does the governor want, even if he puts it forward, Yu will never spit out half a word between his teeth!" Does the governor want a cheque or cash? If you say a price, I will never counteroffer! ”

Yu Qiaqing has just obtained the agency rights of Shanghai and Russia for three-core sockets, and has made a lot of money, and is full of confidence in Chai Dongliang's new technology!

Seeing the two of them talking and laughing about the scriptures of trading, Li Xiehe couldn't even interject, Chai Dongliang just pointed at the drawings and explained to Yu Qiaqing, and actually hung Li Xiehe!

Li Xiehe was very interested in what the two of them said, and he couldn't help but be aroused, and he was also obsessed when he heard it. He is a person who has stayed in the ocean, and he can be regarded as knowledgeable, and he is still stunned by this technology that has led the world for 60 years!

The Soviet technology of the seventies of the twentieth century, put in 1912 AD, can not frighten people, but strange!

"Governor, you're in for it! Make an offer! Yu Qiaqing was itchy by Chai Dongliang's words, and said in an almost pleading tone.

It's so hot that the pig's head rots!

Chai Dongliang was overjoyed in his heart, feeling that the heat was almost over, so he smiled faintly and said: "I can also give you the agency of this product!" And you don't need to pay an advance payment in advance, you can pick up the goods in cash when the time comes! ”

Yu Qiaqing was surprised, and nodded again and again.

Chai Dongliang's face suddenly changed, and his face sank like water: "However, I still have one condition!" ”