Chapter 608: Wu Yunchu

What Wu Yunchu will never forget in his life is the "Treaty of Shimonoseki", which left an unforgettable impression in his young heart!

The Treaty of Shimonoseki agreed that China recognized Korea as independent and ceded the entire island of Taiwan and all its affiliated islands, the Penghu Islands, and the Liaodong Peninsula to Japan; compensation for the Japanese military treasury 20,000 taels of silver; Shashi, Chongqing, Suzhou and Hangzhou will be opened as treaty ports.

Later, because the great powers were afraid that Japan would take advantage of the situation and intervene, the Liaodong Peninsula was not divided, but China was asked to "compensate" and "ransom" Liao, 30 million taels of silver!

Someone once touched Wu Yunchu's little head and said:

"The 230,000,000,000 taels, even you have to pay five cents -- you also have to take out your father's 'bundles' for a few days!"

Daddy's few days of "bunching", what if it is a family of ten? Isn't it my father's "bondage" for a month or two, that is to say, a family of ten has to go without eating, drinking, or wearing for a month or two! On the other hand, if it had not been robbed, wouldn't all the families of ten, especially those who did not have enough to eat, live a good life for at least a month or two?

You have to be strong!

As a result of the Qing government's self-proclaimed boss in seclusion and seclusion, it was finally beaten down by the imperialist cannon, and passively opened the door wide. Imperialists are like robbers. No, they are stronger than robbers, and even some ruffian and hooligan missionaries and profiteers have come to act as a prestige, trampling and plundering at will, causing the loss of sovereignty, the insult of national dignity, and all kinds of humiliation. This is certainly an abomination of the imperialist powers, but what about you? If they are strong, if they are advanced, if they are rich, if they are big and powerful, and if they are all living beings, relatively speaking, the great powers have not all become "small countries and widows", they want to bully, do they dare? Can you?

A piece of fat, no matter how big and beautiful, is placed in a fenced and very corrupt environment, and it can only attract flies and beasts; And the bigger the more beautiful, the longer the time, the more it will be attracted; A sycamore, with deep roots and thick roots, lush branches and leaves, can only attract phoenixes and sparrows. Flies and wild beasts are not only greedy and insatiable, but also filthy and savage, which can only bring evil, and are boundless and unbearable scourges, and do not allow incense to blow people; The phoenix and the sparrow can not only add color to the sycamore, but also the beautiful singing voice adds infinite good sound, and the evil bird is not allowed to come.

The great powers and nations are also the world's, the human race, and wherever there are people, there is no good and bad coexist, that is to say, there are both "flies and beasts", as well as "sparrows and phoenixes", which has been the case in the past, and will be the same in the present and future years!

Wu Yunchu was 20 years old, that is, in 1911, after six years of hard study, he graduated from the Ordnance Engineering School. This year also coincided with an extremely important turning point in China's thousands of years of history, ending the feudal monarchy!

In the winter of 1915, several people in Tianjin wanted to raise shares to set up a nitrate company, and they made an appointment with Wu Yunchu to prepare for it together. Wu Yunchu felt that there was no decent manufacturer of nitrate alkali in China at that time, and it was to add a bit of industry to the country and the nation, and he was also very useful, so he readily agreed, and informed that he had originally interned at the Hankou Iron Works there, and went north in whole clothes. How do you know that I rushed to Tianjin with enthusiasm and thousands of miles, but I was poured a basin of cold water on my head:

The shareholders quit.

So he was trapped in Tianjin Wei. Living in a foreign country, with no relatives, no job, and no income, it is really difficult to get by. But he still didn't give up, and still wanted to find a way to see in Tianjin. The winter in Tianjin is not as cold as in Shanghai, and the house where he lives does not even have a stove, which is really miserable.

It was not until the spring of 1916, when it received a letter from Hanyang, that it returned south.

In order to improve production efficiency, Hanyang Iron Works decided to trial produce silica bricks and manganese bricks that have been used internationally for furnace construction.

And all the relevant technical personnel have failed to make a trial production, which costs a lot and has no results, how to explain to the factory? was in a dilemma, and suddenly heard that Wu Yunchu had returned to Wuhan, as if he had been rescued.

Although Wu Yunchu was only 25 years old at the time, he was a top student majoring in chemistry at the Shanghai Ordnance Engineering School, and he was also very competent in the laboratory tests of the Hanyang Iron Works for more than a year, so he must have some confidence. Even if it is not successful, it can be proved that the trial production cannot be made, and it is not completely incompetent. So, the burden of this trial production was put on Wu Yunchu.

Wu Yunchu came prepared, although he had never made silicon bricks and manganese bricks, and had not read the relevant technical information, but with his chemical knowledge and analysis, he felt that although this problem was big, he was still somewhat more sure than others. What's more, the domestic silicon bricks and manganese bricks are basically blank, once this difficulty is overcome, not only in the Hankou Iron Works, but also for the country's smelting enterprises! …,

He has long been determined to find difficult problems to tackle, that is, to do what his predecessors have not done, otherwise, if he follows others step by step, how can he talk about saving the country and improving himself?

The main reason why the great powers are strong is that they are scientific and technologically advanced, and many of the things they use are much more advanced than China's.

China must first step up its efforts to get up with all that they have, that is, to catch up, and then try to surpass them. Otherwise, how can words be strong? And if you want to have something, the great powers will not give it to you, you have to work hard to create it. Nowadays, the trial production of silicon bricks and manganese bricks belongs to the type he is looking for. Don't say that there is still a lot of oil and water, even if the benefits to him are not as great as ordinary people hope, he will do it! Mo said that he is still a little sure, that is, with more effort and effort, he will also succeed in trial production! What's more, once he succeeds, his skills and worth will be significantly improved, and it will be easier to realize his wishes. Therefore, his determination is very great, and he is naturally full of confidence, he does not believe that foreign countries can do it, he cannot do it, and it is not a particularly difficult subject. He felt that he could and would do it.

But when he accepted it, he still left room to say: "It's hard for me to say that I can tackle this topic that many colleagues can't tackle, so do my best!" “

Wu Yunchu endured hardship, as long as he made up his mind, he spared no effort to do it.

As soon as the task was received, he ran around, collecting and finding materials. He carefully and sparingly copied all the relevant technical conditions and data, even if they were as subtle as a sentence or even had only some indirect relationships, and then brought them back to summarize, synthesize, and analyze, almost day and night. Forget to sleep and eat.

The hard work paid off, and finally developed a perfect plan, which he tried several times by himself, and soon succeeded. This is the first case of Chinese manufacturing silicon bricks and manganese bricks; It has also made a good start and significant contribution to the use of silica bricks and manganese bricks by Chinese enterprises; It is also the first success of Wu Yunchu in the chemical industry in the twenty-fifth year of his life. The victory in the first battle is infinitely joyful, and it has also attracted the attention of the society.

In the popularization and use of silicon bricks and manganese bricks, his name has also spread

As a result, he became the director of the brick factory, and was even more favored by the Hanyang Arsenal at that time, knowing that he was a rare talent in chemistry, and hired him as the head of the pharmaceutical section of the factory, and awarded him the rank of major. became famous for a while, and his status and salary were high.

There are still people who are calling for the idea of partnering with him or asking him to join the gang. He rejected all things that he thought were far from his goal in life. I could only agree to the invitation of Song Weichen, the owner of the Hankou Xiechang Match Factory. The reason is that Song Weichen proposed to co-set up a nitrate company with him, which was funded by Song Weichen, and he contributed technology and served as chief engineer and factory director, using the waste liquid from the arsenal to produce potassium chlorate. At that time, most of the raw materials for China's match industry were purchased from foreign countries.

Don't look at it as a small one, a very small head, but this small head needs several raw materials: sulfur, wax, red phosphorus, white phosphorus, potassium chlorate. Most potassium chlorate is purchased from Germany, and it costs a lot of freight to travel thousands of miles across the ocean, not to mention the tariffs for customs exit and entry are also in the hands of foreigners.

It was precisely after understanding these situations that it was precisely because he went to Tianjin to set up a nitrate soda factory that he did not succeed, and Wu Yunchu agreed when Song Weichen proposed cooperation.

Foreigners are used to occupying the Chinese market, and you Chinese are absolutely not allowed to engage in chemical products by themselves, and Hankou actually has a blazing Chang nitrate plant that produces potassium ace, is this worth it? Foreign businessmen will produce their potassium chlorate in large quantities, and even compete with the price of Chichang, they have a long production history, advanced technology, a small just started and has not yet stabilized Chichang, how can it bear? It is to admit compensation and negotiate with it, and mobilize all the funds of the Hankou Xiechang Match Factory, how long can it fight?

What's more, Song Weichen will never do this. Therefore, Chichang, which had been running for a short time, had to be forced to switch production and change to kraft glue, another raw material for matches.

But you are still the chemical raw material of matches, you have it in China, wouldn't you no longer use his foreign ones, so a large number of new products of kraft glue used to obliterate the flames. But if you want to crush kraft glue, it is not as easy as squeezing potassium chlorate. This time, Wu Yunchu came to the strength, the technology is more refined, the process is more perfect, and the cost is greatly reduced, if there are enough funds, and a few large match factories to buy, it is possible to fight a protracted battle with foreign businessmen on the price, and win. …,

But on the one hand, Song Weichen was frightened by the forced conversion of potassium chlorate, and on the other hand, his match factory was becoming more and more sluggish, and the funds were urgent, and he was unwilling and unable to come up with more money!

Wu Yun first saw that Song Weichen was powerless, and he did not give up, at this moment it was rumored that Liu Hongsheng in Shanghai had set up a Hongsheng match factory in Suzhou in 1920, it was very prosperous, and soon bought his father-in-law Ye Gongshi's Suzhou Xiechang match factory, more prosperous, has won the title of "match king", and personally went to Shanghai to find Shi Gengyin.

Shi Shi was formerly the director of the Shanghai Arsenal Gun Factory, and Wu Yunchu was also the director of the pharmaceutical department of the Hankou Arsenal. At this moment, he entrusted Shi Gengyin to discuss the joint matter with Liu Hongsheng. Liu Hongsheng is also a patriotic entrepreneur, and at the moment there are already several large enterprises, and the match factory is one of the three pillars of his enterprise, and he is also bent on driving foreign matches out of the Chinese market along with raw materials, so he is full of promises.

As a result, Liu Hongsheng funded the establishment of a kraft rubber factory on a piece of land near Rihui Port in Shanghai purchased by Liu Hongsheng, and the name of the factory is still called Chichang, but the word "new" is added!

The director of the new Chichang kraft rubber factory is still Wu Yunchu.

After a period of production, the market is still sluggish, Sweden, Japan matches and a large number of influx, Liu Hongsheng's match factory has also been impacted, seeing that kraft glue is also rare to last, Wu Yunchu started the idea of using electrolytic salt to produce hydrochloric acid caustic soda.

But Liu Hongsheng is also not interested, Wu Yunchu has technical ability in vain, but he has no economic strength and no corresponding social status, so he has to sigh at "salt"!

Xinchichang kraft rubber factory was forced to face the situation of exhaustion, and several large match factories in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were already too busy to take care of themselves and could not afford to buy a large number of kraft rubber!

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