In August, the weather is already in the middle of summer, and the nights in Yingshan County are also muggy. Especially yesterday, it rained heavily, and it was even more humid and hot. Li Shouxian and his old boss and party school classmate Xu Guangde wore them tightly. There are many mosquitoes in the mountains, and it is impossible to withstand a few bites. The mosquito coils were lit, and the slightly fragrant smoke smoked violently, and the temporary accommodation hut in the tea garden was considered better.

The two traveled all over Yingshan County, and Li Shouxian introduced the situation of the entire Yingshan County to Xu Guangde in detail. At this time, the two of them continued to talk about work while annihilating the last few mosquitoes that refused to leave the house.

"The current work can only be said to have just begun, and in the future, it is necessary to build mulberry gardens, tea gardens, reservoirs, and roads on a larger scale. If you can, generate electricity. It's hard work. Li Shouxian did not talk about his own achievements, but made full predictions about the hardships ahead.

"Haha, I have long heard that the economic construction of Yingshan County is doing well, and I only know when I come to see it in person that this place is really hard." Xu Guangde also has a deep understanding of the difficulty of his future work. The comrades only heard that Yingshan was doing a good job, and only heard that Li Shouxian was capable, but after seeing it with his own eyes, Xu Guangde knew that this was not the case at all. In such a barren mountainous area, it takes more than ten days just to walk around, and Li Shouxian was able to organize the masses scattered all over the mountainous area to work. Without Li Shouxian's management and organizational skills, the current situation would have collapsed in an instant.

I don't know why Li Shouxian always feels very uneasy, he can't help but admonish: "The masses have been mobilized in the early stage, and now the masses have used a lot of energy. In the future, we can only rely on management and improve the system. You've had a hard time. Chairman Chen said in the party school that transparency in decision-making is very important. It's important to get the process straight. As you can see, the purpose is to improve the lives of the masses, and if one is not properly arranged, something will happen. It's not that just looking at the situation and moving forward will make it all right. The devil is in the details. In his heart, he felt that this was for the good of the masses, and the masses did not appreciate it. ”

The party members and cadres mobilized this time are all selected elites, and Xu Guangde can definitely understand this level of cognition. "Don't worry, as long as we grasp the anti-exploitation and grasp the labor to get rich, the focus of the problem is whether the masses can understand our policies. All that remains is management and material fulfillment. If you want to get rich, build roads first. Once the roads are cleared and the cost of material transportation is reduced, the people's lives will definitely be much improved. ”

"Don't be in a hurry, not only the government can't be in a hurry, but the masses can't let them be in a hurry. I have made mistakes in the past because I was in a hurry and failed to understand the urgency of the masses to get rid of poverty, and as a result, there were problems in communication. It's very hard to engage in infrastructure construction, and you have to carry this black pot. In fact, Li Shouxian is most worried about this problem.

Xu Guangde suddenly sighed: "Chairman Chen said that as long as we give the masses the opportunity to get rich, how crazy the masses can be. I didn't believe it then, but now I do. If it weren't for the fact that the mulberry trees were picked and straightened out, the masses would be able to pick those trees to death now. Even if the mulberry tree increases to three times, I am afraid that it will not be able to withstand it. But isn't that a bit too high? I don't feel sure at all. Now we rely on exports, if there are no foreigners to buy, the entire Yingshan County is afraid that it will collapse immediately. ”

No one knows what to do with it. Chen Ke spent so much money that these comrades couldn't even think of it. The present prosperous days are entirely based on the fact that the People's Party has money and food in its hands, and if one of these two pillars goes wrong, the consequences will be unimaginable. It was Chen Ke himself who taught the comrades to understand the current situation. However, it was Chen Ke himself who dared to invest and operate in large quantities. How exactly is Chen Ke going to solve this food problem?

However, both of them are excellent cadres, and they both know the harm of "delusion". Since everyone has chosen Chen Ke as the chairman of the party and as the leader of the People's Party and the base areas, all you can do now is to obey orders and listen to commands.

The mosquitoes were almost gone, and the two hung up the curtains, lit candles, and began to study the location of several reservoirs in the future on the map of Yingshan County. Relying on the weather for food is not a long-term solution, and reservoirs must be built to ensure the stability of irrigation. This is what Chairman Chen Ke emphasized again and again in the training course for outstanding cadres.

After studying for a long time, I probably have a preliminary idea. Xu Guangde couldn't help but sigh: "Lao Li, if you hadn't followed me to do this, I still wouldn't have been able to touch the doorway in the county." I really don't want you to go. ”

Li Shouxian said with a smile: "This is not my credit alone, the comrades in the county have made great efforts." ”

"It's you who want to learn, but they don't really know what they have to do. On the right attitude towards learning, I really convinced you. Xu Guangde sighed, "If I follow Chairman Chen, I will naturally be convinced." However, when I met other comrades, I was still very unconvinced. Chairman Chen said that this is a low-level interest, and it is not enough to see what others are doing, but it is not scientific to look at what I am doing, and my low-level interest is far from being eliminated. ”

The two comrades talked about work and feelings, and before they knew it, the night was late. Li Shouxian actually doesn't like to stay up late, and this time he worked all night with great interest, also because the date of his appointment in Wuhu was very close, and at most the day after tomorrow, he had to set off. There are a lot of things to explain before leaving.

Time flies, and the day of departure has arrived. The comrades of the county party committee wanted to send Li Shouxian to the bottom of the mountain, but Li Shouxian refused. "I'm so busy with work, I'll send it next time."

The best way to get from Yingshan to Wuhu is to take the mountain road to Anqing, and then take a boat from Anqing to Wuhu. However, Li Shouxian had to go to the Hubei Organization Department to make personnel transfers, so he had to go around in a big circle, first go to Wuhan to go through the personnel procedures, and then take a boat from Wuhan to Anqing to go through the personnel procedures, so that he could go to Wuhu to take up his post.

Thinking that Chairman Chen Ke is in Wuhan now, he may be able to see him again when he goes to Wuhan this time. Li Shouxian felt a little impatient. There are a lot of things that I don't understand in my work, and it would be great if I could ask the wisest person in the whole party for advice.

As soon as he arrived at Huangpi Pass, Li Shouxian saw a lot of troops. When I was surprised and asked, I learned that it was the troops who were preparing for the flood. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, natural disasters were frequent, and since the beginning of the Gengzi year, disasters in every place have become bigger and bigger. The revolutionaries all attributed this problem to "providence", and all kinds of propaganda said, "If it were not for the Manchu Qing Dynasty's immorality and exhaustion of qi, where would there be such frequent natural disasters?" ”

The BJP has long scoffed at such claims. The People's Party started with disaster relief, and natural disasters were not at all invincible, but that the Manchus simply did not have such organizational capabilities. After the southeast protected itself, the imperial court did not allocate money and grain to the southeast. Isn't it a joke that the local government is self-financing disaster relief? With the Manchu system, no province had the ability to organize tens of thousands of people to build embankments on rivers tens of thousands or hundreds of miles long to prevent flooding. Not to mention that this manpower can't be put together at all, what will you eat when you get together? Even if someone has food, is there so much sack preparation on weekdays? Is there an organizational system? When it comes to a critical moment, who will command the most critical places?

The current China is now the People's Party (PBP) to be able to accomplish such a task, and after the success of the flood control, the People's Party's rule over the local area will become logical. The completion of land reform in northern Hubei relies on such strength.

However, last year's levee was repaired well, and this year's flood season should be over. Why there are still so many troops in Wuhan, Li Shouxian does not understand at all. When he arrived at the Hubei Provincial Party Committee, he saw that everyone was jubilant. It turned out that the new equipment shipped from the United States was successfully put into trial operation. Chairman Chen was ecstatic. Although most of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee did not know what was going on and what was wonderful about this new equipment, it should not be a trivial matter to make Chairman Chen so happy.

Li Shouxian naturally didn't know what kind of money printing machine heavy chemical industry was, and under the emotional infection of his comrades, Li Shouxian was also inexplicably happy. People are in good spirits on happy occasions, their emotions are high, and their work efficiency is also high, Li Shouxian quickly handed over the work and boarded the ship to Anqing. Along the way, however, they encountered a number of foreign merchant ships, and there were also British warships mixed in. His originally happy mood was immediately overshadowed.

The British were upset! After the BJP provided them with samples of soda ash, the British began to be very unhappy.

The three acids and two alkalis based on the chemical industry are sodium hydroxide and sodium carbonate, and it is not practical to directly produce sodium hydroxide, which is to rely on the reaction of sodium carbonate and calcium hydroxide to produce sodium hydroxide. So in the final analysis, sodium carbonate, that is, soda ash, is the basis of industrial alkali. The British knew that Chen Ke was a chemist, and he must have figured out a new method. This new method of industrial synthesis was not shared with the British Empire, and the British were naturally furious.

There is no impermeable wall in the world, and the Americans and the People's Party have cooperated to develop industrial synthetic ammonia production technology, and the news has spread throughout Europe along with the sales of synthetic ammonia in the United States.

The People's Party did not sell synthetic ammonia, but the People's Party's soda ash soon began to be sold in several large cities in the Yangtze River basin. Not only in the Yangtze River basin, but also through the Jinghan Railway, the soda ash of the People's Party reached Beijing directly, and it was also sold in the industrial zone of Beiyang. Steamed steamed buns in the north also need soda ash. The pure white soda noodles produced by the People's Party have never been seen before. The price is at least 30% cheaper than foreign goods. Just a trial sale, it caused a great sensation.

As a Nobel laureate, the Europeans would have laughed at him with a yellow monkey mentality. Now they no longer had the same desire, and sent transatlantic telegrams directly from Britain to China, demanding that the new technology of the People's Party be controlled by the British Empire. The Yankees can no longer be allowed to make a lot of money from it.

The British have always been pragmatic, and they first invited Chen Ke to the consulate as a guest. The response was that Chen Ke was not available now. Chen Ke was not available, but the British were free, and they mobilized warships to Wuhan while visiting them in person.

After listening to the British's request, Chen Ke smiled, "Business is business, we have a saying in China, the customer bullies the store, and the store bullies the customer." I see that your country wants to bully us. ”

"Mr. Chen, what you say doesn't make sense. We just want to cooperate, and there is no such thing as bullying or not bullying. The British delegates were a little unaccustomed to Chen's straightforward attitude.

"Solvay Guild, I think you should know. This is a monopoly union, and soda ash production is now monopolized by them. Refuse to supply this production process to other countries. I see that your country's intention is to break their monopoly with a new monopoly. What do you think? Chen Ke is still very straightforward.

The British representative looked at Chen Ke and felt very clear in his heart. That's how good it is to deal with smart people, you don't need to set up layers at all, just support the topic. "Think so."

Chen Ke nodded, "Then how can we ensure that our own interests are protected in this cooperation?" I've heard that you've also mobilized warships to come over, so it's clear that you want to bully us. ”

The solution proposed by the representative of the United Kingdom was simple, "Technology sharing, market sharing." "The British can invest in the soda ash industry in the BJP base.

Chen Ke had long been able to guess the wishful thinking of the British, soda ash is a profiteering industry, and they made it clear that they were going to intervene. His answer was crisp, "It's impossible, we can't accept it." Technology sharing, yes. But the Asian market has to be left to us as a monopoly. We guarantee that the soda ash production process will not be leaked. In the Atlantic trade, we simply can't afford to plug that in. But in Asia, we have to have a monopoly. ”

The British delegates knew that this would certainly be a difficult negotiation, and that they were not faced with a simple scientist. If they were simple scientists, they wouldn't have to be so excited. If Chen Ke was just a scientist and rebel, the British would not have to worry too much. After two years of dealing with the BJP, the British have come to realize that the BJP is a force unlike any other in the world. At least, the British had never heard of, or even imagined that the army would work with the people to help the disaster. In the eyes of the British, the army was a tool used to suppress and manage the people, and the two were inherently hostile. Mixing the army with the people ...... is beyond their understanding of the social system.

The army works and works with the people, and this is not uncommon under the BJP. From the very beginning, British representatives mobilized warships to Wuhan. It seems to be majestic, but in fact, they have repeatedly calculated that there is only such a last resort. The hundreds of thousands of people who have been rescued along the Yangtze River are in an orderly and orderly manner. These people are a new army when they pick up their rifles. How many shells could the British fleet have? In the face of such a crowd, how useful can those shells be?

After occupying the Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant and the Ordnance Factory, the People's Party had the ability to fully arm itself. Even if the People's Party army could not deal with the British warships, it was more than enough to deal with the foreign consular corps in Wuhan. The British wanted to have a greater interest in the deal, not to fight a life-and-death war with the People's Party. With the strength of the People's Party now, not only will the Wuhan Consular Corps and the Concession not survive, but the People's Party army will even have the strength to attack the Consular Corps and the Concession in Shanghai. Not so long ago, the People's Party also tried to buy mine technology from the British. If the Yangtze River is full of mines, it ...... a terrible picture just to think about.

Prior to this negotiation, the British side consulted Hurd, then the director of the General Department of Taxation of China's Customs. Hurd simply handed over to the British side an article he had once written about the Boxer movement, and the negotiators were impressed by one of the passages,

“…… jeopardizing the future of the world" will undoubtedly cause laughter, well, let them laugh, and may they laugh forever, that twenty million or more armed and well-trained, disciplined and motivated by patriotic (even misunderstood) motives will make it impossible for foreigners to live in China any longer, and will take back from foreigners everything they have taken from China, and will take revenge on old resentments with additional prices, We will bring China's national flag and China's weapons to many places that we can't even think of now. Fifty years from now, there will be millions of people lined up in dense formations, wearing full armor, waiting for the call of the Chinese government, there is no doubt about that! If the Chinese government continues to exist, it will encourage (and rightly so) support and development of this Chinese national movement; This movement will be a bad omen for the rest of the world, but China has the right to do so, and China will carry out her national plan! ……”

The British delegates now felt that Hurd was too conservative, and that within fifty years, less than six years after the Boxer Rebellion, a well-trained and disciplined People's Party army had risen. And the leader of this team is a scientist whose knowledge is admired by even the British. At the same time, this man is also a brilliant politician and diplomat, a difficult opponent who understands where the interests of all parties lie.

Looking at the hesitant look of the British representative, Chen Ke smiled and said: "We, the People's Party, will maintain our trade philosophy and achieve a trade balance. If we want China to industrialize, we need to import a lot of equipment and technology. For a long, long time, our import needs far exceeded our export capacity. That being the case, the monopoly in Asia is good news for the British. We have the financial resources to import British supplies from Southeast Asia. Rubber, oil, metals, it's not that we don't need to import, it's that we don't have the money to import. The Asian market does not occupy a large share for your country, Europe is your country's largest market, just a soda ash, can not affect your country's foreign trade at all. ”

Seeing Chen Ke's firm attitude, the British representative also simply had a showdown, "The issue of soda ash can be discussed again, what we need is the production technology of synthetic ammonia." ”

The price of soda ash is now very high, that is, because the production cost of ammonia is too high, once the industrial synthetic ammonia is successfully developed, it is equivalent to opening a door. British industry takes this very seriously.

"We have signed an agreement with the United States, and in terms of commercial cooperation, we have to abide by the agreement. You don't think you can trust someone who breaks the agreement. Chen Ke said with a smile.

The negotiations between the two sides have come to an end at this point. Chen Ke was adamant that he would not give up the ammonia technology, and demanded that the British side recognize the BJP's competitive advantage. This result is too far from what the British side had hoped for.

Upon hearing the news, representatives of the United States immediately rushed to negotiate with Chen Ke. After hearing Chen Ke's assurances that he would not undermine the technology and equipment monopoly policy reached with the United States, the US representative was relieved. In any case, Chen Kezhen broke the agreement in private, and the United States had no choice. What's more, Chen Ke made it so clear that he would abide by the agreement.

"Mr. Chen, what other good technologies do you have to work with?" The representative of the United States asked in a very dissatisfied tone. It is too surprising that the People's Party has achieved industrial production of soda ash. Although the U.S. respects Chen's scientific knowledge, they believe that Chen's extensive industrial knowledge should not have been. At the age of less than thirty, Chen Ke could never have the ability to be a chief engineer for such a level of industrial production. Not to mention the fact that the investigation of Chen Ke's origins was already a popular project, Chen Ke first appeared in Shanghai in 1905, and since then, he has never left China. These astonishing industrial design ideas must have been completed before Chen Ke was 25 years old. Such a young genius is really unbelievable. And the fact that this technological genius is also a military and political genius is even more surprising.

"Do you want to do the drug business?" Chen Ke said with a smile.

"What medicine?" The representative of the United States immediately became agitated. This time, he helped Chen Ke contact the production of synthetic ammonia, and he has already made a lot of money from the middle. If Chen Ke develops a more effective drug than 606, it will be a road of wealth paved with gold.

"We're working on it, and we'll get back to you when it's done." Chen Ke decided to adopt a "market hunger" marketing approach. He was ready to try to develop sulfonamides. In the popular science book "The Road to Conquering Bacteria", the development process of four drugs is highlighted: anti-diphtheria serum, 606, sulfonamides, penicillin and other antibiotics.

Industrial production is the latter three, and Chen Ke is ready to engage in trial production of sulfonamides. This was a major discovery in the pharmaceutical community in 1932. The development of penicillin is a completely different concept, which is a recognition and use of antibiotics secreted by molds. The basis of 606 is the molecular modification and development of highly toxic arsenide, and after the development of this drug, pharmacologists around the world have turned their attention to the molecular modification of toxic chemicals. After more than 20 years in history, sulfonamides were developed, Chen Ke did not know how much impact his existence had on the world, since history has changed, it is not sure which European and American guys jumped over the wall to experiment with dyes, and finally tried to succeed.

"Will this new drug work with us?" The American delegates were thoroughly aroused by Chen Ke's appetite.

"As long as you can guarantee our interests, why don't we continue to cooperate?" Chen Ke said frankly. But now he suddenly remembered a quote from Comrade Lenin, "Hang the noose of the capitalists, and the capitalists will sell it to us." ”

"Let's hope it really goes so well." Chen Ke thought.