Chapter 1: The Origins of the Technology Industry

Qin Kai was also depressed, he didn't spend much money indiscriminately, but he immediately thought about it, and the city of Hue in Vietnam was smashed with more than one million, although it was a printed silver ticket, but this goods did need real money to purchase, but it was the long-term debt of the little king of Vietnam, and the interest in the future was considerable! Furthermore...... Recently, the flat-bottomed inland steamship under construction in the dockyard has been built in Vietnam, and there is also a mining base and investment in the industrial base of Fangcheng County.

I didn't expect that there was not much movement in these places, and the industry that I had always thought was a big business had already been upside down, "Brother He, the expenditure procedures for these silver are complete!" ”

"This is no problem, I have sent someone to check, I originally thought that there was a loophole, and I stretched out a black hand to someone! The money is directly in the hands of the local treasurer, and the amount is directly checked! Zhang Kui, Zhou Ruidong, and Xue Chao have all been over, a lot! Xu Guofang's expenditure in the factory is no problem! ”

"That's good," I didn't expect, this money is also a troublesome thing, why is there no electronic banking in this era, so that Lao Tzu has to count the silver against the gold and silver mountains...... Qin Kai smiled and said, "Brother He, send them news, the monthly expenditure needs to be estimated and reported to you, this is called budgeting, and I will check with you at the end of each month!" ”

He Xing pondered for a while, and in his heart, he had already perfected the plan that Qin Kai casually said, this is indeed a good way, and he doesn't know why this Qin brother has so many ideas in his head! However, every time Brother Qin came up with a good idea, he and his gang of shopkeepers always had to be busy for a while......

At this time, there was a hurried script sound outside, Chen Tongpu, the fat man, moved his body quickly, and then knocked on the door and ran in, happily saying to Qin Kai: "Supervision, that real yàn has finally succeeded!" I've made the oil you call it! ”

Qin Kai was also stunned, but he had too much technical work to send out recently, and he didn't remember for a while what kind of oil he wanted to practice here, at this time, Sun Xiang came out after Qin Fatzi, holding a glass bottle in his hand, which contained half a jar of black and slimy things, which looked similar to the asphalt on the road......

When will we arrange Qin Fatzi to practice asphalt? Qin Kai began to search for memories in his head, but he soon found that the contents of the glass bottle in Sun Xiang's hand did not seem to be hard like asphalt, but flowed like a liquid...... I drip maya, it turned out to be coal tar!

Qin Kai got up, pulled the glass bottle from the good student Sun Xiang, opened the cap of the bottle and observed it carefully, sniffed the slightly strange smelly air, and slapped Chen Tongpu fiercely, "Fat Chen, when did you get it?" Is it real or industrial? ”

Fat Chen grinned and enjoyed the pleasure of being abused by Qin Kai, "My lord, it's too ruthless!" This thing is really too pediatric, didn't I just ask Lord Xu to design a set of dry distillation equipment! This is the first batch of finished products, and I think it should be the coal tar in your notes! ”

"Yes, yes, take me to see," Qin Kai laughed, and looked back to see that He Fang was still staring at himself behind, the silver deficit had not yet been resolved, "Brother He, the silver has been spent, let's find a way to make it, don't keep a face, Chen Fatzi's investment industry here is only bigger than that tobacco!" ”

A few people in this house know the huge profits of tobacco, and now He Xing has opened 4 cigarette factories to process day and night, and the outside sales are very good, and the cigarette rolls that were not intended to be sold domestically were not expected to be flooded by various treaty ports, and this production capacity is not enough!

He Xing was frightened when he heard this, the powerful brother he picked up has always been able to create a new industry, but this time he didn't know what kind of industry he could create, and he was also very curious, so he went straight to the Mawei Chemical Factory.

In the factory building on one side of the chemical plant, a cylindrical machine is in operation, when the dry distillation machine was designed, there was no appearance and drawings of the machine at all, only the characteristics of the machine described by Qin Kai, Chen Tongpu handed over this task to Sun Xiang, which made this kid miserable, and he was thinking about this problem when he walked and ate.

After finding Xu Guofang and Li Xiong, after some design, this middle is heated by high-temperature gas to complete the dry distillation process of anthracite, and finally the coal tar is exported through the metal pipe above guò, and is processed by a water freezer. ,

There are a lot of trivial problems, five or six senior technicians have been tinkering for almost two months to complete today's trial production, while producing coal tar, it can also produce coal gas, ammonia compounds, benzene compounds, and coke at the same time, this is a real big industry, Qin Kai smiled and looked at the dry distillation machine that was working steadily, and the metal conduit on one side was continuously guiding the cooled coal tar.

However, what made Qin Kai furious was that another pipe was discharging the exhaust gas into the high chimney of the chemical plant, and then into the air, and immediately shouted loudly: "Chen Tongpu!"

Chen Fatzi, who was beaming proudly, was startled, "Supervisor, what's the matter?" ”

"Stop the machine immediately, in addition to collecting coal tar, how can the remaining exhaust gas be emptied, I seem to have mentioned the good things in this exhaust gas to you!"

Fat Chen flipped through his personal notes, and then remembered, "Supervisor, some seem to be gas, methane, ethylene, ammonia, and benzene compounds!" I made a mistake with this, just thinking about coal tar! ”

"Then don't hurry up and change it, these are all treasures, gas, methane can continue to be recycled and burned, or it can be collected as fuel, by the way, is this distillation and separation of benzene compounds sure?"

"Teacher, there is no problem at all, this distillation machine has been available for a long time, and we can connect it and debug it when we think about it!" Sun Xiang on the side had already said: "I didn't expect that this coal is really a treasure, a thing can be distilled, and such good things can be derived!" ”

"Chen Tongpu, Sun Xiang, call all the members of your technical group, I have important things to arrange", soon Chen Tongpu's chemical R&D team members were called, and the other two related R&D team leaders also came, Qin Kai beckoned them to a few technical backbones to come to the next room, and he greeted these scientific and technological elites one by one.

Tongguò has been trained for more than a year, and the number of junior workers in the chemical plant has increased significantly, of which the main source is still the art garden, but with the opening of the technical worker school for xìng, the training speed of this kind of talent has also been greatly improved, and the art garden is different from the technical worker school directly recruits those graduates with primary high school, and then carries out training in industrial technology, with a very clear target for xìng, which will gradually replace the art garden, and now the Mengxue of Fuzhou Prefecture, The primary school forms a one-stop education system, with some students going on to higher education and some students going directly to technical schools.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what I want to arrange today is a very important R&D project, Chen Tongpu's R&D team has achieved very significant results in the coal dry distillation process, and now we continue to carry out research and development, which is the reuse of coal tar and coking waste gas, the focus is on the in-depth development of coal tar!" Qin Kai very happily pointed to the black and slightly smelly bottle on the table.

The people here are all professionals in the chemical industry, although they still don't know much about this bottle of paste, Qin Kai believes that under the guidance of his own strategy, the value of this black coal tar will be quickly squeezed out!

The most striking example of the influence of modern science on the chemical industry can be found in the further processing and derivatives of coal, which is supplied with a liquid, coal tar, in addition to coke and valuable gas for combustion. Modern Western chemists have discovered real treasures in this substance - derivatives of all kinds, including hundreds of dyes and a large number of other by-products such as aspirin, wintergreen oil, saccharin, disinfectants, laxatives, perfumes, photographic chemicals, explosives, and orange flower essence.

Qin Kai smiled and looked at the senior chemical technical personnel present, these are their own nuggets, now everything is ready, there is still a little bit of jī feeling, "I announce today that every special achievement successfully developed by the R&D team, after the application of industrialization, the team members can get 5% of the industrialization profit of the achievement for 10 years!" ”

This incentive immediately played a stimulant role, 10 years of industrialization profit sharing, how much silver this represents, these chemical professionals who play with the calculation formula all day long can not calculate, they only know, it is enough to make themselves rich, a huge amount of wealth!

In fact, everyone here can now be regarded as a wealthy household in this era, and the senior technical workers in the R&D team can get a high salary of 50 taels per month, which is an additional reward of 25% more than the senior workers of other factories. ,

Two years ago, they were just workers with eight cents a month, or they were just living on military salaries, but the change came from this young superintendent, who not only received dozens of times the salary, but also satisfied them with the respect and status they received.

Chen Xuetang is a graduate of Mawei Academy, before Supervisor Qin came, he was assigned to the Nanyang Naval Division as an ordinary loss keeper, pondering all kinds of machines and pipes under the ship every day, and it can be said that he is the lowest sailor in the sailor.

Although he was not familiar with his chemical knowledge, the solid engineering skills of Mawei School made him quickly promoted from a junior worker to an intermediate worker in the chemical group, and because of his open-mindedness and active brain, he was absorbed into the R&D team.

Now he can receive 27 halves of silver every month, although the salary of his colleagues in the Nanyang Navy Division has also increased significantly, but he can only receive a fraction of his salary, although he never mentions his salary, but this has been a public secret of the Mawei Shipyard, which allows him to get a large row of envy, jealousy, and hatred every time he meets with his former colleagues, when he mentions his intermediate worker qualifications!

Almost everyone here has similar feelings to Chen Xuetang, which makes them extremely loyal to this factory and this young supervisor, and full of jī love for the work that gives them honor, glory and wealth!

Sun Xiang immediately issued a real sample, and each group went back to ponder with the materials in twos and threes, and Qin Kai emphasized a few points with Chen Fatzi, one is that this chemical thing is a dangerous job, send someone to keep an eye on it, and wash your hands when you do a good job, otherwise you will be reimbursed if you eat any test products, and the second is that this progress must be grasped, and the real room and industrialization should be promoted simultaneously, and the industrialization trial production should be carried out as soon as possible.

At the same time, he gave the actual direction of coal gasification derivatives, focusing on saccharin, aromatic hydrocarbon compounds, and new dye synthesis technology, and two days later, a report on saccharin raw materials, aromatic hydrocarbons, and dye raw materials in coal tar derivatives has been distributed in the chemical R&D team according to their respective topics, and all R&D personnel have to worship the erudition of Qin Supervision Office again.

Compared with the chemical industry, the progress of the imitation of the 501 ironclad ship belongs to the snail-like progress, due to the lack of thick and heavy marine armor processing technology, although the keel of the ship has been laid, the installation of the hull shell is still in the experimental stage, Wang Ruijie, who is responsible for this project, takes the hull research and development team to hang around the dock all day long, and from time to time pulls Wang Fei of the steelmaking plant to discuss together.

As a technical consultant, the German ship technician Andrew also brought a group of German engineers to help solve the problem of this process, but it is obvious that to solve the process of more than 300 mm thick armor, it is by no means an overnight thing, just the simplest rivet problem, it is a huge challenge, and the final result of the negotiation was quickly reported to Qin Kai's side.

In view of the problems of the production capacity and process of the steelmaking plant, the keel of the shipyard, which was originally designed as a heavy ironclad ship, will be adjusted as necessary to install the 120-150mm steel plate that can be stably produced by the current steelmaking mill rolling process, and the cutting technology of this type of steel plate has been very complete, and the rivet process can also meet the requirements, and the installation of the hull can be completed after demonstration.

This change in weight obviously reduced the level of this ironclad ship from a heavy ironclad ship to the level of a light ironclad cruiser, Qin Kai pondered for a while, this is not impossible, due to the reduction of armor, and the improvement of boilers, steam engines, and turbine engines, the speed of this ship should be significantly improved, he immediately agreed to this design plan, but for the command room, boiler room and other key parts of the armor requirements still refer to the 501 standard, this is the only place he insists.

As soon as Qin Kai returned to Mawei, the managers and technical backbones of each factory came one after another, each holding a bunch of plans, all of which were the R&D directions and topics of the R&D teams directly under each factory, and as a result, he almost looked at the plans of Qin Guofang's machine tool workshop and steam engine workshop, but he didn't expect that the small Mawei Shipyard could produce so many ideas, although some of them were very whimsical, and he couldn't agree with his 500 years of scientific knowledge......

Soon a core meeting gathered at the top of the Mawei Shipbuilding R&D team was held in the newly built research institute, and everyone had a copy of Qin Kai's draft of the "Mawei Real Yàn Room Preparation and Project Engineering Plan", which he had been planning for a long time, and now he finally felt that there was a basis and necessity for implementation, and he specially arranged for Zhan Tianyou, who had recently studied in the machine tool workshop, to take minutes of the meeting. ,

Obviously, this temporary task is very unexpected by Zhan Tianyou, although he arrived at Mawei Shipbuilding for a short time, but he was specially arranged to Mawei Shipyard to create the most powerful and productive machine tool workshop, for the machine tool industry known as the industrial machine tool, so to speak, Xu Guofang personally led the Mawei machine tool workshop is the foundation of the entire Mawei industry, and in the past two years has gathered a large number of technology-understanding, knowledgeable senior technical workers.

Although Zhan Tianyou has a major at Yale University and feels good about the mechanical aspect, when he arrives here, he immediately feels the delicacy of the technical work in the hands of these high-level technicians.

And today, when he was called to this meeting hall, he served as a temporary meeting minutes, and he also read two pages of the materials issued by Qin Bu's political envoys, and he was immediately attracted by the information of this real room, and looked at the brief introduction of the European real room attached to it, and he was even more surprised by the model of the chemistry room of the University of Berlin in Germany and the British royal real room.

At this time, the industrial development of the United States was rapid, but these real rooms still lagged behind the European Britain, Germany, and France, and Yale University also had a chemistry room, but it was only used for teaching.

Zhan Tianyou only knew Xu Guofang and Chen Tongpu for the core members of the Mawei Shipmaster present, Chen Tongpu was his university alumnus, but he didn't know it before, and he only knew it when he visited the Mawei Shipmaster for the first time, and the others were carefully studying Master Qin's plan at this time.

Seeing that these technical elites under his command are looking at their own plans, Qin Kai introduced his basic ideas, at present, there are more than 30 technical research and development teams directly under the factories of Mawei Shipbuilding, plus many temporary thematic research and development teams, so in his opinion, Mawei's research and development strength has made great progress in the past two years.

The enhancement of R&D strength into real scientific and technological achievements, obviously needs some help, it is obvious that the components of the large-scale real room came into being, in fact, there are all kinds of field tests in Mawei, each achievement is the result of countless tests in the workshop, and Chen Tongpu's chemical real room is now more closely related to the large-scale real room of the components.

There is only one purpose in this, which is to fully tap the ability of the Mawei R&D team, and to promote the improvement of the various processes and scientific and technological levels of Mawei Shipbuilding to the greatest extent possible.