"A weak horse dragged a heavy cart of several thousand pounds, walked up a steep hill, and climbed up step by step, it is impossible to go back, and it is really incompetent to go further. That's how I felt. The fatigue of being unstoppable makes me feel an indescribable weight permanently. Mental and political burnout made me crave a 'sweet' rest, so much so that my brain became numb and I stopped all thoughts. ”

"I understand Xiaobai's intentions, you are indeed tired." Yang Shuoming looked at Qu Shuang and nodded, "Actually, Xiaobai has always wanted to find relief. But this kind of relief should not be the disappearance of life. ”

Hearing Yang Shuoming's words, Qu Shuang's eyes widened in surprise, he looked at Yang Shuoming, looked back at Chen Qiansheng, and seemed to understand something.

"Doesn't Xiaobai want to see a new China emerge?" Yang Shuoming said.

"Of course I want to, but when will the new China appear." Qu Shuang sighed.

"Xiaobai and I will go." Yang Shuoming smiled, bowed forward, and stretched out his hand.

Qu Shuang stared at Yang Shuoming's eyes tightly, at this time, the red color of these eyes disappeared completely, and what he saw was the light of sincerity and confidence.

Qu Shuang couldn't help but stretch out his hand and shook it vigorously with Yang Shuoming.

Tianjin, Binhai New Industrial Zone, China "Yellow Sea" Chemical Industry Research Society.

"I can't imagine that in such a short period of time, we have changed from a small laboratory to a veritable research society."

Fan Xudong, chairman of the "Permanent Yellow Group" standing on the mountain, looked at the China "Yellow Sea" Chemical Industry Research Society in Tanggu, and said to his old friend Li Zhuchen with relief.

"Money can make ghosts grind." Li Zhuchen said with a smile, "At the beginning, for us, the capital of 100,000 silver dollars was already very remarkable, but I didn't expect that the finance minister was willing to give ten times the capital." If you can't get some results, I'm afraid I'll be ashamed of this minister. ”

"This man used to be known as a 'high-tech warlord' because of his emphasis on science and technology." Fan Xudong said, "But in my opinion, people who can attach so much importance to the development of science and folk medicine and health, and vigorously advocate the three principles of 'science, open cooking, and freedom', I am afraid that they will not be able to get along with the warlords." ”

"yes!" Li Zhuchen smiled and said, "Actually, since our 'Permanent Yellow' was established, he has been secretly funding us, but we don't know it." ”

"Perpetual Yellow Group" is located in Tianjin Binhai New Area. Founded in 1914, although it is only an enterprise, in today's China, the chemical industry has played a huge role in promoting and catalyzing the development of Tianjin's coastal area, especially the formation of Tanggu City, just like the military industry is to Anqing, the iron and steel industry is to Hanyang, the coal industry is to Tangshan, and the textile industry is to Nantong. "Permanent Yellow" is a veritable cradle of China's chemical industry, and it is also a banner of China's national industry.

"Yonghuang Group" is the abbreviation, is known as the "pioneer of China's chemical industry" Fan Xudong founded in Tianjin, "Yongli" and "Jiuda" two chemical enterprises, as well as the Yellow Sea Chemical Industry Laboratory, in the 20th century in China's industrial history once brilliant. Fan Xudong entered the Hunan Changsha School of Current Affairs when he was a child, and returned to China in 1912 after graduating from Tokyo Imperial University with a major in applied chemistry, two years later, he founded the first enterprise "Jiuda" refined salt company in Tianjin, and then went through great hardships to set up the "Yongli" alkali company, reusing the young doctor of chemical engineering in the United States, Hou Debang and others, successfully manufactured his own soda ash, and entered the international market. He is well aware that "if China does not pay attention to science, what hope does Chinese industry have?" In just a few years, Fan Xudong created the "Permanent Yellow" Industrial Group with his bare hands and enthusiasm.

The refined salt produced by the "Jiuda" refined salt company under the "permanent yellow" is pure in quality and white in color, and it has been widely welcomed by the people as soon as it leaves the factory, and has achieved unprecedented success, but it has also been greatly hindered by the salt merchant group that has been monopolizing the traditional salt industry in China. For this reason, Yang Du, who became a shareholder, once took two bottles of refined salt to Yuan Shikai, Yuan Shikai tasted it and appreciated it, so he gave the "Jiuda" five ports of sales, and since then the "Jiuda" refined salt has opened up the sales situation in the four provinces of Hunan, Hubei, Anhui and Jiangxi in the Yangtze River Basin. The good start of Jiuda refined salt has prepared start-up funds for the construction of Yongli soda plant, and gathered China's chemical elite, which is of great significance.

After the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, China's imports of soda decreased, and domestic enterprises that used soda as raw materials stopped working. Fan Xudong decided to establish China's alkali industry on the basis of the successful experience of the "Jiuda" refined salt plant. On June 7, 1915, the "Jiuda" refined salt plant broke ground, which can be said to have opened the prelude to the modernization of Tanggu urban area and had a significant impact on the development of Tanggu urban area later. In 1917, Fan Xudong founded the "Yongli" alkali company and the "Huanghai" chemical laboratory. Later, the world-famous "permanent yellow" chemical industry enterprise group was initially formed.

The reason why Fan Xudong chose the factory site in Tanggu area is inseparable from the geographical environment and resource conditions here. First of all, Tianjin Binhai belongs to the Changlu salt area, with extensive salt fields and excellent quality, which provides inexhaustible sea salt resources for the development of saline-alkali industry. Secondly, the coal and limestone from Kailuan have to be transferred to the outside through Tanggu, which also provides low-cost raw materials and raw materials for the alkali industry. Third, Tanggu is close to the river and the sea, with a railway in the north, with sufficient water sources and convenient transportation. The above conditions are superimposed, and Tanggu has become a natural chemical industry base.

After the "permanent yellow" settled in Tanggu, the situation of slow urban and rural construction in Tanggu was completely broken. The development of enterprises attracted the population to Tanggu agglomeration, the continuous construction of various supporting production and living facilities, the rapid rise and prosperity of related commercial and service industries, and the originally scattered settlements were soon connected, making the initial shape of Tanggu urban area.

Fan Xudong founded a modern chemical enterprise on the saline-alkali barren beach of Tanggu, which is inseparable from a large number of talents. From the very beginning, Fan Xudong has adopted the policy of attaching equal importance to scientific research achievements and cultivating talents, which has laid a solid foundation for the sustainable development of the enterprise. In 1919, in order to engage in chemical research and prepare to establish the "Yellow Sea" chemical laboratory, Fan Xudong hired Sun Xuewu, a doctor from Harvard University in the United States. Under the chairmanship of Dr. Sun, China's first private chemical research institution, the "Huanghai" Chemical Industry Laboratory, was established. The laboratory is named "Yellow Sea" because it was born in Tanggu, which faces the Bohai Sea, and the Bohai Sea converges with hundreds of rivers, and the dynasty is in the Yellow Sea, which has a very far-reaching meaning. "We named the research institute 'Yellow Sea' to show our deep affection for the ocean," Fan said. We are convinced that China's future destiny lies in the ocean. ”

Fan Xudong is people-oriented everywhere and attaches great importance to the life welfare and physical and mental health of employees. When the development of the enterprise was still difficult, he built a new village dormitory for employees to improve their living conditions. Different from many national industrial enterprises in China, the staff dormitory of "permanent yellow" enterprises is connected to water and electricity at the beginning, which is very convenient for life, but the rent is very cheap. In order to solve the problem of medical treatment for employees, Fan Xudong also set up a staff hospital and an obstetrics and gynecology department to provide medical services for employees' families and relieve their worries. Fan Xudong also opened a primary school in the factory, and the children of employees are exempt from tuition. Employees eat in the canteen, and the chef's salary, coal, water and electricity and other consumption are paid by the company, and only the meal fee is charged according to the purchase price of rice, noodles, vegetables and meat. Fan Xudong has also set up welfare institutions such as staff clubs, libraries, and cooperatives, all of which have special personnel to guide and serve employees. At that time, in Tianjin, the treatment and life of the employees of the "permanent yellow" enterprise were first-class.

Fan Xudong also attaches great importance to the construction of corporate culture. In addition to traditional cultural education, the staff primary school also offers English classes (from the fourth grade), and organizes a "permanent" drama troupe, which is funded by the factory department to purchase the head, and the cultural and entertainment performances in the factory area have never stopped. Fan Xudong also founded China's first important corporate magazine "Sea King", with more than 10 pages per issue, bringing a strong corporate culture to Tanggu and Tianjin. Fan Xudong hires professional coaches such as basketball, tennis, and martial arts to guide employees to engage in the exercise of various sports, and often exchanges and competitions with Ninghe and Tianjin.

In such an era, Fan Xudong in Tanggu "permanent yellow" difficult entrepreneurial process, can always pay attention to and implement the construction of corporate culture and fruitful, its scientific and clear cooking of the ideological foundation, people-oriented cultural concept, pragmatic benevolent measures, embodies the profound humanistic spirit, can be said to open a generation of precedent.

But in order to maintain such a comprehensive development of the enterprise, it is necessary to continuously inject a large amount of funds, and the shortage of funds has become the biggest obstacle to Fan Xudong's career development, although Fan Xudong has successfully attracted many celebrities and large businessmen to join the shares, but the funds are still insufficient, at this time, the "Renhe Pharmaceutical" that has just risen in Chinese mainland has reached out to him.

Fan Xudong did not know much about the domestic pharmaceutical company "Renhe Pharmaceutical", which had successfully risen with the production of "penicillin" and "sulfonamide" drugs, and he only knew that the owner of this enterprise was the wife of a "warlord", and its production philosophy and business methods were also Westernized. After the establishment of "Perpetual Yellow", some people suggested cooperating with "Renhe Pharmaceutical", but because this pharmaceutical company has a "warlord" background, Fan Xudong has always been skeptical. But he didn't expect that when the development of "Permanent Yellow" entered the most difficult period, it was this company that generously extended a helping hand and did not ask for anything in return.

Afterwards, Fan Xudong learned that the owner of "Renhe Pharmaceutical" was a woman named Huang Yunzhi, and she was the wife of Yang Shuoming, a "high-tech warlord" who moved the world.

Now Fan Xudong still remembers the scene when the angelically beautiful woman appeared in the "permanent yellow" factory and presented shares to him, Li Zhuchen and others in person.

In order to make Fan Xudong, Li Candlechen and Sun Xuewu and others feel at ease to run the business, Huang Yunzhi gave each of them 50,000 silver dollars of shares, making them shareholders of "Forever Huang", for her righteous act (of course, it is also Yang Shuoming's idea), Fan Xudong and Li Zhuchen and others are grateful from the bottom of their hearts.

In the "Permanent Yellow Group", Fan Xudong regards the "Yellow Sea" Chemical Industry Laboratory as the nerve center of the enterprise, and is an academic and research institution of Reading Power Chemical Industry that stands side by side with the two major companies of "Yong" and "Jiu". The investigative reports and scientific papers in Aquaman's magazine, the in-house journal of Permanent Yellow, have high academic and practical value. In the case of the lack of funds in the enterprise and the shortage of laboratory materials and equipment, Yang Shuoming's vigorous funding made the "Yellow Sea" Chemical Industry Laboratory soon upgraded to the "Yellow Sea" Chemical Industry Research Society.

As a generation of industrialists, Fan Xudong knows that "the real foundation of a career is talent", "everything is good for people and prosperous", "good things are for people" are his mantras. Fan Xudong was inexplicably grateful for Yang Shuoming's funding, so after the completion of the "Yellow Sea" Chemical Industry Research Society building in Tianjin Binhai New Area, he named the laboratory building of the research society "Siyuan Building", and "Siyuan" was to commemorate the righteous deeds of Yang Shuoming and his wife. Fan Xudong said, "I only say that we can only move forward, go to the soup and go to the fire, and we will also take care of it", "I only know where the responsibility is, and I just work hard to do it". Yang Shuoming was also moved when he heard about it. In order to enrich the corporate culture of "Permanent Yellow" and promote the concept of scientific development, Yang Shuoming and Fan Xudong and others also established four creeds for the "Permanent Yellow Group":

"First, we absolutely believe in science in principle; Second, we actively develop industry in our career; 3. We are willing to sacrifice the individual in our actions for the sake of the community; Fourth, we are spiritually honored to be able to serve the society. ”

And it is with this creed that China's chemical industry has finally opened up a completely new path.

At the initiative of Yang Shuoming, in 1920, the world-famous "Pangu" Institute of Biology was also established with the help of Fan Xudong and others.

"With such good conditions, if we can't run this business again, even I can't forgive myself." Li Zhuchen sighed.

Li Zhuchen was born in the countryside of Hunan, and was nearly 30 years old when he had the opportunity to study in Yueben at public expense in 1912. In 1918, he returned to China with this dream, and at this time Fan Xudong had set up the first enterprise "Jiuda" refined salt company in Tianjin, and he went to the appointment. In the "Jiuda" enterprise, Fan Xudong was the general manager, he served as the factory director, and later established the "Yongli" alkali plant, and he was also the factory director. The creation of the "Yellow Sea" chemical industry laboratory was his initial idea. Fan Xudong said that their foundation is actually "scholarly career", because most of them are intellectuals. As the saying goes: "When a talent meets a soldier, it is unclear what is reasonable", but Li Zhuchen's letter showed his outstanding ability in business management and personnel management. In dealing with various warlord forces and political forces in the country, because of his wit and fearlessness, he played a good role in protecting the cause of "permanent yellow".

Li Zhuchen has served in the "Permanent Yellow" group for several years, the company is constantly growing and growing, but he has no personal savings, Fan Xudong has been brain-struggling in order to let him participate in the board of directors, and Li Zhuchen was successfully elected as a director after receiving Huang Yunzhi's 50,000 silver dollar gift shares. Of course, Li Zhuchen understands who this strange woman is doing this because. On September 17, 1922, Yang Shuoming went to Tianjin to inspect and held a banquet to entertain representatives of the industrial industry, Li Zhuchen was invited to attend, Yang Shuoming praised Fan Xudong and Li Zhuchen at the banquet for the contribution of the chemical industry to China's development, and invited him to serve as an important position in the political axe department, although he was grateful for the help of Yang Shuoming and his wife, but Li Zhuchen still politely declined Yang Shuoming's invitation, and planned to devote himself to the construction of China's chemical industry. Yang Shuoming also expressed his understanding of this, and did not force it, but supported him and Fan Xudong as always. Although Li Zhuchen has no intention of officialdom, he is not indifferent to politics, and he admires the concept of "Ming Cooking" and the practical action of "teaching Ming Cooking by hand" that Yang Shuoming has always advocated. In return for Yang Shuoming's knowledge, Li Zhuchen participated in the initiation of the "China Ming Cooking National Construction Association", and insisted on advocating "no right-wing, no left-leaning" and adhering to the middle position in the face of the "left-right dispute" and "red tide" swept by China's domestic situation. He also represented the business community in the National Assembly as a non-partisan social elite. He also suggested to Yang Shuoming that China "should first make every effort to improve agriculture as a political axe, and the national industrial circles should carry out the industry." Li Zhuchen's suggestion was approved by Yang Shuoming, and after that, Yang Shuoming often invested heavily to help promising national industrial enterprises in China.

Fan Xudong and Li Zhuchen walked down the hillside, entered the research community, and came to a laboratory building, where people in white coats were busy nervously doing various experiments, and among them, there were many young men and women.

Looking at these energetic young people, Fan Xudong and Li Zhuchen looked at each other and smiled, as if they felt that they had become younger.

Among these researchers, several tall foreigners stand out.

"These are the experts who have just arrived from Germany." Li Zhuchen said to Fan Xudong with a smile, "Our minister, but he is a master of copying the bottom, and this time he has brought back a lot of talents from Germany." ”

"I thought it was an American." Fan Xudong said with a smile.

"Germany is now in a recession, inflation is seriously inflated, there are many unemployed, and some experts don't even have the money to buy milk for their children, so many of them have hired us with high salaries." Li Zhuchen smiled, "In normal times, these people are all encounterable but unwanted." ”

(To be continued)