Chapter Twenty-Six: Is 10 Million Enough to Build a Laboratory?
Meng Chang set aside an area, as a chemical factory, here he wants to build a fertilizer factory and a dye manufacturing factory, both of which can be changed to produce military factories, the fertilizer factory can produce explosives if it is changed a little early, and the dye factory can be changed to produce chemically synthesized drugs such as sulfonamides with a slight transformation, Meng Chang gave great hope to these two factories, first train qualified workers, and then transform them after they are familiar with it.
After Meng Chang finished arranging things, he called the French and Americans together, because the next step was to debug the equipment, and Meng Chang wanted to coordinate with them. The two generators have to be transported to the cave, there will be a military factory in the future, and then there is processing equipment such as lathes, and so on the next bullet and bullet production line, shells and firearms must be completed over there, first send the equipment over, install it, this has to be completed by yourself, Meng Chang doesn't want too many people to know the situation over there, so the equipment commissioning here is over, the Americans can go, the French because they want to debug the chemical equipment, this Meng Chang is not particularly familiar with the technician, can only what they signed an agreement, Wait until the people are all cultivated, and then let the French go back. This time, Meng Chang said hello to Lawrence and John in advance, and left ten more cars, and now Meng Chang has a total of twelve cars, which is enough for the early stage.
Meng Chang has deployed manpower, and has added a hundred people to the chemical industry, which will be a lot of places to employ people in the future, and then Meng Chang will spare time to talk to those teachers and students in detail.
The professor in his fifties is called Qin Ming, who is now a leading figure in the Chinese chemistry field, graduated from Yale University in the United States, and taught at the school after graduation, and has attainments in both inorganic chemistry and organic chemistry. When I returned to China three years ago, I was worried about China's education and wanted to train a group of high-end chemical talents for China, but there is often a gap between the ideal and the reality.
In the so-called golden decade of the authorities, China's education has not invested enough in the cultivation and education of practical technical talents, there are two reasons here, one is that the Chinese people are extremely interested in being officials, becoming an official means that money, power, and women have it, and there are some outstanding talents who have put pen to paper to join the army, in underdeveloped areas, people have no ability to enjoy education, and those who enjoy education are not interested in practical technology, they are interested in politics; The second is the lack of investment in industry, capitalists and factory owners are interested in projects that can make money quickly, and they are not interested in some projects with high investment and long cycles. So Qin Ming was a little disappointed, now his first batch of students are going to practice, which factory to go to to get in touch with practice, it gives him a headache. A few days ago, by chance, he learned that Meng Chang was going to set up a chemical factory, so Professor Qin found Mu Ouchu through someone, and the two hit it off, so they followed the convoy to Liujiatun.
Professor Qin looked at Meng Chang, he was not very old, twenty-five or sixteen years old, tall and well-proportioned, with a square face, a straight mouth and a wide nose, two ears and shoulders, sword eyebrows and eyes, quite a handsome guy. How can he be so bold, just now he took a turn in the factory and found that there were more than 400 lathes and other processing equipment, four high-power generators, and new chemical equipment, how much is this, Professor Qin began to be interested in Meng Chang.
"Hello Professor Qin, welcome to the contemptible factory, just now I read Mr. Ou Chu's pen, and I have great respect for Professor Qin's patriotic sentiments and the beautiful teacher virtue of cultivating students' scientific spirit. I am very grateful to Professor Qin for his relationship with the factory of the contemptible chemical industry, "Meng Chang is a person who attaches great importance to the morality of the teacher, like some people who practice ancient martial arts, when the teacher teaches you martial arts, the first thing is for you to consider your character, who dares to teach you advanced martial arts without good conduct." Therefore, Meng Chang admires people who are really for the country and students, unlike the current returnees, they are all bastards who can't get along abroad, and when they come to China, they are rushing to the big tail wolf, so they rely on a few foreign languages to help foreigners pit people.
"Mr. Meng is polite, I also see that the students are about to graduate, if there is no good practice, no responsive working environment, one should do, so many years of hard work will be wasted, I am anxious, I contacted Mr. Mu through a friend, and then came to you, I hope Mr. Meng does not blame us for being abrupt." Professor Qin was a little embarrassed, and everyone didn't know about it, so he brought a group of people, and it was not good to say.
"Professor Qin, don't be so polite, you can call me Meng Chang or Xiao Meng, I plan to have two chemical factories this time, one to produce chemical fertilizers and the other to produce dyes, with your help, I will be a lot easier."
"Then I'll call you a nephew, I'm a lot older than you, the two factories you are doing now, the production process, etc., when I was in the United States, I had contact, but they were all ready-made factories, from the beginning of construction, I really haven't done it, this time I and the students will study together and improve together. Now that the students' theories have been completed, your dye factory, I want to design according to the standards of the laboratory, what do you think? As soon as Professor Qin talked about his major, he immediately came to his senses.
"Ah, well, that, Professor Qin, I only think about it, the instruments of these two factories including other equipment are designed by large factories, and the accuracy and environment are not suitable for laboratory equipment, these two are in accordance with the requirements of the factory, specific to the laboratory, I want you to help me open a list, and my brick factory and cement factory will be done immediately, I plan to re-establish an area, not only the chemical industry, physics, machinery, etc., I will invite a group of experts to come, can you help me design this independent experimental area." Meng Chang saw that Professor Qin was a team of people who were very obsessed with science, so he wanted to keep him in his team, after all, chemistry would be the top priority in the military industry in the future.
"Ah, isn't this too expensive, I just want to build a smaller laboratory for students, so that they can learn more things, and use the existing equipment and instruments enough. If you build a professional laboratory, it is not a small amount, this laboratory is a bottomless pit of money, and there is no return in the short term," Professor Qin was a little surprised, he didn't expect Meng Chang to have this kind of thought, even now, many American companies do not have professional laboratories, and they are all working with other companies or universities to cooperate in development, or directly buy patents.
"Professor Qin, the problem of money, you don't have to worry, I'll figure out a way, in this way, if Professor Qin is willing to serve as the director of this laboratory, that is, the number one, I can rest assured to invest in this project, specific to professors of other majors, I hope Professor Qin will help me contact some experts who are interested in practical technology, professors, this laboratory has independent personnel rights, funding rights, is an independent department, except for me, will not let others interfere in your experiments, what do you think, I can invest 10 million in this laboratory in the early stage. Meng Chang originally planned to wait for the team to be trained for a period of time, and the workers would be skilled before building the laboratory, but now that there are experts like Professor Qin to do it, it must be mentioned to the front immediately, which can save a lot of time. Meng Chang was bent on leaving Professor Qin in Liujiatun.
"What, 10 million, virtuous nephew, you won't joke with me, this is a huge amount of money, and there are very few laboratories in the United States that have so much investment, are you kidding?" Professor Qin is a little stupid, this is not a dream, is it possible that his dream for many years is about to be realized......
"No kidding, I'm very sober now, Professor Qin, you can start the design according to the top laboratory now, and in two months at most, you will see the equipment and instruments you want, as well as the laboratory building," Meng Chang emphasized.
"And the follow-up funds will be arranged as soon as possible, as long as you have a topic, a project, I approve, the funds will be in place immediately, to be honest with you, I was going to go to this laboratory two months later, first, I don't have the corresponding experts, second, I still have a soldier of the security regiment who needs to be trained, and I really can't get away. However, I have given a lot of funds to the laboratory, 30 million funds in the early stage, if you didn't come here, I would have waited two months to go back to various universities and around the world to hire experts, so I am not joking, please Professor Qin seriously consider my suggestion. Meng Chang decided to tell the truth, after all, what he said was too amazing.
"Nephew, I feel a little unreal now, you let me think about it, wait until tomorrow, my head is a little messy" Professor Qin couldn't accept it, chatted with Meng Chang for a few words, and wanted to rest, Meng Chang said goodbye.
Meng Chang rushed to Liujiatun and asked first, the progress of the three factories is still under construction, the coal mine, Meng Chang used his own search instrument to set the location, has leveled the place, just wait for the accommodation room, the public shed is built, the equipment of the coal mine is transported, and the construction can start, this estimated construction period will take half a month. The brick factory is also building a public shed, but it also needs to build a brick kiln, which may take more than 20 days, and now it has begun to make soil embryos, and when the brick kiln is built, the kiln can be opened to burn bricks. The cement plant also began to build factories and public sheds, and the equipment of the cement plant was relatively large, and it may take more than 20 days. The school has begun construction, covering an area of 50 acres, plans to open a primary school, middle school, high school, can accommodate 5,000 students, now all places are under construction, this Liujiatun is brightly lit, now there are electric lights in several construction sites and Liujiatun.
Meng Chang discussed with Liu Shanpu, preparing to build a military camp, now the cave is equipped with where to arrange the laboratory and military industry, and it is not suitable to do a military camp, Meng Chang summed it up, and planned to see the military camp five miles north of Tunzi, where the big road enters, is the only way to enter Liujiatun, and now a place is not to build the dark fort Ming Fort, it has become a gap at the entrance of the tun, the military camp is just to tie up this opening, the main road in the military camp has two miles, and it will not affect pedestrians, Meng Chang and Liu Shanpu discussed, Liu Shanpu strongly supported. So it was decided, and let the people who signed up come up with 100 people and start the construction.