"My lord, the Russian Princesses want to see you!"

"Hasn't the Russian mission left yet?"

Yang Chao was a little surprised, the Russian princess was still in China. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Only the princess didn't leave. I have to see you. ”

Yang Chao nodded.

He remembered that the Russian mission had left after signing a series of agreements, and had taken with him a loan of a billion taels of silver.

With that money, the Russians can buy more arms, they can arm more troops, they can beat the Germans a little harder, and there will be a little more dead, and the collapse will be a little earlier.

Russians can't imagine that sometimes it seems that someone is helping you, but in fact he is harming you.

The Russian princess's request, Yang Chao is really difficult to refuse at this time, because now he still has to have a good relationship with the Russians, and the reason is not where are the minerals in Siberia.

Back in Shandong, the princess came to the door, the last time she met Yang Chao, but Yang Chao's show off of wealth was a big mess, and she forgot to mention the penicillin technology transfer that she wanted to talk about.

Later, when I remembered it, Yang Chao had already gone to bomb Japan, and went around to the Northeast before being found by the Grand Duchess of Origa, and this time she had already determined the matter of the penicillin factory.

And the eldest duke went to see the penicillin factory last time, but it was not enjoyable to see, because the factory is basically under military control, and many places are secret areas, such as the cultivation equipment of penicillium, such as the cooling and separation equipment of green plum secretion, and so on.

Therefore, the Grand Duchess of Olga also plans to visit again, and by the way, to determine the issue of technology transfer with Yang Chao.

Yang Chao had to personally accompany Archduke Origa to visit the penicillin factory again.

"Penicillium is cultivated here and secretes a penicillin solution. It is then sent to a nearby filtration device for filtration, where impurities are filtered out, and then it can be dried and crystallized. ”

Cai Hong, a young technician in the factory, explained carefully, because Yang Chao told him that there were no secrets for the Russian princess here.

I believe that after reading this princess, it is strange that she can remember it, the current penicillin factory has been continuously improved and is already a very complex pharmaceutical factory, which involves chemical and physical principles that are far more complex than imagined, it can be said that even if Westerners get penicillin strains now, if they want to compete with Yang Chao, they don't even think about it.

"Here, the penicillium filtrate will be frozen into a solid state, and then it will be evaporated under negative pressure through the extraction equipment, and it can crystallize into penicillin crystals in about a week."

The drying device is no longer the liquid air-drying of the past, but has become a solid state, to be precise, it is frozen into ice and dried by air, the so-called freeze-drying method is also.

There are three penicillin factories in Shandong, because the technology is not mature, one of them has a problem, the fan is damaged, the technician forgets to turn off the cooling device, the result is excessive cooling, the solution freezes into ice, and when the fan is repaired normally, it is found that the staff is at a loss when it freezes into ice, but it is very accidental to find that the ice has crystallization.

The results of crystallization assay showed that the activity was even higher than in the past, so a new technology appeared.

However, at present, this technology has not been promoted, it is only in the experimental stage, the refrigeration equipment produced by Air Liquide, the ventilators and motors designed and produced by Siemens, it seems that the results are very good, increasing the activity of penicillin, which is equivalent to increasing the output, and the appearance of three percent has been improved, and the penicillin dry powder also looks much purer than before, not as in the past, it always seems to have a little gray yellow, but has become pure white.

"Of course, there is no problem with the transfer of penicillin technology. However, the most important process is the cultivation of Penicillium, which in our experience is not very suitable in most parts of Russia. In the past, our factory was located in the northeast, but it turned out that the cold air was not suitable for the growth of penicillium, so we moved to Shandong. ”

"You mean there needs to be a warm place, it's still warm along the Black Sea in Russia."

Archduchess Olga proudly said that Russia is a big place, and the Black Sea is a resort, where tea and sugar cane can grow, not to mention penicillium.

Yang Chao shook his head and sighed: "But where is the war?" ”

Seeing Olga's disappointed eyes, Yang Chao explained with a smile: "Of course, we believe that the Russians can win this war, so I will send technicians to Russia to investigate, if the Black Sea region is really suitable." We don't mind building a factory in Russia. ”

"Really?"

Grand Duke Origa turned his worries into joy.

"Of course!"

Yang Chao is very sure that after a year of investigation, I don't know if Tsarist Russia still exists.

By this time the Russians had increased their number of troops to Siberia to three million, but the railway lines were still overloaded, and troops were constantly being sent from the Western Front to Siberia.

There is no shortage of weapons and equipment for the Russian army, and it can even be purchased from China nearby, but there is a shortage of food.

"We want bread, we don't want war!"

On the streets of Petersburg, a Russian aunt who couldn't bear it suddenly went crazy, what the hell the war took away her two sons, not to mention, and every day people can't eat enough, and they can't even supply black bread.

Auntie's emotions spread to the others, and soon they all yelled, making the bakery nervous, not because they didn't want to bake bread, but because there was no flour supply.

At the same time, in the trenches of the Western Front of the Russian army, a group of soldiers gathered around a junior officer.

"We don't have enough to eat, we don't even have rifles in our hands, this is not war, this is massacre!"

"Go back, go back to Russia, no one knows that you are fighting here. If you want to live to see your mother, then go back, here you can only wait for death, and there is no point in dying! ”

"Let all the soldiers be deserters, and let the government of your own country lose in the war!"

Bushvik groups are active on the front line, who are trying to weaken the combat effectiveness of the Russian army.

But the aunts who received black bread in the rear, the Bushviks who did the ideological work of soldiers on the front line, they were actually not wrong. It's true that the aunt can't even eat enough black bread, and the soldier really can't even fire a gun in his hand.

Because Russia's poor railway system simply cannot guarantee the supply of millions of soldiers on the front line, Russia's railway system is full of a large number of aristocratic bureaucrats, no different from China's Western-style factories, and is outrageously inefficient.

Grain from all over the country rots in the autumn rains in the countryside, but it can't wait for the train to come and pull it away, and the train may run on the empty tracks, unloaded with goods.

The railway capacity was already insufficient, and a lot of capacity was wasted, and there was a need for artillery on the front line, and as a result, a cart of sleepers, medicines, and statues of gods were brought in.

As a result, sometimes two or three people at the front line had a gun, and a large amount of weapons and equipment were piled up in the rear, so that the people in the cities could not have enough to eat, and the food in the countryside could not be transported at all.

Later critics have criticized Russia's defeat because the economy is too backward, and the soldiers' lack of rifles is said to be the result of poverty, but the actual reason is that the transportation is too poor, if Russia is because of the backward industry and the soldiers can't get rifles in their hands, then what about the Soviet Union, which is an industrial empire, or mainly heavy industry, but there are still several front-line soldiers with a gun.

Before World War I, Russia's industrial output was higher than that of the French, and France accounted for only 6% of the world's industrial share, while Russia accounted for 8%, second only to Britain, the United States and Germany, ranking fourth in the world.

There is only one reason why the Russian and Soviet soldiers did not have weapons in their hands, the collapse of transportation brought about by backward transportation facilities and extensive management, and even the situation that weapons have reached the front line but cannot be delivered to the soldiers, which is a tragedy peculiar to a country accustomed to extensive management, and extensive management is difficult to adapt to a war of this scale in the war of the century.

But the Russians still played the tactics of the Germans to move things to Siberia on a large scale, moving the Russian army from the Western Front to Siberia on a large scale, traveling nearly 10,000 kilometers. The Germans were already able to militarize the railway system during the Franco-Prussian War, and before World War I they could even accurately determine how many cars, how many soldiers, how many rifles and bullets they could transport per minute.

Russian railways were very extensive in peacetime, and now this kind of big transfer has only one result, a great paralysis of transportation!

And then there was the social collapse.

The chaos began in Petersburg, the masses gathered to do their thing, Stolypin tried to suppress it by force, as a result of which the equally disgruntled soldiers refused to shoot, and when the emotions gathered to a limit, the administration collapsed.

"Russia has collapsed!"

After Yang Chao received the news, he did not expect at all, he thought that the collapse of Russia would be accompanied by a large number of soldiers dying, and finally the soldiers' war-weariness was exploited by the Bushviks, and then they failed, and now it seems that they collapsed in advance.

"Not yet. The tsar left Petersburg, and the townspeople stormed the government and the imperial palace! ”

Zhang Nian reported.

"Where's Princess Origa?"

"It's already to Cullen."

"Stop her!"

In order to talk to Yang Chao about the penicillin factory, the female archduke of Origa ended up staying for a while, but she didn't expect Russia to collapse ahead of schedule, and the female archduchess didn't have time to return to Russia.

The Russian army only sent 3 million to Siberia, in order to mobilize so many troops in a short period of time, the Russians adopted the method of the Russo-Japanese War, that is, all trains went to Siberia, giving up reciprocating operation, but now is not the period of the Russo-Japanese War, now it is a two-front operation, a four-line operation, they guarantee the transportation of Siberia, they cannot guarantee the transportation of other places.

The railway system built by Zhan Tianyou is much more sophisticated than that of the Russians, because Zhan Tianyou is a professional and has trained more qualified professionals, and if Yang Chao is allowed to manage the railway system, he may do as badly as the Russians.

After the telegram reached Kulun, the train on which the Grand Duke was riding had already departed, but Coulomb immediately forwarded a telegram to Uriya Sutai, and the train of the Grand Duke was stopped.

At this time, the Grand Duchess was informed that there was civil unrest in Russia, and for her safety, she would be sent to Beijing. (To be continued.) )