Kong Xiangxi was also very happy to see that the goal was achieved: "Don't say these kind words, I know your ability, to be honest, the profits of military manufacturing are amazing, especially in our country where the civil war is constantly invaded, I am afraid that the war will not be extinguished in the next twenty years, even if there is no war, it can be easily transferred to the field of machinery industry and heavy industry through technological improvement."

Again, according to my understanding, your so-called agricultural machinery factory will never be as simple as manufacturing farm tools, otherwise you will not repeatedly urge your father-in-law to introduce the technology and production line of diesel engines, gasoline engines, and gearboxes. Brother Cheng Xian (Ou Yaoting) Although he is strong, but his stall is too big and the development is also very fast, and all aspects need money, it was in a financing project half a month ago that I only knew about your development plan, so I also want to take this opportunity to join in.

This is a very promising industrial project, you have a good eye for it, and the goals, positioning and selected areas of development are very good. General Zhu is a powerful man with a generous surname, and a military and political veteran who is respected by all sides, and you are very far-sighted in choosing to cooperate with him and choose the position of Nanchang to start a business, and I am very confident in you. ”

An Yi nodded, and agreed with Kong Xiangxi that he didn't say anything more after the detailed discussion tonight, and Kong Xiangxi also walked to the loud laughing crowd with satisfaction.

In fact, An Yi knows very well in his heart that any relationship is based on common interests, take the highly respected predecessor Zhu Peide, who is also a wise and foolish master, as long as An Yi has a deep understanding from the occupation of Fengcheng, he sent troops and people out of his brains, and took huge risks to use all kinds of tricks to finally take Fengcheng, and this respected Zhu senior occupied the long-awaited Fuzhou, Qingjiang, Xinping, and Chongren large areas without a single soldier, a soldier, a gun, and a bullet, and steadily pocketed the entire Poyang Lake Plain.

Although An Yi did not blush at all, nor did he complain that he had made too little profit, on the contrary, he has always been full of gratitude to Zhu Peide's predecessors, but An Yi is no longer the original An Yi, he has seen this world and people more thoroughly, and deeply understands that strength is the guarantee of confidence, and without strength, everything is free to talk about.

…… On the car back to the city, Kong Xiangxi, who was sitting in the back seat, closed his eyes and recuperated, but he couldn't forget the thatched hut that was lonely under two hundred-year-old camphor trees at the foot of Shawa Mountain on the riverside, with simple and old wooden walls, a small courtyard planted with flowers and gourds, and two old door panels common to ordinary farmers.

Since Zhu Peide had already visited An Yi's ordnance factory, he took Hans, Chu'er and others to visit the scenic spots near Lao Nanchang after getting off the ship, and An Yi led the curious Kong Xiangxi and Ou Yaoting to this hidden place.

Entering the thatched hut with a radius of five zhang, a solid doorway with a height of three meters and a width of two meters in the front comes into view, which uses the soil slope of more than 30 meters high and hundreds of meters long behind the thatched house to dig out the doorway, all of which are poured with reinforced concrete, with a thickness of 60 centimeters.

Five meters through the heavy steel door and turn to the right, a long and narrow workshop made of stone slabs and reinforced concrete is extremely surprising, this hidden manufacturing workshop with a width of five meters and a length of more than 40 meters is completely in the middle of the mountain, with solid stone walls, huge square reinforced concrete supporting columns and beams, flat ground and a four-meter-high curved dome, which was built after two and a half months of hard work by 135 professional engineers. Although the excavation was not a solid rock mass, but a dense layer of sand that was relatively easy to construct, the amount and speed of the work were astonishing.

Under the light, the generator room, lighting equipment, and vents in the bright workshop are all complete, and sixteen machines and equipment such as drilling machines, lathes, boring machines, and milling machines for the production of guns and accessories are neatly arranged, and several ordnance engineers and more than 80 production personnel of An Yi are working meticulously, and all kinds of drawings, tables, and blackboards full of sketches of parts on the wall are arranged in an orderly manner, and the strict management, advanced equipment and professionalism are really shocking, if it weren't for An Yi quietly bringing Kong Xiangxi and Ou Yaoting here, The two of them never imagined that there would be such a professional weapons production workshop in this rolling green tree-covered hill.

Kong Xiangxi was deeply impressed by the three improved flower machine guns that had just been produced, and after mentioning the comparison between an imitation American Colt pistol that was being packed and the original imported guns, Kong Xiangxi and Ou Yaoting were amazed by the processing accuracy of the imitation and the materials selected, if it weren't for the fact that there was no inscription and number on the imitation gun, the two couldn't tell which one was the original, but An Yi on the side said very regretfully: limited to the shortage of materials, insufficient processing proficiency, and the inability to use the assembly line production method due to equipment limitations, etc. The cost of the gun made is almost the same as the import price, and there is also a certain gap between the surname and the family, so it can only be solved slowly!

Although An Yi himself was not satisfied, Kong Xiangxi and Ou Yaoting had completely different feelings, both of them saw the huge potential contained in it, and they were full of emotion about An Yi and his officers and soldiers' superb skills, rigorous attitude and fighting spirit.

When Ou Yaoting asked how this workshop and products compare with Yan Xishan's arsenal workshop, Kong Xiangxi said with great certainty that the quality of materials, processing accuracy, and manufacturing equipment are more than twice as strong as those of the Taiyuan factory, and what is lacking is only the number of equipment and the number of workers, especially the improved flower machine gun, which has greatly surpassed the Taiyuan plant in terms of processing accuracy and technological innovation.

It was not until this time that Kong Xiangxi knew that An Yi already had a certain technical foundation, with production capacity and small batch products, and the automatic rifle that was being improved and developed made Kong Xiangxi see a huge market, he really didn't know how An Yi could choose the special industry of weapon production among the many foreign products that were constantly flocking to China, and could bring forth the new on the basis of absorbing the strengths of others, and grasp the direction of development so accurately and reasonably, and he didn't know where An Yi could find such dedicated and conscientious technical masters. But there is one thing that Kong Xiangxi knows very well, that is, he realized that before An Yi quietly sent the first batch of students to Krupp in Germany for further study last year, he already had a comprehensive plan, otherwise he would not have today's machine tools and equipment, let alone successful imitations and improved products.

At An Yi's age, he was able to plan and steadily advance his career, and this far-sighted and persevering spirit made Kong Xiangxi secretly admire and strengthened his determination to work closely with An Yi and Ou Yaoting.

After the dinner, Kong Xiangxi was finally able to sit down and negotiate with An Yi and Ou Yaoting on the cooperation of the real surname, and the three of them had no worries, and the open and honest communication greatly improved the efficiency.

After an hour and a half of talks, the cooperation framework was immediately finalized, and the cooperation projects included the upcoming Jiangnan Arsenal and Jiangnan Agricultural Machinery Factory, with An Yi occupying 40% of the shares with the factory's real estate, existing technology and equipment, Ou Yaoting occupying 30% of the shares with 2.5 million yuan of machinery and equipment that was about to arrive in Nanchang, Kong Xiangxi with a one-time injection of 2.5 million yuan to occupy 30% of the shares, and each of the three parties sent a director and a financial director to the soon-to-be-established board of directors, and the chairman of the board of directors was An Yi or An Yi's designated agent.

In order to show the spirit of sincere cooperation and support for the development of An Yi's career, Kong Xiangxi will provide An Yi with an interest-free loan of 10 million yuan with a loan term of two years within 10 days of the signing of the contract.

The big event was finalized, An Yi was in an extremely relaxed mood, and sent away Kong Xiangxi, who was also in a happy mood, he very much wanted to quietly take Chu'er, who was attending the gala downstairs, out for a ride alone, and was just about to say goodbye, but was stopped by Ou Yaoting, Ou Yaoting handed over the financial report of the property and investment of the two people in the past year to An Yi, An Yi could only gather his mind and take it seriously, it took nearly an hour to deal with it, Ou Yaoting then discussed with An Yi the development goals and development steps for the next two years.

Seeing Ou Yaoting's assistant Wu Zhiru take out his notebook and sit behind him, An Yi was annoyed, but he didn't dare to show the slightest dissatisfaction on his face, so he could only bear to pick up the teacup with his surname, and this conversation lasted for two hours, until Chu Er, who attended the gala, walked into the guest room accompanied by Hans, Raute and Heinrich, Ou Yaoting let An Yi go, and warmly beckoned Hans to sit down for a while and drink a cup of Chinese tea made by Chu Er.

Hans and the three happily agreed, and they humbled each other to sit down.

Chu'er couldn't say a word to An Yi, who was anxious about the monkey, and felt a little regretful in her heart, but when she heard her father's suggestion, she happily agreed, squeezed out a grimace at An Yi, and immediately began to perform the tea art she had learned from her mother.

Hans looked at An Yi, who was slowly sitting down, and said with a smile: "An, it's a pity that you didn't go to the party just now, the girls in Nanchang are very gentle and beautiful, just like the water of Poyang Lake, which is as charming and clear as the lake water, especially Miss Zhu Yunhua, the youngest daughter of General Zhu, and the beautiful and charming Miss Ou became the center of everyone's attention tonight, the two of them talked very well, it is hard to imagine that the two are meeting for the first time." ”

Everyone let out a burst of knowing laughter, and An Yi praised in admiration: "Hans, you are so good, you can speak Chinese so smoothly in just two years, and you can use adjectives skillfully, I feel very ashamed compared to you." ”

Hans pointed to Rauter beside him: "Don't forget that I have a good teacher. ”

The laughter sounded again, and they chatted with each other while enjoying the fragrant tea offered by Chu'er, and unconsciously the topic was once again on business, Heinrich asked Ou Yaoting if he was interested in purchasing German pharmaceutical equipment after completing the first phase of equipment procurement at Nanchang Pharmaceutical Factory? Ou Yaoting said very politely that he would like to cooperate with Heinrich and Hans in the pharmaceutical equipment and pharmaceutical business, because the pharmaceutical level and production equipment in Germany are of first-class quality.

A few big businessmen talked speculatively, and the farther and farther they went, unconsciously talked about the advantages and disadvantages of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine, talked about China's mysterious Taoist medicine, and after Ou Yaoting told a funny anecdote about the treatment of diseases in Wanshou Palace, everyone burst into laughter.

Heinrich, who was very knowledgeable and elegant in wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, then told an interesting anecdote: "In June, a week before I was about to come to China from Germany, two of our German newspapers published a news item at the same time, about a paper published by the famous Professor Domark, director of the pathology research department of Bayer AG, was reprinted in the British medical journal in April, which caused a small academic controversy.

The professor of the Royal Society of Medicine of the United Kingdom questioned that Professor Domark's discovery and research direction of Proontsil antimicrobial substances involved the Australian Paul Murphy. Professor Gelmo's research paper 18 years ago, Bayer laboratory urgently checked the data to corroborate each other, only to know that although the aminobenzene sulfonamide discussed in Professor Gelmor's paper comes from the same channel, but it is completely different two concepts, Professor Gelmer's research obtained a substance called aminobenzene sulfonamide, is a dye medium used in the dyeing and weaving industry, compared with the substance extracted by Professor Domark, proontsil is completely new and is likely to be used in medicine antibacterial elements, The purity is many times higher than that of aminobenzene sulfonamide, but no follow-up studies have been conducted.

Later, the controversy ended, and the German media humorously said that the conservative British finally got their heads up and knew the potential value of the patent proceeds, even if the British questioned correctly, Professor Gelmo's patent rights had expired and invalidated, and there was no infringement at all, not to mention that Professor Domark's research direction and scientific content were a hundred times higher than that of dyes, haha!

Mr. Ou, if your Nanchang New Pharmaceutical Factory develops a new specific drug, don't forget to apply for a patent in various countries around the world, if you trust, I am willing to help Mr. Ou apply for and register the European patent. ”

Ou Yaoting smiled, seeing this as a kind reminder from Heinrich that his pharmaceutical factory in Nanyang was preparing to mass-produce common drugs in Europe and the United States, so he said meaningfully:

"Thank you, Mr. Heinrich, the current research on traditional Chinese medicine is very lacking, many good drugs with a long history have no theoretical research results, it is a pity, such as China's famous 'Quhuanzhang Baibaodan' is a typical representative, Mr. Heinrich's anecdote reminds me, if possible, maybe I will invest in the pharmacology and pathology research of traditional Chinese medicine, as long as I can get one or two research results, all the investment will get a huge return, I will take this issue to heart......"

"Wait!"

An Yi, who had always been unhappy, suddenly spoke: "Mr. Heinrich, is the aminobenzene sulfonamide you mentioned a sulfonamide commonly used in the printing and dyeing industry?" Usually the kind of dye with red is called ...... What is called three ammonia to sell together? ”

"Triaminobenzene dye, haha!"

The erudite Heinrich was very familiar with all the goods he operated, and took An Yi's words and continued: "Ann, today we have the honor to visit your ramie textile factory and supporting printing and dyeing factory, sincerely speaking, your ramie cloth is very promising, this is a kind of high-grade cloth superior to cotton yarn, but it is a pity that your supporting printing and dyeing factory is quite backward, so that your ramie advantage can not be played at all, you should properly improve the process and introduce advanced equipment." ”

An Yi said gratefully: "Thank you, Mr. Heinrich, this is exactly what we are going to discuss tomorrow, this matter is specifically responsible for Mr. Ou, if you are interested, you may wish to further negotiate with Mr. Ou, improve the printing and dyeing process and purchase new equipment is what we urgently need to do." ”

Heinrich was very happy, and everyone continued to talk for more than half an hour, and when they found that it was not too early, they all got up and went back to their rooms.

Sending off the guests, Ou Yaoting's assistant also whispered goodbye and went back to his room to rest, as soon as he went out, An Yi immediately closed the door, pulled the surprised Ou Yaoting to the sofa, and danced excitedly, not knowing how to speak, because An Yi overheard a familiar drug name "aminobenzene sulfonamide", he knew very well that the common name of this medicine was sulfonamide, and his old revolutionary old man believed in this medicine in his previous life, sulfonamide bottles were placed all over the room, and An Yi clearly remembered the plot of a movie he had watched- An underground party member almost died in order to send a few bottles of sulfonamide pills and a few injections into the base area!

In these years, there are no antibacterial special drugs, whenever An Yi sees the wounds of his brothers under his command inflamed and suppurated, and the high fever does not heal for a long time, he has thought of the antibacterial special drugs that can be seen everywhere in his memory and the price of a pack of cigarettes. So he endured the excitement in his heart and waited for all the outsiders to leave, so that he could plot a plan to make a fortune with his future father-in-law.

Ou Yaoting looked at An Yi, whose face turned red with excitement, and asked a little strangely, "What's wrong with you?" ”

"Brother Xiao Yi, what's wrong with you?"

Chu'er handed the tea to An Yi, and stretched out her white little hand to caress An Yi's forehead.

An Yi grabbed Chu'er's slender hand and said excitedly to Ou Yaoting: "Mr. Ou, you must find that Australian chemist named Gelmer as soon as possible, even if you spend a lot of money, you have to get the extraction technology of sulfonamides from him!" Be sure to get your hands on it! ”

Ou Yaoting said puzzledly: "Isn't it just dye?" Why don't I come back with a little more? Where do you need to bother to research it yourself? There are so many secret recipes of Chinese medicine that need to be transformed into Chinese patent medicines, and we are still too busy. ”

"Nope! You don't understand the value! ”

An Yi shook his head again and again, took the tea and drank it dry, only then calmed down a little, and said the special effects of sulfonamide tablets and sulfonamide injection in the treatment of pneumonia, sepsis, dysentery, gunshot wounds, inflammation, etc., in the extremely shocked eyes of Ou Yaoting's father and daughter:

“…… Think about it, there are no patents for this drug, no one has discovered it, what would it be like if we got hold of it? An ordinary quinine injection sells for two oceans, and a sulfonamide doesn't sell for twenty oceans? Mr. Ou, let's go to Australia! If it really doesn't work, you go to Germany and the United Kingdom, find a way to find out Gelmo's paper, get the extraction method of sulfonamides, and then buy the raw materials of the machine, we will do it immediately, and after purification, step by step, Nanyang and Jiangxi are full of monkeys, first take the monkeys to do experiments, get the monkeys and then get people, we don't want to get rich It's difficult! ”

Ou Yaoting looked at An Yi blankly: "How do you know?" ”

"Oops...... Don't you believe me? You look at the guns I made, the shoes, the design of so many uniforms, military equipment, sewing machine improvements...... Don't you believe me so much? Mr. Ou, even if I don't do anything else and do sulfonamides, I'm willing! An Yi was so anxious that he stood up and stomped his feet, Chu Er was surprised and amused, and went up to take An Yi's hand and comforted: "Brother Xiao Yi, don't worry!" When did my dad say he didn't believe you? ”

Seeing the coquettish attitude of a pair of children, Ou Yaoting stood up and shook his head and smiled, and walked to his bedroom to write down everything An Yi said.

When An Yi saw Ou Yaoting enter the house with a smile, he knew that he had been persuaded by himself, and he hugged Chu'er tightly in excitement to kiss, but Ou Yaoting came back to get his glasses at a critical moment, and saw An Yi like a monkey who wanted to take advantage of his baby daughter, and hurriedly coughed heavily, so frightened that An Yi quickly let go of his hand, and left with an embarrassed smile like a thief, Chu'er, who was blushing, closed the door in a panic, didn't dare to look at his father, and quickly ran into his bedroom and closed the door.

Ou Yaoting walked to the coffee table and picked up his glasses, remembering An Yi's anxious appearance, the more he thought about it, the more interesting he felt, he couldn't help but smile and shook his head, and slowly walked to his bedroom.

(To be continued)