Entering July, after nearly 8 months of real yàn and construction, the nitric acid plant with a monthly output of 1200 tons was finally completed, which is probably the largest project in the Baotou research laboratory in the past nearly a year, in addition to the electric power room, during the power test, there are outstanding experts like Truss, he can carry out power research under the guidance of Yang Yuanzhao, and make a breakthrough in the construction of a large number of power plants, which solves the power problem of the entire Baotou in one fell swoop. Even the construction of Baotou New City in the future is mainly based on electricity, and the construction of power grids is densely spread to every corner of the entire new Baotou.

Chemical industry, from the very beginning, is congenitally insufficient, ordinary sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, OK, although these are important heavy chemical raw materials, but not as important as nitric acid, nitric acid industry, directly determines the scale of the arms industry, so nitric acid experts, basically either national treasure-level figures, or, simply the focus of the great powers.

Because of the lack of key experts, even if they have experience in nitric acid factories, they are not key positions and positions, they are half-aware of the production of nitric acid, at most they can only describe how foreign nitric acid factories are generally produced, but the production of saltpeter and the production of synthetic ammonia are completely different things.

Therefore, the conversion from ammonia to nitric acid is easy to achieve in the real room, but it takes a long process to really go from the real room to industrial production. The major powers, for nitric acid control is very strict, since the beginning of the popularity of hot weapons, the explosives industry based on nitric acid has almost become the key to the strict defense of all countries, black huo medicine is ordinary, can be circulated casually, but to the yellow fire yao and other higher level of explosives, whether it is the production process or others, are restricted and hidden, not to mention the root of the explosives nitric acid, but also strictly guarded, this thing is really a room process and production process, completely two different levels of problems.

Because of this, even if the output of ammonia and chemical fertilizer has been rising, from the previous daily production of one or two hundred tons, to the present, the daily output has almost reached 700-1,000 tons, with an annual output of more than 400,000 tons.

The price of chemical fertilizer is not low, generally one acre of land is used, at least one silver dollar, this price, without personal experience and personal experience of farmers and landlords, will definitely not be lightly purchased, but Baotou's radiation capacity, and before has been completely different, countless caravans have walked through here, all through Guò Baotou, made a lot of money, they see the high yield of Baotou with their own eyes, or trust in Baotou, they will choose a part to go to the real yàn.

The use of chemical fertilizer is not difficult, for China's barren land, as long as it is not used wrongly, the effect is absolutely immediate, whether it is wheat, or cotton, after the use of chemical fertilizer, all aspects of the index will have a considerable improvement, wheat not to mention for the time being, the use of chemical fertilizer is still a little bit not marked, but cotton, after the use of chemical fertilizer on an acre, the increase is very considerable.

Last year, Baotou's crazy purchase of cotton, a certain amount of dù, so that several provinces in the northwest, cotton planting area, compared with before, increased by five or six times, they from the other side, and promoted the sales of cotton, now the daily sales from the original dozens of tons, suddenly increased to hundreds of tons, recently, and reached more than 500 tons, Baotou daily production of fertilizer, most of the sales out, at the price of 20 yuan per ton, the daily sales can reach 10,000, The annual sales are more than 3 million.

Everyone knows that the fertilizer business will be very good, but I didn't expect it to be so popular, this is just around Baotou, a large part of Mongolia, a small part of Shanxi, if the fertilizer is spread to the whole country, what kind of concept will it be? In several shareholders' meetings, the shareholders attending the meeting have strongly promoted the expansion of the fertilizer plant, from the first phase, to the fifth phase, and all the funds are priority support.

For this, Yang Yuanzhao of course is supportive, the production of chemical fertilizers, for the whole of China, is not only a question of making money, but also a matter of basic policy, the output spent, a certain process, represents the grain production, China's land, because of thousands of years of cultivation, relatively speaking, there is not much fertile land, most of it is barren, chemical fertilizer for the improvement of the land is immediate, the total output of grain, represents the number of people who feed the people.

Fertilizer has been a huge development, the output has surged, and even next, at least three fertilizer plants, are under intense construction, when completed, the output of fertilizer, will be on the basis of the present, up a grade, several times more. But relatively speaking, the production of nitric acid, which is also based on synthetic ammonia as raw materials, has come to a standstill, and the production of nitric acid has not been large, at most a handicraft workshop type, less than 5 tons of nitric acid a month, and it is 50 tons of TN (T), this number is enough for Baotou, and the current 54 mixed compilation association of 12,000 people is almost enough, but for a military production, it is not enough at all, not to mention that after the task of the previous all-in-one military factory was barely completed, it was brushed out. But the task of a large-scale nitric acid plant is targeted.

The monthly production capacity of a single plant is required to reach 2,000 tons, which is going to be a dead end, from 5 tons to 2,000 tons, don't look at the gap of only 400 times, the effort spent, but it is definitely between quality and quantity, nitric acid, for the powers, is not a difficult thing, but thousands of tons, is not a simple number, the project of synthetic ammonia, so that Germany from 1909, until about 1913, only to complete an additional 3600 tons of nitric acid, German arms industry, will not put all the attention on synthetic ammonia, but 3,600 tons of nitric acid is still equivalent to tens of thousands of tons of TN (T) explosives, which greatly consolidated the foundation of Germany's arms, and it is also the cornerstone of Germany's courage to launch World War II, because there is more nitric acid outside the sight of the Entente.

The monthly output of 2,000 tons of nitric acid, replaced by TN (T) is 20,000 tons, and the annual production capacity of 240,000 tons of TN (T) is a super arms factory even if it is placed on top of the world, not to mention that in China, more than 200,000 tons of TN (T) may not appear until a few decades later.

With the support of the real yàn room, the nitric acid factory began to start hard, the initial pace, always very fast, the nitric acid workshop from the beginning of the monthly output of 5 tons, increased to 10 tons, 50 tons, 100 tons, in fact, the monthly output of 100 tons, the annual output of 1200 tons, can already be called a modern factory, but with the output of more than 100,000 tons of steel mills compared with the United States.

After 100 tons, the pace of climbing began to slow down, the output of synthetic ammonia, more and more, from the original tens of thousands of tons, crazy climbed to more than 100,000 tons or even close to one million tons, but the output of nitric acid has been tepid, from December last year, to May this year, but reached a monthly output of 500 tons, and then it is difficult to increase.

It's not that Yang Yuanzhao is unwilling to invest, it's because nitric acid has accumulated to a certain extent, which has caused chaos in the whole factory, and if the process and manufacturing level are not improved, 500 tons is already the limit that the original technology can reach.

At this time, both Yang Yuanzhao and Harpy were a little anxious, and a large number of talents in nitric acid were searched, and even spent a lot of money, and finally, three talents were found from the American military factory and the Italian military factory, especially from the Italian Drogba.

Italy, in this era, can not be called weak, especially 10 years ago, is still one of the few countries that can build cutting-edge battleships, the triple battery of battleships, is from Italy, Italy's arms industry, has always occupied a place in the world's arms industry, but recently, Italy's situation, is not very good, the economic recession, coupled with the backwardness of science and technology, has made Italy's economy turbulent a lot, unemployment is climbing wildly, Even munitions engineers are the same, and they can start from here more than Germany and the United States.

This is also the method chosen by Harpy after consecutive failures. In the end, two core engineers were successfully recruited from the Italian Navy Nitric Acid Factory, especially Drogba, who was a nitric acid engineer and a gunpowder expert, and personally participated in the research of the gunpowder of the Italian 14-inch naval gun.

Harpy was very happy with this gain, not only promising them a salary of £1,000 a month, a settling-in allowance of £2,000, but also various rewards, such as the development and completion of a project, there is a bonus, which will be quantified according to the difficulty of the project. 1,000 pounds a month, which is equivalent to about 5,000 US dollars, such a level of salary, even if Drogba is in Italy, he can't get it, not to mention a high bonus.

Crazy high-tech, coupled with the promise of a complete practical room, and most importantly, Drogba can finally do what he does best, cut what he likes the most, in Italy, under the watchful eye of the Minister of the Navy, he can only entertain himself at home, the arms industry, has always been a heavy industry related to the fate of the country, not a person can play it.

Drogba was finally willing to leave, and even introduced another person, who almost fled Italy under Harpy's arrangement, and because of this, Harpy did not even go to Italy for 5 years, and even gave up some German-American business in Italy, but it was worth it for such an arms expert. R1152