As the news of Yang Qiu's going to Tianjin spread quickly, a series of preliminary negotiations also quietly kicked off, among which how to ensure the safety of him and Song Jiaoren was the most eye-catching (). Because everyone understood that the congress to be held immediately after the cooperation between the two parties was almost completely controlled by the south, Yuan Shikai was forced to hold talks in this predicament and try to find a way. Although Tianjin is an undefended city, no one can guarantee how many crises there are in it, and who can guarantee that the army will not appear, but who can guarantee that the assassins will not appear either?

This cannot be guaranteed even by Britain, the United States and Germany.

And there is one of the biggest enemies of this trip, and that is Japan! Because of Hanyeping, Japan's steel output this year is expected to drop to 170,000 tons, a full drop of 50,000 tons from the previous year, so the two sides have formed a deep bond.

Although Yang Qiu has the First Fleet in his hands, the Fujian Gang has been unable to pee in a pot with the National Defense Force system, fortunately, this time the stakes are very high, and after all, people have a penny a month to feed themselves, so the telegram said that the three Haizi-class cruisers will all be dispatched to escort this time, and then Britain, the United States and Germany have also expressed their willingness to send warships and escort the escort.

The General Staff Department of the Wehrmacht did not believe in the Fujian Gang, because since Wang Guangxiung became the commander of the First Fleet, except for the flagship Hairong ship and the few gunboats that participated in the defense war, he could not control other warships at all, so he suggested taking the German ** ship, because Germany promised to send the new heavy cruiser Gneisenau to escort the escort, and the Ministry of Government thought that relations with the United States should be deepened, but these were not adopted by Yang Qiu. He still insisted on taking the Hairong ship to Tianjin.

As the day of departure approached, the atmosphere of concern among the entire Wehrmacht became more and more solemn, as the new policy forcibly separated the government, finance, and army. The only person who can bring the three departments together is Yang Qiu, and it can be said that it is not an exaggeration to say that he is tens of millions in one, so everyone is very worried about his safety.

The most worrying thing is, of course, Miao Luo.

In the new Ford sedan presented to Yang Qiu by Hanger on behalf of the American-Asian Association, looking at Yang Qiu who was reading the documents next to him, Miao Luo's mouth grew and closed. His eyes were filled with the worry that he would have to travel north tomorrow. Yang Qiu, who was heart-to-heart, had actually felt the change in her mood in the past few days, but he hadn't made any explanation, he knew that it was unfair to Miao Luo, but he didn't choose ().

Whether it's the contract that Inuyi brought to himself. It was also the telegram secretly sent by Chen Haohui, or the large-scale loan that Yuan Shikai was planning to deal with the aftermath, all of which showed that the division of the country by the great powers had reached the craziest moment. Even if Germany and the United States have a good relationship, they are not the same in private! It's just because they don't have much say right now that they appear friendly and kind, but if they take the initiative, they will immediately show their fangs.

The only solution. It's just its own strength!

So he decided to go north, even if Tang Shaoyi and many people predicted that Yuan Shikai was deliberately delaying the preparation of the fight, even he knew it, but history had been changed beyond recognition. Although the expansion of the Beiyang army has maintained a strong appearance, the weakness on the inside is already an indisputable fact, as long as there is a glimmer of hope for a political settlement, it must be strived for, leaving a drop of blood means preserving more strength for the country.

Under the protection of the guard cavalry company, the car came to the shore of Dongyue Lake, and the cold weather made a thin layer of ice on the lake, and several conjoined factories by the lakeside that had been painted milky white with quicklime were particularly conspicuous.

"Baoshan (Yutang) has seen adults and Mrs.

"Uncle Baoshan, cousin Yu. There are no outsiders here. You should call it the way you used to, and don't act like an outsider. ”

Yang Qiu's unexpected arrival caused restlessness. Chen Baoshan, who was in his forties, came immediately after hearing the news with his eldest son Chen Yutang, who was an old buddy who followed Yang Qiu's father and second uncle to Shanghai. After the death of Yang Qiu's parents, he served as the shopkeeper, and the Italians partnered with the kerosene business in the past few years to practice an authentic Italian, and also sent his children to Italy to study, if Yang Qiu did not choose to be a soldier later, he also proposed to let him go to Italy, and Chen Yutang took care of him to study together.

Chen Baoshan's mouth moved a few times and he didn't dare to shout, after all, the young man standing in front of him now was no longer the child who called his third uncle with a runny nose, the inspector of the eight provinces, the commander-in-chief of the national defense force of more than 200,000 people, no matter what the name was, it was Chen Yutang, who was three years older, called out to Chenhua and his younger siblings. The two of them can be regarded as Yang Qiu's relatives, so Miao Luo's cheeks were slightly red and a little cramped, but when he entered the factory, he suddenly felt like he had discovered a new continent, because almost all of them were female workers, and many of the girls with braids in the training class looked like students who had just graduated from the girls' school.

Yang Qiu was tall and handsome, and he was full of people in and out, so it immediately attracted a burst of restlessness among the female workers, until a few people recognized his identity, and the admiring eyes made Miao Luo quietly twist his arm.

Yang Qiu's eyes rolled angrily, and after entering the production area, Miao Luo finally knew why most of the workers here were women, because this was a pharmaceutical factory.

Chen Yutang studied Western medicine and chemistry in Italy, and after graduating last year, he didn't want to return to China, because he felt that the country was too chaotic to develop his career, until his father wrote to tell him that Yang Qiu had become a patrol envoy of the three provinces, hoping that he could come back to open a pharmaceutical factory to benefit the people, so he moved his mind to return to China. Of course, he did not forget Yang Qiu's care, and with the 50,000 pounds he sent from his father, he purchased a large number of medical and chemical production equipment in Italy and France, and went to the Austro-Hungarian Empire across the sea to hire a few pharmacists, and also abducted a few classmates to come back together.

There are not many Western pharmaceutical factories in China, only a few in the more developed Shanghai and Guangdong, and most of the raw materials need to be imported, so Yang Qiu attaches great importance to the pharmaceutical factory he invested, not only giving Chen Yutang and several of his classmates shares, and paying three times the price to retain Austro-Hungarian and Italian pharmaceutical chemists, but also recalling several Chinese students in this area in the United States through Miao Luo.

The scale is not large, the equipment is the latest, but the technical force is still insufficient, on the surface there are currently two products, the most familiar aspirin and morphine. Needless to say, aspirin has been selling well, and it is mass-produced in various countries. Morphine is also a straining commodity. The Wehrmacht has spent more than one million on this purchase alone in the past year, so Yang Qiu has always hoped to produce it himself, not to mention the Wehrmacht's anti-drug efforts. Hundreds of tons of opium seized from Yunnan, Guizhou and other places are incinerated to be a great waste, and it is best to use them to make morphine.

Morphine was also made for a purpose, as it was in his memory. After the start of the European war, the demand for morphine in various countries would rise to an unimaginable level, and the price suddenly soared three times from 1915 onwards! At present, Pfizer, the world's most important morphine manufacturer, has made a profit of hundreds of millions of dollars in this alone, establishing its position as the world's pharmaceutical leader. Although he didn't expect so much, because the opium was half sold and half delivered after the army and police were seized. There is almost no cost, and according to the current progress and output, there is at least tens of millions of profits for three years of hoarding.

But the two products on the surface could not hide a secret that only he and Chen Yutang knew, when Chen Yutang glanced at him, and even Miao Luo was temporarily excused to be dismissed, a small packet of milky yellow "ice" small granules made him a little distracted ().

"Qingxi has been put into production, and no one knows what this thing is for. I've ruined the recipe too, and now you and I know it. "At that time, after the equipment of the pharmaceutical factory arrived in Wuchang, a small part of it was secretly transported to the mountainous area of the Xianggui Laoqingxi Iron Factory, which was already controlled at that time, and it was said that it was mercury refining and processing equipment. In fact, it is to make this kind of thing, and for this reason, he also got a set of 500 kilowatts of small thermal power equipment, which can be built in just a few months, and Chen Yutang is still quite proud.

"This thing is too harmful to be sold domestically, and in the future I will urge the government to include it in the ranks of drugs and crack down on it!" So you want to find a way to sell it in South America first, and then slowly sell it to other places in the future, so that people will think that South America made it first. It is best to produce there, after all, Guizhou will still engage in formal medicine in the future. "Chen Yutang is the only person outside Yang Qiuwai who knows about the scourge of this thing. So nodded very seriously.

The two successive world wars were the peak of the development of morphine and nervous drugs, in addition to the moral decay of society caused by war. It is also because all the best parties and governments have secretly purchased and developed it, and Japan let soldiers use morphine on a large scale in the Russo-Japanese War, so that soldiers are not afraid of death and look crazy. Later, in the famous Verne meat grinder, in order to allow the soldiers on the verge of nerve collapse to support, the French army also openly provided opium and ** to the soldiers who needed it, and until the Vietnam War, the United States ** also secretly purchased ** for the soldiers who needed it.

Since Europe and the United States can use opium to knock on China's door to suck blood and extract marrow, they should also fight back. According to his estimates, this ridiculously cheap little thing could bring in at least $100 million in revenue over the next decade, enough to build four megaton steel plants.

So he doesn't care about releasing the demon, although it is destined to return to the country after many years, because the huge financial pressure makes him a little lost, if he can't find a financial source as soon as possible, even if the country is unified, most of the weak businessmen in the country will invest in light industry with quick results, and heavy industry with huge cost and slow output will be as embarrassing as a republic in a parallel world if it only relies on state financial support for development, so he needs a huge amount of money to support himself, and walk together on two legs of state and private ownership, Accelerate the pace of catching up with Europe and the United States.

After quickly asking Chen Yutang to put away the pill, Yang Qiu retracted his thoughts and asked, "Did you find the formula you were looking for?" ”

When Yang Qiu invited him to return to China a year ago, he asked him to look for a formula called Bailang Duoxi or sulfonamide in Europe, but he asked many people until he returned to China, and no one had heard of Fang until he returned to China. After listening to the reply, Yang Qiu was also a little disappointed, history records that sulfonamide was synthesized in 1908, but it is not necessarily the name, and it has been shelved because of neglect, just like the black sorkin formula has always been considered a prescription, and people did not understand its purpose until decades later, so it is undoubtedly a needle in a haystack to find this prescription with a few words that are barely recorded, and I can only sigh in my heart: "I have asked Luo'er to call the American Zhigong Court for help, General Tang also wrote to our friends in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Europe to cooperate in the search, and you are also working hard. ”

Liu Yutang was a little puzzled why he was so persistent in finding this prescription, and asked, "Chenhua, is this recipe really that important?" ”

"It's very important, whoever finds it can become one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world!" Yang Qiu's faint words made Liu Yutang's eyes pop out, what is the concept of the world's largest pharmaceutical company? So I immediately made up my mind to take the opportunity to go back to Europe in South America, even if I spent money to publish a reward.

Chemicals, medicine, steel, machinery, etc. all need to be built from scratch in the same way, it is really a laborious thing, and when everything is done and it is already late at night, Miao Luo, who knows the danger of his trip, is happy to resist the death and linger all night, and the time to set off has come

ps: I have a cold by blowing the air conditioner, and I have a bad headache, so I say sorry to everyone