Li Yongji really couldn't take the time to lead troops to rescue Wang Sanwu recently, but it wasn't that Wang Sanwu thought, he had to suppress the opposition in the ruling area first, or he wasn't ready, but he was busy with more important things.

This more important thing is the coal chemical project that Guangde County is engaged in. Guangde County has a large number of high-quality gas-fertilizer coal, good quality, high calorific value, plus the local water resources are quite abundant, the geographical location is extended in all directions, is the junction of Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, the transportation is convenient, has the reputation of the thoroughfare of the three provinces, and is also quite close to Ma'anshan, if not to mention pollution, it is a good place to engage in coal chemical projects. It can be said that purely from the perspective of coal chemical projects, Guangde County is much better than the coal in Lianghuai in terms of geographical conditions and coal quality.

At the same time, because Guangde County is quite close to Ma'anshan, if the development of medium and high-grade open-pit pyrite in Ma'anshan area in the future, and the construction of steel plants and sulfuric acid plants in Ma'anshan, Guangde County will need to provide raw materials and energy nearby. From this point of view, in the future of the steel industry, Guangde County is the real leader, without the energy supply base of Guangde County, the steel industry will not be able to talk about, and there is no steel country, there is no real industrialization, it is difficult to really take off.

Therefore, the coal chemical project in Guangde County is Li Yongji's key project, and it is also the first coal chemical project in China at this time, which is much more important than fighting a local battle that is not necessary.

Not long after the project started, Li Yongji, as the general person in charge of the project and the material provider, played an irreplaceable role in this project, and he couldn't leave at all, so he really didn't have time to play the war game in a short time.

The so-called coal chemical industry refers to the use of coal as raw material, through a series of processing, to produce gas, liquid, solid and other semi-chemical raw materials, and then after further processing. The process of producing a range of chemical and energy products necessary for modern society.

The coal chemical industry in modern society can produce a series of complex chemical products, which is a large-scale chemical project with a rather complex process, but Li Yongji does not need too complex technology for the time being, and he can't play with the complexity now, so his so-called coal chemical industry is a mature and simple method that has long been eliminated in modern society, and the waste is relatively strict and the pollution is relatively large, and the main products are two: one is coking, and the other is synthetic ammonia.

The importance of coking is not mentioned. Whether it is iron-making or calcium carbide to acetylene, coke is needed, and the coke oven gas in the coking process can be directly used to generate electricity, and tar can also produce chemical raw materials such as ether, which can be said to be a treasure all over the body.

Not to mention synthetic ammonia, which is the cornerstone of modern inorganic chemicals, whether it is the production of nitric acid, fertilizer explosives, or synthetic dyes or even various chemicals. are inseparable from synthetic ammonia.

Although Li Yongji can obtain a full set of production technology and related equipment through Guò Xinda, the Qing Dynasty's personnel foundation is too thin, and it is not easy to develop such an industrial project.

But no matter how difficult it is, it has to be done, after all, the transmission tonnage between Li Yongji and Zhang Xinda is limited. In the future, with the expansion of consumption scale, it is impossible to engage in chemical products from modern times, so it is imperative to carry out their own heavy industry, especially heavy chemical industry.

So as early as half a year ago. Li Yongji quietly selected some of the craftsmen in the Jingwu Army who were about seventeen to twenty years old, with no father, no mother, and no relatives to worry about. Personnel with a relatively high literacy rate have formed secret research and development teams one after another.

This secret R&D team has only 84 people in total, but it is divided into three groups, divided into a steel group, a coal chemical group, and a salt chemical group, each of which is oriented to research knowledge in related fields.

In order to speed up their study and research, Li Yongji not only provided them with a large number of books on relevant technical materials, but also asked Zhang Xinda to find some experts and professors in modern society, put on white coats, and made detailed teaching videos for these people to see.

In addition, there is no shortage of 3D dynamic presentations, in short, all of them use the most modern teaching methods and teaching concepts, so that they can learn how to produce related processes in the fastest time.

While providing comprehensive technical support for these people, Li Yongji also ordered a batch of real equipment in advance, so that these people could first personally test in the real room, personally verify those chemical reactions, and produce finished products in the real room.

It can be said that the relevant special research began early on, and the construction of the secret research and development team is basically parallel to the construction of the Jingwu Army, but the secret research and development team has never been announced to the public, and it has always been a closed research, and the level of secrecy is higher than that of Li Yongji's Youth Guards, so outsiders do not know about this group, and even think that this group is one of Li Yongji's Youth Guards.

Now, after nearly a year of targeted research, these people have completely figured out how to produce three acids and two alkalis, how to industrially produce synthetic ammonia, and even how to produce explosives and fertilizers.

Of course, they can only use the corresponding equipment according to the script to copy the production process, and it is still far from understanding the principle, so to put it bluntly, these people are still at the level of technicians. Good

In most of them are young, have a strong desire to learn, have a long time, and have a lot of room for progress, who hasn't come through this step by step, thinking that at the beginning of the founding of the Republic, wasn't it also poor and white? In contrast, although the level of knowledge and technical foundation of these Qing Dynasty craftsmen may be a little worse than those engineers at the beginning of the founding of the Republic, they can obtain more detailed and complete technical information and more advanced production equipment. If you just want production, technical data and production equipment are more important, and the problem of personal knowledge reserve is not a big problem.

In addition, don't look at it until a year later, Li Yongji really controlled Guangde, but Guangde has long been in Li Yongji's eyes, and he has long been compared with the modern resource map, marking the locations where coal is rich and easy to mine.

Similarly, Ma'anshan has long been within the scope of Li Yongji's planning, so Ma'anshan Port and the open-pit high-quality iron ore pits in Ma'anshan have long been marked by him, and he asked the people of the intelligence department to pretend to be businessmen in advance to get a thorough understanding of the local situation, just to prepare for industrial production in the future.

These places were originally within the scope of the Taiping Army's control, and Li Yongji's strength was not strong at the beginning. So I endured it and didn't make a move, but in the late summer offensive not long ago, the Taiping army suffered heavy losses, especially after Li Shixian's troops were completely wiped out, these places were completely undefended, and they were all taken by the wind.

After taking Guangde and Ma'anshan, that is, Dangtu County, Li Yongji immediately stationed a main infantry regiment in these two places.

Among them, stationed in Guangde was the Second Regiment of the First Division, the commander of which was Zhou Xing. is Zhou Da's younger brother; Stationed in Ma'anshan is the Third Regiment of the Second Division, and the regiment commander Zhang Feng is Zhang Wei's younger brother.

Both regiments were bicycled infantry regiments, armed with separate artillery batteries, armed with 82mm mortars, plus grenadiers and a large number of Sharps rifles and revolvers.

What's more, Li Yongji then came to Guangde with the main force of the guard battalion. At the same time, a large number of people were transferred from Suzhou and Wuxi, including 30,000 people in the Guangwu Engineer Corps, and there was such a heavy army group in Guangde County, and the people around them did not dare to shout.

After coming to Guangde. While Li Yongjima began to recruit people on the spot, he began to build a large number of civil works, carried out the most basic land leveling, excavation of foundations, etc., and began the most basic coal chemical construction.

Recently. Li Yongji spent all his energy on how to build the first coal-chemical complex, and every day he took the group of secret R&D teams to look at the drawings and inspect the construction site. And use the space-time trading system to give a large number of building materials, cooperate with the recruited migrant workers to carry out base production, and other things are put aside first.

You know, not to mention synthetic ammonia, the situation is complicated, and there will be problems if you are not careful, even if it is to build a simplest, the easiest, the scale is only 30 cubic meters of modern coke oven, you must be cautious and cautious, not to mention that before this, you must first build a small thermal power, otherwise there is no power supply, and every qiē is a mirror.

All in all, because this is the first large-scale manufacturing industrial base, everything is from scratch, even if there are factory construction drawings and related equipment designed by later generations, but because the personnel level is too poor, Li Yongji must be personally on the construction site to watch.

What's more, a lot of key equipment, even refractory bricks, have to be imported from modern times, and these are inseparable from Li Yongji, after all, Li Yongji's space-time trading system is a portable stream, and Li Yongji can't transmit these materials in real time if he is not there.

In particular, for the coal chemical project in Guangde County, many of Li Yongji's junior guards have also come out, and they are all members of the science class of the guards, and this time they also followed those secret R&D teams to help, which can be regarded as a kind of internship.

As early as after more than half a year of study, after fully mastering Hanyu Pinyin, the Youth Guards began to be classified according to their respective advantages and interests.

For example, if you are good at liberal arts, you will focus on language and history, and in the future, you will train them as teachers, and when the children's protection group is expanded in the future, they will be the most basic teachers.

Those who are better at science mainly study mathematics, physics, and chemistry, and then treat them as scientific research or technicians.

There is no way to study in different subjects so early, who makes Li Yongji too short of manpower now, especially the lack of reliable manpower, so it is more conducive to professional learning and faster to become a talent by letting them classify and specialize in a certain item in advance.

Anyway, Li Yongji doesn't require them to have a high level of comprehensive quality, as long as the liberal arts can become a primary school teacher, and the science can become a technician in the future, he is very satisfied.

Of course, there are also some people who like to be soldiers, and they are relatively old, such as Li Fei and Bai Yunfei and others, Li Yongji will also let them choose to join the army, and now these people who are interested in joining the army are all studying at Qingpu Military Academy.

Although the Youth Guards Corps had actually begun to go their separate ways, such as the study of liberal arts, the study of science, and the soldiers of the army, their identities have not changed, and they are still proud of Li Yongji's domestic slaves, and the experience of being a young guard corps will not change, which is a very important qualification in their later lives.

All in all, in the case that the coal chemical project has just been launched, Li Yongji is needed everywhere, and if Li Yongji suddenly leaves at this time, the price will be too great.

Of course, if the situation is critical and Li Yongji has to be saved, then it is no problem to give up this project, but Li Yongji thinks about it and does not feel that Wang Sanwu is in any substantial danger now.

Li Yongji also has a relatively clear understanding of the power of the Qing court, plus the intelligence work is done well, and the power of wireless telegraphy, so even if he is in Guangde, he also knows the situation on the Huai'an front line well.

In Li Yongji's view, Monk Greenqin seems to be powerful, but in fact he is a paper tiger that can only scare people, and it is not enough to see if he really fights.

Huai'an City is deep and high, Wang Sanwu has enough soldiers, there are a large number of Sharps rear-loading guns, grenadiers and mortars, and the ammunition is enough to fight five or six large-scale battles.

What's more, Wang Sanwu has radio communication, which can facilitate and timely contact with him, and he also knocked down Haizhou, that is, Lianyungang, in advance, and put a regiment there, and he has a good relationship with the foreigners, and when the time comes, it is also easy to use the foreigners' fleet to transport ammunition supplies to Haizhou.

As for how to send ammunition from Haizhou to Huai'an, this is not difficult, Li Yongji has asked Zhang Xinda to order three CA-3000 modern cargo airships from modern society, all of which are heavy cargo airships with the largest commercial load of 250 tons, relying on those three CA-3000 cargo airships, even if Huai'an City is surrounded by water, it is useless.

Therefore, Huai'an seems to be prominent on the front line and far away from its own nest, but in fact, because Lianyungang was laid down in advance, the sea route is unblocked, and he has the relationship between radio and airship, and he is much stronger than the Qing court in terms of logistics and supply, so the longer this battle, the more powerful it is for himself.

In Li Yongji's plan, it was best for this war with the Qing court to continue like this first, and it was best to drag it out until early winter.

At that time, the first phase of the project on his side will be almost completed, the training of recruits will be better, his weapons will be newer and stronger, and the Qing court will probably be able to gather more soldiers and horses, just in time to have a decisive battle with them, and a battle will be won or lost! (To be continued......)