Chapter 362 brings back a mountain of gold

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In August, the Jiangnan plant was extremely busy, after the completion of the two destroyer missions, the dock has been crowded with large and small civilian ships, and because the good seats of Wusong Wharf are occupied by Britain and France, it has become a transshipment outpost for Hubei and Chongqing to receive foreign equipment, and there are sea ships docked and unloaded every day ().

Three Ottoman-flagged freighters docked one after another, and the forty-year-old bearded Ottoman captain lazily got out of the cabin, buttoned his shirt while taking the list from the first mate and walked to the gangway, this time he was transporting 3,000 tons of Ottoman refined nickel ore and 5,000 tons of toluene purchased by the Chinese for Germany, if it was the captain of Germany, the United States and Britain, he would definitely be sent to Daye deep-water wharf according to the contract, but the Ottoman, Italy and Dutch shipowners were unwilling to enter the narrow Yangtze River waterway, Going up the river is both time-consuming and coal-intensive.

Although shipping is profitable, it can save a little.

When the Ottoman captain came to China for the first time, he was obviously surprised by the size of the Jiangnan factory, but he laughed at it after turning around during the formalities, because the scale and infrastructure of the place seemed to be quite large, but from a distance, several docks were actually four or five thousand tons of small boats. "Well, it seems that the legend that the Chinese like to put music is really true." When the captain came to his conclusion, he asked for a ship to be sent to transfer it immediately, and by the way, the Chinese also brought the 4,000 tons of tungsten concentrate ore that should be brought back to Germany in Jiujiang.

Captain Osman's irresponsibility made the person in charge of the transfer station here full of sadness, and it was easy to say that the foreign devils of ore machinery were lazy, but although toluene was packed in iron drums, it was dangerous goods after all, and the vice president was inspecting Shanghai these days, and the reserves were too dangerous here, so he had to call and ask the top to send a ship to transport them away as soon as possible.

Just when the person in charge was secretly wondering where to get a few ships from now, a few shrill whistles sounded from the Ottoman ship, and then a woman wearing a huge sunhat with wavy curly hair under the brim of the hat was seen walking out of the cabin under the protection of several strong men. ”

"Captain Ruhl, thank you for taking care of me all the way, I've returned to my home country and can't wait to go home." Seeing the captain, the woman's eyebrows furrowed imperceptibly, and it could be seen that she had been harassed by this Ottoman beard along the way, and now she didn't find a chance to leave as soon as she got home.

The bearded captain was obviously a little disappointed, he was fighting the idea of this oriental woman all the way, but unfortunately the bodyguards behind him were very difficult to mess with, and this woman seemed to be a big man with a lot of background, and the Germans warned him not to mess around when he got on the boat. Looking at the swaying beautiful buttocks, the bearded captain was restless, and immediately handed over the handover to the first mate, and he and the other two captains went to the city to find a bar, releasing the ** () accumulated from nearly two months of boring sailing.

"Miss, show your ID."

Although there is a separate passage connecting the urban area at the Jiangnanchang Wharf, in order to ensure safety, this passage is also related to the card, so when several security soldiers saw the woman and the big man, they immediately stopped the way and asked for a check of documents and a salute. A strong man behind him took out a crumpled passport from his pocket, and the soldier was a little stunned when he saw the appearance of the document, and he didn't know how long this guy had been on his body, and he had worn it out like this, but after seeing the stamp and diplomatic passport on it clearly, he hurriedly signaled for release.

"Miss Lu, do you want to go home first?"

After leaving home for more than half a year, the strong man was also a little impatient, and immediately turned his head to ask the woman, the woman was exquisite, knowing that the man had run with him without regrets for more than half a year, and he was already close to home, and smiled slightly: "Let's go home first, rest for two days and then go to Nanjing to see the vice president." ”

Seeing these people's extraordinary momentum, it seemed that they were some big people, so the soldiers with sharp ears kindly reminded: "Several, the vice president is in Shanghai these days." ”

"Oh, he's in Shanghai?"

Hearing that the vice president was in Shanghai, the woman's eyebrows suddenly lit up, and she raised her head slightly to reveal a face that was disgusting and happy, it was Lu Bilian who went to various countries to register patents with petroleum cracking technology.

Yang Qiu didn't know that Lu Bilian had returned, and was still lying on the table reviewing the training and expenditure reports on the reservists.

The reserve force is the most important link in army building, and he set out to establish a reserve force system as early as when he was in charge of the southwest. According to the plan, by May 1914 the Wehrmacht would have 23 army divisions, 21 guard brigades and 300,000 reservists. The first two are already just one division still in the process of being formed, but the third is also making use of the current garrison and guard bases in various places to strengthen training; fortunately, China has never lacked human resources and excellent soldiers, and one week of training a month can get a subsidy of two yuan, which has attracted a large number of young people to join the reserve training.

When Cai Gongshi saw him reading the army reserve documents, he immediately picked out two military telegrams from Mukden and Beijing (). As Yang Qiu's secretary, he needs to dabble in a wide range of things, because although he is the vice president, who in the whole country does not know who is in the hands of the power? With the deepening of Henan's land reform, the influence of the national society in the north has also deepened, as the party leader his position has become more and more unshakable, so a large number of documents will be transferred for approval every day, from the economy to industry, from agriculture to civil affairs, and then to the most important military affairs, there are many kinds of variety, at the beginning Cai Gong was still very unaccustomed to accepting so many kinds of documents, and there were often confusions, but after a few months of combing, he was finally able to deal with it freely.

said: "This is sent from Fengtian and Beijing, General Yue Peng has arrived in Fengtian, because the 14th Division of Fengtian has a wide variety of equipment, and I hope to change the standard equipment of our army as soon as possible." This letter was sent by Duan Qirui, who said that Yuan Shikai had moved his family back to his hometown of Zhangde yesterday to recuperate, and asked about the handling of the old presidential palace. ”

Yang Qiu frowned and stopped writing, Yue Peng's telegram was nothing, but Duan Qirui's telegram meant a lot. Some people believe that the capital should be established so that the capital should be moved back to Beijing in the future, while others believe that Hebei Province should be incorporated into Hebei Province and become the seat of the provincial government, while Yang Qiu's idea is to change several major cities such as Beijing, Tianjin, Chongqing, and Shanghai to municipalities directly under the central government, but this idea has not yet been passed by the National Assembly.

Now Duan Qirui came to this telegram, obviously wanting to position Beijing as soon as possible, and he also had the idea of continuing to sit in Beijing in his heart.

Thinking of this, Yang Qiu raised his head and asked, "Huchen, who do you think is the most suitable person to go to Beijing?" ”

Cai Gongshi could also hear from his words that he didn't want Duan Qirui to continue to stay in Beijing to enjoy his happiness, but Beijing's geographical location is important, and the city has gradually declined after losing its status as the capital, so it is necessary for a cadre to go there so as not to delay, but who in China has this ability?

Yang Qiu is also scratching his head, the loneliness of Beijing after the loss of the capital is unimaginable to ordinary people, in the parallel world, because the capital moved to Nanjing, the prosperous Beijing in just a few decades fell into a trough, coupled with the lack of resources nearby, and when the founding ceremony was held, hundreds of loads of guano were swept out of the Forbidden City, which shows how much impact the status of the capital has on a city. Therefore, the people in Beijing not only need to be able to hold the current industry, but also need to have enough skills and ability, after all, Beijing's Beiyang power is still very strong, and the thinking is relatively conservative ().

"If you can, I would like to recommend Yan Xishan to go."

Yan Xishan?

Judging from his performance in Shanxi, he is first of all good at managing money and promoting industry and commerce, and at least he will not continue to be lonely when handed over to him by Beijing, and he also has a certain military quality, but he is now the governor of Shanxi Province, and if he does not improve Beijing's status, transferring to that side is tantamount to demotion, and he still needs to think of a way.

Yang Qiu was about to ask Cai Gongshi to ask what news there was about the division of the municipality directly under the central government, when Lei Meng suddenly knocked on the door and walked in, and when he saw Cai Gongshi, he hurriedly winked at Yang Qiu.

This piece of hob meat is now a lot stronger, but the look of squeezing his eyebrows is the same as before, which makes Yang Qiu happy, put down his pen and smiled: "Come on, Huchen is not an outsider, just say anything you want." ”

Lei scratched his head fiercely, smiled and said, "Commander, it's Miss Lu Bicheng who is here." ”

"She's back?!" Hearing this name, Yang Qiu suddenly rose. Cai Gongshi had also heard of the name of Huainan Sanlu, and originally wanted to stay to meet this supposedly talented beauty, but thinking of the thunderous look just now, he seemed to understand something in his heart, and hurriedly said goodbye and left.

In fact, he guessed wrong, although Yang Qiu and Lu Bicheng do have a relationship, but the surprise now is completely because of the patent of petroleum cracking technology.

After a while, Lu Bicheng walked into the office, at this moment she had already changed into a cheongsam, Western-style wavy long hair mixed with cheongsam, I don't know if I hadn't seen her for more than half a year, it actually gave Yang Qiu a feeling of amazement. After Lei Meng completed the task, he also hurriedly walked out with the door, remembering that Hao Wenbao was coming, and after ordering no one not to disturb him, he went to the door again to prepare to block him, so as not to destroy the commander's good deeds.

The four eyes in the office looked at each other, and Yang Qiu spoke after a while: "You have lost weight, but your spirit is much better." ”

Lu Bilian glanced at Yang Qiu fiercely, not to say how good it should be in the latter sentence, but she is not an ordinary woman, and said: "Yes, the outside world is too exciting, if it weren't for the fear that someone would worry that I would take the money and leave without permission, I wouldn't want to come back." ”

Seeing that she came back safely, Yang Qiu was not in a hurry to ask about the patent, and asked, "How is it all this way?" Why didn't you send a telegram before you came back? ”

"I was going to leave next month, but I got a little thing on the way, so I rushed back." After Lu Bilian sat down, she talked about her experience after going abroad.

Originally, her first stop was the United States, but after arriving, she found that the American oil companies were very large, and the cracking technology in a hurry might not succeed, so she made a detour to New York to Europe, first spent money to become a Spanish citizen, and then immigrated to Switzerland, because he had heard Yang Qiu say that Switzerland was a neutral country. It took three months to obtain the identity and first registered the European branch of Huachen Petroleum Technology in Switzerland, and then registered the patent of petroleum cracking technology in European countries in the name of Yang Qiu and this company.

After going to the United States to register the patent, he contacted Rockefeller and Standard Oil as previously agreed.

Because of the trust plan, the Standard Oil Company has long been dismantled into several companies, although they are still in the hands of the Rockefeller family, but whether they can master it for a long time in the future has always been uncertain, so after hearing about this new oil refining technology that can greatly reduce costs, they immediately realized the prospect of using technology to connect and consolidate the oil trust, and immediately negotiated with the people sent by Lu Bicheng.

During this period, the Rockefeller family thought of a lot of ways, but fortunately, Lu Bilian was smart, she had been living in the Chinese Legation in the United States, and she had invited lawyers from several countries to form a legal group early before the negotiations, and finally deliberately poked the news of the sale of technology to the newspapers, so that the Rockefeller family had to withdraw those small means to conduct business negotiations.

The Rockefeller family is worthy of being a super-tycoon in the oil industry, realizing that oil cracking technology will completely change the current production mode, greatly improving efficiency and reducing costs, and immediately quoted a price of 20 million US dollars to acquire patents, but Lu Bilian is more aware of the value of this technology after Yang Qiu's explanation, so she only agreed to cooperate rather than sell, although the Rockefeller company has been reporting the price to 60 million US dollars, but seeing that she was unmoved, and began to contact the Nobel family of European oil tycoons, In the end, it agreed to buy a 40% stake in Huachen Petroleum Technology Company for $25 million in cash.

It is not cost-effective to sell forty percent of the equity for 25 million US dollars, compared with the annual patent fees that can be obtained after the arrival of oil prices and consumption ** ten years later, this money can be earned back by the Rockefeller family in two years at most, although the income is one-third less for Yang Qiu, but if they are not pulled in, they have no hope of receiving this patent fee, and they just take what they need.

Lu Bilian didn't want to suffer too much loss, so she asked the Rockefeller Company to provide $3 million worth of petroleum refining residues for free, because she had heard Yang Qiu say that in the eyes of the current oil companies, these waste products can be used to refine ammonia, and then they can be turned into butane to make rubber and other things. Rockefeller obviously didn't realize the effect of this residue, so he agreed without hesitation.

It can be seen that in this series of business operations, despite his guidance, Lu Bilian still showed strong business ability.

After putting the 25 million Citibank cashier's check and contract in front of Yang Qiu, Lu Bicheng took out another thin document from his bag: "This was found in the Danish Patent Office, and I really wanted the thing you said, so I bought all the patents." ”

Did I say that? Yang Qiu had long forgotten what he had said, but after opening the patent information, he was also stunned.

Sulfanilamide!

Although he didn't remember the specific chemical equation of sulfonamides, Yang Qiu still identified that this should be the formula of sulfonamide through sporadic information, and no one could have imagined that what he was looking for would actually be found by Lu Bicheng in the Danish Patent Office by accident. Looking at the opening instructions, he finally knew why he couldn't find it, because this thing was not registered with the name Bailang Duo Xi at all, nor any dyes or potions, but additives.

"Someone! Prepare to ship back to Wuchang immediately! ”

Yang Qiu jumped up excitedly, before leaving, he just hoped to get back a little patent fee to subsidize the industry, but now she brought herself a mountain of gold back! Looking at him like a child, Lu Bilian also squinted and laughed.

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