Soon after Situ Nan arrived in Shanghai, he visited the industry of Baoshan New Port District, inspecting major projects such as steel plants, power plants, chemical plants, and electrical factories, among which the refrigerant factory and compressor factory related to refrigerators were the most attractive to him.

The refrigerant factory is built in the Xingang Industrial Zone on the edge of the Yangtze River, adjacent to the Baoshan Port Wharf, with convenient transportation and a grand view of the Dongwu Wanli ship.

The refrigerant project has received the attention of the US-China consortium, and Baoshan Port has set aside a section of the wharf to build a storage yard to store fluorite, a raw material transported from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and also built a 500-meter track to connect to the chemical plant.

From a bird's-eye view of Xingang Industrial Zone, the refrigerant factory is only a small part of the Meihua Chemical Industrial Zone, which looks inconspicuous, far less famous than the Baoshan Iron and Steel Plant not far away, but it has opened a key scene for China's home appliance manufacturing to the world.

After a complex and strict process, fluorite is first synthesized with hydrofluoric acid, which undergoes further chemical reaction to make difluorodichloromethane, which is freon.

Accompanied by Liu Hongsheng and Xu Zhouyang, Situ Nan walked into the refrigerant factory, and his eyes skimmed over the high-temperature and high-pressure corrosion-resistant containers and tanks in the chemical plant, and his heart was slightly excited.

Because the fluorite from Shangrao, Jiangxi Province was transported to Shanghai, after layers of chemical processes, when it came out of the reaction tower, it had become Situ Nan's long-awaited refrigerant - freon.

"The Meihua refrigeration chamber uses hydrofluoric acid to produce difluorodichloromethane, which we name CFC-12 or R12, or freon as you say. After testing, the refrigeration effect of Freon is ideal, and the efficiency is much higher than that of traditional refrigerants with ammonia, sulfur dioxide and propane as the main components.

The most important thing is that it is safe, non-toxic, non-flammable, and non-corrosive. There will be no doubt about replacing unsafe propane-based refrigerants. ”

Liu Hongsheng said. A smile on his face. Originally, according to Situ Nan's instructions, the Meihua Mining Company invested a huge amount of money in mining fluorite, but he was still a little worried, worried that this stone was worthless, but he did not expect to create a promising freon in the end.

Walking into the workshop, Situ Nan saw a steel cylinder full of freon, and the worker in a white robe carefully loaded the freon bottle and cans into a trolley and transported it away.

The filling of freon preparations is two or three meters in diameter and three or four meters long, a bit like a gas cylinder smaller on a tanker.

I wanted to knock the cylinder gently. But he quickly put his hand back, and Situ Nan subconsciously felt dangerous for this kind of bottle, and couldn't help asking, "Is this jar strong?" What is it? It's not going to explode, is it? ”

In the twenties, it was all too normal for security incidents to occur.

"Rest assured, this is a professional high-pressure resistant aluminum alloy stainless steel cylinder, which we specially customized from Baosteel, which is very strong and safe. In order to produce this kind of professional container tank, Baosteel introduced relevant technology from Krupp, and a lot of blood was produced. ”

Liu Hongsheng smiled confidently, in order to solve the filling problem. He did not miss Baosteel next door, and used his influence in the US-China consortium to exert pressure on Baosteel to facilitate the matter.

As for saying that the freon canister exploded. This hasn't happened yet.

"The factory can produce 5,000 tons of freon per year, all of which are supplied to Meihua Electric, and a company under Mitsui wants to cooperate with us, but I ignore them."

Liu Hongsheng said again, he can make the Japanese deflated, he is a little proud.

"Others are not as generous as our Meihua Electric, and we are willing to spend 1,000 yuan per ton to buy freon refrigerant from you." Looking at Liu Hongsheng's proud appearance, Xu Zhouyang on the side finally couldn't help complaining.

"Hehe, this is called a unique business, I am the only one in Asia, you can go to the United States to buy it if you are too expensive, didn't Giant Chemical Company build a new Freon factory in Los Angeles?" Liu Hongsheng said, his chin raised slightly.

There are only three companies in the world that have obtained Freon patent licenses, namely China's Meihua Chemical Company, the American Giant Chemical Company and the German BASF Company, the latter two are far away in the United States and Europe, and only Meihua Chemical's Shanghai factory is the first to achieve mass production, and for a long time, Meihua Chemical Company will definitely be able to grab a very optimistic cake in the refrigerant market.

"See, Liu Sheng's villain looks quite cute!" Xu Zhouyang looked at Situ Nan and teased, feeling a little emotional.

A few years ago, his position in the US-China consortium still had some advantages, but now Liu Hongsheng and these locals have caught up, Liu Hongsheng is in charge of most of the mining, energy, and part of the chemical field business of the US-China consortium, and his status has been equal to that of himself in charge of the electrical business.

"I have always admired Liu Sheng's ability, and now Meihua Mining has a monopoly on the fluorite market in Asia, and it is almost impossible for the Japanese to enter the refrigeration market and compete with us. Even BASF is estimated to have to cooperate with the United States and China Mining, unless they can find a sufficient supply of fluorite in the Soviet Union. ”

South Szeto Road.

The origin of fluorite is mainly in China and the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union is blocked by the world, it is impossible to open the door to do business, on the contrary, the United States and China mining advantages are relatively large.

"Yes, even if Meihua Mining doesn't do chemicals, it can make enough money selling raw materials." Xu Zhouyang nodded in agreement, and glanced at Liu Hongsheng with some envy.

"Speaking of which, Mr. Situ's vision is far-sighted, taking precautions, and opening up the railways in Jiangxi and Zhejiang, which laid the foundation for the development of Meihua Mining."

Liu Hongsheng will be modest, and he understands in his heart that he is not so capable, and every qiē and qiē are all planned by Situ Nan and implemented by himself. Besides, compared with freon refrigerants, the refrigerators produced by Meihua Electric are the real profits.

The three of them talked with a smile, and the topic was always inseparable from the grand proposition of industrial development.

"A product is selling well, will drive the development of upstream and downstream industries, Freon is a key, open our current series of successful investment methods, in the upstream can promote mining mining, transportation and other business development, especially for our huge investment in the railway, maritime transportation business benefits, China's railway company business volume will at least increase several percentage points."

Situ Nan paused here, looked at Xu Zhouyang, and continued, "Downstream, Freon can allow Meihua Electric to establish its own world brand. The home appliance industry has a broad market, with a scale of tens of billions of yuan, and refrigerators are one of the main household appliances. ”

"You say so. I'm so stressed. If Meihua Electric can't grab the billion-800 million home appliance market. I guess I don't have the face to see anyone. ”

Xu Zhouyang shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile, but he understood in his heart that Situ Nan had drawn a big cake, and the tens of billions of home appliance markets were not absent, but in the United States, and in Asia, the scale may only be one-tenth.

Even if it's a tenth. It is also at least more than one billion yuan of cake, Meihua with its technical advantages and huge influence in the Asian market, Xu Zhouyang is not afraid of competing with electrical manufacturers such as Europe, America and Japan, the refrigerator business is estimated to bring two or three billion yuan of income per year, plus radios, fans, lights, electric irons and other businesses, it is not difficult for Meihua Electric to achieve an annual turnover of five or six billion in the field of household appliances, but if you want to break through one billion, you have to go out of Asia to Europe and the United States to fight.

"It's going to be a human life, this is still a home appliance business, Meihua Electric's main business is power generation, power transmission, urban electrification transformation and other fields, and it can't be wasted. I feel more and more how hard and glorious it is to build an electrical empire! ”

Xu Zhouyang shook his head and sighed. I can't help but be a little envious of Situ Nan's carefreeness. Of course, he will not complain about this, but be grateful, after all, it is a great opportunity to meet a benefactor like Situ Nan.

"Those who can work hard! Mr. Liu and I both support you, don't we? ”

Situ Nan ignored Xu Zhouyang's complaints.

Liu Hongsheng nodded, his life experience is really wonderful, now he is no longer a Shanghai billionaire in the general sense who was so excited that he couldn't control himself when he sold coal in Shanghai and made a million, but a tycoon who shouldered the heavy responsibility of rejuvenating the country through industry.

If it weren't for Situ Nan's special identity and ethereal whereabouts, Xu Zhouyang and Liu Hongsheng might not have had time to accompany Situ Nan to discuss the industrial layout of the US-China consortium in detail this time.

During this period, Liu Hongsheng said that he had a non-technical background, and he had to take care of the chemical plant in addition to the mining business, and he was afraid that he would not have enough energy, so he was ready to recruit domestic chemical industrialists to be his deputies and actually master the chemical business under his hands.

Situ Nan attaches great importance to the refrigerant project, so it is necessary for Liu Hongsheng to obtain Situ Nan's approval.

"Mr. Wu Yunchu is very happy to make MSG, and he is doing his own research, how can you convince him to help you?"

Situ Nan asked with a smile. Wu Yunchu and others have a close relationship with the Meihua Shi yàn room, and there is a lot of cooperation, but Situ Nan still understands the truth that he would rather be a chicken head than an oxtail.

"Needless to say, I invited him to visit the refrigerant factory, and he was tempted." Liu Hongsheng said with a smile, thinking: Although the monosodium glutamate business has brought success to Wu Yunchu, how can monosodium glutamate, a small side of the food chemical industry, compare with the refrigeration chemical industry?

Seeing that Situ Nan had no intention of objecting, Liu Hongsheng was relieved. He is now looking more and more from the perspective of industry planners, like Situ Nan, putting talents in the right place and letting them do things instead of doing specific things.

Wu Yunchu was a little caught off guard when he received a call from Liu Hongsheng: "Mr. Wu, I invite you to the gathering at Kadoorie Garden, Mr. Situ and I both hope that you will be a part of our cause." ”

"Part of our business?"

Putting down the phone, Wu Yunchu's heart couldn't calm down for a long time, and he hadn't recovered from the excitement. Liu Hongsheng's sentence "a part of our business" is far heavier than the MSG factory that he has a joint venture with Meihua Chemical Company.

Although Liu Hongsheng did not give a clear promise, Wu Yunchu knew that he would be given a bigger stage to show his talent and enthusiasm for serving the country, and he understood and readily agreed to participate in the Kadoorie Garden party.

On the other hand, Xu Zhouyang commented on this: "It's a pity that Renqiao is the first choice. ”

"There's no pity, he's still in charge of Meihua's pharmaceutical business, and their Li family has countless assets in Nanhua, so how can they run to the mainland?"

Situ Nan smiled faintly, and did not tell Xu Zhouyang that Li Renqiao was working on the "penicillin" project at the South China headquarters in the Meihua Shi yàn room.

Meihua Chemical Company's main business is domestic, and Li Renqiao can't leave Nanhua, and he prefers to be a scientist compared to managing the company.

"In addition to refrigerators and other home appliances business, X-ray machines, scalpels and other medical equipment are also markets that Meihua Electric cannot ignore, and you still have time to prepare before Cummins Electric and other European and American electrical giants have not paid attention to the Asian market."

Situ Nan warned Xu Zhouyang like this. (To be continued......)

PS: ps: I suddenly appeared, will I be beaten?