Wan Ling continued: "The location of the shipyard also needs to consider a lot of natural environmental factors, such as the wind factor, for example, there are often typhoons on the southeast coast of China, there are many tall lifting equipment and high-rise buildings in the shipyard, if the shipyard is selected in a typhoon-prone place, the typhoon will destroy these facilities, and even uproot the lifting platform." ”

"It's the same in the north, where there are very few typhoons, but the cold snap can cause very strong winds, and under such winds, a lot of work cannot be done, and there is a special problem in the north, which is that the sea on the coast freezes, and when the sea freezes, the shipyards can't work."

"Many shipyards in Russia have to put unfinished ships on the shore in winter, which brings unnecessary difficulties to shipbuilding, so we should put shipyards in warm seas, I think, Dalian is good, in our time, there are large shipyards here, and the shipyards here are responsible for the refit of our country's first aircraft carrier, the Varyag."

Lin Yuan nodded and said, "Okay, we will build the shipyard near Dalian Port, but due to the changes of the times, the shape of the coastline of Dalian Port has changed a lot compared with our era, and the specific location still needs a lot of care." ”

Wan Ling nodded and said, "No problem. ”

Lin Yuan said: "We first build the shipyard, and the machinery and equipment that must be used when building ships, such as hydraulic presses that process steel into predetermined shapes, equipment used for steel cutting and welding, etc., I know that the manufacture of these equipment also takes time, so we will build these equipment first." ”

Lin Yuan continued: "In the next period of time, I will return to Beijing, and I will return to Beijing for three purposes: one is to persuade the Qing court to build railways throughout the country to meet our needs for a variety of mineral resources; Second, we are going to negotiate with the Russians, and the place of the negotiations is set in Portsmouth, England, and I am going to Beijing to gather intelligence and find out the news. ”

"There is the last purpose, which is also very crucial, everyone knows that building ships requires a lot of skilled workers, and these people are also what we are currently lacking, so I will go to a few shipyards to attract their workers when I go back this time."

After Lin Yuan finished the meeting, it was already noon, and after arranging the location of the shipyard and manufacturing equipment, Lin Yuan sent a message to the commanders of each unit, asking them to report on the situation of agricultural reclamation, and quickly received a reply, saying that the process of reclamation was very smooth, and only a few Russian prisoners of war had disobeyed orders, and measures had been taken against them.

The commanders of the various units also reported: "Rice and wheat are now planted in most parts of the Northeast, and now they have begun to germinate and grow well. ”

Lin Yuan read this report and thought: "When the grain base is established, even if it turns against the Qing court, it can develop itself behind closed doors, and most things can be done without relying on the Qing court." In addition to being happy, Lin Yuan thought of the matter of chemical fertilizer, the grain production base is mainly located in Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces, and the land covering these two provinces is dark brown soil, which is often referred to as black soil.

This soil has a high organic matter content and contains a lot of nitrogen and phosphorus necessary for plant growth, which is very fertile and suitable for large-scale food cultivation, but even if the soil is more fertile, the fertility will gradually lose if it is not fertilized.

Lin Yuan thought about it carefully and found that even if it was a simple chemical fertilizer, it couldn't be produced now! In the final analysis, there are three kinds of chemical fertilizers, nitrogen fertilizers, phosphate fertilizers and potassium fertilizers, and the first step in the production of nitrogen fertilizers is to synthesize ammonia, and the raw materials for synthetic ammonia are mainly coal and oil, which are not lacking in these industrial areas.

However, what the industrial zone lacks most now is the most important thing in the synthetic ammonia industry - catalyst, if there is no catalyst in the synthetic ammonia reaction, then the efficiency will undoubtedly be greatly reduced, and the catalyst needs vanadium and other rare earth elements, and now the Northeast has not yet, so it can only be solved from the mainland.

Phosphate fertilizer production requires large-scale mining of phosphate rock, and China's phosphate rock is mainly distributed in the five provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Hunan and Hubei, which are thousands of kilometers away from the northeast.

This is back to the issue of the railway, Lin Yuan thought of the railway, couldn't help but stand up, this time back to the capital, the task is indeed very important, not only to build a railway network covering the whole of China, but also to build a navy, which will completely change the face of China.

The next day, Lin Yuan returned to Beijing, just returned to Beijing Lin Yuan released the news of his return to Beijing to all walks of life, Lin Yuan also wanted to see the reaction of all aspects of society, and sure enough, all walks of life sent a message of worship, wanting to meet Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan looked at the mountains of worship posts and thought: "If I see so many people one by one, I will definitely not be able to see them, so I will not see anyone, and I am ready to persuade Emperor Guangxu, it is useless to persuade Emperor Guangxu alone, there is a Empress Dowager Cixi behind him, according to my observation, Emperor Guangxu has a supportive attitude towards reform, and the Empress Dowager Cixi is different." ”

However, Lin Yuan did not have much hope for Emperor Guangxu, because the current reform in all aspects has not touched the core interests of the Qing court rulers, and it will be different in the future, and the society will develop in a society, and the land system will inevitably be reformed, and the wealth of the high-level officials of the Qing court will come from the land, if the ownership of the land is changed, it may be a civil war.

At this moment, someone suddenly came to report: "Li Jingfang asks to see." ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Did he say something about it?" ”

The housekeeper Liu San said: "I haven't said anything, but it looks like a big thing." ”

Lin Yuan nodded and said, "Let him come in." ”

As soon as Li Jingfang came in, Lin Yuan saw that something was wrong with him, it turned out that Li Jingfang was very rich, but now he had lost a lot of weight, and the most unusual thing was his eyes, which were full of bloodshots, as if he was very tired, Lin Yuan hurriedly asked: "Brother Li, what's wrong with you?" ”

Li Jingfang smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Lin Xian, hurry up and go with me, my father wants to see you at the back." ”

When Lin Yuan heard the word "the last side", his heart couldn't help but move, and he thought, "What's going on?" Could it be that Li Hongzhang is going to die? According to the trajectory of history, he should not die until 1901. ”

Lin Yuan didn't say anything, so he followed Li Jingfang to Li Hongzhang's house, as soon as he entered the courtyard gate, Lin Yuan found that Li Jingfang took him to the wrong place, usually Li Hongzhang saw that he was either in the study or in the living room, this time the road was not to those places.

Lin Yuan then asked, "Where are we going?" ”

Li Jingfang sighed and said, "My father is already bedridden, so we are going to the inner house." ”

Lin Yuan nodded, but involuntarily touched the pistol on his waist in his hand, and thought in his heart: "The Qing court won't want to attack me, if you ambush a soldier and horse in the inner house, your own life will be confessed!" ”