286, then go down to Xiangyang to Luoyang (below)

Li Yuanhong replied: "The Hanyang Iron Works is naturally very valuable. High-speed update // Guangxu 34 years 08), Hanyang Iron Works, Daye Iron Mine and Pingxiang Coal Mine merged to form Hanye Ping Coal and Iron Works and Mines Co., Ltd., planning to raise 15 million yuan of new shares, together with 5 million yuan of old shares, a total of 20 million yuan. to the third year of Xuantong), the paid-in share capital is more than 13 million yuan. Using it as a guarantee and mortgage is definitely the most secure, what else is there to worry about? ”

Sun Yuanqi sensitively caught a key word "share capital" from Li Yuanhong's words, and immediately asked: "Then is Hanyeping Coal and Iron Factory and Mine Co., Ltd. now run by the government, is it run by the government and supervised by the government, or is it completely run by the business?" ”

"......" Li Yuanhong was speechless for a while.

Rao Hanxiang hurriedly rescued the scene and said: "Although Hanyeping Coal and Iron Works and Mines Co., Ltd. is now completely commercial, after all, it is on the boundary of Hubei, and our provincial government naturally has the right to dispose of it. As for this, please rest assured! ”

Sun Yuanqi was suddenly a little speechless: You pockmarked son is not called a pockmarked person!

For example, when the next-door neighbor came to you to borrow a large sum of money and asked him to come up with a guarantee, he patted his chest and said: "If you lend me money, don't worry, our family has a large enterprise with hundreds of millions of dollars, and this money is not a problem at all!" "You will inevitably wonder: your family is so rich, why do you come to me to borrow money? Asked again, it turned out that the company belonged to his brother who had split up and had nothing to do with him for a long time, so why did he use it as a mortgage?

Sun Yuanqi felt that they had the taste of playing themselves, and immediately replied with a cold face: "Brother Li, when my junior brother sees the managers of Bloomage Bank and Beiping Iron Works, he will seriously convey to them the will and sincerity of the Hubei Provincial Government. As for what kind of answer they will make in the end, it's hard to say what the little brother will say! ”

The sincerity of the Hubei provincial government? The sincerity of the Hubei provincial government is that there is no sincerity. Who doesn't know that the behind-the-scenes boss of Bloomage Bank and Beiping Iron Works is you, Sun Yuanqi, and you still need to convey the will and sincerity of the Hubei Provincial Government to those fictitious managers at the front desk, and then wait for their answers? In this way, if it is full, it is to refuse!

Rao Hanxiang laughed dryly: "If Chief Sun can help us achieve these two things, our Hubei Provincial Government will be very grateful, and we will definitely do our best to ensure that the Yangtze River waterway is unblocked!" The implication is that if Sun Yuanqi doesn't help them borrow money and buy guns, they will cut off the Yangtze River water transportation.

As we all know, the transportation between Sichuan and the developed areas along the eastern coast in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China mainly relied on the Yangtze River waterway. Hubei is located between Sichuan and the developed eastern coastal areas, which can be said to be the throat of Sichuan. If they stop it, it will definitely make it impossible for the outside equipment to be transported in, and the products in Sichuan cannot be shipped out.

Hearing Rao Hanxiang's murderous threat, Sun Yuanqi couldn't help but shrink his pupils: "According to what the monk said, could it be that there are still any thieves in the Yangtze River waterway who can't rob it?" That's worrying! I hope that Brother Li can purge the troops and exterminate them. If the Hubei Provincial Government fails to catch it, and the younger brother still has the troops of the Six Associations in Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places, he is willing to take the initiative to ask Yingdong to help Brother Li eradicate this trouble, and return the 24 million fathers and elders to a peaceful and peaceful Yangtze River! ”

The room was a little cold for a while, only the pendulum of the chiming clock made a "tick" and "tick" sound. After a long time, Li Yuanhong said with a smile: "Sichuan and Hubei provinces are good neighbors, and they should help each other and cooperate hand in hand. ”

Sun Yuanqi was really too lazy to make peace with them, so he put down the tea bowl and said: "Brother Li, Mi monk, Sun Mou is a little tired after a tiring journey, and he wants to go back to rest for a while, so he is out of company!" Then he stood up and took his leave.

Early the next morning, Sun Yuanqi, accompanied by Wu Tongjia, director of the Hubei Department of Education, and Feng Jishan, captain of the guard, went to the Guanshan, Hongshan, and Luojia Mountains on the banks of Guozheng Lake outside the city to inspect various schools established a few years earlier.

These nearly 20 schools are an attempt by Sun Yuanqi after he became the provincial education administrator, to build a relatively complete local education system based on modern disciplines, aiming to train a large number of skilled workers and junior engineers. However, the times make people feel that less than a year after the school was established, Sun Yuanqi was promoted to the left waiter of the school, and handed over the follow-up matters to Wu Tongjia, the director of the Department of Education next to him.

Although Sun Yuanqi has successively served as Zuo Shilang and Shangshu of the School Department, the Minister of the School Department, and the Chief of Education, he has always been Wu Tongjia's top boss, but the central and local governments are separated by a layer after all, and even if they have inquiries, they will only report good news and not bad news, and it is difficult to get in touch with the truth of the facts. So I've been worried about it for a long time, and I really want to go back to Wuchang to see the current situation of the school. Now that he happened to pass by Hubei, he was the chief of education, and with the invitation of Hubei, Sun Yuanqi naturally would not miss this opportunity.

After all, Wuchang is south of the Yangtze River, although it has entered the wax moon, osmanthus and camphor trees are still lush and lush. After four years of wind and rain, the trees planted at the beginning have the thickness of the bowl mouth, and the shade of the trees is full of various flowers and plants. The walls of the houses have also faded from the frivolous craftsmanship, and there is no trace of new construction, and the occasional mottled spots have lined the accumulation of years.

At the request of Sun Yuanqi, the visit did not alarm the teachers and students of each school, and only a few people such as the principal accompanied him. Wu Tongjia took the initiative to act as a commentator: "Back then, Guo Zheng Lake was sparsely populated, overgrown with weeds, and barren. After President Sun set aside land to build 17 colleges and universities, it gradually became prosperous. As teachers and students continue to live and stay in the vicinity, various shops have emerged, bookstores, pen and ink shops are particularly dense, and now it has been called Xuefu Town by the people of Wuchang Prefecture, and it is a holy place for students from the two lakes.

Among the 17 colleges, the largest is the Hubei Higher Industrial School, with more than 800 teachers and students, and it is the first famous science and engineering school in Central China! As for the other schools, there are as many as two or three hundred, and as few as eighty or ninety. With a total of more than 3,000 students in this area, or two-thirds of the entire population of Xuefu Town, it is truly a 'Xuefu Town'. ”

Sun Yuanqi is obviously more concerned about another issue: "These colleges and universities started recruiting students four years ago, and students generally graduate in three years, so one or two batches of students have graduated and entered the society. I wonder what the employment situation of these students is? "Although the education of young intellectuals is now oriented towards salvation and survival, employment will undoubtedly affect their interest in learning. Only by thoroughly solving the problem of students' future jobs can we ensure the healthy development of students, schools and disciplines.

Wu Tongjia said: "Back to the chief, the colleges and universities are well-educated, lenient and moderate; Students are very knowledge-seeking, successful in learning, and can establish themselves after graduation, and live up to the teacher's teaching. In this regard, the industrial and mining enterprises in the province are all praised——"

"Tell the truth!" Sun Yuanqi unceremoniously interrupted Wu Tongjia's statement.

"Uh-" Wu Tongjia, who was talking about Xing, was choked and rolled his eyes, and had to take a breath before continuing: "Hubei Higher Industrial School has the highest teaching level and the best students. Every time a student graduates, various industrial and mining enterprises rush to compete for one of them. As for other schools, the employment situation is good and bad, such as the transportation school, the mining school, the steel school, the geology school, etc., there is no worry about finding a job, while the agriculture school, the oil school, etc. are worse. ”

Wait a minute! Poor employment in the Petroleum School?

For many years, it has been difficult to find employment in agriculture, which is understandable, why is the employment situation in the oil school also poor? Living in China in the 21st century, who does not know the arrogance and domineering of the "two barrels of oil" and the fat and fat of the cream! The graduates of the University of Petroleum have also risen with the tide, and it has always been the emperor's daughter who does not worry about getting married, why is it that the phoenix is not as good as a chicken now?

In the blink of an eye, Sun Yuanqi figured out the reason: at present, China has not yet won the hat of "oil-poor country", and the students of the Petroleum School are naturally useless. - I don't know where Comrade Li Siguang is busy now?

But the more fundamental problem is that not many people in the world are aware of the importance of oil. We all know by now that oil is the most important energy source in the world and is known as the "blood of industry". Without oil, the cars on the ground, the ships on the sea, and the planes in the sky would all have to lie down! But this was not the case at the beginning of the twentieth century.

In the history of the petroleum industry, there are several milestones that are very important:

Abraham of Canada, 1846? Chisna invented the method of extracting kerosene from coal, which was the beginning of modern oil history. For a long time after that, oil was mainly processed into kerosene, which was used for lighting lamps, and was also used as lubricant. It was not until the advent of the internal combustion engine that petroleum extracts gradually became the dyes of the internal combustion engine, that this phenomenon was changed. So the oil industry before the first decade of the twentieth century is called the lamp oil age. Although oil was worth a little money at that time, it is better for readers who want to travel back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries and become billionaires by discovering big oil fields with their golden fingers.

In 1859, Drake of the United States invented oil well drilling, marking the birth of the modern oil industry.

In 1886, the German engineer Karl ? Benz patented his invention of the three-wheeled motor, which was approved that year, which is recognized as the world's first modern car, and the year is also considered the first year of the automobile. The rapid development of the automobile industry greatly led to the growth of the petroleum industry, and eventually gasoline replaced kerosene as the most important petroleum product.

In 3 years, two engineers of Standard Oil of the United States invented the pyrolysis process to turn kerosene into gasoline, which doubled the smelting efficiency of gasoline, solved the problem of inefficiency in refining gasoline, laid a solid foundation for gasoline to replace kerosene, and also opened the door for the gasoline era.

In 4 years, the First World War broke out, and oil proved itself to be a huge role in the endless war.

In 7 years, Ellis in the United States synthesized isopropyl alcohol from propylene in refinery gas, which was the first petrochemical and marked the beginning of petrochemical development.

After the 50s of the 20th century, the oil industry achieved unprecedented growth and replaced coal as the world's most important fuel.

At a time of transition from the kerosene era to the gasoline era, it is naturally difficult for students studying petroleum in China, an oil-poor country, to find jobs. But the spring of the oil industry is coming, and Sun Yuanqi's Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces are the location of several early oil fields in China, such as the Yanchang oil field in Yan'an, Shaanxi Province, which was recorded as early as Shen Kuo's "Mengxi Bi Tan" in the Northern Song Dynasty, and it was also the earliest oil field discovered and developed on land in China. In 1905, the Qing government approved the establishment of the "Yanchang Petroleum Plant". In 1907, the first onshore oil well in China was drilled. Another example is the Changqing Oilfield located in Qingcheng, Gansu Province, which is the third largest oilfield in China after Daqing Oilfield and Shengli Oilfield. As for the famous Chuandong Oilfield and Yumen Oilfield, not to mention. Therefore, Sun Yuanqi naturally will not let go of these useful talents: "Director Wu, if the qualified graduates of each school cannot find a job in the future, let them report to Sichuan, and I will arrange their employment." Especially the students of the Petroleum School, we are very welcome, one is counted as one, there will never be too much! ”