In 1910, a British economist named Angel published a new book, The Great Fantasy. Fastest update 78 //

In the book, Angel argues that war is impossible. He believes that at present, the economies of various countries are inseparable from each other, and once a war breaks out, whether the winner or the loser suffers huge losses at the same time, the war has become an unprofitable thing. Since it is unprofitable, naturally no country will be stupid enough to start a war.

The Big Fantasy quickly became a bestseller, translated into 11 languages, and Angel became a respected scholar herself. At universities in Manchester, Glasgow and other industrial cities, his faithful followers have even organized more than 40 research groups dedicated to promoting the book's pacifist ideas.

Sun Yuanqi understands the general trend of history, and naturally knows that Angel is a role similar to Comrade Zhang Jiadun, director of the North American Department of the War Situation, and the conclusion of "The Great Fantasy" is completely nonsense. However, in order to block Zhu Erdian's mouth, he still closed his eyes and said nonsense: "As Mr. Angel said, the new economic factors have clearly proved that the war of aggression is absurd and stupid. The stakes of the world are intertwined, and a war of a single magnitude is enough to damage the world's business, collapse its finances, and devastate its people, and every country will be greatly affected. These inevitable consequences will involve the power of restraint, making the outbreak of war increasingly difficult and impossible. Therefore, His Excellency the Ambassador does not have to worry about war in Europe at all.

"In addition, I think that arms sales may exacerbate the arms race to a certain extent. However, it will not affect the balance of the situation in the region, especially in the case of equal sales of various military products to all parties. Opposite. In the case of large quantities of armaments procured by various countries, maintaining a certain degree of strategic deterrence between them will reduce the possibility of war and conflict breaking out. ”

Zhu Erdian glared angrily: "Lord Sun, your remarks are almost quibble, what kind of intentions are you?" Since Your Excellency fears that the world will not be chaotic and may endanger the national security of the British Empire and its allies, the entire Commonwealth will withdraw from this arms purchase as a strong protest! With that, he flicked his sleeves up.

Sun Yuanqi waited for him to take two steps. Only then did he say in a loud voice: "Do you Commonwealth really want to withdraw from this arms purchase?" Don't you want sulfonamides? ”

To tell the truth, Sun Yuanqi's patents involving the military industry, in addition to the aircraft is a system engineering, others such as the Zhonggong 1911 rifle, mortar, steel helmet, camouflage uniform, etc. are all tricky works, although they are very practical, but the design concept is much higher than the technical content. If it had been in peacetime, the Great Powers might have pretended to respect patent rights. pay for the purchase of relevant weapons and equipment; Once a war breaks out on a large scale, it will definitely be copied for free. Instead of being free to use them, it's better to reap the benefits two years in advance!

Zhu Erdian's pace slowed down significantly.

"You don't want artemisinin either?"

Zhu Erdian still didn't look back.

Sun Yuanqi had no choice but to throw out the killer idea: "What about penicillin?" Hey, I was going to build a factory in the British Isles. Now it seems that this is the only way to do it! ”

Zhu Erdian replied angrily: "There will be factories to contact you about cooperation, and our British Imperial Government will not interfere again!" Then he pushed the door and walked away. Only Sun Yuanqi was left alone in the office laughing.

In the days that followed, several waves of foreign envoys came to inquire about it. Because the affairs of Sichuan were handled by Yang Du, Shen Xiangyun, Jiang Zhiqing and others; The affairs of the school department in the capital have not yet been appointed, so there is no need to worry, and occasionally there is any news, just leave it to Chen Xunen, who is left behind. Sun Yuanqi stayed on campus every day to accompany his family. Take time out to give a lecture to your students or go around the lab. Chat with Rutherford, Einstein and others, and life is easy and comfortable.

Originally, according to the agreement with Lilith, Sun Yuanqi should send Vera, Jinghui, Nianzu, and Nianxuan to Shanghai to live for a while. It's just that now the situation in the north has stabilized a little, Nianzu and Nianxuan, the two children are obsessed with the heating in Jingshi University, Vera and Jinghui can't afford to lose the research work at hand, and Sun Yuanqi will not leave Beijing for the time being, so the plan to go south has to be put on hold for the time being. Because of the sale of patent rights and the establishment of China Airlines, Lilith had to go north again.

When Lilith heard that there was a big business to be handed over to her, she hurriedly handed over the acquisition of Han Yeping's company to her assistant, and hurried to Beijing by train. The sale of patent rights had already been discussed in Shanghai last time, and Lilith was also confident: "After the Spring Festival, Hanyeping Company should almost be in the bag, and then set up the China Ordnance Industry Company, and then work with the China Industrial Machinery Company to discuss exchanges and purchases with military enterprises in various countries." But before that, you have to prepare the technology, equipment, and patent catalogs you want to exchange for in advance, and don't exchange them for a bunch of useless ones at that time! ”

Sun Yuan nodded: "I'm looking for someone to prepare for the catalog." Ordinary people can't do this! First of all, we must be clear about China's current industrial development situation, and understand what technologies and equipment are urgently needed for industrial development in the western provinces; Secondly, we must be familiar with the technology and equipment development process of Western countries, and know which equipment is advanced and which equipment is backward; Finally, we must know the value of these technologies and equipment. I'm not an expert, I really don't know how to start! Fortunately, before this, I was already preparing to establish the Chinese Society for Science and Technology in Beijing, and I telegraphed the members of the original European, American, and Japanese branches to come to Beijing to discuss, otherwise I would really be blind! ”

"The Chinese Society for Science and Technology? What's that for? Lilith asked curiously.

Sun Yuanqi replied: "The Chinese Society for Science and Technology is a mass academic group with scientific and technological workers as the main body established to carry out academic exchanges, strengthen research collaboration, promote discipline development, and promote scientific and technological innovation. In December 1907, together with hundreds of students studying in Europe, I established a European branch in London, England, followed by a branch in the Americas and a chapter in Japan. Because of the fear of suspicion from the Qing government, it has not set up a headquarters in China.

"At the end of last year, when the Qing Emperor abdicated and the Republic of China was established, I intended to build the headquarters of the Chinese Society for Science and Technology in Beijing, and notified the returned members of the three branches to enter Beijing to discuss. At the end of the fair, you will be asked to donate a sum of money to purchase land and build the headquarters of the Society as a thank you to the members of the Society for their great support. ”

Lilith asked, "So where are they going to buy the land?" ”

Sun Yuanqi said: "It's near Jingshi Town, right?" It is quiet, the environment is good, the academic atmosphere is also strong, and you can borrow the laboratories and libraries of Jingshi University at any time, which can save countless troubles. ”

Lilith said disapprehantly, "How much does the land in Jingshi Town cost?" I remember that you bought tens of thousands of acres of land for the entire Jingshi University, and it only cost you 2,600 taels of silver. How many acres of land can they ask for at the headquarters? It won't surpass Jingsei University! ”

Sun Yuanqi shook his head: "The headquarters of the society may not be able to ask for hundreds of acres of land, but the land price is no longer the original land price!" With the establishment of Jingshi University and the prosperity of Jingshi Town, the land that was originally worthless has become a strange commodity to live in. According to Lao Zhao, the price of a good lot has reached ten oceans per acre, and the worst ones have to be four or five oceans! ”

Lilith said, "That's not much! By the way, you said you want to set up China Airlines, what is that? ”

Sun Yuan first asked, "Do you know about the plane of Jingshi University?" Seeing Lilith nodding, Sun Yuanqi continued: "The so-called airline is to use the aircraft produced by Jingshi University to provide services for transporting passengers, letters, and goods. Aircraft has the outstanding advantages of fast speed, not dependent on road construction, ignoring terrain obstacles, and flying in a straight line in the air, and will inevitably have broad development prospects and rich market returns! ”

Lilith was very calm: "Since the airline operates as a commercial company, I must ask three questions in advance: how much investment, how high the risk, and how to make a profit. First of all, please answer my first question: how much do airlines invest? ”

Sun Yuanqi said: "The investment of airlines mainly includes the following parts: first, aircraft costs, including the purchase of aircraft, aircraft maintenance, aircraft fuel, etc.; the second is airport expenses, including airport construction, airport maintenance, etc.; the third is personnel costs, including pilots, airport attendants, etc.; Fourth, other expenses. Among them, the purchase of aircraft and the construction of airports are the bulk of the costs.

However, in order to support aircraft research and development and the development of the aviation industry, the initial aircraft can be leased free of charge, and the future Jingshi University will only charge 50% of the cost of the aircraft produced by China Airlines, and will be responsible for the maintenance of the aircraft. As for the construction of the airport, the cost of laying the circular grass field used by the current aircraft is not very high, and the key is that the airport needs a large area of land. I will help build the airports in Beijing, Taiyuan, Xi'an, Chengdu and Lanzhou in advance, and you will be responsible for the airports in Jinan, Nanjing, Shanghai, Wuhan and other places! ”

Lilith asked, "What are the main risks for airlines?" ”

Sun Yuanqi said: "The biggest risk for airlines is that the plane crashes, especially in a bad environment, it is easy to crash and die. Fortunately, there is a probability of an air crash, a road traffic accident, and every pilot and passenger will be equipped with a parachute. If you do a good job of weather forecasting, try to avoid flying in bad weather, and strengthen the maintenance of aircraft, you should be able to avoid air crashes to the greatest extent. However, I recommend that when the airline is established, it should focus on the delivery of letters and cargo, and wait until you have more experience to carry passengers! In order to avoid a plane crash in which passengers are killed, everyone has been afraid of the airline and stayed away. ”

Lilith said, "The last question, how to make a profit? ”

Sun Yuanqi replied: "Take the delivery of letters as an example, sending a letter from Beijing to Shanghai through the post office costs about six silver dollars, and it takes five days at the earliest, and ten days and half a month at the slowest. If there is an urgent need, it is better to send it in person! The maximum load of our aircraft is 1,000 kilograms, and the flight range is more than 800 kilometers, which means that it can carry 10,000 letters from Beijing to Shanghai, which takes no more than nine hours and costs no more than 1,500 oceans. If our plane flies to Beijing and Shanghai every other day, each time carrying 2,000 letters, each letter charges two oceans, and each time we can make a profit of 2,500 yuan! Do you think airlines can be profitable? (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. )

ps: Stay up late to code out the second update. I don't know if it's an outbreak?