"Building a steel plant is not an easy task!" Li Fu was afraid that Sun Yuanqi would not understand the situation, so he kindly reminded, "As far as I have seen and heard in the UK, it seems that the production of an ordinary piece of steel must go through geological exploration, mining, beneficiation, sintering, ironmaking, steelmaking, continuous casting, steel rolling and many other production processes, which reflects the industrial strength of a country." These things can't be changed on your own. Not to mention anything else, building a factory near the capital can't solve the problem with just one iron ore. Are you planning to ship ore from Hubei Daye? Or buy crude iron from the Hanyang Iron Works and re-smelt it yourself? ”

Sun Yuanqi also stayed in Hubei for more than a year, heard a lot of things about the Hanyang Iron Works, and naturally understood that it was not easy to build an iron works in this era: in 1 (8) 90 years the Hanyang Iron Works was built under the auspices of Governor Zhang Zhidong, and by September 1 (8) 93 it was officially completed and put into operation, and the actual expenditure before and after reached five million taels of silver! As a result, due to poor planning, the purchased equipment was not suitable for the high-phosphorus ore provided by Daye Iron Ore, and the steel-making material did not meet the requirements of railway rails, and the iron plant was in trouble for a time. A few deaths and a few lives in exchange for today's glory.

Not to mention five million taels of silver, even if he takes out 500,000 taels now, Sun Yuanqi has to beg his father to tell his grandmother about his fate. But the position of the steel industry in the national economy is too important, not to mention anything else, in the future, the development of aircraft will need a lot of steel parts, is it not possible to ask for help from others everywhere at that time? It is better to ask for others than for yourself, so Sun Yuanqi decided not to wait or rely on. Do it yourself, have plenty of food and clothing!

"You don't have to worry about iron ore. As far as I know, there is a large iron mine near the capital, which is enough to apply. Sun Yuan replied confidently.

Sun Yuanqi said that it is the Shouyun iron ore mine in Miyun, Beijing, and the total proven ore reserves in later generations are 140 million tons. Although the ore grade is not good, and the reserves are less than 200% of the world's largest iron ore Hammersley, it is enough and enough at the end of the Qing Dynasty. You must know that before Xinhai, the annual output of Hanyang Iron Works was only 80,000 tons of pig iron and 40,000 tons of steel; As for the largest country in Asia, the steel output in 1910 was only 160,000 tons. Even if the iron and steel plant develops healthily and grows rapidly in the future, the Shouyun iron ore mine is exhausted, isn't there still the famous Qian'an iron mine hundreds of miles away?

Li Fu saw Sun Yuanqi looking like he was holding a pearl of wisdom, and his heart was settled: "Since this is the case, it is better to be respectful than to obey your fate, and I am willing to seek a teaching position at Jingshi University and make a modest contribution to the research engine." ”

At present, Sun Yuanqi combined the knowledge of later generations, and together with Li Fuji, roughly planned the future research direction of the Engine Research Institute, including various specific uses of automobiles, aircraft, and ships. When he arrived at the hotel, the enthusiastic Li Fuji almost turned around and returned to the port, and quickly returned to China on the latest steamer to start a business.

After the banquet was over, Sun Yuanqi lay in the bathtub of the hotel room, calmed down and thought carefully about the construction of the steel plant, and felt that it was just as Li Fuji said before: "It's not an easy thing!" "Now I want money but no money, no one wants people, I want power but no power, how can I build a factory in just a few years? Mining, beneficiation, sintering, smelting, casting, and the purchase of machinery and equipment in each link are astronomical!

Germany is now the largest steel producer in Europe, and the Ruhr region is Germany's most important industrial region. In order to find out the general structure and actual work process of the iron and steel plant, Sun Yuanqi stayed in Germany for a few days on his way to Sweden, and accompanied by Professor Planck, he carefully inspected several important industrial and mining enterprises in the Ruhr industrial zone. Perhaps because of his well-known name in the scientific community, various units gave Sun Yuanqi and his party a warm welcome, and they did not care about the behavior of asking for information, but only thought that he was going to engage in some major research and invention. A large number of relevant materials provided free of charge made Sun Yuanqi earn a lot of income on this trip.

Sun Yuanqi hurried and finally arrived in Stockholm on December 7, 1907, where he was warmly welcomed by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and arranged for him to live in a palace of the royal family. It is customary for the laureate to give an acceptance speech in Sweden on the eve of receiving the award, summarizing the most important research achievements and academic ideas of his life. Because of the late arrival, Sun Yuanqi's lecture was scheduled for the afternoon of the next day in the academic lecture hall of Stockholm University.

Sun Yuanqi has always attached great importance to speeches for students, and this time is no exception. The reason for this award is that "the exploration of the structure of the atom, the genius foreseeing the nature of the elements, and the profound revelation of the principles of chemical reactions" have basically been written into the textbook and have become the basic knowledge that ordinary college students must understand. If you bring these things to the podium and fry cold rice, not only will the audience be disappointed, but you should also feel embarrassed, right? Fortunately, at the end of last year, Sun Yuanqi just published a paper "The Big Bang Theory of the Universe" that shocked the world, and everyone is still talking about it today. Therefore, the content of this talk was finalized: the origin, synthesis and death of the elements, starting with the Big Bang.

The next day, just after breakfast, a chemistry professor from Stockholm University came to visit and asked for Sun Yuanqi's speech. This is also understandable that the official language of Sweden is Swedish, a type of North Germanic language that is far from English in terms of word order, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc. Sun Yuanqi speaks in English, and he needs someone to translate on the side, otherwise it will become playing the piano to the cow, no, talking to the cow. Nowadays, science is changing with each passing day, and scientific vocabulary is emerging in an endless stream, and Sun Yuanqi is an expert in creating new words, adding dozens of pages to the new English dictionary almost by his own strength. If the chemistry professor who served as a translator didn't want to make jokes like Gu Bingyuanlin, the president of Tsinghua University, it was best to get the manuscript in advance and prepare for the class carefully.

In the afternoon, Sun Yuanqi, accompanied by academicians of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, appeared on the campus of Stockholm University wearing a robe and a horse coat. Such a peculiar costume attracted everyone's attention as soon as it appeared. Sun Yuanqi was unhappy in his heart: What to see! When it comes to the award ceremony the day after tomorrow, my brother and I will not only wear robes, but also speak in Chinese, so that you ghosts can have a good understanding of the breadth and profundity of the Chinese Chinese language. Hehe, when the time comes, it's up to you translators to catch you blind!

According to the regulations, at the Nobel Prize ceremony, men must wear tuxedos or folk costumes, and women must wear solemn evening dresses; Winners can speak in their own language. In this way, Sun Yuanqi can logically realize his "grand" dream.

The academic lecture hall was crowded with people, and as soon as Sun Yuanqi and his entourage entered the door, applause rang out like spring thunder. All the escorts were amazed: "It is unprecedentedly large to have so many listeners today!" Only Sun Yuanqi had a flat face, and said in his heart: That is because you have created a good culture, born in Sweden, which is vast and sparsely populated, and you have no chance to see the prosperity of the empire! If you are lucky enough to see the Spring Festival of the Empire one day, you probably even have the heart to die.

Before the speech, someone came to the stage to warm up the stage, and the content was nothing more than an introduction to Sun Yuanqi's basic situation. The chemistry professor whispered to Sun Yuanqi from the side: "Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Stockholm University to listen to today's lecture!" "More than a decade ago, most of the world's scientists thought that chemistry, physics and other natural sciences were basically developed, and the rest were minutiae, and many young researchers even resented that they were born at the wrong time. It was at this time that a miraculous young man appeared in the magical East, who showed us with a series of epoch-making papers that the road of science is still very long, and that we have only just reached a point. This amazing young man is our honored guest today, Dr. Yank Johnson, winner of the 7th Nobel Prize in Chemistry! “

As a reviewer in the journal i said earlier this year, 'each of Dr. Johnson's papers is like a lighthouse, pointing out a clear direction for chemistry and physics in the confusion of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and laying a solid foundation for the further development of the natural sciences.' But when we mention him, we must first mention his contributions to the structure of atoms and the principles of chemical reactions, because these have been fully recognized by the scientific community, written into our textbooks, and have really changed everyone's understanding of matter. That's why he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

"As one of the few encyclopedic scientists in the world today, Dr. Johnson has made outstanding achievements in many fields. In terms of particles, he cooperated with Professor Martin of the University of California, Berkeley and other scientists to discover neutrons, photons, and positrons, which is the most significant discovery after electrons. In terms of elements, under his guidance, the Elements Laboratory of Yale University has discovered new elements such as radon, lutetium, and protactinium, and used him to design a particle accelerator, which was used to propose a new reaction mode of nuclear reaction, and discovered the long-lost element technetium. He even put forward many theories such as relativity, quantum mechanics, antimatter, superconductivity, and the Big Bang, which greatly enriched the development direction of science.

Of course, Dr. Johnson's contributions are more than that. New light bulbs, diodes, transistors, transistors, monosodium glutamate, wireless broadcasting, and electronic computers currently under development...... While he is changing our minds, he is also changing our lives. Some people call him 'the greatest scientist since Sir Newton', and I think it's a very appropriate assessment.

"Despite all the great things that Dr. Johnson has been, he never stops thinking. Not long ago, a newspaper said that he was studying the sun, what an amazing research direction! According to the information I received in advance, the content of Dr. Johnson's speech today is about the sun. This is also his latest and most important research achievement, which not only involves elements and atomic structures, but also includes the previous sensational antimatter and Big Bang cosmology. I believe that his speech will definitely make everyone feel that the trip is worthwhile.

"Now, let's have the honourable Dr. Johnson on the stage!"

Sun Yuanqi slowly stepped onto the podium amid the tide of applause, bowed and said: "First of all, thank you all for listening to my speech, and thank you for the praise of the gentleman just now, his words of praise make me sincerely afraid. Here, allow me to quote Sir Isaac Newton's famous saying, 'If I have seen farther than others, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants'. This sentence also expresses my thoughts at this time. It is said that Sun Yuanqi is indeed "standing" on the shoulders of giants, so why did Newton also say that he was standing on the shoulders of giants? It can be seen from this that Comrade Newton was indeed a time-traveler.

Then, Sun Yuanqi began to get to the point: "The earth where human beings live, the environment on which they live, and human beings themselves, the twinkling stars, the looming Milky Way, the beautiful comets, such a rich and colorful material world, although its appearance is varied and endlessly varied, its interior is unified, and all matter contains the same some of the simplest components, which are the elements."

"We know less than a hundred elements now, and even if they are discovered in the future, it will be difficult to exceed one hundred and twenty. But there can be extremely complex ways of combining elements with each other, and such vivid diversity in nature is essentially the embodiment of different combinations between elements. These elements make up our colourful material world. Just like the 26 letters of the English language, they can not only compose Shakespeare's immortal plays, but also give birth to the excellent poems of Byron and Shelley; The score consists of 7 notes, which can be composed both to the moving music of Ba Pich and Beethoven, or to the rustic folk ballad. ”

"Everything has a process of creation, development and death, and I guess the elements are no exception. So where do the elements come from? How did you get so many kinds now? Will it die out in the future? These are the questions I have been thinking about for a while now, and they are also the content of my speech to you today. ”