Chapter 100: The Republic Moves Again

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Cheng Pan is now watching a real yàn in the industrial zone, a tight cylinder filled with hydrogen and nitrogen produced by the water gas method, and the value of the boiler pressure gauge increases as the reactor tank increases. The air pressure gradually reaches 50 air pressures, and the iron catalyst catalyst is placed in layers in the cylinder, and the whole cylinder is set up in the eight meters high liquid pressurization tower in Tongguò, the principle of which is that the physical U-shaped tank, which is filled with liquid medium such as mercury or oil, leads to the other end of the reaction cylinder and the steam boiler, so that the steam boiler conducts the pressure of steam into the reaction tank through the guò medium.

It turned out that Cheng Pan had been thinking about pressing down the tight piston with mechanical force to complete the pressurization. Due to the absence of rubber, the piston was not qualified. Thinking is stuck in a dead end. Now this liquid medium conduction pressurization can easily solve the problem of air tightness, the only thing to pay attention to is to thicken the thickness of the boiler and reaction cylinder. Don't get blown up.

The air pressure in the reaction tank reached two hundred atmospheres, this pressure is very terrifying, and now all the personnel operating on the scene are hiding in the bunker, and the reading jù This job is now done by Cheng Pan. A temperature of 600, a pressure of 200 atmospheres, ferric oxide as a catalyst, hydrogen and nitrogen react. That's right, this is the ammonia test. But it's just an experiment.

After a period of reaction, the temperature and pressure began to be removed, and when it was completely cooled, the workers began to carefully pry the reactor open. A smell of ammonia came to my nose. Officers of the Chemistry Division immediately took samples for testing. The first artificial ammonia synthesis test was completed.

This is a classic way of chemical experimentation in the Republic. This reactor is very primitive, and the industrial production mode is the recirculating tower mode. The test of the republic is only a one-time, and the reaction cylinder is very small, the steel used in the large tank block of the reaction tower of China's synthetic ammonia before Cheng Pan crossing is the shell level of a deep-sea submarine, and there is still a long way to go in the process if you want to really use coal water and air to fix nitrogen.

Machinery, iron and steel, the two pillars of the industry, are still big money-eaters in scientific research. However, it is not possible to invest money, such as the synthetic ammonia test, a large number of chemical equations brought by Cheng Pan cannot be industrialized due to poor conditions. It can only be proved in the real yàn room.

The small saltpeter islands in southern Japan can now survive for up to seven years under the destructive exploitation of the Republic, and the Nitric Acid Industry of the Republic is in danger of running out of food in the future. Accustomed to saltpeter ore that could be mined directly, the republic simply could not tolerate the low means of production of dung accumulation of nitrate. Now there are very few republican nitrate accumulation industries, manure heaps and fish and shrimp offal scraps, which were originally used for industry to feed digestive bacteria, the former raises earthworms for poultry farming, and the latter is directly used as feed. Finally, the used waste is used to make fertilizer.

Nowadays, saltpeter mines are not only used in industry, but also in agriculture. For that giant saltpeter mine in Chile far away in South America. Cheng Pan was extremely greedy. Of course, there are now larger and larger reserves in later generations, and Chile has become the world's largest saltpeter mine, Xinjiang nitrate. Unfortunately, none of these can be transported, one needs to cross the Pacific Ocean, and the other has no rail transportation and no mining value at all.

The question of where to find a new source of minerals is Cheng Pan, Cheng Pan analyzed, the reason why there are saltpeter islands in southern Japan is purely due to the rice fields left by seabird migration. Seabirds feed on fish. There are fishing grounds near Japan where two ocean currents meet, and the first form of guano came out of these seas. Then you can find a small island with a lot of fish. The article on the rich Paracel Islands has been read by almost all elementary school students. Later governments have repeatedly emphasized the richness of this place, so let's believe it once. A ** exploration ship on the north shore of Luzon began to consciously search for the nitrate mining island. Sure enough, following the clue of many birds, a large number of saltpeter mines have appeared, and the number of such islands is still increasing.

In order to ensure the opening of many shipping lanes to the South China Sea and sail along the coast of China, it is most appropriate to open settlement points near Vietnam. But this point must be won at a strategic node - Hainan Island. At present, the Guangdong uprising has also exploded, and now the whole country is in flames. The rest of China's powers paid little attention to the frontier of Guangdong, and trade between East and West had not yet begun. When the Han Dynasty was founded, there was still a regime in Guangdong, and Liu Bang dared to claim to be unified, and the history books of such a dynasty only put a small mention of this Guangdong regime, and put this regime and the short-lived regime established by the peasant and soldier rebellion in a single position.

Now He Zhen is fighting with the Yuan army in Guangdong, except for the Republic and other players, they are all focusing on the main battlefield in the Central Plains and Jiangnan. In February 1353, the republic began its plan to dominate Southeast Asia. In this year, Hubei was freed from the war and the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty, and the rulers of the war, and obtained a bumper harvest of grain. The era of the end of the Yuan Dynasty was not the shortage of land due to too much population, but the most excessive land annexation in Chinese history at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.

In the first year, the republic's low taxes showed that the republican government had a good reputation, and the peasants in the newly occupied territories were highly motivated to produce, and there was no need for the government to actively promote fast production. The peasants are working with 12 cents of input. In addition, the loan for farm tools for the first year was paid off, and the guarantee of dividing the land after two years. There is a bumper rice harvest on the Great Plains of Hubei and Hunan. This cooperative production model of 10 households has been recognized by the majority of farmers, and many farmers have already discussed and prepared to cooperate after two years of land ownership.

The bumper grain harvest in Hubei and Hunan not only met the needs of the province, but also supported the construction of the Hubei industrial zone, and the immigrants from the north did not bring food pressure to Hubei. The steel produced was exchanged for agricultural products, which not only fed the workers, but also increased agricultural productivity.

The republic has now abolished the grain bond lending business for grain, and has begun to monetize the metal grain coupons, the precious metal content of the grain coupons remains unchanged, and the value of the grain coupons is linked to the weight of the grain originally represented, which is a grain-based currency. Because it is real gold and silver. So the value is recognized by the public. Some of the merchant groups in the surrounding powers began to hoard this currency as hard currency. Cheng Pan did not think about financial expansion, but the economic power of the republic had already had an impact on the surrounding area.

The Yuan Dynasty and the Red Turban Army in the north had fought to the death, relying on trade with the republican grain population to maintain consumption. In this war, neither side deliberately slaughtered civilians. The young and strong people who dragged their families and mouths were the population, and they could exchange weapons and food, which put a protective film on these homeless, after all, no one would tear RmB. Moreover, with the opening of coal mines in the north, there is a need for manpower, and it is still necessary to feed these people when there is enough food to eat. Almost all the Mongol generals no longer raised the same extreme slogans as the slaughter of the Han surnames ten years earlier, and there was no special emphasis on the fourth-class laws for the Han people in the occupied areas. The republic is like the sword of Damocles hanging high above his head, and ten years later, no Mongolian nobleman dares to say cruel words about killing the Han people and turning the fertile land into pasture. At present, the greatest hope of the Northern Yuan Dynasty is to row the Yellow River with the republic in the future.

And the Fang Army, which is close to the republic, is now very powerful and has formed 15 musket phalanx divisions, with a total of 780,000 people. Such an army stretched the finances of rich Jiangsu and Zhejiang. That's right, Jiangsu and Zhejiang are very rich, but it is still too reluctant to cultivate such a powerful professional army of semi-firearms, if a traverser comes to Zhejiang to preside over the overall situation, he will definitely start a workshop to organize sea trade, so that it can subsidize the military and implement expansion. However, in light industrial production, Zhejiang's machine qì has improved, but it is still defeated by the steam-propelled machine qì with a higher ratio of Gonghe steel. Not only is the mode of production the failure of the machine, but the efficiency produced by the management division of labor in the republican industrialization is not comparable to the production efficiency of those workshops. Light industry was suppressed by the republic in terms of cost, and heavy industry lacked coal mines, and finally relied on selling iron ore to make money. If Fang Jiajun's control power is a little higher, a strong trade barrier is established, and the entire market controlled by Fang Jiajun uses local goods, and the task of capital accumulation in light industry can be completed, the key is that Fang Jiajun is ruled by the entire gentry group, and the gentry are smuggled products from the republic one by one. to plunder the wealth of the homeland.

With the first batch of Zhejiang people to test the waters in the republic, breaking through the threshold of the republic's prohibition of smuggling, investing money to set up factories in the local area, recruiting locals or recruiting villagers from Zhejiang to open light industrial factories in the republic. Ship the light industrial products produced by the family in the republic back to their hometown to buy. It's both reasonable and reasonable. Cheng Pan did not stop this phenomenon, but supported it, as long as the physical factory was established in the republican territory. Of course, there are some stumbling blocks, such as the republic's ban on slave-like bonded labor, and labor contracts of up to three years. Let these investors in Zhejiang pay attention to the various annoying labor laws of the Republic. Now these people from Zhejiang have found out all the laws of the Republic, whether they are bosses or workers. The more they learned about the laws of the republic, the more reassuring these industrialists became, and as long as they paid taxes, the republican would protect the property of the people under their rule far better than Zhejiang.

As more and more families built factories in the republic and became rich, the major families in Zhejiang invested their wealth in the republic, and the proportion of private enterprises in the republic began to increase.

At the same time, the joint-stock system was known to the people of Zhejiang, and several enterprises with small capital could also set up factories together. At the year-end parliamentary meeting to discuss and exchange republican policies, a large number of members elected by Anhui's local capital and light industry laborers proposed to the republican administrative group to raise the tax burden for the first three years of the republican population entering the republic to earn a living, on the grounds that they had not contributed to the construction of the republic's basic industry.

Of course, the parliament only has the right to supervise the implementation of policies, not the right to formulate policies, and the policies proposed by these people to clearly protect the workers of light industry cannot dare to govern in a republican manner, and the more powerful parliamentarians of heavy industry have aroused huge opposition before this policy is reported, joking that the workers in the industrial zones built in Hubei are all non-local laborers from North China. The controversy soon fell to an end.

These bosses from Zhejiang learned about the small turmoil in the parliament, and their hearts were in a cold sweat for the rest of their lives. This group of investors from Zhejiang came out in an environment where no one is bad at doing business above, and now although the various laws of the republic will not be directly plundered. Unfortunately, the republican parliamentarians are not able to rely on money to solve the problem, but are elected by people in their own factories, and this election process is secretary, and it is not possible to force and give money to canvass for votes. Therefore, these factory owners have to formulate a fair system of rewards and punishments, and at the same time dare not treat the workers too harshly, lest the elected people oppose themselves. Although it is not possible to completely squeeze the workers as in their hometowns. However, with good management, the production efficiency is much higher than that of the old home. Moreover, although these elected deputies cannot fully represent their own interests, they are not afraid of being bullied by outsiders.

These bosses in Zhejiang are completely overwhelmed, Cheng Pan is now going to develop productive forces, the planned economy is not suitable for the trend of light industry, these private capital in the republic of light industry Cheng Pan is too late to be happy, how can he set up a bill card person.

These representatives of Anhui's local light industry failed to make a plan, and in anger and anger, they directly asked in the parliament when Zhejiang would be included in the scope of republican governance. These local representatives want to give the Zhejiang bosses a trick, as long as the republican land law is implemented in Zhejiang, these Zhejiang bosses will not be so happy.

Li He, the leader of the meeting of the Republican Administrative Group, frowned at this policy discussion full of gunpowder, and directly said that there was no comment on military secrets to solve the problem. The boss of Zhejiang was also frightened by this mentions, and only when he came to the republic did he know how powerful the republic was. These Zhejiang people calculated that the current financial revenue of the republic is at least forty times that of the Fang family's army, that is to say, not to mention the difference in weapons, just because the two sides are the same, the republic's weapons level can mobilize up to forty times the number of troops of the Fang family's firearms army. Of course, the republic would not completely invest money in the war, and then the society would become abnormal.

Now Zhejiang under the rule of Fang Jiajun is very abnormal, the local capital has flowed out in large quantities, Zhejiang's industry has rarely made money under the suppression of the republic, and now Zhejiang basically relies on agriculture and mining to maintain the consumption of Fang Jiajun's firearms army. Once the landlord class represented by these Shilin strictly measured the land and collected taxes, and at the same time forced the landlords to reduce rents and increase the enthusiasm of the peasants in production, the entire Jiangnan landlord class would adopt a non-cooperative attitude towards the Fang Jiajun. Once this method is adopted, the Fang Jiajun will also become a rogue, lose the support of the local clan, and lose the administrative control of the local area, and become a source of water.

Fang Guozhen also thought about cultivating a group of people to replace the clan's rule over the place like a republic. However, the policy of the First Army could not allow the Fang Jiajun to cultivate talents on a large scale, and the small number of talents trained were all large-scale private schools funded by local scholars.

Since you can't get rid of the crutch that you have to rely on local clans to rule, you can't transform this crutch according to your own wishes. Only hold on. Fang Jiajun's political system did not block the road if the republic was an industrial country. The mind has been enlightened, and the upper strata have realized the benefits of large-scale production, and when the first pot of gold has been accumulated, it will naturally complete the road of capital transfer from land to factory.

It is a pity that the republic went too fast and too early, not only could the first pot of gold not be obtained, but the wealth of the old class was transferred to the industry of the republic. The situation in Zhejiang as a whole is extremely bad. The yeoman peasants went bankrupt under the pressure of increased taxes and the expansion of the rights of the landlords. Loan sharks and casinos were rampant everywhere in Zhejiang, and a large number of bankrupt people were sold to the mines. The rest became tenants. Land annexation entered a rapid period. Although Fang's army was still strong, attacking Fujian in the south and threatening Zhang Shicheng in the north. However, under the rule of Fang Jiajun, there have been many uprisings of mine workers, and there have also been revolts of tenant groups. These were all bloodily suppressed by the Fang family's army.

Originally, the argument that "the republic abusing the people's power will eventually collapse" has rarely been mentioned, and why Zhejiang, which is rich in the "people", is like this, and there are no fools among those Shilin people, and they all know it but dare not say it.

In this way, just after the New Year of 1353 AD, the southward movement of the republic attracted the attention of everyone on the land of China, and the forces of the Quartet breathed a sigh of relief. There will be no danger in four weeks, a year.

At the same time, he also cast his puzzled eyes on Hainan Island, everyone didn't pay attention to it before, but now the republic, the strongest force in the world, will make people study it carefully, Cheng Pan aimed at Hainan Island, and the people in the surrounding forces were a little curious, what was different about this place on the edge of the world.