Meaux is now part of the city of Mo, which is also the first city to be established, and the entire city has been established, in the so-called Meaux district.

Compared with a few years ago, the city of Mocheng has also expanded a lot, and a large amount of arable land has been turned into industrial land.

From a distance, you can see many large chimneys that are soaring into the sky, all of which are constantly emitting black smoke.

Fortunately, the coal has been desulphisated, and there is no choking smell in the air.

Li Jian said goodbye to his brother, accompanied his three classmates, and walked to the industrial area east of Meaux.

Chimneys, stretches of red brick houses, grid-like alleys, that's what it feels like to walk through the streets of Meaux.

The four of them walked around and saw something interesting, so they stopped to take a look.

To their surprise, a new road has been built in the industrial area leading to the wharf and the railway station, which is not only very wide, but also bounded by wooden stakes.

On the other side, horse-drawn wagons loaded with goods are slowly galloping, and on the other side, horse-drawn wagons pulling all kinds of raw materials are driving towards various factories.

The four teenagers looked at all this in a daze, feeling that this side was much more prosperous than half a year ago.

What they didn't know was that the war with the Ming Kingdom not only opened up the market, but also attracted a lot of investment.

These investments flow through the First Stock Exchange into the issued shares, and then they become machines and factories.

What's more, the industry of Songjiang Mansion has been physically wiped out by the Huaxia Army, and the Daming textile industry has been completely defeated. Whether it is Zhejiang cotton or Lu cotton, they have to be sold in Dongqin.

The four of them continued along the main road, and soon saw the first factory, which was a summer cloth factory, and the roar of machinery could be heard in the distance, and the whole factory was surrounded by walls.

They asked the man who guarded the door, and after showing his student ID, he was allowed to visit.

It's just that during the production period, they can't walk in, they can only stand at the door and watch.

The female workers inside also saw them, and from time to time they cast their eyes, lowered their heads and laughed with their co-workers.

Their hands were working non-stop, seemingly uninterrupted, and their foreheads were covered with sweat.

The backs of many people's work clothes are also soaked with sweat, and they seem to be very happy.

After the four of them watched it for a while, they immediately rejected the matter of entering the textile factory!

Not to mention that women affect their work too much, just this work content is not suitable for the four of them.

However, this visit gave them a deeper understanding of the textile industry.

As an industry that has been praised by Huaxia Daily, the textile industry has always been a large employer, a large exporter, and a large foreign exchange earner.

It's just that the hard work is really hard, the stuffy environment, the noisy sound of the machine, a shift is almost four hours.

These female workers are really risking their lives to create value for the factory, even though they are considered high-wage people.

Soon, the four of them came to a newly opened mechanical parts factory, called the Seventh Bolt Factory.

With the refinement of the division of labor and the deepening of standardization, many parts and components have set up factories, that is, a factory, which is only responsible for the production of one or one type of parts.

In this way, it is possible to train special skilled workers to the greatest extent, and it is more convenient to innovate in this type of parts.

It was also an eye-opener for them, as the workers were not very skilled and the machines were rudimentary, so the scrap rate was high.

Many workers have been holding the ruler for comparison, as long as it is not within the tolerance range, they have to continue processing.

After looking at it for a while, the four of them also felt that it was not suitable for them, the workers here were all rough men, their eyes were full of bloodshots, and they were all working on iron parts.

In this way, the four of them stopped and stopped all the way, except for the secret factory that could not be entered, and visited five or six factories in a row.

The more I visited, the more I dispelled the idea of entering the factory, and even faintly felt that I must work hard and never enter the factory.

It wasn't until they walked in front of the third soda plant that their hearts were faintly shocked.

It was a factory built using the Lübrandt alkali method, with a tall cement column, several iron pipes, and white smoke rising from the chimney.

It looked different from the original factory, except that the four of them were stopped at the door.

When they were in a dilemma, they met Wang Erhu, a senior who had taught them, and they were allowed to come in and take a look.

"In fact, the production principle of soda ash is very simple, that is, the miscanthus nitrate is heated and dehydrated, and then the limestone and charcoal are mixed in proportion, and then fired at high temperature, and the refined things are finely dissolved, filtered, and evaporated to obtain soda ash." Wang Erhu saw that they were curious, so he explained.

Yang Ziwen had a bit of a chemical background, so he asked, "What is miscanthus salt?" ”

"It's sodium sulfate!" Wang Erhu said with a smile.

I took a few people to the calciner, evaporator and reactor, but in fact, the cement cylindrical tower outside was to collect waste materials and let them react in them, and by the way, they could also use some of the heat.

After the improvement of the chemical group, calcium sulfate and a part of calcium sulfide can also be obtained, but unfortunately they are mixed together and cannot be effectively separated, so they can only be used to heat and react with salt to obtain sodium sulfate and calcium chloride.

When the four teenagers saw the chemical plant for the first time, they felt that it was completely different from other factories, and the personnel were wearing goggles and protective clothing.

The work is also orderly, and there are many people who have been observing and directing the workers to feed and discharge.

Wang Erhu, as a skilled boss, is a member of the chemistry group on the one hand, and a technician affiliated with the third factory on the other.

After understanding the intention of the four people, he said step by step: "When I graduated, I didn't know what to do, and I didn't graduate at that time, which means that I simply read more and create value one step further." At that time, the king directly assigned me to the chemistry group, saying that I had a talent for chemistry.

In a blink of an eye, I have been working in the chemistry group for several years, and the more I work, the more I like this profession. Your troubles today are not troubles. Remember to be true to yourself, understand what you are good at and like, and do everything with a heartfelt love and peace.

Establish first their bodies, and then their kingdoms. As long as you have a correct attitude, then any industry can be done well, and you will be able to contribute to your hometown and country. As long as you never let things go and always be aggressive, you will always be meaningful and valuable. ”

After listening to it, the four of them all nodded again and again, and they still had to listen carefully to the preaching of the senior boss.

Yang Ziwen was very curious about the use of chemical principles for production, and he asked: "Senior Wang, I know a lot about chemical reactions, but why is it that at present, our country can only produce soda ash and nitrate?" ”

Wang Erhu said with a smile: "The principle and the realization are far away from the process, in addition to ensuring large-scale production, we must also keep the cost down!" The chemistry team is doing this kind of experiment, verifying and improving at the same time. And we can produce soda ash and pile nitrate, we are already very powerful! If Ming Guo wants to use nitrate, he has to scrape it from the toilet wall! Maybe they don't even know what soda ash is and what it is for! At the end of the day, they don't even have the concept of chemistry. ”

Yang Ziwen asked again: "Then why can substances be transformed into each other through reactions?" When I was studying chemistry, the book only talked about the properties of matter, but they didn't tell us what was behind it! ”

"This ......" Wang Erhu thought for a while and said: "It's a bit complicated, and we haven't learned it, but our advanced textbook mentions that matter is made of particles, which gives us some inspiration for the chemistry group!" Matter is made up of particles, and the particles of different substances may change from one to the other. ”

Yang Ziwen didn't understand a little, but after thinking about it, he thought of sugar and salt dissolved in water, does this count as particles?

He hurriedly said this doubt, but Wang Erhu praised: "You are still a little talented in chemistry!" Why don't you take the chemistry group? ”

It was this sentence that made Yang Ziwen chuckle in his heart.

After the four of them walked out of the soda factory, he said with joy on his face: "I think about it, I want to continue my studies, so I will go to the chemistry group!" ”

Li Jian also thinks that the soda plant is good, and the chemistry group is also very good, which is very interesting to listen to.

It's just that he was faintly unhappy, and Wang Sen didn't want to go to the chemistry group.

As for Chen Junyou, he is determined to take the public examination, and this trip is just to accompany them for a walk.

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Near noon, the four of them found a small shop and ordered a few dishes.

In fact, there is a restaurant operated by a supply and marketing cooperative in Meaux, but it is located on Changning Street, and most of the people entertained are cadres.

As for the average small shop, there are a few in almost every neighborhood.

Li Jian said that he had a treat, so after ordering a few big dishes, he asked his three friends to order one by one.

"Wang Sen!" Before the dish was served, a soft female voice sounded at the table.

Four pairs of eyes looked at the voice in unison, and immediately smiled, it turned out to be Huang Mei, a classmate who had dropped out of school, and a few young women.

As soon as you look at their uniforms, you can tell that they are female workers in the second garment factory.

"Why are you here?" Huang Mei took a closer look, only to find that the other three were also there.

Wang Sen blushed and said, "This ...... Isn't it almost like graduation, and I haven't figured out what to do, so I'm going to walk around and go on a field trip! ”

Huang Mei said hello to her co-workers, sat down on the side and said, "That's a coincidence, the factory where I work is here." ”

The four of them are very familiar with Huang Mei, after all, they have liked Wang Sen.

It's a pity that Wang Sen was young and frivolous at that time, and felt that with three friends by his side, his life was already extremely cheerful and not lonely.

It wasn't until one day, when the female classmate's seat was empty and the teacher said that she had dropped out of school, that Wang Sen suddenly realized that something seemed to be missing.

In fact, in the current Huaxia country, the dropout rate of female students who go to middle school is very high, either they are married, or they are running to make money.

Because even after finishing secondary school, girls have fewer choices, and most of them can only go to textile factories when they go to factories.

As for continuing your studies, if you delay getting married, your family may not be satisfied.

On the contrary, schools everywhere like to hire these female students and let them become primary school teachers.

This job is so-called "organized", and it sounds more decent, although the salary is a little lower, but it is enough to support a family of three.

So except for the determined female classmates, there are basically few who can continue to read.

When Li Jian and his family were in the first year of middle school, there were 29 female classmates in a class of 80 students, and after half a year of study, there were only 20 left.

By the time they were in the fourth grade, there were five female classmates left, and four of these five female classmates were doing well in their studies, and the teacher personally went to their homes to dissuade them.

There is only one, it is the family that supports her to continue to go to school, wants her to learn more things, and does not urge her to get married. Such enlightened families are only a minority after all.

And Huang Mei belongs to the vast majority, and she also chooses to work in factories with higher wages but more tired.

For some reason, Wang Sen felt that he hadn't seen him for a long time, and Huang Mei in overalls was much more beautiful than before.

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