Today's Yongli soda factory, even up and down, is about to be squeezed and eaten.

Fan Xudong still didn't want to show it in front of his friends, especially since he was still the center of the topic.

At this time, announcing the reason is to slap his friend in the face, and it is also to make him ugly.

Quietly hiding this negative emotion, Fan Xudong tried his best to soften his facial lines: "It's good to make acid, so that the acid, alkali and salt foundation of the chemical industry have all been laid, and no matter what we do in the future, we will have more confidence."

However, making acid is not easier than making alkali, do you have any ideas in this regard? ”

Cheng Nuo closed the door, walked to the rostrum, opened the curtain in front of the blackboard, picked up chalk and wrote and drew on it: "Actually, thanks to the formula I wrote before, I can make some other things while making alkali." ”

The chemical equation that was originally familiar looked a little unfamiliar at this time.

"Tell me, I'm a little confused for the time being." Fan Xudong frowned, pinching his chin very puzzled.

"The first step is to continue to build an ammonia plant." Cheng Nuo explained while writing the blackboard: "Our current alkali production method is mainly divided into two processes, and the first process is basically the same as Solvay's alkali production method.

That is, ammonia is passed into saturated salt water to form ammonia brine, and then carbon dioxide is introduced to generate sodium oxycarbonate precipitation, which is filtered and washed to obtain tiny crystals. The soda ash product is then calcined, and its filtrate is a solution containing ammonium chloride and sodium chloride.

In the second process, ammonium chloride crystals are crystallized and precipitated from the filtrate containing ammonium chloride and sodium chloride. Because the solubility of ammonium chloride at room temperature is greater than that of sodium chloride.

The solubility at low temperature is smaller than that of sodium chloride, and the solubility of ammonium chloride in the concentrated solution of sodium chloride is much smaller than that in water, so under low temperature conditions, fine powdered sodium chloride is added to the filtrate, and ammonia gas is introduced to make ammonium chloride crystallize and precipitate alone.

The ammonium chloride product is obtained by filtration, paint washing and drying, and the filtrate obtained after the precipitate of ammonium chloride is filtered out, which is basically saturated with sodium chloride and can be recovered and recycled......"

It's okay not to say it, but Fan Xudong was even more confused after speaking: "Slow down, slow down, except for salt, where do all your raw materials come from?" Even if it is recycled, his share will not be less, right? ”

After the question was asked, Cheng Nuo's board book was almost written, patting the dust on his hands, he smiled: "So let's build an ammonia plant in the next step, and make sodium bicarbonate from the carbon dioxide and ammonia produced in synthetic ammonia."

After filtering out the heavy alkali, the mother liquor is recycled by crystallization method to analyze ammonium chloride, so that the utilization rate of sodium chloride is improved, and the by-product ammonia chloride is a chemical fertilizer, rather than calcium chloride which is of little use. ”

Fan Xudong looked at the chemical formula full of blackboards, and said thoughtfully: "That is to say, if in the actual process, we can really follow your steps, which can not only improve the utilization rate of salt, shorten the production process, but also reduce the pollution to the environment and reduce the cost of soda ash?" ”

Cheng Nuo snapped his fingers: "Yes, that's what it means, at present, our chemical fertilizers need to import rinium sulfate from foreign countries, not to mention the high cost, it may not be able to buy, even if it can be bought and used well, the land will be polluted in a few years, and the land cannot be planted, which is far less than the reality of ammonium chloride."

Although it is not suitable for use in acidic soil and saline-alkali soil, it is still very good to use it for planting rice because chlorine can not only inhibit nitrification in rice fields, but also facilitate the formation of rice stem fibers. ”

In layman's terms, it is the joint production of alkali and synthetic ammonia, which produces both soda ash and ammonium chloride. The raw material is still table salt, but basically limestone is not used, and a synthetic ammonia workshop of corresponding scale is needed to match, so as to improve the utilization rate of raw materials.

It eliminates the discharge of waste, reduces the consumption of experiments and energy, and makes full use of the carbon dioxide emitted by the ammonia plant, turning waste into treasure, saving the consumption of limestone.

The more Fan Xudong thought about it, the more feasible he felt, and immediately clapped his hands and applauded: "Okay, I think it's quite feasible, at present, in the domestic fertilizer market, there is basically a monopoly on foreign goods, and I have long been unhappy with them." ”

Since ancient times, although farming seems very simple, you can do it with your hands, but how to achieve a good harvest is not an easy task.

Even in Cheng's time, in addition to living expenses and taxes, the most important part of farmers' production was fertilizer, which according to the Bank of China accounted for one-fifth of all farmers' expenditures, and the fertilizer market was quite large, but this market was increasingly divided by chemical fertilizers.

Even if the price rises at this time, the price of one catty of ammonium sulfate is equal to the price of two catties of rice, but at least it can be exchanged for an increase of three to four catties of rice.

The peasants can still divide this simple account.

As for issues such as pollution, they don't matter when it comes to having a full stomach.

No one can run away from the old road of polluting first and then remediation.

Cheng Nuo is very emotional about this situation: "For a long time in the future, the importance of food will be particularly prominent, the ammonia fertilizer manufactured in our alkali production, whether it is for themselves or the people, is a great thing, only with manure, far from enough, this is also the first thing we should consider after the success of alkali production." ”

Fan Xudong nodded in agreement, but after going through the causes and consequences, he suddenly came back to his senses: "I remember that when you just came over, didn't you want to make acid?" Ammonia is weakly alkaline, making a fuss, or has it not walked out of the old road of alkali production? Moreover, compared with alkali production, synthetic ammonia is not simple at all. ”

Cheng Nuo smiled: "Okay, Xudong, I was still discovered by you, because synthetic ammonia is the key to our acid production." ”

Fan Xudong frowned: "There is such a relationship between synthetic ammonia and acid production?" ”

Cheng Nuo directly erased the chemical equation on the blackboard, and Fan Xudong was so anxious that he stomped his foot when he saw it: "No, why are you wiping it, I haven't eaten it yet." ”

"Because the thing is already in my head, I just took it out and pushed it down again." Cheng Nuo smiled, pointed to the new equation and said: "At present, the tentative method of ammonia synthesis is to extract hydrogen and nitrogen from air and water to synthesize ammonia. After ammonia oxidation, nitrogen dioxide is formed, which is then absorbed by water to obtain nitric acid.

As for hydrochloric acid, the most important thing we need at the moment is salt, and it can be completely used by electrolysis to produce hydrochloric acid caustic soda.

The final sulfuric acid is simpler, and it can be solved by using the lead chamber method, but the specific aspects may be more troublesome, after all, sulfur dioxide and some catalysts are needed, but after we have laid the chemical stall, all this is not a problem. ”

In fact, if Cheng Nuo wants to say that if these three main acids are according to his preferences and do not consider the actual conditions, they must develop hydrochloric acid first.

If nothing else, it is because it is monosodium glutamate, which is the main material we often call monosodium glutamate.

At this time, Japan named MSG Ajinomoto and was making a lot of money all over the world.

The raw material hydrochloric acid cannot be made in China, and we have to buy it from Japan, and only 4 taels of silver can buy 50 catties of hydrochloric acid, which is staggeringly expensive.

After the detailed arrangement of Cheng Nuo, the chemical layout in the next two or three years will be properly arranged by him, and everything only needs to be carried out according to the plan, which can lead the innovation of the domestic chemical industry.

Of course, for now, we have to get through this first.

Looking at Cheng Nuo, who is full of himself, and thinking about the small shareholders who are dragging behind him, Fan Xudong can't wait to give everyone a hard kick.

It's really not enough to succeed, but more than to fail.

But paper can't contain the fire after all, especially when Cheng Nuo is looking forward to the future, Fan Xudong doesn't dare to deceive.

After hesitating for a moment, Fan Xudong gritted his teeth, still ready to tell what happened just now: "Zhiyuan, in fact, we just ...... here before you came."

How did Cheng Nuo not know what had just happened?

It's just that for the sake of his friend's face, it's hard to say it directly, and he has already thought of a way to deal with it, so there is no need to poke through the layer of window paper and embarrass each other.

"Xudong, I remember that when our factory was just established, the two of us sat down with Mr. Zhang and specially signed a treaty, do you remember the general content of the shareholder identity restrictions?" Interrupting his friend's words, Cheng Nuo pretended to be okay and asked directly to another topic.

"How did you remember to ask this?" Fan Xudong asked habitually, but as soon as he finished speaking, his eyes immediately lit up.

Because in order to prevent traitors from betraying the collective interests, Cheng Nuo proposed to add an additional sentence to the supplementary clause of the contract, that is, Wynn shareholders are limited to Chinese nationals from beginning to end, and if there is a violation, the shares will be automatically returned at the original price.

Now these minority shareholders have just triggered the treaty, which means that they are about to run out of water.

Cheng Nuo smiled and patted his friend's shoulder: "When you break off and keep suffering from it, Xudong, you have to plan carefully." ”

Fan Xudong, who was caught in the middle, hesitated: "But some shareholders have been with me for so many years, and now they are suddenly drawn from the bottom of the kettle, which is a little too cruel." ”

Cheng Nuo said solemnly: "In the future, there will only be more and more enemies in front of us, do you dare to give your back to these people with confidence?" ”

After saying this, Cheng Nuo turned around and left and started the next journey.

Although the relationship between him and Fan Xudong is good at the moment, it is inevitable that there will be disagreements when doing business between brothers, not to mention the relationship between the two of them.

Now Cheng Nuo has handed him the paper, pen and test papers, and the other party's answer determines the length of the cooperation between the two.

Fortunately, in the end, Fan Xudong relented and drove out all these small shareholders, leaving only the shares of Cheng Nuo and Zhang Jian.

In this regard, Cheng Nuo asked knowingly: "Xudong, you are under a lot of pressure, right?" ”

Fan Xudong's spirit is much better than before, and he sighed and said slowly: "We are founding an industry today, its purpose is not to make a fortune, if it is only to make a fortune, there is no need to spend these efforts, we are a revolution - the fate of the economic oppression of the revolutionary powers, the big waves wash the sand, and all that is left is real gold." ”

Cheng Nuo replaced the wine with tea and toasted the other party: "Don't worry, there will be more and purer partners to join in the future." ”

Just as the two of them sighed and were preparing for the next step, a bad news suddenly came from outside.

"The Salt Administration is considering a bill to levy a tax on perpetual salt."

If this bill passes, the cost of alkali is bound to increase dramatically, enough to completely kill Wynn's future.

Salt is the main raw material for alkali production, and its operation is characterized by low salt prices and high tax prices.

If we do not solve the problem of tax exemption for industrial salt, the price of salt will increase by dozens of times, and China's alkali industry will be unable to talk about it when the foreign soda market is profitable.

Therefore, Fan Xudong deliberately mobilized his connections and asked the Changlu Salt Transport Embassy to transfer it to the Salt Administration of the Ministry of Finance to exempt him from salt tax.

At that time, the Beiyang government relied on betrayal and borrowing to survive all day long in order to compete for power and profit.

According to the "Aftermath Loan Treaty" signed between the Beijing government and the United Kingdom, China's borrowing from Britain should be secured by salt tax; In order to effectively control the salt tax, the British had to set up a "salt audit office" in the salt department, and its power was completely controlled by the British.

As a British, it is naturally impossible to watch your company being defeated by outsiders, and you will definitely use some stumbling blocks.

Sure enough, when Cheng Nuo inquired in detail, he found that the alkali was about to be produced in the Yongli factory, and the British specially pressured the Salt Administration to make a decision to "tax two cents per quintal of salt in the Yongli factory".

What is even more infuriating is that HSBC has also put pressure on Beijing to approve the privilege of making alkali in China, otherwise it will refuse to borrow.

HSBC is really born with bad water in its blood, no wonder it was able to take the initiative to sanction the chrysanthemum factory in his previous life.

Seeing this information, Cheng Nuo also secretly decided in his heart that he must clean up this unsightly thing after passing this level.

However, Fan Xudong's mood was not so good, and he was in a hurry, and his mouth was foaming: "Zhiyuan, as soon as the salt tax rises, our Chinese soda ash will have no advantage at all, and at that time, what will we do to confront Bu Neimen?" ”

Cheng Nuo thought for a moment and felt that the situation was not as pessimistic as he imagined, even if the public pressure was put down now, it did not mean that there was no room for relaxation.

"Xudong, have you ever heard of such a sentence, called 'building a new society, competing for survival'?"

"Hey, where do I think I've heard that?" Fan Xudong patted his head and thought hard.

"Haha, patriotism is not only exclusive to you and me, at present, patriotic enthusiasm, advocating domestic products and revitalizing industry, the three are blended with each other, and a strong social trend has already been formed, and the public is not only in charge of traditional politicians, but also a large number of business people."

After a pause, Cheng Nuo continued: "What's more, the north and the south are struggling at the moment, with huge military and political expenditures, an empty treasury, and financial difficulties. For these people in the public family, is our Chinese card a big profit when it falls, or is it a big profit if it stands up? ”