"Hey, you tell me about such a mess in our country, Peking University students spoke out, Peking University professors spoke, logically speaking, Peking University has contributed a lot, but I always feel that things are a little weird, is there something missing?"

Jiang Jiangzuo came to Cheng Nuo with a strange tone and said.

In front of the desk, Cheng Nuo, who was anonymously writing an article criticizing the public, turned half of his face and seemed to smile: "What, Lifu, you also came with me like this?" If you have something to say, you can say it quickly, and if you have a fart, let it go. ”

"Then I'll be straight to the point." Jiang Jiang Zuo leaned over and said seriously: "I have the final say, all walks of life, as long as they are patriotic people, are actively speaking out in solidarity with these students, but you said such a big thing, why is it that only the president of Peking University is silent?" It's weird. ”

Hearing this, Cheng Nuo couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

It is no wonder that Jiang Jiangzuo would ask this question, because the famous "21 Treaty" in history is really a bit trivial compared with this so-called mutual defense agreement, and the actual damage to the country is not the same.

In fact, as early as the beginning of the First World War, Britain and France were the Entente countries, Germany and Austria were the allies, and the two sides were at war, and the Yuan Shikai government just watched the fire from the other side and declared its neutrality.

In this regard, Yuan Datou also issued a special order saying: "European countries are unfortunately out of harmony, China is a friendly country, and has issued an order to abide by external neutrality and friendship."

It's a pity that the plan can't keep up with the changes, and not long after the order is issued, our status as a "neutral country" cannot be preserved.

In 1914, Japan declared war on Germany, and in November of that year, the Japanese army captured Qingdao, a German colony in China.

In the following year, the Japanese government made a wide range of claims to Yuan Datou, that is, the Sino-Japanese "21 Articles" negotiations, the first of which proposed that the Chinese government promised to hand over all German rights in Shandong to Japan.

Later, in 1917, the year when Cheng Nuo returned to China, the United States declared war on Germany, and Gu Weijun, the minister to the United States, strongly suggested that China follow the United States and declare war on Germany.

Gu Weijun's reason is that the leader of the future world order must be the United States, and China must urgently stand in line, and only by "relying on the United States to help" will China have a place in the world in the future.

From the perspective of later generations, Gu Weijun's thoughts are very transparent, if the public really follows Gu's strategy, the situation may have to change a little.

Seeing that the European war is coming to an end and the Civil War in our country has ended, US President Wilson made a special statement: sign an open peace treaty, oppose secret diplomacy, and convene the Paris Peace Conference.

This statement was a great encouragement for us that we could restore the Chinese colonies occupied by the Great Powers after the war, especially Qingdao, Shandong.

However, it was at this critical juncture that the Beiyang Government launched secret diplomacy with Japan and secretly signed the "Sino-Japanese Military Agreement on Mutual Defense against the Enemy."

This not only ignored Wilson's statement and took the initiative to establish an alliance with Japan, but also was tantamount to being outside the Entente bloc and from outside the new post-war international order proposed by Wilson, thus putting China in a very unfavorable international position after the war.

In other words, we, as the victorious powers, should have followed Wilson's series of clauses on the abolition of secret treaties and the return of colonies.

However, the Beiyang government completely deviated from these favorable international conditions for China, took the initiative to tie China to the chariot of Japanese militarism, and took the initiative to stand with Japan.

This is an extremely absurd and stupid choice, both in the past and in the present, from any point of view.

A good hand, play a bad game yourself.

It is said that a weak country has no diplomacy, but it is a weak country in the first place, and it still likes to die, how can it survive in the forest of the world.

Just like Haiti in later generations, it can annoy the five permanent people at the same time, and it is difficult to find a second one in the whole world.

"In your opinion, how should Peking University be?" Cheng Nuo asked

"Such a treaty of loss of power and humiliation of the country, the public rushed to sign it in secret, and sought the skin of the tiger, which is ridiculous, is this not a voluntary recognition of the legality of Japan's occupation of Qingdao! We do academics every day, and we can no longer pretend to be deaf and dumb at such a critical juncture, how can we tolerate the Beiyang government doing such a despicable deed! ”

Jiang Jiang Zuo was furious, and he spoke very quickly.

Cheng Nuo nodded: "I can understand your mood, the reason why the Beiyang government dared to sign this agreement in the face of the world's condemnation is nothing more than that it has taken a fancy to the Japanese money, and the so-called meat eaters are despicable and have failed to plan far." ”

"But Peking University students can understand the truth, but he Peking University President doesn't know?"

"Why?"

"The big guys are actively running to tell each other, and they go everywhere to give speeches on weekdays, but at this time, when a group of students need opinion leaders, Cai Gong suddenly lost his voice, isn't this a bit unreasonable?"

Seeing that Cheng Nuo was speechless, Jiang Jiangzuo, who thought he was right, continued: "Everyone knows that Japan is the most untrustworthy, but the government has reneged on the contract with the world in order to win the trust of Japan.

If the people do not have an attitude at this time, Japan will be ridiculed by the world and become the laughing stock of other countries, and it will be impossible to gain a foothold in the post-war world in the future......"

During the other party's speech, Cheng Nuo did not interject, allowing him to vent his anger.

When the time was almost right, Cheng Nuo slowly handed over a glass of water and said with a smile: "Are you finished?" Tired, right? Drink some water to moisten your throat. ”

"Thank you." Jiang Jiangzuo habitually took the tea, reacted as soon as he took a sip, and quickly put the cup down: "No, Zhiyuan, you haven't said that my point of view is right, in the face of right and wrong, you can't be sloppy." ”

Cheng Nuo pulled a bench over, sat down in front of him and said with a smile: "Of course you are right, but this world is not only black and white, a very realistic situation is that Peking University is not run in an ivory tower and vacuum, Peking University needs talents and funds to run a school."

Peking University's funding for running a school comes only from the Beiyang government, although the Beiyang government's money is mainly based on borrowing money and selling out Chinese interests.

Now he has a special status, you are the president of Peking University, although he did not directly respond to the students' rally, but he did not obey the orders of the Beiyang government to stop the students.

You must know that these people in the public family think that 'aggressive students, saving the country, taking care of China's salvation or not, it is not knowable, and those who are absolutely not able to help such students in the future can be decided'. At this time, Cai Gong did not express his position in time, which is the best statement. ”

After saying this, Jiang Jiangzuo also fell into deep thought.

After a long time, he slowly nodded.

"Zhiyuan, you're right, it's me who is in love."

Cheng Nuo patted his friend's shoulder and said with a smile: "But you woke me up, you can take this opportunity to go back to Beijing." ”

"Back to Beijing?" Jiang Jiangzuo hesitated: "Why do you want me to return to Beijing at this point in time, could it be related to this student/protest?" ”

Cheng Nuo nodded: "Yes, as far as I know, all the students in Japan held a march and rally in Tokyo, and more than 100 people were arrested by the Japanese military and police, and then the students continued to protest, and about two-thirds of the more than 6,000 students in Japan went on strike and returned to China in anger."

Although some students will return to Japan afterwards, there are not a few who stay in Japan directly. With the current domestic employment environment, it is simply impossible to digest so many talents, which is too wasteful. ”

Jiang Jiangzuo pondered: "So you want me to come over, can you attract a group of talents to come over?" ”

Cheng Nuo refilled it with tea, and said with a smile: "That's the truth, we always emphasize 'industry-university-research', but what kind of thing is industry-university-research, I have always known the comparative model lake, and now with the expansion of our academy of sciences, I gradually understand some truth."

The so-called industry-university-research cooperation refers to a cooperation mode in which the industry represented by enterprises and the academic circles represented by universities and scientific research institutes participate in cooperation in order to achieve technological innovation and transformation of scientific and technological achievements in order to achieve the interests of various organizations and institutions.

But now we have enterprises, scientific research institutions also have, only one direction of the university, we are more lacking, now can be the alkali plant, ammonia plant up, it is not easy, the future want to continue to develop, there must be fresh blood to join. ”

Jiang Jiangzuo agreed: "Also, at present, our foundation is still shallow, and our hematopoietic ability is seriously insufficient, and we really need the replenishment of talents to achieve the purpose of internal circulation." But then again, among this group of international students, liberal arts and military science are the mainstay, and these are not what we are short of. ”

Cheng Nuo smiled: "That's why I brought you over for review, if these students are more interested in science and are willing to change careers, it doesn't hurt for us to recruit them, it's better than training them from scratch." ”

Jiang Jiangzuo took a sip of tea and said in a firm tone: "Okay, I'm going to go back to Beijing and do this for you, and by the way, I can also take this opportunity to see how the students who studied in the law class are doing their homework, and I can also help them go to France to study." ”

Cheng Nuo sighed: "Thank you for your hard work." ”

"What's this? I don't know chemistry, so I can't help if I stay here anyway, so I might as well do what I can. Jiang Jiangzuo said calmly.

Cheng Nuo sighed: "The reason why the public can do this kind of thing, in the final analysis, is the fault of the word 'money', without money, everything is difficult, which is also one of the reasons why I insist on running a factory to do business. ”

Jiang Jiangzuo shook his head: "Alas, I think you and I were both people who studied mathematics at the beginning, and you were the best batch I have ever seen in terms of talent, but after returning to China, you did mathematics, education, and now you are doing industry, and it is also chemistry that can't be compared with mathematics, which is too messy and messy."

If we don't help, how can one person be busy? If you give birth to this kind of score, it will be better for Moti in the future. ”

Picking up his teacup, Cheng Nuo hesitated for a moment, and finally drank it: "Okay, I remember, I am very careful." ”

Jiang Jiangzuo suddenly smiled: "I know in my heart, I will definitely bring you dozens of people over this time......"

Before he finished speaking, Jiang Jiangzuo suddenly thought of something and became spitting.

Cheng Nuo was curious: "What's wrong?" ”

A hint of struggle flashed on his face, and Jiang Jiangzuo immediately said, "I'm more worried about you than work." ”

"It's me?" Cheng Nuo was puzzled.

"Of course it's you." Jiang Jiangzuo's face was serious: "The sages once said, 'The avenue is lost in many ways, and the scholars are lost in many ways', and when you rush forward, the more wheels under your crotch, the better." ”

Hearing this, Cheng Nuo laughed: "Special circumstances, special treatment." But you're right, I'll pay attention to that later. ”

……

In the following days, Cheng Nuo sent Jiang Jiang Zuo away, and he started the next round of scientific research work in full swing.

Originally, he was going to follow the original steps, that is, to make alkali to synthetic ammonia, and then to acid production, step by step, steadily.

But an incident happened on the battlefield in Europe that made Cheng Nuo's decision hesitate.

It turned out that Germany dropped more than 15,000 poison gas bombs on the US army on the Western Front, and the results were quite fruitful, and the war situation became even more anxious.

After getting the news, Cheng Nuo inquired carefully, only to find that since the First World War, all countries have basically used poison gas bombs, and the chemical agents used mainly include irritating agents, asphyxiating agents, erosive agents and incapacitating agents.

This includes, but is not limited to, chlorine, phosgene, nitrochloroform, mustard gas, phenylchloroacetophenone, Adam's gas, and many more.

Some have already shined in the First World War, such as the mixed poison gas of phosgene and chlorine, when the Austro-Hungarian army attacked the Italian army on the Doberto plateau, it used a mixture of 100t phosgene and chlorine, poisoning more than 6,000 people on the other side, of which about 5,000 died.

Although some originated in World War I, they were widely used in World War II. For example, mustard gas was produced by at least Britain, the United States, France, Germany, the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Canada and other countries during World War II, and the results were quite good.

And the reason why Cheng Nuo wants to develop chemical weapons in advance is not only to use them to deal with little devils in the future.

In fact, I also think that it is difficult for his personal strength to change the general trend of history at present, once the Anti-Japanese War breaks out, we are not as good as the little devils in terms of the quality of soldiers and weapons and equipment.

At this time, if we use chemical weapons coldly, we may be able to break the deadlock.

You don't have to work too hard to complete the killing effect.

In World War I, 113,000 tons of poison were used by the belligerents, causing nearly 1.3 million poisoning casualties.

The German mustache was poisoned in the war and knew the power of chemical weapons, so after he came to power, he immediately set up the Ninth Department of the Ministry of National Defense to be responsible for the development, production, and combat affairs of chemical weapons.

If Cheng Nuo can really lead the team to develop it successfully and use it in other countries, he may feel a little uncomfortable.

It can be used on little devils, without any psychological burden.

During the war of aggression against China, the Japanese army used chemical weapons 1,731 times in 14 provinces of China, causing hundreds of thousands of poisoning and casualties.

No matter what gas is used, Cheng Nuo feels that it is not enough to relieve hatred.

"There are many ways to be poisoned, the duration is long, and the killing area is large, so it is most appropriate to say that it is the poor man's version of the original * bomb."