The development of the Mafang Township Industrial Park is on the right track before winter. With the gradual increase in the types and output of pharmaceuticals and daily chemical products, the demand for various raw materials has increased significantly.

In terms of the production of various types of traditional Chinese medicines, the area around Ningwu Prefecture is densely covered with virgin forests, has a good ecological environment, and has a wide variety of wild animals and plants. Especially the Guanluo Mountain Forest Area has hundreds of species of medicinal plants and rich raw materials for the production of traditional Chinese medicines.

Therefore, relying on this advantage, various types of traditional Chinese medicines developed and produced by pharmaceutical factories based on local raw materials are developing quite well. However, more raw materials for traditional Chinese medicines, antibiotics, western medicines, etc. must rely on areas outside Ningwu Prefecture and even abroad.

For example, the medicinal plants required to produce Traditional Chinese Medicine No. 1 only grow in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and other southwestern provinces, making it difficult to procure raw materials.

As for the chemical raw materials required for the production of daily chemical products, most of them can be manufactured by ourselves. For example, the main raw material for soap production, sodium hydroxide, still needs to be imported from abroad. The other is the chemical raw materials required for the production of metal machinery processing plants.

The situation is similar for various metal tools, mechanical devices and various metal and non-metal materials.

Kang Fan approached He Shuikuo and Donovan and suggested that He Shuikuo should be mainly responsible for domestic business, Donovan should be mainly responsible for foreign business, and the Blue Demon Team should be responsible for all escort tasks of various caravans.

An important recent progress is that metal machining factories have begun to mass-produce new self-designed carriages. This new carriage was improved by Kang Fan and several students on the basis of the existing old carriages, mainly improving the walking system.

, equipped with bearings customized from abroad, steel rim spoke wheels and rubber pneumatic tires, leaf spring suspension devices, brake devices, etc. It adopts a two-axle four-wheel form and is divided into two and four horses according to the carrying capacity.

There are two models of mule and horse traction, the closed carriage is used to carry people, and the open carriage is used to transport goods. Both the carrying capacity and the riding comfort have made a qualitative leap. After being tried by caravans, they received rave reviews.

Although the metal machining factory currently does not create eye-catching profits like other companies, it is actually the cornerstone of future business development. With the most basic smelting, casting, forging, machining and electrical equipment here,

Students can gradually improve the advanced industrial technologies they have mastered through testing and improvement into feasible applied technologies, which can be used to build their own industrial systems. In fact, a scientific research center is built for students.

Those four cars are the collection of almost all advanced industrial technologies in China in the 21st century, and they provide extremely precious physical references for students’ technological development. What a great blessing!

If the planned industrial system is completed, it means that Ningwu Mansion will step into the modern industrial era! Therefore, the metal machining plant is what Kang Fan values ​​most.

Donovan also understands what Kang Fan means. The industrial equipment purchased back are the most advanced in the contemporary West. However, they are still incomparable to the level in the minds of the students. Therefore, what the students have to do now is to maximize their

Make full use of these existing equipment and available raw materials, design and develop industrial equipment that is as close as possible to your own requirements, and then use factories in Western countries to manufacture it for your own use.

For reasons of technical confidentiality, the students entrusted the process drawings of the various equipment they designed to different manufacturers in different Western countries through Donovan for manufacturing. The drawings received by each manufacturer were for parts of different equipment.

They have no idea what the purpose of these parts is. After they are produced in batches, they are assembled in metal machining factories by the students themselves. In order to achieve standardization, the drawings are based on the imperial system widely used in various contemporary industrial countries.

units, rather than the metric system students are used to.

Yu Hao's uncle was very supportive of Kang Fan's grand plan to develop local industry and agriculture. After Yu Hao asked him for instructions in person, he replied like this: Whatever is beneficial to the government, county and people, my nephew should vigorously promote it.

, don’t need to repay everything, just do it yourself.

With the support of the government, Kang Fan can actually start operations. Because the next industrial development plan involves the entire Ningwu Prefecture and even the entire Shanxi Province, it must receive full assistance from the government, otherwise, nothing will happen.

Ningwu Prefecture has a very wide jurisdiction. The four counties of Ningwu, Shenchi, Wuzhai and Pianguan have a total area of ​​more than 6,000 square kilometers and a permanent population of more than 300,000. It can be said that it is a vast area and sparsely populated. However, the area is rich in mineral resources and has

Excellent natural conditions for the development of industry. What is lacking here is capital, technology and courage, and Kang Fan and the others now have these three conditions.

The Ningwu Prefecture in Kang Fan's memory is an area rich in mineral resources, including coal, iron, aluminum, manganese, molybdenum, quartz, crystal, sulfur, mica, granite, limestone, clay, etc. It is especially blessed with coal resources.

There are complete varieties, excellent coal quality, easy to mine, and reserves of tens of billions of tons. Coal is an important energy source: in addition to being used as fuel, it can also generate coke and gas through coking, gasification, low-temperature carbonization, hydrogenation and liquefaction, etc.

Coal tar and other chemical raw materials are used in the metallurgical industry or in the production of fertilizers, pesticides, calcium carbide, synthetic fibers, synthetic rubber, paints, dyes, medicines, explosives, gasoline, diesel, etc. Therefore, we first start with the development and utilization of coal resources.

We can vigorously develop thermal power generation, metallurgy and chemical industries, thus driving the development of other industries.

After systematic demonstration, everyone determined the development goal of making full use of various abundant natural resources in the jurisdiction to build an independent and complete modern industrial system, and jointly formulated an implementation plan. It would be necessary to wait until a sufficient number of industrial equipment is manufactured by ourselves.

It is not advisable to build. It is currently wisest and most sensible to use the existing Western technology and equipment to build. After it has developed to a certain scale, it will then use self-manufactured advanced industrial equipment to replace these old equipment from Western countries.

A quick way. With Confan and Donovan, things will be easier to handle.

However, it is not easy to achieve this goal? This is an incredibly large development plan that only Kang Fan dares to imagine. Although there is still a lot of gold and silver stolen, and the profits of hospitals and industrial parks are also increasing day by day, but with the

Compared with the huge amount of funds required for this development plan, it is just a drop in the bucket. Without enough funds, everything is empty talk. Kang Fan knew that he had to implement his risky action that had been brewing for a long time.

After the completion of the dormitories, canteens, bathhouses, boiler rooms, sports fields and other supporting living facilities built in the Mafang Township Industrial Park, a comfortable and safe working and living environment was formed. Zhong Hanqiang and the students moved here to work and live.

Adolf was also brought with him, and no one was left behind. Everyone was together, so it was easier to take care of each other. Facts have proved that the students are very satisfied with the new living environment. Among them, the most commendable thing is that they can finally take a hot bath and use electricity.

Already.

As for the Fenhe camp, Zhong Hanqiang would take care of the students whenever he had free time. It became a good leisure and relaxation activity. Therefore, Kang Fan didn't have to worry about everyone's lives and could relax and do whatever he wanted.

Go about your own business.

Since the He family brothers' industry received a steady supply of products from Kang Fan and others, the business has been booming. However, after all, the market demand in Ningwu Prefecture and Shanxi Province is limited. If you want to have better and greater development, you must go out. Because Ningwu Prefecture and the entire province of Shanxi have limited market demand.

Wufu is located in mainland China and is surrounded by rolling mountains, making land transportation difficult.

Kang Fan had thought of this problem a few months ago. Therefore, before the implementation of the industrial development plan, He Shuikuan was instructed to expand the Hejia goods yard and shops in the capital, and build a new general supply base in Tianjin. In this way, transportation by land

After the incoming goods are transferred in the capital, they can be shipped at the Tianjin base and transported by water to Hejia stores across the country, which is much more convenient and safer. Therefore, this base in Tianjin is very important.

.This is also what Kang Fan hopes for.

The situation of the newly built Tianjin base is as follows: Tianjin borders the Bohai Sea to the east and is the nearest seaport to inland areas such as North China and Northwest China. After it was opened as a treaty port in 1860, Western powers set up concessions in Tianjin one after another. Tianjin gradually became China's

The frontier of the opening up in the north and the base of modern China's Westernization Movement. Unlike concessions in other countries, the United States' concession in Tianjin caught up with the outbreak of the Civil War and had no time to develop the concession in Tianjin in 1880.

Tianjin concession, but the Qing government did not take it over. It is now 1895. In total, this more than 130 acres of land on the bank of the Haihe River has been abandoned for 15 years. Kang Fan persuaded Donovan to apply to the U.S. government.

As a U.S. citizen, Donovan quickly reached an agreement with the U.S. government and obtained the management rights of the U.S. concession. Subsequently, He Shuikuan led relevant personnel to the concession and rebuilt the dock based on the original infrastructure.

, warehouses and other auxiliary facilities. The family's ship is docked here, ready for orders at any time. He Shuikuan is also stationed here permanently.

Thanks to the help of those three partners, Donovan still worked as a surgeon in the county hospital even though there was no need for him to appear in person. He Shuikuo was not only responsible for the purchase of various raw materials and product sales, but also had to take care of him regularly.

He is much busier than Donovan in running his own business all over the country. Therefore, He Shuikuo has more contact with the Blue Demon team members, and the "travel money" that he originally needed to pay homage to the bandits along the way is saved. This can be

A lot of profits were saved! Therefore, He Shuikuo took great care of the Blue Demon team members, providing them with good food and drinks along the way, and giving them some pocket money from time to time. The cooperation between the two parties was very happy.

The batch production of several drugs by the pharmaceutical factory was just in time for the war between Italy and Ethiopia. This war was protracted and suffered heavy casualties. In one battle called the Battle of Adua alone, there were nearly 20,000 Italian troops.

It was defeated, with more than 10,000 casualties and more than 4,000 prisoners. Kangfan entrusted Donovan to sell a large number of medicines and medical gauze, cotton wool, tape, etc. to the Italian military at high prices. After clinical trials by the Italian military, he signed

We placed a large number of orders and made a huge profit. Moreover, as the war continues and casualties will increase, the Italian government will definitely place additional orders. Calculating this, it is really a big business!

But when Donovan returned with a car full of gold coins, Kang Fan felt compassion again and asked Donovan to provide some medicines to the Ethiopian government for free as a way of supporting this country that resolutely resisted the aggression of powerful powers.

"Mr. Kang, this is business, not a game!" Donovan didn't understand very well and stared at Kang Fan with his blue eyes.

Kang Fan explained: "In the frenzy of European powers carving up Africa, Ethiopia was the only country that resisted the invasion of powerful countries and maintained its national independence with a victorious national war. She set an example of heroic struggle for all African people. You said I should

Shouldn't we do this, Americans?"

Donovan still didn't understand, "What does this have to do with you? You are in China, and China is in Asia. That is Africa, and there are people there who are blacker than the coal here. They will not thank you at all,

Because they don't even know where you are."

"Just do it, Mr. Donovan." Kang Fan didn't want to argue with him anymore, "People can't always be selfish."

Donovan finally went. Before leaving, he asked Kanfan: "You know more about this war than the Italian ambassador, but I haven't seen you leave here during this time. Besides, this war

The war is still raging so far, how do you know that Ethiopia will definitely win? Tell me, how did you do it?"

Kang Fan could only smile and not answer.

Donovan made the sign of the cross with his hands and raised his eyes to the sky: "Lord, please help me teach this hateful guy a lesson."

Mei Xiang was amused by Donovan's funny expression, and shouted at his retreating figure: "Mr. Donovan, God is on our side now."

Yes, God is on their side now. No one thought that these "unlucky guys" who came from the 21st century would, in this era, rely on their wisdom and courage to even eat from the beginning.
Chapter completed!