The main battle gun type of the time-traveling forces, the "Erba Gai", was finalized in the early morning of the fourth day.

On the sea surface of the Taijiang River, Qin Ming was sitting on a beautiful streamlined soft-sail traffic boat, rushing to Da Yuan Island.

Qin Ming is from Shaanxi. He first worked as a technician in a reagent factory, and later privately opened a reagent glass shop in the county. Later, Qin's relatives contracted the mine, so Qin Ming began to work part-time as a blasting engineer to produce mine explosives.

How to produce? Of course, I bought fertilizer and made it myself. Qin Ming was producing, blasting ore, and selling to other bosses at the same time. The business was quite good.

Then there was a tragedy. Unexploded explosives blew up a gangster mine owner, his BMW, his mistress, and five miners. Seeing that the situation was not good, Qin Ming ran away decisively, which originally offended Baidao's quarry headquarters and the police.

, now even the underworld has been offended, so I can’t run away.

Originally, he was going to continue working in the African mines where supervision was not strict. As a result, Qin Ming now became the vice president of the Damuan Weapons Corporation and the manager of the Explosives Branch.

When the group was arguing over guns two days ago, Qin Ming didn't show his face at all. It didn't matter what weapon he used, he still had to produce black powder here first. He was also busy supervising the workers to build the factory.

, I have no time to deal with those fanciers at all.

Needless to say, the factory building allocated to the explosives company is the most remote and has relatively high requirements, so Qin Ming has been hiding in the alcove in the north of the kiln area until last night when he received a notice: there will be a meeting early this morning.

"Calculating the time, it's our turn to make a request, hum!" Qin Ming was sitting on the traffic boat, enjoying the cool sea breeze on the Taijiang River, and thought proudly.

According to the procedure, it must be like this. Now that the models of guns and cannons have been selected, the next step will definitely be to discuss the issue of ammunition. When it comes to ammunition, whether it is the flash cap used by the army, black powder, or the future of the kiln area

Mine explosives are all inseparable from his old man's explosives company.

"So, what should I ask for at today's meeting?" Qin Ming looked at the Danyuan Pier getting closer and started to plan: "The eldest daughter will come first, 10 people, and the younger daughter-in-law will also want 10 people. Well, then 10 people will come.

A middle-aged woman with steady hands and feet doing odd jobs, she’s pretty much in the early stage.”

Women are more suitable for the production of explosive goods that require patience. Everyone knows this. Qin Ming plans to take advantage of this today and first recruit female workers who are in short supply in his factory first.

When he arrived at the business store and opened the door of the small office, Qin Ming was stunned for a moment: the room was already full of people, and it seemed that he was the only protagonist missing.

"I didn't expect, I didn't expect that there were so many departments present at the meeting today. It seems that comrades are aware of the importance of explosives. Well, not bad." Qin Ming nodded to greet everyone and took his seat.

Feeling happy in my heart.

After sitting down and taking a look at the rim, Qin Ming was even more satisfied: not only was Xia Zhongtang here, but Mr. Feng Jun and Feng Ge, who was in charge of internal affairs, were also there. Needless to say, his immediate boss Ma Zekai, Professor Luo of the Port Authority was also there, and Lu

There are many military bosses such as Sheng, Liu Zhe and Han Xiaobo.

Qin Ming looked more and more satisfied at this time. Well, very good. Zou Guoqing and Yao Zhesheng, the chief and deputy managers of the kiln area, are also here. They will solve the equipment problem at once. Not bad, very good, very good.

Liang Letian and Mi Shuo, two idiots from an agricultural company, actually came as well. They probably came to attend the meeting to provide subsidies, right? Liang Letian and Mi Shuo?

Just when Qin Ming noticed something was wrong, Xia Xianze, who was sitting at the top of the long table in the small conference room, coughed and began to speak: "Well, everyone is here, let's officially have a meeting. What about today's meeting? The main topics are:

It is to discuss and solve the problems related to the three major fertilizers in agriculture, and also discuss other topics by the way."

"Everyone knows that agriculture is the foundation of a political power. The so-called lack of agriculture is unstable." Just when Xia was sitting on the table and talking, he discovered that he was Qin Ming who was classified as "other topics".

It was already sluggish.

The so-called three major fertilizers are nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.

The most important of these is nitrogen fertilizer. Nitrogen fertilizer is the most widely produced and used type of fertilizer. In later generations, nitrogen fertilizer usually existed in the form of urea, diamine, and ammonium bicarbonate.

The main purpose of today's meeting is to determine the channels for obtaining nitrogen fertilizers in agriculture in the future, and also to solve the problem of explosives.

Nitrogen can be turned into urea or nitric acid. Nitric acid is the mother of the arms industry. From primitive saltpeter to sophisticated "nitrification" process, from black powder to gunpowder, "nitrification" is the key to all explosives.

Pre-process.

Although nitrogen is the most abundant element in the atmosphere, early humans were unable to produce nitrogen compounds. Until the mid-18th century, the only way for humans to obtain nitrogen was to collect nitrogen compounds naturally precipitated from the corners of toilets and pig pens:

Saltpeter.

In the mid-18th century, after the discovery of saltpeter mines in Chile, the great powers finally had a stable supply channel of saltpeter.

It was not until the beginning of the 20th century that mankind, through the ammonia synthesis process invented by the Germans, was able to freely produce ammonia for the first time regardless of location or time.

All in all, how to choose the three routes from easy to difficult, from silk to lofty, is the problem that the traveling group needs to solve today.

"Let's talk about synthetic ammonia first. Is there any drama? Can the industrial sector take a stand?" After Xia Xianze talked a few words about the importance of urea to agriculture, he quickly turned his attention to Zou Guoqing and Yao Zhesheng, the two chief and deputy managers of the kiln district.

.

Probably because he has been in power for a long time, Old Zou is no longer as sharp as before. Hearing the boss' question, Zou Guoqing raised his eyebrows, then tilted his head to signal Comrade Yao Zhesheng to take action.

Comrade Yao Zhesheng didn't have so many worries. He made it clear and said: "Synthesizing ammonia is not impossible, it is simply impossible."

Having said this, he stretched out his hand and made a special gesture for Tubal Road: "810 years, this is the most optimistic estimate. Without such a long time to develop, don't even think about synthesizing ammonia."

"A synthetic ammonia factory is a steel tower with high temperature and high pressure, filled with various flammable, explosive, and toxic gases and liquids." After a few sentences, Yao Zhesheng began to explain: "Don't talk about those pressure vessels and pipelines that can withstand high pressure.

Even the most common valves cannot be manufactured in the kiln area right now. If all the equipment has to be imported, even a small synthetic ammonia plant will not be able to save the necessary equipment in less than half a year."

“In addition, we cannot produce all supplies including catalysts, reagents, lubricants, methanol, rubber, valves, hydrogen, oxygen and other raw materials and spare parts on our own, so subsequent supplies will have to be made every month.

occupy the vast majority of import quotas."

"Che" After hearing this, everyone present booed. Everyone knew that based on Yao Zhesheng's last sentence, ammonia synthesis was definitely out of the question.

Yao Zhesheng chuckled at this time and added: "Even if all the equipment is gathered, a small synthetic ammonia factory without hundreds of workers with junior high school diplomas or above, plus 20 chemical time travelers, will not be able to function at all. It must be forced

Mount your horse and wait for two gas bombs in three days."

Finally, Yao Zhesheng concluded: "Synthetic ammonia is an industrial pearl, just like automobile engines. Without the support of a huge basic industry, even if a factory falls from the sky, it will not be able to operate and can only be abandoned there."

"Okay, okay, I think everyone understands." Xia Xianze stepped forward in time to stop this guy from damaging everyone's confidence again.

After tapping the table with his hand, Xia Xianze turned around and asked: "The factory seems to be hopeless. What about the mine? Is it possible to purchase large quantities of goods?"

"Well, this is impossible." Professor Luo, the director of the port authority who was sitting next to him, began to say: "Forget about Chile for the time being. We have to cross the Pacific. The Indian saltpeter mine closest to us is not reliable at the moment.

, we can only rely on the Dutch to bring some from time to time. The same is true for the Ming Dynasty. They can purchase some from time to time, but it can only be used as a supplement and cannot be used as a stable and large source of saltpeter."

"Well, there is no other way. It seems that we can only piling up the nitrate field first." After Xia Xianze said this, he turned to Liang Letian and Mi Shuo, the two representatives of the agricultural company, and said pleasantly: "This is the only way for the time being.

, let’s just settle for now?”

Liang Letian and Mi Shuo nodded at the same time. Their conditions were limited, and they, two farmers, could not force others to do anything.

"Well, now that we've decided, let's act quickly." Xia Xianze then said to a polite time traveler on his right who was wearing gold-rimmed glasses: "Hurry up and hang up the recruitment notice and see who is willing.

Come and be the general manager of the salt field."

This person's name is Deng Xin, he is the director of the main office and is responsible for managing the network, collecting daily documents and other trivial matters.

After seeing Deng Xin's nod, Xia Xianze added: "The construction of saltpeter fields will be given priority across the board, and all equipment, personnel and materials will be allocated first. The person who takes office must quickly produce a construction report."

"Well, if it comes to the Nitrate Field, I will send people here to control part of it." Comrade Qin Ming, who was as fierce as a dog before entering and as cowardly as a dog after entering, finally ended the silent posture he had maintained since entering, and quietly interrupted.

A word of mouth.

"Um?"

"Well, I need part of the nitrate field here to regularly spread plant ash. In this case, potassium nitrate can be directly harvested and used to make explosives after purification."

"Oh, that's right. I think it's okay. Explosives are also necessary. We can allocate part of the saltpeter field to you. You can communicate with the person in charge then." After thinking about it, Xia Xianze nodded and agreed.

Comrade Qin Ming's great cause was finally settled with one sentence. As for the additional items such as eldest daughter and daughter-in-law, Comrade Qin Ming wisely did not open his mouth at the meeting. Even fools knew that it was inappropriate to mention this in this situation!

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