Rebirth of the Military Industry Power of the Anti-Japanese War

To do these tasks well, at least two conditions are needed, one is a relatively stable environment, and the other is relatively abundant funds. In the former, due to the strength of the 15th Red Army, the national troops in Henan simply did not dare to come here to seek death, while those in other places

The national army couldn't get over it or didn't have the intention, and the banditry was gradually put down. Western Henan finally ushered in a rare period of peaceful development; as for the latter, the Eighth Red Army is also not lacking now, except for the previous

With the money and materials collected during the battle, Hu Weidong also gave full play to his innate advantages as a time traveler and "invented" in advance some new products with huge potential market value that the Soviet area now has the conditions to develop and produce. Among them, the ones that Hu Weidong attaches most importance to

The project is none other than penicillin, which is found in almost every modern time travel novel...

Because Hu Weidong set the right research direction, even though there were no professional medicinal chemists in the Soviet area, guest chemical experts such as Li Shouheng quickly tried to figure out the separation, purification and salting and drying of penicillin (i.e. the commonly used penicillin sodium and penicillin potassium powder injections).

, penicillin in its natural state is easily decomposed and loses its effectiveness, while its sodium and potassium salts are much more chemically stable as long as they are kept dry.) At this time, Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin, was still at a loss as to how to separate and purify it, and

Compared with Fleming's backward natural selection method of strains, the ultraviolet mutagenesis selection method used by Hu Weidong and biologist Bei Shizhang is undoubtedly thousands of times more efficient, and the original strains are selected directly from the skin of melons.

Starting from the above point, we started to screen Penicillium strains, and we avoided a lot of detours, so the research efficiency was naturally different.

In addition, because Hu Weidong was very familiar with the pharmacological characteristics of penicillin, he skipped a series of tests such as animal experiments and used them directly in clinical practice. This undoubtedly saved a lot of time. Fleming was doing those data anyway.

, just buy it if you have the opportunity. After it has been used frequently in China and a large amount of clinical data has been obtained, there will be no resistance to penicillin entering the international market even without animal testing.

However, although penicillin is an absolutely profitable commodity, if the technology is leaked even once, it will lose at least one billion US dollars in long-term profits, which exceeds the total fiscal revenue of all the regimes in mainland China in three years. In order to prevent this accident,

Hu Weidong has formulated extremely strict confidentiality regulations. Once violated, he will be subject to surveillance at the least, and lose his freedom or even be shot, whether intentionally or unintentionally, even those scientists are no exception. Although Hu Weidong's extreme approach made many experts secretly scold him

"Cool official", but in view of the serious and chronic problem of Chinese people's extremely poor awareness of confidentiality, this may be necessary. Later, China has always done an excellent job in keeping secrets of some more important scientific research projects. In history, there have been regrets such as the leakage of cloisonné technology.

It was also avoided, and it must be attributed to Hu Weidong's "troublesome" tactics...

After discovering that the confidentiality regulations were effective, Hu Weidong decided not to apply for patents for the penicillin production process and strain breeding methods, but to keep them strictly confidential like the legendary Coca-Cola formula. You must know that even in the United States, which is known to attach the most importance to intellectual property rights,

Loopholes can also be exploited in patent law, especially when the patent holder is a small company or a foreigner, and the embezzler is a large American consortium. The profits from penicillin are so huge that Hu Weidong naturally does not dare to risk even a little bit.

However, for products that are easy to copy, such as alkaline batteries and ballpoint pens, Hu Weidong still decided to go abroad to apply for patents in the future. Since there is no point in keeping it secret, Hu Weidong can only hope that Western countries will really respect intellectual property rights. If nothing else works,

How much can you get back some money? It's better than being copied by others and getting no benefits at all...

In addition to penicillin, the most profitable commodity in history in the late World War II (the total profit of arms is definitely greater, but there are also many types, and no single variety can compare with penicillin.), the potential profits of other commodities selected by Hu Weidong are also huge.

It’s so big that even if it’s a small gadget like a ballpoint pen, think about the terrifying amount of use in later generations. The cumulative effect is very impressive. In addition, the huge amount of seizures made in the past, especially in Hangzhou, and the territory in western Henan

Not too big, Hu Weidong can now confidently say "We are not short of money"......

Hu Weidong now has a strong army and sufficient financial resources. If he wants to manage this small area in western Henan well, he only needs to meet one more condition, which is a sufficient number of qualified local cadres. If it is a general base area, basically

If there is only an agricultural economy, then the situation is not bad. Even if the ability is mediocre, as long as you are obedient, willing to work, honest and fair, you can be a village-level or even county-level leader. However, Hu Weidong plans to build the Western Henan Soviet Area into an emerging industry.

Districts, the requirements for cadres are much higher, and even those cadres who came from the labor movement in cities may not be qualified. Managing cities itself is much more complicated than rural areas, not to mention that in Hu Weidong’s plan, in the next five years,

The Soviet Area in Western Henan will turn millions of farmers into industrial workers, and at the same time selectively absorb immigrants. This drastic change in population proportion will further increase the difficulty of management.

By the end of 1935, the newly reborn Western Henan Soviet Area finally overcame many difficulties and basically controlled the banditry within its territory. Although there were still more than 10,000 remaining bandits hiding in the mountains or fleeing to the White Zone to try to make a comeback, it was no longer possible to deal with the banditry in Western Henan.

Production and construction posed too great a threat, and the industrialization process in the Soviet area began to accelerate rapidly. What made Hu Weidong even more happy was that the uranium mine, cadmium mine and beryl mine (ie.

Emeralds, which have great industrial value because they are the main mineral for refining beryllium, and are precious gemstones themselves, are very expensive.) were all found in locations in his memory by his specially trained scattered mineral prospectors.

, which laid the most basic material basis for China's nuclear industry in the future, namely nuclear fuel uranium, cadmium to absorb neutrons and beryllium to reflect neutrons, plus neutron moderators from a wide range of sources (high-purity graphite, heavy water, etc.

etc.), can constitute the basic model of a nuclear reactor.

However, the grade of uranium ore in China is generally extremely low, and the refining conditions are poor. Hu Weidong also took too strict measures to prevent pollution (taking up limited talents, increasing operating steps, and taking away a considerable part of the budget), resulting in low production efficiency.

It was pitiful that at this rate, even in 45 years, the first atomic bomb might not be able to be manufactured. Hu Weidong further strengthened his determination to go abroad. "The uranium mines abroad are better, and the grade is hundreds of times higher than ours."

(The highest reaches 40%, while the average grade of uranium ore in China is a few ten thousandths...), and nuclear physics is still in the laboratory stage, the ore should not be expensive, and ready-made cadmium ingots should also be directly

Even if you buy it abroad, it can save a lot of time even if it is more expensive. It is best to import equipment from abroad for the purification of graphite and heavy water. It is really not easy to start it from scratch..."

Regarding research related to the nuclear industry, Hu Weidong is still focusing on the refining of uranium. If asked above, he can explain that he is to develop a super powerful armor-piercing bomb (i.e., a depleted uranium armor-piercing bomb). He waited until the self-splitting of uranium 235 was discovered abroad.

After the phenomenon, Hu Weidong started nuclear energy research in a logical manner, which is more in line with Hu Weidong's position as an ammunition expert than the sudden proposal of the concept of nuclear weapons now, and also saves him from being suspected of being a "multi-sapient demon".

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