Qi Wangping stayed in Daxing Port for less than a week. During this period, in addition to listening to the government's work report as usual, he also had a conversation with Sun Chunyang's current head of the South Carolina Store, who came here to patrol, and encouraged the other party very much.

Sun Chunyang South Carolina, a small enterprise originating from Suzhou, has entered Ningbo and then developed on the East Coast. The scale of Sun Chunyang South Carolina is no longer the same as before. It is proof of this large syndicate company. Although Sun's shares have been diluted after several rounds of capital increase and share expansion, they have been stable between %-% over the years, and their voice is still quite good. In addition, most of the investors are state-owned department stores, East Coast companies, Taiwan banks and some time travelers. They are not very interested in actual control and operating Sun Chunyang South Carolina. Therefore, the company is still under the actual control of the Sun family. The company's expansion and development strategy was also formulated by the Sun family. This year, Masayoshi Son, who is only 40 years old, is the head of this generation.

Compared with the leading state-owned department stores in the department store industry (almost every county has branches), Sun Chunyang South Cargo Store is smaller in scale and has higher financing costs. Therefore, in order to compete, with the approval of the Ministry of Transportation, they set up a ship transportation company, named Sun Chunyang Transportation Company. At present, it probably looks like a ship. Although it looks relatively old, it is also the best among private owners in the ocean transportation industry and should not be underestimated.

Qi Wangping knew that the Sun family's ships mainly took the Pacific route. There are only two shipping companies with a certain scale on this route. The others are retail captains, which are not in scale. Therefore, even the Army Department sometimes asks Sun Chunyang Transportation Company's ships to carry cargo, especially after the ships of the Navy's Third Fleet have already set off.

The Sun family was naturally very happy with this official entrusted transportation task, because the freight they gave was good, and the second also showed the official recognition of their fleet. After all, the circular route in the South Pacific, which has always been stormy and stormy, really tests the performance of the ship and the technology of the sailors.

Qi Wangping had a conversation with Masayoshi Sun and learned that the Sun family's fleet has established solid ties with the East Coast North Korean Company, the East Coast Japan Company, the Taiwan Bank, and the Denlai, and Ningbo local merchants. The fleet engaged in super-large-scale triangular trade between mainland China, Australia (including Labaur) and the East Coast Local. After two years, he seemed very happy. He even said with some self-deprecating that he was afraid of the super high crash rate of navigation, so he didn't even have the courage to sail to South Africa, let alone cross half of the earth to the Far East. Therefore, he appreciated the Sun family who developed the South Pacific route. If they had any financing needs, he could instruct United Industrial Credit Bank or Northwest Reclamation Bank to provide some support.

Masayoshi Son was a little happy about this because he had planned to return part of the accounts from branches in various places and collect 100,000 yuan to order several new ships to replace those old-fashioned goods. As a result, it seems that things may be much simpler now. With the support of Chairman Qi, several state-owned banks have to grit their teeth and lend money even if they are nervous.

However, Qi Wangping did not give anyone help in vain. He also asked the company to develop business in the Caribbean, especially the East Coast Island, Mobile Port, North American Free State, etc., and at the same time opened fixed routes from the local area to those places. It does not take much, the size of a year-long ship is enough to supplement the country's lack of maritime transportation power. Masayoshi Son also responded to this and said that he would hold a board meeting after he went back to discuss actual operations.

After "grabbing teeth" with Masayoshi Sun at Daxing Port, Qi Wangping also called his own special train back on the same route. After arriving in the capital, he spent some time handling some government affairs, attended some meetings, and then took a bus north again, and replaced it with an inland transport ship at Meilin Port, entering the two lakes canal through Milin Lake, and then crossed the vast Yazi Lake, and finally arrived at Ping'an County, an important northern town in the north on 2019.

It is important to mention here that digging a waterway suitable for sea boat navigation in Yazi Lake (more than rice to drift) is an important task of the East Coast government over the years. For this reason, the Ministry of Transportation has sent more than 100 steam dredgers here to clean the lake bottom, which is expensive. Unfortunately, their efforts have not yet fully achieved results. The deep-water channel on the east side of the lake (the deep water of Yazi Lake in the west shallow and deep water east) has not been fully opened. If the above do not make a large increase in dredging ships to work, I don’t know how many years it will take for this deep-water channel to be dredged.

Therefore, Qi Wangping and others still arrived at Ping'an Port on a shallow inland river boat. Here, they just chatted with local officials for a while, and then went directly to the Chemistry Institute of Natural Sciences in the suburbs. Next door to the Chemistry Institute is the famous Northern Chemical Factory, a chemical trust enterprise that has been merged from the merger of the former First Chemical Industry, Northern alkali making and other enterprises and has been developing for more than ten years.

The street car of Ping'an Street Vehicle Company steadily sent them to the Chemical Institute of the Natural Academy, but because the person they were looking for was not there, everyone went to the Northern Chemical Factory next door and found the factory's chief and deputy director Liu Xuefei and Weng Guang'an. It is said that since the death of the old factory director, time traveler Song Qiang, Wu Jun and others, the giant Northern Chemical Factory has become increasingly ferocious and giant.

In addition to being responsible for the daily management of workers, the two also focused on division of labor. Among them, Liu Xuefei focused on the factory's new industry or future industries, that is, the original chlor-alkali chemical industry on the east coast, while Weng Guang'an was responsible for the operation and management of the old production line (mainly three acids and two alkalis). Of course, he would also do some research by chance.

The Northern Chemical Factory is located in the western suburbs of Ping'an County. It has its own exclusive wharf and small railway, and the transportation is relatively convenient. In fact, if it was placed twenty years ago, the factory would not be as glorious as it is now, but it has started to transport it now. The reason is that over the past ten years, they have produced bleach, liquid bleach, chlorine water (used to bleach cotton cloth and paper, with a huge demand), chlorate (dye factory demands extremely high, used as a strong oxidant), and calcium chlorate, which brings back more than 350,000 yuan in turnover every year, which is very amazing.

What's even more amazing is that these things are made of by-products from their alkali production lines. For example, the large number of by-products produced by the Lublan method of alkali production were hydrochloric acid, which was used in the East Coast to flush public toilets for a short time, but now no one is ruining things like this, because the Northern Chemical Factory transported a large amount of manganese ore from Tieling County, and then reacted with hydrochloric acid to produce chlorine, chlorine water, bleaching powder and other things, making almost all textile factories, paper mills and water supply companies their customers.

In addition, calcium chlorate has also become one of the main raw materials for Yazihu ​​Match Factory; waste residue calcium sulfide has been fully utilized. People from the East Coast have tried their best to design a brand new production line, turning calcium sulfide into hydrogen sulfide through a series of reactions, and then oxidizing it to obtain solid sulfur, which produces tens of thousands of yuan in benefits every year.

These benefits, coupled with the benefits of traditional sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, soda ash, caustic soda, and nitric acid (the last two are of small demand, and the production scale is mainly semi-laboratory and semi-factory production), have made Northern Chemical Factory one of the largest enterprises in the country. The annual turnover and profits are almost directly competing with Ping An Iron and Steel Plant, Tieling Special Steel Plant, Southern Vehicle Plant, Ping An Weaving Plant, Machine Textile Plant and two arsenals, and the first heavy machinery plant, the second heavy machinery plant, Tieling Boiler Plant, several shipyards, dye plants and other key enterprises are all behind, and the development speed is shocking.

As the President of the People, Qi Wangping is also very concerned about the development of Northern Chemical Factory. Knowing that the whole process of their rocket-like rise over the past decade is still a blessing for the leapfrog development of the chemical industry. It can be said that without the explosive market demand of chemical products in the East Coast Republic, Northern Chemical Factory would not have been able to reach its present moment at once. This also proves from the side that the future century is the century of the chemical industry. The country has focused on the investment in the machinery and metal materials industry for many years, which seems to be biased (it has improved a lot in recent years, and the investment obtained by the chemical industry has increased sharply). Although everything must be market-oriented, the government must be more forward-looking, especially in the long-term and stable system of the East Coast. The government should not blindly follow market demand, but jump to a higher level, and invest in some industries that seem to be exhausted and cost-effective. Of course, the premise of all this is to master the degree.

"I heard that Xuefei, you are no longer interested in the perfect chlor-alkali industry, and most of your energy is invested in the dye industry. If you do this, you are afraid that you will be scolded by the factory for not doing your job." Sitting in the office of the factory director with a luxurious decoration, Qi Wangping said with a smile while drinking the matte tea brewed by Liu Xuefei himself.

"Who dares them!" Liu Xuefei, known as the director of a strong woman, widened his eyes and said with a full personality: "Chairman, don't talk nonsense. Although this factory cannot be said to have been established by me, I have worked hard for so many years. The by-product pollution that the chlor-alkali industry originally caused the resentment of the world was solved and created benefits by me. Who dared to grin in front of me, I spit on his face. Besides, I also have the position of deputy director of the Chemistry Institute of the Natural Science Research Institute. Isn't it formal to study dye chemicals? Moreover, dyes are so profitable, and the market is not even smaller than the few existing fist products in the factory. What else can I say?"

Liu Xuefei is the daughter of former President Liu Weimin. Everyone is so familiar with each other. When Qi Wangping was a child, he hugged her, so the two of them spoke more relaxed and casually. At this time, only Qi Wangping continued to smile and asked: "But I also heard that you gave the industrial preparation of some important dyes to your subordinates for research, and you were doing diazotization and sulfonation reactions. Is there anything like this? Didn't you focus on industrial technology applications before, and you were determined to build an aniline production line?"

"It's because I haven't received scientific research funds, and I can't continue halfway through the experiment. The old antique director of the Institute of Chemistry approved me very little funding, but I asked me to focus on research on sulfonation reactions and finding dyes that have bactericidal effects. Isn't this a whimsical idea? Otherwise, Chairman Qi, Uncle Qi, please help me remove the old and confused director of the Institute of Chemistry and let me be? If it really doesn't work, it's good to let Weng Guang'an be, although I don't think he can do it very well." Liu Xuefei said in a helpless tone, and he was very dissatisfied with the collapse of his "Dye Queen" career.

"So that's the reason." Qi Wangping thought a little while after hearing this, but he seemed to have thought it through quickly. He just listened to him and said to Liu Xuefei: "Xuefei, after hearing that you said this, I want to support your old director. In fact, he did it right. The research on sulfonation reaction is a very serious topic and deserves the highest scientific research funding. Therefore, you should not complain about anything anymore, but continue to devote yourself to this work with full enthusiasm, even if you seem to have no clue, you must persist in finding a needle in a haystack.

Don’t ask why, in fact, I don’t know much about these technical things. I only know that some dyes have bactericidal effects. Whether it is native plant dyes such as madhya, indigo, safflower, or some dyes created artificially in our industrial production, they all have an inhibitory effect on bacteria. Since your director has determined that dyes produced through sulfonation reactions have strong bactericidal ability, then you have to do it without any emotion, because this is also the decision of your superiors. Do you understand?"

"Although I can't see how great the research value of sulfonation reaction is in medical and health care, since this is the decision of my superiors, I think I will abide by it. Who can't make my arms unable to hold my thighs? The funds are stuck, and it's not possible to study it. Taking a step back, sulfonation reaction is also an important way to prepare dyes. In recent years, I have also discovered many interesting new dyes. Of course, I haven't found any good bactericidal effects for the time being. This is what the liaison officer of the Ministry of Health said to me." Liu Xuefei spread his hands and said helplessly, and he was obviously not fully relieved in his words.

"Continue to increase research efforts, don't relax. On this matter, I will say hello and ask the Ministry of Science and Technology to send more funds and send more personnel to you. Anyway, I will create the best working conditions for you and hope to produce results. But I think I will probably not see it in my lifetime." Qi Wangping said at the end.
Chapter completed!