The most arrogant in history

Chapter 720 Chemical City.

"It is rare to find someone who can surpass our Tech City Lord."

Ye Kun smiled and said, "Then let Jin Feng compete with the Roman master. If Jin Feng can't handle it, we can attack him together and beat him up."

The current School of Mathematics, School of Physics, and School of Chemistry have all been established for more than a year. They are home to many top scholars and have greatly improved their academic standards.

Most scholars know about the wave-particle duality of light and the horror of the double-slit interference experiment.

Some scholars are also studying the Möbius strip, Klein bottle, and exploring the four-dimensional world.

As for the law of universal gravitation, the masters from the School of Mathematics and the School of Physics have basically understood it.

It’s just that the theory of relativity is too complicated, and Ye Kun himself can’t explain it clearly.

Over there, Weiwei was looking at a simulation diagram of the solar system. Suddenly, she came back and asked, "Father, the sun is a big ball of fire, but why doesn't it go out? Is there someone who keeps adding fuel to it?"

"Of course not. It's because of the high pressure inside the sun that causes it to burn continuously."

Ye Kun smiled and said, "When you grow up and go to college, you will gradually understand these principles. Of course, there are still many things that your father doesn't know. I hope you can become a scientist in the future, figure out all the problems, and then tell your father, okay?"

“What is a scientist?”

“It’s the one who knows everything.”

"Then I will be a scientist in the future. I will understand things that my father doesn't understand."

Weiwei smiled and ran away again.

The Science and Technology Museum is very large and it takes a whole morning to visit it.

While Jiang Yourong took the children on a tour, Ye Kun went to the power station not far away to check the progress.

A large thermal power station has been newly built in the Science and Technology City, burning hundreds of tons of coal every day.

Steam and smoke billowed above the power plant.

Sun Yi followed and said, "Brother, when it comes to power generation, thermal power plants are more stable. Hydropower plants are economical and environmentally friendly, but they don't produce enough electricity."

Ye Kun shook his head: "It is because we do not have enough technology and limited materials that we cannot build a large hydropower station. If I had unlimited high-quality cement and steel, powerful machines, and mature technology, I could build a hydropower station in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River.

The hydroelectric power there is enough for our entire country to use now.”

"Three Gorges?" Sun Yi's jaw dropped.

The Yangtze River Bridge is an unimaginable project, let alone the Yangtze River Hydropower Station.

"It will happen in the future, don't be surprised."

Ye Kun smiled faintly and said, "The water resources in the north are insufficient, and the scale of hydropower stations is also limited. However, we have accumulated experience in hydropower stations, and we can go to the south to find a suitable place to build a hydropower station for refining aluminum.

For the power supply in the north, we should still explore coal-fired power generation and increase the supply. We also need to continue to upgrade transformers, high-voltage transmission lines, etc.”

The current power supply is mainly used for electric lathes, electric refining of aluminum, and various experiments.

After more than ten years of exploration, the development of light bulbs has finally made progress.

The key to incandescent lamps is tungsten filament wick and inert gas.

If you can handle these two steps, there will be no problem.

Sun Yi smiled and said, "Brother, even if the electricity supply is increased, the cost of the wires is still very expensive. I'm afraid we don't have that much money to vigorously develop the power industry."

Today's electrical wires are all made of red copper wires.

One is that the raw materials are not cheap, and the other is that it is not easy to make.

Ye Kun said: "Of course I know it's not cheap, but machine manufacturing cannot do without aluminum alloy. If the production of aluminum alloy cannot be increased, it will greatly restrict industrial development. There is no need to worry about the copper wire problem, because the world's copper is concentrated here."

Over the years, Ye Kun has frantically plundered overseas gold, silver, copper and other metals through trade and expansion.

Domestic porcelain, glass, ironware, fragrant oil, silk, tea... were all exchanged for precious metals and shipped back.

This has led to a large number of bronze artifacts in the country.

It was normal for ordinary people to not have bronze tripods at home, but to have a few bronze basins or jars.

This is also one of the reasons why the people did not resist Ye Kun's issuance of paper money. With more copperware in the folk, the people naturally did not want copper coins.

Bronze is used generously in China. For example, large amounts of bronze are used in water pipes and natural gas pipelines in Yizhou.

The headache is that there is a lot of copper, but it is all bronze.

Bronze cannot be used to make electrical wires and needs to be refined into pure copper, but the current industrial base cannot support large-scale refining.

Later, Ye Kun changed his strategy and directly used commodities or gold and silver to exchange for high-quality copper ore from overseas and refined it himself.

You can also pick out some red copper from high-quality copper ore and refine it slightly.

Even with just a little refining, the acid is not enough for industrial use.

Sun Yi nodded and said, "Factories and mines everywhere have reported that there is not enough acid water. Brother, we should consider building a large chemical city, the bigger the better."

Ye Kun smiled and said, "I was just about to say this. Chemical industry is also the foundation of industry and must be strengthened. However, the planning of the chemical city requires extra caution, attention to pollution and safety."

Sun Yi said: "Tiantian and I have had preliminary discussions and we think the area near Tianjin Port is the best. The wastewater and sewage can be directly discharged into the sea. The pollution we have now is not even a tickle to the sea."

Ye Kun nodded: "Then let's build a new Jinmen City. The area near Tianjin Port is becoming more and more prosperous, with more and more peddlers and hawkers, and its location is becoming more and more important.

The Chemical City will be located there, and the products and raw materials can be easily transported by sea.”

Tianjin Port is considered the gateway to Zhuo County, so it is appropriately called Jinmen City.

Moreover, sea transportation is well developed, and materials can be mobilized from all over the country by sea.

Sun Yi nodded: "Since we are building Jinmen City, we must expand the road from Jinmen to Zhuo County. It would be best to build a railway to facilitate communication and transportation."

Ye Kun smiled and said, "Don't worry, let me discuss with Wu Qiong and others to see how much money it will cost."

This thorough investigation of the cotton textile industry should result in the confiscation of a lot of stolen money.

Ye Kun can take a part of it to build Tianjin Chemical City.

A few days later, the preliminary investigation results of the cotton textile industry corruption case finally came out.

In the lobby of the Ninth Department, Sang Buyi reported:

"The assets of several corrupt officials have been counted, and many members of the He family have been implicated. The gold, silver, jewelry and other valuables seized from the private residence of He Quan and Jiang Youcai in Xingyang amount to 500,000 taels of silver.

Jiang Youcai's dowry and the Queen's reward had all been deducted, and hers were not touched.

Many heads and senior executives of textile factories across the country were involved in the case, and their properties were confiscated, amounting to 4.2 million taels of silver.

This does not include real estate.

All other middle-level officials involved in the case are under investigation, and it is estimated that there are still several million taels of silver in stolen money.

The losses caused to textile mills across the country are still being recovered.”

Ye Kun nodded and asked, "How much is Jiang Youcai's dowry and the private property awarded by the Queen?"