Chapter 132 What are you doing?
As soon as Zhao Hu arrived at the arsenal, he only rested for one night and started working. As for what rewards it doesn’t matter to him, it’s the most important thing to seize the time, because he knew that after the Japanese suffered this great loss, a new round of counterattack would soon come.
He caught three college students who had no work equipment. One of them was Jiang Mingliang, who graduated from Tianjin Institute of Technology, and the other two were liberal arts students from Nankai University, one was Mei Chengfeng and the other was Han Dayong.
Zhao Hu, no matter whether they are liberal arts and science, as long as they are college students, their understanding ability will not be poor. At least, with Jiang Mingliang as the decision, he can also lead them to do things. As for what he doesn’t know, he will discuss it himself!
"Xiaomei, go find Lao He and ask him to take a few people to put these two small boilers into the cave next door. Remember to drain the smoke on it. I don't want everyone to be poisoned."
"Okay, I'll go now." The three of them finally waited for a serious job, and they all wanted to try.
"Xiao Han, you go and ask Zhang Laoshi for a few more workers to help me install these small reactors. If you don't have any racks, please look for the carpenter team. Remember to ask them to find some big wooden pillars. These are all treasures, without any loss!"
"Okay!"
Seeing that both laymen had something to do, Xiao Jiang became anxious: "Company Commander Zhao, where is me? You have to assign tasks to me too!"
Zhao Hu smiled and Xiao Jiang suddenly felt like he was entering an ice cave. His smile was so sinister!
"You go to those big buckets and find out the tar brought from the Sun family. I'll go to the gunpowder group to ask for some sourness. By the way, I'll organize the laboratory in the cave in the east. When the generator arrives, I'll pull a wire over. We'll do the experiment first!"
"Okay," Xiao Jiang nodded and responded. After Zhao Hu left, he suddenly realized that this was benzene and sour. Do he want to do it? No, this is going to God!
Sure enough, after the generator was connected and power was started, Xiao Jiang asked softly: "Hey, are you going to make explosives? But the space here is too small, what if!"
"What explosives? Is it good to use nitrotoluene? What we are making this time is nitrobenzene, not the same variety, don't worry!"
"Me, can I rest assured?" Xiao Jiang was almost crying. Who said that nitrobenzene would not explode? What exactly is he doing?
At the beginning of the experiment, three college students were ordered by Zhao Hu.
"Little ginger, add this benzene and mix it slowly. You haven't gotten married yet. Don't fry it all over your face. Don't blame me if you can't get a wife at that time..."
Hearing this, Xiao Jiang shook his hand and almost broke the metering flask. Is there such a leader? He just talks but doesn’t practice, and even jokes about himself.
When making nitrobenzene, Xiao Jiang was extremely careful when distilling, for fear that the impurities inside would explode. Fortunately, the benzene had been purified before and there was no accident.
After working one day, Xiao Jiang was almost exhausted and paralyzed. She didn’t spend much effort, but was nervous. These were all flammable and explosive products. I really don’t understand why Company Commander Zhao asked to do it here, and he even added a post outside.
So he made up his mind to cultivate two assistants, even if it was good to watch the temperature for himself, but he also enjoyed it. Fortunately, he had the complete experimental instruments of the Sun family, otherwise he would have to wait until the year of the Monkey and Horse Month to do things.
The next day, Xiao Jiang used iron powder to restore aniline, and then under Zhao Hu's threat, the local and foreign methods all went into battle, and used Shanxi old vinegar to synthesize acetyl aniline.
Looking at the columnar crystals in the beaker, Xiao Jiang's eyes shone and his voice trembled and said to Zhao Hu: "Company Commander Zhao, no wonder the protection here is tight. Do you want to make medicine?"
Zhao Hu nodded and threw him a few gas masks: "It's good to know, so I don't need to tell you how to do it, right? There is no chemical raw materials, I have salt, and of course there is electricity!"
Xiao Jiang suddenly shouted and said, "What? Do you have to start from scratch? This is very dangerous, right?"
Zhao Hu: "Did you teach chemistry by a physical education teacher? You don't know this basic knowledge?"
Knowing that it is different whether you can do it, Xiao Jiang had to work overtime day and night with two assistants with two knife assistants, first electrolyzing salt water, collecting hydrogen and chlorine, and then burning hydrogen chloride. These are all flammable and explosive, and they are particularly choking, making the small laboratory smoky. He vowed that when production is done, he must bring this electrolysis section outdoors, otherwise he will not know how to die if it explodes.
Actually, it’s not necessary to say that Zhao Hu had found a secret place behind the mountain and installed the American electrolytic cells brought from Sun’s house. The only two electrolytic cells were imported from the United States, and now they can’t buy them even if they grab gold.
By the time the electrolytic cell is installed, Xiao Jiang has successfully produced chlorosulfonic acid. These are all basic chemistry and know how to do it. It is not those new products. It has to be calculated step by step. So despite the danger, as long as you pay attention to safety, it is basically fine.
Finally, within the range of forty or fifty degrees, the chlorosulfonic acid and acetaneilide were reacted, and then the product was finally created after simple reactions such as ammonization, hydrolysis, and acidification.
When Xiao Jiangshen knocked on Zhao Hu's door in the middle of the night under the guidance of the guard, he held a test tube in his hand, which contained half of the white powder, and his red eyes filled with tears.
"Company Commander Zhao, I, we made it, the experiment was successful! We succeeded!"
Zhao Hu gently took the test tube, put it on the table, pounded Xiao Jiang twice, and shouted: "Finally it's successful, Xiao Jiang, I would like to thank you for the tens of thousands of soldiers of the Eighth Route Army. You are everyone's life-saving benefactor!"
"No, Company Commander Zhao, if it weren't for the equipment you desperately snatched, I wouldn't have made these products no matter what!"
The two of them yelled outside the room, and the door next door opened with a "creak" and the voice of Minister Cha came from inside: "I say you two, why are you quarrels when you don't sleep in the middle of the night?"
Zhao Hu pulled Minister Cha into the room and pointed to the test tube on the table: "Minister Cha, we, we have produced the medicine."
"What medicine?"
Xiao Jiang said excitedly, "Minister Cha, it's sulfonamide!"
""The oil lamp in Minister Cha's hand shattered in response to the sound, and his hands were trembling slowly approaching the test tube, but he was afraid of breaking it, so he just stroked it lightly for a few times, and then asked again: "You didn't lie to me, is it really sulfonamide?"
Zhao Hu nodded vigorously: "Well, it's true. We have successfully tested it, and we can mass-produce it below!"
"Okay, okay, okay, okay," Minister Cha held the hands of the two of them tightly with both hands, and tears came down as he spoke: "Thank you so much, thank you a few of you. Now our Eighth Route Army wounded are saved. Thank you, thank you!"
Even before the production began, the three of them were strictly protected, and they were accompanied by special forces in and out of the engineering company, which made Zhao Hu laugh and cry. He had to coordinate and manage all aspects of the matter. Even the highest leader of the arsenal, Director Liu, was not so expensive.
Unexpectedly, Director Liu said: "No, you are much more expensive than me. This is related to the life of the soldiers of the entire army. Now you have been listed as the highest-level protection targets. Please ask me any request, as long as the military region can do it, I will send it to you!"
Zhao Hu had no choice but to raise his hand to surrender: "Okay, okay, since Minister Cha said that, I won't be pretentious anymore. This is a list of raw materials, all of which are conventional items, such as salt and coal. Now we only have a bucket of caustic soda brought from the Sun family, so we have to electrolyze it ourselves in the future."
Minister Cha was immediately happy when he saw it: "Hey, isn't this just a little thing? There are so many coal mountains. At worst, you can spend money to buy it. Without salt. I will let the troops transport it from Yan'an. As long as the medicine can be produced, all difficulties will be resolved!"
With the ready-made raw materials, Zhao Hu and a group of elite subordinates worked hard for half a month. When a small bucket of white crystal appeared in front of Minister Cha, before he could take a closer look, a loud voice sounded: "Haha, I said we have picked up the treasure, you don't believe it yet. Look, isn't the medicine coming out?"
Zhao Hu turned his head and immediately exclaimed: "Commander Nie?"
Chapter completed!