Go back to the past and be a schoolboy

Chapter 205 Poor Man's Atomic Bomb
"Hey, tell me about the mess that happened in our country. Peking University students spoke out, and Peking University professors spoke. Logically speaking, Peking University has contributed a lot, but I always feel that things are a bit strange. Is there something missing? order what?"

With a strange tone, Jiang Jiangzuo approached Cheng Nuo and said.

In front of the desk, Cheng Nuo, who was anonymously writing an article to criticize the government, turned half of his face to a half-smile: "Why, Lifu, you also come with me like this? Say something quickly, and fart quickly."

"Then I'll just say it straight." Jiang Jiangzuo leaned over and said seriously: "I'll have the final say, all walks of life, as long as they are patriotic, are actively speaking out to support these students, but you say such a big Why is it that only the principal of Peking University is silent? It's extremely weird."

Hearing this, Cheng Nuo couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

No wonder Jiang Jiangzuo asked this question. Compared with this so-called mutual defense agreement, the famous "21 Treaty" in history is really insignificant, and the actual harm to the country is not the same.

In fact, as early as the beginning of the First World War, Britain and France were the Allied Powers, Germany and Austria were the Allies, and the two sides were at war. Yuan Shikai's government just watched from the other side and declared neutrality.

In this regard, Yuan Datou also specially issued an order saying: "Unfortunately, European countries are at odds with each other, and China is a friendly country. An order has been issued to abide by the neutrality of the outside world, in order to achieve friendship."

It's a pity that the plan can't keep up with the changes. Not long after the order was issued, our status as a "neutral country" could not be maintained.

In 1914, Japan declared war on Germany. In November of that year, the Japanese army captured the German colony in China——Qingdao, Shandong.

In the following year, the Japanese government proposed to Yuan Datou a wide range of rights claims. This is the "21 Articles" negotiation between my country and Japan. The first issue stated that the Chinese government promised to hand over all the rights of Germany in Shandong to Japan.

Later, when Cheng Nuo returned to China, that is, in 1917, the United States declared war on Germany. Minister Gu Weijun strongly suggested that China follow the United States and declare war on Germany.

Gu Weijun's reason is that the future leader of the world order must be the United States, and China must urgently stand in line. In the future, only by "relying on the United States for help" will China have a place in the world.

From the perspective of future generations, Gu Weijun's ideas are very transparent. If the public really follows the strategy of taking care, the situation may change a little.

However, the Beiyang government has a lot of pig teammates. Seeing that the European war is coming to an end, and our domestic civil war has ended, US President Wilson made a special statement: sign an open peace treaty, oppose secret diplomacy, and hold a Paris peace conference.

This statement was a great encouragement for us to restore the Chinese colonies occupied by the great powers after the war, especially Tsingtao, Shandong.

But at this critical juncture, the Beiyang government started secret diplomacy with Japan and secretly signed the "Sino-Japanese Military Agreement on Joint Defense Against Enemies."

This not only disregarded Wilson’s statement and established an alliance with Japan on its own initiative, but also made China outside the Allied Powers and the new post-war international order proposed by Wilson, putting China in a very unfavorable international position after the war. status.

In other words, as the victorious nation, we should have followed Wilson's series of clauses on the abolition of the secret treaty and the return of the colonies.

However, the Beiyang government completely deviated from these favorable international conditions for China, took the initiative to tie China to the chariot of Japanese militarism, and took the initiative to stand with Japan.

No matter from the past or the present, no matter from which angle you look at it, this is an extremely absurd and stupid choice.

If you have a good hand, you will play poorly.

It is said that a weak country has no diplomacy, but it is a weak country, and it still likes to die, how can it survive in the forest of the world.

Just like Haiti in the later generations, it can annoy the five constants at the same time, and it is difficult to find a second one in the whole world.

"In your opinion, what should Peking University do?" Cheng Nuo asked

"It is absurd and ridiculous that the public rushed to sign such a treaty of humiliating power and humiliating the country in secret. Isn't this voluntarily acknowledging that Japan's occupation of Qingdao is legal! We do academics every day, and we can no longer pretend to be deaf and dumb at such a critical moment. How can we tolerate it?" The Beiyang government did such a despicable thing!"

Jiang Jiangzuo was furious and spoke very fast.

Cheng Nuo nodded: "I can understand your feelings. The reason why the Beiyang government dared to risk the world's disgrace to sign this agreement is nothing more than the Japanese money. The so-called meat-eaters are despicable and failed to plan far."

"But Peking University students can understand the truth, but the president of Peking University doesn't know?"

"how you said that?"

"The big guys are actively running around to tell each other, and they go around to give speeches on weekdays, but at this time, when a group of students need opinion leaders, Mr. Cai suddenly lost his voice. Isn't this a bit unreasonable?"

Seeing that Cheng Nuo was silent, Jiang Jiangzuo, who thought he had hit the mark, continued: "Everyone knows that Japan is the most untrustworthy, but the government broke its promise to the world in order to win the trust of Japan. If we don't show our attitude at this time, I am afraid that all the rights and interests of China will be betrayed in a vague way.

If the people have no attitude at this time, our country will be ridiculed by the world and become the laughing stock of all countries, and it will be impossible to gain a foothold in the post-war world..."

While the other party was talking, Cheng Nuo didn't interrupt, letting him vent his anger.

When the time was right, Cheng Nuo slowly handed over a glass of water and said with a smile, "Are you finished? Are you tired? Hurry up and drink some water to moisten your throat."

"Thank you." Jiang Jiangzuo took the tea habitually, and reacted as soon as he took a sip, and quickly put down the cup: "No, Zhiyuan, you haven't said that my point of view is right. In front of big right and wrong, you can't talk about it again." act dumb."

Cheng Nuo pulled a bench over, sat in front of her and said with a smile, "Of course you are right, but the world is not only black and white. A very realistic situation is that Peking University is not established in an ivory tower or a vacuum. Running a school requires both talent and funding.

Peking University’s education funds can only come from the Beiyang government, although the Beiyang government’s money mainly comes from borrowing and selling Chinese interests.

Now he has a special status, he is the president of Peking University. Although he did not directly respond to the students' assembly, he also did not follow the order of the Beiyang government to stop the students.

You must know that these people in the public think that "aggressive students can save the country, and whether China can be saved or not is unknown, and in the future it is definitely not what this kind of students can help, so it can be decided."At this time, Cai Gong did not express his position in time, which is the best statement. "

After finishing speaking, Jiang Jiangzuo also fell into deep thought.

After a long time, he slowly nodded his head.

"Zhiyuan, you are right, I am in love."

Cheng Nuo patted his friend on the shoulder and said with a smile, "But you woke me up a little bit, so you can take this opportunity to go back to Beijing."

"Return to Beijing?" Jiang Jiangzuo hesitated: "Why do you want me to return to Beijing at this time? Could it be related to this student/protest?"

Cheng Nuo nodded: "Yes, as far as I know, all the students studying in Japan held a parade in Tokyo, and more than 100 people were arrested by the Japanese military and police. The students continued to protest, and more than 6000 students studying in Japan About two-thirds of the students went on strike and returned home in anger.

Although some students will return to Japan afterwards, there will not be a minority of those who stay in China directly.Given the current domestic employment environment, it is simply impossible to digest so many talents, which would be too wasteful. "

Jiang Jiangzuo thought about it: "So you want to let me go, can you attract a group of talents?"

Cheng Nuo refilled his tea and said with a smile, "That's the reason. We always emphasize 'industry-university-research', but I've always been vague about what kind of industry-university research is. Now, with the scale of our Academy of Sciences, I gradually understood some truths.

The so-called industry-university-research cooperation refers to the cooperation between the industry represented by enterprises and the academic circle represented by universities and scientific research institutes to achieve technological innovation and transformation of scientific and technological achievements in order to achieve the interests and goals of each organization. a way of cooperation.

But now we have enterprises and scientific research institutions, but we are lacking in the direction of universities. Now it is not easy to successfully open the alkali plant and ammonia plant. If we want to continue to develop in the future, we must have fresh blood to join. "

Jiang Jiangzuo agreed: "That's right. At present, our foundation is still shallow, and our hematopoietic ability is seriously insufficient. We really need to supplement talents to achieve the purpose of internal circulation. But having said that, among this group of international students, they are mainly liberal arts and military. These are not what we are short of."

Cheng Nuo smiled and said, "That's why I brought you here for the review. If these students are more interested in science and willing to change careers, it doesn't matter if we recruit them. It's better than training from scratch."

Jiang Jiangzuo took a sip of tea, and said in a firm tone: "Okay, I'm going back to Beijing now, and I'll take care of this for you. By the way, I can also take this opportunity to see the students in the class studying in France. No matter how well they finish, I can help them to study in France."

Cheng Nuo said with emotion, "Thank you for your hard work."

"What's the matter? I don't understand chemistry. Anyway, staying here won't help me. It's better to do what I can." Jiang Jiangzuo said frankly.

Cheng Nuo sighed: "The reason why the public can do this kind of thing is ultimately caused by the word 'money'. Without money, everything is difficult. This is one of the reasons why I insist on setting up a factory and doing business. , Now that you have made some achievements, your contribution is no less than anyone else's."

Jiang Jiangzuo shook his head: "Well, I think you and I were both mathematics students at the beginning. In terms of talent, you are the best group I have ever seen. But after returning to China, you did mathematics and education, and now you are doing business. , and it's still chemistry, which has nothing to do with mathematics, it's too complicated and messy.

If we don't help, how can a person be busy?For this kind of birth, it's better not to mention it in the future. "

Picking up his teacup, Cheng Nuo hesitated for a moment, and finally drank it down: "Okay, I'll remember, I'm going to go here, be very careful."

Jiang Jiangzuo smiled suddenly: "I know it well, I will definitely bring you dozens of talents this time..."

Before he finished speaking, Jiang Jiangzuo suddenly thought of something and became hesitant.

Cheng Nuo asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

A look of struggle flashed across his face, and Jiang Jiangzuo said immediately: "I'm more worried about you than about work."

"It's me?" Cheng Nuo asked puzzled.

"Of course it's you." Jiang Jiangzuo said with a serious face: "The sages once said that 'the great way is multi-faceted, and the scholar is lost because of many ways'. When driving forward, the more wheels under the crotch, the better."

After hearing this, Cheng Nuo laughed loudly: "Special circumstances, special treatment. But you are right, I will pay attention to it later."

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In the following days, Cheng Nuo sent Jiang Jiangzuo away, while he started the next round of scientific research in full swing.

Originally, he planned to follow the original steps, that is, from alkali production to ammonia synthesis, and then to acid production, step by step and steadily.

But an incident that happened on the European battlefield made Cheng Nuo hesitate in his decision.

It turned out that Germany dropped more than 15000 poison gas bombs on the U.S. military on the Western Front.

After getting the news, Cheng Nuo inquired carefully, only to find that since the First World War, almost all countries have used poison gas bombs, and the most commonly used chemical poisons are mainly irritant poisons, asphyxiating poisons, and erosive poisons. and incapacitating agents.

Including but not limited to chlorine, phosgene, nitrochloroform, mustard gas, chlorophenone, Adam's gas, etc.

Some have already shined in World War I, such as the mixed poison gas of phosgene and chlorine gas. When the Austro-Hungarian army attacked the Italian army on the Dobeto Plateau, they used 100 tons of mixed poison gas of phosgene and chlorine gas, poisoning more than 6000 people on the other side. , about 5000 of whom died.

Although some originated in World War I, they were widely used in World War II.For example, mustard gas was produced by at least Britain, the United States, France, Germany, the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Canada and other countries during World War II, and the results were quite good.

The reason why Cheng Nuo wanted to develop chemical weapons in advance was not to use them against little devils in the future.

In fact, I also think that it is difficult for his personal strength to change the general trend of history. Once the Anti-Japanese War breaks out, we will not be able to compare with the little devil in terms of the quality of our soldiers or weapons and equipment.

If chemical weapons are used suddenly at this time, it may really break the situation.

You don't need to work too hard to complete the killing effect.

In World War I, the belligerent countries released a total of 11.3 tons of poisons, causing nearly 130 million poisoning casualties.

The German mustache was poisoned in the war and knew the power of chemical weapons, so after he came to power, he immediately established the Ninth Division in the Ministry of National Defense/Defence, which is responsible for the development, production and combat of chemical weapons.

If Cheng Nuo can really lead the team to successfully develop it and apply it to other countries, he may feel a little uncomfortable.

It can be used on little devils without any psychological burden.

During the war of aggression against China, the Japanese army used chemical weapons 14 times in 1 provinces of China, causing tens of thousands of poisoning and casualties.

No matter what gas he used, Cheng Nuo felt that it was not enough to relieve his hatred.

"There are many ways of poisoning, the duration is long, and the killing area is large. It can't be more suitable to say that it is the poor man's version of the original bomb."

(End of this chapter)