Chapter 339 No Man's Land
This beautiful saltwater lake that happened to crash into became the point of Downing's inspiration, and he had a plan to solve both water sources and produce a food industry product, salt.
This is a deep unmanned land, and the lake water is extremely pure, so the salt produced is also extremely pure, containing unique minerals to make it have a charming taste. People present directly tasted the salt that was exposed, and praised it.
It is of course very simple to dry salt on a small scale, but to achieve large-scale industrial production, you have to invent something good. Inspired by the vegetable tower, Tangning thought of building a salt tower.
In Tangning's idea, the secret to salt drying is to increase the area where salt water contacts the air, plus automatic sprinkling. The Mayan civilization likes to build cities on the mountains, and they invented a terrace built on the mountain, not for producing crops, but for salt drying.
The advantage of salt drying in terraced fields is that the whole process is from top to bottom. Salt water automatically flows through the surface and crystallizes rapidly in strong sunlight. Salt farmers wait for harvesting, which is extremely efficient. Tangning's exquisite process can make each level of the artificial salt drying terraced fields accurately calculate, and the time for salt to be accurately calculated.
The terraced fields are wrapped around the salt tower like a winding mountain road, and are 2 meters high, which is exactly the height that the robot arm can be constructed now, because robots are used to collect salt. The water pump pumps the salt lake water to the top of the tower and starts counting down. When the salt water flows to the last level, it just takes one accumulation.
The robot (Salt Ji) came to harvest immediately. The harvesting method was very scientific. The terraced fields were composed of step surfaces like drawers. As long as the salt Ji pulled the drawers, the crystalline salt particles would be automatically knocked off by the baffle and fell into the salt tank below. This process requires the salt tower to be made very precise, which is a great opportunity for the CNC machining center to come in handy, so even a salt drying field is very high-tech.
In terms of design, water vapor is evaporated into the air, which cannot be wasted. Therefore, a water vapor collector covering the terraces should be designed, which is similar to the water collection method of the water channel in the Namaquaran Desert. The water vapor will rise in a vertebrae shape and condensed by the low temperature of the shell. Therefore, for every bucket of salt, a bucket of pure water will be collected. The center of the tower is pure water and the outer edge is salt.
Salt is collected by Yan Ji, while fresh water is collected into the pool through water pipes for power generation, drinking, bathing, etc., to solve the drinking water difficulties in northern Tibet.
The biggest difference between the Down salt-drying tower and other people's seawater salt-drying methods is that it expands the surface area by hundreds of times, so the efficiency has increased by hundreds of times. In the manufacturing process, some engineers even proposed to make the water vapor collector spherical to gather sunlight, making the drying process faster.
After experiments, the same area covers an area of 400 times higher than ordinary seawater salt drying efficiency, and is fully automated for collection and labor costs. Even if the cost is n times lower than others, it is not enough to allow the Windsor consortium to enter the salt manufacturing industry, because this is a very mature industry and the fierce competition is not worthy of being outsiders. Only administrative monopoly institutions can really make a lot of money.
Therefore, Tangning also wants to further enhance the commercial value of the salt tower. Otherwise, go directly to the final consumption. In the era when salt is becoming an ultra-cheap commodity, controlling the intake of salt has become a focus of nutritionists.
Just put the prepared salt into a seasoning bottle with extremely exquisite design. The advanced feature of this bottle is that the standard dose of salt particles are popped up every time, from 0.1 to 1 g, which can be adjusted, and when popped up, a beautiful shotgun will be sprinkled, which is a pleasure to use when frying eggs.
Such advanced seasoning bottles are convenient for healthy cooks to control their salt intake. More advanced ones even count every time they pop up, connected to the PC in the form of a Bluetooth network, displaying the time you cook and the amount of salt you use each time in NumberPress, drawing exquisite charts.
So far, Windsor Hospital has only warned people to reduce their salt intake, but has not given a specific limit because it is useless. Who can measure how many grams of food is placed? But if this salt-release tool that can be counted and transmitted to PC can be popularized, Windsor Hospital can draw useful big data from it, not only can it give salt limit, but also can directly recommend users to reduce salt.
From this, Tangning is preparing to launch a Bluetooth series of seasoning bottles, such as salt, oil, sauce, vinegar, cumin, star anise, coriander, lavender... As long as it is from this series, all data can be transmitted to the PC and then to the dedicated server of Windsor Hospital to form a huge food health big data.
Anyway, after experiments, the salt sunken from the Salt Water Lake in the uninhabited area of northern Tibet does not require secondary crystallization, but is pure white. Without secondary crystallization, there will be no secondary pollution and no useful nutrients and minerals, and it will become high-end salt products. The price is several times higher than others. In total, the advantage of thousands of times is enough to allow Tang Ning to enter the salt manufacturing industry with confidence.
The initial scale of the salt tower array in northern Tibet was 100 towers, with a daily output of 10 tons of salt, which was a small business of 100,000 pounds per year, including the creative Bluetooth seasoning bottle. Boss Tang’s concept of small business is different from others, and this is the annual income of 30,000 civilians in the current liquidation.
Do you guess how many workers would Boss Tang arrange for this small business? Three. Later, the team thought it was too tragic to let three workers go in the unmanned land, and it increased to 10. In other words, the productivity of Boss Tang’s 10 workers was the productivity of the 30,000 people in the Qing Dynasty, and it was cost-effective to pay the salary. You can calculate it yourself.
Qi Taiyu has been with Boss Tang these days, and is very optimistic about this business and is happy to be an agent in Tianjin. Boss Tang’s products are like magic. As long as it is said that Boss Tang invented it, whether it is salt or boiled water, it is easy to sell.
In order not to lose money, Boss Tang still needs to promote it. The method is very simple. He made a documentary and showed how the whole process was clean, hygienic, efficient and simple. He took pictures of the blue sky, green lake, and wilderness in the uninhabited area. He suddenly shone with a flash of style. He wanted to buy more and go back, and bring salt to himself wherever he went in the future.
The ministers stationed in Tibet were really angry and were not fighting. Before the war started, the business was in the door. Detai sent a search team to northern Tibet to find it, hoping to bring this illegal person who dared to make private salt in our Qing Dynasty to justice.
The 18 provinces in the Han area of the Qing Dynasty had already opened private salt production, causing the salt price to drop to the historical lowest point. However, in Tibet, where birds do not lay eggs, local officials still monopolized the salt industry for their own benefit. Therefore, the ministers in Tibet believed that Windsor's move was a stolen ground on the Tai Sui's head.
Some people just don’t know the current affairs and dare to call Tai Sui in front of the Tang King. It’s simply...
Where is it so easy to find people in the unmanned land? The search team sent out just pretends to behave. Then, I will go out and take a walk and say that it will be fine if I can’t find them. The thin air of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, a boat of helicopters can’t even fly if they load too much, let alone finding people on this vast plateau.
People can't be found. Before the search team came back, the special envoy of the King of Tang came to the door. It was Qi Taisheng, a small official who used to work for the government, who is now scattered and becomes the intermediary of the King of Tang, giving him a strange thing.
This is a vacuum water pump invented by Tangning in Africa in the early years. It simulates the principle of vacuum vacuuming gas. It can use the hydraulic power of natural water to compress the air. The slowly flowing river water can actually produce a miracle with a pipe head of 20 meters high. It is the best product of power-free irrigation equipment.
The violent way of building a dam to block the river water was despised by Boss Tang. If he wanted to build a "dam", it would be open. Connecting this vacuum pump into a row can still obtain amazing hydraulic power without affecting the migration and movement of fish.
However, he found that the purpose of this water pump was mainly for irrigation. Irrigation is the foundation of agriculture, otherwise why is Dujiangyan so important to the country of Tianfu? He built a small Dujiangyan on the edge of the loess, and wanted to extend the irrigation capacity of the river from near the river to far away on the edge of the Yarlung Zangbo River.
The water of the Yarlung Zangbo River is turbulent. It originates from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It is only 100 meters above sea level when it leaves the country. You can feel it. When this vacuum pump is powerful, it is likely to create a 100-meter-high head, so it can increase the irrigation area by 10 to 100 times. The richest places in Tibet are around the Yarlung Zangbo River, including Lhasa.
To increase the irrigation area by 10 times, it is still in the Yarlung Zangbo River, which Tibetans call the River of Life. Then this is not the Little Dujiangyan, but the Big Dujiangyan, perhaps even bigger than the Real Dujiangyan.
Before Qi Taisheng could tell the Minister of Tibet about this irrigation artifact with a smile on his face, Detai said with a cold face: "What does it mean? The farm tools I sent me to irrigate? Do you mock me as a country bumpkin? I know that Europeans have some skills, but they can't look down on people so much, hum!"
Qi Taisheng quickly explained: "No, no! The adults misunderstood. This Tang King is actually an agricultural enthusiast. He likes to grow some places to play. Moreover, he has money and a lot of money. It is said that he is planning to rely on this powerful 'agricultural tool' to cultivate one million acres of green grass in Tibet..."
Detai raised his eyebrows: "Ah? One million acres? Just kidding, do you know how many acres of land we have in Tibet together?"
Qi Taisheng: "Well... I certainly know that this is a very exaggerated thing. But this Mr. Tang is not an ordinary person and often acts unexpectedly. You see, even Beijing... that's what, it's falling, it shows that Mr. Tang is not ordinary in ability."
Detai waved his hand: "All right, Beijing, that's a place of bustling fireworks, but when we come to Tibet, we have to follow the rules here. I said, I know that the King of Tang is not an ordinary person, but even Tibet wants to get involved in places like Tibet. Isn't it too much? Why don't you occupy so many fertile lands in the 18 provinces of the Han area, but come to attack our deserted land like Tibet? What's the reason?"
Qi Taisheng: "This... I'm also very strange. I saw this Tang Master once when he was just a gangster. In Lhasa, he might have a fate with the Bodhisattva. In addition to the small gift, I have another letter to you. It was written by the King of Tang... Well, it may be written by a typewriter. In short, please read it."
Although Detai was politically correct and wanted to despise the King of Tang, he actually knew the other party's strength and had to cheer up and read the letter. As he looked, he burst out laughing, then laughed wildly, then held his stomach and then looked like he almost wanted to roll on the ground.
A pile of cold sweat came down from Qi Taisheng's forehead. He thought this was a serious diplomatic occasion. What does Lord Detai mean to laugh so crazy? It didn't seem to be a good thing. "Sir..." Qi Taisheng didn't know how to ask.
Ted finally stopped laughing, but he was still twitching. These were really harsh. He adjusted his emotions several times before he said: "You don't know the content of the letter, right? The King of Tang said that I would help him become a reincarnated spirit child. If the current Dalai Lama Cheng Lie Gyatso refused, it would be ruled out that Cheng Lie Gyatso would pass away forcibly.
Oh my god, I passed away forcibly! How did the little word come up with the Tang King? It's so funny!"
Chapter completed!