Guo Shaoan just came back from a job! The business trip was to help Li Bin collect raw materials and inquire about the origin of these raw materials!

From the time he came back, the yard was full of piles, he knew that his mission was done well!

Sulfur, saltpeter, cotton, eucommia ulmoides, pig iron... There were a few rooms piled up in a variety of miscellaneous ways, and even the yard occupied half.

"Have you found pyrote in Ma'anshan?"

"I found it, and the locals said that the thing was everywhere, and it was not possible to use it to smelite iron, and it would break if it was knocked!"

"What's the approximate price?"

"No need to buy it, just pay the labor fee and get it back! This time I bring back 500 kilograms!"

After getting the raw materials, I put a few strange-shaped stoves ordered by the blacksmith to set up, and Li Bin directly opened a chemical factory in the city!

Anyway, there is no Environmental Protection Bureau, so he can try it first and it doesn’t matter!

After two or three days of hard work, sulfuric acid was created. With sulfuric acid, nitric acid is not a problem!

Then there is nitrofiber, everyone knows this thing!

He is going to use electricity to do hydrochloric acid by himself, so that it will save trouble!

I cut a little nitrofiber and tried it with a coercine gun I got from Peng Yongde. Although he only installed half of the amount of medicine that Peng Yongde stated, he still blasted the barrel into two pieces!

Fortunately, he was cautious and pulled the trigger with a rope, otherwise he would have committed suicide!

"This barrel is really trash, there are actually holes on the cross section!"

"Everyone's muskets are the same. Maybe the young master's medicine is too powerful, so we need to reduce the loading!"

Wang Han, who had just finished delivering the goods in Suzhou, said this!

"Is the delivery going smoothly? Did Zhenbao Pavilion make things difficult for you?"

"There is no one in the Treasure Pavilion, but after coming out, seven or eight people followed our ship. We also turned for several days before we got rid of them!"

The final payment for the last mirror was 6,000 taels, plus this time the advance payment was 30,000 taels, so it is normal to send someone out to get a handful of them!

"Wang Han, have you considered what to do in the future?"

"It's great to follow the young master now, eat and drink well, and live a very interesting life. I really never thought about the future!"

“Is there fun?”

"I just feel that the young master is not an ordinary person. He always has new things, and he doesn't look like the one in the court, and he doesn't look like he wants to rebel!"

"It's exciting, right?"

"Yes, that's what it means!"

"I'm from the Han people! I'll beat him whoever beats the Han people!"

"What about the Tartars?"

"Why do you think I'm making money now? The first one to fight was the Tartars!"

The four guards and one Guo Shaoan plopped and knelt down: "Young Master, as long as you take us to kill the Tartars, we will do what you say in the future!"

"The first thing is that no one except parents is allowed to kneel! I don't have this rule here!"

Several people quickly got up from the ground!

"Young master, do you really fight the Tartars?"

Li Bin glanced at Guo Shaoan: "Otherwise? I want to be an archer as a landlord to make such a big deal? Isn't it good to buy three or five thousand acres of land in Nanzhili? Isn't it good to go to this place where birds don't poop, and I even took a big risk to have a fight with Peng Yongde!"

"But why did the young master choose Shanghai? It's too far from Liaodong!"

"Far away? This is the head of the Yangtze River, the center of the Daming coastline. When the land in Pudong is built, I will build a shipyard. At that time, the ship I built will be able to reach Liaodong in two days. Do you believe it?"

"I believe that the iron cart of the young master can almost run to Liaodong on land one day and one night!"

"So Shanghai is a good place. With boats, we can control the entire coastline, the entire Yangtze River and the Yellow River. We can go wherever we want! Then we set out from here to fight the Tartars whenever we want. The Tartars have no boats, and they want to fight but they can't fight!"

"hiss!"

"So what we have to do now is to recruit people to make money, build muskets and cannons by ourselves, and recruit servants!

Guo Shaoan, you will be the director of the Finance Department in the future, responsible for financial accounts!

Wang Han, you are the director of the Security Department, and you will choose someone to be responsible for collecting information and buying spys!

I don't want us to be beaten to death by our own people before we even went to fight the Tartars!"

The group of people carefully discussed the details. The one with the heaviest task now is Wang Han, the director of the Security Department!

He was a little reluctant at first and felt that he was the leader of the Jinyiwei, but Li Bin promised him that it would be very interesting and exciting, and then he happily agreed!

An old fried dough stick like Wang Han is not suitable for a rigid and serious army, so Li Bin arranged such a task for him. Seeing that he could complete the task safely after going out to inquire about news and deliver goods, he should have this talent, so why not let him try it first!

"Your task now is to stare at Peng Yongde and Zhenbao Pavilion to see if they will do anything! Spend money to Guo Shaoan to pay. I don't care whether you are buying, intimidating or what! Send me to help you first! Think about who to choose with you if you don't?"

"I'll choose Ma Fei. He is cautious and I'll be at ease with me as a deputy!"

"Okay! Pay attention to the little people under the Jinyiwei. Those people are all ancestral craftsmanship. You have to learn a little! There are also elites in the martial arts world, and you must have all the guys who crow and dogs. Everyone can use this information!"

Li Bin himself did not expect that these bad ideas he gave Wang Han would cause the danger to be in danger for thousands of years!

Of course, Li Bin may not care! If an intelligence agency circulates a good name, it may not be a good thing!

"Your wife knows how to read?"

"I recognize some of the things that my father-in-law was originally an old scholar in their village. In the past, my wife was in charge of the family's income and expenditure!"

"Then you teach your wife our accounting method. Now there is not enough manpower, so I am afraid that you will still want to go out for some procurement matters!"

"I understand, young master!"

Now the ships on Sanzaogang have been flowing continuously. Since Li Bin brought them bearings and hydraulic machinery to them, the production of cement has begun to accelerate, and the construction speed of salt fields has been greatly improved.

Peng Yongde used the method of building and producing at the same time to produce coarse salt in large quantities.

According to Li Bin's instructions, the price of coarse salt was directly reduced to ten cents, and everyone was refused. As long as you came to the door, you would sell it!

Li Bin had asked Peng Yongde to build a dock by the sea, and those who came to buy salt in the future came from the estuary of the Yangtze River. The raw materials were left for Sanzaogang to come in.

"Have you sent a letter from Suzhou?"

"I've sent a letter saying that Juren Li sent them two hundred mirrors this month, but Juren Li didn't come himself. The two servants sent to stop him. Manager Xie said that you were also pushed to meet his friend in Nanhuazhou. If you said you went out to sea to get the goods, and you will be back for a while!"

"Hmph, I've found a good excuse!"

Deep in the back hall of Nanjing Zhenbao Pavilion Main Store, the shopkeeper Xu Zhigan was talking to the master who was specifically responsible for the documents in the store!

"Big shopkeeper, why not write a letter to Shanghai and ask them to help find this Juren Li?"

"What's the use of finding it? I heard that he bought a piece of land to build a house there now, and even if he doesn't go out, he always needs to have a good reason! Otherwise, Shanghai County would not be thankless. After all, it is a juren. There is no reason to be justified, so it is hard to explain to the outside world!"

"Then let's stop our business with him?"

"Are you stupid? He can sell the money now and has not moved. Once he stops, he will definitely find another company. We have no money to make a profit and have one more opponent!"

"Yes, yes, the shopkeeper is right! The students are taught!"

"Reply to Suzhou and ask Lao Xie to keep a close eye on it. You must get a big business worth hundreds of thousands of taels a year!"

Li Bin is not in the mood to think about this now. As long as the juren’s skin on him has not been exposed, no one will dare to use a large army to attack him!

He doesn't have to worry too much about small groups of bandits or pirates. After all, he lives in the county town.

He is busy making generators now! The jewelry craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty have mastered the drawing process, and there is no problem in pulling copper wire!

The rotor stator is directly cast by blacksmith using the waxless method. What are you afraid of without silicon steel sheets? It’s just that it’s a little larger, more material costs, and less efficiency!

Solve any problems first!

After almost twenty days of hard work, I finally made a generator come out!

"I know that the principle is still very different from actual manufacturing! It took me more than ten days to make an insulating material! In the end, I just wrapped all the copper wire with oil paper!"

The finished product is about 50 kilograms, and the last test is less than 2 kilowatts!

"As a matter of industry, it's all about material problems in the end!"

It’s better to have it than not!

Li Bin can only comfort himself first!

Speaking of materials, we have to talk about the famous Su Gang of this era!

Although its name is Sugang, it is actually produced in Wuhu, Anhui. Relying on the rich iron ore resources of Ma'anshan and the coal mine resources of Huaibei, Wuhu was the two steel centers that were side by side in the Ming Dynasty and Foshan at this time!

Ming Dynasty craftsmen mixed cast iron and cooked iron together and melted it in a crucible, and then stirred it with willow sticks!

At this time, Europeans were still stirring with cooked iron rods! The quality of the product that is different from this technical point is far from the same!

Mixing willow sticks can dissolve the carbon in the willow sticks in the iron, and what comes out is carbon steel!

But in Li Bin's opinion, this is certainly not enough! Because people have not yet realized the harm of sulfur and phosphorus in steel at this time!

The most famous example is the silent Titanic in 1912! In order to increase the strength of the steel plate, the engineer actually added sulfide to it, making the Titanic steel plate hard and brittle, but it broke directly after being wiped by the iceberg!

In other words, the quality of steel was actually very poor until World War I!

People did not realize the harm of sulfur and phosphorus in steel until the late 19th century, and did not find a way to completely remove them until the 21st century! They can only find a way to control them!

However, with the continuous accumulation of human experience and knowledge, Li Bin is fully confident that he can refine steel that exceeds the level of World War I!

This time, Guo Shaoan was sent out to find raw materials. Li Bin still had a little fantasy, hoping that he could find traces of manganese, chromium and molybdenum near Shanghai!

The mining areas that Li Bin knew were in Hunan and the other in the Northeast, and they were all in chaos! Obviously, they were not the place that can be reached now!

Without these kinds of ore, he would not be able to create high-pressure resistant alloy seamless steel pipes, and his body and weapons and high-pressure boilers are both terrible!
Chapter completed!