Chapter 131 You occupy the pit

Hu Jun turned around and pretended to be an official and said anxiously, "What should I do?"

After Hu Jun reached out to ask for money again, he said, "The emperor has agreed to the method of making the platform. It seems that your Mingcai cannot be saved! But I heard that last night, Lord Rong Ruo from Beijing entered Heyuan and planned to buy the confiscated shares from the platform. This matter is connected to the accounts of the Hubei Fanku and the Ministry of Revenue. I don't know the specific matter. Anyway, your shares are placed on the surface, and it is absolutely rare to hide them, and they will definitely be confiscated. This carrot is a pit..."

Before Hu Jun finished speaking, Rong Ruo and Haocheng had already understood what they had come. After a few months, their younger brother had become cunning. This time, Yu Chenglong stepped on a nail and sucked Guo Yu to punish Ling Xiao, but Ling Xiao made a big trip. He offended him and didn't know!

Some of them either lamented Ling Xiao's treacherousness or were proud, but Ling Xiao was busy on the construction site of Gedian. What he wanted to solve now is not intrigue, but not be able to play with any false scientific technology.

Ling Xiao wanted to make large batches of soap, which was easy to solve. Animal oils and vegetable oils were a piece of cake for an agricultural country in China. The key was the production of caustic soda. Ling Xiao knew that there was no electricity now, so he could not make soda by electrolyzing salt, so he had to use the simplest chemical replacement method.

He has studied chemistry in middle school, but after many years, it is quite difficult for him to remember these things and find some of the raw materials in this world. Just the foolish way now really made him rack his brains that day and think clearly.

As long as sulfuric acid and salt are mixed in a furnace, sodium sulfate and hydrogen chloride gas will be produced, and then sodium sulfate is reduced to sodium sulfide with charcoal, which reacts with lime. The desired product soda and an unpleasant by-product calcium sulfide will be obtained. Such soda also contains impurities such as sodium sulfide, but before evaporation, it must be treated with flue gas carbon dioxide, which will all become sodium carbonate. After clarification, decanting, and evaporation, the sodium carbonate will become crystalline soda.

In all the processes, there are only three most difficult things: one is sulfur to sulfuric acid, and the other is how to solve the corrosion of acid gases. The third is Ling Xiao and has an environmental awareness and conservation awareness. The smell of calcium sulfide is unpleasant and needs to be buried deep. The hydrogen chloride gas and water are precious hydrochloric acid.

Zeng Yun trotted all the way and invited Ling Xiao and Jin Hu to the construction site. Looking at the piles of lime, lead blocks, charcoal, and hundreds of thousands of kilograms of sulfur and saltpeter in the warehouse converted into a house, it cost nearly 400,000 taels of silver! He looked at Ling Xiao excitedly, and the hundreds of craftsmen who were found behind him were also looking at Ling Xiao. Their hopeful eyes made Jin Hu feel extremely stressed.

Ling Xiao was angry, furious!

"Jinhu! Zeng Yun! My husband repeatedly told me that each construction site was separated. Do all workers need to register? If they are all together, do you want to let others learn the method?"

Jin Hu was so heavy that his work was. Ling Xiao just ordered him to assist Zeng Yun and keep a good warning and defense. How could he have time? So his generals were negligent and asked him to carry it. Jin Hu was not afraid of being dissatisfied, but he was most awe of Ling Xiao and did not quickly apologize. Zeng Yun took the responsibility first. He took the most attention to confidentiality in the first half of his life. Now when Ling Xiao said this, he was most in line with his heart. However, Jin Hu was no longer an ordinary general, with a high position and a powerful position. He could not be offended. He had to be prepared to repay it when he came out to make trouble. He still had to bear what he should bear.

At that moment, the two of them picked up paper and pens and wrote down Ling Xiao's orders, "Five factories nearby are set up, and they are called "First factories 1,2,345" respectively. Factory 1 specializes in preparing sulfuric acid. Factory 2 specializes in mixing salt and sulfuric acid. Factory 3 specializes in mixing charcoal powder and flue gas to restore the goods of Factory 2. Factory 4 specializes in steaming and purifying them. Factory 5 specializes in making fragrant pancreas. Workers must strictly control the workers. If you are traversing between the factories, catch them! Those who are familiar with fellow villagers and relatives are divided into one factory."

After they finished recording, Ling Xiao asked, "Did you two think of anything?"

Zeng Yun and Jin Hu were generals and the other were big bosses. Of course, they would learn from each other and think a lot, and immediately said it. Ling Xiao held his hands and said, "Okay! Praise! Remember, if you two learn from Hu Jun, you must be ahead of me in everything. In the future, I will only talk about spirit and specific methods. You must think and explore with your own heart. As long as you adhere to the essence of my spirit, I will allow you to make some mistakes!"

"Yes!" Jin Hu began to be impressed by Ling Xiao this time. It turned out that the boss he and he was well aware of the way of controlling the inferior and the principle of accomplishing things. It seemed that the ancients said that the same principle was also the same. He sighed in his heart, but fortunately he didn't say it and became a flatterer, which also saved him a slap, because if Ling Xiao heard it, he would definitely scold him. The slap of the emperor.

Just as the two nodded and said yes, more than a dozen people came to the front and knelt down to salute Ling Xiao.

Ling Xiao smiled and called them up. He knew all of these people. It was the craftsmen who accompanied him as assistants in Heyuan that day, most of the famous craftsmen in various industries found by Tao Zhou. Ling Xiao took them all into his mansion and specially established a 100-work hall, with the conditions being to recognize their children as their guards and give them a chance to families with very low status. It was precisely with this promise that these kiln workers, blacksmiths, lacquers, dyers, carpenters, porcelain masters and others would willingly join Ling Xiao's command.

But Ling Xiao, the leader now, has no suitable candidate, so he has to let Zeng Yun's two sons serve as the manager first. After all, they are also Haocheng's brother-in-law, and Zeng is also a big workshop like a craftsman. These two seventeen-year-old adults look very studious and do not seem to be good at doing it. They haven't heard any gossip about dissatisfaction with management recently.

After Zeng Yun's two sons stood up, another big-money family gift was given, "Zeng Hui, Zeng Guang greets you!" Ling Xiao smiled and said, "Thank you two, get up. Why? After watching for a long time, thinking of my experiment that day, you Baigongtang has prepared a specific plan today?"

Zeng Hui was the eldest son. He glanced at his father and bowed to Ling Xiao, "It's basically clear, but there are some small questions to ask. The lead blocks used by the master to use as a room, burn sulfur and saltpeter, and absorb it with water. After making the dilute sulfuric acid that Master said, he took a little back and studied it carefully, but found that this dilute sulfuric acid was the essence of ancient stone gallbladder. I wonder which method the marquis didn't use to make this dilute sulfuric acid?"

Haha, it’s really easy to learn and ask. Ling Xiao came to the nature and said with a smile. “Let’s talk about how the ancient method was made?”

"There is a book called "The Yellow Emperor's Nine Cauldrons and Divine Pills"," Zeng Hui was only halfway through, and suddenly came to Ling Xiao's back, looking at Zeng Yun with anger, and dared not say anything.

It seems that Zeng Yun’s father and son’s interests are completely different. Ling Xiao thought to himself, “Speak.”

"The above said. Use soil to build two square-head furnaces, two feet apart, each with a fine mud in the inside and outside, and a hole is opened next to it, and the surface and inside are also mud in the inside and outside. Make the essence soak, dry, open the furnace and put the copper plate in the furnace to make it stable. That is, it is dense mud; use charcoal to burn stone galls as smoke, and fan it with objects, and the essence is all into the copper plate. The furnace will be kept on fire and wait for the cold, and take it for use. Inject ten thousand medicines, the medicine will be all the magic." Zeng Hui, who was protected by Ling Xiao, immediately said, "You think he used mud as a furnace, but you use lead blocks. It's so expensive!"

Ling Xiao laughed loudly. Isn’t this stone gall the blue alum? He admired the boy’s brain and interest and asked back, “How much is the price of the stone gall? How much is the sulfur saltpeter?”

Zeng Hui was still ignorant, but Zeng Guang jumped high, "Wow, Marquis is so amazing! Although the price difference is not particularly large, sulfur and saltpeter are both raw materials for firecrackers and gunpowder. First, it is cheap, and second, it is easy to supply. Although lead is expensive, it is a temporary need, and the raw materials are lost all year round, so the cost is very different."

Only then did everyone realize that they admire Ling Xiao even more. Only Zeng Yun had a bitter face and a depressed look on his face. Ling Xiao saw it in his eyes and remembered it in his heart, but did not say it out loud.

The craftsmen reported the construction plan specifically to Ling Xiao. Ling Xiao knew that they had seen his own small test and basically understood their big test idea.

Sulfuric acid production is the key. Based on Ling Xiao's idea, the craftsmen decided to use lead blocks to make thirty lead chambers, leaving holes in and out of the burning pot, and also made pipes through water vapor to make pipes through water vapor, so that the water vapor absorbs the sulfur oxide gas produced by combustion, thus forming dilute sulfuric acid. Ling Xiao agreed with the basic idea, but he still had his own ideas and proposed key points for paying attention to safety.

Ling Xiao stood up and said to Zeng Hui, "Now I announced a regulation that no matter who is, as long as you put forward a good idea, you can really make great contributions to the output and capital, this marquis will first give him a reward, and also absorb him into the Baigong Hall and award him the honorary title! You two plan to approve the specific plan. At the same time, in addition to your salary, this marquis will also set up a subsidy system to reward those who have made contributions and a reward fund every month. Everyone should work hard, and you should know that this marquis' rewards in this regard are based on at least a thousand taels!"

Everyone was amazed and Ling Xiao made a fuss while the iron was hot, "Now, who can solve the problem of continuous production of sulfuric acid within half a year? The bounty of 3,000 taels!" Now, the craftsmen were excited. Three thousand taels were hard for them to imagine.

Ling Xiao saw them "greed" and laughed in his heart. I knew this method to make you think and mobilize your enthusiasm. It is much better than my dead brain cells. Besides, as long as you want to go up, I will immediately increase the bonus. This is a good time to establish a letter for me, Ling Xiao.

Finally, for safety reasons, because there are many toxic gases, Ling Xiao had to shamelessly plagiarize an invention, the charcoal powder gas mask. As for the corrosion and sealing of acid gases, Ling Xiao himself is not a god. It is impossible for him to know everything, so he opened two 5,000 taels to reward the problem.

However, when someone suggested that the smell of rotten eggs was really unbearable, Ling Xiao stood up unexpectedly, and walked to the open without saying a word, kneeling down at the earth, silently reminding in his heart, "My mother earth air mother, forgive me, for many reasons, today I have started to hurt you, but I promise that one day, if I will call for and implement protection for you, so that my descendants can have green mountains and clear waters, just like the European garden in the future, their nation will only be repaid after they become rich, but the fatal pollution will be transferred to our future country. I hope to seize the opportunity today and have a real chance to return you in the future. Forgive me, I don't want China to be a factory in the world, but to be a country of capital and technology."

When everything is planned, the next step is to build it on a small scale. After each factory has products and completes the connection chain, consider the number of equipment, size of the kiln, and the number of workers according to the output and connection needs of each process. This process will take about half a month.

After explaining Jinhu's arrangements for the commander soldiers to strengthen their defense and spy defense, Ling Xiao ordered everyone to scatter. He called Zeng Yun to his side and asked, "Why are you so opposed to Zeng Hui studying that?"

Unexpectedly, Zeng Yun's answer made him laugh and cry.

"The two brothers specialize in alchemy, which is the way to become monks and Taoists. How can I not guard against it?!"

"Damn, so, the royal family still reads Buddhist scriptures every day, why didn't they go to become monks?"

It is related to the Zeng family's incense, Zeng Yun said anxiously, "Has Shunzhi read too many Buddhist scriptures? Have you become a monk?"

As soon as he said that, Zeng Yun and Ling Xiao were both stunned.

When Jinhu saw Zeng Yun had committed a big taboo, he was unable to turn around and he was very hesitant. If he asked me to catch you, don’t blame me. But even if you don’t blame me, maybe Mr. Haocheng would blame me for not giving his father-in-law the rebellion.

When Zeng Yun knelt on the ground with a thud, Ling Xiao was crazy.

His saliva was like a flowing water that opened the gate, and it was like a rushing sound. He thought of it from Shunzhi's reading of Buddhist scriptures. That was, Kangxi found many Western books translated by missionaries, and these classics were put aside! He and this country strongly needed these translated classics.

Ling Xiao knew very well that he was not a computer, and it was impossible to remember all the knowledge of later generations. The two were not people today. The differences in the expression of many things in ancient and modern times would make the meaning go in the opposite direction. This is what Ling Xiao called the gallbladder, and Zeng Hui called the stone gallbladder. At this moment, Westerners have learned to summarize scientifically, and China really needs these treasures of the same era. However, since Kangxi hid it in the deep palace, it is related to national policies, he would never give it to himself.

Ling Xiao suddenly felt sad and angry, and roared to the sky with a deep depression.

"Occupy the pit and don't shit!"
Chapter completed!