Datang: An eight-year-old master of the bar, he gave everyone a blow at the beginning

Chapter 291 Yuchihuan Building a Boiler to Distill Oil

Cheng Chumo finally took away more than a dozen artisans accompanying the army from the Zhongzhou navy.

In order to dig coal as soon as possible, Cheng Chumo also went to Yulin City to find a few locals to lead the way.

Coal is everywhere in Yulin City, and the locals often go out of the city to collect coal!

So Cheng Chumo and the others dug several open-pit coal mines less than half a mile away from Yulin City.

Open-pit coal mines do not need to be mined, and you can pick up coal and cook at home with your hands!

When Cheng Chumo returned to the five-tooth boat with the coal, the tea in his teacup was still steaming.

"Little Governor Yuchi, the locals in Yulin City say that there is coal everywhere in Yulin City, and there is no need for investigation!"

Cheng Chu took a sip of hot tea silently, and looked at Yuchihuan triumphantly.

Seeing that Cheng Chumo didn't take his military orders seriously, Yuchihuan immediately said seriously: "Cheng Chumo, I know that Yulin City has a lot of coal, but you need to make sure that the place is suitable for mining. For those that need to be mined, you need to take paper notes!"

"The last will know!"

Cheng Chumo immediately stopped smiling and stopped snarling.

"Cheng Chumo, I ask you to mark all the coal mines within a hundred miles of Yulin City!"

In order to put pressure on Cheng Chumo, Yuchihuan expanded the scope of coal mine exploration to Baili!
"Little Commander Yuchi, I'm afraid it will take tens of thousands of people to survey an area with a radius of a hundred miles!"

Cheng Chumo was dumbfounded, he didn't expect Yuchihuan to have such a big appetite!

"Cheng Chumo, there are [-] Tang shepherds at your disposal in Yulin City, and their food is in charge of the Zhongzhou Governor's Mansion!"

Yuchihuan will need to reuse these Tang people in the future, so he simply let them go to explore the coal mines.

"The last will obey!"

This time, Cheng Chumo was no longer careless, but went to explore the coal mine with a rigorous attitude.

Yuchi Huan then gave Cheng Chumo a token to recruit the Tang people from Yulin City!
When Cheng Chumo left, he also took away ten generals from the Cheng family. If anyone dared to disobey the military order, he didn't mind enforcing the military law.

Liu Rengui saw that Cheng Chumo had something to do and he had nothing to do, so he couldn't sit still and said, "Little Governor Yuchi, the general can also lead people to explore the coal mines!"

Yu Chihuan nodded and said: "Liu Rengui, leave the coal mine to Cheng Chumo, and you are in charge of investigating the address of the fire oil mine in Yulin City today!"

"The last will obey!"

Liu Rengui was the captain of Zhechong of the Zhongzhou Navy, so when he left, he took away all the sailors on the Wuya boat who were familiar with kerosene.

This time Liu Rengui also went to the city to find a few merchants who sold kerosene in Yulin City to lead the way.

The kerosene sold by these merchants is light crude oil, which can be used directly.

But in order to monopolize the fire oil business, since they brought Liu Rengui to those dark oil springs.

These oils need to be steamed to make oil that can be ignited.

The black substance left after crude oil refining is paraffin!

Candles can be made from paraffin!

In the morning of that day, Liu Rengui returned to Wuya Ship with a jar of viscous crude oil!
Yu Chihuan was very satisfied with Liu Rengui's work efficiency, so he ordered someone to boil crude oil on the spot!

An hour later, Yuchihuan got half of the jar of oil and half of the jar of paraffin!

But these paraffins also need to add other things to be able to make candles.

Yuchihuan then ordered people to pour oil into the oil lamp of the five-tooth boat.

When the oil lamp of Wu Ya Chuan was lit, Liu Rengui and the others exclaimed in surprise.

They are full of praise for Yuchi Huan's ability to turn decay into magic!
Yuchihuan then ordered Liu Rengui to arrest the merchants who were leading the way and interrogate him about the whereabouts of the light crude oil.

The businessmen wanted to deny it at first, but Yuchihuan took them to the execution ground, and they started to pee and pee, and told them the address of the oil mine on the spot.

Businessmen are always in danger. In order to make money, they have already traveled all over the open-pit oil mines in Yulin City.

Yuchihuan learned the addresses of hundreds of oil mines from these merchants, but most of these oil mines produced black crude oil!

But Yuchi Huan is also satisfied!
In order to extract these crude oil as soon as possible, Yuchihuan ordered the artisans accompanying the army to build large distillation boilers!
In the future, Yulin City will not only be able to make money by selling coal.

You can also sell oil to make money.

Oil is known as the blood of industry!
Yuchihuan felt that he would definitely be able to build a steam engine and a fuel engine within three years.

At that time, maybe the five-tooth boat can be equipped with an engine and sail back to Chang'an City.

The use of coal and oil in the industrial age will shine!
When Chai Shao learned that Yuchihuan wasted manpower and material resources to build a steam furnace to refine oil, he immediately sneered and said: "Little governor Yuchi, you can get kerosene at will, why waste all this money to boil it?"

Yuchihuan explained: "General Chai, this black oil can not only refine kerosene, but also candles and fibers. It is very useful!"

"Since you have said so, the old man will wait for your good news!"

In the end, Chai Shao did not stop Yuchihuan from building a large boiler.

Yuchihuan sent Chai Shao away and ordered craftsmen to build oil tanks near the Yellow River ferry!
In order to prevent the oil tanks from polluting the water of the Yellow River, Yuchihuan also dug several spare oil tanks near the oil tanks.

People in Datang currently use kerosene for lighting, so the oil market in Datang is huge!

Yu Chihuan was not afraid that the refined oil would not be sold.

The only thing that worries Yuchihuan is the lack of security in the process of transporting oil.

In order to ensure the safety of oil tankers, naked flames must be prohibited on board.

There are ferries along the Yellow River, and Yuchihuan decided to arrange cooks to cook for the crew at these ferries.

The staple food of the people in Hedong Road is soup cakes and cooking cakes!
Soup cakes and cooking cakes are actually soup noodles and steamed buns of later generations.

Steamed buns are easy to store and are suitable as emergency food for the crew.

That night, Yuchihuan began to formulate the "Crew Safety Code" for oil tankers.

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One day later, Yuchihuan finally built an iron steamer that was two meters high and five meters long.

This steamer can distill at least two thousand catties of crude oil at a time!

At noon that day, Yuchihuan arranged for craftsmen to distill the oil.

Half an hour later, more than 1000 catties of crystal-clear oil were distilled from the crude oil.

This oil can be sold for at least a hundred dollars!

If ten pots of crude oil are distilled a day, it will be worth at least a thousand guan!

Chai Shao saw with his own eyes the black oily waste crude oil turned into fuel oil, and suddenly felt that the three views were ruined.

"Little Commander Yuchi, why do these useless black oils turn into useful fire oil after being steamed?"

Chai Shao reacted, surprised and delighted, and immediately asked Yuchihuan.

Yu Chihuan said without rushing: "General Chai, this is called distillation, just like cooking rice, the principle of evaporating water is the same!"

Chai Shao suddenly realized: "It turns out that kerosene is the water vapor evaporated from black oil!"

Yuchi Huan nodded and said: "General Chai, you are right. The oil will evaporate, so it needs to be sealed when stored!"

"This thing is a work of heaven, and it is auspicious from heaven!" Chai Shao smiled and said, "The last general will play the court now!"

Next, Chai Shao wrote a memorial to the court of the Tang Dynasty, stating that Yuchihuan built a boiler to refine oil.

Although Yu Chihuan wanted to keep a low profile, his strength didn't allow it!

(End of this chapter)