From Chief to Ball

It is not too far from Mincheng, and it is connected by land and water. During the New Year, I often go to Mincheng to have fun. There have been no pirates or rebellions in Mincheng in the past two years, and some things will be impressive. profound.

After meeting, after a brief question, Chen Jian said that he was the person he thought of, and the business officer was amazed immediately, and he repeatedly praised Chen Jian for the scene he had seen before.

During the exchange of greetings, Chen Jian quietly handed over a bank draft. When the business officer held the hand, he felt that there was something more in his hand, and he was even happier.Secretly thought that this young man became famous at a young age, but he is still a man without arrogance, it is really rare.

Hand over the money, some things still need to be done in business.

"There are quite a few hired workers and apprentices in the county, and they are all people who have studied Kaimeng. It's easy to talk about hired workers. You can go to the magistrate to handle the contract of hired workers. According to the rules, I will charge you to hire people for three months. The salary is used as collateral, and if something goes wrong, it will be easy to deal with."

"It's natural."

"Glass workers and apprentices have a minimum salary in the law, and these mortgages will be based on the lowest salary. This is no problem. It's just that you are a chemical plant. What is it? I am a business officer. I've looked through a lot, but I still haven't seen anything like this."

Chen Jian hesitated, thinking that although the chemical plant was very simple at the beginning, it was really hard to say what it would produce.

If it is small, it is the production of plant ash, green vitriol oil, etc.; if it is large, it will not be afraid of death if it is formed on a large scale, and it is not a big problem to transform it into an explosives factory within a month.

"Uh... You've also heard that I wrote an incomplete article and got advice from Mr. Mu from the Capital Academy. This thing is actually related to Mr. Mu from the Academy."

Chen Jian simply pulled the tiger's skin to pull the banner, and told half the truth, which made the business officer stunned.

He went to school to study statistics and business laws and regulations. He had never heard of Mr. Mu's name, but he had heard of the name of the Capital Academy.

Coupled with the rumors that Chen Jian had heard a few days ago and deliberately promoted by Chen Jian, he couldn't help feeling that chemical engineering was a big thing.

Nowadays, the control is very loose. As long as you don’t do something like supporting the enemy or rebelling, as long as you have enough money and the military relationship is strong enough, even cannons and guns can be produced.The business officer was very relieved about this point. Anyway, Chen Jian's father was also a naval officer, and he might become a school disciple. Such a thing is absolutely impossible.

After thinking about it, the business officer thought that this thing might be a workshop like seaweed ash, so he calculated the minimum salary according to the regulations of these workshops.

In the end, we talked about the most important issue - land.

"You also know that glass is fragile and requires coal to be fired, so I want to buy a more convenient place to build this workshop. This thing is not easy to transport, it's best not too far from the county town, and not too far from the river After all, materials such as coal, silica, seaweed ash, or Gobi alkali are also needed. In the meantime, grinding and grinding materials are required, which requires a small river to install hydraulic mills and the like.”

Of course, the business officer understands that many industries are inseparable from water, and being close to water not only means power, but also means transportation.

Take the common coal here as an example. The place where the coal mine is located is [-] to [-] miles away from the Min River. It is cheaper to dig out the coal, but if it is transported by mules and horses to the Min River for loading, it may cost more than digging out. Even more expensive.

Today's roads are also full of ruts. Once it rains, except for one main road, the rest of the road is really difficult to walk.

Thinking about it this way, some things make sense.He originally thought that Chen Jian was well-known in Mincheng, and the shops in Mincheng were full of money, so why did he come here?Now that I think about it again, I think that all the good places near Mincheng have been occupied, and it is really a good idea to settle for the second best.

Although I don't know how much money I received just now, I still need to help solve the public and private matters.The other party is not the kind of small workshop that only has two or three hundred silver coins in hand, and needs to hire two or three hundred silver coins to make a move, and the parents are not easy to provoke even if they are considered personal figures.

I dug out the sketches around the county, found a few places and pointed them out to Chen Jian one by one. These places were neither fertile fields nor other people's workshops, and they were not far from the county seat.

"You can go and have a look at these places tomorrow, and if you like it, you can decide. I will go to the county magistrate for instructions, and I will follow the rules, and there is no obstacle."

"Thank you so much. One more thing, my workshop needs to use coal, raw and wrought iron, wood, and also build houses, build waterwheels, etc. I am new here, and I am not very familiar with this place... so, I will do it tonight Dong, I invite you to have some wine and food for the banquet, and please tell me about the things and human relationships in this county."

The business officer agreed and did not refuse, which is not something shameful.

That night, a table was held at the best wine shop in the county, and the business officer was also a frequent visitor, so he picked out something to say during the table, and asked Chen Jian to thank him a lot.

During the period, Chen Jian kept in mind who's best to use bricks and stones, and whose house had the largest coal and iron.This is not just a suggestion, but also a kind of advice, whether to use it or not depends on Chen Jian.

At this time, there were actually quite a few glass burners, but it didn't affect Chen Jian's ability to make money.

This kind of light industry comes in quickly and can be accumulated initially to prepare for the costly alkali sulfate. Moreover, there is not much competition here, and there is no need for too many conflicts of interest. It is not easy to be squeezed out like the textile industry.

Now that many people started buying glass products, there was a established market for glass, and some people started using expensive glass windows.

But today's glass cannot be made into large pieces. It is made by skilled craftsmen blowing into cylinders and cutting into large pieces of glass. The cost is not low, and it cannot be made too large.

At this point, Chen Jian can use some previous life experience to complete technological innovation. This is not like textiles, which will easily cause tens of thousands of people to lose their jobs. He dare not do it before he has enough money and power to avoid major accidents.

Once the large glass produced by the new pressing method appears, it will soon be able to crowd out the glass workshops produced by the blowing method near Mincheng.

The number of people in the glass workshop is not too many, and it is not a pillar handicraft industry at all. Even if there is a quarrel, it can be settled by throwing money at it.

Another one is that glass is also the basis of observational experiments, and it is also the basis for the destruction of many people's three views.

Today's glass has too many air bubbles, and even some expensive glasses have some tiny air bubbles. It is not a big problem in normal use, but it is a bit powerless to use it for other purposes.

Sextants, telescopes, primitive microscopes, prisms, test tubes, glass bottles, large glass tubes over 760mm... Without these things, some things cannot develop.

Astronomy, bacteriology, quantitative chemistry, optics and other disciplines observed with the telescope behind it have no basis for existence.

Most importantly, the large glass tube over 760mm intuitively declares the existence of atmospheric pressure, the strength between vacuum and normal air, and a way of thinking.

Is there any way to artificially create a vacuum, and then use the pressure of the atmosphere to press something to move?And then you can use the pressure of the gas to make something move?

Some things are not born like a genius with a brain move, they need countless foundations before.

Chapter 48 Workshop ([-])

Chen Jian chose a piece of land.

There were twenty acres and a water mill, and the rest was wasteland.It is close to a small river, not too far from the county seat, and basically in the downwind direction of the county seat.

The terrain here is very good, and there are not too many farmers around.After the simple acid-alkali plant is established, a large amount of pollutants and acid smoke will reduce the production of the land above and below in a maximum of two years.

If there are big farmers, they will have to talk about it, but since they are only small farmers, even if the money doesn't work, they can hire someone to beat them up and then pay some money to drive them away.Of course, I can't make a move myself, I have to find a scapegoat and black gloves, and I can come forward when I finally give money to settle the matter.

In addition to the cultivated land, Chen Jian bought a total of [-] mu of land.If money is used for activities, those lands will become wastelands with low prices.

Today, this small industry does not need such a large amount of land, but it is worthwhile to spend more money for the future.

People in the county measured the land and signed the title deed. Chen Jian found some masons and outsourced the factory.

A complete brick and wood structure can be built at the level of today's masons who specialize in building houses.

The entire factory building was designed by him, because it involves subsequent production and cannot be sloppy.

The sintering furnace, smelting furnace, annealing furnace, and pressing workshop all need to be within the scope of a large factory building, and human blowers and towering chimneys are essential.

The purchased hydraulic mill also hired craftsmen to convert it into a stone disc for hydraulically grinding ore materials.

When the factory officially started construction, Chen Jian came to the county to start recruiting workers.

As soon as the news of job recruitment got out, there was an endless stream of people who came here to sign up every day, and there was a tendency to overwhelm their heads.

First of all, the wages of apprentices and hired workers in glass workshops can be regarded as relatively high among hired workers, and this is a real craft.

You can learn nothing at all as a hired hand on a farm or in a cotton picking mill, and when you finish your apprenticeship you have nothing and can do nothing.

However, it is completely different to be a hired hand or an apprentice in blacksmith, glass, shipbuilding, woodwork and other workshops. As long as you are diligent and smart, you will not be flattered. People think that at least one craft can be learned, a real craft that can be eaten in the future— — Maybe with luck, after the end of the five-year apprenticeship period, I can open a small workshop and become the middle class of society.

Dreaming contributes to physical and mental health, and at the same time ensures social stability.