From Chief to Ball

In the local method, sulfuric acid is used as a nitrification agent, and it also acts as a medicine primer in an absorption device.

Glazed ceramic vats can ignore the corrosion of sulfuric acid, and its effect is no less than that of lead chambers. These ceramic vats are connected together with ceramic tubes, and many ceramic balls are installed inside to expand the contact area. There are simple nitric acid suction tanks at the front and back. , which can be regarded as a slight improvement of the lead chamber method, which is more similar to the simple tower method.

Rely on sulfur to produce sulfur dioxide, use saltpeter as the provider of nitrogen oxides, oxidize sulfur dioxide to sulfur trioxide, and finally produce sulfuric acid with a concentration of 5.00% [-], which inevitably contains various impurities and nitrogen oxides. But in terms of current usage, it doesn't need to be so pure.

Theoretically, in the best domestic sulfuric acid production process, the role of nitrogen oxides is to transfer oxygen, transfer their own oxygen to the body of sulfur dioxide, get rid of themselves, react with oxygen, and then send oxygen to sulfur dioxide, and so on.

This can be tried in the future, for now, just make do with producing some sulfuric acid.

This is still eight lifetimes away from industrialization, but the progress of the times cannot be achieved overnight.

Nowadays, if you invest enough money to buy lead and customize larger pottery tanks, and use glass and caustic soda to make water glass as a sealing adhesive, you can completely build a sulfuric acid plant with an annual output of dozens of tons or hundreds of tons.

The problem is that Chen Jian has no money now, so he can only make money from light industry first according to the normal way, and then to support chemical industry.

Glass can be sold for money directly, but sulfuric acid cannot be sold directly for money. Chen Jian understands that he is not the chief of the chief now, and can only base himself on market demand instead of concentrating his efforts on big things.

In view of this, in order to quickly realize this set of suggested chemical products and develop gradually with light nutrition, Chen Jian built a supporting black-hearted workshop after producing primary sulfuric acid.

Most organic acids can hydrolyze animal and plant proteins to produce amino acids, and the conditions are not harsh, as long as the temperature is around [-] degrees.

The resulting amino acid and inorganic acid liquid are blended with plant ash and alkali to remove the acid; salt water is added to make it salty; caramelized caramel is used to make sauce color; the residue inside is filtered out, and it can be sold as soy sauce.

In fact, the taste is almost the same, and the ingredients are also similar, except for some carcinogens eaten for a long time. Sometimes the taste is more delicious than normal brewed soy sauce, but sometimes there is a little smell, which can be removed by steaming with wheat bran.

Elegant diners may be able to taste it with one mouthful, but ordinary people should not have this ability. The most important thing is cheapness, which properly drives out good money with bad money.[-]% of restaurants and restaurants use this kind of soy sauce. After all, it is not arsenic. After many years of carcinogenicity, no one knows that it causes cancer, and it does not affect sales.

Considering that in the process of neutralizing the hydrolyzed acid claiming amino acid sodium, it will also react with inorganic acids. If sulfuric acid is used to claim that thenardite will cause diarrhea, Chen Jian had to use concentrated sulfuric acid and salt to heat and absorb to prepare hydrochloric acid for hydrolysis. of inorganic acids.

Hydrochloric acid is neutralized with plant ash or caustic soda to form sodium chloride, and by the way, some toxic and carcinogenic dichloropropanol is produced during the hydrolysis process. The former is salt and the latter is dead. A very perfect black-hearted money production workshop.

In this small workshop, Chen Jian produces two kinds of soy sauce, which are cheap and high-margin soy sauces that cost only one-fifth of the brewed soy sauce sold in the market today.

One is to use vegetable protein such as bean cakes and rapeseed balls left over from the oil extraction workshop. The oil should be removed before hydrolysis, and the oil removal step is omitted after being pressed by the oil extraction workshop.

The second is to use cheap fish here, mince it and use it as animal protein. The fat content of the fish is very low, the protein content is rich, and there is a special umami taste.

These two methods are similar. These raw materials are mixed with some cheap things such as rice bran and wheat bran, added with water, and placed in a special ceramic jar.

Add an appropriate amount of hydrochloric acid, cover the lid, leave a small pottery tube after sealing it, boil it under the fire, and heat it for about four or five hours to complete the hydrolysis.

Use gauze to filter out the juice, then use charcoal to absorb the impurities inside, filter it again, slowly heat it to about [-] or [-] degrees, and add wood ash or caustic soda after reacting with slaked lime.

Weigh before adding acid to estimate the acid content, then use the litmus moss extract as a simple acid-base indicator, and add materials to it to neutralize.

After neutralization, add salt to taste.

There is also a large pot next to it, in which maltose is boiled, fried into caramel color and crushed, then added to the blended soy sauce to make the color.

In another large pot is fried malt, which can be bought if you have money, and it is easy to splash water to sprout. After frying, put it in a cloth bag and soak it in soy sauce.One can be colored, and there is a smell of wheat; the other is that the starch in it can make the soy sauce sticky, and it looks different from those thin and sloppy sluts.

After all this is done, even if the production of the cheapest soy sauce is completed, not counting the five or six days of leaching and frying malt that can be continuously produced in the last step, the actual production cycle of a batch of soybean soy sauce or fish soy sauce is only seven or eight Hour.

Don't say that those normal breweries need the good skills of craftsmen and apprentices, even the production cycle is not comparable to those of soy sauce factories, and the utilization rate of various raw materials is even more incomparable.

It seems that Chen Jian's workshop used sulfuric acid, which is considered a cost, but the sodium sulfate produced by sulfuric acid and sodium chloride can be heated with charcoal to form sodium sulfide.Sodium sulfide reacts with limestone to form sodium carbonate and calcium sulfide.

Calcium sulfide, charcoal powder, and the remaining limestone are insoluble in water. Sodium carbonate can be obtained by adding water to dissolve and filter.

This is a self-circulating system, and the soy sauce hydrolyzed by hydrochloric acid is a by-product. There is no time to get pyrolusite as a filler catalyst, and there is no way to heat hydrogen chloride in a pottery tube to turn it into chlorine gas. Otherwise, some bleaching preparations can be made.This can't grab anyone's job, and it can collude the textile mill owners and preparations in Mincheng.

If the glass workshop is technology plus capital, this soy sauce workshop is completely black-hearted money trying to reduce costs.

These are two models. The former can engage in technological monopoly, and even engage in internal welfare to fool mutual benefit and win-win capital-labor cooperation to create a better tomorrow. It is no problem to create some worker-noble cooperatives; the latter is to find ways to reduce costs and pursue profits at the expense of the world. It is analogous to using black cotton as a bandage for the wounded.

The consumption of this thing is not too high. If the price is lowered, Chen Jian thought that those people must not be able to compare with him, and no speculators would take the opportunity to hoard this thing.

Those normal brewing artisans and workshops who have been guarding the craftsmanship for several generations are probably going to end.

Either they switch to vinegar making, wine making and selling sauce, which is still a professional counterpart, or they have to leave the brewing industry completely. High-end consumption cannot support so many brewing workshops, and they cannot grab the low-end consumer market.

This is the same reason why Chen Jian was hesitant to develop a multi-spindle spinning machine. In this place where the natural economy is about to disintegrate and the commodity economy is relatively developed, the result is that capital swallows up individual handicrafts, and a large number of people go bankrupt and become hired workers.

But this is all a matter of time, sooner or later you have to take this road, machinery, capital, centralization, crowding out, bankruptcy, reduced to hired workers who have nothing but labor power...

The difference between late death and early death is that there are fewer people making soy sauce and there will be no big troubles, while there are too many people weaving and spinning. Chen Jian is still unable to clean up now.

There is also a lack of an external pressure relief valve, and it will be bad if some ambitious people use the forced disintegration of the commodity economy to return to small farmers and cause a civil war.At present, the interest groups of maritime merchants, workshops, handicrafts, and coal and iron smelting have not yet taken full advantage, and they can win the civil war. In addition, there has been no external colonization to drag the navy into the water, so the overall situation is still very fragile.

Chen Jian suddenly thought of the brewing workshop by the river that he accidentally saw when he and Henry Zhang went to the pier when he first came to this world.This is an irrelevant person, but he will be tricked by fate and swallowed up by the times in this era.

Similarly, the era is equally cruel to Chen Jian. He has indeed produced a lot of things now, and the prospects seem to be quite good.

But there is the most thrilling jump from commodity to currency. If you can't jump out, these commodities and yourself will be smashed to pieces.If it can't be sold and the turnover can't be opened, the workshop will be finished, and the first pot of gold that I have worked so hard to earn for two years is worth playing for nothing.

At this time, he would naturally think of Hu Lin, so he called Zhao Si and asked him to go to the trading company in Mincheng, and let Hu Lin come to discuss some important matters.

Chapter 52 Seduction

When Zhao Si returned to Fujian City and entered the compound named "Charity Business Company", Hu Lin was very busy.

He can be regarded as someone who has seen the world, and he has seen how his family runs a business since he was a child, but after all, he can't really see the mountains through the fog.

When I was studying in the capital, and later when I was with those young people with some ambition and conscience, I only felt that I had the ambition in my heart when I talked about the world.

Talking about the past and the present, thinking about the future... Others who can always talk nod frequently, drink tea and light wine, and talk about the sufferings of the world.

However, when he really handed over a business society that had grown from nothing to him, he suddenly felt a little overwhelmed.

It's not that I can't do it well, but that many things from the beginning are completely unimaginable before, which is completely different from when I was sitting and talking.

Originally, Hu Lin felt that he was actually the leader of an ideal country like the one he wrote about in Dream City, smart, elegant, temperamental, perceptive, and well-organized, etc.But now he realizes that there are only a few dozen people and the complexity is completely beyond his own imagination.

The trading company was first established and gradually stabilized, but the income is not much, and there are still a lot of things to do and busy every day, and the relationship between those people inside has to be adjusted, which is extremely irritating.

After receiving Chen Jian's invitation, Hu Lin spent two days arranging his departure before coming to Nan'an.

With a bunch of accounts and plans in his arms, he thought that Chen Jian was here to ask about these things, but he didn't expect that Chen Jian didn't ask at all.

After exchanging pleasantries, Chen Jian directly asked someone to bring over a piece of glass, and asked, "Brother Zhu Gan, you have seen a lot, what do you think of this glass?"

Hu Lin knows the goods, and there are glass lampshades, square-sized amalgam mirrors, etc. in his home when he was a child.

When he arrived in front of the workshop, he was already quite amazed by the glass. At this time, Chen Jian asked, and couldn't help but praise: "Brother Chen, I can't imagine that your glass workshop can make such glass. Seriously. , If it wasn’t for the signboard of the glass factory hanging in front of your factory building, I would have thought it was crystal. The crystals in the hands of those mirror grinders may be better than this, but the inferior ones are almost the same.”

Chen Jian knew that this evaluation was true, and said with a smile: "Since Brother Zhu Gan, who is rich in his father's generation, said so, he can't be wrong. By the way, Brother Zhu Gan, how profitable is our charity business these days? "

Speaking of this, Hu Lin sighed a little and said: "It's not too much. Three thousand silver coins is a lot less, but it's not much. At that time, it was very busy."