From Chief to Ball

All the employees felt sorry for the suffering of the owner of the workshop, and suddenly felt that he was a good person, and each of them vowed to stand with the workshop and never let down this friendship.

Many people scolded angrily: "What kind of nonsense charity business company, this is going to smash our jobs!"

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Chen Jian stayed in Min City for a few days, chatted with many employees in the trading company at night, told stories, told the lies of win-win cooperation between employees and workshop owners, and set up a support fund by the way.

All employees in Mincheng who are temporarily unemployed, sick, or unable to make it through can come here to apply for a little money to live on. No interest is required, as long as it is returned in the future.The amount of money that can be borrowed each time is not much, but it is life-saving money for those hired workers. After the news spread, many hired workers were very grateful.

The number of people going to the trading company at night gradually increased, some to borrow money, some to work in the trading company, some to listen to stories and think about the future, and some people came to learn how to read and count or Some artisan skills.

Hu Lin also introduced several young idealists from decent families to Chen Jian, and Chen Jian quickly became friends with them. Five or six people got together to chat and discuss for a few days, and it was established like entertainment. A club has established many seemingly democratic internal rules and discussion methods, stipulated a system for referees to guide and join, and began to fantasize about what the real ideal society would look like, discussing the most terrifying things like equality, fairness and freedom.

Finally, the name of the "Revision and Improvement Club" was decided. This group of people didn't know what the revision was, but at least this club had its own program: not to use extreme violence to protest and expand the scope of voting rights. , strive for the minimum death compensation, strive for symbolic unemployment compensation, collect income tax and stipulate that those whose income is above [-] silver coins should pay income tax, increase the minimum wage, crack down on speculators, limit the maximum land quota, and hope to use the income of a family Sell ​​public land and wasteland at a low price based on the land that can be purchased, and allow the formation of helper guilds or cooperatives to jointly negotiate prices...

Obviously, this club is aimed at individual craftsmen and hired workers. Some policies support handicrafts and commerce, and there are literacy and material foundations as guarantees. It is time for this middle and bottom class to make their voices heard.

In fact, Chen Jian's main purpose was to pick up a gun and a money bag and slap these people hard for a while when his real surname was Zhao in the future to make them understand: this is useless, and other methods must be used.

It was still early for the rebellion, and at this time I had to discuss some very interesting and interesting issues with these people.For example, why the legislative power belongs to the council and the executive power belongs to the government. This person who grew up under the Xia system thinks it is a matter of course, and thinks about the meaning behind it; Whether blood and rights are related; whether justice and equality are the same or not, and so on.

In fact, many people have already started discussing it, especially during the previous unification war as the basis and pillar of public opinion here. Therefore, in recent years, more and more people have begun to think about these things that some people seem to be ridiculous. .

Working normally during the day, gathering and discussing at night, sometimes Hulin would write down the discussion on paper or mail it to the capital.

Chen Jian really liked this kind of discussion, so he stayed in Mincheng for a few more days, and a good thing happened.

A businessman from a neighboring province came to the charity company, claiming that he was optimistic about this new glass, and hoped to order a batch, the quantity was 5000 yuan, and the glass transport rack was required, and the deadline was two months.

Chen Jian thought it was a good thing, so he agreed to the request, and added a part of the money, claiming that the woodworking workshop was not his own.The other party was a straightforward person, agreed to Chen Jian's request, paid a deposit of [-] silver coins, and the two went to the magistrate to sign the contract.

The contract stipulated that if Chen Jian breached the contract, he would pay a liquidated damages ten times the deposit. Similarly, if the other party did not accept Chen Jian's glass at that time, he would compensate Chen Jian for the loss of the original price, and there was a local businessman as a guarantee, so Chen Jian was not worried.

Not long after this good thing passed, Hu Lin told Chen Jian the bad news that now Mincheng could not buy ash soda.

"Isn't there a certain amount of stock in the business officer's place?"

Hu Lin smiled wryly and said: "You still can't see it, this is someone's trouble, and you're taking the bottom line. Even if you go to the business officer now, the other party will have 1 excuses to respond to you. What should we do now?"

"It's okay, there's no rush. Go to the business officer to apply first, even if you don't use this procedure, you still have to leave."

"and then?"

"Then sell as soon as it's time to sell. Don't worry. If someone comes to order, just pretend that you don't have a lot of stock for the time being. Just sell and don't take large orders."

"But you have already signed an order of 5000 yuan with someone. I think this person is clearly with Tian Wenliang and others, and he is going to cheat us."

Chen Jian was not in a hurry, and told Hu Lin not to worry, but only asked him to increase the purchase price appropriately to see if he could buy it. After giving an acceptable minimum price for the purchase, Chen Jian wanted to return to Nan'an.

Before leaving, he smiled and said something to Hu Lin.

"Brother Zhugan, you will soon know what Nan'an County Private Chemical Factory is."

Regardless of Hu Lin who was confused, he returned to Nan'an after saying goodbye.

The ash and alkali accumulated before was enough for a period of time. Looking at the busy employees in the factory, Chen Jian didn't let them stop production.

I have to say that the other party's methods are vicious. If they don't have their own chemical workshop, they may really be forced to surrender, but those people don't know that there is actually a way to get alkali without burning plant ash.

The previously ordered large pottery pot has been fired, and Chen Jian decided to take this opportunity to expand the production of the sulfuric acid soda ash workshop.

With the accumulation of experience in the past few months, plus the water glass fired with glass and caustic soda, the airtightness is much better than the previous test equipment.

All kinds of soil methods, such as clay, pottery pipes, and manual transportation, are used. The sulfuric acid has changed from the original non-continuous production to the continuous production of three incinerators connected to each other. There is no problem in using the prepared sulfuric acid as the adsorbent.

The method of soil slag removal is not ineffective, sulfuric acid is not nitric acid, and the efficiency of acid gas absorption is very high.

As for the soda ash, the most original Lublin method is used, the acid salt is co-heated with charcoal powder and lime, calcined and then filtered.With the expansion of production, it is impossible to fully utilize the hydrogen chloride waste gas produced by the co-heating of concentrated sulfuric acid and salt. For the time being, all of it can only be discharged from the pipeline, causing extremely serious pollution.

Chapter 60 Preparation

The sulfuric acid workshop and glass workshop still look like factories, and the soda ash workshop has completely regressed back to the realm where labor costs are completely ignored.

After a ventilation accident caused the eyes of two employees to be suffocated by hydrochloric acid gas, Chen Jian built a simple soda ash production workshop in the open space outside the workshop in order to expand production.

Handcrafted, hired workers carefully carry pottery filled with concentrated sulfuric acid back and forth like a pickle jar; the pungent hydrogen chloride gas in the glazed pottery heating dish is directly discharged into the air; The calcination of lime and charcoal; female workers filter the dark sodium carbonate liquid mixed with carbon black and calcium sulfide with gauze and heat to evaporate.

There is nothing to keep secret about this. As far as Mincheng is concerned, no one can learn it, and even if they learn it, they can't make sulfuric acid, which is completely different from glass workshops.

The labor cost is relatively cheap under the law, which made Chen Jianyong unscrupulous. The output of soda ash gradually increased from [-] to [-] catties at the beginning to [-] catties a day.

The number of workshop employees is also increasing day by day. With the need for transportation, another [-] adult employees are recruited. They are mainly responsible for transporting various raw materials from the county to the workshop.

Four hundred catties of soda ash is already quite high, which means that theoretically, the daily output of pure sulfuric acid is nearly four hundred catties. The large consumption of sulfur is gradually replaced by pyrite, and the price is cheaper.

The amount of coal, lime, salt, etc. consumed is gradually increasing every day. It is no longer a situation where coal and mine owners were unknown when the private factory was first established. Some mine owners began to come to Chen Jian for a long-term cooperation.

There are also iron-making workshops that approached Chen Jian because Chen Jian bought a large amount of pyrite. Chen Jian repeatedly stated that he had no intention of doing raw and wrought iron business, and the purchase was only for the production of glass.

I had a good talk with the owner of the iron smelting workshop. The largest iron smelting workshop in Nan’an only produces pig iron and wrought iron. It has a coke blast furnace and a reverberatory stirring furnace to make wrought iron: The production process of wrought iron is basically perfect in this era.

There is a casting workshop in the iron smelting workshop, but there is no forging workshop. The wrought iron produced will be sold directly, and then processed by the remaining small blacksmith workshops.

The quality of the iron ore here is good, and the coal is also suitable for coking. It is similar to the coal and iron mines near Old Yucheng in the north, and they are all high-quality mines.

The iron smelting workshops here are still very profitable. Some shipyards in Mincheng also need the iron here to make anchors. It is said that some special charcoal smelting iron is refined and used to forge gun barrels.

Chen Jian is really not interested in the iron smelting workshop for the time being. As far as the current technology is concerned, the production level of iron is already very high. What is lacking is steel, and the production of steel is still completed by small handicraft workshops.

Chen Jian said that he would never do raw and wrought iron business, but he still thought about steel in his heart.Whether to make money or not is secondary, the key lies in the accumulation of technology.From the qualified flintlock steel reeds to the various precision parts in the nautical clock, which cannot be made now but will definitely be rewarded with money in the future, all of these require crucible steel technology.

This technique sounds simple, but it is very difficult to do and requires continuous accumulation of experience.In terms of technical reserve and technological level, it can be obtained now.

This thing sounds tall, and it is a crucible with a temperature of [-] degrees. In fact, when this thing was produced, it was not long before coke and iron were produced in Western Europe, and it was even worse than some mysterious things like steam blowers. for a century.

It's just that the material can only be refined by accumulating experience, and it usually takes one or two hundred years to find out various special tool steels.

He didn't plan to rebel in this life, so he didn't need to make any magical weapons immediately. Chen Jian knew that material science needed time to accumulate, and knew the direction of technology, so he had to invest money in it.

After sending away the owner of the iron smelting workshop, Chen Jian calculated the remaining funds beyond his turnover and did a few things.

First, he got a money order of [-] silver coins, and wrote a letter to Lin Xi who was far away in the capital, asking her to deliver the letter to Mr. Mu Lao in the academy.

The thousand silver coins are given as a reward. I hope that Mr. Mu will use his reputation to make a big reward among the craftsmen in the capital, starting with a balance that can weigh about one-third of a gram.

The development of balances or scales, this group is backward. Chen Jian hopes to produce a balance that can weigh with an accuracy of about one-thirtieth of a gram. This should not be available for the time being, so he promised before The 1 silver coins are temporarily unavailable.

But one-third of the gram is no problem, and suitable craftsmen can make it out. First, it will have the effect of a Shang Yang standing tree, and then find ways to improve the accuracy.