From Chief to Ball

Pass the bamboo tube over and let the students have a look.

After passing through dozens of hands, the sense of mystery full of awe just now dissipated instantly.

A few people chuckled, shaking the simple little bamboo tube, no longer respectful and cautious as before.

It is a bamboo tube. Inside the bottom of the bamboo tube is a half-fixed calfskin, with flanges made around it with the help of bamboo knots.

Just glanced at it and understood it.

It's nothing more than when the bamboo tube is stretched into the bottom of the water, the water will push the calfskin into the bamboo tube, creating a gap.

When the water surface is lifted upwards, the muddy water inside the bamboo tube will naturally press the cowhide down, and when it reaches the flange, the gap between the cowhide and the bamboo tube disappears.

Therefore, the silt can only go upward from the bottom of the bamboo tube, but cannot fall from the bamboo tube.

It was a very simple thing, and a few young boys who were not familiar with human affairs couldn't help laughing strangely.

What I learned today smells like a bed.

Either poke vigorously into the small round hole with a drill bit; or push off a layer of skin film; and when the skin film is topped, some water must be poured to prevent it from drying. If it is dry, you must find a way to add some water.

The smirking people think again that this is used to dig a well. What is the purpose of digging a well?

So someone asked maliciously: "Mr. Chen, how can we be considered as a master?"

"Water is coming out of the hole."

Several people laughed. They liked such dirty talk when they were young. Chen Jian didn't blame them. Instead, he said: "It would be even better if you can make the well-drilling technique into a dirty talk jingle. Call it a layman." When you hear it blushing or your body is hard, let the experts smile ambiguously when you hear it, and I will pay you to go to the brothel to find a woman."

He also explained clearly how to push the moso bamboo down, how to connect the moso bamboo to make the well wall to prevent water seepage, how to pull the winch with oxen, and how to clean the mud inside.

"I've finished talking to you about what's on the paper now. It can be said that I, my husband, have come to an end. After that, you will be my husband. Maybe I will ask you for advice."

"It sounds simple, but many skills are learned and summed up through labor. You are the ones who perfect this drilling technique. If this drilling technique is successful in the future, your names will definitely be left behind."

"Now the upper wall of this well has been built for you, and the bamboo winch and cattle have been prepared for you. But there are still many problems, and I can't teach you."

"What should I do if the drilling is crooked? How do I know if the drilling is straight? How do I fish out the broken drill bit and hang it in the well? What kind of tool is more convenient to use for taking out the large gravel? Generally, the drill bit is changed after a few strokes? Higher heights are most efficient and the bits don't crumble?"

"These questions are left to you."

Chen Jian bowed to the young students, then pointed to the mouth of the well that had already been built and said: "Let's start with this well. When the water comes out, each person will get a silver coin pocket money. If this well is finished, then Only four more wells will be drilled in random locations, but they must be one mile away from this well."

"After the four wells have been drilled, you are considered to have completed your studies. If you want to stay in the school and become a teacher, you can. If you don't want to be a teacher, I will find you a good job. It will be tiring, but the salary will definitely satisfy you."

"It's still the same sentence. Write more, ask more, think more, ponder more. I look forward to learning from you soon."

Everyone looked at the stone wall around them and asked, "Mr. Chen, aren't you going to dig a well, just let us practice digging a well?"

"When it will be useful, the place where the well should be drilled is there, and I can't run away. Besides, after signing the contract, even if I don't need you after I finish my studies, I will still pay you. Is it possible that you are afraid that I will not be able to afford the money? ?”

Chapter 1 Fifteen Dare to Be the First in the World

The land where the well should be drilled is indeed there, and it is really impossible to escape.

Chen Jian didn't startle the snakes. Those who use the floating method to skim oil from the overflow layer of natural oil seedlings are still at the most basic stage of oil extraction, and the oil is not worth much now.

Formal oil refining is a high-tech industry, but local oil refining sometimes only needs two iron pots.

Without him, when the oil is extracted at the beginning, gasoline and diesel are the least valuable things to throw away directly, and the only useful thing is kerosene.

In some places where oil can leak out even if a hole is dug, the method of refining oil in black workshops is to find a large iron tank and fill it with crude oil.Then use the excavated oil as firewood, pour it on an iron pot, ignite it, heat it and distill it... This is called reckless waste, but people can afford to waste it, because no one cares about the war, except for the cost of hiring burnt people, the cost is negligible Excluding.

What's more, collecting plastic bags of oil and setting up a large iron pot together can also make diesel oil, which is nothing more than easy death.

At this time, there was no sign of the steam engine, and Chen Jian would not think about the internal combustion engine.But the kerosene produced is definitely suitable for lighting lamps, and the waste gasoline can also be used to make some weapons suitable for attacking bastions and conducting battles.

There is no doubt that kerosene lamps are better than most of today's candles, and whale oil is better than kerosene.

There may not be oil fields worth exploiting if there are oil seedlings, but the probability is still a hundred times greater than that of flat land.

There are oil fields, it is unrealistic to extract oil by digging pits, and drilling wells is the right way.

What Chen Jian taught were all native methods, but this native method was very useful. Orthodox China relied on this native method to drill a thousand-meter-deep salt well hundreds of years ago. It is actually the fifth greatest invention.It is said that some people from Sichuan went to Citigroup to build the railway, and only then did this method of drilling wells spread to Citigroup, which led to the glory of Shiyouxi Creek.

Chen Jian did not count on the thousand-meter well. If he was lucky, he would be able to produce oil within a few tens of meters. Even if he did not, he could practice his skills in front of him.

You can extract oil, you can also extract salt, this is a profitable business, the spread is fast, and it can promote the cattle breeding industry, and promote the rapid spread of feed crops such as corn that have not yet appeared.

Cowhide and bamboo instead of one-way valve; bamboo tube and bamboo wall instead of oil well wall; iron pot distillation kettle instead of oil refining equipment; wooden barrel instead of tin oil drum; kerosene lamp instead of gasoline and diesel for lamp profit The cow's blood of old cows that can't work can replace petrochemicals to prove that dyes are not only from plants and natural minerals, but can be synthesized to pave a new way.

If the oil layer is very shallow, for example, only 30-[-] meters, then this is a completely feasible way, which can drive a large number of upstream and downstream industries and accumulate technology in the right direction in advance.

One step at a time, one step at a time.

Technology is a two-way demand. Although the current technology of oil extraction and refining is not up to standard, new technologies with huge profits will also promote the development of various industries related to it.

Water pumps, water pumps, check valves, cast iron, barrel making, seals, thermometers, pipes, iron wire, etc., can all be promoted by reverse demand, rather than waiting until these things are ready.

The most important thing is that there is no oil mining industry in the category of mining tax, and Chen Jian can avoid and evade taxes.If the earliest developed industries can monopolize themselves, then when necessary, when the state decides to levy taxes, there will be no violent resistance.

This was a matter of great concern to Chen Jian, so he solemnly visited officials in Nan'an.

The officials of Nan'an County headed by Ye Yuanshan also attached great importance to Chen Jian's arrival. Wealth determines the sense of existence, and Chen Jian not only made himself rich, but also really drove the development of the entire Nan'an County.

Glass factories, acid and alkali factories, crucible steel factories, and explosive factories are all technological monopoly industries.

Nan'an is like a huge sanitary napkin. Relying on the sea transportation from Mincheng, it sucks the blood of all coastal counties and counties across the country to Nan'an.

Taxes are paid in Nan'an; labor is limited to local people in Nan'an; a large number of donations and bribes also occur in Nan'an.

The cash went to Chen Jian from all over the country, and Chen Jian distributed it to the hired workers, who then spent money in Nan'an.The merchants in Mincheng, the chamber of commerce in the capital, the children studying...all of these make Nan'an more prosperous than before.

There are more wine shops and inns along the Linmin River, and more horse feed and carts are transported. It can be said that it is quite different from the past.

In addition, Chen Jian used the name of Nan'an County for all the exhibitions and sales in the capital, which made this ordinary county unique.

Now that Nan'an's officials are assessed at the top, these officials certainly know that if Chen Jian leaves suddenly, there will be large-scale riots in Nan'an overnight.

And if it weren't for Chen Jian, Nan'an's name might not be so shining in the capital, it can be said that everyone knows it.

In addition, Chen Jian still has the status of Mr. Xuegong, is rich and famous, and can be regarded as a real celebrity in the county.

It is not a matter of a word for such a person to buy a piece of land in the county.

Although those who plan food in that wasteland will give some tribute every year, but how much is that?

These officials calculated in their minds that Chen Jian gave more money every year on the grounds that it was too hot in summer and needed to buy some saltpeter to make ice to cool down, so as not to get sick in the scorching heat and delay major events in the county, which was more than those who planed food.