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A month later.

The Buffalo Salt Factory built on the seashore was the first to go into production.

The salt factory recruited more than 500 workers, with an average salary of 1,500 wen, more than three times the market average, and various bonuses and benefits.

Sun Dapeng strictly controls the process according to the method taught by Chu Wen.

The first step is to dry the salt.

Seawater is introduced into the salt pans, where water is evaporated by the sun and wind until the salt crystallizes to produce crude salt.

The second step is purification.

First, dissolve the obtained crude salt in water, let it stand to allow impurities to precipitate, reduce the impurity content by changing the water multiple times, and then use filter cloth to filter the brine to remove larger particles of impurities.

The third step is deep purification.

This is the most critical step.

First, add quicklime and water to make lime milk, then add it to salt water and stir to remove the bitterness and cause impurities to precipitate.

Then take out the pure brine on the upper layer, repeat the evaporation and crystallization twice to obtain high-purity salt crystals.

Then add slaked lime and water and repeat the above process.

The fourth step is drying and crystallization.

The brine that has been purified three times is placed in the sun to dry so that the salt can be completely crystallized.

the fifth step,

The crystallized salt particles are classified by size through a sieve, and residual impurities are removed to obtain refined salt of different grades.

The first batch of refined salt was produced, which made Sun Dapeng overjoyed.

The salt grains were as fine as sand and as white as winter snow. Not only were they not as dark gray as the salt grains on the market, they also had no bitterness at all.

Sun Dapeng looked at the pile of white fine salt and was full of admiration for Chu Wen.

I didn’t expect that quicklime and slaked lime would have such a great effect. I don’t know how Brother Chu came up with this idea.

He knew that with this salt-making technology alone, his elder brother's dream of becoming the richest man in the world would be just around the corner.

After the first batch of refined salt was produced, Sun Dapeng immediately recruited another 30 workers to be responsible for the security of the purification department. At the same time, he built workers' dormitories and added a wall around the salt factory.

Once Buffalo brand refined salt was launched, it immediately became popular in Buffalo.

Although the price is a little high, after tasting the refined salt without any bitterness, I can never eat the bitter and astringent coarse salt again.

Moreover, Buffalo brand refined salt is of extremely high purity, and only a small amount is needed to make dishes salty. When converted, it is actually not expensive.

Chu Wen asked Sun Dapeng to speed up production and stock up more goods, saying that demand would soon exceed supply.

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The second factory to go into production was the toilet factory.

Sun Dapeng acquired a large porcelain factory and then hired a dozen of the best porcelain makers in Buffalo County at high salaries.

He took out Chu Wen's hand-drawn drawings and asked more than a dozen craftsmen to study them day and night. Finally, they made a qualified flush toilet, which was then put into production immediately.

Chu Wen said that at least 10,000 toilets must be produced within half a year.

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The third plant to be put into production was a cement plant.

Following Chu Wen's instructions, Sun Dapeng acquired a lime kiln along the river and recruited 500 workers just for limestone mining.

When producing cement, there is a lot of smoke and dust, and improper protection will be harmful to health. Chu Wen requires everyone to wear a three-layer cotton mask and offers a monthly salary of 2,000 wen, plus bonuses and large subsidies.

Local people fought hard to get jobs in the cement factory.

While Sun Dapeng was mining large quantities of limestone, he also built twenty lime kilns. At the same time, under the guidance of Chu Wen, he hired dozens of carpenters to make waterwheel grinders.

After everything was ready, cement production officially began.

The first step is to prepare quicklime.

Quicklime can be obtained by calcining limestone at high temperature with coal.

There are many skilled craftsmen available for this step and it is not difficult.

The second step is grinding.

The calcined quicklime and clay are ground into powder separately.

This step was all completed using ten water wheels designed by Chu Wen.

The third step is mixing and calcining.

Mix quicklime powder and clay powder in proportion, add water to make raw material balls, and put them into the lime kiln again for calcination.

The fourth step is crushing and mixing.

After the calcined clinker is cooled, it is ground into fine powder again, and then a small amount of gypsum powder is added and mixed well to obtain cement.

Sun Dapeng followed Professor Chu Wen's method and mixed cement, sand and water. One day later, the mixture became as hard as iron.

This surprised Sun Dapeng, and then he was inexplicably delighted.

The raw materials for this thing are just stones and clay, which are almost free, and coal is inexhaustible, so the cost is extremely low.

If it is used to build roads and houses, the prospects are unimaginable.

This is simply digging silver from the ground!

Confidential!

Must be kept secret!

Sun Dapeng quickly spent money to buy more than ten square miles of land nearby and hired people to build a wall day and night.

At the same time, according to Chu Wen's instructions, a cement pipe factory was built next to the cement plant.

After the cement was produced, the construction of the industrial zone started immediately. Sun Dapeng was so busy that he had no time to go to Tianshangrenjian.

When Sun Shangwu saw that his son, who had always been naughty, had become so diligent, his anger at him becoming his brother-in-law dissipated a lot.

In addition, the coke required for steelmaking has been successfully produced.

In the newly built steel plant, the blast furnace and waterwheel blower have been built.

The iron smelting master who was hired at a high salary is repeatedly testing Chu Wen's carbon control technology.

Even the pig iron currently produced in the blast furnace is tougher than all the iron tools on the market, but it has not yet reached the standards required by Chu Wen, so it is still in the experimental stage.

Sun Dapeng was getting busier and busier, but Chu Wen had more and more free time.

He set up a first-instance court in the county government office and appointed Mr. Xu as the presiding judge, and Mr. Xu and Director Li as jurors.

Neighborhood conflicts, lost chickens and dogs and other trivial matters are all tried by the first instance court, and the parties have the right to appeal.

For major cases, the first instance court will conduct a preliminary hearing and then Chu Wen will make the verdict.

This way, he had less work to do.

He recruited sixty new yamen runners to assign clear responsibilities for all county affairs.

Then he picked out ten stubborn young men like Zhao Dezhu to set up the Independent Commission Against Corruption. Chu Wen even took out the Four Verses of Feng Yin and gave them a big bowl of chicken soup.

At the same time, the county government issued a notice, encouraging people to report whether the officials solicited or accepted bribes. Once verified, the entire amount of the bribe would be returned to the person who reported it.

From then on, while Chu Wen was paid a high salary to maintain his integrity, a national supervision mechanism was also put into operation.

All the runners who came to work in the county government knew Chu Wen's reputation as the county magistrate who confiscated property, so everyone was afraid of him.

With the Independent Commission Against Corruption watching from above and the common people watching from below, plus the generous monthly salary, no one dares to act recklessly.

As a result, Chu Wen suddenly felt relieved.

He would hang out in the county government office all day when he had nothing to do, and when he was bored he would guide the work of the Women's Federation.

Today, the Women's Federation has expanded to twelve members, and all the women committee members are young and beautiful. Chu Wen's life is so comfortable.

Apart from that, the rest of the time he either practiced the Spirit Forging Mirror, or practiced the Spirit Forging Mirror while taking Xiu'er and Zi Yan out for fun.

If you meet a landlord or a bully, you should give him a good beating.

Whenever he came across a poor family, he would help them.

When they encounter wild goblins or monsters, they play with them for a while.

If you encounter a wandering ghost, you can help it to be reborn on the spot.

Although his cultivation of immortality was full of worldly affairs and he had lost his tranquility and inaction, he was still free and easy.