Back at the house, I hastily ate something.

"Tomorrow morning, wake me up early, I'm going to the Industrial Bureau." Wei Bao said to the third girl: "In the afternoon, we will arrange to notify all the local rich families to hold a symposium. ”

"Okay." Xu Rui replied.

Wei Bao hummed, grimaced, went back to his room, flipped out the information stored on the tablet, and looked up the knowledge of the three 'Crossing Giant Enthusiasts' brothers about boilers.

Wei Bao actually feels that internal worries are far more terrible than external troubles, as far as scientific and technological knowledge is concerned, for three knives like him, it is an unsolvable problem, and he can't cry! If crying can solve it, Wei Bao can't wait to cry out of a big river and cry out of a sea.

Incomplete fuel combustion due to excessive fuel composition causes combustibles to accumulate on the heating surface of GAH.

Residue oil, cracking residual oil and extracted C4 fuel are mostly purchased outside the boiler, which have heavier components, higher viscosity, low spontaneous ignition point, easy carbon precipitation during combustion, and poor crushing ability when steam atomizing fuel.

If the combustion is not properly adjusted, the air volume is insufficient or the air distribution is unreasonable, and the process conditions fluctuate, it will be too late to make the carbon black burn completely and produce black smoke.

The oil particles that are not completely burned in the furnace are carried by the flue gas to the GAH heat exchange surface at the tail of the boiler and begin to be deposited.

In addition, in the process of frequent start and stop of the boiler, due to the poor combustion condition of the furnace, the fuel is not easy to burn out, and when the flue gas flow rate is low, it is easy to cause a large amount of unburned combustible material deposit; The boiler runs at low load for a long time, the combustion is unstable, the smoke velocity is low, and the unburned combustibles are easy to be deposited on the corrugated plate.

The lessons and experience of previous accidents have also confirmed that the air preheater rotor is blocked by ash, air leakage after wear, excess air coefficient at the tail of the flue or the oxygen content is too low can lead to incomplete combustion of fuel due to lack of oxygen.

Frequent purge ignition provides sufficient conditions for re-ignition of boiler deposited combustibles.

During the ignition process of the boiler, the flue gas velocity is low, and the oxygen content of the combustion system space is much higher than that during normal operation.

Wei Bao read it anxiously several times, so he could only copy these things down first and explain them to Song Yingxing and a group of blacksmiths, secretly thinking that it would be best to call the people from the Military Industry Department tomorrow to let everyone brainstorm.

For Song Yingxing and some people who have not officially joined the establishment of the Tiandi firm, he still has reservations, and does not open up the core technology, such as chemistry.

But for the people of the Military Industry Administration, Wei Bao has complete trust, because they are all a group of people who swear to follow him, and they have entered the system, and they can only develop in the system. The only thing Wei Bao has to guard against is that this kind of system will degenerate after a long time of establishment, of course, there is no need to think about this problem in the near future.

Although it is still in the initial stage, Wei Bao has already attached great importance to the protection of technical knowledge.

Wei Bao can be sure that the boiler on the steam engine of the water station is completely a modern finished product transported from a warship, and as long as it is done in strict accordance with the operation requirements, it will be fine even if it is used for ten or twenty years.

Technology is not something that can be improved if you want to, it is a systematic system, and it requires a process that he himself does not know how long it will take to reach the level of the great powers who have just completed the industrial revolution in the middle of the nineteenth century.

When I got up in the morning, Wei Bao didn't sleep well, and the three girls didn't sleep well because they were worried about Wei Bao, and the four of them all had a slight dark circle under their eyes.

Wei Bao smiled when he saw this, feeling that he shouldn't infect the people around him with his pressure, that would be a sign of incompetence, "What did you guys do at night?" A listless look? ”

"Nothing." Fan Xiaolin said with a smile, not wanting to add any more psychological burden to Wei Bao.

Xu Rui and Wang Qiuya also hurriedly said that they were fine.

Wei Bao smiled, didn't ask any more questions, and rushed to the Industrial Bureau after breakfast.

For the time being, the Industrial Development Bureau is just a simple wooden shed.

The supply of bricks and cement was very tight, and Wei Bao asked to build the building of a chemical plant first, and also to supply the construction of the foundation of the outer city wall, which consumes a lot of money every day.

Wei Bao first showed the cheat sheets he had copied to the people, and only a few of them were literate, and the clerk read them to everyone.

"Childe, let's see if we can make the boiler smaller and thicker, and stop it a few more times a day to increase the efforts to clean up the combustion residue." Song Yingxing asked.

Wei Bao nodded, he also thought so: "But to ensure that there is enough torque, if you can't bring the stirring paddle, you won't be able to achieve the effect." ”

"Now I can only combine machine mixing and manual mixing. First, the coarse material is stirred once by machine, and then the slightly finer material is stirred by hand. Song Yingxing said: "When the technology improves, let's see if we can build a bigger boiler." ”

Wei Bao snorted, "It's good to have this idea!" Our key problem is that we do not have our own iron and steel plant, the current ironmaking industry is too backward, and the copper-iron alloy cannot meet the manufacturing process conditions of the boiler! Let's take it one step at a time. ”

"What Childe said is exactly, I have been to see boiler fragments, but the main reason is that the materials are not good and cannot withstand the high pressure." Deng Erxian said: "I did an experiment with a small urn this morning, and the urn was sealed to death, and it was also violent. If it is not blocked, if it runs out, it will be too wasteful of fuel, and the torque will not be enough. But the seal is too tight, and the boiler can't bear it. I don't think it's a matter of size, it's a matter of thickness and air pressure. ”

Wei Bao looked at Deng Erxian with great appreciation, and admired the craftsmen of this era, they were really smart, and they only talked about a little bit of the principles of physics and chemistry on the basis of no theoretical knowledge at all, and now they can already use these terms to look at problems.

Deng Erxian's eldest brother Deng Daliang was worried that his sister would talk too much, but he was relieved to see that his son didn't seem to be displeased.

Several blacksmiths also agreed with Song Yingxing and Deng Erxian, believing that they should not rely too much on machines. And for the remanufactured steam engine and boiler, many different views were put forward.

After producing once and exploding again, everyone has their own experience.

Weibao's original intention is to minimize labor, otherwise how to reflect the advantages of industrialization? And although labor is so cheap, the food of these people is a big problem.

After talking with a group of people for a while, Wei Bao's mood was much better, mainly because everyone no longer understood anything like they did at the beginning, as long as they could gain something, the tuition fee was worth it.

If in the initial stage, he can protect the capital and ensure the initial progress of industrial production, he can be satisfied.

Wei Bao thought that he was the science level of a high school student, and now he was engaged in scientific research with a group of primary school students, and he wanted to use these primary school students as the main force, so he thought it was funny.

As long as the funds can cope with it, Wei Bao's pressure will not be so great, and his biggest worry is that the capital chain will be broken, and there will be another large-scale famine in the local area, and the whole team will collapse.

After coming out of the Industrial Bureau, Wei Bao, accompanied by Dong Huojin, Fu Jiguang, Qian Kexue, Zheng Ergou, Deng Daliang, Deng Erxian and others from the Military Industry Bureau, went to the nearby chemical factory to inspect the manufacture of soap and glass.

The process of making soap and glass is not complicated, and in modern times, as long as middle school students of several levels of chemistry have concepts.

The key is whether it can meet the market competition, whether it can be better than the products of this era, and the price and cost can be reduced!

Wei Bao's main concern is the cost of soap, the cost of glass is not worried, because it is unique, the worry about glass is whether the quality can be passed, not too easy to break.

He made glass, mainly for use in architecture, and he was ready to launch the fist product on the market - kerosene lamp!

Before, Wei Bao had obtained the conditions for the manufacturing process of kerosene, although there was a lot of dregs, the smoke was black, and it was still very substandard, but at least now the whole A is full of lights at night.

If you use a kerosene lamp to light it, it will be brighter and reduce the smell of smoke, which will be more practical.

The cost of kerosene lamps must be incomparable to vegetable oil lamps, which Wei Bao is very confident in.

The raw material pre-processing of glass is to crush the block raw materials quartz sand, soda ash and limestone to dry the wet raw materials, and remove the iron from the iron-containing raw materials to ensure the quality of the glass.

Then there is melting. The glass batch is heated at a high temperature between 1550 and 1600 degrees in a pool kiln or crucible kiln to form a uniform, bubble-free liquid glass that meets the molding requirements.

Finally, there is molding and heat treatment. Liquid glass is processed into products of the desired shape, such as flat plates, various utensils, etc.

Heat treatment is to eliminate or produce stress, phase separation or crystallization inside the glass, and change the structural state of the glass through annealing, quenching and other processes.

Wei Bao picked up a piece of flat glass and saw that the thickness was about one centimeter, which is the thickness that can be achieved to meet the molding standard.

"Lots of bubbles." Wei Bao picked it up and looked at it: "It's not smooth enough, it's foggy, and it's not transparent enough." ”

Although there are many problems, Wei Bao is still very satisfied with this appearance.

"It should be caused by the fact that the pond kiln has not yet reached the high temperature." Deng Erxian replied: "Everyone has been trying to find a way to increase the kiln temperature. ”

Wei Bao nodded, picked up an already processed kerosene lamp needed accessories, oval glassware to see, this made him a little speechless, there are too many bubbles, it actually has its own frosted effect?

The process of flat glass is a little simpler, but it is too difficult to get them to change the shape of the glass with an abrasive.

Moreover, in order to reduce the cost, in order to be exactly the same as the prop horse lantern he brought, it must not be too big! The smaller it is, the higher the process requirements and the more complex the molding.

Wei Bao shook his head and said, "This can't be done, can this kind of glass cover fit in?" Even if you change the iron base and put it in, the light emitted will be scattered, and you can't use it to read a book. ”

He must take this into account, in this era, the mainstream consumer group is a well-off standard of living families, most of these families are intellectual families, and lighting the lamp to read books is an important purpose.

"Childe, otherwise, let's build another steam engine and use it at the water station, let's use the steam engine from the water station here, right? It will definitely increase the blast and increase the furnace temperature! In this way, the air bubbles in the glass can disappear. Deng Erxian suggested.

Everyone was stunned, and said that this girl really dared to say it, everyone knew that Wei Gongzi paid the most attention to the water station and the quality of drinking water.

Unexpectedly, Wei Bao only hesitated for a few seconds, and then agreed to Deng Erxian's suggestion: "Approved!" As long as there is qualified glass! ”

Deng Erxian saw that Gongzi agreed, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, "Thank you, Gongzi." ”

"But let me tell you first, the steam engine at the water station is a treasure, there is no place to buy it, put it in the chemical plant to burn the pond kiln, don't break it!" Wei Bao worried.

"Don't worry, Childe, we will definitely treat the steam engine as much as we do to our lives." The person in charge of the chemical plant.

Wei Bao nodded, and lit the kerosene lamp he used to make props and use as models for them.

Kerosene lamps use a wick of cotton rope, and their heads are usually made of copper, while the lamp base and the lamp tube for windshielding are made of glass.

The head is surrounded by multiple claws, and next to it is a pinion that controls the rise or fall of the cotton rope. The bottom of the cotton rope stretches into the lamp holder, and the lamp head has a screw twist to match the lamp holder, so the lamp head can be twisted tightly on the lamp holder.

The lampholder is filled with kerosene, and the cotton rope draws the kerosene onto the rope. As long as the end of the rope is lit and the lamp tube is covered, the action of lighting the lamp is completed.

Wei Bao used matches to light the fire.

"Childe, if we can make this kind of fire, we will be able to make a smokeless fire soon." Dong Huojin said to Wei Bao.

Wei Bao's heart moved, secretly thinking that he was so stupid, except for soap and kerosene lamps, matches, this kind of ignition artifact, why didn't he think of it? With these three fist products, isn't it much easier for the products of your own firm to make a name for yourself in Daming in the future, and finally form a monopoly advantage?

"It's not hard to do! I'll check it out when I go back. Wei Bao said to Dong Huojin: "How is your smokeless fire bud developed?" ”

"It's a bit eyebrow-raising, it's just that the cotton is very unstable and often explodes." Dong Huojin replied.

Wei Bao snorted, knowing that this is a difficult point, it is not sulfuric acid and nitric acid, and it can be mixed with cotton, it is really necessary to form a stable process, it is not a simple matter, but it is a pity that the information of the three 'crossing giant enthusiasm' brothers is very shallow. It is estimated that they are all a few words copied casually on the Internet, and it will take a lot of experiments to really become a reality.

Wei Bao's current requirement for smokeless fire is to be able to make bullets for his revolver, and he knocked himself out, and all the bullet casings he picked up were given to the Military Industry Administration, and they were given a bullet that had not been fired.

Wei Bao's requirement was that after firing, the cartridge case had no effect, and the warhead could fly out. It's easy to say, but it can really be done, and the smokeless fire is considered a successful development, and there is no problem in making larger shells.

Wei Bao stayed at the chemical plant until noon, and had a simple light meal with the people from the Military Industry Department and dozens of 'skilled workers' at the chemical plant. Although these skilled workers have no skills for the time being, they have more or less been exposed to the production of fireworks, and they can be regarded as having a bit of chemical foundation, so they are selected to join the chemical factory.

Wei Bao's chemical plant and the Military Industry Agency, which are his absolute technical core.

If you don't understand technology, it's useless to steal the secret recipe.

After lunch, it was time for Wei Bao to convene a group of Li Zheng, A Chang and rich people for a symposium, Wei Bao hurried back to the hall of the State Guest House, where the space was large enough to sit two or three hundred people, which was a temporary conference hall.

How to keep these people, Wei Bao thought a lot. Because keeping these people in your own system is equivalent to retaining millions of taels of silver! That's not a small amount.

It is like hijacking the Wu family's high-end leather goods to make a fortune, but it can never be repeated, it can be met but not sought, and it is not always encountered. Moreover, as a man who aspires to be an industrialist, he can't always focus on how to be a thief.

A group of wealthy families who have lost their land and debts, and who have lost their right to personal freedom of tenant farmers, do not have the enthusiasm of Wei Bao.

They sat in the lobby of the guest house drinking tea and chatting, listless, as if someone had just died in the family.

"Now there's nothing left, what are you doing in the local area? Go to Shanhaiguan in the morning, or go to Yongping Mansion to see what business can be done, right? Now, we're all homeless people. Houmafang Lili Zhenghou sighed and sighed to the Dongbai Tower beside him.

"Isn't it?" Bai Pengfu sighed: "In addition to collecting a rent, I really can't think of what I will do!" In the future, I will guard this bit of silver in my hand, and wait for the mountain to eat sooner or later! Last night, a few women in my family cried and cried all night, and this day is simply unbearable! ”

"We shouldn't have come!" Hou Lixing slapped his left fist with his right palm and hit it hard in the palm of his hand, "I'm the same as you, a few old ladies in my family also made a fuss all night, crying one by one as if Lao Tzu was dead!" Alas. ”

Zhao Kehu, who was in the Jinshan Lili beside the two people, kept silently smoking a dry cigarette while listening to the two of them complain.

"Lao Zhao, you are good, Wei Gongzi seems to have taken a fancy to your daughter, you will wait to be Lao Taishan in the future, and wait to enjoy the blessings of your son-in-law!" Hou Lixing glanced at Zhao Kehu and said sarcastically.

Zhao Kehu glared at Hou Lixing: "When did my Jinfeng marry Wei Gongzi?" Don't talk nonsense about this kind of thing! ”

"Lao Zhao, don't get angry." Bai Pengfu snorted and said, "Isn't this an obvious thing? We are not blind, that day, everyone could see that the Wei family was different from others to you, didn't they fancy your Jinfeng, what is it? ’

Zhao Kehu knocked the cigarette gun and said angrily: "I've been listening to the two of you blind, I don't like to come, just go!" ”

"That's not good, now we don't have anything, if you don't come here to see what kind of food Wei Gongzi can eat, where else can you go?" Hou Lixing snorted and said, "Besides, when Wei Gongzi deceived us before, he said that he could find better things for us!" I'm going to see, what else can be a good way? ”

"Wei Gongzi really has a good thing, isn't he going to build a city wall? Build windbreaks? There is also the construction of roads. We can contract all of this. Bai Pengfu smiled: "Let's see what the distribution of Wei Gongzi and the others will be, right?" As long as he can pay the price he gives to his men, I think it will be done. ”

A group of Li Zheng, Jia Chang and rich people all have this idea of Bai Pengfu, and they all want to take the work from Wei Bao, they don't have to pay the money first, and when the work is done, they can still get money from the Wei family, and they don't have to worry about losing money! In addition, Wei Bao sent people around early this morning to inform everyone to come, so today's people are very together!

"Hey, Lao Bai is right, I also want to see if I can get any projects from Wei Gongzi?" Hou Lixing said with a smile: "You don't have to pay the capital, just take a group of people to work, and you can get the money when you turn around, who doesn't want to do this kind of good thing?" I heard that with a deposit of 50 taels of silver, he could register a small business under his firm. I still dare to come out with these 50 taels of silver, the Wei family is now a big business, no matter how bad the silver is, it is not bad for 50 taels of silver, right? ”

When a group of wealthy people sitting next to Hou Lixing heard this, they all nodded yes, and everyone had a common dream in their hearts.

"Hey, Lao Zhao, Wei Gongzi is so good to you, how many projects do you have to contract, can't you do it, Wei Gongzi will give you the entire land in Jinshan to plant, right? In that case, you will have more land than you were! Hou Lixing said to Zhao Kehu.

Zhao Kehu glanced at Hou Lixing angrily, "You tell others, I don't want to talk now!" Moreover, I don't plan to find Mr. Wei to do any projects! I'm just here to have fun today, can't I? ”

"Okay, okay, this old brother, why is he so angry today?" Hou Lixing snorted and laughed dryly.

After a while, Wei Bao came over with a few bars of soap in one hand and a kerosene lamp in the other.

As Wei Gongzi entered the hall, everyone who was still gossiping just now, who was sitting crookedly, suddenly stopped talking and sat straight.

Wei Bao came in alone, and Fan Xiaolin, Wang Qiuya, and Xu Rui beside him were all sitting below, holding a notebook and preparing to record the content of the meeting. Wei Bao's entourage stood around the hall.

Just Wei Bao's plain and insipid, noble and princely temperament, coupled with Wei Bao's absolute wealth in the local area at this time, these have formed a strong momentum, as soon as he appeared, he seemed to carry infinite pressure, teaching these rich people who were still cold-talking and strange words just now, and felt so nervous that they were a little stressed to breathe.

"Everyone has been waiting for a long time, and they have all worked hard." Wei Bao put a few pieces of soap and kerosene lamp in his hand on the case in front of him and smiled slightly.

"It's not hard, it's not hard, Wei Gongzi has worked hard." A group of Li Zheng, Jia Chang and rich people, the smiles on their faces were overflowing, one by one like blooming flowers, and there was no dissatisfaction and unhappiness at all.

Wei Bao was secretly funny, knowing what kind of calculations they were making, and they all wanted to take care of the project in their own hands!

The reason why he gave his subordinates a group of poor coolies was because he hoped to develop the capitalist model, and those people had no capital, so he had to give them loans from the counter of the Heaven and Earth firm! Instead of being able to set up a business without capital!

Wei Bao secretly thought that if he said it, he could contract the project in his hands, and he was very welcome, but the material fee needed to be settled monthly, and it could not be in arrears! I wonder what the expressions of these people will be after saying this?