Match manufacturing can be roughly divided into five parts: stem manufacturing, stem processing, match head manufacturing, box manufacturing, packaging and phosphorus brushing.

The wood used to make match stems is loose in texture, straight in texture, flammable and odorless.

Commonly used tree species are Populaceae or Tiliaceae, but pine or spruce can also be used.

Pine wood needs to be steamed to remove the pine resin.

The mountains of Gunship Bay are full of such trees, and this is not a problem at all.

Moreover, there is a large-scale construction project in the warship bay, and now even the cutting is exempted, so take a piece of wood and cut it with a knife immediately, and you can start it.

After the selection of materials, the log is sawn into sections, the bark is peeled off, and the stalks are rotated into continuous stalks of uniform thickness. The stems are then cut into stems of a certain size.

The stems are then soaked in a solution of phosphoric acid or ammonium phosphate with a concentration of about 1%, which is an anti-cautery treatment to prevent the embers from falling after the match is burned.

After draining to remove the surface moisture, it is sent to the stem dryer for drying, so that the moisture content of the stem is reduced to 6~8%. After the stems are dried, the broken branches and long strips and wide pieces are screened, and the stems that meet the specifications are selected.

Stemming, stalking, waxing, dipping, drying and unloading and other processes, that is, to complete the production of matches.

The matches and matchboxes converge during the packaging process. The matches are neatly packed into the box according to the specified number of threads, and then the sides of the box are brushed with phosphospho.

The main components of phosphosphosyrup are red phosphorus and binders. The traditional adhesive is leather glue, but synthetic adhesives are also used. After drying, each 10 boxes of matches are sealed into small packets and packed into boxes. A box of 100 packs, called "pieces", is the finished product.

Wei Bao estimated the cost and said to Deng Erxian beside him: "It costs about two pennies, and you need to sell it for three pennies." Do you think it will sell well in the market? ”

Deng Erxian shook his head and said: "I don't dare to talk nonsense, it depends on whether the family has money, and the poor family will think about it for a long time even if they only sell it for a penny." If my brother and I were still fleeing the famine, we wouldn't have bothered to see what was being sold at the stalls. ”

Wei Bao smiled.

Deng Daliang heard his sister's words, and secretly scolded this stupid girl for having no brains and really not being able to speak, so he hurriedly said to the president: "President, my sister lacks heart, don't listen to her, this match must be a good thing, as long as it is a family with a decent life at home, if you have a box of three cents, you must be willing to buy it, at least prepare a few boxes at home." ”

Wei Bao nodded, secretly thinking: It's a pity that more than 90% of them are poor in this era! The poor are reluctant to spend money on anything but food and clothing! The mainstream consumer group has to be the 10% of the people who have solved the problem of food and clothing.

Thinking of sales gives Wei Bao a bit of a headache.

Everyone is in the Warship Bay, and the matches are developed in the shed of the Military Industry Administration. Wei Bao followed for more than an hour and came out of the shed.

Out of two or three hundred meters, you can see the sea surface exposed on the mountain pass, here is a natural harbor, the Zhenyuan ship lies quietly in the harbor, this scenery, let Wei Bao extremely intoxicated, here can be called a paradise in general.

After taking a walk on the beach and smoking a cigarette, Wei Bao was in a very good mood, feeling that he had not been busy in vain in the past few days, and the progress of a bunch of things had come up.

Wei Bao went to see the large masonry house built specifically for the generator set, which will be a thermal power plant!

"Dig a well here! Let's see if we can type it out. Wei Bao said to Lin Wenbiao beside him: "Go and call Deng Daliang and Fu Jiguang over." ”

"Yes, Childe." Lin Wenbiao agreed, made a gesture, and one of his agents hurriedly called someone.

Deng Daliang arrived in a while, "President, you look for me." ”

Fu Jiguang also called the president, and then stood respectfully with his hands down.

"Didn't you participate in drilling wells last time? This time the well was drilled with electricity! I'll teach you how to use and maintain the generator set, and then you will bring a few people, this power plant, you are in charge! Be sure to do it in strict accordance with the above operation requirements. After Wei Bao finished speaking to Deng Daliang, he said to Jiguang again: "You help him, you have to read every word on the manual, and ask me if you don't understand." ”

The generator is pasted with instructions and drawings, and it is not complicated to burn coal and generate electricity. Wei Bao was worried that it was broken.

The two of them hurriedly agreed together, feeling a great responsibility, and when they saw that this big guy was all iron, they knew that it was valuable.

Due to the monopoly of the imperial court on metal mines, all metals are extremely expensive in the Ming Dynasty! Pirate smuggling, the main thing is to get the cheap things of the Ming Dynasty out and sell them, and then get the expensive things sold by the Ming Dynasty to sell them, which is very profitable! The premise is not to be caught by the government's fleet.

Wei Bao personally demonstrated, "See? There are sockets here to turn on electricity! This is a motor! Like last time, measure the size, do the digging pipe, and when I get it, how long will it take? ”

Deng Daliang thought for a while and said, "If the president is not in a hurry, within three days, right?" ”

Wei Bao nodded: "I'll come over the morning after tomorrow!" I hope that by then, the matches and cartons will be out! The first batch of soap, matches and kerosene lamps were packed, and then the well was laid! ”

With electric excavation, Wei Bao is not worried at all about not being able to drill deep water wells! Just don't dig into the rocks.

Deng Daliang nodded in agreement.

"By the way, tell them that every product must be tested and finally marked with a certificate! It's exactly the same as this package! Products that are not tested are not allowed to leave the factory! The trademark is the name of the world, and the name of the product is called heaven and earth matches, heaven and earth soap, and heaven and earth kerosene lamp. Unify the brand of heaven and earth! Wei Bao then instructed. If you don't consider the printing of this era, it is too hard to print pictures, and now the time is too tight, it is too late, otherwise, Wei Bao still wants people to get a propaganda poster, preferably with a beautiful woman or something.

Deng Daliang then agreed.

"Go back and ask the carver if he can carve it." Wei Bao was worried that the masters in the township did not have such superb craftsmanship, and it was very difficult to paint on porcelain or on seals. The packaging of kerosene lamps is no longer necessary. If you don't have that technology, forget it. ”

"Okay, President." Lin Wenbiao and Deng Daliang agreed together.

It is not difficult to have a sample as a template.

Wei Bao said that, and went back, thinking that it would be very late, but it didn't take much effort to simply explain it to his subordinates.

Now you just need to wait for three days later, wait for the first batch of products to be removed, packaged, and go up the mountain customs with the products. Regardless of sales or the imperial examination, the main battlefield is in Shanhaiguan, and Wei Bao will stay there for some time in the near future.

Wei Bao rushed back to his house on time before dinner, only Wang Qiuya was there, Fan Xiaolin did not come back from work, and Xu Rui went to the board of directors and did not come back.

Wang Qiuya also has a public office and serves as the deputy manager of the president's secretariat, but the office of the president's secretariat is located in Wei Bao's residence, and more than 30 other maids live outside Wei Bao's house.

Wei Bao had dinner, and then worked hard in the room, looking at some things related to the eight-share scientific examination, the four books and the five classics, he now has a concept, but to participate in the formal imperial examination, he must also go to Shanhaiguan to formally study, this pass is to go.

Wang Qiuya knocked lightly on the door.

Wei Bao looked up, "Come in." ”

"Childe, after dinner, you haven't drunk hot tea yet." Wang Qiuya pushed the door open and said softly.

Wei Bao snorted, he had a habit of drinking some hot tea after meals.

After Wang Qiuya came in with tea, she saw Wei Bao reading a book and reminded: "After receiving more than 6,000 local villagers, how should they be settled?" Today, many people have come to our country to ask, but there is no more work to do, and many people have to leave their hometowns to flee the famine. ”

Wei Bao snorted, but he forgot about this big thing! Suddenly, my back was dry, and I only felt that my scalp was numb!

He originally thought that he would ignore those people for now, because the pressure on food is too great now, and if he can't buy any more food, it will be difficult to sustain this month!

Moreover, even if the spring ploughing situation goes well, the seeds planted cannot be immediately turned into grain, even high-yielding crops such as potatoes, corn, and sorghum will not be able to harvest the first batch of young seedlings until three months later at the earliest. It is best to wait until the fruit is ripe and full before harvesting.

But since they have taken in a large number of displaced people, these local villagers don't care, which is really unreasonable.

Wei Bao leaned back on the 'boss chair' with the finest fur with a headache.

Wang Qiuya said softly: "Am I talking too much? Did you annoy Childe? ”

"It's none of your business, but I can't think of a good way!" Wei Bao said: "The only way at the moment is to find a way to buy food, and then arrange those people to do things!" If they don't give food, they are all starving people, and they don't have the strength to work if they want to. ”

Wei Bao has no shortage of work in his hands, according to his idea of building modern urban infrastructure, that is, one million people, working day and night for five years may not be able to complete, there are a lot of job opportunities! It's just that there are job opportunities, but there is no salary, can people do it? People are not machines, they have to eat, even machines, they have to be oiled, they have to be maintained, they have to be fueled.

Wei Bao originally wanted to pretend to be deaf and dumb, because the debts of these villagers were in the hands of those gang leaders, Jiachang and rich families! It's different now, it's all in his hands, in fact, Wei Bao's tens of thousands of people under his hands now are all equivalent to his serfs! It's just that he didn't manage them in the same way as he managed the serfs, and gave his subordinates more freedom, so that in the future, after these people paid off their accounts, they would transform into ordinary people under the capitalist system.

Now Wei Bao has an unshirkable responsibility to these people.

"Food is hard to buy, and there is a shortage of food everywhere." Wang Qiuya sighed softly, "Let's drink tea first, it will be cold later." ”

Wei Bao slowly sipped tea, his brain was spinning rapidly, but he really couldn't think of a way to buy food! Not to mention that it is for the common people to eat, even the officers and soldiers of those guards, now the food supply is tight!

In this kind of year, some large gentry and big families can be safe and sound.

"Otherwise, if you are hard-hearted, you will tell the truth that you can't control them for the time being, let them go out as refugees, and come back when the summer harvest is in the summer, and there will be no more months! Otherwise, we wouldn't have enough to eat for our original 3,000 people. Wang Qiuya came up with an idea. This is the stupidest and most helpless way to do it.

Wei Bao looked at Wang Qiuya, "By doing this, it is to force more than 6,000 of them to go out and be refugees, I don't know how many of them can survive until the summer to return to their hometowns?" ”

At this moment, Wei Bao felt very sad, how fragile is human life? Especially when I ate and drank a lot for days, and now I am well-dressed and full, compared with the situation more than a month ago, when the family had to squint their eyes when they saw a fish, the contrast is too great.

Maybe he's really just a small person, right? Wei Bao thought gloomily that since he had more power and had to take on more responsibilities, he felt very tired from time to time, and he was majestic when he called for it, but he couldn't beat the lot of things that had to be handled and annoyed behind it.

Land purchase is definitely not possible, Wei Bao has already entered the customs once, to many places in Beizhili, Hejian Mansion and Jingshi have been there, knowing the market situation there, the black market is expensive, and the amount of goods is small, and it is simply impossible to meet the needs of a team of tens of thousands of people!

If you want to come to Kanwai, the situation is similar! It was not only the Ming Dynasty that suffered from the disaster, but also the place where the slaves were built, and if you want to find a way, you can only find a way from the Mongols. However, I heard that in order to solve the supply problem, Jiannu used troops to loot everywhere and blocked all roads outside the pass, and now it seems that they are still using the cold winter to attack the Lushun area.

And even if you can get through the joints, it is unrealistic to use the relationship between Liaoxi and Guanwai Jiannu to buy some high-priced animals, the price is too high, and the quantity will definitely not be satisfied.

By sea, find a way to find a way in North Korea, or find merchants from the south to the north to buy, these two are the most feasible! But what other ship do you have besides a big warship? The Ming Dynasty forbids the sea, and there are only a few families in Jinshan who are more daring, and secretly build a few small fishing boats, but they can only be used for fishing in the offshore sea, and cannot sail far.

"There's no way around it right now." Wang Qiuya sighed slightly, knowing what Wei Bao was embarrassed about, and sighed that Wei Bao was too kind-hearted. However, thinking of the embarrassing situation where her family and the Wei family almost fled the famine, I couldn't help but feel sad.

"You can't let the villagers go out to flee!" Wei Bao hesitated for a minute, and then said firmly: "No matter how hard it is, I can't leave a single person who follows me!" The debts of these villagers have now been transferred to me, and they are the tenants of my Wei family, and they are my people. ”

Wang Qiuya was shocked when she heard this, "But, our food is only enough for this month?" I can't guarantee my expenses, so where can I have the spare energy to take care of the extra 6,000 villagers? ”

Wei Bao stood up decisively: "You go and call Lin Wenbiao to the hall, and then bring the roster of local villagers!" ”

Wang Qiuya didn't know what Wei Bao was going to do, so she quickly agreed to go out.

Wei Bao paced down the hall, thinking that no matter what, let everyone move first! There is still some silver in hand, and as long as the new product is launched smoothly, you can also earn some silver! He always had to try to buy food by sea, and now he had to try to get Lin Wenbiao to send people to contact the 'profiteers' who were doing business between the south of the Ming Dynasty and Korea.

Although Wei Bao himself is an authentic southerner, he still calls the southern businessmen of the Ming Dynasty who can come to the north of the Ming Dynasty to do business in this era as profiteers, because if these people are not treacherous enough, let alone doing business, it is difficult to travel.

Aren't the Jin merchants so corrupt that they are mainly active in the north? The merchants of Nanzhili can travel back and forth between the north of the Ming Dynasty and North Korea, open up various joints, and play a role in contacting the entire Ming commercial society!

Although they do not have a clear group, and are mostly scattered business teams attached to various big bureaucrats with real power, they work together in such a way.

The eunuch clique, as well as the Qichuzhejiang Party and the Donglin Party that are attached to the eunuch clique, there are big bureaucrats among these political forces, and those scattered Nanzhili business teams are attached to them.

The landlord class and the gentry class of the Ming Dynasty do not need to pay taxes or donate, and they are all doing some digging up the wall.

Lin Wenbiao came over quickly, and Wei Bao told him what he thought.

Lin Wenbiao made a mistake: "Son, I'm afraid this is a little difficult, I can't get in touch with it, I'm afraid that these people may not be able to take a fancy to us here, we are Liaoxi, Liaoxi is domineering and poor in the eyes of people in other parts of the Ming Dynasty, anyway, the impression is not good." The land business of their southern merchants is everywhere, but the water business, usually from Nanzhili to Dengzhou, and then directly from Dengzhou to Shuangdao, Lushun, and then to North Korea, does not pass through our mouth at all. ”

"If you have money, you will pass! Send them money, don't they want it? Wei Bao said: "No matter how difficult it is, contact us immediately!" Yongping Mansion and Shanhaiguan seem to have shops opened by southern merchants. ”

"If you buy grain from the sea, grain is the most restrictive cargo restricted by the imperial court, and if it is found, it is a felony!" Lin Wenbiao reminded: "And the sea will involve the Dongjiang Mao family!" Dongjiang and the local forces in western Liaodong are not against each other. If we secretly communicate with the Dongjiang Mao family and are known by the government, the son may also get into big trouble! I'm afraid that the southern merchants will not dare to cause this trouble. ”

Lin Wenbiao's words once again made Wei Bao fall into contemplation, secretly thinking that it was mainly officialdom!

Wei Bao gritted his teeth, thinking that he still had Wu Xuexia's IOU in hand, he couldn't say that for the sake of the food of the tens of thousands of people under his command, he could only bow to the Wu family when the time came! Wei Bao felt that the Wu family must have this energy.

"You just tell people that we have a lot of relationship with the Wu family and the Yang family! The joints are all opened, just go to contact them! It is a high price that 10,000 taels of silver can only buy 100,000 catties of grain, and I admit it! Everyone can get ten catties of grain, and they can keep it until the spring flowers bloom! When the time comes, there will be no need to be forced to flee the famine. Wei Bao said.

Lin Wenbiao secretly wondered, the relationship between Gongzi and the Wu family is very close? I knew that Childe's words were very false, but since Childe said so, he could only reluctantly agree: "Then I'll go find someone now!" Get your feet wet. ”

"It's not a try, it's a must!" Wei Bao said decisively: "Remember, this matter must be kept strictly confidential!" ”

"Yes, Childe." Lin Wenbiao gritted his teeth and agreed, and went out to make arrangements. Listening to the last sentence added by Gongzi, I knew that Gongzi must be hiding from the official government of Shanhaiwei and secretly doing this, and just now he said that he had a lot to do with the Wu family? It's so much to worry about.

Wei Bao looked through the roster that Wang Qiuya took, and the total amount owed was more than 500,000 taels of silver! If these villagers were gone, not only would they lose a lot of people, but they would also make a lot of arrears that he had worked so hard to get go down the drain, so he had to take this risk.

Wang Qiuya was silent beside her, and saw that Wei Gongzi was looking through the amount of silver owed by each family recorded on the roster.

"Tell Luo San to be stunned later, and let him gather all the villagers and come to gather outside the armor tomorrow morning! According to the way of building roads and city walls, tomorrow the wasteland will be cleared, and the construction of embankments, river embankments, seawalls, reservoirs, and aqueducts and drainage canals will all be contracted! Let people from the Agricultural Bureau and relevant departments also participate. Wei Bao said to Wang Qiuya: "What I just said to Lin Wenbiao must be kept strictly confidential. ”

"Yes." Wang Qiuya was a little frightened, feeling that Wei Bao was too risky to do this. But he didn't say anything.

Wei Bao saw Wang Qiuya's eyes red, sighed, and smiled bitterly, "You girls are just sentimental, what's wrong?" ”

"Is it really worth taking such a big risk for the sake of the local villagers?" Wang Qiuya said softly.

Wei Bao held Wang Qiuya's soft little hand: "Now we have a little ability, we are a little taller than them!" If we were in a different position, like we were going to be forced to flee the famine, no one would ask us, is that kind of situation comfortable? ”

"I understand everything." Wang Qiuya sighed, "I'm just worried about you. No matter what time it is, should you care about the people close to you first? And, are you sure you'll be able to buy food? If these people have a job to do, we will have even more pressure, we must open the export of grain every month, once the supply is not enough, these will not appreciate the situation, and there will still be trouble, tens of thousands of people will make trouble together. ”

Wang Qiuya didn't say any more, the scene of tens of thousands of people making trouble together, needless to say, just thinking about it is terrifying, and it can really cut Wei Bao alive into a small piece.

Wei Bao resolutely said: "No matter how difficult it is! It doesn't matter if everyone in the world is a person who fights for hatred! This time, I have to think about the local people! ”

Wei Bao said, pulled Wang Qiuya to his lap and sat down, hugged her, as if he wanted to get some warmth from Wang Qiuya's plump body, after making the decision just now, Wei Bao himself was also very weak. Maybe it's too risky.

For the country and the people, the great man of chivalry.

Wei Bao doesn't think that he is Guo Jing, the hero of Lao Jin's pen, he is not so great!

People are defending the city with their lives.

He didn't gamble his life this time, he can only say that it is the same as the previous times, once the incident happens, it can't be remedied, and the big deal is to escape.

When encountering danger, Wei Bao's first thought was to escape.

Wang Qiuya was quietly in Wei Bao's arms, her pink face leaning on Wei Bao's face, holding back her tears.

This time the hug was much different from the past, she was both warm and sentimental, knowing that Wei Bao was not hugging herself to 'eat tofu' now.

After Wei Bao calmed down, he let go of Wang Qiuya and went back to the house alone, while Wang Qiuya went to inform Luo San to be stunned according to Wei Bao's arrangement just now.