Chapter 42: Nostalgic, the days of picking up soap
"Ten gold coins!? Are you sure!? ”
At dinner, Fiona learned the news from Don and was unsurprisingly stunned.
You know, that's thirteen little girls who don't know anything, and after Don's simple training, they can already create the value of ten gold coins a day, what if there are more people who are trained?
There is basically no difficulty in this work!
If the mint cultivation industry is carried out in Ellington in the future, and the scale is expanded, it is equivalent to everyone can create the same value, then what will be the output value of the whole Ellington in a day? A thousand gold coins? 10,000 gold coins!?
It's a topic you can't even imagine!
"Of course, my friend, I don't have to lie to you."
Don smiled very reservedly, as if waiting for Fiona to compliment him.
Fiona once again ignored Don and said a little eagerly, "Then can we scale up!?" ”
The people of Ellington are in desperate need of something to do that can divert their attention, and this is a great choice.
"Dear Fiona," Don pinched his eyebrows, "you've got a problem for me. ”
"What's wrong?"
"Although there is no problem with production now, have you taken into account the problem of the market?"
Don asked Fiona rhetorically: "The mints produced are not good in the local market in Ellington, this kind of thing, as long as it is shipped out, it can only be sold in Alinks and even other towns, and the goods can only produce value when they are sold, and they will only slowly become moldy when they are piled up in the warehouse!" ”
"I'm already figuring out how to fix this."
Fiona said seriously: "The letter has been written and sent out in the afternoon, and the results will be available within a week at the earliest." ”
"I hope someone you trust will come, otherwise I'll have to think of something else."
Don sighed, and the conversation ended.
That night, Don didn't sleep well, because tomorrow he was going to start building the waterwheel, and he had to get the construction drawings of the waterwheel before tomorrow, and even the key bearings and balls he needed to do it himself.
At the level of Edgar and Brian, it would be very difficult to build usable bearings and balls, and as we all know, the slightest substandard part will double the level of wear, and if the waterwheel collapses in less than a few days, it will be a slap in the face.
If you want to solve the drought problem as soon as possible, it's actually very simple, Don En only needs to cast a spell to rain, but once you can, is it possible to ask him to cast a spell to rain every time? And Ellington's territory is so large, and there are other small towns that are far away, he can't run next to each other, right?
Therefore, the promotion of water wheels is the easiest way.
"The structure of the waterwheel...... Hmmm......"
Tang En sat on the bed and meditated, there were several iron ingots floating in front of him constantly changing shapes, for many earthlings, the waterwheel is a very distant thing, and even many people have never seen it at all, and Tang En knows the principle, with the help of the thrust of the water itself, and then the movable bucket is filled with water and is lifted to a high place, and after passing the critical point, it rolls over, pours out the water, and fixes a bracket and pipe where the water flows out, and guides the water to other places.
The principle is very simple, Don only simulated it in his mind a few times, and then he roughly figured out the structure of the waterwheel, and then, he started to get busy......
The next day.
"Hahaha, I'll just say, two days, easy to complete the task."
Brian laughed and greeted Donne: "Come and see, these things have been made, the quality is still passable, I have to say, the stamping machine, cutting machine and grinding machine you made are really useful!" ”
Brian had obviously been conquered by those three machines, and with the help of these three machines, the forging work was made incredibly easy.
Tang En randomly checked it and nodded with satisfaction: "Let Edgar get ready, Fiona has already sent someone to distribute the subsidy vouchers, and it is estimated that someone will come to collect the tools soon." ”
"Subsidy vouchers? What is that? ”
"In lieu of physical gold coins, you can get a set of metal farming tools with a subsidy voucher, and then Edgar will use the subsidy voucher to settle the payment between the lord's mansion and Fiona."
This is a subsidy policy that Don has been thinking about for a long time to decide, and originally planned to distribute gold coins directly, but was later vetoed by Fiona.
The reason is that it is easy to cause unbalanced psychology in some people and easily breed vicious incidents.
The subsidy voucher is not a gold coin, it can only be exchanged for farm tools, even if it is robbed, it is useless, and those farmers will be much safer.
As Don expected, before noon, there were already farmers with subsidy coupons to receive metal farming tools.
And the first farmer who arrived was obviously a little reluctant to believe that such a good thing could happen, and he was a little trembling with the subsidy voucher, probably because he was afraid that Edgar would think he was a liar.
"This is your set of farm tools, take it, go back and find a piece of wood, cut it into a handle and insert it, and you can use it."
Edgarmali handed the farmer a set of iron farming tools, and then put away the subsidy voucher.
The farmer was immediately stunned.
It's actually true!?
What kind of subsidy coupon can you really exchange for a set of metal farm tools!?
"Long live your lord! Thank you, Lord Lord, for your kindness! ”
At this moment, the farmer was grateful to Don from the bottom of his heart and deeply thanked him for his gift.
The reactions of the farmers who followed were similar, and they were grateful to Dade for receiving metal farm tools, and they were all grateful for the gift of the lord, which showed how excited they were in their hearts.
Brian, who was hiding in the back of the house, bumped Donn's thigh: "Big brother, how does it feel to be grateful?" ”
"It's okay."
Don didn't know if it was okay, but there was a faint smile on his face.
"Human beings are really hypocritical, obviously the corners of their mouths are about to reach their ears," after speaking, Brian rubbed his hands, "Big brother, do you still have Ao Jin ingots?" ”
"Yes, yes, but what do you want to do?"
"Hehe, I'd like to get a few more Aojin ingots and make an Aojin Axe."
Brian laughed: "Think about it, when you meet the enemy, before the battle, as soon as you show your weapon, the golden Aojin axe can blind the enemy's dog eyes, how can the enemy still have the will to fight, this is called victory without a fight." ”
"Save it, you, it's more likely to be snatched away than to win without a fight."
Don En was speechless, wanting to show off his wealth? Isn't that two-handed warhammer with your treasure better than the Ao Golden Axe?
However, speaking of which, the treasure-level two-handed warhammer does seem to be a little worse in appearance......
"Big brother, you can't say that! Don't you underestimate my combat prowess! I'll tell you, with your small body, I can beat five of them at a time! ”
Don looked Brian up and down, "Are you sure?" ”
Brian smiled proudly: "Of course! If you don't believe it, let's break our wrists! I'll give you four fingers! ”
Don glanced at Brian's big black hand and shook his head, "Not interested." ”
"Why are you so upset! I said you-"
"Don't talk nonsense, Edgar is selling farm tools, don't be idle."
Don threw the structural diagram of the waterwheel to Brian: "This is the structural diagram of the waterwheel, you take a look at it first, if you have any doubts, you can start working if you have no doubts, I have already made important parts, I only need you to make the skeleton, part of which is wood, you go to the carpenter to solve the carpenter's work, can you get it done before the night?" ”
Brian looked at it, patted his chest and said, "No problem! Fit? ”
"Very well, then I'll leave this part to you, I'll go first, and if I can, I hope it can be assembled tomorrow."
After Tang En finished speaking, he patted his ass and went back to the lord's mansion.
Stamping machines, cutting machines, grinding machines, metal farm tools, have been done, the mint workshop is also a preliminary prototype, if you want to further develop, you need to rebuild the plan to build a factory, and most importantly, you need to open up the trade route, which requires a caravan to solve.
The formation of the caravan, according to Fiona, would take at least a week, and during this period, there was not much that Don could do.
Don was very eager to make toothpaste, but he didn't know the exact ingredients of the toothpaste, and even if he did, there was no chemical factory to help him refine it, so he had to temporarily replace it with table salt.
Compared with toothpaste, it is easier to get out of soap, after the soap is refined and filtered, peppermint essential oil is added, and it becomes peppermint soap, and it can be much more comfortable to take a bath at that time.
As soon as he thought of it, Don perked up and summoned Tina over.
Tina was a little dumbfounded at Donne's request, but she still prepared a lot of leftover fat and a large bag of salt for him to refine oil according to his request.
The smell of soap was so strong that Don didn't want to continue studying it in his bedroom, so he picked up the fat and slipped into an empty storeroom.
The original form of soap is the reaction of fat and plant ash heating in water, and the essence of this reaction is actually the saponification reaction of oil and alkali, and plant ash plays the role of alkali.
However, Don didn't plan to use plant ash now, the soap made in that way was too ugly, and he planned to go directly to the advanced method - electrolysis of saturated salt water.
A very simple chemical reaction, the electrolysis of saturated brine to obtain hydrogen, **, and most importantly, sodium hydroxide melt!
With sodium hydroxide melting, who still uses low-grade goods like plant ash. [e1]
If it were someone else, even if they knew this equation, they wouldn't be able to use it, after all, there was no civilian electricity in this world, but who was Donn?
A mighty mage......
Playing with lightning, not in the applause?
"Zizi ......"
After making a large pot of saturated salt water, clusters of electric light appeared in Tang En's hands, and the extremely stable high-voltage arc drilled directly into the pot, and soon, the salt water began to bubble, and an unpleasant ** smell appeared in the air......
In fact, Don really wants to collect the ** too, this thing is quite useful and can be used for bleaching, but now there is no special container, so he can only give up.
===PS: The title is pure, really (serious.)