Chapter 410 Exit Weapon
Joseph suddenly frowned. Although he didn't see clearly what was going on just now, Alexandra was walking well and did not turn towards the "extra performers". Why did she step on it? To that person's feet?
Presumably, it could only be the latter who stretched out his feet.
He frowned and shook his head, ignoring the troublemaking noble lady.
"Your Highness..."
Seeing that the crown prince had no intention of condemning the little Russian girl, and that they could not quarrel with a seven or eight-year-old child - they would probably be asking for abuse if they really wanted to quarrel - several aristocratic ladies immediately stood up angrily and supported the prince. Liz walked out of the theater, muttering softly:
"There is no way I can perform on the same stage with such a rude woman!"
"Let's help Tris back to her room to rest."
"I'm going to tell everyone about her rude behavior..."
Alexandra watched a few people making preparations to leave, knowing that they wanted to isolate herself.
She blinked and chased after him in a few steps: "Dear ladies, did you lose your temper because you wanted to attract the attention of His Highness the Crown Prince but failed?"
If an adult had said this, it would have seemed weird, but when she said it as a child, it sounded innocent and sincere.
"You! You're talking nonsense!" A noble lady immediately denied it excitedly.
"Oh? Then you don't want the Crown Prince to pay attention to you?"
"No, it's not..." The faces of several female nobles turned purple, and they hurriedly turned around and fled from the theater.
Joseph looked at this scene and almost laughed out loud. He thought to himself that this little girl is quite interesting. She is unreasonable and unforgiving. Are all Russian women so sharp?
Well, that seems to be true. Russia was quite strong when Elizabeth and Catherine were czars. On the contrary, when Peter III and Paul I came to power, Russia was run into a mess.
When Alexandra saw several women leaving, she couldn't help but sigh. She turned around and bowed to Joseph, apologetically saying: "Your Highness, I shouldn't have argued with them and made it impossible for your rehearsal to continue. Conducted."
"It's not your fault." Joseph waved his hand, "You acted very well, and you are also very brave. I will find a solution for the missing actors."
In fact, he didn't have to do anything at all. There was a long queue of people who wanted to perform on the same stage with the Crown Prince, and rehearsals started again half an hour later.
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Northern suburbs of Paris.
Antoine Industrial Development Zone.
Yes, relying on the booming papermaking industry, Antoine has more and more workshops and craftsmen. Therefore, Joseph simply designated this area as a new development area.
In a factory covering an area of more than 10,000 square meters on the southwest side of Antoine, Lavoisier looked at the mechanical oven that was spitting out white smoke, hugged the shoulders of his wife who was standing beside him, and sighed sincerely:
"My dear, how did you come up with this thing in a month? You are really... the darling of the god of chemical experiments!"
Mariana smiled and said: "Actually, I just formulated the specifications, found someone to draw the drawings, and then handed them over to the ironworks in Saint-Etienne. It took them more than 20 days to complete the manufacturing. A lot of time is spent on inspection and transportation. Their equipment and management are much better than before. "I originally thought that I would have to wait for my help to complete the work here." Looking at his wife, "I didn't expect you to solve it all by yourself."
As he spoke, he looked at the huge equipment in the work shed - the rotary furnace, the centrifuge, the evaporator, the reactor, and the most complex gas scrubber.
These were basically built and tested by her wife. And before she married him, she didn't even know what chemistry was.
She is definitely a genius in the field of chemical experiments. Well, of course it is also inseparable from my own excellent teaching.
After Lavoisier obtained the royal alkali preparation method invented by His Royal Highness the Dauphin, he completed the laboratory preparation in less than a week - as long as the principle was correct, it was not difficult in his experience.
The difficult part is how to mass produce it.
In the chemical industry, once the amount of reactants is increased, the preparation process becomes completely different. For example, in a test tube, you only need to shake it to mix the reacting substances, but when the amount becomes 1 ton, just mixing can make people crazy.
How to fully react with so many materials, how to purify them, and how to preserve them are all big problems. As long as any one of the links fails, mass production will not be possible.
This is especially true for alkali production. You know, according to the requirements of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the daily production of soda is 1.66 tons, so the mixed raw materials are several times this weight.
The core of this reaction is the recycling of ammonia gas, so there are extremely strict requirements for the sealing of the equipment and the collection of gas.
Especially for ammonia cleaning. Ammonia is not only toxic, but also corrosive and flammable. Cleaning it in large quantities is very troublesome. It almost drove the Lavoisiers crazy at the time.
In the end, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince came up with a rough plan - Joseph only remembered that the documentary mentioned gas scrubbers and the basic principles, but could not remember the specific details - and then Mariana was busy day and night. After three and a half months, I actually designed this thing!
It can be said that as long as the gas scrubber is kept confidential, even if other soda preparation technical manuals are given to other countries, they will not be able to copy them.
Lavoisier looked at the complete set of alkali-making equipment in front of him, turned his head and asked his wife: "My dear, how is the trial production going?"
"The utilization rate of raw materials is still a bit low. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said it can reach about 70%, but I can only achieve 50%." Mariana said, showing excitement again, "But the trial production the day before yesterday only used In 6 hours, 700 kilograms of soda was produced, and the purity was very high.”
Although Lavoisier had been mentally prepared, he was still secretly stunned when he heard this figure - the current market price of soda is about 33 livres for 100 kilograms.
In other words, I just started the equipment casually the day before yesterday and made more than 230 livres.
Moreover, soda has always had a price but no market. It is easy to buy dozens of kilograms, but if it exceeds 100 kilograms, you have to wait for a long time.
Before he could say anything, Mariana smiled and said, "Dear, we don't have to save soap anymore in the future."
Among the raw materials for soap production, the most expensive ones are oil and soda ash. After possessing the ability to produce soda ash on a large scale, France could even monopolize the world's soap industry.
Although this thing is inconspicuous, if the world's market is added up, it will exceed ten million livres!
Lavoisier nodded vigorously: "There are also glass, paper, and dyes, which will become much cheaper in the future."
For France, this means that the costs of these industries will be significantly reduced, thus becoming a powerful export tool.
(End of chapter)