Chapter 54 This pressure cooker is not simple
Frederick rested for a long time and resumed his usual exercise and study courses at the manor.
On the afternoon of the day when the third greenhouse was put into use, he and BASF, who delivered materials, came to the slime glue workshop.
Nowadays, the Slime Glue Factory is one of the largest factories in Weissenburg, with hundreds of employees. In order to manage the factory well, BASF has lost a lot of weight and gained some management experience.
Frederick did not see the surprise first, but walked around the production process.
The first thing he came to was the Crystal Slime Farm, which covers the largest area. It was arranged like a pig pen, and every pool was almost filled with slimes. The feed was kitchen waste purchased from Weissenburg. Rubbish.
Frederick asked BASF: "Can the materials keep up?"
BASF replied: "It is barely enough now. It will not be enough after the scale is expanded again next year. I plan to use it in other areas." Build workshops in several cities.”
Frederick frowned and thought as he looked at the crystal slimes jumping in the pool.
He shook his head after a while and said: "It's enough to build a breeding farm there. The workshop needs to be improved. I will discuss it with you in detail later."
Now that the victims have been resettled, they can free up their hands to deal with upgrading from handicraft workshops to workshops or even rudimentary factories.
This matter cannot be rushed. Frederick intends to conduct thorough research before talking about it.
The big boss said so, and BASF agreed.
The two left the breeding farm and went to the slaughtering workshop.
Crystal slime is poured with a little alcohol when it is released from the market. After it passes out from drunkenness, it is pulled here, washed, cut into pieces and put into the meat grinder.
In the past, there was a process of removing slime guts during small batch production, but now it has been cancelled, and barrels of slime paste are shipped directly to the cooking workshop.
The cooking workshop has only a roof but no walls. It houses two of Frederick's new inventions - a briquette stove and a pressure cooker.
Then Frederick was frightened by a row of pressure cookers.
A large pressure cooker with a diameter of half a meter and a pot height of about 60 cm is fixed on the stove. The honeycomb briquette stove underneath is mounted on a trolley. When the stove is pulled out to change the coal, the pot does not move.
The pot lid is fixed through the cross beam, ear buckle and screw rod. The water vapor makes the weight on the exhaust valve jump.
There is a small hourglass next to each pressure cooker that sprays water. When the hourglass is finished leaking, workers will take the coal stove away, then pour water on it to force it to cool. After lifting the weight and no more spray, the lid will be opened.
“Such a big pot!” Frederick asked hurriedly, “Is it safe?”
BASF replied: “It’s safe, no problem. These pots are made of earth elements made by Professor Ogilvy Made of steel, it is extremely strong."
"If the exhaust valve is blocked, the safety valve on the other side of the pot lid will also work."
"We are also preparing to cover the pot. Weld the iron chain and it won’t fly too far even if it blows up.”
"This pressure cooker was determined by me after many experiments. With higher pressure and higher temperature, the quality of the paste obtained is better."
Frederick was relieved after hearing this.
Cheap elemental steel is a new specialty brought by Ogilvy and Mather to Wesson Tie, and its reputation has already begun.
The earth steel used in pressure cookers is a type of elemental metal and is steel reinforced with earth elements.
The traditional elemental steel process is to add high-quality magic crystal powder when forging or casting steel ingots. Then during the long-term forging, the magic elements inspired by these magic crystal powders will transform the steel, and finally dissolve the impurities. discharge together.
The characteristic of earth steel is that it is stronger than ordinary steel and is often used to make important parts of armor.
Making elemental steel requires expensive and high-quality magic crystal powder, otherwise the magical elements in it cannot be stimulated during forging.
When the magic crystal powder drops to medium quality, it will no longer be able to stimulate the remaining elements. New high-quality magic crystal powder can only be added, so the cost is very high.
The manufacturing process of other elemental metals is the same as that of earth steel. Different magic elements have different bonuses to the properties of metal materials. The magic elements commonly used to make elemental metals include fire elements that increase the melting point and increase corrosion resistance. The electric element, the gold element that increases hardness, the water element that increases plasticity, the wood element that increases toughness, the light element that increases magic affinity and reduces magic resistance, the dark element that increases magic resistance, etc.
Elemental metals are not limited to steel. Earth lead can also be compared with pig iron in terms of hardness. This magical element strengthening is the product of the strengthening value and the original performance of the metal base material. The stronger the base material, the better the performance after strengthening. powerful.
Several magical elements can also strengthen individual metals at the same time, resulting in composite elemental metals.
In terms of price, the difference between ordinary metals and elemental metals is as big as boiling cabbage and boiling cabbage.
The price of domestic steel is the same weight of silver. Currently, the wholesale price of domestic steel sold by Weisenling is the same weight of silver. The quantity is large enough and the cost price is confidential.
But they are all used as pressure cookers, so the cost is probably not much higher.
For many years, countless people have been studying methods to reduce the cost of elemental steel, and have achieved certain results. Currently, only Ogilvy and Mather have achieved breakthrough results.
Frederick thought this was the surprise BASF was talking about. Unexpectedly, he pointed to a large piece of grass outside and said, "Let's go over there. There's a big surprise there!" This piece of grass was full of weeds, and there were no grasses when the workshop was built. Time to shovel away.
Frederick walked to the grass and took a look, and immediately discovered something was wrong.
Although the grass has turned yellow, it can still be seen that the grass on the roadside near the cooking workshop is taller than that in the distance.
BASF said proudly: "Boss, I found that the waste liquid after cooking is a good fertilizer."
"We poured the waste liquid directly here. At first, we thought that the grass here grew well because it was hotter near the stove."
"Later, there was too much waste liquid, so we poured a lot more The grass was burned to death, and it turned into mud when it rained, so we started to move farther away, and found that the grass there was more lush."
Frederick held his chin and thought, since the vegetation ash and bones were all gone. It can fertilize the fields, and the slime fields that have been cooked under high pressure are not unacceptable.
“Inform Professor Matthias.” Frederick said, “He will come to the manor later to study growing vegetables in greenhouses, and you can study the effects of waste liquid together.”
Let the experts handle professional matters.
BASF immediately agreed. If the waste liquid can really be used as fertilizer, it will be a huge income for the workshop, and it will be one step closer to buying a house in Weissenburg and getting married.
At the other end of the cooking workshop, workers put the cooked slime paste into an iron plate as big as a bed, and lit a fire underneath to boil the paste out of the water and turn it into molten glue.
The slime glue is put into the heated noodle machine while it is still hot and squeezed out. There is a pool below the outlet. Someone uses a scraper to scrape the slime glue that comes out into pieces one by one. After falling into the pool, it cools and solidifies.
This is slime raw glue. It is reheated and melted in different workshops and reacted with various materials to obtain glue for different uses and reproduced into different products.
The molding method is used to produce tableware. A specific spoon scoops a spoonful into the mold, and another mold presses it, and several bowls or plates come out. After cutting off the flash, they can be sold. .
Here Frederick saw an unexpected person.
"George?" Frederick was a little surprised, "What are you doing here if you are not the supervisor of the glass workshop?"
George, who was sent over by the Grand Duke of Mainz, was thinking about something. He looks ordinary, and his cheeks are more bulging than ordinary people, which is the characteristic of a glassblower.
After being interrupted from thinking, he found out that it was Frederick, and immediately replied respectfully: "Your Excellency, Baron, I am thinking whether the glass workshop can use this method to produce tableware."
Philippe Te Lie said matter-of-factly: "Of course it's okay. Is there any problem?"
George saw Frederick for the second time today. He didn't have the respect brought by social rules from the people who led Wesson, nor did he have the recognition that Wesson University and others had after discussing academic issues with him. In addition, he was a beauty. Grand Duke Inz's beloved illegitimate son and glass-making expert felt a little unhappy when he found that the problem he was thinking about was treated lightly by such a child.
“It’s not that simple.” George shook his head, “This also involves many issues such as the composition of the glass and the processing temperature.”
While he was waiting for the little baron to ask what the problem was, , and then when he showed off his rich experience, Frederick said calmly: "That's true. This requires a lot of experimental data to solve."
After saying that, Frederick said regardless of his expression. The eccentric George took BASF to the shoe-making workshop.
George, like traditional craftsmen, focuses on the accumulation of experience, while Frederick values relying on data to determine the optimal craftsmanship, which may be difficult for traditional people to accept for a while.
Halfway through, BASF asked Frederick out of curiosity: "Principal, you don't seem to like this person very much?"
They felt that in the past, principals were very enthusiastic and valued people with skills. Like today This was the first time that he spoke coldly and without emotion.
"Nothing." Frederick shook his head slightly.
This George was sent over by the Archduke of Mainz because of a conflict with Philip. Frederick originally wanted to build a microscope, so he accepted him.
Now the situation has changed. Frederick asked George to see how the molding method of making utensils was worthy of the Grand Duke of Mainz. After all, he had a closer relationship with Philip, so it was impossible to get closer to George again.
When a person like George is in front of Baron Wesson, if Baron Wesson gives the Grand Duke of Mainz face, he will be a figure, but if he does not give it, he will be an ordinary person.
Frederick wanted to hook up with the Archduke of Mainz, and Philip was a close confidant of the Archduke. This relationship was more formal and stronger than George's.
BASF did not get to the bottom of the matter, but said: "I also thought that when the glass workshop is put into operation, I can buy a glass tea set when I prepare to get married."
Frederick looked He looked around and said in a low voice: "Don't worry, there is a big fat pig ready to be slaughtered for me, not to mention the glass workshop."
BASF's eyes lit up and he said worriedly: " But he saw our craftsmanship..."
Frederick curled his lips and asked: "How much do you think I should charge you for those pressure cookers?"
BASF immediately understood that pressure cookers made of this special material must be ridiculously expensive in the market. Raw materials and downstream technologies are all in vain. You can even make a fortune by selling the raw materials, and others can earn hard-earned money.
“Think about it.” Frederick said, “There is no technology that will never become obsolete, and there is no technology that will never be leaked.”
“An industry is like an industry. As long as you keep the most profitable chain in your own hands, that’s it.”
(End of this chapter)