Chapter 372 Milk turns into glue
After returning to Weissenburg from Amstel, Frederick became busy, including personnel arrangements in the newly occupied areas, guards at the new borders, and relations with new neighbors. He needs the final say.
The debate in newspapers about "women going out of the house to participate in labor", "equal pay for men and women for equal work" and "concise and easy-to-understand logic" has intensified.
His Majesty Fatih, the Emperor of the Ghazi Empire, personally wrote an article in support of concise language and said, "Friends who have been emperors know that when your ministers hide their true purpose in awkward rhetorical techniques And when the logic is as twisted as a pig's intestines, you can't wait to print the soles of your shoes on his face."
Princess Lola of the Kingdom of Sardinia, who met Frederick on the Citrus Island, came here not long ago because her husband was studying new musical instruments here in Weissensee. She asked the translator to read the newspaper for two days and then wrote in " The White Stork Times published an article supporting the idea that remuneration should not be divided based on gender for equal quality, quantity, and time-consuming work. There seemed to be a hint of resentment in the article.
The issue of whether women should go out of the house to participate in labor was fueled by a divorce lawsuit. The woman was the eldest sister who was approached by Frederick to provide technical support when he began to study textile machines. After the textile industry developed, she became the owner of a textile factory. A technical backbone who accounts for 70% of the family's income, she filed for divorce two days ago because she couldn't stand her husband's constant drinking.
While filing a divorce lawsuit, her husband sued the textile factory for abetting the divorce. He thought that when he beat his wife in the past, she would not dare to fart. After arriving at the textile factory, she first started to talk back, and now she actually Dare to divorce.
Frederick did not take a stand on any matter. Firstly, it allowed the two sides to debate more deeply and get closer to the essence of the issue. Secondly, he had to wait for the church to speak out first. Many problems lay with them.
So he just asked his secretary Vanessa to inform the secretariat to sort out the clippings of relevant news and articles, and study them carefully when she has time.
This morning’s work was much less than the previous two days. Yesterday, Fatih gave a male feathered unicorn to Dawn for pairing. Frederick was going to see if they were compatible, so Ask the secretariat to send only urgent and urgent documents today, and put away the regular ones later.
In the official document sent to Frederick's office, the document sent by Psyche was more urgent than it was urgent. It was packed in a black file box. Frederick was about to leave work early, and the black file box was delivered.
Frederick's expression suddenly became serious when he saw Vanessa coming in with a black file box. Psyche, who has lived for countless years and traveled through countless worlds, is not a person who does not know the importance of things. Such a formal document must be a big deal.
The document in the box today is not about a magician whose research is one step away from being recorded in history, nor whose research is striding on the road to destroying mankind, nor is it someone who is breeding cold-resistant mosquitoes in an attempt to fill Wesson's shoes. There is no mosquito blank in the state winter, but a fresh patent document.
Frederick read it carefully and immediately rushed to the door of the office and shouted: "Afu, please bring this person over to me quickly!"
Afu did not dare to neglect, patent The applicant's address was on the document. He first went to the butter factory and learned that the owner's family had gone to Wesson Bank to apply for a loan. He left a car in case he missed it, and then went to Wesson Bank to find someone.
It was dinner time when Afu and his family returned to the castle, and Frederick invited their family to have lunch.
Lunch is not complicated, tender and juicy roasted pork shoulder on sauerkraut, surrounded by a circle of mashed potato balls, a vegetable soup, and a glass of beer or happy water.
Nowadays, Maria works in her own publishing house, Susan writes medical records in the hospital, and usually does not come back for lunch. Psyche rides a scooter around every day to discover the delicious food on the list, and Lilu even more It was a shipyard far away, and only Frederick was in the restaurant during lunch.
The guests were very reserved. Even though Frederick told them to relax, the family of three still acted like golem puppets with no oil in their joints, and their hands holding silver knives and forks were a little trembling.
Frederick asked the names of the three people politely.
"Shaoer."
The middle-aged man, who is a boss and does business, often deals with people and has a high psychological quality. He immediately announced his family name, and his wife and children stumbled out their names.
Frederick cordially asked Sauer's children how they were doing at school, how good their academic performance was, whether they were happy getting along with their classmates, and how much homework they had.
The child almost stood up at first like he was answering questions in class, but Frederick asked him to sit down and eat and talk.
After the conversation, the family relaxed a lot.
Then Frederick asked how the sales of the Sauer Butter Factory were, whether local officials were randomly apportioning money and asking for food, and whether there were any problems in the local underworld collecting protection fees.
Saul took the opportunity to complain: "Now the underworld does not charge protection fees. In the past, we bought milk directly from the dairy farmers. They signed the sole purchase contract with the dairy farmers, and we could only buy from them. "Frederick asked: "From a business perspective, if someone can purchase milk from scattered dairy farmers and sell it to you, will it reduce your procurement costs?"
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Sauer immediately replied: "It stands to reason. It saves trouble for me not to hire people to run, but those people mix milk and starch into the water, and the milk they buy is terrible."
Frederick nodded and said: "There will be more people in the mine."
Sauer shrank his neck. According to Wesson state law, the reprieve of death under the direct death penalty is to be sent to a dangerous mine for mining. Generally speaking, no one can survive more than five years.
Frederick continued: "You go back and talk with your colleagues, and sort out the methods of milk adulteration and send them over."
"I plan to publish the quality standards of milk. , when you sign the contract, you can agree on the quality based on the standards. If the requirements are not met, you have the right to reject and make claims according to the contract."
Sauer immediately said: "This is great, we have to do it every day. The quality of milk has been noisy for a long time!”
Weisenzhou had previously only had “national standards” for construction and industrial products such as screws and nuts, cement, and metal materials. After lunch that day, “national standards” began to enter the food field. Expanding the scope, people later jokingly called various national standards "milk laws".
Frederick asked again how butter was produced now.
In the past, butter was poured into a narrow and deep wooden barrel with a hole in the lid, and the butter was pounded up and down with a wooden pestle. After the oil and water were separated, the butter came out. The labor cost was very high.
Sauer said that he bought a steam engine with a loan a few years ago, and asked the blacksmith to help optimize and make a set of machines. The steam engine can drive many wire claws like egg beaters to rotate at high speed, and soon it can The butter in the bucket is separated, and the skimmed milk from the butter is boiled into milk lumps and sold as snacks.
He has been thinking in his mind why the Duke would come to him for no reason. It must not be as simple as eating. When he ate more than half of the roasted pork shoulder, he thought that it must be related to today's patent.
Sure enough, after talking about butter production, Frederick asked him: "How did you come up with the invention for which you applied for a loan today?"
Sauer's face turned red with excitement when he saw the leader asking about this. Everyone in Old Wesson knew that a large number of examples proved that any industry that Duke Wesson was interested in must be extremely profitable.
“The butter factory attracts rats and bugs.” He said seriously, “What we do is mix borax with food and put it in a box. If the rats and bugs eat it, they will die.”< br>
“That day, there was a bucket of buttered milk sitting there and I forgot to take it to boil. When I found it, the milk dregs had already been found. I was about to make rat poison, so I asked my mother-in-law to pour the water in the bucket. I washed the milk residue and used it as bait. I first dissolved the borax in warm water, squeezed out the milk residue, and poured it into the paste. The glue is very strong. Once it dries, grind it into powder and add water to dissolve it, it can still stick things! "
"Later I thought, if this kind of glue melts when exposed to water, can it be used to remove milk? Add other things to the dregs to make it less afraid of water..."
Frederick listened very carefully. After traveling to this world for so many years, steam engines have been built, but glue has never been found. The glue made from slime can only be used as hot melt glue. Normally, the sticky paper can only be made by boiling starch. paste.
Well now, Sauer has come up with several casein glues by mistake. As long as the problem of mildew resistance is solved, plywood can be produced.
Wesson’s commerce is booming, and boxes for transporting goods are also in short supply. There are many construction sites here, and wooden formwork used for pouring is in great demand. Not to mention making furniture and carriages, these two alone can make a lot of money.
However, plywood is not made casually. The type of wood, the moisture content of the wood chips, the size and thickness, the pressure and temperature during processing, all have to be determined through a large number of experiments.
The Sauer family left not long after lunch. Frederick had their used silverware washed and put into beautiful boxes and packaged for them. It was the first time for each of them. Everyone who comes to eat in the castle is treated like this.
After returning to the office, Frederick wrote a memo about the production of plywood and looked at the clock on the wall. He had no time to see Ming Xiao and her boyfriend. There was a meeting to be held at the cathedral's construction site in the afternoon.
(End of this chapter)