As soon as Zhao Fuxiang arrived at the door of the workshop, a young man rushed out. When he saw Zhao Fuxiang, he quickly saluted and said, "Sir, you are here!"

This young man is Zhao Fuxiang's long-term follower Fan Jian. A large amount of raw materials have been shipped in these days, so Zhao Fuxiang arranged for him to keep an eye on it here.

Zhao Fuxiang asked: "How is it? Have all the raw materials been shipped?"

"Sir, we have brought a total of five thousand stones, which is enough for us to produce for a month!"

Five thousand shi may seem like a lot, but in fact it is only 250 tons. Based on the current output of the sugar factory, it is indeed only one month's output.

Zhao Fuxiang nodded and said: "That's good. You can follow me later. I'm really uncomfortable without you around these days!"

Zhao Fuxiang is now used to being served by others, and it feels good not to have to do anything himself, so Zhao Fuxiang feels a little uncomfortable when Fan Jian is not around these two days.

Fan Jian had long wanted to leave this stuffy and hot sugar factory, so after hearing what Zhao Fuxiang said, he quickly agreed happily and stood behind Zhao Fuxiang.

Zhao Fuxiang came today to show Huang San the world, so he turned to Huang San and said, "Huang San, how are you? I'll show you around?"

Having been captured by the boiler just now, Huang San had lost the arrogance he had at the beginning. Hearing what Zhao Fuxiang said, he quickly said: "Okay, please take Officer Zhao to take Huang San out to have a look!"

Zhao Fuxiang took Huang San to the first filter tank, which is in front of the rough filter tank. There is no technical content here. The sugar factory in Leizhou also does this. The workers unpacked the eighty kilograms of brown sugar and put it in the

Put it into a filter tank made of cement, and when it is full, add warm water at 40 degrees Celsius.

In the past, workers burned the warm water themselves, which was time-consuming and labor-intensive, as well as wood. Now the boiler saves a lot of effort. Open the wooden pipes, and the warm water flows into the filter tank, and soon the brown sugar dissolves into sugar water.

In order to speed up the dissolution, the workers stirred back and forth with a two-meter-long bamboo pole. After there were no lumps of brown sugar in the pool, they began to put in large buckets of yellow mud water.

Huang San screamed when he saw this. Even if the brown sugar just now was not valuable, more than one hundred yuan was still worth a lot of money. How could it be eaten now that the yellow mud water was added?

After all the yellow mud water came in, the workers waited for ten minutes for the negative electrons in the yellow mud water to combine with the positrons in the brown sugar solution, and large deposits began to appear in the filter tank.

Huang San's eyes lit up when he saw this. It turns out that Zhao Fuxiang's secret method for extracting white sugar is to add yellow mud water. Now he has learned it.

Huang San can understand this step no problem, but he can't understand the next step.

The worker put the clarified brown sugar solution into the next filter tank, where he began to add quicklime. Huang San had also seen quicklime, but in the next step, the worker put a wooden pipe into the water, and then a large number of bubbles began to appear in the water, and at the same time, another bubble appeared in the water.

Large clumps of sediment appear.

Now Huang San didn't understand. He looked around the wooden pipe and reached out to take it out to see what was inside. When the worker on the side saw it, he quickly stopped him, but was stopped by Zhao Fuxiang. Waiting for Huang San

When the wooden pipe was taken out of the water, Huang San was in trouble when he saw that there was nothing inside.

Of course, Zhao Fuxiang couldn't tell him that there was carbon dioxide in it. The charcoal in a charcoal basin nearby produced a large amount of carbon dioxide after burning. It was transferred into the water through the wooden pipe, and chemically reacted with the lime, causing a large number of bubbles to rise. At the same time, the lime water reacted with the carbon dioxide to form

Calcium carbonate, so that a large amount of pigment in the brown sugar solution is adsorbed by calcium carbonate and precipitates at the bottom of the pool.

After this step, the brown sugar solution has become somewhat transparent. The next step is to filter. At this time, all the filter tanks use activated carbon. Because of the widespread use of boilers, the amount of activated carbon can be completely guaranteed. Zhao Fuxiang naturally does not need to use any pebbles.

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filter.

What comes out of the last step is a white sugar solution that is like pure water. Workers put these saturated solutions in buckets and transport them to the evaporation workshop. There is a large pool with three iron pipes underneath. Inside is 200-degree steam and white sugar solution.

The water here is quickly evaporated by steam. When the workers see that the water is almost there, they turn off the steam, then manually shovel the sugar out of the pool, put it in a cart and push it outside to cool down and prepare for packaging.

As the temperature decreases, the sugar slowly dries. The next and final step is to pack the sugar with cattails. Because Zhao Fuxiang's customers are mainly British, the sugar is packed in packages of one hundred pounds. Several

The workers stand in front of a weighing scale, and when the cattail bucket in front of them is filled with sugar, they will tie the cattails tightly with straw ropes, and a hundred-pound sugar bag will be completed.

What Huang San saw was only the preliminary purification process. If the output of white sugar purified in this way is not much different from that of the local sugar houses in Leizhou Prefecture, Zhao Fuxiang can make his purification amount reach 80%. The most important trick is to purify the waste liquid.

The waste liquid is the waste that was precipitated in the first and second steps. It contains a lot of sugar. The sugar factory also has a special workshop to purify the waste liquid. Of course, the contents inside cannot be shown to Huang San.

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However, the first few steps were enough to shock Huang San. Although the first step seemed a bit unbelievable to Huang San, it was still within his understanding, but the gas introduced into the pool in the second step was not something Huang San could understand.

Yes, in his opinion, Zhao Fuxiang used magic to make the originally turbid brown sugar solution clear. As for the evaporator in the next step, Huang San really didn't understand how the perfectly good liquid could pass through the smoking pool.

Turned into sugar?

Seeing Huang San's confused look, Zhao Fuxiang secretly cursed this country bumpkin, then walked up to Huang San and asked: "Huang San, how are you? Even if I give you these things, can you produce white sugar?"

Although Zhao Fuxiang's words were sarcastic, the facts are facts. If you can't use it, you can't use it. Huang San thought for a long time and shook his head: "Exceptor Zhao, we really don't know how to operate these..." Huang San didn't know what to call these things.

He pointed at the evaporator and boiler in front of him.

Zhao Fuxiang stepped forward and patted Huang San on the shoulder and said: "Huang San, this era has changed. It will be the era of these machines. How can human power compare with machines? So you go back and tell your uncle that in the era of

Before the tide, all personal behavior is like a mantis trying to control the cart. You have also seen the output here, and giving your uncle and nephew 10% is already a lot!"

Although Huang San didn't understand the trend of the era, he understood the saying "The mantis is like a chariot". Although Huang San didn't read or read, it didn't mean that he had no knowledge.

Huang San followed his uncle Huang Xin all over the country and saw the large ships of the Fo Langji people. The cannons on one ship were as many as their entire fleet. When Huang Xin first encountered such large ships, he was still a little unbelieving.

They tried to win victory through the familiar gang-hopping tactics, but the artillery and muskets of the Franco robots forced them to flee. From then on, Huang San understood the meaning of the saying "The mantis is trying to beat the chariot."

"Please rest assured, member Zhao, although Huang San cannot settle this matter, Huang San will definitely report the truth to his uncle and will definitely promote this alliance!"

Zhao Fuxiang nodded with a smile and sent Huang San away from Xinbu Island. When passing through Haidian Island, Zhao Fuxiang also took him to see the newly built weapons factory. When Huang San saw the steam turbine rotating at high speed and the fast lathe,

After producing a qualified barrel, Huang San was even more frightened. Huang San knew some of the processes of making muskets. The best craftsmen in the government weapons institute could only make one qualified barrel every month. Now,

The guy in front of me can produce one in less than a quarter of an hour, which can be considered a miracle.

Huang San had extremely complicated emotions

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After boarding the returning ship, he left Haidian Island with ten of his confidants. Zhao Fuxiang looked at the sailing ship and thought to himself, God bless Huang Xin, who can listen to Huang San's advice, so that he can own a

The navy is neither big nor small. Of course, these pirates are not yet a navy, but after all, they have taken the first step in the Long March.

After leaving the dock, Zhao Fuxiang returned to his home. He was going to have a meal with his family tonight. He and Li Zhengdao agreed to take a boat to Guangzhou tomorrow. At the same time, Zhao Fuxiang had to make some preparations when he returned home. He must bring a few pearl necklaces as gifts.

At that time, they brought more than 20 skewers when they traveled through time. They sold some to raise the initial capital in the early stage and gave some as gifts to the officials in Fucheng. Now there are only five skewers left. Zhao Fuxiang took a look and brought them all.

Zhao Fuxiang saw the black pearl necklace again. This thing was worth more than a thousand yuan in later generations. Sun Jing only bought three strings in order to give gifts to the leaders of the unit. Now this is the only string left. Zhao Fuxiang hesitated for a long time and decided to bring it.

After all, I am not familiar with Guangzhou, so if I need it, I won’t be able to get it in time when I come back.

Just as Zhao Fuxiang was packing his things, his family members came back one after another. After everyone learned that Zhao Fuxiang was going to Guangzhou, they were all a little reluctant to leave. Ma Guilan knew that maritime transportation in the Ming Dynasty was extremely dangerous, so she warned: "Son, the ships at this time

It’s not safe, you must find a big ship and bring your guards with you!”

Zhao Fuxiang nodded and looked at Sun Jing. Although Zhao Fuxiang's feelings for Sun Jing have long been like touching his right hand, after all, they have lived together for more than 20 years. Zhao Fuxiang said: "Honey, my parents at home need you to take more care of me after I leave."

Yes! If there is anything official, go to Kong Shouzhen, and if there is anything about the safety of the island, go to Ma Desheng!"

Sun Jing nodded in agreement and said: "Be careful on the old highway, and don't go to Guangfu to find those prostitutes! You know the epidemic at this time, but there is no special medicine. You know the effectiveness of the penicillin I made

, there is a 10% mortality rate, if you are not afraid of death you can try it!"

Zhao Fuxiang tensed up when he heard the news. After Sun Jing reminded him, he remembered that the Ming Dynasty was an era when the disease was prevalent. There must have been many people suffering from this disease in a transportation hub city like Guangzhou. It seemed that he had better be careful!

Although the old man Zhao Zhikuan was also worried about his son's safety, he did not say anything out loud. Instead, he kept drinking with his head down. When Zhao Fuxiang saw it, he advised: "Dad, you are not in good health, drink less!"

Zhao Zhikuan surprisingly did not scold Zhao Fuxiang, but he still put down the wine glass in his hand.

Zhao Zhikuan said: "Son, you'd better find some masters who know how to make paper when you go to Guangzhou this time. I've looked at the paper on the island. The ones produced on the island are all yellow mounted paper, which is not suitable for writing. Those rice papers are also very expensive.

, I think we can produce some ourselves!”

It is understandable that Zhao Zhikuan needs a blacksmith master, but why does he need paper at this time? Could it be that the old man no longer wants to teach his disciples and has started to prepare a book and biography?

"Dad, aren't you busy enough with all the factories on the island now? You want to leave something for my son to know, but you can tell me after a while when you are free!"

Zhao Zhikuan shook his head and said: "Instead of writing something, I want to create a school on the island. I have already thought of a name, it will be called Haidian Technical School!"

Grandma Ma Guilan nodded and said, "Son, your dad is right. I also want to build a school to pass on what I have learned throughout my life. Let's call it Haidian Agricultural School!"

When his wife Sun Jing heard this, she became excited and said that she wanted to build a nursing school. Zhao Fuxiang was shocked when he heard his family's request. It has only been a few months in time and you are about to build a school?

Zhao Heng, who had been eating silently beside him, laughed when he heard this and said to Zhao Fuxiang: "Dad, you can also build a school, let's call it Haidian Political School. What will it teach? By the way, teach them how to be corrupt! Haha. !!!”
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