Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1011 Chaotic Beauty
After linking the development of well salt with Jiangshan Sheji, Zhongjun Baojiangshan and so on, it can be regarded as adding a protective shell to this development model.

After adding this layer of protection, it was decided that the stock offering would be officially launched on the first day of the next month, and the people from the Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce also hurriedly got busy.

Before the end of the month, the governor Niu Congyun, the defense envoy Ma Haochuan and others, together with businessmen from Shaanxi and Sichuan who were interested in investing, went north along the West Qin Guild Hall to visit a salt well that had already decided to invest.

A well that was initially modernized by people from the Academy of Sciences.

This well is very legendary, even without the use of steam engines, it is still a legend here.

Or it is the source of attracting a large amount of capital from Shaanxi and Sichuan to here.

This well is just seven or eight miles north of the Xiqin Guild Hall. From a long distance, you can see the crane, which is nearly seven or eight stories high, standing on the wellhead, which is the original jack.

After approaching, the dense bamboo pipes are arranged in batches, and there are various barrels for turning and diverting every ten meters.

The excavation of this well is quite legendary.

The owner is a brother who got his first pot of gold by smuggling salt to Hubei.

How should I put it, basically the first bucket of gold is legally speaking, even if it is the Dashun law of the feudal dynasty, it is not clean.

However, under Liu Yu's rectification thinking of "turning a lord into a businessman", whether it is a smuggler in Jiangnan or a smuggler in Sichuan, it is easy to clean up.

The two brothers got their first pot of gold by smuggling Sichuan salt in Hubei, so they thought it would be better to engage in production and sales.

Wouldn't it be beautiful to simply gamble all your wealth, dig a well and produce your own salt?

Then it took several years to dig the well, and now it is calculated that the well has been dug more than 300 feet, which is more than 1000 meters deep according to later generations.

It is said that the deeper the chiseling, the better the brine.But it's just a rumor, it's hard to say if it's true.

Sinking a well is actually similar to zhajinhua.

For example, after digging 600 meters, there is still no bittern, and tens of thousands of taels have already been invested. Should it be "follow" or "not follow"?
Come on, if you bet right, you will get rich.

If you don't follow, everything before is in vain.

And follow, how much heart, how much courage, how much bet?
The earth is tens of thousands of miles deep, and this thing has no head.

The two brothers were cruel, and said that they had already beaten nearly two hundred feet, and if they withdrew at this time, they would lose everything.

Gritting his teeth and stomping his feet, he pressed down all his belongings and continued to beat down.

Hit another 300 meters.

However, there will be a day when financial resources will collapse, and in later generations, machines are so developed that ordinary people can't afford to drill a thousand-meter well.

In the end, the brothers actually broke down.

Make up your mind, let's go smuggling if you don't have a chance to make a fortune.

Coincidentally, the workers were about to be dismissed, and everyone left, so a person was left here to do the watch.After all, there are still some equipment and so on, and those who haven't changed are afraid of being lost.

A friend came to see him the other day and said that he got a box of cigarettes that were said to be made by the army. It is said that they were military supplies that were resold during the war in western Sichuan.Out of curiosity, I lit a cigarette to taste the taste of this munitions product, but with a bang, the well burst into flames.

The watcher immediately understood that the well was about to be dug through, and hurriedly told the news to the two brothers who were about to go bankrupt.

The two brothers sold their last family property in a last-ditch effort, and the result was really a few feet away.

In the end, these few feet were pierced, and the brothers immediately changed their luck.

Because, when the chisel was pierced, the bittern sprayed out directly, and the spray was as high as two feet.

This well not only has gas, but also a brine gushing well.

The wells have been drilled like this, so is there a lack of follow-up capital?Can you not borrow money?
When the brine could not be drilled out before, all relatives and friends hid, so what do you mean by borrowing money?It is simply a bottomless pit.

Now it is self-proclaimed, all relatives and friends have appeared, and there is no one who borrows money, saying how much you want to borrow.

Separation of brine and natural gas is very simple.

Construction of brine pipelines, ready-made technology, ready-made high-quality pipes - Sichuan bamboo.

The construction of natural gas pipelines is a ready-made technology and ready-made pipe materials.

At that time, there was no concept of the volume of natural gas. We knew that the natural gas ejected from this well could be used to boil salt for nearly a hundred pots at the same time.

In the beginning, there were 10,000+ stones of bittern sprayed out every day due to the huge pressure underground.

Basically, it's almost like a money printing machine.

A small thousand taels of silver a day, two to three hundred thousand taels a year, this is the profit that no longer smuggles after the transformation.

However, the self-injection did not last long, and after the pressure was released, it was still pulled by the bull.

But self-spraying for a period of time is enough, and all the previous investment has come back.

Before digging a well, I invested 9 taels of silver, and then bought pipelines, hired labor, etc., and spent another 5 taels.

It is equivalent to investing 12 taels, earning 24 taels in the first year, and earning about 18 taels every year in the future, with an average annual return rate of nearly 150%.

When the news got out, it naturally attracted a lot of capital, who came here to dig wells.

In Dashun, a 20% rate of return is a hurdle.If it is lower than this, the capital will not invest a penny, it is better to buy land and collect rent.Liu Yu has been working in Songjiang Mansion for so long, using both soft and hard methods, and exhausted all means, only then can he barely lower the threshold to 15% in Songjiang Mansion.If you want to go down, you can only go up the mountain and raise the flag to equalize the fields.

Although there is no drop here, but 150%, no matter where it is, the capital will definitely invest.

This led to two subsequent events.

One is the huge contradiction between capital and landlords.

Land rents soared.

Land that was not very valuable before, now there is no deposit of several thousand taels, so there is no need to talk about it, and the salt production in the future will basically be split 20-[-], and the contract will be signed for a maximum of [-] years, and the land will only be sold by a fool.

The matter between landlords and capitalists is not the same as that between landlords and tenants.Landlords are not easy to go bankrupt, and they also have capital turnover. Who has nothing to do to sell land?Isn't that a prodigal son?Buying the land of a landlord is much more expensive than buying the land of a small farmer with half self-cultivation and half-tenancy. Even if it is not salt well land, it is the same as ordinary cultivated land, let alone this is salt well land.

The other is the location here, and Dashun’s previous development of Guizhou’s transportation by casting money and transporting copper, which made it easy for the imperial court to decide that Sichuan salt would enter Guizhou and Sichuan salt would enter Chu in the future.

It proves that there is really enough salt here to support the demand for Sichuan salt to enter Guizhou and Chu.

If there is no such well, who would have thought that as long as the courage is strong, the output of drilling a thousand-meter well will be so large?

Of course, this also means that Yanjing has become a model of Dashun's "capital-intensive" industry.

Small handicraftsmen and ordinary people even sell their wives and children, can they make up a fraction of the cost of drilling a thousand-meter well?
And the exorbitant price of deep well drilling can only be afforded by the Shaanxi Capital Group, which made a fortune in the Northwest War and was driven away after failing to compete in the Huaihe River.

The owner of this well, or the owner of the model well in the Syrian state capital to attract capital, has known people from the Academy of Sciences for a long time.

Because when Liu Yu came back from Europe by land, in Tianbao Mansion, he had considered developing a simple oil field to rub kerosene in the future.

This thousand-meter-deep well is an example to learn from.

Therefore, the Academy of Sciences has long sent people here to learn the technology of sinking wells, and the owner of the well, because of his previous status as a private salt dealer, is also happy to associate with Liu Yu's side, hoping to close his case in the future.

This is also the first batch of salt wells that the Academy of Sciences tried to transform. The direction of transformation is still very simple, because there are not many technologies that can be applied, and the main thing is to extract brine.

And a little more complicated ones, such as natural gas pipelines... To be honest, the current technology of the Academy of Sciences is far worse than natural bamboo.

There is no danger in using natural bamboo to transport natural gas; however, with the current technology of the Academy of Sciences, it is necessary to make the pipes with artificial mechanical beauty as seamless as bamboo, and the cost will skyrocket.

Looking at the current salt well from a historical perspective, it is absurd.

The smoke from the chimney, the boiler room, and the roar of the steam engine pulled the rope.

It looks like it's romantic.

Symbol of a new era.

Apart from that, the remaining technologies would not feel incongruous when thrown into the Qin, Han and even pre-Qin periods.

As if, 2000 years of history merged into one at this moment.

What kind of high-end one-way valve do you need for the bucket of brine?Feel free to make quick-cooked cowhide, half-baked it, when sinking, the pressure of water pushes the cooked cowhide inwards, and fills the brine; when pulling up, the gravity of the brine naturally presses the cooked cowhide down tightly, and the water does not leak .

This is the technique that Li Bing, who built Dujiangyan, used when he was the prefect.

There is no difference between the cooked cowhide 2000 years ago and the current cooked cowhide.

And now, there is no technology in the Academy of Sciences that is more convenient, more effective, and cheaper than this.

The mortise and tenon structure of the crane is more than 20 meters high, without a single nail, and it is all mortise and tenon structure.

A fixed pulley that changes direction but does not save effort is hung on it, so that the rope extends downward from the fixed pulley to lift the brine.

The Academy of Sciences can't make a low-cost pure steel structure crane derrick. This kind of wooden mortise and tenon structure, which seems to be incompatible with the steam engine, is the best solution now.

The brine from the well is collected in the brine pool, and then transported to different places through the bamboo tubes in the brine pool with bamboo joints.

The natural gas in this well cannot meet the cooking needs of all the bittern.The excess bittern should be passed along the bamboo pipes to the coal-fired salt cooking room below.

Bamboo is straight.

What about trying to get those pipes to turn?
What kind of Golan and universal valve do you want.

Get a big pottery jar and dig a few holes.

The hole for the brine is on the top, and the hole for the brine is on the bottom. If you connect the bamboo, which direction can you not go?As long as the radius is larger, only the plane is considered and the height is not considered, and you can even turn around and go back to the origin.

The brine that cannot be boiled by natural gas goes down the bamboo pipe to the boiling room below.Inside is the "prison basin" that has been basically finalized when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty monopolized salt and iron.

The difference may be that firewood was burned at that time.

Now, it is coal or natural gas.

Soot-smoking chimneys and rumbling steam engines in the new era; prison basins that have been finalized in the Han Dynasty; mortise and tenon frames and cooked cowhide one-way valves that have been finalized in the pre-Qin period; pottery jars that can be made before the Shang and Zhou Dynasties; here Bamboo that has grown naturally for tens of millions of years; natural gas and coal that have been buried underground for hundreds of millions of years... Putting all these together, it is the first modern salt well in Dashun, one of the representatives of capital-intensive industries in Dashun do.

Magical and confusing.

Smelling the smell of soot from the high chimney; seeing the "iron bull" that does not need to rest constantly rolling up the rope; listening to the sound of pouring water from the brine bucket; glancing at the light blue flame emitted by the burning natural gas; watching With bare upper body muscles twitching at the salt worker who stirred the boiling bittern; enduring the harsh creaking sound of the coal cart rolling over the railroad tracks;

Ma Haochuan grabbed a handful of freshly boiled snow-white salt, and couldn't help sighing: "This is a real world!"

Niu Congyun looked at the black smoke coming out of the chimney, nodded slightly and said: "When I was in southern Jiangsu, the local people knew that Duke Xingguo had eccentricities. Regarding Yu Mei, he didn't understand the beauty of the garden and the pride of Meixue."

"At that time, someone in southern Jiangsu said: In ancient times, there was a king of Chu who had a thin waist, so he starved to death in the palace. Today, Duke Xingguo is curious about his skills, so he presses the scent of sulfur in Sulin, and the soot reflects green water. I'm afraid that day in the future The stone lions in front of the vermilion gates below are not clean, with soot dust on every hand."

"Now that I have really seen all this, I know that the Duke of the State has no eccentricities. This kind of scenery is a hundred times better than the diseased Mei Xiushui."

(End of this chapter)