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Chapter 144 Nanhua's Big Gold Mine (Second Update, please subscribe)
This is a wonderful time!

There is almost no technology blockade in this era. As long as they can afford the money, those companies, to be precise, those capitalists will sell their most advanced technology or products to any country without any scruples.There is no need to consider the prohibition at the national level at all.

This era of free trade will probably last until... the [-]s and [-]s. In those years, Soviet Russia imported a large amount of machinery, equipment and technology from all over the world in such free trade, and even entrusted the United States The company designs aircraft carriers.

In a word, in this era of capital rampant, money is omnipotent.

With sufficient financial support, not only can Nanhua introduce machinery and equipment, but also its technology, as well as technical experts from all walks of life, just like Soviet Russia in another time and space, through the large-scale introduction of equipment and foreign experts, in the Industrialization of the country was achieved in a short period of time.

However, the premise of all this is sufficient funds.

Development is the last word, but the premise of development is to have money!

Although Buffett is burying holes in London and Paris, two million pounds can only meet temporary needs!The development of Nanhua needs long-term capital injection. Although Hailun Pharmaceutical Company has considerable earning power as a cash cow, only one cash cow cannot meet the needs.

"It's a pity that there is no gold mine in Nanhua!"

Although he sighed in his heart, Zhu Xianhai soon found a gold mine for himself.

It took about a month before and after, and a small factory was built on Panshi Island at the entrance to the right bay of Nanhua Bay.

The so-called "Panshi Island" is a small island about 1.5 kilometers long and no more than a few hundred meters wide. In the planning of Nanhua Bay, Youwan Bay will be the future naval base. guarded among them.In the simulator, even the shelling of the British and American navies did not cause any damage to the base.

And "Panshi Island" is the most important line of defense at the entrance of Youwan. In order to protect Youwan, a fort was specially built, and this factory is located inside the fort, which shows the difference of this factory.As for the outside of the factory area, there are armed guards. The brick and wood factory buildings are not only surrounded by barbed wire on the walls, but even in the air.

What is being produced in such a heavily guarded place?
No one knows, the armed guards don't know, the order they got is very simple - anyone who tries to break in or go out without authorization, shoot dead!
Accompanied by the roar of the steam engine, the generator started to rotate. Standing in the somewhat dim tunnel, Zhu Xianhai stared at the electrolysis tank in front of him. For the past month or so, he has been wholeheartedly in this secret factory. inside.

From the design of the generator to the design of various equipment needed for production, this factory, it should be said that everything in the workshop was created by him, and even the workers were trained by him.

The product produced by this small factory is actually very simple - electrolytic aluminum.

Aluminum does not occur in a free state in nature. It was first isolated by the German chemist Waller, and then a small amount of aluminum was produced in 1854 by the famous French scientist Saint-Claire de Vere.Deville used the expensive sodium method to obtain metal aluminum through chemical reaction, and started the process of commercial aluminum production. However, due to the complicated production process and high cost, the output of aluminum was very small.In this era, "aluminum" is placed together with those precious jewelry, and it is called "Dwyer's silver",
It is precisely because "Dwyer's silver" is expensive and rare that the emperor brought the goods-the French emperor Napoleon III made an aluminum crown for himself to show his great dignity.Not only that, when holding banquets, the tableware he uses is also made of aluminum.

And this is exactly the reason why Zhu Xianhai devoted himself to this factory - in order to open up new sources of income.

"Through electrolysis, the aluminum is separated and precipitates at the bottom of the crucible, while oxygen is released..."

Different from those who followed de Vere in this era who tried to reduce the price of sodium to reduce the cost of new electrochemical processes, Zhu Xianhai directly chose the electrolysis method.

It was not until 1886 that the American Hall and the Frenchman Elutt invented the same patent without knowing each other, although the patent lawsuit had been fought in the United States for fifteen years.But Hall, as the inventor of the aluminum electrolysis process, became a legend, and he won the largest fortune in the history of US patents.

But now, all Zhu Xianhai needs is to copy the aluminum electrolysis process and then produce electrolytic aluminum.

and then?
Aluminum was exported abroad, of course, no, "Dwyer's silver".

This silver is only slightly cheaper than gold.

"The production of the factory needs to run continuously, because if the operation is stopped, the tank will "freeze", making the metal in the tank unusable and needs to be cleaned and discarded. Therefore, during production, [-] hours a day, uninterrupted Production……"

While explaining the production process, Zhu Xianhai personally instructed the two supervisors how to operate the equipment.

Although the factory operates two shifts a day, in reality, there are only six employees—the day and night shift supervisors, and four "furnace workers" who are in charge of these electrolyzers. The so-called factory actually has only two workers. A cast iron "electrolyzer" for the anode.

"The suspended wires are connected to the horizontal copper busbar... Furnace workers must pay attention to shelling during production, and must wear rubber gloves..."

Under the guidance of Zhu Xianhai, the first batch of aluminum ingots were produced soon.In the next few days, this small pilot factory with only 6 employees, after the factory supervisor and furnace workers mastered the production process proficiently, the daily output of the factory has exceeded 250 pounds!
Although the supervisors and workers in the factory didn't know what these "silver-white" metals were, when Zhu Xianhai left the factory with 2000 pounds of aluminum, he was extremely excited.

"The current price of aluminum on the market is about $550 per pound, which means that the daily profit of the factory is close to $14, which is almost... $5000 million a year!"

For a moment, Zhu Xianhai was stunned. He even looked back at the factory guarded by guards behind him.

Staring at the "gold mine", he found that his pattern was small!

These are "gold mines" with an annual output of forty or fifty tons!Such a huge gold mine is the only one in the world!Let alone an ordinary gold mine, even San Francisco.The gold production there may not necessarily be comparable to this mine.

And as long as you want, you can double or even double the production at any time, provided of course that the power supply is guaranteed.

such an important place.It is an unforgivable mistake that I only sent so few people to guard it!
Now the price of gold is only about 650 US dollars per pound. How can such a large gold mine be guarded by so few people?

Even these people in the factory have no idea what they are producing.It can't be so negligent.

After all, safety comes first.

"No, we need to send more people. Well, we can build a naval academy here, and set up a factory in the military academy. There are hundreds, thousands of students from the naval academy guarding it. It will be safe now..."

(End of this chapter)