industrial lord

Chapter 54 This Pressure Cooker Is Not Simple

Frederick rested for a while, and resumed his usual exercise and learning courses in the manor.

On the afternoon of the day when the third greenhouse was put into use, he and BASF, who delivered the materials, came to the slime glue workshop.

Now the slime glue workshop is one of the largest factories in Wessenburg, with hundreds of employees. In order to manage the workshop well, BASF lost a lot of weight and gained some management experience.

Frederick didn't go to see the surprise first, but walked through the production process.

The first thing he came to was the crystal slime farm with the largest area. It was arranged like a pigsty. The pools were almost filled with slimes, and the feed was the kitchen waste bought from Wessenburg. Rubbish.

Friedrich asked BASF: "Can the materials keep up?"

BASF replied: "It is barely enough now, and it will not be enough after another expansion next year. I plan to build workshops in several other cities."

Frederick looked at the bouncing crystal slime in the pool, frowned and thought.

He shook his head after a while and said, "It's fine to build a breeding farm there. The workshop needs to be improved. I'll discuss it with you in a while."

Now that the disaster victims have been resettled, they can free up their hands to deal with the upgrading from handicraft workshops to workshop handicrafts and even primary factories.

There is no rush for this matter, Frederick intends to conduct a full investigation before discussing it.

The big boss said so, and BASF agreed.

The two left the farm and went to the slaughter workshop.

The crystal slime is poured with a little high-strength wine when it comes out of the slaughter, and it is pulled here after it passes out, washed and cut into pieces and put into the meat grinder.

In the past, there was a process of removing the slime's internal organs during small batch production, but now it is cancelled, and the barrels of slime sauce are directly transported to the cooking workshop.

The cooking workshop has only a roof and no walls, and there are two new inventions of Frederick - a briquette stove and a pressure cooker.

Then Frederick was startled 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 coal stove underneath is mounted on a trolley. When the stove is changed for coal, the pot does not move.

The pot lid is fixed by beams, ear buckles and screws, and the water vapor pushes the weight above the exhaust valve up and down.

There is a small hourglass next to each air-jet pressure cooker. When the hourglass runs out, the workers will pull the coal stove away, pour water on it to cool it down, and open the pot lid after lifting the weight and stopping the air-jet.

"Such a big pot!" Frederick asked hastily, "Is it safe?"

BASF replied: "Safety is no problem. These pots are made by Professor Ogilvy with earth element steel, which is very strong."

"If the vent valve is blocked, the safety valve on the other side of the lid will also work."

"We are also planning to weld iron chains on the lid of the pot, so even if it blows up, it won't fly too far."

"This kind of pressure cooker is determined by me after many experiments. The higher the pressure, the higher the temperature, and the better quality of the paste."

Frederick was relieved after hearing this.

Cheap elemental steel is a new specialty brought by Ogilvy to Wesson collar, and its reputation has already been opened.

The soil steel used in the pressure cooker is a kind of elemental metal, which is a steel strengthened with soil elements.

The traditional elemental steel process is to add high-quality magic crystal powder when forging or casting steel ingots, and then the magic elements stimulated by these magic crystal powders will transform the steel during the long-term forging, and finally discharged together with impurities.

Earth steel is characterized by higher strength than ordinary steel, and is often used to make important parts of armor.

The manufacture of elemental steel requires expensive high-quality magic crystal powder, otherwise the magic elements in it cannot be activated during forging.

When the magic crystal powder drops to medium quality, the remaining elements can no longer be stimulated, and 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 additions to the characteristics of metal materials. The magic elements commonly used to make elemental metals include fire elements that increase melting point, electric elements that increase corrosion resistance, and increase hardness. The gold element, the water element that increases plasticity, the wood element that increases toughness, the light element that increases magic affinity and reduces magic resistance, and the dark element that increases magic resistance, etc.

Elemental metals are not limited to steel, soil lead can also be compared with pig iron in hardness. This magic element enhancement is the product of the enhancement value and the original performance of the metal base material. The stronger the base material, the stronger the performance after strengthening.

Several magical elements can also strengthen a single metal at the same time, resulting in a composite elemental metal.

In terms of price, the gap between ordinary metals and elemental metals is as large as that of boiled cabbage and boiled cabbage.

The price of soil steel is the same weight of silver. At present, the wholesale price of soil steel sold by Wesenling is equal to the weight of silver. The quantity is sufficient, and the cost price is kept secret.

However, they are all used as pressure cookers, so it is estimated that the cost will not be too high.

Over the years, countless people have been researching ways to reduce the cost of elemental steel, and have achieved certain results. At present, only Ogilvy has achieved breakthrough results.

Frederick thought this was the surprise that BASF said, but he pointed to a large grass field outside and said, "Let's go over there, there is a big surprise there!"

This grassland is full of weeds, and there is no time to shovel it when building the workshop.

Frederick walked to the grass and took a look, and immediately noticed something was wrong.

Although the grass has withered and yellowed, it can still be seen that the grass on the side of the road near the cooking workshop is a bit taller than that in the distance.

BASF proudly said: "Boss, I found that the boiled waste liquid is a good fertilizer."

"We dumped the waste liquid here directly. At first we thought the grass grew well here because it was hotter near the stove."

"Later, there was a lot of waste liquid, and the grass was burned to death when it was poured too much. When it rained, it became mud, so we started to pour it farther away, and found that the grass there was also more lush."

Frederick pinched his chin and thought about it. Since plant ash and bones can fertilize the field, it is not unacceptable to fertilize the slime field cooked under high pressure.

"You inform Professor Mathias." Frederick said, "He will go to the manor to study greenhouses to grow vegetables after a while, and you can study the role of waste liquid together."

Leave professional matters to the experts.

BASF immediately agreed that if the waste liquid could really be used as fertilizer, it would be another big income for the workshop, and it would be one step closer to buying a house and getting married in Wessenburg.

At the other end of the cooking workshop, workers put the boiled slime paste into an iron pan as big as a bed, and a fire is burned underneath, and the paste is boiled dry and turned into molten glue.

These glues are put into the heated noodle machine and squeezed out while it is hot. There is a pool under the outlet. Someone uses a scraper to scrape the slime glue out into grains. After falling into the pool, it cools and solidifies.

This is the original slime glue. It is reheated and melted in different workshops and reacted with various materials to obtain glue for different purposes and then produce different products.

Among them, the tableware is produced using the molding method. A specific spoon is scooped into a mold, and another mold is pressed, and several bowls or plates come out. The flash can be cut off and sold.

Here Frederick saw someone he didn't expect.

"George?" Frederick was a little surprised, "What are you doing here as the supervisor of the glass workshop?"

George, who was pushed over by the Grand Duke of Mainz, was thinking about something. He looked ordinary, and his two cheeks were more bulging than ordinary people, which is the characteristic of a glassblower.

After his thinking was interrupted, he found out that it was Frederick, and immediately replied respectfully: "Your Excellency the Baron, I am thinking about whether the glass workshop can use this method to produce tableware."

Frederick said as a matter of course: "Sure, is there any problem?"

When George saw Frederick for the second time today, he didn’t have the respect brought by the social rules brought by the Wessen leaders, nor did he have the recognition from Weissburg University and others after discussing academic issues with him. The illegitimate son of Grand Duke Inz and a glass-making expert found that the problem he was thinking about was treated lightly by such a child, and he felt a little uncomfortable.

"It's not that simple." George shook his head, "It also involves many issues such as the composition of the glass and the processing temperature."

Just as he was waiting for the little baron to ask what the problem was, and then to show off his rich experience, Frederick said calmly: "It is true. This requires a lot of experiments to get data to solve."

After finishing speaking, Frederick took BASF to work as a shoe workshop regardless of George, whose expression became weird.

George, like traditional craftsmen, focuses on the accumulation of experience, while Frederick values ​​relying on data to determine the best craftsmanship, which will be difficult for traditional people to accept for a while.

On the way, BASF asked Frederick curiously: "Principal, you don't seem to like this person very much?"

They felt that in the past, the headmaster was very enthusiastic and valued people with skills, and it was the first time that he spoke so coldly and without emotion like today.

"Nothing." Frederick shook his head slightly.

This George was brought over by the Grand Duke of Mainz because of conflicts with Philip. Frederick wanted to make a microscope so he accepted it.

Now that the situation has changed, Frederick let George see that the molding method is worthy of the Grand Duke of Mainz. After all, he has a closer relationship with Philip, so it is impossible to get closer to George.

When people like George were in front of Baron Wesson, Baron Wesson gave the Grand Duke of Mainz face, he was a character, and if he didn't, he was an ordinary person.

Frederick meant to collude with the Grand Duke of Mainz, and Philip was a confidant of the Grand Duke. This relationship is more formal and stronger than that of George.

BASF did not ask the question, but said: "I still want to wait until the glass workshop is put into production, and I can buy a set of glass tea sets when I am getting married."

Frederick looked around and said in a low voice, "Don't worry, there is a big fat pig ready to be slaughtered for me, and the glass workshop is no problem."

BASF's eyes lit up, and he said worriedly: "But he saw our craftsmanship..."

Frederick twitched 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 prohibitively expensive in the market. Without raw materials, it would be useless to learn downstream technologies. They could even make a fortune selling raw materials, while others would earn hard money.

"Think about it." Frederick said, "There is no technology that will never become obsolete, and there is no technology that will never leak."

"An industry is like a chain, as long as you hold the most profitable ones in your own hands."

(End of this chapter)