Late Qing Dynasty Executioner

Chapter 98 Oil

No matter what you want to do, even if you are the boss, it is best not to act on your own. If you want others to support you, you need to gain the approval of the majority.

Lao Piao's reminder was not wrong, so after returning to the town, Chen Gu did not immediately arrange for Ren to explore the road construction, but instead found Zhang Haomin with two gourds of crude oil.

Zhang Haomin had made wine with sugarcane juice before, so he naturally knew how to distill it.

The reason why Chen Gu looked for Zhang Haomin was not because of technical reasons. He also knew how to do distillation. The main reason why he looked for Zhang Haomin was because he wanted this general manager to endorse him and prove the importance of building roads into the mountains to develop oil.

A total of five or six kilograms of crude oil were distilled into about two kilograms of light oil. Chen Gu had no way of distinguishing which was gasoline, which was diesel, and which was kerosene, so he had to pack the first half kilogram distilled as gasoline and the remaining one kilogram as kerosene.

This division is definitely not accurate, but it does not affect its usage.

Pour out the liquid oil in the steamer and put them together, about one pound, which is used for preservative purposes. Then collect about one pound of solid butter, which can be used to lubricate the axles.

The rest can only be used for paving the ground, but I don’t know if it will be slippery when it is laid on the ground, because although most of it is asphalt, there is also some lubricating oil.

Zhang Haomin looked around at the four oil bottles that Chen Gu had prepared, "Does this oil really have as many uses as you said?"

With current technology, oil extraction is not very realistic, and the existing crude oil is almost enough. As for what is buried underground, let it remain buried underground for future generations to use.

"Maybe there is, maybe not. But no matter whether there is or not, we can't dig in the cracks of the rocks. After all, this thing will burn, and burn very violently. It's better to be careful. Mining is too dangerous." Chen Gu said.

Of course, the prerequisite is that Chen Gu can be the master of his own house.

"What else?" Chen Gu laughed and said, "Why do you think I have nothing to do and went into the mountains for four or five days?"

"It's not that I doubt you, I just find it a little unbelievable that something that comes out of the cracks in the rocks can be distilled into so many good things. It's really unbelievable to think about it!" Zhang Haomin sighed.

I never thought that this black oil could actually be steamed into butter. Do you think there is this kind of black oil at the foot of Dengyun Mountain?"

"Whether it works or not, we have to try it to know. Let's go to Zhongyi Hall!" Chen Gu smiled and turned away.

Although we have a vast territory and abundant resources, the per capita resources are not many. Instead of mining our own, Chen Gu feels that it is more cost-effective to spend some money to buy others'.

Lao Piao picked up the kerosene bottle and the gasoline bottle, looked at them, smelled them, and said with a smile: "I don't know about other things, but the oils from these two kinds of distillation should be real, because the oils I saw on Dengyun Mountain before were similar and could be used to light lamps.

After Zhang Haomin asked someone to notify the management to attend a meeting at Zhongyi Hall, he and Lao Piao followed Chen Kui, each holding two bottles of oil.

Now that I have a finished product, I naturally have to show it to my brothers. Only then will everyone be motivated to explore and build roads.

Chen Gu and the other two came to Zhongyi Hall and waited for a while, then everyone came one after another. At the same time, Chen Gu also sent people to bring some things that needed to be displayed. After everyone arrived, Chen Gu bowed to everyone and said, "A few days ago, Lao Piao came back from the mountains and passed by a strange place. We went to explore it these two days and brought back six kilograms of black oil. After processing, we got a few things.

I called you guys here now to show you the effects of these things."

After Chen Gu finished speaking, he asked someone to pull over a wheelbarrow that had just been made in the carpenter's workshop. "This is the first thing. It's a kind of butter. I think it should be very good as a lubricant for bearings. Oh, six pounds of black oil can produce one pound of butter."

It was not easy to build a road in the mountains that could accommodate carts, and road construction would also encroach on farmland, so Chen Gu asked carpenters to build many wheelbarrows for use.

Not only for civilian use, wheelbarrows are also very good for transporting military supplies, and can even be used as armored vehicles. A wheelbarrow can push a small cannon weighing over 100 pounds and some shells and run very fast.

Ever since hearing Bian Shichun talk about the cluster gun, Chen Gu has developed a keen interest in it. The so-called cluster gun is actually a shotgun, which is actually very similar to Chen Gu's rifle. All you have to do is enlarge the rifle, remove the bullet's warhead, and add some small lead bullets into the cartridge case.

In this way, one shot would fire dozens of lead bullets, thus striking a large group of enemies in front.

Unfortunately, Chen Gu did not have a craftsman who could cast cannons, and Bian Shichun also made excuses time and again. Lao Zhe also failed to find any suitable talent outside. However, now that he knew that the Han family in Chongqing could cast gun barrels, they must have someone who could cast cannon barrels.

Chen Gu was not in a hurry for the time being. He still had 80,000 taels of silver in his hand. When the silver was almost used up, he would definitely take his brothers out to transfer the money. The first target would be the opium dealers in Hejiang.

Of course it could also be the Bian family or the Han family.

in front of you.

Lao Piao personally took the butter bottle and used bamboo strips to scoop out some butter and smeared it on the bearings of the wheelbarrow, then asked the boy who pushed the cart to push the cart around a few times.

After pushing the cart for a few rounds, the young man grinned and said, "It's much smoother now. It's not that hard to do. It seems to work better than vegetable oil and lard!"

Everyone knows that bearings need to be oiled, but a pound of vegetable oil and lard costs more than a hundred coins. Naturally, people are reluctant to use too much of such expensive things, but the same cannot be said for butter.

Moreover, compared with lard and vegetable oil which are easy to evaporate, butter is an inert oil. It evaporates very slowly, or even not at all, and can be used for a longer time.

The anti-corrosion oil separated from petroleum is not very volatile. Chen Gu raised the anti-corrosion oil in his hand and said with a smile: "This second type of oil is for everyone to maintain guns, cannons and swords. In addition to one pound of lubricating oil and one pound of anti-corrosion oil, six pounds of black oil can also produce two pounds of the other two types of oils.

The remaining two types of oil are more powerful and can burn. There are two kilograms in total, of which one and a half kilograms can be used for lighting, but it is a bit dangerous, so everyone must be careful when using them. "

Chen the assassin waved his hand and asked someone to bring a bamboo tube. Then he took out a thin iron tube from his arms, stuffed cotton thread into it to make a wick, and inserted it into a bamboo lid. He then poured about two taels of kerosene into the bamboo tube, covered the lid, and after the wick was soaked with kerosene, he took out a fire starter, blew it out, and then lit the wick.

The light was as small as a bean, but larger than a broad bean, not the size of a soybean like vegetable oil. The entire Zhongyi Hall became brighter.

(End of this chapter)