Mr. Zhao Jiu is so worried because he is afraid of coming out. His daughter has been hanging out at the inn for more than a month, and it is very likely that she has an affair with Wan Yi Cheng. Otherwise, she would not be so kind to her, including food, accommodation and money. This is obvious
He was just trying to please her. If Wan Yichen proposed marriage at this time, it wouldn't matter if he agreed, or if he didn't.
Ordinarily, Wan Yi Cheng is also an official after all. He leads the Lumi of Ming Dynasty and eats royal food. Unfortunately, this guy has offended the gangsters and cannot protect himself. Although Zhao Jiuye likes to beat his daughter, he does it for her daughter's good and does not want her daughter to be beaten.
Marry a non-human.
But if someone really opens his mouth, not agreeing is to look down on him. Although Yi Cheng is young, he is still an official. He is just a commoner, and anyone can find a reason to deal with him to death.
Zhao Jiuye followed him into the oil refinery with a fearful mood, still thinking about how to deal with it. However, his worries were unfounded. Wan Lei came to him not to "forcefully marry" her daughter, but
Give him a job and an opportunity to make a fortune.
"Master Liquor, don't just stand there, help light the fire." Wan Lei said as he poured two barrels of oil into the refining pot.
"Make a fire?" Zhao Jiuye responded mechanically, but still stood there without moving.
"Let's make a fire to refine the oil." Wan Lei unscrewed the oil valve, then lit the oil stove. The flames jumped up, and the hot steam rushed directly to Zhao Jiuye's face.
"Refining oil?" Zhao Jiuye finally came back to his senses at this time, but he still asked a little uneasily: "Master Wan, you asked me to come in, do you want me to help refine oil?"
"I'm not asking you to help me refine oil, but I want to teach you the art of oil refining. In a few days, Zhao Lichang's oil refinery will be built, and it needs oil refining technicians. Once you learn the craft, you can start working directly.
As for the wages, you can discuss it yourself with Chief Zhao."
"You, do you really want to pass on your skills to me?" Zhao Jiuye looked suspicious. The better Wan Lei treated him, the more uneasy he felt because he was always worried that these benefits would come at the cost of giving up his daughter.
People. And he only has a daughter like Zhao Xueer. He would rather suffer hardship and suffer poverty than trade his daughter's lifelong happiness.
"The principle of refining oil is similar to that of steaming wine. You have been steaming wine for so many years, and you are very skilled at it. You can master the relevant skills after learning from me for a few days. I also like this in you, so I invited you here.
, If you don’t want to learn, that doesn’t matter, I’ll find someone else.” Seeing that the other person’s attitude towards learning was not positive, Wan Lei became a little annoyed.
In fact, Wan Lei also weighed it all night before deciding to transfer the oil refining technology, because he wanted to focus mainly on refining tiger balm and had no time to take care of oil refining. In this situation where he had to have his cake and eat it too, he had no choice but to
Once again, we are taking advantage of the situation.
"Are you really just trying to pass on your skills?" Master Zhao asked in a low voice when he saw Wan Lei's face was a little dark.
"What else can we do if we don't pass on skills?" Wan Lei rolled his eyes at the one-eyed guy. He didn't expect that although this old guy had one less eye than others, he had more eyes than others.
Compared with Zhao Hongru, who can take things in hand and put them down, this one-eyed guy is too petty. He is wary of everything for fear of being plotted by others. If it weren't for the fact that the oil refining equipment was "friendly" provided by this guy, he would really
If you don't want to transfer technology to this guy, it's obviously a thankless job.
"I, I thought it was about my Xue'er." Mr. Zhao Jiu's face turned red and he whispered.
"Your Xue'er?" Wan Lei immediately understood what the old guy was worried about. He rolled his eyes at Mr. Zhao and said angrily: "You don't have to worry about this. Your Xue'er and I are just the master and servant."
, she helps me work, and I pay her monthly wages, that’s all.”
To be honest, Wan Lei really has no interest in Zhao Xueer at all, not because she is ugly, but because she has not yet bloomed and is too small to be used as a vase, and Wan Lei does not have a weird hobby of lolita control, so at most she can only
He would regard her as the little girl next door. If it weren't for his own safety, he really wouldn't keep this little sister by his side.
"Ah." After hearing this explanation, Zhao Jiu felt relieved and said hurriedly and apologetically: "I'm just overthinking it. Please don't blame me, Mr. Wan."
"You don't blame me for your daughter being brought in to work as a worker. What's so strange about me?" Mr. Zhao's doubts disappeared. Wan Lei smiled calmly and began to teach him step by step how to control the heat and how to observe the oil production.
, how to check the quality of oil products, how to pay attention to safety...
Not to mention, Mr. Zhao is indeed a professional wine steamer. Wan Lei only needs to demonstrate many skills once, and he can understand them. The learning efficiency is not very high. After the pot of oil is refined, Wan Lei pours out the residual oil.
, he acted like a hands-off master and let Zhao Jiuye try to operate it alone. He only needed to give guidance from the side.
"Master Wan, what do you think of this pot I made?" Master Zhao took a spoonful of the yellow oil and asked excitedly.
Wan Lei dipped some in his hand, smelled it, and nodded with satisfaction: "Yes, pour it into an oil lamp and try burning it to see if the smoke is thick. If the smoke is not too thick, it is considered a refined oil."
Zhao Jiuye hurriedly did as Wan Lei said, poured the oil into the lamp and lit it, and found that the oil smoke was still relatively thick. It seemed that he was still a handyman and did not control the heat well, so there were still too many impurities mixed in the oil. However,
, it was already good to be able to do this for the first time. Wan Lei encouraged him with a few words and asked him to get out the residual oil and try again.
"Master Wan, these two barrels of crude oil cannot be steamed to produce a barrel of oil. It's too wasteful. Why don't you add more fire and steam it for a while?" Looking at the half-pot of thick residual oil, Mr. Zhao was a little confused.
asked reluctantly.
"You can't add more heat, otherwise there will be more impurities in the distilled oil, which will affect the quality of the oil. Moreover, if the temperature is too high, the residual oil will form coke, which is even more undesirable." Wan
Lei explained.
In fact, the crude oil produced in North China has a high residual oil content. A pound of crude oil can produce up to three ounces of kerosene. Moreover, this kerosene is not pure yet and contains gasoline, diesel and other oils. However, this does not affect combustion, so there is no need to refining it.
Refining. More than half of the income from oil refining is residual oil. This residual oil is refined with clay to remove various impurities. One pound of residual oil can yield about 20,000 to 20,000 gold oil.
Generally speaking, oil refining technology is still very backward, the utilization rate of crude oil is still very low, and a lot of things are wasted. For example, asphalt is absorbed by the clay and becomes waste residue, which can only be burned so that it can be burned.
Precious white clay is recycled and reused.
Although the technology is backward, it was enough to lead the trend of the times in the Ming Dynasty. You must know that the modern petroleum industry was born in the United States in the mid-19th century. At that time, this indigenous method was also used to refine oil, and the oil tycoons also used this method.