Although he was squeezed out, when Wan Lei asked to borrow his wine steaming equipment, Mr. Zhao obediently handed over the equipment, even delivered it to his door in person, and helped assemble it. As the saying goes, it is better for the county magistrate to take charge now.
, in the ten miles and eight townships near Changpingyi, Wan Yicheng is still very authoritative, especially after the "strong alliance" with Zhao Lichang, the villagers dare not disobey.
Of course, Wan Lei was not willing to do anything he wanted for nothing. Zhao Jiuye gave away the wine steaming equipment and got a benefit at the same time - the right to sell kerosene. Wan Lei agreed with him that in the future, when the kerosene is produced, it will be wholesaled at a low price.
Give it to him, and he can sell the kerosene in his hands to various states and counties in Shuntian Prefecture, sell at his own price, and be responsible for his own profits and losses. The agency right is valid for one year.
Mr. Zhao Jiu is so shrewd that he immediately realized that this was a monopoly trade that would bring him huge profits, so he immediately put his daughter's foot-binding incident behind him and ran to the inn to "inspect" the kerosene production. Watching
After experiencing the lighting effects of kerosene, Wan Lei stayed by Wan Lei's side and actively carried out various tasks, striving to reduce the wholesale price of kerosene to the lowest level.
Compared with the enthusiastic Zhao Jiuye, Zhao Hongru was not happy and gave up the sales agency rights to others. This was tantamount to grabbing food from his bowl. Wan Lei had to explain to him in private: The current No. 1
The top priority was oil extraction and refining, and he had no time to take care of sales, so he had to let outsiders take care of the agency. When production got on track and the market opened up, he would still be in charge of sales matters.
In fact, Wan Lei took a fancy to Zhao Jiuye's shrewdness. This old guy made all his short-term investments in his own daughter. How shrewd he was. Wan Lei believed that if he was asked to do sales, he would definitely be able to do it.
Promote the new product kerosene in the shortest possible time.
In addition, Zhao Jiuye runs a wine workshop and naturally has a lot of bottles and cans at home, which can be used as containers for kerosene. By working with him, we can optimize the combination of resources and ship the goods in the shortest possible time.
Go to the market and exchange them for real money to solve the current serious shortage of start-up funds and insufficient equipment.
After appeasing Zhao Hongru, who was full of resentment, the distillation device had been set up. In the kitchen that had just been vacated, a large sealed pot was placed on the stove. Half the pot of oil was filled with oil and then it was covered. Only one was opened.
Oil outlet. An iron pipe about one meter long is a conduit for oil and gas. The conduit passes through a large basin filled with cooling water. The heated and vaporized fraction is cooled by cold water into a liquid state, and finally poured into a prepared wooden barrel.
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This process is the so-called atmospheric fractionation. It uses heating, vaporization and condensation to liquefy the oil into fractions such as gasoline, kerosene, diesel and heavy oil. The whole process is just a simple physical reaction. As long as the temperature and heat are controlled well, there is no need to consider chemical reactions.
No need to add any additives.
The only problem is that since there is no thermometer, precise temperature control cannot be carried out and only simple visual inspection is required, so the experience gained from many experiments must be relied on to control the heat.
Fortunately, in a normal pressure environment, the gasification temperature of coal and diesel fractions is about 200 to 350 degrees, and the temperature difference range is relatively large. You only need to slowly increase the heat and then carefully observe the characteristics of the fractions before deciding whether to heat or reduce the temperature. The same
It can control the quality of the oil well. When a thermometer is temporarily unavailable, it can only be used like this.
Precisely because the process of fractionation relies entirely on personal experience, Wan Lei must personally take charge of the entire refining work, and the cook Liu Dazui was also brought in as a temporary worker. Others gathered around curiously to watch, but in order to ensure production safety, Wan Lei
Lei immediately blasted them all out of the oil refinery.
"You damn girl, you came here to join in the fun, why don't you go home quickly and see if I don't break your legs." As soon as he left the oil refining room, Mr. Zhao saw his daughter lying outside the window sill and peeking.
"If you don't come back, even if you beat me to death, I won't come back." As soon as the daughter of the Zhao family saw her father, she ran away like a mouse seeing a cat.
As his daughter became more and more disobedient, Mr. Zhao Jiu became furious and tried to catch up with his daughter and pull her home. However, his daughter was a tomboy and ran as fast as a rabbit. He hurriedly caught up, but he couldn't catch up.
No, the father and daughter were chasing each other, running around in the inn. Those who were busy in the inn going down the well hoop couldn't help laughing when they saw it.
About an hour later, the closed door of the oil refinery finally opened. Two men with faces blackened by smoke came out together carrying a wooden barrel. Zhao Hongru, who was directing the workers to go down the hoop, saw him and ran away immediately.
passed.
"My dear nephew, has the oil been refined?"
"It's been refined." Wan Lei glanced around and asked, "Where is Mr. Jiu?
"He is busy chasing the baby everywhere." Zhao Hongru said with a smile.
"Oh." Wan Lei wiped the sweat off his face and said, "Go back and send this barrel of oil to his home, tell him that it is for free, and ask him to find a way to transport it to Shuntian Fucheng for trial sale. By the way,
Remember to remind him that when selling oil, he must make it clear that the oil is kerosene and cannot be eaten."
"My dear nephew, how much do you plan to sell a pound for?" Seeing Wan Lei turning around and going into the house again, Zhao Hongru asked hurriedly.
"Um..." Wan Lei frowned and asked, "How much does a pound of peanut oil cost now?"
"About twenty dollars."
"Then let's sell it at half the price first, ten yuan a pound."
"Ten dollars a pound? Isn't it too cheap?"
"It's not cheap anymore. Kerosene is different from peanut oil and lard. It can only be used as lamp oil and cannot be used for eating. Now we will try selling it at a low price and then increase or decrease the price appropriately based on market demand."
"This barrel of oil must be at least seventy or eighty kilograms. Is it really giving it away for free?" Zhao Hongru asked with some pain.
"Brother, it's just a barrel of oil. It's not a big deal. In the future, as the oil extraction and refining techniques become more sophisticated, we can produce more than ten or twenty barrels a day. Just wait and count the money." Wan Lei said with a smile.
I know that Zhao Laocai is afraid of living a poor life, so he is relatively petty. When he becomes rich in the future, he will naturally not be so short-sighted.
Ten or twenty barrels per day, that is to say, there are thousands of kilograms of oil every day. Calculated at ten qian per kilogram, that is ten thousand taels of silver. Ten thousand taels of silver, that is ten taels of silver! I finished the calculation in my mind.
After all, Zhao Laocai only had a silly smile on his old face.
"Kerosene is just a small amount, and there will be a bigger income in the future." Wan Lei smiled slightly, but he didn't care about the small fortune he made from kerosene.
"And Datou?" Zhao Laocai was even more dumbfounded when he heard this, and he smiled so stupidly that he couldn't even close his mouth.
"Find someone to cut down some bamboos. They should be as big as an arm and each one should be at least a foot long. Drill out the bamboo joints in the middle and make them into hollow tubes. I will use them later." After Wan Lei finished his instructions, he hurried into the oil refining.
Fang Bin closed the door again.
At the beginning of his business, everything was busy. Wan Lei now wanted to make an oil pumping system and install it on the oil well as soon as possible to facilitate the extraction of oil. Since there are no steel pipes and plastic pipes, what to use as the oil pipe has become a difficult problem. Wan Lei
Lei thought about it for a long time and decided to use bamboo with broken knots instead.
However, the oil well is more than ten meters deep, and no matter how long the bamboo is, it cannot reach the bottom of the well. Several bamboos must be spliced together. Wan Lei plans to extract some oil with a higher viscosity from the pot of residual oil he just refined, and mix it with
Apply tung oil to the joints to make a waterproof film to prevent water and air leakage from the oil pickup pipe.
In addition to an absolutely airtight dip pipe, the oil pumping system also needs a "pressure well" above the well. This thing was invented as early as the Song Dynasty. It has a piston on top and a valve on the bottom. The piston and the valve
It is a one-way valve that allows air to go up instead of down.
Despite the simple shape of this thing, the principle is not simple at all. When the hand presses the pressure handle to make the piston move upward, the valve opens, and the air in the lower pipe can be pumped into the upper cavity. When the piston moves downward, the valve closes.
The air comes out from the side of the piston, and this cycle creates a vacuum in the tube below, and the water is pumped up under the action of atmospheric pressure.
Wan Lei has asked Zhao Hongru to find someone to customize a pressurized well. However, oil is much more viscous than water and has poorer fluidity, so pumping oil is much more laborious than pumping water. This means that it needs to be reinforced with various waterproof coatings.
The internal structure of the pressurized water well must be airtight, and its internal structure must be smoothed with waterproof coating to prevent crude oil from adhering and causing blockage.
Although there are many problems, Wan Lei, guided by the dream of getting rich, still vows to overcome all difficulties and strive to complete the installation of the oil pumping system and seal the well as soon as possible so that he can produce refined oil with peace of mind. Just as he and the half-pot scumbag
While I was fighting for oil, there was a rapid knock on the door of the kitchen.
"What's the matter? Didn't I say that if you don't have anything important to do, don't bother me?" Wan Lei was very unhappy because he had spent a lot of effort on this pot of oil. If he walked away at this time, all his previous efforts would be wasted.
"Boss, it's a big deal, a big deal. There's an adult coming from above. He's already at the door of the inn. Come out and have a look." The person who came was none other than Zhao Quanzhong, and he said anxiously.
"Who is that person?" Wan Lei was anxious now, because the oil well has not been sealed yet, and the whole station is in a mess and smelly. If someone really comes to move in at this time, it will be very troublesome. Urgent return
, Wan Lei's mind is still clear, the oil well is in the station, and the job of Yi Cheng cannot be lost, otherwise there will be nothing. Therefore, he must immediately ask where the person came from, so that he can respond immediately.
"Boss, this is a good fit, you can see for yourself." Zhao Quanzhong presented a green leather envelope.
ps: There are currently different opinions on the specific value of copper coins and silver in the Ming Dynasty. To facilitate conversion, the article tentatively states: one tael of silver = consistent money = 500rmb, and consistent money is one thousand yuan, that is, the face value of a small copper coin is 50 cents.
In addition to the circulation of silver and copper coins, the Ming Dynasty also issued banknotes, called banknotes, which were usually discounted by one tael of silver. However, the Ming Dynasty had no plan to issue banknotes, and they could not be deposited or exchanged, so banknotes depreciated very quickly.
This will be covered later in the article.
In addition, the measurement unit of grain and oil in ancient times was liter, which was different from the liter in later generations. In order to avoid ambiguity, the city jin was used instead.