Chapter 283: I, Gretel, am an expert in technical modification, making money
In this way, Grete got his first batch of subordinates.
Number of people: 24 people.
Identity: Mage apprentice, priest apprentice.
source:
Black Crow Swamp Eight.
Two people from the conjuration school and the medical branch.
Two people from the school of change.
Four members of the Order of the God of Nature.
Six people from the Temple of the God of War.
Two people from the Temple of the Goddess of Spring.
Brackets need to be trained to be used...
Gretel left Aurora with the preparations before the training. For example, the living facilities in the mage tower, such as meat, eggs, rice, noodles, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, such as experimental supplies and experimental animals... let him make an order and give it to Hei
Ravenswamp or any other place can find a way to purchase it.
Grete himself took on an urgent task for the public health department:
give change.
In front of Grete, a newly transferred middle-aged man with gray hair and a sad face. He has a calculation in his left hand and an account book in his right hand. The cuffs of his woolen coat have been worn white. It is obvious that he is a newly transferred man and his financial situation is not good.
What a good accountant. He sat down in the small conference room, sighed, and turned the account book over to show Gretel:
"We don't need to worry about the construction costs of reservoirs and water pipes, as well as the construction costs of infectious diseases hospitals. The parliament has reached an agreement with the major temples. The donations from various nobles and businessmen will be used to offset the construction costs, and the temples will take care of the remaining part.
bear.
But we have to figure out the next operating expenses ourselves..."
He flipped through the account book page by page:
"The price of bleaching powder, currently sold to us by the Plastic Energy School, is 1 gold coin per kilogram. According to what you said, putting bleaching powder in the drinking water bodies of the whole city requires every day..."
As he spoke, Gretel was doing mental calculations. Based on the calculation that the chlorine added amount is 3 mg/liter of water and the effective chlorine of bleaching powder is 25%, 12 grams of bleaching powder needs to be added for every cubic meter of drinking water. There are 500,000 people in the city and 1,000 tons of drinking water per day.
, that is 12 kilograms of bleaching powder - just put it in, and you have to put it in accurately so that there is no waste at all.
"12 gold coins." He reported the answer. The wrinkles on the middle-aged accountant's face became deeper:
"There are 365 days in a year, which is 4380 gold coins. In addition, the wages of priest apprentices and mage apprentices..."
"..." Grete originally planned not to give him a cent. Just kidding, he came to him for training, and he still wants to get a salary? Doesn't his school give out subsidies?
But thinking about it again, the apprentices are already very poor. If he doesn't give it, then his own school won't give it - for example, the Order of the God of Nature, it really has nothing but food for you - this
Aren’t you going to starve to death in a year?
Just like interns and trainees in hospitals, it is impossible to get a formal doctor's salary, and they still have to pay a few subsidies...
"You press first..." Gretel thought for a while. Such things as testing water quality must be done by full-time personnel. You can't rely on free labor from various companies every day. Then the problem is——
In this world, how much does it cost to hire an ordinary person with a normal education, or a mage apprentice who is forty years old and cannot advance?
"Let's make a budget based on 5 gold coins per month first." He whispered. The middle-aged accountant lowered his head and made another note:
"5 gold coins a month, 12 months a year, 24 people... 1440 gold coins... the total is 5820... and the cost of testing reagents... and the daily operating expenses of the infectious disease hospital...
Although the Emergency Management Department next door shares law enforcement capabilities, every time they dispatch, we must at least give them some subsidies. Otherwise, it is normal for people to just find some excuse and come an hour late..."
Gretel: "..."
Feeling: As the Director of the Department of Public Health, my first-year salary, or in other words, the half of the Mage Tower, is not free? In addition to creating a department, I also need to establish an effective mechanism for the Department of Public Health.
Provide operating funds?
No wonder the parliament promised such high remuneration...
Gretel raised his head and sighed. I'm just a clinician. I was forced to be the director of the Department of Public Health. That's okay. After all, I'm taking care of the health of the whole people. But why am I forced to be a businessman?
…
He reached out and pressed his eyebrows, then rubbed them, trying to smooth out the tangles. But if it didn't work, he still wanted to run away, flip the table, scream to the sky...
"What do you suggest?"
He slumped down weakly, his head tilted to one side, and lay flat on the table. The middle-aged accountant bowed, tried his best to lower his height to his level, and whispered:
"I heard that you said during the last meeting that you would provide technical guidance to some workshops...the rich one..."
"Huh? How do you know?"
"Listen, listen to what others are saying..."
The middle-aged accountant pinched his pocket nervously. There were dozens of gold coins in his wallet, sent by people from three different guilds. This sum alone exceeded half his salary for half a year, and the purpose of the gift was
Just to let him say a word in front of Gretel:
Come and see their workshop!
"emmmm..." Gretel became a little more energetic. He raised half of his head from the table and looked at the middle-aged accountant:
"Which companies have applied for technical guidance? How much can they give? Is it a lump sum payment or continuous payment? Who will talk to them?"
"This, the Slaughtering Guild, the Liquor Guild, the Salt Merchant Guild, the Metallurgical Guild..." the middle-aged accountant counted them one by one. They were all workshops that Grete casually mentioned at the hearing that could undergo technological transformation:
"Generally speaking, dividends are paid to dry stocks, and dividends are settled every year, or every quarter. The magician can negotiate it himself-" Seeing Grete's face immediately darken, he quickly added:
"If a magician is really not good at negotiating, the Magician Management Department will provide a negotiator to act on his behalf! You only need to pay a small fee! There are many magicians who hire them!"
Gretel's eyes lit up.
"Okay - let's start with the Slaughter Guild! I have to practice dissection anyway, so grab some dissection materials! Auro! Auro! Follow me up the mountain!"
They went straight to the top of Igor Peak. There was still a laboratory in the Thunder Tower, which was working tirelessly to produce bleaching powder. When the magician in charge of the production saw Gretel's arrival, it was like seeing a savior descending from the sky, and he almost rushed to hug him.
His thighs:
"Little Gretel, when will this work end? It's so boring! And you see, the caustic soda solution produced is not easy to put away, nor is it easy to pour out. We have accumulated several pools here. Recently, the entire parliament has
Caustic soda prices are plummeting!
And that light air, if you’re not careful, it will explode——”
Grete: "Pfft..." No, you can only use chlorine here and cannot industrialize other by-products? This is too miserable. No wonder the price of bleaching powder is so high. You have to sell me one gold coin per kilogram...
"That... still needs to be done, and more needs to be done. A public health center has recently been set up, and a large amount of bleaching powder is required to purify drinking water, about 12 kilograms a day..."
"Ah——" the magician screamed. He dragged Gretel and ran out of the laboratory:
"Come on, come on, come on, take a look for yourself! See how much the Alchemy Guild charges for caustic soda!"
Grete was dragged by him, stumbling all the way, straight to the Alchemy Guild. A level 2 magician dealt with him skillfully:
"Caustic soda solution? 1 silver coin per liter, you can deliver it yourself!"
"What? The price has dropped again?" Thunder Horn screamed. The alchemist rolled his eyes at him:
"Otherwise, what should I do? Tell me, tell me, how much have you sent over recently? The guild can't consume it at all! The amount of caustic soda is only so much. To make soda ash, the strange smell fills the room. Without the bubble technique, it won't be possible.
Don't dare to enter!
Moreover, the fuel to boil the alkaline water is free? The pot to store the alkaline water is free? After cooking a few pots, the pot will become rotten!
——Otherwise, you can make them into soda ash yourself? We’ll charge you a high price!”
"This is so annoying——"
The magician from Thunder Horn screamed.
Gretel couldn't help but hold his forehead next to him. It's so miserable, it's so miserable. The way you make soda ash, oh, sodium carbonate, is to heat sodium hydroxide solution? No wonder the production efficiency is so low...
"You charge soda ash? Charge it at a high price?" He stretched out his head. The alchemist glanced at him quickly and saw the three copper stars and four white rings on the badge, and he immediately became serious:
"Collect it! The amount of soda ash is large, we will collect any amount!"
As long as you say this, Gretel dragged his family back with a smile. As soon as he returned to the laboratory, he immediately laid out a set of glassware:
"The charcoal is ignited...the burned smoke is passed into the caustic soda solution...in an excessive amount. After the reaction is saturated, an equal amount of caustic soda solution is added...and finally heated and evaporated...
Look, the soda ash has come out, right?
——How to make it in large quantities? Try it yourselves! I can sell bleaching powder cheaply! Soda ash can also be sold cheaply to me!”
"no problem!"
The magician's eyes at Thunder Horn immediately lit up. The amount of soda ash used in washing, printing and dyeing, tanning, soap making, etc. is too large. The entire city of Nevis swallows hundreds of kilograms a day.
Not even a burp. Following Grete's method, the caustic soda solution accumulated every day can be turned into soda ash and sold!
There is a workshop in the Change Department that produces these things every day, and now Thunder Horn can also get involved! The price is even lower than theirs, squeezing them out!
"I will organize manpower to try it right away! Don't worry, as long as we can really make soda ash on a large scale, I will sell you the bleaching powder you want at a half discount! - Brol! Davila! Brittney! You guys, hurry up and get some supplies.
Come out of the house! Customize copper pipes, set up the stove, get charcoal, and get ready!"
"Then it's up to you!"
Grete is in a great mood. Hey, money is earned and saved. With such an improvement in technology, two thousand gold coins will be saved, right? If we visit a few more companies and upgrade the technology, it will probably cost the Department of Public Health.
Just save it...
Alas, in fact, the most expensive step in the bleaching powder production process is the electrolysis of salt water - in other words, renting the laboratory of Thunder Tower for electrolysis. It would be great if you could generate your own electricity and set up a small hydropower station next to it.
The frame production line and other raw materials only cost a few dollars.
However, the only method of generating electricity that Grete knows is to use a magnetic field to cut a coil and generate alternating current. To electrolyze salt water, you need to use direct current. How to change AC to direct current?
Sorry, Grete, said he didn't know...
"Oro!—Oro!"
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