"Everything has arrived." Xiao Gui took out a piece of paper from his arms and handed it over. It was densely filled with a detailed list of the goods shipped. Chang Shide looked through it and found that the allocated supplies were really dazzling.
From boilers, steam engines, cement, bricks and tiles to thermometers, pH test strips, test utensils...many things he didn't expect to apply for were also listed on it - they were more thoughtful than he was.
"This ship is newly built. It is quite suitable for transporting such large items. I was originally worried about how to transport the steam engine and boiler."
"Haha, this is Mr. Wen's latest design." Xiao Gui laughed, "What's it called - a large flat-deck barge with a shallow draft in the offshore. Mr. Wen originally planned to build a container with an all-wood structure, which is considered a container ship.
Later, when I made some calculations, I realized that it was simply unrealistic to use wood to make a container - it was heavy and not strong. If the container was not completed, the ship had already been built, so we simply finished it."
“Aren’t there a lot of containers piled up in Lingao?”
"Ma Dugong regarded them as treasures. Even if the Metallurgical Department wanted to dismantle them and recycle them for steelmaking, he would not approve them. He also specifically asked them to do anti-rust treatment." Xiao Gui said.
While they were talking, Wenxiu came in to report that the migrant workers had been organized. Because this shipment included steam engines and boilers, there was a huge demand for labor, so all the strong men in the entire South China farm were dispatched, and two men were hired nearby.
More than a hundred people formed a huge team of migrant workers, carrying countless levers, ropes, rolling logs and other moving equipment. Wen Tong was more worried about boilers and steam engines. The main structures of these two pieces of equipment had to be moved as a whole.
OK.
"Start unloading."
A group of workers in short blue clothes, short hair and cane hats got off the ship. Their strange attire caused a lot of discussion among the spectators. These people carried green bags and unloaded iron pipes, iron plates and sacks from the ship.
A sack of iron parts was quickly used to build a platform on the stone bank. Then the platform was connected with iron pipes, and pulleys and chains were installed. Then under the command of these workers, migrant workers came up
Some people lined up to pull the chains, and some grabbed the ropes on the large goods. Someone climbed up on the platform, holding a small red and green flag in his hand, and hundreds of migrant workers and workers were there.
With the rhythmic blowing of whistles and the waving of small flags, the iron chains and ropes began to be pulled, and the huge thing on the deck was hoisted tremblingly. A group of migrant workers rotated the platform under the command of the whistle, and the goods moved with the hoist.
The rotation of the rod slowly moved from the air to the top of the pier, and then slowly landed on the prepared rolling log. The crowd watching the excitement let out a burst of exclamation.
Transporting sugar factory equipment to the Huanan Sugar Factory is a very challenging task. Hai'an Port is only about ten kilometers away from Nanmentang, where the Huanan Sugar Factory is located outside Xuwen County, but the road is rugged and bumpy.
, usually only oxcarts can barely pass. General machinery and supplies are either carried on shoulders or carried by oxcarts. Large equipment can only be pushed forward slowly by rolling logs. You can imagine the difficulty. In order to facilitate passage,
A team of migrant workers were responsible for clearing the road, leveling the ground, and filling potholes. The migrant workers walked more than ten kilometers for four days before transporting the large equipment to the sugar factory. The people who came with the boat also quietly came to the sugar factory.
factory and moved into the courtyard prepared for them.
The horizontal steam engine shipped this time is the Mozi Type 2. Although there is no increase in horsepower, it is more efficient in steam utilization than the Type 1. The Industrial Committee is quite satisfied with the performance of the Mozi Type 2 and has decided to put it into production in batches.
Manufacturing, the machine sent to Leizhou is the mass-produced No. 1 machine.
In addition to these equipment, the rarest things are many long boxes. The three-person team couldn't wait to check them out as soon as they arrived. The boxes had the words "fragile" and "handle with care" painted on them. They were shipped.
At that time, all the goods were carried on the shoulders and back by manpower, without the use of ox carts. When the box was opened, it was filled with straw ropes and dried seaweed. When opening it layer by layer, Wen Tong and Chang Shide were both facing the industrial sector of Lingao.
Praise from the heart.
In the box are glass pipes and ceramic pipes of various diameters. These pipes will be used in parts with special needs. They are used to replace cast iron pipes that are prone to rust.
"It's too powerful -" Wen Tong was speechless.
"It's nothing. Practice makes perfect. Besides, these pipes are not just made for you. They are used in more places in chemical plants. This batch can only be regarded as trial production."
The power workshop of the future sugar factory will be located by the river for the convenience of water. In addition to large-scale flattening of the foundation to facilitate the installation of equipment, Merlin also organized the construction of a reservoir specifically to handle boiler water. Masons were recruited
To build an extremely tall chimney that they had never built before. The thing was so big that it was not enough to hire all the local plasterers. Chang Shide also bought up all the bricks and tiles in the local brick kiln in one go. Now the county
The only brick kiln is working overtime to bake bricks and tiles to meet the needs of the construction site.
The three-roller juicer that Wen Tong requested arrived smoothly. With the help of a huge database, it took little effort to design and manufacture this machine. The machinery factory just had some complaints about the pressing rollers consuming too much steel. Wen Tong read it.
Next, the machine looked no worse than the old equipment he had seen.
"However, the strength of many parts inside has problems, so the service life is hard to say." Xiao Gui said that although some key connecting parts, gear transmission parts and the like are manufactured, they are limited by material performance and durability.
Sex is relatively poor.
"It doesn't matter, I brought a lot of spare parts this time." Chen Tianxiong didn't care, "If it breaks, just replace it. It's inevitable that the quality will be a little bit worse if it's the first time you make something."
In addition to juicers, there are also rotary knives and crushers specially used to crush and tear sugar cane. The crushed sugar cane has a much higher juice yield than the traditional method of sending sugar cane directly to the squeeze roller.
A month later, the installation of the sugar factory's buildings and equipment was finally completed. The boiler was ignited successfully and the steam engine started running. For the first time, billowing black smoke symbolizing modern industry appeared in the sky above Xuwen. This semi-automatic factory is unique in this time and space.
The mechanized machine sugar factory has finally begun mass production. Its daily sugar cane crushing capacity is 70 tons, and it has workshops for cutting cane, pressing, and boiling sugar. Except for the sugar boiling workshop that continues to use the old-fashioned manual operation method, other workshops use machinery
.The sugar cooking workshop does not use fire at all, but directly uses the steam from the boiler for heating.
The towering chimneys and steel sugar cane presses of the South China Factory surprised many locals. After hearing that the sugar factory continued to process sugar cane on their behalf, many sugarcane farmers did not hesitate to send sugar cane from afar, just to open their eyes and see
Let’s see how the sugar factory under this new method operates. After the bundles of sugar cane are returned to the sugar factory located at the south gate of Xuwen County on oxen and carts, they are first mechanically processed: the sugar cane is first leveled and cut with a cane knife, and then
The crusher tears the sugar cane. The crusher is very particular because the sugar content of the sugar cane is stored in the "cane pith". The crusher only crushes the sugar cane in the direction of the fibers to avoid breaking the "cane pith" during the crushing process.
Broken, resulting in loss of cane juice.
The crushed sugarcane is manually transported into baskets to the feeding port of the press. The three-roller press can produce 70% of the juice at one time, while modern sugar factories use several three-roller or multi-roller machines to press continuously.
Some require fifteen rolls to be completed. The juice yield rate is as high as 90%.
The time traveler does not have such mechanical conditions, so he uses the repeated pressing method. After the first pressing, the sugarcane bagasse is not discarded, but piled aside until all the raw sugarcane is squeezed out, and then passed through the press again. Although it is quite labor-intensive
, but the benefits obtained are still considerable.
The sugarcane juice squeezed out by the press is first sent to an iron heater. The sugarcane juice is heated with high-temperature steam while flowing inside, and then passes through the cement ash tank, where lime is added for clarification, and finally passed through
Ceramic and glass pipes are transported to the sedimentation tank to allow the generated impurities to settle. The clarified sugarcane juice enters the boiling pot and continues to be heated with steam to produce sugar. The method of removing molasses still uses the tile technology, but the scale has increased.
Level, more than thirty tiles are lined up in the sugar making workshop.
The boiling and ash adding process was supported by Lingao's thermometer, pH test paper and other test equipment. After many practices and repeated tests, Wen Tong finally mastered the temperature at each stage of boiling sugar, the amount of ash added, etc.
A series of data, and the corresponding production process was formulated. The sugar cooks originally did not agree with his set of things - they had worked with the master for many years and mastered this technology with long-term practical experience.
And my mastery of it is still very average. So I am skeptical about this new gadget, and I am even prepared to see my boss make a fool of myself.
But relying on glass tubes, pieces of paper and some inexplicable jars and pots, the owner not only cooked sugar, but also made no mistakes in every pot, and even the amount of sugar was almost the same! This pair of sugar cooks
It was a devastating blow to my self-confidence - even the most skilled sugar cooks in this county and this prefecture could not do this!
Seeing the fearful and admiring eyes of the sugar cooks, Wen Tong was both proud and a little disappointed: Why is it that our science and technology have always been empirical. No one wants to explore its principles and formulate standards?
The implementation of this method greatly reduced the waste in the sugar cooking process. Wen Tong also used this to formulate a more stringent assessment system for loss rate control - since the production factors are controllable, then excessive losses will occur
The only factor is that the sugar-cooking workers have lost their sense of responsibility. From that day on, the people who were originally called "masters" in the sugar-cooking workshop became "workers."
This whole set of processes is many times more efficient and convenient than the traditional sugar cane production. The large-scale, semi-mechanized production of sugar cane sugar made everyone in the local area stunned, regardless of whether they were scholars or civilians.
The surprise was only secondary. When the sugarcane farmers found out that after asking this factory to process their sugarcane, the amount of sugar produced was actually a quarter more than that of ordinary Toutangliao. Moreover, the sugar factory continued to charge 30% for processing.
When the low charging standards were announced, all the sugarcane farmers in Xuwen suddenly went crazy. No matter how far or near, there were oxcarts and ships coming to deliver sugarcane for processing. There was a long queue at the entrance of the factory. Some sugarcane farmers even had to wait in line for two seconds.
It took three days to get on the wheel, but the enthusiasm remained undiminished. In the end, a whole shipload of sugar cane was even shipped from Haikang. After landing in Haian, an ox cart was hired to send it to the Huanan factory for processing. Because there were so many people coming, there was no order.
In the chaotic situation, Liao Dahua had to ask people from the Yamen again to maintain order and suppress the situation. The chimney with billowing black smoke made a huge roar and the steel roller that swallowed a huge amount of sugar cane was obviously left behind by Master Dianshi.
He was deeply impressed, but his fear of machines was far greater than his curiosity, so he was always careful to stay away from them.
When Wen Tong got the first day's figures, he knew that the profits far exceeded expectations. Especially in the contract processing area, a considerable part of the extra sugarcane juice squeezed out fell into the pockets of the South China Sugar Refinery. This part
Profits are obtained at zero cost. Not to mention that the extra molasses and sugarcane bagasse from processing are their benefits. Sugarcane farmers do not need these by-products, but the South China Sugar Factory uses them.
If the equipment was better, up to a twelve-roller machine, and combined with the water immersion method, a 97% extraction rate would not be a dream. Wen Tong thought to himself, the profit potential that can be tapped here is really not small.
Wen Tong even began to consider whether it was necessary to maintain the existence of the other four Tutangliao. It seems that driven by profit, ordinary people will not be afraid of the distance and difficulty of the road. At least the Tutangliao in Xuwen can be closed.
, only keep Hikvision’s.
Mei Lin and others who came to assist were also smiling. Everyone was really happy to see the sugar factory prospering - this was another growth point for foreign trade. Naturally, there were some problems when the whole set of equipment was running. One time it was the boiler interface.
Pipes burst and leaked, and several times the gears and connectors of the juicer were damaged, which temporarily affected production. However, Chen Tianxiong and Xiao Gui quickly returned to normal due to emergency repairs. Xiao Gui also has another task:
Train several qualified boiler workers for the sugar factory - burning boilers is a very serious job, and if you are not careful, you will harm others and yourself, not to mention that this boiler is a copycat product.
Chen Tianxiong is not too anxious. Although he also has the task of training maintenance technicians, he is on a long-term business trip and will not go back for a while. He has enough time to teach apprentices. Wen Tong suggested that after the school for the children of the sugar factory is opened, he can
Apprenticeships are selected from older children aged thirteen or fourteen.
However, Chen Tianxiong's behavior attracted Chang Shide's attention. In addition to regularly inspecting the machine three times a day, he often talked with the people from the special reconnaissance team in the yard, and sometimes changed into local clothes to impress Wei.
He was led out by the escort. Obviously, Chen Tianxiong was not just here to maintain the machine, in all likelihood he was also an intelligence agent.