"Yes, that's it, start slowly." Old Cangtou was instructing the family members of the iron factory to make briquettes.
The briquette manufacturing equipment assembled from one hundred molds cast by the factory itself can make a hundred pieces of briquettes at a time.
Mix the soil coal powder with water, lime and clay, shovel it into the cylindrical mold with a shovel, squeeze it to shape, then use ropes and wooden pulleys to lift the mold, and the honeycomb briquettes will be shaped. Use the pad below to lift it to the sun. Dry. One hundred pieces of briquettes are ready.
If the quality of the soil coal is poor, some good pulverized coal should be added when blending the mud.
Briquettes for igniting fires are made from crop straw powder, fine coal powder, lime and water.
One ton of coal can produce six thousand briquettes.
Briquettes are a modern product, invented in 1949 by Guo Wende, a retired employee of Dezhou City Fuel Company. This shape of briquettes heats up quickly and has strong firepower. The combustion efficiency is 20% higher than that of pure coal.
Briquettes are easy to burn and catch fire quickly because they have holes inside. When using it, you need to put the ignition coal at the bottom for the first time, and put the normal honeycomb briquettes on top. In the future, you can add new coal blocks as long as the fire does not go out.
Use a fire sickle to make a fire, ignite the bark of the tree, and ignite it from the mouth of the stove. The flame can reach one foot in 2 minutes, and a pot of water can be boiled in 12 minutes. The furnace fire temperature can reach 680°C, and the flame size can be adjusted by opening and closing the furnace door. It is easy to use, just like liquefied gas. You can use it as you go. There is no need to close the furnace, and the fire will not go out. Open the air inlet and it will continue. combustion.
Because the iron stove tube exhausts smoke to the outdoors, this stove is smokeless, non-toxic, and odorless. It can burn for 120 to 150 minutes by placing two briquettes at a time. The stove tube also increases the indoor heat dissipation area, and the heating effect is very good.
Briquette briquette factory, with low investment and quick results, is made by mixing the cheapest bulk coal with several worthless raw materials and two additives. It is manually operated and very simple and easy to learn. Using an ordinary briquette machine, the daily processing cost is about 1,200 yuan per person. .
The old man is Yang Fan's newly appointed shopkeeper of the briquette factory. The stupid women in his family who are bad at needlework and can't go to the quilt factory are all left to the old man by Yang Fan.
It has always been Yang Fan's principle to make the best use of people. There is no useless person in the world. There is always a job that suits you. If you can't do embroidery work, just do menial work.
This factory is independently accounted for. After Yang Fan transferred the factory buildings, equipment, and start-up capital, he left it to them to run their own operations.
In terms of remuneration, in addition to basic wages, the rest is piece-rate wages and year-end bonuses based on sales performance. The working capital that the factory needs goes to Xiang Yi for approval, and then to Xiang Ying for withdrawal. Every month, Accountant Liu completes the accounting and pays the completion money. The profits are handed over to Xiangying. If working capital is needed, it can be used immediately.
The old man was also eliminated because he was old and frail and could not do heavy work. When he was young, he worked as a coal shop worker. Know the business. So Yang Fan asked him to take the lead. The old man never dreamed that he would be a shopkeeper one day at the age of sixty.
Coal mines are everywhere near Zunhua, many of which are natural outcrops. It is very close to Luanzhou, and the later Kailuan Coal Mine is here. There are small coal mines all over the place that are privately mined by the private sector.
Coal is worthless here. However, it is not widely used. The main reason is that in this era, braziers were mainly used for heating. Generally, the stove and the ashes of vegetation that were not completely burned in the stove pit and were still red were placed in a charcoal basin, and the family gathered around the charcoal basin. Bake your hands and feet to keep warm.
Plant ash and charcoal are fine, but if it is coal, this brazier heating method is very difficult to deal with the problem of carbon poisoning.
Yang Fan did some research and found out that Zunhua County was a first-class wealthy area in North Zhili of the Ming Dynasty. It made a fortune due to the iron smelting industry.
The private sector has considerable purchasing power, but cooking and heating equipment are very scarce.
Song Yingxing's cannon-casting work stopped, and Yang Fan asked the master craftsman Chang Zhu and others to switch to the production of cast iron stoves and iron chimneys. This thing is very simple. Yang Fan gives the drawings and they just need to make their own grinding tools. This is not a cannon, and it is not afraid of bubbles. It can be used with either clay molds or iron molds.
In the future, Xinghe Iron Works will no longer sell iron ingots to external parties, which is not profitable. Instead, it will increase the added value and process them into specific products before selling them.
As soon as the molten iron comes out, the pig iron is poured directly into the iron furnace.
While the wrought iron was red and soft, it was rolled into thin sheets of iron with stone rollers, and then many half-grown children were hired to beat them with hammers to make tinplate work such as stove tubes and tin kettles. This also provided employment for some people. .
Yang Fan asked Lao Cangtou to buy all the discarded coal from nearby coal mines at very low prices. To prevent someone from imitating, even if you want to imitate, you can't buy the raw materials for a while and use good coal to make it. You will have to die in the face of the competition from Xinghe's soil coal pulverized briquettes, which are half made of clay and lime.
In the wasteland, dirt and coal are piled as high as a hill. Transporting all this coal was exhausting for everyone. It was all hauled two miles from the riverside wharf by hand and pushed by wheelbarrow.
At present, the railway tracks and mine cars from the riverside dock to the factory are still being laid. After it is laid, it can be transported quickly and in large quantities using horse-drawn minecarts.
These coals are actually the pulverized coal that fell on the ground during mining in small coal kilns. There is a lot of soil in it, as well as small pebbles and sand. No one wanted it at all because it was difficult to light. But there is no problem at all in making briquettes, which is a typical example of turning waste into treasure.
Coal was not widely used in this era. For cooking and heating, most poor people used firewood, while the rich used carbon. People who are particularly wealthy use smokeless carbon which has no smoke.
Gas is poisonous, and except for very poor people, generally people will not buy it. In terms of production, because the cost of coal is much lower than that of charcoal, it is mainly used to smelt iron. However, this kind of iron contains high sulfur and is very brittle, making it a cheap, low-grade iron. Restaurants also use coal for cooking, because soot can escape from the chimney.
Xinghe Iron Works selected dozens of eloquent people to serve as door-to-door promoters, divided the city into regions and made door-to-door sales.
Zhuzi had made great contributions since he last reported military information and poisoned the Tatars' rice cookers. Master Yang took notice of him and not only rewarded his family with a hundred thousand dollars, but also directly selected him into the servant team. The first task he received after joining the servant team was to lead more than thirty half-year-old children to sell the cast iron stoves and briquettes from Xinghe Iron Factory door-to-door.
Tianxiang Tower, the most advanced entertainment venue in Zunhua.
Through his connections, Zhuzhu found Hong'er, the most favored little maid next to the leader, and she was very attentive and kept showing off some rouge and gouache.
Hong'er's little face looked disdainful, her chin almost lifted to the sky.
She is the maid next to the number one, and I have never seen any good rouge and gouache. These useless useless things also want to please her. She is really a fool. She is really a toad who doesn’t even know what color she is.
"Hmph, you lazy boy, don't act like a good boy here. Come in, Miss Lin wants to see you." Xiaoyu, another maid next to Lin Yueru, the top leader, came out and said.
Zhu Zhu was so excited. This was the number one brothel in Zunhua.
He quickly packed up the pure copper stove and honeycomb briquette samples specially made by Xinghe Iron Factory, and followed Xiaoyu into the inner hall.
