The genius had just been shining brightly for a while, and there were already many pedestrians and trucks carrying goods on the road. [Read the latest chapter] Dai Dehou still remembers the bustling scene when he first came to this road. He was so shocked that he couldn't even close his eyes. Even the streets of the famous ancient cities mentioned by the storyteller could not compare. Go up Baibo Road, which is near Lingao.
Unexpectedly, the head of such a road was not satisfied, and later built this railway. This was really a road paved with iron! Iron bars thicker than arms were laid out on the wood. This sense of extravagance made Dai Dehou feel distressed every time he looked at it - how much money did it cost.
The road and railway were built adjacent to each other, away from the Baojia River. The leaders gave it an elegant name: Wenlan River, but he was still used to the old name. Dai Dehou looked across the rows of camphor wood stakes and saw that the rice fields opposite were divided into large squares. Further away, on the slopes of Oxiang Ridge—now called Gaoshan Ridge—larger aqueducts would lead to more The water from the reservoir was diverted, and a row of bungalows were built next to it, where the chiefs' farmhands lived.
A few days ago, when the autumn harvest was busy, Dai Dehou worked as a seasonal part-time worker and went to the rice fields on the farm. The fields were full of rice waiting to be harvested, and the heavy golden bones made him happy just to look at them.
The leaders are really good at making even this rice so good.
Dai Dehou is just forty this year. His ancestors were originally from Lingao. Later, they split up and his family went to live in Danzhou Real Estate. Although it is not a wealthy family, it can be considered a well-off family. His family has several acres of thin farmland and a small shop in Danzhou city that sells fish, shrimp, and dried goods, so food and clothing are not a problem. But a few years ago, there was a typhoon in Danzhou. Not only was his family severely damaged, but he was also accidentally injured. I had no choice but to borrow a loan, and my life has been very tight these past few years.
Later, when the Australians arrived in Lingao, everyone thought they were more powerful pirates at first and left after causing trouble. Unexpectedly, within a year the Australians had built roads as far as Nanbao. At this time, people in Danzhou were also panicked. The family moved away. He was forced to repay the loan immediately, so he had no choice but to sell off his property at a low price to repay the debt. Then a lot of cheap Lingao fishing suddenly appeared in the market in Danzhou. His dry goods business plummeted, he lost a lot of money, and his family's livelihood suddenly disappeared.
Dai Dehou thought that he still had relatives from the same clan in Lingao. Although we only have contact during the New Year. But I could help in some way, and I heard that the market in Lingao was very prosperous under the rule of the Australian Prime Minister, and there was a lot of business to be done, so I thought I would just come to Lingao to find a job.
When he arrived, he realized that the catch sold by the chief here was so cheap that he couldn't do it in his old job. He also wanted to join the chief's gang, but this Australian chief was no ordinary pirate. If you go to work for them, you must conform to their customs, shave your hair and wear clothes.
The ancestor of the Dai family, Dai Dingshi, was originally a scholar in the Song Dynasty. He is one of the celebrities in the history of Lingao. Although the literary style of their generation has long been lost, Dai Dehou still has some literary spirit in him. Besides, his old parents are still here, so they don't dare to suffer this penalty for them.
Fortunately, there is no shortage of work here. Dai Dehou's family rented a relative's house, and he worked part-time here and there. His parents, his wife and children did some small business, which provided them with enough food and clothing, but living under the influence of others was not a long-term solution.
Not far from a large construction site of half-renovated buildings, the train began to slow down and slowly stopped at the station. Then the horn sounded to announce the station.
"Passengers please pay attention, passengers please pay attention, Ma Niao New District Station has arrived, Ma Niao New District Station has arrived. Passengers who get off here, please queue up to get off! The next stop is Ma Niao Industrial Zone Station."
Dai Dehou quickly got out of the car. This construction site is where he does temporary work at night. It is an area for employees' families. They are all buildings. Only employees are eligible to buy them. It is more than three miles back here, and two miles further is where his family lives temporarily. place.
At this moment, the day shift has started. Thousands of workers wearing blue cloth work clothes are working enthusiastically inside. There are also many men and women wearing miscellaneous clothes of various colors. They are either going back and forth between the train station and the construction site, moving or moving under the command of the foreman. Carrying, moving the building materials that have just been unloaded by the crane on the train station to the construction site, or doing hard work such as picking up stones and pulling a wheelbarrow. These are the same temporary jobs as Dai Dehou.
"Everyone from Group 35 has come to sign in and get ready to start work!" A foreman with a shaved head and wearing blue clothes ran over with a clamp.
Dai Dehou hurried over. The so-called sign-in was to put a fingerprint on the paper, and then get the tools and start working.
Temporary workers naturally do simple physical work, and are paid on a piece-rate basis. Of course, the pay is not high. Not to mention compared with regular employees.
Tai Dehou was very envious after he found out about the treatment of formal employees of the chiefs: their income was several times that of him, and the whole family could afford to eat meat every day - of course, meat from seafood. Fish is not expensive in Lingao market, especially fish balls, fish intestines and other items from seafood factories are very cheap. Even people like his family who work part-time can buy it every now and then since they moved here - the most important thing is The head of the staff also paid for a house. He just had to pay some circulation coupons every month. It was much better than the side house where his whole family stayed at a relative's house.
There are more and more people in Lingao now. There are many jobs around Bairen City and it is easy to make a living. However, it is too difficult to buy a house. The chiefs are building more and more big houses on their territory, but they have to join a household to be able to buy one. The selling prices of other local people's homes have been rising steadily in the year since I came to Lingao. Nowadays, few people are willing to sell them at high prices. If I don't get a house sooner, I'm afraid there will be no place to stand in the future. His family can't always stay at a relative's house.
Bobu Seafood Processing Factory started a new day surrounded by steam.
The freshest soft clams collected at dawn have been carefully stripped of their flesh, washed several times with water, and sorted into different porcelain jars.
"Well, this tank is full of oysters, just 15% is fine, that's 15%!"
Hu Yicheng stared at his apprentice and wrote down the numbers to make sure he didn't misremember the concentration of hydrochloric acid. Then he wrote down the date and type, and pasted it on the lid of the porcelain cylinder before looking back.
Various shrimps, crabs and shellfish, due to different carapace compositions, not only require different concentrations of hydrochloric acid to dissolve, but also require different processing times and yields, so the purchase prices are naturally very different.
Against the wall stood a porcelain vat that had begun to be acid-leached. Hu Yicheng walked over there, looked at the sign, opened one of the vats, picked up a porcelain rod and stirred it inside.
"Well, it's just that there are no bubbles. This tank can be cleaned. Please clean it a few more times!"
Seeing the rough hands and feet of the workers, Hu Yicheng couldn't help but get a little angry. The quality of the workers in the seafood processing factory was far worse than that in the pharmaceutical factory. There were only a few indigenous managers with B diplomas, but they had to be responsible for their duties. These ordinary workers They don't have much education, they are careless and unreliable. A few days ago, some workers even drank hydrochloric acid because they were curious about whether it was salty and sour! He had to put aside his business at the pharmaceutical factory and come here to watch in person.
The workers on the morning shift didn't dare to take a breath, so they started to clean it over and over again with water. Since there were no acid-base indicators such as phenolphthalein and methyl red, they had to clean it several times to ensure neutrality. It was inefficient and wasted water. On.
Hu Yicheng walked outside again, where there were two porcelain steamers, where the cleaned raw materials were being boiled twice with 4% sodium hydroxide solution.
Then there was the decolorization process that was the most troublesome before. Since there was no stable supply of potassium permanganate and sodium bisulfite, we had to constantly experiment to improve the process, which also delayed the project's mass production schedule a lot.
Currently, it is soaked in 4% dilute hydrochloric acid, stirred non-stop for two days, and then exposed to the sun for one day to obtain semi-finished chitin.
After that, it can be sent to the pharmaceutical factory to be cooked with 40% strong alkali for six hours. After washing, dehydration and drying, the much-needed product - chitosan can be obtained.
This is a glassy, white and transparent colloidal solution. It is insoluble in water, dilute acids and alkalis. It has a high viscosity, is light-resistant, heat-resistant, corrosion-resistant, does not deliquesce, weather, and is not afraid of insects. , anti-wrinkle and anti-shrink.
Due to these properties, it has a wide range of uses. It can be used as a setting agent in the textile industry to produce crisp, washable shirt collars that will not deform, or as an advanced fixing agent for dye coatings. In the power industry, it can be used as a protective film for special wires or as an insulating material. In the paper industry, it is also the raw material for capacitive paper, banknote paper, copper paper and other high-grade papers. In the food industry, it can be used as a thickening agent and as a clarifier for high-grade white sugar.
Of course, in Lingao, its most important use now is medical. Although there is still a shortage of many reagents and there is no way to produce surgical sutures, it is not difficult to produce hemostatic dressings with gelatin, glycerin and chitosan, whether in the north Traumas such as massive bleeding are very common during engine operations in full swing or at high-altitude construction sites. These hemostatic dressings can save many lives.
Damn, another tank was used up. Hu Yicheng returned to the house and looked at the panicked look on the worker's face. He no longer had the energy to curse anymore.
"This tank should be scrapped." Hu Yicheng waved his hand feebly and threw out these words.
Due to the lack of modern chemical preparations and primitive inspection methods, the production of medicinal chitosan in Lingao is carried out according to the strictest standards. For example, extremely stringent standards are set for the freshness of raw materials, so the chitin cannot be shipped. After being re-produced at the pharmaceutical factory in Bairen City, it can only be processed into semi-finished products at the seafood processing factory in the port area. If it does not meet the standards, it can only be scrapped and sent to a garment factory or paper factory for waste recycling.
Medicinal use requires the freshest shell materials, and frozen dead ones cannot be used temporarily. However, the fresh crustacean seafood salvaged by Lingao Fishery Company from the ocean usually only retains the most economically valuable ones. It is too wasteful to use it in medicine. With process improvement, if such fresh raw materials are not needed in the future, the purchase price will naturally be lowered or even stopped. (To be continued...)
