Brother Manu returned to Fenggu after taking care of the housework and business, and met with his younger brother.
After ordering the bullock cart and finishing the order negotiation with the pressure vessel factory, it would take some time to make the cans, so the two simply brought Judd's distant relatives back to the new city to stay for a while.
Judd's distant relative is not very pleasant to hear. He has a name, Corentine. He has not seen much of the world and is a bit dull, but he is still very motivated.
During his stay in Xincheng, he actually thought of working at the station.
The Manu brothers were polite but didn't really stop him. They gave him a language knowledge capsule and let him hang out at the station for a few days. In fact, the price of the capsule was higher than his salary.
Half a month later, the pressure vessel factory sent a letter saying that the container would be sent to Blackwater Station, so the brothers took Corentin on the road.
The oxcarts were sent earlier than the pressure vessels, and the coking coal plant took them over, so they didn't need to worry.
Then they assembled a team of four oxen, two in pairs, towing two large oxen carts, and took a large can, two small cans, some pipes, and two hundred pots to earn travel expenses, and set out on the road.
The transport capacity of an ox cart is greater than that of a two-headed ox, but the driving speed is slower. Especially when there is a six-meter-long pressure vessel in the pressure vessel ordered this time, you have to be careful.
The journey that originally took about seven days from Heishui ended up taking twelve days.
The bandits on the road looked dumbfounded. When asked, they only said that they didn't know. It was ordered by Niquan City and they didn't quote a price, otherwise they were afraid that they would actually do it.
The Manu brothers had expected such a thing when they first saw the municipal supplementary documents, so they didn't want to run it themselves, otherwise they would be worried about just transporting these cans in the future.
This jar has also shrunk a lot. If it is really made to be more than ten meters high and three to four meters thick, there is no railway south of Blackwater City and the road is not flat, so I don’t know how it will be transported.
After stumbling all the way to Quagmire City, I asked Master Judd for a quote.
Mr. Judd still didn't understand what they meant. He hid and asked carefully about Corentin's experience. Then he came back to look at the quotation and asked:
"Do you make any money from this?"
This is part of a simple petroleum fractionation device, containing only things that would be difficult for a blacksmith to craft by hand.
The most expensive thing is of course the largest can, which is made of some kind of alloy and nickel-plated steel. The brothers couldn't remember the specific alloy even after hearing it twice.
It is larger than the 2 meters in diameter that I planned to carry before. It is 2.5 meters in diameter and six meters long... It should be a high-quality can. The finished product weighs two tons. When the steel material is turned around and sold to the iron factory, it is worth 5,000 yuan. The existing processing capacity is large. The yield rate of the No. 1 pressure vessel is not high enough, especially since the shunt structure inside the tank needs to be forged and jointed. The processing cost is very high. The factory fee for a tank is 12,000, not counting the cost of going to and from the railway.
Adding up the other seventy-seven, eighty-eight, the total amount is 17,000 yuan.
After deducting some transportation expenses, the price offered by Master Judd was 1,200 gold coins. At the exchange rate of 1:18, it was equivalent to 21,600. The bottom price in the minds of the brothers was 1,100 gold coins. As long as this amount was exceeded, they would sell.
The answer to Master Judd's question was very simple. Brother Manu said: "It's too troublesome. I will take Master Judd's people through the process this time. I won't do it anymore. We just come here to collect the finished product."
Judd looked at the two of them with wide eyes: the real people don't show their faces, and they gave in to such a big business.
People in Quanquan City, from the boss to the common people, actually all know that the products refined from yellow mud oil are easy to sell, but they just can't make it big. If it can make it big, there will indeed be many people willing to pay. So even though this set costs thousands of gold coins, if it were to be sold, it would not be impossible for the entire Quagmire City to digest a thousand sets.
Even if a set only earns one hundred gold coins, that’s still one hundred thousand gold coins!
Of course, you won’t actually earn that much at all. The other party’s production capacity may not be able to supply much in a short period of time. Once the news is leaked, someone will definitely go directly to place an additional order at a higher price.
But no matter what, it is not a big problem for Mr. Judd, who got the news first, to grab a share of one or two hundred sets.
It's just that I don't have that much money to place the order at once, and there are still variables.
The other party in front of me comes with sincerity,
Master Judd didn't care about Hu. He cut off dozens of gold coins in a few words and settled the deal at 1,150 gold coins.
Quickly recruit people to assemble the device, find a blacksmith to build a stove, etc.
The Manu brothers did not leave, just waiting for them to produce products.
Even though Mitan City is guarding an open-air self-flowing oil field, there are actually not many finished products that can meet the procurement requirements of the Heavy Industry and Manufacturing Bureau. Businessmen from all walks of life are rushing to grab them, and the price fluctuates greatly.
For example, the two of them had bought lubricating oil to replace animal fat. Now when they asked about the price, it was almost the same as animal fat.
To truly form long-term batch transactions, we need to rely on mass production, and individual workshops are really not enough.
Mr. Judd himself is not in a hurry, but the tenants are. In an era of sharp decline in grain production, they must not let go of additional opportunities to make money. If you have money, you can afford food shipped thousands of miles away. Businessmen don't care if people starve to death. They will send food wherever there is money.
The tenants stared at the blacksmiths all over the city every day, and from time to time they would go up to help themselves and quickly add the missing items.
Under the command of Master Judd, the tenants carefully followed what the master said, fearing that an accident would cause a fire. This yellow mud fire was not easy to extinguish.
The entire device needs to be heated in two parts, the crude oil heating tank and the steam boiler.
This steam boiler is a simple boiler that does not involve steam power and is only responsible for transporting high-temperature steam into the bottom of the fractionation tower.
Superheated oil and steam react in a fractionation column, known as oil cracking, to produce a variety of products. Depending on the reaction conditions such as temperature and steam volume, the proportions of the various products generated are also different.
The first thing to be shipped was liquefied petroleum gas. Because it was urgent, the liquefied petroleum gas was burned directly on the top. Later, we would find a way to use the produced liquefied petroleum gas as heating fuel. In short, it lacks gas compression and transportation capabilities, so it can only be consumed on the spot.
Then there are the light oil solvents and gasoline at the upper oil outlet. Because the tower is relatively short, there are only five pipes in total. Gas, coal, diesel, and engine oil cannot be subdivided, so they can only be called light oil. The further down the fractionation tower, the higher the viscosity of the oil and the less flammable it is. The heavy oil with the highest viscosity flows out last at the bottom. If you want asphalt, you have to find a way in the heavy oil.
There are many things here that can be cracked twice, and the relative cost will be higher.
The oil outlet is only a semicircular grooved pipe punched by a blacksmith, which is introduced into each large tank.
At first everyone was so happy, but gradually things started to change.
Because the grooved pipes are all fixed, the tank must be moved when it is full. They tried to turn off the fire, but the six-meter-high fractionation tower had its own reserves, so it was not so easy to stop.
Everyone hurriedly changed the tanks, and filled dozens more tanks. A group of people were covered in yellow, yellow, and black, and they were a mess.
But the device finally stopped.
The so-called cracking production capacity is really unexpected and caught off guard.
Mr. Judd's originally happy expression darkened. With this production capacity, let alone a thousand sets, could the finished product produced from ten sets be sold?
Although high production capacity means that profits will also rise, but the equipment cannot be sold much, which is really uncomfortable.
There is another thing, which has nothing to do with the jars brought by the Manu brothers. Once the fractionation unit is stopped, the heavy oil remaining at the bottom will block the flow of steam. The bottom of the fractionation tower needs to be reheated until the whole tower is in working condition before it can continue to be used.
In the current production method, the fire source is too close to the refined oil, and it is easy to catch fire if something goes wrong. Mr. Judd is not in a hurry to start the furnace again, and has to find someone to discuss how to do it.
The Manu brothers didn't care about this. After completing their mission, they quickly bought the oil and left.
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