After Zhu Jingyuan worked hard for two months, there was movement in Yu Muxue's belly, and she was suspected to be pregnant.
At Liang Yunying's request, she started raising a baby with Liu Muyun and could no longer follow Zhu Jingyuan around.
So those who worked as secretaries around Zhu Jingyuan became maids who had been trained for more than a year.
Following Zhu Jingyuan today are Chunxiang and An Xiaona.
Zhu Jingyuan took his two maids with him in his classic car worth millions.
Guardsmen on motorcycles were guarding the front and back.
The completely "mechanized" team left the palace and went to the petrochemical experimental base outside the city.
Most of the experiments related to petrochemical industry are dangerous to a certain extent and basically have a certain degree of toxicity.
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People in this era don't understand it well enough and don't care much about it, but Zhu Jingyuan's habits in his previous life made him instinctively stay away from these things.
Therefore, the petrochemical experiments were placed downwind outside the city, and some distance away from the planned new urban area.
Zhu Jingyuan was sitting in the car, looking at the scene outside through the window. It had changed a lot compared to a year ago.
The main reason is that the area of residential areas has doubled again, and the population of the city has also doubled.
Due to the increase in the number of workers, the construction of the new palace ended earlier than expected and has now entered the comprehensive decoration and layout stage.
The decoration of the main palace for living is basically completed, and it is actually ready for living in, but Zhu Jingyuan plans to wait until everything is completed before officially moving.
Now there is a larger construction site busy outside the palace.
The moat, pond, rockery and other functional buildings ancillary to the palace outside the palace.
The earth dug out of the moat and pond was piled behind the palace to create a rockery like the Jingshan Mountain behind the Forbidden City.
This rockery will also be circled and integrated with the palace as part of the back garden.
The food country is in urgent need of fresh water. Although the first batch of seawater chemical plants have been put into operation, the fresh water produced by the factory cannot be wasted on decorative ponds. It must be used as drinking and industrial water.
Therefore, both the pond and the moat use sea water directly, and two ditches are dug to directly connect to the sea.
Outside the main front gate of the royal city are the government buildings of various departments of the kingdom. The basic construction has now been completed and has entered the decoration stage.
Zhu Jingyuan's motorcade ran for more than ten minutes before arriving at the petrochemical test site.
Zheng Fuguang is already waiting here with the person in charge of the petrochemical experimental base.
Zhu Jingyuan got out of the car and followed them into the laboratory, listening to the person in charge briefing him on the situation.
From raw materials to semi-finished products to various finished products with different properties.
There are block-shaped direct finished products, and there are granular "materials" made according to Zhu Jingyuan's requirements.
There are also actual products for testing in films, rods, tubes, and wrapped on wires.
Polyethylene is a white plastic and is the most common white plastic. The production of all types of polyethylene can account for 20% to 30% of the world's total plastic production.
It can be used in most common places in human life.
Films for product packaging, cable protective layers for protection and insulation, various pipes and engineering plastics.
Moreover, polyethylene can be regarded as a large category, not a kind of plastic. Depending on the polymerization method, molecular weight, and chain structure, it can be divided into several categories, with different properties and different uses.
Given the size of a big food country, as long as the polyethylene industry can be improved, even if it simply produces this large type of plastic in the future, it will be able to occupy a place in the industrial chain of the Great Tomorrow.
It is enough to maintain the dignity of an industrial country, rather than simply being a raw material warehouse.
Zhu Jingyuan picked up a plastic pipe and looked at this thing that was very common in his previous life, but now he finally saw it again:
“Our country, which is a big food country, has few other resources. We have no iron ore or coal mines at all, and only oil resources are relatively abundant.
“This plastic should be able to replace steel materials in many places and significantly reduce our construction costs.
“Everyone present here is a great contributor to our country of food, and also a great contributor to our Ming Airlines.
"I won't say any useless nonsense. All craftsmen involved in research and development will receive a year's salary this month."
The surrounding craftsmen immediately burst into uncontrollable cheers.
Zhu Jingyuan's reputation for Kang's generosity has long been heard by many people, but hearing about it and actually experiencing it are completely different things.
Lu Xueqin, a senior engineer in the chemical engineering laboratory, immediately couldn't help but put it aside and said:
"His Highness is so generous. His Highness set the design direction and even gave the most critical tips.
"We people just put in some effort to carry out all the experiments and make things."
Zhu Jingyuan smiled and waved his hand and said:
"Don't be humble, Gong Lu. Without you and all the craftsmen, I really wouldn't be able to do it myself.
"I just thought about a direction. Whether it is correct or not, and whether it can be successful or not, is all your credit.
“And don’t be complacent, we have equally important tasks ahead.
“Rayon, which is suitable for textiles, and stretch yarn, which has great elasticity, can replace natural fiber textile materials.
“If materials with silk properties can be produced in factories, there will be an unprecedentedly huge market.
“I think it’s not an exaggeration to say that it can even become the economic pillar of our big food country.”
In this era, concepts such as environmental protection have no market at all.
The only environmental protection projects that have made any difference are the two rainforest reserves proposed by Zhu Jingyuan.
Nominal protection of the rainforest was achieved through the administrative means of the League of Nations.
People in this era have not yet begun to obsessively pursue "pure nature".
In many cases, the situation may even be the other way around. Many intellectuals feel that artificial ones are better.
Man-made products are the crystallization of science and technology, the crystallization of human great wisdom, and the symbol of more civilization.
Putting animal fur directly on one's body means barbarism and ignorance.
If Zhu Jingyuan develops rayon, it will immediately be sold more expensive than real silk.
Moreover, many properties of chemical fibers are far beyond those of natural fibers.
Nylon, also known as nylon, has far greater strength and wear resistance than natural fibers such as cotton and linen. It will not become moldy in humid environments in tropical and subtropical areas.
Therefore, it is widely used in the military and is a very important material for military uniforms and carrying equipment. It is also the main material for making parachutes, and its performance far exceeds that of silk.
At the same time, it is also widely used in civilian applications. It is an important material for making jackets, sportswear, raincoats, socks, tents, fishing nets, conveyor belts and other items.
After the development of rayon, the big food country will be able to develop the textile and clothing industry in the desert without relying on agricultural cultivation.
Zhu Jingyuan has already made arrangements for rayon.
When craftsmen focused mainly on polyethylene, exploratory experiments with rayon had already begun.
At this time, Lu Xueqin immediately said very seriously:
"Your Highness, rest assured that after the polyethylene experiment is successful, a small number of people will be left to continue improvement and optimization, and cooperate with the factory to achieve mass production. Most of the craftsmen will immediately switch to the research of rayon.
"We have followed His Highness's instructions to search for suitable polymers among diamines, diacids, and amide materials, and have explored suitable polymerization methods. We have already gained some insights."
Zhu Jingyuan said very simply and directly:
"Okay, keep working hard. After the rayon is produced, everyone will receive another year's salary.
“But there’s no need to get busy right away, this thing can’t be completed in a day or two.
"The polyethylene has just been produced. Everyone has been working hard for so long. Let's relax and have a rest first."
Lu Xueqin said subconsciously:
"Thank you for your consideration, Your Highness, but we don't need a special rest. We must get the rayon out as soon as possible..."
Lu Xueqin and the craftsmen were quite conflicted in their hearts. Human nature certainly wanted to rest.
After all, we have been working hard for polyethylene for a long time, and no one wants to relax and have a rest.
But the reward given by Zhu Jingyuan is also really tempting. Making rayon is another year's salary.
My boss always does what he says, and he doesn't show any embarrassment when handing out money.
So I instinctively want to continue to explode and get out the rayon as soon as possible.
But Zhu Jingyuan waved his hand and interrupted:
“You need to balance work and rest at work, and don’t overstress your body, otherwise you may suddenly fall ill at any time.
“I also hope that you will continue to work for our Dashiguo and Daming Airlines for another sixty years.
"When I say rest, rest first. Don't force yourself."
Under Zhu Jingyuan's insistence, Lu Xueqin and the craftsmen decided to take an eight-day holiday starting tomorrow.
