"It's all here." Xiao Gui took out a piece of paper from his arms and handed it over, which was densely filled with a detailed list of the goods shipped. Chang Shide looked through it, and the materials allocated were really dazzling, from boilers, steam engines, cement, bricks and tiles to thermometers, PH test strips, shiyan utensils...... A lot of things he didn't expect to apply for were also listed on it - more thoughtful than he was.

"This ship is new. It's quite appropriate to ship such a large item. I was worried about how the steam engines and boilers would be delivered. ”

"Hehe, this is Mr. Wen's latest design." Xiao Gui laughed, "What is it called-offshore shallow draft fat large flat-deck barge." Mr. Wen originally planned to build an all-wooden structure of the container, which is considered an earthen container ship. Later, after some calculations, it turned out that it was not realistic to use timber as a container - that is, it was heavy and not strong. The container was not completed, the ship had already been built, and it was simply finished. ”

"Isn't there a lot of containers piled up in Lingao?"

"Ma Dugong took them as treasures, and he didn't even approve the Ministry of Metallurgy to dismantle the furnace to make steel. It is also specially taken care of to do a good job of rust prevention. Xiao Gui said.

While he was talking, Wen Xiu came in to report that the migrant workers had been organized, because there were steam engines and boilers in the goods this time, and the demand for labor was huge, so all the strong men of the entire South China farm were dispatched, and more than 200 people were employed nearby. A large contingent of migrant workers was formed, carrying countless carrying equipment such as bars, ropes, and rolling logs. Wen Tong was more worried about the boiler and steam engine, the main structure of these two pieces of equipment had to be transported as a whole.

"Let's start unloading."

A group of workers in blue short-coats and short-haired rattan hats came down from the boat, and their strange dress caused a burst of discussion among the people watching the excitement. Carrying green bags on their backs, these people unloaded iron pipes, iron plates, and sacks of iron from the ship, and quickly built a platform with these things on the stone barge, and then continued to connect them with iron pipes on the platform, and installed pulleys and iron chains, and then under the command of these workers, the migrant workers came up, some lined up to pull the iron chains, and some grabbed the ropes on the large goods. A man climbed up to the platform, holding a small red and green flag in his hand, and hundreds of migrant workers and workers began to pull the chains and ropes under the rhythmic blowing of the whistle and the waving of the small flag, and the behemoth on the deck was hoisted tremblingly. A group of migrant workers rotated the crane under the command of the horn, and the goods slowly moved from the air to the top of the dock with the rotation of the boom, and slowly landed on the wood ready to roll haode. There was a burst of exclamation from the crowd.

Transporting the equipment from the sugar mill to the South China sugar mill is a very challenging task. Hai'an Port is only about ten kilometers away from Nanmentang, where the South China Sugar Factory is located outside Xuwen County, but the road is undulating and rugged, and the road surface is even more potholed, and usually only ox carts can barely pass. Ordinary machinery and materials are either shoulder-to-shoulder or carried by ox carts. Large equipment can only be slowly pushed forward by rolling logs. You can imagine the hardship. In order to facilitate access, a team of migrant workers is responsible for opening the road, leveling the ground, and filling in the potholes. More than 10 kilometers of road, migrant workers walked for four days to transport large pieces of equipment to the sugar factory. The people who came with the boat also quietly came to the sugar factory and lived in the courtyard prepared for them.

The horizontal steam engine shipped this time is the Mozi II type, although the horsepower has not increased, but it is more efficient than the first type in the use of steam, the industrial committee is quite satisfied with the performance of the Mozi II type, and has decided to put it into mass production, and this one sent to Leizhou is the mass production type of the No. 1 machine.

In addition to these devices, the rarest were the many long boxes, which the three-person team couldn't wait to check as soon as they arrived, and the boxes were painted with the words "fragile" and "handle with care". When it is transported, it is all carried on the shoulders and shoulders by manpower, without ox carts. Opening the box, which was filled with straw rope and dried seaweed, opened layer by layer, Wen Tong and Chang Shide both praised Lingao's industrial sector from the bottom of their hearts.

Inside the box are glass and ceramic pipes of various calibers. These pipes will be used in areas with special needs. It is used to replace cast iron pipes that are more prone to corrosion.

"It's too powerful—" Wen Tong was speechless.

"Nothing, practice makes perfect. Besides, these pipes are not only built for you, but there are many more places to be used in chemical plants. This batch can only be regarded as trial production. ”

The power plant of the future sugar factory is located by the river, in order to facilitate the use of water. In addition to extensively leveling the foundations to allow for the installation of equipment, Merlin also organized the construction of a reservoir specifically for the treatment of boiler water. The masons were recruited to build a tall chimney they had never built before, and the size of the thing was too large for all the local plasterers to recruit. Chang Shide also bought all the bricks and tiles in the local brick kiln in one go, and now the only brick kiln in the county is working overtime to make bricks and tiles to supply the needs of the construction site.

The three-roller juicer named by Wen Tong has arrived smoothly, and with the help of a huge database, it doesn't take much effort to design and manufacture this machine. The machine shop just had some problems with the fact that the rollers consumed too much steel. Wen Tong looked at it, and the machine didn't look any worse than the old equipment he saw.

"However, there are problems with the strength of many parts in it, so the service life is not very good." Xiao Gui said that some key connectors, gear transmission parts and other things, although they are made, are limited to material properties and have poor durability.

"It's okay, I brought a lot of spare parts this time." Chen Tianxiong didn't care, "If it's broken, change it, the first time you make something, the quality is almost inevitable." ”

In addition to the juicer, there are also rotary knives and crushers specially used to crush and tear the sugarcane, and the juice output rate of the sugarcane after crushing is much higher than that of the soil method of directly feeding the sugarcane into the roller.

A month later, the installation of the plant and equipment at the sugar mill was finally completed. The boiler was successfully ignited at the first time, and the steam engine was running. For the first time, black smoke emerged from the sky above Xu Wen, symbolizing modern industry. This semi-mechanized machine-machined sugar factory, which is unique in time and space, has finally begun mass production. It has a daily sugarcane crushing capacity of 70 tons, and has workshops for cane cutting, pressing, and sugar boiling. With the exception of the sugar boiling workshop, which continues to follow the old-fashioned manual operation method, the other workshops use machinery. The sugar boiling workshop does not use fire at all, but directly uses the steam of the boiler to heat it.

The towering chimneys and steel cane presses of the South China Plant are a surprise to many locals. When they heard that sugar mills were continuing to process sugar cane on their behalf, many sugar farmers did not hesitate to send sugar cane from afar, just to open their eyes to how the new sugar mills worked. Bundles of sugarcane are sent back to the sugar factory at the south gate of Xuwen County in ox trucks, where they are first machined: the sugarcane is leveled and cut off with a cane knife, and then torn by a crusher. The crusher is very particular, because the sugar of sugarcane is stored in the "cane pith", and the crusher only crushes according to the direction of the sugarcane fiber, so as not to break the "cane pith" in the crushing process and cause the loss of cane juice.

After crushing, the sugarcane is transported to the feeding port of the press in baskets by hand. The three-roller press can produce 70% of the juice at a time, while the modern general sugar factory uses several three-roller machines or multi-roller machines to press continuously, and some need fifteen rollers to complete. The juice yield is as high as 90%.

The traverser does not have such mechanical conditions, so the repeated pressing method is adopted. After the first press, the bagasse is not discarded, but piled aside, and when all the raw cane is finished, it is passed through the press again. Although it is quite labor-intensive, the benefits are still considerable.

The sugarcane juice squeezed out by the press is first sent to an iron heater, where the sugarcane juice is heated with high-temperature steam while flowing, and then through the cement ashing tank, and then lime is added for clarification, zuihou is transported to the sedimentation tank through ceramic and glass pipes, so that the generated impurities precipitate, and the clarified sugarcane juice enters the boiling pot and continues to be heated with steam to produce sugar. The way to remove the sugar mimi is still to use the jishu of the tile slip, but the scale is up to the level, and more than 30 tiles are lined up in the sugar boiling workshop.

With the support of Lingao's thermometer, PH test strip and other shiyan equipment, Wentong finally mastered a series of data such as the temperature and the amount of ash added at each stage of sugar boiling after many practices and repeated shiyan, and formulated the corresponding production process. The sugar cooks originally didn't think much of his set of things - they had all followed the master for many years, and they had mastered this jishu with their long-term practical experience, and their mastery was quite average. So I'm skeptical about this new set of gadgets, and I'm even ready to see the owner make a fool of myself.

But the owner has glass tubes, pieces of paper, and some jars and jars that can't tell what they can't say, not only boiling sugar, but also every pot without any mistakes, and even the amount of sugar is almost the same! This is a devastating blow to the self-confidence of the sugar cooks - even the most skilled sugar cooks in the county and the province cannot do this!

Seeing the fearful and adoring eyes of the sugar cooks, Wen Tong was both proud and a little disappointed: Weishenme Our science and craftsmanship have always been empiricist. Isn't there anyone who wants to explore how it works and develop standards?

The implementation of this method has greatly reduced the waste in the sugar boiling process. Moreover, Wen Tong took this opportunity to formulate a stricter assessment system for the control of the loss rate - since the production factors are controllable, the only factor that produces the loss beyond the standard is that the sugar cookers have a weak sense of responsibility. From this day on, the person who was originally called "master" in the sugar cooking workshop became "worker".

This whole set of processes is many times more efficient and convenient than the traditional process of Tutangliao. The large-scale and semi-mechanized production of sugarcane and sucrose stunned everyone in the local area.

The surprise was only secondary, when the sugar cane farmers found out that their sugar cane was processed by this factory, the amount of sugar produced was actually a quarter more than that of ordinary Tutangliao, and the sugar factory still continued to implement the low fee of 30% for processing. Suddenly, the whole Xu Wen cane farmers were crazy, no matter far or near, there were ox carts and boats everywhere to deliver sugarcane processing, and there was a long queue at the gate of the factory, and some sugar farmers even had to queue up for two or three days to get on the wheel, but they were still enthusiastic, and Zuihou even had a whole shipload of sugarcane transported from Haikang, and then hired ox carts to send them to the South China factory for processing after Hai'an landed. Due to the fact that there were too many people coming, it was inevitable that there would be chaos and order, so Liao Dahua had no choice but to invite people from the yamen again to maintain order and suppress the scene. The chimneys emitting billowing black smoke and the steel rollers that turned with a loud roar to swallow huge amounts of sugar cane obviously impressed the old man as well, but he was far more afraid of the machinery than curious, and was always careful to stay away.

When Wen Tong got the numbers for the first day, he knew that the profit was far more than expected. Especially in the area of contract processing, a considerable part of the excess sugarcane juice is in the pocket of the South China sugar factory, and this part of the profit is equivalent to zero cost acquisition. Not to mention that the excess sugar mistress and bagasse from processing are their benefits. Sugarcane farmers don't need these by-products, but the South China sugar mills do.

If the equipment is better, up to the twelve-roller machine, combined with the water immersion method, the 97% squeezing rate is not a dream. Wen Tongxin thought that 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 interests, the common people will not be afraid of the distance and difficulties of the road. At least you can close Xu Wen's Tutangliao and keep only Haikang's.

Merlin and the others who came to assist were also smiling, and everyone was sincerely happy to see that the sugar factory was thriving day by day -- this was another point of growth in foreign trade. When the whole set of equipment was running, there were naturally some problems, one was the pipe of the boiler interface was ruptured and leaked, and several times the gears and connections of the juicer were damaged, which once affected the production, but it quickly returned to normal under the emergency repair of Chen Tianxiong and Xiao Gui. Xiao Gui also has a task of training a few qualified boiler workers for the sugar factory - burning a boiler 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 in a hurry, although he also has the task of training maintenance technicians, but it is the nature of a long-term business trip, he will not go back for a while, and he has enough time to take his apprentices. Wen Tong suggested that after the opening of the school for the children of the sugar factory, apprentices should be selected from the thirteen or fourteen-year-old children according to their learning situation.

However, this Chen Tianxiong's actions attracted the attention of Chang Shide, who in addition to regularly patrolling the machine three times a day, often talked to the members of the special investigation team in the courtyard, and sometimes changed into the clothes of the locals, and let Qiwei's dart master lead him out. Obviously, Chen Tianxiong is not only here to maintain the machine, but nine times out of ten he is also an intelligence officer.

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