The next day, Chen Xu asked the housekeeper to arrange for the housekeeper to send the drawings of the saponification pot, the mold drawings of the soap, the drawings of several soap boxes, and the specifications of the product labels and wrapping paper to the housekeeper to send them to the experimental factory and the printing factory respectively, and also arranged for people to go to Huayugong to design the heating furnace and the soap making workshop, in short, the soap factory should be opened soon, because with the soap, Qin Shi Huang's group of wives will reduce the demand for perfume.

After a few days of preparation, Chen Xu wrote to the emperor to set up Jingyang Daily Chemical Plant and Jingshan Daily Chemical Plant, although Chen Xu said a variety of chemical professional terms felt like listening to the sky, but the first emperor did not hesitate to agree after learning about the soap samples sent by Chen Xu to the harem, and instructed the six ministries of the three provinces and the local government to fully cooperate.

The two daily chemical plants are under the management of the Academy of Sciences, and the Academy of Sciences is directly under the Royal Academy of Sciences of Shaofu, so these two factories are actually the emperor's private industry, but from preparation to operation management to income and expenditure are actually Chen Xu single-handedly operated, at the beginning of the Academy of Sciences needs Shaofu to subsidize a lot of money every year for research, but in recent years, there are more and more subordinate enterprises of the Academy of Sciences, making money faster and faster, and contributing more and more taxes to Shaofu every year, and gradually becoming a great source of income for Shaofu.

At present, the most profitable factories of the Academy of Sciences are glass factories, bearing factories, lathe factories and machinery factories, especially machinery factories, lathe order processing has been scheduled to a year later, after the success of lathe research in the Ministry of Industry and newspapers under the vigorous promotion of the businessmen, the whole Daqin businessmen flock to it, the demand for steel bolts in the country is extremely huge, especially the axles and frames of carriages, because with the continuous expansion of cement roads around the country, and the four-wheeled carriage after continuous improvement, There are now six- and even eight-wheeled extended trucks, and even trailers, which have led to a huge demand for steel axles and bearings, and traditional wooden axle frames are no longer sufficient for freight and transportation.

The cutter head of the lathe factory is also a very scarce and important commodity, so it is very expensive.

Because all the lathes have to continue to polish and replace the cutting bit, just by collecting meteorite has not been able to meet, research and development of new steel has become the biggest task and goal of the steelmaking plant, after more than a year of unremitting efforts of the team, last summer finally smelted a good alloy steel, although the cutter head produced is not as hard as the meteorite cutter head, but it has also fully reached the commercial stage, and the lathe factory also invented the thermal cutting process, which also enables the Academy of Sciences to promote the lathe on a large scale in the country.

Therefore, up to now, Luoyang, Handan, Wancheng, Daliang, Linzi, Yuyang and other large cities have set up hardware processing factories, using lathes to process axles and bolts of different specifications, the large-scale popularity of these metal fittings, so that the manufacturing industry and logistics and transportation have been greatly developed.

Since the successful development of gears, craftsmen have successively developed a steel ball hot rolling process and a new polishing machine, cutting the steel bar with a high enough temperature into a steel section of the same size and then hot rolling through the thread groove into a steel ball of the same size, and then cooling and selecting after hot throwing, and then polishing treatment, so that the steel ball rolled out of the hot roll is countless times better than the quality made by the steel screen, no matter in the size of the specification, Neither the accuracy nor the strength of the resistance can be compared.

Therefore, the current Academy of Sciences system has completely entered a benign stage of rapid development, especially the two major advances in gears and lathes, which have greatly accelerated the popularization and promotion of various machinery.

In particular, the maturity of the gear process has made almost all machinery begin to enter the gear age, not only the textile machine that was successfully developed for three years, but also the original gear ancestor waterwheel mill has been replaced with a real gear transmission, instead of the previous stick structure that bites each other.

Before the invention of steam power, the continued development of machinery had reached a bottleneck, because the more complex and sophisticated machines could no longer be operated with animal power and manpower.

Steam power at the request of Hu Kuan and others, Chen Xu gave several lectures in the Academy of Sciences and the College of Engineering, and arranged two different groups to conduct experiments, but at present there is no effect, the reason is very simple, that is, the precision of the casting industry is too poor, and now even the simplest hydraulic press can not be manufactured, so in the face of a sealed piston structure composed entirely of steel and reciprocating motion, everyone can only continue to devote their energy to more basic manufacturing and measuring instruments.

As with the manufacture of pistols and rifles, the biggest obstacle at the moment is that the precision of manufacturing is far from enough.

There is also the fact that the theory is too esoteric and complex.

The linkage wheel of a revolver can stump countless craftsmen, and a more sophisticated steam engine is enough to make everyone crazy, even Hu Kuan, who was most interested in the beginning, studied for a month after listening to Chen Xu's lecture, and finally patted his ass and went to be the president of his library development company.

It's not that he doesn't want to continue researching, but he feels that this thing is no longer something that humans can research and produce, and it's so complicated that it is completely inadequate.

The principle of the steam engine is indeed very simple, it seems that it can be summarized in one sentence, that is, the use of energy conversion, the water is heated into steam to drive the piston to move, and the gear or connecting rod is driven to transfer the energy and convert it into the kinetic energy of the driving machine, but in fact, Chen Xu can use a hot water kettle to demonstrate the power of steam to push the lid to open and close continuously or put a small fan blade at the spout to be pushed and rotated by steam, but to evolve this simple principle into a controllable process through a complex machine, There are so many things involved that are too complicated, and they are far less simple than what they say.

How to control the water vapor pressure, how to intake and exhaust, how to cool down and recycle, how to reciprocate the piston, how to smoothly transmit the mechanical connecting rod, even if each of these things is taken out separately, it needs to be studied repeatedly, not to mention that all of them are blended together to form a complex whole, and any link cannot be operated if it is not well matched, not to mention that the precision of the casting processing process is still hovering at the millimeter level, and the cylinder piston can not leak air.

In order to develop the steam engine, Chen Xu offered a reward of one million yuan in the system of the Academy of Sciences as the driving force for research and development, and the research and development funds are not limited, requiring all affiliated units of the entire Academy of Sciences to fully cooperate.

But even so, the prototype of the steam engine is not visible in Chen Xu's view for three or five years, so Chen Xu has to temporarily devote his eyes to the chemical industry.

Jingyang Daily Chemical Plant is located in Huayu Palace, next to the Jing River, which is convenient for the discharge of industrial wastewater, and is directly discharged into the Wei River downstream of Xianyang along the Jing River, which will not affect the water intake of Xianyang's life, as for the problem of polluting the water source of the Yellow River, Chen Xu has not considered it at all, although it is a chemical factory, Nima produces less than 100,000 pieces of soap a year, and the total output of saponification is less than ten tons, which is not as large as a rural enterprise in later generations, and all the wastewater is estimated to add up to only a few tons. And the main components in the wastewater are a trace of alkaline water and glycerin, it is estimated that even the parasites at the sewage discharge port can not kill, and maybe it will also fatten a group of fish and shrimp, because glycerin is not only sweet, but also a high-calorie nutrient, the human body will enhance muscle vitality after absorption, and will not increase blood sugar content, it is a very good weight loss sports food.

With the soap factory, there are some supporting raw materials acquisition and production should also be carried out at the same time, that is, the production and processing of oil, the long-term plan is to purchase a large number of black tree seeds to refine white ash, there are many black tree in the southeast, Chen Xu has seen it in Qinghe Town, Xiaohe Village, but almost no one pays attention, the most is to use the black tree to make a cutting board, but now it is the spring season, the black tree seeds must be gone, so a large number of animal fat can only be purchased for processing, and the output is estimated to be lower.

In addition to oil, large-scale industrial production of sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide must also keep up, and now we must start looking for the purchase of alkali ore and lime, and we need to prepare a professional soda factory, which is a bit polluting, and can only go to those remote wilderness saline-alkali production areas for processing, but now the advertisement has been played, and it is estimated that there will be feedback soon.

In the later generations of Jingzhou, Hubei Province, is a huge chemical base, Shashi Daily Chemical is one of the most famous chemical plants, now found phosphate rock near Jingzhou, Chen Xu naturally wants to set up a nearby plant to refine phosphate rock for red phosphorus.

Although phosphorus is widely used in the chemical industry, the only role is to make matches, and matches as a substitute for flint to become a consumable in industry, agriculture and daily life, the demand for phosphorus will be more and more in the future, so the reserve of phosphorus is also very important, the purpose of the establishment of Jingshan Daily Chemical Plant is not only to make red phosphorus, but also to produce soap in the future, especially for the treatment of skin diseases.