Sun Tianhao returned to Qiongzhou, and this time Yulinwan used the God to send Sun Tianhao back. Shen Daxing's ordnance team www.biquge.info cast 6 Type 30 naval guns during this period, and all of them were equipped on the ship. The committee decided to send gunboats on a long voyage, on the one hand to test the performance of the 30 gunboats on the voyage, and on the other hand to bring Zhong Kai back. Sun Tianhao lobbied Dr. Ouyang, coupled with Sun Dalei's persuasion, the committee finally allocated Zhong Kai to Yulinwan Hospital, but sent two people from the industrial group to Qiongzhou to help Sun Tianhao make sugar.

The God arrived at Qiongzhou in less than 2 days at sea at a speed of 15 knots. What Qiu Peng and John who came with the ship did not expect was that the slender hull and astonishing speed of the God caused a sensation in Qiongzhou Mansion. During the two days that I was anchored in Qiongzhou, all kinds of people kept coming to inquire about and see this strange-looking ship.

Sun Tianhao would never give up this excellent publicity opportunity, and as soon as he got off the ship, he put up a large sign on the wharf of the Yulin Bay Sugar Mill, which began to recruit workers before the eight characters of the sugar factory were called. Sun Tianhao's brain really drew inferences, and even discussed with Qiu Peng whether he could use the God to open a passenger ferry from Yazhou to Qiongzhou or even Guangzhou, specializing in passenger business. Of course, Sun Tianhao's proposal was immediately vetoed by Wang Zhaoxing, who came from the same boat. 2 iron ships are lying on their stomachs, the new captain of the God categorically rejected Sun Tianhao's proposal, the God belongs to the Navy and cannot be engaged in commercial operations, have you ever seen that warship can be used as a passenger ship?

In the largest Taibai building in the capital city of Qiongzhou, the five members of the office were drinking with Huang Yuansheng, Gao Pengju and others. The silver is in place, and the rest of the land is bought, the factory is built, and the matter of recruiting craftsmen is all handed over to Huang Yuansheng to operate. Gao Pengju is still constantly going back and forth between Guangzhou and Qiongzhou, and is even preparing to go deep into the mainland in the next step. Because Sun Tianhao brought him back another task, to go to the mainland to find oil. The Industrial Bureau has proposed to refine bio-oil, but it is not technically possible to do it yet, and the committee decided that if there are dates or not, they will be beaten three times first.

The earliest Chinese record of oil is found in the Book of Changes, "There is fire in Ze", "Fire on the fire and Ze on the bottom". Ze refers to lakes and ponds. "There is fire in the swamp" is a description of the phenomenon of oil vapor catching fire on the surface of lakes and ponds. In the Song Dynasty, Shen Kuo's Mengxi Writings made a very detailed discussion of oil. And the astonishing prophecy that "this thing will be great in the world, and it will be done from the beginning." Song Yingxing's "Heavenly Creations" in the Ming Dynasty made a comprehensive summary of the long-term petrochemical knowledge and made a systematic description of the oil exploitation process. Many technical links and technical projects of ancient oil exploitation in China have relied on this book to be circulated.

According to Lu Tianxiang's memories and the Industrial Bureau's description of the distribution of oil fields in later generations, Sun Tianhao drew a sketch for Gao Pengju and told him that the places marked in the map must be investigated. Gao Pengju took this map that had been painted all over the Ming Dynasty, and his heart was secretly sour, he couldn't run away in three or five years, and it seemed that he couldn't get off the thief ship. Sun Tianhao told him that he didn't have to go in person, he would plant a lot and harvest a lot, and scatter people, and the cost would naturally be borne by Yulin Bay, which made Gao Pengju's heart feel a little better.

In the more than half a month since Sun Tianhao returned to Yulin Bay, Zhang Hai and Wei Yang were about to go crazy. The two of them didn't care about Zhong Kai's dissuasion and warning, they fought with He Wenhuan every day, and within a few days, the entire Flower Street and Willow Lane in Qiongzhou Mansion City knew these two people. Zhong Kai shouted every day to go back to Yulin Bay to sue.

Zhang Hai and Wei Yang looked forward to the stars and the moon and looked forward to Sun Tianhao and Zhong Kai back. At the reception banquet, the two of them drank a little too much, and after the banquet was over, they secretly found Sun Tianhao and slipped to a painting boat.

"My brother, you're back." Zhang Hai sat down in the painting boat and began to complain, "If you don't come back, Wei Yang and I want to swim back to Yulin Bay." ”

"How have I been away from home for the past few days, is there anything going on?" Sun Tianhao asked in Mandarin while holding the boat lady's hand. Sun Tianhao has now discovered a benefit of Mandarin, which almost no one in the entire Qiongzhou can understand, which has also become a kind of secret talk within the traverser.

"It's not a big deal." Wei Yang replied, "It's just that the relationship with Zhong Kai is a little stiff, and I almost don't speak." ”

"That's not good, little comrade." Sun Tianhao and Wei Yang became more and more familiar, and they also joked, "We still have to do a good job of comradeship, after all, we are still in the same boat." ”

"Don't tell me, I've found something." Zhang Hai said, "This Ming Dynasty is now a funnel, a sieve. Don't say anything else, let's just say that in the willow alley of this flower street, as long as you have enough money, up to Emperor Chongzhen, who sprinkled a few bubbles of urine in one night, down to which scoundrel kicked the GUA woman last night, there is no news that you can't inquire. ”

Zhang Hai's words amused the two of them, and the boat lady who served didn't know what they were laughing at, and they all looked at them strangely.

Sun Tianhao laughed for a while, and suddenly said seriously: "We only have less than 2 months now, and in these 2 months, we must build a sugar factory, strive for sugar, and it is best to start making money." ”

"Why are you in such a hurry?" Zhang Hai asked, "It's not so easy to build a factory, let alone make money, and we have to lay the market in the early stage." ”

"I know I'm in a hurry, but I can't help it." Sun Tianhao looked at the two of them, "I'm not afraid to tell you that the second general election is going to be held in July, and all our expatriates must go back then." Before I came out, I was angry with Lu Lao and Xu Lang, and now the situation in Yulin Bay is not good. ”

"What's wrong?" Wei Yang knew little and asked puzzled.

"You probably don't know that Xu Lang has now been squeezed out of school, and Jiang Beiming has also been set aside. Lu Lao estimated that Liu Guannan may not escape at the general meeting. ”

Zhang Hai and Wei Yang really didn't know about Xu Lang, and when Wang Hua came, he just said that Xu Lang was recuperating in Yulin Bay. Although Zhang Hai guessed that things might not be so simple, he never expected Xu Lang to go to school.

"What are they trying to do? We've only been here for less than a year, and we want to usurp power and engage in infighting? Zhang Hai's suddenly raised voice startled the boat lady next to him.

"What should come will always come." Sun Tianhao also learned Xu Lang to speak, "The key problem is that we don't know who the other party is. According to Lu Lao's speculation, there are people who are trying to create a conflict between us and the Military Commission, and they can benefit from it, and unfortunately, they are almost successful. ”

"Then let's see who is elected at the general meeting, won't we know who is doing the trick?" Wei Yang felt that this problem was not very difficult to solve.

"Xiao Wei, don't think about the problem so simply." Sun Tianhao explained, "A true conspirator never jumps ahead of himself. But I really admire this guy, maybe it's these guys, they make full use of our existing system, even if he jumps out now, you can't find out what he violated the convention. Lu Lao said that this is the most terrifying place. ”

"So what do we do now?" Zhang Hai asked.

"There is only one way to do our job well." Sun Tianhao said, "Only when we set up the sugar factory and run the Qiongzhou point well, can we win the right to speak at the general meeting." So it's useless to think about anything else now, it's important to do everything in front of you. ”

"There is no problem with Qian Shansu and Tao Shouqing who came with you." Zhang Hai now felt that everyone had to be suspicious.

"There should be no problem with them, they are all teachers from the former normal university, who know how to make sugar, and come to do technical guidance."

In the next few days, Sun Tianhao's selfless work spirit surprised everyone from Huang Yuansheng to Tao Shouqing. Qian Shansu and Tao Shouqing even wondered if these three people had disappeared overnight to get through the two veins of Ren and Governor, otherwise why would this momentum be so big.

The address of the sugar factory was chosen by the river not far from the South City Gate, which was the place where Xu Lang and Zhao Zhiruo spent the night last time. Sun Tianhao bought 100 acres of land at once and began to build a factory building.

During the Ming Dynasty, sugar production mainly relied on "sugar cars", and Song Yingxing's "Tiangong Kaiwu" recorded the production methods and functions of "sugar cars":

"Where to make a sugar car, make two horizontal plates, five feet long, five inches thick, two feet wide, two ends of the hole and the pillar, a little bamboo shoots out of the upper bamboo shoots, two or three feet of the lower bamboo shoots, buried in the soil, so that it is stable and unshakable. Two eyes are chiseled in the upper plate, and two giant shafts are juxtaposed (the wood is used to be heavy), and the shaft wood is seven feet in circumference. The two axes are three feet long and four feet and five inches long, and the elders are plowed. It is made of bent wood, one zhang and five feet long, so that the bull group can be turned away. The chisel teeth on the shaft are assigned to males and females, and their seams must be straight and round, round and sutured. Sandwiched cane in the middle, rolled through, synonymous with cotton rush. The cane flows through the slurry, and then picks up its trickle, throws it into the duck's beak on the shaft, and then rolls it three times, and its juice is exhausted. ”

This kind of "sugar car" is more advanced than the previous generation of manpower-based cane extraction is to use animal power to pull two rollers to squeeze sugar, which is not only labor-saving but can also greatly increase the juice yield of sugarcane, the entire Ming and Qing dynasties and even the early years of the Republic of China, this juice extraction technology is used.

But the sugar of the Ming Dynasty had a flaw, that is, it was made of brown sugar instead of white sugar. Liu Xianting's "Guangyang Miscellaneous Records" in the early Qing Dynasty recorded: "Before Jiajing, there was no white sugar in the world, and all the people of Fujian boiled brown sugar. Jiajing Zhongyi Sugar Bureau even value the roof tile fell into the funnel, depending on it, the sugar is on the top, the color is as white as frost and snow, the taste is sweet, different from weekdays. The middle is brown sugar, and the lower is brown sugar. Different, then take the mud to press the sugar, a hundred attempts are unpleasant, and the white sugar has since been seen in the world. ”

Although the white sugar technology was invented in the Jiajing period in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the theoretically more comprehensive technical summary is the "Heavenly Creation" written by Song Yingxing in the late Ming Dynasty, which records the preparation method of white sugar as follows: the boiled sugar solution "will be stored in barrels and condensed into black sand." Then, slide the cylinder on the tile. It slips wide at the top and pointed at the bottom, with a small hole at the bottom, which plugs the grass and pours the black sand into the bucket. Wait for the black sand to settle, then go to the bucket and stuff the grass and pour it down with yellow muddy water. Among them, the black trickle enters the tank, and it slips into hoarfrost. The top layer is five inches thick, white and abnormal, and is called Western sugar. The lower one is slightly yellowish-brown. This is the first time that Song Yingxing has theoretically summarized the technology of making white sugar, "yellow mud water drenching method".

Sun Tianhao immediately found the opportunistic way after consulting Lu Tianxiang, it is now the third year of Chongzhen, and "Tiangong Kaiwu" was written in the seventh to eleventh years of Chongzhen. In other words, Song Yingxing has not yet written this book, which also means that the process of white sugar has not yet been promoted. Sun Tianhao decided to plagiarize Song Yingxing's achievements and use sugar to open the market, anyway, the Ming Dynasty has neither intellectual property nor patents.

Although Sun Tianhao did not give Song Yingxing a patent fee, he himself attached great importance to this plagiarized technology. The core steps of the entire production process were all done by Huang Yuansheng's clansmen, and a confidentiality contract was signed. Once someone leaks the technology, the prefect will have to ask about it.