Dozens of miles northwest of Guangzhou, there is a small phosphate mine at the junction of the South China Sea and Sanshui. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Taking this as a pilot, last month, Xu Shou invited Hexin to personally bring dozens of people from the Petroleum and Fertilizer Division and more than 1,000 workers from the newly established construction engineering company to build the first phosphate fertilizer plant on this small hill called Xiaomaoling.

It is close to Foshan Town, surrounded by porcelain brick yards, hardware and iron workshops, and many fire kilns. It didn't take much effort, but soon cement was brought in, a kiln was built, and a factory and dormitory were built.

In accordance with the layout concept of Shengwang Feng Yunshan on the factory, Xu Shou was divided into two parts: production area and living area.

The production area has been reasonably arranged according to the convenience of actual production.

A kiln for the production of phosphate fertilizer was built near the area between the phosphate rock and Bac Giang. Next to the kiln, near the phosphate rock, another grinding yard was built, called the coarse powder workshop, and five machines specially used for crushing phosphate rock were ordered from the first machine factory of Nanyang Company, which were driven by steam engines.

The kiln is located at a higher level, so that as soon as the phosphate fertilizer fired by the kiln comes out, it slides through a chute to the lower ground, which is another grinding yard, which is the fine powder workshop.

Finally, there is the packing workshop, where several large scales are placed. It's the simplest.

The manufacturing process of this phosphate fertilizer plant is the simplest.

Although Feng Yunshan did not visit the site, he designed the process according to the experience of the factory in later generations and in accordance with the ideas of general chemical plants in later generations.

In addition to mining this small phosphate mine from Xiaomaoling as a source of raw phosphate rock, a wharf was specially built on the side of the Beijiang River to enter and exit goods. Feng Yunshan considered that if the phosphate mine was exhausted, it could be transported to the dock by water from other places, and then a little distance, it would arrive at the crushing site.

When the coarse phosphate rock comes out of the mine or arrives, it is first transported by workers to the coarse powder workshop by wheelbarrow, and handed over to the pulverizer for preliminary crushing and turning into fist-sized particles. At the same time, serpentine or mica is also crushed into fist-sized pieces, and a certain amount of coke is added according to the formula ratio given by Hexin, and it is evenly mixed into the kiln. At the bottom of the kiln, a layer of coke has been laid, and the heat of the coal is not enough.

After adequate incineration. After a little cooling, the hatch of the kiln is opened, and the light-burning mineral mixture that is still a little hot is directly passed through the chute from the kiln, and slides into the pulverizer of the fine powder workshop, where it is crushed into fine particles again, and then cooled, and then sent to the packaging workshop for packaging.

Xu Shou has customized the standard, and each sack has a uniform weight of 50 kilograms, which is just convenient for farmers to carry.

At the beginning of this month, Xiaomaoling phosphate fertilizer plant officially began to put into operation, and every five or six days can produce a kiln of phosphate fertilizer, about 40,000 catties. Such a monthly output of about 100 tons, a year is 1,200 tons, the scale of production is pitifully small compared to later generations, but for people in this era, it is simply a behemoth.

Xu Shou is one of them. As the person in charge of the actual preparation for the construction of this phosphate fertilizer plant, although he relied on Feng Yunshan's design, as well as Hexin's formula and technical guidance, he led a group of workers to build the actual factory. He is most happy and proud of this successful phosphate fertilizer production plant!

As soon as the phosphate fertilizer was produced, it was transported to the surrounding paddy fields and dry land for use. However, according to the Holy King, the effect of this phosphate fertilizer is much better than that of human and animal manure.

However, the specific amount of fertilizer, because Feng Yunshan had never actually farmed at all, he didn't know how much he should put it, so he had to let Xu Shou test it out. As a result, a few acres of land next to the phosphate fertilizer plant became a test field for the phosphate fertilizer plant.

Put 2 kilograms, 5 kilograms, 10 kilograms, 20 kilograms per mu, and then every once in a while, observe the difference in growth, and finally look at the yield of the crop to determine how much phosphate fertilizer should be applied.

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Feng Yunshan received a report from Xu Shou and learned that the Shengguo No. 1 Phosphate Fertilizer Plant in the South China Sea had been steadily mass-produced. Xu Shou did not return to Guangzhou City, but brought several directors and dozens of deacons of the Petroleum and Fertilizer Department to Cenxi County, the capital of Wuzhou, Guangxi. It turned out that their petroleum and fertilizer department received a report that a huge phosphate mine had been discovered in the mountains behind Nandu Town on the bank of the Beiliu River in this Cenxi County.

And, fortunately, there are several phosphate mines in Tanrong Town, more than ten miles downstream, it seems that this Cen Xi must be a big phosphate county in the future, but Feng Yunshan will know so much, he only remembers that there is a huge phosphate mine in Liuyang, and Kaiyang County in Guizhou is also full of phosphate mines, and the rest of Sichuan and Yunan phosphate mines are the most, but he doesn't remember where they are.

Xu Shou is ready to take nearly 100 people from the Petroleum and Fertilizer Division to build a second phosphate fertilizer plant. In addition, all the directors and deacons of the petroleum and fertilizer department will know how to build a phosphate fertilizer plant.

Feng Yunshan smiled: This Xu Shou, his mind is not ordinary! He's a man who does things!

Obviously, Xu Shou is ready to train all the nearly 100 people in his petroleum and fertilizer department, and he is ready to do a big job. Because there are too many phosphate rocks, they are everywhere, and other coke, mica stones, etc. are also common, and this cement kiln is also very simple, so it is basically easy to build this kind of phosphate fertilizer plant.

In particular, Feng Yunshan once told him that in the next five to ten years, he plans to build a phosphate fertilizer plant in every state capital to meet the needs of the state's crop fertilizer.

It seems that Xu Shou has firmly remembered his words, and has begun to prepare for the construction of phosphate fertilizer plants in each state capital: train the people of the Petroleum and Fertilizer Division, and once there are conditions in the future, each state capital will send a director and a few deacons to prepare for the construction of phosphate fertilizer plants, so that not only will they bloom in all directions, but they can quickly complete the construction of phosphate fertilizer factories in the entire holy country.

Xu Shou's arrangement is exactly in line with Feng Yunshan's thoughts!

For Xu Shou, a famous late Qing chemist in later history and the enlightener of modern chemistry, Feng Yunshan has high expectations.

Historically, Xu Shou has not only studied geometry, mechanics, minerals, steam engines, medicine, optics and electricity, but also made great achievements in practical applications. With the support of Zeng Guofan, he presided over the design and development of steamships, and built the first steam-powered ship of the modern navy, the "Yellow Bird".

Now under his own hands, although he is not an expert in this field, but his advanced vision is here, and with a little guidance, he can achieve greater achievements than in history.

Building a phosphate fertilizer plant is only the first step, and so far, he has done a good job.

The next step is oil extraction and smelting. In this regard, Xu Shou himself is the most proficient in chemistry, and Feng Yunshan, who has studied chemistry, knows that those Chinese translations of sodium, calcium, nickel, zinc, magnesium and other names in history can all be invented by Xu Shou and used until later generations. Coupled with his own guidance, Feng Yunshan is confident that he will advance the oil industry by several decades.

Moreover, this bull man is not limited to chemistry, he can also make nitrocellulose explosives and mercury explosives (that is, thundermercury), and lead the establishment of the first military industrial enterprise in modern times----- Anqingnei Ordnance Institute, so Feng Yunshan is only worried that he will not be busy.

However, now Feng Yunshan has not had time to arrange these.

Just now, Hua Yufang, who was a teacher of Western studies at the Whampoa Military Academy and the director of the Cheung Chau Shipyard on Cheung Chau Island, sent someone to report the news that surprised him very much: The Cheung Chau Shipyard on Cheung Chau Island had successfully copied a frigate in the style of a sail warship and a fast sailing ship in the style of a clipper ship. Moreover, cruisers the size of Western warships of the fifth rank are currently being created.

Hearing this news, Feng Yunshan immediately put down what he was doing, and immediately said that he wanted to go to Changzhou Island to see the first self-made warship of the Holy Kingdom.