Therefore, at present, all the businesses under my command are constantly spending money and spending money and spending money, purchasing and purchasing.

Sometimes, it costs more to buy a fully equipped and functional workshop, and not even to move it to roughly perfect condition.

Because buying a workshop that is bankrupt or on the verge of bankruptcy is worth only a fraction of the original cost as long as the price can be lowered.

However, if you want to disassemble and load most of these equipment and items to the north to start work again, the corresponding costs will have to be quickly doubled as the distance is increased.

It is said that the value of one relocation is enough to build a new and larger factory in the suburbs of Guangfu, where land prices are not so expensive.

And this estimate is still in the case of my own sea ship carrying along the way, and it does not calculate the cost of local labor capacity after arriving at the port.

However, this price has to be paid, and it is also very necessary and justified in the long run that it will not be constrained by people and shorten the logistical supply line.

Another example is the first nitrification plant established in the lower reaches of Yishui, on a large area of soil and salt depression in the Yellow River diversion area. and a supporting water-powered sulfur grinding, fine screening, and drying workshop; A charcoal field for burning charcoal for gunpowder with willow branches, hemp stalks and other raw materials; As well as gunpowder proportioning, humidification granulation and so on.

Because, I have been working on the local production of gunpowder ingredients such as saltpeter and sulfur, as one of the main ingredients of black powder, sulfur and charcoal are undoubtedly the most extensive, and there is little need to think about it.

In contrast, the source of saltpeter, which occupies the largest proportion, is somewhat troublesome and scarce. In ancient Chinese history before the Ming Dynasty, there was a general lack of saltpeter minerals on a large scale.

Therefore, in addition to collecting naturally occurring accumulated nitrate from places such as toilets and corrals, it is necessary to import it from the outer islands.

The Southern Dynasty, which has a great daily demand for saltpeter, has already eliminated this kind of ant moving collection method, but directly imported the whole ship from Nantianzhu, Piguo and other places.

There are ready-made open-pit nitrate mines, as well as extremely cheap native or feudal slave labor, as long as the road is repaired and excavated directly.

But there are no such facilities and conditions under my rule. However, relying only on the transshipment in the rear, because of the risks of sea routes, is full of too many uncertain factors, and it is easy for the army's greatest combat effectiveness to be controlled by others for a long time.

However, since my territory is in the Huaidong region, that is, the Ludong generation of later generations, it is not completely unthinkable.

As one of the flooding areas of the Yellow River and the Huai River, the most important thing here is the large saline-alkali land and saltwater swamps caused by the diversion or dam bursting of the rivers in the past dynasties. Crops on such lands are extremely low yields or even impossible to grow.

Therefore, for the sake of livelihood and daily needs, the local people have long had the tradition of collecting and boiling soil salt in these saline depressions as an expedient substitute for the inability to obtain a normal supply of sea salt. At one time, a relatively large production, sales and consumption system was formed.

Although the impurities are bitter and contain ingredients that are harmful to the human body for a long time, in most times, it is the only choice that the lower class people can afford to consume, because it is easy to obtain because of the wide range of sources.

In another time and space, this social situation continued even before liberation, and it was still prevalent in the ** base areas that were blocked by the reactionaries in the White Zone.

As a by-product of the soil salt economy, it is the nitrification crystallization of nitrate and other associated alkali salts.

According to Tiangong Kaiwu, by the Ming Dynasty, when the application of gunpowder had begun to take shape, China's traditional nitrate production could be divided into three major regions.

Therefore, the local production of soil nitrate in Shandong (Huaibei) is also an important raw material and catalyst, which is mostly used as an additive for leather and papermaking.

This nitrate is named because it is mostly associated with saline soil (saline-alkali land), which is a low-lying brown-black soil that crystallizes the upper product by natural dialysis. Its color is yellow, its taste is bitter, and its quality is light and loose.

The coastal areas of Qing, Mi, Zi and Wei prefectures have a large area of low-lying saline-alkali land and seawater inrushing salt, which should be used as a source of soil nitrate.

According to the principle of summer salt filtration, it is the best time to sweep the nitrate soil in the salt soil in spring, and after a winter, a layer of yellow soil appears on the upper layer of the salt soil and floats on the ground. Before the spring rain comes, it can be swept quickly. It's also easy to collect.

According to the preparation method in Tiangong Kaiwu, the nitrate is first removed with a sieve to remove impurities such as soil blocks and masonry, and the large iron pot is filled with clean water and nitrate, and stirred while adding to make the nitrate fully dissolved and standing, and the floating impurities on the water surface are removed.

Then pour the dissolved solution into the vat, add a little alum, make the solution quickly clear, and filter out the soil plasm. The filtrate is moved into an iron pot, heated at a simmer and stirred thoroughly, and then moved into a large vat, kept warm at 30-40 °C, and allowed to stand for half an hour to observe whether there is precipitation.

If not, it will be cooled and crystallized into gross nitrate; If there is precipitation, wait for the precipitation to go down, absorb the liquid, and cool and crystallize to obtain gross nitrate. Pour the crystallized nitrate into the pot and add fire to boil.

When the moisture is reduced to about 40%, the fire can be stopped. The concentrate is poured into the tank for granular crystallization, and the water is nitrated.

Put the water nitrate into the pot again, use a simmer to make the water continue to evaporate, and finally pour it into the pot for cooling and crystallization, make it into a block, put it in a bag, and store it in a dry and ventilated place. When it is needed, it is ground into a powder that is easy to process with wooden utensils.

With relatively pure nitrate powder, it means that the nitric acid in the three acids and two alkalis, which is an important chemical foundation, also has a relatively stable guarantee.

Because the corrosion-resistant porcelain ceramic reaction tower can be used to distill and condense a concentrated sulfuric acid solution with more impurities from the exhaust gas of iron smelting for a long time, it is also known as the alchemy product of alum oil in ancient times.

Then, after further precipitation and filtration of the ceramic pipeline, it is the finished sulfuric acid for preliminary industrial use, and nitric acid is produced by replacing saltpeter with concentrated sulfuric acid.

With the production technology and source of nitric acid, this also means that the pre-technology of smokeless gunpowder, the manufacture of nitrocellulose, can be on the agenda in the future.

After breaking through this key technical node and bottleneck, it will be a big explosion of diverse applications and expansion of some kind of firearms technology tree. Depending on the amount of nitrogen, it can be used as a gun propellant of different intensities, and even a new type of explosive.

After the optimal ratio of black powder and the production of granules, the potential for specific application has been tapped to an upper limit.

(The ratio of modern black powder is 75% nitrate, 10% sulfur, and 15% charcoal, which has slight changes in ancient times due to the different origins of raw materials).

It is also expected that the thundermercury needed to make the fire cap will end the small-scale production in the test workshop and enter large-scale mass production.

But in the final analysis, this qiē is still a money-burning project that invests more manpower and material resources and spends more money in order to be effective.

Of course, it is not without good news.

At least the pioneering troops led by Yao Pingzhong, the new Laizhou regimental training envoy, had initially gained a firm foothold in Dengzhou, Jiaodong, and began to reclaim and encircle forts on the spot to recruit displaced people and arrest bandits.

At present, in addition to the former site of Penglai Zhucheng, which has occupied the state governance, there are also Laizhou Ye County under Liu Qi's control, and the Glue City garrisoned by Song Gongming.

In this way, after the initial clearance and rectification of the areas along the route, even if the coastal area of Laizhou Bay is under my control, of course, I did not do this to restore the specific role and historical status of Dengzhou Town.

If you need a seaport, in the northeast of the peninsula, I have the ready-made ports of Changyi and Bochang, which serve as the starting point and terminal of trade between the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea. To the southwest of the peninsula, there are ready-made harbors such as Banqiao and Jimo in Jiaozhou Bay, and Yuzhou in Haizhou, which are candidates for supply and trade in the south.

Moreover, because of the transportation needs on the sea route, these port areas have also been repaired and expanded by the Northern Expeditionary Army. There is no need to go to great lengths to redevelop and restore the dilapidated port of Denglai, after all, from the construction investment to the beginning of the use of the ability to attract merchants, through the collection of taxes and returns, it is not known that it is the year of the monkey.

The reason why I can't wait to include the ruined Denglai Prefecture is for the precious metal deposits that have been produced in the history of the Jiaodong region. As one of the fastest side hustles to make money at the moment, it is undoubtedly gold mining.

Although the Fuso domains on the sea also have enough gold and silver veins and historical origins, but those are not yet my direct reach, and the local area is still in turmoil, perhaps at present it is possible to smuggle trade through the guò sea route and export some gold and silver in the hands of local princes, but several major production areas are controlled and controlled by agents sent by the national dynasty.

Nowadays, I can barely reach half of Shandong Province and parts of northern Jiangsu. Therefore, in the geographical location of the mineral deposit, there is a certain natural advantage.

You must know that in the land of China in later generations, the more famous ten key mining areas, Shandong alone accounted for half, and the largest and most famous of them is undoubtedly the two major ore vein areas of Zhaoyuan and Sanshan Island in Jiaodong region, and they are geographically very close to each other, and there is a mineral deposit zone in Zhaoyuan-Ye County located in Laizhou.

Because the specific divisions are relatively concentrated and convenient for mining, in another time and space, there is a saying that gold has been produced since the Sui Dynasty, and a large number of mining records have been formed in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The local gold mines are mainly the primary gold veins caused by geological movements, so they need to dig holes or holes to mine, but nevertheless, in the Yuanfeng period, the so-called iron and blood sent tens of thousands of taels of gold a year, the output of the Jiaodong area alone accounted for more than eighty percent.

After the discovery of these gold mines, they have been mined intermittently from successive dynasties to modern times, and after the establishment of New China, they have created several mining and metallurgical groups such as Shandong Zhaoyuan. The Linglong mining area in Zhaoyuan alone once ranked fifth in the world in terms of output.

Therefore, in terms of reserves, it is not a problem at all, can I still exploit large state-owned enterprises with modern machinery and equipment and technology?

On the one hand, because of the obvious geographical location and convenient prospecting, there is no need to try luck in the laborious exploration of a wide net in a certain area, and on the other hand, because it is located on a large island not far from the coast of Laizhou Bay, it is convenient for the blockade of news and the control of specific processes, as well as the convenience of shipping.

After the accumulation of initial technology and scale, and the strength grows, I will consider the follow-up development on land, and even the labor required for development, I have thought about it, in the early stage, it is completely possible to use prisoners, and in the later stage, I will use the Japanese people imported from overseas, on the one hand, the source is sufficient and the price is low, and the hard-working can be called livestock, on the other hand, it is also convenient to deal with it as consumables.

Of course, the mining technology of mine tunnels in this time and space has been developed and improved, so it also has the possibility of deeper mining. Therefore, for the relatively shallow veins in the area, this is not a problem at all.

Normally, it is to use a traction trolley with iron-clad wooden rails to excavate a large piece of raw ore from the mine, and then use animal power or hydraulic machinery to crush and grind into ore, and then use the sedimentation and screening of the specific gravity of the precious metal itself to separate the useful ore, and then make a further smelting into a coarse ingot.

Because it is a relatively rich primary gold vein, rather than a secondary or associated deposit, it is enough to extract only the gold particles in it, so although it needs to be mined in a mine, it is far less economical in smelting costs than the latter two.

Of course, I have to arrange suitable and reliable personnel to take care of this matter first, and if I have a smooth plan, from the establishment of the mine and the corresponding equipment to the minimum output, the most optimistic estimate will be until the end of the year. The negative growth of spending money like water and spending is not as good as it is also expected to be curbed.

However, once you have a relatively stable source of precious metals, you can consider trying value-added reprocessing, such as private coinage, private coinage or private coinage.

As a hard currency that has been circulating for hundreds of years in the entire Great Chinese cultural circle, the gold and silver coins issued by the Southern Dynasties still have quite strong purchasing power and price preservation power.

Although the devastation and turmoil in the north have caused the precious gold and silver to lose their usual circulation value, they can continue to be useful in the relatively stable south.

It's just, it's just that just when I was planning for the future with great ambition, with the supply of a new batch of ships, I brought the latest general order from Jiangning,

But I hope that my men and horses can make a big move in Huaibei and cooperate with the summer offensive launched by the National Dynasty from the Yangtze River.

We will carry out an all-round anti-push and expulsion operation against those Fanhu tribes who are scattered and entrenched in the vast areas of Lianghuai and the Central Plains, but who are trapped in the heat and fatigue of the summer.

And now is undoubtedly the best opportunity, when they first arrived just when they were not accustomed to the water and soil, it was their least favorite summer, and for the army accustomed to the humid heat in the mountains, the summer in the Central Plains was a kind of relatively mild home weather.

The comparison of combat effectiveness with one plus one subtraction naturally increases in the odds of victory and confidence, and once the time drags on for a long time, and when they gradually adapt to the local climate and environment in the coming year, it will be different to attack again.

And, in view of the current situation of "insufficient troops" under my command, new troops will soon be reinforced, coming from the sea to assist me in my operations.

Well, the cheapness and convenience from the dynasty don't seem to be so easy to enjoy.