"Oops...... Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed! But will this east wind succeed or not? "With the supply point, the sea ships in Jinhe Bay can crisscross the South China Sea unimpeded, but it is not yet to the extent of being the king and hegemonic, because there is no weapon at hand, relying on the whaling crossbow alone is enough to defend oneself, and the attack is far from enough. Looking at the whale oil tank in a cabin, half of which is filled with crude oil, whether it can be refined into mixed oil, Hong Tao only has a theoretical certainty, the actual operation is still unknown, can only go back to Jinhewan to try.

Soil oil refining! What do you need? It's very simple, just a kettle and a cooler. Put the crude oil into the heating kettle to heat, control the temperature not too high, and then let the oil and gas through the pipeline natural cooling or water cooling, the condensed liquid is a mixture of gasoline, diesel, kerosene, wax oil, and the remaining liquid is heavy oil and asphalt. This kind of mixed oil can also be used as engine fuel, but the deflagration is not enough, and it also emits black smoke and serious carbon deposits. If you want to purify, you have to refine it again, but what comes out is still mixed oil, just a little purer. If you really want to separate gasoline, kerosene, wax oil, and diesel, you have to add a fractionator and heat it at different temperatures to accelerate the cracking reaction. It's a pity that Hong Tao is not very familiar with this thing, and he can't get a fractionator for the time being.

The heating kettle is easy to do, the pottery urn for refining whale oil is made, the condenser is also easy to do, the copper plate chisels a pointed cauldron lid, and a chimney is made on the top to draw the oil and gas out, just like the big steamer for steaming wine, and a jar is placed below and then OK. There are copper plates in Jinhewan, but pottery urns and clay pots have to go to Guangzhou to purchase, just right, Hong Tao wants to buy more by the way, and he plans to start refining whale oil in Jinhewan. There will also be a third migration of the people from West Maozhou, where whale oil, soap and candles will be used exclusively for Luo Youde, and the production on the Jinhe Bay side will be sold to Southeast Asia and further afield. With the big market of the Southern Song Dynasty, it is enough for Luo Youde to gnaw, and he has no energy or ability to develop more markets, so let's come by himself!

"Cixi! Find the most disobedient person to burn the fire, others must stay in the limelight, the smoke can't smell much, the fire below can't burn too much, you hide away yourself, do you hear? "The whale oil refining workshop can be placed on the north shore, as long as it is far away from the settlement. But the crude oil refining workshop could not be located on the north bank, and Hong Tao built it directly in the primeval forest on the south bank, far away from the residential area. Not only is the smoke poisonous, but it is also easy to burn when the temperature is not well controlled, and heavy oil or something will cause pollution for many years when it gets to the ground, and no grass grows.

"Don't worry, sir, this job is not heavy, I'll send the old one over!" Cixi was very grateful, Hong Tao could remind him of his own safety, and also told him that the smoke was poisonous, which showed that he had already regarded him as his own person, and the person who was a confidant died. It's a pity that he forgot who captured him, and if it weren't for Hong Tao, he wouldn't have had to take the risk. People are this thing, it's just weird, sometimes things can't be analyzed with logic, and they can't be pushed.

"Son, what did you get back all that black stuff?" Old man Rong has no opinion on Hong Tao's arrangement, but he is a little curious, he has never smelled such a bad smell, and it is no wonder that there is basically no chemical industry in this era, and it will take hundreds of years to smell this smell.

"Something that kills! Weng Weng, if one day I want to take the Tan family out to fight and rob other people's cities and sea ships, will you agree? Hong Tao truthfully told Old Man Rong what he was doing, it was useless to hide it, and all new resolutions had to be passed by the collective resolution of the board of directors, and sooner or later he had to say.

"Weng Weng, when I was young, I liked to go to the Turen's Washe to listen to "The Legend of Zhongxing Famous Generals", in which Yue Xianggong has the Yue family army, you are our Tan family man, of course you have to take the Tan family army when you go out to fight. You won't be a native who went to fight the Great Song Dynasty, right? Although they don't like our family, they haven't bullied us much. "Old man Rong is really cute, even Yue Fei pulled it out, his reaction represents the thoughts of the Tan family, or many ethnic minorities. They have no concept of the state, and in their minds, the ethnic group is the largest unit.

"Look at what you said, our Tan family is also a Song person, as long as those natives don't come to fight us, we won't care about them, and we will help them when necessary. I want to go to Nanfan to get us some more good things back, but don't worry, I won't take the Tan family to be pirates, I'm just going to set a rule for them. In the future, anyone who passes through our sea area will have to pay taxes, but not in vain, let's protect their safety and help them fight pirates! Do you think it makes sense? Hong Tao felt that he was a bit like the British and American governments in later generations, and he could say that bullies were so lofty, as if everyone else would have to be killed by pirates without himself, compassionate!

"That's good, but there are a lot of Tan family members among the pirates! No, in two days, you ask Ah Jiao to take me back, I have to talk to them, don't go to that lack of morality to make a living, just come to us, what do you say? "Old man Rong has no interest in others, but when he heard Hong Tao say that he wanted to fight pirates, he immediately became calm.

"I think it's better for them to go to Ximao Continent for a few months first, familiarize themselves with our rules, and then pick and choose their duty to take over. Actually, you don't have to worry, I'm not fighting pirates here, but going to Nanfan, and there is no Tan family over there. Hong Tao was a little worried, if this old man brought back a lot of pirates for himself, it would be really troublesome. Those people are all outlaws who are used to killing people, and it is difficult to cultivate discipline in a short period of time, maybe one day they will turn their faces and kill themselves again, how unjust this is, resolutely impossible!

"It's okay, let them collect their temperament first, I'll go to find Ah Jiao, and in a few days he will go to sea to hunt whales, and I'll follow his boat!" Old man Rong didn't insist on bringing the pirates to Jinhe Bay, but he didn't forget about the pirates and insisted on going.

Let's go, anyway, Ximaozhou is just a processing factory, as long as they don't hurt the lives of Bo Fu and Bo Xiaoer, Hong Tao doesn't plan to be enemies with those Tan pirates. When they go to be pirates, they are too poor to be helpless, as long as they are willing to abide by their own rules, it is not impossible to be adopted in the future. Although those people are not easy to manage, once they are controlled, they are a very powerful combat team.

Now that Hong Tao is busy again, the demand for whale oil has increased so much that a whaling ship alone cannot meet the demand, Carl and Po Jiao sail alone with the Predator and the Whaler, respectively, and he has lost his assistants, and the work of training new sailors has to be done by himself. The way to train is to keep going to sea, and he has to go to sea, so he often can't come back for a month.

I finally came back, and I had to find time to teach math classes and language classes to the children in school, Bo Jiao and Carl have now become part-time teachers, and whoever is in Jinhewan has to go to school, this is the rule set by Hong Tao, even if you have to set sail in the afternoon, you have to finish the morning class before leaving. Just to teach a group of children elementary school arithmetic, junior high school geometry, Hong Tao does not feel troublesome, the children of this era are very cute, there is absolutely no trouble in class, let alone sleep, and the teacher is also extremely respectful, with them, looking at their eyes containing intellectual curiosity, very fulfilling.

But the class is only a small part of Hong Tao's daily work, he also has to keep an eye on mines, shipyards, smelting workshops, oil refining workshops, and teach Bozhu how to prepare caustic soda solution, how to saponify waste whale oil, and how to use salt brine as dilute hydrochloric acid to make candles. Recently, he has become obsessed with the manufacture of weapons, to be more precise, the manufacture of artillery shells, or flowering shells.

Blossom bombs! Was it possible to make a flowering bomb in the 13th century? After careful study, Hong Tao felt that it should be done. **It has made great progress in the Song Dynasty, and those fireworks and firecrackers are made of ** during the festival. What is a flowering bomb? Isn't it just a theoretically sealed container with a certain amount of gunpowder inside, which can explode when it hits a target after being launched? But there are two problems to be solved here, one is how to launch and the other is how to explode! To understand these two problems, it is easier to make flowering bullets than porcelain. If you don't understand these two problems, you can't do it!

How to launch? Cannonballs, generally not just use cannons to shoot out, the problem is that Hong Tao does not have cannons, and he can't make cannons for the time being, not to mention cannons, small cannons, casting this science looks simple, and it is very difficult to do. At present, the blacksmiths in Jinhewan do not know this craft, and even if they learn, they need to keep experimenting and pondering, and the progress is very slow, and the waste is very large. When those copper ores are mined, just smelting is already their limit, and they can't play with copper-tin alloys, and there is no time to play casting.

Hong Tao now hates himself very much for not studying well when he was in school, and he didn't communicate more with the technicians in the sand turning workshop when he went to Shougang for an internship. Who would have thought that the sand turning workshop is the most difficult place in the steel mill, dirty, tired, dangerous and not fun, and he will definitely not go to Hongtao, so he basically only stays in a few terms and concepts for the craft of casting, and it is not much help to the blacksmiths in Jinhewan.

Originally, he also wanted to go to Luo Youde for help, hire a few craftsmen who could cast from the Southern Song Dynasty, and then catch the medicine according to the prescription, and even get it back with a tie and deception, and eat and drink to support him. Who would have thought that as soon as he made this request, Luo Youde refused, not because he was unwilling to help, but because he really couldn't help. In ancient times, the craftsmen who could cast large objects were all masters, and they were basically hired by state-owned factories, and they were not seen in the market at all. With Luo Youde's identity, he really can't get in touch with the state-owned enterprises undertaken by the imperial court, and there is no place to poach people, these craftsmen are semi-compulsory jobs, and the government gives you money, and a lot of it, but there is no freedom of choice in what you do and where you work, usually you live in state-owned enterprises with your family, and people who are not familiar with this field can't find where they are. Even if you find it, it's useless, there are troops stationed in that kind of place, and Luo Youde doesn't have the courage to make trouble for the state-owned factory under the nose of the army.