Chapter 339: No Man's Land
This beautiful saltwater lake that happened to collide became the trigger for Downing, and he had a plan for both. At the same time solve the water source and produce a food industry product salt.
This is a deep no-man's land, the water of the lake is extremely pure, so the salt produced is also extremely pure, containing unique minerals that give it a charming taste, and the people present have tasted the salt directly and praised it.
Small-scale salt drying is, of course, simple, but to achieve large-scale industrial production, one good thing has to be invented. Inspired by the vegetable tower, Downing came up with the idea of building a salt tower.
In Downing's vision, the secret to drying salt was to increase the area where the salt water came into contact with the air, plus automatic sprinkling. The Mayan civilization loved to build cities in the mountains, and they invented a kind of terraced rice fields built along the mountains, not to produce crops, but to dry salt.
The advantage of drying salt in the terraces is that the whole process is from top to bottom, the salt water automatically flows through the surface and crystallizes quickly under the strong sunlight, and the salt farmers can wait for the harvest, which is extremely efficient. Downing's ingenious process allows each stage of the artificial salt terraces to be accurately calculated, and the time of salt formation can also be accurately calculated.
The terraced rice fields are wound around the salt tower like a winding mountain road, and they are 2 meters high, which is exactly the height that can be constructed by the arms of the now popular machine qì people, because the machine qì people are used to collect salt. The pump pumps the salt lake to the top of the tower and begins a countdown, which runs out exactly once when the salt water reaches the last step.
The terraces are made up of steps like drawers, and as long as the drawer is pulled, the crystallized salt grains are automatically knocked off by the baffle and fall into the salt trough below. This process needs to make the salt tower very precise, and it is a good time for the CNC machining center to come in handy, so even if it is a salt drying plant, it is very high-tech.
In terms of design, the water vapor is evaporated into the air, which cannot be wasted, so the water vapor collector covering the terraces should be designed, similar to the way the water is collected in the Namaqualan Desert, the water vapor will rise in a conical shape, condensed by the low temperature of the shell, so that for every barrel of salt, a bucket of pure water is collected, with pure water in the center of the tower and salt on the periphery.
Salt is collected by the salt princess, and fresh water is collected into the pool through the guò water pipe, which is used for power generation, drinking, bathing, etc., to solve the problem of drinking water in northern Tibet.
The biggest difference between the Down's salt drying tower and other people's seawater salt drying methods is that the surface area is expanded by hundreds of times, so the efficiency has also increased by hundreds, and even in the manufacturing process, some engineers have proposed to make the water vapor collector into a spherical shape, which plays the role of gathering the sun's rays and making the drying process faster.
After the test, the same area is 400 times more efficient than ordinary seawater salt drying, and the collection is fully automated, and the labor cost is low. Even if the cost is n times lower than others, it is not enough for the Windsor consortium to enter the salt industry, because this is too mature industry, and the fierce competition is really not enough for outsiders, and only the administrative monopoly can really make a lot of money.
Therefore, Downing also wants to further enhance the commercial value of the salt tower. Otherwise, go straight to the final end of consumption. In an era when salt is becoming more and more a super-cheap commodity, controlling salt intake has become a focus of nutritionists.
Simply, the prepared salt is packed into a specially designed spice bottle, which is superior to the standard dose of salt that pops from 0 at a time. 1 to 1 gram, adjustable, and when popped, it spills a beautiful shotgun surface, which is a treat when used to fry eggs.
Such high-grade seasoning bottles make it easy for health-conscious chefs to control their salt intake. More advanced ones even count every flick, connect to your PC in the form of a Bluetooth network, and show how long you cook in NumberPress, as well as the amount of salt used each time, drawing beautiful graphs.
So far, Windsor Hospital has only warned people to reduce their salt intake, but has not given a specific limit, because it is useless, and who goes out of their way to measure how many grams they put in the food? But if this kind of salt release tool that can be counted and transmitted to the PC can be popularized, Windsor Hospital will be able to derive a useful large number from it, which can not only give a limit to the amount of salt, but also directly reduce the amount of salt for the user.
From this and that, Downing is ready to launch a series of Bluetooth seasoning bottles, what salt, oil, sauce, vinegar, cumin, star anise, coriander, lavender...... As long as it is this series, all of them can be transferred to the PC, and then to the dedicated server of Windsor Hospital to form a huge food health number.
Anyway, Jingshi yàn, the salt dried from the saltwater lake in the uninhabited area of northern Tibet does not need secondary crystallization is pure white, without secondary crystallization, there is no secondary pollution, and some useful nutrients and minerals will not be lost, it has become a high-end salt product, and the price is several times higher than others, in total, the advantage of thousands of times is enough for Tangning to enter the salt industry with confidence.
The initial scale of the salt tower array in northern Tibet was 100 towers, with a daily output of 10 tons of salt. Including the creative Bluetooth cruet, it's a small business of £100,000 a year. Boss Tang's concept of small business is different from others, which is the annual income of 30,000 civilians in the current Great Liquidation.
Do you guess how many workers Boss Tang will arrange for this small business? Three. Later, the team thought that it was too inhumane to let three workers in the no-man's land, and the number increased to 10. In other words, the productivity of Boss Tang's 10 workers is the productivity of 30,000 people in the Qing Dynasty, and the wages are cost-effective. Do the math yourself.
Qi Taiyu has been following Boss Tang these days, and he is very optimistic about this business, and he is happy to be an agent in Tianjin. Boss Tang's products are like magic, as long as it is said that this is invented by Boss Tang, whether it is salt or boiled water, it is easy to sell.
In order not to erode the old book, Boss Tang still has to do promotion, the method is very simple, let him shoot a documentary, show how the whole process is clean, hygienic, efficient and simple under the camera, and shoot the blue sky, blue lake, and wilderness in no man's land.
The minister stationed in Tibet was really angry that he didn't come anywhere, and the war had not yet started, but the business was done, and Detai sent a search team to northern Tibet to look for it, wanting to bring to justice this lawless person who dared to engage in smuggling salt in the territory of our Qing Dynasty.
The eighteen provinces of the Han region of the Great Qing Dynasty have already opened up private salt production, and the price of salt has dropped to a record low, but in the place where the bird does not lay eggs, the local officials still monopolize the salt industry for personal gain, so the minister in Tibet believes that Windsor's move is to break ground on the head of Tai Sui.
Some people just don't know the current affairs, and they dare to call Tai Sui in front of King Tang, it's ......
Where is it so easy to find people in no man's land? The search team that was sent out was just pretending, and when the time came, it would be good to go out and come back and say that they couldn't find it, because of the thin air of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, a ship of helicopters loaded with too much cargo couldn't fly, let alone looking for someone on this vast plateau.
No one can be found, and before the search team came back, Tang Wang's envoy came to the door, it was Qi Taisheng, a petty official who used to work for the government, and now he was dispersed and became Tang Wang's intermediary, and gave him a strange toy.
This is a vacuum water pump invented by Downing for Africa in the early years, simulating the principle of vacuum vacuuming, which can use the hydraulic power of natural water flow to compress the air, and the slow-flowing river water can produce a miracle with a pipe head of up to 20 meters high, which is the best for irrigation equipment without power supply.
If he wants to build a "dam", it is also open, and the vacuum pumps can still obtain amazing water power by connecting them in a row, and it will not affect the migration and movement of fish at all.
However, he invented the pump primarily for irrigation. Irrigation is the foundation of agriculture, otherwise why is Dujiangyan so important to the country of abundance? He built a small Dujiangyan on the edge of the loess, and wanted to extend the irrigation capacity of the river from near the river to the distance on the side of the Brahmaputra River.
The turbulent water of the Brahmaputra River, which originates on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, is only 100 meters above sea level when exiting, you can feel it. When this kind of vacuum pump is powered, it is possible to create a head 100 meters high, so it can increase the irrigation area by 10 to 100 times. **The richest places are all around the Brahmaputra River, including Lhasa.
Increase the irrigation area by 10 times, or in the Brahmaputra River, which is called the river of life, then this is not a small Dujiangyan, but a large Dujiangyan, which may be bigger than the real Dujiangyan.
Before Qi Taisheng could tell the Minister in Tibet about this irrigation artifact with a smile on his face, Detai had already said with a frosty face: "What do you mean?" Send me farm tools for irrigation? Is it ironic that I'm a hillbilly? I know that Europeans are very capable, but they can't look down on people so much, huh! ”
Qi Taisheng hurriedly explained: "No, no! The adults misunderstood, this Tang Wang is actually an agricultural enthusiast, he likes to farm and play, and he has money, a lot of money. It is said that he is going to rely on this powerful 'farm tool' to reclaim one million acres of green ...... in **"
Detai raised his eyebrows: "Huh? A million acres? Just kidding, do you know how many acres of land we have? ”
Qi Taisheng: "Well...... Of course I know it's a lot of pomp. But this Tang Ye is not an ordinary person, and he often acts unexpectedly. You see, even Beijing is ...... What, it has fallen, it can be seen that Tang Ye's ability is not ordinary. ”
Detai waved his hand: "Come on, Beijing, that's a prosperous place for fireworks, but when it comes to us, we have to follow the rules here." I said, I know that Tang Wang is not an ordinary person, but is it too much to even want to get involved in a place like **? Why don't you occupy so many ointment places in the eighteen provinces of Han Land, but come to fight us like this barren land? What is the reason? ”
Qi Taisheng: "This ...... I'm also very strange, I met this Tang Ye once when he was just a grass farmer before, in Lhasa, maybe he has a fate with the Bodhisattva. In addition to the small gift, I have a letter to give you, which is written by the Tang King himself...... Well, it's possible that it was typewriter, anyway, please keep an eye on it. ”
Although Detai Zheng correctly wanted to despise King Tang, in fact, he also knew how powerful the other party was, so he had to cheer up and read the letter, looking at it, he laughed out loud, then laughed wildly, then laughed with his stomach, and then looked like he almost wanted to roll on the ground.
A lump of cold sweat came down Qi Taisheng's forehead, he felt that this was a serious diplomatic occasion, what did Lord Detai mean by laughing so madly? It doesn't seem like a good thing. "My lord......" Qi Taisheng didn't know what to ask.
Ted finally stopped laughing, but he was still convulsing, and he laughed hard, and he adjusted his feelings several times before he spoke: "You don't know the contents of the letter, do you?" This Tang king said that he wanted me to help him become a reincarnated spirit child, and said that if the current Darai Lama Chenglie Gyatso did not comply, it would not be ruled out that Chenglie Gyatso would be forcibly killed.
Ouch my mother, forcibly pass away! How did Tang Wang come up with this little word? I really laughed at it! ”
This letter is really blasphemous, Qi Taisheng broke out in a cold sweat even more violently, alas, it is not easy to work for the Tang King, if Lord Ted is angry and breaks the convention of the two countries competing with each other, where can he Xiao Qi reason?