Chapter 44: Suddenly enlightened, lacking assistants
"That's my brother's house, don't just go in. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 "I lock the door when I'm not at home, and when I'm here, you have to knock on the door first, understand?" ”
"Got it." Xiao Zhi nodded repeatedly.
Xiaoxi hesitated for a moment, didn't say anything, and felt a little unhappy in her heart, feeling that Fa Ge was a little angry.
"In the future, this is your own home, you are the master, whatever, don't hold back." Ah Fa got up with a smile and led his younger brothers and sisters around the room, the room, utensils, etc., briefly explained, so that Xiaoxi and Xiaozhi could get familiar with it and let go of some.
"I live alone in a room?" Xiaoxi looked around, it was still very simple, and there were few furnishings, but it already made her feel like a dream.
"Yes, it's yours - boudoir." Ah Fa touched Xiaoxi's head and said with a smile: "In the past few days, I have gone out with Ah Guo to buy some things and make the house beautiful." Well, the dresser is a must, big girl, you have to dress up. ”
Xiaoxi smiled shyly and was relieved, which was different from being with her brother for a short time, this time it will be long-term and dependent.
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After such a long time, Ah Fa has gradually realized his own problem, that is, the lack of accurate understanding of the world, this era, and the current things. He used to think about problems with the habitual thinking of later generations, and he wanted to do this for a while, and he wanted to do that for a while. In fact, he should first understand what is now and what is lacking, so that he can formulate his own plan in a targeted manner. Behind closed doors, imagining out of thin air, it is inevitable to feel at a loss.
The sudden realization made Ah Fa feel suddenly enlightened, and the door to success seemed to be open in front of him, and the exhilarating sunshine sprinkled on his body, making him passionate and full of desire to work.
Of course, he has not forgotten the robbery of the opium of the Chaozhou Gang, but he also understands that Zhang Chi has a way. The Chaozhou Gang is pursuing it tightly, and it is obviously unwise to deal with it at this time. Moreover, he also has a follow-up plan, which needs time to arrange, arrange, and prepare, so he has to cool down for a while.
The purchase of more than 100 acres of land in Lujiawan has not yet been finalized, and the work of the agency company is easy because it is already familiar with it. This gave Ah Fa time to do some experiments and come up with something relatively easy - MSG. He has already realized this problem, after all, he has to eat and eat vegetables every day, and when there is no maid, he will cook casually, and the category of seasonings naturally knows, but he has not thought about it carefully.
The ingredient of Ajimoto is monosodium glutamate, which is not complicated to manufacture. And as early as 1865, the German chemist D.Hoadson isolated the substance during the hydrolysis of proteins, but this discovery was not translated into industrial production.
Historically, it was not until the First World War that this discovery caught the attention of Japanese chemist Ikeda, who produced Ajinomoto, a beautiful brand that took Japan by storm and then easily occupied the vast markets of China and the South Seas.
Things in the world are often like this, when there is no road, it is often found that the road is actually under your feet. Ah Fa knows that the key to extracting amino acids from proteins is the hydrolysis process of proteins, and as long as the hydrolysis process of proteins is mastered, MSG will naturally come out.
Is it simple, deceptively simple. But this is only a theory, and Ah Fa has never practiced it himself. But this did not affect his confidence, doing chemical experiments, it is good to have ready-made data, but without data it is not impossible to do it. Isn't other people's data also summarized from repeated experiments, as long as you are not afraid of failure, with your own theoretical foundation, you will definitely be able to explore and summarize what you need. Moreover, he will spend less time and less energy than others, because he knows the shortcut to success.
That's right, it's a shortcut. This is the advantage of the traverser, and the older the age of the traversal, the more obvious it is. Because he can avoid detours and use the most direct method to achieve success. For example, when Edison invented the electric light bulb, in order to find a suitable filament material, more than 1,600 heat-resistant materials were tested in different categories, and the traverser could save this process. Just this one, how much time and energy can be saved, how much value can be created in advance, and how much money can be earned?
In the next few days, while finding a suitable school for Xiaoxi and Xiaozhi, Ah Fa took the time to run a few foreign foreign companies, bought all the chemical experiment equipment such as test tubes, measuring cups, flasks, sprinkler lamps, hand-cranked vacuum pumps, hand-cranked centrifuges, oil stoves, and various reagents, and turned another room in the company into a laboratory, and finally could carry out chemical experiments to refine MSG.
Every day when he arrived at the company, after handling his work, and handing over some trivial things such as sending letters and invoices to the account office, he changed into an old coat and went into the laboratory in the backyard. Using his spare time to do chemistry experiments was a helpless move, but after a long time, he felt a little powerless.
Because the chemical reaction is sometimes very fast and can be completed in an instant; Sometimes it's slow, sometimes it takes days and nights. Of course, no matter how fast or slow, someone needs to be there to observe and record at all times, but Ah Fa's energy and time can't do this.
It seems that I have to find an assistant, Ah Fa is lying on the bed, thinking about this matter all the time. But where to find it, it's a real problem. If you find any person, of course you can't do it, and if you can't get some toxic gases, or cause a fire, you will be in trouble. If you want to find one, you have to find someone who has a foundation in Western studies and knows some chemical knowledge. But in Shanghai in this era, if you want to find someone who works hard, you can grab a handful, but it is really not so easy to find the Chinese that Ah Fa needs.
Thinking about it, Ah Fa was in a daze, as if he was about to fall asleep, and suddenly the name of a place popped up from the depths of his mind. Cantonese dialect hall, there should be people with the right conditions.
After the Opium War, Shanghai became the largest treaty port, and missionaries, speculators, technicians, craftsmen and other people from Western countries poured into Shanghai one after another, so that Shanghai's Sino-foreign relations gradually increased. At that time, China lacked reliable people who could understand foreign languages, and it often suffered when things happened. Li Hongzhang, who was the governor of Jiangsu at the time, was deeply distressed, so he wrote to the imperial court and asked to "follow the example of the Tongwen Museum" and set up a school in Shanghai to learn foreign Chinese languages, that is, the Guangfang Dialect Museum.
Since the establishment of the Canton Dialect Museum in 1863, it has been almost 40 years now, from the initial learning of foreign languages, to the addition of astronomy, geography, exploration and smelting, machine manufacturing, navigation theory, chemical chemistry and other courses, has become a comprehensive school for cultivating scientific and technological talents in various fields.
The goal is there, but are those students willing to give up their studies to become assistants for themselves? Ah Fa began to scratch his head again, alas, try it in an advertisement, it's useless to just lie down and think about it.
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