Once the crude oil is in hand, the next step is how to refine it. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

This technique is not difficult......

Of course, this is for Yang Feng, what he needs is nothing more than a distillation kettle, loading crude oil into it, constantly heating it underneath, and then condensing the distilled gas through the water tank after heating, and then condensing into liquid, the earliest distilled out is inferior gasoline, but this is not useful for the time being, but it can be used as fuel, of course, in fact, it can also replace banana water to make RAN flasks, which is the most important weapon of the Ming army to defend the city, and then the temperature in the distillation kettle continues to rise, until it rises to more than 200 degrees, The second liquid came out.

"This is lamp oil?"

Looking at the turbid yellow oil dripping from the tube, Shao Tingcai said in amazement.

Obviously, this liquid is completely different from the lamp oil that Yang Feng showed them, it looks like a shoddy counterfeit and shoddy product, and it is difficult to associate it with the lamp oil that is pure in color and has a good smell, and it is almost odorless when burned.

"Of course, but it needs to add something."

Yang Feng said with a sense of accomplishment.

Although the things in the cup in front of him are indeed disgusting, and there is even a smell, but it is also kerosene, and this is also the world's first cup of kerosene, it officially opened a glorious era, don't underestimate this kind of thing and this set of extremely rudimentary equipment, Rockefeller relied on these distillation kettles to go to the altar, and the high-pressure cracking technology of the modern oil refining industry, which did not appear until the twentieth century, before this all those names that relied on oil and were illustrious, relied on such a cauldron.

Although their pots were larger, more complex, and more advanced, they were essentially no different from his humble distillation kettle.

Of course, he also needs to process the kerosene, that is, add some other things......

Add sulfuric acid and potassium hydroxide.

In fact, the former can also be made by the local method at this time, that is, it is distilled with alum.

The latter can also be made by the soil method, that is, soaking the ashes of plants and trees in water, plus calcium hydroxide solution, as for calcium hydroxide solution......

There's no need to talk about that.

But now these two things are still bought directly from Lin Qian, after all, with his current industrial strength, he can't afford to do too much, and it doesn't cost a few dollars to buy these from Lin Qian, in fact, he is trading with Lin Qian now, and he no longer uses gold and silver, this woman has a good appetite, and she wants all kinds of messy things, for example, this distillation kettle is what he exchanged for ten freshly beaten yellow-lipped fish.

After a series of follow-up treatments, the real kerosene was finally born, although there is still a certain difference with the sample taken out by Yang Feng, but after adding the oil lamp, there is no smell left, but there is still a long way to go before Yang Feng uses it to make money. After all, this kind of thing depends on the market, it depends on sales, Yang Feng must also have a group of dedicated sales team like Mobil salesmen, and Kang Mazi will definitely not allow him to sell, and he doesn't want to sell to Kang Mazi and then be handed over by the Qing army to burn and smash him, so the real market has to rely on foreign countries, especially Europe.

But before he can do that, he has to get the business up and running.

"Imperial Oil, we're going to create an oil empire! As for this kerosene, it is called Mobil brand, Mobil kerosene, and we have to make not only Mobil kerosene, but also Mobil lamps, so that the light we make will illuminate every corner of the world. ”

Yang Dashuai said heroically.

In fact, during this time, he has been engaged in his own private business, the steel-making furnace has become Warwick Steel, the arms company has become Yang's Heavy Industries, the Keelung coal mine is of course his, and now there is more Imperial Oil, and the People's Bank is being built, and his first steam engine has also been manufactured, and now it is on the blower of that steel-making furnace, as for the production of steam engines, it is his surging power, and he is also preparing to make trains in this company in the future.

It's just that there is no such need now, because his occupation area is too small to be worth building a railway, and the inland water transport in this area is extremely developed, and there is no need for a railway.

The main thing, of course, is that too much steel is consumed.

From now on, he must separate his own industry from the state-owned industry, including the current finances of the Grand Marshal's Mansion must also be separated from his private property, such as the 10 million taels exchanged for Yinren and the 10 million taels seized in various government warehouses and confiscated from those banner families, these are all state-owned property, but he does business with the Japanese and European merchants, and the income from the sale of weapons to the army must be regarded as his private assets, and these things must be clearly distinguished.

In addition, his military and administrative systems had to be separated.

To put it simply, he must establish his own general staff of the navy and army, as well as the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Finance, Education, Dali Temple, Criminal Department, Inspectorate, Ministry of Industry, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, General Administration of Taxation, and Ministry of Colonial Affairs......

Of course, these ministries are still under the name of the Grand Marshal's Mansion.

There's also something new.

He revised the advisory bureau in Changguo, first of all, this name is not good, it is too petty, and there is no sense of existence when it sounds, in fact, this advisory bureau does not have a sense of existence, it is more like a club of local tyrants and inferior gentry, nothing to sit together and drink tea nonsense, there is no supervision of officials, the only role is to let the people know that there is another thing called ballots, as for the use of this thing, the vast majority of people still do not understand it very well.

So he changed the council to ......

"People's Congress!"

Yang Feng said with a holy face.

"Shuai, is such an institution useful?"

Huang Baijia said suspiciously.

"What do ordinary people have the most to cut their teeth on officials?"

"Scrape the ground."

"So do they have a way to fight back? Don't talk about rebellion or anything like that, I mean what is normally permitted by law, and there is no need to talk about things like suing from level to level, you and I both know that it is actually useless. ”

"Knock."

"But what common people do you think can do that?"

Huang Baijia was silent, suing the emperor or something is just a drama, although he really doesn't say that there is none, it is also rare, to put it bluntly, it is just an ethereal hope.

"However, it is enough to have this people's congress, and the chairmen of the people's congresses at the county level have the right to directly see me, and they also have the power to directly impeach officials against me, that is to say, the people's representatives in various places are equivalent to the local imperial history in the past, of course, this imperial history is not appointed by me, but elected by the local people themselves."

"But what if this representative doesn't do his job?"

"Then the people can demand that he step down, and as long as more than half of the voters demand him to step down, then he must step down, and then elect a new one."

But what if the representative is a local tycoon and the gentry collude? You should understand that this kind of thing will inevitably happen, this representative cannot be sincerely elected by the people, and the people cannot really understand these things, some of which are tricks that can be played, not to mention anything else, just a fraud in the election can make all your good ideas nullified. ”

"Then a special system is needed to manage it, and once this kind of thing happens, not only will the election results be invalidated, but the elected ones will also have to go to jail or even be beheaded."

Yang Feng said.

In fact, he also knew that it was useless, and at least while he was alive, he was not going to put a council on his head, what he needed was a minimum of oversight, and it also left a choice for future generations, after all, he could not expect his descendants to be as wise as him.

Well, it's a bit too immodest to say that, though.

(If you have something at home, let's do this first.) ）