Fire is an object of the gods in ancient Greek mythology, and the world has fire because Prometheus stole fire from Zeus, which has made the night on earth bright.

After all, myths are myths, but the importance of fire, whether in ancient or modern times, is an extremely very important substance, human beings are like inseparable from air and water, leaving the world without life, maybe human life will begin to regress.

For the ancients in the 17th century, fire was also a substance that continued to be important, and their lives were also inseparable, although by this period, there were many ways to make fire, but in fact, none of them were as convenient as modern fire.

In this period of the Ming Dynasty, the fire to retain the fire generally relied on a kind of fire fold, which was rolled into a tight paper roll with very rough clay paper, and then blown out after being lit with fire, although there was no fire at this time, the red bright spots could be seen faintly burning. This method was one of a kind and leading in the world at that time.

But for the people who have traveled from the 21st century, this method is indeed extremely inconvenient, and the fire fold is not easy to preserve, whether it is going to sea or rushing to carry such a lit fire on the body is extremely inconvenient.

At the time of crossing, everyone did not pay so much attention to the problem of starting a fire because they had lighters and matches, but after crossing for more than a year, the stock of lighters and matches was about to run out, which had to make people start to pay attention to this problem.

Some people say that they make lighters directly, but that thing appeared in Europe in the 16th century, although there is no modern lighter that is easy to use, and can not make sparks at any time, but it is much simpler than making matches, don't look at the match is just such a small stick and a little red dot on the head, and then the sandpaper goes to work so a friction is ignited, but it is indeed a difficult thing to make in ancient times in the 17th century.

Don't believe it, just the two things used to make matches, diantimony trisulfide, and red scales are not very easy to produce on a large scale, and diantimony trisulfide can be reluctantly solved, and the key is the problem of red scales, which may not be able to be made by the second-in-command chemists in the crowd.

But the problem is not easy to solve, so you can't solve it, if it's like this, you won't be able to get the rifle steam engine out of the crowd, or the old saying, if there is a problem, you have to solve it.

With the increase in population, coupled with the fact that the employment of various factories is basically male, the suitable positions for women are very limited, if it were not for the coordination of the community neighborhood committee and the solution to the employment problem of some women, I am afraid that there will be a wave of low female employment rate in Australia.

It is hard to imagine that the appearance or absence of matches is already related to the issue of employment, and the members of the Executive Committee can always force some unrelated issues together, put pressure on the chemical industry at one time, get the materials to make matches, and even if they get it, they can set up a match factory from the Manchester City Bank with a government guarantee, such a temptation is still very great.

It's just that it's useless to see the cake without seeing the real thing, even if you know that the match factory can make money, you have to get things out first, the earliest matches are not safe, the substance of white scales is used, and the temperature of spontaneous combustion of white scales is generally 40 °, so later the production of matches was changed to red scales with a higher ignition point, and matches produced with red scales are also called safety matches.

Now it is unrealistic to want to extract red scales and mass production, but it is still very easy to get out of the substance of white scales, although it is not safe to store unstable, but this does not prevent solving the current problem, there is a saying how to say, scientific exploration and progress are achieved in continuous practice.

White-scaled matches, when Zhou Degang took the report to the executive committee and made an application, Lin Youde frowned, which makes you want to make matches for safety matches, this white-scaled match is extremely unsafe, it is easy to spontaneously combust, as long as you have watched a little movie in the 19th century or early 20th century, you will know that the white-scaled match will be ignited as long as it is placed on a hard object.

Now this guy actually directly took the application report to ask for the opening of a match factory, whether to agree, or not to agree, if he does not agree, it will definitely hit the group of people in the chemical group, they themselves are not orthodox chemical experts were born, and it is unrealistic to tell people that the public has no selfishness.

After some discussion, he finally agreed to his report on the construction of a match factory, and the government guaranteed a loan to build a match factory with an annual output of about 100,000 pieces.

Zhou Dean nodded vigorously, saying that this is only temporary, and when he earns money and has more scientific research funds, it is not a matter of time before the red scales come out.

But looking at his assurance, everyone felt that it was a bit Xuan, and it would definitely not work to rely on this guy to get out, so they could only pin their hopes on others.

As soon as the approval report for the construction of the match factory came out, Zhou Degang immediately went to the Bank of Manchester to receive 20,000 yuan for the start-up capital for the construction of the plant.

It is said that it is an annual output of 100,000 pieces, just listening to the 100,000 is a bit scary, in fact, the match factory is not big at all, according to the construction drawings he provided, the construction area of the match is about 100 square meters, and this scale will be a family workshop in later generations.

Although the plant is small, but the five organs are complete, the small match factory has more than 20 shareholders, as well as executive directors and various departments are elected, even more than some larger scales, this behavior is called redundant by other business owners, laughing that this is a cadre factory, everyone is a leader.

The construction period of the match factory is not long, but it took a month to officially complete the construction of the plant, and all the supporting work tables and chairs have been placed, today is the weekend, so Zhou Dean chose this time as the opening time, and almost all the crossings that can be invited are invited to the opening ceremony.

Then everyone performed a magic trick with chemical reactions, such as a bottle of red water, which instantly turned into a bottle of white and transparent water after a few drops of liquid, and a small magic trick attracted many onlookers to the new immigrants.

Finally, Chairman Zhou Aiguo, as a representative, unveiled it together with the shareholders of the match factory, hanging the name plate of the Starlight Match Factory, officially marking the advent of the match.