This is a wonderful era!
There are almost no technological blockades in this era. As long as they can afford the money, those companies, or to be precise, those capitalists, will sell their most advanced technologies or products to any country without any scruples. There is no need to consider the country at all.
levels of prohibition.
This era of free trade will probably last until the 1920s and 1930s. In those years, it was in this kind of free trade that Soviet Russia introduced a large amount of machinery, equipment and technology from all over the world, and even commissioned the United States to do so.
The company designs aircraft carriers.
In short, in this era of domineering capital, money is everything.
With sufficient financial support, Nanhua can not only introduce machinery and equipment, but also its technology, as well as technical experts from all walks of life, just like the Soviet Union in another time and space, through the large-scale introduction of equipment and foreign experts, in
The country's industrialization was achieved in a short period of time.
However, the premise for all this is sufficient funds.
Development is the last word, but the prerequisite for development is money!
Although Buffett is burying pits in London and Paris, two million pounds can only meet temporary needs! The development of Nanhua requires long-term capital injection, although Helen Pharmaceuticals's earning power as a cash cow is quite considerable
, but only one cash cow cannot meet the needs.
"It's a pity that there are no gold mines in Nanhua!"
Although he sighed in his heart, Zhu Xianhai soon found a gold mine for himself.
It took almost a month of hard work to build a small factory on Panshi Island at the entrance to You Bay of Nanhua Bay.
The so-called "Panshi Island" is a small island about 1.5 kilometers long and only a few hundred meters wide. In the planning of Nanhua Bay, You Bay will be the future naval base. The cliffs nearly 100 meters high on the coastline completely separate the bay.
In the simulator, even the bombardment by the British and American navies never caused any damage to the base.
The "Panshi Island" is the most important line of defense at the entrance to You Bay. A fort was specially built to protect You Bay, and this factory is located inside the fort. This shows how different this factory is. As for the outside of the factory area,
There are armed guards, and the brick-and-wood factory building is not only surrounded by barbed wire on the walls, but also in the air.
What is being produced in such a heavily guarded place?
No one knows, and the armed guards don't know. The order they received is very simple - anyone who tries to break in or goes out without authorization will be shot to death!
Along with the roar of the steam engine, the generator began to rotate. In the somewhat dim tunnel, Zhu Xianhai stared at the electrolytic tank in front of him. In the past more than a month, he had been focusing on this secret factory.
inside.
From designing generators to designing various equipment required for production, everything in this factory, or rather the workshop, was created by him, and even the workers were trained by him.
The product produced by this small factory is actually very simple - electrolytic aluminum.
Aluminum does not appear in a free state in nature. It was first isolated by the German chemist Waller, and then produced in small quantities by the famous French scientist Saint-Clair Deville in 1854. Deville used expensive
The sodium method obtained metallic aluminum through chemical reactions and began the process of commercial aluminum production. However, due to the complex production process and extremely high cost, the output of aluminum was very small. In this era, "aluminum" is placed next to those precious jewelry
Together, known as "Dwyer's Silver,"
It is precisely because "Dwyer's silver" is expensive and rare that an emperor brought the goods - French Emperor Napoleon III made an aluminum crown for himself to show his incomparable nobility. Not only that, when holding a banquet,
, the tableware he uses is also made of aluminum.
And this is exactly why Zhu Xianhai devoted himself to this factory - to open up new sources of income.
"Through electrolysis, aluminum is separated and precipitated at the bottom of the crucible, while oxygen is released..."
Unlike those who followed De Vere in this era who were trying to lower the price of sodium to reduce the cost of new electrochemical processes, Zhu Xianhai directly chose the electrolysis method.
The electrolysis process of aluminum was not invented until 1886 by American Hall and Frenchman Erut, who each invented the same patent without knowing each other. Although the patent lawsuit lasted for fifteen years in the United States, as aluminum
Hall, the inventor of the electrolysis process, has become a legend, and he has won the largest fortune in the history of American patents.
Now, all Zhu Xianhai needs is to copy the electrolysis process of aluminum and then produce electrolytic aluminum.
Then what?
Of course it is exporting aluminum abroad, no, it is exporting "Dwyer's silver".
This kind of silver is only slightly cheaper than gold.
"The production of the factory needs to continue to run, because if it stops running, the tank will "solidify", making the metal in the tank unusable and needs to be cleaned and discarded. Therefore, during production, it is uninterrupted 24 hours a day.
Production……"
While explaining the production process, Zhu Xianhai personally guided the two supervisors on how to operate the equipment.
Although the factory operates two shifts a day, there are actually only six employees - day shift and night shift supervisors, and four "furnace workers" responsible for these electrolyzers. The so-called factory actually only has two leaders.
Cast iron "electrolyzer" with anodes.
"The suspended wires are connected to the horizontal copper busbars... furnace workers should pay attention to wearing rubber gloves when shelling during production..."
Under the guidance of Zhu Xianhai, the first batch of aluminum ingots was quickly produced. In the next few days, this small pilot factory with only 6 employees waited until the factory supervisors and furnace workers mastered the production process skillfully.
Finally, the factory's daily output has exceeded 250 pounds!
Although the supervisors and workers in the factory did not know what these "silver-white" metals were, when Zhu Xianhai left the factory with 2,000 pounds of aluminum, he was extremely excited.
"The current price of aluminum on the market is about US$550 per pound, which means that the factory's daily profit is close to US$140,000, which is almost... US$50 million a year!"
For a moment, Zhu Xianhai was stunned. He even looked back at the factory behind him that was guarded by guards.
Staring at the "gold mine", he found that his situation was too small!
This is a "gold mine" with an annual output of forty or fifty tons! Such a huge gold mine is the only one in the world! Let alone an ordinary gold mine, even in San Francisco.
The gold output nearby may not be comparable to that of this mine.
And as long as you are willing, you can double or even triple the output at any time, as long as the power supply is guaranteed.
Such an important place. I only sent so many people to guard it. It was an unforgivable mistake!
The current price of gold is only about US$650 per pound. How can such a large gold mine be guarded by so few people?
Even if these people in the factory have no idea what they are producing, they cannot be so careless.
After all, safety comes first.
"No, we need to send more people. Well, we can build a naval academy here and set up the factory in the military academy. There will be hundreds or thousands of naval academy students guarding it. It will be safer now..."
This chapter has been completed!