Think about it, since platinum is inferior silver at this time, it should be easier to buy?
The second is to use concentrated sulfuric acid and saltpeter to prepare nitric acid.
Needless to say, concentrated sulfuric acid, green vitriol and sulfur can be used to prepare concentrated sulfuric acid, but the source of saltpeter is more troublesome.
As mentioned before, there were very few saltpeter mines within the Ming Dynasty, at least none on the South China Sea Island.
In the past, saltpeter in the dock area was purchased from merchants.
However, if there is an urgent need, it is also possible to prepare saltpeter from human feces.
But that would be more troublesome.
Fang Xiaoyue thought for a while and decided that the chemical industry system must be established first. Otherwise, many chemical raw materials will be in short supply, which will ultimately be detrimental to industrial development.
Not to mention anything else, there are now more than ten farms in the dock area. It is too slow to just rely on human urine and animal excrement to fertilize the fields.
Besides, the feces produced by the tens of thousands of people in the dock area is really not enough to fertilize the fields.
After Fang Xiaoyue and Zhang Feifei discussed it, a chemical industry creation plan was passed on at the regular meeting of the Interim Management Committee.
Big bosses are supportive of the creation of the chemical industry.
After all, the plan also stated that once the chemical industry system is established, the saltpeter urgently needed by the military industry and the chemical fertilizers urgently needed by agriculture will not be a problem.
Besides, there are more and more stocks of sulfur powder, a by-product of steelmaking, and it would be a pity to use it.
After the interim management committee unanimously approved the chemical industry establishment plan, Fang Xiaoyue's main focus was on this.
To be honest, the upper limit of military strength is actually the upper limit of what industrial strength can achieve.
After all, the reason why revolvers and other weapons cannot be developed now is because gunpowder is not powerful.
As long as the gunpowder is powerful, even a tin bucket can be turned into a cannon!
Bricks can also be launched into the sky!
Of course, as mentioned before, some necessary raw materials need to be purchased first.
Therefore, Chen Liuxiang can be said to be busy these days. He has to meet a large number of businessmen every day and spread the news through various channels that the thief Kun needs a kind of inferior silver, and the thief Kun has a lot of money!
Well, at this point, the time travelers are not too angry about the outside world's perception of what kind of thieves they are.
After all, these days, if you are a little rebellious, it will be reported as news, let alone a group of time-travelling people like myself.
I have to say that Chen Liuxiang’s efforts are fruitful.
Within a few days, a Western sailing ship docked at a pier separated from the dock area.
In the past, in order to ensure its own safety, the dock area did not allow foreign merchant ships to dock. All goods were transported to Qiongshan County first and then transferred to the dock area.
But as the forts in the dock area were gradually built, calls for opening the dock grew.
The big bosses of the interim management committee met and discussed.
Indeed, the transfer from Qiongshan County is indeed too delayed.
But it is impossible to open all the three existing wharves in the wharf area.
You should know that a modern terminal is only three kilometers long. As far as the current business situation is concerned, just opening one terminal is enough.
This Western sailing ship came from Macau, which is Haojing.
The owner of the ship was a Frenchman. He heard that someone in the dock area wanted to buy low-quality silver, and also heard that silver mirrors and other glass products were produced here, so he came here with the idea of making a fortune.
After receiving the news, Chen Liuxiang, who was originally stationed in Qiongshan County, hurried back.
Although Qiongshan County is no longer a gathering place for import and export of goods, since the dock area generally does not accept outsiders, and there are several hotels with accommodation and food nearby the open dock, most of the maritime merchants are still willing to stay in Qiongshan.
County.
After all, with the arrival of a large number of maritime merchants, Qiongshan County is no longer the slightly dilapidated small county it once was.
Various restaurants and Yihongyuan are open on the street, which can fully satisfy those merchants who feel empty and lonely.
However, Yihongyuan is absolutely not allowed to open in the dock area. The reason is very simple. The big guys on the interim management committee are relatively upright and don't like this.
Well, actually for the sake of internal security issues in the dock area, not to mention Yihongyuan, even restaurants and other shops are not allowed to open.
At least outsiders are not allowed to open it, and the company implements a planned distribution system internally.
All kinds of daily necessities are directly distributed by the logistics team every month. Even meals are eaten in the canteen, and there is no need to pay with money.
Too much to say.
When Chen Liuxiang was in college, he majored in international business. Because he was ugly, no girls liked him, so he spent more time studying and took electives in Portuguese, Dutch and other small languages.
Therefore, after he met the Franconian businessman, it was not difficult to communicate with him. After a brief exchange, he learned that the other person was a Portuguese.
Well, the Ming Dynasty did not separate Spain and Portugal, and they were both collectively called Franji.
This is not surprising. Starting in 1580, Portugal was annexed by Spain due to inheritance rights, and it was not until 1640 that it got rid of Spanish rule.
In addition, the Ming Dynasty was somewhat unclear about Spain and Portugal, which resulted in this situation.
The Portuguese businessman was somewhat surprised. After all, although Hao Jing also had translators, there were relatively few translators outside Hao Jing. After all, most Ming people did not bother to learn foreign languages.
But what he never expected was that after arriving at the territory of the so-called Kun Thief, the nobles of the Kun Thief could actually speak Portuguese.
Well, when the Portuguese businessman saw that Chen Liuxiang had an extraordinary conversation, and the people in the port respected him very much, they naturally thought he was a noble.
After all, in places like Portugal, people with relatively high cultural literacy are either nobles or children of nobles, and ordinary people basically have no chance to learn.
However, even though he respected Chen Liuxiang as a noble, the Portuguese businessman did not make any concessions in business.
The Portuguese businessman named Alves brought with him 100 kilograms of low-quality silver, 5,000 pieces of raw silk, 2,000 kilograms of copper ingots, and some Japanese paper fans, swords, and the like.
He said he was willing to sell low-quality silver at a low price and help search for more low-quality silver in the future, but he had one request, which was to become the general agent of the specialty products in the dock area.
Chen Liuxiang couldn't help but be surprised by Alves's huge appetite.
Although he has inspected the goods and confirmed that the low-quality silver brought by Alves is the platinum that is urgently needed in the dock area, the problem is that there are many specialties in the dock area now.
There are glass products, soap, soap, salt, and a perfume recently launched. As for the various small commodities in the dock area's inventory, these things have almost set off a craze for thieves in the Nanming area.