"Yes, that's it, start slowly." Old Cangtou was instructing the family members of the iron factory to make briquettes.
The briquette manufacturing equipment assembled from one hundred molds cast by the factory itself can make a hundred pieces of briquettes at a time.
Mix the soil coal powder with water, lime, and clay, shovel it into the cylindrical mold with a shovel, squeeze it to shape, and then use ropes and wooden pulleys to lift the mold, and the honeycomb briquettes will be shaped. Use the pad below to lift it to the sun.
Just do it. One hundred pieces of briquettes are ready.
If the quality of the local coal is poor, some good pulverized coal should be added when blending the mud.
Briquettes for igniting fires are made by mixing crop straw powder, fine coal powder, lime and water.
One ton of coal can produce six thousand briquettes.
Briquettes are a modern product, invented by Guo Wende, a retired employee of the Dezhou City Fuel Company in 1949. Briquettes of this shape burn quickly and have strong firepower. The combustion efficiency is 20% higher than that of pure coal.
Because the briquettes have holes inside, they are easy to burn and catch fire quickly. When using them, you need to put the ignition coal at the bottom for the first time and put the normal honeycomb briquettes on top. In the future, you can add new briquettes as long as the fire does not go out.
Use a sickle to make a fire, ignite the bark, and ignite from the mouth of the furnace. The flame can reach one foot in 2 minutes, and a pot of water can be boiled in 12 minutes. The temperature of the furnace can reach 680°C, and can be opened and closed by the furnace door.
It is easy to use by adjusting the size of the flame. Just like liquefied gas, it can be used and lit at any time. There is no need to close the furnace and the fire will not go out. Opening the air inlet will continue to burn.
Because the iron stove tube exhausts smoke to the outdoors, this kind of stove is smokeless, non-toxic, and odorless. It can burn for 120 to 150 minutes by placing two briquettes at a time. The stove tube also increases the indoor heat dissipation area, and the heating effect is very good.
Briquette briquette factory, with low investment and quick results, is made by mixing the cheapest bulk coal with several worthless raw materials and two additives. It is manually operated and very simple and easy to learn. Using an ordinary briquette machine, the daily processing cost is about 1,200 yuan per person.
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Old Cangtou is Yang Fan's newly appointed shopkeeper of the briquette factory. The stupid women in his family who are bad at needlework and can't go to the quilt factory are all left to Old Cangtou by Yang Fan.
It has always been Yang Fan's principle to make the best use of people. There is no useless person in the world. There is always a job that suits you. If you can't do embroidery work, just do menial work.
This factory is independently accounted for. After Yang Fan allocated the factory buildings, equipment, and start-up capital, he left it to them to run it themselves.
In addition to basic wages, the rest is piece-rate wages and year-end rewards based on sales performance. The working capital the factory needs goes to Xiang Yi for approval, and then to Xiang Ying for withdrawal. Every month, Accountant Liu completes the accounting and pays
The completion money and profits will be handed over to Xiangying. If working capital is needed, it can be used immediately.
Old Cangtou was also eliminated because he was too old and frail to do heavy work. When he was young, he worked as a coal shop worker and was familiar with this industry. So Yang Fan asked him to take the lead. Old Cangtou never dreamed that he would still be able to work at the age of sixty.
One day I can be a shopkeeper.
Coal mines are everywhere near Zunhua, many of which are natural outcrops. It is very close to Luanzhou, and the later Kailuan Coal Mine is here. There are small coal mines mined privately by private parties everywhere.
Coal here is not valuable. But it is not widely used. The main reason is that in this era, braziers were mainly used for heating. Generally, the stoves and the ashes of plants and trees that have not been completely burned in the stove pit and are still red are placed in charcoal pots.
People gathered around the charcoal pot to grill their hands and feet to keep warm.
Plant ash and charcoal are fine, but if it is coal, this brazier heating method is very difficult to deal with the problem of carbon poisoning.
Yang Fan did some research and found out that Zunhua County was one of the first-class wealthy areas in North Zhili of the Ming Dynasty. It made a fortune due to the iron smelting industry.
The private sector has considerable purchasing power, but cooking and heating equipment are very scarce.
Song Yingxing's cannon-casting work stopped, and Yang Fan asked the master craftsman Chang Zhu and others to produce cast-iron stoves and iron chimneys. This thing is very simple. Yang Fan gives the drawings and they just make the grinding tools themselves. This is not a cannon, and they are not afraid of bubbles.
, both clay molds and iron molds are acceptable.
In the future, Xinghe Iron Works will no longer sell iron ingots to external parties, which is not profitable. Instead, it will increase the added value and process them into specific products before selling them.
As soon as the molten iron comes out, the pig iron is poured directly into the iron furnace.
While the wrought iron was red and soft, it was rolled into thin sheets of iron with stone rollers. Then many half-year-old children were hired to beat them with hammers and make tinplate work such as stove tubes and tin kettles. This also provided employment for some people.
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Yang Fan asked Lao Cangtou to buy all the discarded coal from nearby coal mines at very low prices. To prevent others from imitating, even if they want to imitate, they can't buy raw materials for a while. Use good coal to make it. Half of the products in Xinghe are
Faced with the competition between clay and lime soil coal and pulverized honeycomb briquettes, they have to sacrifice their lives.
The dirt and coal in the wasteland were piled as high as a hill. Transporting this coal was exhausting for everyone. It was all carried two miles from the dock by the river by hand and pushed by wheelbarrow.
At present, the rails and mine cars from the riverside dock to the factory are still being laid. After they are laid, they can be transported in large quantities and quickly by horse-drawn mine cars.
These coals are actually the pulverized coal that fell on the ground during mining in small coal kilns. There is a lot of soil in it, as well as pebbles and sand. No one wants it at all because it is difficult to ignite. But there is no problem at all in making honeycomb briquettes.
A typical example of turning waste into treasure.
Coal was not widely used in this era. For cooking and heating, most poor people used firewood, while the rich used carbon. The particularly wealthy people used smokeless carbon without smoke.
Gas is poisonous, and except for extremely poor people, generally people will not buy it. In terms of production, coal is mainly used to smelt iron because its cost is much lower than that of charcoal. However, this type of iron contains high sulfur content and is very brittle, making it a cheap, low-grade iron. Restaurants
Coal is also used for cooking, because the soot can escape from the chimney.
Xinghe Iron Works selected dozens of well-spoken people as door-to-door promoters, divided the city into regions, and conducted door-to-door sales.
Zhuzi had made great contributions since he reported the military situation last time and poisoned the Tatars' rice cookers. He was favored by Master Yang, who not only rewarded his family with a hundred thousand coins, but also directly selected him into the servant team. And he entered the servant team.
The first task the team received was to lead more than 30 half-year-old children to sell cast iron stoves and briquettes from Xinghe Iron Works door-to-door.
Tianxiang Tower, the most high-end entertainment venue in Zunhua.
Through his connections, Zhuzhu found Hong'er, the most favored little maid around the leader, and she was very attentive and kept showing off some rouge and gouache.
Hong'er's little face looked disdainful, her chin almost lifted to the sky.
She is the maid next to the number one, and she has never seen any good rouge or gouache. These useless things want to please her. She is really a fool. She really doesn't know what color she is.
"Hmph, you lazy boy, don't act like a good boy here, come in, Miss Lin wants to see you." Xiaoyu, another maid next to Lin Yueru, the top leader, came out and said.
Zhu Zhu was so excited, this was the number one brothel in Zunhua.
He quickly packed up the pure copper stove and honeycomb briquette samples specially made by Xinghe Iron Factory, and followed Xiaoyu into the inner hall.
