Elder Hu did not expect that his task could be completed so easily, and that the other party did not mind taking him to visit the factory, but at the same time, he also had doubts in his heart.
There is no such thing as pie in the sky, not to mention that the interests involved in this technology are so huge that it cannot be easily transferred to them. There must be other keys that are unknown to them.
But it is obviously impossible to refuse to visit the factory now. Under the arrangement of the staff, several people put on sterile protective clothing. At this time, they did not look like strong men from Douzong at all, but like they were going to the factory.
The students who visited the school's laboratory were wearing blue loose clothes that even looked a little bloated. It was difficult to distinguish them from the workers in the workshop.
As soon as I entered the workshop, I saw a large number of ordinary people with only trace amounts of Dou Qi in their bodies working on the assembly line. In their hands were precious medicinal materials one after another. They were responsible for cleaning, drying and other steps to prepare the medicinal materials.
The parts containing the medicinal essence of these medicinal materials are first extracted through manual or machine screening.
There are many devices here that look simple but have quite exquisite effects. Just like some drugs, they need to be divided into different levels of potency based on the fullness of the particles. The fuller the potency, the better the potency, and the higher the level you can participate in.
The medicine is being refined.
What separates this drug is funnels that spiral downward one by one. These funnels spiral downward like slides. Depending on the roundness of the drug seed particles, the linear speed of their rotation during the fall is also different.
, so they are screened into different tracks, with the faster ones being in the outer circle, so that the drugs can be easily distinguished based on the fullness of the particles.
They had never seen these simple devices before. Elder Hu was amazed when he saw this thing: "This thing has such a simple structure but can automatically distinguish different quality medicinal materials, although it can only target limited concentrations of medicines.
, but it is indeed a very interesting invention. I think back when I was an alchemist apprentice, I was dazzled by the selection of seeds one by one. It would have been much easier to have this thing at that time."
As the saying goes, laymen only watch the excitement, and experts watch the door. Although the steps of cleaning and sorting medicinal materials are very complicated, and many places must rely on manpower, it can be seen from those practical gadgets that this company has tried its best to
Reduce dependence on manpower and try to use tools to improve work efficiency.
"This step can be regarded as the simplest step. The education level of the talents required is the lowest. Even people who do not need to be literate can work in this step. They only need to be taught how to use the tools in their hands and how to handle the medicinal materials in front of them.
, but it is also more complicated than most other jobs. Workers in a position must undergo at least a week of training before they can skillfully operate various tools.
As we move forward, the workers in front need a higher level of education to complete their jobs. This is why I say that even if I am willing to transfer technology, you will probably not be able to complete production."
When Elder Hu heard that the drug production in front of him actually required the education level of employees, the expression on his face gradually became solemn. Of course it would be easy for him to learn these steps, but if he wanted to teach these steps to others,
With hundreds of people in this room like this, the church is definitely not an easy task, not to mention that there are obviously more complicated steps behind it.
The group of people continued to move forward. The uniforms worn by the workers in front were quite similar to the protective clothing they were wearing now. On the workbench in front of them, there were various test tubes, centrifuges and other equipment that could be passed through.
The washed and dried medicinal materials are further processed.
Some people are responsible for grinding the corresponding medicinal materials into powder and soaking them in alcohol or other solvents so that the essence of the medicinal materials can be dissolved in. Others need to squeeze the medicinal materials and then distill them at a specific temperature.
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"Distillation is roughly a technology that separates mixtures based on the different boiling points of different substances under precise temperature control. It is not too difficult to master this technology, but it requires an average person's education level.
The requirements are higher. Different medicinal materials have different boiling points, and the processing methods often need to be adapted accordingly. If you want to be qualified for your position, you need longer training time."
Elder Hu looked at the condenser tube and the thermometer on the heating vessel with great interest, with a thoughtful expression on his face: "When we are refining medicine, we often need to control the heat, because different medicinal materials will react differently at different temperatures.
It turns into gas at a certain temperature. This thing you call a thermometer is really convenient. Even if you don't have strong soul perception, you can judge the temperature through this intuitive visual effect.
Then what is the centrifuge you just mentioned, and what is the principle of that high-speed rotating turntable?"
Elder Hu has gradually been attracted by the working environment of the workshop. At first, he dismissed these novel equipment as fancy tricks, but after explaining them in detail, he discovered that these things did have their merits.
"The working principle of the centrifuge is also very simple. You should have seen the funnel used to screen seeds with different degrees of plumpness before. The principles used by the two are actually the same. The angular velocity in the test tube in the centrifuge is the same, and the radius is larger.
The greater the linear speed, the greater the centripetal force. The densities of different drug essences are often different. We can separate them through different densities. Like now, at extremely high temperatures,
After rotating at a high speed for a period of time, layers will appear in the original medicinal solution, and we can separate different drugs from the medicinal materials.
Relying on methods such as centrifugal separation and distillation, some medicinal materials originally contained four or five effective medicinal ingredients. We might only be able to use one or two when making medicine, but now we can separate and extract all of these ingredients.
Obviously, it has a considerable effect on reducing the cost of refining medicine."
Elder Hu has a deep understanding of this. The same drug is often used in different prescriptions, but the effects of the same medicinal material are often completely different. The reason is that different substances in this medicinal material are used.
In the past, only alchemists could separate different substances. Even if they were separated, there was no way to preserve them for a long time. It was impossible to find so many alchemists to do this job. No one could hire them.
Such a precious alchemist was created, and now that this work is left to ordinary people, the waste of medicines has been greatly improved.
"I wonder how much these special appliances will cost if you want to sell them? I'm afraid they are not cheap." Elder Hu looked at a sample of a condenser tube, and his brows could not help but get tighter. Based on his knowledge, although this thing is useful
The material is not that precious, but the processing price is probably quite expensive.
The condensation tube in his hand consists of a spiral glass tube and another layer of glass track wrapped around the spiral glass tube. Water flows through the tube wrapped in the spiral glass tube, affecting the tube.
Cool down and convert the distilled steam back into liquid.
In fact, the condenser tubes used in industry do not need to be as complicated as those in the laboratory, nor do they need to be made of glass. The purpose of making them like this is to make visitors misunderstand the difficulty of manufacturing these devices.
If it were really all made of glass, such a condensing tube would require unparalleled craftsmanship for glass blowers. Even if there is a huge economic gap between the products produced by ordinary people in this world and those produced by extraordinary people,
The prices that can be sold in the market vary greatly. It doesn't cost much to hire ordinary people to work, but the output itself is the biggest problem.
If a glass tube with an extremely complex structure like this does not rely on specific equipment and is produced by craftsmen, it may not be possible to successfully manufacture one out of 100, and it is impossible to improve the production efficiency with such a success rate. Even ordinary people
The labor is quite cheap, and in the face of such a huge time cost, the price of these equipment will definitely not be low.
It is precisely because of this that Lannuo will show these people the original production workshop. Even if it is shown to them, they will not be able to copy it. In terms of cost, it will be completely beaten, and this is no longer needed.
It is just a talent training system, but it also needs a complete industrial system to support it.
If there is no corresponding industrial system to produce various auxiliary equipment, even if it is just an ordinary screwdriver or a pair of ordinary screws and nuts, if it is built and produced by craftsmen and wants to meet the standards required by the industry, the cost will already be high.
Went to heaven.
At that time, even if they really steal the technology and want to use the same method to produce it, the final result will probably be higher than refining the elixir through conventional methods.
After observing the condenser tube for a while, Elder Hu made some calculations in his mind. Although the structure of this thing is precise, in his opinion, it does not necessarily have to be made of glass or transparent materials. If it is replaced by metal, it should be easier to process.
, the cost can be reduced a bit. But I’m afraid it’s not cheap either.
And he quickly picked up the previous centrifuge for observation, and gently turned the centrifuge, and he saw that the centrifuge rotated extremely smoothly, and the friction between the bearings was almost equivalent to none. If this kind of accuracy is passed
If it were made by hand, based on his knowledge, it would probably require a master-level craftsman to do it. With such a master-level craftsman, the price would probably be no less than that of a low-level alchemist. And this thing is on the production line.
It is needed in large quantities. Although he can afford the price, but after a little calculation of these miscellaneous expenses, let alone bidding with Motie, he will probably lose money if he bids with ordinary alchemists.
"Okay, let's move forward. What we see here is only the roughest processing of medicines. In front is the production workshop where medicinal materials are stored. That is the key to the technology we use, which is to extract the essence of medicinal materials.
The steps are separated from the actual refining of medicine, and ordinary practitioners can also extract the essence of medicinal materials, so there is no need to waste the energy and time of the pharmacist."
Elder Hu frowned: "What you said is theoretically correct, but the essence of medicinal materials will be lost quickly after being extracted. If the alchemist does not refine it as soon as possible, it will not take long for all the essence to dissipate."
"Yes, we also encountered this problem at the beginning, and in order to solve this problem, we adopted the method of expanding the production scale as much as possible. The larger the production scale, the greater the total amount of the same medicinal essence, and the medicinal essence wants
The best way to preserve it is to store it together." Lan Nuo took out the alcohol again and showed Elder Hu the difference in the evaporation speed of the alcohol when it is spread evenly on the table and when it is put in a bottle.
"The essence of medicinal materials itself is the best container to protect the essence of medicinal materials. So please see that the capacity of the sealed jar here is 18.5 tons, and it is filled with high-concentration medicinal essence. On the jar of the container,
You need to consume a fourth-grade elixir every day to apply and seal it.
Under the premise of sealing, the essence of the medicinal materials will be lost at an amount equivalent to the value of twelve first-grade elixirs per hour. Although it sounds like the cost of many seals is also high, the medicinal materials stored inside
The total value of the essence is at least equivalent to the value of 1.6 million first-grade elixirs, and such a jar of medicinal essence is only enough for us to consume here for half a month at most. After all, in our factory,
A full 6,800 alchemists are involved in production on the assembly line. If the scale continues to expand, production efficiency can be further improved and costs can be further reduced. However, the number of low-level alchemists in the Gamma Empire and surrounding empires has basically reached
At the limit, if we want to continue to expand the scale of production, we can only continue to recruit alchemists from outside.
But as the saying goes, if you leave your hometown, the noble will be cheap if you leave your hometown. Even if the welfare benefits we provide are quite good, most people are still unwilling to leave their hometowns. Therefore, the current expansion of production scale has fallen into a bottleneck. Perhaps it can only
Only by developing towards more prosperous areas and opening branch factories can we solve the problem. If you are willing to cooperate with us, we can invest in technology and jointly open more branches for production in the northwest region of Douqi Continent. But I hope that the company
The management and operations as well as the technical personnel are all our responsibility.
After all, I think you have seen the complex system involved here. Even if you send a hundred sixth-grade alchemists here and we are completely open to teach you, you will never be able to learn it all."
