Frederick rested for a long time and resumed his usual exercise and study courses at the manor.
On the afternoon of the day when the third greenhouse was put into use, he and BASF, who delivered materials, came to the slime glue workshop.
Today, the Slime Glue Factory is one of the largest factories in Weissenburg, with hundreds of employees. In order to manage the factory well, BASF has lost a lot of weight and gained some management experience.
Frederick did not see the surprise first, but walked around the production process.
The first thing he came to was the Crystal Slime Farm, which covers the largest area. It was arranged like a pigsty. Every pool was almost filled with slimes. The feed was kitchen waste purchased from Weissenburg.
Garbage.
Friedrich asked BASF: "Can the materials keep up?"
BASF replied: "It is barely enough now, but it will not be enough after the scale is expanded again next year. I plan to build workshops in several other cities."
Frederick looked at the crystal slime jumping in the pool, frowned and started thinking.
He shook his head after a while and said: "It's enough to build a breeding farm there. The workshop needs to be improved. I will discuss it with you in detail later."
Now that the victims have been resettled, they can free up their hands to deal with upgrading from handicraft workshops to handicrafts and even primary factories.
There was no need to rush this matter, and Frederick planned to conduct a thorough investigation before making any comment.
The big boss said so, and BASF agreed.
The two left the breeding farm and went to the slaughtering workshop.
When the crystal slime is released, pour a little alcohol on it, wait until it passes out, then pull it here, clean it, cut it into pieces and put it into the meat grinder.
In the past, there was a process of removing slime guts during small batch production, but now it has been cancelled, and barrels of slime paste are transported directly to the cooking workshop.
The cooking workshop has only a roof but no walls. It houses two of Frederick's new inventions - a briquette stove and a pressure cooker.
Then Frederick was frightened by a row of pressure cookers.
A large pressure cooker with a diameter of half a meter and a pot height of about 60 cm is fixed on the stove. The honeycomb briquette stove underneath is mounted on a trolley. When the stove is replaced with coal, the pot does not move when it is pulled out.
The pot lid is fixed through the cross beam, ear buckle and screw rod, and the water vapor makes the weight on the exhaust valve jump.
There is a small hourglass next to each pressure cooker that sprays air. When the hourglass drains out, workers will pull the coal stove away, then pour water on it to force it to cool. After lifting the weight and no more air is sprayed, the lid of the pot is opened.
"Such a big pot!" Frederick asked hurriedly, "Is it safe?"
BASF replied: "There is no problem with safety. These pots are made of earth element steel by Professor Ogilvy and are particularly strong."
"If the exhaust valve is blocked, the safety valve on the other side of the pot lid will also work."
"We are also planning to weld iron chains to the pot lid so that even if it blows up, it won't fly too far."
"This pressure cooker was determined by me after many experiments. The higher the pressure and the higher the temperature, the better the quality of the paste obtained."
Frederick was relieved after hearing this.
Cheap elemental steel is a new specialty brought by Ogilvy and Mather to Wesson Tie, and its reputation has already begun.
The earth steel used in pressure cookers is a type of elemental metal and is steel reinforced with earth elements.
The traditional elemental steel process is to add high-quality magic crystal powder when forging or casting steel ingots. Then during long-term forging, the magic elements inspired by these magic crystal powders will transform the steel, and finally be discharged together with impurities.
The characteristic of earth steel is that it is stronger than ordinary steel and is often used to make important parts of armor.
Making elemental steel requires expensive and high-quality magic crystal powder, otherwise the magical elements cannot be stimulated during forging.
When the magic crystal powder drops to medium quality, it will no longer be able to stimulate the remaining elements, and new high-quality magic crystal powder can only be added, so the cost is very high.
The manufacturing process of other elemental metals is the same as that of earth steel. Different magic elements have different bonuses to the properties of metal materials. The magic elements commonly used to make elemental metals include fire elements that increase the melting point, electrical elements that increase corrosion resistance, and hardness.
The gold element, the water element that increases plasticity, the water element that increases toughness, the light element that increases magic affinity and reduces magic resistance, the dark element that increases magic resistance, etc.
Elemental metals are not limited to steel. Earth lead can also compare hardness with pig iron. This magical element strengthening is the product of the strengthening value and the original performance of the metal base material. The stronger the base material, the stronger the performance after strengthening.
Several magic elements can also strengthen a single metal at the same time, thereby producing a composite elemental metal.
In terms of price, the difference between ordinary metals and elemental metals is as big as boiling cabbage and boiling cabbage.
Is the price of local steel equivalent to the same weight of silver? Is the current wholesale price of local steel sold in Wesenling equivalent to the same weight of silver? The quantity is large enough and the cost price is confidential.
But they are all used as pressure cookers, so the cost is probably not much higher.
Over the years, countless people have been studying methods to reduce the cost of elemental steel, and have achieved certain results. Currently, only Ogilvy and Mather have achieved breakthrough results.
Frederick thought this was the surprise BASF was talking about, but he pointed to a large piece of grass outside and said: "Let's go over there, there's a big surprise there!"
This meadow is full of weeds, and we didn’t have time to plow them out when building the workshop.
Frederick walked to the grass and took a look, and immediately discovered something was wrong.
Although the grass has turned yellow, you can still see that the grass on the side of the road near the cooking workshop is taller than that in the distance.
BASF said proudly: "Boss, I found that the waste liquid after cooking is a good fertilizer."
"We poured the waste liquid directly here. At first we thought the grass here grew well because it was closer to the stove and it was hotter."
"Later, there was too much liquid waste. If we poured too much liquid, it would burn the grass to death. When it rained, it would turn into mud. So we started pouring it farther away, and we found that the grass there was also more lush."
Frederick held his chin and thought about it. Since plant ashes and bones can fertilize the fields, pressure-cooked slime fertilizing fields are not unacceptable.
"Inform Professor Matthias." Frederick said, "He will come to the manor later to study growing vegetables in greenhouses. Together, you can study the role of waste liquid."
Let the experts handle professional matters.
BASF immediately agreed. If the waste liquid can really be used as fertilizer, it will be a huge income for the workshop, and it will be one step closer to buying a house in Weissenburg and getting married.
At the other end of the cooking workshop, workers put the cooked slime paste into an iron plate as big as a bed, and lit a fire underneath to boil the paste to dry out the water and turn it into molten glue.
The glue is put into the heated noodle machine while it is still hot and squeezed out. There is a pool below the outlet. Someone uses a scraper to scrape the slime glue that comes out into small pieces, and then falls into the pool to cool and solidify.
This is slime original glue. It is reheated and melted in different workshops and reacted with various materials to obtain glue for different uses and reproduced to produce different products.
Among them, the molding method is used to produce tableware. A specific spoon scoops a spoonful into the mold, and another mold presses it, and several bowls or plates come out. After cutting off the flash edges, they can be sold.
Frederick saw an unexpected person here.
"George?" Frederick was a little surprised, "What are you doing here if you are not the supervisor of the glass workshop?"
George, who was pushed over by the Grand Duke of Mainz, was just thinking about something. He looked ordinary, and his cheeks were more bulging than ordinary people. This is the characteristic of a glassblower.
After being interrupted from thinking, he realized it was Frederick, and he immediately replied respectfully: "Your Excellency, Baron, I am thinking whether the glass workshop can use this method to produce tableware."
Frederick said matter-of-factly: "Sure, is there any problem?"
George saw Frederick for the second time today. He did not have the respect brought by social rules from the people who led Wesson, nor did he have the recognition that Weisen University and others had after discussing academic issues with him. In addition, he was a beauty.
The illegitimate son and glass-making expert favored by Grand Duke Inz felt a little unhappy when he found that the problem he was thinking about was treated lightly by such a child.
"It's not that simple." George shook his head, "It also involves many issues such as the composition of the glass and the processing temperature."
While he was waiting for the young baron to ask what the problem was and then show off his rich experience, Frederick said calmly: "It is true. This requires a lot of experimental data to solve."
After saying that, Frederick ignored George, whose expression became strange, and took BASF to the workshop to make shoes.
George, like traditional craftsmen, focused on the accumulation of experience, while Frederick valued relying on data to determine the optimal craftsmanship, which would be difficult for traditional people to accept for a while.
Halfway through, BASF asked Frederick with some curiosity: "Principal, you don't seem to like this person very much?"
They felt that in the past, the principal was very enthusiastic and valued people with skills, but this was the first time that he spoke coldly and without emotion like today.
"Nothing." Frederick shook his head slightly.
This George was sent over by the Archduke of Mainz because of a conflict with Philip. Frederick originally wanted to build a microscope, so he accepted him.
Now that the situation has changed, Frederick is doing justice to the Grand Duke of Mainz by letting George take a look at the molding method of making utensils. After all, he has a closer relationship with Philip, so it is impossible for him to get closer to George again.
When a person like George is in front of Baron Wesson, if Baron Wesson gives the Grand Duke of Mainz face, he will be a figure, but if he does not give it, he will be an ordinary person.
Frederick was interested in hooking up with the Archduke of Mainz, and Philip was the Archduke's confidant. This relationship was more formal and stronger than George's.
BASF did not get to the bottom of it, but said: "I also thought that when the glass workshop is put into operation, I can buy a glass tea set when I prepare to get married."
Frederick looked around and said in a low voice: "Don't worry, there is a big fat pig ready to be slaughtered for me, not to mention the glass workshop."
BASF's eyes lit up and he said worriedly: "But he saw our technology..."
Frederick curled his lips and asked: "How much do you think I should charge you for those pressure cookers?"
BASF immediately understood that a pressure cooker made of this special material must be ridiculously expensive in the market. Without raw materials, it would be useless to learn the downstream technology. It could even make a fortune by selling the raw materials, while others would also make a hard-earned profit.<
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"Just understand." Frederick said, "There is no technology that will never become obsolete, and there is no technology that will never be leaked."
"An industry is like a chain, as long as you keep the most profitable part in your own hands."