Chapter 32 The idea of ??starting a factory, fructose!
"My dear, I know what you are worried about. Don't worry, as long as you don't tell anyone, you and I will be the only ones in the world who know about the existence of this diamond." Faced with Margot's questions and worries, Josie smiled.
He explained.
Isn't it? This gem was still in the treasure house of Daenerys, the Dragon Queen of another world, just ten minutes ago. How could anyone in this world have seen it?
The aluminum and precision-cut diamond jewelry given by Josie also allowed Daenerys to see a steady stream of new ways to make money. In return, Daenerys provided him with a large number of jewelry of various colors, including the largest
It's a rough diamond.
Just like on Earth, diamonds have been classified as jewelry in Westeros for a long time, but they are not popular.
The reason is not that there are many of them, but because with ancient technology, polishing diamonds is really a huge project and is difficult to mass-produce. It is very easy to use diamonds to cut metal.
However, this pink diamond was not initially included in Daenerys's list of transactions for Josie.
Because diamonds of this level, no matter how difficult they are to cut and polish, are still among the top gemstones in Westeros.
Moreover, the pink color is also very popular with Daenerys and is collected in her private boutique treasure house.
It was just that Daenerys said the meanest thing during the transaction, allowing Josie to choose one of her treasures from the treasure house.
Then there is no more.
I guess Daenerys should be hiding in a corner of her palace drawing circles now.
"Are you sure?" Josie's words made Margot even more confused.
Only the two of them knew about such a precious diamond.
Could it be that you just dug it out of the ground outside your house?
"Don't worry, nothing will happen. Let's see how well it matches you!" Josie didn't explain too much, just put the diamond in front of Margot's broad chest and compared it.
However, this comparison made Qiao Xi unable to take his eyes away.
The pink diamond, under the slightly dim light of the bedside table lamp, exuded a brilliant pink light, illuminating the snow-white skin on Margot's chest.
It forms a unique and unique beauty.
Margot, who was still feeling uneasy about the diamond, looked up and was also startled by Josie's aggressive gaze.
He only had time to scream in surprise before he was knocked down on the bed by Qiao Xi.
Diamonds? Damn those diamonds!
With the overloaded work of the Simmons spring, Pink Diamond, who had been temporarily forgotten, was slowly pushed out of the bed by the reaction force of the spring, and finally fell to the ground lonely with a snap.
Fortunately, the bedroom floor is made of wood. If it were tiles, it is estimated that this treasure-level diamond may have only appeared in this world for less than half an hour, and it will end its life.
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"Do you want to open a sugar factory, an aluminum alloy factory and a handicrafts company?" I don't know how long it took, but with the aftertaste of intense exercise, Margot leaned into Qiao Xi's arms and played with the diamonds in her hands and said, "Aluminum alloy factory and handicrafts factory."
It’s not difficult, but for sugar factories, it’s hard to get raw materials now, right?”
Margot had no objection at all to Josie's idea of opening a factory. The factory Josie wanted to open was not large in scale and did not cost much.
It is estimated that with a few hundred thousand, it can be started. For Margot, who received a large insurance compensation due to the death of Tony Windis, this is simply a drop of money.
And she is willing to give her little man no matter how much money he has, let alone this small amount of money. She doesn't feel bad if he loses everything.
Especially the diamond that Qiao Xi just gave her, even if it was cut into pieces and sold, its value would far exceed her current net worth.
But just like the problem she mentioned, it is easy to start an aluminum alloy factory and a handicraft factory.
Although this is a wartime economy, aluminum, as the most important aviation material in this era, is also a controlled material.
However, unlike other materials with restricted raw materials, American bauxite is not restricted in terms of raw materials. Because the main import area of bauxite in the United States in this era is Brazil, so in terms of raw materials, it has not been affected by the war.
What is affected is the finished aluminum metal.
Therefore, if Qiao Xi wants to open an aluminum alloy factory, there will be no difficulty. Instead, he will be encouraged by the federal government, and all the finished aluminum metal products produced will be purchased by the military. Although the price will not be high, it will definitely
It's impossible to lose.
Let’s not talk about the handicraft factory. According to Qiao Xi, it mainly processes some glass, defective broken diamonds and other cheap handicraft jewelry. These things have little to do with the war.
But sugar factories have big problems.
Because the sugar in this era was mainly sucrose.
The main raw materials are only sugar beets and sugar cane. As for the proliferation in later generations, the harm is quite serious. However, although extremely cheap fructose is already available in this era, the production technology is not developed and the yield is very low. On the contrary, it is more expensive than sucrose.
Although the output of sugar cane and sugar beets throughout the Americas is also very large, these are seasonal cash crops after all. They cannot be dug directly like metal minerals and require a growth cycle.
In addition, due to the Pacific War, shipping routes in the Asia-Pacific region were blocked, and materials from Southeast Asia, another important raw material producing area for the sugar industry, could not enter.
This caused tension in the U.S. sugar industry.
Raw materials can only be rationed to those large corporate factories. If Qiaoxi doesn't have enough connections, it will be almost impossible to get enough raw materials.
What Margot didn't know was that Josie didn't want to get raw materials from this world at all, but from the Game of Thrones world.
Why is Daenerys willing to spend a lot of money to buy candy from Josie? Is it because there is no candy in Game of Thrones?
of course not!
Game of Thrones does not just have sugar purification technology.
So as long as Qiao Xi imports raw sugar from the Game of Thrones world, purifies and processes it, and the produced sugar, whether sold back to Daenerys or sold in this world, will be a huge profit!
Of course, this model is not without its drawbacks.
The disadvantage is that it is easy for the federal government to detect problems.
After all, if you don’t have raw materials, how can you produce so much sugar?
The reason is also very simple, because the fundamental purpose of Qiao Xi's opening of this sugar factory is not actually cane sugar at all.
It is a type of sugar that has not yet appeared in this era, and that is the extremely cheap high fructose corn syrup in later generations!
"Have you heard of fructose? What if I told you that I have a technology that can use corn starch to extract sugar that is sweeter and cheaper than sucrose?" Faced with Margot's doubts, Qiao Xi said quietly