When Lin Ziran saw the kerosene, what he saw was not kerosene, but piles of Hengyuan gold coins!
All this kerosene is money!
Now that the refining equipment has been completed, even if there is only such a prototype equipment at the moment, as long as we continue to purchase various accessories step by step, we can use the existing people to assemble more refining equipment. By then, we will not dare to scale it up.
He said, but it is still possible to build a small-scale oil refinery.
As for the cost of refining kerosene equipment and the cost of surveying oil wells, these initial investments are nothing compared to the huge profits from kerosene in the future.
Once you get started, it will be a very profitable business.
After the trial production was successful, Lin Ziran personally took the refined kerosene sample to Qingshan Trading Company and asked the shopkeeper Sun Guan to sell the kerosene to see the market reaction.
Among the many products sold by Qingshan Trading Company, there is whale oil, and kerosene is a substitute for whale oil, so there is no need to worry about how to sell it, just sell it like whale oil.
As long as the subsequent pricing is somewhat cheaper than whale oil, there is no need to worry about the market.
The biggest advantage of kerosene over whale oil is its low cost and low price.
Whale oil costs 50 cents per liter, while kerosene can be sold for 45 or even 40 cents.
Let alone 40 cents, even if it is priced at 20 cents or even 10 cents, the kerosene can still make money, and the profit will still be huge.
Sun Guan was still a little confused about the kerosene, but when he saw Lin Ziran lighting the kerosene, there was no obvious smell, and the light was very bright, and his eyes lit up.
"Sir, how much kerosene is there?" Sun Guan is an old shopkeeper who has been in business for decades. As soon as he saw the burning effect of kerosene and considering the price of only 40 cents, he immediately realized that the market would
Extremely huge.
Lin Ziran said: "The current output is not very large, it is estimated to be only about a hundred liters!"
After Sun Guan heard this, he showed a pity look: "This thing is a good thing, but the quantity is not large at one hundred liters a month. In this case, there is no need to sell it at a reduced price, it can be sold at the same price as whale oil
go."
Lin Ziran smiled slightly: "It's not a hundred liters a month, but a hundred liters a day!"
"One hundred liters a day? In this case, wouldn't it be three thousand liters a month?" Sun Guan became interested when he heard this.
If there are only 100 liters a month, it is only 50 constant dollars even based on the price of whale oil. But if it is 3,000 liters a month, it becomes 1,500 constant dollars.
Although this business is still not big, it is not bad for a small business in a remote place like Qingshan Trading Company.
At this time, Lin Ziran continued: "And this is only the output of the early trial production. After a period of time, it is estimated that some output can be increased. The specific amount is difficult to say, but it should not be a problem to increase it four to five times more than now."
If the second oil well produces oil smoothly, according to Lin Ziran's own estimate, even if the daily output is only about ten barrels, the output will increase by at least four to five times.
Sun Guan was already a little excited at this time: "Can we increase the output five times? If this is the case, then the market in our Qingshan Town and several nearby towns will be a little smaller. If we want to sell, we may have to expand.
An out-of-town market!”
At this time, Sun Guan was already drawing and writing with the banknotes. At the same time, he said to himself: "If the output is increased five times, the output will be more than 7,000 constant yuan per month. This amount is near Qingshan Town.
It won’t be digested no matter what, but when the time comes we can buy part of it and take it to several nearby towns, and the rest can be hauled to Sanyang Ferry, and then shipped to several ports on both sides of the Luo River for sale.”
Seeing Sun Guan's appearance, Lin Ziran knew that he was right to find this person to be the shopkeeper of Qingshan Trading Company.
This Sun Guan used to be the shopkeeper of a cloth shop in the town. Later, he was recruited by Lin Ziran to serve as the shopkeeper of Qingshan Trading Company. He was only hired because he felt that this person was experienced and had a familiar network of contacts in the county and county towns.
, he is relatively familiar with it even in Zhoucheng, and can lead people to lay out Qingshan Trading Company's purchase and sales channels.
Later, as time passed, he also discovered that Sun Guan was also a wonderful person.
He enjoys doing business and derives pleasure from running it.
This can be seen from the fact that he is very keen on building the sales channels of Qingshan Trading Company, traveling to nearby villages many times, and even going to several other nearby towns to build branches. This man enjoys it.
How to sell kerosene is Sun Guan's business, and Lin Ziran doesn't interfere much. After all, he is the professional. What he is responsible for now is to mine crude oil, refine kerosene, and then provide sufficient supply to Qingshan Trading Company.
, so as to earn huge profits.
Finally, it will be used to raise and expand the army!
After leaving the kerosene sample and instructing Sun Guan to continue purchasing machinery and equipment from outside, especially assembling important components for building distillation towers, steam engines and other mechanical equipment, Lin Ziran went back.
Lin Ziran did not rest after returning. He ordered Luo Mazi and his men to find a larger area near the city gate barracks to be used as a refinery.
Nangong Hou was asked to lead the people to continue assembling the second distillation tower.
Nangong Hou was very dissatisfied with Lin Ziran's continued use of him as a coolie, saying that he couldn't keep working as a mechanic, after all, he also graduated from Nanhai College and once stayed at the school to teach.
He studies all high-end things, such as perpetual motion machines and so on.
How can you be like ordinary skilled craftsmen who hammer and hammer every day!
Facing Nangong Hou's complaint, Lin Ziran patted him on the shoulder and said, "Mr. Nangong, work hard. When this refinery is built and you make money, I will build a laboratory for you in the future and provide you with sufficient funds for your research."
Perpetual motion machine!”
When Nangong Hou heard about the laboratory and Lin Ziran's promise to provide him with sufficient funds to study perpetual motion machines, he immediately said with anticipation: "I wonder how much funding will be available then?"
Lin Ziran was stunned when he heard this. What he just said was actually like coaxing a child, saying that he would be given funding to build a laboratory to study perpetual motion machines. It was just a joke.
His brain is not broken, why would he invest money in researching some kind of perpetual motion machine?
But seeing Nangong Hou's expectant eyes and thinking that he only had one scientific research coolie under his command, he calmed down and said: "Don't worry, it will definitely not be less. I will give you eight hundred when the time comes. No, I will give you one thousand."
Heng Yuan as research funding.”
Nangong Hou stretched out his greasy hand to hold Lin Ziran and said, "Mr. Lin, you are such a good person. When I was at Nanhai College, I said that I wanted to apply for funding to study perpetual motion machines. They all thought I was crazy.
, I have never been able to get a single cent of funding!”
"Don't worry, Mr. Lin, it's just a small oil refinery. I, Nangong Hou, will build it with my people right now!"
Lin Ziran pulled out his hand with a little force, turned around and said: "As long as the refinery is built, the research funds will be indispensable!"
"Also, I'm not a good person!"
Lin Ziran left, leaving only Nangong Hou with a confused look on his face: Why is he a good person?