Chapter 2116: Lack of oil, develop high technology
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Palm oil belongs to vegetable oil. When vegetable oil burns, not only the light is weak, but it also has peculiar smell and black smoke. It is not an ideal lighting fuel.
Yan Changwu was aware of this problem for a long time. He wanted to kill whales and blended whale oil with palm oil to increase brightness.
Whale oil is animal fat with high energy and high brightness. In particular, compared with ordinary whale oil, sperm whale oil burns more fully and does not have much peculiar smell, so the market response is better. The Chinese kill the whales for oil, and the baby whales are bad luck.
The history of human whaling is very long. In a prehistoric rock painting discovered in North Korea, there is a scene of humans fighting whales in small boats.
The Basques in medieval Europe depended on whaling for their livelihoods.
Poor Japanese people cannot eat beef, pork and mutton. Whale meat is their important source of protein supplement.
The captured whales can provide meat, skin, fat, and baleen for making clothes. At that time, of course, human beings have realized that whales have a large amount of fat and are very good lighting materials. However, because of the limitations of navigation technology, ocean fishing is not yet realistic.
Yan Changwu, one of the "subjects" pioneered by naval captains in the textual research is that the captain led a boat to kill a whale. If he fails to kill a whale, he has no certificate. The Chinese soldiers arrived on the east coast of Siberia from the coast of Waguo. Arrived in Vladivostok, crossed the Bering Strait, and reached North America.
Whale killing is popular, and merchant fleets come one after another. They won't waste a little whale's stuff, and whale oil has become a part of lamp oil.
With strong market demand in both China and China, the whaling industry has become more and more prosperous. There are fewer and fewer large-scale whale groups near the sea, and people can only go farther and farther into the far sea.
The Chinese whaling ship even went to Central America and reached Mexico!
In the middle of the 17th century, the two Chinas became the leader of the world’s whaling industry. The output of whale oil produced by the two Chinas exceeded the total output of whale oil in the world, or even tripled. This is true in the industry), and it has become a nightmare for whales.
The huge profits have attracted more and more people. Although ocean whaling is dangerous and sailor casualties are very common, the industrious Chinese are still willing to take risks and expect to get rich overnight.
However, the oil is still not enough!
Consider that the population of the two Chinas is close to 300 million, getting richer and richer, and it has driven the Chinese Eighth Elementary School to become rich. There are also foreign countries affected by China. For example, in the Mughal Empire of India, they were down to South China merchants at one time. Buy kerosene for only 500,000 silver dollars, generously first!
In order to decorate peace, the Mughal Empire bought lamp oil to light the capital of Delhi and celebrate the birthday of the Sultan.
This is not too strong. When Diwali is celebrated in India every year, believers light up a lot of lights. They believe that light defeats darkness. The more lights, the more they can please the gods.
Ordinary Indians are terribly poor and live in trees, but they are unambiguous when they light up their lamps.
The princes and lords of the major cities and states in India buy one million silver dollars in kerosene, first money!
It's not that they are cheap, but that they know that lamp oil is in short supply.
There are also the Buddha’s birthday festivals in Myanmar, Cambodia, and Siam, and they need a lot of lamp oil, and the Persian Zoroastrians brought one hundred thousand silver dollars to buy lamp oil and bring it back to Persia...
Nanhua's kerosene is definitely a product of conscience, not much oil is blended.
They directly add oil to the lamp oil. Now, under the guidance of Yan Changwu, the South Chinese know that oil can be ignited, but when natural oil is ignited, there is a lot of smoke and can only be added a little. Read for a long time
In fact, there are two types of lamp oil produced by Nanhua. One is to add 10% of the oil and the price is high, and the other is to add 20% of the oil, and the price is low.
It's just not enough. The South Chinese cultivated the lamp oil market. The market is getting bigger and bigger, and they are surprised to find that their own supply is inadequate.
Not to mention foreign countries, especially when the Spring Festival comes, the oil is definitely not enough!
Under the advocacy of Yan Changwu, both China and the United States took a full seven-day holiday, making it the largest carnival festival in the world.
The government lights up until the Lantern Festival, fifteen nights, night and night.
The common people opened the frying pan to fry things, and it was delicious. They don't have to go to work. They light up the lights at night to play mahjong, play cards, drink tea, and brag.
The food court is open all night, stir-fry and deep-fried things. The palm oil is used like pouring water!
It's like using it without spending money, making crooked nuts amazed.
Under the influence of China, Wa, North Korea, Ryukyu and Annan are all celebrating the Spring Festival. They placed large orders to buy a large amount of palm oil to return home to improve the lives of their people!
The problem of lack of oil is getting worse every day, Yang Ying'er wrote to Yan Changwu and asked him what to do?
He immediately guided the scientific and technological research, extracting kerosene from petroleum to replace the role of palm oil in kerosene.
It turned out that Sumatra Island, located to the west of the South China Empire and straddling the Strait of Malacca, is a treasure island because "oil is produced on the ground and oil is also produced underground": palm oil and petroleum.
The oil production on the east side of the island is rich, and the reservoir is shallow, and the oil comes out directly, which is convenient for exploitation.
The "Bright" company is a joint venture company. The royal company contributes 40% of the money, and the major consortia contributes 60% of the money. It has recruited personnel for scientific and technological research and has achieved technological breakthroughs.
In the company's industrial area, there are many distillation kettles, which continuously produce kerosene and heavy oil. The industrial area is filled with a scent of gasoline, which can not be used now and can only be burned or volatilized.
After inspecting the industrial area, he returned to the conference room. The chief engineer of the company was called Yan Jiao (read huan, meaning a hill above the mountain). He was very young and was responsible for the introduction. He was at all in front of Yan Changwu and many ministers. No stage fright, and the ministers were kind to him.
Yan Chang talked freely: "...we used the distillation method. Crude oil was intermittently fed into the distillation kettle and heated under the kettle. Now it is possible to connect 4 to 10 distillation kettles in series, and the crude oil is continuously fed in. Continuous kettle distillation. The process includes crude oil pretreatment: removing water and salt from the crude oil. Then distillation: distilling out mainly kerosene, using activated carbon to deodorize and remove impurities, in addition, there are other Oil, the bottom layer remains heavy oil."
"We are about to mass-produce kerosene ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The annual output is expected to reach 1,000 tons! Other oils are further developing their uses!" Yan Jiao pointed out.
Then he said, "Father, our gasoline engine keeps bursting. It can't be solved!"
It turned out that Yan Chang was the fourth child of Yan Changwu and Yang Ying'er. He did not join the army or politics, but became a scientific and technological worker.
Naturally, what good idea Yan Changwu has, it is definitely that the fat and water will not flow into other people's fields. Let Yan Chang preside over the oil development, which will leave a lot of money in the history of science and technology in the future.
Seeing him asking questions, Yan Changwu said in an angry manner: "You Lao Tzu is not omnipotent, you can solve it yourself!"
Can’t ask for a bargain, Yan Chang is an ambitious child, and he didn’t say much. He personally brought a few kerosene lamps. There was a purple-blue liquid in the lamp pot. After lighting, the lamps emitted bright light. Come, Yan Changwu first clap his hands, and everyone clap together for a long time!
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