Chapter 156: Go to North America Paper

Grenada finally produced sugar. A batch of brown sugar produced in Grenada was transported back to East Friesland to supply the consumption of Aurich Palace.

In fact, sugar cane cultivation in Grenada is still expanding. Because sugarcane nodes can cultivate sugarcane seedlings, most of the harvested sugarcane is used to continue to cultivate sugarcane seedlings, and then expand the planting.

However, it is not good to keep sugar out. In accordance with established practice, those European aristocrats would be very angry if they could not see the benefits. In fact, Marin is not so short-sighted. The old Governor of Grenada, George, still picked out a group of sugarcanes that are not in good condition to use for squeezing sugar ...

Finally, the boat returning to Emden port brought a total of 2o bags of rice to Marin for Marin to make egg fried rice; 2o bags of ginger, used as spices and condiments; 2o bags of soybeans, used to ... um, It was taken by Marin to grind soy milk and make tofu ... Finally, 5 bags of sucrose and brown sugar ...

However, for the packaging of these goods, Marin was a little surprised ...

Rice, **** and soybeans are packed in sacks, which is no problem. But why do those cane sugar use animal skin bags? Do n’t know that hides are expensive? It is natural to transport sucrose in such small quantities, but Marin will make sucrose an industry in the future. In this way, the packaging of sucrose is easy, and the cost also needs to be controlled. Otherwise, the value of the pocket is too high, isn't it a worthy person?

After all, sucrose still has to face the public in the end. It ’s a bit extravagant to put sucrose in animal skin pockets ...

"Why not put sucrose in oil paper?" Marin asked the captain in charge of the American route to shave his head. In Marin's cognition, there is no plastic bag in this era, and naturally it is best to use a moisture-proof oil paper bag.

Aben scratched his bare head and thought for a while:

"Sir, the price of oiled paper is not cheaper than animal skin ..."

"Ah?" Marin froze for a moment, and then he came to Kohler and asked him to send someone to inquire.

Sure enough, when Kohler's men came back, they told Marin that the price of oiled paper was really not cheaper than that of animal skins.

Malin remembered faintly that the current papermaking in Europe was probably the early papermaking learned by the Arabs during the Tang Dynasty. That is the method of making paper with raw materials such as rags, fishing nets and bark.

However, European fabrics are very expensive and use rags as raw materials ... the paper cost is low and there is a ghost ...

At this time, Daming has already begun to popularize bamboo paper. Bamboo paper is to soak the bamboo in the lime pond for more than 100 days, and it will be rotten, and then take the paper.

Bamboo is everywhere in China, especially in the south. Moreover, Phyllostachys edulis grows quickly and the raw materials are readily available. Therefore, the cost of Huaxia's paper is much lower than that of European rags and fishing nets.

It wasn't until the Qianlong period that French missionary Jiang Youren, whose original name was Benoit Michelle, stole the secrets of papermaking in China and sent the new style of papermaking to the picture and returned it to Paris.

For now, the price of European paper is really not cheap. So much so that when signing documents, the nobles simply used parchment, which is a little more expensive than paper, but more durable.

Moreover, speaking of the current oil paper in Europe, that cost is higher. Because the popular oil paper in Europe is tallow paper. How expensive is butter? In this era of lack of oil and water, the price of butter ...

Paper is already expensive in Europe, with the addition of butter, the price is more expensive, and it is almost the same as animal skin. But the hide is not only waterproof, but also stronger. Therefore, when transporting sucrose, Europeans simply used animal skin bags.

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Marin suddenly remembered something he had planned to use local forest resources to make paper on Cape Breton Island. To this end, he also sent people to Egypt to buy sodium Glauber's salt needed for cooking pulp. However, before he was busy with war, he almost forgot about it.

So, he quickly found relevant personnel and asked about the purchase of thenardite. As a result, Marin was told that the ship to Egypt had purchased dozens of bags of thenardite and returned and found a stable supplier. As long as there is a need, buy him hundreds or thousands of bags of thenardite. However, Marin did not mention the purchase of thenardite, and the papermaking process was delayed. The boat to Egypt was only concerned about buying natural soda, and no longer increased the purchase of thenardite.

In fact, on Cape Breton Island, the coal mine in the North Sydney mining area north of Sydney Bay has been discovered and has begun to open. Moreover, Cape Breton Island, including most of North America, is a region of dense jungle.

In North America, the paper industry is definitely the best choice ...

There are unlimited trees here, plus the coal mines on Cape Breton Island, as well as the mirabilite cooking catalyst purchased from Egypt, Marin can make people set up a large pot on Cape Breton Island and cook the pulp desperately. Canada is the world's largest pulp producer ...

Of course, the container for cooking pulp is not an ordinary cauldron. Instead, a steel cooker with better sealing performance is required. After the cooker is sealed, water vapor cannot escape during cooking, and a high pressure is formed in the cooker. Then, the temperature rises ...

In this way, the wood chips can be cooked into pulp that can be used for making paper in a few hours ...

But using traditional methods to make bamboo paper, just soaking the bamboo in the lime pond, it takes more than 100 days to soak ...

After soaking, I have to get it in the big pot and cook for seven or eight days ...

In the more than a hundred days of bamboo, the papermakers had nothing to do, so they had to do something else. When the bamboo is soaked, they can boil and start work.

Using modern chemical pulping method, using sodium sulfate as the cooking catalyst, and using a sealed high-pressure cooker, put the cut wood into the cooker, as long as the high-pressure cooking for 2 to 4 hours, you can get the pulp ... …

In contrast, the efficiency is hundreds of thousands of times worse ...

With the most advanced bamboo paper making method in the world, it takes at least 120 days to obtain the pulp that can be used for making paper.

And using the chemical pulping method of later generations, using wood that is wider than bamboo, you can get pulp in just one day ... even, you ca n’t use it for a day, half a day ...

That is to say, when the papermaking craftsmen of Daming made a knife of paper, workers using modern methods may have made hundreds of thousands of knife paper ...

With such efficiency, plus North American timber, you do n’t need money, just cut it. Therefore, Marin can be sure that as soon as he starts to make paper, the cost of the paper produced by his paper mill will be very low, which is lower than the cost of paper in the Ming Dynasty.

The price of paper in the Ming Dynasty was about one penny per piece of paper. The cost of paper made by Marin using modern technology is definitely much lower than this ...

By then, such low-cost paper, made of oil paper, will certainly not be expensive. At that time, Marin is fully qualified to popularize oil paper bag packaging ...

Moreover, the textbooks used by the East Frisian school can also be made by hand ... Unlike now, many children are still learning Yue Fei and writing on the sand table with branches ...

Because North American colonies produce large amounts of whale oil, even if you make oil paper, you don't need to use expensive butter, but use whale oil to soak the paper. In this way, the price of oil paper produced on Cape Breton Island is definitely very cheap.

By that time, Grenada, and the Cuba that will be opened, cane sugar produced, can use oil paper as packaging. It ’s cheap and has good moisture resistance ...

To this end, Marin personally organized artisans to create a large-scale cooker for cooking pulp, which is sealed and has a lid similar to the tank lid at the top. The lid is covered with cowhide to ensure that the container is as much as possible during cooking No air leakage, increase the pressure inside easy to increase the cooking temperature.

It's just that the first time the cooking was done, the iron bolt of the lid was not made firmly, which caused the lid to fly away from the high pressure of the cooker, and a huge explosion was heard. Fortunately, the iron cover flew to no one. Otherwise, if you hit Marin who is coming to watch, it will change history ...

After improvement, the craftsmen used high carbon steel bolts with high tensile strength for the lid of the digester. In this way, regardless of the pressure in the digester, the iron cover will not be lifted. Unless the pressure inside the digester reaches a level where the digester made of pure steel can explode ... but that possibility is extremely low ...

After the digester is successful ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ Marin ordered to ship to Cape Breton Island. At the same time, Marin also allocated a group of paper craftsmen and lumberjacks who had signed a death contract to go to Cape Breton Island to make paper. Those lumberjacks are naturally responsible for cutting down trees and dividing the logs into small pieces of wood for cooking in the digester. Those paper-making craftsmen are responsible for re-mixing the pulp after the pulp is cooked, and making the paper. Then, take out the pulp-coated board and dry it ... When it is dry, the paper craftsmen can peel off a piece of paper from the board ...

However, because of the need to transfer the salt cooking base to Cape Breton Island, the wastewater pollution from papermaking is especially large, especially chemical pulping. Therefore, Marin decided that the base for papermaking would not be placed in Sydney Bay, but at the northern end of Cape Breton Island.

In this way, even if the wastewater from the paper mill is discharged into the sea, it will not affect the salt boiling in Sydney Bay. Because the ocean currents on the east coast of North America, that is, the North Atlantic warm current, flow from south to north. Going to the northernmost point of Cape Breton Island in the paper mill peninsula, the wastewater generated by the paper mill will not affect the "upstream" salt cooking base. Otherwise, the salt boiling base uses contaminated seawater, and the salt will be problematic.

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