Traveling through the Legend of the Condor Heroes: I, Yang Kang, Have Nine Yang

Chapter 257 Soap and Cement

Yang Kang's words completely conquered the people in the house, especially Huang Rong and A Xue, who had been conquered by Yang Kang for a few times.

His idea is bold and even absurd. This strategy is just like his weird ideas. It is unexpected and unbelievable, but he feels that such a plan is completely feasible. It is like a wild idea, but it is in line with the facts .

Zhong Feishen and the others sighed, Yang Kang is indeed a hero born a boy, if these strategies were thought up by himself and others, then there is absolutely no way to convince everyone in the sect.

Then Yang Kang discussed the details with them a little bit, including how to develop the navy, how to enter Yizhou Island, how to transport materials in, or how to organize immigration and so on.

Moreover, Yang Kang's eloquence was very good, and he made everyone's blood boil with a few words, and he wished he could do it now.

In the end, everyone discussed for nearly half an hour and made the whole plan, and finally everyone dispersed to prepare.

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Time has entered summer, and the weather in the south of the Yangtze River is humid, and many people feel that it is difficult to breathe. At this time, Yang Kang started to make soap.

Why make soap?Because in the south of the Yangtze River, mosquitoes are rampant every summer, soap can relieve the pain and itching of people being bitten; at the same time, soap can effectively clean clothes and other daily clothing.

In fact, there were similar things at this time, that is pancreas soap or bath beans, but these two things are far inferior to soap in terms of cost and washing quality, making them and selling them can increase the income of Yang Kang's men.

This is also the reason why he chose to develop in Jiaxing. After all, it is located in the market of the Southern Song Dynasty. The salary is very high, and there is no need to risk decapitation for corruption in many cases.

This is slightly better than that of the Ming Dynasty. After all, the salary set by Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Dynasty may not be able to support a family without corruption. Understood.

Because, Yang Kang planned to provide him with a certain amount of funds by relying on high-quality and cheap soap.

And Yang Kang's courtyard has a lot of raw materials for debugging.

Yang Kang first groped for several barrels of palm oil with his hands, and poured them into a large pot that had already been prepared. A lot of water had already been added to it, and a disciple below him came to light the fire.

Then he stirred the pot with a spoon. Axue followed Yang Kang’s instructions and added some alcohol to the pot, and began to boil the soap oil. As time went by, the oil layer gradually thickened and the color changed. Also from light brown to brown.Yang Kang kept stirring with a spoon, and finally the palm oil turned into a solidified paste.

Next, Yang Kang added crushed garnet, a kind of natural lye, and after standing for a while, foam gradually emerged from the pot.

Then, Yang Kang poured the soap into molds to cool, because the soap made from palm oil has the property of increasing air foam, once the soap in the mold reached the proper temperature, Yang Kang put the soap into small pieces, and put them on the bamboo Dry in a basket.

After some twists and turns, Yang Kang finally made soap successfully!
Of course, this is only the preliminary process of making, and the soap produced is also extremely simple. In modern society, except for the very poor, no one will buy it.

But Yang Kang was not in a hurry, he just took the first step, and the subsequent things were studied in detail by the trained science students, some talents who worked hard to "cheat", and the sales and management department.

And even though the soap is not very beautifully made, but fortunately, it is worthy of its practicality. At the beginning, it was sold at a low price to the people around and members of the gang, and then sold to the outside world after the quality improved.

A Xue picked up a piece of soap, looked at the soap in her hand in disbelief, then turned to Yang Kang and asked, "Master, are you really sure that this soap is okay?"

Although she believed in Yang Kang, she was still a little worried.

Yang Kang comforted Axue with a smile, and asked with a smile, "Have you recorded what materials and weight we used this time?"

Axue nodded. This is Yang Kang's hard-won idea of ​​giving her a serious business. After all, now Huang Rong can almost be said to be Yang Kang's "female secretary", and Mu Nianci has also become the deputy head of the disciples. The martial arts of his female disciple, she is the only one who follows the young master all day long.

Although she doesn't fight or grab, as long as she can be with the young master, she is satisfied, but she still hopes to be able to help the young master in more places, and at the same time appear to be more useful.

At this time, two people came in at the door, namely Shi Quan and He Jin. They had been working for him for a long time, and Yang Kang's subordinates had more and more things to do, so they could only be arranged to do some things.

Yang Kang pointed at the soap, and ordered: "He Jin, take a few guards and follow Axue to find a group of reliable craftsmen to make this soap. At the same time, the address of the soap making workshop must be carefully selected. For a while, it’s okay to be next to the glass workshop, after all, you have a lot of materials to figure out. By the way, remember to move and clean up the materials at the door.”

A smile appeared on He Jin's face when he heard this, and he quickly responded, "Yes! This subordinate understands what to do!"

"Well, I'll leave this matter to you, I don't worry." After Yang Kang finished speaking, he looked at Shi Quan.

Shi Quan hurriedly cupped his hands and said: "If the leader has anything to do, please give me instructions. The subordinates will definitely do their best to complete the task."

Yang Kang nodded and continued: "I called you here because you are in charge of supervising the manufacture of cement. If the cement is manufactured, we will be able to make the building indestructible and at the same time speed up our construction. Are you ready?"

Shi Quan hurriedly said: "The subordinates have already prepared in the east of the city."

"Okay, let's go now." Yang Kang said, and started to leave.

The production of cement has a complicated technological process.First of all, the choice of raw materials needs to be carefully selected.The main raw materials are limestone and clay, and their quality and ratio must be strictly controlled during selection to ensure stable material quality in subsequent production processes.

Second, the raw material needs to be calcined.Calcination can be divided into three stages: preheating, firing and cooling.The preheating stage is mainly to remove impurities such as moisture and organic matter; the firing stage is to raise the temperature to burn the raw materials into compounds such as calcium oxide and silicon oxide.The cooling stage is to lower the temperature of the fired material to room temperature for subsequent processing.

Next, the fired raw materials are pulverized.Crushing is carried out by mining mills, high-pressure roller mills and other equipment, which can pulverize raw materials into powder to meet the requirements of subsequent mixing, but in this era, it can only be pulverized by manpower.

Then, the pulverized raw materials are mixed.When mixing, it is necessary to control the proportion and quality of raw materials, add an appropriate amount of gypsum and other auxiliary materials to adjust the hardening time of cement, and mix the raw materials evenly by mechanical mixing, manual mixing, etc.

Finally, the mixed raw materials are ground, which can be carried out by cement milling.The ground cement powder needs to be inspected and packaged.

In short, the production process of cement is an interlocking, complex and delicate process, which needs to be controlled through many key links to ensure that high-quality cement products are finally obtained.

This time, Yang Kang patiently guided dozens of people including Shi Quan. It took Yang Kang several days of work. If it wasn't for the arrival of one event, Yang Kang would have continued.

(End of this chapter)