my magic industry

Chapter 46 Plant Construction
In order to increase cement production, Xia Lin made several additional sets of grinding devices, and also ordered a batch of masks made of fine gauze and coarse gauze from the Greg Chamber of Commerce to prevent these workers from inhaling too much dust and causing silicosis.

During this period of time, except that the external shelter of the factory has not yet been built, both the brick factory and the cement factory have been successfully completed. The brick factory produces 4 yuan of bricks per day, and the cement factory produces 300 pounds of cement per day, which is almost one ton of cement.

The number of employees has also reached an astonishing 600, and those 45 employees have also become independent managers.

Some are responsible for the registration and management of brick movers and brickmakers, some are responsible for porters and cement workers, some are responsible for canteens, and some are responsible for material management and so on.

Every day, Xia Lin's gold coins are also paid out like running water.

After one month, the labor cost has reached 90 Glenn, and the cost of other raw materials has reached 220 Glenn, which is close to Xia Lin's estimated initial investment amount.

However, the effect obtained is also remarkable. Now Yutooth can no longer provide enough hired workers, so Xia Lin had to return to the site of Tongshou to recruit a group of elders from his hometown.

The reason why they were not considered when recruiting brickmakers before was also because digging clay on Yutooth's site was more hated, so it was more appropriate to use local people.

But jobs such as brick movers and cement grinders don't need to consider these things. When the paper mill opens, Xia Lin plans to cram all the people from her hometown into the paper mill with relatively better working conditions.

With a steady stream of bricks and cement, Xia Lin recruited a group of construction workers at several nearby organization sites with a daily salary of 30 copper pess. After simple training, Adams and a man named Sharp Val Special employees are in charge of this construction team.

This Sharp Walter was one of the first people who reached Xia Lin's [-] common words and counted within [-]. At the same time, he was sleek and clever, and he was able to carry out Xia Lin's orders well, so he caught Xia Lin's attention , got the chance.

If there are no major problems in the future, after Adams becomes the director of the cement plant that has been built, Sharp will become the official leader of the construction team, that is, the contractor in his previous life.

With this relatively professional construction team, the construction speed of the industrial park suddenly accelerated.

After the preliminary foundation was compacted and the land leveling work was completed, the five factories that Xia Lin planned to distribute along the river quickly started the construction of the factories. With the huge and cheap manpower in the slums, the industrial park looked the same every day.

Soon, tall factory buildings with brick-concrete structure were completed one by one by the river.

These factory buildings are about two stories high, covering an area ranging from 400 square meters to 600 square meters. They use non-combustible hardwood as beams and tiles as roofs. For fire prevention, diatomite cushions are also filled in the roof structure. They are erected on the side facing the river. Two waterwheels were installed as the power source for the factory.

This kind of factory building is enough for use now. As soon as the machine tool factory was completed, Xia Lin had people move the four machine tools that were guarded day and night under the thatched shed to the machine tool factory.

At the same time, let the dwarf masters start to use these machine tools to process wrought iron materials, and produce large centrifuges, piston filters, water bath pipes, and crude salt refining devices designed by themselves based on the power of the waterwheel.

In addition, the research and development work for the subsequent upgrade of the machine tool was also arranged by Xia Lin in the schedule for the head of the machine tool factory, Fan Melting.

Once a sufficiently precise steel shaft, lead screw, and bed are processed, and the hardwood shafts and wooden beds of the current four machine tools are replaced, with the hardness, rigidity and wear resistance of the fine gold cutter head, Xia Lin will soon be able to These few machine tools can be used as the master machine to produce more machine tools.

This is how the machining industry improves its processing capabilities through continuous iterations, and can eventually achieve a machining accuracy that is even more precise than a trace.

After spending a lot of money for such a period of time, Xia Lin can't wait to reap the rewards seeing that the funds on hand are dwindling.

On the other side, the various ponds in the paper mill have also been repaired. The water is lifted by the water truck, and there is an automatic mixing device designed by Xia Lin. The production efficiency of the paper mill is not known to be higher than that of the previous small workshop. .

After Xia Lin formulated the production regulations and let them memorize them by heart, soon Roy took 15 people under him to recruit enough workers to start production, and there was a new job near the industrial park, which was to go to Luwei Cutting reeds in the pond.

A bundle of reeds weighing 8 to [-] pounds can be sold for [-] copper pess in a paper mill, and an adult labor force can cut three to four hundred pounds of reeds in a day. As long as you are not afraid of getting tired, you can earn nearly half a silver mal in a day .

After these reeds are manually cut off from the head to the tail, they will turn into yellowish paper in a process. Part of the first batch of paper was transported to the Royal Academy of Magic, and the other part was channeled through the Greg Chamber of Commerce. We started selling.

The paper mill, which consists of impregnation workshop, beating workshop, pulp refining and mixing workshop, papermaking workshop, and finishing and drying workshop, has a daily output of [-] pounds of paper, which is [-] sheets in terms of the number of sheets.

In just a few days, high-quality and cheap paper has occupied most of the market in the imperial capital.After all, the production of parchment is complicated, the output is low, and the price is high, which cannot satisfy the perennially hungry paper market.

Countless scholars, mages, and nobles all praised this novel paper, and the industrial park located in the slums also entered their sight for the first time.

The production of the paper mill also began to bring Xia Lin the first income.

Because the output of the large-scale paper mill far exceeded Xia Lin's estimate, he finally set the price of paper at 3 copper pes per piece.

However, the cost of producing a piece of paper in a paper mill is less than half a copper bis, and the paper mill can bring Xia Lin a high income of 20 gold lunts in a day, which is completely enough to overwhelm the current daily increase in raw materials and Labor expenses.

After the paper mill, the sugar and refined salt factory was put into production. With the fine gold cutter head machine tool, the dwarf masters can only say that it is easy and pleasant to process the soft wrought iron. They quickly produced a 1.5m high, radius 0.4 m's cylindrical centrifuge, the general structure is quite similar to the simple centrifuge used by Xia Lin before.

It's just that the shape is different and the specifications are larger. At the same time, two valves for taking liquid are added, and there is a pipe for water inlet at the top.

After connecting to the power of the waterwheel, the fully loaded 225-pound centrifuge slowly rotates, and the speed gradually increases. After a period of time, the workers use iron rods to open the valve, and the centrifuged brown sugar solution flows into the piston-type centrifuge on the side along the cast iron pipeline. filter.

The rotation of the water wheel outside the factory drives the movement of the piston, which quickly turns the brown sugar solution into a clear trickle and flows into the water bath pipe embedded in the stove. After heating, it turns into a concentrated white sugar solution, which is scooped into the iron basin by the workers at the end of the pipe. The hook is fixed in the flowing pool on one side to stand still to separate out the white sugar crystals.

(End of this chapter)