From the gate of heaven

Chapter 128 [Fertilizer factory thermal power station opens]

If Lin Ze wants luck, he needs to interfere in the rise and fall of many individuals or groups.

At present, the productivity of the Zhou Dynasty is still very low, and the food output is also very low.

Lin Ze used chemical fertilizers to increase food production and promote the progress and growth of civilization, which increased the luck of human civilization in the other world. Lin Ze could naturally benefit from it and obtain a lot of luck in the other world.

In order to build a fertilizer plant, Lin Ze called over Ji Kan and Ji Qingyan, two noble people from Tianhuang who had been staying in Fengping County.

Although they have been sending messengers to their hometown recently to mobilize money, food and soldiers, they have never left Fengping County. In addition to conveniently connecting with Lin Ze, they also brought their guards to help Lin Ze look after his house.

So far, Linze has delivered the fourth batch of firearms and bullets.

"Next, I will start planning to build a fertilizer plant."

"Before that, I need to know an exact figure, that is, the cultivated land area and population of the entire Zhou Dynasty?"

In the garden of Linzhai, Lin Ze served tea to the two Tianhuang nobles, and then he didn't bother to exchange pleasantries and went straight to the topic.

Small talk is used to create a harmonious atmosphere when the two parties are not familiar with each other, but now Ji Kan and Ji Qingyan are already very familiar with Lin Ze, and the two parties are even about to form an interest alliance. Talking about business directly is a more efficient means of communication.

"The cultivated land area is about 12343 million acres, and the population is [-] million. This is the data obtained from the census of the Ministry of Household Affairs the year before last."

Hearing this, Ji Kan answered Lin Ze's question without much thought.

Lin Ze thought for a moment, nodded and said: "Understood. Counting the cultivated land and population hidden by you powerful people, the total cultivated land area in the country should be one billion acres, and the national population should be around 50 million. According to the need for one acre of land Calculated based on about [-] kilograms of fertilizer.”

"It takes 500 billion kilograms of fertilizer to meet the country's demand. Taking into account some barren land and plants that consume large soil resources, the total fertilizer needs to be prepared at about 800 billion kilograms, which is 4000 million tons of fertilizer."

"Deducting the farmyard fertilizers and homemade soil fertilizers available to everyone on weekdays, at least 3000 million tons of chemical fertilizers are still needed."

"Two pounds is equal to one kilogram, and one thousand kilograms is equal to one ton."

Seeing the puzzled expressions on Ji Kan and Ji Qingyan's faces, Lin Ze also explained the measurement unit of tons.

Ji Kan nodded suddenly, and then said angrily: "Are you so sure that you have hidden 8000 million acres of land and [-] million people?"

Hearing Lin Ze say that powerful people hide farmland and population, Ji Kan, as a powerful person, subconsciously took notice. He would naturally feel annoyed when being pointed at by someone standing on the moral high ground.

If Lin Ze said this outside, he would definitely get a life-threatening evaluation.

But fortunately, Ji Kan and Ji Qingyan, as members of the Tibetan land and population, could not defeat Lin Ze.

"I'm talking about 1200 million acres on the small side. I roughly estimated that the land area of ​​the Zhou Dynasty was about [-] million square kilometers. Such a large area only has [-] million acres of land. You can lie to me, but don't do it yourself. Everyone believed it.”

Lin Ze glanced at Ji Kan.

Ji Kan was a little irritated by this look.

He took a deep breath and said calmly: "Okay, our royal family has more detailed data. The total cultivated land area in the country is 12 billion acres. In addition, there are about [-] million acres of various medicinal fields in the mountains and dangerous areas. Mountain."

"The total population is about 4000 million. These people who are not recorded in the household registration are all servants of various powerful people. Don't tell anyone. This is confidential information that only our core royal family members know."

Hearing this, Lin Ze nodded clearly and said: "You know that a lot of people and land have been hidden, but you haven't investigated it. Is it because most of the hidden land and people belong to members of your royal family?"

From here, we can see that the Zhou Dynasty understood the principle of concealment. It hid a large number of people and land, had its own hidden material sources, and its apparent strength was just a seemingly unremarkable feudal unity. Dynasty.

But secretly, there are countless masters he has trained as his background.

"Ah."

Ji Kan simply agreed, but did not explain any more details.

But Lin Ze had a lot of information that Ji Kan thought he didn't have, and he could get more information by analyzing this simple word "um".

Not surprisingly, this large amount of hidden cultivated land and population are actually under the name of Ji Yu, Taizu of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

He handed over the throne, but he did not hand over his property. After all, cultivation is really expensive, and it would be considered very generous for him to share part of it with his descendants.

Lin Ze nodded and said: "Then let's stop here to understand the data. Next, I will start preparations for the fertilizer plant. The goal of the first phase is to solve the food gap of 200 million people. According to the relatively sufficient calculation, 200 million people will need 100 Thousands of tons of grain.”

"To increase the production of this grain, we need about 500 million acres of land and 12.5 tons of chemical fertilizers."

"After this goal is achieved, the second phase will continue to expand the scale of the fertilizer plant to the extent that it can increase the output of acres of land across the country. By then, it will be able to feed more people, or double the output of your medicinal fields. "

Ji Kan smiled and said: "That is really a big help, Ziyi, don't worry, I have told the emperor brother about changing the fiefdom to Beiguan, and I will mobilize manpower and money as soon as possible to prepare the next plan. of."

On the side, Ji Qingyan, who had been listening quietly, also nodded and said: "It's the same here, I'm ready to change my fiefdom to Fufeng County."

Lin Ze served tea to see off the guests.

Afterwards, I started to get busy back in the main world.
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If an ordinary time traveler wants to make fertilizers in a farming society without any industry, it will be really troublesome.

But for Lin Ze, who has two realms, this is a very simple matter.

Return to the main world and directly ask Zhiyuan Trading Company to place an order for a fertilizer production line and purchase equipment with an annual output of 100 million tons, because Lin Ze needs to complete the construction of a fertilizer plant and fertilizer production before spring plowing.

Therefore, even if only 12.5 tons of chemical fertilizers need to be produced in the early stage, this output needs to be compressed to within one or two months.

This is relatively cheap, and it cost more than tens of millions to get it done.

Next is the purchase of materials and equipment related to the construction of thermal power stations.

This is very expensive, costing [-] million.In order to collect gold mines and build infrastructure facilities, Yulin City was repairing power stations on a large scale. It was not very conspicuous that Lin Ze placed an order for a power station that he needed among them.

This thermal power station costs 50 million, which can burn coal to generate electricity and can produce [-] kilowatt hours of electricity per hour.

The electricity consumption to produce one ton of chemical fertilizer is about 1000 degrees, and the electricity produced in one hour is enough to make 850 tons of chemical fertilizer. If all the electricity produced in a whole year is used to make chemical fertilizer, more than [-] million tons can be produced.

This power generation will definitely far exceed the demand in the early stage, but Lin Ze can rely on this power plant to build other factories, and it can also be used as a source of power to expand the output of the fertilizer plant in the future.

After placing the order, Lin Ze began to systematically learn the knowledge and processes related to building fertilizer plants and thermal power plants.

After the materials and equipment needed for the construction of the thermal power plant are in place, Lin Ze will transport all these things to Fengping County in another world and build a factory there.

If it were the main world, Lin Ze could directly hand over these matters to the construction team, but now in order not to expose the secrets of his Zhutian Sect, he had to do it himself.

Under normal circumstances, Lin Ze's temporary behavior is absolutely unacceptable.

But at this moment, Lin Ze has become a warrior in the realm of Ning Zhen. His physique is far beyond ordinary people, and he has stronger wisdom and understanding. Coupled with the strengthening of Zhutian Sect, Lin Ze's learning ability has been strengthened, so that Lin Ze Ze quickly completed the study of the entire construction-related process.

Next, after the purchased equipment arrived, Lin Ze began to use his personal space to bring these things to the other world in batches.

Start building factories, assembling equipment, and establishing production processes.

Throughout the winter, Lin Ze devoted all his time after practicing and dealing with his career to this matter.

In the other world, in Fengping County and even the entire Qingyu County, many people who were hiding at home to avoid the cold were mobilized by Lin Ze. Under his guidance, they learned to dust and began to help build factories.

With the strength of many people and Lin Ze's precise command, a brand new power plant and fertilizer plant were built in an open space five kilometers away from the Heishi Village Coal Mine.
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1 month 15 day.

Ji Kan and Ji Qingyan were invited to visit the launching ceremony of the fertilizer plant.

Although Lin Ze's subordinates have been reporting to the two Tianhuang nobles on the progress of the two factories they have recently planned to build, this is the first time for them to come here in person.

"That's the power plant and fertilizer plant. Next, I need unlimited manpower to dig coal. The more coal, the better."

"In addition to being burned for thermal power generation, coal can also be used as a raw material for making nitrogen fertilizer."

Lin Ze ignored the military camps stationed next to the two factories to protect them, and pointed at the two factories in the distance that were built at a safe distance.

Ji Kan and Ji Qingyan followed Lin Ze's directions and saw two rectangular factory buildings built of reinforced concrete standing on the plain. Wooden rail cars were also connected here, which continuously transported the coal dug from the Heishi Village Coal Mine. send over.

The coal was sent in batches to thermal power stations and fertilizer factories by many workers.

Lin Ze took Ji Kan and Ji Qingyan into the two factories, and they could see that a steady stream of electricity was being produced and then supplied to the operation of the equipment in the fertilizer plant.

Many trained workers work closely with the assembly line equipment, constantly adding materials and then sending the produced fertilizers to the warehouse for storage.

"Ingenious workmanship, ingenious workmanship, is this also made from a treasure chest of heavenly work?"

Ji Kan was amazed again and again. The assembly line equipment in front of him was full of a sense of regularity and wisdom. It was a more amazing building than a wooden rail car.

At least Ji Kan, the wooden rail car, can roughly understand the operating principles, but he can't understand the current thermal power station and fertilizer production line.

Because of this, Ji Kan believed even more deeply in the story about the Tiangong Treasure Box that Lin Ze had fabricated before, thinking that he had been too presumptuous before.

Lin Ze nodded and did not dwell on the topic of the Tiangong Treasure Box. He said: "The fertilizer factory can produce about 2500 tons of fertilizer every day. There are still one or two months before spring plowing, so there is no time to produce enough fertilizer. .”

"Although the fertilizer produced later cannot keep up with spring plowing, it can topdress farmland to increase production."

"The food produced by the increased fertilizer production is enough to support our management of barbarians and grassland nomads in the Hengduan Mountains."

On the side, Ji Qingyan asked curiously: "Ziyi, I see that your two factories are so ingenious that they cost a lot to build. How much do you plan to sell the fertilizer for per kilogram?"

To be honest, Lin Ze really hadn't thought about this issue.

When building a coal plant in the past, Lin Ze had to calculate the cost and see if he would lose money.

But now that Lin Ze's net worth has exceeded tens of billions and is still growing rapidly, he doesn't care much about costs and prioritizes gaining luck.

Some time ago, he was extremely busy building these two factories.

After hearing this, I started thinking on the spot.

"Power stations and fertilizer plants are means of production. Although the two together cost me more than [-] million, they cannot be converted into the cost of goods. They can only be used to offset the cost slowly with profits."

"Then there is the cost of producing fertilizer. Coal accounts for 60.00% of the cost of producing fertilizer in the main world, and the remaining 40.00% is labor cost and electricity cost."

"However, the coal here is mine and the labor cost is negligible. The price of one ton of coal is 7.5 taels. The cost of producing 3 tons of fertilizer per month is 3000 taels. The labor cost is [-] personal salary plus meals. It’s only [-] taels of silver.”

"The total cost is 3.3 taels of silver, and the product is 7.5 tons of fertilizer. On average, the cost per kilogram of fertilizer is 0.22 cents. The cost of using 50 kilograms of fertilizer per mu of land is 11 cents."

"The grain that can be increased by one acre of land is calculated based on the minimum three hundred kilograms. The general purchase price of grain is six cents, which means that the added grain is worth 1800 cents. It is more reasonable to sell my fertilizer for 20 cents per catty, so that I can make money. .”

"Farmers can also make money here. One acre of land can earn at least 1000 cash, or even more than [-] cash. This can stimulate their enthusiasm for using chemical fertilizers."

"Over time, the money I earn will be able to recoup the cost of investing in the construction of thermal power stations and fertilizer plants."

After thinking about this, Lin Ze told the two Tianhuang nobles around him the results of his thinking just now, and explained to them the reasons for the price.

(End of this chapter)