It starts with the production team driving the big truck

Chapter 254 Do you dare to try?
"It's not alkaline earth, it's baking soda, sodium bicarbonate."

When Sun Jianping heard the word alkaline soil, he thought of the defective products that Director Yang had messed up. He shook his head and tore open a bag, "The purity reaches 98%."

"Ok?"

Factory Director Bilig frowned, "It's just a small production team. How can the purity be so high?"
"These are baking soda, and this water bottle contains sodium nitrate, as well as some calcium carbonate and brine..."

Sun Jianping carefully lifted Shuizhu out of the carriage and placed it on the ground as carefully as possible. The things inside were not easy to mess with!

Bilige grabbed another handful of baking soda and rubbed it with his hands. He turned around and muttered to the person behind him. A strong man wearing a leather coat with half of his body covered in water hurriedly came over, looked at the baking soda, and said repeatedly Nod, thumbs up!

nice one!
The purity is so high!
"Pull in!"

Bilige waved his hand and accepted the goods.

"We don't have convenient transportation here, but tanning leather requires a lot of chemical raw materials, such as sodium bicarbonate, sulfuric acid, salt, formalin... It has to be transferred from the chemical factory in Baicheng, and some even have to go to Jilin Purchasing goods... going back and forth... If your stuff is easy to use, we will save a lot of trouble in the future."

“You’ll know if it’s good or not if you try it!”

Sun Jianping saw that there was a way out!
If we could really open up this sales channel and contract out all the supply of chemical raw materials for this wool factory, the village would be able to make a lot of money from salt-alkali!

"Okay, it's almost noon. It's rare for you to come all the way. Let's go to the cafeteria and have some food. People are like iron rice and steel!"

Bilige stood up and led him and Bao Tu out of the office and into an adobe room at the back.

There was steam in the adobe house, and something was being boiled in large pots. The air was filled with a strong smell of mutton, making Sun Jianping breathless, but Bao Tu and Bilige seemed to have long been used to it. , walked in through the front door and out the back door, and came to the wool factory canteen.

"Our factory is not large in scale. It used to be a workshop run by an old cobbler from Shandong. After the public-private partnership, it was expanded on the original site and built this factory. It is responsible for purchasing cattle, sheepskin and wool from various tribes and livestock sites within a hundred miles... …”

For lunch, he had big steamed buns and two stir-fried dishes, both of which were fried in mutton fat. Sun Jianping always tasted something fishy when he ate it.

But it was still a mouthful after all. He grabbed the big steamed bun and ate it while listening to Bilige telling the history of the factory.

"You used to be..."

"I used to...haha!"

Factory Director Bilige laughed, "I used to be the cavalry company commander under the old prince Baorihatu of ALKEQQ. When I was a teenager, I followed the old man to fight against the Japs. Later I was discharged from the army and transferred to another job and was assigned here. Now I am almost twenty years old. years."

Sun Jianping scratched his head, never heard of it.

While I was eating, a thin middle-aged man walked in from outside. He was wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses. He was elegant and looked like a scholar.

"Lao Mi, have you finished counting everything?"

Seeing that it was him, Director Bilig smiled and said hello to him.

Accountant Mi laughed innocently, "After counting, the total is 1,807 kilograms of baking soda, 200 kilograms of sodium nitrate, and 175 kilograms of calcium carbonate... According to the market price, the total is..."

Accountant Mi handed the account book to Factory Director Bilige. He glanced at it, signed his name with a pen, and handed it to Sun Jianping, "See if the weight is different. If it's OK, go to the accounting office to get the money."

Sun Jianping took it and took a look, frowning slightly.

Baking soda is purchased at a price of 30 cents per catty. Sodium nitrate is special and the price is high, 1.50 per catty...

The total calculation came to nine hundred and twenty-three yuan.

What a huge sum of money!
"No problem." Sun Jianping took out the letter of introduction with the official seal of Ermajia Production Team from his pocket and handed it to Accountant Mi. Accountant Mi took it and hurried out. After a while, he wrapped it in a brown paper and opened it. , which are full of new ten-yuan bills!

"If you have this thing again, just send it to us directly, so that we don't have to ask grandpa and grandma to find other chemical plants to buy raw materials." Director Bilige smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "You have to put the money in Okay, don’t let the package picture be snatched away from you!”

One sentence made everyone laugh.

After the meal, the hospitable factory director Bilige took him around the factory. Sun Jianping also witnessed with his own eyes how the wool factory cleans the wool and tanns the leather.

In huge pools, the sheepskin and cowhide that had been shed after being slaughtered last winter were soaked in baking soda, that is, sodium bicarbonate, as a cleaning agent. A shirtless, strong man with bronze tendon meat was holding a stick in his hand. The bamboo pole with an iron hook is used to continuously turn the soaked leather inside. The whole process takes two to three days.

Put the soaked leather into another pool, add baking soda and knead it to make the leather soft.

Then remove the meat from the inside, tear off the remaining pieces of meat attached to the skin, and clean the inside of the skin.

Then there is pickling and tanning...

Sun Jianping also didn’t expect that a mere piece of sheepskin would require such a complicated process. A worker pushed a cart full of scraps of meat shoveled from the sheepskin past him. He stared at these scraps and asked the Bilige factory How to deal with these things.

Bilige looked at him with a smile, then at the car of scraps, and chuckled.

"I know what you are going to say, but none of us here know how to do that thing. If you can fix it, please give us some guidance. I heard from Bao Tu that people in Duerji Commune call you Xiao Zhuge. Your head is full of knowledge. …”

Factory Director Bilig raised his eyebrows, "How about it, young man, do you dare to try it?"

"Uncle, please don't be tough on me. The thing I'm not afraid of the most is difficulties."

"Good boy, if you can help us deal with the scraps, I promise that we will buy as much baking soda as you bring in from now on!"

"Okay, then let's be gentlemen!"

"Hurry up and whip your horse!"

The two of them clapped their hands. Sun Jianping walked to the large pool that was specially used to process this kind of scraps. He pinched his nose and looked at the rotten meat soaked in the water. "Uncle, prepare two big pots for me first. I'll boil the mutton fat." come out."

"We are short of everything, except for the cauldron. Just wait, I will make some arrangements for you!"

Not long after, Sun Jianping was led into an adobe house. The roof was covered with spider webs, and two sixteen-inch cauldrons were placed against the wall. They were two rounds larger than the cauldrons used by the production team for cooking!

Unlike in pastoral areas, the only materials used to make fires and cook here are cow dung cakes picked up on the grassland. Sun Jianping squatted under the stove and spent a lot of effort to light the coals.

Then cart after cart of minced meat and fat scraped from the sheepskins were pushed in, carrying a pungent smell and stench. They were poured into the cauldron. Sun Jianping pinched his nose and stirred it with a long shovel. The minced meat in the pot, the grease inside was soon released, and the air was filled with the strange aroma of grease.

"What is this for?" Bao Tu was confused.

"Use mutton oil to make soap." Director Bilige looked at Sun Jianping, whose face was red from being burned by the fire, with approval. "What a good young man. He has a smart mind and dares to think and do. Isn't your sister Wu Lan not yet?" Are you a match? I think we can just find a matchmaker for them!"

"Haha, the kids from the city are very ambitious, so they may not be able to like my sister!"

"Also ha..."

Director Bilige actually scratched his head in melancholy!
Sun Jianping had learned the process of making soap from mutton oil before when he was in school. Simply put, it is the saponification reaction. At this time, another pot of hot water was also boiled. He used a large grate to fish out the oil residue inside the pot. All that's left in it is suet, which is as clear as water.

"Brother Bao Tu, come and help me!"

Sun Jianping shouted outside, and Bao Tu hurried over and helped him carefully add sodium hydroxide to the water, and then poured the mixture into the cooled mutton fat in proportion...

The saponification reaction began, and the clear mutton oil in the pot turned into a milky white sticky substance. Seeing these things, Director Bilige suddenly slapped his thigh!
Oops!

(End of this chapter)