Chapter 380
2021-01-06
Chapter 380 Boiled Salt FieldIgor was stunned for half a second, and he figured it out before he could finish his breath. Now: This is not a breakthrough new discovery at all, but oneself until now has fallen into a situation of "knowing a lot but no practical experience", and getting to the top of the horns!
He only remembered that the snowflakes that precipitated out of the toilets and the corners of the barn and stables were nitrates. He only remembered that the soil in these places contained all kinds of bacteria required for the native method of making nitrates, but he forgot that the nitrates precipitated on the walls were originally It came out of the soil below. Using these soils as an introduction to nitrate production is certainly a sustainable long-term way, but if you are in a hurry to get products, using these soils to boil nitrates will definitely solve your urgent needs!
Compared with nitrification, direct boiling of nitrile is obviously an expedient measure, and there is suspicion of killing chickens to retrieve eggs and drying up the pond for fishing, but the current situation is so urgent that it is time to wait for these "chicken" and "fish" meat to save lives Of course, you can't be limited by habitual thinking, and you are willing to stop thinking about establishing a complete production chain!
Damn, Igor quickly thought again: Oneself asked the industrial park to make nitrate in King's Landing because the climate was too cold and all kinds of tools and materials were in short supply... But if you dig the soil to boil the nitrate, it would be too cold. There is absolutely no requirement for geographic location. If oneself could figure this out sooner, Queenscrown and the whole North would have started a vigorous training.
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The lost time cannot be recovered, but it is not too late to make amends. In the heart, he slapped oneself a few times in annoyance, but Igor did not show lost self-control on his face: "How could there be such a thing? How much nitrate can be boiled directly from the soil dug from these corners, and what is the quality? ?"
"How much is floating depends on the quality of the excavated soil." Qyburn answered truthfully, "After a simple experiment, my assistants and I came up with the easiest way to distinguish: The soil is crushed and sprinkled on the red-burning charcoal, and the one that can burst into sparks contains nitrate. Scrape down layer by layer until the quality begins to decline. If it is produced, a carload of good nitrate can be boiled. A small jar comes out, and since we haven't been able to find a way to separate impurities such as salt from nitre, the quality is quite different."
"The caravans we send to various places now have several missions. : When you set off, bring the products of the Night's Watch industry to sell in various places. Every time you go to a place, the prospectors who are looking for nitrous go out to work first. The rest of the people have sold a wave of things, and they will immediately look for toilets, barns and stables everywhere… …The white chips that naturally precipitate on the walls are high-quality nitrile, and after scraping them off and storing them separately, the soil in the corners of the walls should be ploughed up several layers and loaded into the truck.” Nina was very attentive to the order given by Igor herself, Knowing the specific situation well, "Of course, breaking ground in the Fiefdom of the large and small nobles is often regarded as ominous by the owner, and doing so often requires some compensation to the owner - those who are willing to accept the goods will use the goods as compensation. If you are willing, you can also use copper plates, Silver Coins...the right to spend money to buy soil. As for a small number of people who want to raise the price, my instruction is to give up. Although high-quality salt soil is often only a thin layer on the surface, But Seven Kingdoms, where are there no toilets and barns!"
Igor's face returned to a smile, and this is the benefit of the collective effort: oneself has indeed mastered a huge amount of this world that people can't imagine. Advanced knowledge and intelligence, but a wise man must be at a loss... not to mention that he never thinks oneself is a wise man. Accepting the limitations of undergraduate thinking and not doing things by himself, he can only talk on paper. From time to time, he will encounter this kind of situation of "should have figured it out, but walked into a dead end for various reasons". At this time, there is a group of smart people in this world to check the gaps and fill in the gaps and remind them in time that the major event can be completed.
"Very good!" He didn't hide his approval in the slightest, "Where is the boiling tannery, show me."
"The carriage is outside." Guessing that Igor will see it sooner or later, he has already ordered a series of arrangements.
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After a while, the entire group took the carriage to the nitrification field just outside Li Xu. The steaming hot steam and the ash smoke from the burning fuel can be seen from a distance of several hundred meters. If you get closer, the mounds, coal piles and waste residues all over the low wall of the niter quarry make it like a thermal weapon. The battlefield of the times... With the dark clouds of war on the coast of Blackwater Rush, a large number of profitable sectors of the industry are reducing production scale and tightening their belts to prepare for the winter. The only project of all these projects that burns a lot of money but will not have it for a long time. On the contrary, the salvage farms with any income are working overtime in full swing, opening from morning to night every day, supporting a large number of workers who have been laid off from other departments.
The scene in the factory is nothing special, but the previous nitrification test field has been enlarged several times, and then the pots, pans, stoves and stoves in the final nitrification process are reproduced in large numbers and used in the same way. It must be planned and arranged, leaving a path in the middle. In front of the cauldron, the nitrification worker who vigorously stirred the scalding liquid, the porter who kept a shovel of coal with a small cart running around, took out the final product at the bottom of the pot, the white and yellow nitrified lumps, After being smashed, it was cautiously put into a crock and sent to the collectors in the centralized storage place...
people coming, people going in a frenzy, Igor thought that oneself was in the smelting area of Queenscrown in a trance.
"Thanks to the dense population of the Crownlands, we shipped a large amount of nitrate from various places before the Dragon Queen landed, and there are still less than half of it. As for fuel, the Crownlands has strict control over firewood, and we can only get it from Riverlands buys a lot of low-quality coal, which is cheap, but it burns small and has a lot of smoke... Few people use it. Fortunately, it can be done in a semi-open environment, and there is no need to think about it as much.”
Qyburn, who came along, also remembered something at this time, and called out with a waking expression: "Ah! Situation - a lot of salt will settle down in the pot during the boiling process, and I have been thinking about how to use this to extract the niter separately. Now that I think about it, this is not what the adults said... 'Different substances If the solubility in water is different, the solubility of the same substance at different temperatures will also change'! I guess, if you put the salted nitric acid water outside to cool it, maybe you can freeze the nitric acid!"
Smart, even if it's not right. Igor probably understands that the salt and nitrate in the mouths of oneself's subordinates actually correspond to chemical chloride and nitrate, and the latter is the fire nitrate that oneself wants. Although I have never memorized the solubility curves of these two types of substances, the method proposed by Qyburn at the moment, even if the fire nitrate cannot be purified, at least it can further remove the impurity chloride salt.
But at the moment Igor is not in the mood to praise people, he can't wait to ask: "Where is the finished product warehouse, how much nitrate has been produced during this period of time?"
"This is my lord. Come."
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After experiencing a series of surprises, Igor, who saw the finished product, couldn't hide the surprise and disappointment on his face: "Just how many cans? I look at the workshop. It shouldn't be the output in the pie."
Nina pu chi laughed: "Sir, you misunderstood, this is the output this morning. You told me that this thing is very important. , how dare I pile it up here... The daily output of the nitrification farm will be loaded and transported to the Black Wall Fort, where it will be stored on the shelves of the fire-proof, anti-theft, and moisture-proof Level 1 warehouse. I haven't been there for several days. I saw it, but it is estimated that half of the warehouses have been piled up now. In fact, it is reasonable to say that the first batch should have already been sent to the land grant. Unfortunately, the Dragon Queen's fleet blocked Blackwater Bay, and the eunuch Legion cut off the Kingsroad heading north. So I've been stuck in the Black Wall fort."
"Sir, most of those are semifinished products." Qyburn volunteered, feeling that he couldn't bear to hand over a batch of the mixture after oneself thought of a way. , "Give me half a month... no, in a week, I can purify them all!"
"No, I don't have the time to wait." Igor relaxed, waved his hand to reject, "Clean up Things, bring your trusted assistants, and prepare to give me back the land. Nitre production can't be carried out in the World of Ice and Snow over there, but it can be boiled... Nina, immediately send someone back to Black Wall Fort to arrange transportation I'm going to ship the niter in the warehouse to the Blackbird as soon as possible. It's too late today. Will King's Landing open for a long time tomorrow at noon? I'm going to see King Stannis or the Prime Minister when the time comes, and then leave for the north immediately. The Pyromancer of Queenscrown can also do the purification thing, and the separated salt can just solve the dilemma of land grant and lack of salt.”
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