parentshiftbook Chapter 462: Ten Billion Kilograms Of Salt, Zhu Yuanzhang And Others’ Happiness Worries [Please Subs
Chapter 462: Ten Billion Kilograms Of Salt, Zhu Yuanzhang And Others’ Happiness Worries [Please Subs
Since Yan Changqing changed the raw material for firing colored glaze to quartz, which is river sand, colored glaze has become glass.
However, since the name Liuli sounds much better than glass in Yan Changqing's opinion, at least based on the sound, Liuli's worth is a bit more expensive than that of glass.
In addition, there is a preconceived difference between colored glaze and glass.
For people of this era, there is no difference between colored glaze and glass. At most, glass is regarded as a more perfect colored glaze.
If Liuli's name was changed to Glass, other people would not be used to it, so Yan Changqing had no intention of changing Liuli's name to Glass.
Since it was possible to use river sand to make glass, the cost of glass has been driven down to an extremely ridiculous level by Yan Changqing.
After all, in this era, river sand is really worthless, and no one even wants it if it is given away!!!
In addition, a series of raw materials that assist in firing glass, such as dolomite, thenardite, coal powder, calcite, feldspar, and fluorite, are not so cheap that no one would give them away, but they are also not worth a few dollars.
It can be said that the cost of raw materials for firing colored glaze is almost zero.
As for the labor costs of digging and transporting river sand, dolomite, Glauber's salt, coal powder, calcite, feldspar, fluorite and other related raw materials?!!
In this era of feudal monarchy, especially when Yan Changqing is backed by Zhu Yuanzhang, the largest and thickest tree in the current era, [it actually doesn't make much sense to talk about labor costs.
If Yan Changqing17 hadn't said that he was rich and paying the people wages could prevent the people from having public resentment.
Zhu Yuanzhang even wanted to use corvee directly to make the people responsible for digging and transporting raw materials such as river sand, dolomite, thenardite, coal powder, calcite, feldspar, and fluorite.
However, even if we pay wages to the people who are responsible for digging and transporting raw materials related to river sand, dolomite, mirabilite, coal powder, calcite, feldspar, and fluorite, it actually does not cost much.
It can be said that the labor cost of firing glass is also extremely low.
Even before, if Yan Changqing had not used glass to harvest the IQ taxes of noble marquises, subordinates, gentry, wealthy households, and landlords, now he would be able to lower the price of a palm-sized glass mirror for ten yuan to one yuan. The point!!!
In this way, Yan Changqing can still guarantee a net profit of about six cents.
Even if the scale of firing colored glaze is further expanded, then the cost of firing colored glaze can be further reduced.
By then, if a glass mirror costs ten cents a piece, his net profit can even reach more than eight cents!!!
In this case, it is not feasible to put a layer of glass covers on all the multi-layered salt ponds that are about to be excavated in the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty, or to put a layer of magnifying glass covers around them, and to surround them with a layer of magnifying glasses. What a difficult thing.
It is even possible to build a glass factory by the sea, which is cheaper than building a glass factory in Yingtianfu!!!
After all, building a glass factory in Yingtianfu requires manpower to transport raw materials. If you build a glass factory by the sea, you can just use local materials.
After all, sea sand is also made from quartz raw material. The sea sand is dug out on site and fired into a glass magnifying glass cover, and then the dug pit is further developed into a multi-layered salt pond.
What is meant by killing two birds with one stone? This is called killing two birds with one stone!!!
Below, Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes listened to Yan Changqing's story and saw the sunlight focused on Yan Changqing's hand through a magnifying glass.
Everyone was happily crowding around the window, holding the magnifying glass in their hands and stretching out the window. Suddenly, there were eight more sun spots focused at ten o'clock in the small conference room, chasing each other.
Zhu Xiongying on the side also wanted to try the magnifying glass in his hand, but he was too small, and there were only four windows in the small conference room.
After Yan Changqing demonstrated how to use the magnifying glass before, he backed away from the first window.
After that, Zhu Yuanzhang and Prince Zhu Biao occupied a window, King Zhu Di of Qin and King Zhu Fan of Jin also occupied a window, King Zhu Di of Yan and King Zhu Ji of Zhou also occupied a window, King Zhu Zhen of Chu and King Zhu Su of Qi occupied the last window. There is no extra position for Zhu Xiongying.
Prince Zhu Biao, who was standing by the window at the back, saw the look on his son Zhu Xiongying's face who was eager to try but couldn't find an empty seat. He couldn't help but smile, and then took back the magnifying glass he stretched out the window.
Then he picked up Zhu Xiongying, stood by the window, and asked Zhu Xiongying to put his magnifying glass out the window to focus on the sunlight.
After Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, as well as Zhu Xiongying played with the magnifying glass for a while, Qi King Zhu Su suddenly looked up at Yan Changqing and asked curiously:
"Mr. Yan, can this magnifying glass really ignite paper?!!"
Looking at the small magnifying glass in his hand, Qi King Zhu Shu believed that Yan Changqing would not lie, but it still sounded a bit incredible to gather sunlight and ignite paper out of thin air.
Yan Changqing looked at Qi King Zhu Su and said with a smile:
“Won’t you know if you try it?!”
With that said, Yan Changqing picked up a piece of rice paper from the podium, then simply stood it up and fixed it, and finally asked Qi King Zhu Su to focus the light spots on the rice paper.
But after a while, the rice paper that stood up didn't seem to be ignited.
"Your Majesty, Your Highnesses, and the heroes, you will also direct your respective focus to the focus of His Highness King Qi."
Yan Changqing looked at Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes such as Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di, and Zhu Xiongying and said.
Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, as well as Zhu Xiongying, did not hesitate at all. They immediately adjusted the magnifying glass in their hands so that the focus of the magnifying glass in their hands and the focus of Qi King Zhu Shu's magnifying glass came together. .
When Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, as well as Zhu Xiongying, all felt that their hands were sore from raising them.
The center area of the snow-white rice paper, which was focused by the focus of eight magnifying glasses, already showed a burnt black color.
The next moment, there was a "crack" sound, and a small bright red flame suddenly appeared out of thin air, and then burned "crack" around the rice paper.
After a while, the rice paper was burned to pieces, and finally Yan Changqing put out the remaining fire with a cup of tea.
“It’s really burning!!!”
Qi King Zhu Su looked at the burned rice paper with only a small corner left, and murmured with a stunned look on his face.
Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes also looked shocked.
After all, I just listened to what Yan Changqing said before, but now I actually used a magnifying glass to focus and set the paper on fire for them to see.
[If the focus of a magnifying glass can ignite paper, then it means that everything Yan Changqing said before is true?!!]
[Putting a magnifying glass cover on a multi-layer salt pool, and then surrounding it with a magnifying glass to focus, can really increase the final efficiency of seawater drying into salt by two to three times, and also increase the final production of sea salt. Two to three times?!!]
[Originally, it can produce tens of millions of catties of salt in one day. Even with the influence of rainy and cloudy days, it can produce 2.5 or 2.6 billion catties of salt in a year!!!]
[Now that the impact of rainy days has been reduced to a minimum957, the annual salt production should be able to increase from the previous 2.5 or 2.6 billion catties to 3 billion catties!!!]
[Then the salt production of 3 billion jins will be increased by two to three times with the help of the magnifying glass cover and magnifying glass. This means that the salt production in the next year will likely reach 6 billion to 9 billion jins. catty?!!】
[Rounding off, wouldn’t this be 10 billion kilograms of salt?!]
[His mother has 10 billion kilograms of salt, can the people eat it all?!!]
[Broken down, 10 billion kilograms of salt, 60 million people of the Ming Dynasty, one person can share 166 kilograms of salt!!!]
[One hundred sixty-six pounds of salt, divided by three hundred and sixty-five days a year, averages out to half a pound of salt per day!!!]
[Hey, after calculating like this, it suddenly feels like 10 billion kilograms of salt is not a lot!!!]
[Bah! Half a pound of salt can be used as food!!!]
【But the question is who eats salt as food?!!】
Zhu Yuanzhang, who had always been worried that there was not enough salt to eat, and the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, when they calculated that in the future, the Ming Dynasty's salt output might reach tens of billions of kilograms a year.
Suddenly, I fell into another happy trouble, that is, what should I do if there is too much salt in the future?!!
After all, 10 billion kilograms of salt were shared equally by 60 million people in the Ming Dynasty. Each person could still get half a kilogram of salt every day!!!
But the problem is that salt is not food. No one can eat half a catty of salt a day without fear of death.
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