From Chief to Ball

The theory of mineral fertilizers such as struvite and the popularization of technologies such as composting and fermentation methods that existed hundreds of years ago have also led to the development of agronomy.

For example, some kind of fertile potash lake fields found in the northwest desert use evaporation to collect a large amount of original potash fertilizer every year. Those who mine are now rich in millions.

Of course, there have been accidents. For example, more than ten years ago, sea salt was mixed with potassium salt and sold as fertilizer, resulting in the destruction of tens of thousands of acres of land. Landowners also had a huge say in the council.

Some struvite on the coastal islands has almost been mined and sold to farmers who own a lot of land by sea boats.

Basically, minerals have been used for potassium and phosphate fertilizers, but nitrogen fertilizers are unlikely to appear before the emergence of synthetic ammonia. The potassium fertilizer in those deserts should be potassium chloride instead of potassium nitrate, otherwise the gunpowder can directly use the ore there instead of nutrients. It's nitrated.

Because of the use of these simple ore fertilizers, the farmland output of some large landowners was very high in this era.

Of course, it is limited to some areas with well-developed traffic along the river, and some remote places still do not have such prosperity.

Due to environmental constraints, some fruits, vegetables, and grains that Chen Jian commonly sees were not found.Sugar cane, corn, squash, sweet potatoes, potatoes, tomatoes, many spices are also absent.

Increases in agricultural production and the commoditization of food have allowed many people to engage in activities other than farming.The external transportation of these grains, cotton, vegetables, and livestock; the inward transportation of fertilizers, ironware, utensils, and salt; also prompted the development of inland river shipping and the improvement of road construction.

Land annexation is very serious, but the population is not too large, and the arable land is large, so a large number of landless people have entered the city to make a living by handicrafts, but the population limit has not yet reached the point where farmers revolted and redistributed.

The increase in urban population has also promoted the development of medicine, architecture, and urban water supply and drainage.

Anatomy has developed rapidly, and doctors understand many diseases, but they cannot be cured due to material conditions.At least there is no efficient anesthetic, so surgery and the like are basically impossible, but some rough operations such as amputation can be done because people can be tied up.

A large number of simple literacy population and the civic class have led to the development of printing, using lead-tin movable type, and the paper and ink industries are also developing.

Papermaking also needs lime, so the lime burning industry is also developing, which in turn drives the mining and transportation of coal.

In addition to being used as books, a large amount of paper is also used to make window paper and umbrella paper, all of which need to be soaked in oil, and the development of various vegetable oils is also acceptable.

The development of the construction industry within the city, in turn, led to the advancement of papermaking, and some wealthy people used small pieces of glass windows.

The interior decoration of houses also required porcelain, wool, wood, tin, gold and silverware, etc., which supported a large number of people.The glass manufacturing industry is relatively developed, but there are many shortcomings.

Since some natural soda mines are located in the deserts in the north and the arid saline-alkali lakes in the southwest, the transportation costs are relatively high, so only a few people can use them.

In addition, the level of glass manufacturing is the average level of this era, with a lot of bubbles and a green color. It uses the blowing method and requires a large number of skilled workers.

Some mirror grinding workshops use very rare glass with few bubbles, which is very expensive, and some also use natural crystal.

Glass is also made into mirrors, using the amalgam method, dissolving tin in mercury, and it takes a month to make one side, and the basic working cycle of mirror makers is five or six years. Death is not far away.

The porcelain industry is developing rapidly, but compared to the real country of porcelain beyond the mist, it can only be said that these are rubbish.

The level of some low-end luxuries such as silk textiles and tea is not high, and there is no exquisite tea culture.

After 500 years of development, cotton, linen and woolen textiles have reached a high level, and these industries have also supported a large number of citizens.

A large number of citizens have also given birth to the development of novels, literature, market culture, brothels, dramas, wine shops, restaurants, etc. The folk customs are extremely open, and the humanistic thinking is not restricted by things like royal power and religion from the beginning, and the moral level is not very good. Possibly high.

On the whole, it is impossible to come up with something new to get rich overnight, and the methods that Chen Jian can think of require a lot of start-up funds.

After much deliberation, Chen Jian sighed.In this day and age, the fastest way to make a fortune is to go out for armed robbery, dig gold and silver mines in the New World, and foreign trade is the most profitable, and the internal market has calmed down.

By the way, it is necessary to find a vent for the large number of unemployed and handicraft bankrupts caused by technological progress in the future, otherwise I am afraid it will implode.

Chapter 21 Exhaustion

For the next two months, apart from reading books, Chen Jian went to the gatherings of those circles.

After systematically accumulating some knowledge, although it cannot be said that he is already an elegant and exquisite person in the circle, the four words arty and elegant are still worthy of it, and some words that sound reasonable are popped up from time to time. It can be regarded as a little famous in the circle.

It's just that spending too much money in this kind of circle has already spent a lot of the remaining 300 silver coins.Fortunately, after nearly a year of fermentation, Clivia has gradually been hyped up, and now the highest price in the outside trading market has risen to forty silver coins per pot.

Chen Jian quietly sold more than 20 pots, exchanged them for a thousand silver coins, and used half of them to maintain his expenses in this circle, and continued to develop relationships with some people who seemed to be useful in the future.

Henry Zhang seldom showed up since the beginning of his life. Chen Jian went to visit him a few times, but he was always studying at home, saying that he would go to the capital to study in autumn.

Sun Zhan's new drama is still being rehearsed. In Sun Zhan's opinion, this may be a good show that can be popular all over the country. The requirements are much higher. I hope that the drama actors can perform at their best.

But that kind of entanglement is not easy to act out. Sun Zhan has not been too satisfied, and Chen Jian is not in a hurry. He just visits occasionally and waits quietly.

He knows exactly what he wants to do. Money is the first step, fame is the second step, combining fame and money to form influence is the third step, and then he can use some methods to drive some merchants and workshop owners, let them see Overseas wealth, expand outward.

Now that I am making money and gaining fame, Henry Zhang is about to go to the capital, which is a good opportunity.

He knows exactly what he wants to do. Money is the first step, fame is the second step, combining fame and money to form influence is the third step, and then he can use some methods to drive some merchants and workshop owners, let them see Overseas wealth, expand outward.

Therefore, more fame must be gained, and it cannot only be gained from the Fujian generation, and it is not just the reputation of a playwright.

In the process of waiting for the hype to make black-hearted money, Chen Jian also made some other preparations.

After spending some money, he went to some porcelain kilns to order a batch of simple tools for experiments. He thought of the brochures issued by the Capital Academy, which was the fastest way to become famous.

The person who fired the porcelain kiln felt that what Chen Jian wanted was weird, but with enough money, there was nothing he couldn't do, so he agreed wholeheartedly.

After that, Chen Jian rented a remote hut by the river outside the city as his own small laboratory.

Simple experimental equipment, a hut facing the river without protective measures, this is where Chen Jian plans to become famous.

After looking through various brochures for a long time, Chen Jian chose a relatively simple thing that can be made with these messy and crude equipment.

A lot of animal bones were purchased in the market, calcined into ashes, and crushed with a simple garlic mortar.

The ashes were placed in a quirky test-tube-like set he had custom-built at Ci Kiln, which was mixed with ground charcoal powder and silica powder.

Simple clay pipes are used as connections, heated by coke, and connected to a smooth ceramic basin filled with cold water.

This is a highly toxic experiment, and the product is only [-] gram of white phosphorus that is lethal. The calcium phosphate in the ashes will react with charcoal and turn into phosphorus vapor.

These phosphorus vapors flow into cold water from pottery pipes, and after encountering cold water, they are cooled and condensed to form elemental white phosphorus.

The rest of the impurities were either soluble in water, or could not evaporate and remained in the porcelain tube. Chen Jian was worried that he would be poisoned, so he piled up coke and ignited it and ran away.

The experiment under this condition can only be like this. After the reaction, Chen Jian used a cloth bag to wrap a lot of charcoal, stuffed it on his head and face, only his eyes were exposed, and looked at the water basin.

There are some pale yellow solids like earwax on the bottom of the water basin, which should be white phosphorus, but the amount is a bit small.

Through the water, scrape the white phosphorus inside with a pottery stick, change a basin, and repeat several times.

Then collect the white phosphorus below into a small pottery bowl, and heat it like cooking rice, without boiling water. It is estimated that when it is forty or fifty degrees, the white phosphorus has slowly melted.Because it is heavier than water, it becomes a liquid under water and gradually melts into a ball.

It took two days, and finally collected about a spoonful of solid white phosphorus.It is said that this thing has a stench of garlic, Chen Jian thinks he should not smell it, and another thing must be a sad story in real history.

The discovery of this highly poisonous thing must have all kinds of bitterness, and it is this kind of bitterness that makes human beings move forward step by step.

As a plagiarist, Chen Jian does not need to make various attempts, but only needs to write the things recorded in the books into a simple experimental report, claiming that he has discovered a new inseparable thing, and explained many things such as will-o’-the-wisps .He only said that he extracted it from the bones, but skipped how to extract it, so as not to be robbed.

This thing can't be exchanged for money, but it can be exchanged for some reputation and squeezed into another circle.