Things from Another World

Tang En, who received the news from Angus, immediately rushed to the Magic Energy Engineering Research Institute. At this moment, a group of people in the research institute were gathered around and stared at a glass bottle in his hand.

Tang En, who arrived hurriedly, turned away from the crowd and asked, "How's it going?"

"Pretty good!"

Angus looked back at him, grinned, and shook the glass bottle in his hand. The pale green liquid in it was shaking gently: "After reading the detailed records, I tried to extract some."

"How difficult is it?"

"Not very high. After a few failures, the success rate is very high."

After a pause, Angus said again, "I feel that if you are prepared to train in advance, a slightly trained alchemy apprentice can basically be trained, and the success rate is still acceptable."

Tang En's eyes brightened: "What about the cost?"

"That's what comes next."

Angus grinned and said, "Originally, according to the formula recorded by Hohenheim, the cost of the material consumed by a bottle of plant growth catalyst solution was about two gold coins, but after reading the formula, I found that one of them reflected that I just used it before. I have been there, and I also found an improved version of the optimized formula. With my improved formula, the cost can be saved to less than one gold coin. "

"A gold coin?"

This price doesn't sound expensive, but don't forget that this is just the price of a bottle. Tang En frowned slightly: "How much area does a bottle of catalytic liquid cover?"

"It's hard to say, this involves a very complicated formula."

Angus spread his hand: "Although the amount and effect of the catalytic liquid are increasing, there is an effective threshold. If it is close to the threshold, it will be useless even if it is scattered. According to Hohenheim's statistics, After diluting the bottle of catalytic liquid, it can catalyze ... well, it would be more than 2,300 square meters of farmland if converted into an Ellington unit. "

A bottle of catalytic liquid and a gold coin catalyze more than 2,300 square meters. This cost is barely acceptable.

Although it takes a lot of gold coins to grow a large number of ripening plants, the production of grain has increased, which is the most important.

Tang En looked up and said, "I need a detailed refining process."

"It's all here."

Angus dispelled the others and pointed to the table behind him. "I brought all the materials and equipment needed to make the catalytic liquid. This is a complete set of equipment."

After Tangen checked it, he asked Angus to re-refine a catalyst liquid, and he recorded all the steps involved in the conversion and reaction of the substance, especially the steps of raw material processing and extraction. This is important for his next plans.

"... Then the last step, after the two melts are fully mixed in the refining array, wait for natural cooling to complete."

Angus placed the glass bottle on a nearby shelf, which contained the semi-finished catalytic liquid waiting to be cooled.

Tang En stared at the data he had recorded, turning quickly in his mind.

"What's wrong? Any questions?"

"No, I'm thinking about mass production."

Tang En knocked on the table and pointed to the raw materials on the book. "The cost of ice mist grass and weeping blood vine occupy a large part of the cost price. If you can hire a large number of people to plant, the cost can be further reduced."

Angus shook his head: "These two herbs have very strict requirements for the growth environment. They can only be cultivated in small quantities, and it is difficult to grow as well as vegetables."

"Growing environments are hard to find ways to meet their requirements."

Tang En smiled very brightly. If he wanted to say something, the Chinese would dare to say the second?

"You mean ... something like a greenhouse in the countryside?"

Angus would soon notice, and could not help but be shocked: "If you can use that technology to achieve a large number of cultivation, you may have solved a big problem."

"Trust me, there must be no problem."

Tang En knocked at the table and said: "The problem of raw materials is solved, then the problem of refining is the next thing ... I watched the amount of raw materials when you saw the preparation of the melt, but this is not enough. If you want to industrialize For mass production, we need more precise values. "

"Do you mean?"

"The active ingredients of the raw materials are quantified after extraction. For liquids, they are expressed by volume, and for solid powders, they are expressed by weight."

Tang En said decisively: "Only in this way can we guarantee that we will succeed in each configuration process, and at the same time, it will allow the artificial soul to complete the refining work accurately."

"Quantification ... this is a new concept."

In the past, when alchemists conducted experiments, they basically improved their proficiency through repeated experiments, but without auxiliary tools, even alchemists with very high proficiency may fail. Someone may have germinated and developed A set of auxiliary tools for weights and measures, but everything disappeared with the Second Chaos Invasion War, the progress of civilization was beaten back to its original form, and everything began to develop again from the beginning.

"I think you need a thermometer, a measuring cylinder, a beaker, a graduated dropper and a pipette."

"what is that?"

"that's it."

Tang En snapped his fingers. All the crystalware he had prepared for the convenience of refining his medicine all appeared on the table: "I think you will soon learn how to use them. Now your task is to test It is important to further extract and purify the raw materials used in the process, separate the active ingredients separately, prepare more, and then count the quantities required for refining. "

The importance of plant growth catalysts for the development of the entire society is beyond doubt. I am afraid that this magical thing will only appear in a magical world such as Prandall. If it is on the earth, it is estimated that the news will be released in minutes. Can make the grain futures market collapse.

Angus reluctantly surrendered: "Okay, okay, I owe you, can I get it by tomorrow?"

"As soon as possible, I will design an automated production line based on the subsequent refining steps. After the data on your side is determined, modify the artificial soul to start the initial production directly."

Although ice mistweed and bloodweed vines have not yet been cultivated, they have to be purchased on the market, but the strategic significance of the plant growth catalyst solution is too great. Putting it into production as soon as possible a day can bring some food.

As Tang En was about to leave, he suddenly asked, "Well, don't just talk about plant growth catalysts. Have you forgotten your business in Hohenheim?"

"of course not."

Angus said, "I have already begun to analyze the technology left by Hohenheim. Believe me, and give me a while, I can thoroughly eat the technology in the cane of kingship, and then I want to repair it. It's more certain. "

"Okay, after the matter of plant growth catalyst is solved, you can concentrate on solving this problem."

When Tang En finished, he hurried back to the Lord's Mansion: "Fiona!"

"Say."

"I need you to buy a lot of herbs."

"Herb?"

Fiona paused and looked up and asked, "Isn't there enough medicine to make the blood of the goddess?"

"Not the blood of the goddess, it is the catalyst for plant growth."

Tang En shook her head and put a list in front of her, saying: "This is a list of raw materials. Except for the slightly more expensive prices of Frostweed and Weeping Bloodvine, other herbs are not too expensive. How much will be on the market next? How much do you charge me, as long as the price does not fluctuate by more than 30 percent?

Fiona roughly glanced at the list and found that most of them are some commonly used herbs. After the price is not expensive, she nodded: "I know, let Irving take charge of this matter immediately."

Owen was the owner of the original Kasparmy Potion House. He later moved to Ellington, and then simply joined the Datang Chamber of Commerce and became a member of the Datang Chamber of Commerce. Now he is also a veteran of Tang En. Compared to the original, his status and income should not be too high now.

"Not only the acquisition, I also need a group of people to go to the greenhouse to grow ice mist grass and weeping blood vine."

Tang En reminded Fiona: "I have just studied the characteristics of these two herbs, and can completely simulate their living environment in the greenhouse, so that they can be planted on a large scale. The consumption of these two herbs will be very large in the future. , So it ’s best to industrialize planting. "

"We don't have that many people available."

Fiona was helpless: "If it was not for the help of Estes, we would be stuck on the bus project now."

Tang En frowned and said decisively: "We cannot contract all products from beginning to end. Since our staff is too busy, we will outsource these less profitable projects to those who want to make money. People contract. "

"contract?"

"Yes, we hire someone to teach the technology, and then they contract it down, and we grow the things we buy at the contract price."

Tang En explained: "Although it seems to increase our production costs, if you think about it, this will not only reduce our labor costs, but also effectively promote market-oriented competition. When there are more people planting raw materials, Naturally there will be a shortage of supply, and only if we master the technology for large-scale production of plant growth catalysts, they can only sell it to us, and they are not afraid of technology leakage. "

"It sounds feasible."

When Fiona listened to Tang En's explanation, she immediately became interested. If Tang En really said it, then many similar projects can be completely subcontracted. The Datang Chamber of Commerce only needs to hold the most critical The technology at the step of the finished product can ensure that its status is not wavered.

"Of course it works, otherwise what do you think I am promoting the industrial reform of the Illus Empire?"

Tang En spread his hand: "Ellington's population severely checks and balances our development. We need to become a product output base, not a raw material production base. After the production process is split, the parts are handed over to others to complete. Eventually it will be assembled in Ellington. "

The ultimate goal of this economic form is to leave all production to others, and they are only responsible for setting product standards, so that they can get a big profit on the product.

Does this business model look familiar?