Chapter 48 How can the native glass be reliable?
Put the goods in the truck, have breakfast, and Zhu Zilong checks the time.
He was planning to 80% of the strong and steel pipes, and now there are 10% of the medicines, which can only be brought back to the Ming Dynasty with 10% remaining. What should I bring?
If you follow the instructions on the form, it is naturally the main product of daily chemicals.
However, only after making up before, the idea of not expanding rapidly outward for the time being, and first strengthening his strength. Zhu Zilong thought about it and decided to take a higher-end route!
The daily chemical products I brought last time were all counterfeit third-rate products and can be produced in small workshops. This time I want to support genuine products.
So, not long after, Zhu Zilong appeared in the county's Procter & Gamble daily chemicals chain store.
Procter & Gamble (P&G, referred to as P&G)
In 2008, Procter & Gamble was the sixth largest company in the world in terms of market value and the 14th most profitable company in the world. It is also the tenth most praised company in the Fortune 500.
Of course, saying so much is not how it compares to beef.
It’s just that many young people in China are using genuine daily chemical products from Procter & Gamble, which is well-known.
(The author is also using it. Well, men sometimes need to take care of them, otherwise how can I pick up girls and how can I stabilize the hearts of women I have already obtained? Don’t think that just having money is enough, but you have to be handsome.)
What, you said I'm not handsome? You're not handsome, you don't have money yet?
Well, you just need to maintain a clean and sunny image, right? Then practice scams, oh no, it’s eloquence, (sweet words) can also trick women. Brothers, come on!
We usually use famous brand shampoos such as Pantene, Hafes, Ikalu, Sassoon, etc.
There are also bathing supplies such as Shufujia, Olay soap and shower gel, and Kamele. Baby care series: Pampers. Women's hygiene products series: Hushubao, Duoduo.
And laundry detergent brands, Tide, Bilang, Lanno. Skin care series: Olay skin care.
Men's skin care series: Gillette (face cleanser, body lotion, gel, etc.) Battery series: Kingbawang, etc.!
Actually, that, to put it bluntly, sweat!
They are all from Procter & Gamble. Did you suddenly feel like you were thinking about it carefully?
Nima, I'm cheating.
Procter & Gamble is a big boss from foreigners. Our domestic products are ours. We promised to be self-reliant. I'm dizzy!
Unconsciously, all aspects of our lives have allowed foreign products to occupy the market. Alas!
Of course, many of the famous brand products mentioned above are also produced in China. They were only acquired by Procter & Gamble, and the main money was made by foreign bosses. But the products can still be considered domestic, which is barely a comfort!
Compared with the previous third-rate daily chemical products of small workshops, P&G's daily chemical products are naturally to a higher level.
As the saying goes, you are not afraid of not knowing the goods, but you are afraid of comparing goods.
Now, bringing these genuine daily chemical products back to the Ming Dynasty, the quantity is not large. As long as it is launched, I believe that the highest and lower levels will be decided immediately. This hunger marketing will definitely succeed, hahaha!
Seeing that there is still a last bit of space, Zhu Zilong was wondering whether to bring some glass supplies back.
Many time travel novels mention that glass was a thing that made money like a magical tool in ancient times.
But last time there were some glass cups in the goods, why didn’t they get well received by the Ming Dynasty?
"Is it because the last time the glass was not purely transparent, and some cracks were created during the teleportation?" Zhu Zilong touched his chin and analyzed carefully.
I have to say that there is really a possibility. Of course, there is probably another reason!
In the late Ming Dynasty, the gold pipes were banned by sea, but that was only on the surface. In addition, there were pirates nearby and Francoisers drove ocean ships to develop the Eastern market!
In fact, glass is not a rare thing, but its purity is not as high as modern.
The name Franjiren was the title of Portugal and Spain by the Ming Dynasty. It was originally a name used by Turks, Arabs and other Eastern nations in modern times, which generally referred to Europeans.
At the same time, the Western artillery was also introduced to the Ming Dynasty, also known as the Fran machine cannon!
Western artillery was invented by Europe and was introduced to China from Portugal in the first year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1522). According to its name, it was "Franchise".
In the first year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1522), He Ru, who was the inspector of Guangdong at that time, saw a new type of artillery on a Portuguese merchant ship with a range of 2,000 feet. In the third year of Jiajing (1524), he obtained the method of making it and began to copy and improve it.
(It turns out that China's copycat tradition has been around for a long time? Shan!)
After thinking about it, Zhu Zilong felt that glass could be profitable, but it was best to open a workshop with modern technology in the Ming Dynasty.
After all, because when the teleportation array passes through, strange vibration waves will occur. It’s easy to say that metals and hard objects are, like glass, and it is certain that 90% of them will produce some small cracks, which is not worth much money when transported.
At that time, just bring difficult equipment for producing glass. For example, the first high requirement for making glass is a pot with high temperature resistance.
After all, making pots is also a technique. If you don’t master the technology well, it will easily explode during use. The Ming Dynasty craftsmen were limited by technology and materials, and they might not be able to produce such a large pot that meets the requirements.
The second difficulty in making glass is soda ash, but there should be something to replace it. For example, one is to use wood ash. European countries at that time used this raw material for a long time, but kept it confidential to Eastern countries!
However, as a modern person, there is a lot of information to refer to, but Zhu Zilong knows that as his territory in the Ming Dynasty was close to the seaside, seaweed ash was more convenient, and the effect was even higher than that of the land grass ash!
The last difficulty should be how to remove bubbles from the glass slurry. If it cannot be removed cleanly, the resulting glass will be ugly and easily broken.
The treatment method of modern factories is to add X-dioxide, which of course would not work in the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, Zhu Zilong can be replaced by nitric acid, that is, saltpeter.
However, considering that in the future, a lot of saltpeter will be used for military purposes, it seems to be a bit painful and wasteful?
So Zhu Zilong went to the bookstore to check the content of this book and magazine.
He really asked him to find several items to replace saltpeter, one was arsenic. Add arsenic to the glass liquid. When the arsenic enters the glass liquid, steam is generated due to the high temperature, and finally takes away the small bubbles.
However, adding arsenic to the scorching glass liquid and sublimates into highly toxic steam, it should directly poison the workers to the ground. It is simply an inhumane act!
This is too scammed!
Unless every Ming Dynasty worker issued a gas mask, someone could still die.
In addition, arsenic was not cheap in the Ming Dynasty, so the cost increased, which seemed undesirable.
The speechless Zhu Zilong searched in the bookstore for an hour or two with his new ability to remember everything, and finally found a folk remedy.
Use fine salt to remove bubbles in the glass slurry!
As long as the appropriate proportion of fine salt is added and the stirring time is long enough, most of the bubbles in the glass slurry can disappear.
Not only that, the stripes and stones in the glass liquid will eventually disappear, and the glass liquid will become completely symmetrical and transparent. According to the description in this book, early optical glass was made using this method, and it is of course even more difficult to use to make commercial-grade glassware.
Seeing this, Zhu Zilong laughed giggling.
Ha, I am the captain of the Ming Dynasty Urban Management Team who is in charge of salt smuggling. It can be made by fine salt. God is really helping me!
Chapter completed!