Chapter 287 I, Gretel, Am an Expert in Technical Modification, Making Money
This is how Gretel got his first batch of subordinates.
Number of people: 24 people.
Identity: Mage apprentice, priest apprentice.
source:
Black Crow Swamp Eight.
Two people from the Conjuration School and the Medical Branch.
Two people from the school of change.
Four members of the Order of the God of Nature.
Six people from the Temple of the God of War.
Two people from the Temple of the Goddess of Spring.
Brackets need to be trained to be used...
Gretel left Aurora the preparations for the training. For example, the living facilities in the mage tower, such as meat, eggs, rice, noodles, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, such as experimental supplies and experimental animals... Let him make an order and let Black Crow Swamp or any other company find a way to purchase it.
Grete himself took on an urgent task for the public health department:
give change.
In front of Gretel, there was a newly arrived middle-aged man with gray hair and a sad face. He has a counter in his left hand and an account book in his right hand. The cuffs of his woolen coat have been worn white. He is obviously a newly assigned accountant with a poor financial situation. Sitting down in the small conference room, he sighed and turned the account book over to show Gretel:
"We don't need to worry about the construction costs of reservoirs and water pipes, as well as the construction costs of infectious diseases hospitals. The parliament has reached an agreement with the major temples. The donations from various nobles and businessmen will be used to offset the construction costs, and the temples will take care of the remaining part. bear.
But we have to figure out the next operating expenses ourselves..."
He flipped through the account book page by page:
"The price of bleaching powder, currently sold to us by the Plastic Energy School, is 1 gold coin per kilogram. According to what you said, putting bleaching powder in the drinking water bodies of the city would require every day..."
As he spoke, Gretel was doing mental calculations. Calculate that the chlorine added amount is 3 mg/liter of water and the effective chlorine of bleaching powder is 25%. For every cubic meter of drinking water, 12 grams of bleaching powder needs to be added. There are 500,000 people in the city, and 1,000 tons of drinking water a day means 12 kilograms of bleaching powder. It needs to be delivered accurately and without any waste.
"12 gold coins." He reported the answer. The wrinkles on the middle-aged accountant’s face are getting deeper:
"There are 365 days in a year, which is 4380 gold coins. In addition, the wages of priest apprentices and mage apprentices..."
"..." Grete originally planned not to give any points. Just kidding, you came to him for training and you still want to get paid? Doesn’t your school provide subsidies?
But thinking about it again, the apprentices were already extremely poor. If he doesn't give it, and if his own school of thought doesn't give it - like the God of Nature Cult, it really will give you nothing but food - won't you starve to death in this year?
Just like interns and trainees in hospitals, it is impossible to get a formal doctor's salary, and they still have to pay a few subsidies...
"You press first..." Gretel thought for a moment. Testing water quality must be done by full-time personnel, and you cannot rely on free labor from various companies every day. Then the question comes——
In this world, how much does it cost to hire an ordinary person with a normal education, or a mage apprentice who is forty years old and cannot advance?
"Let's make a budget based on 5 gold coins per month first." He whispered. The middle-aged accountant lowered his head and made another note:
"5 gold coins a month, 12 months a year, 24 people... 1440 gold coins... the total is 5820... and the cost of testing reagents... and the daily operating expenses of the infectious disease hospital...
Although the Emergency Management Department next door shares law enforcement capabilities, we have to at least give them a little subsidy every time they go out. Otherwise, it would be normal for people to just make excuses and come an hour late..."
Gretel: "..."
Feeling: As the Director of the Department of Public Health, my first year's salary, or in other words, the half of the Mage Tower, is not free? In addition to creating a department, I also need to establish an effective mechanism to provide operating funds for the Department of Public Health?
No wonder the parliament promised such high remuneration...
Grete looked up and sighed. I am just a clinician, and I was forced to take the position of Director of the Department of Public Health. It doesn’t matter, after all, I am taking care of the health of the whole people. But why am I still forced to be a businessman...
He reached out and pressed his eyebrows, then rubbed them, trying to smooth out the tangles. No, I still want to run away, flip the table, scream to the sky...
"What do you suggest?"
He slumped down weakly, his head turned to one side, and lay flat on the table. The middle-aged accountant bowed, tried his best to lower his height to his level, and whispered:
"I heard that you said during the last meeting that you would provide technical guidance to some workshops...the rich one..."
"Huh? How do you know?"
"Listen, listen to what others are saying..."
The middle-aged accountant pinched his pocket nervously. There were dozens of gold coins in the wallet, sent by three different guild leaders. This amount alone was more than half a year's salary, and the purpose of giving the gift was just to let him say a word in front of Gretel:
Come and see their workshop!
"emmmm..." Gretel became a little more energetic. He raised half his head from the table and looked at the middle-aged accountant:
"Which companies have applied for technical guidance? How much can they give? Is it a lump sum payment or continuous payment? Who will talk to them?"
"This, the Slaughter Guild, the Liquor Guild, the Salt Merchant Guild, the Metallurgical Guild..." The middle-aged accountant counted them one by one on his fingers. They were all workshops that Grete casually mentioned at the hearing that could carry out technical transformation:
"Generally speaking, dividends are paid to dry stocks, and dividends are settled every year, or every quarter. The magician can negotiate it himself-" Seeing Grete's face immediately darken, he quickly added:
"If a magician is really not good at negotiating, the Magician Management Department will provide a negotiator to come forward on his behalf! You only need to pay a small fee! There are many magicians who hire them!"
Gretel's eyes lit up.
"Okay - let's start with the Slaughter Guild! I have to practice dissection anyway, so grab some dissection materials! Auro! Auro! Follow me up the mountain!"
They headed straight for the top of Igor Peak. There is still a laboratory in the Thunder Tower that is working tirelessly to produce bleaching powder. When the magician who presided over the production saw Gretel arriving, it was as if he saw a savior descending from heaven. He almost rushed to hug his lap:
"Little Gretel, when will this work end? It's so boring! And you see, the caustic soda solution produced is not easy to put away, and it is not easy to pour it out. We have accumulated several pools here. Recently, the entire parliament has Caustic soda prices are plummeting!
And that light air, if you’re not careful, it will explode——”
Gretel: "Pfft..." Isn't that right? You can only use chlorine here and cannot industrialize other by-products? This is too miserable. No wonder the price of bleaching powder is so high. It costs me one gold coin per kilogram...
"That... still needs to be done, and more needs to be done. A public health center has recently been set up, and a large amount of bleaching powder is required to purify drinking water, about 12 kilograms a day..."
"Ah——" the magician screamed. He dragged Gretel and ran out of the laboratory:
"Come on, come on, come on, take a look for yourself! See how much the Alchemy Guild charges for caustic soda!"
Grete was dragged by him, staggering all the way, straight to the Alchemy Guild. A level 2 magician dealt with him skillfully:
"Caustic soda solution? 1 silver coin per liter, you can deliver it yourself!"
"What? The price has dropped again?" Thunder Horn screamed. The alchemist gave him a blank look:
"Otherwise, what should I do? Tell me, tell me, how much have you sent over recently? The guild can't consume it at all! The amount of caustic soda is only so much. To make soda ash, the strange smell fills the room. Without the bubble technique, it won't be possible. Don't dare to enter!
Moreover, the fuel for boiling alkaline water is free? Does the pot for storing alkaline water cost free? After cooking it for a few times, the pot will become rotten!
——Otherwise, you can make them into soda ash yourself? We charge high prices! "
"This is so annoying——"
The magician from Thunder Horn screamed.
Gretel couldn't help but hold his forehead next to him. It's so miserable, it's so miserable. When you make soda ash, oh, sodium carbonate, do you still heat sodium hydroxide solution? No wonder the production efficiency is so low...
"You charge soda ash? Charge it at a high price?" He stuck out his head. The alchemist glanced at him quickly, saw the three bronze stars and four white rings on the badge, and immediately became serious:
"Collect it! The amount of soda ash is large, we will collect any amount!"
Just say this from you. Gretel dragged his family back with a smile. As soon as he returned to the laboratory, he immediately laid out a set of glassware:
"The charcoal is ignited...the burned smoke is passed into the caustic soda solution...in excess. After the reaction is saturated, an equal amount of caustic soda solution is added...and finally heated and evaporated...
Look, the soda ash is out, right?
——How to mass-produce it? Try it yourself! Sell me the bleaching powder for cheap! Soda ash is also cheap for me! "
"no problem!"
The magician's eyes at Thunder Horn immediately lit up. The amount of soda ash used in washing, printing and dyeing, tanning, soap making, etc. is so large that the entire city of Nevis swallows hundreds of kilograms a day without even burping. Following Grete's method, the caustic soda solution accumulated every day can be turned into soda ash and sold!
The Department of Change has a workshop that produces these things every day, and now Thunder Horn can also get involved! The price is even lower than theirs, squeezing them to death!
"I'll organize manpower to try it right away! Don't worry, as long as we can really make soda ash on a large scale, I'll sell you the bleaching powder you want at a half discount! - Brol! Davila! Brittney! You guys, hurry up and get some Get a room out! Customize copper pipes, set up a stove, get charcoal, and get ready!"
"Then it's up to you!"
Gretel was in a good mood. Hey, money is earned and saved. With such an improvement in craftsmanship, two thousand gold coins can be saved, right? If we visit a few more companies and upgrade the technology, the Department of Public Health will probably save money...
Alas, in fact, the most expensive step in the bleaching powder production process is the electrolysis of salt water - in other words, renting the Thunder Tower laboratory for electrolysis. It would be great if we could generate our own electricity. We could set up a small hydropower station and set up a production line next to it. Other raw materials would not cost much.
However, the only method of generating electricity that Grete knew was to use a magnetic field to cut a coil and generate alternating current. Electrolysis of salt water requires direct current. How to change AC to DC?
Sorry, Gretel, said he didn't know...
"Oro!—Oro!"
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