The Rise of the European Emperor

Grenada finally produced sugar, and a batch of brown sugar produced in Grenada was shipped back to East Frisland to supply the consumption of the Royal Palace of Aurich.

In fact, sugarcane cultivation in Grenada is still expanding. Because sugarcane nodes can cultivate sugarcane seedlings, most of the harvested sugarcane is used to continue to cultivate sugarcane seedlings, and then expand the planting.

However, it is not good to have no sugar all the time. As usual, if you can't see the benefits all the time, those European aristocrats will definitely be very angry. In fact, Marin is not so short-sighted. The Governor of Grenada, George Sr., still selects a batch of sugar cane that is not growing well, and uses it to squeeze sugar...

Finally, the boat returning to Emden port brought back 2o bags of rice for Marin to make egg fried rice; 2o bags of ginger for spice and seasoning; 2o bags of soybeans for... um, It was taken by Marin to grind soy milk and to make tofu... In the end, it was 5 bags of sucrose and brown sugar...

However, Marin was a little surprised by the packaging of these goods...

Rice, ginger, and soybeans are packed in sacks, which is fine. But why are those cane sugars in animal skin bags? Don't you know that animal skins are expensive? There is no problem in transporting sucrose in small batches, but Marin will make sucrose an industry in the future. In this way, the packaging of sucrose is easy and the cost needs to be controlled. Otherwise, the value of the pocket is too high, isn't it a slap in the face?

After all, in the end, sucrose is still available to the public. It's a bit extravagant to use animal skin pockets for sucrose...

"Why don't you use oiled paper for cane sugar?" Marin asked bald Aben, the captain in charge of the American route. In Marin's cognition, there are no plastic bags in this era, so it is natural to use moisture-proof oil paper bags.

Aben scratched his bald head, thought about it, and said:

"My lord, the price of oiled paper is not cheaper than that of animal skins..."

"Ah?" Marin was stunned for a moment, and then he called Kohler and asked him to send someone to inquire.

really,

When Kohler's people came back, they told Marin that the price of oiled paper was really not cheaper than that of animal skins, and the animal skins were not as strong...

Malin vaguely remembered that the current papermaking in Europe was probably the early papermaking that was learned by the Arabs during the Tang Dynasty. That is, the method of making paper from raw materials such as rags, fishing nets, and bark.

However, European fabrics are very expensive, and rags are used as raw materials... If the cost of paper is not high, there will be ghosts...

At this time, in the Ming Dynasty, bamboo paper has become popular. Bamboo paper is made by soaking bamboo in lime ponds for more than 100 days.

Bamboo is everywhere in China, especially in the south. Moreover, bamboo grows quickly and raw materials are readily available. Therefore, the cost of Chinese paper is much lower than that of European rags and fishing nets.

It was not until the Qianlong period that the French missionary Jiang Youren, formerly known as Benoit Michel, stole the secrets of papermaking in China, painted the new papermaking techniques, and sent them back to Paris.

For now, the price of European paper is really not cheap. So much so that when the nobles signed the documents, they simply used parchment, which was a little more expensive than paper, but more durable.

Moreover, when it comes to the current oil paper in Europe, the cost is higher. Because the popular oil paper in Europe is butter paper. How expensive is butter? In this era of lack of oil and water, the price of butter...

Paper is already expensive in Europe, and it is more expensive when it is soaked in butter, which is basically similar to animal skins. But hides are not only waterproof, they are also stronger. Therefore, when transporting sucrose, Europeans simply used animal skin bags.

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Marin suddenly remembered something that he seemed to be planning to use the local forest resources to make paper on Cape Breton Island. To this end, he also sent people to Egypt to buy the sodium mirabilite needed for cooking pulp. It's just that he was so busy with the war that he almost forgot about it.

So he hurried to the relevant personnel to inquire about the purchase of thenardite. As a result, Marin was told that the ship to Egypt had purchased dozens of bags of thenardite and returned, and found a stable supplier. As long as you need it, you can buy him hundreds of thousands of bags of Glauber's salt. However, Marin never mentioned the purchase of thenardite, the papermaking was also delayed, and the ships going to Egypt only focused on purchasing natural soda, and no longer purchased more thenardite.

In fact, now on Cape Breton Island, the coal mine in the North Sydney mining area north of Sydney Bay has been discovered and has begun to open. Also, Cape Breton Island, which includes most of North America, is an area of ​​jungle density.

It is definitely the best choice to exhibit the paper industry in North America...

There are unlimited trees here, plus the coal mines on Cape Breton Island, and the cooking catalyst mirabilite purchased from Egypt, Marin can completely set up a cauldron on Cape Breton Island and cook the pulp desperately, as many as you want... Later generations Canada, the world's largest pulp producer...

Of course, the container for cooking pulp is not an ordinary cauldron. Instead, a steel digester with better sealing is required. After the digester is sealed, the water vapor cannot be dissipated during cooking, and high pressure is formed in the digester. Then, the temperature rises...

In this way, wood chips can be boiled into pulp that can be used to make paper in a few hours...

Using the traditional method to make bamboo paper, it takes more than 100 days to soak the bamboo in the lime pond...

After soaking, I have to put it in a big pot and cook it for seven or eight days...

In the more than 100 days of soaking bamboo, the papermakers had nothing to do, so they had to do other things. After the bamboo is soaked, they can start cooking and officially start work.

Using modern chemical pulping methods, using sodium sulfate as a cooking catalyst, and using a sealed high-pressure digester, the wood cut into small pieces is put into the digester, and the pulp can be obtained by high-pressure cooking for 2 to 4 hours… …

Comparing the two, the efficiency is hundreds of thousands of times worse...

Using the world's most advanced bamboo paper making method, it takes at least one hundred and twenty days to obtain pulp that can be made into paper.

Using the chemical pulping method of later generations, using more extensive wood than bamboo, you can obtain pulp in just one day...even, if you don't need a day, you can do it in half a day...

That is to say, when the paper craftsmen in Daming made a knife of paper, workers using modern methods may have made hundreds or thousands of knives of paper...

Under such efficiency, plus North American wood does not cost money, just chop it down. Therefore, Marin can be sure that as long as he starts making paper, the paper produced by his paper mill will be very cheap, even lower than the cost of paper in the Ming Dynasty.

The price of paper in the Ming Dynasty was about 1 cent per piece of paper, and the cost of paper made by Marin with modern technology must be much lower than this...

At that time, such low-cost paper will be made into oiled paper, and the price will certainly not be expensive. At that time, Marin is fully qualified to popularize oil paper bag packaging...

Moreover, the textbooks used in East Frisian schools can also be used by everyone... Unlike now, many children are still learning Yue Fei, using branches to write on the sand table...

And because the North American colonies produced a lot of whale oil, even to make oil paper, there was no need to use expensive butter, but to soak the paper with whale oil. In this way, the price of oil paper produced in Cape Breton Island is definitely very cheap.

At that time, Grenada, and Cuba, which is about to open, can produce cane sugar that can use oil paper as packaging. Inexpensive and moisture-proof...

To this end, Marin personally organized craftsmen to build a large-scale digester for cooking pulp, which is sealed, with a lid similar to a tank lid at the top. The lid is covered with cowhide to ensure that the container is as large as possible during cooking. No air leakage, increase the pressure inside the easy-to-use, and increase the cooking temperature.

However, for the first time cooking, the iron bolt of the lid was not firm, which caused the lid to be blown off by the high pressure of the cooker, and there was a huge explosion. Fortunately, the iron cover flew to a place where there was no one. Otherwise, if you smash the Marin who came to watch, it will change history...

After improvement, the craftsmen used high carbon steel bolts with high tensile force for the lid of the digester. In this way, no matter how high the pressure in the digester is, the iron cover will not be lifted off. Unless, the pressure in the digester reaches a level that can make a digester made of pure steel explode... However, that possibility is extremely low and extremely low...

After the digester was successful, Marin ordered a ship to be shipped to Cape Breton Island. At the same time, Marin also dispatched a group of paper craftsmen and lumberjacks who had signed dead deeds to go to Cape Breton Island to make paper. Those lumberjacks, of course, are responsible for cutting down the trees and dividing the logs into small pieces for cooking in the digester. And those paper craftsmen are responsible for re-mixing the pulp and making paper after the pulp is cooked. Then, the pulp-coated board is taken out to dry... When it is dry, the paper craftsmen can peel off the sheets of paper from the board...

However, considering the transfer of the cooking salt base to Cape Breton Island, the waste water pollution of papermaking is very large, especially chemical pulping. Therefore, Marin decided that the base for papermaking would not be placed in Sydney Bay, but at the northern end of Cape Breton Island.

In this way, the waste water from the paper mill, even if it is discharged into the sea, will not affect the cooking salt in Sydney Bay. Because the ocean current on the east coast of North America, that is, the warm North Atlantic current, flows from south to north. Go to the northernmost point of Cape Breton Island on the paper mill peninsula, and the waste water generated by the paper mill will not affect the "upstream" salt cooking base. Otherwise, polluted seawater is used in the cooking salt base, and there will be problems with the boiled salt.

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