As for why the machine is made, it is entirely to enable more efficient mass production and improve the quality of iodized salt. It is impossible for workers to do every step, and they may not be able to do it well.
The salt-making machine that Claire researched is also semi-automated, and many steps still require workers. It's not that he doesn't want to automate it, but it's because he alone and the technology from another world can't do it. The technology here The tree is completely on the magic, and the industrialization does not involve much, which is almost equivalent to Claire starting from scratch.
Moreover, hiring workers can also increase jobs and directly increase the income level of Nafu City. Since Claire returned to the present, the basic salary in Nafu City has increased by nearly 50%. It is expected that the salt factory will be directly doubled after the construction .
The employment opportunities brought by a pillar of the industry are not only workers working in factories. For example, carpenters are needed to produce wooden boxes for iodized salt, and the wood needed by carpenters requires people to cut down trees. One part, including the raw materials needed to produce iodized salt, seawater, seaweed, kelp, etc., all need to be collected by someone.
As long as the salt factory has this demand, there will be corresponding upstream job opportunities, which will directly or indirectly bring hundreds of jobs. With this development, the economy of Nafu City can develop rapidly.
This also shows how important an industrial pillar is to the development of a city.
If it weren't for the benefits, Claire wouldn't be so eager to open a factory and sell iodized salt.
But now Claire has to solve the salt making machine. Salt making from seawater is not as simple as imagined. It is not simply to boil the seawater. There are many impurities in the seawater. Sift it out to get clean sea salt.
However, even if you get clean sea salt, it is still inedible. There are still many heavy metals that are harmful to the human body. You have to use their different solubility at different temperatures to add water many times to dissolve the heavy metals in the water and then remove them. This is the best way to get edible salt, and in the last step, you have to add an appropriate amount of iodine to it, which is considered a successful production of iodized salt.
The first thing to solve is heat. Claire first engraved a modified fire magic circle on the machine furnace that needs to be heated, which can emit enough heat to cook seawater into coarse salt, and he does not need to be in the factory. , only need to connect a first-level Warcraft crystal core or magic mine with magic power as energy, and the energy in it can be enough to run the machine for a month.
This also eliminates the trouble of burning firewood, and can better control the temperature to avoid accidents.
And the kinetic energy on the conveyor belt is provided by the energy of these magic mines and the crystal core of Warcraft.
Not only that, but Claire also created a machine for extracting iodine, and the process of adding iodine also uses machines.
As for the precipitation of heavy metals at different temperatures in the back, pouring in water, and taking out the waste water containing heavy metals, etc., you have to use workers. If you use magic, not to mention that Claire's current level is difficult to manufacture, and it is not enough. There must be workers coming. The factory that was so developed in the previous life still needs to hire workers. Claire dare not say that his machine is more developed than the previous life.
At least these machines are operated separately, and the iodized salt can only be extracted by the workers moving the raw materials they make.
After working for several days, Claire finally got all these machines out. They were different from the machines in the previous life. The appearance of using magic gave people a different feeling.
However, Claire is still very satisfied. This is the result of her labor these days.
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In the capital city, a luxuriously decorated shop was built on the bustling street in the capital city, and passersby passed by and cast curious glances inside. This new store has just opened and I haven't heard of what it sells in it, but the decoration alone is enough. It gives people a feeling that the goods inside are not cheap, but just looking at the luxurious storefront, many people do not even have the courage to walk in.
However, there were people coming and going in Wangdu, and there was someone who came in curiously.
"What are you selling?" A middle-aged man with a pot belly and a monocle walked in with a scepter.
"Your shop is new, right? I've never seen it before."
"Welcome!" One of the service staff won with a smile on his face, "Please come with me, this is what we sell."
The man with the single-piece mirror walked over to the goods display table and looked at it, "Isn't this salt?"
"Yes, but this salt has a miraculous effect, it can prevent big neck disease!" The salesperson was still introducing.
The man with the single-piece mirror listened to the salesperson's introduction, and then glanced at the package containing the salt, thinking that it would be good if he bought another one.
He asked, "It's pretty good from what you said, how much did I buy it for!"
The sales clerk's mouth that was still eloquent just now got stuck, and he hesitated for a long time before saying, "One hundred..."
"One gold coin is just one gold coin, so why say a hundred silver coins, doesn't it seem too much? I gave it!"
"No sir, it's a box of one hundred gold coins." The salesman said it anyway.
"What!" The pot-bellied man jumped up immediately, "You guys are robbery! Even this box of broken salt dares to sell a hundred gold coins!"
"You are greedy! I don't think this shop will close in a few days!"
The man scolded and left the store. He ran a restaurant in the capital. Although he was not a rich man, he was rich, but he was only rich and not sick. He spent a hundred gold coins to buy a box. He still can't do the behavior of salt, even if the salt has any effect on preventing big neck disease.
It only cost four or five gold coins to go to the priest for treatment by yourself. As for buying such expensive salt!
After the guests left, the salesman sighed and walked back to the rest area. Xia En is also lying in the rest area and eating snacks. The business here is very important. He has to sit here to feel at ease. Leave it to the person below to do it.
As soon as he saw Xia En, the salesman complained with a bitter face: "Boss, this is already the fifth customer. They all feel that the items are too expensive, and the goods can't be sold at all, otherwise we will sell the goods. Order the price, I promise to sell you three gold coins!"
But Xia En still had a calm look on his face, and waved his hand, "Just keep busy, go to receive guests when they come, don't worry about these things, those people can't afford it, it means that these products are not for them. prepare."
Xia En is not worried at all about whether the items can be sold or not. He has already contacted all the doctors. It cost him 8,000 gold coins. He started planning this evening. After the newspaper is released tomorrow, everyone in the capital will be Know that there is a kind of iodized salt for sale here.
As for what happened just now, he didn't take it to heart at all. This batch of iodized salt was not prepared for these ordinary businessmen, but to make them famous.
Yes, this batch of iodized salt is not sold as a condiment or a drug commodity, but as a luxury product, and the target customers are also those high-ranking nobles.
First, spend money to buy those doctors to let them publish reports to prove the effectiveness of iodized salt. After the report is published, many people will be interested in the iodized salt sold in their shops, but they are not their final target customers, because these people are large Most of them will definitely turn their heads and leave when they see the price of iodized salt, but they can't hold it back.
Because a hundred gold coins is still too expensive, it is better to spend a few gold coins to go to church for baptism.
But these people are not the last customers. The price of the customers is different. You think a pair of shoes is a few hundred dollars more, but others dare to sell tens of thousands of dollars for luxury goods. You think a canvas bag can hold things. Okay, but there are still people who are willing to buy tens of thousands of Hermes bags that can't hold much stuff~www.mtlnovel.com~ Do you think diamonds are just stones, but there are still people who are willing to pay tens of millions to buy them.
Sometimes you think a product is expensive, it means that the customer they are targeting is not you.
The latter is the key, and it is what Shane admires Claire the most.
Spread panic, link iodized salt with IQ, life, and physical health, and give people a psychological hint that if your child doesn't eat this iodized salt, it may have a lower IQ than other people's children. If your wife does not eat this iodized salt, it may lead to miscarriage. If you do not eat this iodized salt, it may cause your body to be weaker than others.
The panic spread, and those customers who thought that iodized salt was not worth it suddenly changed their minds and felt that it would not be a big loss if they bought it for a hundred gold coins.
Don't think it's useless to spread panic. During the epidemic in Claire's previous life, any rumor could increase the amount of rice he usually eats several times, and when the news of the shortage of masks spread, the number of masks increased dozens of times.
It is even said that this kind of panic is directly linked to IQ. Those nobles are definitely willing to spend money at this moment. They spend more than a hundred gold coins a day, so they can't let their children lose at the starting line.
And one last trick, scarcity! There are only 500 boxes. You think it is a bit expensive. Others who are richer than you do not think it is expensive. If you hesitate, they will all buy them, and you will not even be able to grab the box.
In the end, all the great nobles in the capital have it in their homes, but you don't have this in your home, you lose the face to go out and say hello to others.
So that's why Shane isn't worried about whether the price of 100 gold coins can be sold at all. The next thing will be left to time.