Yang Sichen carefully sized up Du Er and realized that he seemed to have become much sturdier than three months ago. There was no paleness on his face. He was still dressed in short combat clothes and had been washed clean. It seemed that the other servants did not make things difficult for the three brothers.
Yang Sichen nodded and said to Du Er,""Take me to the kitchen."
Du Er nodded and turned around, picked up the dustpan, and led Yang Sichen to the kitchen.
Just as he reached the kitchen door, Yang Sichen heard Du Da shout from the kitchen,""Second brother! What's wrong with you? You've been gone for so long before you came back."
"Big Brother, Young Master is here!" Du Er hurriedly replied. It's at the kitchen door."
Du Da quickly pulled open the kitchen door and greeted Yang Sichen respectfully. He then said,""Young Master, why are you here? This place is very dirty. I'm afraid that I'll stain your clothes. If you have any instructions, send someone over to pass the message. I'll go over.”
Yang Sichen smiled and saw the Du family members hiding behind their eldest brother, curiously looking at the purple handkerchief. There were a few black marks on their faces.
Yang Sichen entered the kitchen and looked around. He realized that the place hadn't changed much from three months ago.
Yang Sichen walked around and asked,""How much activated carbon can you make in a day now?”
Du Da took a step forward and bowed."Now, the three of us can produce 15 catties of activated carbon a day. According to your instructions, we can only provide 5 catties of activated carbon to the Xu's brown sugar workshop every day. In three months, he had saved nearly 600 catties.”
Yang Sichen nodded and thought," The use of activated carbon was not limited to the production of white sugar. In the future, activated carbon was widely used in the deep purification and gas phase absorption of domestic water, industrial water, and waste water, such as the purification of water in industries such as petrification, power plants, food and beverage, sugar, wine, medicine, and fish farming. It could effectively absorb free chloride-free, phosphorus, sulfur, and other organic impurities in the water to filter and remove odors. It can also be used for workshop tail gas purification, solution filtering, color removal, purification, etc., as well as gas desulphuration, oil catalyst reforming, gas separation, pressure swing absorption, air drying, food preservation, gas mask, disintermediation carrier, and organic solution recovery. They were involved in the extraction of precious metals, the catalyst and catalyst carrier in the chemical industry, and so on. It has the functions of color removal, purification, impurity removal, odor removal, carrier, purification, recycling, etc.
Yang Sichen also knew that the quality of the activated carbon he produced would be considered inferior in the future. However, in this era where technology was still underdeveloped, it would definitely be top-notch! This really confirmed what the little guy had said-science and technology were the primary productive forces!
Yang Sichen knew that ordinary charcoal could also act as activated charcoal, but the effect was slightly weaker. Ordinary charcoal could also be processed into activated carbon. Under high temperature, steam could be passed through the charcoal, allowing the high-temperature steam to wash the charcoal and dredge the micro-space in the charcoal. In this way, better activated carbon could be made.
However, Yang Sichen didn't want to do that now. The current manufacturing process was too simple, and it was only a matter of time before it was leaked. After the current process was leaked, it wouldn't be too late to come up with a more advanced method of manufacturing activated carbon. This way, he would always be at the upper end of the profit chain and would always be able to earn extra profits. With such high profits, there would be enough funds and material rewards to conduct more in-depth technical research and product research. Yang Sichen clearly understood that encouraging employees to develop and create new ideas was the prerequisite for greater profits and income. It was also a necessary condition for the operation of this income-output cycle.
Yang Sichen said," It's almost the new year. I came over to take a look. It seems that you brothers are doing well."
"Thank you for your praise, Young Master!" This is our duty."
Yang Sichen suddenly thought of something and asked,""Can you read?"
Du Dahui replied," In the past, my younger brother and I studied with the private school teacher in the village for half a year. We still remember the Three Character Classic and the Hundred Family Surnames. We can recognize some words." But…" As he spoke, his face darkened.
Yang Sichen saw his expression darken and guessed what had happened, but he didn't ask. "I'll give you a few books after the New Year. Read them yourself. Tell Rongguang after you're done. He'll get you more books."”
Du Da's eyes lit up and he replied,""Yes, I am. Young Master!"
"How many hours do you guys work a day?" Yang Sichen asked again.”
Du Da hesitated for a moment and replied,""Sometimes it's twelve hours, sometimes it's seven and a half hours.”
Yang Sichen frowned. Seeing this, Du Da thought that Yang Sichen was not satisfied and hurriedly explained,"Young Master, once this stove is heated up, you can't extinguish it. If you extinguish the fire, it will probably take an hour to heat it up again. So…"
Yang Sichen raised his hand and interrupted Du Da,""You've misunderstood. I don't think that you don't work hard enough, but I think that you're working too hard. How about this, from now on, I'll just work for 12 hours a day.”
"Thank you for your consideration, Young Master." Actually, only one person is needed to watch over the charcoal burning."
Yang Sichen nodded and said," I think Du San is too young. He's not suitable to work with you guys. I've already let Rongguang go. I'm short of a manservant. Why don't you let him come and serve me?"”
Du Da hesitated for a long time and finally said,""It's my fortune that Young Master has taken a fancy to me. It's just that I'm still young and illiterate. I'm afraid that staying by Young Master's side will hinder Young Master's work. Why don't you let me teach you the rules first so that I can read a few words and then serve Young Master a few years later?”After saying that, she looked at Yang Sichen with a pleading gaze.
Yang Sichen thought for a while and said," How about this? I'll let Du San study in a private school for a few years. He'll come back to serve me when he's eleven. How about this?"”
Du Da quickly pulled Du San behind him to kneel down and said,"Thank you, Young Master! I'm willing to do anything for Young Master!" After saying that, he asked Du San to kowtow to Yang Sichen.
Du Er also knelt down and said,"Young Master, thank you for thinking highly of us brothers. From now on, I, Du Er, will sell my life to you!”
Yang Sichen helped the three brothers up and said,""Don't be like this. I don't want you three brothers to work hard. The best way to repay me is for you to do your part!”
Yang Sichen chatted with the three Du brothers for a while more. After checking the quality of the activated carbon, he took the purple handkerchief back to the Jade Wave Courtyard.
After dinner, Yang Sichen asked Liu Lan to go to Ping Bo Xuan and give the Du brothers six taels of silver as a reward. He also told the Du brothers that he was very satisfied with their performance. From tomorrow until the 16th day of the first lunar month, there was no need to work anymore. They were celebrating the new year happily. Anyway, the brown sugar factory would only start after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. It was useless to get so much activated carbon now.
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