OBS Chapter 411: Fooling Fu Huaian
Chapter 411: Fooling Fu Huaian
"Let's sell them first. Isn't it said that the supply is a bit insufficient?"
The old lady was very surprised. She didn't expect that people knew that they couldn't supply the goods.
She quickly said, "It's okay, it can be solved soon. We are looking for workers in the village. Besides, it doesn't matter."
The girls in the room could basically hear the voices outside, but they didn't dare to come out. Although it wasn't the first time they saw General Fu, he was still a stranger!
However, the windows of the workshop are made of transparent plastic, not window paper, so it is still possible to secretly take a look outside when the other person is not looking inside the room.
Next is the shoe sole workshop, where there are quite a few men making shoe soles.
This time he could finally see from beginning to end how the soles were made.
The more I look at it, the more surprised I am. I didn’t expect that plastic can be made so simply. Although it is simple, it is not something that most people can think of.
He pointed to the iron barrel used to make plastic and asked, "How did you come up with the idea of making plastic this way?"
Shen Zhiqiu had actually been thinking about how to answer this question.
So there was no change on his face, and he spoke directly: "My daughter is not like a girl, she is very curious about many strange things,
In the past, when she saw some wild vegetables, such as dandelions, which contained a white liquid that felt sticky to the touch, she wondered if it could be boiled into glue to stick things together?
Unexpectedly, after extracting the white liquid many times, what was produced was something she called rubber. Why is it called rubber?
It's also because this object is like glue when it melts."
It has to be said that just by fooling people, Shen Zhiqiu is second to none in the Nine Clans.
This is such a lie, it really sounds like it.
He also said: "This kind of rubber is a good thing. Although it can't stick to things, it can be like clay. When it is soft, it is very plastic.
But the amount of rubber that can be extracted from dandelions is very small. If you really want to use this rubber to make objects, you have to find similar plants.
Later, my daughter tried any plant that could produce this white latex, and she found that the bark, leaves, and branches of the Eucommia ulmoides tree could also be used to extract this rubber.
By the way, he also showed Fu Huaian the rain boots he and others had made when they were fleeing from famine.
"Although this kind of eucommia gum can also be used to extract rubber, the eucommia trees are all wild and have great medicinal value, so the cost will be very high.
So she started to think about other plants, and finally found that when sweet potatoes are raw, white juice will appear when they are cut.
At first, he made sweet potato flour by the same method as lotus root flour, and then he experimented with other grains. He found that this kind of flour could also be extracted from corn, so he named this flour starch.
Anyway, she was just tinkering around with the same things one by one. One time, she accidentally added the glycerin she made for hand wiping into the pile of things she was tinkering with, and that's how she made plastic.
Although plastic is similar to rubber, there is still a big difference. Rubber feels very elastic, but the elasticity of plastic is much smaller. "
Fu Huaian was no longer calm. He really wanted to see what was going on in Shen Zhiqiu's daughter's head. After all, was this something that a normal person could discover?
Although there were many things in the middle, and Shen Zhiqiu spoke vaguely and seemed to be hiding something, but if it was true, it would really make sense.
Of course, as to whether he believed it or not, to be honest, he had a question mark in his mind at this moment.
It's not that he felt Shen Zhiqiu was deliberately deceiving him, but he just couldn't believe that someone could be so smart.
She was still a little girl of eleven or twelve years old.
Shen Zhiqiu knew that there were still some parts in his explanation that didn't make sense, for example, how come the mixture that was accidentally added to glycerol happened to contain starch, water, vinegar and alkali?
After all, it can't be made into plastic if it's one thing wrong, but he didn't intend to give a reason, and instead changed the subject: "Plastic has many uses. So far, we have found that it can be used to make shoe soles, basins, buckets, and the like."
He pointed at the window and said, "It's also good to make windows, they are windproof, warm and transparent. It's just that in the summer, the room is not ventilated and a little hot, but it doesn't matter if the windows are made to be easy to open and close."
Fu Huaian had long noticed that the windows of Shen Zhiqiu and his family were made of plastic, which allowed more light to pass through than ordinary window paper, and the room was also much brighter than before when paper windows were used.
“Is it possible to mass-produce such windows?”
Shen Zhiqiu shook his head: "Not for now, because plastic itself is made of food. As for daily necessities, we don't plan to make them for sale for now. If there are a batch of shoe soles that are worn out, we can recycle them and make them again. We can consider making windows."
Fu Huaian had also heard that plastic could be recycled, and according to the information he had received, many people knew that plastic could be recycled and deliberately bought shoe soles for experiments, just to see how the recycled soles could be reused.
I tried to find a recipe for making plastic, but nothing worked, even burning it or boiling it.
They were very united and said that they had tried to buy information from them but failed, so they decided to ask the court to intervene.
Because now some people in the court already know the relationship between my grandfather and Shen Zhiqiu and others.
The person who could make his grandfather, who was relaxing at home, personally go to the palace to beg for mercy was obviously valued by his grandfather.
They dared not seize things by force and could only complain to the court.
After visiting one by one, they finally arrived at the new workshop that Shen Zhiqiu wanted to show Fu Huaian, which was where plastic shoe uppers were made.
Fu Huaian reached out and took the heat-pressed plastic upper material handed to him by Shen Zhiqiu.
If you feel it carefully, you will find that this plastic cloth is very similar to leather and very elastic. No wonder Shen Zhiqiu said that it has a certain degree of waterproofness.
He was just about to ask Shen Zhiqiu, wanting to know more about this "cloth".
Then Shen Zhiqiu shouted to the outside: "Erbao, go call your sister."
Turning to him, she said, "Let my daughter tell you about this."
Shen Zhiqiu also wanted to explain it to him himself, but he didn't know much, so there was no other way and his daughter had to come forward.
As for Shen Youyou, she didn't follow them out at all. She thought that Fu Huaian's reception would be handled by his father and she had no need to do that.
But it didn't take much effort before Shen Youyou arrived.
In Fu Huaian's opinion, the other party was still dressed like a tomboy, walked very fast, was very open and frank when she saw him, without any reservations, and looked at people with a clear gaze.
I thought to myself: "Achi is right, this kid looks more like Shen Zhiqiu's son."
On the way, Shen Youyou also knew why her father called her, so without any delay, she picked up a piece of plastic upper cloth and said:
"This material is much cheaper than cloth because it takes less time and labor to make than weaving.
As for other advantages, what can be seen for now is that it is wear-resistant, warm, and waterproof. The shoe shape made is also easier to maintain. Unlike materials made of cloth, which will collapse when pressed, it has a certain degree of resilience.
Of course there are disadvantages, the most important one is that it is not breathable and not suitable for summer wear.
Of course, if you want to make shoes for summer, there are ways to do it. For example, if they are not breathable, which makes your feet stuffy when you wear them in summer, you can artificially make some holes when making summer shoes to allow your feet to breathe. "