The world of your own.

The east side of the mountains of the Rainbow Valley.

Above a flat grassland, multiple grids are divided into lime lines to stack different building materials.

There is a stone area, and more than 100,000 pieces of off-white stone are piled up at this moment.

There is a raw wood area, and more than 10,000 standard wooden boards are piled up at this moment, exposing them to the sun in an open-air environment.

With a glass area and using transparent crystal material, Xu Ming recently produced 1,000 glass sides.

There is a black crystal panel area. With very high efficiency, these two Xu Ming cut out 3,000 square meters of black crystal panels, which is basically enough... Looking at the Black Crystal Mountain, which is obviously missing a corner, Xu Ming was a little worried that it would be mined soon.

The only thing is the steel bars of lava steel material is a bit difficult to deal with, because the melting point of lava steel exceeds more than 3,000 degrees. A black crystal crucible is used to hold lava steel ore. Even if it is placed in magma, the temperature of the magma cannot melt the ore... The temperature of the surface magma is only more than 1,400 degrees, and it can only melt iron, glass and other substances, which can do nothing to the lava steel.

Xu Ming had to think of a way to get a high temperature of more than 3,000 degrees.

On the Blue Star, arc discharge can be used to heat gases such as argon, hydrogen, methane, etc., and a high temperature of 2000 to 5000c can be easily obtained. At this temperature, the substance is in a plasma state, and a high temperature of more than 10,000 degrees can be obtained by using this plasma furnace. In addition, ultra-high temperature electric furnaces, solar furnaces, electron beam devices, and multi-beam laser focusing can be obtained by obtaining ultra-high temperatures.

Obviously, Xu Ming must not be able to play with the volume of the plasma furnace, the conditions of use and the complexity of the operation, so there is no need to think about this.

He thought of another way.

It is called the "sunlight focusing method", which means that the sunlight within 1,500 square meters is focused on an area of ​​0.5 square meters, which is enough to generate high temperatures of more than 5,000 degrees.

Melting lava steel is no problem.

It is just to produce a 1500 square meter reflector and allow all the light beams to be concentrated at one point, which requires very high accuracy. In addition, the incidence angles of sunlight at different times are different, so how to keep the light consistent is quite difficult.

After Xu Ming asked Li Yiqing, who had a high level of knowledge in his eyes, he got two solutions to this problem.

The first method is to prepare 500-sided reflectors, set an initial deflection angle on each mirror, and then use a computer system to control the light so that the light is always above a focus.

This method was rejected by Xu Ming, mainly because it was too troublesome. It would have to be busy for at least three months and the efficiency was too low.

The second method is a bit of a powerful way to achieve miracles.

That is to choose a small hill, and at the foot of the mountain, arrange a half-ring reflector with thousands of sides. First, collect the light on a circle of lenses on the hillside, and after a series of more complex reflections, finally, use the principle of symmetrical spherical centers to hit the energy-concentrating light of hundreds of columns onto the "spheric center" located at the top of the mountain.

In this way, no matter what angle the sun's light is, at least 35% of the light energy will be used.

At noon, the maximum utilization rate of light energy can reach 70%.

As long as the weather is sunny and you can smel lava steel for at least six hours a day.

In addition, it looks very shocking in terms of visual effects... Xu Ming knew when he arranged less than 300 spherical reflectors that even at night, he could gather the less bright starlight into very bright starlight columns.

"A maximum of 100 mirrors are installed every day. Each mirror must be carefully crafted to ensure accuracy. It seems that this project will take half a month to complete."

To be honest, this project is actually a bit useless.

If you want steel bars, buy them directly from Blue Star. Just give the model and specifications you want, and you can get the steel bars you need in up to three days.

Or if you don’t mind being extravagant, use black crystal materials all, which is much better than lava steel.

In addition, there is another way to make do, that is, although the jeweled bamboo in the Jasper Bamboo Forest is a plant, its strength and toughness are much better than steel, and it can withstand high temperatures of thousands of degrees. Using jeweled bamboo instead of steel is by no means a method of tofu engineering, but it is completely feasible.

But the reason why Xu Ming built this "light concentrating array" was not just to melt lava steel.

But to get super high temperatures.

A magma of more than 1400 degrees can be used for baking, disposing of garbage, rapid heating and magma attacks, etc.

What if it is a high temperature exceeding 5,000 degrees? There are too many things you can do.

Not just ordinary heating!

Even using those high energy-concentrating beams to be guided out through space-time vortexes, the simple version of "laser weapons" was successfully developed.

During the day, you can use scorching light to burn hostile elements and howl.

At night, it is a "star flashlight" that can be used for lighting.

In short, for comprehensive considerations, solar light concentrators are very necessary to build.

...

November 18th afternoon.

"Xiao Ming, the person from Maotai Company, sent us an ultimatum, saying 10 billion, buying out all our very sweet water, and giving a reply within half an hour, with a stern wording, warning us not to toast or drink and punish wine."

Lan Mengxin said on the phone.

"Maotai Company? Why did they target us?" Xu Ming asked.

"I don't know, maybe it's the Maotai wine brewed with our very sweet water, which is different from ordinary wines, so they set their sights on us... I saw from some information on the Internet that the stock price of Maotai Company was halved in October this year, and the price of each bottle of Maotai wine plummeted to four or five hundred bottles. This huge bubble has finally burst this year. Now there are too many Maotai wines on the market and are flooding."

"How is this possible?"

Xu Ming said in surprise: "I heard that the annual output of Maotai wine is 20,000 tons, which cannot be increased. If you don't drink it, you can still maintain your value. How could this bubble burst?"

"The output of 20,000 tons is quite large, at least 40 to 50 million bottles, but it is not sold for 20 yuan per bottle, but 1,699 yuan per bottle. This price may not be possible. In addition, most of the buying of Maotai is not for drinking, but for adding value. Conservatively, there are 200 million bottles of Maotai in the public that have not been drunk, but have become stocks. People who really can drink it will not exceed 1%, but are just a very small number." Lan Mengxin said.

"Even if 1% of people can afford to drink, there are tens of millions of people, each with two or three bottles, just 20,000 tons of roasted tables a year. Is it very easy to drink?"

"But not everyone loves to drink, especially white wine. Among the 1% of the population who can afford it, up to 10% of people will drink it frequently, and they may not only drink Maotai."

"That 20,000 tons of production can almost guarantee the balance of supply and demand, and the bubble should not burst." Xu Ming thought for a while.

"You are very wrong. Xiao Ming. Someone on the Internet revealed that the production of Maotai liquor has increased from 20,000 tons per year to 45,000 tons, and it may even be more. As long as you work hard to find a way, how can the output be limited? The real output of Maotai has long been oversupply, not to mention that there is still such a large stock among the people."

"In addition, many professional wine tasting people said that in Maotai Town, the small wineries that imitate Maotai wine in recent years have produced fake Maotai wine. The quality is very close to real Maotai, or there is no big difference. There is a possibility that the wine koji leak has occurred. It is said that the output of high-quality fake Maotai exceeds 100,000 tons per year, but the price is less than 101 bottles."

"There is also the economic downturn in recent years, high-end consumption has been sluggish, and it can no longer maintain its superficial prosperity. Everyone has begun to live a hard life. Under multiple factors, the bursting of the Maotai wine bubble has become an inevitable result."

Lan Mengxin analyzed.

"They will burst, just worry about our business? Moreover, even if each bottle of wine falls to four or five hundred, there will definitely be some profits, and they will definitely make more money than us. Why should we focus on us?"

"Of course it's for making money. 500 yuan per bottle, 1,500 yuan per bottle, the profit is thousands of yuan different. If our very sweet water has the function of significantly improving the quality of Maotai wine, it will help them regain their position as high-priced wine. They can make tens of billions of dollars every year and take out 10 billion to acquire us, which reflects not only their determination, but also their ambitions."

"Xiao Ming, do you think our factory should be sold?"

Lan Mengxin asked.

Xu Ming took a deep breath. The hundreds of billions of dollars a year are indeed enough to make people crazy.

And the amount of very sweet water is more than 30,000 tons per year, which seems to be just enough for Maotai wine production. Combining the two, it is huge profits plus huge profits.

But after thinking about it,

Xu Ming said: "Tell them that we don't sell factories, we only make mineral water, only mineral water, and others not."

"I really don't sell it? That's one hundred billion."

Lan Mengxin said in surprise. She thought the price was really good and she could consider selling it. Moreover, it was not easy for Maotai company to provoke. Listen to their stern tone, if you offend it...

"If you say you don't sell, just don't sell it. Just convey my meaning to them."

"Are you sure?"

"Sure!"

"All right."

Lan Mengxin immediately expressed her clear rejection to the personnel sent by Maotai company.

It was around 5:00 that afternoon.

A group of people came, and ordered the assembly line to be suspended and the factory was closed for a period of time on the grounds that "the content of certain elements of mineral water exceeded the standard."
Chapter completed!