Chapter 63: The Method of Oil Refining

[Ran^Text^Library] Previously, under Qin Qi's deterrence, Jiang Feng couldn't stand it a little, and after Qinglianzi directly poked him in a few places with his fingers, he poured all the beans and confessed.

The Yuan family's oil mill has only been producing oil for two years, and he is just the chief steward in Zhuangzi, and the oil mill is directly managed by the people of the Yuan family, and he doesn't know how to squeeze oil and how to ship.

So when Zhuangzi and the oil mill were suddenly sealed, the people of the Yuan family were arrested, and there were still 20,000 catties of tung oil in the oil mill, he started to think.

Zhuangzi left behind all the hired stewards and long-term workers, and there were only two officials in charge of them, and he was familiar with him, so he bought off the officials, found another buyer as the owner of Zhuangzi, and sold 20,000 catties of tung oil at a price of 10,000 taels of silver.

Originally, he wanted to leave after taking the silver, but seeing that there had been no newcomers to the Zhuangzi, he thought that the tung oil could be sold for so much money, so he thought about it and wanted to buy the Zhuangzi himself.

He also thought that if Zhuangzi was his own, then he could take the opportunity to extort those tenants and collect those rapeseeds at a very low price.

Although he didn't know the specific operation method of the oil mill, and how the cooked tung oil came out, he still knew how to grind rapeseed with a stone mill.

At least, a load of rapeseed can earn two taels!

But his idea here was to play well, but he didn't expect that before he could go to the capital, the new owner of Zhuangzi came.

He thought about it, instigating those tenants to give the new owner a little bitterness, so that the new owner would value him and rely on him, and when the Yuan family bought this Zhuangzi five years ago, didn't they change him?

As long as the owner is valued, he can say more that the oil mill is not profitable, and maybe he can encourage the owner to resell the oil mill to him.

Unexpectedly, before he began to prove his ability, Qin Qi asked people to kidnap him and ask him for money.

After listening to Qin Qi, Gu Xinyue frowned slightly and said, "How many people know the whereabouts and price of that batch of cooked tung oil?" ”

"Don't worry, I've already disposed of it, but I gave Qinglianzi the 10,000 taels of silver tickets that I recovered, and asked him to return them to his friend." After Qin Qi finished speaking, he glanced at Gu Xinyue.

"Well, I want to return it to others, this money is the money of tung oil, and it doesn't belong to us." Gu Xinyue nodded, still frowning and said, "Qin Qi, we're just afraid that we will have to build another oil mill." ”

Hearing her previous sentence, Qin Qiqiao curled the corners of his lips, and when he heard her second sentence, the corners of his lips sank again, looked at her with inquiry, and said, "Why?" ”

"You said that tung oil is a military jurisdiction item, the Yuan family has so many buyers in this oil mill, if you suddenly do not sell tung oil, and tung oil, it will inevitably be asked, it is better to only produce edible oil and a small amount of raw tung oil in the future, let's build a secret oil mill, all of them are our own people, and then the tung oil will be shipped directly to Gona." Tapping his fingers on the table, Gu Xinyue said: "Actually, it is not difficult to build an oil mill, as long as you find a place next to a stream with abundant water, convenient transportation but hidden." ”

As he spoke, he looked up at Qin Qi and said, "By the way, where is Qinglianzi's friend?" ”

"It's a native of Jinling, Jiangnan, Qinglianzi said, I don't know what to do, I know about the tung oil, or he went to the man to drink, and he happened to meet his housekeeper who was anxious to find him, saying that the tung oil in the shipyard was not enough, and if he didn't think of a way, he would miss the delivery time of the shipping department." Qin Qi paused for a moment and said: "The Ship Department is specialized in the manufacture of canal boats and sea ships, and the official office is in Jinling, which is directly under the management of the Ministry of Industry. ”

It turned out to be a big customer! It's a pity.

Shaking his head and waving away the little thought in his head, Gu Xinyue said: "The people used in the newly built oil mill are best brothers' henchmen, you can arrange these people, but the amount of edible oil produced in the oil mill here is so large, it must be sold to the capital, we have to find someone, you see, is there a suitable one?" ”

After a moment of silence, Qin Qi said, "Does the girl want to take care of these things by herself?" ”

When Gu Mohan sent Gu Xinyue to Zhuangzi, he originally said that he would live for a year and go back when the county lord's mansion in the capital was completed, so he didn't rush to find someone, thinking that when Ji Jing brought someone to arrive, the manpower would be enough.

"Well, of course!" Gu Xinyue looked up at him and said, "Making money is the happiest thing!" ”

After a moment of silence again, Qin Qi nodded and said, "I know, in the next few days, I will find some Chinese people and buy some people, by the way, the seven people of the Yuan family, where are you going to put them?" ”

"Naturally bring back the Zhuangzi of Qingling, do you think, Yuan Fang went to great lengths to let us know that there is an oil mill in Xinqiao, and he went to great lengths to let you know that the oil mill and Zhuangzi can be sold, but the refining requires people from the Yuan family, you say, what do they want to do?" The corners of her eyes were raised, and Gu Xinyue smiled meaningfully.

Jiang Feng and the stewards were dealt with quietly, but when Gu Xinyue and his party were just about to leave in the evening, someone came with rapeseed, so Gu Xinyue simply decided to stay and collect the rapeseed first.

For three days in a row, nearly 1,000 quintals of rapeseed were harvested in Zhuangzi, and Gu Xinyue saw that those tenants had stabilized their minds, so he promoted a few people who had been observing for a few days and felt that they were still reliable to be in charge, and after Qin Qi led people to remove the furnaces and other things behind the oil mill, he cleaned up all the stone mills and let the long-term workers in Zhuangzi start grinding.

After the first barrel of oil came out, Gu Xinyue took Qin Qi's guards who stayed in Zhuangzi to supervise and taught them how to turn crude oil into essential oil alone.

After the six guards came out, they all had a sad and inexplicable face, and under the questioning of others, they couldn't bear pity and said that the girl was really pitiful, she was bullied by the house before, and she didn't give her good oil to eat, only used lamp oil to perfunctory her, there was no way, she could only toss this crude oil (lamp oil) into essential oil with the nurse and the two themselves.

Gu Xinyue didn't have the time to pay attention to the indignant looks of those guards, she went to the farmland and began to guide those tenants to grow sesame seeds.

Sesame seeds and rape are not rare, but in the past, those villagers only planted some on the side of the ridge road, and because everyone grew their own seeds, there was no transaction, and now seeing that Gu Xinyue did not want them to grow grain but asked them to grow sesame seeds, they were very worried.

It wasn't until Gu Xinyue said that Zhuangzi was responsible for harvesting, and the price of rapeseed was the same, and a load of sesame seeds was a tael of silver, that some bold people began to sow sesame seeds.

Busy, when Gu Xinyue and his party returned to Qingling's villa, it was already seven days later.

Soon after entering Zhuangzi, I received two messages.

First, after ascending the throne for more than a month, the emperor canonized Wei's daughter as the queen, the original princess Jing as the concubine, canonized more than 30 other concubines, and granted amnesty to the world.

And with the grand ceremony, one after another reward will also be issued.

Among them, the new emperor accepted the old man of the Northwest General Luo Lie, named Luo Lie as the Marquis of Zhenxi, returned to Beijing for retirement, and moved to Mobei with 100,000 Northwest Army, and the remaining 300,000 Northwest Army was divided into three branches.

The largest of them was led by Gu Mohan, who was officially named the general of Sanpin Zhenxi.

And with the appointment, there was a reward for the troops who invaded the capital with the emperor in the rebellion of the three kings, in addition to the promotion of more than 30 generals, there was also a reward and pension of one million taels of silver.

Another piece of news is that Yuan Zheng's son stole into the warehouse and was caught by the guards' guards.