Ji Yushan looked at Ji Xinyu, and then at the master Li Huai next to him, and thought: "It's really a child, he only does these childish things, and if he really wants to rectify you, I'm afraid that this word will not be true." Then he smiled and said: "Since the prince has the intention of guarding Qiongzhou, it is not easy for the official to stop him, and he can still do it with his word." I have already said that I will not interfere with the great cause of the son, and this official will not break his word. After speaking, he asked the master to take the big seal and hand it to Ji Xinyu.

Ji Xinyu didn't say much when he saw the note, so he arched his hand and left the mansion. Ji Yushan looked at the back of the person who left, sneered a few times, and had no intention of sending off the guests.

In fact, the reason why he was able to get the note so smoothly was Aiden's credit, since the last time Aiden said that he could amplify other people's loyalty, Ji Xinyu thought about whether he could amplify other feelings, so today he asked Aiden to magnify Ji Yushan's contempt for him, and now it seems that the effect is indeed obvious.

Although he didn't greet him at first, Ji Yushan still saluted, and when he left in the end, Ji Yushan didn't even say anything about sending off guests, and Ji Xinyu agreed to the letter he asked for, and what Ji Xinyu wanted now was his contempt.

After a busy day in Qiongzhou City, it was already evening when he came out of the mansion, so he rushed back to Lingchuan Mansion directly, took out the note and looked at it, Ji Xinyu said to He Xingwang with a smile: "With this note, I am not afraid that the official family will come to us for trouble." ”

He Xingwang looked at Ji Xinyu and whispered: "This season, the adults agreed so happily, I'm afraid it's not that simple." ”

Ji Xinyu nodded, he also knew that there were dangers outside the city, and it was not so simple to survive. Then he shook his head again, as if he wanted to get rid of those too many thoughts, and no matter how many difficulties there were, he had to take it step by step, and he didn't think about it so much.

Today, Ji Xinyu visited Qiongzhou City, and roughly understood the living conditions of the people in Qiongzhou City and the gap between the rich and the poor, Ji Xinyu, who has experience in urban life in his previous life, saw that Qiongzhou City today has nothing to gain, but he feels that it is too backward and there are too many things to do, but this city has nothing to do with him, and he can't intervene to manage the city now.

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After these days of busyness, the prototype of the base that Ji Xinyu wants is now available, and the vertical and horizontal roads in the woods have been paved, although they are only paved with stones, they can be regarded as passable. The mining of coal and iron ore is also underway, and regarding the construction of houses, Ji Xinyu also refers to the planning of Lifang, and plans a 600-meter-long and wide Lifang in the south of the intersection, and all residential areas will be in it.

Recently, the hardest of all the people in Lingchuan Mansion should be the two chefs of the pawn restaurant, which was originally a pawn restaurant serving the palace, but now it has to serve more than 100 people three meals a day. If it weren't for the help of the Guards Division, it really wouldn't have been possible for two chefs. Ji Xinyu simply ordered 20 nearby chefs to join the restaurant, and it was also a big deal to provide food for the whole house.

Now every two days, He Xingwang has to send people to the Xue family trading house in Qiongzhou City to transport meat and vegetables, after all, these things can't be put away if they are bought too much. With the temptation of meat, the villagers worked harder, for fear that the owner would not be satisfied with the dissatisfaction and drive them away. Not only is there no monthly money of two taels, but there is no meat once a day, the owner said that as long as you work hard, you can have two meals of meat a day in the future, which the villagers can't refuse.

Although it was hard every day, the villagers' faces became healthier and healthier, and their originally numb faces were smiling, and they communicated with each other more and more.

Yang Xiaobao, a 12-year-old villager from Rulin Village, originally wanted to go to Lingchuan Mansion opposite with his father to work a few days ago to earn money. But Grandpa Muramasa said that he was too young, and people would blame their village for using children to make up the numbers, so he couldn't go. In the past few days, his father would wrap some strips of meat in paper and take them home for him to eat every day, saying that the Lingchuan Mansion opposite had meat to eat every day, and his father specially left it for him to eat. Yang Xiaobao's eyes lit up when he heard the news, he had only eaten a little meat during the Chinese New Year three months ago.

Today he decided to sneak over to help his father with his work and see if the owner could give him meat to eat as well. He took advantage of the guards' lack of attention to follow the car carrying the goods into the Lingchuan Mansion and found his father who was working in the mine. He also went to help carry the stones, and his father and the co-workers next to him did not stop him from carrying small stones, but they all looked at him with smiles.

It didn't take long for Xiaobao, who was carrying stones, to be stopped by a handsome brother and said to him with a smile: "Little friend, who are you, how did you get here?" ”

Xiaobao was a little scared, took a step back, hugged the stone and said, "I'm Yang Xiaobao, I'm here to help my father work...... I don't want to be paid...... Don't drive me away. ”

"And how old are you?" The brother on the other side took the stone off his hand and touched his dirty head and asked.

"I'm 12 years old, I can already work, I really don't need to be paid." Yang Xiaobao rubbed his hands and wiped his clothes, raised his hand and grabbed the touched hair and said.

The brother on the other side smiled and continued: "That brother gives you an easy job, you can earn a tael of silver every month, and you have meat to eat every day, Xiaobao, do you want to do it?" ”

Yang Xiaobao raised his head abruptly and said in surprise: "Really! I...... I can do anything. ”

The person who came was Ji Xinyu, seeing Yang Xiaobao running back and forth with a stone, Ji Xinyu thought of the time when he was a child in the countryside in his previous life, and he was also a little kid who made trouble for his parents in the harvested wheat field. At that time, I was really happy compared to Xiaobao now. I don't know how my mother is doing now, and whether her body has recovered.

Ji Xinyu sighed, he also wanted to go back, but he couldn't do anything. He had come to inspect the mines and the ironworks today, and then he was going to the two new workshops to arrange for people to start producing soap. Seeing Xiaobao, he was going to arrange him in the soap workshop to help pack boxes of soap, which could be regarded as helping the 12-year-old child.

Ji Xinyu looked at Yang Xiaobao, who was full of expectation, touched his head again and said, "Then you come with me." ”

In the distance, Yang Xiaobao's father found out that his son was found by the owner and taken away. He wanted to explain, but he saw that the owner was touching Xiaobao's head, and there was a kind smile on his face, so he didn't follow him anymore, he had seen the owner a few times in the past few days, and he could see that the owner was not a bad person.

Ji Xinyu took Xiaobao to the workshop that had just been built, and Ji Xinyu had already asked He Xingwang to find ten farmers to wait for him in the workshop.

Now that Ji Xinyu has caustic soda, it's still very simple to get a soap. There has been a lot of cumulative caustic soda in the past few days, and the lard has already been boiled. First of all, the materials that need to be used are classified, and the ratio of water, lard and alkali is divided according to the ratio of about 40 catties: 15 catties: 2 catties.

Then he walked over to the prepared special straight cauldron and began to melt the refined lard. There is a small door next to it, and the doorway is a semi-open-air operation space similar to a balcony, where there are prepared deep iron barrels, which are ready to melt caustic soda. The caustic soda will have a lot of heat and corrosiveness, and the hot gas is slightly toxic, so Ji Xinyu does not dare to operate indoors for the time being, and the caustic soda needs to be stirred while putting it into the water until it is fully melted.

After the alkaline water has cooled, it is added to the boiled lard, and stirred quickly while heating to make it saponify. After about twenty minutes of heat stirring, the upper saponification and the lower grease have separated. Ji Xinyu saw that there was still a lot of grease below. Until it is not completely saponified, heat and stir again to make it saponified again. After two or three times, it seems that there is not much grease left. At this time, add a small amount of finely ground salt and continue to stir, at this time, the saponification that is still bonded to the grease part below will be salted out and float up and the grease will be separated, and impurities can be removed at the same time.

Finally, take out the saponification on it, so that it is the soap base, and then add some spices or something to the soap base to be a high-grade soap. Now Ji Xinyu has no conditions to add any spices, so he can only make ordinary soap. After mixing evenly, press it into a large grinding tool that has been made by the blacksmith in advance, and then divide it into small pieces and dry it to make the finished soap.