"It smells so good!"

The enticing aroma permeates the kitchen, and even a servant passing by the kitchen can smell the mouthwatering scent in the air.

"It must be the eldest lady who is cooking herself."

You don't have to guess everyone to know, it must be the eldest lady who is cooking there herself, and a few little girls in the kitchen are staring directly at a few exquisite dishes on the table, swallowing saliva from time to time.

However, compared to their salivating appearance, after tasting two bites of the dish, Tang Ziqi frowned and said.

"Why doesn't it smell like that?"

"Miss, what's wrong? Still not satisfied? ”

Yahuan looked at the eldest lady puzzled, obviously the dishes made were very fragrant, why was the eldest lady still not satisfied?

"Hmm."

Nodding, Tang Ziqi frowned and recalled the taste he had tasted on the boat that day.

"The taste is not right, the taste is ......"

It was a taste she had never tasted before. It's spicy, but lately, I've been reminded of that taste. But it can't be done anyway.

Could it be that some fresh ingredients are used?

"Miss, Steward Tang is here."

At this time, there was a report of Yahuanyu.

As soon as he walked out of the kitchen, he ran into Tang Runze.

"Miss, there's movement over there in the Song family!"

After seeing the salute, Tang Runze bowed down and said behind the young lady.

"Oh."

"On the one hand, they let people buy butter in small places such as Dangtu, and on the other hand, they contacted small oil mills in Yangzhou, Zhenjiang, Anqing and other places, and increased the price by 100 catties to let them refine butter."

"It's a price increase."

Tang Ziqi said directly.

"It can only be added by one, and if there is more, they will also increase the price of soap, and if they add one percent, we will also add one percent."

"Miss, if you add one percent, we will lose."

"Loss?"

Tang Ziqi frowned lightly.

"That's not how accounts are calculated. If we don't raise the price, the price of soap won't go up, as long as they increase the price of soap, then we will have a profit. ”

Although soap has been produced a long time ago, because of the cost, the Tang family's soap has almost no profit at all, and it is precisely because of this that she will buy out the cheap butter around her, trying to force the Tuanjie soap factory to raise the price by raising the price of raw materials, only in this way can the Tang family's soap be profitable.

Of course, she has other purposes than that.

"But the eldest lady ......"

Tang Runze couldn't help but ask.

"Don't we already have a way to deal with it, why are we still fighting with them here?"

"Fight to die?"

The housekeeper's words made Tang Ziqi smile.

"The opponents in the business field are not enemies of life and death, so why fight to die and live, but if we don't compete with them, how can we have the opportunity to secretly Chen Cang?"

Tang Ziqi said as he walked.

"Now the Song family's attention must be on butter, let's fight with them first, when it's really about the same, they will inevitably take the initiative to come to the door, so be it. Uncle Ze, you just have to keep an eye on the Song family these days, as long as they have been staring at this side for the past two months, this matter will almost be done. ”

After giving a soft command, Tang Ziqi walked to the back house. And everything was as she expected, the Song family was indeed doing everything possible to solve the supply of raw materials, and when the Song family had big guys running around to buy oil, Shi Yiwen was also not idle.

It's just that unlike the Song family's father and son trying to get more butter, Shi Yiwen has set his sights on other places.

Sometimes, finding another way may be the only way to solve the problem at its root.

"Hit your head hard, vegetable oil is fragrant......"

Before people entered the backyard of the oil mill, there was a burst of trumpets from the backyard, accompanied by the sound of trumpets, and the sound of "tom tom" wooden tools could be heard.

"Childe, where are they getting oil?"

The shopkeeper of the oil mill who followed Shi Yiwen said with a smile.

"It's all rough work, Childe, be careful, lest you stain your body."

Oiling?

Confused, Shi Yiwen smiled.

"That's so much exquisite, just in the past a long time."

When he arrived in the backyard, Shi Yiwen saw that in the shed over there, five or six men were sweating and waving the hanging batter bar to hit the wooden wedge. From time to time, they shouted trumpets, and the striker continued to hit the wooden wedge, and as the wedge was driven into the bore, wisps of golden oil flowed out of the small opening in the middle of the oil tank.

This is the legendary "wood press for oil".

Watching the workers shouting trumpets while exerting their strength, along with this most simple symphony, the fragrant and bright wood oil slowly seeped out from the dragon's mouth, exuding bursts of fragrance.

Oiling is a physical job, looking at their sweaty appearance, Shi Yiwen seems to understand why the price of oil is so high.

"Childe, you see, there is an old saying in this oil mill, called "a drop of oil and a hundred drops of sweat", it is not easy not to say that it is not easy to make oil, even if it is squeezed out of the oil, it cannot be used directly, it must be put in the oil cylinder first, and it can only be quiet for ten days and a month. ”

The shopkeeper of the oil mill said while accompanying him.

"It's really hard."

nodded, and then Shi Yiwen looked at the grinding plate, steamer and other objects in the courtyard, the grinding disc over there is driven by a waterwheel to rotate, and the raw materials are rolled before being pressed, looking at the rotating grinding plate shaft thoughtfully, Shi Yiwen asked.

"How much oil can an oil mill like this produce in a year?"

"Hui Gongzi, that is, fifty or sixty thousand catties, such a "squeezing dragon", at most 200 catties of oil a day, if it is soybeans, it may be less, after all, soybeans are not as easy to squeeze as rapeseeds, so soybean oil will be more expensive, not because of soybeans, but because it is time-consuming and laborious when squeezing oil, and when steaming, soybean material is also more laborious. ”

Although I don't know why Shi Yiwen asked, he was only the shopkeeper of Sun who came to the door of the big customer, but he showed the output of his own oil mill one by one.

Looking at the "squeezing dragon" over there, Shi Yiwen pondered for a moment before suddenly asking.

"Shopkeeper Sun, how much silver can you earn in a year in this oil mill?"

Belch......

With his eyes wide open, Shopkeeper Sun looked at the boy in front of him puzzled, and only smiled with a shy face for a while.

"Childe, look at what you said, the oil mill is just a small business, and if you remove labor, you can barely make a living."

Regarding Shopkeeper Sun's answer, Shi Yiwen just smiled.

"Shopkeeper Sun, I want to negotiate a deal with you!"

Turning his face to look at the shopkeeper Sun who was a little puzzled in front of him, Shi Yiwen said with a smile.

"I want to buy your oil mill, I don't know what the shopkeeper thinks?"

Since the raw materials for the production of soap have encountered a problem, then find a way to solve it, there is a problem in the production of oil, and the problem of oil can be solved through some technical means.

And manufacturing a new oil press is undoubtedly the best choice.