Li Zicheng got the prompt of Namu Zhong, and after returning to the Central Office, he turned out the treasure information and stared at the production method of soap, which is almost as difficult as glass in terms of process, and is not too complicated.

Nowadays, people still use "alkali" to wash their clothes, and people in rural areas still take the leaves of the soaphorn tree to wash their clothes in order to save money, and once soap appears, it will affect the living habits of the people.

However, Li Zicheng's mind is not on ordinary soap, he first thought of sulfur soap, which can not only decontaminate, but also sterilize and disinfect, and will distribute one piece to each soldier in the future to prevent the breeding of bacteria in the barracks.

What's more urgent is that Li Zicheng wants to develop soap for Namu Zhong, and she will not stay in Xining for too long, so she must hurry up.

Soap can not only remove the smell from the body, but also leave a faint fragrance on the body, which has the same effect as perfume, and if it is used before going to bed at night, it is no less than a sex toy in later generations.

With Namu Zhong's liking for things in the Han Dynasty, if you see the soap, isn't it the kitten that smells fishy?

Li Zicheng carefully studied the information and found that the development of soap needed to be based on ordinary soap, so he had to start with ordinary soap.

There are two main types of raw materials needed to make soap: grease and alkali, and a small amount of rosin.

The common grease is lard, which abounds in the Xining vegetable market, as long as you buy it home first, heat it first to remove impurities, it can be used as a preparation, if you want to make high-grade soap, you need tallow and sheep fat, and even add coconut oil and palm kernel oil.

The best alkali is naturally sodium hydroxide, the last time the cement was made, the craftsmen found a large amount of caustic soda under the Xihai Sea, and some of it was also stored in Xining City, as long as it was melted to remove impurities, it could also be used as a preparation material.

Li Zicheng said that he would do it, and Mr. asked the soldiers to go to the market to buy back dozens of catties of lard, wash and chop them, put them in a cauldron, and start frying them with charcoal fire, and let another group of soldiers dissolve the caustic soda and look for the rest of the raw materials, and they were busy until the evening, and the raw materials were ready.

Taking advantage of the caustic soda solution is still warm, Li Zicheng poured the caustic solution into the porcelain pot, first boiled it with a high fire, then changed to a warm fire, slowly evaporated the water, waited for the caustic solution to be nearly saturated, and then slowly added lard, and at the same time changed to a high fire, the pot was constantly stirred with a glass rod, and all the lard prepared in advance and only two percent of the lye was added to it, and then changed to warm fire to keep the copper kettle in a boiling state.

Li Zicheng recorded all the data, left three personal soldiers on duty, explained a few words, and returned to the rear office.

The next morning, after Li Zicheng got up, he went to the training ground as usual and ran seven or eight miles, until he was sweating, and then returned to the back office, where he washed and had breakfast under Song Yulian's service.

He was about to go to the Zhongya to see the situation of the soap, but a personal soldier came to report: "Dadu Governor, Lin Dan Khan was drunk last night, and he didn't wake up from the night, and he hasn't gotten up yet," paused, and said: "Dafujin got up and went out with two guards early in the morning." ”

Li Zicheng said casually: "Go out? Where did it go? ”

"This ...... The subordinates are going to rush to see the Metropolitan Governor, I don't know for the time being, but the subordinates have already sent someone to follow the Great Fujin, and once there is information, the subordinates will report immediately! ”

"You're doing a good job, go down first, and come back when you have a message!"

Li Zicheng sent away the pro-soldiers who gave the order, but he was thinking in his heart.

Lin Danhan was hangover and couldn't wake up, Namu Zhong should be alone in the empty room, but she left the pavilion early in the morning and went to the city to do something?

With Namu Zhong's interest, it should be to visit the market, right? Women are shopaholic by nature, I wonder if Namu Zhong has any money around her?

Li Zicheng wanted to give Namu Zhong some silver, but he felt that it was inappropriate, she was Lin Dan Khan's great blessing, not an ordinary woman, if it caused Lin Dan Khan's misunderstanding, it would be more than worth the loss.

Put aside the matter of Lin Dan Khan and Namu Zhong for the time being, Li Zicheng was going to the Zhongya to see about the soap, but He Xiaomi came over in a hurry, "Dadu Governor, good thing, good thing, the brother who was waiting in the small hall of the Zhongya found the kind of pale yellow thing that Dadu Governor said......"

"Oh? Appeared so soon? Li Zicheng was overjoyed, he turned over and got up, "Xiaomi, go, go and see!" ”

After a while, the two of them came to the small hall of the Central Office, which was a temporary workshop.

"The Grand Duke!" The soldiers who stayed in the small hall hurriedly greeted them, and "a yellowish thing appeared in the pot......"

"I'll see!" Li Zicheng didn't care about the soldiers who hadn't gotten up yet, walked over quickly, and looked into the pot, sure enough, there were a lot of pale yellow and soft solids, rolling in the pot, and he didn't feel happy in his heart, this first step of saponification, so easy to achieve?

He told his soldiers to keep the fire on the fire, and let the pot continue to boil until the liquid was almost dry.

Li Zicheng didn't go anywhere in the past few days, basically nested in this small hall of the Central Government, personally manipulated the fire, and recorded all kinds of details little by little, until Huang Chengcheng's soap appeared in front of his eyes.

During this period of time, information about the whereabouts of Lin Dan Khan and Namu Zhong was also continuously sent to the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion by his own soldiers.

Lin Dan Khan's life is very regular, in the morning as usual in the pavilion to sleep with his head covered, almost until lunchtime, before getting up, a cup of appetizing hot tea, can make him feel refreshed.

After lunch, another cup of tea, and when he had rested enough, he took the guards to walk their horses outside the city.

Lin Dan Khan came to Xining to see the novelties given by God, but he didn't believe that he could see any treasures by looking for a needle in a haystack like Namu Zhong, but Li Zicheng refused to show up on the excuse of being busy with official business, and he could only vent on horseback every day to pass the time.

Fortunately, every evening, someone invited him to a banquet, Mr. Liang Wencheng, Shen Dao and other civil servants, and later Li Guo, Qin Danian, Gao Yigong and other heroic generals, and then later, Mu Qingshan, a businessman from Xining, also joined the ranks of admiration, every day he could make him drink in the dark, and when he returned to the post house, he slept like a dead pig, and even Namu Zhong was too lazy to get close.

Namu Zhong every night, she has to face a fat pig like a humming Lin Dan Khan, she is not irritable, she is not drunk temperament, so she took the guards to wander around the market in Xining, this time she was tired of shopping, and was looking for a place to rest, but suddenly looked up and saw the Xining Catholic Church.

"Didn't that despicable and shameless man say that God has great powers and has bestowed upon the Mandate of Heaven many new things? Let's see, what's going on in the Catholic Church! Namu Zhong asked the guards to wait outside the door and entered the church alone.

There are quite a few people in the church, who are doing a diffuse in the hall.

Above the main hall is a huge painted picture: a blonde man, slightly bent legs, wearing only sinus pants, nailed to a large cross.

Beneath the painted costume stood a blond man holding a thick scroll and explaining the contents of the book to the crowd.

In front of him, there were nearly 100 Han people sitting on the bench, men, women and children, and the Han people were listening attentively, and there was not a trace of noise.

Seeing that there was still a lot of bench left, Namu Zhong quietly crapped over and carefully sat down in the back row while everyone was unprepared.

Everyone was very fascinated, and no one noticed Namu Zhong's arrival at all, and no one cared about her identity.

The blonde man spoke Chinese, but the content of the book was quite obscure, and Namu Zhong didn't understand it very well, but the blonde man repeatedly mentioned the words "Matthew", "Jesus", and "Martyrdom", so that she could understand one or two, but she didn't know the general meaning.

Namu Zhong didn't understand, so he naturally lost interest, and was about to get up and leave secretly, when suddenly the blonde man closed the scroll, and the crowd let out a long sigh, and then everyone muttered quietly.

"Thank God!"

"My Lord Jesus!"

"Amen ......"

……

Fortunately, they were all short sentences, although Namu Zhong didn't know what they meant, but she could understand it, and now that the crowd was in a commotion, and her attention was no longer on the blonde man, it was not easy for her to go any further.

After a while, I don't know what the blond man said, and more than a dozen people left the crowd and went to front him, lined up.

The blonde man had already put down the scroll, took out half a basin of water that had been prepared from under the painting, held it in his hand, and took out a branch with leaves from under the small Buddha statue on the left side, which was almost indistinguishable from the painting.

He dipped a branch in water from the basin and lit it on the foreheads of the Han people in line.

The crowd cheered, listening to the tone, words like blessings or something.

Namu Zhong couldn't understand it, so he asked a middle-aged woman near the left, "Sister, what are they doing?" ”

"I don't understand this?" The middle-aged woman looked at her in surprise, but she didn't despise it, but smiled: "You're new here, right?" ”

"Well, it's my first time entering the church!" Namu Zhong looked very humble like a schoolboy.

The middle-aged woman seemed to smell something, suddenly frowned slightly, left a little, and then said slowly: "This is baptism, after baptism, they will be children of God!" ”

"Children of God?" Namu Zhong knew that she smelled the smell of mutton on her body, and when she spoke, she covered her mouth with her hand, which was a bit like the "covering her mouth and laughing" of a Han woman.

"I don't know?" A young man next to him rushed to say: "The children of God are officially believers in God, hehe, they are not here to cheat and eat the fruit of God, right?" ”

"What fruit of God?" Although Namu Zhong didn't quite understand, that "liar" was very harsh, and it shouldn't be a good word.

At this time, the previous baptism was finished, and everyone put up the cross with both hands, closed their eyes, and knelt in front of the painting, even the blond man was no exception, but the direction in which he knelt was the following believers, who chanted words in their mouths, and everyone also chanted with him:

"Our Father in heaven

Hallowed be your name

Thy kingdom come

Thy will

Walk on the ground

as walking in heaven

What we eat every day

Give it to us today

Forgive us our debts

as we forgive our debts......"