Chapter 23 Soap Essence
"Oops, oops......"
Liu's compound.
Liu Kun lay on the bed and kept wailing, at this time his buttocks were open, the doctor was applying herbs to him, he had just come back from eating forty boards in the mansion.
He Cong was also punished, and he couldn't go anywhere, he lay on the chair in front of Liu Kun's bed, and said unwillingly: "Master, now our Liu family's cloth shop is about to end, Lin Mu has the support of King Duan, we can't move him." ”
"Can't come openly, won't you come secretly? Duanwang's status is respected, but he is just an idle king after all, he has no position and no power in his hands, as long as he doesn't get caught, he can't help us. Liu Kun hated a lot in his heart.
A foreign cloth shop is enough to give him a headache, and now there is another Lin Mu, and his cloth shop is really unable to live.
After a deep sigh, he said: "Now that a large number of cloth merchants have paid a deposit in the Lin Weaving Workshop, if Lin Mu is unable to complete the order, the Lin Weaving Workshop will undoubtedly fall." ”
"The master meant to set fire to the weaving mill!" He Cong said in surprise.
"Idiot!" Liu Kun scolded, "Do you want me to be put in prison by Liu Jiangbai?" Oops..."
Because of the force involved in the wound, Liu Kun grinned for a while, "Lin Mu's weaving workshop will inevitably need a large amount of cotton yarn in the short term to meet the demand, from now on you will hoard a large amount of cotton yarn on the market, raise the price of cotton yarn, and then sell it to him." ”
"The master is wise!" He Cong recalled, "As soon as the price of cotton yarn is high, Lin Mu still sells it to cloth merchants according to one hundred and fifty yuan, which is not a loss, and our Liu family can still make a lot of money with cotton yarn, hehehe......"
"Hahaha......" Liu Kun also laughed proudly, and then his expression changed suddenly, "What are you still doing in a daze, don't go quickly!" ”
He Cong was clever and asked the family to carry him and rushed out.
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Lin family compound.
Lin Mu had already returned from the weaving workshop, and he received 60,000 taels of silver in one day, and it felt really good to get rich overnight.
"Daddy......"
Seeing Lin Mu coming back, the slave flew over and hugged Lin Mu's leg and didn't let go.
Touching the slave's little head, Lin Mu pretended to be a father's majestic appearance and asked, "Is the slave obedient today?" ”
"The slave is very well-behaved." The slave said loudly: "Sister Xiao Ke has memorized all the words taught by the slave." ”
"That's what a good boy is."
Lin Mu deeply understands that education should start from children, and he doesn't want slaves to be instilled with the feudal idea that a woman is virtuous if she is not talented since she was a child.
Now the slave is three years old, and it is already the age of kindergarten in contemporary times, it is time to learn something, of course, most of the time Xiaoke still plays with the slave, mainly to teach him to take care of himself in life.
"Young master, the slave is really a smart child, and she will definitely be a talented girl in the future." Xiao Ke's eyes were full of pampering.
Xiao Ke's gentle appearance made Lin Mu's heart feel warm, and in a trance, he seemed to have the illusion that his husband had returned home to see his wife and daughter.
For the first time, he took a serious look at Xiao Ke, and according to his memory, Xiao Ke was not from Jiangning, but a "Nangui person" who fled back from the Jin Dynasty.
After the Jin Dynasty occupied the land of the Hua Dynasty north of the Huai River, it divided the people under its rule into four classes, of which the Jin people had the highest status, the Hu people, and the other ethnic groups again, while the Han people, who had the largest number, were the fourth class and were enslaved as slaves.
Not only that, the Jin people forced the Han people to shave their hair and change clothes, and there was a city where the Han people refused, and the Jin people slaughtered the Han people in the city after breaking through the city.
Under the cruel rule of the Jin people, a large number of Han people fled to the rule of the Hua Dynasty, but in order to prevent the Han people from fleeing south, the Jin people sent envoys to the Hua Dynasty, demanding that the Hua Dynasty not accept the Han people who went south, and also asked the Hua Dynasty to repatriate the Han people who went south, and the Chinese Emperor Huizong, who had been frightened at that time, cowardly accepted this request.
The name of "Nangui people" was born.
Xiao Ke's family fled to the Hua Dynasty in this context, when he fled, his parents and family were killed by the Jin people, only she survived, and after entering the Hua Dynasty, Xiao Ke was caught by the soldiers of the Hua Dynasty, but fortunately the soldiers who caught Xiao Ke were more greedy, sold it to human traffickers, and went to the Lin family several times.
Lin Mu's father once told him that Xiao Ke was also from a scholarly family and could read and write, so he asked him not to treat Xiao Ke like a maid.
"Young Master, what's wrong with you?" Xiao Ke's cheeks were slightly red by Lin Mujian.
Coming back to his senses, Lin Mu said cheekily: "Good-looking! ”
"Young Master......"
The feudal dynasty has always been subtle, Xiao Ke He had heard such bold words, and couldn't help but be ashamed and annoyed, chopped his feet and covered his face and ran away, but the smile between his fingers revealed her thoughts.
"Daddy, you bully Sister Xiaoke, hum." The slave pinched Xiao Man's waist and puffed, looking like he wanted to seek justice for Xiao Ke.
"Daddy didn't." Lin Mu scratched his head.
"Sister Xiao Ke ran away crying, and the slave wants to stabilize her." The slave slave no longer pestered Lin Mu, and walked on his short legs to find Xiao Ke.
Lin Mu was sad for a while, suffering would make the slave so sensible, thinking of what happened to Xiao Ke, he suddenly clenched his fists, he would never let the slave also experience such a miserable life.
Back in the dormitory, Lin Mu entered S City.
Today he suddenly had sixty thousand taels of silver in his account, and so much wealth made him suddenly promising.
So he was going to use the money to expand his business, but this time it included not only increasing the number of looms, but also the establishment of spinning mills.
As the saying goes, he has to do things after receiving the money, and in the next time he has to do his best to complete the order, and the cotton yarn on the market cannot meet his needs, so the spinning mill consisting of Jenny's spinning machine must be built.
Sixty thousand taels of silver is naturally more than enough to do these two things, and in addition to this, he is also going to set up a soap factory.
He didn't have the idea on a whim, but because soap could definitely make a difference in the mid-nineteenth century.
Before the 18th century, soap was not widely used, because it was expensive and its smell was not very good, because the soap at that time was only a stinky soap made from grease.
The real rise of soap took place in the late 19th century, when the Industrial Revolution improved production processes and spices such as palm oil and coconut oil imported from Africa and Asia gave the soap a pleasant smell.
Later, in the war of the mid-to-late nineteenth century, European countries found that diseases were more traumatic to soldiers than war, and after the use of soap to improve personal hygiene, the mortality rate of soldiers was greatly reduced, so strict hygiene standards were adopted for soldiers, and the spring of soap officially came.
Knowing this, soap is naturally of great significance in Lin Mu's eyes, maybe his soap production can not only be popular in the Chinese Dynasty but also exported overseas, after all, even the West does not have his advantage.
Because in S City, he can easily get a huge amount of soap special flavors, strawberry flavor, rubber flavor, rose flavor, and anything he wants.