Chapter 32: The Pancreas That Is Not Black
"You say it's pancreas?"
Liu Weixiong's eyes widened, and he couldn't believe it, of course he knew about pancreas, but he had never seen such a fragrant, beautiful and delicate pancreas. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
"This is the pancreas, why isn't it black?"
In fact, pancreas is the earliest soap, which is the washing product of this era, and even before pancreas, in the Tang Dynasty, there were more advanced and expensive bath beans.
The so-called bath beans are washed from the pig's pancreas, the fat is torn off, ground into a paste, and then soybean flour, spices, etc., and finally processed through a series of processes.
However, although the washing effect of bath beans is good, due to the difficulty of obtaining a large amount of raw materials such as pig pancreas, bath beans have not been widely popularized and are only used in a few upper-class nobles.
Later, some people improved the process, replacing soybean flour with alkaline flour and plant ash, adding molten pig fat, mixing evenly, pressing it into a ball or block, and making the pancreas commonly used in the Song Dynasty.
However, although there are more than ten or twenty kinds of pancreas, there are also high-grade pancreas for the use of emperors and nobles, and many spices, flower juices, etc. are added to them, but no matter how high-grade pancreas are, because the plant ash is added, it will always be black, and the difference is only dark black or light black.
Liu Weixiong is also the top rich group of people in the entire Great Song Dynasty, but he has never seen such a completely snow-white pancreas, and the fragrance is so fragrant and smells so good.
Lin Chong smiled and didn't answer such a low-level question: "Liu Wuluo, you can use it." ”
"Okay."
There is no need for Lin Chongjiao, Liu Weixiong has already taken off his coat at this time, only wearing a short-sleeved mid-top, he washed his hands with pancreas as usual, put his hands in the basin and soaked them, and both arms were also wet, and then picked up the soap and soaped all the hands and arms.
Putting down the soap, his hands rubbed gently, and soon there were rich bubbles on both hands and arms, a cool and refreshing feeling came, and a fragrance spread in the air.
Maybe it's because the sweat on his body is indeed a little too much, or maybe he hasn't washed it usually, the foam on Liu Weixiong's arms is a little black and yellow, and after scrubbing for a while, Liu Weixiong put his hands into the basin and washed them, cleaned his hands in another basin of clean water, and took the towel handed by Lin Chong to wipe his hands.
Two snow-white and smooth fat arms were displayed in front of him, not only clean and comfortable, but also a fragrance, and they also felt that the whole arm was cool and comfortable.
Liu Weixiong didn't touch his two arms, and laughed at the same time: "It's so clean, it's so comfortable, it's so cool." ”
Lin Chongxin said that this soap is simply better than the one he used in his previous life, probably because the ingredients are better and the craftsmanship is better after more than a hundred years.
And there are three kinds of soaps in the system, one is sulfur soap suitable for skin diseases, one is a moisturizing soap suitable for winter, and the other is a mint refreshing soap suitable for summer.
Now he is using mint refreshing soap, he has just been sweating, and of course it is refreshing to use this soap.
"You wash your face again."
Liu Weixiong washed his face again as he said, and all the oil and sweat on his face were washed away, and the whole person became extremely refreshed.
The little fat man stroked his chubby face, and said with a smile: "Sure enough, it is ten times better than pancreas, it is clean, cool and refreshing, and the skin feels smooth and delicate, and the fragrance is still very good."
Brother Lin, where did you buy this soap? ”
"Liu Wuluo also thinks this soap is good?" Lin Chong smiled and didn't answer his question.
"Naturally, it's excellent, ten times better than the high-grade pancreas given to me by the official family!" Liu Weixiong affirmed.
"Then Liu Wuluo thinks that if this soap is sold on the market, will it be popular? How much can you sell it for? ”
"Naturally, it will be very popular, as for how much it can be sold for, let's put it this way, the pancreas given to me by the official family is said to be ten pieces a piece, this soap is so good, at least it can always be sold for three times the price!"
Liu Weixiong reacted immediately and said loudly: "Brother Lin, are you saying that you have a lot of this kind of soap and want to sell it in Tokyo?" ”
Lin Chong nodded: "It's not a secret, the younger brother knows a friend who is a private businessman, and this soap was bought by him from an overseas merchant, and it is said that it is all used in the Great Food Palace.
In addition to soap, there are also toothbrushes, toothpaste, combs, condiments, and other good things, and we want to open a store in Bianjing to sell these good things from overseas. ”
Private merchants originally referred to businesses invested and operated by private individuals, but in the Great Song Dynasty, the term "private businessmen" actually meant smuggling, because the officials and businessmen of the Great Song Dynasty were too able to make money, and they operated almost everything, and the market was monopolized by officials and businessmen, so if private businessmen did not smuggle, they would not survive at all.
When Liu Weixiong heard Lin Chong say this, he didn't feel strange and inappropriate, because although private business is illegal, it is also a secret that everyone tacitly opens.
Speaking of which, this is also a major feature of the Great Song Dynasty.
Because the administrative officials of the imperial court can only go to the county level, and then there are officials, but there are too many officials in the imperial court of the Great Song Dynasty, but they have become superfluous, but if there is anything, they either can't find the person in charge, or they pass the buck to each other, and the administrative efficiency is outrageous.
As a result, the control of the Song Dynasty over the grassroots level was almost zero, and the officials almost did nothing, so the county seat or the major departments below were almost all managed by hereditary or local officials.
However, these small officials do not take the court's money, Shen Kuo's "Mengxi Writings" recorded: "The officials of the world are impermanent, and they only make a living by receiving money, and they often get rich", and if they do not take their salaries, they can only live by taking bribes, and they will turn a blind eye to smuggling, and even participate in it.
Anyway, it doesn't matter if the officials above are not greedy, they are not greedy for nothing.
For example, Song Jiang and Song Zhusi were just a clerk in the county government, so rich, and they would scatter money when they saw people, because there were many private businessmen who gave him money, such as Chao Gai, in addition to the identity of the landlord, was actually a big private businessman.
Officials at all levels actually know these things, but what can they do, so they simply pretend not to know.
Therefore, the imperial court severely cracked down on private businessmen, but private businessmen developed everywhere under the noses of officials at all levels, which is a very strange phenomenon.
Speaking of which, the Great Song Dynasty is such a strange dynasty!
Seeing that Liu Weixiong still didn't react, Lin Chong proposed to run this business with him, without him having to contribute the principal or participating in the daily operation, but only with the help of his signboard and connections.
He only needs to buy the store, go to the yamen to go through the formalities, and deal with the forces of all parties, and then send someone to follow, and then help bring in a few partners, and then give him 20% of the dry shares, and give 10% or half of the dry shares to the other partners, and dividends will be distributed once every six months.