"Brother Luo will know in a few days that our company can't just sell sesame oil, we have to have something else. I'm going to make some gadgets out of these skins, just as a supplement, it's not worth a lot of money, but have you ever found the crystals and magnets that I asked Brother Luo to help me find? "Hong Tao kept those whale skins to make gloves and umbrellas.

Working at sea, inseparable from the rough cable, Hong Tao's hand is already a bit rough in modern times, but unfortunately in the Song Dynasty, it is more delicate than the hands of the women of the Tan family. Whether it was hemp rope or sail rope, it hurt after rubbing it a few times, so he wanted to get himself a pair of strong and soft leather gloves to wear, which can be regarded as labor protection supplies. But the Song Dynasty didn't make gloves, Hong Tao had to figure it out by himself, and now that he has whale skin, it's just right to let those women of the Tan family have nothing to do with sewing gloves, which is also a side job. It is impossible to boil whale oil every day, and once these women are idle, Bo Fu is as unhappy as the old landlord, and always feels that others take money for nothing and do not work.

Another gadget is an umbrella, which was abundant in the Song Dynasty, but it was not made of whale baleen and whale skin. Compared with wood and bamboo, the ivory-like material and natural elasticity of whale baleen are excellent materials for making umbrella skeletons, and whale skin, which has high stretch and softness, also has natural textures, covering the umbrella bones made of whale baleen, which is just a perfect match, which is lightweight, waterproof, sunshade and beautiful. Although it is not the only one to make umbrellas, it should still be possible to make some money by relying on these characteristics, anyway, there are so many whale baleen that it is in vain to keep them, which can be regarded as waste utilization.

"That's natural, it's not a rare thing, I specially picked the best ones and bought some back, but Brother Hong wants to use them as objects?" Luo Youde has slowly turned from a state of extreme curiosity to a little curious about the strange ideas in Hong Tao's mind, mainly because he can find out and get tired.

"This time it has nothing to do with buying and selling, I'm going to make some sailing equipment." Hong Tao was already a little impatient, snatched the silk cloth bag in Luo Youde's arm, opened it by dividing it by two, took out a piece of natural crystal and squinted at the sun and began to check.

"Oh...... I wonder when Brother Hong's glass kiln will start? I have already asked someone to go to the north to purchase, and it is estimated that I will come back. Luo Youde saw Hong Tao like this, and he didn't have time to talk to himself more, so when he didn't ignore himself, he quickly asked what he wanted to ask the most.

"Glass kiln! Oh yes, glass kiln...... You see that this can't be done, and when the mangite comes, I'll make a better selling object first. As for the glass thing, I think we have to wait, it's not enough to have miscanthus nitrate, but also a lot of alkali. At present, I don't have enough manpower here, and firing glass is very troublesome, so why don't we wait for our company to make money before making a decision? "Hong Tao has long forgotten about burning glass, with whale oil, whale skin and other products that are easy to sell and easy to obtain, who has nothing to do with glass. The main thing is that Hong Tao is really not good at that thing, unless he gets soda ash, he can't really guarantee whether he can burn colorless and transparent glass.

"It's okay, then I won't bother, let's let Uncle Cai stay here, and mention something to him. I'll pack the sesame oil and go straight to Guangzhou...... Belch...... in the company. Luo Youde felt that what Hong Tao said was right, to do things one by one, Hong Tao had a total of such a small number of people in his hands, and he had to go to sea to hunt and kill whales, and he didn't have much time to get those glasses, so he didn't insist anymore, got up and said goodbye, and went to the dock with Luo Dacai to stare at loading whale oil on the boat.

"Little fish and shrimp, the teacher has a question for you, listen up! A pound of sesame oil sells for 500 Wen, how much does 5,000 catties of sesame oil cost? Seeing Luo Youde and Luo Dacai walking out of the courtyard of the school, Hong Tao smiled and began to give the children exam questions.

"Bang la, bang la, bang la......" No matter how old or young the children are, no one has a small abacus made of whale baleen on their chests, which is no different from ivory if you don't look closely. After hearing Hong Tao's question, he immediately lowered his head and began to pull, and soon Bo Jiao came up with the answer, and he was the first to raise his hand.

This is also what Hong Tao requested, in the classroom, he is the teacher, no one is allowed to talk nonsense, if you want to speak, you must raise your hand, and then talk after he agrees, don't say it if you don't agree. This is not to wear out the children's nature, but to educate them to abide by the rules, there must be rules everywhere, and the rules on Ximaozhou are their own words, and what they say are rules!

"Well, Xiao Jiao is the fastest, you say it first!" Hong Tao waited for a while, and after seeing that the children had almost finished raising their hands, he asked Bo Jiao to say the answer.

"2.5 million texts!" Bo Jiao read out the answer on his abacus aloud.

"Well, yes, I'll take a look, um...... Xiaoyu and Xiaoxiao also answered correctly, well, Weng Ya and Weng Shu are also good. Huang Ya, you're a little bit of a problem, but it's also good, not worse than your brothers and sisters. Hong Tao nodded, walked up to the children again, looked at the abacus they put on their knees, and was very satisfied.

The age difference between these seven or eight children is a bit big, Bo Jiao is almost 12 years old, Huang Ya is only 6 years old, and the three little girls of the Weng family and the Bu family are only a little more than 8 years old, and their intellectual development is not on the same level, so they can't be required in one mode. Like Bo Jiao, if the simple integer multiplication and division is not correct, Hong Tao will punish them for reciting the formula. Like Huang Ya, as long as the calculation method is correct, it doesn't matter if the answer you get, take your time.

2.5 million texts! It's all copper coins, not paper money, that is, 2,500 yuan! Plus those whale skins and baleen would cost 500 to say the least. In other words, a whale that is not too big, but weighs more than ten tons, can be exchanged for 6 Tanjia rowboats! This is not counting the price of whale meat, if whale meat can also be sold, even if it is only sold according to the cheapest fish meat, 15 yuan a catty, three or four tons of meat, it is also a hundred and ten yuan, and whale bones can also be boiled very good bone glue, then it can't be counted as money.

No wonder European and American countries went crazy whaling in the 19th century, this whale can feed 100 families to be fed and clothed, human beings in order to survive and develop, even eat tree bark, killing some whales is a fart!

Moreover, the exploitation and utilization of whales is still very crude and rudimentary, and if it can be studied in depth, it may be able to greatly increase its value. For example, the scraps used to make whale oil, they also contain a lot of oil, but Hong Tao doesn't know how to refine it. However, Hong Tao already has an idea, maybe he can turn these scraps into treasure, and then create more wealth for himself and those who have interests related to him.

It's a pity that this method can't be used at present, and those scraps can't be stored for a long time, so they are all buried in the ground by their father-in-law as fertilizer. This old stubborn man is really a good material for a landlord, he originally said that he did not want to go ashore, but once he came ashore, he was happier than anyone else. Because of his joint disease, he could not do heavy physical work, but he was not idle, and he went to hoe in the open space next to the school for a while when he was okay with a hoe, and actually made a vegetable field and planted a lot of vegetables. After Hong Tao told him that the oil was fermented and was the best farm fertilizer, he began to dig a soil pit, bury all the waste oil in it, and did not forget to pick a few buckets of water every day and water it along with the vegetable field.

Not to mention, let him toss like this, the rapeseed in that vegetable field has really sprouted, and it is growing well. If you don't say that there is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure, who said that the Tan family can only fish and not farm, they just don't have this condition, if they are allowed to go ashore to buy land and build houses, it is estimated that they are all good ways to serve the crops.

After entering the middle of November, everyone put down their work and began to prepare for the New Year. At present, the Song Dynasty follows the lunar calendar, that is, the Chinese calendar, December 30 is the Chinese New Year's Eve, and January 1 is the first day of the new year. Hong Tao thought about going back to the Gregorian calendar, but unfortunately he didn't have the ability, and he couldn't figure out the accurate conversion relationship between the Gregorian calendar and the lunar calendar.

Anyway, this year, on Ximaozhou Island, these Tan people plan to be extravagant and wasteful, buy chickens and ducks, as well as pork, beef, seafood or something, forget it, buy it as fresh as you catch it yourself, and go to the sea to catch whatever you want. Hong Tao originally wanted to show his hand to everyone and make a pottery hot pot, but it took a long time to find someone to make the hot pot, but he found that there was no mutton! It's not expensive, it's not at all!

Didn't the people of the Song Dynasty eat mutton? Wrong! The people of the Song Dynasty liked to eat mutton the most. In the Northern Song Dynasty, mutton was the best meat dish on the table, whether it was boiled or grilled, it was a big dish! At that time, although mutton was also expensive, at least it could be bought, but in the Southern Song Dynasty, except for the big cities closer to the north, mutton could rarely be eaten in the southern cities. There is only one reason, the places that can raise sheep have been occupied by the Jin State, and there is no sheep production south of the Yangtze River, although the Song and Jin countries have successfully negotiated peace, they have not started large-scale trade, and some sheep can not flow to Hainan Island, and it is estimated that even Guangzhou is enough to choke.

Can't sheep be raised south of the Yangtze River? Yes, yes, but the people are unwilling to raise it. Cattle can be cultivated, but sheep can not do anything but eat. It is said that during the Jiading period, the Southern Song Dynasty had imported some lambs from Western Xia, and planned to put them in the south to breed by themselves, but the people complained about it. The common people complained that these sheep often went to harm the dealer, and finally calculated the cost, it was better to import it directly, and simply not raise it.

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