Perfume, this is the first commodity that Hong Tao came up with. The people of the Song Dynasty all love stinky beauty, men have to rub powder and put flowers on the street during the festival and New Year, and women are more particular, among which perfume is an indispensable thing for them, regardless of age, beauty or ugliness, all of them are fragrant.

Could it be that the Song Dynasty originally had perfumes? Indeed, it is 100% perfume, or pure natural raw materials are extracted and extracted, but the taste is relatively simple, basically the same taste, the taste of rose flowers.

"The beauty Xiaojing jade makeup table, the cactus inherits Fu's pink cheeks. The exterior of the glass bottle is clear, and the fragrance does not wait for the wax to be sealed. ”

This is a Song poem, which is about the scene of women in the Song Dynasty when they were dressed up, and the last sentence is about the very strong fragrance of perfume at that time, which can be smelled through the wax seal on the glass bottle.

Rose water is produced from the great food, that is, the rose. The big cannibals put high-quality roses with various spices, then distilled them at high temperatures, and then collected the distillate into glass bottles, sealed them with wax, trafficked them to Guangzhou and Quanzhou, and sold them to the women of the Song Dynasty who loved beauty at a high price, making a lot of profits.

The people of the Song Dynasty were not stupid, they quickly learned this craft, and also used osmanthus and jasmine to make their own perfumes, but unfortunately the aroma has not been as strong as the perfume made by the big cannibals. Perhaps the people of the Song Dynasty also had the same problem as the later Chinese, that is, they liked imported goods, so in the perfume market, the high-end has always been the rose water of the big cannibal, and the low-end market is the battlefield of domestic perfumes.

Is it hard to make perfume? It's hard to say, it's not hard to say. It's hard to make a modern synthetic perfume, but it's not hard to make a very primitive plant-derived perfume. However, Hong Tao wants to add some difficulty to it, which is to add a more volatile liquid to it. Alcohol! With the addition of alcohol. Perfume will be more volatile than it is. The aroma is also more likely to spread. Even if it is the same perfume, with alcohol and without alcohol together, it must be more tempting with alcohol.

Alcohol, a by-product of rum brewing by the Jinhewan Women's Federation, has been produced for several years and is a project that Hong Tao strongly advocates. At first, Hong Tao didn't think that alcohol had other effects, but used it as a disinfectant, and all new slaves had to be disinfected with alcohol. It will also be carried on a ship that goes to sea, and it can also be used if there is a trauma or something.

Unexpectedly, when Hong Tao was thinking about what to do this time, alcohol helped him. Mix some alcohol into the perfume used by Bozhu, and the aroma will immediately become much stronger, and it will be evaporated by the body's body temperature, and it is easy for the fragrance to drift away. Since the use of Hong Tao's improved perfume in Bozhu, the workshop of the Women's Federation is so fragrant that it can't get in, and the eldest girl and the little daughter-in-law all run to Bozhu to ask for it. They still enjoy it.

It's a pity that Hong Tao can't make a better glass bottle, and he hasn't bothered to figure out how to make glass all these years. If only there were some clear glass bottles for these dark red perfumes. Then the price will have to be increased several times at least!

With perfume, a by-product immediately came out, and that was soap. The people of the Song Dynasty loved to bathe, and there were many public baths in the city, which was also many years ahead of the world. In the past, everyone bathed with soap balls made by mixing animal fat, honey locusts, and egg whites, but since Hongtao's whale oil soap was put on the market, it has been very popular, and as many as it has sold. Now Hong Tao added some perfume to the soap again, changed his body, and changed it to soap. The cost has basically not increased, but the sales price has directly doubled, which is the technical added value of the new product, and the most profitable commodity is the new product!

The maritime merchants of the Southern Song Dynasty are all understanding people, and they don't need Hong Tao to say too much nonsense, they can understand what kind of things can make money. The competition for perfume is fierce because it is extremely simple to make, the market is still readily available, and the investment pays off quickly. In the end, a maritime merchant in Guangzhou joined forces with two businesses in Quanzhou to auction off the right to produce and sell perfumes in several big cities, and became the first person to eat crabs.

Don't auction the soap, the soap is the exclusive operation of Luo Youde's global company, so simply give him the soap, which can be regarded as compensation for his conscientious work in the past few years. In addition, there are shares of Jinhewan in the global company, which can be regarded as Hong Tao using power for his own personal gain, but no one knows except him and Luo Youde.

The second new commodity is called the honeycomb coal stove, which northerners should be more familiar with, which is a cast-iron cylinder, which is stuffed with refractory materials, and briquettes or honeycomb coal are placed in the middle, which can be used for heating and cooking. This is also a by-product of Jinhewan, which is basically used by the apprentices of the foundry workshop to practice, and the casting cannon must not be allowed to do it, and they can only hone their skills by casting other things. What is cast? Hong Tao drew a drawing for them, and it happened that the stove was also cylindrical, so let it be!

The stove itself is not a separate product, but a series. In addition to the stove, there must be a chimney and honeycomb coal. So this is another industry that needs to be matched, Hong Tao doesn't like trouble, he is willing to sell one by one. The chimney can be replaced by a clay fired pipe, and the mold for making honeycomb coal can be made in Jinhewan, and how to make honeycomb coal is not too difficult.

In a southern area like Guangzhou, do you need a stove for heating? I really didn't need it, but this product was still bought by the maritime merchants at a high price. You can cook and cook water without heating, and besides, who said that you have to sell it in Guangzhou, and you won't pull it to the farther north? Or simply set up workshops where there is coal and iron. Chairman Hong also suggested that the production cost of raw materials would be low.

"This kind of stove needs an instruction manual, and each stove must be given a copy, otherwise it will not be good if someone dies. The manual was handed over to the bosom friend newspaper for printing, and they printed it quickly and well, and the price was fair! Hong Tao paid special attention to the maritime merchant who won the bid for the furnace, and also stuffed him with a pamphlet of several pages, on which he wrote the precautions for preventing gas poisoning, and by the way, he also made a deal for his newspaper. As long as the stove is sold, the newspaper will make money, and the fertilizer and water will not flow into the fields of outsiders.

Casting furnaces are much more troublesome than perfume and soap, not only need to manufacture furnaces and chimneys, but also have to be installed and debugged at home. However, this industry is no less profitable than selling perfumes, and the sale of honeycomb coal alone can make a lot of profits. Therefore, although it is troublesome, the businessman who understands his mind can immediately understand this account as long as he has listened to Hong Tao's feasibility analysis report.

Furnaces, a product with huge investment and complex technology, are more suitable for large families, who have many people, more capital and more power. Hong Tao is very benevolent, not only to take care of the big family, but also not to throw away the small door, the next product is the most suitable for small business, its name is matches!

In the market of the Southern Song Dynasty, there were many small commodities that were sold, and one of them was called "Hair Candle". What is this candle? It is the match of the Song Dynasty! People in different regions have different names for candles, some are called "drawing light", some are called "Yan'er", and some are called "taking lamps". In the end, this name Hong Tao is very familiar, and his grandmother called the match "foreign lantern", and there must be soil if there is a foreign.

The Northern Song Dynasty has a book of "Qing Yilu", which also records the details of matches in the Song Dynasty: there is a hurry at night, and it is difficult to make a lamp. There are wise men who approve cedar strips, dye sulfur, and put them aside, and when they meet with fire, they get flames. As a god, call "light slave". Now there are goods, renamed "fire inch".

It can be seen that the matches of the Song Dynasty are very similar to the matches of later generations, and they are also made of small wooden strips. However, it is only dipped in sulfur, there is no red phosphorus, and it cannot be rubbed and spontaneously combusted, but can only be ignited by other ignition sources.

It doesn't matter, Hong Tao, the world's largest plagiarist, has a way to solve this problem. The phosphorus on the match head and match skin is red phosphorus, also known as safety phosphorus, which has a high ignition point and will not spontaneously combust. However, there is no red phosphorus in nature, only white phosphorus or yellow phosphorus, and it is not easy to get, and a little chemical knowledge is required.

Prepare white phosphorus! Is there a chemistry lab in junior high school, or is it in high school? The raw materials are bones, silica, and charcoal. The process is also very simple, and Scheler used this method to obtain white phosphorus.

Bones, what is available in Jinhewan is bone char for filtering sugar solution, if the demand is large, it doesn't matter, just kill a few more whales, and the bones on the body of that thing are calculated in tons. The number of whals in Jinhe Bay has been steadily increasing, from three or four a year to two a month, and it has not kept up with the speed at which Luo Youde sells whale oil, candles and soap. It seems that the number of kills has to be increased, but fortunately, there is no shortage of whaling ships in Jinhewan, and there is no shortage of whaling sailors, as long as you don't kill too much, you can still take care of it.

The calcined bones are mixed with silica and charcoal powder and heated in a sealed reactor. When the temperature is sufficient, a puff of white smoke will enter the water tank next to it along the tube above the reactor and solidify into shape, which is white phosphorus. When white phosphorus is deoxidized and calcined at high temperature, it will turn into a red powder, which is red phosphorus. But don't overburn it, it will be reduced to white phosphorus vapor again.

It's easy to say, but it's hard to do. Because white phosphorus is highly toxic, it is also easy to spontaneously combust, and a little carelessness can cause tragedy. When Hong Tao was experimenting in Jinhe Bay, on average, one slave died every five days due to inhaling too much white phosphorus vapor. Hong Tao himself hid far away, he knew this result, but he could only pretend not to know, and he had to fake a few crocodile tears. I can't help it, I can't let someone else do this job, but someone has to do this job. (To be continued.) )