"It's evil, is this Nima soap? It's almost the same as wax! But in the end, the saponified thing made Hong Tao, a copycat chemist, very puzzled, a white, soft piece of things, no special taste, smooth and greasy to the touch, and fixed and formed after cooling. Wash your hands with it? There is no door, not only can't this thing be decontaminated, but even the water won't melt.

Fail! After working for more than half a month, he wasted the miscanthus and a large pile of quicklime purchased by the Luo Youdeto people, and the things he made were not soap at all, which completely extinguished Hong Tao's ambition to be a chemist. Now what he is thinking about is not how to experiment and make soap again, but how to explain to Luo Youde and come up with something else to compensate him.

"I'll try, in case it's a candle that's okay, it's just matching, selling lamp oil and candles at the same time, isn't this a series!" After thinking about it for a long time, except for the news of the gold mine and the copper mine, Hong Tao couldn't think of anything to make up for Luo Youde's loss, so he decided to try it again, and let the dead horse be a live horse doctor.

"Fauber, is the salt water you got me salt water? It can't be salt brine, right? Soon, Hong Tao ran out of the courtyard of the glass kiln and found Bo Fu directly, and the salt water was prepared by the old man.

"Hey, hey, hey...... I don't think it's a bit of a waste to play with the mud by you and the mud, in fact, it's not salt brine, there is also salt water in it, I exchanged whale meat from the hands of those salt-drying Tan family, cheap! Bo Fu didn't hide it, and honestly explained the whole story of his cheating and tricking Hong Tao.

"My dear father-in-law, you are really my relative, this thing can also be replaced? It's science! Hong Tao's nose was almost crooked, and now he understood that the reason why he couldn't make soap was all because of this old man who picked the door. He replaced the concentrated brine with salt brine, which was hydrochloric acid as soon as it was heated, and it was good to decompose all these oils and fats with hydrochloric acid, because the concentration of hydrochloric acid was not enough, so the stearic acid produced was very small, it was the kind of thing that was soft like wax.

But this is also crooked, stearic acid is actually wax, just now Hong Tao pinched a piece of cotton hemp in the middle of the twist, a little on the ground, the flame is more than two inches long, the burning is quite happy, in addition to a little softer, it is a good candle raw material. As for how to make it harder, it's easy, just find some beeswax, vegetable wax or mineral wax as an additive. These things are available to the Li people, and they can be used as wax for batik cloth, melted together with stearic acid, and tested several times to find the right ratio of moderate combustion and soft and hard, and then use cotton thread to twist into a wax core with multiple strands to make finished wax. It would be even more perfect if you could find the right craftsman to carve some patterns or something on the wax body for different occasions.

After Hong Tao replaced it with salt water as the precipitate solution, a kind of yellow soap was also created, although the quality is not good, and the foam is not rich, but it can indeed be used, and the ability to remove oil stains is good. If you want to have a good soap, you have to make it with whale oil, and if you want to have a fragrance, you have to add spices, and these Hongtao will not be considered for the time being. The production of soap and candles alone is enough for him to do, and he doesn't have time to think about more advanced recipes, and these two things don't have to worry about selling anyway, Luo Youde said.

"Good wax! Good wax! It's brighter than all the waxes I've ever seen, and there's less black smoke, but can this look a little better? Wouldn't it be nice if such a good wax could be carved with exquisite patterns on the desk? When Luo Youde returned to Ximaozhou to load whale oil, Hong Tao invited him to his house for a light meal, which was indeed a light meal, seafood fried rice. Eating is secondary, and showing soap and candles is Hong Tao's real intention. As Hong Tao expected, Luo Youde was full of praise for these two products, but there were also higher requirements, that is, product appearance and packaging. In the Song Dynasty, candles were still high-end lighting tools, not to mention ordinary people, even ordinary scholars could not afford to use them, mainly because the output was too small, and it was not enough to burn beekeeping in the whole country by beeswax.

"It's all up to Brother Luo to deal with it, it shouldn't be difficult to find other craftsmen to process it, don't count on me, I'm still good at making wax, and there's no hope of carving wax." I have a serious shortage of manpower here, and the production volume cannot be increased in a short period of time, so it should be regarded as two new products in our company, which is better than nothing. I still want to discuss something important with you, Ah Zhu, help me keep an eye at the door, and call me first if anyone comes. Although Hong Tao knew that soap and candles would be a good thing to make money if they could be mass-produced at the right price, he was not interested in them. The reason is simple: both products are labor-intensive, and the output is closely linked to the number of workers.

At present, let alone himself, even Luo Youde is difficult to build such a large factory, so it can only be produced in a small workshop, and it is sold as a high-end gadget. When did he really gain a firm foothold in the Southern Song Dynasty, Luo Youde also broke away from the control of the Luo family in Qiongzhou, so that he could engage in large-scale soap factories and candle factories. This question is not a problem, Hong Tao is really concerned about people, and there are not many people available under him. Song people he absolutely dare not use it, it is not easy to control, and he doesn't want to give it away for nothing. The Tan family is really under their own control of these 6 or 7 families on the island, and even counting women and babies is only more than 30 people, not to mention opening a factory, and when the third new ship is built, whether there will be enough sailors to pilot it is a problem.

"Oh, what makes Brother Hong so careful? Even though he said it to his brother! "It's the first time Luo Youde has seen Hong Tao deliberately avoid others talking to him, which shows that the stakes are very high. Hong Tao can talk to himself about such a major matter, which in itself shows that the relationship between the two people is already very close, which is a good thing, and he must hold on and don't slip his shoulders.

"It's not a big deal, I just want to ask Brother Luo, in our Great Song Dynasty, can you own slaves! Just like Karl, I took slaves from foreign countries and let them work for me, did the court allow it? Hong Tao has been thinking about this idea for a long time, and he has been thinking about it since Carl made this suggestion, and the more he pondered it, the more he felt that this method was better. Slaves, just talking about the cost or something, basically don't think about loyalty, loyalty has to be loyal, disloyalty has to be loyal, they have no choice.

"Slave! This...... This...... This is too unbelievable, I am afraid it will be difficult to do it in the Great Song Dynasty, I don't know why Brother Hong came up with this idea? Luo Youde was stunned by Hong Tao's question. Slave! Since the opening of the Great Song Dynasty, I haven't heard of anyone raising slaves, even the emperor's family can't raise slaves, so the ministers and scholars don't dare to go to court. The Song Dynasty had already abolished the untouchable class in law, and even unstable factors such as the Tan family only limited their range of activities, and could not be captured as slaves.

"It can't be, can it...... Then forget it, I just want to catch some foreigners to work for the Great Song Dynasty, since the law does not allow it, I will think of other ways. After Hong Tao got the exact answer, he dispelled this idea on his lips, but he was even more firm in his heart. The Great Song Dynasty is not allowed to have slaves, we can't just mix in the land of the Great Song Dynasty, anyway, I don't have the household registration of the Great Song Dynasty, legally speaking, I am still a foreigner.

"Grandpa, if I want to move to another place to live, that place is far away and not in our Great Song Dynasty, would you like to go with me?" After sending Luo Youde away, Hong Tao did not go back to his yard, but went to the big courtyard where Chen Mingen lived. Now the old people of the Chen family, the Bo family, the Huang family, the Weng family, and the Bu family are all living together in a large courtyard, and they have become rows of boats on the shore, and they are used to living together.

"You're going back home? Doesn't it mean that there is no sea ship that can't go back? Isn't someone bullying you, and Grandpa said, I hacked him! When Chen Mingen heard Hong Tao's words, the book in his hand almost fell to the ground, he was afraid that Hong Tao would bring up this matter, and he also thought that Hong Tao would leave sooner or later, but he didn't expect it to be so fast.

"No, even if I go back to my hometown, I will take you and the people here with me, and I plan to give you a pension for the rest of my life. I mean, this trip to sea found a very good terra nullius, where there are big rivers, forests, fertile land, as long as we have enough manpower, we will soon be able to farm and feed ourselves, and there are a lot of big logs for shipbuilding, and we don't have to spend money to buy them, it's all our own. What's more, there is no court to take care of us, and we don't have to walk away with our heads down when we go to the street. The Great Song Dynasty is very good, but after all, it is not the homeland of the Tan people, do you want to send people under the fence for the rest of your life, you can't enter the soil when you die, you don't even have an ancestral grave, and the descendants want to worship and worship, so they can only kowtow to the sea. Hong Tao began to flicker again, and specially poked the weakest place of the elderly, and entered the soil for peace, the ancestral family, which is the expectation that the ancients will never erase.

"Is there such a good place? Is there no one there? If it's a desert island, how can we survive? Even if you farm the land, it will take a year or two to not be successful! Although Chen Mingen questioned it, he didn't refuse, obviously a little tempted, but he didn't believe that there was such a good place.

"That's what I think, the first step is not to go all over, first send some people over, and after gaining a foothold in the local area, then pick up the people from here. The food problem is easy to handle, and if the new ship is built, I can run back and forth in ten years, and it is not difficult to buy grain from here and transport it there. We still have to keep it here, and we still have to do business with Boss Luo. I'm just trying to find a place for us to live over there, so that we have somewhere to go in case we can't get on here. Grandpa, do you think that if we people live a comfortable life for a few years, and then let them live in a row boat and catch the sea, will they still be able to adapt? We will get richer and richer, and sooner or later someone will notice here, and once those natives on the shore find out that our Tan family is richer than them, you say they can just watch it like that? Once they have bad intentions, it will be difficult for us to resist. They have the Coast Guard, they have the army, all we have is a few clippers and a lot of blood. Hong Tao's words are not foolish, they are all dry goods, he really thinks so.

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