After the county tried it, Lin Liu was like opening the door to a new world, and from time to time he was invited by the same department to go out to chant poems and paint.

Well, it's a real bard painting. is not like Zhen Yingjia under the pretext of going out to get together with the same department, but in fact, most of them are happy outside.

After participating in a few times, Lin Liu got to know a lot of people, after all, not everyone learns from Lin Liu and Lin Ruhai at home, and most of them have fellow villagers and classmates, so the relationship network is naturally bigger.

Although Lin Liu knew in his heart that most of these people would not be able to count on something if something happened, and the vast majority of them would probably have to spend many years in the imperial examination, it was better than nothing.

With this mentality, Lin Liu got along well with these people. The literati are high, since they took the initiative to invite Lin Liu to the party, they naturally would not be as amiable as the relatives and friends of the Lin family, but in fact, they looked down on Lin Liu, a concubine, and everyone would deliberately avoid this issue and only discuss it.

This back and forth gave Lin Liu a lot of time outside, allowing him to do things calmly.

After traveling through "Dream of Red Mansions" for so many years, Lin Liu finally started the thing that most travelers would play - opening a store and using modern novel and convenient things to earn a large amount of small money from the ancients.

However, to the disappointment of many people, Lin Liu did not choose what the vast majority of traversers bought, he chose a very unexpected commodity to sell, that is-matches.

Even people who have never used matches should know what this thing is, the technical content of matches is not high, and the difficulty is the preparation of phosphorus, but it is still high-tech in the Zhong Dynasty.

As a science and engineering dog, although he has been mixed in society for several years and has not engaged in professional-related work, he is grateful for the new skills "never forget" after crossing over, so that Lin Liu did not return the knowledge he learned to the teacher. Although there was no laboratory in ancient times, with Lin Liu's memory and the desperate research of several people, he finally got the match out.

Although it is high-tech, it does not mean that it is a new reason for the ancient people, because Lin Liu gave a down-to-earth name - candle sticks.

It is recorded in the "Zizhi Tongjian": "Emperor Chen Xuan was built for nine years, and the concubines of Qi were poor, so that they sold candles as a business. ”

This "candle" does not mean candle, but "candle".

According to records, the earliest matches were invented by the Chinese in 577 AD, when it was the period of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, wars broke out, Northern Qi suffered from the enemy, material shortages, especially the lack of fire, cooking rice became a problem, when the concubine and a group of palace maids magically invented matches, but ancient Chinese matches are just a kind of fire-starting material. Applying sulfur to a small wooden stick and using tinder or a fire knife and flint can easily turn the "yin fire" into a "yang fire", which can be regarded as the most primitive match.

However, some people say that it was invented in the Han Dynasty, "the king of Han Huainan attracted the people of the magic, Yan Bagong and others wrote "Hongbao Wanbi Fang", the law candle is one of them, and the rest is not in the urgency of the people, so it is not in the world, but the beginning of the law candle, since Liu An. ”

Tao Gu's "Qing Yilu" of the Northern Song Dynasty said: "The night is urgent, and it is difficult to slow down the lamp." There are wise men, who dye the fir strips with sulfur and put them aside, and when they meet with the fire, they get the flames. As a god, call the light slave. Now there are those who have goods, and they have changed their names. This means that it was very popular among the common people at that time to use a kind of fir sticks coated with sulfur to start the fire, which also shows that the original match should have been invented before the "Qing Yilu" was written, that is, before 950 AD.

During the Southern Song Dynasty, there were already vendors selling matches everywhere on the streets of Hangzhou, that is, some people cut pine wood into paper-thin pieces and painted one end of it with sulfur, but it was not called "match", but called "Hair Candle" and "Cui'er", which was already an early match, but people did not pay attention to it.

Tao Zongyi, a beginner in the late Yuan and Ming dynasties, said in the "Candle Stick" article: "The Hangzhou people cut pine wood for a small piece, which is as thin as paper, and the top of the molten sulfur coated wood chips is divided, and the name is called the candle, and it is also called Cui'er, and the cover is used to make fire and substitute the lamp and candle is also recorded in the history of Zhou Jiande for six years, and the poor concubine of Qi lives by making candles, which is not the system made by the Hangzhou people."

Tao Gu's "Qing Yilu" of the Northern Song Dynasty said: "The night is urgent, and it is difficult to slow down the lamp." There are wise men, who dye the fir strips with sulfur and put them aside, and when they meet with the fire, they get the flames. As a god, call the light slave. Now there are those who have goods, and they have changed their names. This means that it was very popular among the common people at that time to use a kind of fir sticks coated with sulfur to start the fire, which also shows that the original match should have been invented before the "Qing Yilu" was written, that is, before 950 AD.

"The king of Han Huainan invited the people of the magic, Yan Bagong and others wrote "Hongbao Wanbi Fang", the law candle is one of them, and the rest is not in the urgency of the people, so it is not in the world, but the beginning of the law candle, since Liu An's beginning."

There is a reason why Lin Liu wants to do this thing and not do other things, he has also read some time-traveling novels before, the protagonist uses some food, pop songs, and even shaved ice and the like to conquer the palace, rivers and lakes, martial arts, but really in ancient times, Lin Liu saw more and found that the level of the idea was embarrassing, it was small, and it didn't make people feel crazy, thinking that you were confused by ghosts and gods.

Don't think that the ancients were all fools, if they were all fools, there would be no four great inventions in ancient times, and there would be no such thing as a geokinetic instrument!

Lin Liu also investigated and considered for a long time before deciding that his first listed project was match.

Now the popular candles and fire folds on the market have their own advantages and disadvantages.

When the candle can be used, it must be lit with an open flame, and it is coated with sulfur, although it is flammable, but it is also explosive, the safety is not high, and the sulfur smells, it is not suitable for carrying, and it is more used as an emergency without a lamp.

The fire fold is to use very rough clay paper rolled into a tight paper roll, and then blow it out after igniting it with fire, although there is no flame at this time, you can see the red bright spot in the faint burning, just like the embers in the ashes can be kept for a long time not extinguished, as long as you blow it when you need to ignite it, you can make it rekindle, but the blow is very skillful, you need to suddenly short and powerful, and the air supply volume should be large, although it is very light and easy to carry, but it can't take long to manage the time, and a fire fold can be piped for two hours at most.

Most people would rather bring flint than lighter folds, so some costume TV series are.

And matches solve these two problems very easily!

More importantly, matches are a low-grade life product, it is not a luxury high-end product like jewelry and gold, nor is it a necessity for people's daily life like food, even if someone finds out about the business opportunities in the future, those royal nobles generally disdain to do this kind of business, and those who can look at this kind of business must be some small businesses, Gu Ming can handle it himself.

As for the slow arrival of silver, Lin Liu didn't care, anyway, he didn't have to worry about food and clothing now, just take precautions, slow down.