Chapter 52: The Most Challenging Thing in My Life
As a family in charge of the border army, the Zhao family is definitely an awesome existence.
But this is the case, and the awesome family must also pass through Donglin Port.
Why?
The border army has to change its defense, and it has to replenish the source of troops every year.
In fact, it's the canal you walk!
Inland soldiers go to the border to guard until they are 30 years old, and then they can retire and go back.
Then you can go back and get the fields and money.
That's the benefit of being a soldier.
Many farmers who do not have land eventually choose to serve as soldiers when they have no way to go.
And if you want to get to the border, you have to go through the canal.
Because this canal is the most convenient and fastest.
And the soldiers at the border pass have to change their defenses, replenish them, retire them, and they have to go through the canals.
Li Hang and the Zhao family have natural conditions for cooperation.
There is no sour steamed bun, which is very good for their appetite, at least to improve the treatment of soldiers, it is not a difficult task.
"I can agree to this, but in the case of this deal, how we want to trade still has to be discussed!" Zhao Feilong responded in one bite, and then his eyes were all focused on the horse.
Looking at him like this, Li Hang laughed. "This is easy to do, when the border army will hunt, I will exchange my fur for my baking soda, each package is equivalent to the same silver, and a bag is guaranteed to be able to make a thousand steamed buns!"
How much baking soda does it take to make steamed buns?
As long as there is alkali stone in this kind of thing, you can have as much as you want, what? You said that the apprentice would blow his cheeks so hard to make this thing?
Do evil capitalists care about other people's cheeks? Even if you blow it into a monkey Sailei, he won't feel distressed at all.
It's a great thing to use as much as you want, and it's also great to use it for some fur to make clothes.
It's going to be winter, and I have to prepare some winter clothes.
In this era when cotton has not been discovered, it is really warm to be able to make a leather coat!
"Okay, it's a deal!" Zhao Feilong agreed very happily.
After Zhao Yijin came, he quickly climbed on the horse, and then went to gallop very happily.
Looking at Zhao Yijin who came down from the side, Li Hang smiled very happily.
As long as the Zhao family takes the bait, they won't be able to escape!
Although it was a coincidence that the Zhao family came over this time, Li Hang had already prepared something to make a fortune, but he had never had the opportunity to use it.
Seeing Zhao Feilong running around Donglin Port, he reluctantly got off the horse, and Li Hang waved his hand. "I'll write the production method in a while, draw the drawings and hand them over to you, there must be a blacksmith in the barracks, let them draw the scoop according to the gourd. It's all simple stuff, not much of a hassle! ”
I followed them out for a walk, and when I returned home, the big monk's burning was slightly stabilized.
"Do you want to stay for a meal, I have a delicious treat for you! Take a shower at my place in the evening, and there's a mysterious gift for you! ”
Li Hang smiled as if I was a profiteer.
Grandma's is a labor army and an artifact, if the Zhao family really leaves without wiping their mouths after eating, it will be too inauthentic.
Zhao Yijin laughed. "Then it's up to the host, but my brother has had a strange illness since he was a child, and he has strange spots on his body, and he is afraid of passing it on to you, so the matter of taking a bath is ......."
Looking at Zhao Feilong, who was bowing his head on the side, Li Hang had an expression of sudden realization. "No wonder the skin is so white, dare to love is a skin disease!"
"That's okay, Brother Wyvern will be the last to wash!"
After so long of petty fights, and after accumulating so long and experimenting with caustic soda production for so long, it is finally possible to make caustic soda in large quantities.
Of course, the money-making artifact has to be sacrificed.
Holding caustic soda to splash people, this behavior is really a bit tyrannical, caustic soda as an important chemical raw material, can be made into one of the three artifacts of the legendary time-traveler soap
Like glass and gunpowder, this soap is definitely a must-have product for travelers to make money.
I didn't have a backer before, so I definitely didn't dare to take it out.
Forget about making a small fuss, this soap must not be taken out, otherwise once it is coveted, it will not be a matter of extortion.
It's not too much to kill the whole family.
In ancient times, there were risks and it was necessary to be cautious when making money.
For dinner, what Li Hang made was to scrape the cold powder.
It's already getting a little hot.
At this time, it is still very good to eat a bowl of scraping jelly at night.
It's just that today's scraping powder made him a little doubtful about life!
He now suspects that the cliff of the Zhao family has the gene of the big stomach king.
Li Hang, who was standing on the side with a twitch out of the corner of his eye, now feels that leaving these two big stomachs to eat is simply the biggest mistake in his life!
Add yourself and your apprentice plus your wife and sister-in-law, at most, it is enough to have a basin of shaving powder.
These two goods alone have eaten a basin!
And looking at Zhao Yijin's appearance, he seems to be able to eat!
was so frightened that Li Hang hurriedly made him more than a dozen scones.
If Nima asked him to eat any more pea flour he bought, they would eat it up.
"It's delicious! It's delicious! ”
"Yes! It's cool, but it's a pity that Daddy doesn't have this mouthful! ”
"Li Xiucai! I'll help us make a few pots later! ”
Covering his face on the side, these two foodies have to pack it after eating it for nothing! I just don't know how expensive firewood and rice are!
"Daddy!" Li Hang shook the bath towel.
However, in order to be able to sell soap, he still endured it, and having a military family as a backer is still quite good, at least no one will move him here.
He had read the accounts of the Su family, and two ships of goods entering and leaving Donglin Port were goods of the Zhao family every month.
Whether it is transporting people or goods, the Zhao family is also quite profound.
"Come to Brother Yijin, let's wash together, I'll introduce you to a good thing!"
After speaking, Li Hang took out a piece of rectangular soap with a slight yellow color.
Some of the yellowing of this soap is mainly due to the animal fat, the process is still relatively ancient, and it does not exude a fragrance like the soap of later generations, but there is no obvious peculiar smell, but the color does not look as white as the soap of later generations.
You must know that this soap without peculiar smell was made by Li Hang after quietly experimenting more than 40 times.
This kind of soap is already quite mature, but without fragrance, you can't make soap by yourself, otherwise the soap will definitely be air every second.
Li Hang, who has always been smooth sailing, has experienced so many small problems, and this time he finally faced the biggest challenge in his life!
What challenges?
Take a bath together!
Take a shower with a guy who hasn't taken a shower in I don't know how many years!
Li Hang's original idea was to take Zhao Yijin to take a bath, and tell him the correct use of soap while washing, laying an important foundation for solid cooperation.
But when this guy took off his clothes, jumped into the pool and slammed himself with soap! Li Hang immediately put back his feet that had stepped into the pool.
The water in the pool is changing color at a rate visible to the naked eye!
The ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny! Mother's bathing has become a luxury! And it has become the most challenging thing Li Hang has encountered in his life, even more challenging than burning Hamuli!
"That! I remember that I still have something to do! Li Hang ran out as if flying.
What the? How long did it take, you ask?
I don't know how long I washed it, anyway, Wang Dali poured ten buckets of water on the side, and he didn't wash it white!