"Is this lamp oil?" Chen Mingen looked at the small flame, and reached out to get closer, looking at the palm of his hand.

"Well, the best lamp oil is not only very bright, but also has no fumes and peculiar smells, and the most important thing is that it is burn-resistant, which is more resistant to burning than other oils." Hong Tao knew that Chen Mingen had read books, and he must have survived under the oil lamp, and he couldn't afford to use the candle.

"Good thing, back then, your grandfather and I would smoke my eyes so hard every night, and I had to endorse books while shedding tears, if there was this light, I could read a few more books." As a person who has read books, Chen Mingen has a personal experience of the oil lamp, he used his palm to block some sea breeze, so that the flame is stable and stable, and raised his palm as if holding a book, he is very pleased.

"Can this lamp oil be sold for money?" Bo Fu also leaned over, staring at the small cyan flame, his pupils had become square.

"Of course you can sell it for money, and it sells for a lot of money!" Hong Tao gave the old man a very positive answer.

"Xiao Er, go chop more firewood!" Po Fu turned his head and yelled at the beach, and the crowd that had already begun to nap on the beach was driven up by him again, and drove them into the black forest like rabbits. The old man was in a hurry, how could a good thing that could be sold for money be put on the beach and let it stink, it must be boiled out immediately!

With Hong Tao's demonstration, boiling whale oil is very simple, everyone has eaten big oil, and you don't need Hong Tao to teach you how to operate it. Soon the second large pottery urn was erected, loaded with whale fat and lit with firewood, and the third pottery urn Hongtao did not let go, it was to be used to hold the boiled whale oil. These whale oils can't be seen clearly at night, and if they are too turbid, they have to be filtered before they can be marketed, otherwise they will affect their appearance.

On this night, the beach was constantly burning and crowded, except for Hong Tao, all the men were taken into the mountain to chop wood by Bo Fu, the women were responsible for staring at the pottery urn and skimming oil, and Hong Tao was in charge of supervising the work. By the time it was dawn, the urn was almost full, and a piece of firewood had been piled up on the beach. Seeing that everyone was already tired and dazed, Hong Tao persuaded the old man Bo Fu, who was still in a state of excitement, to go back to the boat to rest, leaving only Bo Zhu, Carl and a few children to help continue chopping wood and boiling oil, and the rest of the people all went back to rest, and after sleeping until noon, some people got up to take over, and the other part worked at night, so that there were three groups of people who took turns to work.

"Brother Hong, where are you?" Early in the morning, the car and boat came again, Luo Youde just stepped on the beach, he covered his nose, although the whale oil did not smell, that is, the smell of those whale internal organs was a little big, and when it was heated again, it was disgusting.

"Hehehe...... Good thing, come, see how good the lamp oil I made. After a night of edification, Hong Tao's sense of smell has become a little insensitive, which is in response to an old saying, into the abalone, smell it for a long time and don't know its smell!

"Lamp oil...... Brother Hong uses whales to boil lamp oil? You mean selling lamp oil! Luo Youde instantly understood what Hong Tao was doing, and also understood what Hong Tao meant by the big deal he told him yesterday.

"How? Is selling lamp oil a serious business? "Hong Tao really doesn't know if the business of selling lamp oil was also discriminated against in the Song Dynasty, if the status is too low, Luo Youde probably won't do it. People in this age still have a restrained desire for money, or this society does not encourage everything to look at money, and different social status has to engage in different jobs.

"Brother Hong misunderstood, what Brother Wei means is not that it is not good to sell lamp oil, but that there is a great demand for this lamp oil, and I am afraid it will be difficult to sustain it by relying on Brother Hong's oil alone." Luo Youde expressed his concerns, it turned out that he didn't want to sell lamp oil, but he was afraid that Hong Tao would not be able to provide enough supplies.

"As long as you sell it, Brother Luo, I can provide enough supplies. I don't boast either, now I have more than 3 tons here...... Oh no, it should be...... More than 5,000 pounds, right? How long will it take you to sell? Hong Tao is not too worried about the source of goods, since there are groups of whales in the South China Sea, then they can be found again, even if they get one back a month, it is enough for these families in the cooperative to be busy, just boiling whale oil will take ten days and eight days.

"So much! Brother Rong Wei went to Qiongzhou and Guangzhou to inquire first? I just don't know if Brother Hong's oil is better than tung oil? Is there a lot of smoke? Can it stink? Luo Youde didn't expect that so much oil could come out of a whale, and immediately felt that this business had been done, and his initiative had also improved. The merchant class, in fact, has a very large energy, but it has not been correctly guided in all dynasties, and it is more suppressed. Only the Song Dynasty paid a little attention to the merchant class, as long as they were given a little sunshine, they would be very bright, and as a result, the Song Dynasty's taxes were higher than those of the Qing Dynasty. It's a pity that the Song Dynasty was short-lived, and the sunshine of the merchants didn't shine for a few days, so it continued to be gloomy.

"Come with me!" Hong Tao planned to let Luo Youde personally see if whale oil was suitable for lamp oil, but just listening to Chen Mingen, a fake scholar, was unreliable, and he had to ask someone who understood. In case Da Song already has a better lamp oil, he should not risk his life to go whaling, and it is enough to get a head back every two months to eat meat.

"Shhh...... Good oil...... Good oil...... Is it spiced? As soon as Luo Youde followed Hong Tao to climb the bamboo tower, he smelled a faint aroma, and he couldn't tell what it was, anyway, it didn't smell bad. When I saw the pale cyan flames coming out of the small porcelain bowl on the floor of the bamboo building, I immediately cheered. After walking a few steps, I lifted my smock and put the oil lamp inside, and after blocking the sunlight outside, the little oil lamp appeared brighter.

"I won't talk about the production process, this is a secret, Brother Luo only sells, and I only do it for the younger brother, and then distributes the profits according to the shares, is this good?" Hong Tao listened to Luo Youde's words, and suddenly had an eye in his heart, he didn't know if others could hunt whales, anyway, the more mysterious this whale oil was, the better, even if there was no secret, he had to say that he had a secret.

"Yes, yes, it's abrupt for my brother again, don't blame it...... This kind of good oil is smokeless and odorless, a hundred times stronger than the sesame oil, cranberry oil, and Xanthium oil, and it is not much better than butter and wax, but I don't know how expensive this oil should be? Luo Youde felt that just looking at it was not enough to enjoy it, so he simply put his head into the cover of his clothes, and deeply smelled the unique smell of whale oil when it burned, which was very enjoyable.

"The price is set by you, Brother Luo, and my suggestion is not too high, because our output is relatively large. But it can't be too low, too low not only for us to lose, but also easy to cause hostility from other lamp oil merchants. I think Brother Luo should not have been engaged in lamp oil trading before, and now he is also a newcomer to the industry, if he is resisted by his peers at the beginning, it will still be very troublesome. Let's ship it slowly first, anyway, as long as this oil is properly kept, it is not easy to deteriorate. After Brother Luo has gained a firm foothold in this industry, it is more appropriate to sell it in large quantities. Hong Tao was afraid that Luo Youde would see the money, so he began to sell whale oil regardless of it, directly impacting the original lamp oil market in the Great Song Dynasty. In the past, Luo Youde complained when he chatted with him, whether it was in Guangzhou or Quanzhou, most of the local industries had industry associations at this time, and they were more exclusive to outsiders, and even he, the child of a Qiongzhou official, could not compete with others for business in the local area. So I had to remind him that he didn't have to turn a good thing into a bad thing because of a moment of excitement.

"Brother Hong is really talented, not only proficient in fishing and shipbuilding, but also knows so much about business. Don't hide it from Brother Hong, even if Brother Wei goes to Guangzhou and Quanzhou to sell this thing, he can only open a local shop and operate slowly, if he wants to use a sea ship to transport goods and sell them in a single piece, I am afraid that he will not be able to do it in a short time. That kind of business is run by the local thirteen banks, and outsiders can't get in, or they have to pay the line fee according to the amount, which is not a small amount. Luo Youde is very fond of this point, that is, he is more honest, can or can he can't, rarely brag, and cooperate with him, Hong Tao doesn't have to worry too much.

"Well, that's what I'm worried about, you don't think it's going to happen. Brother Luo came forward to open a shop in Qiongzhou, Guangzhou, and Quanzhou, specializing in selling whale oil, and other commodities in the future. Brother Luo has three shares in the shop, I have three shares, and the Tan family has three shares. Hong Tao felt that Luo Youde's method was very appropriate, not to engage in large-scale wholesale first, but only retail, so that the interests of the Thirteen Lines would not be touched. After the scale of the customers in his hands reaches a certain level, he will slowly change from retail to wholesale, and by then he and Luo Youde have also developed and grown, and if the thirteen lines want to manage, they have to ask themselves if they agree.

"And what about Ichsei?" Luo Youde's uncle, who is also known as Luo Dacai, has a personality that is a bit like Bo Fu, he rarely interjects when Luo Youde and Hong Tao talk, but when it comes to the distribution of interests, he immediately can't help it.

"The remaining 10% is at the disposal of Brother Luo as a public relations expense...... This public relations is to deal with the local government and those people on the street, do you understand? Hong Tao didn't know the rules of the Song Dynasty, but he believed that no matter which dynasty it was, public relations expenses were indispensable, and even in later developed countries, a part of the profits had to be used to trade unions and various charitable donations, but it was a more acceptable way, but the essence was the same.

"Dare to ask for my brother, Brother Hong's family is also in business in that Australia?" Luo Youde agreed with the distribution method that Hong Tao said, and couldn't help but be curious, the more he knew about Hong Tao, the more curious he became.

"It's true that my family is also engaged in the trading of goods in Australia, but I don't like business very much, and I want to go back to my ancestors' homeland to have a look, so I scattered my family wealth to build a big ship, but I didn't expect to encounter a strong wind, so I drifted here. But Brother Luo, please rest assured, my ambition is not in trading, but I need a lot of money, so I am willing to use what I know to help Brother Luo become a first-class maritime merchant in the Great Song Dynasty, so that I, as Brother Luo's partner, will naturally rise to the top, I don't know what Brother Luo wants? Hong Tao understands what Luo Youde wants to ask, he is so familiar with these ways and methods of doing business, if he wants to say that he has never done it, who will believe it!

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