059 The True Purpose of Whaling

Although what the Shen family said was true, it was also heartbreaking.

It's people who care about face, who would have thought that this kid would completely tear his face and even tear the last fig leaf.

The old man's beard trembled in anger, and his chest rose and fell sharply.

The old man, who was especially the leader, got up from the ground, pointed at Shen Yue's family, and said tremblingly while rushing towards the family: "Huangkou Xiao'er actually spews blood!" Do so and wait! The old decay fought with you......"

When Xu Yaozong saw this, he was relieved, but he didn't dare to show it, and if he was angry with one or two in his own home, he would be in trouble.

He knows that military bullies are difficult.

"Shut up!" Xu Yaozong scolded Shen Yue's people with a dark face, and then turned his head to the old man who was pulled and said, "You guys go back first." When the official understands it clearly, he will definitely explain it to everyone in Longshan! ”

Xu Yaozong played an official tone, saying that he was explaining to everyone, not to these people.

Where are the representatives of the military households willing to leave at this time, the masters and servants of the Shen family are not fuel-efficient lamps, if they don't slap them to death, they will have it in the future!

"Why don't you help your old man back, you have to be angry and die here?" Seeing that the representative of the military household did not move, Xu Yaozong said with a cold face.

The old man can rely on his old age and not take Qianhu seriously, but the young man can't.

Seeing that the old men were so angry that they were about to die, Lord Qianhu stared at himself and the others with an unkind expression, and the young military families could only drag the old men away.

"What's your name? If you have performed well, are you interested in working in my Thousand Households? "Temporarily sent away the shameless old men, Xu Yaozong was in a good mood, Shen Yue's family was really good, Xu Yaozong moved his mind and immediately poached people.

"Back to the adult, the villain is three." Ma San bowed his hand, not humble or silent, "The young master is a hundred households under the adult, and the villain is working under the young master, and he is also working for the adult......"

Seeing that this young man refused, Xu Yaozong's face turned red, a little embarrassed, and he secretly scolded this kid in his heart for not knowing how to lift.

turned to ask Shen Yue about the situation, "Your young master caused this monstrous disaster, and if he didn't come to see the official in person, he sent you here, what is the so-called matter?" ”

"My lord, my young master hunts whales for the sake of my lord and for the future of Longshan!" Ma San looked directly into Xu Yaozong's eyes and said firmly.

Xu Yaozong laughed angrily, "Your young master taught you to say this?" For me? Could it be that I let him go whaling? Although the whale is big, how much can it be sold for? ”

"Please move the shelf, go to my house and see it, and you will understand." Ma San did get Shen Yue's permission, and he scolded the military bullies before, but it was not Shen Yue's instructions.

"I'm going to see what kind of medicine that kid sells in his gourd! Deceive the official, and the consequences will ...... Hum! Xu Yaozong was curious that Shen Yue would not go to sea to trade, and he would not do that business, but would go whaling, and it would not be long before he went to see.

The weather was so hot, in addition to Shen Yue's people, the guards also stopped recruiting.

Although the whale is big, it can't buy any money, what can Shen Yue do on a whale?

"How dare a villain deceive an adult!"

"Dad, I'll go too!" Xu Jiao emerged from behind the screen, was glared at by Xu Yaozong's bronze bell with murderous eyes, and quickly stuck out her tongue and hid.

The docks are in full swing.

After the beginning, the crowd gradually stopped being afraid. A huge whale is divided into small pieces according to various parts, a large amount of whale oil is refined, the first batch of whale meat is half-dried under the scorching heat, and more whale meat is spread out on the beach to dry, and schools of flies fly around, buzzing......

The stomach and intestines of the whale are cut open, and the small fish and shrimp inside and those that are digested so that they are not visible are spread out on the fine sand and dried, and the thick intestines and internal organs are cut into small pieces and dried.

In Shen Yue's yard, Yue'er, as the owner of the backyard, took Sister Ji Dilian to Mrs. Yue's yard, but no one disturbed Shen Yue, naturally, no one would help.

It just fits Shen Yue's heart. What he does is to be kept secret, and experiments are to be conducted.

Raw materials are not as readily available as in later generations. If something goes wrong in one area, the whole plan will be affected.

After all kinds of preparations were made, a lot of water was added to the two pots, and whale oil was poured into the pot under the filter device on the right, and Shen Yue instructed Shen Qi to make a fire, and the two pots were heated at the same time.

Regardless of the heat, he put on the fish skin gloves made by the tailors of the guard and reached the elbow joints, lifted the black cloth bag containing caustic soda, and began to slowly pour it into the pot with a gradually rising temperature, stirring as he poured.

After a while, a faint pungent smell diffused from the pot, and the later it went, the stronger the pungent smell became.

"Young master, be careful, when Uncle Yang handed this thing over to me, he kept telling you not to spill it on your body......" The high temperature made Shen Qi's clothes soaked, but he was happy in his heart.

Seeing that the young master poured caustic soda into the pot, he reminded him in fear.

Shen Yue took him to do such a thing, even if the weather was hot and uncomfortable, and the smell was pungent, he didn't care, the whole courtyard was blocked, and even Yue'er and his wife couldn't come in.

This shows that the young master trusts him.

As the water temperature rose and the caustic soda aqueous solution became denser and denser, Shen Yue could only continue to pour caustic soda by feeling, observing while pouring.

"The Daming printing and dyeing industry is developed, and it is easy to obtain chemical raw materials such as caustic soda, but there are too many impurities......" Shen Yue looked at the yellowed caustic soda solution in the pot and muttered helplessly.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, with the development of maritime trade in coastal areas, handicraft industries such as weaving and printing and dyeing were extremely developed, and caustic soda and strong water, which played an important role in printing and dyeing, were easy to obtain.

However, these caustic soda are not pure enough, not the white crystals of high purity, but yellow.

Shen Yue must purify caustic soda, otherwise a large number of impurities will remain in the subsequent saponification reaction, which will affect the next plan.

His plan was to hunt whales, make a fuss on whales, and make soap from whale oil to make a fortune.

Of course, planning isn't just about getting soap.

With so much preparation and so much effort, for the sake of raw materials, it is too violent to go whaling at sea and only make a soap, and God will not be able to see it.

The oil undergoes a saponification reaction with caustic soda, and the soap feet in the waste liquid left behind can be made into candles, but there is glycerin in the wastewater, and glycerin, the profit generated, in Shen Yue's plan, will definitely not be smaller than soap.

When there was no more caustic soda melting in the caustic soda aqueous solution pot, Shen Yue stopped adding caustic soda and continued to stir, looking at the yellowing aqueous solution in the pot, Shen Yue couldn't help but smile bitterly, fortunately he was prepared.

Otherwise, the soap made from such caustic soda will not have any appearance at all.

It may have worked just as well, but he himself felt ashamed.

God threw him into this era, and didn't let him use lime and soda ash to prepare caustic soda by himself, let alone need him to prepare soda ash or something.