Chapter 288: Women Like It
The soap business is on the right track, and the wool textile sector is also progressing smoothly, and with enough manpower, a lot of the wool in the samurai warehouse has been processed and started to be spun into wool. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
However, the sweater is a little slower because learning to knit sweaters is slow, and knitting sweaters itself is a time-consuming and laborious thing.
But in the future, more and more people will teach to knit sweaters, and the wool of the samurai family will not be able to sell it.
The war between Datang and Xue Yantuo has begun, but the purpose of Datang's troops this time is not to eliminate Xue Yantuo, but to teach him a lesson.
Therefore, the scale of the battle is not large, not comprehensive, but to find a point to attack hard, and beat Xue Yantuo hard to remember it for a long time.
After more than half a month of fighting, Li Ji attacked twice with heavy troops, wiped out two tribes of Xue Yantuo, killed more than 4,000 people, captured more than 1,000 people, and tens of thousands of cattle and sheep.
However, this will not achieve the purpose of the Tang Dynasty, unless Xue Yantuo can obediently spit out the territory he has eaten, otherwise this war will continue to be fought.
And Wu Yuanqing, who caused this war, has already invested in the invention of new products.
The popularity of soap reminded Wu Yuanqing of another thing that would cause women to go crazy.
That's perfume.
There are a few women in later generations, especially women in the city, who do not wear perfume when they go out.
If you don't spray the fragrance on your body, you will leave a fragrant wind that makes people want to sneeze wherever you go, which woman will be willing.
Think about the well-known perfumes in later generations, which ones are not tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands.
The cost of a small bottle is only how much, and the price is geometric, that Nima is completely violent, it is a money robbery, and it is faster than robbing a bank.
Perfume, as the name suggests, is a scented liquid, more precisely a liquid that mixes essential oils, fixatives, and alcohol, to give an object (usually the human body) a long-lasting and pleasant smell.
Essential oils are generally extracted from flowers and plants, by distillation, and can also use organic matter with fragrance.
To put it bluntly, it is mostly extracted from fragrant flowers and plants, or other spices.
Fixatives are used to bind together a variety of different spices, including balsam, ambergris, and secretions from the air glands of civet cats and musk deer.
The alcohol concentration depends on whether it is a perfume, eau de toilette or cologne, which is the type of perfume.
These things are not difficult for Wu Yuanqing to get, such as the extraction of essential oils is flowers and plants, not to mention the garden planted in the martial family's house, or the large flower garden in the manor outside the city, it is said that the flowers and plants in the imperial garden of the palace are enough.
Although there are not many ambergris used as fixatives, they are still sold in Chang'an City. It's a miraculous thing, but it's actually caused by an intestinal obstruction in the whale's digestive system, floating in clumps on tropical seas and tidal beaches, of all shapes and sizes, and it takes at least 3 years to dry before use.
There is also the musk produced by the musk deer, and there are many Tubo and Tuyuhun merchants selling this thing in the western market.
It's that alcohol is more difficult to do, and at this time, the best wine in Datang is Sanle pulp, and the degree is about 30 degrees, which is far from enough.
However, this is not difficult for Wu Yuanqing, you can get it by buying the finished liquor on the market and distilling it.
High Alcohol Wu Yuanqing wanted to get it before, although he didn't drink, but he couldn't stand the Tang Dynasty People generally like to drink.
Even ordinary people will sell a dime from time to time when they go home after a tiring day, and the turbid wine in the two corners will go back to enjoy and relieve fatigue.
Green ant new brew wine, red clay small stove, late day snow desire, can you drink a glass of no?
Look at how good Bai Juyi's poetic conception is, in fact, it is just a glass of turbid rice wine.
The reason why it was not made before was because Datang did not encourage winemaking at that time, and it also prevented the locust plague in the second year of Zhenguan.
If you get a high degree of wine, you will inevitably consume a lot of food, and without food, I don't know how many people will die in that locust plague.
But now there is no such worry, last autumn there was a bumper harvest of grain, although there was a war to destroy the country, but there is still a lot of grain in stock, after all, Li Shimin can listen to Wu Yuanqing's words to launch a war against Xue Yantuo, it must be that the treasury is not short of grain to do this.
This year, the wind and rain have been smooth since the beginning of spring, and now in June, there are still two months to go before the autumn harvest, and there is no drought and flood disaster, so it can be concluded that this year is another year of great harvest.
In the past six months, almost ninety percent of the people who fled to various places because of the locust plague in the second year of Zhenguan have returned to their hometowns.
The price of rice in Chang'an City did not exceed three or four yuan per bucket, which was more than half lower than when Wu Yuanqing purchased grain on a large scale in the first year of Zhenguan.
In this way, when there is no shortage of food, there is nothing to worry about brewing high-grade sake. When you make high-strength wine, you can get the alcohol out and make perfume, which is also a matter of convenience.
Even if you can't make any alcohol that is too strong, in fact, as long as you make a high alcohol of fifty or sixty degrees, it can be replaced.
Wu Yuanqing asked people to build a new brewery again and let the blacksmith get the distillation tools, and at the same time began to pick flowers and plants to try to make essential oils.
In the north, there are almost no flowers to see in June, but fortunately, Chang'an is close to the Qinling Mountains, and there are more types of flowers and plants here than in other parts of the north.
In particular, there are almost all of them in the Imperial Garden, and they are all in full bloom.
Among the flowers that can be found, Wu Yuanqing's favorite is the faint and elegant fragrance of jasmine.
Another reason why I like jasmine is that Wu Yuanqing likes the song that has been sung all over the world: a beautiful jasmine, a beautiful jasmine, fragrant and beautiful, fragrant and white.
Another thing that Wu Yuanqing likes is the orange flavor, although the oranges are far from ripe in June, they have already produced small oranges, and it is no longer a problem to use them to extract sesame oil from the peel and squeeze it. Moreover, there are a lot of these things outside Chang'an City, and there are even more inside Qinling, which is very suitable for raw materials.
It took Wu Yuanqing nearly a month to try to refine the essential oil, and it took him half a month to make a suitable one, while the high wine was made in half a month.
However, Wu Yuanqing was still not satisfied with the high wine that made the samurai applaud and Cheng Chu howled silently, because he stuck out his tongue and tasted at most more than forty degrees. In later generations, this degree was at most a moderate wine.
It is far worse than other Hengshui Lao Baigan who went out to party with dormitory people on the first day of college and drank the 65 or 70 degrees of Hengshui.
If the degree is not enough, then continue to distill, anyway, there is no other way, just distill a few more times. After another half a month, the first batch of perfumes was finally made.
It was at this time that the news of a disgusting person reached Wu Yuanqing's ears.