After getting rid of the beautiful wife and concubine in the family, Jia Lian's plan to make a fortune is naturally imminent. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Fortunately, after more than a month of investigation and thinking, Jia Lian has finally decided the direction of the first pot of gold to be excavated in the world of Red Mansions, that is, soap!

That's right, now people usually use saponora for washing, and the rich and noble people use to break the saponaria beans, and egg white, honey, angelica, white aconite, white rhizous, tribulus terrestris, white aura, grass black, hawthorn, jatamansi, white cloves, rhubarb, artemisia, crane white, almonds, honey monk, camphor, and other herbs and spices to form a coagulation.

How can these things compare to modern soaps?

And the manufacturing method of soap is still very simple, Jia Lian as a civil servant also accompanied the leader to inspect the soap factory, the most important thing is that the raw materials for making soap are in this era, Jia Lian can also be very easy to obtain, but there is no machine can only build a handicraft workshop.

A few days later, Jia Lian prepared the materials, took Wang Xifeng and Ping'er to the small kitchen, and then drove out the other people in the kitchen, leaving only the three of them.

I saw that Jia Lian first boiled two pots of boiling water, and then mixed the alkaline noodles and quicklime into the water respectively to obtain a pot of sodium carbonate solution and calcium hydroxide solution, and then mixed the two solutions, stirred them and put them into a large vat.

The liquid mixture in the vat slowly stagnates, and the resulting calcium carbonate becomes a solid and sinks, leaving only the sodium hydroxide solution on top.

Then pour the obtained sodium hydroxide solution into the cauldron, add the appropriate proportion of grease and reheat, and at the same time keep stirring, the two women soon found that the oil layer in the cauldron was slowly disappearing, but Jia Lian knew that this was the result of the reaction between grease and sodium carbonate.

When the oil layer disappeared completely, Jia Lian sprinkled an appropriate amount of salt into the cauldron, and the result was that some pale yellow solids slowly appeared in the clear solution, and the more it condensed, the more it condensed.

These are the most basic soaps, at this time Jia Lian divided these most basic soaps into two, one of them added an appropriate amount of milk, the other added an appropriate amount of sulfur, and finally put them into a palm-sized rectangular wooden box to cool, after cooling and molding, the most primitive milk soap and sulfur soap were baked.

Wang Xifeng and Ping'er looked at Jia Lian as if they were juggling, mixing several irrelevant things together, burning and mixing, and finally making something they had never seen before, which immediately made them all stunned.

I only heard Ping'er ask stupidly: "Second master, is this the soap you are talking about?" ”

Jia Lian took out a piece of milk soap that had been cooled, put it between his mouth and nose and smelled it, and then said: "It tastes good, Ping'er, you go and fetch a basin of water, and I will teach you how to use it." ”

The obedient Ping'er quickly made a basin of water, and then Jia Lian said how to use it, and then Ping'er quickly looked at the foam on his hands and was full of novelty, after washing off the foam with water, Ping'er found that he could really wash his hands more cleanly, and there was still a trace of milk fragrance on his hands, which was really much better than what he used before.

Wang Xifeng watched Ping'er finish using it, and hurriedly took Ping'er's hand and looked at it carefully, and said: "Sure enough, it has become more white and tender, by the way, Ping'er, is there any discomfort?" ”

Ping'er replied with a smile: "Second grandma, not only is it very comfortable when washing, but how can I feel that my hands are more silky." ”

Hearing Ping'er say this, Wang Xifeng finally couldn't help but try it himself, and then found that the effect of this milk soap was great, so he smelled the lingering fragrance in his hand and said to Jia Lian excitedly: "Second master, you are so powerful, it will be difficult for us to get rich in the future!" ”

No man doesn't like to hear beautiful women praise and worship themselves, so Jia Lian also said excitedly: "Haha, I didn't lie to you, second master, this milk soap is suitable for women like you, but sulfur soap has another effect, that is, it is suitable for skin sores; And in the future, we can use more spices to make soaps with various scents and colors. ”

"I wonder how much this soap costs?" At this time, Ping'er asked.

I saw Jia Lian smile and said, "How about ten taels?" ”

"So expensive! I roughly calculated it myself, and it doesn't take a few dollars of silver to make a piece of soap at most, so it's many times the profit, the second grandmother, if the second master does this, our previous ones are really three melons and two dates. Ping'er couldn't believe that this soap could be sold so expensive.

But I didn't want to just listen to Wang Xifeng and said: "Ping'er, in the end, the second master said it is good, our women's family still has too little knowledge after all, in my opinion, if I knew that this was sold outside, let alone ten taels, even twenty or thirty taels, I must also buy it, it is conceivable that there are so many noble ladies in Kyoto, who will lag behind the rest of the people in comparison?" ”

"Feng'er is right, in the future, our soap will naturally only sell high-end nobles, and it will be a hunger monopoly sales, and we will have this income in the future, and it will be much easier to do other things." Jia Lian continued triumphantly.

"Oh? What is a hunger monopoly sale? Ping'er was puzzled again.

Jia Lian also patiently explained: "Monopoly, that is, this soap must ensure that the technology will not be leaked, and we exclusively produce takeaways; So why is it hunger sales, because the manufacturing process of this soap is very simple, so we can only build a secret workshop and let the henchmen help make it, so that the output will not be too much, but there are many people who want to buy goods when there are few goods, which is hunger sales. ”

After listening to Jia Lian's explanation, Ping'er suddenly realized that even Wang Xifeng stared at Jia Lian a lot, is this still her husband who only knows how to eat, drink and have fun in the past?

Thinking of this, Wang Xifeng couldn't help blurting out: "Second master, you are so powerful, why have you never shown it before, I can only hurt it, I can only ~, it's just that, I will listen to you in the future, I still want to be my second grandmother." ”

After the experiment was successful, Jia Lian selected a side courtyard, and then divided the side courtyard into five small workshops and a warehouse on a high wall, and all the people in it also selected the old slaves of Jiafu for several lifetimes.

Then the first workshop is responsible for dissolving the sodium carbonate solution, the second workshop is responsible for dissolving calcium hydroxide, the third workshop is responsible for fusing the two solutions to precipitate the sodium hydroxide solution, the fourth workshop is responsible for making primary soap, and the fifth workshop is responsible for mixing the primary soap into various fragrances and colors of soap, and finally sending it to the warehouse for safekeeping.

In this way, the production workers were originally the heartfelt subordinates of Jiafu, and Jia Lian also gave them high wages, coupled with the preliminary assembly line operation, each workshop was not allowed to communicate with others, and the deterrent power of Jiafu, the guards outside the courtyard in three shifts, so that the possibility of leakage was minimized.

Ten days later, Jia Lian's warehouse already has a mountain of all kinds of soap, with the thin wooden carved packaging, Jia Lian's Red Mansion soap named 'Yan Ruyu' officially facing the world.

First of all, Jia Lian first opened a three-storefront shop called 'Red Mansion Commercial Bank' in his own street frontage, and there is only one commodity in the shop, that is, soap with various fragrances.

Next, in the name of Wang Xifeng, Jia Lian began to send soap to the ladies of the inner houses of the major wealthy families in Kyoto, and there were maids to demonstrate how to use it.

Half a month later, more than half of the ladies of Kyoto's wealthy houses experienced the benefits of soap in person, and easily found out that this soap was only sold by the 'Red Mansion Firm', and because it was not easy to make, there was not much stock.

Then the noblewomen sent their subordinates to give generously regardless of the high cost of ten taels of silver, or to give them away, or to use them for their own use.

Three or five days later, the Red Mansion Firm actually told the people who came to buy that the stock was already insufficient, and that there would only be a supply of 300 pieces of soap a day in the future, on a first-come, first-served basis.

Since then, the soaps of the Red Mansion Commercial House have all been sold out early, and even the clever man has started to buy and sell second-hand, buying ten taels, and selling another dozen taels, and he has also made a lot of money.

And all this has nothing to do with Jia Lian, the income of 3,000 taels a day, excluding the cost, is more than 2,000 taels, and then a month to Jiafu and the powerful people in Jiafu to offer some, a month, Jia Lian can also get at least 50,000 or 60,000 taels of silver.

Since then, although Jia Lian has gained a bad reputation for managing a lowly business, the realist civil servant in later generations has also become the youngest and most wealthy gentleman in Kyoto.