Wang Yuanbao thought for a while and said: "Two problems, one is that it will not consume a lot of food, and the other is the confidentiality of the formula and process. ”

"So this is the advantage of the Four Seas Trading Company, when the time comes, the imperial court will order to give the Four Seas Trading Company the exclusive right to operate these two kinds of wine for twenty years, if someone else secretly brews and sells it, we can send troops to arrest them and kill them!"

As for the food problem, there is no need to worry, starting next year, I will build a huge fleet of ships, go overseas to transport a large amount of spices and high-grade wood to Chang'an to sell, and by the way, a large amount of grain from the local area and Linyi Zhenla. ”

To put it bluntly, the Four Seas Trading Company is to use the power of the state, integrate all resources, carry out monopoly operations, and dispatch the national army to escort it, which is very similar to the East India Company in another time and space.

At this time, several servants carried a pot of boiling water and brought a set of tea sets, Xiao Quzhi washed them with boiling water, took out a small paper bag from the pocket of his clothes, it was more than forty pieces of Longjing tea leaves before the Ming Dynasty, and made a pot of tea for Wang Yuanbao and He Jian.

In the fragrance of tea, the three of them tasted such a simple and convenient tea for the first time, but the aroma was high and long-lasting, the taste was sweet and refreshing, and the mouth was fragrant.

Xiao Quzhi talked and laughed and said: "Father-in-law and mother-in-law, this is the good tea I brought down from the mountain, only four two or two I gave it to Your Majesty and Niangniang, and the rest I only sell a pot of three hundred yuan in Zuixian Building every day, and someone has already bid five hundred yuan yesterday."

In less than two years, I will be able to make this kind of tea, and then I will open a full teahouse in the entire Tang Dynasty. Then take it to the grassland and the Western Regions to sell, one pound of such good tea for an ordinary horse, and two pounds for a war horse. ”

Wang Yuanbao seemed to understand a little, and he asked: "In addition to these two businesses, what else is Sihai Trading Company going to operate?" ”

Xiao Quzhi said with a smile: "I have said that all the regular business, what makes money and what is operated, in addition to wine and tea, Sihai Trading Company is also ready to do glass, glass, perfume, bath beans (China's earliest soap) and many other businesses, as well as the aforementioned spices and mahogany......"

Xiao Qu talked eloquently, and said all his ideas, opening factories and workshops, recruiting citizens who had lost their land and went bankrupt, monopolizing operations and technology, and carrying out overseas development and plunder...... It's a bit like traveling back in time and space before, and many entrepreneurs are lobbying investors.

Wang Yuanbao and He Jian were dumbfounded when they heard this, they couldn't believe it at all, and after being stunned for a long time, Wang Yuanbao couldn't help but ask: "I said Fuchen, you can do these things?" And you say that the spice island really exists? Do you know where? ”

Xiao Quzhi affirmed: "I know what to do, or I know the general method and direction of production, as long as I recruit the corresponding craftsmen, I will give more guidance, I said before that those things should be done, and more things can be made in the future." And that spice island does exist, so I guess I can find it. ”

It's not that Xiao Qu's illness is bragging, he happened to be preparing for the college entrance examination before the crossing, such as how to make soap, what is the composition of cement, and how to make the chemical formula of glass, he knows everything, and he is not afraid to forget, because it is all stored on his laptop.

Even if something can't be made at once, Xiao Quzhi knows the extremely correct direction of production, as long as he finds the corresponding professional talent, he will definitely be able to study it quickly after his guidance and more study.

For example, Edison understood the incandescent lamp, and it took several years to experiment with more than 1,000 materials before finally choosing tungsten filament, while Xiao Quzhi could directly skip the previous more than 1,000 materials and use tungsten filament.

Another example is that black gunpowder has been invented since the Northern Song Dynasty, but the power has not been very large, and it was not until more than 700 years later that it evolved into the best formula and was fully promoted. And Xiao Quzhi knows that the final formula can save the more than 700 years of continuous exploration, summary and improvement.

In the same way, some things such as glass cement, although Xiao Qubing can't do it yet, he knows the way and direction, and he can basically avoid detours, and it is not very simple to get cement and glass when he settles down.

Seeing that Wang Yuanbao was still a little suspicious, Xiao Qubing shouted to the servant who was guarding outside to take a basin of warm water, and took out a small wooden box from the gift he brought, inside was a small tender pink fragrant object, I don't know what it was for.

Xiao Quzhi picked up the object and handed it to Wang Yuanbao: "This thing is called soap, it is better than bath beans, but the cost is much lower, and it can be produced on a large scale, this soap was made by me and Ke'er yesterday." ”

He Ke'er's face was slightly red, and she said in her heart Xiao Lang, I just helped you beat it, why did you give me half of the credit, people are very shy.

In the Tang Dynasty, there was no soap and soap, not even pancreas in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the things used for bathing were called bath beans. The dirty blood of the pig's pancreas is washed, the fat is torn off, and then ground into a paste, and then soybean flour, spices, etc., evenly mixed with powdered items, which are used for bathing and descaling.

Because the raw material must use pig pancreas and many spices, the production of this bath bean is very small, and the price is very expensive, and it can only be used by a few upper-class nobles.

As the richest man in Chang'an, Wang Yuanbao naturally used bath beans and knew its value. I was surprised to hear that the cost is much lower and can be mass-produced, what a business opportunity and how much profit this must be?

He took the soap and washed his hands in the basin according to the method Xiao said, and found that the foam was very rich, and he could wash his hands very clean, white and tender, and it was fragrant.

"Good stuff! Fuchen: You said that the cost of this soap is very low, but how low is it? Mass production is possible. How much can be produced? ”

At this time yesterday, because Yang Guifei heard that Xiao Qubing actually had a favorite woman, she used to think that Xiao Qubing was a Taoist priest who was not close to women, so she specially asked Xiao Qubing to take He Ke to Huaqing Palace to show her.

When the three of them were chatting, when it came to the topic of women, skin care in winter or something, Yang Guifei praised He Keer's skin for being supple, and Xiao Quzhi suddenly thought that glycerin could moisturize, and then thought of soap through glycerin.

So he smiled and said to Yang Guifei and He Keer that he could make two things that women in the world would like. Then he said that he would do it, and immediately asked someone to take lard and a small amount of vegetable oil from the kitchen, as well as all the practical soda ash, salt and other raw materials, and asked the palace maid beside Yang Guifei to take a lot of new flower petals for Yang Guifei's bath.

After all the materials and tools were prepared, only Xiao Quzhi He Keer and Yang Guifei were left in the hall, Xiao Quzhi put the lard and a small amount of vegetable oil into the pot to heat, melt and stir, and wait for the two oils to fuse together and then heat the edible soda ash.

When the oil in the pot became more and more viscous, Xiao Quzhi asked He Ke'er to help pour the ground rose juice evenly into the pot. Xiao Quzhi poured rose juice while stirring He Keer, so Xiao Quzhi said that he made it with He Keer.

After the rose juice was added, Xiao Quzhi asked He Keer to help stir, and he took out most of the charcoal under the pot, and then took over the stirring for more than forty minutes, and the oil in it reacted completely with soda ash to produce soap and glycerin. After that, add refined salt, let it sit for about ten minutes, and the soap and rose glycerin melted with rose juice will be separated.

After Xiao Quai, he fished out the tender pink paste attached to the glycerin and developed it, and after it solidified, it became the soap of later generations. On the contrary, it was the mixture of glycerin and salt below that made Xiao Qubing spend a lot of time and effort to successfully purify, diluted it with cool white and then took more than a dozen small porcelain bottles, He Keer took three bottles and gave the others to Yang Guifei.

He Ke'er and Yang Guifei looked at Xiao Quzhi in amazement, and they used two kinds of oil and soda ash refined salt to make the two things he said that women in the world would like them, and they were a little incredulous.

After the two of them washed their hands with soap, they found that it was not only clean, but also white and tender with a faint fragrance, and they immediately screamed loudly with excitement. After the rose glycerin was purified, the two found that a small amount of glycerin was applied on the back of their hands, and it was really able to be absorbed quickly, the skin was tender and tender, particularly smooth, and there was an extremely good smell of roses.

Hearing that Wang Yuanbao was so excited, Xiao Quzhi and He Ke'er exchanged a look, and said with a smile: "The cost, anyway, it's very low, and the cost of twenty pieces of soap is not as high as the cost of a small box of bath beans." As for the yield, it is hundreds of times that of bath beans, because it is actually made of lard. ”

Wang Yuanbao subconsciously looked at He Ke'er again, He Ke'er hurriedly nodded with a serious face, Xiao Qu's illness found that when she was serious, she looked as good as she laughed.

Wang Yuanbao and He Jian, especially Wang Yuanbao, are completely convinced, they have such a good product, and they have the support of the court and the army, and there is no problem with Xiao Quai's business strategy, it is indeed not difficult to earn ten times more than ten times the income a year.

And Xiao Qu's illness means that Wang Yuanbao will take the lead, and unite several Han merchants to build up the shelf, Xiao Qu's illness does not have to start from scratch, whether it is personnel, workshops, stores, and business channels are integrated and trained on the basis of these businesses.

Now it is the same as Wang Yuanbao and He Jian, how to formulate this rule system, how to distribute benefits, how to manage and operate, etc., the three of them can talk to Xiao Qubing if they have any opinions and suggestions, and finally the four of them will first set a general strategy and then negotiate with other businesses.

After listening to the meaning of Xiao Quai, Wang Yuanbao felt that there was a lot to do, although he was already old, he was also ambitious, as if he saw a giant business empire rising. He didn't care much about the other rules, except for Xiao Quzhi who said that he wanted to know the production process and formula of the glass, probably out of psychological habits, the old man was a little hesitant and unwilling.

"Auxiliary minister, I'll be in charge of the secret recipe and production of the glass piece, wouldn't it be good if you were in charge of the sales and sale?"

Xiao Quzhi smiled, the old man was afraid that he would rob him of his secret recipe: "Grandpa, you are too worried, you are not coveting your secret recipe and process, but trying to help you improve." Because in my opinion, although Ah Gong became the richest man in Chang'an by producing and selling colored glass, the production process is still too backward, and I heard that the yield rate is less than half? How much competitive advantage would this have? ”

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