On the way back to Pingliang, Lou Xian'er pestered Xu Liang in the carriage to grind hard bubbles, and wanted Xu Liang to agree to her to teach in the military drama troupe, but Xu Liang just didn't let go.

Lou Xian'er returned to the Xu Mansion with a dazed face, waited for the carriage to stop, and went back to the room angrily.

Xu Liang shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Not long after returning to the mansion, Feng Suqin, the eldest lady of the Xu Mansion, came over, sat next to Xu Liang, and chuckled: "Xianggong, during the day, three groups of people came to the mansion to invite Xianggong to preside over the wedding, and they all let the concubine block back." ”

Xu Liang smiled bitterly: "I'm surprised, this reward policy has just been issued, why do so many people want to get married?" Could it be that love at first sight in this world is really so easy to happen? ”

Feng Suqin covered her mouth and smiled, and glanced at Xu Liang cotdidly, "What kind of thing, if it's so easy to fall in love at first sight, then what do you want Yue Lao and the matchmaker to do?" Alas, in fact, those captured women are really pitiful, locked in prison and frightened, and now I hear that it is much better to be able to get out of prison and marry a human wife than in prison? For them, where is there any room for choice, if there is a Liang army soldier who takes a fancy to it, it is to burn high incense, and if they want to marry, they are naturally willing. ”

Xu Liang was stunned for a moment, thinking about it, it was really like that. It seems that his decision-making helped Liang Jun solve family problems, and he also rescued a group of women comrades in distress by the way, which is really ...... The merit is immeasurable.

Xu Liang smiled complacently, Feng Suqin saw it, and he didn't know what Xu Liang was laughing at, so he sat down with him for a while, Feng Suqin said: "By the way, Xianggong, there is something that the concubine has to tell you." ”

"Huh?"

"A few days ago, Ge Qiao, who stayed in Jianchang, came with news. It is said that they experimented with adding some spices to the soap cream, and the soap paste made made looks good and smells good to use. The price has almost doubled. Feng Suqin said with a smile.

"Really?" Xu Liang was pleasantly surprised, the soap paste was invented by himself. If you add spices to it, won't it become soap? The original selling price of soap paste was four cents a box, but now with the addition of spices, it has suddenly increased to eight cents a box, and the profit has almost doubled. "Did Ge Lao come up with it? You'll have to reward him. ”

"It's nature." Feng Suqin said, "The concubine still has an idea, this soap paste with spices has to be changed." Lest it be confused with ordinary soap cream. Well, how about it with a fragrance, so it's called soap? ”

Soap?! Xu Liang was dumbfounded, this coincided with his own thoughts. The naming right of soap in the Ming Dynasty actually let Feng Suqin take the lead?

"What? Do you think this name is not good? Feng Suqin saw that Xu Liang's eyes were in a daze, but when Xu Liang didn't like the name he chose, she asked nervously, she twisted the corner of her clothes, and whispered: "The concubine said casually, if the princess is not satisfied." Let's take another name. ”

"Where." Xu Liang stretched out his hand and stroked Feng Suqin's long black and silky hair, and scratched the bridge of her delicate nose dotingly, "Who dares to say the name of Suqin's baby?" The name soap is both apt and generous. I think it's pretty good. ”

Feng Suqin was affirmed by Xu Liang, her expression was greatly relaxed, and she said with great interest: "Xianggong." The concubine body still has an idea, you see. Our soap paste is so popular in all provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, so let's build a branch factory in Pingliang Mansion. First, Xianggong is also a fellow here, not afraid of interference from local forces, and secondly, the northwest region is a little chaotic, but there is still a lot of market potential. ”

Under the subtle influence of Xu Liang, Feng Suqin now knows more or less what the market is going on. Xu Liang's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he praised Feng Suqin, "It's still Suqin's baby who has a vision, in fact, I have long had this idea about this matter, but I was short of funds before, and I couldn't get a lot of silver taels out, but now it's okay, we have the financial support of the Lou family, and this matter can be put on the agenda early." ”

"Hmm." Feng Suqin thought so, thinking of the Lou family, she thought of Lou Xian'er, and remembered that two hours ago, Lou Xian'er begged for her own affairs, so she asked tentatively: "Xianggong, I heard that the concubine, you don't agree with Xian'er's sister to go to the military drama troupe to teach?" ”

Oh, Feng Suqin has also learned to fight with herself, it is clear that Lou Xian'er begged for her without success, so she went to Feng Suqin to seek support, where did you hear about it? Xu Liang sighed lightly, "If it weren't for Xianggong, I insisted on not letting Lou Xian'er go to the opera troupe to teach, Suqin, didn't you see the dance she taught, that hot and unrestrained scene Even a man like your Xianggong and I, who already has a three-room wife, can't help but want to spray nosebleeds, not to mention those ordinary Liang soldiers?" ”

Feng Suqin's face flushed, she took a sip, glanced at Xu Liang, and said, "Actually, Sister Xian'er's dancing concubine has been seen with her own eyes, and she is definitely more than enough to teach this dance." ”

Xu Liang still shook his head, "No, it's too exposed." ”

Seeing this, Feng Suqin still said unrelentingly: "Xianggong doesn't agree with Sister Xian'er to teach there, it's just that he is worried that the dance taught by Sister Xian'er is too ...... Well, if those dancing girls were dressed normally when they danced, wouldn't the Xiangguild agree? "Feng Suqin is everyone's best girl, and she still can't say the words that are too lewd.

Xu Liang thought about it, nodded slowly, and said, "That's not impossible......"

"Heh, then the concubine will go to Sister Xian'er and talk to it." Feng Suqin got up happily, holding the hem of her skirt in one hand, and walked away happily, looking at the frame, as if she could get some reward from Lou Xian'er if she made it clear to Xu Liang.

At the dinner, Lou Xian'er swept away the look of sorrow when she entered the mansion during the day, talked and laughed during the banquet, and smiled and smiled at Xu Liang and put several pieces of braised pork in the bowl.

Xu Liang couldn't help but sigh, this woman, changing her face faster than turning a book.

Feng Suqin is the kind of person who has to do it when he decides. With Xu Liang's permission, Feng Suqin personally came forward, walked through the streets and alleys in Pingliang Mansion, selected a lot to build a soap paste factory, bought it with money, and then recruited hundreds of craftsmen to start construction and build a factory.

The models are ready-made, and the layout of the Yangjialing plant in Jianchang can be completely copied. After the construction started, Feng Suqin was not idle, recruiting manpower, carrying out training, and relocating accommodation, and was so busy for a while that her feet did not touch the ground, and even pulled the second lady Dai Yingying over to help.

Xu Liang went to see it twice and was very satisfied with the construction scene in full swing.

During this time, Xu Liang went to the Jitoushan barracks and handed over the design drawings of an improved version of the Franc machine cannon to Chen Yu and Wang Dazhuang, and asked them to try to build a cannon first as required.

After returning, Xu Liang plunged into the gunpowder room in Xu's mansion and instructed the people from the Tsing Yi Guard Arms Department to test gunpowder again.

This time, the artillery battalion did not collect much nitrate and sulfur, and it was only five or six catties in his hands. Xu Liang felt that the amount of nitrate collected from the stables and toilets was too small just by hand. Fortunately, Tong Guò inquired with Sun Yuanhua, the staff of the Ministry of War, and knew that the Gunpowder Bureau of the War Division did not use Xu Liang's method to make gunpowder, it is said that there is a special nitrate ore, and it seems that pyrite is also used to refine sulfur, Xu Liang ordered the artillery battalion to search all over the mountains in Pingliang Prefecture, and the pyrite is still easy to find, and the nitrate ore is purely dependent on luck.

The ratio of the last test, Xu Liang roughly has the bottom, and this time the real yàn, mainly to improve the purity. Xu Liang summarized that there are two reasons for the poor flammability of black powder in the last time, one is that there are too many impurities, and the other is the particle size problem, to put it bluntly, the grinding is not fine enough.

After four or five stirring, precipitation, filtration, and drying, the color and purity of nitrate look like white sugar.

For the purification of sulfur, Xu Liang still increased the number of melting and condensing, and the effect seemed to be good, and the purified sulfur showed a pure earthy yellow color.

Just as Xu Liang was busy debugging the ratio, the housekeeper of the Xu Mansion, the head of the Tsing Yi Guard, and the iron head found Xu Liang with a solemn expression and handed over a letter.

Xu Liang opened it suspiciously, his face changed, and he asked in a hissed voice, "What about the person who delivered the letter?" ”

Tietou shook his head and said: "The messenger is a little beggar of twelve or thirteen years old, who has received five dollars of silver from others and runs errands for others, and the real messenger has left early." (To be continued......)