He asked Li Gouzi to choose a reliable person for him, took him here, took him here, looked at the quality of the plant ash, asked a large number of plant ash to be transported back to the workshop area, and randomly found a workshop that had just been built and had not yet determined what to do, let people set up a cauldron, and went to the warehouse to get a large vat of whale oil and a few bags of refined salt.

As soon as Yu Xiaotian saw that the things were in place, he began to beckon people to get busy, first asked people to add some water to the pot, then poured the ashes of plants and trees into the pot, and poured whale oil into the pot.

In fact, what he wants to do is very simple, it is just the most commonly used daily necessities in later generations, "soap", soap has long been discovered, but the production method has not been mastered, and some people have long found that grease drips into the ashes of plants and trees, and then this kind of thing can wash hands more cleanly.

In fact, this is the saponification reaction, and later Yu Xiaotian does not remember who invented soap, but it seems to have been in the nineteenth century, it is very simple to say, but it is to add oil and soda ash to the pot of water to boil, so that the oil and alkali react, and then add salt to produce sodium stearate.

After scraping out the soap base above, there is still glycerin left below, which is a good thing that can't be thrown away, soap can be used to bathe and wash hair, and glycerin can be used for skin care in winter.

And soda ash he doesn't have, with plant ash instead of the same use, whale oil needless to say, is his sea wolf specialty, in addition to eating, making incendiary bombs, there are a lot of inventory, in Maoshengyuan pretending to be Jiao oil to deceive people, and it can't sell much, but if it is made into soap......

Yu Xiaotian's pupils looked at the cauldron that began to boil, and it had already turned into a square.

For three whole days, Yu Xiaotian stayed here, constantly testing and testing, one pot after another to test various proportions, and finally the hard work paid off, and a large wooden plate soap base was still made by him.

Yu Xiaotian stretched his waist and looked at this plate of translucent soap, at this time, it is probably more appropriate to call this thing a soap base, but if you use it directly, there is no problem.

"What the hell is this, big boss! What's the use? Zhao Mazi is most concerned about what Yu Xiaotian is doing in the past two days, and he runs here almost every day, but Yu Xiaotian always refuses to tell anyone, what is he doing, until now a large wooden plate of soap is made and begins to dry, Zhao Mazi can't help but ask Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian waved his hand and retreated, and said to Zhao Mazi triumphantly: "This thing is a lot of silver for us!" Where I used to be, it was called soap, and if I added some spices and essential oils, it was called soap!

This thing can be used to wash your hair in the shower, and it is much easier to use than soap, and once it goes on sale, I can guarantee that women will go crazy! Hey! ”

Zhao Mazi didn't seem to understand it, lowered his head and tapped the soap base on the wooden plate with his finger, and said a little confused: "How much better can this thing be than soap?" Aren't they all for bathing? Can it be sold as well as the big boss said? ”

Yu Xiaotian said confidently: "Wait, after this thing is dried, I will cut it first and give a piece to each of you people, and you will try it yourself to know if it is good or not!" ”

Two days later, all the bosses on the island were given a small bar of soap, and Yu Xiaotian told them to use it to test the effect when they returned.

As a result, early the next morning, Li Gouzi, Zhao Mazi and other guys from the council hall all found Yu Xiaotian with a shy face and a lewd smile, and they all praised the trial effect of this soap, and praised it again and again, saying that after washing the body with this thing, it was dry! It's almost the function of soap to the sky.

Yu Xiaotian looked at these guys with a look of disdain, and laughed at them: "What is this? I'll tell you that in two days I'll make soap out of this stuff, and then you'll know what a good thing is! ”

Soap and soap are actually a kind of thing at all, just the soap base used to make soap, made with more vegetable oils, and add some essential oils and spices to it, and add a little color block to make it more beautiful.

Yu Xiaotian won't sell the soap he worked so hard to get as a laundry thing! Over the next few days, he tossed and turned, finding spices, apricot oil, adding it to the soap base, and adding a small amount of pigment to make it colorful.

According to the different colors, add spices with different fragrances, it is better to add flavors, but he doesn't have time to do any flavors or essential oil refining at this time, so he is simply lazy and adds some spices to make it have some fragrances, even if it is done.

He divided these soaps into small pieces, and asked the carpenter to carve a mold with carved patterns, pressed the small pieces of soap into them, and then knocked them out, leaving patterns on them, and the shape became petal-shaped, which looked like a bit of a handicraft.

The first batch of soap was wrapped in oiled paper and packed into a delicate small wooden box, which attracted the people of Maoshengyuan on Nanri Island, handed it over to them, and sent it to Fuzhou to start selling.

In addition, the workshop where he made soap and soap was officially requisitioned and included in the protected workshop area, and the process was sealed off, and the production was completely closed, and no one was allowed to inquire about the production process without authorization.

And just when he sent out the first batch of soap and waited to make a lot of money, under the auspices of the council hall, the first batch of immigrants shipped to Jilong Bay also set off on Nanri Island, the first batch of immigrants, a total of fifty-seven people, but their identities were not ordinary immigrants, but slaves bought by Yu Xiaotian through money.

In order to increase the number of people for himself, Yu Xiaotian not only sent people to recruit on land, but also asked his subordinates to go to some places on land with many displaced people from time to time according to the news to forcibly kidnap and emigrate to Nanri Island.

In this era, human trafficking is actually open and legal, some poor families who have lost their land and have no way to make a living, in the case of desperation, they sell themselves to the rich family as slaves, and the rich families often sell the unsatisfactory slaves, and some are in debt, and they have to sell themselves to pay off the debts, in short, domestic slaves are a very normal phenomenon in this era.

So Yu Xiaotian took advantage of this loophole to let people buy these slaves through various means, and regardless of men and women, mainly young and strong young people, they made a large number of purchases.

This requires some relationships, after all, these people were bought by Yu Xiaotian, and it is not very legal, but money can make ghosts grind, and some people are willing to spend money to buy people, and the local government turns a blind eye, and it is not much of a problem to go through a procedure.

(This is the first chapter after it was put on the shelves, and I really hope that the brothers will continue to support it!) Xie Lu, thank you, big guy! Strive for another chapter in the evening! ）