Chapter 7 Soap Production

Before six o'clock the next morning, Huo Shan opened his eyes on time!

As the thinking in his brain gradually became clearer, he soon felt the strangeness of his right hand, and turned his head to look at it in some surprise, only to find the little girl who was sleeping sweetly on the side of the bed, looking at her red little face, Huo Shan's face couldn't help but reveal a touch of tenderness.

After putting on his own clothes, carefully putting the little girl on the bed, and covering her with the quilt, Huo Shan quietly walked out by himself.

"Young Master, Madam and Fu Bo came here yesterday!" Seeing him walk out of the room, Huo Lei, who had finished practicing in the morning, ran over quickly and said.

"I see, Reizi!"

Looking down and thinking for a while, Huo Shan took out the pocket watch he had prepared, looked at the time, and then turned around and walked towards the barracks not far away.

"Let's go, Leizi, a new day has begun, help me go and wake up those bunnies! Whoever can't get up in ten minutes, he'll punish him for running ten laps around this cāo field for me," Huo Shan said viciously.

"Yes, young master!"

Looking at Lei Zi's excited figure, Huo Shan couldn't help but shake his head, and secretly said in his heart: "It seems that this guy is also a restless master!"

Time flies, and before you know it, a week has passed!

Although the time is very short, the high-intensity training has already made these guys have some soldiers. Immediately after that, Huo Shan adjusted the training plan, in addition to a morning of physical fitness and queue training, the afternoon and evening time became study time, each literate person with five illiterates, through Huo Shan's own drumming up of Hanyu Pinyin and dictionaries, learn the simplified Chinese characters he compiled.

For a week, Huo Shan stayed here, eating and living with these future members of his team, and through his knowledge beyond the times, he firmly controlled the thoughts of these officers and soldiers, and he could feel that he had become more and more respected among them. At this time, Huo Shan couldn't help but be grateful for the greatness of Grandpa Mao in later generations, because, in the ideological education of the army, he borrowed from the supreme magic weapon of the People's Liberation Army in later generations, the 'Grievance Campaign', and within a few days, he firmly grasped this new-style army that he personally trained in his hands.

The sky outside has been completely dark, and Huo Shan, who finished class early, returned home unexpectedly today.

"This is the soap we produce, it looks very good!" shook the orange and yellow solid in his hand, Huo Shan said with satisfaction.

"Hehe, they are all produced according to the instructions of the young master, and the old slave does not dare to take credit!"

"Have we filed a patent application?"

"I've already applied in all the countries in Europe, the U.S. may be a day late, we don't have enough people there!" said Fauber respectfully.

"There are two grades in total, ten kinds of products will be able to produce at full capacity tomorrow, with the current output of our factory, we can make 200,000 pieces of soap of different grades every month, according to the regulations set by the young master, ordinary soap is 20 yuan, and jīng soap is 500 wen to one or two pieces of silver, so that we can earn 50,000 taels of silver every month!" said the old man excitedly.

"Fifty thousand taels, so much?" After hearing his words, the woman said with a surprised face, she didn't care much about watching her son make this gadget, she didn't expect it to be so profitable.

"Yes, we have already produced 5,000 pieces and tried to sell them in Taiwan, but the supply is in short supply!"

Looking at the excited expression on Fu Bo's face, Huo Shan couldn't help but smile faintly, he had expected the hot sale of soap, so there was not much surprise on his face.

"Fu Bo, since the soap is so popular, then you should go to the foreign bank to set up the machine, and strive to increase the monthly output of our soap to two million pieces!" Huo Shan, who was affected by the great industrial plot of the later generations, issued a new order to Fu Bo without much thought.

"What?"

Looking at the stunned expressions on the faces of his mother and the old man, Huo Shan smiled and asked, "Is there any problem?"

"Young master, isn't this too much, can we sell it if we produce so much?" the old man asked nervously.

"Yes, Shan'er! Doing business is no joke, you must be cautious!"

"Hehe, mother, Fubo, I have thought about it for a long time, now there are 40,000 people in the entire Qing Dynasty, although most of them are poor and don't have much money, but there are millions of rich landlords, plus their families, that is tens of millions of people. Moreover, Taiwan is so close to Nanyang, this is a big market, and foreigners are very rich. Therefore, now we are not thinking about controlling output, but trying to find a way to buy machines as soon as possible, expand production as soon as possible, and occupy the market first. You must know that soap is a consumable, and you have to buy it again in a few months, so I think that even the monthly output of two million pieces is far from enough!"

Looking at her son's eloquent self-confidence, although the woman felt a little incredulous, she was more relieved.

"Old, old! Madam, the young master is gifted and intelligent, and he is a business wizard who is not born in the world!" said the old man with a sigh on his face.

"Where, Fu Bo, you have won the award, I am still young, and I am still too far behind your decades of experience in business!" said Young Master Huo with a little blush. His own family knows his own affairs, and if he doesn't have the experience and insight of his previous life, he is just an ordinary person.

"Young master, be humble. Madam, I think it's just what the young master wants!" Obviously, Young Master Huo's words just now completely moved him!

"Alright then, let's do as Shan'er says! How much money will be spent, and what machine to buy, you can discuss with Shan'er!" the woman made a final decision.

"Yes, ma'am! The old slave will retire first! I will send a telegram early tomorrow morning!"

After seeing the old man close the door, the woman's eyes were certain, and her heart seemed to have made up some kind of determination.

"Shan'er, after so many years, my mother has never mentioned your father in front of you, and now that I see you so sensible, my mother won't hide it from you!" the woman said slowly after glancing at him.

Looking at the misty look on his mother's face, Huo Shan couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive and expectant. He had never seen this body since he crossed over, and his father was afraid that his mother would be sad, so he didn't dare to ask.

"Your father's name is Shi Hong, and he is the son of Shi Dakai, the winged king of the Heavenly Balance Heavenly Kingdom!"

"What?" Hearing this, even with the concentration that Huo Shan had honed in the two lifetimes, he couldn't help but stand up and exclaimed.

"Sit down for me and listen carefully!" the woman whispered dissatisfied, looking at her son's appearance.

Smiling wryly, Huo Shan sat down slowly, the look on his face kept changing, "I didn't expect that I would have something to do with that most outstanding military genius in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, this is really impermanent!" Huo Shan said secretly in his heart.

"Not long after my mother and your father got married, civil strife broke out in Tianjing, the king of the east was killed, the political situation was chaotic, although the king of wings tried his best to stabilize the situation, but due to the suspicion of the king of heaven, he was forced to go straight to Anqing and left Tianjing. At that time, the Qing army continued to attack, and within a few years the Heavenly Kingdom was defeated in a series of battles, and the situation took a sharp turn for the worse, and the Yiwang already felt that something could not be done, so he sent your father to quietly start to transfer the gold and silver in the treasury, and quietly transported it to Taiwan through the Yangtze River waterway, in order to make a comeback. At that time, my mother also followed your father to Taiwan, changed his name and surname and lived here. Within a few years, the Wing King was defeated and killed in Sichuan, and all the people who knew the whereabouts of this batch of treasures were also killed in battle, and then after the Kingdom of Heaven was destroyed, more than ten years later, your father also passed a year after your mother gave birth to you, and the old injury recurred and died!"

After Huo Shan listened, he felt that his head was a little dizzy, the treasure that Shi Dakai had opened in the later generations, but it was hot for a while, and he had carefully studied this treasure when he was in school, but he didn't expect it to be transported to Taiwan long ago.

"No wonder the great warlords of Sichuan in later generations, Liu Xiang and Jiang Guangtou, have found nothing!" Huo Shan thought secretly with some excitement in his heart.

After calming down her somewhat excited emotions, the woman continued: "Today, my mother sent you this, just so that you can inherit the family business, not to avenge your father, my mother just wants you to be safe." But looking at the things you have done in the back mountains these days, my mother doesn't ask you what you want to do, today my mother brought all the family property lists of our Huo family over, and you will preside over this family in the future, and my mother will support you in the back!"

Looking at the thick account book on the table, Huo Shan's eyes couldn't help but turn red, and he was extremely moved in his heart, and said with a choked voice: "Thank you, mother, the child will definitely carry forward the Huo family's industry!"

"Okay, take these ledgers back to your own room and look at them, my mother is going to rest!"

"Then the boy will take his leave, and the mother will rest early!"

Looking at the back of her son's departure, the woman was very relieved in her heart, her son's excellence no longer needed her heart. "It seems that you should find more relatives for your son, the Huo family is too thin!" the woman thought secretly in her heart.