Chapter 164 Soldiers are impermanent, and water is impermanent
As the news that the Duke of Lantian County was going to lead the army into battle became more and more certain, more and more people came to visit Yun Chu in the Yun Clan's mansion.
Once Yun Chu is worshipped, Jiannan Dao, forty-two military states will be under Yun Chu's rule.
The general manager of the march of Jiannan Dao will immediately appear no less than 300 civil and military official positions.
This is the main reason why they flock to the Yun Clan's mansion.
Yun Chu naturally didn't see them, and every general no longer bothered about family affairs when he was about to go on the expedition, even if his wife was caught stealing people at this time, he couldn't tell the general who was about to go on the expedition.
Yun Jin, the eldest son of the Yun family, was still young and had no use in telling him, so the people who came to visit the Yun family were all famous female dependents in Chang'an City.
What they are asking for is just that when Yun Chu goes out on this expedition, he can bring the children of their family with him, and it is best to arrange a good position where they don't have to go to the battlefield, but just stay with the general manager.
Yu Xiurong was very easy to speak, only saying that this time he went to the southwest, the march was hard, and he was fighting, and it was difficult to guarantee that everyone would come back in peace.
She even took out what Yun Chu had told Li Chengxiu about what she had seen in the southwest and advised these women not to push their baby bumps into the fire pit.
As a result, the attitude of these women is very clear, as long as they follow the chief manager, even if something happens, it can be regarded as sacrificing their lives for the country, and it is their full glory.
Yu Xiurong saw that the words had been said again and again, and these people still wanted to send their children to the army, so he reluctantly agreed, and accepted the gifts brought by these women to enrich the Yun family's treasure house.
At the same time, these women were also given a long list of materials and equipment that their children would use on the battlefield.
In just fifteen days, under Yun Chu, the general manager of the Jiannan Dao march, who had not yet been appointed, there were already more than 300 children of the family.
Yun Chu laughed when he knew it.
However, the imperial historian of Chang'an, and the Hundred Cavalry Division, gave the emperor a 1510 report on this situation.
After Emperor Li Zhi heard the news, he also opened the back door and sent more than 300 children of the family in Luoyang to Yun Chu's account.
As a result, those wise civilian strategists in Chang'an City sadly believed that the athletes in Guanzhong were unusable, and seven hundred bastards went to the battlefield.
Under Wen Tian's martial arts, Yun Chu will undoubtedly lose this battle.
No matter what those bastards of the people said, Yun Chu didn't say a word, gentle, Di Renjie and the shopkeepers from all walks of life went crazy to prepare materials and equipment for the army to travel.
Yun Chu was very busy in the back house.
The main thing is that the girl Yunjin is recently developing a super shampoo.
The source of the idea of the formula came from the old fairy, mainly because Yun Jin felt that there seemed to be a slit at the end of her hair, so he asked the old fairy what recipe to use to make her hair black and shiny.
The old fairy told him that soapberry, arborvitae leaves, and Polygonum multiflorum are hair care and shampoo products.
After the soapberry is crushed, it can produce a rich foam when exposed to water, and this one is much more clever than the shampoo commonly used by Datang women.
After Yun Jin got this secret recipe, he decided to make a shampoo that could make the woman's hair as smooth as silk after shampooing.
In order to prevent others from stealing her secret recipe, she built a steaming stove in the Yun family's back house, and also moved two stone mills, one coarse and one fine.
After crushing and grinding soapberry, Polygonum multiflorum, and arborvitae leaves, a bunch of green powder is obtained, although it is used to foam richly, and it is not bad to wash hair, but after washing, the hair is always mixed with those powders, which is very difficult to clean.
If you can't do it, you can use some chemical knowledge to further extract the active ingredients from this pile of powders and discard impurities.
With the help of Yun Chu, Yun Jin tried to use alcohol as a medium to prepare to extract the essence, but unfortunately, the essence was extracted, but it was dissolved in alcohol, and the alcohol needed to be evaporated again to get the true essence.
After five or six catties of alcohol were evaporated, Yun Jin got a bowl of so-called essence, most of which were impurities.
This road is obviously impassable, so the father and daughter are busy in the back house all day, and Yun Chu even proposed to use beet sugar to dehydrate the reaction to get betaine, which is also an excellent foaming agent.
Unfortunately, it didn't work out well.
Liu Renliang saw that Yun Chu did not show up for many days to refute the rumors, but those guys who got access to Yun Chu were celebrating in Pingkangfang, and seemed to feel that as long as they followed Yun Chu to the southwest and came back, they must be meritorious men of the Tang Dynasty.
After being invited to the backyard by Cui's family, I saw Yun Chu with his daughter and a few maids cooking something in a big iron pot, not to mention the smell, and the smoke was billowing out.
When I took a closer look, I found that Yun Chu and his daughter were pouring the boiled lye from plant ashes into a pot of lard......
Yun Jin knew the preparation technology of soap, but this time they boiled the lard to get glycerin.
Yun Chu saw that the girl and the maids were stirring very energetically, so he washed his hands and came to Liu Renliang and said: "Liu Gong doesn't think that 'Guanzhong athletes are unusable, and seven hundred bastards go to the battlefield' is reasonable, right?" ”
Liu Renliang frowned and said: "These people went to the army, except for disturbing the morale of the army, a certain family can't see any effect. ”
Yun Chu said with a smile: "They are plotting the location of a certain family, and a certain family is also plotting their materials, equipment, and things that are suitable for both sides, Liu Gong doesn't need to be angry." ”
Liu Ren track: "What kind of equipment, materials I can't afford to prepare?" ”
Yun Chu said: "It's just bedding, tents, gauze tents, medicines, protective clothing, curtain fences, cowhide boots, these things are not something that the government soldiers can prepare, but these things are not on the military procurement list, and they are not in the warehouse, so I have to find another way." “
Liu Ren tracked: "There is still some money and food in the left-behind mansion, which can be supported for you, don't want those gentlemen." ”
Yun Chu shook his head and said: "The purpose of a certain family going to the southwest this time is to show off their wealth, and the soldiers are not qualified to show off their wealth. ”
Liu Renliang said puzzledly: "To whom do you show off your wealth?" ”
Yun Chu said: "Show off your wealth to those savages in the southwest." ”
Yun Chu saw that Liu Renliang was still going to ask, so he hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Liu Gongdon't worry, everything is in the control of a certain family." ”
Liu Renliang sighed and said: "Don't underestimate the enemy, fighting is not a spring." ”
After speaking, he arched his hand towards Yun Chu and left.
Yun Chu chuckled, and when he turned around, he saw that the saponification reaction had begun, and began to dig the glycerin that had just been reacted in it with a spoon.
The news of the defeat in the southwest was finally spread to the people, and for a while, the people of Chang'an began to worry more and more, because this time, Yun Chu still had to take the soldiers of Wannian and Chang'an counties to go out.
Yong Wangxian, who was originally very confident in Yun Chu, also began to beat the drum in his heart.
After coming to Yun's house, he saw Yun Chu fiddling with soaps in the shade, the color of these soaps didn't look very good, but Yun Chu seemed to be very precious.
Yong Wangxian came behind Yun Chu and said, "The prince is so leisurely." ”
When Yun Chu saw Yong Wangxian coming, he picked up a piece of soap and said to him: "The saponification reaction is a reaction that takes a certain amount of time to complete, so time is the basis that can really change everything." ”
Yongwang Xian said: "The lonely king has asked someone, the seven hundred guys are really seven hundred gentlemen, if the prince wants to train them, the lonely king thinks that this is the right time, if the prince is worried about their family trouble, the lonely king will block it for you." ”
Yun Chu said: "From Chang'an to Yizhou Chengdu 1,200 miles, from Chengdu to the war zone there are still 800 miles to walk, the middle mountain road is rugged and difficult to walk, 700 fat and strong guys, walking in the mountains for two months should be able to become strong."
The southwest is rampant, and it takes a fat body to withstand a lot of consumption, and many people may not be able to come back, so at this time, it doesn't matter if they are happy for a while. ”
Yongwang Xian said: "The lonely king doesn't know the arrangements of the prince, but the lonely king asked the military department, and he never thought that the prince would carry so many materials to the southwest this time.
So I really want to ask the prince, could it be that the prince went to the southwest this time, could it be that he went with the intention of appeasement? ”
Yun Chu's eyes moved and looked at Yongwang Xian and said, "Who told you this, you have a good insight." ”
Yongwang Xian said: "I asked Pei Xingjian, and this is what he told me. ”
Yun Chu said: "Killing people still has to be killed, otherwise wouldn't the soldiers who died in battle in my Datang be very wronged?" ”
Yongwang Xian said: "Kill people first, and then appease them?" ”
Yun Chu shook his head and said, "I went this time, I actually wanted to make friends with some barbarians. ”
Yongwang Xian saw that Yun Chu didn't say it explicitly, so he didn't ask anymore, he originally wanted to tell Yun Chu a few words, but when he faced Yun Chu, he felt that he was not qualified to teach others, sighed, and left.
In the following days, after basically all the people in Chang'an City who were qualified to enter Yun Chu's back house had come once, Yun Chu felt that the will of the imperial court should be about to come down.
Sure enough, in the early morning, Pei Xingjian came over from Luoyang.
"Don't open the will first, you think about it for three days, in these three days, Huo Yongcheng, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, will always accompany you, and after you have thought it through thoroughly, it will not be too late for me to read the will again."
Yun Chu looked at Pei Xingjian and said, "When you were the manager, was the process so cumbersome?" ”
Pei Xingjian said with some frustration: "I have never been the head of the supervising department, if you ask Xue Rengui, he should know the process very well." ”
Yun Chu smiled: "Don't you know? ”
Pei Xingjian said: "The chief manager in charge of the first expedition is out, and no one dares to inquire about the details. ”
Yun Chu looked at the sun that had just been born and said, "Then let's start counting from now on." ”
Pei Xingjian looked at Yun Chu and said, "Why do I always feel as if you have won this battle." ”
Yun Chu said: "Civilization conquers barbarism, it should have such self-confidence. ”
Pei Xingzhen Huo Ran got up and arched his hand towards Yun Chu and said, "In this way, I will come to read His Majesty's will in two days." ”
(End of chapter)