In everyone's busyness, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month comes, and there are more people selling lanterns, and Xiaqiu Village sells the best, because of mass production.

Other craftsmen need to make their own bamboo to make a lantern, then roll it, and then buy paper paste of various colors.

Compared with doing only one thing and doing many things, it is obvious that the former is more efficient, and assembly line operation is such a principle.

In Nanjing, a factory in Xiaqiu Village specializes in selling two kinds of lanterns, a larger one for people to hang outside the window, and a smaller one for children to carry.

However, the color is single, the appearance is also single, there are only two, but the price is cheap, you can afford it, and you will also be given a small candle.

Then there is the sale of candles, this is paraffin, cheap! There are all the thickness and size, and it is no longer butter and wax.

In the past, candles were all fatty, such as sheep fat, butter, and beeswax and ash worm wax.

None of these are cheap, ordinary people can't afford them, so they usually put the oil cup in the lantern and add a lamp center to light it.

Since the oil has been coming in and being processed, paraffin has appeared, and it is a by-product if you don't want to.

There is also petrolatum, that is, petroleum jelly, which will inevitably appear when refining, including the bitumen afterwards.

"The ones sold are all monochrome, but the ones we use candles here are colorful, but the best ones are the small lanterns with batteries."

Zhu Yuanzhang asked the ministers to come over for a party again today, and at the same time, the ministers' families also came, and they will continue to have a holiday tomorrow.

There are only two kinds of lanterns sold in Xiaqiu Village, which will not be changed, and they look very monotonous, because they are cheap, and everyone buys a lot.

But today it should be a lantern, so they will not all buy Qiu Village, some buy candles, small candles, and burn for half an hour is enough.

The ministers have nothing to say, their families have come and enjoyed again, and as for the monochrome things that are sold, they understand.

Xiaqiu Village is reluctant to attack people who specialize in selling lanterns, and people are counting on festivals that use lanterns several times a year to make money.

Xiaqiu Village also wholesaled candles to these lantern sellers! Especially cheap, don't use animal fatty oils to make wax.

Because the fatty oil of animals and the vegetable oil of lamps can be used to make soap and soap, and the wax of oil can be exchanged, Xiaqiu Village is cheap.

A large wax of butter ten centimeters in diameter and fifty centimeters in height was burned purely and was wasted, and it was exchanged for twice as much paraffin.

After changing back, you can make soap and soap, and then there is glycerin!

Glycerin can be purified, and then used for people in winter, and used for medicine in normal times, which does not consume much medicine, but makes more explosives.

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The song is singing, the dance is dancing.

Everyone continued to gather on the side of the Kowloon Bridge, and then there were rice balls, which were held by hand, not dumplings, but bean paste buns.

Two hands to the group, the group to go to the group, in fact, is not very difficult, children can learn in a few minutes, knead the mud to practice.

Some people have a good stomach and intestines and can eat a lot, while others can only eat one or two to taste, and then eat vegetables, and really want to eat dumplings as a staple food.

"Everyone, don't be busy eating, let's go to the Qinhuai River to see the lantern festival in a while, this year it's all our money."

Zhu Yuanzhang ate two glutinous rice balls, stopped eating, and told the others to slow down and go to enjoy the lanterns.

The ministers already knew about today's program arrangement, and there were painting boats that stopped on the moat early, a large group.

The money from the palace put 10,000 water lanterns, and all the lights in the streets and alleys came from the palace.

It starts on the first day of the new year, and after the fifth day of the new year, it is too expensive to reduce some of it, and on the fifteenth day, it is time to increase the illuminations until the end of the month.

Everyone goes out for a stroll at night, and there are lights when they come home at night, and people who live next to the street also like to be lit outside, anyway, it does not affect sleep, there are no glass windows, and there is no paper, and the windows are directly blocked with boards at night.

In the summer, put the screen window made of thread, it will be cool, and at the same time do not let mosquitoes into the house, the general effect is not very good, mosquitoes and flies still go in, just go through the door.

Everyone really slowed down and went to the boat for a while to continue drinking, but a boat could not carry too many people, and they needed to separate, and the boat was too high to cross the bridge.

Children and people who don't drink alcohol have to eat enough, the rice balls are not packed too much, an average of four or five per person, and older people eat one, after all, it is a holiday.

Then everyone eats dumplings, all kinds of dumpling fillings, pigs, cattle and sheep, plus leeks, garlic sprouts, bamboo sunflowers, mushrooms, fish, oil residue sauerkraut, large radish, anyway, there are meat and vegetarian.

There are many dumplings, some of which are frozen in the ice cellar, and when the minister and his family go home tomorrow, they can last for two days.

You don't have to cook, if you want to stir-fry, you can fry one, if you don't want to fry, don't you have pickles and pickles taken back from Xiaqiu Village!

When everyone had eaten about the time, they prepared to set off fireworks, and came to the moat, and boarded the boats, and some of the children were already sleeping.

The main ministers naturally have to be in the same boat with Zhu Yuanzhang, the Shangshu of each department, the imperial historian, plus Liu Bowen and Wei Su, and several Zhu Yuanzhang's sons.

The rest are the twenty-four people from Xiaqiu Village, as well as the guards, which are exactly one boat, and they can't sit any longer.

Unless it's the kind of painting boat that doesn't cross the bridge, it only moves in one area.

The lieutenant touched his chest from time to time, and carried a stack of papers in his arms, ready to meet the inquiry, and he was learning more and more now.

"Let's look at the people playing on the shore, our hearts are comfortable, wearing new clothes, and the cotton clothes in the store are not less."

Zhu Yuanzhang held a telescope to watch, everyone had one, some were short-sighted and blind, and they were wearing glasses.

When everyone heard Zhu Yuanzhang's words, they all looked at the shore, the cotton clothes were in line with Zhu Wentian's aesthetics, not the kind of cotton jacket played in the movie.

The outside is flat, and in order to seal the cotton, a small lattice will be sewn out with thread, and the outside cannot be seen.

Then there are four pockets, which are specially straightened after ironing, but they are not the color of military coats, and the men are generally blue, the women are pink, and the children's are pale yellow, and there is no white.

The style is the same, the sleeves are different, each family is afraid that the sleeves will be dirty and easy to break, so they will find their own cloth outside and wrap it around, so that the cloth can be removed.

Children carry straw paper in their pockets, straw paper is not valuable, it is used to wipe their noses, otherwise they rub their sleeves.

There are bamboo garbage cans on the side of the road, and they are used to throw paper and fried skewers to people, but they didn't have them before, so they are thrown on the ground.

Now when there is a garbage can, the people are very conscious, and when they need to throw something, they will throw it in, and the locals have to maintain their pride, and those who come from outside are very afraid of being embarrassed.

"Your Majesty, the lights are beautiful and colorful, but unfortunately they won't be there in two days, it's too expensive to wax, it's better to sell the wax to the people."

Hu Weiyong finally found a chance to speak, he is now marginalized, powerless and helpless, he really can't fight the master who has no face.

"Hu Qing is right! Should it be long, can the electric light be used? Zhu Yuanzhang also wants to illuminate the people of Nanjing every night.

The chief took a deep breath and reached into his arms: "Your Majesty, there is a new oil lamp made of asbestos net in the village, which can burn gasoline. ”

(End of chapter)