Ancient Fortune Records

"How much does your soap cost?"

Shen Laiqiu pointed to the sign hanging on the wooden stake at the gate of the courtyard: "A piece of soap costs four Wen. If you buy more than 100 yuan, a piece of soap costs only three Wen."

The man nodded, it was indeed very cheap.

"Then how much do you have in stock? I can eat it all!"

Shen Laiqiu said in embarrassment: "That's really embarrassing, there are only ten pieces of soap left. You are late, people are buying from morning to night, and the soap just made today is sold out, and now the people who come to pick up the order and do the work are still there." If you haven't come to hand in the form, you may have to wait for a day or two!"

That man was always buying goods in Shenjia Village, and he knew that Shenjia Village pays attention to reputation in business, so he discussed with Shen Laiqiu, "Then I will pay a deposit of 300 yuan for the soap first, and when the goods arrive, you can send someone to look for me at the Fulai Inn. how?"

Shen Laiqiu was even more embarrassed: "Your order will have to wait until three days later."

The man didn't care: "Three days later, three days later, I can wait!"

In order to make soap, Shen Laiqiu bought all the waste oil from people in the surrounding ten miles, and the price of pork rose a lot.Many people are still asking if the Shen family will continue to do the soap business, and they all say that they will raise many pigs.In the past, waste oil could not be sold, but now that waste oil can be used to make soap, it is not a loss to raise pigs.

I thought hot soap was faster and needed a soap base, so I made hot soap first.In fact, in terms of appearance, the cold-process soap really looks better.However, the cycle of cold-process soap is longer, and it may take five weeks before it can be used. If you want to have a fragrance, you can add some essence.The essence is relatively expensive in the market, so Shen Li plans to brew it by himself.

Shen Li designed a whole set of distillation vessels. He couldn't get glass materials, so he had to use iron and bamboo tubes to barely make distillation vessels.At first, his father asked him to do this at home. Later, the scent of the steamed dew was so fragrant that it made people feel dizzy, so he specially broke through the two rear rooms and made it a studio for him.

After Shen Li finally made something similar to perfume, he put cold-process soap making on the agenda.

At this time, the mold he asked his uncle to help him find someone to make also arrived, with all kinds of auspicious words reflected on it, such as happy flowers and full moon, safe journey and so on.Some are engraved with patterns such as pine trees, bamboo, plum blossoms, and chrysanthemums.However, Shen Li personally likes peony or peony patterns the most. The molds are the most difficult to make, and of course the styles are also the most beautiful.Of course, the original color of cold-process soap is pure white. According to modern thinking, Shen Li thinks that white milk tastes best, so milk is added to white cold-process soap.

Herbal infusion oils can produce color, but generally produce yellows and greens.Comfrey soaked out, usually purple.Natural vegetable powder can also make some colors, and cork powder can produce fiery red.Mix the soap base with these colors to make cold process soap with different colors.

So Shen Li made a total of yellow, green, purple, and fiery red soaps.Different molds have different shapes, and some are even made into petals, which look very beautiful.

"What I make is not soap, it's a work of art!" Shen Li was so intoxicated with himself that he even made himself a Peppa Pig soap with a unique pink paint.

Soap must be well packaged and well advertised to let women know that using soap is less harmful to the skin than using soap, and even because cold soap does not lose too much glycerin, it has a moisturizing effect.

Because the ingredients in the soap are more precious, the soap is not handed over to outsiders. Children and women among the servants can participate in soap making.Men do field work, and the burden is relatively heavy, so this work is generally not assigned to them.

Shen Li lowered the price of some small soaps with simple patterns printed on them. A piece of such soaps only cost eight cents.But peony soap, double happiness soap and other large pieces with complex molds are priced at fifteen yuan a piece.I don't know how it will sell in the end, but Shen Li is still willing to make it.These soaps are so pretty, even if they can't be sold, it's still a good gift for relatives.

But he thought too much, because it was packaged in oiled paper, and there was an advertisement printed on the outside. All in all, it means that you are the most beautiful boy after using this piece of soap.Which young girl or gentleman is unwilling to make himself more beautiful?

The merchants who came to Shenjia Village came more frequently, without him, they were just reminders.Urging for soap, urging for soap, Shen Laiqiu was utterly overwhelmed by the urging, while Shen Li was still slowly making his perfume in the back.

Ordinary perfume costs six cents a bottle, while special fragrances, warm and cold, are more expensive, with prices ranging up to tens of cents.Shen Laiqiu felt that his son was crazy about money, how could such a useless thing be sold at a price?

Facts have proved that the price can really be sold.

Now soap and soap have spread to Bianjing. If the gentlemen and girls in the city do not have peony-shaped soap, they will not be able to keep up with the trend. If they do not have the special perfume made by Shenxiang, they will be ashamed to attend the banquet.

Not only the people around, but also the women in the servants felt the great change in their lives.They can't do much physical work, so they can only do cleaning and cooking at home, and Shen Li's wages are relatively low.But it's different now. They don't understand what Mr. Lang said about "distribution according to work", but they do understand how much wages are paid.

The more soap you make, the more wages you get.If she was lazy, Shen Li simply refused to ask her to do it, and Shen Li himself was not a very talkative person.

Some women bought clothes for their dolls when they got money. There were no good clothes all year round, and the doll's skin was worn out by the rough kudzu clothes.Cats give birth to cats, and dogs give birth to dogs. Although they are servants, they love their children no less than other free villagers.Now that I met a good master, and allowed them to take over jobs to make money, build a house for themselves, and buy things, that was a great reward, so almost everyone worked hard, hoping that they could help the master and the young man.

After the busy spring plowing, Yu Xinghong also came to send money to Shen Li.

"Many people want to order rocking chairs. Most of them are in counties. I have more than 50 orders here. There are also more orders for wooden horses, more than [-]. There are more baby walkers. Many families have many children. Empty care, it’s easier for them to take care of the children with a walker, and there are more than [-] orders received here. This is after I sold things at the temple fair, I will get you six and a quarter of the money, you must take it If you don’t take it, you’re looking down on Uncle me.”

After hearing this, Shen Li had no choice but to accept the 20 taels of silver.He was a little surprised, how could there be so many?

"Uncle, did you not remove the cost?"

Yu Xinghong said: "What cost? The blueprint you gave is not the cost? Don't worry about it so much with me. The things your uncle sells now will soon be able to open a store. When the business is not good, it will depend on you to pay for it." I have a new idea!"

Shen Li shook his head: "Uncle, [-]% or [-]% is not appropriate. Next time, [-]% is better. You provide labor and materials, and you have to rely on you to sell it. My mother will not agree to take so much money."

Yu Xinghong saw that Shen Li brought his mother out to talk, so he didn't say anything more.In the future, if the nephew has another prescription, he will buy it directly with money, so that the nephew does not have to suffer, and he can do business with peace of mind.

Ever since Yu Liang learned some characters, he preferred to run to Shen Li's house. Seeing that he wanted to be a shopkeeper, Shen Li taught him abacus and simple math addition and subtraction.He couldn't learn Arabic numerals at first, but after being asked and explained by Shen Li every day, he could understand them.

He is relatively honest, and his thinking is not that complicated. I just asked Shen Li where he knew such a useful calculation method. Shen Li replied that Hu Shang taught him, and Yu Liang believed it.

Shen Li got a lot of cotton tree saplings last time. After asking about the planting method of cotton trees, Shen Li decided to plant cotton trees on his own hill.Shen Li felt that it was almost enough to plant cotton trees on two hilltops.A small cotton tree can have ten kilograms of cotton to pick in autumn, but care should be taken to support the cotton branches with wooden sticks so as not to be crushed.

When the cotton tree grows up, it will be even more serious. A tree is tall and thick, and it can hold hundreds of kilograms of cotton to pick.

With cotton, there is cotton cloth that can be made into clothes. Shen Li really misses cotton clothes, which are close-fitting, sweat-absorbent, and soft.

People in the village saw Shen Li planting these weird trees, and they all came to ask, and Shen Li answered honestly.

"Is this the only thing that can be made into cloth? Is it more comfortable than silk cloth?"

"It's more comfortable than silk cloth, but when it's hot, it's not as cool as silk and satin. It absorbs sweat very well, and it's not easy to get fever when you wear it."

The people in the village just watched the excitement, and it is said that the saplings are not cheap.

Shen Li didn't care what the villagers thought, he planned to cultivate a batch of cotton tree seeds, and then try raising seedlings. If the yield is not bad, he can sell them to the villagers. When the time comes to make cotton cloth, it will be the income of the village.

It is even possible to open a small garment factory, and when the time comes to change the weaving tools, make looms and sewing machines, the efficiency will definitely improve a lot.

Although Shen Li had some thoughts of being rich and safe, since God gave him such a big golden finger, no matter what, he had to make some contributions to this era, so that this life would not be in vain.

Shen Li's soap business is getting better and better. Outsiders, carrying baskets on their backs, also bring the fat from pigs and the waste oil from their homes to Shenjia Village.Why, because the price of pork in Shenjia Village is higher.

The ancients didn't like to eat pork. The pork in Shen Li's family has been improved with cooking wine and other expensive seasonings.Shen Li didn't plan to sell pork, the pork at home was consumed by his own family.

In some places outside, the price of pork is not high. For example, in the next county, a catty of fat pork is only three or four liters of corn, and it is only two or three copper coins. When it comes to Shen Li, a catty of fat pork can be sold for five cents. Said to be quite high.

But since they want lard, they have to kill the pigs. Some wise people drove the pigs directly to Shenjia Village to kill them, and it happened that the pork could be sold here.A live pig is cheaper, selling for three renminbi a catty, because pigs still have bones, pig heads, offal, etc. Selling this way is even more convenient than simply selling fat or lard.

People in Shenjia Village are not short of money now, and their own pigs are kept for Chinese New Year, so it is natural to buy pork.During this period of time, the price of salt is not expensive, and many families have marinated pork. When they are hungry, they steam it with garlic in the rice pot, which has a special flavor.

At this time, the officials sent by the emperor to reward Shen Li were about to arrive in Qinghe County, and they also saw a group of dusty farmers driving a group of pigs towards Shenjia Village.

The leading character mustache is the fifth-rank officer of the Ministry of Rites. He wondered: "Now farmers are raising pigs, and they are also responsible for 'pig herding'? I have only heard of cattle herding, but I didn't expect that there is such a practice as 'pig herding'. "

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