[Comprehensive] The days when I pretended to be a meow in the Forbidden City

Xia Anran never imagined that before his soy sauce was exported to the Cao family to earn foreign exchange, he first quickly became popular among the Cao family's counselors and soldiers with the toothbrush and mint juice.

Chinese famous people... From ancient times to the present, they are actually a nation that looks at their faces. If you have a good-looking face, everyone will tolerate you more. This feature reached its peak during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and Wei and Jin romantics became It is the most elegant and classic name in an era of looking at faces.

Although the conditions of this era are simple and the makeup skills are not good enough, the aesthetics of beauty have basically been established in the Spring and Autumn Period, one of which is bright eyes and white teeth.

White teeth means that the teeth are neat and white. Of course, there must be no bad breath, which was actually difficult in the Han Dynasty.

Firstly, there is no toothbrush and toothpaste, and secondly, most of the people who come here have certain gastrointestinal diseases, and they don’t have the habit of cleaning their tongue coating, but the smart ancient people would eat some fresh-tasting food to keep their breath fresh and not smoke others.

Such as chestnuts, dates and the like.

Xia Anran, as a latecomer, knows the effect of peppermint, but most people in this era also use this plant as a dressing for scald medicine.

Peppermint is now called Silver Dancao, which is different from the many mint varieties in later generations. This is the most common, most tenacious and best-planted variety in China.

Xia Anran had seen Yongchun villagers use it to boil water when she was building a three-fold earthen wall in the world of Red Mansions, so she recognized this plant that grew like a weed by the Chenggao River.

When he was leaving, he wanted to drink mint tea, so he dug up a piece and wrapped it in mud at the root and brought it to Dongjun. Now it is growing vigorously along the wall of Xia Anran's Zhuangzi, because mint can reproduce both rhizomes and ground stems The horizontal spread of the plants is extremely fast, and it has spread into a lush area in less than a month. Xia Anran would not have dared to plant it there if she hadn't known that the mint has shallow roots.Otherwise, the earth wall will be penetrated by them.

Although I didn't investigate carefully, but if there were no accidents, Xia Anran might only have a piece of mint here in the entire East County.

Before he went to work after eating breakfast, no one noticed that he used mint to gargle, but today Xia Anran was a rare beauty, after eating breakfast, he rinsed his mouth with mint again, and when he spoke, he sprayed The scent was caught.

Guo Jia, who was already very stinky, immediately went to Xia Anran's house, and took away a bunch of mint leaves and a spare toothbrush he made. Afterwards, Xia Anran's mint field suffered a brutal head shaving.

Xia Anran quickly seized this opportunity, boiled mint, honeysuckle, poria cocos and other edible herbs, mixed them with gypsum, and after drying, crushed them into powder, which became rough tooth powder.

Of course, due to the relatively high mesh number of this tooth powder, it is best not to brush it hard, but the advantage is that it should be stored for a long time if it is kept dry...

Although Xia Anran is a little unsure whether this should be dried and ground herbs mixed with gypsum or boiled, which has a longer shelf life, but because it is easy to make, it will not deteriorate if it is done once a week.

The tooth powder was well received as soon as it was launched, and Cao Ying’s horses’ tails were all ransacked for a while. Cao Jun, who usually loves horses like his life, trimmed the tails of the horses without mercy.

Even Cao Cao's favorite horse was cut off a handful of fur to make a toothbrush for the wife at home.

Fortunately, although the toothbrush needs a lot of hair, it is not long, so Cao Jun's horses did not become short-tailed. Later, the animal officer also came to report to Cao Cao that if the horse's tail was trimmed too much, it would easily cause the horses to be difficult to keep stable when flying. , This unhealthy trend was stopped, the army and horses could not move, and the cattle and sheep used as animal power had no scruples.

Even the mule, whose position was quite detached after arriving in Dongjun County, was cut off a handful of hair at this time with great effort-this rubbing hair finally became Cao Cao's toothbrush.

The raw materials for Xia Anran's tooth powder are easy to find in Dongjun.

Not to mention mint, honeysuckle, gypsum and Poria cocos are mainly produced in the Shandong area, not far from Dongjun, so it is extremely convenient to purchase and the cost is also cheap.

Cao Cao soon ordered people to take over the production of tooth powder, and released Xia Anran from the pharmacy. The refugees who had nowhere to go were brought in to become strong men, responsible for drilling holes in wooden boards to make toothbrushes. See Cao Cao Planning to mass produce, although Xia Anran didn't know whether he planned to use it himself or sell it to others, he still recommended assembly line operation.

In this era, the assembly line is more able to guarantee the quality and stability of the output goods, because everyone is only responsible for one link. The drilling is the drilling, and the threading is the threading. Each step is in charge of each step. Be proficient in your own work, and secondly, the quality of every part of the last part of each toothbrush can be traced back to the individual, and it also prevents someone from being lazy.

At this time, craftsmen are still in an era that requires all-round development. Take toothbrushes as an example. To be a craftsman, you must be proficient in every step and be able to independently make this brush to reach the entry-level level.

But the operation of the assembly line does not require you to be proficient in every step, you only need to know the step in your hand and be able to do it well.

This undoubtedly greatly reduces the difficulty of training talents.

To another extent, it also reduces the irreplaceability of this talent. No one in this production chain is irreplaceable, and the difficulty of training a replacement is also very low. The entire production chain only needs one Two people who are fully proficient are enough.

Xia Anran didn't think it was worth talking about. He didn't know that Cao Cao didn't change his face after making this suggestion, but after he resigned, he sat alone in the room and thought about it for a long time.

What Cao Cao thought of was not just this toothbrush, but more, such as the production chain of weapons. A master bow maker can only make a dozen bows a year, and a best blacksmith can make four or five bows a day. What's more, what if the assembly line mentioned by Xia Jingxi is extended to other fields?

For example, officialdom.

Nowadays, the officialdom of the big man is based on the recommendation system. Cao Cao himself was born in a filial and honest family. He was a civil servant and a military commander. A small number of talents with large sums of money are proficient in one side, such as Cai Yong, who is good at writing and not good at running the army.

For example, Cao Ren, his subordinate, is good at military affairs, but he is not good at governing the people.

If these two people manage the place separately, if they can't meet a suitable deputy, there will definitely be problems.

However, if there are two consuls in a county, who will be the first civil and military officer and who will be the deputy is another problem. What's more, from Cao Cao's personal point of view, he is not willing to have a superior from heaven to suppress him.

But aside from this point, what if governing the country can be done like an assembly line as Xia Anran said, and each department is only responsible for a part of its own hands, and each performs its own duties, so what if it doesn't have to be concurrent?

In this way, to choose good talents, you only need to choose one of them to be good at, rather than all-round talents. And, does this behavior make the execution smoother?

Cao Mengde, who was evaluated by later generations as restraining the powerful and strengthening the centralization of power, was thinking about the necessity of the division of labor at this time. Although this idea only flashed in his mind, and the impact on the future is unknown, but At least, at this moment, what he cared about in his heart was still how to improve the decadent system of the Han Dynasty.

Needless to say, the manufacture of toothbrushes and tooth powders is gradually on the right track. At first, people who just wanted to freshen their breath found out after using this new product, huh?The mouth is no longer smelly, the root of the tooth is no longer painful, the sores in the mouth are gone, and the teeth seem to be whiter!

Especially the last point, in the world of beauty control, the disadvantage of not being good-looking is too great. In an instant, toothbrushes and tooth powders became hot-selling products. The things made can be sold out in minutes.

Even if the price of tooth powder is raised to the point that a small box of tooth powder is equivalent to two buckets of corn, it will be sold out quickly. Even if the clerk of tooth powder in the market explains to everyone that this product has a short shelf life and is easy to deteriorate, don’t buy too much at a time, it will still be in the new one. One batch sold out very quickly after it came out.

It even gave birth to Erdao traffickers.

Xia Anran silently watched these people use 2 buckets of millet to buy a flat jar of Mentholatum mint paste tooth powder, and some even put the tooth powder on their teeth in order to save money, and they were unwilling to wash it away with water. heart.

Will it expire?Not afraid, it tastes bitter?Don't be afraid, eating gypsum honeysuckle and Poria cocos can easily lead to diarrhea?I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid, as long as my teeth are white, I'm not afraid of anything!

The entire East County fell into a mysterious atmosphere. Everyone had to look at each other's teeth when they met. Suddenly, a mouthful of white teeth became a symbol of this person's status.

"I feel like I've taken the wrong way to get rich." Xia Anran said to Cao Chun while serving rice with soybean paste, "Although soybean paste is also very popular, the production cycle is indeed too long. I think it is enough to sell tooth powder and beauty products." .”

Xia Anran has very, very, many formulas in his mind. His former little friend Jia Baoyu is proficient in this method. He has heard of rouge, gouache, rouge and honey water. It is not difficult to make these things. The rare thing is how to do it Guarantee the shelf life and the bacteria do not exceed the standard.

In modern times, many people are playing with self-made cosmetics and skin care products, but let’s not talk about allergens and skin tests, big-name skin care products and cosmetics are filled in a low-bacteria or sterile environment, which is not the case in ordinary laboratories.

Cao Chun was sitting next to him, and he was munching on a rice bowl with soybean paste. He was very satisfied with the current situation. Unlike the Red Chamber World, although eating is popular in this era, it is not as good as it is. OK, so this group of people spent their spare time tinkering with tooth powder after tooth powder came out.Therefore, the number of people who eat food has dropped sharply, and the days when no one comes to bother are very happy.

Cao Chun said that for this reason, he can endure a group of men around him deliberately grinning and making various indecent gestures to show their teeth every day, baring their teeth every day... How is it different from a horse under the crotch.

Cao Chun, who is rich in tooth powder, never does this, he is extremely low-key.

... As for the taste and effect of tooth powder, he can know from Xia Anran.Why do you think those who tinker with tooth powder go to tinker with the wife at home first?

Speaking of tinkering with tooth powder, we must first talk about Zhong Yao. He was the first person who thought of modifying tooth powder. This person took autumn osmanthus, dried it, crushed it, mixed it into tooth powder, and let the female family members use it. The effect was excellent, and others were inspired by it. follow suit.

Guo Jia has been trying to add the aroma of wine to the tooth powder. According to him, it is wonderful to be intoxicated without drinking alcohol.

And Xun Yu is even better, he is good at making incense, and the tooth powder has created his second new world. The tooth powder prepared by him has quickly become a precious powder that is hard to find.

And as far as those who are looking for tooth powder are concerned, this is a great deal. Burning spices can only smell good for a while, and even lavender can only last for three or four days, but if you don’t drink water, the tooth powder can smell good for a long, long time!And very durable!

Cao Cao also specially came to ask for a box of tooth powder made by Xun Yu for his wife. After using it, he felt that the effect was very good.

Under Xia Anran's suggestion, Cao Cao specially sent a skilled craftsman to find high-quality wood to carve a luxurious toothbrush, and a box of carved lacquer wooden box, which contained tooth powder produced in Dongjun County. Sent to Chang'an and dedicated to the emperor.

Although Dong Zhuo was in control of the government, he would not block the way for the county guards from all over the country to offer sacrifices. As for the petty things Cao Cao sent up, Dong Zhuo only took a cursory look and waved someone to send them to Emperor Xian.

Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty was only over ten years old this year. He was intelligent since he was a child, so he was naturally aware of his current situation. He was very curious about this rare tribute that was released by Dong Zhuo, so he used it according to the instructions that night. The strong mint aroma and the bitter taste of honeysuckle After entering the mouth, the tip of the tongue feels numb and cool after rinsing. Although the teeth feel a bit astringent, every breath has a pleasant aroma.

Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty felt very novel about this, but he was a little regretful that Cao Aiqing only offered a toothbrush.

There was a yellow door beside him, so I added one more thing when I saw this, the person offering the gift was the hero who had worked with Sun Jian to force Dong Zhuo back half a year ago.

Emperor Xian naturally remembered Sun Jian. When he heard the news of Dong Zhuo's defeat, it was already when Dong Zhuo returned to Chang'an. At that time, the people around the little emperor were very excited, and they expected that Sun Wentai would lead troops straight into Chang'an to rescue them. Sun Wentai stopped in Luoyang.

Although the little emperor was also disappointed, he did not put his hope on Sun Wentai who made a statement, he was still waiting for the Yuan brothers to come to rescue him.

After that, I got news of the civil war among the princes in the hinterland of the Central Plains, and Sun Wentai died in the civil war.

Little people like Cao Mengde were hidden under Sun Jian and Yuan Shao before, so the little emperor never equated him with the person who came to deliver the tribute. He only realized it after Xiao Huangmen reminded him.

This Cao Aiqing is a great loyal minister!

Xiao Huangmen lowered his voice, and said in a low voice, "Cao Mengde's grandfather was also a loyal minister of the country."

Emperor Xian had also heard about this incident.

He waved back the small yellow door, thinking for a long time alone, his fingers played with the handle of the toothbrush, and suddenly he didn't know where his fingertips touched, and his rounded nails seemed to have encountered a small gap.

He was stunned, his eyes widened suddenly, and after rubbing it carefully for a while, he was sure that it was not his own illusion, but the buckle was too delicate, otherwise it would not be able to escape Dong Zhuo's detection, he repeatedly scratched his fingernails, It wasn't until a tiny wax block was scratched that the looseness of the box was discovered.

Emperor Xian held back his excitement, although he was still in a child's grade, he already knew that he couldn't show his feelings.

The puppet emperor pretended that he was going to sleep, and quickly climbed onto the bed. He didn't open the extremely exquisitely crafted door until he heard the servants close the curtain for him and exit the bedroom. wooden box.

Inside is an extremely thin rolled paper, and the handwriting on it is also very small and light, requiring Emperor Xian to lean close to the candlelight and squint to see clearly.

The originally peaceful eyes gradually brightened up. The young boy read it over and over twice, memorizing every word on it in his heart. When he saw the last sentence that Cao Cao told him to destroy the letter after reading it, his eyes widened. squint.

The palace attendants here are basically not his people, and those who were truly loyal to him have been killed by Dong Zhuo. If a fire is caused, once the burnt smell arises, someone from the palace will tell Dong Zhuo.

Liu Xie gritted his teeth, poured a glass of water, then stuffed the paper into his mouth, mixed it with the tea and swallowed it in two or three gulps.

Well…………

After Liu Xie swallowed it whole, he blinked his eyes while drinking the water, and unexpectedly, it wasn't so bad to eat!

Of course it's not unpalatable, this is the glutinous rice paper specially made by Xia Anran.

It's hard to do, and there are very few formed ones, and it can almost be said that they are formed by luck.

Xia Anran didn't know how he thought of it, Cao Cao just asked him if there was a way to make the paper thinner, and he fiddled with the glutinous rice paper out of his brain.

This is simply the most advanced work that Xia Anran made here. Even he himself was stunned, because it was a sudden inspiration. When it comes to the layer of porridge covering on the side of the pot, after many experiments, I made a few relatively complete pieces of glutinous rice paper, but it is a pity that although the glutinous rice paper is thin, it is afraid of water.

Although I don't know why Cao Cao wants this, but as a small worker who gets paid, he must not leave hidden dangers!Of course, if you can't touch water, you can't write with a brush.

So Xia Anran also tinkered with graphite pencils.

The author has something to say: Shandong is a good place, there are all kinds of raw materials, really =w=

The glutinous rice paper is the paper that wraps the candied haws, and it is also the one that gets stuck on the pot when the porridge is cooked.

However, the pure natural ones are relatively brittle and cannot be folded, but can only be rolled up. Be careful when writing with graphite.

The material is easy to get (it is easy to break and not easy to cut), easy to write (as long as you have a pencil) and easy to destroy (just eat it)

The only downside is probably that it is not waterproof

I can't find out when the glutinous rice appeared... But the glutinous rice paper itself needs starch, it doesn't have to be glutinous rice, crops with high starch content can be made, the method is also very simple, make a starch paste and spread it on a hot pot Put it on and then peel it off. The author has seen a man who sells candied haws make glutinous rice paper.

His selling point, in addition to freshly made candied haws, is also freshly made glutinous rice paper. The author who has never seen the world is simply stunned!

In addition, you understand, the Three Kingdoms is one, the magic place of military equipment and people's livelihood>beautiful, beautiful, handsome and handsome>food

(This is still a PS that I know you don’t care about, but I still want to say it quietly: the points are the same if you put the two together and buy them separately. The author did not separate them for the sake of card points, but for the coherence of the plot =w = After all, the previous one is still sweet and sweet, and the style of painting has changed after a while, and I feel a little pitted, cough cough cough)