History of Cannon Fodder Struggle [Qing]

In the evening, when Father An came back from duty, he was surprised to see so much money.

"How do you earn so much at once?"

Min Xing excitedly said: "Ama, my sister is really amazing, she sold the soap directly to the Rouge shop, and she didn't bring any counter-offer for thirty yuan a piece!"

Father An looked at Minning in surprise and said, "Who would buy it if it's so expensive? It can't be eaten! And which rouge shop is it? If it can't be sold, will it come to us to return it?"

Minning smiled and shook his head, "No, we signed the contract, and the goods will not be returned or exchanged after delivery. Besides, rouge is spread in prosperous places, and the price is nothing to the real rich."

Father An nodded, "That's good, as long as you know it yourself, Ama can't help much."

Min Xing was still chattering about today's achievements, and said that in the future, he would follow his sister to make soap, and there was no need to fight for any soldiers.

This day earned more than a year's salary as a soldier.

However, Minning poured cold water on him first, "Things are rare and expensive, and it was only at the beginning that the price was so high. The soap is not edible, and a piece can last for a long time. After a few months, you won't be able to earn so much. "There are only a few people in the upper class, and a year is enough to saturate the market.

On the contrary, Min Xing was a little optimistic, "That's okay, anyway, those lard, plant ash are like picking up for nothing."

"It's worthless now because others haven't discovered it, because they don't know the materials for making soap. There is no impenetrable wall in the world, and these will be discovered by others sooner or later. At that time, someone will come to grab the recipe, so I plan to open a workshop to let People turn their attention to the workshop, at most to prevent it from being leaked, but it will not endanger the safety of the family, so it is a little bit to earn a little while it still has an advantage."

Father An is also aware of the crisis here. After staying in the capital for so many years, it is not unheard of that some shops have been robbed of their ancestral prescriptions and are forced to have nowhere to go.

"You have thought about this very well. With a workshop, people will not be cruel directly. If you lose the prescription, you will lose it. Nothing is more important than the safety of your family."

Minxing didn't understand at first, but when he heard Ama say it, he also broke into a cold sweat.It turns out that there are so many dangers in doing business!

"Minning, from now on, you can stay at home with peace of mind and don't show up in the workshop. Anyway, your brother knows the process, so I will leave this matter to him in the future." Father An intends to take his daughter out of this matter, so as not to worry about it in the future. It was discovered that this property came from her hands.

Minxing, a big man, can naturally carry it, but Minning, there are too many dirty ways to deal with a woman in this world, he doesn't want his good daughter to be taken into the house of the rich and powerful.

Minning nodded obediently. That's what she planned too. Everything will wait for the draft. After the draft, she will be free. She won't be randomly assigned for marriage, and she can also show her skills.

In this era, there are many banner girls who are not yet married at the age of 20.

Well, Minning automatically ignores that those who are still unmarried at twenty usually have no dowry.

The next day, Father An went out early in the morning, and only came back drunk in the afternoon.

Minning went to make some tea, and Minxing was busy taking care of Ama. After the tea was poured, Father An fell asleep peacefully, and the two of them took the door out.

When Father An woke up in the evening, Minning knew that he had gone to see the leader who was in charge of their household in the morning.

Father An smiled happily, "I have already told Zuo Ling that the family has a small business, and I am willing to give him a profit. Zuo Ling has agreed to take care of the family business." With Zuo Ling, who would want to move in the future? His business needs to be weighed.

Minning understood, she, Ama, was in a hurry to find a backer for her family.

Although Zuo Ling's victory rate against the Prince's Mansion is not high, but at least he is a Zuo Ling of the Eight Banners, which is better than nothing.With a tall person standing in front of them, they, ordinary bannermen, would not be able to directly face those huge monsters.

Ama is using her own way to protect her children, the money is well spent!

"Minning, I'm on leave for the time being, and the errands have been assigned to others. From now on, the family business will be handed over to me and your brother, and my father will work hard to earn money to save your dowry. Tomorrow, I will find a maid to serve you, and then Please ask a fine mother to teach you etiquette, what a Manchu aunt should have, we must have..."

Father An babbled a lot of things, and finally he lay on the bed with his eyes closed, his voice a little muffled, "Ama promised you, my mother, that if I find you back, I will make you live a better life." Life. It’s just that Ama is useless, I couldn’t find you before, you have to worry about family problems when you come back, and let you, a girl, work hard to support the family, Ama is ashamed, I’m not as good as a child like you after half my life..."

Min Ning was sitting on the head of the bed, her face was calm, she didn't know where her thoughts had gone, she knew that Father An was only speaking out because of alcohol.

I didn't want her to speak back.

I thought I would be free if I found my family, but I just jumped from one circle to another bigger circle. The biggest worry before was that I was afraid of offending Madam Wu and the steward in the village, but now I just walked into it. Society confronts those of higher status.

Thinking of it this way, Zhuangzi is more like a paradise. Although her status is low, Zhuangzi helps her resist the wind and rain of the outside world.And after returning, even though he was free, he had to be cautious when finding a way to make money, being cautious about this and that!

However, she has no regrets, if this is the price of freedom she is willing to pay.

It's just when can she do what she wants without thinking about the details?

Minning was at a loss, she had to think about it, how should she go in the future, should she live her life in a low-key way, or should she be reckless once in a while and not in vain?

The winter solstice came in a blink of an eye, the snow in the yard began to melt, and the weather became colder. Minning usually hid in the house and did not go out.

Because she is not used to putting charcoal basins in the house, Father An set up kangs for everyone in the family at the beginning of winter. Of course, everyone in the family does not include Minyi. He is still young and hangs out in the room of Ama and brother every day. sleep.

In the past two months, the family has also undergone major changes. First, there is an additional yard in the alley near the river in Zhushikou.

Then there was an extra maid who served her at home. Now, except for eating and drinking, no one else can replace her. She doesn't need to do anything else, and the maid Xiaoqing will automatically deliver it to her.

Xiaoqing is only two years older than Minning. Although she is a maidservant, she has not sold herself, but only signed a contract to work. She lives in the same room with Minning on weekdays and returns home once a month.

The reason why Xiaoqing came out to work at this age was because her family was too poor, and she wanted to save some money for a dowry. Father An saw that she had experience in taking care of three younger siblings, so he kept her.

As for the Jingqi Nanny that Father An has been talking about, there has been no news. In the past two years, all Jingqi Nunnies who left the palace have been robbed by the mansion, especially those whose families have girls who want to participate in the draft. You can learn palace etiquette in advance, so as not to be caught off guard during the draft.

It's not because of this reason, but mainly because he thought that his daughter was kidnapped and worked as a slave for several years, and he was afraid that she would be servile and petty, and wanted to turn around while she was young, so he urgently needed the Jingqi Nanny.

Minning was aware of all this, but she did not stand up and deny it, mainly because she wanted to learn some things herself, such as literacy, so that what she knew could be presented openly.

If one lie is told, countless lies are needed to complete it. Who in a normal family would kindly teach a maidservant to read?

Isn't this voluntarily admitting that I lied before?

Naturally, Minning would not talk about it. She also wanted to be taught, not only to solve the problem of literacy, but also to learn some etiquette, so as to truly integrate into this era.

Only by integrating into this era can she not be regarded as an alien. Being an alien never ends well. This is an enemy of the entire era, so even if she is pretending, she has to wear that layer of camouflage on her body for the rest of her life.

I had no brains for a while about looking for Mrs. An, so Father An spent all his energy on the workshop. The yard at Zhushikou was transformed into a workshop. Because of the recent popularity of soap in the inner city, Father An also spent a lot of money directly buying lard suet for refining.Of course, the waste oil is also collected, but it is made into low-grade soap and sold to nearby residents cheaply.

Because of the cheapness, even some peddlers came to buy the goods with their burdens, Father An did not refuse, he always remembered what his daughter said, although the peddler's shipments were small, but he walked around the streets to make the soap known to more people.

As long as they are used to using soap, these people are their potential customers.

Soap is supplied to the inner city, and soap is sold to the outer city. Father An clearly distinguishes between these two points. Fortunately, the salesman does not go to the inner city. He controls these two points very well.

Looking at soap in a short period of time, the profit is not as large as that of soap, but soap has a lot of people, and in the long run, the profit is not small.

However, whether it is soap or scented soap, people in the outer city are still accustomed to calling it "pancreas".

For the people in the outer city, it is a very honorable thing to be able to use the "pancreas" used by the nobles in the inner city and even the imperial city.

The reason for this is that Father An is selling soap under the name of "pancreas". People admire and relish.

But this trick doesn't work for the inner city. "Soap" is the most common thing for them, and it doesn't have the slightest attraction.If it is in the name of "sugar", it may not even be able to splash a little.

Minning knew this very well, so he used the name of an ancient prescription to trap the female shopkeeper first, and then used the name of soap to distinguish it from the pancreas.

She just wanted to let people know that soap and soap are two different things, first arouse people's desire to buy, and then announce the name of soap.

This effect is very good, especially for the female shopkeeper, after using the soap for a period of time, the astonishing changes immediately aroused extraordinary repercussions.

Announcing the name of soap at this time is definitely better than soap.A common thing, one that appears in front of the public for the first time, presumably everyone is curious about new things.

For a while, soap was as expensive as Luoyang paper and in short supply.

Right now, the weather is getting colder, and the reaction time of saponification is prolonging whether it is soap or soap.

There is no way to solve this, but to expand the scale, but the current scale can still be controlled by Anfu, and further expansion will cause problems. The biggest problem is that there are too few managements.

Father An and his eldest son Min Xing are managing the workshop together. If it is bigger, the number of people will increase accordingly. If it is not properly managed, it will easily cause problems.

Moreover, Minning is not in favor of expansion. The current scale is just right. Although it will make a little less money, at least it is still within the control range.