Chapter 31 Cooling Oil and Toilet Water
Liu Yeqiang, a person specializing in technology, actually didn't know what value was needed, and originally planned to need trading items such as gold and silver, but Lin Shenhe suddenly proposed to exchange the chart for this test item in the end.
This decision was later unanimously agreed by the Executive Committee, and the Executive Committee and other leaders of the group were still very skeptical about whether this new world was the earth, although through Zhou Laosan's interrogation it was concluded that the coastline of the coastal part where the Wu Dynasty was located was basically close to the coastline of China on the earth, but Zhou Laosan was just a small strategist, although he had been in Mingzhou for a long time, he was not clear about the overseas situation at all, and even whether Hainan Island and Taiwan existed. This has made some traversers full of doubts about the landscape outside Chinese mainland. As the people of Medno, who have been adrift on the ocean for hundreds of years, and have been using sea trade to strengthen themselves, then they must have an understanding of the currents, tides, islands, coastlines, and coastal cities of the ocean, and the means they use to navigate are also worth learning. Gu Fulin of the Navy has confirmed that the latitude and longitude can be determined by celestial bodies, although he is only a radar personnel, but he has received training in the measurement of latitude and longitude such as a sextant during training, after his calculations, the location of Mingzhou City is really the location of Guangzhou City, but because the urbanization process has changed greatly in the old city, it is now impossible to verify whether the position of the city wall is the same as in ancient times. Originally, Yuan Zhenli wanted to fly a survey of the coastline by piloting his assembled and dismantled, dismantled and assembled several solar-powered electric planes, but Bu Zhongfu raised objections, the river and coastline are the result of long-term erosion by ocean currents, and there may be deviations between the coast outline of ancient times and today, but the only reason that Yuan Zhenli cannot fly in this ancient sky now is that there is no hardened runway in this world, even if it is a light aircraft, the dependence on the runway is still quite heavyAt this time, he was in the process of modifying the landing gear system of the electric aircraft to fit the poor grass runway, and at the suggestion of Bu Zhongfu, he also installed an ejection hook under the belly of the aircraft to accommodate the steam catapult that might be installed on the freighter later.
"Are you really planning to use the freighter as an aircraft carrier?" Du Yande couldn't help but joke about Zhang Yuan, who was designing a steam catapult, but Zhang Yuan turned his face and startled him, this guy almost lost weight, two black eye circles with white skin fat man, like a panda.
"What about returning the freighter? Where are the freighters? Zhang Yuan couldn't help but complain directly. Isn't your housekeeping team responsible for procurement? Why didn't you go to buy ships at this time? We're all about to go through it. You have to remember that the tonnage of the ship you bought must be able to carry so many things! ”
Du Yande suddenly had two big heads, "What? Do you still want our housekeeping team to buy this ship?? We usually buy equipment, equipment, vegetables, and rice, but now we even want to buy boats? What does my housekeeping team do? Basically, it's for you to cook, and there's a lot of women's army in it, should I let them go to the vegetable market to buy a freighter like they buy vegetables? ”
Zhang Yuan also spread his hands, "Our industrial group also doesn't understand the matter of freighters at all, and it makes no sense for you to let us deal with it." Aren't you in charge of all the traversers' files? Wouldn't there be more professional students graduating from maritime universities in it? ”
"Nope!" Du Yande answered directly without thinking about it, "Except for Yang Feng and Zhang Zefeng, all those who specialize in dealing with the sea except for Gu Fulin, a naval radar soldier, or Bu Zhongfu, a submarine sonar, are left, and there are only two retired sailors from the navy left." It seems that there is another person who has fished at sea, and I heard that he has also been to Argentina, isn't it in the fishery mouth of the agricultural group? Why don't I call over there and ask? ”
The result of the phone call was very depressing, Yang Feng and Bu Zhongfu ran along the harbor city for more than half a month, although there were many suitable ships, but the price could not be negotiated, and there was a lot of trouble with a license or something.
"Forget it, I wouldn't have called to ask if I had known, it's just more confusing to ask, you should first find out what to trade with Xu Wei's line, right?" Zhang Yuan spoke, and continued to paint his steam catapult.
At this time, Liu Yeqiang's phone called again, the equipment has been purchased, and a set of manpower pumping system and a large water tank need to be prepared, Zhang Yuan threw the phone to Xiao Jing on the side, and Xiao Jing called several comrades from the industrial group to go to the construction according to Liu Yeqiang's arrangement.
When Du Yande was depressed about the deal with Xu Wei, Liu Yeqiang actually called him again.
"Lao Du! Did you find a trade? ”
"It's still early! The perfume was so successful that other products didn't shine at all under the aura of the perfume. ”
"I did remember something." Liu Yeqiang's tone revealed a mysterious feeling when he spoke.
"What? Do you have any suggestions? ”
"Definitely good advice, have you noticed what are the most common actions of the residents of Guangzhou?"
"Guangzhou City?" Du Yande is a little strange, this place is still a few hundred kilometers away from Guangdong.
"Oh, it's Mingzhou City. Those people, whether they are ordinary people or rich people, have some head scratching and itching movements, rich people are better, but ordinary people, especially farmers, often scratch around on their bodies. ”
Du Yande thought about it for a while, and it seemed that this phenomenon was indeed there, "But does this have anything to do with what kind of goods are sold?" ”
"Of course there is!" There was a frustration in his tone. "What are they doing scratching their heads? You think it's just a long time since you took a shower? ”
"Isn't it?"
"Of course not, I've noticed that most of the aborigines have fleas and lice, and many poor people still have a lot of scabies, and I don't know about intestinal parasites. These can be sold. ”
"I'll it! How do you sell this thing? You said that there are very few rich people, how can the poor afford it? ”
"You know how cheap this stuff is? When I was in Africa, these things were even better than the dollar, and when I encountered a bribe, I didn't need to stuff the dollar, just stuffed it with cool oil, and even if it was a traffic violation, it was solved. ”
"Isn't it? So let's have a hearing this afternoon and see. Let each group send someone over and have a representative hearing to see how it goes. ”
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"My opinion is that as an adjunct to non-diffusion technology, Qingliang oil can make a great contribution to the elimination of skin parasites." Liu Yeqiang concluded after expounding his views on the cool oil trade.
"There's something to be taken for granted in your opinion." Someone in the agriculture group stood up and gave their opinion. "Qingliang Oil is a Chinese patent medicine with the ingredients of menthol, menthol oil, camphor, eucalyptus oil, clove oil, cinnamon oil, and camphor oil. The excipients are paraffin wax and petroleum jelly, as those old Chinese medicine practitioners, they can often smell the ingredients inside, although the ratio is not clear, but after many tests, the possibility of blending cool oil can not be ruled out. ”
"I don't agree with you." Another member of the agricultural group stood up and expressed support for Liu Yeqiang. "Some of the Chinese patent medicines that we are using in large quantities now, such as Qingliangyou, Rendan, Yunnan Baiyao, Zhenggushui, these drugs were only determined and promoted in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, and similar drugs already existed before, and they can only be determined after a long period of testing and screening, and if they are now put into the market of the new world, even if these old Chinese medicine doctors plan to start researching these drugs now, it will take at least 50 years to develop them. We have had an absolute monopoly for decades. ”
Liu Yeqiang looked over carefully, and it turned out to be Sun Wenqing from the traditional Chinese medicine group of the agricultural group. This benevolent brother is Sun Wenbin's younger brother, graduated from a university of traditional Chinese medicine, in his brother's personal mobilization home, he was not married or even had time to find a girlfriend, he finally left the controversial position of traditional Chinese medicine that made him almost not have enough time to eat and sleep. "As a TCM practitioner with long-term clinical experience and knowledge of the history of TCM development, I can guarantee that this will definitely be a sensation."
"Since you have long-term clinical experience and are familiar with the history of the development of traditional Chinese medicine, why do you want to go through?" Someone muttered discontentedly.
"There's no way I'm out of here! At present, the whole country is an extremely distrustful public opinion environment for traditional Chinese medicine, and the processing of traditional Chinese medicine is also an absolute disorder. How much of the Chinese medicine you have bought today is edible? In March, Yin Chen can cure diseases, and in April, Artemisia annua is used as firewood. However, the current preparation of medicinal materials does not care about these, and in the end, even if the prescription prescribed by Chinese medicine is the right medicine, the medicine purchased cannot cure the disease. Since I can't change the existing society, I will change a new world and create a new era of Chinese medicine as a traveler. ”
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"This is America's miracle medicine?" Xu Wei picked up a cool oil box and asked. "Is this an iron shell? Could it be swallowed directly? ”
Yang Minghuan hurriedly swung his hands straight, "This thing can only be applied externally, not internally." ”
"And what disease does this thing cure?" Xu Wei opened the lid of the box without a teacher, and sniffed, "This thing is very refreshing, isn't it just for refreshing?" ”
"Neither nor not!" Du Yande hurriedly said, his words provoked Sun Wenqing on the side to burst out laughing.
"Lao Du, you don't have a different bag, what are you doing." After Sun Wenqing finished speaking, he turned to Xu Wei and explained. "This thing is called cooling oil, and refreshing is just one of them, and it is nicknamed 'golden oil' in my United States. This substance has a strong mosquito repellent effect, and can be applied to bare skin to repel mosquitoes, and is not bitten by mosquitoes; If there is a corn, apply this substance to the corn several times a day, smoke and roast it with incense, so that the cool oil will penetrate into the corn, and the corn will automatically fall off after a period of time; If you are burned, you will often blister, if you apply it to the affected area at the time of burn, you will not see the blisters and leave no scars......"
Sun Wenqing said more than a dozen ways to use cool oil in one breath, which made Xu Wei dumbfounded, "It's not that I don't believe the introduction of your American maritime businessmen, it's just that this benevolent brother is really talking so wildly that I can't believe it." ”
"Okay, let's find the most common problem you have, did the mosquito bite you?" Sun Wenqing rolled up his sleeves to show the bag on his arm that had just been bitten by mosquitoes.
Xu Wei rolled up his sleeves embarrassedly, and the bag on his forearm seemed to be bigger than Sun Wenqing's. Sun Wenqing directly picked out a handful of it and applied it to the bag, and Xu Wei also dug out a little bit and smeared it on the bag.
Immediately, there was a cool sensation from the itchy bite, almost as fast as the eye could see, and the bag gradually became smaller. Then there was a "snap" sound next to him, and Du Yande killed a mosquito that had bitten the back of his hand.
"This thing is very peculiar, if it is a weekday, no matter how many people around, mosquitoes are biting, it really works as you say, I believe it!"
Xu Wei couldn't help but pick up the open cool oil and sniffed it deeply, but the irritated gas made tears flow out.
A few people next to him smiled, and Sun Wenqing explained: "If you have heat stroke, you can apply this medicine to the patient's nostrils, and the effect will be immediate. ”
"No wonder! No wonder! Xu Wei couldn't help wiping his tears and laughing and teasing himself. So shopkeepers, how much is this thing worth? ”
Du Yande smiled and picked up a carton containing 60 boxes of cool oil, "One or two boxes!" ”
Xu Wei immediately began to calculate in his heart, one or two large boxes, one penny of silver can almost buy four boxes, even if he earns double, one penny of silver and a small box of silver, he can also earn a folio. If the effect and function of this drug can really be as good as that of these American maritime merchants, then this drug can definitely be popularized in large quantities.
He couldn't help but ask with some hesitation, "Can you let me take out a box and let me go down and try the sample?" ”
"No problem." Du Yande directly put the box of cool oil on his desk, "The empty mouth of the white tooth and the mouth of the lotus flower naturally can't convince Mr. Xu, this box is a gift, Your Excellency can try it, and it won't be too late for us to talk about it when it really works." ”
As he spoke, Du Yande took out a small cardboard box from his backpack, opened the carton, and took out a small bottle inside, although the words on it were not big, but they were very clear - Yunnan Baiyao.
"Yunnan?" Xu Wei hesitated for a while, he knew about this place in Yunnan, although this place belonged to the territory of the Wu Dynasty, but the Wu Dynasty did not have strong actual control over it. The control of the imperial court over Yunnan is mainly achieved through remote control of the Mu family of the Duke of Qianguo, but the Mu family has been in Yunnan for more than 200 years and is deeply rooted. The scope of Han people's activities in that place is only confined to large cities, and they are reluctant to set foot in the poor countryside controlled by Tusi, where does this Yunnan Baiyao come from? He couldn't help but open the small instruction manual in the carton, and then he was taken aback, this manual has excellent printing on both sides, and the whole paper is densely covered with beautiful patterns, and there are some very fine ants crawling like words printed on it, although it is very clear, but it is something that cannot be understood.
Du Yande took the manual and turned it over and handed it back to him, the words on it were Chinese characters, but he had never seen such small Chinese characters, as far as he knew, someone could write very small words with a very thin brush, but the word in front of him, I am afraid that the calligraphy everyone wrote it with a single hair, right? The font is strong and powerful, as long as it is the same word, whether it is the pen or the pen, it is exactly the same, at this time he suddenly realized that this thing should be printed. I couldn't help but raise my head and look at the American businessmen opposite. "This thing? Is it printed? ”
"Yes!" Liu Yeqiang on the side smiled and nodded, this manual has been modified, it doesn't matter if the English is there anyway, I am too lazy to copy it, and the Chinese characters here have to be retyped in traditional Chinese. Otherwise, the "People's Republic of China" and the year that is easy to make people suspicious will be inexplicable.
"Mr. Xu, don't buy the pearls, just watch the content." Du Yande smiled and pointed to the content, and at first glance, he knew that he was deeply satisfied with the crushing of science and technology.
Xu Wei looked at the content carefully, and couldn't help but be taken aback again, even if these American maritime products are amazing, how did this medicine do so well? It seems that the materials presented above have been seen on weekdays, but the coping symptoms given above are surprising to me. "Aren't all the medicines of your country a panacea? But almost all the medicines you see below are cures for all diseases......"
Several traversers chuckled lightly, and Du Yande replied with a smile: "The medicine for this minor illness, in my United States, there are more important medicines, but I can't get it at this time." ”
Later, although the wind oil essence flower water that he took out did not deeply hit Xu Wei's worldview, it also made him amazed. However, this flower water deeply attracted his attention, this thing can not only dispel prickly heat, relieve itching and repel mosquitoes, this fragrance has an effect that perfume can't achieve. It can be used as a low-cost perfume to open up the market.
In this meeting, the drug was not ordered, but only provided to Xu Wei as a trial for testing, but the toilet water was ordered in large quantities, and Xu Wei opened his mouth to order 5,000 bottles of 195 ml Liushen Flower Water. It made a group of people who traveled through it astonished, this is two bottles and one or two......
"I'll take it, this guy is also a local tyrant, and it's five thousand bottles and two thousand five hundred taels at a time."
"Who's behind them? It's Zheng Zhilong! ”
Sun Wenqing didn't have much feeling for this name, he just felt that this Zheng character was very familiar. It wasn't until Liu Yeqiang next to him explained to him that he figured it out.
"Zheng Zhilong is Zheng Sen's father, Zheng Sen, you must know this person, it is Zheng Chenggong who recovered Taiwan."
"Oh!" Only then did Sun Wenqing suddenly realize where his familiarity came from. "It turned out to be Zheng Chenggong's father, is this old man very rich?"
"Old man?" Liu Yeqiang grinned, "It's the eighth year of the Apocalypse, if you convert it to our Common Era, it's 1628, guess how old he is now?" ”
"To say the least, you're in your forties, aren't you?" Du Yande interjected on the side.
Liu Yeqiang laughed, "Zheng Zhilong was born in 1604, when he was only 24 years old. ”
"I'll you! It's really easy for this ancient man to struggle to get ahead! Du Yande couldn't help blurting out.
"In our history, in 1621 (the first year of the Ming Xizong Apocalypse), when Zheng Zhilong was 18 years old, he and his brother went to Macau to study business with his uncle Huang Cheng, and received Catholic baptism in Macao. After traveling to and from all over Southeast Asia, and then to Kyushu, Japan, because of the practice of swordsmanship, he met and married the righteous daughter of Fujian overseas Chinese blacksmith Weng Yihuang Tagawa as his wife, at first followed the overseas Chinese pirate merchant Li Dan on Hirado Island, Japan, and served as a translator and other work at the beginning, and gradually became Li Dan's right-hand man, and won Li Dan's trust. At the beginning of 1624, Zheng Zhilong went to Penghu to serve as an interpreter and correspondent for the Dutch on the recommendation of Li Dan, and in the early autumn of the same year, the Dutch retreated to southern Taiwan; Due to the dispute between the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands, it affected Li Dan's commercial interests between China, Japan and Taiwan at that time, so Li Dan's sending Zheng Zhilong was also one of Li Dan's means of intervening in the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands. The Dutch gave the 'Japanese' governor good treatment, but at first they did not use Zheng Zhilong, who later used Zheng Zhilong to carry out pirate missions in the Taiwan Strait to intercept Chinese sailing ships bound for Manila to trade with the Spaniards (the main rivals of the Dutch at the time). According to the letter of the Dutch governor Waite, it is recorded that the 'general officer', Zheng Zhilong's name, led about 20 to 30 Chinese sailing ships to carry out the business of 'intercepting and capturing'. Liu Yeqiang opened the kettle, took a sip of water, and continued.
On July 14, 1624, Zheng Zhilong's wife gave birth to a son, Zheng Chenggong, in Chirihama, Hirado Island. After the Mid-Autumn Festival of the same year, Zheng Zhilong moved his career focus from Kyushu Island, Japan to Taiwan, and attached to the 'Japanese snails' is Yan Siqi, the leader of the Japanese Bandits. Shortly thereafter, the Dutch East India Company landed on the island and expelled other Taiwan-based powers, and Zheng Zhilong and his wife settled in Chinese mainland. In 1625, Yan Siqi died, Zheng Zhilong, together with the pirate leaders, known as the Eighteen Zhi, had the most powerful military and commercial team along the coast of Fujian at that time, leading tens of thousands of pirates, operating smuggling and looting businesses, rampant in the Taiwan Strait. On August 2 of the same year, Li Danzheng was running the trade between Xiamen, Nagasaki, and Taiwan, and died on the way back to Pinghu from Taiwan, and his Taiwanese industry and soldiers were transferred to Zheng Zhilong's control, while those in Xiamen fell into the hands of Xu Xinsu; Zheng Zhilong set up his own door and changed his name to Zhilong, no longer being called an official. From 1626 to 1628, Zheng Zhilong used Longgang, Taiwan as a base, plundered several places in Fujian and Guangdong, so that the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers were exhausted, although there were imperial court recruitment actions, Zheng refused and crisscrossed the Taiwan Strait for two years and six months, until the end of 1628, Fujian governor Xiong Wencan recruited Zheng Zhilong again and became a 'coastal defense guerrilla'. Zheng Zhilong's power had 700 ships by 1627; Xu Xinsu suggested that the Dutch East India Company join forces to attack Zheng Zhilong, but the East India Company did not allow it, and Zheng Zhilong defeated the deputy commander-in-chief Yu Zhigao and killed his opponent Xu Xinsu. ”
"Then according to what you said, this 24-year-old young man is already in the middle of the sky at this time, and his power is all over Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong, and the ocean." Du Yande was taken aback, this person suddenly became the leader of a Haikou group in just a few years, and he was still a 24-year-old young man.
"We also have trade with Japan in our history, so I don't know if Japan exists in this time and space." Liu Yeqiang clapped his palms. "We'll have to wait until the charts of the Medno people get there."
"If you don't say that the people of Maidno, I forgot." Du Yande slapped Liu Yeqiang on the shoulder. "Aren't you going to install a desalination system on a Medeno trading ship?"