Chapter 340: Killing Chickens and Monkeys

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Xia Nan cheered up at this time, if I remember correctly, it seems that lead printing was introduced to China from the West at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and this young man was born two hundred years in advance! Not to mention that lead printing has any practical help to its great cause, with this momentum of research and exploration, it is also worth cultivating, and it is guaranteed that it can drum up other useful things.

He verbally expressed his approval: "The lad has a future!" How did you come up with the idea of printing books with movable lead type? ā€

Shen Xiaoyang touched his head embarrassedly: "Foolish." The engraving printing book is too rigid, one set of editions can only print one book, and the other one has to be re-engraved; Wooden type is too easy to wear and tear; Copper movable type is too expensive; Other materials are either too hard, or do not stick to the ink, and finally tried lead, the effect is the best, the texture is easier to make than the soft lettering, and the ink printing effect is very good. ā€

Lin Weiye turned to introduce another: "As for this one, his name is Song Xiaobao, don't look at him as honest and responsible, what he does is very romantic-he opened a fat powder shop with his wife, and he also developed perfume!" ā€

Summer Nan almost choked on his own saliva: "Perfume!?" ā€

"Yes, it's perfume! I went to his shop to see it, and he made his own still with tin and made perfume with distillation, and he actually made it, and the neighbors liked it very much. ā€

Xia Nanhu asked suspiciously, "Is perfume really so easy to make?" Old Song, tell me how you made it? ā€

Song Xiaobao replied cautiously: "It's not as easy as Master Lin said. I call this water floral dew. I tried a lot of methods, and finally put the petals and stems in a tin pot, add clean water, seal it, connect a long tube on it, and cook it slowly over a simmer, the water vapor ran out of the tube, cooled down and turned back into water, and what flowed out of the nozzle was the floral dew. The incense is very fragrant, but it is too strong, and the storage time is very short, if it wasn't for my wife's liking, I wouldn't have made it. ā€

Xia Nan was surprised: "It sounds very reliable, but why is it too strong and the storage time is too short?" ā€

Lin Weiye replied: "The thing extracted in this way is called essential oil, and it is not yet a perfume in our understanding. I once saw a movie that said that pure alcohol with solvents and animal fragrances can be diluted into perfume and stored for months or even years. ā€

Regarding Lin Weiye's wide range of knowledge and the miscellaneous fields he has been involved in, Xia Nan has changed from surprise to numbness, and gave a thumbs up lightly: "Dean Lin knows everything, admire, admire!" ā€

"Hehe, the principle of this perfume is just heard, I can't make it if I really want to do it, it's not a big deal. For example, I know the principle of the atomic bomb, but I can't make it. Lin Weiye said modestly, "However, the method that Lao Song said is infinitely close to modern perfumes, we happen to produce distilled spirits, and we have the conditions to extract pure alcohol, so we might as well try to make perfumes, maybe we can develop a new fist product." ć€ć€‘ā€

For one more way to make money, Xia Nan is never too much, he came to the spirit, instructed: "You can't just try, you have already touched the threshold, you have to get out everything, perfume can be sold as a luxury product!" I believe that the ladies and ladies of those big families will definitely spend a lot of money to buy them. "It is said that women's money is the best to make, just look at the cosmetics and brand-name bags of the old time and space.

However, he was also curious: "Lao Lin, how did you convince these two to work for us?" ā€

"Hehe...... Lin Weiye smiled a little obscenely, "Shen Xiaoyang's bookstore is worth eighty taels of silver, and I gave him two hundred taels to buy out with the store; Song Xiaobao's fat powder shop refused to sell, I found his wife, she quoted 120 taels, gave her 300 taels, and her wife promised the whole family to move to Lingao......"

Xia Nan almost stumbled, this Lin Weiye is really generous! He smiled and said, "Lao Lin, do you know how much five hundred taels of silver is worth?" One tael of silver is at least equal to 600 yuan, and five hundred taels is about 300,000 yuan...... "Although he and Lin Weiye are not inferior to these hundreds of taels today, but 300,000 yuan in exchange for two craftsmen who don't know if they can produce benefits, from the perspective of input-output ratio, it is a little risky."

"It's an investment, and it's an investment in talent, you know?" Lin Weiye said seriously, "If you tap their strengths and turn them into useful commodities, the benefits you will bring to you will be a hundred or a thousand times that of today's five hundred taels of silver!" Besides, you said at the beginning that money and resources are at my disposal, including you! ā€

"That's right, that's right, technology is the primary productive force, and the investment is not too much!" In the summer, Minami hurried back round.

Lin Weiye was satisfied with his answer, and began to think about going out again tomorrow to see if there were any new discoveries: "I don't know how much silver Liu Quan brought this time, is it enough?" ā€

In the summer, Nan almost fell when he heard this.

In the next two or three days, Lin Weiye went to the streets every day, and in the summer, Nan hid in the house and was lazy.

On the fourth day, Cheng Ji's boss Cheng Youde came to visit.

"General, the contemptible people have brought all your words to the shipyard near Guangzhou, and the ones that are too small are not counted, and most of the thirteen shipyards including me are willing to sell timber and provide shipwrights on your terms, and only two have not agreed."

"Oh? Which two? "There are really people who toast and don't eat and drink.

"It's Dingfeng Shipping and Hongyun Shipping, both of which have some backgrounds, the sister of Dingfeng's owner is the concubine of Lord Yu Shigao, and the owner of Hongyun is a distant relative of Yu Zhifu in Guangzhou."

It turns out that there is a background! However, Xia Nan did not intend to let them go, if they were allowed to carry them like this, then the other shipwrecks might not obediently send wood and shipwrights, and they would follow the example of these two families.

He found Lu Yizhong and discussed it together.

Lu Yizhong's jealousy of him was far greater than that of the prefect and the patrol, lest this murderer do not go well and make some kind of moths, and then he would have to eat the hanging of Futai, so he actively gave him advice: "If the general wants to establish his authority, he might as well start from Dingfeng." Dingfeng won, and Hongyun will definitely see the wind and rudder. ā€

"Oh? Please also ask Mr. for some advice. ā€

Lu Yizhong could only implicitly remind: "Since the predecessor took office, Futai and Gao Xun have quite different political views......

Xia Nan seconds understood what he meant: When Mu Daren was a political envoy, he didn't deal with Gao Xun, and now he is a governor, with a high position, and he naturally wants to beat him if he has the opportunity, but the status of the patrol is transcendent, and it is not easy to do anything on the surface. Now that there is a reason to exterminate the pirates and clarify the ocean for the imperial court, your brother-in-law refuses to cooperate, so don't blame me for being polite, and by myself, a military general who is famous for being famous and has just recruited An, Gao Xun is afraid that Xiucai met a soldier, and he can't explain it clearly, so he can only knock out his teeth and swallow it in his stomach. (To be continued.) Mobile phone users, please browse and read, a better reading experience.