The workshop area officially started construction in the cold winter, and Xiao Ming also succeeded in having more than 900 mouths to eat, plus the recruits were about to enter the camp again, and there were more than 3,000 mouths to eat at once. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Such a continuous consumption of silver taels made Xiao Ming feel a lot of pressure, and at present, apart from business, he has no way to get rich quickly.

Therefore, whether it is preparing his own trading house, or using the Wang family and the Qin family to make money, this silver cannot afford to wait.

After arranging the matter of slaves, Xiao Ming went to Wang's house and talked about the problem of trade with the barbarians.

"Your Highness, our Wang family doesn't dare to bear such a big crime." Without waiting for Xiao Ming to finish speaking, Wang Chengchou knelt down with a "grunt", and Wang Shijie was also sweating on his forehead, as if he was swinging.

They got the news that the emperor and the queen had sent silver to the king of Qi, and the news from Chang'an also proved from the side that the emperor and the crown prince seemed to have the intention of relying on the king of Qi.

This prince who no one asks about is different from a prince who is in charge, they dared to bully Xiao Ming's ignorance before.

But now the forces behind Xiao Ming make them have to carefully weigh the pros and cons, if Xiao Ming deducts the Wang family for fornicating with foreign enemies because of this matter, the Wang family is afraid that they will be beheaded all over the house.

Even if the Wang family is powerful and not afraid of the King of Qi, and the Qingzhou army is not afraid, there are still the emperor and the prince, and when the army moves, it is only a matter of time before the Wang family is annihilated.

Xiao Ming was a little helpless, it was the first time he saw the fear in Wang Chengchou's eyes, it seemed that Xiao Wenxuan and the queen had sent the silver in a timely manner, so that he was enough to fake the tiger.

He said: "Outside the king, brother Wang, get up, get up, this king is not here to punish the crime, presumably the two of them also know that a lot of cattle and sheep in the Huyantuo tribe on the grassland have been frozen to death this year, and now the barbarian scouts are frequently scouting the situation of the defenders outside Cangzhou City, and the two of them probably understand this thought." “

Wang Chengchou wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead, and said with a sneer: "Your Highness, I have heard of this, this cattle and sheep did freeze to death a lot, the barbarians on the grassland basically eat goat milk, cattle and sheep meat, this cattle and sheep are frozen to death, there are no cubs, after the beginning of spring, there will be no cattle and sheep to put away, and the barbarians will be hungry at that time." ”

"Captain Lu also said so, so there is only one easiest way to solve this problem and avoid the barbarian siege of Cangzhou." Xiao Ming said.

"Your Highness, please speak." Wang Chengchou said.

Xiao Ming didn't say it directly, because he didn't want to bear such a charge, he knocked on the side, ready to give Wang Cheng a pit jump, he said: "This cow and sheep are dead, the merchant naturally doesn't want it, but the meat oil of this cow and sheep can be used to refine soap, if Wang Yuanwai takes grain to exchange for meat oil at this time, what will happen to the barbarians?" All the barbarians want is beef and mutton, and meat oil is not worth much to them, and if these cheap meat oils are brought back and can be used to refine large quantities of soap, what will happen to Wang Yuanwai? “

Wang Shijie and Wang Chengchou glanced at each other with strange expressions.

"Okay, this king is all he says, this king still hopes that Cangzhou is safe." After saying this, Xiao Ming left the Wang family compound.

Wang Shijie immediately got up and sent Xiao Ming out, turned around and came back after a while, and said to Wang Chengchou: "Dad, Your Highness is right, if you exchange grain for meat oil at this time, it will definitely be a million profits, and Your Highness's words seem to encourage us to do it." “

Wang Chengchou was still kneeling on the ground at this time, and then slowly got up and sat down on the chair, "This King of Qi is really unpredictable, he doesn't want to bear the charge of fornicating with foreign enemies, and he wants to resolve the danger of Cangzhou, but our Wang family can't take this risk." “

"So what should I do?" Wang Shijie asked.

"Hehe, it's not that there is no way, why do we need our Wang family to take action in this matter, you just need to let this matter out to those merchants in Cangzhou, saying that our Wang family buys meat oil, and then spreads the method of exchanging grain from Huyantuo for meat oil, are you afraid that no one will go?" At that time, it was better for us to spend a little more money than to bear this charge, and I didn't want to be like the Qin family, with a handle in the hands of King Qi. Wang Chengchou said with a twist of his beard.

Wang Shijie gave a thumbs up, "Dad, you're still smart." ”

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Seven days later, the Wang family shipped the first batch of meat oil to Qingzhou, and the last ingredients for the production of soap were ready.

Although the news from all sides proved that the Wang family did not have a set, but this time a large amount of meat oil made Xiao Ming excited, for this reason, he specially asked the equipment department to build five huge iron pots, and the location of refining soap was also selected in the workshop area.

In the future, the soap was produced here.

"Your Highness, this smell of oil, how to use this soap?" The pothos followed Xiao Ming this time, and he had to see the production process of soap.

Since the concept of soap was proposed, the news of this soap has slowly spread throughout the palace and in Qingzhou City.

For this kind of toiletry, of course, the most concerned is women.

There are five large stoves in front of Xiao Ming, coal is burning in the stove, and on top is a two-meter-wide iron pot, and the meat oil inside is steaming.

Because it is winter, these meat oils have not yet rotted and deteriorated, and the first step is to boil out the fat and oil in the fat, after all, the barbarians will not directly refine the oil for him.

When the fat and the oil in the fat come out, the meat residue, meat skin and other things will be fished out, and now this step has been reached.

"Hehe, the essence I asked you to prepare was not prepared for nothing." Xiao Ming said at this time.

Green pothos was stunned for a moment before she understood, and said shamefully: "I thought His Highness was used to make perfumes." ”

This time, Xiao Ming did not shy away from Wang Shijie, but asked him to come over in person, at this time he saw Xiao Ming flirting with the green pothos, and couldn't help but envy, "Your Highness, what a blessing." ”

The pothos face turned red, Xiao Ming glared at Wang Shijie, the kid did not leave the bank for three words, he said: "This time I asked you to come to let you supervise the use of meat oil, this king has always been fair and just in business, and will not take advantage of your Wang family." “

This time the meat oil was provided by the Wang family, so it was inappropriate not to let the Wang family come, but Xiao Ming was not afraid that the technique of soap would be learned, because this alkali is the key to soap making.

And this time Xiao Ming came directly with caustic soda, and Wang Shijie didn't know what it was used for.

The color of the uncooled meat oil is orange and transparent, which is no different from the color of modern soybean oil, and when the first pot of pure meat oil comes out, Xiao Ming has the caustic soda poured in.

At this time, there was a chemical reaction in the oil pot, and after a while, the meat oil became viscous, like tofu brain, and then he asked people to pour the essence into it and stir.

When the soap in the oil pot was viscous enough, he asked ten sturdy slaves to carry the iron pot and pour the soap into the prepared large cube mold.

When cooled, the soap turned into a large solidified square, milky white in color, very clean, and with a faint aroma, at which point the slave in charge of cutting used a long knife to cut the soap into standard small squares according to the checkered twine that had been pulled out.