"A bigger business than tens of thousands?" Zhang Bohu looked at Tang Yi suspiciously. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Tang Yi opened the two wooden boxes and took out the contents inside.

"I'll tell you the truth, the kid is here today for this big business, I don't know if Uncle Zhang is interested?"

"That's what you're talking about big business?"

"yes, that's what I'm talking about big business."

Glancing at the wooden box, he couldn't help but secretly said contemptuously in his heart: "What kind of big business can this be?" It's just a few candles, plus..."

Plus a few other pieces of oily yellow stuff, I don't know.

Picking up a "block" of candles, Uncle Zhang pursed his lips in disgust, "This thing can also be taken out and sold?" Earn money by pointing at it, and you kid will have to pay to death! ”

Tang Yisao blushed and scratched his head embarrassedly.

It's no wonder that he was despised by Zhang Quanfu, Tang Yi made this candle. True. It's too rough, or it can't be described as "block".

Tang Yi is just a wax extracted from lard waste, using a porcelain bowl as a mold, and putting a coarse cotton thread in it to solidify It's a matter.

"Time is in a hurry, just make a show. If you always think it's okay, then make the mold more fine. ”

Uncle Zhang nodded, Tang Yi was not wrong about this, the quality of the wax is no longer the shape and color, and it is easy to color and shape it. The most important thing is to see if the candle is bright enough and the smoke is small enough after lighting it.

Holding the bowl-shaped yellow candle and looking at it carefully, Uncle Zhang gradually put away his contempt. Liang Jiufang asked tentatively, "This is.... Oil wax? ”

"Oil wax."

"Butter or mutton fat?"

The Song people used oil lamps to illuminate ordinary people's homes, and candles were something that only the rich could afford.

Among the various waxes, the most common candle is paraffin, which is a natural wax. There are many impurities, the smoke is small, and it is slightly brighter than an oil lamp, so the price is not high.

A little better is the insect wax, the smoke is slightly smaller, the fire is brighter than the paraffin, and the price is moderate.

The most advanced is oil wax, and the main raw materials are butter and mutton fat. The smoke is small and bright, it is quite popular with large households, and the price is also the highest, and the best butter wax costs 30 yuan.

"It's lard wax." Tang Yi explained.

"Oh....." Uncle Zhang's eyes lit up. The cost of lard is much lower than that of butter and mutton fat. If Tang Yi has a way to make wax from lard, it will be a way to make money, and the profit will be much higher than other waxes.

It's just that.... I just don't know how the fireworks are.

ordered the man to light the wax, and Uncle Zhang looked at the bright flame, and was even more delighted.

"Not bad! The fire is bright and the smoke is small, and it is a good wax! ”

"Is there a lot of wax? How much wax does a pound of lard come out? As a businessman, Uncle Zhang immediately thought about the cost problem. If the wax is comparable to the butter wax, then it is really a good business.

"Ten catties of lard produce almost ten fine waxes." Tang Yi replied truthfully.

"What?" Uncle Zhang was so angry that he jumped to his feet: "Ten catties of oil are only ten fine waxes?" ”

As soon as he reached the chair, Zhang Bo looked extremely frustrated.

I thought that this kid really found a way to make money, but in the end it was a happy one.

The best butter wax is only 30 cents. Even if the wax made by Tang Yi is the same price as cow wax, one is 30 Wen, and ten are only 300 Wen.

But that's ten pounds of lard! Even if it is cheaper than butter, ten catties of pigs will cost nearly 500 Wen. The cost of each of these ten oil wax is 50 yuan, and the cost is 30 yuan? Don't pay for death?

Tang Yi smiled faintly, "Don't worry, there is this." ”

Tang Yi took out a piece of soap and handed it to Uncle Zhang.

Uncle Zhang took it boringly, looked left and right, "What is this?" ”

This thing is half the size of a palm, like wax but not wax, and it is smooth to start, and Uncle Zhang really can't recognize it.

"It's called soap, it's used for laundry and bathing." Tang Yi explained that in order to more vividly reflect the wonderful use of soap, Tang Yi asked someone to bring a basin of water and asked Uncle Zhang to wash his hands with soap.

In this era, no matter how fine the workmanship of the oil and wax is, it cannot reach the level of later generations, and there are always some incomplete reactions of oil remaining in the wax. Uncle Zhang had just been holding the oil wax for a long time, and his hands were inevitably a little greasy, so he just washed his hands with soap.

As the soap rubbed in his hands, Uncle Zhang was surprised to find that this thing became slippery as soon as it was wet, and the scrubbing room actually gave birth to a delicate white foam, which was very magical. By the time the lather is removed, your hands will be cleaner, which is much easier and faster than washing your hands with just clean hands.

"Not bad! Great stuff! Zhang Bo praised again and again.

"It can also be used to wash clothes, and it has a stronger stain removal power than soap horn."

"Really?" Uncle Zhang's eyes brightened.

Compared to those few sticks of oil wax, this is the real treasure. You must know that the production of soaphorn is very small, and the price on the market is also high, and only the rich can afford it. If this soap is better than soap, the price must not be low.

"Uhh How much does this soap cost? ”

The heart said, don't be like those few sticks of oil wax, it's a sky-high price, then it's nothing.

Tang Yi replied with a smile: "Ten catties of lard produce twenty pieces of soap like this." ”

"Ten catties of lard out of twenty yuan?" Uncle Zhang groaned, in this way, he really made a lot of money.

"Suspicious ?.." Uncle Zhang reacted immediately, and said with a light doubt, "This soap is also made of lard?" ”

"That's right!" Tang Yi replied.

"In fact, in order to ensure the purity of the soap, when refining oil, only the top material is used to make soap, and the middle layer of turbid material is used to make candles. If the requirements are lower, it is possible to produce 30 pieces of soap from 10 catties of oil. ”

"Wait!" Uncle Zhang's eyes widened. "You mean, the soap and the wax are made from the same pot of oil?"

"That's right...."

"In other words, ten catties of oil can make twenty bars of soap, plus ten candles?"

"That's right!"

"It's gone!"

Uncle Zhang let out a strange scream, which attracted the guys and Siniang outside to look over. Zhang Quanfu is nearly half a hundred years old, and he rarely loses his temper like now.

"Boy, you're developed!" Uncle Zhang's voice did not decrease, and he sighed from the bottom of his heart.

Originally, he thought that the price of soap alone would definitely not be a problem for 100 yuan per piece. Twenty yuan is two dollars, which is equivalent to quadrupling the capital, which is already considered a huge profit. Where did you think that the original oil wax is also something from the same pot, which is not the same as picking it up for nothing?

He has been immersed in the grocery business for decades, and he knows best what the most expensive things are in the people's homes, and it is these daily gadgets. It's just that the margins of these daily necessities are extremely thin, and although the sales volume is large, they don't earn much. If the soap had double the profit, he didn't dare to think that after the soap became popular, the surplus in Dengzhou alone would be a lot of income.

Unbeknownst to him, this soap is much more durable than soap. A hundred pieces of soap will be gone after a few uses, and a piece of soap may not be used up more than a dozen times, or dozens of times. Therefore, the valuation of 100 wen is still too low.

Tang Yi looked at the old man's excited appearance and couldn't help but be proud.

"The kid told you a long time ago, what business is the most profitable in the world?"

"Monopoly!"

"Monopoly!"

Uncle Zhang actually said these two words at the same time as Tang Yi in unison. Now, he finally understands the true meaning of Tang Yi's words that day.

Monopoly, this soap business is monopolized in Tang Yi's hands, and if you want to use soap, you can only buy it from him, how much profit does it have to be!? It was only a matter of time before the family fortune was Wanguan.

"Da Lang...."Thinking of this, Uncle Zhang couldn't help but get up, and asked tentatively: "This business... Is there also a member of the Ma family? ”

Tang Yi smiled: "Have you forgotten? ”

"We are two family names, one family!"

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