In the afternoon.

The sun in the sky has begun to emit heat, and there is little wind, and it is filled with a hint of heat wave when blowing on people.

It is May now, and June will be even hotter. There will be autumn tigers in July at least half a month. The weather will not slowly cool until the end of July.

People with conditions will not go out in the afternoon, so they just stay at home and rest.

However, those who need to do work still have no way to stop. There is also a busy scene everywhere in and outside the capital.

Twenty miles from the capital, there is a place called Wujia Village.

This is not a major road from south to north, but because it is close to the capital and there is also a "Dongzhu Lake" around it, many dignitaries have built holiday homes here.

Of course, the villagers of Wujia Village themselves still do not have the blessing to enjoy the luxurious mansion. They usually only have two or three tile houses, earning enough food and drink, and then having some spare money to spare.

Such a life is enough for ordinary people.

Farmers are absolutely not stupid to work. When the weather is hottest, they usually go out early in the morning, go home to eat and rest after lunch, and wait until the sun is about to set before going out to work for about an hour or two.

This will avoid the hottest hours, so as not to spend money to hire a doctor if it gets hot.

There are chicken, duck, pig, cattle and sheep in the village, so even though many people think that the houses near Dongzhu Lake are far away, although they emit a stinky smell from time to time, they don’t care much.

At this moment, in a house surrounded by a building by the lake, the smell was even more intense.

I saw a few large pots boiling lard. As the fat pork stew is boiled, only oil residue is left, and the rest is all bright high-temperature lard. The group next to me is still frowning.

A tall butler-looking man covered his nose with a cloth towel and accused loudly: "Second, you have been busy for more than half a month, but you didn't even have to work hard?"

"My dear father, we can't blame us. There's really nothing we can do!" A thin middle-aged man with a hunchback smiled bitterly, "Look, there are good players around me who are good at making pancreas and experts in alchemy. Everyone gathers their minds and thinks hard every day, and there's no laziness at all!"

"Don't you have soap on your hands? Then you have prepared all the raw materials you bought in Prince Yu's Mansion for you. If you push them in the opposite direction, you can't push them out?" The man said disbelief, "Then I'll let you summon so many people from the side, spend so much effort and money in vain!"

After he said this, the group of people didn't look very good on their faces.

But everyone has no way to refute it because the butler man is telling the truth.

No matter how much they tried, they did not imitate the soap.

The thin hunchbacked fourth brother looked at the materials piled up in the yard and hesitated: "Master Gui, according to our perspective, there must be lard in this soap, but there is really no way to say the rest! I suspect that they bought so many things purely to cover up their eyes and ears."

"Nonsense, Liu Mingqi is not a fool, so of course she will do this." Mr. Gui said, "But you need wood ash to make pancreas. Could it be that they bought so much wood ash for nothing? And the amount of quicklime is also large, so can they buy it for fun?"

The fourth brother shook his head, "Any pancreas that have been added with wood ash must be gray-black. But the soap is yellow, and it is integrated and has a luster, so there is absolutely no wood ash!"

After a pause, he smiled bitterly: "Actually, we have tried all these materials one by one. We worked hard to combine them into more than 60 methods, and made thousands of test samples, but they were not successful. They were not as useful as before!

Liu Mingqi’s most crazy thing happens to be the quicklime you mentioned. We added quicklime and entered the lard. After more than ten days, it was still a ball of mud. It was a bit useful when used to repair the pot, but it was not of use to clean things at all."

Mr. Gui's face became darker and darker as he heard it, "Is Liu Mingqi a god? You can't think of what he can think of?"

"I think there must be something else that they bought and added, but we don't know." Lao Si said, "or it's a question of the order of the process... It's best if you go to a servant from Prince Yu's Mansion. If they point out the layer of yarn, things will become easier."

"I can find the people from Prince Yu's Mansion, why do you do?" Mr. Gui laughed so much that he was angry, "Prince Yu is the prince! Prince Yu's mansion is in the imperial city. Who dares to tie up a few servants from Prince Yu's mansion? Are you responsible for the lunatics who provoke Yu's mansion?"

The faces of a group of people were all black.

Since the Yulin Guard made a huge mistake ten years ago, causing the prince to die unexpectedly, he has escorted the two thousand people, except for the hundreds who died in battle, and the rest of the prince's body returned to Beijing and committed suicide and apologized.

Then the remaining 4,000 people went crazy, and took the re-recruited personnel to crazily suppress bandits in the Gyeonggi area. Any illegal person with ten people on a scale would be chased by them in the most cruel and crazy way, and finally ensured that no one of them would be left.

So over the past ten years, the security in the Gyeonggi area has been extremely good, almost reaching the point where there is no way to get rid of the road. Thanks to the madness of the Yulin Guard, this has also left people with the reputation of the Yulin Guard.

Fortunately, the Yulin Guard could not leave the capital area unless the emperor ordered it. Otherwise, the bandits from several provinces around would be frightened and ran away.

The Yulin Guard's residence is the imperial city. If someone tied up people under their noses and was the prince's servant, it would have really stabbed the hornet's nest.

Not to mention them, even Master Gui in front of him could not leave his entire body.

"Then let's use money to invite me?" Lao Si changed his approach again, "One hundred taels is not enough, one thousand taels is not enough, and one thousand taels is not enough, three thousand taels are always moved, right?"

"They are not allowed to go out at all, and they are said to be divided into several processes, and each process does not know the way of the other processes." Mr. Gui said, "If you want to buy all the people in all processes in one go, then you might as well let me tie Liu Mingqi up!"

Lao Si and others smiled embarrassedly.

"But you are lucky." Mr. Gui said, "As far as I know, several big businesses, the people in Jiangnan, the people in the southeast, and the nobles in the south, all of them were unsuccessful, so the master was not so angry that he hung you up and beat you!"

The fourth brother shrugged and said with a frown: "Yes, I really don't know how this ghost thing was done! How could it be so difficult? Could it be that Liu Mingqi is really the kind of person favored by God, and she is really smart because of God?"

Mr. Gui sighed, not wanting to comment on this.

...

At the same time, in Prince Yu's mansion, Chi San happened to be reporting on the soap with Liu Mingqi.

"Your Highness, there are a lot of fake soaps outside now. This is digging our roots!" Chi San said gritting his teeth.

Liu Mingqi asked, "Have you gone to see it? What exactly does fake soap look like?"

"I also bought some back, look!" Chi San took out about ten big and small things from his pocket as he spoke.

Liu Mingqi looked at it and smiled unconsciously, "Can these things behave as our soap? Even if the appearance is made of the same color, it will be better!"

The soap in Prince Yu’s Mansion is very pure and yellow in color, with a very regular rectangular rectangular shape, and there is a gravure printing with the character "Yu" in the middle to show the identity.

As a result, the fake soap here is of various colors, and even the standard of yellow cannot meet the color.

This is the power of technology for filtering and purification.

Liu Mingqi spent a lot of effort on this to create such a pure color, which just blocked others' imitation.

no way.

It is simply impossible for them to use wood ash solution to chemical reactions and caustic soda without learning chemistry knowledge and experimental ability.

They only mix wood ash into lard, and then it becomes a mottled color.

After just a look, the boy withdrew his eyes, "San'er, have you tried the effect?"

"I tried it, even my pancreas was not as good as before. I was so greasy after washing my hands, and it was simply useless." A trace of contempt appeared on Chi San's face.

Liu Mingqi smiled.

In modern times, inventions protected by patents will be copied and imitated by others, let alone in ancient times.

Long before making soap, engineering men thought about this issue carefully.

He deliberately let others know that he used a lot of lard, and even the smell of soap, the fishy smell of lard could not be completely concealed.

So those people bought lard as soap on a large scale, thus abandoning the previous method of using pig pancreas as materials.

Thanks to their blessing, the price of lard has soared several times recently, and the pig farmer laughs from ear to ear.

But these guys don’t know that if lard is not used well, even the original decontamination effect of pancreas is not as good as that of the pancreas.

After all, it is useless if there is no sufficient chemical reaction after adding a lot of oil. Think about how it feels like to apply a layer of lard directly on it when washing hands and washing clothes?

It is enough to be unforgettable to take out such soap once, and it is impossible for someone to buy it a second time.

"Since it's such a low-quality product, you don't have to worry about it." Liu Mingqi said, "In turn, they are also promoting our soap. After everyone knows it clearly, they will recognize our soap to buy."

Chi San nodded and said, "But Your Highness, the princess has already ordered it. From next month, we will strive to produce 100,000 pieces of soap every month and strive to seize the markets in Jiangnan, southeast and central areas as soon as possible. According to this requirement, the territory of the royal palace is not enough!"

"Well, I'll think about it first!"

Liu Mingqi sighed.

It's more than just a matter of the venue?

The crazy price increase of various raw materials, the shortage of staff, etc., are all restricting the development and growth of the soap industry.

It’s not just a simple thought to solve these problems.

...

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Chapter completed!