Steel Dynasty - Chapter 47

[Chapter 47 Fundamentals of Chemistry]

Qingzhou City, Wang Family.

Wang Chengchou and Sun Yuanzhi sat opposite each other in the main hall, and Wang Shijie sat at the bottom.

Since Wang Chengchou went to Prince Qi’s Mansion, Sun Yuanzhi had been waiting for news at Wang’s house. Now Wang Chengchou came back and briefly described what happened at Prince Qi’s Mansion. He said slowly: “Brother Wang, this time is really thrilling. Your Highness did not punish the Wang family.” , It can be seen that I still value the Wang family in my heart.”

“Humph, of course. How much money has been spent on his King Qi by my Wang family in the past five years. King Qi will always miss the past, but I can’t feel the pulse of the current King of Qi. What happened this time can only be said to be a fluke.” Wang Chengchou was still worried.

“Yes, His Highness King Qi seems to have the appearance of a wise king now. This is closer to Pang Changshi. I don’t know why?” Like everyone else, Sun Yuanzhi was equally confused.

Wang Chengchou frowned, “King Qi has changed so much. I guess it is related to the last assassination. I am afraid that King Qi deeply realized the danger of the struggle for the throne last time, and now he needs to accumulate strength to defend himself.”

“Well, Brother Wang It makes sense. The King of Wei in the south was as foolish as the King of Qi. He also realized the danger he was in during the struggle for the throne and changed his mind. Today, the Wei King’s fiefdom is rarely rich. “Sun Yuanzhi. said.

“That’s right, so King Qi is probably the same as King Wei back then.” Wang Chengchou frowned, “It’s just that this way, King Qi can’t be at our mercy. Instead, we have to look at his face.”

“That’s also true.

No way, the Qin family and the Wei family are staring at us like dogs staring at bones, they are our opponents,” Sun Yuanzhi said.

Wang Chengchou nodded and sighed: “Hey, that’s all, that’s all. Now that the situation has changed drastically, we have to adapt to the times. By the way, when Qin Chuanyun goes back this time, he will definitely please His Highness because of this matter of selling private salt. We also If you don’t want to be at a disadvantage, how about each of you and I donate 500 oxen?”

Sun Yuanzhi said, “Five hundred oxen is fine, as long as we can overwhelm the Qin and Wei families.”

“Dad, that’s it. Isn’t it a little less? From what His Highness said, it seems that he has a way to make money again, but His Highness said it vaguely, and he is still hesitating whether to give it to the Qin family.” Wang Shijie interjected.

Wang Chengchou was in a hurry to explain the matter of hiding the cattle, but he didn’t pay attention to what Wang Shijie said. He asked at this time: “Seriously, His Highness said that.”

“Seriously, Your Highness also said that this is a very powerful thing. No worse than Zui Qingzhou,” Wang Shijie affirmed.

Sun Yuanzhi rolled his eyes. Now all the apparent benefits have gone to the Wang family and the Qin family. Although he and the Wang family are related by marriage, who doesn’t want this benefit to fall on him? He said: “Brother Wang, in that case , We must seize the opportunity this time, I am willing to provide a thousand cattle on my own, but if I get any benefits, Brother Wang, don’t forget about our Sun family.”

“Easy to say, easy to say,” Wang Chengchou said in surprise. Most of the cattle will be sent to the government, and there are not many cattle left on hand. Now that the Sun family has taken out the cattle alone, he is naturally happy.

After the two reached a consensus, they asked Wang Shijie to take the message to Prince Qi’s Mansion.

When Wang Shijie arrived at Prince Qi’s Mansion, he happened to see Qin Chuanyun just leaving the Prince’s Mansion. He frowned and asked his servants to inform him. After receiving the permission, he went directly to the main hall.

In the main hall, Xiao Ming was holding a piece of paper with a smile on his face.

When Wang Shijie arrived at the main hall, he couldn’t help but ask: “When did His Highness become so happy?”

Xiao Ming waved the paper in front of Wang Shijie and said: “In order to support this king’s farming method, each family of the Qin family and the Wei family provided five hundred heads. You are really a loyal person to give the cattle to me.”

Wang Shijie said contemptuously: “Your Highness, what does this mean? My foolish brother came here this time to support His Highness’s farming method. Our Wang family not only sent the remaining cattle to the government. , and the Sun family also presented His Highness with 1,500 cattle.”

Xiao Ming pretended to be surprised, “Brother Wang, this is serious.”

“Your Highness, how dare I deceive Your Highness? This is a contract, Your Highness, please read it. “Wang Shijie took out a piece of silk and recorded the donation of 1,500 cattle on it.

“Wang Yuanwai, Sun Yuanwai are really generous people, and it is not in vain that I think so highly of you two.” Xiao Ming said in surprise.

This time he was really happy. There were 2,500 cattle, and one cattle was shared by ten households. This was enough for 25,000 households.

There are more than one million households in six states, plus the cattle purchased by Aster and rented by rich families and wealthy households in each state, this production team’s production model can basically achieve most of the goals.

Wang Shijie felt proud that the Qin family and the Wei family could not compare with them after all. He thought of the business of this trip and couldn’t help but asked cautiously: “By the way, Your Highness, today you said that there is something new. I don’t know what it is.” What? “

Xiao Ming put away the contract, and he was in a good mood. He said, “This thing is called soap, which is equivalent to soap, do you understand?”

“I still know about it. I was lucky enough to use it for a while,” Wang Shijie recalled. road.

Xiao Ming nodded. In the Chongqing Kingdom, some people have used pig pancreas to make pancreas for bathing, which is a rudimentary version of soap. However, this kind of pancreas is very difficult to produce, and generally only concubines in the palace can use it. arrive.

Moreover, the pancake made at this time was made from pig pancreas mixed with plant ash, making it dark and unsightly.

The reason why Xiao Ming wants to make soap this time is because he found limestone. Because after finding limestone, he can make alkali. Only alkali can make soap in large quantities.

At the same time, he also wanted to create a chemical system.

Although steel can change an era, without chemistry, the steel era cannot continue to upgrade, because future alloys, converter steelmaking, and even shipbuilding will continue to require the chemical industry.

Using this soap production, he will cultivate a group of chemical talents and develop balanced development in all aspects.

“This soap is more powerful than soap. As long as it is shipped to Chang’an City, there is no need to worry about the nobles not buying it.” Xiao Ming continued.

Wang Shijie was excited. The production of soap is a secret. Many merchants want to do the soap business, but they can’t produce it at all.

“Your Highness, you can’t take advantage of the Qin family this time. You see, we have 500 more cattle than them, which shows the sincerity of our Wang family.” Wang Shijie said.

Xiao Ming nodded, “Don’t worry, I know what’s going on. I’ll leave this soap to your Wang family, but there’s one thing. You have to provide me with oil.”

“Oil? What oil?” Wang Shijie was stunned.

In the Chongqing Kingdom, pancreas is available, but no one knows that both meat and vegetable oils can be used to make soap. They only think that pig pancreas can make pancreatic juice, which greatly limits the production of soap.

Of course, there is one more thing, and that is alkali. Xiao Ming is naturally unable to electrolyze salt water to obtain alkali, but he still knows how to do it. This is why he is seriously looking for limestone.

Because limestone and plant ash can both obtain alkali.

(End of chapter)