Chapter 34 Sweater

Author: Use your soul to aim

Chapter 34 Sweater

After returning to the academy, Zhang Zongxian thought for a long time and asked Ding Bo about the price of cotton-padded clothes. After knowing that a cotton-padded coat cost at least one tael of silver, he lamented that the people's life was not easy.

Moreover, as the weather gradually gets colder, people eat less in order not to lose energy, and most of them stay at home. Production and life have come to a complete halt.

How to keep the people warm from the cold? Cotton is expensive and takes up farmland, so we can't rely on cotton. Zhang Zongxian suddenly thought of stored wool.

If after the wool is processed, the wool and spinning wheels are loaned to the people, then the people will have an extra income. The people can let Taiping purchase the spun wool, and the people can also keep some for knitting sweaters for themselves.

The only thing left was how to deal with the wool. After thinking about it, Zhang Zongxian thought to mobilize everyone's strength and posted a reward in the college. Anyone who could figure out how to remove the oily smell from wool would be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver.

Not long after it was posted, someone reported that there was a way to solve this problem.

Has anyone made a sweater before? Bring someone here quickly.

After bringing the person over, I discovered that it was Miss Su who accepted the reward. Since killing Huang Shilang that day, Miss Su has stayed in this castle with the girls who had no home to return to. A few days ago, Zhang Zongxian opened a medical department in the college.

, Miss Su went to study with a teacher in the medical department.

"The daughter of the people pays homage to the county magistrate"

Every time I see Miss Susu Zhang Zongxian, I can't help but think of her graceful figure that night. It's such a pity that such a beauty could be disfigured. Huang Shilang's wife deserves to die. When she is caught, she must also experience disfigurement.

"I didn't expect it to be Miss Su. I wonder if Miss Su has any way to wash away the grease on the wool."

"The county lord has to give you a reward first."

"A mere hundred taels of officials will still be able to help you."

"The county magistrate Chunxiao left a moment later without looking back. He didn't even leave any money behind. The county magistrate has long lost his credibility among the people."

Zhang Zongxian's face turned red when she said this, and he wanted to crawl into the cracks of the ground. Was he being blocked and asking for money? Fortunately, Su'e was not in the castle.

He quickly ordered Uncle Ding to take two hundred taels of silver and give it to Miss Su.

After Miss Su got the silver, she said:

"The county minister never touches his fingers with spring water. Unlike children from poor families like us, who have to work since childhood, it is very easy to remove the grease. Just wash it with the soap locust and dry it in the sun."

Saponaria? Why does this thing sound so familiar? By the way, isn't this the soap-making stuff mentioned in the novels of previous lives? You can also use plant ash instead. Plant ash plus animal fat is soap.

Zhang Zongxian remembered it all at once. He really wanted to slap himself in the mouth. Such a simple thing cost two hundred taels of silver. And Miss Su found the opportunity to ask for prostitution money.

I feel so distressed! Why don't I go and sleep there for a hundred taels at night? I thought so, but Zhang Zongxian couldn't do it anymore and humiliate a poor disfigured woman.

"I'm sorry for my appearance, but I still have to thank Miss Su."

"The county magistrate has nothing to do, so the girl will leave first."

"Miss Su, go slowly." After saying this, Miss Su shook the bag containing the silver provocatively and walked out with a smile.

Seeing that Miss Su was gone, Zhang Zongxian immediately arranged for someone to go to Dongshi to get the wool back. He also asked someone to prepare plant ash to test whether this method would work.

There are currently 20,000 kilograms of wool stored in the Dongshi warehouse.

After the wool was taken, the wool was soaked in water with plant ash. After observing for a while, some grease came out, but it was so slow.

So he arranged for someone to boil the plant ash water and put the wool in it. Zhang Zongxian asked the maid to watch it until all the grease on the boiled wool came out before reporting to him.

Zhang Zongxian returned to the front yard and continued teaching. Now the total number of disciples is almost 400, and people still send their children to take exams every day. It is only a matter of time before the number exceeds 500. In this way, the original mansion will not be enough.

Although the people who originally lived in the fort have been driven out, there are still an expanding number of new troops occupying the space in the fort.

Zhang Zongxian decided to carry out extensive construction work to build a new two-story house with floor heating in the fort. The old houses were bulldozed, and dormitories that could accommodate a thousand people were built first, and then a large classroom was built, and a large oil lamp was hung on the ceiling of the classroom. And the entire

The classrooms do not use wood and are all made of masonry.

After thinking about it, I first drew a plan. The left and right sides of the fort are separated by a central axis. The left side will be used for the college and the right side will be used for the army. Build the college side first and do it step by step.

He gave the planning drawing to Ding Bo and asked Ding Bo to find Wang Jia Construction to start construction as soon as possible.

In the evening, the maids came to report that the grease on the wool had been washed away. Zhang Zongxian asked them to dry the wool for another two days and then report back to see if there was still any fishy smell.

Since the plant ash works, then the woolen sweater can be done.

It is better to let the bank come forward and order a thousand spinning wheels first, and then loan the wool to the people. The spinning wheels will be rented to the people for three years and then given away to them. The people will use the spun wool thread to repay the bank.

Wool is almost free now, and spinning wheels are not expensive. In winter, ordinary people have nothing to do at home. Basically, they do not need to invest, as long as they put in labor. Moreover, the wool produced can also be directly knitted into sweaters by ordinary people to add additional extras.

value.

In this way, the people had extra income, and the yamen had new business taxes to collect from selling woolen sweaters. During this Little Ice Age, the people also had cheap warm clothes.

We still have to continue experimenting to create that soap, using added essences to create floral-scented soaps, targeting the high-end market.

When this stuff was shipped to North and South Zhili, it was sold like crazy.

I have to make up a good story for this soap. Let’s say that this soap is produced in a mysterious canyon in the Kunlun Mountains. This valley is surrounded by miasma and is extremely difficult to enter. It can only be safely entered when the flowers are in bloom. This valley is full of various species.

Flowers and plants.

There is a kind of bee raised in the valley. After collecting various nectars, they return to the hive and mix the liquid spitted out by the queen bee to form this magical effect that can beautify the skin, clean the skin, and leave a lingering fragrance.

Zhang Zongxian decided that this story alone is worth ten taels of silver. When the time comes, if he becomes a tribute during the event, he will not be able to add another ten taels of silver! If he chooses another name from the Western Regions, he will have to add another ten taels.

The more Zhang Zongxian thought about it, the more excited he became, and he decided to designate a place in the fort to produce soap alone. Well! Find some death row prisoners to produce it to prevent leaks.

After thinking about it, Zhang Zongxian started experimenting with plant ash the next day after class. He quickly made soap based on the memory of his previous life. It was just that the quality was not good, but it didn't matter and could be improved gradually.

He also called Su'e to his side, just like they were lovers in previous lives. Zhang Zongxian grabbed Su'e's hand and the two made the first soap together.

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