The security level of the chemistry laboratory is very good, second only to the Gunpowder Research Institute of Nanshan Villa.

Apart from a group of alchemists who obtained Chen Xu's permission and students and professors from the School of Engineering who need to take experimental classes, ordinary people cannot enter because chemical experiments are full of various uncertainties. Under such primitive conditions, exploding to eat is simply a common occurrence.

This laboratory has been opened last year. Although there has not been a major accident, it has happened several times. Once, a priest secretly took a sip of purified alcohol and woke up after being drunk for several days. However, it is estimated that the stomach and intestines were burned out by high concentrations of alcohol, and they almost died if they could not eat or drink. After being sent home by the Institute of Technology, they are now unaware of their life and death.

Another time, when sulfuric acid was purified, the distiller suddenly exploded. The concentration of sulfuric acid splashed and burned the two alchemists. Although neither of them had any life worries, they were injured to varying degrees. The face, hands, arms and bodies were covered with scars eroded by sulfuric acid. In fact, if Chen Xu was there at that time, the consequences would not be so serious, because he had studied chemistry in high school. After being splashed with sulfuric acid, he could not rinse with water immediately. Instead, he sucked it dry with a dry rag and then washed it with clean water, and then applied baking soda solution. However, Chen Xu was not in the laboratory at that time. Several alchemists were burned by the explosive sulfuric acid, and the other alchemists quickly used clean water to help clean it. As a result, the consequences became very serious. When Chen Xu arrived at the laboratory, the skin of the two alchemists had washed it turned red, and it turned black and cracked two days later, leaving scars all over the body.

These two alchemists became the first batch of injured pioneers in the chemical experiments of the Qin Empire, and their scars became symbols of glory.

不过即便如如何荣耀,两个方士后来被陈旭狠狠的揍了一顿,并且更加制定了更加严格的实验纪律,以后所有的化学实验,都必须带全套的防护衣服,帽子口罩罩衣手套甚至是玻璃眼镜,而且又专门讲解了一堂简单的救治方法,但然并卵,对于这些野人一样自由惯了的方士来说,所有的防护都只是束缚他们追求天道和自然天性的障碍,坚持不了几天又开始打光酮酮做实验,三五次之后陈旭也懒得说了,一群傻逼,烫死活该.

Under this nature of pursuing nature, several not-so-major accidents occurred one after another, and several alchemists were injured, but fortunately, the problem was not big.

However, as time passed slowly and after several accidents in the laboratory, a group of alchemists had already gained a lot of experience in dealing with accidents in a timely manner and have been very calm in recent months.

But what made Chen Xu depressed was that in the more than a year since the establishment of this laboratory, there was basically no research. Several alchemists were working hard on it every day with generous wages, and various ore powders and lime sulfate water were poured over and over, just like playing house, they became addicted.

A group of alchemists who were busy in the laboratory were at a loss by a group of guards who suddenly rushed in and the petals of more than ten baskets of osmanthus and chrysanthemums. They could only stare at each other with big eyes and greet them and wait for Chen Xu's orders.

"Ben Hou is preparing to make several perfumes, these petals are the raw materials. You can wash the distiller clean and set aside!"

Chen Xu was too lazy to talk too much, so he directed a group of priests to start cleaning the distillation equipment. The remaining few helpers selected some complete and clean flowers from the bamboo basket according to Chen Xu's requirements. After half an hour of busyness, the distiller and flowers were also ready.

Because of the experience of distilling alcohol and copper sulfate, a group of alchemists were familiar with the process. Chen Xu briefly mentioned a few words. Soon some osmanthus flowers were put into a decanter and started heating them in a furnace. As the water in the distiller began to boil slowly, after more than ten minutes, tiny grease-like particles began to appear on the wall of the distillation tube. However, it seemed that it would take half an hour to drip.

Purification of essential oil by distillation is the easiest method, but it is also the most complex method. The simplest is because the principle is the simplest and the complexity is because the operation is the most complicated. Before the extraction of essential oil is good, the only thing that can be successful is the distillation method.

And Chen Xu didn’t know whether to use dried flowers or distilled flowers, but according to Chen Xu’s idea, no matter whether flowers or dried flowers, as long as they have a fragrance, they will definitely be able to steam out essential oils. In the end, they are just the amount. Just like making small grinding sesame oil, it is not that fresh sesame seeds are not good, but the oil yield of fresh sesame seeds is relatively low.

As the distillation time goes by, the osmanthus flowers in the decanter continue to wilt under the action of steam, and the full can becomes half a can. The oil droplets gathered in the distillation tube are becoming more and more, and densely packed, beginning to flow downwards, and the steam constantly emanating from the mouth of the tube is emitted. The entire laboratory is filled with a sweet smell of osmanthus flowers that is so rich that it cannot be dissolved.

"Hiss, it smells so good!"

"It's really so fragrant. I guess it's sweet to take a sip and piss tomorrow!"

Several alchemists stood beside him and discussed in a low voice.

Chen Xu's face was so dark that he couldn't see his eyes clearly.

Damn it, I am using it to wipe my face and body. I am a group of idiots and stuffed people.

"Get a basin of ice water with saltpeter, soak the linen with ice water and wrap the condenser to cool down!" Chen Xu felt that the steam was evaporated in vain and could not be folded. This essential oil was not like distilled copper sulfate. The distilled gas was directly passed into the water, but had to cool down naturally. Because the airflow temperature was too high, Chen Xu estimated that most of the essential oil distilled was actually emitted into the air with the water vapor.

"Yes, Marquis!" Several alchemists quickly went to prepare, and quickly made a basin of ice water with saltpeter, soaked a rag and wrapped the condenser tube. Although the situation in the condenser tube was not visible, the water vapor coming out from the outlet was indeed much less.

Another seven or eight minutes passed, and finally a drop of light yellow oil dripped from the mouth of the tube into the glass bottle below.

Looking at such a pitiful drop after a long time, a group of alchemists stared at each other with big eyes.

"Mr. Marquis, this is too slow. It will take several days to distillate these more than ten baskets of flowers. In the end, it is estimated that it can be made up to three or five taels, and it will be finished in one sip!" A priest said with a careful smile.

Chen Xu was too lazy to talk to these fools.

Essential oils are naturally the essence of plants. I heard that only a few tons of rose petals can finally extract one kilogram of rose essential oil. Although I am not extracting pure essential oils at the moment, it is a huge success to be able to produce three or five ounces of impure essential oils in these more than ten baskets.

But what the Taoist said makes sense. One distiller is too small and too slow. But the laboratory has several sets of distillers at present, so Chen Xu ordered everyone in the laboratory to help, clean all the distillers and start distilling the petals, three of which distilled osmanthus, two distilled chrysanthemums, and one distilled so-called vanilla.

However, even if all the distillers come in handy, the speed is still very slow. However, given that this is a laboratory distiller, Chen Xu can only use it first. If the perfume is successfully made, a larger distillation equipment can be designed. After the spring of next year, you can collect roses, orange flowers, grapefruit peels, jasmine, gardenia and other flowers with obvious fragrances to make perfumes of different flavors, and then you can develop another more luxurious way to make money.

Even Chen Xu instantly thought up the name of the perfume and called it the fairy of the Hundred Flowers. He could also create twelve different perfumes based on the twelve flower gods in later folk legends, so as to seduce the wives of the kings, princes, ministers, and wealthy merchants to buy...

I'm a little shameless?

Chen Xu came to his senses and looked down upon himself. Today, he only remembered to extract essential oil from the excess flowers, but he actually thought about getting rich again.

I am a top nobleman of the Qin Dynasty, who is a senior minister and a left prime minister, and is a two-marquis. Now he has a large number of wives and concubines in the mansion. Many commercial properties make money every day. It is really not an exaggeration to claim that he is rich enough to compete with a country. Why do you always think about making money and making money? Do you still want the face of the senior minister and a left prime minister?

But... that... I am a bastard who has money but not making money. Such an opportunity to make money is in front of me. If I don’t make money, I’m afraid I will be struck by lightning if I don’t make money!

Chen Xu was very confused, and kept turning around several stills in the laboratory with his chin and his eyes pinched.

It was indeed very slow to distillate and extract essential oils. Half an hour passed quickly. Each bottle was only extracted for a few drops, and the bottom of the bottle could not be covered. It was estimated that all of them were not half a tael. So Chen Xu advised a group of alchemists to continue refining essential oils, and they must carefully seal the collected essential oils so that they cannot evaporate.

Next, Chen Xu went to the Institute of Technology to inspect it, and then took a carriage to the Secretariat to inspect his own acre of three-point land.

Recently, as Lingnan gradually calmed down, and the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Autumn Market will start one after another, the main task of the court is to arrange festivals and great celebrations. The government offices of the three provinces and six ministries are very busy. Qin Shihuang has canceled the Wu Dynasty. Every day, civil and military officials only need to go to the morning court. However, even Chen Xu has hardly come to the morning court recently. He has been at home to accompany and take care of his three big-bellied wives. He also plans to arrange people to go back to his hometown after the Mid-Autumn Festival to bring his father and mother, Han Tianshi and Xiaomi to Xianyang for the New Year. Because as Lingnan has been pacified, Han Xin may come back soon, so that his family can get together for reunion after more than two years.

So the court was busy, but the officials below were busy. The busiest ones were the officials of the six ministries and the Neishi Mansion. Chen Xu was a little idle because he was too idle. Half a month ago, he opened a baking restaurant near Qinghe Park, which specialized in selling egg rolls, bread and mooncakes, and continued to make shameless money. He heard that the baking restaurants were selling very hot, especially mooncakes, which were sold as much as they were every day, and were completely in short supply. Therefore, Chen Xu wrote down the detailed method of making mooncakes in Daqin Metropolis Daily so that people all over the world could eat the festive food they invented.

And today, in his heart, he accidentally discovered a luxury product that conforms to his Qinghe store's concept and purpose...perfume.

Later generations recognized that there are two groups that are the best to make money, one is women and the other is children. From the perspective of consumer group portraits, men, as the pillar of the family and the main force of national construction, have the lowest consumption level, and men's lives are not as good as dogs. This is the famous Taobao conclusion based on big data that pets spend more money than men.

Although the current situation and consumption level are different from those in the later generations of more than two thousand years, women's nature of loving beauty has not changed at all. This can be seen from women wearing various colorful skirts all over the streets.

Although the Qin Dynasty was not rich in supplies, for wealthy and powerful families in Xianyang, various consumptions have always been at the forefront of fashion. Now the clothes of pedestrians on the streets are no longer the same as when Chen Xu first came to Xianyang six years ago. The clothing designed by the Women's College and Qinghe Store, which combines different historical and ethnic characteristics of ancient and modern times, China and abroad, has become the latest trendy styles. The noble ladies on the carriages and the eldest daughter-in-law who are laughing and swaying on the streets, are wearing fluttering skirts with fluttering sleeves, loose embroidered skirts, slim-fitting cheongsams, short skirts with snow-white thighs, etc. The men also have large-sleeved Confucian clothes, short-sleeved mid-trousers, monk clothes with narrow-sleeved mid-trousers, tight-fitting samurai clothes, and even small standing collars and straight-leg pants. They are only one inch and an umbrella, which is a standard one that cannot be afforded.

Judging from the acceptance of clothing by the people of Daqin, there are people in every era who are constantly interpreting and chasing the latest trends, especially kings, princes, princes, nobles and a large number of rich people. Now that the ban on Shanglu has been lifted for several years, the status of merchants has been constantly increasing significantly, they are also using money to measure the world, spending a lot of money to purchase real estate and real estate, and various luxurious items that were not allowed to wear and possess before, such as silk, porcelain, glass, red wine, beautiful jade, and jewelry, which are enthusiastically sought after and rushing for purchases by rich merchants.

Most of the luxury goods on the market are basically purchased by emerging merchants and nobles.

Among them, women in the palaces of kings, princes, princes, nobles and wealthy merchants are also a huge consumer group. However, because there are few luxury items for women on the market, except for a few simple makeup and accessories such as rouge, lipstick, hair, hair, jade pendants, etc., all the products are pitifully few.

Chen Xu first broke through the taboo and opened a women's clothing store in Qinghe Store and developed women's underwear. Although it was an extremely private thing, he quickly occupied almost all the high-end market. The wives and daughters of the princesses and princesses in the inner courtyard of the palace must go to the Qinghe store to buy underwear. Only the two red seal characters embroidered on the corner of the clothes are genuine items that feel that they can enhance their personal identity and charm when worn. Naturally, with the blessings of the immortal family blessed by Qinghe Hou, can make themselves more beautiful.

Of course, let alone, when you wear the underwear and unique dresses purchased by Qinghe Villa, your husband's eyes will change to varying degrees every time. There is a hint of heat in the surprise, and a hint of pain in the heat.

Once the perfume that can increase the body temptation is launched, Chen Xu can probably imagine the madness of the women in the houses of these noble and rich men.

It is the unshirkable responsibility of every woman to seduce her husband who likes to visit the garden to go home.

This is not later generations. If your husband is unfaithful, he can still sue and divorce and divide his family property. In this era, men are allowed to visit kilns, and it is normal for a rich and powerful man to take concubines. If he is a top lord like Chen Xu, there is a certain number of marriages, but there is no limit to taking concubines. Therefore, all the princes and princes and ministers have almost all wives and concubines in their families, and the legitimate family can be granted a wife and children in the future. The common people are also an indispensable helper to support the prosperity and growth of the family. Therefore, all the women in the families of princes and princes and civil and military officials, regardless of their wives and concubines, hope to be able to firmly tie their men and get more favors, and their children can be firmly established with more status and status.

Perfume is destined to be a luxury item that those fair women in the Quyuan Miscellaneous House can afford.

According to Chen Xu's opinion, if he hadn't done it himself, it would have hurt when he bought it.

Because the output is really low, the more than ten baskets of flowers and plants I got today can finally produce a few taels of essential oil, and finally it will be diluted with high-purity alcohol and then packaged with exquisite crystal bottles. At that time, a bottle of perfume with the lightest fragrance and the worst quality will probably cost thousands of dollars. If measured according to the price of Qinghe wine, it would be a pity to buy tens of thousands of dollars.

However, Chen Xu was still hesitating about the pricing of perfume.

Although there are many kings, princes, princes, nobles and wealthy merchants in the Qin Dynasty, women are still discriminated against. They are not in high social status and family status, so they control very little money. Too high prices will inevitably cause many adverse consequences.

The man was in a hotel for dinner, rich and powerful, even for the sake of face, and yelled at a bottle of Qinghe wine. After drinking it, he felt sorry for the most. However, if a woman secretly spent thousands or tens of thousands of dollars to buy a bottle of perfume, she would probably be beaten to death by her husband when she got home, and the perfume would inevitably be cheaper in the end.

Therefore, the pricing of perfume cannot be as dark as Qinghe wine. It still needs to be carefully discussed. After all, this is not the era after women's liberation.

But no matter what, once perfume is on the market, it will inevitably attract crazy pursuits from all women, and there is no doubt that it will be.

Chen Xu sat in the carriage and pinched his chin all the way to ponder about perfume, from branding to packaging to advertising to pricing, this one-stop business process is inevitable.
Chapter completed!