Daming pirates

He asked Li Gouzi to choose a reliable person for him, and took him here. After checking the quality of the plant ash, he ordered a large amount of plant ash to be transported back to the workshop area, and he randomly found a newly built plant that had not yet been determined to be used.

Someone set up a large pot in a work shed, and went to the warehouse to get a large barrel of whale oil and a few bags of refined salt.

As soon as Yu Xiaotian saw that the things were in place, he started to ask people to get busy. First, he asked people to add some water to the pot, then poured the plant ash into the pot, and then poured the whale oil into the pot. He carefully recalled everything.

After planting the proportions of things, a ratio was roughly determined, and then people were ordered to light a fire and start cooking.

In fact, what he wanted to make was very simple. It was just "soap", the most commonly used daily necessities in later generations. In fact, people have discovered soap a long time ago, but they did not master the production method. A long time ago, some people discovered that grease dripped into soap.

Among the plant ashes, this kind of thing can be washed by hands to make it cleaner.

In fact, this is the saponification reaction. Later, Yu Xiaotian couldn't remember who invented soap, but it seems to have been in the 19th century. It is very simple to say, just add oil and soda ash to a pot of water and boil it, so that the oil and

The alkali reacts, and then salt is added to produce sodium stearate.

After scraping off the soap base above, there is still glycerin underneath, which is a good thing that cannot be thrown away. Soap can be used for bathing and washing hair, and glycerin can be used for skin care in winter. Yu Xiaotian learned these things when he was in junior high school, but now it is just

It’s just a matter of using your hands, experimenting, and finding a more suitable production process.

He doesn't have soda ash, so he can use plant ash instead. Needless to say, whale oil is a specialty of his sea wolf. In addition to eating and making incendiary bombs, he also has a lot of stocks. He just pretends to be dragon oil in Maoshengyuan to deceive people.

You won't be able to sell much, but if you make it into soap...

Yu Xiaotian's pupils looked at the cauldron that was beginning to boil and had turned into a square shape.

For three whole days, Yu Xiaotian stayed here, constantly experimenting, pot by pot, testing various proportions. In the end, his hard work paid off, and he was able to produce a large wooden plate of soap base.

Yu Xiaotian stretched and looked at the plate of translucent soap. At this time, it is probably more appropriate to call this thing soap base, but if it is used directly, there is no problem.

"Master, what on earth is this! What's its use?" Zhao Mazi is most concerned about what Yu Xiaotian has been doing these two days. He runs here almost every day, but Xiaotian still refuses to tell anyone.

What were you doing? It was only now that a large wooden tray of soap was being made and started to dry, that Zhao Mazi couldn't help but ask Xiaotian again.

Yu Xiaotian waved his hand and retreated, and said proudly to Zhao Mazi: "This thing is a lot of money for us! Where I used to be, it was called soap. If you add some spices and essential oils, it will

Just call it soap!

This thing can be used for bathing and washing hair. It is much easier to use than soap locust. Once it is put on the market and starts to be sold, I can guarantee that women will go crazy! Hehe!"

Zhao Mazi seemed to understand what he heard. He lowered his head and tapped the soap base on the wooden plate with his finger. He said a little confusedly: "How can this thing be better than soap base? Isn't it used for bathing? Can it be as big as soap base?"

Is it as easy to sell as the boss said?"

Yu Xiaotian said confidently: "Wait, after this thing dries, I will cut it first and give each of you a piece. You will know if it works if you try it yourself!"

Two days later, all the bosses on the island received a small piece of soap. Yu Xiaotian told them to use this to take a bath after returning to try the effect.

As a result, early the next morning, Li Gouzi, Zhao Mazi and other guys from the council came to Yu Xiaotian with shy faces and silver smiles. They all praised the effectiveness of the soap and praised it repeatedly.

, he said that after washing his body with this product, it feels so dry! It almost praises the function of soap to the sky.

Yu Xiaotian looked at these cheerful guys with contempt and laughed at them: "What is this? Let me tell you, I will use this stuff to make soap in two days, and then you will know what is good stuff.

Got it!"

In fact, soap and soap are basically the same thing. They are just the soap base used to make soap. It is mostly made of vegetable oils. In addition, some essential oils, spices, and some color blocks are added to it to make the color more beautiful.

It smells fragrant and has a little skin care effect.

Yu Xiaotian wouldn't sell the soap he worked so hard for just as a laundry detergent! In the next few days, he continued to toss around, finding various spices and some apricot oil, and adding it to the soap base.

, and also added a small amount of pigment to make it colorful.

Depending on the color, spices with different scents were added. It would have been better to add flavors, but he didn't have time to refine flavors or essential oils at the moment, so he just was lazy and added some spices to give it some fragrance.

It's done.

He divided these soaps into small pieces, and asked the carpenter to carve a patterned mold. He pressed the small pieces of soap in and then knocked them out, leaving patterns on them and the shape became petal-like, which looked very strange.

Craftsmanship feel.

The first batch of soaps was wrapped in oil paper and put into exquisite small wooden boxes. People from Maoshengyuan of Nanyue Island were recruited and handed over to them and sent to Fuzhou for sale.

In addition, the workshop where he made soap base and scented soap was officially requisitioned and included in the protected workshop area. The craftsmanship was ordered to be sealed, and production was completely closed. No one was allowed to inquire about the production process without authorization.

And just when he was sending out the first batch of soap and waiting to make a lot of money, under the auspices of the council, the first batch of immigrants shipped to Jilong Bay was also loaded on Nanyue Island. This first batch of immigrants, a total of fifty-seven

People, but their status is not ordinary immigrants, but slaves bought by Yu Xiaotian with money.

In order to increase his manpower, Yu Xiaotian not only sent people to the land to recruit people, but also asked his men to go to some places with a large number of refugees on the land from time to time to carry out forcible kidnappings based on the news, and to immigrate to Nanyue Island.

This kind of relationship can be bought with money on land!

In this era, human trafficking was actually open and legal. Some poor families who had lost their land and had no way to make a living, had no choice but to sell themselves to wealthy families as slaves. Rich families often sold their unsatisfactory slaves.

, and some were in debt and had no choice but to sell themselves to pay off the debt. In short, domestic slavery was a normal phenomenon in this era.

So Yu Xiaotian took advantage of this loophole and asked people to buy these slaves through various means. They did not distinguish between men and women, mainly young people, and purchased them in large quantities.

This requires some connections. After all, these people were purchased by Yu Xiaotian, which is not very legal, but money can make all the difference. If someone is willing to spend money to buy people, the local government will turn a blind eye and go through a formality.

Still no big problem.

(This is the first chapter after it is released. I sincerely hope that brothers can continue to support it! Thank you everyone! I will try to update another chapter tonight!)