The daily life of the science master's book-wearing group

Chapter 119 The Soap Business
On the other side, Song Qingyue planned to think about the soap business after finishing her brother's job.

In the end she decided to classify the soap into three grades.

The last grade is made into a long strip, which is cut and weighed for sale on the spot; mid-grade soap is made into different flower shapes and colors according to different fragrances, of course, all are made by molds; the most high-grade soap, in addition to using high-grade spices In addition, she also plans to invite a master carpenter to carve by hand.

The lowest-grade soaps are sold in Duobaoge, a cheap jewelry shop like Meng Wanfeng’s in the outer city, the mid-range soaps are sold in Liang’s rouge and gouache shop, and the highest-grade hand-carved soaps are sold in Li Zhao It is sold in the Treasure Jewelry Shop on Royal Street.

Because she found that the items in that shop were all treasures, and the price was very expensive. Most of the people who went to the shop were looking at them, but the turnover rate was not high, so she developed some peripheral products, such as 500 taels of jade pendant, which she couldn’t afford. But twelve taels of soap is always affordable, right? Is it worth buying a can of lanolin for 20 taels? 30 for a pair of high-quality tortoiseshell combs, can you afford it?
In addition to increasing passenger flow, it can also increase income, and once things are made into luxury goods, it is no different from stealing money, but Song Qingyue is confident that there will be countless people in the capital who are taken advantage of and lined up to be robbed of money by themselves.

Just in time, after the Qingming Festival, it is the time for every family to go out for an outing together.

There is not much rain this year, and there are many sunny days. Xiangshan in the western suburbs of Beijing, Fenghuangling and Baihuashan in the northern suburbs are all popular places for outings.

Song Qingyue intends to take this opportunity to vigorously promote her handmade cold-process soap.

That day she brought a big basket, which contained ten small glass bottles and a large bottle of soapy water, plus dozens of small circles made of thin bamboo strips for blowing bubbles.

The Song family's carriage stopped by a stream halfway up Xiangshan Mountain. The servants brought mats and spread them on the ground, where the adults could drink tea and talk, while the children had fun around.

Song Qingyue took four-year-old Song Baojuan and six-year-old Song Chenhui to blow bubbles and had a great time, and soon attracted the attention of a lot of children. Song Qingyue took the initiative to take out a small glass bottle from the basket and pour a spoonful of soapy water Go in and play with those children, and when their soapy water is blown out, return the small glass bottle, and add soapy water for other children to play with.

The wives who have long wanted to come over and get close to Mrs. Song can use the pretext of asking how the bubble water is made to say hello.

Song Qingyue took the opportunity to show them mid-range soaps with beautiful colors, and told them the location of Liang's rouge and gouache shop, where they could buy them.

When these soaps of one liang of silver became popular among the female relatives of officials and officials, she began to sell high-end hand-carved soaps.

If she has the energy in the future, she can slowly roll out medicated soaps that add Chinese medicine and have various effects.As for the low-grade soap, she felt that her production might not be able to keep up.

Because with a modern electric beater, the oil and caustic soda can be fully blended and saponified in a few minutes, but pure manual mixing takes more than two quarters of an hour, which is really physical work.Another reason is that the alkalinity of cold manufacturing is too strong, and it will take about 30 to [-] days to use after it is made.

So she planned to teach Meng Wanfeng the method, and let her find a way to set up a small workshop. As for Song Qingyue herself, she still planned to sign a contract, asking for a few shares, and counting the money lying down.

She even wants to outsource the production of mid-to-high-end soap, and find someone to do it for her in a joint venture.

There is no need to worry about starting a new stove by themselves, because high-purity caustic soda, sodium hydroxide, or caustic soda, is quite troublesome to manufacture in this era.

It is obtained by mixing slaked lime and soda ash and removing the precipitate.The point is that even slaked lime and soda ash are not so easy to get in this era.

Slaked lime is mainly obtained from limestone mines, while soda ash is also obtained from digging some deposits of alkaline water lakes. For example, these things are rarely found in the boundary of the capital. They are all transported from other places and have to be purified, so the price will naturally not be low. .

If other companies want to make soap, it is impossible to compete with Song Qingyue in terms of cost.

She thought that she could sell soap as a luxury item first, and then gradually reduce the price after it gradually became popular.

Or, she can only be an upstream supplier, and when the time comes, caustic soda with low price, high purity and low impurities, do you want it?
If it wasn't so difficult to imitate generators, she wouldn't even want to make caustic soda, she would only sell foot-operated generators...

In fact, she has not given up on the issue of coal desulfurization!
After all, when making white sugar, sulfur dioxide is needed for the bleaching process. After finding rubber trees, vulcanization is also required for rubber processing, and sulfur dioxide is still needed. At present, she is still using sulfur stone.

It would be great if the sulfur extracted from coal could be used. This is to string together these industrial processes. Unfortunately, it is too difficult to do this, and there is no rush.

This spring there was very little rain in the north. Xianyuezhuang sent people to tell them that they were afraid that there would not be enough water, so they had to sell some farm cattle in advance, and maybe sell some sheep as mutton sheep.

Song Qingyue went to Zhuangzi to check the situation and found that there was indeed a severe shortage of water. The water in the pool that saved Li Zhao was now so shallow that it was only up to the waist. It could have submerged Feng Qi's head !

Song Qingyue sighed and had no choice but to agree.

But it's not all bad news.

Ever since Songjiazhuangzi dug up coal, those dignitaries in the capital swarmed to build Zhuangzi in an enclosure near Haituoling, Baoding Prefecture.One hole after another was punched in the ground, and the ground was smashed into a sieve. It was surprising that no one except Song Qingyue dug out the coal.

Look at the girl of the Song family's luck, who can she talk to?
Now that the north is dry, the land in this area is already barren enough. Those Zhuangzi who have not built reservoirs in advance can't grow anything, so they simply sell the land at a low price. Buying more than 2000 mu of land is simply cheaper than buying land directly from the government.

After buying the land, she felt that the land was too cheap, holding more than 6000 mu of land (although it was all wasteland), she felt that she was simply a sinful landlord. When she got home, she asked her father why Da Zhou Do you not need to pay taxes for land transactions?
If taxes are required for land transactions, one can fill the national treasury, and two, the stubborn disease of land annexation in feudal society can also be slightly alleviated.

Lord Song's eyes lit up, and he called Song Chenhai and Song Chenxu overnight, and called his staff to discuss the feasibility of this matter, how to collect it, how much to collect, which party should bear it, and whether to collect it when the scholar-officials trade... After deliberating on specific details such as this for several nights, and only after I knew it well, I went to the household department yamen to hold a small internal meeting.

The current household department is the household department that was overthrown and rebuilt by Song Jianming. The emperor personally finalized the selection of candidates. The Qingyishui are all young and practical officials selected from the local area.

Of course, young means that all employees are under 50 years old, and there are no officials with gray hair who are so old that they need help when walking.

There is no way, the imperial examination is too difficult. In the 39 years since His Majesty ascended the throne, the average age of a Jinshi is 34 years old. It takes five years to be formally appointed as an official. Those who can stay in Beijing are basically those with strong family backgrounds, but if they want to be promoted, they still need to be sent to other places as officials for a period of time to accumulate experience.

This visit can take at least six or nine years. In most cases, they need to wait for more than ten or twenty years in the local area. When there is a vacancy in the middle of the capital and they are transferred back to the capital again, most of them are already over half a hundred years old.

Therefore, in the six yamen, there are many old men with white hair.

It can be said that all members under the age of 50 in the Ministry of Households are all lucky. Everyone is very grateful to their leader, and all members are guided by Song Jianming.

Besides, this land transaction tax sounds like a great thing that can not only fill the treasury, improve the prestige of their household department, but also benefit the country and the people. It is not difficult to operate, because all land deed transactions must be stamped by the local government office For this link, the land deed is only valid if it is stamped with the official seal.In this way, as long as the stamp is stamped, the tax is collected according to the proportion, and it is easy to operate.

But in this way, the interests of most powerful people have been touched, and there must be a lot of resistance if they want to really implement it in the court.

Those literati in the court are very talkative. As long as it is good for them, no matter how bad things are, they will give you flowers. .

Therefore, the main content of the internal meeting of the household department is to formulate policies and strategies on how to promote the smooth implementation of this proposal.

After three days of discussion, the Ministry of Household Affairs unanimously decided that the scope of this tax collection first excludes self-cultivated farmers, and merchants who hoard fields must be collected.But Song Jianming, a well-known gentry class, did not intend to let go.

The object of this tax collection is not a fixed group, but all those who hold a large amount of land in their hands.

So among the groups with fame and official status, where should we start first?
Mr. Song intends to start collecting land transaction taxes from the relatives and clans that the censors like to attack the most, and then let the relatives and clans find ways to drag the families of military generals and princes into trouble, and finally the military generals will include all civil servants and scholar-bureaucrat families. tax range.

These days, I am not afraid of paying taxes, but I am afraid of why I will pay and you will not pay?

Leverage strength to fight, one by one, and finally drag them all into the water.

But this matter needs a reason to make a raft, so everyone in the household department worked overtime to find out the clan relatives who had hoarded the most land in their hands over the years.

No, it really caught a typical example. The Yongwang of Shanxi, who has been silent all these years, has hoarded more than 3 mu of fertile land in his hands. Almost all the land around Taiyuan has become Yongwang's.

These days, hoarding fields is not just hoarding fields, but also accompanied by the desperation and loss of a large number of farmers.

But the investigation of the case will not be under the control of the Ministry of Household Affairs. Mr. Song tried to find a way to disclose the news to Yushitai that King Yong hoarded the land and forced the farmers to death.

Speaking of which, this Yongwang has a very far relationship with His Majesty today. The great-grandfather was a prince of the Taizu, and the censors had no scruples at all. Without the strength to suckle, he scolded King Yong, unfaithful, unrighteous, unfilial, and unworthy of being a human being.

When the emperor found out, he naturally asked the people from the Sanfa Department to go to Shanxi to investigate the matter.

After careful inspection, I really picked up a lot of things.

Every time the Yongwang Mansion released loan sharks during the drought, it was called helping the farmers to tide over the difficulties. Afterwards, they turned their faces and refused to recognize anyone. Those who couldn't pay back the money would directly send the guards of the Wang Mansion to call the door, first forcing They sold their own property at a low price to pay off their debts, and then forced others to be tenants for them.

The land rent he collected was very high. Some farmers who sold their land and could not pay off their debts had to sell their sons and daughters. Many of the girls in the brothels in Taiyuan Mansion came from this way. There were not a few farmers in Yongwang Mansion who used this method to force their families to ruin. .

The emperor was furious when he heard that, and immediately cut off the title of King Yong, demoted him to a commoner, ransacked his family and exiled him.

Not long after this incident, another similar case occurred. This time it was His Majesty's own natal family, the Yongping Hou Mansion of the deceased Empress Dowager Yang's natal family.

This Yongping Marquis' Mansion is even worse than Yongwang's Mansion. Near the Yang family's ancestral home in Xiangyang, Hubei, the Yang family, relatives related to the Yang family, and even the managers of the Yang mansion have hoarded more than [-] mu of fertile land!

With so many fields, it's hard to find anything that doesn't kill people.

Although it is His Majesty's kinsman, Empress Dowager Yang has long since left. Some censors did not dare to hand over papers to scold people when they knew about it, but aren't the censors of the Great Zhou Dynasty famous for not being afraid of death? Tough, dare to scold the Yongping Hou Mansion in front of the emperor.

The emperor was so angry that he had a headache and had a three-day morning rest.

But headaches are headaches, and people still need to be sent to investigate the case. Li Sheng, the eldest grandson of the current emperor You Shaoqing of Dali Temple, was all sweaty after receiving the emperor's appointment. This is to investigate the great-grandmother's house!Immediately, his legs were limp and he lay on the ground, refusing to go.

The emperor was so angry that he smashed the jade bowl with the medicine in his hand, and announced Zuo Shaoqing, his nephew Jiang Yuanchao, into the palace and asked him to investigate.

Jiang Yuanchao glanced at Li Sheng who was lying on the ground trembling, screamed in his heart that he was unlucky, and accepted the task calmly.

The results of the survey were naturally not good.

When reporting to the emperor, Jiang Yuanchao tried his best to use euphemistic words to describe what the Yang family had done in Xiangyang these years, but what a powerful person he is today, he has been the emperor for almost 40 years, and he still listens How serious is the problem?He was so angry that he fell ill for another two days, and shedding tears, he went to burn incense for his mother, and then decreed to seize the title of the Yang family.

As for the old acquaintances of the relatives of the Yang family involved in the case, they will all be questioned and executed.

In this way, the emperor still suffered quite a blow. The matter of the Yang family was different from that of King Yong. It was the emperor's own family. He was both annoyed and extremely ashamed.

During the meeting of the cabinet, the emperor lowered his eyelids and asked all his lovers in a low mood if he wanted to issue an edict of guilt.

Of course not, all the ministers hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, proclaiming Long Live, and tried their best to persuade the emperor that the Yang family is the Yang family and has nothing to do with His Majesty, and this ruling fully shows how righteous and wise you are, Lord Long Live, who thinks of the people!
Mr. Song saw that the fire was almost ready, so he took the opportunity to tell the statistics of how many fields his relatives and relatives had hoarded in recent years.

The emperor lowered his eyes and looked carefully at Mr. Song's notebook, speechless for a long time.

Finally, with a sigh, what can I do?
Doesn't he know?Of course the emperor knew!However, the scope of the attack is too wide, it is difficult to deal with, and it is difficult to determine the specific punishment.

He looked at Song Jianming and felt that he had a solution.

So Song Jianming uttered the five words "land transaction tax" logically. He knelt on the ground, raised the other booklet above his head with both hands, and said with his head down: "I suggest that all clan relatives and relatives should be paid first." Pay back the land transaction tax of the past five years as a punishment. As for civilians and merchants, the land transaction tax will be implemented from this year.”

The emperor's eyes lit up, and he grabbed the booklet in Mr. Song's hand as if grabbing it. He nodded as he looked at it. bear.

Those who do not pay taxes will lose all transactions.

The reason why the tax is the same price regardless of fertile land and wasteland is that the people below will cheat and call fertile land wasteland. Besides, when clan relatives and relatives buy land, there is no reason to sell sloping land, wasteland, and sandy land.

In addition, it is very easy to implement, but for all land transactions, the government will keep document records, so you can know it when you check it.

And since the amount of tax paid is not too large, and it is still a one-time tax, this punishment is a bit painless for the clan members.

But because it doesn't hurt or itch, and won't hurt muscles and bones, the court is more confident in collecting money.

After reading the memorial, the emperor handed it to the eunuch Yin to keep it away, and said: "In addition to the clan relatives, the relatives should also be added. The specific families will be drawn up by the cabinet. After the list is drawn up, I will show it to you. "Looking at Song Jianming again, he said: "The tax payment list and the amount will be sorted out as soon as possible, and I will ask Jin Yiwei to assist the household department to recover the tax payment."

The elders present looked at Song Jianming more and more deeply. Although this incident did not involve everyone present, they always felt that Song Jianming's move had a deep meaning behind it, and he had no good intentions!

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