Villager of Daming

Chapter 989: The slow evaporation of fragrance

The afternoon sun made people feel even hotter, and the landless people in Quyang County went to the place between Jin Prince's Mansion and Xie Mansion to watch the excitement.

I heard that the four princes are going to start something to help people make money here. I wonder if I can get a few more pennies by following it.

Some people were smarter and brought gifts, eggs from poultry raised at home, and knelt where the mung bean porridge was served.

Others lined up to receive mung bean porridge. The person who brought the gift knelt down and served it to them first and took it to the side to be received later and searched.

The men were searched by the guards, and the women were searched by the palace maids. They just had to take a shower and change clothes.

Unlike going to Jinci Town and Qingyuan County, the locals didn’t know the news when I went there.

Nowadays, people in many places in Taiyuan Prefecture have talked about the arrival of the four His Highnesses, especially His Highness King Jin, saying that he loves the people like his own son.

There may be remnants of Beiyuan forces in the local area, and security measures must be in place.

"Give us a gift, what do you want in return?" Zhu Fan, who was taking his future wife to see the construction site, got the news and asked Xie Qiaoer.

Ling'er shook her head: "Sister Qiao'er, think about it! Soap and soap are equally precious to the common people.

Ling'er suggested that other condiments should be used in the team, not to mention good medicines, rock sugar and honey are also medicines.

Xie Qiaoer looked troubled, thought for a moment, and asked softly: "What do you have, Your Highness?"

They would rather use plant ash to wash clothes than soap, except in Nanjing, where income is directly proportional to consumption.

"That's a lot! Tell me, Ling'er!" Zhu Fan frowned. He knew there were many things, but it was hard to choose.

Xie Qiaoer nodded: "Soap is expensive, and Huan Nu in the mansion said that with soap, work will not be so tiring."

Let's give them the soap we brought with us first, and we'll do it later, otherwise we won't be able to make it in time. "

Ling'er still shook her head and refused to use soap locust. It smelled bad and the cost of processing it to make it fragrant was many times higher than soap.

"Making soap from honey locust requires a lot of spices, otherwise it will be too smelly, but after autumn, take out the seeds and squeeze the oil, and then perform the saponification reaction, and you will have good soap. Collect the flowers! Dried and fresh ones Receive them all.”

Only the resources obtained locally are abundant, and with so many craftsmen in the team, collecting supplies is the norm.

"Wouldn't it be better to give soap? Use it to wash clothes." Zhu Fan knew that soap craftsmanship is simple, but soap is relatively difficult.

"I'm just asking. I think we can use soap beans instead of plant ash. There are many wild honey locust trees in the local area."

"That's not what you say in other places." Zhu Fan found something wrong.

"One policy for each place, adapt to local conditions and time, otherwise why would His Highness find people from the village?" A girl from another village said.

"Oh~!" Xie Qiaoer nodded, understood!

Zhu Fan changed the topic and didn't ask why the things he was given had changed.

If you give soap to the local people, they will be reluctant to use it. It is better to give soap. The soap will dissolve the soap and the essential oil of Garry flowers will be fragrant.

"To send soap, craftsmen in the past collected cotton seeds from various places and pressed them into cottonseed oil. Without special treatment, it is poisonous and can be used to make soap."

"We need to use alkali. Fortunately, where there is salt, there is alkali. Don't cut down the wild honey locust trees. Let them grow and pick normally. Then go back to pressing the oil to make soap. Now make soap. Come here...do you know how to do it?"

Zhu Fan followed Ling'er's words and motioned to the people around him to go to work.

People from the Jin Palace immediately went to collect the flowers. It was very simple. They posted notices and rode fast horses or boats to various villages to post them. There are sergeants in large villages, and the sergeants will teach you how to pick flowers. Fresh flowers can be distilled to produce more essential oil than dried flowers. You can also sell ready-made dried flowers for money.

Harvest last year's honey locust beans again. This year's honey locust beans have not grown yet. Honey locust trees can be seen in many places. They have long thorns and the honey locusts grow like peas.

The oil content in the seeds is not high, 25 to 30%. The advantage is that it is wild and easy to pick. A large tree can grow a lot.

Thorns and honey locust are medicinal materials that are very easy to obtain. If they are sent to places where these plants are not available, they can replace some expensive medicines.

The oil cannot be eaten directly after being squeezed. It needs to go through other steps. That is not necessary. It is more convenient to make soap. The oil residue after the oil is squeezed is used as feed.

After high temperature and pressing, the saponin content is greatly reduced, and the physical harm to livestock is also reduced. At the same time, protein is needed by livestock.

When he sent someone to get soap, Zhu Fan explained the matter to Xie Qiaoer, and as expected, he received the girl's admiring gaze through the veil.

"Qiao'er, these are for you, these are for the house, and the others are for the people in the team. They are just like spices. Uh... Ling'er, do you think it would be better to have a craftsman carve a beautiful box to hold the soap in return as a gift?"

The soaps were sent here, the ones used by the prince and those used by Xiaqiu Village were the best, followed by those used by the maids and eunuchs of Prince Qin's palace, and the worst ones used by the guards and craftsmen.

The main thing is the fragrance. The best fragrance is orchid essential oil, which only seven girls in the village have. When you smell it, you can tell it is orchid, and the orchid fragrance of each soap is different.

"Buy a casket and give it back a pearl? Our craftsmen can't just carve something out and deal with it. They have to carve it carefully, which is time-consuming."

Ling'er rolled her eyes at him. The craftsman carved a box for at least two or three days, and then the price of the box was higher than the soap, unless it contained orchid soap.

"Forget it! Come on, Qiao'er, ask someone to collect it. We don't need the orchids. When the orchids in the new orchid plantation bloom in the future, there will be more orchid essential oil.

Looking at the packaging, various colors of orchid soaps use different fixatives, some from plants and some from animals.

This is the scent of civets and civets, and this is musk. Musk does not kill male musk deer nowadays, just dig it out directly. The isobaric method is the fastest.

The milky white textured packaging is the hardest to find, and the ambergris is used as a fixative, the same as the perfume given to you.

The herbal one is Patchouli essential oil, which we use as medicine and as a fixative. The one with the upward pinstripe pattern is Vetiver, and the one next to it is called... Vetiver.

The so-called fixative means that the fragrance evaporates slowly. When mixed with other fragrances, other fragrances also evaporate slowly.

It is most suitable for use on volatile medicinal materials, perfumes, soaps, etc. At the same time, a good fixative should have a light smell.

Of course, ambergris, which has its own strong fragrance, is also good, but it is not found in soaps. It depends on how to use it in perfumes.

The strong scent is usually used to make medicinal scents. It is quite good at calming the nerves and is considered the best ambergris.

What's even more exquisite is that the smell is quiet and long-lasting, similar to that of orchids. All those found are preserved in Xiaqiu Village. "

Zhu Fan took the opportunity to give his future daughter-in-law some popular education, and then read the bell.

"What are you looking at? It's not like I let it go to my house. Do you know how to use it? The ancient incense making technology is amazing.

But we can do it! Our incense making technology can be ancient or new.

Anyway, I don’t have to worry about problems if I put good things in the village. All I use are made of medium-grade ambergris, and the top-grade ones are stored well! "

Ling'er stared back, "What are you looking at me for?" I can't represent Xiaqiu Village.

(End of this chapter)