Imperial County Magistrate

Chapter 626 Making Incense
After Yun Dian left, a group of women immediately surrounded him.

"Oh, this sister is so pretty."

"Yes! I'm afraid only our master's wife can compare!"

"Speak as if you have met the master and his wife."

"Really, I saw him yesterday when I went to the street to buy makeup. My wife even greeted me and told me to keep an eye on the master. If he comes to Yihongyuan, I will report to my wife."

This was the first time in his life that he came to a brothel, but Gongsun Yunxiu was not an ordinary person. After making sure that his personal safety was guaranteed, he was not nervous at all.

Aunt Xue smiled and said: "Girl, don't be afraid. This is a regular place and we will never force girls into prostitution. Unless you are willing to make more money, no one will dare to lay a finger on you. What's your name? Name?"

Gongsun Yunxiu thought about it and decided that she still wanted to lose face, so she would not say her real name. She said, "Yunxiu."

"Yunxiu, what a good name."

Aunt Xue shook her peach blossom fan: "Miss Yunxiu, that boy from Yundian said earlier that you are working to pay off debts. The most profitable people in our Yihongyuan are naturally the girls who accompany the wine. Guests will get five taels of silver if they order one. .”

Gongsun Yunxiu was confused: "Isn't it 25 taels?"

"That's the price for outsiders." Aunt Xue said.

Gongsun Yunxiu laughed in his heart, it turned out that Li Zhizhou was taken as a victim yesterday.

"The second thing is the dancing girl. The guest's order for dancing is three taels of silver. Since you want to be a musician, I will give you one cent of silver every day excluding room and board. What do you think?"

Gongsun Yunxiu was a little surprised: "One penny?"

One penny is equivalent to one hundred taels of silver, so the musician in Yihongyuan can earn three taels of silver in a month.

This is much more than ordinary musicians earn.

Aunt Xue paused: "If you don't want to, then two dollars will do. Miss Yunxiu, you have such fairy looks, you can attract a lot of business for Yihongyuan. I will cover your food and accommodation for you. I won’t take any money from you, how about that?”

Sixty taels of silver a month including food and lodging. To pay off 35 taels, it would take half a year to work!
Gongsun Yunxiu hesitated for a moment and then asked: "Then if a guest orders a song, how much silver will it be and how much can I get?"

Aunt Xue's eyes were a little strange, and so were the women around her. One of them smiled coquettishly and said, "There are many people who come to our place and order dancing, wine, and women, but no one has ever ordered music."

As for the songs Mr. Zhao mentioned, how the hell can people hear them?What doesn’t require the sound to be nice, but the sound must be loud!
It doesn’t require how wonderful the music is, just one word, enough to be irritable!

Whoever eats too much should order this song alone!

Gongsun Yunxiu was still a little puzzled, but waited until Aunt Xue asked the musicians to start playing their Yihongyuan dance music.

Gongsun Yunxiu, who was proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting, was dumbfounded.

The whole person stayed where he was, his eyes a little dull, Aunt Xue said expectantly: "How about it, it shouldn't be difficult to learn, right?"

After a long while, Gongsun Yunxiu said in disbelief: "This is also called a song!"

When Li Zhizhou and Gongsun Yunxiu, the great Confucians of the Zhou Dynasty and the dean of the Zhou Dynasty Academy, became noble migrant workers in Yuanjiang County.

Zhao Kang also left the restaurant with enough food and drink and returned to the workshop. Now there was a lot of alcohol in the workshop.

He's going to start making perfume.

It's late autumn now, so I couldn't get any flowers, but don't forget that Yuanjiang County is a place with high-end private places like massage clubs.

Back when he was running a massage club, Zhao Kang and the owner of the club, Li Laoba, randomly made some essential oils.

Of course, it is incomparable to those of later generations, but it is definitely enough to fool people.Therefore, Li Laoba's massage club stores a large amount of flower essential oils, including roses and jasmine.

Zhao Kang asked Li Laoba to send a few bottles over.

Making perfume is not difficult, especially if you are making junk products.

Zhao Kang only needs to find a way to blend the floral-scented essential oils into the alcohol without losing their fragrance.

Zhao Kang still adopts the method of distillation and condensation, mixing alcohol and essential oils together and distilling them together before taking the condensate.

Looking at the small cup of condensate in the cup, Zhao Kang took some out, rubbed it on his hands, and smelled it carefully.

I found that the fragrance was very light, almost non-existent, which obviously failed to meet my requirements.

Looking at the bottles of essential oils sent by Li Laoba, there is no doubt that the idea of ​​mixing essential oils and alcohol to make perfume is not realistic.

"Master, what is this?"

Zhang Long came over curiously, and Zhao Kang said, "I'm making perfume."

"What is perfume?" Zhang Long asked.

Zhao Kang explained, and Zhang Long suddenly had a look of pain on his face: "Master, you use so much good wine to do this kind of thing?"

When he was making alcohol before, Zhao Kang distilled a lot of high-strength wine, which made Zhang Long, who was good at wine, very distressed.

Zhao Kang smiled and kicked him over: "That's a lot of nonsense. Do you know how much money you can make from this thing? You know nothing."

Zhang Long laughed sarcastically, thinking about Zhao Kang's words about looking for flowers with strong fragrance. He thought of a kind of flower tree and immediately said: "Master, since there are no roses, lavender or the like you mentioned, why don't you try osmanthus?"

When Zhao Kang heard this, he was overjoyed and slapped his thigh: "Yes! Damn the scent of osmanthus in August, how could I forget this!"

When it comes to golden autumn, besides chrysanthemums, osmanthus must be the king.

When the sweet-scented osmanthus blooms, its fragrance can spread hundreds of meters away.

If you use osmanthus to make perfume, the smell should be the same!
Immediately, Zhao Kang immediately arranged for someone to get the osmanthus tree. This osmanthus tree existed in Yuanjiang County.

Soon Zhang Long led someone to pick two sacks of sweet-scented osmanthus for Zhao Kang to use.

This time, Zhao Kang crushed the osmanthus and distilled it with alcohol. Only a small drop of the condensate was applied, and the whole palm became extremely fragrant.

Zhang Long rubbed his nose: "It smells really good."

Zhao Kang laughed loudly: "Money! These are all money! Zhang Long immediately took people to plant flowers on all the sweet-scented osmanthus trees in the county. You guys can do it together according to my method and move all the alcohol. Come out and make it all into perfume for me!”

Zhao Kang was very excited about the initial success in making perfume. As long as the quantity of perfume and liquor is sufficient, he can start selling it.

He wants to get enough money to cast cannons in one go!
After his men started making perfume, Zhao Kang turned around and went to the textile factory to ask if the batch of embroiderers he wanted had arrived.

But Gao Quan regretfully told him that Yang Gan had said that it would take about three days for the embroidered girls to arrive.

Zhao Kang called Director Huang to start research first.

"Master, what are we going to do this time?" Factory Manager Huang was very curious, what is the purpose of Hisi?

Zhao Kang grinned: "Let's do something more obscene this time."

(End of this chapter)