I'm playing whack-a-mole in Siberia

Chapter 155 Tobuki in the 19th Century

Ginseng pearl cream is very popular in Europe, but not necessarily in the Far East.

If you want to sell well in the Qing Empire, you have to change your name.

If you want to sell something in the Qing Empire, no matter what it is, even if it is the recipe of the Qing Empire, the materials of the Qing Empire, or even if it is produced in the Qing Empire, it must be tainted with foreign flavor.

The Qing Empire is a typical example of sitting on a treasure mountain without knowing it.

George asked Mikhail to send people to the Qing Empire to collect ancient formulas, and it was really fruitful.

"Qian Jin Prescription" records a kind of Yurong Powder, which has the effects of dispelling wind, activating blood circulation, moisturizing and removing wrinkles, and can improve fine lines, dry and rough skin and other problems.

"Puji Prescription" also contains a Yingsui Ruyu Powder, which can treat acne and pimples, improve oily skin, and make the skin smoother and more delicate.

The research institute in Paris is studying these two formulas. If they are really effective, then George's cosmetics will have real core technology.

The raw materials of Yurongsan are white monkshood, oyster, poria, Chuanxiong and Mi Tuoseng.

The raw materials of Yingjiruyu Powder are Bletilla striata, Angelica dahurica, Bletilla chinensis, White monkshood, White Bombyx, trichosanthes, mung bean powder and other Chinese medicinal materials.

There is nothing mysterious about ginseng pearl cream. Anyone can use it by mixing up some raw materials. There are too many chemical ingredients added, and there may be side effects if you are not careful.

To put it bluntly, Chinese medicine is grass roots and tree bark, which is natural and pollution-free. Many ancient prescriptions that can be used for beauty are themselves taken as medicines.

I can eat it, and it’s no problem even wiping it on my face.

George just uses these things as tools to make money.

Ekaterina paid more attention to the ancient recipes of the Qing Empire than George.

"When I was a child, there was a set of porcelain from the Ming Empire at home. My grandfather regarded it as a treasure and would not let me touch it -" Ekaterina was born into a noble family, so it was normal for her family to have these luxuries.

Only then did George notice that Ekaterina didn't use a knife and fork when eating, but used chopsticks like George.

"Compared with Easterners, Westerners are actually barbarians——" Yekaterina's words made George feel like he was struck by thunder.

Did the Russian Empire in the 19th century fail?
  "Orientals use chopsticks to eat because the chef has already divided the food, so why do they have to do it themselves?" Ekaterina said confidently.

This--

Makes sense.

Orientals only need to hold chopsticks with one hand when eating.

When Westerners eat, they hold a knife in one hand and a fork in the other.

So in the information age, people who use chopsticks have a natural advantage because their free hand can hold a mobile phone.

"Do you know what the poor people in Russia used to eat 100 years ago?" Yekaterina obviously knows more about Russia than George.

"Just grab it with your hands, because only aristocratic families can afford tableware." Catherine's words suddenly made George realize that no wonder Westerners have so many buttons on their sleeves.

Sewing buttons on the sleeves is a tradition that only existed during the Napoleonic period. Legend has it that the Emperor's generals often wiped their mouths with their sleeves, so the Emperor ordered his generals to be sewn with buttons on their sleeves.

There is no way to verify whether this is true, but it can also prove from some aspects that at least the French were not very hygienic during the Napoleonic period.

Chopsticks are at least much simpler to make than knives and forks. If there are none, you can just break off a branch and separate them.

With Russia’s current steel production, it was impossible to provide every Russian with a set of tableware a hundred years ago.

No wonder tableware plays such an important role in European households.

""A Thousand Gold Prescriptions" was written more than a thousand years ago. At that time, Chinese doctors had already begun to study how to use medicines for beauty. A thousand years ago, when Europeans were sick and waiting to die, they could only go to the church and ask the priest for some holy water to drink. Once you drink it, whether you can drink it well or not depends on God's will -" Ekaterina then revealed a secret to George.

"It is said that our ancestors have some oriental ancestry, so you see, your hair and mine are so black, but Olga's hair is a bit yellow and not good-looking-" George could not refute Yekaterina's words. Russian ancestry is indeed a bit complicated.

Not talking about ordinary Russians.

As for the Romanov family, they have been intermarried with German nobles for generations, and it’s hard to say whether they are still Russian or not——

Oh, the ancestors of the Romanov family were originally German.

That's fine.

“The shameless British stole tea from the Qing Empire, stole porcelain, and tried to steal silk, but they couldn’t because no one in Britain knew how to raise silkworms——” As a Russian, Ekaterina was happy to see this The British made a fool of themselves.

Prefer being French.

"We are not stealing, but saving the heritage of human civilization. This is the common heritage of all mankind, and we have the responsibility to protect it." Ekaterina's reason is very Russian.

Since it is a heritage of human civilization, George has even more responsibility.

This time, there was no private goods, but a request from my mother.

Mulind was very happy when he left Vladivostok. He is now the commercial representative of Super Duke Yureyevsky of the Russian Empire and has full authority to handle the agency and sales of Yureyevsky Super Duke's products in the Qing Empire. .

After working here and there in the past few years, George still saved some good things.

Cosmetics are definitely a big part, and weapons and equipment are also important.

Although Vladivostok cannot produce military rifles, the three major arsenals of the empire can.

After Russia began to change its equipment, more and more Berdan rifles were replaced. The Tsar's original intention was to use the Bodin rifles eliminated by the Guards to equip Russian local troops.

The rifles that have been eliminated by the local troops will be given to the militia groups to gradually complete the replacement of the army.

The commanders of the major military regions are not stupid either.

Even if the Guards give priority to equipping them with new rifles, why should local troops accept weapons that have been eliminated by the Guards?
  Are the local troops all stepmothers?

They are all for the protection of the Russian Empire, so why should we favor one over the other?

In fact, there is nothing wrong with receiving it.

The key to the efficiency of the Russian Empire is that if the local troops receive the weapons eliminated by the Guards, the new rifles will be far away.

Therefore, the rifles eliminated by the Guards are piled up in the logistics warehouse of the military headquarters.

George asked Mulinder to find a way to sell the Bodin rifle to the Qing Empire.

Although the Bodin rifle was eliminated in Russia, it was still usable in the Qing Empire.

After talking to Mu Linde, I learned that although the Qing Empire had advanced repeating rifles, only the private troops affiliated with Li Zhangtong had a small amount of equipment.

The National Defense Forces of the Qing Empire still use raised guns.

The same goes for heavy machine guns.

After the Qing Empire purchased Gatlin, it also tried to have the Qing Empire's arsenals copy it.

In the end, like the Russian Empire, the Qing Empire eliminated heavy machine guns because of ammunition problems.

The heavy machine guns purchased by the Qing Empire now are rusty and dusty in the corners.

In this case, George has nothing to be polite about.

The snow fell relatively late in Vladivostok this year, not until early October.

Yuriev Palace was electrified, and Korv ran over from Khabarovsk to see the strange thing, and he complained when he saw George.

"George, when will you see the poverty and backwardness of Khabarovsk?" Korv was so jealous that he wanted to move the governor's palace from Khabarovsk to Vladivostok.

According to Korff, the development of Vladivostok is progressing rapidly, not to mention rapid changes.

After the Fu Tuan was established, two relatively prosperous business districts gradually formed around the Fu Tuan station and the Siberian Fleet station.

Business districts are a good thing, but they are not very useful.

The business district around the military is mainly based on Nasha. Any city that has aspirations cannot use this as a cover.

But this thing can't be banned. The army is full of young and strong young men who all have physiological needs. If they can't be solved outside, then they can only——

No, it can only be solved externally.

Since it cannot be banned, management must be strictly strengthened. At least those employees who are infected must be discovered in time and repatriated to Japan in time.

This really doesn’t mean to blackmail Japan. The employees in special industries in Vladivostok are all Japanese, and they are organized by the Japanese government. When officers and soldiers of the Fu regiment go to consume, they don’t have to give money, but directly give consumption coupons. The Vladivostok Municipal Government and Japan Directly connect with the government and settle accounts regularly with the Japanese government.

George has no control over the Siberian fleet.

The management of Fu Tuan is still very strict.

The management of employees in special industries is also very strict. In addition to receiving regular physical examinations, their daily activities are restricted to a very small range. If they leave without permission, they will be arrested by the police for vagrancy.

Yes, wandering is illegal in Vladivostok.

Not only are homeless people the source of all evil, they also provide a good breeding ground for crime.

The criminals assigned to Vladivostok by the empire were subject to the unified management of the Vladivostok city government. They either went to mines, opened up wasteland, or built roads. In short, it was impossible to think about a five-year trip to Siberia.

The migrant population in Vladivostok is also strictly controlled. Even migrant workers need to accept the unified arrangements of the Labor Bureau and cannot wander freely on the streets of Vladivostok.

Immigrants are a special group of people and do not need to accept arrangements from the Labor Bureau, but they must also abide by the laws and regulations of Vladivostok.

New immigrants have a five-year assessment period. If they violate the laws of Vladivostok within these five years, they will have to accept the fate of being deprived of their property and deported.

This decision raised questions from Mikhail and Kanunnikov, who were worried that no one would immigrate to Vladivostok.

But with the arrival of a new group of Cossack veterans and family members of the previous group of veterans in Vladivostok in early October, all worries disappeared.

A total of 500 veterans arrived in Vladivostok in early October.

The number of family members of the previous batch of veterans reached 2300, and Julian had to hire four cruise ships to send them all to Vladivostok.

What makes Mikhail both happy and sad is that among these 2300 people, there are actually less than 200 families, with an average of more than ten people per family.

George was also worried.

George knew that Russian families were large.

But to this extent, it is obviously beyond the concept of ordinary Cossacks.

(End of this chapter)