I'm the Dauphin in France

Chapter 377 Saving the Angel (Seeking Follow-up Reading)

After Joseph briefly introduced the properties of benzene to Lavoisier, he immediately turned to Mirabeau and said:
“I’m afraid you’ll be very busy in the coming period.

"First, you need to cooperate with Mr. Lavoisier to build a soda ash production plant as soon as possible. Oh, I will ask the French Reserve Bank to give you a special allocation for this matter.

"At the same time, you have to build two casein factories. One in Paris, smaller, with a monthly output of about 5 kilograms. The other in Brittany, with a monthly output of 50 kilograms.

"Then we will build a beverage factory in Paris, Nancy, Bordeaux, Lyon and Marseille. We will sell the beverages in glass bottles. I will send the specific formula directly to the factory."

Just now in the carriage, Lavoisier mentioned that baking soda would be produced in the alkali production process, which reminded Joseph.

Baking soda plus lemon or vinegar will produce a large amount of carbon dioxide. Isn’t this the carbonated drink of the 18th century?

In the past, baking soda was expensive and no one could afford it, but after industrial production was achieved, it became possible to use it to make high-end beverages.

A bottle of water, add a few grams of baking soda, and a little sugar and juice. This kind of bubbling drink, which can cool down and quench thirst, is extremely novel. If it is properly promoted, it can even sell for more than high-end wine. It is simply a money-printing machine!

Joseph continued: "The most important thing is to prepare two furniture factories, one in Paris and the other in Brittany. The scale should be designed to produce more than 10,000 sets of wardrobes, tables and chairs per month."

Mirabeau's pen stopped flying and he looked at the Dauphin in surprise:

"Your Highness, are you talking about building a factory to produce furniture? Excuse me, this may result in losses..."

It is no wonder that he questioned that furniture in this era was basically a carpenter's "personal artwork", and people who needed furniture would go to the carpenter to customize it. Then the carpenter would start by processing the wood boards and spend a month or so making a set of furniture for them.

What's the point of building a factory with this production model? And it has to produce 1 sets of furniture per month.

Paris has a total population of just over 60, which means that five families have to replace their furniture every year!

According to the current French custom, a set of furniture would be passed down for eight generations, and usually only newlyweds would order some new furniture. It is impossible to sell 1 sets of furniture per month.

Joseph smiled slightly:
"Please believe me. 1 sets of furniture per month is just the beginning, and the scale will be expanded tenfold in the future. Not only France, I will have the entire Europe, even the Far East and America, replace their furniture. Oh, as for the specific requirements of the furniture factory, I will have someone give it to you later."

He didn't intend to make furniture in the way a carpenter makes art. With the composite boards of standardized shapes, he only needed to recruit a small number of designers to design the appearance of the furniture, and the rest of the work was to cut the boards and nail them according to the drawings.

This kind of work can be done by simply recruiting workers who don't know how to do carpentry work. After two or three months of training, they can be competent and mass production can be carried out.

Joseph then instructed Mirabeau and Lavoisier on the details of building the factory, and soon it was dark.

After the two left, Joseph sent someone to inform Brent, the general manager of Paris Angel Company, to come to his office early the next morning.

You know, baking soda can not only be used to make beverages, it is also a very good deodorant!
Mix baking soda with something like talcum powder and apply it to areas prone to odor, such as underarms and crotch, to effectively deodorize.

The reason why the French perfume industry is so developed is largely because people don't like to take a bath, which leads to strong body odor and needs to be covered with perfume. It is common for a French noble to spend hundreds of livres on perfume every year.

And if Paris Angel can come up with a cosmetic product that reduces body odor at the source, it will definitely become a strong competitor to perfume.

In addition, baking soda can be used to rinse your mouth to reduce bad breath.

It can be imagined that in the future, whenever the nobles attend formal occasions or go on dates, they will rinse their mouths with Paris Angel's mouthwash before going out, otherwise it would be disrespectful to others.

According to Joseph's plan, Paris Angel Company will also join the chemical industry chain and set off the next wave of sales.

……

Reims is a city in north-central France.

In the open space outside a rural church in the suburbs of Reims, a handsome young man with long hair, wearing a black short coat, white tight trousers and a simple white scarf around his neck, was standing on a broken ox cart and giving an impassioned speech to dozens of farmers in front of him:

“That’s right! The government deceived us!
"In order to make you continue to endure the high taxes and the exploitation of the nobles and officials, they use lies to stabilize you.

“They said they were abolishing the privileges of the nobility, but in reality only the small taxes like mill taxes and hunting taxes disappeared, while the most important annual tribute and tithes remained!
"The king who sits in the Palace of Versailles, living a life of luxury and doing nothing all day, tells you that the land will be handed over to you. But I must tell you the truth. The king and his bureaucrats have decided to make you pay for 30 years of land production, plus 30 years of annual tribute and tithes. When you are exhausted from the heavy labor and can't walk, your eyes are cloudy, and your teeth fall out, the land you have cultivated for decades still doesn't belong to you!"

The farmers immediately looked at each other and burst into dissatisfied discussions.

After a while, a farmer with big hands and feet shouted to the young man on the ox cart:
"My dear sir, what's the point of saying this? Whether it's 20 years or 30 years, we can only accept our fate and pay the money."

"No, you are wrong!" The young man waved his hands vigorously, "Instead of accepting our fate, we can also resist!
"As long as we unite as one and let those bureaucrats see your anger, they will be frightened and tremble into a ball, and withdraw their shameless ransom plan!

"We have contacted people from dozens of parishes. We will gather in front of the Reims City Hall in five days and teach the shameless officials there a lesson with stones, sticks and even muskets!"

His inflammatory tone made the peasants' blood boil, and they immediately excitedly followed suit and punched:
"Teach them a lesson!"

“We don’t want to pay for another 30 years!”

"Follow this master to resist!"

After the farmers dispersed angrily, a middle-aged man came out from behind a haystack not far away, handed a glass of water to the young man who was giving the speech, and said in an exaggerated tone:
"Mr. Saint Just, you are right! These peasants will definitely join the revolution you are leading! Do you think we should go to Zesfield today?"

Saint Just took a few gulps of water, wiped the sweat off his head, and said loudly:
"Of course, there are hundreds of French people out there waiting for us to save them!"

(End of this chapter)