The revival of Shu Han

Chapter 35 Butterfly Wings ([-])

In the spring of the first year of Jingyao (AD 258), two novelty items suddenly appeared in Mi's shop on CD Street.

A thing is called soap (the name of soap was denied by Mi Zhao).This stuff doesn't come cheap.A piece of palm-sized soap actually costs two hundred yuan, which is more expensive than a stone of rice.But the decontamination ability of this thing is really strong!Not only the extremely difficult oil stains can be easily removed, but those who have used it can feel that the old dirt in some corners of their skin has also been completely removed.As long as clothes washed with soap and clothes washed with ordinary soap or saponins are put together, there is an obvious difference.

Therefore, although this thing is not cheap, the market is extremely good.From the beginning of March when the Mijia store put the soap on the market, in less than ten days, all 3 pieces of soap were sold out.Mi's shop had to put up a sign: the stock is empty, please wait until next month.

Even so, the huge demand still makes Mi's store crowded with people every day in front of the soap shop.The extravagant act of directly auctioning off tens of thousands of copper coins was performed repeatedly in front of Mi's shop.

Not without smart people having associations with the name bar soap.Many merchants use the rouge smell in this soap to mix saponin and rouge together to try out soap.The result, of course, was a shameful failure.

However, compared with things like soap, which can only be afforded by wealthy families with at least some surplus food at home.Another new item in Mi's store caused even greater ripples among the CD folks.

This is Jingyao Wax (again, Mi Zhao, a profiteer, got inspiration from the name of Yanxi Lacquer, and directly named You Wax without the consent of Mr. Liu Chan).

This Jingyao wax is much cheaper than soap. 20 bucks each.One can last for about half an hour.Moreover, when burning, the light emitted is bright and stable, with little smoke and almost no smell.

As soon as this kind of high-quality and low-cost thing came into the market, it immediately attracted the attention of CD people.Even the impoverished households who could not afford soap at home bought one or two Jingyao wax for emergency use.As a result, the sales of all kinds of lamp oil and lamp wax on the CD market were immediately blocked - because of this thing, there are tens of thousands of them in Mi's shop.

One of the side effects caused by this is: the number of houses lit up at home instantly increased countless times during the night of the CD.And spring is when the sky is dry and things are dry, so, for a period of time, there were several small fires in CD City.

Don't ask Mi's family, how much profit is the product with such a sales volume, even if the storekeepers under the control of the big bosses in CD don't know exactly, it is enough to imagine.They quickly reported the popularity of these two new products to the owners of each family.

Although the Shu Han regime is the most politically clear among the Three Kingdoms regimes, it is generally the regime with the mildest internal relations.But that's only relative.As long as enough interests are involved, the veil of tenderness will be torn off without hesitation.

In the south of CD city, Fei's mansion.

The founder of this family is Fei Yi Fei Wenwei, the general of the Shu Han Dynasty, the founder of the government, and the recorder.When Fei Yi was alive, he used Dong Yun to control the inner court internally and suppressed Jiang Wei externally.The end is very imposing.His eldest daughter was even betrothed to Liu Chan's prince Liu Sui, ensuring the prosperity of the Fei family.

Unfortunately, he died so suddenly.In the 16th year of Yanxi (253), he was assassinated by Cao Wei's general Guo Xiu in court - because the assassin Guo Xiu killed Fei Yi and was quickly killed by the surrounding guards.So this matter has become an unsolved case.However, because Fei Yi always suppressed Jiang Wei when he was alive, he never gave Jiang Wei more than [-] troops for the Northern Expedition.And this Guo Xiu was a general captured by Jiang Wei during the Northern Expedition.Therefore, the ruling and opposition parties of the Shu Han basically put this account on Jiang Wei's head.

Fei Yi has been dead for five years now.His eldest son, Fei Cheng, was only a servant of the Huang family.The second son Fei Gong has not yet been crowned, but he already has the name of child prodigy.Liu Chan is also planning to make another kiss, and marry Fei Gong when his other daughter becomes an adult.Therefore, although the official status of the Fei family is not high now, they are the future descendant family and the family that will produce a son-in-law in the future.The momentum of the Fei family has not weakened too much.

Fei Yi was relatively clean when he was alive.But after he was assassinated, his family had no hope in politics for a while—this would not start again until Liu Chan died (the new emperor relied on his relatives to stabilize the throne, but the relatives must be appointed by the new emperor. Seal, this is the formula of Game of Thrones).So these years, the main energy of the Fei family has been on raising money and buying land.

But the Fei family started much later in the business world.The two biggest businesses, the export of Shu brocade and the domestic transportation of grain, have been firmly controlled by the Mi family, and they can't intervene for a while.Salt and iron are controlled by the state and dare not intervene.Therefore, the main business of the Fei family is groceries, Qinlou Chuguan, casinos, etc.And Mi's strong launch of soap and Jingyao wax at this time has dealt a great blow to Fei's.

"Patriarch, it has been found out that the source of Mi's soap and Jingyao wax is from Fuling County."

"Fuling County? How is this possible? It's good that this place has not asked for relief from the imperial court for decades. How can there be such products?"

"Uh, I don't know about this subordinate. But in the past year or so, especially in the past few months, the Mi family's merchant ships have frequently entered and left Fuling County. According to the information obtained by the younger ones, the Mi family fleet When they entered Wujiang, they carried food and pigs. When they left Fuling County, they carried soap and Jingyao wax."

"Hiss~~~Brother Gong, if I remember correctly, the new prefect of Fuling County is the Guan Yi Guan Zifeng from the Guan family, right?"

"Yes, it is this person."

"Could it be possible that these things were made by the Guan family? That kid Guan Zifeng has this kind of ability?"

"Brother, this matter is very possible. Brother, do you still remember that a year ago, Guan Zifeng issued an order to eliminate bad water and collect fern roots not long after he arrived in Fuling County? Later, the imperial court also promoted the order to collect fern roots on a large scale? With this person's knowledge, it is very possible to come up with these things."

"Yeah." Fei Cheng dragged his hands behind his back, walked a few steps back and forth in the lobby, and then asked, "Tell me, after this soap and Jingyao Wax are on the market, the soap, insect wax, and beef wax in my Fei's shop , all the lamp oil can’t be sold?”

"That's true. Master, my ox wax is actually very bright, and it burns with little smoke. In fact, it is a little better than this Jingyao wax. But it costs more than 100 yuan if you can't stand it, so the price can't be compared. Come down...and..."

"What else?"

"The girls of the Mi family's Xinfengyuan, after taking a bath with soap, they are said to be much cleaner than before, and their body odor is much fresher. All the guests have gone to Xinfengyuan. The business has been reduced by [-]%...and..."

"And what?" There was already great anger in Fei Cheng's voice.

"Besides, now that Tongsifang of Mi's family has Jingyaowa, they are open all night at night, all using Jingyaowa for lighting, and gamblers also gather there. Oh, by the way, Xinfengyuan of Mi's family is still free I paid for the lamp oil money for the guests to spend the night every night..."

"Bah!" Fei Cheng slapped the case hard: "Go down and investigate carefully. If these things really came from Fuling County, you should go to Fuling County yourself and find Guan Zifeng. Just say what the Mi family has." , my Fei family wants to have it too!"

"promise!"

In CD City, all the dignitaries who have invested in business have more or less noticed the impact of these two new things after they went public.For the first time, the dignitaries of the Shu Han regime collectively focused their attention on Fuling County, which had rarely been paid attention to before.

(End of this chapter)